Loki sat next to the Maximoff twins in the Quinjet as Barton and Natasha piloted the aircraft to Sokovia.
"So you can run fast and your sister can read minds right." Loki asked Pietro
"Among other things. But tell me why can't I read your mind?" Wanda asked curiously
"You can't read his mind." Pietro looked surprised
"I have a formidable mind. It is one of my abilities to shield my mind from others. An essential power for a wizard to possess." Loki said with a shrug
"So tell us Loki. How was space?" Natasha asked
"Not boring. Spent most of my time in Xandar. Fought a Kree. Saved a planet from destruction. That sort of thing." Loki shrugged his shoulders
"You faced a Kree and that too in Xandar." Thor asked in surprise
"Ronan the Accuser attacked Xandar. The Nova corps and Ravengers held him off. Then the Guardians of Galaxy killed him led by Peter Quill. He is a half-human by the way." Loki said
"Wait a second. There are humans in space." Barton asked intrigued
"Well yes. There are some." Loki said as if that was a common thing
"The Guardians of Galaxy. What is that?" Tony asked
"Well, they are a group of individuals that fought Ronan. It's a newly formed group so I don't know much about them." Loki said
"But why did Ronan attack Xandar? He should have known it would be suicide." Thor asked
"I will have to speak to you at some point. There are a few things I have to tell you but it can wait." Loki looked troubled
"Cap, we are about to enter Sokovia." Natasha said
"Alright listen up. Ultron is our fault and we can't allow the people of Sokovia to suffer for our mistakes. So our priority must be to evacuate all the citizens. Ultron said that we are the monsters and we are what's wrong with the world. This is not just about fighting him. This about whether Ultron is right. So let's prove him wrong." Captain America said
Barton and Natasha set down the Quinjet in one of the parks. The sun has yet to rise in the sky so there were very few people outside.
"Wanda, use your powers to draw people out and evacuate them outside of Sokovia." Captain America ordered
"I will try." Wanda said as she began to use her powers to influence the people
"Stark, find out what Ultron is planning and stall him as much as you can while the rest of us will spread out and contain the fight between us." Captain America ordered and Tony flew away using his suit towards the centre of the city.
"I will keep an eye out from the sky." Loki said as a golden light covered his body and flew up into the sky.
Loki watched from the sky as the people of Sokovia took to the streets as Wanda began to manipulate the minds of the people to vacate their homes and move out of the city. The sun began to rise and slowly light up the streets of Sokovia. But that peaceful moment was broken as the ground began to shake. Loki heard the conversation between Ultron and Stark so he prepared himself to save as many on the ground.
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Loki flew down as the shaking intensified and the ground began to break apart. He flew around the city and traced the perimeter around which the ground was breaking apart. Slowly the city began to rise into the air and the buildings nearby began to crumble down one by one.
Loki decided to concentrate on saving the people as much as he could. With a snap of his fingers, he created a platform of the huge magical circle under the rising city. Then from the very centre of the circle, he projected the mirror dimension which began to absorb every falling debris and buildings. The humans inside those buildings found themselves shifted to another space that was confusing to them but at least they were safe from the carnage around them.
Despite Loki's timely intervention, he could not project the circle entirely and some of the buildings were missed. But he immediately split himself into multiple projections and began to individually rescue each and every single person from the crumbling buildings and brought them down to the ground safely away from the airborne city.
There were other problems as well as the buildings down on the ground also began to crumble down. With no other choice, Loki activated the Reality Stone and pressed his hand on the ground where the huge hole was left in the wake of Sokovia's airborne status. The energy from the Reality stone began to spread around rapidly filling the landscape and soon it blanketed the nearby buildings as well. Slowly the crumbling structures began to rebuild itself and became more sturdy than before.
Still, there were many injured people and Loki decided to help them rather than fight up in the sky. He locked away the energy of Reality stone as he was cautious to not let the energy touch a living being directly.
Loki activated the comms and spoke to the rest of the Avengers.
"Guys, concentrate on Ultron leave the rescue to me." Loki communicated
"Copy." the team responded
Loki dismissed a large portion of clones but left three of them on the ground to help the people that got injured. He powered up his photon energy and flew straight to the floating Sokovia.
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Captain threw his shield at a group of bots that were rushing at him and the Vibranium shield struck true as it bounced among the bots damaging its structure. The immobile bots were then taken out by Natasha using a short sword that was gifted by Loki.
Steve saw a group of bots aiming for Natasha who was busy taking down some other bots. He jumped in front of the energy attacks and shielded her with his shield. Natasha rolled herself away and took cover behind a car that was lying upside down.
She took out her guns and began to cover fire for Steve. The captain soon took cover behind the car as well to catch his breath.
"There seems to be no end to these things." Steve said in between deep breaths
"It could be much worse cap." a voice murmured in their coms and a golden blur passed by their position and blasted apart the bots that were concentrating fire on them with a golden beam.
Loki landed right next to them and slowly his energy dissipated.
"Sorry I was late. Many of the buildings were crumbling down after the city took to the air." Loki said
