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What if Variant Loki meets Variant Tony Stark after the timelines diverge, creating a new universe? And Tony is brought in to assist Loki with fixing the timelines? 

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What if Variant Loki meets Variant Tony Stark after the timelines diverge, creating a new universe? And Tony is brought in to assist Loki with fixing the timelines?

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“Let me show you around my realm, Anthony Stark. Then perhaps you will think twice about assisting those jesters calling themselves the ‘TVA’...” King Loki started as the two men walked alongside one another through Asgard’s grand and golden hallways. 

“Yeah, well, we didn’t really have a choice, so you’re right about that,” Tony remarked.

“I see... and that is where you met my other self, I presume?” Loki inquired.

“Mmm,” Tony said curtly, eyeing this Loki cautiously. Unlike the one he met at TVA, this Loki was more... well-mannered. But then again, he wasn’t planning on becoming best friends with any of the Loki’s he encountered on this bizarre trip to ‘save the timeline’, as the TVA representative, Mobius, had enthusiastically put it. 

What they needed to do was get the hell out of this timeline and ‘fix it’ before he and Loki were stuck in this multiverse forever. They only had so much time guaranteed to do that, and he could hear his TVA timepiece attached securely around his wrist ticking away the hours that they had remaining.

If he wasn’t in such a rush, Tony would have laughed at how easily the Variant Loki got caught by ‘King Loki’. Ironic, really, that Loki was tricked by himself. Which also means, Tony thought, narrowing his eyes, that this Loki is dangerous. He’s definitely planning something.

“What do you get out of this arrangement then?” Loki questioned.

“A ticket back home, obviously.” 

“Are you certain they are not merely telling you what you want to hear?” Loki said and Tony stopped walking abruptly. 

“What the hell is that supposed to mean?” 

“The Variant is quite certain that after you succeed in abolishing all the scattered timelines, the TVA will not hesitate to ‘fix’ you as well. You are, after all, also a Variant,” Loki spoke pointedly.

“I’ve got a plan,” Tony replied, “You think I didn’t have one?” 

Loki smiled, “I didn’t imply such a thing. I have come to understand from my other self that you are a very intelligent mortal, perhaps far superior than your usual counterparts. And that is an asset I value... greatly.” 

Before Tony was able to step away, Loki was standing inches from him and his eyes were a swirl of green. It was so deep, it mesmerized Tony, taken aback by the sudden movement.

Get a grip on yourself! Tony cursed, shaking his head, backing away. But the more he did, the further Loki took a step closer. “What are you doing?” 

“Why don’t you forget this quest and join me instead? Your escape plan will surely fail; the TVA may be fools, but they are not without resources. Stay here, and I will protect you! Wouldn’t you like that, Son of Stark? To exist in harmony?” Loki purred as his fingers trailed over Tony’s temples, and green streams of manipulative magic started to find its way into the man.

“Y-y-yes-” Tony stuttered, but he fought against the intrusion. He tried to close his eyes, to shut out the trance-like swirl of green that pulled him towards the god. “N-no- I don’t- no! S-st-op-” 

“I am sorry it has come to this,” Loki noted, although his voice sounded far from guilty, “But I do wish to survive. The TVA will stop at nothing to dissolve their mistakes and with Variants such as yourself, there is really only one way to stop the skies from darkening, and that is for you to join my cause.” 

Tony pushed at the darkness that started to enclose around his thoughts, but his mind was starting to weaken. He could feel it slackening in its will and with each passing second, his thoughts were all about how to please King Loki, his sovereign... That was really all it should matter, or so the magic said as it wrapped its warm arms around him. 

“What did you... do to... Loki?” Tony managed to say as he tried to resist the spell forcing him to succumb to King Loki’s enchantment.

“Oh, he is very well taken care of. The same way I shall take care of you,” The golden clad Loki smirked and snapped his fingers.

With that, Tony felt his whole world start to dissolve as he fell into a bubble that was not of his own making. He was asleep, a piece of his soul locked away, as the spell took its course. When Tony looked up to meet King Loki, he did so with a low bow.

“My king...” Tony spoke. “How may I assist you?” 

“Tell me what the TVA has planned. Tell me everything.”

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What if Variant Loki meets Variant Tony Stark after the timelines diverge, creating a new universe? And Tony is brought in to assist Loki with fixing the timelines?

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“Welcome, Man of Iron... I’ve heard so much about you from my other... self. Why don’t you come a little closer, and perhaps we can have a civil conversation?” 

“Fat chance,” Tony spoke, and Loki’s took a few steps closer instead; slowly, as if he were biding his time. 

“You do want your Variant back, yes?” Loki raised an eyebrow, and mischief gleamed within his gaze. Tony frowned, his fists closing tighter. 

“Yeah...” 

The Asgardian royal calling himself king inclined his head, and smiled, courteous as ever and it made Tony’s skin crawl, unused to seeing Loki, of all people, treat him this way.

“Then be my guest, and perhaps if you play nicely, I’ll give you back to him.” 

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“You’ve captured Stark then,” Loki narrowed his eyes, his voice lacking any emotion, or so one would have thought as the Asgardian King stood before.

Looming behind King Loki was a green eyed Tony Stark, fully entranced under the god’s spell. A stream of emerald green magic trailed around his pupils, and although his lips were twisted into a smile, the emotion did not reach his eyes.

“And you’ve managed to escape... how tedious,” King Loki drawled, looking almost bored. With an exasperated sigh, he turned to look behind his shoulders at the spellbound man, and that was when a small smile took its shape. Both dopplegangers caught sight of each other and the tension was thick in the air.

Variant Loki raised an eyebrow, “I thought you said you were going to trick him, not bind him to you. That was the plan, no?” 

King Loki chuckled, “Yes, but then things change.”

“Really? I don’t see why you needed to? I save your realm, and you leave me to escape the TVA. That was the deal. And Stark, well...” Variant Loki’s gaze settled over Tony, who stood behind Loki obediently, “...he means nothing to me. A nuisance and a distraction, always getting in my way.”

Variant Loki almost saw Tony flinch but it could have been a trick of the light. 

“The thing is, Variant, while you exist, my realm is in danger. I cannot simply let you run amok, even if I wished it. Do so, and the TVA will always come to clean up the mess you have made,” King Loki said, his tone of voice becoming colder, dripping with condescension. 

I do not ‘run amok’! What is he playing at, Loki thought with a frown, annoyance creasing the lines in his forehead. 

This was supposed to be easy; find his doppleganger, entice him into tricking Stark enough to trip him up, then leave the mortal behind so that he could be on his merry way. Why did his other self make things harder for him?

“You may not be special, but he is, don’t you see?” King Loki said as he circled Variant Tony, whose eyes shimmered as if shards of emerald were gleaming within them, capturing the light. “Haven’t you noticed the traces of power on him?” 

Variant Loki frowned even further, “What power? There is nothing special about this mortal; he’s just an overly confident, foul-mouthed charlatan. If he had any inkling of magic in him, I would have noticed.”

King Loki was now treading his fingers through the air, wisps of magic surrounding Tony as a thin thread appeared around him and connected with the man, as if he were some sort of puppet and Loki were the puppet master. A somewhat translucent image formed and flickered like an old movie.

It was a figure of Tony Stark wearing what looked to be a gauntlet in his right arm. Embedded in each knuckle was a stone, and Variant Loki recognized the power each of them held, especially the one that glowed amber.

“The infinity stones...” King Loki breathed and the desire was evident in his voice. “If I had them in my possession, then no one would ever consider defying me. I will be more than a god. And this mortal has been touched by it; all his timelines converge so that he ends with the stones in his possession!” 

A sense of foreboding started to weigh on Loki as he noticed the look of greed that overtook King Loki’s face, twisting them. Even he, as ambitious as he was, couldn’t help but feel discomfort in the notion that this alternative version of himself, who had been able to get everything he desired, was still not sated of his lust for power. 

"The stones aren’t with him,” Loki remarked, “The TVA will try and destroy us all in the end. They’ll never help you gain that much power.” 

“Not intentionally, yes, but from what I have heard from Anthony Stark, they do like to bargain. If I get the stones, then I can destroy each and every one of them and rule over the universe! Their plans to eradicate my humble realm will be a thing of the past.”

Variant Loki pursed his lips, “And how, pray tell, are you getting those stones exactly?” 

King Loki seemed almost surprised to hear his own doppleganger speak these words, and he looked at Variant Loki almost with pity. “My... do I detect a trace of concern in your voice?”

“Concern?” Variant Loki scoffed, “No, of course not!”

“Then why have you been creeping over to Stark to try and break my spell?”

In a sudden movement, King Loki whirled to meet the gaze of the other Variant Loki who had been reaching out a hand to cut the threads entangled around Tony. There was no hesitation as a burst of magic blasted the clone with energy, and the Loki clone cried out, dispersing into thin air, leaving the real Variant Loki snarling a curse. He barely moved out of harm’s way as King Loki attacked again, throwing a full-on ball of magic at the Variant’s direction. 

“I am a far superior version of myself then you will ever be, Variant!” Loki laughed as another surge of magic was aimed in Variant Loki’s direction. 

His pride makes him weak, Variant Loki thought, but he didn’t bother to voice his opinion. He threw another counterattack at the Asgardian Loki and this time it hit its mark. Hearing a pained groan from his doppleganger and satisfied he had immobilized him for the moment, Loki turned his attention to Tony Stark, who seemed to stagger away from the battle, looking somewhat dazed as if being far away from his master was causing confusion to his steps. 

“Stark, wake up!” Variant Loki shouted, and he aimed his unbinding spell squarely in the mortal’s direction. It met its mark and the effect was instantaneous, Tony’s eyes turned back to its normal brown color as the effect of the magic faded. 

“What the hell!” 

King Loki’s smile vanished as quickly as it came and his expression contorted into a look of fury. “You dare take my moment of glory away from me, vagrant?”

This time it was Variant Loki’s time to laugh, his shoulders shaking with it, “A vagrant? Is that all you can spew as an insult? I’ve seen my brother sputter better insults then you have come up with!”

“A brother? I do not have, nor do I need a sibling to attest to my intelligence!” King Loki snarled. Behind him, a rush of armored men and women in Asgardian steel came to assist their king, a selection of different weaponry at the ready. “Take the mortal alive, but kill the impostor!” 

Tony was by Variant Loki’s side, shaking his head and trying to get the rest of the disorientation out of his mind. And as his fogged conscious became clearer, the nanobots in his body responded to his call for protection, enveloping his body with the Iron Man suit armor all the way until the top, leaving only his face unmasked. He turned to Loki and quirked an eyebrow.

“So why did you save me? Not that I’m not grateful and all,” Tony shouted as he knocked over the men who came at them with swords, maces and hammers. Loki groaned in exasperation as he blasted back a particularly large soldier out of his way. “Not now!”

“Okay, fine, but I’m getting that answer eventually, like it or not!” Tony cried out, amusement evident in his tone and Loki rolled his eyes. 

“You can try,” Loki challenged with a growing grin as both Variants fought side by side.