Asgard had just been destroyed but thanks to Heimdall there had been survivers, now the lineage of Asgardians had been secured, they were safe now.
Thor had just spoken with Loki, he had recovered not only his people but his loved brother as well.V Valkyriehad rolled her eyes seeing Loki again but she was kind of glad too, even Bruce seemed a bit less scared of him.T Thefour of them gathered in the cockpit alongside Heimdall to agree on what they would do next.
"We must find a temporary place to stay, at least until we find somewhere to settle and rebuild Asgard" Thor began speaking, then turned to Banner "Heimdall might be able to return you to Earth if you wish so Bruce, but you can always stay"
Bruce smiled and gave Loki a glance, damn he still scared him.
"Thanks Thor but I think I've been away from Earth too long"
"Aw" Valkyrie let out "are you sure man? We made a good team"
"Team?" Loki smirked "I thought you hated everyone"
"Well I don't hate Bruce"
Thor cleared his throat "and me right?"
She shrugged
Heimdall stepped away from them suddenly and went to the controls.
"What happened?" Thor asked concerned
"He's coming" the man answered as he doubled the speed of the ship "warn everyone, we're about to be attacked"
Valkyrie and Bruce shared a glance and ran to gather the crew in a safe place.
"Who is it?" Thor asked without getting a response, he grabbed his friends shoulder and saw him sending a distress signal "Heimdall who is it?"
"Thanos" the man answered
Loki immediately took a step back "we need to abandon this ship now"
"We might be able to lose him in another system" Thor told him
"No...you don't understand, he'll attack us with everything he's got" Loki placed his hand carefully on his arm and spoke in a gentler tone "Thor, please, our lives depend on this"
His brother took a deep breath and glanced at Heimdall, to his surprise he seemed to trust Loki.
"Heimdall speed to the maximum limit, leave the autopilot mode on and we'll try to evacuate the ship"
"Understood"
Thor and Loki began making their way to the center of the ship "How are we supposed to leave? The escape pods are very limited, we won't all be able to fit in them"
Loki suddenly stopped "Promise you won't get mad"
"What do you mean?"
"I might have something that could help us..."
"Loki what did you do?"
The god of mischief pressed his lips and appeared the Tesseract in his hands. For a split of second Thor seemed ready to punch him but stopped and took the cube from him before saying
"You really are the worst brother"
Loki laughed.
The rest of the Asgardians and a few others seemed confused about the commotion since there was not a visible danger.
Thor called them all and began explaining their plan.
"We'll evacuate you all to Midgard, you'll be safe there" he turned to Bruce "Find a sorcerer, Doctor Strange is his name, explain everything to him"
Bruce nodded, and so they began transporting groups of Asgardians and other survivers with the help of Heimdall and the Tesseract.
A loud noise caught everyone's attention, an enormous ship had appeared at a close range, it seemed to be speeding up to them.
Before they could panic Thor calmed everyone and organized the groups, the last ones that would leave would be the ones that could resist a fight if it was necessary.
Thanos's ship fired at them causing turbulence.
"Are the shields on?!" Valkyrie shouted
"The full capacity of the ship is concentrated on the acceleration, we can't let ourselves lose any speed" Heimdall cried over the commotion and the Tesseract
Another blaster had hit their exact spot, a few of the materials fell causing people to run and scatter. Thor looked up, if Thanos kept aiming at that exact same spot there would soon be a breach in the spaceship.
"Heimdall! Hurry" He yelled over the screeches of the metal and the screams of the people.
"Banner is already in Midgard!" Loki shouted at him "there are a few more people but we need to leave now!"
"No!" He yelled back "they are our people Loki, we must ensure their protection"
"What about our safety?!"
"You can go is you want but I will stay, I don't need you to defend them!"
There was a loud sound, the ship had been hit again making them lose their balance and fall, Thor had not stood up when a large metal came off the roof in his direction. He felt a pain in the back...he had been pushed away...next to him Loki knelt down.
"Brother!" Thor shouted and went to him, his left side had been hurt by the debris, a stain of blood covered his suit.
"You don't need protection" Loki muttered under his breath
"THOR" Valkyrie shouted, the two of them looked over, she pointed worried at the ship's roof...it threatened to burst open at any moment "We have to go now!"
Thor picked Loki up and ran to her and Heimdall, there were a few people left, Valkyrie was about to give her place to Loki but he pushed her over and watched the group fade away to Midgard.
Heimdall, Loki and Thor were remaining, they were hit again, a whole opened in the ship, in the few seconds they hang to the anything they could, Thor was further from them.
"Go!" He yelled at Heimdall "take Loki somewhere safe!"
"We're not going to leave you half witt" Loki told him
"That's right" Heimdall agreed "I'm not"
Thanos's ship came closer, in fact they had begun abording the ship from the whole they had made.
Heimdall closed his eyes
"What are you doing?!" Loki yelled at him
"Helping you" was all he answered before handing him the Tesseract and transporting him too.
Thor sighed relieved and nodded at Heimdall understanding this would probably be their last time together "This was an honor"
The ship had been sealed by Thanos, they finally recovered gravity and stood up, an unfamiliar yet agressive alien directed towards them, Thor prepared himself for a fight when Heimdall put a hand on his shoulder
"Get behind me"
The god of Thunder frowned "This is not the time to-"
"Now Thor!"
He obeyed and placed himself back.
Just when the alien was a few meters away, Heimdall turned back to him and smiled to say "So long my old friend", he then sent him flying away with a strong push, the impact caused Thor to hit himself but from afar he saw his best friend using his spear and the bifrost to create some sort of explosion...
