I've been looking forward to writing this chapter.
Not much had been said during the first hour during the flight from Arendelle to New York. Anna had led a team consisting of Kristoff, Wolverine, Rogue, Eugene, Rapunzel, Baymax, Storm, and the Human Torch. Along with the regular team Anna also had their three prisoners, Mr, Marvel, Silverclaw and agent Hill on board to deliver to Fury in exchange for Elsa.
As Wolverine was flying the blackbird Anna was standing near the the door and staring out the window in silence. Storm didn't need to see Anna's face to tell she was concerned, Elsa was the only family Anna had left and with Elsa being held prisoner it was only natural for her to be concerned. Feeling the need to comfort a friend Storm got up out of her seat to go talk with Anna.
"Your worried about her, aren't you?"
"Is it that easy to tell?" Anna asked
"It's natural," Storm said "Elsa's your family, you two have each other's back. Just like the X-men has each other back."
"This is the first time the two of us have been away since Elsa returned home after living with you all for thirteen years. Who knows what could be happening to her?"
"Elsa is a strong woman, Xavier taught her well during her time with us. Whatever is happening to her, I'm sure she is able to handle herself."
"By the way, I've been meaning to ask, how good of a student was Elsa? She lived with you in that mansion for thirteen years. How was she like during that time?"
"Elsa was..." Storm began "Definitely a interesting student. Her powers was some of the most powerful we have ever seen. She was so scared when Jean and Scott took her end, but Charles instantly took a interest in that girl and treated her like his own daughter, with love and patience. Elsa wasn't always the easiest student, she was stubborn at times and she picked up on Wolverines' temper pretty fast."
"Hey I can hear you from up hear you know!" Wolverine called out, taking offense about the temper comment.
"But," Storm continued. "Xavier never gave up on her, even when Elsa lost her way and froze New York. In a way Elsa found a father figure in Xavier, and sort of looked up to Wolverine as a big brother. The two of them even fought like siblings throughout the years.
"Hey, I will throw you out of this plane and make you fly your on self if you don't zip it with those remarks!" Wolverine called out again from the pilots seat.
"You know it's true Logan," Storm said as Anna couldn't help but chuckle at Wolverine's crankiness. She did see a little bit of Wolverine in Elsa at times. At least now she knew who to blame.
Wolverine muttered a wave of swear words under his breath as he took a cigar out of his pocket and lit up. Wolverine had forgotten that Baymax was on the Blackbird as well until Baymax walked up to him and chastised his smoking.
"You know, you shouldn't smoke you know. Smoking has proven to lead to lung cancer as well as a wave of other life threatening diseases.
"Well, lucky for me then I got mutant healing powers that will prevent that type of stuff from happening to me so I can continue to enjoy my cigar."
"But second hand smoke is also known to kill more non smokers a year then smokers, putting everyone in this plane at high risk of lung cancer."
"I am so glad we took the medical robot along!" Wolverine griped putting out his cigar so Baymax would shut up.
"Don't think anything has changed between us Rogue." Ms. Marvel said as her right wrist was cuffed together with Rogue's. Even though Rogue knew Ms. Marvel was no threat to escape, Anna insisted on the prisoners to remained cuffed to one of their team members for safety reasons. "You think by sparing my life and freeing me will cause me to forget all the pain you caused me? I will never forget what you did to me, and someday Rogue I will repay you for that."
"I know I hurt you Ms. Marvel, and it is something I will have to live with for the rest of my life, but I hope in time you will come to forgive me."
"Yeah, keep dreaming." Ms. Marvel scoffed, for that was something she knew would never happen.
"You know..." Human Torch said trying to spark up some conversation with Kristoff, Silverclaw was cuffed to Human Torch, while Hill was cuffed to Kristoff. "I'm actually surprised Deadpool didn't volunteer to come with us."
"Yeah that is so weird. "Kristoff said "What do you think he is doing right now."
Meanwhile, back in Arendelle
Deadpool was laying on one of the many beds in the royal palace, his pants was pooled down and he held a stuffed unicorn in one hand. With the other hand he was busy playing with himself. It was then that he noticed something was off and turned to face the audience.
"What the hell are you doing here? I'm not supposed to be in this chapter!"
Now back in New York.
"Has anyone seen Thor?" Nick Fury had been searching frantically for Thor for the past ten minutes but despite searching every room in the Hellicarrier Thor was nowhere to be seen. "We got to meet with the Princess of Arendelle in two hours for that prisoner exchange and now he is nowhere to be seen."
"That's because he's not here." Tony spoke up
"What do you mean he's not here?"
"I mean I told him he had to do what he thought was best for Asgard. Thor has left to go release Elsa from your prison and put her in his own protective custody."
"He what!?" Fury gasped "And you encouraged him to do it too!?"
"I did." Tony said "Elsa is not a bad person. She just acted out of her emotions, we all were. And now it's time we stop treating her or any of her team as criminals and make up."
"But we needed her for that prisoner exchange!" Fury scolded "If she's gone we don't have any shot at getting our members back and that whole truce thing you want dies. For a billionaire Tony, you can be so stupid you know that?"
"I do what I feel is right, no matter what anybody else thinks."
"Yeah, we'll talk about this later but first we need to stop Thor from taking Elsa!"
It took Fury and the Avengers a little under a hour to reach the prison, during the whole time Tony got a earful from just about everybody about letting Thor defy orders like that. Clint was one of the biggest critics, still angry over his encounter with Elsa's crew back in Arendelle. Tony didn't care what any of them thought though, he still knew that him and Thor made the right decision. He was ready to put this whole ordeal behind him, and if nobody else was then that was their problem.
What Tony didn't expect was what was waiting for him and the Avengers when they arrived to the prison. Waiting for them in the middle of the parking lot, still frozen in ice was Thor, his hammer was resting a few feet away from him. As Tony ran up to Thor he noticed that Thor's eyes was closed shut, but he was still breathing. He was alive but unconscious, he couldn't stay encased in ice for to much longer though. Wasting no time Tony called Vision over to help him. Immediately Vision melted the ice freeing Thor from his icy prison.
"Thor," Tony called out as he started shaking Thor's body trying to get him to wake up. "Thor are you okay, what happened here?"
It was right then that Thor swung his right fist and accidentally punched Tony right in the nose. Tony took a few steps back as he grabbed his now bleeding nose, as Thor sat up and rubbed his forehead in frustration.
"I'm going to kill that son of a bitch!" Thor growled as he stood up and picked up his hammer.
"Thor, did Elsa do that to you?" Natasha asked
"No, Loki did."
"Loki?"
"Yes," Thor then turned toward Nick as his tone got even more heated "I told you Loki was coming! I told you Elsa needed to be protected instead of locked up like a animal! But you didn't listen, you acted out of vengeance just like Elsa and her sister did, and refused to listen to reason! And now because of that Loki has Elsa!"
"Whoa, Loki has Elsa?" Clint asked in shock
"Yes, thank you for finally catching up! Now because of all of yours stubbornness, Asgard and possibly the whole world is in danger!"
"Wait a second?" Natasha spoke up "Elsa's sister is expecting a prisoner exchange. She is on her way right now with our prisoners."
"Well that's not going to happen now." Thor said frustrated
"Well what's going to happen now?" Rhodey asked "What is going to happen when they find out that we don't have their Queen any longer?"
"I guess we are about to find out" Steve said noticing the Black bird landing a few feet away. Anna was the first to step out of the Blackbird, followed closely by Rogue who had Ms. Marvel in her custody, then Kristoff and Human Torch with Silverclaw and Hill. Eugene and Rapunzel then stepped out as well and put there hands up in surrender form. The rest of the crew finally stepped out of the Blackbird and walked up to the Avengers ready to give them their prisoners.
"We got your prisoners Fury." Anna said in a tone that suggested she was in charge of the ordeal. "Now where is my sister?"
"Um yeah about that..." Tony said getting really nervous. This was one thing he didn't expect to happen, and now he didn't know how they were going to act, he knew it wasn't going to be good though. "We don't exactly have her anymore."
"WHAT?"
Wolverine unsheathed his claws and pointed them to the Avengers ready to start gutting them. "Where is Snow Queen you lousy sons of..."
Hawkeye interrupted Wolverine by pulling out his bow and pointing it towards Wolverine's chest.
"I would put those claws back where they belong if I were you."
"Just try and fire that arrow at me bub and see if I don't gut you."
"We had a deal" Anna said "Your prisoners, plus Archer for Elsa. Now where is she!?"
"We don't know!" Steve said.
"What the hell do you mean you don't know!?"
"Just give the order Anna, and I will gut these pigs." Wolverine said
"Not as long as I'm standing." Hawkeye responded.
"You really think your pathetic arrows will stop me?"
"ENOUGH!" That is when all of them saw lighting flashing above then and Thor appeared in the middle of the two arguing groups, lighting was forming out of his hammer and he was ready to use it in case the situation got out of hand. "All of you, it is reasons like this that is why Elsa is missing in the first place."
"What do you mean all of us?" Hawkeye said "They are the ones that raged war on us!"
"Quite Hawkeye," Thor ordered "Common sense is talking." Thor then started lecturing both sides about how wrong they all were.
"Now none of you are exactly innocent. You both think that your side is in the right." Thor turned to face Anna's team "You for wanting to get justice for your people," Thor then turned to face the Avengers. "And you for wanting to rescue Tony. But the way your going at this, the fighting, the trying to kill each other. Your only making the situation worse. And trust me. I know all about trying to start useless wars. I once tried to pick a needless fight with the Frost Giants and it got me banished here to Earth for a time being. So trust me when I say that there is a better way to go at this."
"Well, how the hell was we supposed to free Tony then Thor?" Fury said "Elsa was just about to hang him."
"Yes, she was. But you also went and arrested her, and locked her up in that prison without even attempting to make peace with her. She is not a bad person, she was just trying to get justice for her people because of that Ultron fiasco that Tony made!"
"Thank you!" Thor heard Anna say.
"I don't necessary believe I agree with your theory Thor." Fury said
"You don't have to agree with him." Tony said speaking up as he joined Thor right between the two feuding groups. "He's right though. If anybody has a reason to hate Elsa it would be me. But I don't and you know why? Because I would think I might would have reacted the same way in her shoes. I made a huge mistake with Ultron, and because of it I needlessly caused the deaths of several innocent people. And it's something I am going to have to live with for the rest of my life. Elsa is just as big of a victim as the people who lost there lives. She was the Queen of Arendelle, it is up to her to protect her kingdom from threats, and even though it was accidental, I did indeed cause a threat. She was just doing what any good monarch would do, try to get justice for those who lost their lives because of me. She's not a bad person, just acting out of her emotions, and as I was locked in her cell I could tell in during our few conversations that she really was hurting emotionally." Tony then turned to face Anna "Princess Anna, I truly am sorry for what I caused your kingdom. I never attended for anybody to be harmed by Ultron, and if I could take it back I would have never created him. I know that nothing I say can never bring back those who lost there lives. But if you can accept my humblest apologies and see just how sorry I am and see just how much guilt I feel from this, than maybe both of us can start finding closure, and possibly start making peace."
Anna was silent for a few moments as she took in everything that Tony had said. She could tell that he honestly was sorry, and that he truly did feel guilty for what he had caused. She just didn't know if she could truly forgive him, not quite yet anyway.
"I appreciate what you just said, and maybe someday I might come to forgiving, you. But that is not today. Right now I got bigger issues to worry about. Like finding my sister."
"I might be able to help you with that." A new voice said from behind. Anna turned around and saw a woman she had never met before run up to the group. Thor seemed to know her though, as his eyes widened and called out her name.
"Sif, what's wrong?"
"What do you mean you might be able to find my sister?"
"Your Sister has ice magic and platinum blonde hair right?"
"Right?"
"Yeah Loki has her, and is using her to attack Asgard."
"What do you mean using her to attack Asgard?" Anna asked
"Loki has her under his mind control. I could see it in her eyes that she wasn't the one in control. Loki had her attack Asgard as well as lead a army of Frost Giants to our land."
"Loki brought frost giants to Asgard!?" Loki gasped
"What are Frost Giants?" Storm asked
"Really dangerous giants." Thor said "My people have been at war with them since before my time. If Loki let's them take over Asgard..."
"They won't" Sif said putting a comforting hand on Thor's shoulder as she looked Thor in the eyes. "You will stop them I know you can."
"It's going to take more then just me though." Thor then looked at both groups. "It's time both our sides make peace, and work together to stop a greater evil. Loki has the Queen of Arendelle, and is using her as a weapon. I need volunteers from both sides to join me in traveling to Asgard and defeating the Frost Giants.
"I'm going." Anna said "If my sister's up there then you bet I'm going to go and find her."
"If she's going I'm going." Kristoff said releasing Hill from her handcuffs and joining Anna. Kristoff then turned to the prisoner he just let free.
"Your free to go Agent Hill."
"We still aren't friends." Hill said
"I can live with that."
"I'm going too." Tony said "And so is Rhodey."
"What, why do I have to go to Asgard?"
"Because your my sidekick and I said so."
"You know when we get back we got to have a conversation about this sidekick status."
Rogue, Baymax, Storm, Human Torch as well as Ms. Marvel also volunteered along with Falcon, Vision .
"The rest of you I need you to stay here and find out what Loki's next target it." Thor said "I have a feeling that Asgard is just the beginning."
"We will." Captain America said "Now go save Asgard."
Tony and Rhodey then signaled their suits as Thor had half the group grasp on to him and the other group grasp on to Sif as the two summoned the wormhole.
"Hand on to your butts." Thor said
"We could do without the Jurassic Park reference thanks." Falcon complained.
It was right then that they shot up the wormhole and headed toward Asgard. They were going to stop Loki, one way or the other.
Anybody see that Thor Ragnorak trailer? Looks amazing.