With Loki's help, the middle-aged man escaped the base safely, as he continued to run to the location of Loki and Zeron.
" Things happened as I expected, if we followed your plan the area would be filled with blood and dead bodies now." says Loki as he and Zeron slowly fell to the ground.
" My plan would have been quicker, and who cares if they die ?"
Hearing this Loki turned to look at Zeron and smiled.
" It seems you really don't know, this planet is under the protection of the serpent realm, and these humans could be said to be descendants of Gaea the Queen of the serpent realm." said Loki.
"..."
" You knew and didn't say anything, do you think master will be angry I killed those humans before?" Zeron asked clearly worried.
" I wouldn't worry, if he didn't want anyone to die master would have said something when he gave us the mission, after all, he knows your personality."
As they spoke the two finally touched down in the middle of the camp still covered by Loki's illusion.
It didn't take long for the man to bring the tesseract in a daze clearly he wasn't himself he quickly handed it over to Loki.
" So this is the space stone." says Loki looking at the tesseract.
" It feels powerful if it wasn't the fear of master maybe the thought of keeping it would have appeared in my mind, this power really is tempting." says Loki.
" I thought you were smart Loki, even if the master was out of the equation you keeping this thing would be a foolish thought, your body can handle its power and you aren't strong enough to protect yourself from the kind of people who would want this gem." says Zeron.
Hearing this Loki turned and looked at Zeron.
" That's probably the smartest thing I've heard you say since we meet."
"Smart? It's just the truth, some things are just out of the range of beings with our strength." says Zeron.
" That's true."
" So what are you going to do with this guy?" Zeron asked pointing to the man who brought them the tesseract.
" By now they have realized he is missing so even if they don't have any proof he would now be the suspect in the theft of the tesseract, so they will be looking for him.
It has nothing to do with us, they can do whatever they want to him." says Loki as he slowly floats off the ground soon followed by Zeron.
As they do the illusion covering the man disappeared and the daze he was in also vanished.
' Huh, where am I?" He questioned.
As soon as the words left his mouth, he was covered in bright lights from all sides as footsteps sounded coming closer and closer.
He stood there unable to understand what was happening, as the agents of the base quickly surrounded him and captured him not answering his questions as they dragged him away.
( With Loki & Zeron)
They had long since left the area and were now on a mountaintop far away from the base they were just at.
" So are we going after the time stone now?" Zeron asked.
" No, the master only asked for the space gem, since the master has no intention of getting them himself, I guess we need to leave the time gem for the person that collecting them to come to Earth." says Loki.
" So what are we going to do in the meantime?"
" Nothing I guess, after sending this gem to master if he does not give any more missions I guess we can do what we want." says Loki.
" Fine I'll contact master." says Zeron as he used the connection between him and Cul to speak to him.
" Master the mission is completed, the space stone is in hand." says Zeron.
This connection was something Cul had strengthened when he created Zeron giving him the ability to contact him from great distances, even though all the symbiotes created by Cul would have a connection with him, this would probably be the only one that was this strong, the others would only be so Cul could influence and control them from anywhere.
" Good job Zeron, you completed the mission much faster than I thought you would.' says Cul as his voice echoes in Zeron's head.
" I'll send you a location, go there and then contact me again.' says Cul.
" Let's go." Zeron turned to Loki and said as he flew into the distance and Loki soon followed after him.
At their speed it didn't take long to reach where Cul had said, they had arrived on another mountaintop with a statue of a serpent, it wasn't large or even that good-looking.
" Put the tesseract in its mouth." Cul's voice echoed in Zeron's head giving him instructions as he quickly followed them putting the tesseract in the mouth of the serpent.
Soon after it disappeared.
This was actually one of many teleportations point on earth, it could fake you to the serpent realm or to the underworld.
They were created for the weaker members that didn't have the power to enter and leave the realms at will.
Of course, there were safety measures in place to make sure not just anyone could use it, and even some who used it could only access the underworld.