"Bonita, tell me again as to what happened?"
"Why tell you again, Hank? I told you like 5 times," complained Bonita.
"Something doesn't add up," said Beast, pacing back and forth as Professor Xavier sat in his chair in a daze that the lights were on but no guinea pig moving.
"Ingeborg? That means "God's Protection" in Old Norse, if I remember correctly," commented Beast, as he stops, "Ingeborg? That's your mother's name?"
"Apparently so," said Bonita, gulping a spoonful of Capt'n Crunch. As she did, she felt those orange eyes peering down on her from the ceiling. "Hold on. I gotta go outside to try something," said Bonita, putting her bowl of Capt'n Crunch off to the side.
"I'm coming with you," barked Beast, hightailing Bonita out of the wing. "Fine. Suit yourself, daddy. Don't say that I didn't warn you," said Bonita, sarcastically.
They got outside to open fields of grass. It was a shame that part of it would be scorched, if Bonita remembered correctly. "Heimdall, I know you can hear me. Beam us up," said Bonita, loudly. All of sudden, there was a flash and Bonita and Beast were in a stream of light as stars blurred past them.
They got to the Bifrost and the portal was closed from behind them. Bonita looked back at it dizzily saying, "That was… fantastic, Heimdall. Don't you think we could do that again?"
"Hello, Beast. Welcome to Asgard. I just need to escort Bonita back to her holding cell," said Heimdall, smoothly with velvet smooth cream of a voice. "I'm sure you do. Lock me up, too, with her," said Beast.
No more than a moment later, they were in a squared room with a force field. "You know, Beast. I told you so don't quite…," said Bonita, going off onto thought, "Cut it."
"Alright, alright. Cut it out," said Beast, "What exactly did you do to get here?"
"I tore a guard's arm off. Not trying to. He grabbed me while I was on the run, trying to get to the Bifrost to get back to the mansion," explained Bonita. "Lemme guess, he spooked you?" asked a man, suddenly showing up from the entrance. "Oh, hell. Hi, Loki. Nice to see you again," said Bonita.
"Oh, I'm doing fine. But the guard's family isn't all too thrilled that you're back."
"Lemme see them to make it right. I feel bad enough that I haven't done enough sitting here thinking about it," said Bonita, looking into Loki's eyes.
"You'll see Welch Bjornson, soon. But now's not the time to think about what you did to a guard," said a much older voice. "Isn't that O…?" started Beast when an old man came down to face them, finishing the line, "Yes, I am Odin. But to you, I'm King Odin."
Loki now had a grin. "I still don't get why I can read you, Loki. Odin, why?" asked Bonita. Odin shook his head, "I don't know." Bonita saw some movement of the eyes and mouth, "Yeah, you do, Grandfather."
"I have no clue on what you're carrying on about, child," said Odin, looking confused. Frigga came up behind him, "Husband, can't you see that you can't lie to the child? It's inevitable." Beast looked at Frigga and saw the resemblance between Bonita and her.
Odin turned to her, "Whatever gave you that idea?"
"It's not hard to see that she's much like her mother. If she has any of the memories that she somehow recollected," said Frigga.
As it turns out, Bonita has been getting these nightmares of her mother but she hasn't told anyone, especially to Beast. The nightmares consisted on her teleporting to a strange world where only light seemed to not touched everything. The world was dark and the light only lit a small portion of the area that her mother was in. But that was it of the nightmares. Besides it also had Loki being picked up by a man who looked very much like Odin.
Bonita, Bonita, if you're listening, please come back, thought Beast. Bonita looked at him and smiled graciously. She gently scratched his face as he looked at her lovingly. "Are you the creature that the child had been calling in her sleep?" asked Frigga, looking at the pair who was in the same cell.
Beast looked at Frigga with a shocked but disappointed expression. "It's not worth it, dad. It's ok," whispered Bonita, pushing him away from the shield, "You shouldn't have done that, Frigga."
Frigga had this look of contentment when Loki had the guards lower the shield. "Let's see what's so special about you, Beast," said Loki, who Bonita knew he was planning on something.
Beast, if you can hear me, do not react when he does something, thought Bonita to Beast. Beast looked at her and nodded. Loki created shadow clones of himself surrounding the two of them. Bonita scanned the room, looking for Loki's heat signature while she started to take the clones out. Beast stood there looking at the multiple Loki look-alikes in the room.
Ok, dad, thought Bonita as there one Loki left while she battled against the last clone. Beast quickly jumped at the opportunity and started giving Loki the taste of his fists in his face. Bonita was giving him the insides of Loki's mind as he was throwing the punches. The last punch caused Loki to be thrown out of the room unconscious.
"Loki, you're such a disappointment if you're allowing a blue Earth creature to beat you like that," yelled another voice, Thor. Beast looks to see Thor to be hugging Frigga, "Hello, mother."
"Back so soon from your quest, I see," said Frigga.
"Where were you, niece?" asked Thor, looking at Bonita.
"I was home. Told my father what happened."
"Your father? You don't mean the creature that knocked my brother unconscious," said Thor, confidently. Bonita nodded as she saw Thor's expression went from being happy and amused to unhappiness, "That's comforting."
Beast snorted, "Come on, Bonita. Let's go home." Guards surrounded him as Bonita stepped down. "I'd rather not, Odin. We just want to go home," said Bonita, warning Odin.
"Why do you want to go home if you are home, granddaughter?" asked Odin.
"Earth is the only home I know. I'm not familiar with Asgard as Loki does and he's not even from here," said Bonita. Frigga cried out, "What makes you think he isn't from here?"
"It's the nightmares. Mom transporting to a world where light doesn't touch the sky. Also saw Loki being picked up by Odin when he was an infant," explained Bonita. You've been getting nightmares, thought Beast questionably. She nodded.
Later that night, Beast and Bonita were asleep in their cell together when her dreams started. She saw a baby wrapped in white cloth. She couldn't see the person who was picking the baby up. But the baby's face was turning from blue to white. Then she heard a man's voice, much like Odin's, saying, "Well, hello, Loki." As the voice said that, the grown Loki came out of the darkness sitting on the throne and he was surrounded by fire. That was cause enough for her wake up immediately, with Beast shaking her.
"What happened?"
"You seemed to be having a nightmare. You kept screaming my name," whispered Beast.
"I'm so sorry," whispered Bonita, before she quickly fell back to sleep. This time, Beast slid close, holding her in his arms. She was shivering. Not from being cold but of fear. This is getting out of control, thought Beast, worried for her.