A/N: Special thanks to D48, Evowizard25, Drgnwolf, Ketvirtas, Cadmium, MoonSparkle The Vampony, Mutie Genic, Farista Sairuv and Kyle Guardian of Harmony for our more in-depth comments last chapter, but thank you to everyone who let me know what you thought and everyone who has favorited and liked this story!
I hope you enjoy and that I can hear from you after about what you think! Think of it as a holiday gift to me! Happy New Year everyone.
Luna had half a mind to teleport directly to Loki’s cell before another thought crossed her mind. In her fights with him the only edge he had had on her were his tricks and the scepter he held, one of which was in the nearby vicinity.
Before Director Fury could even react to her stealing the alien artifact that they had taken from her upon arrival, Luna had vanished from sight.
The ship tilted and shook again just as Luna appeared in the detainment room with Loki, tossing her off balance and into the console in front of his cell. Luna made sure not to press any of the various instruments on it, not wanting to free him, before righting herself and glaring at the still occupied cell where Loki was barely withholding his amusement.
Luna straightened out her dress and used the scepter as a crutch to keep herself up as the ship shook again, “Good. You are still here.”
Loki smiled at her facetiously, “Of course I am. Has something happened?”
Not in the mood to deal with his bad behavior, Luna pointed his own scepter at him threateningly with warning eyes, “You know full well the ship is under attack. Now I will just stay here in case one of your minions tries to free you.”
He glanced her over, perhaps a second longer than he would anyone else, before stating, “I think you might have a hard time doing that.”
Luna took a step back from the console, keeping her aim at Loki, “What do you have up your sleeve, Loki?”
The far door that Coulson had once brought Luna to in order to let her see Loki was blasted across the room, landing in a burnt mess from where an explosive charge left it. Luna whipped herself around to look at the disturbance as Loki narrated, “I originally intended to have a smaller crew infiltrate this Helicarrier, but when I remembered you would be here and be in my way I decided to double the amount.”
A dozen and a half men rushed through the now open doorway and waved their guns towards Luna, none firing but all preparing to do just that. Luna pointed the golden scepter at them to threaten them back, but her stomach dropped as she thought about how she had no idea how powerful the weapons she was facing were. They could not scratch Loki, but any good old blade could wound a pony. And these were much more sophisticated weapons than just blades.
Loki took a seat in his cell to prepare and watch the show, “Half to destroy the ship, half to free me. Have fun.”
Not about to let them get the first move, Luna leapt into the air of the very open room, intending to close her distance to the soldiers as their weapons were ranged to her knowledge. There was no way they could overpower her in close combat, even if they likely had more combat training in their humanoid forms.
They opened fire as she leapt, the muzzles of their weapons flashing as bullets poured forth. Luna’s speed was considerable in her leap, so the majority of the shots missed, but the weapons were designed for rapid fire and as such some stray shots still collided with Luna.
Luna’s eyes snapped shut as she felt one bullet scrape past her thigh, three collide with her shoulder and upper right arm, and another catch her in the gut. Not as painful as being struck by the full power of Celestia, but the humans and their weapons managed to make Luna bleed.
While airborne Luna let out the power of the scepter, a blue pulse shooting forth from it and colliding with two of the soldiers. Its unrestrained power sent them hurtling back through their crowd, knocking another three over as the others all scrambled to avoid Luna as she landed on top of the fallen pile.
Upon closer inspection, the soldiers' eyes were not blue. They were doing this out of their own free will and choice, and as such any sympathy Luna might have had for these men dropped to a negative level.
Quickly jumping forward, Luna avoided the gunfire of one soldier which then hit one of his still standing comrades in the back. Ignoring this, Luna impaled the scepter into another soldier, only to twist it and him with her strength around to slam into another soldier.
One unlucky soul attempted to knife the sister of night from behind, and he was unlucky because he succeeded. Luna growled as she felt more of her blood trickle down her blue dress, turning around and elbowing the offender in the face with enough force to cave in the cheek and other parts of his lower face. He was thrown back with such force that when he hit a wall he left a dent, falling forward off of this with no signs of ever getting back up.
Noticing that some of the soldiers in the pile were about to rise, Luna released a blast of her own energy at them with enough power that she was sure they would not be rejoining the skirmish.
The nine remaining soldiers turned their weapons on her and fired, one more being taken out by friendly fire as the remaining bullets all bombarded Luna. The princess felt herself stumble back as some of the shots managed to tear into her flesh, one even tearing off skin off her cheek.
Their shots did not cease, however, and the professional soldiers poured the entirety of their ammo clips into the physical goddess whom they had been warned about. Luna was forced back even more until she tripped over one fallen foe, crashing on to the ground without struggling anymore.
The soldiers approached their target cautiously, believing her to be dead until a laugh brought them all to attention again.
Luna sat up from her fallen position as more bullet fire was poured into her, ignoring the new pain as she wiped blood from her lips, “It’s been awhile since I’ve been that hurt, at least physically,” her eyes shot to Loki, who was actually surprised his soldiers had proven so useful in taking her down so far.
So far.
The bullets stopped connecting with flesh, instead whizzing uselessly through the air and ricocheting off the metal walls as Luna completely vanished in a black cloud. The soldiers looked worriedly around for the missing target.
One was so unlucky to find her, as a scepter found its way through his gut. He gurgled something intelligible as his allies turned and fired at him and his killer, only for their shots to end his pain as Luna had once again vanished.
Her voice did not disappear however, rumbling out from the very shadows of the room, “Congratulations on making me try. Your reward for this matter is death, unless you surrender.”
No soldiers made a move to signal a white flag, so one of them dropped dead without his head the next moment.
“You think I jest. You would come here and harm my allies, kill us all, and release Loki so that his maniacal plan can be unleashed?” her voice chuckled from the shadows, “I do not care for you at all.”
Loki narrowed his eyes as he watched another soldier be torn apart from a precision strike from Luna, and another. Her fighting was brutal and unforgiving, not unlike what he witnessed of Jotunheim’s warriors, but they were barbaric. They were evil.
Given her different physical form than when she transformed prior, this one having greater height to the point she even stood taller than him or Thor, Loki presumed that her change to Nightmare Moon was not restrained to her equine form. And in her hand she held the scepter, which he knew of course amplified the very nicest and kindest emotions to be found in a wielder...
A blood curdling scream drew Loki’s attentions to what Luna was specifically doing, and he found himself surprised to see her grab a soldier, disappear, and then reappear high in the air only to let go of the man. The other soldiers just let him fall, too scared for their own lives to move to help, but he did not impact the ground right away. First he was skewered on the scepter through gravity, only to then be tossed with disgust to the ground by Luna who vanished as bullets flew by where she had been.
Luna’s continuing assassinations of his soldiers drew her attention away from one wounded man who crawled over to Loki’s cell console. Luna noticed just as she finished killing the last of his standing men what was about to happen and so she teleported right over to there as another figure rushed into the room.
Loki’s soldier released the lock on the cell just as a bladed scepter was thrust through his gut. He fell lifelessly to the ground as the cell door opened and Loki grinned.
“Oh look at that.”
“No!” a hammy voice yelled from behind Luna.
The new person in the room was Thor, who dashed to Loki’s cell and prepared to tackle his wayward brother back into containment if he needed to. Seeing Thor’s charge, Luna too rushed to where Loki braced himself, the doorway of the cell, with Thor by her side.
They both tumbled right through Loki, his illusion dissipating as his real self sealed the cell made to contain doctor Banner.
He smugly grinned at the two of them as they turned and rose from the floor of the cell, “Will you two ever not fall for that?”
Thor pounded his hammer angrily at the side of the cell to almost no effect, Luna instead just having her mouth and eyes widen as she watched Loki’s hand on the control panel.
The room was designed to drop the cell if need be to kill the dangerous prisoner held inside.
Loki looked to the control panel and then to Thor, “The humans think us immortal. Should we test that, brother?”
Luna growled as she pointed his own scepter at him despite the durable cell in between them, “Don’t. You. Dare, Loki.”
Noticing that she still held the scepter, Loki pointed to the ground beside him, “You can teleport. Come out and make me.”
She furiously obliged, teleporting from the cell to where Loki stood so that she could smash that smug look off his face with his own weapon.
What happened instead was the scepter swinging right through Loki, who once again had substituted himself with an illusion, and who now stood to the side where he deftly swiped the scepter from Luna. Unable to react in time, Luna could not dodge the blast from the scepter that slammed her into the wall, nor could she then avoid in her dazed state the torrent of ice Loki shot towards her. The ice molded her to the wall, leaving her face free while preventing the rest of her from moving.
Loki sighed and shook his head as Luna instantly began to thrash about to no effect, “Stay put.”
A thud across the room took everyone’s attention away from that, however. One of Loki’s guards had managed to get back up after the massacre Luna enacted, only to be knocked down by the butt of a very, very large gun.
The wielder of this gun, Agent Coulson, pointed it towards Loki. His voice remained as polite as ever as he ordered, “Move away, please.”
Loki warily looked at the human, unsure as to why such an ant could possibly think they could fight him. It took an entire team of elite soldiers to just nick Luna here and there, and Loki was from a race by far more durable than Luna’s.
So did this human desire to die?
Coulson waved the large gun in his hands a little, “You like this? We started working on the prototype after you sent the Destroyer after Thor. Even I don't know what it does,” the front of the gun glowed orange as Phil powered it up, “Do you wanna find out?”
The gun quickly dropped from pointing at Loki to pointing at the floor as a silver blade erupted through Coulson’s chest, the man in a suit crumbling onto the floor and the nearby wall as Loki reappeared behind him.
Luna stopped all attempts to get free as she watched a human she considered a friend fall to Loki, Thor screaming from within the cell as he watched the display. Neither could move to do anything about it, and neither could believe what they had just seen.
Loki’s fake self by the control panel faded as he approached it once again. He amusedly pointed to his scepter, which held the blood of many humans on it now, before lowering a hand to the panel. Thor’s eyes widened as Loki activated it, the floor in the center of the room disappearing as the cell dropped from the ship and entered free fall.
Luna felt a tear run down her face as Loki approached her. He knelt down to where she lay frozen to the wall and floor, and surprisingly held a finger out to her blood and tear stained cheek.
Before Loki could say anything, Coulson’s voice rang out from across the room, “You’re going to lose.”
Loki, prideful as ever, turned from Luna to Coulson and stood up to his full height, “Am I?”
“It’s in your nature,” Coulson replied, politely insulting the same man who had just brutally impaled him. Luna was just glad to hear his voice, as it meant the strike had not slain him at least just yet, and she craned her head as best she could in her position to see him.
Loki took a step towards the wounded agent, “Your heroes are scattered, your floating fortress falls from the sky...where is my disadvantage?”
Heroes scattered? Luna was curious as to what he meant by that, but she knew he at least meant Thor. Who else could be missing?
Phil’s response was another insult, “You lack conviction.”
The Asgardian prince was not fond of being insulted by any, nonetheless those he considered beneath himself, so he missed something glowing orange as he angrily retorted, “I don’t think I-”
The large gun Coulson still held onto discharged a blast comparable to something even an Alicorn might throw out, impressing Luna as said blast collided with Loki and sent him crashing through the wall and into another room. He had been too wrapped up in their conversation and too overconfident to avoid it or have an illusion up, and he paid the price.
The ice on Luna cracked and began to melt to her joy, it’s existence being tied to Loki’s power. With him stunned in another room, it weakened enough for the wounded princess to force herself free. She conjured up what magic she could to blast off the rest of it, flopping to the floor weakly as a chill ran down her spine.
From across the room Coulson cheekily spoke to himself, “So that’s what it does.”
“H-hold on,” Luna gasped as she tried to crawl, too weak to pull herself to her feet after the damage she sustained in the past few minutes. She was too weak to heal all of her own wounds just yet, and what power she did have needed to go towards healing her wounded ally and friend.
Loki may have possibly just slain Thor, but she would not let him take two she cared about from her.
Coulson could see her current state, and he could tell her attempt to get to him was futile as she dragged her bleeding self across the floor slowly, “Save your energy. They’re going to need you.”
“Coulson!” a new voice yelled out, which Luna weakly recognized as belonging to Director Fury.
Sure enough, the one eyed leader of Shield had rushed over to Coulson and knelt down beside him.
Coulson apologized to his leader as blood trickled down his own face, “Sorry boss. I couldn’t stop him…”
“Just stay awake. Eyes on me!” Fury ordered his agent, the dark skinned man apparently having none of this mortally wounded business.
Phil, however, was more realistic about his situation, “No. I’m clocked out here.”
Fury still refused to just accept that one of his most trusted agents, quite possibly even a friend, was dying in front of him, “Not an option.”
“It's okay, boss. This was never going to work... if they didn't have something... to…”
His words never finished, leaving the two others in the room to mourn in the silence left by the now deceased Phil Coulson.
“Agent Coulson is down,” Fury announced over his communicator solemnly.
Luna slammed a fist onto the floor. Mind control or not, she was going to hurt Loki for this.
Only Captain America, Stark and Luna were able to drag themselves to the meeting Fury called later after the crisis had ended. Stark and Rogers had stopped the Helicarrier from falling to its demise as well as that of its crew, but Loki had escaped. Thor had been dropped to his supposed death by his own brother. Luna had no idea about Banner, Romanoff or anyone else, but Coulson was dead.
She was finishing healing off the various wounds she had sustained when Fury spoke to them all in the meeting room.
He pulled out a handful of cards, “These were in Phil Coulson's jacket. Guess he never did get you to sign them.”
Fury threw the cards towards Captain America, the set soaked in thick, sticky blood that those who sat around the table could plainly see had dripped from Coulson. The Captain picked them up and looked at their stained state sorrowfully.
Luna looked down at the ground at their sight, beyond furious at herself for her inability to prevent the event and distraught over how she had lost a friend. Someone had genuinely been kind to her and offered her support when she needed it, and now they lay dead and she could not even lift a finger to stop it because of Loki’s trickery.
The cards...Luna assumed they were some form of fan cards pertaining to Captain America, who she was beginning to notice seemed to be an inspirational figure. Phil must have been a fan of his and wanted his hero to sign them, but now the kind and geeky man would never have the chance.
Luna only tried to imagine if one of her own subjects who actually worshipped her, like Scootaloo after she assisted the filly in her dreams, had been slain. How it must feel to be the hero who could not even protect their own worshipper. The Captain must be hurting inside to know he let someone down like that, even if he had not been there to fail Coulson as Luna had.
Fury continued to speak to the crowd, all of them shocked and dazed from what had transpired, “We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor. I got nothing for you,” he paused as he reflected on Phil, “Lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming.”
He glanced over to Stark and Luna with his one eye, “Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing something even riskier. There was an idea, Stark knows this, called the Avengers Initiative.”
This was never going to work if they didn’t have something…
Luna felt realization dawn on her as she thought about what Coulson may have been trying to say.
Fury’s voice was downtrodden as he continued to be the only one able to find their voice, “The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes.”
Stark got up and walked off, not wanting to hear what Fury was saying anymore. The one eyed man looked down and sighed, reflecting on the situation they now found themselves in poorly.
“Well, it's an old fashioned notion.”
The meeting quickly fell apart as silence drifted in. No-one knew what to say or what to do. They had lost and had no guidance to lead them out of their crushing defeat.
Luna too sauntered off from the room, having nothing to say or add. All she knew was that she wanted to speak with Stark, who seemed just as upset as her.
She would rather argue and let off steam than wallow in this pain.
Wow Luna... Just wow. You know Loki can control people's minds, but you didn't seem to be bothered by that possibility, huh? No, no, by all means kill the soliders who have no reason to fight for Loki. They couldn't possibly be under his control...
Bitch!
3719065 Precisely! Even Loki was a bit disturbed as she waded through them.
But, on another note, Loki did not need to mind control the majority of his forces on Earth because Shield has enemies. He just gathered some of them together, added Barton and the 2-3 agents he also turned to his team, and called it a day in regards to recruitment.
and just like that im back to kind of hating loki-- you know odds are he might not even regret killing any humans even if he is being controlled
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Really? Well damn, who's Loki's intelligence guy, cause he works fuggin' fast! Was there a Craigslist ad or something?
3719327 No, I just think that many people hate Shield
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Well then, maybe they're doing something wrong and shouldn't be trusted!
Oh, oh, plot twist!
I can't wait to see the battle in New York, that it's going to be a challenge
Hot damn
I have to say, I am really not happy with this chapter. It came across as you not wanting to bother thinking about how Luna's presence would change the plot so you just saddled her with the idiot ball and railroaded the story into following the movie.
First, Luna knew that Loki was the highest priority in that fight so she should have been watching for anyone trying to make a move on the console to let him out, yet it sounded like she let herself get distracted. Now, this is not too terrible on its own because you do have the scepter to influence her actions and shit does happen, but it is still not good.
Second, Luna fell for Loki's illusion. She knows Loki and knows how he fights. She really should have seen that one coming, and we know she is not too far from Loki in deceptive magic based on the cutie mark thing from earlier. That said, the door did just open so I can see her thinking Loki had not had time to get out of the way so it is not entirely implausible, but it was bad enough that I facepalmed when I read it.
Third, Luna left Thor in the fishbowl. If Twilight can teleport several ponies over a long distance, Luna should be more than capable of moving herself and Thor ten feet through a glass wall even in human form. This was just pants on head retarded and is where I was certain that Luna had picked up the idiot ball because there is no plausible explanation for that big a screwup.
Fourth, Luna fell for the illusion again. Falling for the first one was a stretch with a lot of extenuating circumstances, and this one had none of that along with a very recent reminder of how Loki likes to fight. Luna should have been expecting this and acted accordingly because she should be more than capable of dealing with Loki's deception given how good she is at it herself.
Also, it felt like you just shut Luna down with the ice at the end there to keep Coulson dead for no clear reason. She took one moderate hit and got trapped in ice. I would have expected Captain America to be able to stagger back to his feet after that wore off without too much trouble so Luna should have been more or less fine even with the minor injuries she sustained earlier.
All in all, this chapter was very disappointing to the point that I feel like having her sleep through the fighting would have been more believable and I know you can do better than this so my advice is to scrap everything after the cell door opens and rewrite the chapter.
3719348 Actually, I think that is the plot of the new Captain America movie.
Good work as always and Wow. Luna doesn't play around, does she? {I know Marvel heroes are usually more inclined to use such violent tactics, but she tore those guys apart.}
3719065 I believe they explain it in the movie. {Could be either mercs, or hydra forces.}
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The point where Luna fell twice in succession for Lokis illusions kind of felt wrong to me too, in regard to how she started to tear all those soldiers a new one without looking back might be the influence of the Nightmare and the scepter combined also the ice holding her back was magical in nature and Loki was actively strengthening it to keep her pinned.
Also i kind of hope that Luna learns from this encounter and starts weaving some protecting and strengthening passive magic around herself so she can play hardball with the best, like Loki did a lot of times.
3720355 Thank you
Something's wrong with Luna, and even Loki is noticing it But yes, Marvel as a whole is more prone to violent ends for their bad guys. Even Captain America, a guy who is all about honor and whatnot, kills without a second thought during a fight.
And correct Loki is actually asked about how he rose a force to fight Shield, and he replies that there is no shortage of enemies for Shield.
3720628 Three guesses what the chances are she ever falls for it again are
If Heimdall, an Asgardian capable of taking out a spaceship with a dagger, can be stuck in Loki's ice for awhile the very first time Loki ever uses it I'd reckon Luna would have a bit more of an issue with the stuff here. Loki is not trying to kill Luna, so he pulled out the best trick he has for incapacitating someone (ice) even if he hates using it.
As for the Nightmare and scepter idea, you're quite on the money. Even Loki was raising a brow at how viciously she tore apart his men (not out of concern for them, mind you, for her).
And Luna needs to do some training you say so she is not just powerful in magic but also a bit more skilled? Why it'd take somebody good enough to teach Loki everything he knows to improve her talents like that The difference between Loki and Luna right now is that Luna can destroy things with raw power while Loki has to trick and manipulate fights with his powers.
i like the story so far but the first few chapters were better the the crosover whit the movie of the avengers to be honest
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Well he froze Heimdall with the casket of ancient winters and that thing is so goddamm potent that it froze over Asgard and Hel while incapacitating even the jotuns with its massive ice storms, it literally took the concentrated power of (more or less) a thousand suns to counteract its full power.
3722016 Never knew that before, but oh well. A fact learned over a month after I finished planning the entire story won't have much impact.
3720628 My issue with the ice was not it keeping her pinned, it was the fact that she was 100% useless after she got out of it. Even ignoring all the other dumb shit, she really should have been able to get up, walk over to Coulson, and patch him up without too much trouble.
3721361 Luna has serious issues....Come to think of it, why didn't she teleport Thor out with her? Cause she could have done that...Oh well, Thor got a free roller coaster ride out of it.
3722621 Why didn't Luna just confront the Mane 6 and defeat them easily? Why did she not do anything when they were trying to activate the Elements of Harmony? Why didn't she just use her teleportation more often for convenience in her fights?
Luna's good and generally smart, but she is prone to making in-the-moment mistakes like any other.
Yes, grabbing Thor would have been the best possible thing for her to do at that moment, but after being riddled with bullets (which while not lethal, were damaging) and with her being on a roaring rampage because of Loki she did not manage to rationally think that in time. Now that she's calm, you can expect her to think just about how badly she screwed up
I'm. So. Sad that. Coulson. Died. But the chapter. Was great!
3722723 That might be believable if it was just the one mistake, but she just came off as an idiot in this fight. She made one stupid decision after another and the end result was that you made her feel like a bumbling idiot after many many chapters of clear competence which includes fight scenes. If you really wanted to make her useless in a fight then you could have done that from the beginning, but as is the result is basically a textbook example of giving a character the Idiot Ball.
3724682 I'm going to liken this to a recent League of Legends match I've played.
Normally when I play I'm cool and collected. I do what I'm supposed to, can anticipate what my opponents will do, and will generally do well (a positive score) even if I lose a match because of the above. But there's a catch 22 in the game for when I do let my emotions rise. That enemy I really shouldn't chase because my character will die, but they are at only 1 hit left of health and I really want it? They escape, I die, and I get angry at myself. Then because I'm angry I focus in on that same opponent the next chance I get, completely missing the easier to kill enemy nearby as I pursue the one who has wronged me. Then as things continue to go wrong I lose more and more control, and am willing to jump at the first opponent that comes my way even if I'll lose because by then I have stopped caring. I'm not alone in downward spirals like that. In essence, one mistake can set someone on a path to their own defeat.
Luna got wounded to the point she was bleeding out allover by Loki's men. Then she was tricked by Loki, whose actions she is fed up with. She screwed up so much in this chapter because she messed up initially, let it get to her head, and that made her make yet another mistake. She normally isn't messing up and normally has herself in control, which she really didn't in this chapter as even Loki noted.
Anyways, you'll be hardpressed to find an encounter where she is so outdone on every level again. She can't win em all, but Luna is no pony to be trifled with.
3724758 This is a total failure of the most basic rules of combat. Stay calm, stay in control, and stay aware of the situation around you. If you cannot master that then it will catch up to you and you will get very dead very quickly. Luna is quite clearly not dead and not a raw recruit, so she must have mastered these most fundamental of rules. She might still have made one major blunder like running into the cage, but she would have immediately realized what was going on and taken control of her emotions.
Remember, there is a difference between making one mistake or loosing one fight and being an idiot. There will always be some fights you cannot win like when Coulson tried to take on Loki (or when LoL decides to match you against a Challenger smurf), but that does not mean you should be an idiot and throw fights for stupid reasons.
Frankly, the fact of the matter is that Loki was hopelessly outmatched here with Thor and Luna both against him because Luna is perfectly capable of dealing with Loki's trickery and giving Thor opportunities to land telling blows so the only believable way for this to end was with Loki at their mercy. If you really wanted Loki to get away you would have needed to introduce some kind of alternative check for Luna and/or Thor, but that still would have felt like unnecessary railroading because the portal would have opened with or without Loki and the natural flow of the story is for Luna to tip the balance going into the final battle by denying Loki a way out during the raid.
3719065 IKR! Even though she's under the influence of the Shadow and the Scepter, she's being way too harsh. And harsh is an understatement. She's being barbaric.
Even though Loki's supposed to be evil in the movie, he's totally OOC for the book, as well. In earlier chapters, he's portrayed as a nice yet totally broken guy who's at such a low point he does bad stuff and then a nice but scared guy who's being forced to do bad stuff even though he is kind of a little bit (just a bit okay with it since he wants revenge. Up until this last chapter, he's been pretty in character, but in this chapter he just seems (I don't know if it's just the mood or actually his actions) like an evil guy who's doing it because he wants to. Maybe it's because something broke inside of him but that seems a little sudden. What we really need is some insight into Loki's thoughts. Some going into his head. I honestly don't think Luna was acting like too much of an idiot in the fight. Sure, she could've made some better moves, but everyone has their bad days and she's also emotionally bucked. A new, non-equine body she hasn't been in much before and a new world (even though she's handling it well) can't be good on her, neither can her lover opposing her like this. Yeah, she was more level-headed in Equestria, but then there was a lot of hope that she could just chase down Loki and make him stop. Now I think she's realized that Loki's evilness is more deep-rooted than she thought and the situation has also really sunk in, the fact that it's only getting worse doing wonders to make her emotions silently go haywire. We've seen that she doesn't take weird emotional situations too well, since she went all Nightmare Moon on Celestia and then got banished a thousand years back. She didn't actually preform too badly. And we can see that Loki`s illusion magic actually works with people who "know his style" because the person he's grown up with still falls for it. I think it's because of the situations he places them in. But the out-of-characterness is very annoying. But this story is still the absolute best so far. One bad chapter isn't anything. It's not like I could write any better so who am I to complain. Still, the fight was a bit unsettling. Something's up with Luna. And I don't mean some outside force. I mean some inner fight. The same with Loki, too. I want to actually see (not just speculate about) that inner emotional workings.
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Am I the only one forgetting she still has Nightmare Moon inside her? Luna may not feel her presence as strongly as in Equestria but she's definitely still there. The angrier Luna gets, perhaps the more NMM gets control... I'd hate to see that happen.
And, yeah, as pointed out, most of them were mercs, after al, Loki only turned about 5 people against SHIELD. The rest working for him already hate their guts
On this chapter, though.
Feels.
Coulson, why must you die
YAY!! Coulson died a brutal death!!! Isn't getting impaled fun? That fine bloke finally got what he deserved! R.I.P you perfectly killed boy!
Oh, and I also think a subconscious fight with the Shadow, which she's not actually aware she's fighting, messed up her concentration. But she should be smarter next chapter.
It's always sad to see someone like Coulsen die.
every time i see or read Coulsen die, i cry.
I had faith that coulson would lived, i had so much faith!!!
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i got this far in a day
love ur book so far emotional with actiony bits nicely written and not too drawn out, just enough so i keep my interest
7191722 Hope your interest continues to hold, as you're only about a fifth of the way through! Thank you though.
6236351 Still there.
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You know loki still has the lowest kill count out of everyone that's not a child. And fluttershy. Do accidental kills count?