"YOU ARE AN OLD MAN AND A FOOL." Thor shouted. He didn't know what had possessed him to insult his father thusly, and the second he took in the shocked expression on Odin's face he regretted his words.
"Perhaps I was a fool." Odin's face hardened, he looked weary, regretful, "for beliving you were ready."
"Father." Loki moved to speak on Thor's behalf, but Odin raised a hand, silencing him. Gripping his staff he activated the BiFrost.
"Thor Odinsson. By your actions this day you have brought Asgard to the brink of war. You are not worthy of your title. You are not worthy of the loved ones you have betrayed. Odin strode forward and Thor numbly felt him tear off his breastplate and cape. What was his father intending to do? Odin reached out a hand and summoned Mjolnir. Thor's armor disintegrated leaving him standing in the simple black leathers he wore underneath."I take from you your power and I cast you out."
Odin pushed Thor into the BiFrost.
"Father." Thor reached out, but the power of the BiFrost was too strong. He was pulled back, falling, surrounded by the golden light of the teleportation machine. Then there was nothing but the vast emptiness of space above him. He landed on his back in a dark wooded area. Lying still he looked up. Even the stars here were different. He was alone.
Felicity made her way to the lair. She hoped Oliver was there. He'd seemed very upset after she'd dropped the Merlyn paternity bomb and she wanted to apologize for not telling him earlier. It was true she'd picked the worst possible time to tell him, but Moira had gotten into her head. She took a deep breath as she stood infront of the lair door. Oliver's words replaying in her head. "You're not going to lose me, Felicity."
Pushing the door open she was about to deliver a cheery greeting when a grunting noise made her pause. She was used to Oliver's exercise noises by now even if she wasn't used to the sight of him doing those exercises, so she knew something was off. Especially since there were two people making small…moaning sounds? The lair light as low, so it took her a few seconds of squinting to adjust to the gloom. What she saw made her cover her mouth to stifle a gasp. Oliver and Sara. Sara and Oliver. Together on the mats. Sweaty and naked. Shutting her eyes, she backed out, closing the door. They hadn't noticed her. Turning she ran. She ran to her car and turned it on, driving away as fast as she could. She needed to get away from them and their sweaty mat sex. She didn't even care where she was driving and Starling City blurred past as she tried to fight back tears.
She didn't know how long she'd been driving, but when she finally calmed down enough to look at her surroundings she was way outside the city. In fact she was driving through some kind of forest. She pulled over to the side of the road and finally let herself really cry.
"Get it together." She sobbed. "It's not like…he was interested. He said he couldn't be with…" She stopped talking. Oliver had said someone he could care about, but he clearly cared about Sara. He loved her and unlike Felicity, Sara could fight. She could take care of herself. Felicity stared out her windshield, trying to reign in her emotions when a strange light in the sky caught her attention. It looked like some kind of electrical storm. Shielding her eyes, she watched as a giant beam of light came shooting straight down from the clouds and struck a place not too far from where she was parked.
Blinking, she got out of the car. Granted, it was probably stupid to investigate strange lights in the sky in the middle of the night, but she hated mysteries and her curiosity won out over the more rational part of her brain. She began walking towards where the light had fallen. It was dark beneath the trees and Felicity wished she'd worn more sensible shoes or brought a flashlight. Stumbling over roots and fallen branches she slowly made her way forward.
"This is crazy." She muttered. "You're going to get lost and they'll find you three days later wandering through the woods rambling about strange lights in the sky. And what happens if you actually find something…or someone." She paused, "and I'm talking to myself; great." Up ahead she could see a clearing that must be the crash site. The trees were splintered, broken. Some of them were smoking and hot to the touch. Felicity inched forward towards the end of the tree line. "Maybe it's an asteroid and they'll name it after you?" She murmured. "
Stepping over the trunk of a broken tree she moved into the clearing. The first thing she noticed was that, impossibly, the trees had been broken in a perfect circle. The second was the man lying motionless in the center of the circle.