Night fell over Stuttgart, Germany.
In the plaza outside a magnificent museum, hundreds of formally dressed citizens knelt on the ground in terror.
Dressed in ornate green battle robes and a golden horned helmet, Loki held the Mind Stone Scepter and spread his arms arrogantly, surrounded by several energy duplicates.
"Kneel! You insects, born yearning to be ruled!"
When a white-haired old man stubbornly rose to resist, Loki's expression turned cold. He raised the Mind Stone Scepter and fired a lethal beam of blue energy!
Clang-!
At the last possible moment, a red, white, and blue Star Shield sliced through the night sky, blocking the beam precisely in front of the old man and reflecting it straight back, blasting Loki off his feet!
Captain America, Steve, landed steadily. He had exchanged only a few blows with Loki when deafening heavy metal rock music suddenly rang out overhead!
Boom!
Tony Stark descended from the sky in his red-and-gold Iron Man Armor and sent Loki flying over a dozen meters with a precise blast from his Repulsor!
Every weapons module on his armor deployed at once. Dozens of Micro-Missile launch ports and the arc pulse cannons in both palms locked firmly onto Loki on the ground.
"Your move, Bambi."
Faced with the combined threat of Iron Man and Captain America, Loki promptly dismissed his armor and raised both hands in surrender.
Looking at the alien god who had been dealt with so easily, Tony could not resist whistling smugly behind his faceplate.
"That's it? This is the enormous crisis that guy Solomon said couldn't be handled?"
"Looks like winning this bet is going to be even easier than I imagined!"
However, Tony's smugness lasted less than ten minutes.
He and Captain America had escorted Loki aboard the Quinjet and were flying back