"Loki defected!"
Schiller, who had been sleeping groggily in the clinic, held up his phone and said, "What? What defected? Who?"
"Loki!" Strange heavily stressed the name, then mouthed exaggeratedly, "Loki, the Eldest Princess of Asgard! She defected from Asgard! Before she left, she even stabbed her royal brother!!"
"Eldest Princess? When did she become the Eldest Princess?" Schiller's focus was completely off. He barely managed to sit up in bed, leaned against the headboard, and covered his eyes with one hand, clearly still half-asleep.
"Her brother Thor became the New King of Asgard, so doesn't that make her the Eldest Princess of Asgard?"
"I know that. I'm asking why she didn't accept an investiture as a prince in a male identity and insisted on becoming the Eldest Princess?"
"Is that the important part?!!" Strange nearly got led astray by Schiller. He shouted, "The important part is that Loki defected! She even stabbed Thor! Now she's vanished without a trace!"
"Oh."
"...Hello? Hello?!!"
Smack! Strange tossed down the phone, took a deep breath, and looked at Stark beside him. "I told you this trick definitely wouldn't fool him. Does he not know what Loki is like?"
"Looks like words alone won't fool him." Steve stood nearby with his arms folded. Stark snorted and said disdainfully, "If words won't fool him, then we'll make some noise."
Strange turned back to Stark. "I'm saying, Tony, you and Schiller, the two of you..."
"Schiller wanted to help you, so he went around in a huge circle, came up with that 'I Am the Soviet Union' stunt, successfully pushed all the civilizations on Earth into developing together, and then put you in charge of the Solar System construction plan. And the only one who didn't know about any of it was you."
"Now you