A ball of light appeared on the deserted and destroyed realm of Svartalfheim. An male asgardian wearing a green and gold costume stepped out of the ball of light. About five seconds later, two frost giants appeared the same way the asgardian god did. "Master Loki, why did we arrive here on this stinking wasteland?" asked the first frost giant. "Yeah," the second frost giant agreed, "you promised us the destruction of Asgard, not this wasteland," Loki, the brother of Thor, trickster of the nine realms, looked up and his eyes landed on a crashed ship near a rocky mountain. "You do as you are told, for I am not only a prince of Asgard, but also a prince of Jotunhiem. I am also the leader of this entire operation, without me, you will fall against Asgard's army," The two frost giants immediately became quiet. Loki continued, "The entire frost giant army is powerful, but cannot defeat the Asgardians. You are outnumbered and outgunned. To ensure our victory, we will need a little help," The frost giants shared a shocked look at each other, but they immediately realized what Loki was scheming. After about half a day of removing the destroyed ship Loki had spotted, they found Malekith, ruler of the dark elves, at the bottom of it and in very bad shape. He was missing an arm, most of his body was covered in scar tissue and he was barely conscious. "How will this one help us?" frost giant 1 asked. "He on the brink of death, he can't do anything," frost giant 2 added. "Did you forget who I am my fellow frost giants? Am I not the trickster of the nine realms?" "Yeah, but-" frost giant 2 was interrupted by shock. Loki touched Malekith on the forehead with two fingers and Malekith's eyes flew open.
"Hello? Odin? Are you in there?" A voice called from the back of the throne room door. Little did that enquiring Asgardian know that the real Odin, ruler of Asgard was trapped in a pocket dimension disguised as a snow globe. The "Odin" that had been ruling Asgard since the second war with the Dark Elves was actually Loki posing as Odin. Loki However, was on Svartalfheim slowly healing Malekith and plotting the destruction of Asgard. Despite that, Loki was still a god and could sense that someone required Odin's presence. With a quick word to his two fellow frost giants, he vanished to Asgard in a ball of light, the same way he got to the abandoned realm. This went on for half a year where Loki would travel back and forth between the realms to deal with issues Odin had to deal with, and to put all the little pieces together in order to execute his master plan, which most certainly would be the fall of Asgard.