Prologue
(Pretend that is Ana de Armas in a coma instead of a random person).
Prologue
Entering the infirmary of the Compound, Loki's heart broke all over again as he saw his love, Toni, connected to all sorts of machines keeping her alive while she was in the coma brought on by Rogers and Barnes, surrounded by their three children - Harley, Anamaria and Peter - all of whom who were holding her hands or resting a hand on their mother's leg trying to reassure themselves she was still with them. It was in that moment that Loki became a hundred percent sure of his plan to bring everyone (including Howard Stark, Edwin and Ana Jarvis, Peggy Carter and Daniel Sousa from the 1940s) to the Compound to watch Toni's past and their future. They all needed to see what she had done for them, they needed to see that Rogers wasn't as good as he claimed to be, and if it helped stop Thanos then all the more reason.
"Börnin mín." Loki called softly, attracting the attention of his three children but what he saw broke his heart as tearful, pain-filled eyes gazed up at him.
"Daddy!" His three children cried, running into his arms crying.
"She will wake up, I promise you. Your Mother loves you three so very much and would never leave you if she had a choice and would always fight to come back to you. Plus, my magic and your Uncle Stephen's magic is aiding her natural healing she gained from the E.X.T.R.E.M.I.S, now there is something I wish to talk to you about."
"What is it Dad?" His eldest, Harley asked.
"Your Uncle and I have come up with a plan to make everyone - including our family, the Rogues, minus Wanda as she can't be trusted, and some from the 1940s. Mainly your Grandpas Howard and Edwin, Grandmother Ana, Aunt Peggy and Uncle Daniel - to watch the past and future. The hope is that they will realise their mistakes on how they treat your Mother but ultimately protect the three of you and your Mother from Thanos."
"Can we at least punch Rogers and Barnes for what they did to Mum?" Harley and Peter asked.
"You do that and I'll use my magic." Anamaria planned. "But can we stay with Mum until it's time, Daddy?" She asked tearfully, her voice wavering, her brothers hugging her from either side in a symbolic way as Ana in the middle of the hug showed she was also their middle child.
"Of course." Loki agreed, holding back his own tears as he stared at his love. "I just need to help Stephen move the Asgardians to Norway and I'll bring everyone here. Grandpa Fury is on his way with Maria, your Aunts Pepper and Hope and Uncles Rhodey and Happy. Though I do have a surprise we've found your Auntie Carol." He smiled at their excited cheer as they planned on what to tell her first. While the kids planned Loki made his way to the bed kissing Toni's forehead tenderly. "Come back to us, love." He whispered emotionally before he left the room with muttered 'love-yous' to his kids and the love of his life.
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Half an hour after moving the Asgardians, Meek and Korg to Norway via a portal, Loki, Dr Stephen Strange, Brunnhilde aka. Valkyrie, Thor and Bruce were waiting in the living room of the Compound with Fury, Maria Hill, Hope, Pepper, Happy and a wheelchair bound Rhodey - and wasn't that a shock for Bruce and Thor - for everyone to arrive.
"Where is Lady Antoinette and my niece and nephews?" Thor asked, looking around expectantly. "Surely she can help Rhodey? She is very, very smart and very creative after all!" He boasted proudly.
"My grandkids barely leave her bedside." Fury revealed.
"Why? What's wrong with her?" Bruce and Thor asked immediately, looking extremely concerned.
"She's in a coma put there by Rogers and Bucky Barnes." Maria revealed when it looked like no one else would or rather could, the memory was too painful, even for her as Toni was like a little sister to her. Almost immediately Thor's remaining eye turned white as electricity danced down his arms to his clenched fists as thunder boomed overhead.
"Hold your anger there is a long line who want revenge." Stephen ordered as several golden portals opened up causing several people to drop out of them.
"Strange! You couldn't ask me here like a regular person?" The first person, Wong said sarcastically as he clambered to his feet and realised where he was. "Wait! I'm in the Compound? The Compound built by Toni Stark!" Wong's excited pronouncement attracted the attention of multiple people all with varying reactions.
"What's Stark done this time?!" Steve Rogers spat venomously.
"She's done nothing, I mean how could she with the coma you and Barnes put her in!" Fury spat.
"YOU DID WHAT?" was shouted around the room with curses thrown at the two super soldiers.
"Stark? Toni Stark? As in my daughter?" A dark haired man with whiskey coloured eyes - Toni's eyes - and dressed in clothes from the 1940s asked.
"Yes Toni is your daughter and Stephen Strange and I have brought you to 2016 to see the future, stop someone who wants to decimate half the universe and so you can see the truth of the so-called Captain America." Loki explained as gently as he could.
"Before anyone says anything I was tortured and mind controlled by the Titan - or Mad Titan as he's known across the Galaxy - into attacking Earth. I didn't have a choice, but for what it's worth. I'm sorry Barton." Loki apologised, receiving an accepting nod of the head from Clint before the archer rounded on Rogers.
"You did what? What else have you lied to us about, Cap?" Clint asked furiously.
"I-It's Loki how do we know he's telling the truth." Rogers demanded weakly.
"Friday, pull up the livestream of the Infirmary, please." Loki requested.
"Yes Boss." an Irish woman's voice came from the ceiling startling those from the 40s.
"Don't worry that's the second AI that Toni built, the first one she named after you Mr Jarvis." Loki informed them, startling those from the present who didn't understand that reasoning.
"Me?" Jarvis asked, startled.
"You were a second father to her." Carol stated softly, pulling back from her hug with Rhodey and Hope before she pulled Loki and Stephen Strange into a hug, reuniting, the only one in their group she couldn't reunite with was Toni.
"She called you Papi and Howard Dad. Ana was Mama and Toni's mother was Mum." Rhodey informed them just as the livestream appeared.
"Papi?" The three kids asked curiously, looking directly at Loki.
"Toni has kids with Loki? Why am I not surprised? Villains go together after all." Rogers snarled, but everyone was shocked by Toni's appearance and the lack of remorse in his tone.
"Do you not have any remorse for how you've treated Toni!?" Bruce demanded, holding back Hulk by the skin of his teeth but his veins on his neck and his eyes remained green.
"She was going after Bucky. I had to stop her!" Rogers shrugged.
"No you didn't." Hope snapped. "She had just found out the truth of how her parents were killed, forced to watch it in fact while people used to tell her it was her fault, and her parents' murderer was standing right beside her no matter if he was mind controlled into it. She was hurting and grieving not to mention it affected her trauma, PTSD, and ADHD, but instead of talking to her like a friend. You kept it from her for two years while using her money to find him, not caring how it would affect Toni when she found out."
"Hope? I thought you hated Toni?" Scott asked, confused.
"Hate Toni?" Hope questioned incredulously. "Why would I hate my sister?"
"But - but I thought your father hated the Starks?" Scott questioned suddenly, unsure of everything. "Are you still mad about Germany?"
"My father hated Howard, not Toni. And it's not because I didn't get to join you that I'm mad, it's because you joined Captain Ass-hat who nearly killed my sister!" Hope shouted.
"Steve, you told me you told Toni the truth about Howard and Maria! Why I believed you I'll never know." Natasha scoffed.
"Oh. I guess I should've spoken to you first. I'm sorry." Scott apologised to Hope who gave him a tight smile.
Over the shouting they suddenly heard Daniel trying to talk Howard down who had a gun pointing from Steve to Bucky who hadn't taken his horrified eyes off the livestream showing Toni and her kids.
"We - we did that! Oh my god can this cycle never end? I don't want to cause Toni's kids the same pain I've caused her!" Bucky muttered, before turning guilt ridden eyes to Howard and Peggy who were staring at him and Steve in hatred.
"Howard, I'm so, so sorry." Bucky apologised ridden with guilt.
"Now Howard, can't you see what Toni and Loki are doing? They're turning you against me!" Rogers simpered.
"She is a better person than you claim to be, Rogers." Okoye snapped.
While Sam muttered under his breath: "that's just wrong on so many levels, man. You nearly killed her! Are you telling me, Steve, that if you were in Toni's shoes that you wouldn't have lost it either? I know I would have."
Finally Howard found his voice as he stared at his ex-friend who showed no remorse for what he's done to Toni - his daughter - unlike Bucky.
"You may be a Super Soldier, Steve, but you talk or even come near my daughter again, and I will shoot you! Do I make myself clear!?"
"Peg?" Steve asked hoping she'd agree with him but she started shouting, surprising him.
"Who the hell do you think you are Steven Grant Rogers!! She's my Goddaughter and you nearly killed her!! Nearly made my Great God-babies orphans!! What did I ever see in you I'll never know."
"But she was attacking Bucky!" Rogers protested again.
"Of course she bloody lost her cool with Bucky, are you thick? She - from what we've heard - watched Howard and... Maria? Howard and Maria get murdered with James standing beside her while you knew about it for years!"
With that Rogers slumped into his seat while Loki and Stephen started again with the introductions. When they reached the three kids Howard tried to steal Daniel's gun again.
"He got my baby girl pregnant not once but twice?! Peggy, give me a gun!"
"Sir, I think you'll find you're threatening a God." Jarvis told him.
"I don't care if he's a God, she's my daughter! Howard argued.
"But you're right, no men... or women until Miss Toni is fifty!" Jarvis agreed, making everyone laugh while Loki looked nervously between the pair.
"Oh, Edwin, we have a daughter and Grand-babies! Edwin, look at them! They are so adorable! And Toni is gorgeous!" Ana beamed.
"Anyway," Loki cleared his throat awkwardly as he turned back to his children. "What would you like to do? You can stay with your Mother or come and watch with us. We're starting when we met thirteen year old Toni at M.I.T."
"My daughter started M.I.T at thirteen?" Howard asked, stunned.
"Yes. She has an IQ of 300." Carol told them.
"I'm so proud! That's my beautiful little girl!" Howard crowed, just as they saw Toni's skin glow a golden orange.
"What's that?" Barton asked worriedly.
"That's E.X.T.R.E.M.I.S." Pepper informed them.
"After the alien attack on New York there was a terrorist who captured, tortured and experimented on Toni and I. However, this... force can be unstable, it raises your body temperature to that of the sun. You have increased healing, strength and regeneration. You can literally grow back limbs."
"The bombings." Barton muttered, startled.
"They were people, yes." Pepper nodded. "It melded with Toni on a molecular level and she became a Meta-human and would have to learn control of her new abilities. Anyway, you'll likely watch it, but it didn't meld with me and I nearly died but Toni saved me."
"So this... E.X.T.R.E.M.I.S... that's healing her?" Daniel asked.
"Yes." Harley answered from the doorway, making everyone jump before he fired a large repulsor blast at Rogers knocking him across the room. "That's for my Mama." He snarled.
"What's the matter, Bambinos?" Howard asked, looking at his grandkids who were hugging a 'Auntie Carol' but were looking at him nervously. "This may be confusing for me being in the future, but I'm glad I get to meet my Grand-Bambinos and hopefully your Mother." The three smiled and embraced their Grandfather.
"What language is that?" Scott asked. "OW!" He exclaimed, rubbing his head where Sam had slapped it.
"It's Italian where my family originates from." Howard replied.
"So they're Asgardian, Italian, Spanish and Cuban." Bruce hummed.
"Yep. It's why we get to have secret conversations with Mama if we want to talk privately and one of us has one language we mainly use with Mama. Oh, I'm Peter Edwin Stark or Lokison."
"He's the baby, I'm Anamaria Frigga Stark or Lokisdottir."
"And I'm Harley Finn Keener-Stark, the oldest." Harley introduced. "Oh, we also know Hungarian for Grandma Ana and Mama was raised both Catholic and Jewish but she lets us choose."
"Right, let's get started." Loki said, sitting on one side of the room on the corner sofa with his kids and his brother, all of Toni's loved ones settled around them on sofas, beanbags and chairs - including those from 1940. While Brunnhild and Bruce sat in the middle with Natasha and Sam, leaving Scott and Bucky near Rogers.
"Huh! They're cute, for half of Loki." Brunnhild teased, staring at the Princes and Princess of Asgard cuddled with their father and uncle.
"Ready?" Rhodey asked from the sofa he'd lifted himself onto from his wheelchair which was situated next to Loki's with Happy, Carol, Hope, Stephen Strange and Wong. Getting affirmative from everyone Loki and Stephen started the memories.
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Icelandic to English translation:
• börnin mín = my babies/children.
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