The Wonder Twins Chapter Two: Milo and Jason

A/N A long overdue chapter! I had writer's block for a long time but just had the most brilliant idea! I am very pleased I (finally) wrote a long chapter. 

BANG! 

"God, Heimdall!" Hel yelled. 

"Yes, thank you for noticing," said Heimdall, staggering out of the room covered in soot. "I may have added a bit too much potassium to that." 

"Never mind potassium," she snapped. "Did you get it working?" 

"Does it look like it?" Heimdall gestured to the smoke wafting out of the room. "I guess science and magic don't mix." 

We'd been trying to mix a potion that would help us identify the intruders at Helheim, but so far had only succeeded in blowing up Heimdall's laboratory. 

"What have you done now?" 

We all jumped and whirled around. Standing behind us with an amused look on her face was Aisha, the head Valkyrie. 

"I can explain," I said quickly. "We were-" 

"Save your breath, Loki. I won't tell on you. But seriously, what were you trying to do?" 

Hel fished in her pocket and pulled out a photograph of the two interlopers. One looked like a bit of a nerd - blond mad-professor hair, big glasses, scruffy T-shirt and blue denim jeans. The other had dark brown skin, neat black hair, a grey raincoat, black trousers and looked like a professional basketball player. He towered over the other boy. 

"I'm guessing you know about what happened. Heimdall Einstein here thought he could try and identify them." 

Aisha examined the photo and laughed. "Well, will you look at that. It's a small world after all?" 

"What do you mean?" I said. 

"Remember I was telling you about my friend in Midgard, Abby Carson? The one with the python?" 

We all nodded. 

"Well, this is her brother." She tapped mad-professor boy. "His name's Milo." 

"You're joking," I said. 

"No I'm not," Aisha protested. "I swear on Gungnir, that's who he is. And the tall one is Jason something. He's in my history class." 

Hel looked like she was about to burst with excitement. "Aisha, you're amazing! Come on, Loki, we need to track them down." 

"This seems like too much of a coincidence," Heimdall mutters. "I mean, what are the chances of that happening?" 

"Who cares as long as it saves me?" Hel laughed. "Let's go!"

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Three hours later, Hel and I were standing on a deserted street in Midgard.

Hel had changed into her formal robes. She was wearing a long black dress and a black cape fastened by a purple brooch. A silver tiara perched on her head and she was carrying a long, twisted wooden staff with a red jewel at the top. She looked different. More powerful. 

She smiled at me. "Ready? I've put a spell on this road. Nobody apart from our intruders will come down it until we've dealt with them." 

I was about to say something when I heard voices. I grabbed Hel's arm and pulled her behind a wall. 

Two boys came round the corner. One was short and scruffy and the other was ridiculously tall for a boy in Year Nine. 

"I can't believe Louise," the scruffy one, Milo, was saying.

"I know! She's so irritating," his companion replied. "We got our own back though. I put a spider in her pencil case." 

Milo burst out laughing. "That must have been the screaming I heard. What did she do?" 

"She put her hand in to get something and it crawled onto her hand. You'd have loved it, it was hilarious. She shook it off and it landed in Taylor Matthews' hair. She went mad and Miss Ross had to calm them both down."

"Did you get in trouble?"

"Nah, nobody guessed it was me."

I exchanged a glance with Hel. Now. 

We sprang out in front of the boys. Milo screamed and brandished a banana at us. Jason nearly fell over in shock. 

"Milo Carson and Jason Something," my sister declared in a grand voice. "You have committed a terrible crime and for that you must be punished."

Impressive, I thought. 

"We're sorry!" Milo yelped. "We didn't mean to do it! We were just exploring." 

Jason glared at him. "What did I say about denying everything?" 

"Your words will not save you now," Hel said, clearly enjoying herself. 

"We deny everything," Jason stated. 

I hid a smile. 

Milo was slowly edging backwards, trying to make a run for it. 

"Uh-uh." Hel pointed the staff at him. The jewel on the top glowed suddenly and a burst of white light shot out. It hit the pavement behind Milo with a bang. Milo yelped and leapt forward. 

Hel smiled wickedly. "Come quietly and your punishment will be milder. There's no escape." 

Jason looked her in the eye. "Are you sure?" 

He flung up his arms and there was a loud BOOM. Smoke billowed from where he was standing and we were momentarily blinded. 

When the smoke had cleared, the pavement was empty.

The boys had gone.