Act 4 part 6:
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The Dark Elf Malekith has found his way to the Queen's chamber, how easy it will be to crush their spirits with the Queens death.
Hearing the sounds beyond the doors Jane steps fearfully to the queen's side as Thor readies himself for battle; Mjolnir waiting in his hand to crush it enemies. The doors are forced open by the brute Kurse as he has now joined up with his master.
With a nod from Malekith, Kurse jumps at Thor and the two begin to wrestle as each fight for the greater hold. AS this happens Frigga has got both herself and Jane out of the way and keeping Jane behind her she confronts Malekith.
"Stand down, creature and you may still survive this" she orders, the full power of her station is evident in her voice.
Looking down upon the fabled queen Malekith responds "I have survived worse, woman"
"Who are you?"
"I am Malekith and you have what is mine" the words said with a finality of the fanatic bound to his obsession.
Understanding dawns on Frigga and she puts herself between the advancing Dark Elf and Jane, once he was in reach Frigga snaked her sword out and scored a line across his face. With a sneer, Malekith draws his sword and they begin to duel.
As they are fighting, Thor is slowly overcoming Kurse's strength turning it back against him; the maddened elf howls and releases Thor as his back was about to break. Thor quickly brings Mjolnir to bear and hits the beast across the room but as Kurse lands he throws a grenade at Thor, the blast sending him flying out of the window to the ground below.
Frigga has disarmed Malekith and with him pinned beneath her, she places her sword at his throat; but at the moment Kurse strikes a blow to her head and she crumples to the floor, blood flowing freely from the wound to her head.
Malekith now back on his feet approaches Jane but she fades from view he knew he had been tricked by the magic of the queen.
"Find her Kurse! Tear this place apart" Malekith advances on the unconscious queen, ready to end her life but a scream fills the room as he is launched to one side, the fist that him with such strength cracked his armour; Malekith was in shock, none but the All-father should possess such strength.
He looks up from his place on the floor and there standing before them was Kal Odinson, demonic fire raging in his eyes as they glow "You will not touch her again!" he cries as Thor himself lands in the room.
Thor see's his mother lying on the floor and rage fills him as he fires lightning into the face of Malekith instantly blackening one side as Kal hits the same side with his heat vision, the smell of burning flesh fills the room as Malekith screams.
Kal looks on at Thor as he reached down and grabs their mother whisking her from the room to the safety of the healers.
Kurse grabs his master and they run to the window but Thor's hammers strikes him across the back sending both hurtling to the ground below; at the last second one of their ships scoops them up and in rage at seeing this Thor flings Mjolnir after them but they fly out of range; they have escaped for now.
Odin arrives with Sif and the guards following "Frigga, you're mother where is she?"
"Kal has her, she is injured but alive."
Odin's heart sores with hope, grateful to both of his sons.
"We must go to her at once, Sif secure Jane somewhere safe; protect her at all costs." Said Thor
Now normally this would have sent Sif into a rage but with the love of Kal in her heart, she now understood Thor's fears and vowed to keep Jane safe.
"She is alive my King, but the wound to her head is severe; she has slipped into a coma" Eir, the healer said to the royal family.
Odin with Thor on his right and Kal on his left stood at the end of the bed, watching as the assistants dressed his wife's wounds.
"Thor, Kal please leave us for now; I wish to spend some time alone with my wife" both sons nodded to their father and left him to sit by his wife's side and as much as they both wanted to be with her they needed to see to Asgard and its people but both took strength in that they were there for each other as well.
"Come brother, we need to check in on our better halves" said Thor as he walked beside Kal, both of them worried for their mother and both feeling the need for revenge against Malekith, as their father had called him.
The looks on their faces sent most running from them on sight, the power and anger radiating from them threatened to warp the structures around them as both tried to get themselves under control.
Kal had only been with them a short while, but as Clark was re-awakening as it were they had wormed their way into his heart; Sif and Frigga had become very important to him, each for different reasons one became the love he had so desperately sought and the other became the mother he always needed.
He desperately missed Martha, his true mother and he would give anything to bring her here to him or just to send her words of comfort as he knew this must be killing her.
He had realised that Thor was picking up the pace, so he matched it as they began to run through the palace, Thor must be truly worried thought Kal.
In the dungeon a guard had delivered the news to Loki, who upon having being told lashed out with his magic sending a wave of destruction around his cell as it destroyed the furniture; seeking to the floor on his knees he began to cry for his mother and curse himself for not telling Kal what he needed to know.
Kal and Thor ran through the ruins of the palace, seeking the chambers of Sif where Thor knew she would have taken Jane; side by side they ran and observed the damage done to their home, the need for revenge grew within them both.
As they reached Sif's chambers they did not knock but entered without announcement, luckily Sif stopped the swing of her sword in time or Asgard may have been burying its crown prince.
"Kal" she cried upon seeing him enter behind Thor and securing her sword she went willingly into his arms as he held her to him, Jane had jumped into Thor's arms as he held her close to him as well. Once the emotions had died down and they had separated Jane asked the question she feared to know the answer to.
"How is your mother?"
"She is injured; she fell into a coma shortly after Kal got her to the healers. I still have not thanked you brother for getting her there so fast, I feared she was dead."
"Never thank me for looking after family, after all I have lost I know what it means to lose a parent and by my hand I will never allow that to happen again" steel crept into Kal's voice and Sif looked on worried as she had never heard her love sound so full of anger.
Thor nodded at his brother's words and he too saw the pain and anger in Kal's face, reaching out he pulled his brother into a hug and both took comfort from that moment. Kal lost it then and for the first time since he lost his father, he knew true grief again and a tear escaped his eye at the thought of losing another parent, another mother.
Sif looked on and watched as Thor comforted his brother, how she wanted to hold him then, to take away his pain. Sif glanced at Jane, who looked on both saddened and confused; she took Jane's arm and led her to her bedroom and began to explain what Kal had meant and how much he had lost, by the time she was through with Kal's tale, Jane's heart was reaching out to him.
In deep space aboard the Dark Elves great ship Malekith is regaining his strength, following the burning of half of his face; the pain was intense, then came the numbing as the pain receptors in his nerves were burnt away.
"Heal, you will need your strength to reclaim the Aether, and when the time comes we will kill them all!" said the being now known as Kurse.
Back on Asgard, Jane sits alone in her assigned chamber, restless and disturbed by the events that have unfolded she make her way out onto the balcony, she is mentally assaulted again by the visions of the Aether but before she can dwell further on this the palace guards make the way into her room.
"Jane Foster, you are to come with us."
In the throne room, Odin stands with his council of men before the ruins of his throne, between them is a holographic model of the palace.
"We are still unable to restore the palace shields, we cannot detect them, even Hiemdall cannot see the Elves. My King we are all but defenceless!" reported Fandral.
Thor enters the room and marches up to his father, interrupting the council "She's your prisoner now?"
Turning to his council "Leave us" commands Odin.
As Odin turns to his son "I do not wish to fight with you."
"Nor I you father, but I intend to pursue Malekith"
"We possess that which he desires, he will come to us"
"Yes, and you will destroy us!" shouted an angered Thor, fury building in him at his father's callous disregard for his fellow Asgardians lives.
"You over-estimate the power of these creatures" sneered Odin.
"No, I value our people's lives. Kal and I will take Jane to the Dark World and draw the enemy from Asgard. When Malekith pulls the Aether from Jane, it will be exposed and we will destroy it; then Malekith will know the wrath of the Odinsons."
"And what if you fail? You risk the weapon falling into the hands of our enemies."
"The risk is far greater if we do nothing, he could be over our heads right now, we would never know until it was too late!" shouted Thor.
"When he comes and he will, his men will fall on the blades of Asgardian warriors."
"And how many of our men will fall on theirs?"
"AS MANY AS NEEDED!" shouted Odin "We will fight till the last Asgardian breath, till the last drop of our blood is spilled"
"Then how are you different from Malekith?" asked Thor, disgusted in his father's attitude.
"The difference, my son is that I will win" and with that Odin walked away from a troubled Thor,
Back on Earth in Jane's apartment we find Darcy pacing back and forth whilst Ian the intern watches.
"Jane isn't calling me back, Erik is calling me back, and stupid Shield isn't calling me back!"
"What's Shield?" asks Ian.
"it's a secret" winked Darcy as she went to leave Eric another message on his stupid voicemail.
"Hey Eric, it's Darcy again! So, Thor's back, he took Jane to Asgard and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do!"
"Uh Darcy, you really need to see this. I think that's Eric" interrupts Ian as he points to the news on the TV. Darcy looks round and stops her phone call as she see's Eric parading across Stonehenge in the nude.
As Ian pause's the news on the image of a close up crazy eyed Eric, Darcy falls onto the couch her head hanging in her hands as she crumples from all that is going on.
Act 4 part 7:
Disclaimer at beginning of story, but a reminder I do not own any of the characters in this unless they are an original creation.
On Asgard Thor and Kal are sat in a darkened corner of a tavern, no one dare approaching the fearsome sons of Odin; no one but Hiemdall that is as he sits at the table and removing his helm, he reaches for a mug of mead.
"You're not in the war council?" asked Kal, he had finally left Frigga's side after Sif offered to sand guard in his stead.
"The Bifrost is closed as per your father's orders, no one is to come or go; we face an enemy invisible to even my sight, what use am I as a guardian?" said a bitter Hiemdall.
"Malekith will return and we need your help old friend" said Thor; his voice had lost much of his usual cheeriness.
"I cannot over rule my King's wishes, not even for you"
"I'm not asking you to, the realms need their All-father strong and unchallenged, whether he is or not; but he is blinded, Hiemdall" said Kal, he respected his new father but even he could see the madness in waiting for the enemy to return.
"As are we all, he is not alone in his anger or his rage at what has happened!" said Hiemdall trying to defend his king.
"Well we see clearly enough" said Kal, standing in support of his brother; "if no one else will stand with us then they will do this alone."
"The risks Kal are too great"
"Everything we do from here is a risk, there is no other way. We cannot wait for them to return, you yourself said that you cannot see them; how will we hold them off if they can strike unseen?" said Thor, he may not be the equal of minds like Kal and Loki, but he knew war and he knew in his heart that they needed to protect their people at all costs.
After a moment of pause and reflection, Hiemdall nodded at the two men "What do you require of me?"
"In a word, treason" said Thor "Success will bring us exile and failure will mean death. Malekith knew the Aether was here, he can sense its power. If we do nothing, if we fail to act then he will come for it again and he will destroy all of Asgard"
Thor has called his closest friends to a secret meeting, Sif, Fandral and Volstagg have now joined them to hear Thor's plan.
"We must move Jane off-world" said Kal, as Sif sat beside him; her hand quickly enfolded in his.
"The Bifrost has been shut down, the Tesseract sealed away in the vault" said Sif, she had already spoken with her love and agreed that action had to be taken.
"Sister, there are other ways, other paths of Asgard; ways known only to a few" said Hiemdall, not enjoying where this part of the plan was leading.
"One, actually" said Thor and as the words slipped out, it dawned on the remaining few just who he meant.
"NO!" said Volstagg
"So you have returned, failed to protect our mother, failed to protect the queen!" said Loki, as Kal and Thor approached his cell "Have you come to mock me, Thor? To gloat at me?"
"Loki enough, no more illusions brother" said Thor
As he said this, the cell shifted as a ripple of magic revealed it's true state; a room scattered with upturned furniture. Loki slumped against a wall, his clothes a mess, his normally neat hair now wild and out of control, but it was the pain and grief on his face that truly showed how bad he was doing.
"Did she suffer? The Guards will not say, they will tell me nothing! Did she call for me as she died?" said Loki
"She is not dead brother, but she is in a coma; Eir herself watches over her. I cannot say if she will make it, but I scanned her before we left and the swelling is reducing and the wound is being closely monitored" said Kal.
"Loki, we know you seek vengeance as much as I do, as we do. Help us brother, help us escape Asgard and I will grant it you and afterwards, this cell." Said Thor, as he looked into his brothers eyes; trying to gauge the madness within.
A chuckle escapes Loki as he replies "You must truly be desperate to come to me for help, all the power you too possess and neither of you can do a thing, how it must gall you to come to me and beg."
"Enough Loki!" said Kal, "I do not know you from before, but I do know what you have done and I know the reasons why. Mother has spoken often off you, she loves you; she grieves for you and what you have done. Honour her now brother and stand with us, atone for what you have done by stopping this threat to Asgard, help us to protect our mother."
"What makes you think you can trust me?" asked Loki, those words from Kal had cut him deep; he knew his actions, he knew his failures and he knew his crimes; but most of all he knew and loved his mother and for her he would do anything.
"I don't. Mother did, but you should know then when we fought each other, I did so with the hope that my brother was still in there somewhere but that hope no longer exists to protect you. Betray us and I will kill you."
A smile crosses Loki's face, "You're finally learning, so when do we start?"
Freed from his cell, Loki escorted by oaf one and oaf two aka the Odinsons took a walk through the darkened corridors of Asgard using the ancient pillars to their advantage.
"This is so unlike you brother" Loki said to Thor "So clandestine. Are you sure the two of you wouldn't rather just punch your way out? Then again Kal does have slightly more brains than you, so may he would use the door."
This earned a slap to the back of the head from Kal, which Thor had to stifle a chuckle at as he knows how hard even a playful tap from Kal can be.
"If you keep speaking brother, then I might see how hard I can punch that jaw of yours" said a still smirking Thor.
"Fine, as you wish. I'm not even here" and with that Loki shifts his form into one of Odin's chosen guard "IS this better?"
"It's better company at least" said Kal
"Still, we could look less conspicuous" and with that Loki changes Thor into Sif and Kal into Volstagg.
"Loki" they both said in unison as Loki commented on Thor's new look.
"It will hurt no less when I kill you in this form" said an angered Thor.
"Very well" and with a smirk he changes them both back and before he could change again Kal had grabbed him by his throat and slamming into a pillar, Thor places his hand over Loki's mouth silencing him and pointing to the soldiers walking along the other side of the plaza.
"You can at least furnish me with a weapon, my dagger, something?" and as Loki says that he hears a metallic sound as Thor slides something out from behind his cloak "At last a little common sense"
He looks down just as Kal releases him and see's a pair of cuffs binding his wrist.
"I thought you liked tricks" Thor said as both he and Kal chuckled, then shoving Loki in front they continued onwards.
As Loki was being 'escorted' by his brothers, Sif was taking care of her part of the plan; in front of her was Jane's chambers and as she entered she could hear Jane say "I'm not hungry".
Sif acted quickly upon seeing the two guards in the chamber and with the lethal grace she had come to be known for, she strikes and with two swift blows they were unconscious at her feet.
Jane just looks at her shocked before Sif beckons her to follow; escorting Jane to the meeting point was not easy as they had to time their movements between the increased patrols. They come upon the brothers and as Jane took note of who was with them she moved ahead of Sif.
"You're..." said Jane
"I'm Loki, you may have heard of me" but before he could say more Jane slaps him across the face.
"That was for New York!"
Loki laughs and turns to his brothers "Oh, I like her."
Kal clips him round the back of the head and this draws a laugh from Sif.
Hiemdall is stood at his observatory, his mind thinking back to when they planned this little bit of treason and his words to them "It is my sworn duty to notify the All-father of crimes against authority" and that is what he intended to do.
"Hiemdall, you called me here on an urgent matter, so what is it?" asked Odin, escorted by four of his elite guard; the rest standing watch over his wife.
Turning to his king "Treason my lord"
"Whose"
"Mine" and as he says this he draws forth the great sword, causing the guards to step towards him; but with a speed, defying his size he quickly lays the sword across his palms in surrender but before it could be seized, Captain Tyr ran to the king.
"My King, the mortal has been taken" and with those words, it all fell into place as realisation dawned on the king and as his eyes never leave Hiemdall's he orders the guards to stop his sons by any means necessary.
A/n so next up is the big escape!