Chapter 7

We spent the last two years searching the nine realms for any sign of anymore infinity stones. I wasn't with Thor the entire two years; I did get to go back to earth and visit a couple times. But every time I was there nothing was going on, well except maybe when ant man tried to break into the Avengers headquarters. Which I missed out on! Then the last time I came home I missed a brutal fight or civil war that split the team. The shocking thing for me was Steve and all the ones that took his side are now classified as criminals. Oh, and don't get me started on the fact I was grilled on where Bruce, Thor and I were. I couldn't get back to Asgard quick enough, even though I have to avoid Loki.

But I went and visited dad and spent at least two weeks with mom before I made my way back to Stark tower on every visit. With where I haven't been in none of the personal squabbles that made the news everyone seems to have forgot about iron girl. Hey fine by me I don't need everyone chasing me for an autograph like they do everyone else.

On these trips is when Thor goes someplace, he would rather I not be in or near, which is fine by me. I have seen some of the places that we have had to go fight and some gives me the shivers if we were to go there alone. But I know Thor is better going by himself on some of these visits, so he doesn't need to worry about me while fighting whatever it is there he needs to see.

But it's been a long two years in searching and not coming up with anything. To make matters worse Loki doesn't seem to be taking his job seriously for the unrest we have been seeing in the realms. But when I get back Heimdall gives me a look that I know means something is up.

"I think my princess that we should go hide in the hills for a while, Loki has deemed me a traitor to the throne. I would imagine that your name will be added to mine once Loki knows of your arrival."

"What about Thor? Is he about ready to come back?"

"I see he is busy and looks like he won't be ready to come back for a day or two. Do not worry I will watch, and we will make sure he returns to you safely."

"So, you knew Loki was sitting on the throne. How long have you known?" I look to see him smirk before he answers

"From the beginning my dear, come I know of an ancient temple where we will not be found. I have provisions for us for just in case this were to happen." I just nod and I follow him

It takes us a couple of hours to get to this temple and wow! Talk about massive doors! He moves his fingers in a pattern on the threshold of the door and they glow then open. I am in awe of this ancient temple? It's hard to say what it used to be; it could easily be the royal palace at one point. He takes me to a room and shows me to a bed roll for the night. I lay down after we eat some of the rations, he brought up earlier, I would like to say I slept well. But I would be lying. I tossed and turned all night worrying about Thor and what we will be doing about Loki.

It was three days later Heimdall informed me that Thor was back and was going toward the palace. So, I fly toward the palace and reach it just in time to see he has exposed Loki to everyone. He wraps an arm around me, and I pull him into a passionate kiss. Then I wrinkle my nose at the smell and what looks like goo that he is covered in.

"Dear husband I say this because I love you, you really need a bath." He laughed loudly along with several others.

"I have missed you Lady Bella; even though it has only been a couple of weeks. I do not want to be parted from you that long again."

"God you two make me want to vomit." Loki said then flinched when I glared at him

"Wow, Loki your alive! We thought you were dead, how?" Thor tried to cover up a snort with a cough.

"I am not that easy to kill dear sister in-law." Loki said looking smug

"Yes, well it's good to see you. So, where is Oden and Frigga?"

"That was what I asked my dear brother just as you arrived Bella."

"They are safe and on Midgard your favorite realm." I groan at that

"What is the matter my wife? Has something happened back on earth that troubles you?" I snort and nod

"Yes, the avengers went thru I guess you would call it a civil war. It divided the team against each other and brought in some new people into the fight. James was wounded badly he can barely walk. And Steve, Wanda, Clint, Natasha and a couple of others are now considered criminals because they went against the oversite director. Which I might say he is an arrogant jackass."

"Really? Did you get involved in this fight Bella?" Thor was worried now

"No, it happened a few weeks before my visit, but it was trying to see everyone down or missing or I guess they would be on the run now."

We go and Thor washes up and we go back to earth to find the retirement home that he plopped dear ole dad and mom in and is now a pile of rubble. Then orange sparks start swirling around Loki's feet then drops Loki into what looks like a hole. Then the hole disappears leaving what looks like a business card with nothing but an address on it. Thor looks at me I just shrug so we get to tracking down this address.

When we get there, we are suddenly inside and are met with a floating man in a cape. I fight the urge to roll my eyes at the fact we are now meeting someone else with powers.

"Thor, Bella greetings I am Dr. Steven Strange." He said it like it was supposed to mean something to us.

"Ah, so your magical?" Thor asked I snort

"No, I am a sorcerer." He eyes me for a moment I just grin

"I have my own version of magic Dr. Strange, but we can discuss it some other time. Right now, we are looking for Loki and Oden."

"I would like to see what kind of magic you have Bella. But I have a list of people I watch for and Loki is on that list. If I give him back and tell you where Oden is will you remove Loki from earth?" I grin at Thor he rolls his eyes then we are sitting in some armchairs with teacups in our hands then Thor says he doesn't drink tea. So, he gets a huge mug of beer instead and drinks over half in one go then it refills automatically.

He asks several questions and doesn't give us time to answer them before we are moved again. Which I find it funny if not a little disorienting. We are moved several times and Thor says, "will you stop that!" I can't help it I chuckle at him he just rolls his eyes at me.

He shows us a portal of where we can find Oden then drops Loki on the floor. Of course, Loki takes it as a challenge the next thing we know we are in Norway looking at the ocean. Oden and Frigga are standing there just looking out over the ocean. They don't turn to look at us we step up next to them and Oden turns to look at each one of us.

"It's beautiful here isn't it?"

"Father we need you to come back to Asgard to help me prevent the destruction that is to come." Thor says Oden just looks at him for a moment then he takes Frigga's hand and they turn to sit on some rocks that suddenly look like thrones.

"Come sit with us my sons and Bella. My dear I would like to apologize for the way I treated you. You have proven that you are good for my son and I am sorry for not seeing it sooner."

"Thank you, sir." He barked out a laugh

"Sir? Well anyway my sons I am proud of you and I am sorry for what is to come and is my fault. For she will be released when I die."

"Who will be father? What are you talking about I have killed Surtur I have his crown?"

"No, no my son she will come once I die. Your sister Hela she is blood thirsty and was willing to conquer all the realms. It was all I could do to banish her for she draws power from Asgard as you do. She is more powerful than even me."

It's quiet for a few minutes then he says something I wasn't expecting.

"Even if she were to destroy Asgard it isn't Asgard. This could be Asgard it isn't a place but the people my son. Now it's our time to go and I am sorry for what you must go thru now my sons. It really is beautiful here."

Oden and Frigga begin to glow a golden color then they just float off into the breeze. I can see this has hit both hard to realize that they have an older sister that they have never heard about. Then there is another portal open behind us it's a sickly green and black and a woman steps out and she looks, pissed? Yes, I would say she is pissed off and powerful not a good combination for us.

"So, dear ole dad is finally dead and gone and I can finally claim my throne! So, I will start with you three kneel before your queen."

"I don't think so sister."

"Oh, so daddy had more after me, did he? Did he tell you anything about how he got all that gold for the palace? Or how we conquered the nine realms then he decides to drop the swords and make peace with everyone? He was weak we could be the rulers of all the realms!"

"Nope, sorry we didn't hear about any of that growing up." I could have hit Loki for that comment Thor looked like he wanted too also

"We can't let you take the throne Hela." Thor says and throws his hammer at her and she stops it midflight with her hand!

"Oh, I don't think so little brother for I am more powerful than you. For I am the goddess of death what are you?" then she crumbles Mjolnir with her hand that she caught the hammer with.

Loki runs back a few yards and summons the Bifrost Thor yells no and we run towards him in time to be picked up. We look down to see Hela has jumped in and is catching up Loki throws his dagger at her. Only she just catches it and throws it back then she summons some freaky looking swords of her own. She then hits Loki and sends him out of the Bifrost then she moves towards us I shield us, but she knocks Thor into me sending us both out of the Bifrost. It was disorienting everything was spinning and I couldn't find Thor at first, then he disappeared.

At first, I was in space still spinning then I am falling toward what looks like a garbage dump. I manage to slow my fall to land softly then I throw an illusion up and begin looking for Thor. I eventually make my way to the weird looking city and there seems to be quite the collection of aliens here. I follow a crowd chanting hulk and I can't think it is a fluke that it could be our hulk, could it?

As it turns out it is our hulk! But he seems different than before, like he enjoys all the cheering. Huh this is a new development I wonder if he has been the hulk the whole two years he went missing. He makes short work of his opponent, and it was quite gory even to me. I end up trying to sneak in to talk to hulk, but security is intense in this place.

So, I give up and will try again later, for now I will go back out where I first entered this place and look for Thor. Maybe we missed each other or something? I could have sworn he came here first. I bump into Loki and I knee him in his family jewels.

"Okay, you got to stop doing that it really hurts." He is gasping for air and hunched over.

"That was for the smart-ass comment and for summoning the Bifrost so quickly. How long have you been here?"

"I have been here a little over a week, why?"

"I just got here, and it was only seconds that you were thrown out before we were. Thor was thrown into me knocking me out of the Bifrost then it was like he disappeared, so it could be a few days before he is dropped here. Where are we anyway?" I say as he looks confused

"We are in the ass end of the universe Sakaar it is surrounded by wormholes and there is apparently no escape. It is run by someone called the grandmaster and he is crazy. Coming from me that is saying something, come on I have secured a place to stay we will just have to wait out my brother's arrival. And please stop hitting me!"

"Sorry, I will contain myself so how did you acquire a place to stay?"

"I have been trying to get on the grandmasters good side, trust me I have seen what happens to those who end up on his bad side. We don't want to be there." We head to a tower that looks like it was pieced together with different odd shapes.

We get to his room and there is only one bed I look at Loki he just grins. I notice a couch I decide to go crash on it for the night, but I keep my axe close. The next morning, we eat breakfast and we meet with the grandmaster briefly Loki introduces me as his sister in-law. But the look the grandmaster gave me caused me to want to barf all over him. I don't stick around long I go back out to the wastes to look for any sign of Thor.

This is how I spend the next few days go look for Thor come back for food and sleep then repeat. And just my luck I was in the wrong area when he made his appearance, but I didn't find out until that evening. Loki met me at the edge of the city and told me that the grandmaster had bought Thor for his arena fighting and he is to go against the big green monster the hulk. He is a little smug about it but is still nervous.

We go sit in the grandmasters box seats for the fight, when I finally see Thor, they had cut off his hair and I have to say it looked good. If I hadn't known about their thing about not cutting their hair, I would have said I like it better that way. The grandmaster keeps trying to get my attention, but I ignore him, and I watch as Thor and hulk fight it out. Loki jumps up yelling yes that is how it feels! When hulk slung Thor around like a rag doll! I turn and glare and he had the decency to look apologetic knowing I would put my knee into his groin again.

In the end the grandmaster cheated and used the slave disc on the side of Thor's neck to bring him down. I want to jump on the jerk and beat the shit out of him. But I remain calm and walk out of the box and go back to our room to wait for Loki to help me look for Thor.

"I think my brother might have won that fight if the grandmaster hadn't interfered with the fight. I think he has ideas of keeping two champions now."

"It was all I could do not to beat the crap out of that fruit. So, where did they put Thor? Can we get to him?"

"Uh, it's at the top of the tower in the hulks private apartment. And I would rather not go anywhere near the brute if possible, thank you."

"Who? Your brother or the hulk?" I smirk causing him to swallow and try to smile but came out more as a grimace.

"The hulk of course I doubt he can be reasoned with. Thor was knocked out from the blow the monster delivered. So, it might be in the morning before he wakes up, so I suggest we get some sleep until then."

I roll my eyes but flop down on the couch for a few hours of restless sleep the next morning we sneak up to the tower but Loki chickens out once we get to the room. I go sit with Thor and cradle his head in my lap stroking his short hair. When he comes to, he comes up swinging I just grin at him as he notices me.

"Bella? When Loki said you got here several days before me, I thought he had been lying when he said he was keeping an eye on you. What is with the time distortion here? Loki said he has been here for over two weeks and you several days when it was only seconds apart that we were thrown from the Bifrost."

"To my knowledge which Bruce might be able to answer this better than I. I think that time runs a little faster here because of all the wormhole activity."

"We got to get out of here and back to Asgard to either kill my sister or get everyone off Asgard. We need to put a team together." He said excitedly I try not to snort, really, I did but I couldn't stop myself. Then Hulk sits up on his bed and grumbles about whiney god of thunder.

"Bella! Hulk glad to see another of his friends, you stay too."

"Hello Hulk, it's good to see you again it's been a long two years how did you get here?"

"Quinjet." He shrugs I just nod then grin as he picks me up swinging me around causing me to giggle. "Hulk glad to have friends back, maybe we get to fight." He grins wide I chuckle and nod to Thor he huffs then sets me down.

"I tried to talk him into leaving he wants to stay here." Thor said rolling his eyes.

"Hulk stays! Earth no like Hulk, Hulk like it here." He climbs up onto his bed and begins to eat fruit? It looks more like a gourd.

"Maybe we could get out with the quinjet?" Thor asked I just raise my eyebrow at him.

"Unless uncle put in some massive engines and shields it wouldn't make it thru the wormhole with all that garbage coming thru. Not to mention the gravity could tear us apart before we got very far."

"So, what your saying is we would need a spaceship?"

"I am not sure, since we have never experienced what it would be like to travel the opposite way thru that wormhole. Then we have to figure out which one to use."

"Well, we aren't going to get anywhere sitting here."

"Angry girl!" I turn to see an imposing woman glaring at Thor then he is trying to get her to help us to escape. But she isn't having anything to do with it until he mentions that she is one of the Valkyries. I read about them they were a very well-trained group of women fighters dedicated to defending the throne. So, he lifts the slave disk control from her and removes his and said we were leaving. He threw a ball at a window and it bounced back hitting him in the head, it caused me to snort bringing their attention back to me.

"And who is she? I don't recall seeing her before. Nice axe by the way"

"That is my wife." Thor said pulling me to his side.

"So, your majesties how are you planning to leave? No one leaves Sakaar." She said sarcastically.

He grabs me and we jump thru the window I shield us and slow our fall enough to fly toward the quinjet Thor was pointing to. We get in and he tries to fire it up I push him aside and bring up operating systems and fire up the engines then Hulk comes crashing thru the tail of the quinjet.

"No friends stay! Hulk not want friends to leave!"

Then all the systems start to malfunction and a message from Natalie comes on snapping the hulk out of his control for Bruce to surface. Once Bruce is finally back, he is shocked that we are on a totally different world. And he starts to have a panic attack! Then he notices I am standing there he comes out of his panic attack for a short while.

"Bella? How did you get here? How did I get here? And my god what is that in the sky?"

"This planet is surrounded by wormholes and you got sucked into one from earth. We got sucked in from being ejected from the Bifrost it was only a short time ago, but time runs a little faster here it would seem."

"It probably has something to do with the displacement with all these wormholes."

"That's kind of what Bella said."

We watch the cabin footage of when the hulk was sucked into this place and I stand by my comment of the quinjet wouldn't survive the return to our realm. Even without it being trashed now. Thor hands Bruce some of uncle Tony's clothes I just go over and pull out some of Bruce's clothes from his locker and trade with him. I turn my back for him to get dressed and we head out to look for a ship to get us off this planet.

Then everyone comes out to celebrate the champion which is hulk and we get separated for a little bit. But the scrapper finds us and offers to help us in return she also offers Loki up because he made her relive her fight with Hela. Loki then tells us of the grandmaster having several ships to escape with. And he just happens to have the code to escape without setting off the alarms. So, Loki, Thor and I get in an elevator to the garage and Thor slaps Loki on the back placing a slave disc on his back secretly. Then I watch as Loki tries to turn us over to the grandmaster and Thor activates the slave disc he slapped on Loki's back.

"I figured you would try to betray me again Loki. So, I figure you will be right at home here and I will put this down over there." He tossed the control over towards the door. We climb into a weird circle looking ship and I am not liking the smell when we get inside.

Thor fumbles with the controls then we are taking off then we are being shot at! Then scrapper 142 tells Thor to open the door and I go help catch Bruce as he is shot into the ship. Then Thor complains on where are the weapons.

"There aren't any the grandmaster uses that ship for his many orgies he has." I wrinkle my nose and try to avoid touching anything.

"Don't touch anything." Thor said sounding a little grossed out we just nodded.

"Should we go help take out some of those shooting at us?"

"I will, you help Bruce fly the ship, can I borrow your axe my Lady Bella?" I smile and give him a kiss and he jumped out taking my axe

"I don't know anything about flying a spaceship, do you Bella?" Bruce is freaking out just a little bit.

"I have flown a few ships in the last couple of years, it shouldn't be that difficult." Though I really don't want to touch anything in here.

We dodge shots and piles of junk and Bruce pushed buttons trying to find anything that would help. He found the bed control and the music controls. Then we were coming up to a tall pile of junk and Bruce finds the button for the fireworks that shoot out of the back of the ship. So, as we fly around the junk the ship shooting at us is blinded by the fireworks and runs into the scrap crashing. We high five each other then Thor and scrapper are climbing on board. We really need to get her name. I give control over to her and strap into my seat because we must go through the devil's anus, that is what they call the biggest wormhole not me.

We must dodge junk and the gravitational forces would have ripped the quinjet apart. Once we are thru, we see the people have evacuated to the old temple that Heimdall brought me to, and Hela is on her way to get them. We land and Thor straps a gun to the ship so scrapper can shoot at our enemies. While Bruce flies the ship, I will be trying to help everyone escape thru the Bifrost. Once all the people are in the middle of the rainbow bridge, we find undead soldiers coming from the Bifrost chamber as I was told not the spinning room thingy.

We start fighting the undead and I use my axe to take out three and four at a swing then I use my shield to push the rest back to crush them into the rest. I alternate between swinging my axe to crushing them to dust. Then Loki shows up with a huge ship that the grandmaster had in his garage. He joins me in the fight, but he also has brought friends, several don't know how to fight all that well and go down quickly. Then there is a massive lightning strike at the palace, and I know it was Thor. Soon after he lands behind the undead army and makes his way towards us blowing them away with his lightning. The closer he gets to us I notice he is missing his right eye! I begin to get pissed off at this Hela bitch!

I create a shield wall on each side of the rainbow bridge and crush the army then Thor comes running up. He grabs me in a heated kiss, and I pull back and trace just under his eye. Then I pull out the magic training Frigga worked with me on and I put my hands over his eye and push healing magic into his eye socket. It takes me just a few minutes, but I manage to restore his eye. He grins and swings me around and kisses me one more time before we get serious again.

The people still aren't loaded yet and Hela is coming Thor tells Loki to go put Surtur's crown into the eternal flame. Thus, making the prophecy true that Thor brings destruction to Asgard. We end up facing off against Hela before Loki even makes it to the palace, and I can hear hulk fighting the giant wolf. The scrapper comes up and its three on one and this chick knows how to kick ass.

"I am surprised brother that you have got your eye back, how did you manage that?" Hela is acting as though we aren't a threat

"I would tell you but it's not like you care, sister." He said sister like it taste bad in his mouth

"And who is your little friend? A lover perhaps? We missed introductions when we first met."

"Not that it matters to you sister, she is my wife." Thor growled at Hela

"Really? And where might you be from my sister in law?"

"I am from Midgard, why?" I have shields up and I have one wrapped around the three of us

"My aren't you slumming it brother, couldn't find any among your own people to mate with?" she is now smirking and trying to rile Thor up, but it works in our favor because its buying us time for Loki.

"She is my mate and she isn't a normal woman from Midgard."

I had enough I wrap her in several shields and squeeze her and she gasps I leave her head uncovered and I send her flying backwards. She hits her head on every pillar along the bridge, I might have even snapped her neck. Thor charges up a massive lightning bolt and says now! I throw her further and release her from my shield. The lightning strikes true and she crashes into the water. We don't look back we jump onto the ship and we take off.

We watch as she surfaces the water and screams in rage just as a giant Surtur bursts skyward swinging a giant sword. Hela turns her attention to him instead of us, hulk wants to go fight the big monster. But I put my hand on him and he sighs and pouts. We watch from a rear facing window as Hela tries to kill Surtur, but nothing will stop him. He drives his sword through Hela and down thru the center of Asgard and it explodes. Now Thor accepts the mantle king of Asgard, and I am queen, but I don't bother to complain about it. Heimdall smirks at me I just roll my eyes at him and huff, he laughs, and Thor joins him when he figures out why he is laughing.

"Fear not my Lady Bella for we are in this together." I smile and nod he kisses me while he held me in a warm embrace.

"Together, you do realize I haven't got the foggiest idea on how to be queen, right?" I say with a look of horror on my face which causes them to laugh again.

"Fear not Lady Bella but you are on your way to be a perfect queen for our king. You fight for Asgard and for your husband the rest will take care of itself in time." Heimdall said grinning scrapper bows to us, we really need to get her name soon. Bruce grins at me and bows I raise my eyebrow he just grins again.

"So, dear husband and my king. Where are we to make a new home?"

"I was thinking earth; Norway was beautiful was it not?" he smiles at me and I nod

"But what of keeping others away like shield or Hydra?"

"We will deal with it when the time comes, and besides we should be able to scrape up enough magic to put up barriers to where no one will know where we are. Maybe we will get that strange fellow to help us out?"

I just roll my eyes and smile at him, for I really haven't a clue on how to pull off some of those magic spells that I read about. They take a lot of power and we will be starting over from scratch on everything. Plus, we need to get Thor a weapon soon, though I suppose he could use my axe. It won't be the same as his hammer, but it will do until then I suppose. I am brought out of my musings by a huge ship pulling up in front of us. This can't end well I am afraid.