Chapter 38: Revenge

A/N: This chapter contains some sensitive material

Sakaar felt different from when Loki and Brigid first arrived. The air was less welcoming as they as well as Fenrir were marched out by three guards behind them to meet the Grandmaster. When they were being paraded before him, they noticed that their captor was being marched up with them. Loki and Brigid were less concerned with her presence and more concerned with the well-being of their children who were captives of their sister, Hela.

"Are you working on a plan to get us out of here?" Brigid asked.

"Of course, my love, but you won't like it," Loki whispered.

"I don't care, even if it does involve your brother," Brigid said. "Our children are threatened and if your sister even touches them, family or no, I'll kill her myself. Hela picked the wrong kids to kidnap."

Loki smiled proudly. "That's my girl."

Loki's smile faded as they heard the Grandmaster cry out, "I'm upset! I'm very upset!"

Grandmaster stood on a hovering pedestal, towering over his subjects, Topaz at his side.

"You know what I like about being upset? The blame," Grandmaster said, lowering his pedestal to his subjects' level. "Right now, that's the mindset that I'm in. And you know who I'm blaming?"

"Grandmaster I can-" Loki said calmly.

"Hey, hey, don't interrupt me!" Grandmaster said in frustration.

Topaz handed her master a large staff with an orange orb on the end of it. "Here you go!"

"Why are you handing me the Melt Stick?" Grandmaster asked, confused. "He was interrupting, that's not a capital violation! Where was I? My precious champion has come up missing. It's all because of that Lord of Thunder. It's because of him. Your brother. Whatever the story is, Adopted, or complicated, married or whatever. I'm sure there's a big history."

Grandmaster turned to the woman. "And your contender."

"My dear friend, if you were to give me twelve hours, I could bring them both back to you, alive," Loki said.

"I could do it in two," the woman said quickly.

"We can do it in one," Loki replied.

Grandmaster held up his hand. "Let's stop there. You know what? I woke up this morning thinking about public execution. But for now I'll set for this sweet little who's gonna get him first so, you're on the clock."

Grandmaster waved his hand and the group went on their way, hoping to repair the damage done by Thor and Loki and Brigid hoping to escape with their lives and save their children. They knew that their fragile peace with the Grandmaster was now in tatters.

"What have you done?" Loki asked the woman.

"I don't answer to you, Lackey," she said nonchalantly.

Loki grabbed her wrist. "It's Loki, and you will answer to the Grandmaster."

The woman shook him off and swatted him in the face with a smirk.

"Why would you help my brother escape with that green fool?" Loki asked.

"I don't help anyone," the woman said, pointing a knife at him.

Loki and the woman wrestled for until he pinned her arm, revealing a familiar tattoo. "You're a Valkyrie!"

Loki tossed away her knife, but she smacked him and kicked him, tossing him against a wall.

"I thought the Valkyrie had all died gruesome deaths," Loki said.

The Valkyrie pinned him with her leg. "Choose your next words wisely!"

"I'm terribly sorry. It must be a very painful memory," Loki said.

Then, he smacked his hand against her head. The Valkyrie's eyes turned upwards and she began to gasp and tears flowed from her eyes. Loki released her from his grasp and she kicked him, jumping on top of him.

"What did you do to me?" she demanded. "I saw...them dying."

"I forced you to relive your worst memory. You needed the anger to do what's right," Loki said.

Before the Valkyrie could lay another punch, Fenrir came racing in. "My King! The Queen is missing!"

Loki suddenly turned around. "She was right behind me! How did she just disappear?"

"I fear the Grandmaster may have her," Fenrir said.

Loki turned to the Valkyrie who nodded. "Just this once."

Loki, Valkyrie, and Fenrir raced down the hall, hoping to reach Brigid before it was too late.

Brigid blearily looked around the room. She did not remember how she fell unconscious or how she got into the room she was in. As she came to, she became aware, much to her horror, that she was chained to a bed and there was a gag in her mouth. As soon as she became aware of her bindings, she began to struggle wildly.

"Ah, ah, ah, I wouldn't do that," warned a voice.

The Grandmaster, still clad in gold robes, came to the foot of the bed, and Brigid, struggled like a caged animal as he stood there, taunting her.

"Ah, ah, ah. Don't be naughty, now," he warned.

Brigid ignored him and continued to struggle, shouting muffled curses at him. She felt a sudden current shoot through her body as she struggled.

"I warned you," Grandmaster said. "I hope you know why you're here. You're being punished for that Lord of Thunder taking my champion, but we can still have fun. I thought we could make some cherubs of our own while we're at it."

The Grandmaster removed the gag from Brigid's mouth, and she promptly spat in his eye.

"Oh ha ha ha! You're such a feisty one!" the Grandmaster chuckled. "We're gonna have fun!"

"If you have any wisdom, you'll back away now," Brigid said.

Grandmaster put a finger to her lips. "Shh. Just enjoy this. I sure will."

The Grandmaster bent down and kissed her and then he was on top of her. Brigid struggled furiously, but her chains would not allow it. "Get off me. Get off me! No! No!"

As Grandmaster leaned in, Brigid managed to deliver a well-aimed kick to his groin, causing him to draw back and smile.

"Brigid, precious, why do you fight?" he asked, stroking her hair. "Just enjoy our time together."

The Grandmaster leaned in again and Brigid screamed and struggled. "No! No! Get off me! Get off!"

Before the Grandmaster could touch her, he collapsed on top of her. Brigid looked up to see Loki and Fenrir as well as the Valkyrie standing before her.

"I knew you'd come," Brigid sighed.

"I was never far behind, my love," Loki reassured her. "Did he hurt you?"

Brigid shook her head as Loki untied her and kissed her. "I'm so sorry, my love. He won't hurt you again."

Fenrir looked at the unconscious Grandmaster with disgust. "So what do we do with him?"

"I'd like to kill him now, but we're on a tight schedule, so bind him," Loki said.

Fenrir nodded and was about to bind him but Loki stopped her. "Wait. Let my wife do it. She deserves it. Make it as tight as you like, my love."

"With pleasure," she said.

Brigid snapped her fingers and Grandmaster was bound to a chair.

"Promise he'll die for this?" she said.

"I promise, just not yet," Loki assured her. "We need to find my brother. Once we have him, then we'll come back and finish him."

"Good," Brigid said, satisfied.

Suddenly, Loki was knocked on the head by the Valkyrie.

"What did you do that for?" Brigid asked.

"You're both gonna be my peace offering," she said.

The Valkyrie found some chains from the Grandmaster's room and began to coil it around Loki's arms, wrists, and ankles. She bound Brigid in the same manner.

"You know, kidnapping me after saving me is terrible manners," Brigid said.

"Shut up before I gag you," Valkyrie said.

"You're more polite about it than your boss," Brigid said.

When Loki came to, he was sitting in a green and white room with Brigid and Fenrir chained beside him.

"I take it things aren't going well for us," Loki groaned as he awoke.

"Not at the moment," Brigid said.

"Not at all," Fenrir said.

Just then, Thor entered the room, with Valkyrie and Bruce Banner.

"Surprise," Loki said.

Thor tossed a table decoration, hitting Loki square on the head.

"Ow," Loki groaned.

Bruce awkwardly approached the man he had not seen since New York.

"Hello, Bruce," Loki greeted.

"So, last time I saw you, you were trying to kill everyone. Where you at these days?" Bruce asked.

"It varies from moment to moment," Loki said menacingly.

Bruce's eyes grew large at the god staring at him.

"Darling, don't tease him," Brigid said. "Hello, Bruce, or should I say, Uncle Bruce."

"I hear that your boys must be three years old now," Bruce said. "Do they miss me?"

Brigid smiled. "Well, you were right about your letter. About having more kids by this time."

"How many kids do you have now?" Bruce asked.

"Four," Brigid replied. "Three princes, and one beautiful princess, and they're in danger and they need their Uncle to help them."

"Whoa, four kids! How long have I been gone?" Bruce asked.

"Doesn't matter. What matters is that my children need our help," Brigid said.

Thor, Bruce and Valkyrie then began to converse amongst themselves about the distance between Sakaar and the type of ship they would need, making reference to a wormhole known as Devil's Anus. This drew Loki's ear and he could not resist.

"I don't mean to impose-"

Valkyrie tossed a bottle at him, leaving it to shatter against the wall.

"But the Grandmaster has a great many ships," Loki continued. "I may even have stolen the access codes to his security system."

"And suddenly you're overcome with an urge to do the right thing?" Valkyrie asked.

"Heaven's, no," Loki said. "We've run out of favor with the Grandmaster and in exchange for codes and access to a ship, I'm asking for safe passage...through the Anus."

"You're telling us that you can get us access into the garage without without setting off any alarms?" Thor asked.

"Yes, brother, I can," Loki replied.

Bruce gathered the three. "Okay. I was just talking to him and he was totally ready to kill any of us. I can't even believe he's got four kids! Are they all psychos?"

"I heard that!" Brigid said furiously.

"He did try to kill me," Valkyrie said.

"Yes, me too, on many occasions," Thor said. "This one time he transformed himself into a snake and knows I love snakes, so I picked up the snake to admire it, and he transformed back into himself and he was like, 'Blegh, it's me!' and he stabbed me. We were eight at the time."

Loki smiled as he remembered the tale.

"Snakes, my love? How creative," Brigid said.

"If we're boosting a ship, we're gonna need to draw some guards away from the palace," Valkyrie said.

"Why not set the beast loose?" Loki suggested.

"Or let me handle them," Fenrir said.

"Shut up," Thor said. "He's just being stupid there is no beast. We're gonna start a revolution."

Brigid, Fenrir and Loki found themselves in the hallway as Loki entered the Grandmaster's codes to the garage. They were armed with large ray guns in case of encounters with the guards. Once they had the codes, they were closer to saving their children.

"Listen, I think we should talk," Thor said.

"I disagree," Loki countered. "Open communication was never our family's forte."

"You have no idea," Thor groaned.

"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Brigid said.

"Been quite the revelation since last we spoke," Thor said.

The group encountered a large swarm of guards and drew their guns.

"Hello," Thor greeted.

"Hi," Loki said.

The group opened fire, blasting purple rays and dodging green lights. The company took cover behind a wall.

"Odin brought us all together. It's almost poetic his death should split us apart," Loki said.

"It seems fair indeed, my love," Brigid agreed.

"Very well spoken," Fenrir said.

"We might as well be strangers now," Loki said. "Two sons of the crown, set adrift."

A guard came after Loki but Thor sent him flying. "Thought you didn't want to talk about it."

"Here's the thing," Loki said. "We're probably better off staying here on Sakaar."

"That's exactly what I was thinking," Thor said.

Loki was flummoxed. "Did you just agree with me?"

"Come on, this place is perfect for you two. Savage, chaotic, lawless. Brother, you'll do great here," Thor said enthusiastically.

"Ahem, how dare you insult my King and Queen," Fenrir said.

"Relax, I was complimenting them," Thor said.

"Do you truly think so little of us?" Loki asked.

"Or me? You know you really have to try hard to insult me," Brigid said.

"Loki, I thought the world of you," Thor said. "I thought we'd fight side by side forever. But at the end of the day you're you and I'm me. Maybe there's still good in you, I see it in those children, but let's be honest our paths diverged a long time ago."

"Yeah," Loki said after a long moment. "It's probably for the best that we never see each other again."

Thor patted him on the back. "It's what you've always wanted."

Loki nodded.

"Hey, let's do 'Get Help,'" Thor said.

"What?" Loki asked.

"Get Help," Thor replied.

"No."

"Come on, you'll love it."

"I hate it."

"It's great. It works every time."

"It's humiliating."

"Do you have a better plan?"

"No."

"We're doing it."

"We are not doing 'Get Help."

The next moment, Thor had Loki's arm over his shoulder as they stepped out of the elevator.

"Get help! My brother, he's dying! Help him!"

As the guards approached, Thor tossed Loki like a boomerang, landing flat on his back.

"I don't know what 'Get Help' is, but I hate it, too," Brigid said.

"Ah, classic," Thor laughed.

"Still hate it," Loki groaned. "It's humiliating."

"Not for me, it's not," Thor laughed. "Now, which one's the ship she told us to get."

"The Commodore," Loki said.

"Good. Let's go," Thor said.

Loki stopped him. "Not just yet. You're going to help me now."

"Really? I, help you?" Thor asked.

"I know that seems outlandish, but I'm not asking for me," Loki said. "I'm asking for Brigid. You don't know what the Grandmaster has done."

"He couldn't have done much. You were eating out of his hand," Thor scoffed.

Brigid rolled up her tunic and showed Thor her scars. "Does this look like I was eating out of his hand?"

Thor winced and drew back. "Brigid, my God, what happened?"

"I told you we gained his trust. You don't know how," Brigid said bitterly. "He beat me, tortured me, he...violated me."

Thor's jaw dropped and his fist closed. "Where is he?"

The next moment, Brigid, Loki and her group took the lift back to the Grandmaster's room were he was still struggling, tied to the chair when he was zapped by lightning, causing him to shriek and then laugh.

"Well, I see why they call you 'Lord of Thunder,'" he laughed.

"You licentious little cockroach," Thor growled.

"Brother, no!" Loki cried.

Grandmaster laughed. Suddenly, Loki's fist flew across his face.

"You violated my wife," Loki said menacingly. "Of all the women, you chose her. That was a mistake on your part."

Loki began to pummel the Grandmaster relentlessly. Blood was flowing freely from the Grandmaster's nose. All of Loki's rage poured of him with every punch.

"You can't kill me," Grandmaster said weakly.

"And I won't," Loki said. "I was just getting my rage out. I'm leaving you for the ladies."

Fenrir stepped forward and coiled a rope around Grandmaster's neck. "This is for my Queen. Goodbye, you sadistic pig!"

Brigid stepped up to him. "I hope it was fun for you. Beating me, torturing me, violating me, just so I would give in. I hope you enjoy this while it lasts."

Brigid took a dagger and plunged into the Grandmaster's heart and Fenrir did the same. However, Brigid could not stop stabbing him. She needed to be certain that he was dead. Over and over she plunged the blade with a terrible scream and tears until Loki grabbed her and held her close.

"It's over," he soothed. "It's over, my love."

Brigid wept tears of relief as Loki held her close. " 's over. It's over, my love."

A/N: Poor Brigid! But the Grandmaster is dead! Revenge is served! This is for my readers, reviewers, followers, favorites, etc. This story is for you and would be nothing without you. Enjoy!