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Stallion - Chapter 14 [Loki X Reader]

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You felt like you should have seen this coming.

When you first found out that Sutter murdered James you should have noticed that this was not how the history books described him. This was far from what he was portrayed as. It may have been that the books were totally wrong about him, but to you, it seemed more convincing that Sutter somehow obtained time travel technology. He acquired that half of the time travel device; how exactly he got it was all the unknown to you. If you Loki and Thor had the half that goes back in time... That means that Sutter has the one that goes forward. One might think; if he has the half that goes forward wouldn't that mean that he is from even farther in the past? This wasn't necessarily true. He has a self winding wristwatch, meaning that he is from at least 50 years in the future. The time device he had, looked exactly like yours. You began to think What if, at one point in time, the two devices were actually together as one? One side to go forward, one to go back. You still had unanswered questions... and you couldn't help but feel like the was a part of the story that you didn't know.

The three of you had surveyed your surroundings and you quickly noticed that the mountains along western Nevada weren't too far away. "I guess we jumped at a good time." you thought. You all started to come up with a plan. A much more thought through plan. "We can follow the train tracks to the nearest town."

After a while of walking, you all arrived at the town. This one was much larger then any of the previous ones you had seen. Nearly three times as big. The people still looked the same, but there seemed to be a different... busier atmosphere here. Knowing that Sutter was still on that train and was probably in this town looking for you at this very moment, you took care to hide yourselves from view as much as you could.

Well...

You tried to anyway.

"Hey! Pssst!" You heard a voice say from behind you. You all turned around and noticed a man peaking out from an alleyway. "Over here!" He waved you over to him, trying to get you three to come.

You stayed put, and turned around. You were not about to get into even more problems by associating yourself with this guy who you didn't even trust. The three of you all walked away, but moments later you saw someone run past you, and then stop right in front you, almost causing you to run into them.

"Wait, Please!" The man from the alley said to you. He was a younger man, if you had to guess, he looked to be about 19 or 20. "I know why you three are here. I can help you!"

You raised an eyebrow at him. "...Really... And how is that?" You questioned.

"You're being perused by John Sutter aren't you?" He said.

"...Yeah, what's it to you?"

The man eyes looked to the left and then to the right, as if he was expecting Sutter to be within earshot. "I can help you get the time travel device from him."

"You know about it?" Loki said.

"Yes, no please, come. We cannot talk out here in the open."

Deciding to trust this young man, the three of you followed him as he led you into a building very close to the edge of town. Once inside, the man closed all the windows and doors, making sure that they were blocked off so nobody could get in.

"How did you know that Sutter had a device for traveling through time?" Thor asked the young man.

"He told me himself." He answered.

"Who are you?" You asked. "Why would he tell you?"

"My name is Alex. Sutter has told me much more any of you know."

"Well are you just gonna sit there or are you gonna tell us then?" Loki said.

"Certainly." Alex replied.


Time travel.

If the human race had access to it, what would they do?

If technology finally advanced far enough to allow someone to travel through time and relive the events of the past or see into the future, what would happen? What would someone do if they had the chance to go backwards in time to any point in history? Time is a fragile thing. If humans learned how to manipulate it, how would it affect them?

These are only some of the questions that John Sutter was trying to answer.




"What's the current Lab report?" A middle-aged man with short brown hair said as he approached another man who was sitting at a work desk in the middle of a large science laboratory. The man worn a long white lab coat and looked through a microscope, examining a piece of metal some device that had tiny inner wires and circuit panels.

"There has been a development, Mr. Sutter." The scientist says, without looking up from his work. "The device's inner circuits are functioning at 100% capacity."

"Grand." Sutter replied, obviously pleased. "We're getting closer and closer by the day to its completion."

"Closer than you think, sir. If all the calculations are correct, the only thing it needs is a source of power that can withstand the punishment of its functions."

"Have you figured out what to power it with?"

"For the right side, we've been able to fashion an element that can do the job, but... for the other side-."

"Other side?" Sutter said questioningly. "Why does it need two power sources?"

"Each side functions independently and therefore must have its own source of power." The scientist explained. "Because of the different uses of each side, the left will need more power to complete its task."

"So what does the left need?"

"The other scientists and I have gone over some options," The man said, finally raising his head away from the microscope. He grabbed the device that he was looking at from the panel and held it up in front of Sutter. It was a small object, that resembled two watches. It was made of two separate metal bands and on top of each band, there were two circular dials surrounding an inner motherboard. "and we've come to the conclusion that the only thing that can do so, would be a certain rare gemstone." He pointed to the center of the dials, indicating that the gem would sit directly on top of the mechanisms.

"We have a whole collection of gemstones in the storage room." Sutter replied.

"Sir, this stone is incredibly rare, even more so than red diamonds." The scientist told him. "I'm afraid that we do not have it."

"What stone do you need?"

"It's called Crystalite. Blue Crystalite to be more specific."

"And are you sure that this stone is the only option?" Sutter questioned.

The scientist sighed before he replied, "Yes, sir. Crystalite has a special quality that allows it to store energy within itself. Inside the stone, a process occurs which converts that energy into a force that can be tapped into and focused into a concentrated burst that, quite literally, can tear the fabric of time."

"Fine then." Sutter said. "I shall find you this Crystalite. While I'm gone I want all of you to finalize the device."

"Yes, sir. Any further requests?"

"Yeah, Paint it a nice chrome colour why don't ya?"

Scientists worked diligently to put the last touches on they're device. Many of them spoke of how they were so uncontrollably happy to have actually accomplished a task where many people before them had failed. It was almost unbelievable to them that they had achieved a goal that people have been attempting for ages. Where hundreds before them were unsuccessful, they had accomplished the impossible.

Sutter returned to the lab a few hours after he left.

The scientist he talked to before looked over to him and honestly looked surprised. "... You're back so soon?"

"Yes." Sutter replied. He reach into his coat pocket and pulled out a bright gemstone, a brilliant blue in colour. "Here is your Crystalite." Sutter handed the stone to the scientist who looked down at it in his hands, almost in awe.

"H - How did you find one of these?!"

"I have sources."

The scientist was still staring at the gemstone, almost mesmerized by the shear size of it. It was almost bigger than his hand. He had only ever seen Crystalite in small fragments; never as big as this. "Well... Great. Now we can move on. We will have to cut the stone down though."

"Do as you must." Sutter replied to the scientist. "Just finish the job."



"There," The young scientist said as he lifted a smaller fragment of the blue crystalite in front of his face. The stone had been cut to the specific dimensions needed for the device, and polished to bring out its natural shine. "Would you like to do the honors?"

"Certainly." Sutter replied, a somewhat questionable smile forming on his face. He took the stone from the scientists hands and walked over to the device, which to his delight was spray painted a very shiny chrome. The center of the right side had a sample of whatever element the scientists had used to power it, and the substance seemed to give off a slight red light. He slipped both bands of the device over his arm, staring for a second at the beautiful creation. He carefully placed the blue crystalite into the center of the left dials, and almost in the same instant, the stone began to glow a vibrant cyan.

"That is the energy of the crystalite." The scientist said. "Such power contained within one small specimen."

"We have the power sources." Sutter began, as he turned around, facing away from the scientist and running his fingers over the device on his arm. "When is the soonest it will be in functioning order?"

"Well, in it's current state it will work, but we haven't tested the actual level of power that the device can produce. We will need to do some confined test runs before we even think about putting it to use.."

"No... No test runs..." Sutter laughed, He turned around and looked at the scientist again. He had a devious, almost evil, expression on his face, as he stared the scientist down. "Your work here is done." Sutter began toying with the dials on the device. "You've been so very helpful to me... Heheh."

"Wha! What are you doing, John!?" The scientist said, automatically getting terrified.

"Rewriting history." He replied. Before the scientist could do anything else, Sutter pushed the center of the right side. A field of energy was emitted from the device, surrounding Sutter. Seconds later, the device glowed brightly, nearly blinding the scientist, and then the light quickly receded then continued to release a burst of energy that sent the scientist flying backwards.

The other scientist swiftly rushed to his aid, asking him what happened.

"He used us..." He replied to them.

"The time travel device is gone!" One of the other scientists said.

"John... he took it..."

One of the scientists rushed over to the computer system and brought up the program that they installed to track the usage of the device.

"He's gone back..."


"Alright Imma make a long story short," Alex said. "Sutter traveled back in time to the 1840's. He went back to a year or so before the California gold rush. He established himself in California, raised the saw mill, and hired workers with the false promises of wealth and was actually using them to find clues that would lead him to the gold. James Marshal... Sutter saw him as a threat. He was smart, and it seemed like he was unraveling Sutter's plan. Before Sutter even knew it, James caught on and used the clues that had been gathered to find the gold himself, preventing John from continuing his plan."

"Sutter went back to get rich." You said. "He planned to take the gold back to the future and sell it so he could make a fortune."

"Yes," Alex replied. "When Marshal found the gold Sutter was infuriated. He wasn't about to let Marshall tell the others and let them take all of his gold. So Sutter made use of his time travel device again. He went back, but this time we accidentally went too far. It was about 5 years before the gold discovery. Sutter had planned on waiting, making sure that history wouldn't repeat itself. He kept his time travel device locked up, hoping to keep it safe, but a lock wasn't enough..."

"What do you mean it wasn't enough?" You asked.

"The lock was enough to keep any human from getting at it..." Alex told you, adding extra emphasis on the word 'human'. "But something attacked him that was... inhuman." His voice lowered. "He described the person to me as, an older man in royal armor carrying a tall, golden staff. Sutter said to me that this man unlike any he had ever encountered. The man forcibly tried to take the device from Sutter. During the struggle Sutter fought back, but it ended in the device breaking in two. The older man took the half he had and, as if by magic, disappeared into thin air. Sutter had the half of the device that goes forward, but during the fight, the blue crystalite was broken, leaving him stranded here."

"Wait a minute..." You said. "Older man... royal armour... Disappeared by magic..." You looked towards Loki who seemed to have already figured it out.

"Odin was the one who tried to steal it." He said.

You looked at the device on your wrist, and then back up at Alex. "Sutter wants ours so he can reforge the device into one again."

"Yes, but he also doesn't want you to get in the way." Alex told you. "He knows that the blue crystalite specimens are located at the underground military base here in Nevada, and, I guessing that you guys figured that out. Sutter needs the crystalite to fix his half, but needs your to follow through with his plan to get all the gold."

"And how do you know all of this?" You asked.

"After Sutter had that encounter with the older man, he kept the device by his side at all times, and focused solely on finding a way out of his mess. He was now stuck in the past, just as you are now. He didn't trust anyone, but he started growing depressed, you could say, and he started talking to me. He didn't let me in on much at first, but he slowly told me more and more of his story as long as I swore that I wouldn't tell anyone."

"But, you're telling us now." Thor stated.

"I fear that greed and power have gone to Jhon's head." Alex replied. "I heard about him murdering Mr. Marshall... That's when I knew something needed to be done. I found out that he was in pursuit of a group of people..."

"And you knew that we had the other half of the device." Loki said.

"Correct."

"So, how exactly can we stop him?" You asked. "We are trying to return to the future, so we need his half of the device."

"You do, yes, but first you need to obtain the blue crystalite which is being held at the mountain military base." Alex said. "Then you can steal Sutter's device and end his plans for good."

"You were right," Loki said to you, "We're headed to the mountains."

"It gets pretty cold up there this time of year," Alex interrupted. "So please allow me to provide you with some proper winter wear."


"Come on guys." You said. "We need to keep going."

Damn this place was cold. Even though you all had on heavy coats, hats, scarves and fur lined boots, all given to you by Alex, the frosty air still set chills though your body, and the slight wind only made it feel colder. You could see your breath whenever your breathed. The field of snow you were walking through was just like what you saw in your dream; a large, monotonous plane of white flakes. They piled up in places to almost two feet in height.

The three of you stood close together, you in the middle of Loki and Thor, and continued walking. The information that you obtained from Alex told you that the entrance of the base shouldn't be too far. Just across this field he said. As you all walked, you felt a snowflake fall on the tip of your nose. You looked up at the sky and saw more snowflakes starting to come down from the clouds. Soon enough, it started snowing.

Loki felt a snowflake fall to his face, and... It must have surprised him for some reason because he stopped walking altogether. You turned and looked back at him, when you noticed that he wasn't next to you. He stood there for a moment, not saying anything, and then he took his hand out of his coat pocket, holding it out in front of him. He watched the snowflakes fall into the palm of his hand and slowly melt back into their liquid state. He turned his hand over, looking at the back of it.

You walked over to him, "Are... you okay, Loki?"

His eyes flashed to you, as if he had just overcame a moment of spacing out, being in his own world for a moments time. "Uh... Yes." He replied. "I - I'm fine."

You waited a moment. "...Okay." You turned around again, staring to walk forward, thinking that Loki was following behind you. You looked forward, noticing that Thor was still standing ahead of you. He turned his back, looking to see how much longer you'd have to keep walking to get through the feild. A moment passed and you saw something out of the corner of your eye; you looked and saw a snowball fly at Thor and hit him right in the back of his head.

Thor quickly turned around, while wiping the snow out of his hair. You looked over your shoulder and saw Loki with one of those fake "I'm innocent" looks. You laughed.

For a few moments, nothing happened, but then out of nowhere the three of you broke into an all out snowball fight.

You threw snowballs at Thor, hitting him in his face and side of his head. Thor threw snowballs at Loki, trying to get back at him for making the first shot. He landed a few hits, but Loki then countered and hit Thor twice in a row.

The three of you were pelting each other with snow, not even caring about the task at hand anymore. It seemed like all of you had completely forgotten that you were in the 1800's and were being chased by a murderer. It was a nice change in things. Rather than being worried and focused on the worst of the situation, you all took this one moment to act like nothing was wrong. You all let yourselves revert back to acting like little children who just found out that school was canceled because of the snow.  

You got hit by a snowball that Thor had threw, and you wiped the snow off of your face. You bent down and made another snowball in your hands. You stood up, but before you could throw the snowball, you suddenly felt another snowball hit you in the left side of your face. It threw off your balance, and you fell down into the snow beneath you.

"Are you alright, [name]?" You heard Loki say. "I didn't mean too hurt you."

You just laid there in the snow for a second, trying to keep a straight face. Then, you quickly sat up and grabbed Loki by his jacket and pulled his down into the snow, making him fall face-first. He rolled over on to his back, clearing his face snow.

You both just layed the for a few moments. And then you both burst out into hysterical laughter.



After the snowball fight you noticed that it was starting to grow darker outside. You knew that you couldn't be walking around out her at night, so you three took shelter in a cave for the night. You had Thor gather some wood from a nearby tree, and you used a book of matches that Alex gave you to start a fire so you could keep yourselves warm.

The ground of the cave wasn't very comfortable to sleep on but you were the first to fall asleep, using your coat as a blanket.


"Are you awake, brother?" Thor said quietly.

"Yes." Loki replied.

"Was it my imagination, or did you seem really... overjoyed during that snowball fight?"

Thor question caught the God of mischief off guard, and for a second he didn't reply. "... It was your imagination."

"Nice try, Loki." Thor responded. "I can tell when you are lying."

"It's the truth, Thor." Loki said. "You know that I've always hated snow."

"That was not hatred I saw in you."

Loki just starred into the fire, watching the flames dance as they burned the logs. The crackling of the wood was the only sound that could be heard. Loki didn't want to talk about the subject. To himself, yes, he admitted that he actually enjoyed that snowball fight. He couldn't remember the last time that he genuinely felt that... cheerful. But he certainly didn't want Thor to know that.

"Come on, Loki, I haven't seen you smile like that since we were children."

Not looking away from the flames, Loki sighed, "... Alright... I guess I was a bit joyous."

"Why the sudden mood change?"

Loki sighed again. He expected nothing less of Thor's curiosity. "...Let me ask you something, Thor... Have you ever felt so... free?"

"Free of what?"

"Free of... yourself. Of the qualities that define you."

"I'm not sure what you're getting at, Brother."

"The snow, Thor. Being out in the snowfield, and actually being able to touch the snow without... the other side of me coming out..." Loki tone softened and he was talking quietly as if he was only speaking to himself. "Without seeing my skin turn blue or feel my eyes burn as they go red... There are no words to describe how happy that made me feel."

HOT DAMN!
This is the longest chapter of this story so far! :dance:

Can you feel the Loki feels yet?
Because him and Thor are on Midgard and it's in the past they don't have their powers. That means that Loki's Jotun half is non-existent!

I tried to do my very best at explaining how Sutter got the time travel device, and why he wants you dead. Then I had to explain how Odin obtained it... Basically Odin stole the Time travel technology. Midgardians invented it, and Odin stole it.

PLEASE COMMENT!
I live off of your opinions okay? They are what keep me alive.

Oh, and Just and FYI, Blue Crystalite isn't real. I made it up. Carry on now.



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SNOW BALL FIGHT! Thank you Alex for the clothes and the matches. Looks like everything is going smoothly! I'm so happy! This is WONDERFUL! Thank you thank you! YOu'd think I'd be able to pummel Thor or Loki with snowballs! This was so fun! I do hope we'll be able to find the entrance to the area. Thank you Alex, that is unless Sutter actually know that you went behind his back and told us thing. Figures Odin would take it, but at least he did or we would be in serious trouble. SUTTER YOU GREEDY POWER DRIVEN JERK! YOu deserve to stay stuck in this time period. You weren't even there to create it. SO BLAH! Woo for making up Gems. Thank you. ONWARD!