In the afternoon, Jane and Sarah were in a guest room, Jane runs her fingertips along her arm as Sarah brushes her hair, slowly. Then a strange sound attracts their attention, Sarah sets down her brush and they both stood up and walk to the balcony. They was the Aether in the sky, covering everything in it's wake.
The golden city of Asgard was being shuttered in darkness. This was a foresight of Malekith's plans if her success in reclaiming the Aether from both Jane and Sarah's bodies. "Jane Foster, Sarah Regalson you need to come with us." a soldier tells them and escorted them somewhere.
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"Where are still unable to restore the palace shields. Our artillery cannot detect them. Even Hiemdall cannot see them." Fandral informs Odin. "My king we are all but defenseless." he also tells him, "They're your prisoners now?" Thor question his father, Odin looks at him then away.
"Leave us." Thor orders the guards, everyone left the ruined throne room, leaving just Thor and Odin. "I do not wish to fight with you." Odin tells him as he walks down the steps, "Nor I with you, but I intend to pursue Malekith." Thor tells him.
"We possess the Aether. Malekith will come to us." Odin tells them, "Yes, and he will destroy us." Thor informs him, "You overestimate the powers of these creatures." Odin states.
"No I value our people's lives. "I take Jane and Sarah to the dark world, draw the enemy away from Asgard. When Malekith pulls the Aether out of them, it will be expose and vulnerable. And I will destroy it and him." Thor tells him.
Odin turns and looks at him, "And If you fall. You risk this weapon falling into the hands of our enemies." Odin tells him, "The risk is far greater, if we do nothing. His ship could be over our heads right now, and will never even now it." Thor tries to get through to his father.
"If and when he comes his men will fall om 10,000 Asgardian blades." Odin tells him, "And how many of our men shall fall on their?" Thor question him. "As many as I needed!" Odin shouts at him, then stagger a bit as he use Gungnir to balance himself.
"We will fight, to the last as Asgardian breath. To the last drop of Asgardian blood." Odin tells him. "And how are you different from Malekith?" Thor asks him, Odin just gave of a sarcastic laugh. "The difference is my son, is I will win." he tells him and walks off. Thor watch him left and he looks over to the dark elf craft.
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Thor sat alone at an empty tavern as Hiemdall walks up to him, "Your not at Odin's war council." Thor states, "The Bifrost is close by your father's orders. One is to come or to go." Hiemdall tells him as he sets his helmet down on the table.
"We face an enemy that is even invisible to me. What use is a guardian such as that?" he questions as he sat down. "Malekith will return and you know this." Thor states and looks at him, "I need your help." Thor asks of him
"I cannot overrule my king's wishes. Not even for you." Hiemdall tells him, "I'm not asking you to. The realms need their Allfather strong and unchallenged, weather he is or not." Thor tells him. He sighs a bit.
"He is blinded, Hiemdall by hatred and by grief." he also tells. "As are well all." Hiemdall states. "I see clearly enough." Thor throws out. "The risks are too great." Hiemdall warns him. "Everything we do from here on is risk. There is no other way." Thor tells him.
Hiemdall was quiet for a moment, but then looks at Thor, "What do you require of me?" he asks him; "What I am about to ask of you is treason of the highest order, success will bring us exile and failure shall mean our deaths." Thor tells his friends, Sif, Volstagg, Fandral, Heimdell, and Scott were gathered at the table, in the middle of the night.
"Malekith knew the Aether was here, he can sense it's power. If we do nothing, he will come for it again, but this time, lay waste to all of Asgard. We must move Jane and Sarah off world." Thor tells them, "The Bifrost has been shut down and the Tesseract lock away in the vault." Sif informs him.
"There are other paths of Asgard, ways only known to a few." Heimdell tells them, "One, actually" Thor states, everyone shifts not liking who Thor had in mind.
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Thor walk through the dungeons up to a cell. "Thor after all this time, now you come to visit me." Loki states, then he lean forward a bit. "Why? Have you come to gloat? To mock?" he questions him, "Loki enough. No more illusions." Thor tells him, Loki looks at him surprise and sighs, showing him the real Loki.
Room trashed, smudges on the walls, Loki was missing his tunic wore a tarred shirt and pants. Barefoot, cuts and blood on his right foot, hair matted and his features held the look of regret. "Now you see me, Brother." Loki tells him. Thor walks over turns the other side, gripping his wrist.
"Did she suffer?" he asks him, "I did not come here to share our grief, insect I come here to offer you the chance of a far richer sacrament." Thor informs him, Loki cock his head a little. "Go on." he tells him.
"I know you seek vengeance as much as I do. Help me escape Asgard and I will grant it to you. Vengeance and afterwards, this cell." Thor offers him.
Loki looks around his cells, back a Thor and laughs a bit, "You must be truly despite to come to me for help." Loki tells him, Thor's look never falter. "Wouldn't you if it meant you can save that woman love?" Thor asks him, Loki looks at Thor with wide eyes. "Sarah. . .?" he starts, "Alive and well. But not for long." Thor tells him.
"What makes you think you can trust me not to take her away?" he asks him, "I don't trust you, but both Sarah and Jane's lives are on the line. And mother did trust you." Thor informs him, Loki frowns a bit.
"But you should know, when we fought each other in the past, I did so with that glimmer of hope that my brother was still in there somewhere, maybe that hope is still there or not. But it won't protect you." Thor informs him, Loki looks at him. "You betray me, and I will kill you" Thor warns him, Loki wore his mischief smirk. "When do we start?" Loki asks him.
"He will betray you." Fandral warns him, "He will try." Thor states.
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Thor and Loki walks through the hallway, Loki was pumping with excitement as he was fully dress. "This is so unlike you brother. So clandestine. Are you sure you wouldn't rather push your way out?" Loki asks him.
"If you keep speaking I just might." Thor tells him as he was being weary. "Fine, as you wish. I'm not even here." Loki states, taking a form of a guard, "Is this better?" he asks him, Thor looks at him. "It's better company, at least." Thor answers him.
"Still, we could be less conspicuous." Loki states, changing both of them, Loki was now Loki and Thor was now Sarah. "Hmm, bother, you look ravishing." Loki states, Thor looks down at his body and saw the change.
"It will hurt no less when I kill you in this form." Thor tells him, "Very well. Perhaps you prefer on of your new companions? Given you that seem to like them so much." Loki states. Changing their forms again.
Thor was Thor again and Loki was now Steve Rogers. "Oh, this is much better." Loki said with excitement, "The costume is a bit much. So tight. But the conference. . . I can feel the righteousness surging. Hey do you want to have a rousing discussion with about truth? Honor? Patriotism? God bless Amer. . ." Loki was about to go on.
But Thor grabs him and shoves him against a pillar, forcing Loki out of his Steve Rogers's form, Thor covers him mouth. Then Loki pulls his hand away from his mouth, "What?" he ask him and follows his gaze.
Two guards walk through the hallways, then looks at Thor, "You could at least furnish me with a weapon. My dagger, something." Loki complains, Thor looks at and place something in his hands.
"At last. A little common sense." Loki states, but as soon as he looks at his hands, he raise them up and found them in cuffs. "And I thought you like tricks." Thor tells him with a smile and walks on.
"So what then? Your lovey mortal and Sarah are being guarded by a legion of Einherjar who will see you coming from miles away." Fandral states, "I won't be the one who comes for them." Thor states and looks over to Sif.
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A guard opens the door, as another bring a tray of food for the two. "We're not hungry." Jane tells him, then the sound of a guard grunting, the other turn and saw Lady Sif hit him, knocking him out. "Good, lets go." she tells them. Jane and Sarah follow after her, both pull on their jackets.
Then meet up with Loki and Sarah, "You're. . ." Jane states, when she saw Loki, "I'm Loki, you have of heard of me." he tells her and was slap across the face by Jane. "That was for New York." she tells him. He looks at her and smiles.
"I like her." he tells his brother, Sarah giggles and kiss the cheek that was slap. "It's good to see you again." she whispers to him. Jane just brush a strain of her hair away as she glares at him. Loki blush alittle when Sarah whispers those words to him.
"What of the Allfather?" Scott asks him, "It is my sworn duty to notify him of crimes against the Throne." Hiemdall tells them.
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"You call me here on an urgent matter, what is it?" Odin asks him as him and his men enter the observatory, "Treason my lord." Hiemdall tell him. "Whose?" Odin ask, "Mine." Hiemdall states, pulling out his sword.
"My king, the mortal and Sarah have been taken." a man informs him, Odin looks at him then back at Hiemdall. "Stop Thor, by any means necessary." he orders his men.
"There they are! Take them, on my command!" a man orders, Sif and Thor look over as Sarah kept Jane from smacking Loki again, "I'll hold them off, take them." Sif tells him, Thor looks at her. "Thank you." he mumbles to her and pulls Jane along with her, Loki went to follow. But a blade was at his throat.
Sarah looks at Sif, "Betray him, and I'll kill you." she warns him, Loki just chuckles and looks at her. "It's good to see you, too, Sif." he tells her, Sif looks at Sarah and nods at her and the two follow after him.
"Assuming you can get Loki's help and you can free this mortal and Sarah, what good will it do? We'll all be dead the minute we take one foot outside the palace." Volstagg tells Thor, "that my friend, is my we won't be leaving my foot." Thor states as he eyes Scott as a smile itches across Scott's lips.
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The four walk up to the Craft as Volstagg and Scott walks from the side. "I will give you as much time as I can." He tells him, "Thank you, my friend." Thor states as he shook Volstagg's hand. Jane smiles at him and follows Thor into the Craft.
Volstagg smiles at her and stops Loki, Sarah stops as well. "If you even think of betraying him. . ." Volstagg growls at him, "You'll kill me? Evidently, that will be a line" Loki states, looking at him.
Then push on, "Be careful." Sarah warns him, Volstagg nods at her and Scott follows after them. They enter the craft and Thor went to the control panel, and started pressing buttons. "I thought you said you knew how to fly this thing?" Loki questions him, "I said how hard can it be." Thor states.
"Well, whatever you're doing brother, I suggest you do it faster." Loki advice him, "Shut up, Loki." Thor tells him. "You must of miss something." Loki states, "I didn't I'm pressing every button on this thing." Thor informs him.
"No, don't hit it, press it gently." Loki advice him, "I am pressing it gently, and it's not working." Thor states, slamming his hands on the panel and the ship come online. Thor laugh, trumpery and takes the controls.
The ship then started to float in mid air, as Thor turns the ship around, he hits a few columns. "I think you miss a column." Loki tells him. "Shut up!" Thor shouts at him, then flew out the wall and took off over the city.
"Look, why don't you let me take over? I'm clearly I'm the better pilot." Loki tells him, "Is that right? Well, out of the two of us, which one can actually fly?" Thor asks him, Scott help balance his sister from falling.
Then where fried at, Thor makes the ship dive and come out from in between buildings, Thor laughs a little, then Jane collapse to the floor.
"Oh dear, is she dead?" Loki asks, Thor looks over at her in concern. "Jane?" he calls out, "I'm okay." she mumbles to him as the Aether crawls under her skin.
Then Sarah the the next the collapse, "Sarah!" Scott calls out and kneels down beside her, "I'm fine, still breathing." she tells him as the red crack run up her neck. Loki looks at her with concern.
Then they were fried at again, making the ships stagger a bit and hit a railing gun. "Not a word." Thor tells his brother, and a few Asgardian ships chase them, "Now they're following us." Loki states. Then were fired on.
"Now they're firing at us." Loki states. "Yes, thank your the commentary, Loki, it's not at all distracting!" Thor yells at him, Thor flew the into a tunnel, but not after beheading the statue of Bor the previous Allfather. "Well done, you just decapitated your grandfather." Loki applause him.
Thor flew the ship out of the out of the tunnel, hits a column and dodges a few more fires, flying right beside the bridge.
"You know this is wonderful. This is a tremendous idea. Let's steal the biggest, most obvious ship in the universe and escape in that. Flying around the city, smashing into everything in sight so everyone can see us." Loki starts to complain, as Thor open the door right behind Loki. "It's brilliant, Thor! It's truly brilliant!" Loki shouts at him, then Thor shove him out the door.
Thor smiles to himself walks over and pick Jane up. He turns and saw Scott holding Sarah in his arms as well. They both walk up to the door, Thor jumps out of the door, followed by Scott and they both land in the Asgardian craft.
"I see time in prison has made you no less graceful, Loki." Fandral states as Thor lies Jane down and Scott lies Sarah down as well. Loki pulls himself up, "You lie to me. I'm impressed." Loki tells him. Scott just glare at him, "I'm glad you're please. Now do as you promise. And take us to your secret pathway." Thor tells him.
Loki nods at him, taking the control. He smiles a bit as he speeds up the speeder to the mountains, Thor looks behind them and saw another speeder chasing them. Loki dodges the fire and raise their speeder into the air.
"Fandral." Thor instructs, "Right!" Fandral states and grabs the rope that was tied to the side. "For Asgard!" he tells them and disappears over the edge. Loki turns the speeder aiming it right at the mountain.
"Loki!" Thor starts, "If it were easy, everyone would do it." Loki informs him."Are you mad?" Scott asks him. "Possibly." he answers him, Thor covers Jane as Scott covers Sarah. Loki aims the speeder into a hole, knocking them against the walls and they were being pulled to another realm. And suddenly they were in Svartalheim. "Ta da!" Loki tells them.
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"(We must strike now.)" Algrim tells Malekith, "(No.)" he states, swotting away someone's hand from his burnt face. "(Asgard is meaningless. The Aether has found it's way home.)" he tells Algrim, showing him his half burnt face.