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As a prince of Asgard, one had a whole kingdom full of entertainment at one’s disposal. And still Loki felt bored. There was simply nothing to do.
He could go ask Thor to play a board game, but he didn’t want to get up from his couch. So both knocking on his brothers’ door and picking a game to play were off the table.
Eat something, perhaps? No, then he would have to choose what, and that seemed like a drag. Maybe just sleeping. No, then he’d wake up all groggy.
With a dramatic sigh, he looked around his room. On his dresser stood a potted plant. It looked a little bit like a frog, if he looked at it like this.
Loki chuckled and pointed at the potted plant, with a frog in mind. Right before his eyes, the plant changed, until a confused looking frog landed into the pot.
Heh, hilarious. The kick of short-term entertainment was good for half a minute, after which he looked around the room for something else to transform into an animal. In the back of his mind, he knew that he should watch out. Before you knew it, he had enchanted something that someone else cared about and he would be in trouble.
The thought left his mind as quickly as it appeared. He turned a lamp into a swallow, and then a chair into a sheep (That was already going a little far, the voice in the back of his mind told him).
Quickly enough Loki couldn’t help but think that changing objects was so boring. They just stood there while you enchanted them. It wasn’t a challenge at all.
Why couldn’t an unsuspecting asgardian walk in right now? Just this once? Maybe they had learned not to get close when Loki was bored. It would be understandable.
Loki knew he shouldn’t do it, but the temptation was too big. He got off the couch, closed his eyes, spread his arms, and envisioned himself as something... something green, something with scales, like an… like an alligator. A small, agile alligator.
When he opened his eyes, he was confused first, until he realised he was looking from a gator point of few. How funny, even the sheep seemed humongous like this!
What could he do now? He knew! Go and bite everyone in the ankles. That might keep him entertained for a little while.
Just as he geared up to walk out of the room, he heard a zipping sound. Two portals opened in front of him. Four weird looking people walked into his room, with strange torches in hand. They weren’t asgardians, that was for sure.
Before he knew it, alligator Loki was picked up from the floor and carried through the portal. He heard his captors murmur something about ‘variants’ and ‘danger,’ but he didn’t know what that meant.
He tried to change back, but to no avail. One of the captors looked at him. ‘Do you think this thing is conscious?’ he asked his colleagues. ‘I wouldn’t want to be concious if I was an alligator wearing such a dumb hat.’
‘Who knows,’ one of the others said with a shrug. ‘In case he is: Don’t think you can change back now. Magic doesn’t work in the TVA headquarters.’
What in the fresh hell is the TVA headquarters? Loki wanted to ask, but he couldn’t. His gator form didn’t allow him to talk. Would he be stuck as a gator forever, now? One with a weird hat? He hoped not.
He began to struggle, hoping he could get free. His captor squeezed him closer. ‘Calm down, gator…’ Loki opened his mouth and bit the man in the arm. ‘Ouch! This little-’
Something stabbed Loki in the side. One of the TVA members had stabbed him with the torch thing.
‘Taken care off,’ he heard his captors say, before he lost consciousness.
‘Hey? Gator? Gator with the silly hat?’
Loki looked up, to see… another Loki. A loki who looked like a pudgy child with curls. Also, silly hat? Again?
‘Hmm… are you a Loki too?’ the kid asked. Gator Loki nodded, finding out that he could still do that, at least.
‘Can you talk?’
He shook his head.
The kid chuckled. ‘I don’t think I want to know how you got like this.’
Gator Loki sighed internally. One moment you have a nice, if a little boring life on Asgard, the next you are gone, kidnapped by people from this thing called the TVA and picked up by some random kid without fully realising what happened to you. And then they kept teasing you about your hat, too. What even were they talking about?