"Okay, might have one, I'll check, thanks for the tipoff. This seems like a variant in a lot of ways, though, my Midgard's not an Earth and most Earths aren't Midgards, the genderswapped family's a thing we've seen before but might or might not be affecting stuff, my opposite number here sounds like an evil nutcase, etcetera."

"My Loki had many shortcomings, but he also fell into Thanos's hands for quite some time and I think he might have avoided the worst of his errors if not for that. I can't guess at the rest. You wield your Tesseract?"

"Yes. I poked it when I was little, it taught me a sorcerous alphabet, I worked on magic myself from there without further access to it, it later decided I was boring and kicked me into a neighboring universe, I invented the teleport spell I use now to get out of that universe and grab it to save the planet I'd been on from an evil god, it lets me use it all the time now. It's grouchy because we've discovered universes it can't reach; it only works within one hop."

"Do we know if the reach of Thanos's stones is similarly limited?"

"No idea, haven't met this set. It's likeliest, lots of things can't operate outside their neighborhoods, but it's not guaranteed, there are also portable things or things that stretch from wherever they happen to be. In point of fact the knowledge that there exist other universes in this sense should definitely not make it to Thanos in case that matters; there's precedent."

"Understood. Can you tell me anything about your Thor that you would expect to be persistent across worlds, and not public knowledge -"

"Uh, most of what I know about her isn't exactly intimate secrets and alts vary in what things are consistent between them. I can tell you about her but I don't have a password like that, sorry."

He nods. "We have a great deal of planning to do. I would like to trust you. At least as far as I would trust a total stranger. Anything you can think of would be helpful."

"That's fair. She looks like this," illusion, complete with Mjolnir. "I was clumsy as a child and she used to make fun of me while trying all kinds of things to make me less so; I pretended it was the dance lessons when I solved it with magic. She's the best fighter on the planet barring Odin using her various cheats. Her best friends are Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg. - I don't actually consider us particularly distant sisters but she's not really verbally intimate, I wish I had more concrete facts to list, hm - she picked up Mjolnir on an impulse to take it to fight a giant bear - maybe this will work better in video, how about that -" She plays an illusion of Thor sparring with the Three all in a laughing pile of limbs and weapons.

He watches. He looks a little sad. 

"Did the Man of Iron tell you his plan?"

"The one from the Time Stone fellow? No."

"I think you should join us and we can figure out any adjustments your abilities enable."

"Sounds good. Bear in mind that my organization may find this world at any time and pop in to help, but we should probably operate conservatively on the assumption that they won't do that within the span of time this operation takes."

"I think we would be delighted to be so interrupted."

"Of course. Where am I joining you to?"

Thor lifts his axe and Bifrosts them on over. 

His companions are, apparently, two more men in metal exoskeletons like Stark's and a man and a woman in only light armor. And a raccoon. The raccoon would fit as someone's spirit animal except for how these Midgardians don't have those.

" - don't know where to start on finding Danvers," he's saying, "but maybe Fury took notes. And wasn't responsible enough about security."

The raccoon is also wearing clothes and carrying guns. "Hello, introduce me and catch me up please?"

"Hi, slightly-more-vetted Loki! This is my buddy Rhodey, we met at M.I.T., he was Stark Industries' liaison to the military until I guess yesterday when he got some really stupid orders. This is Cap - do you not go by Cap anymore -"

"Cap is fine," says Cap.

"This is Cap! Captain America, symbol of justice, freedom, and the American way, wanted for terrorism and massive property damage and so on. That's Bruce Banner, he spends most of his time getting PhDs and some of it turning into an enormous green rage monster, that's Natasha, I have no idea what her job description is at the moment. I never met the raccoon in my life."

"Rocket," says the raccoon. "Charmed, I'm not at all sure."

"It's nice to meet you all," says Loki. "Your opsec is terrible, you didn't check if I'd passed my vetting by kidnapping your Thor and replacing him with an illusion at all."

Cap startles. Black Widow kicks Thor in the shin.

"Your illusions don't do heat signatures."

"Oh, interesting - you're right, they don't, they do affect people with infrared vision these days but yeah, I retract my complaint."

"So the plan we were going with before you dropped into our lives was to find some hidden heroes, make a gauntlet of our own, set up an ambush for Thanos on one of the planets he doomed and try to lure the Power Stone out of its bearing. An advantage of this plan is that Strange foresaw it working; anything else we go with doesn't have that going for it. Disadvantage is that it takes a month, Strange wasn't all that sure of it, and it involves the gauntlet ending up with a random stranger whose only qualification is that her name is Carol. So probably she won't conquer the universe with it or anything, I can't really imagine a galactic empress Carol."