"Loki was only exploring the universe Tony." Kay assured the man. "He's a teenager on his own for the first time after a lifetime of abuse and misery. of course he's going to go on a bit of a bender. he'll come home soon enough." Kay promised before smirking a little at Loki's mild vocal protest at being called a teenager on a bender, but he didn't actually protest because it was true. "you are certainly a revered being." Loki agreed with Cas, looking amused as Kay looked about, quite incredulous. "an Angel... of the Lord. like god and fire and brimstone?" Kay asked, staring at him, more than a little bit suspicious and unbelieving of the statements. he had never been a very religious man though. "The Great One, we call him." Loki admitted. "the Jötnar, the Frost Giants, they call Him, The Beginning. but he's all the same in the end, our God. all of the nine realms praise and worship him as their supreme religious being, for lack of a better description. humans, so far, are the only ones who do not, but that it likely the fault of the beings who call themselves gods on this planet. it is one of the reasons why the Galactic Council stepped in and removed the Asgaurdians from the planet, because they humans where worshiping us, instead of the Great One. too late, damage was done. humans will get on the right track again." Loki admitted.
"Well, maybe there is such a thing as Angels." Kay mumbled, stunned by the wing display, holding his hands up to show he wasn't going to hurt anyone but James scowled. "нейтрализованный(Nuetralized.)" he protested, staring at Kay. that was a code word of sorts that meant Kay had been a Target, and James had killed him. "That was pretty awesome Cas." Clint admitted with a grin. "i was never really a Colonel." Kay finally admitted with a sigh. "in nineteen twenty, i was enlisted into a new program free from government control. i was twenty or so years at the time." Kay explained that Aliens had existed, had always existed and that his organization monitored and contained their existence and everything else. "in the nineteen forties we where just getting off the ground when we discovered the Tesseract was on earth. what you call the Tesseract, we call the-" Kay paused when Loki cleared his throat a little. "Sorry. the Tesseract was never of earthly origin. in legend, there is a gauntlet that God created to aid him in the creation of everything. the Tesseract is part of the gauntlet. it is known as the 'Space Stone'. it created the universe and all the spaces in-between. that was why it was able to create a portal between the worlds." Loki explained.
"So the Tesseract was never what was controlling M... Us?" Clint asked, Loki grimacing. "No. there are five other stones. Mind, Soul, Time, Reality and Power. the Stone in the scepter i was wielding held the Mind Stone. it was what God, in legend anyway, used to create intelligence, personality and free will. you should be damn glad all i had was the Mind Gem..." Loki seamed to curl into himself, a hand clutching his chest, his eyes going that vague way people did when they where remembering something so horrible, all they wanted to do was scream. "The Soul Gem is so, so much worse...." he whispered, sounding so broken and shattered that James moved over to him and set a hand on his shoulder, making his tiny little upset noises and looking for the person who had upset one of his Assets so. Steve swallowed thickly and decided to help Loki change the subject.
"So you discovered the Tesseract..." "Yes. we discovered the Tesseract was in the hands of Monks who where protecting it, we where inclined to leave it at that until a small group named Hydra stole it, to use it as a weapon." Kay explained. "i went undercover as a Colonel when when we learned that not only was the Tesseract gone and being used for world domination, but that alien technology was being used, and being tested on people. i needed to make sure that there was only one test, pass or fail and that the person it was used on could not be corrupted in any way. i failed." Kay admitted. "i wanted to choose Bucky Barnes." he admitted, indicating the Soldier. "he passed every test we through at him. there was only one problem." here Kay sighed. "he had too much... focus. on a singular person. if we had given him the Serum, his focus on you,Mr. Rogers, would have turned into homicidal obsession. he likely would have left the war, and slaughtered anyone who so much as looked at you. he likely would have hurt you trying to control you, trying to 'protect' you so he could not become a Super Soldier." Kay sighed. "of course, he may very well be one now anyway." he admitted. "i would have chosen you, actually." Kay admitted, staring at Steve. "Erskine agreed. we where watching select individuals all over the united states for specific qualities... you fit the bill, but you stopped applying an we couldn't gain access to you until you joined the army. we had to choose someone else... he was... not suitable..."Kay admitted with a grimace. "we ended up having to kill him when he went homicidal and started killing his own men instead of the enemy soldiers." "Why tell us all of this?" "because Phil trusts you." Kay admitted. "Because even if you never got the Serum, you where always the first choice for being Captain America. because you, all of you, will always do what's right. not just for the entire world, but for the individuals as well."
