Author's note: Here's the next chapter. I hope that I'll make it as long as I could; we're not even half way through the movie yet. I don't own Thor or any of the Marvel movies.
Thor pt 4-
His four friends entered the hall, Lady Sif lifting her palms and asking, "Redecorating, are we?"
"What's this?" Volstagg asked, shocked at the sight.
Thor breathed heavily as he tensely circled the area that was now in shambles to sit on the steps lining the room.
"I told you they'd cancel it," Hogan stated, referring to the coronation.
"We thought you were just being your normal, cheery self," Fandral commented.
"All this food," Volstagg murmured, "It's just cast to the ground, it's-" He breathed heavily through his emotional response and finished, "It breaks the heart."
"Why does your friend like food so much?" Natasha asks.
"I don't really know Lady Natasha, he just likes food." Thor says.
A man clad in tall, dark leather boots stepped around from behind a pillar, revealing himself to be Loki as he crouched to sit beside Thor on the low rows of stairs. "It's unwise to be in my company right now, brother," Thor warned.
Loki nodded his head in agreement and remarked, "Who said I was wise?" as he settled beside him.
"This was to be my day of triumph," he said in discontent.
"It'll come, in time," Loki reassured. Sif watched their conversation curiously as Volstagg gathered an assortment of food on a tray from a service that had escaped Thor's wrath.
Loki looked back at the other warriors and shifted closer to Thor, leaning in to speak quietly into his ear, "If it's any consolation, I think you're right – about the Frost Giant, about Laufey, about everything. If they found a way to penetrate Asgard's defenses once, who's to say they won't try again? Next time, with an army."
"Exactly." Thor responded.
"There's nothing you can do without defying Father," Loki pointed out.
Thor turned to look at him suddenly, gasping, "Yes, there is," as he got to his feet.
Loki searched his expression frantically before his eyes widened and he started to protest, "No, no no nononono stop; I know that look, stop right there-"
"It's the only way to ensure the safety of our borders," he counted.
"Thor, it's madness," Loki tried again.
"Madness?" Volstagg interrupted. "What sort of madness?"
"I-it's nothing, Thor was just, merely making a jest," Loki diverted.
"The safety of our realm is no jest," Thor stated, "We're going to Jotunheim."
"Okay even I can see the manipulation in this, why didn't you see it Point Break?" Tony states.
"I was blinded by rage, I wasn't thinking clearly. Also I would have taken any excuse to target the Jotuns."
"It was the perfect opportunity to get you in even more trouble with Odin." Loki says.
"He banished me Loki." Thor pointed out.
"I admit that I didn't even though he would go that far." Loki argues back.
"Let's not get off topic, your plan that your past self came up with is not a very well thought out decision." Clint points out.
"I can see how this is going to end badly." Steve says.
"So are you going to where the Frost Giants live; is what caused your father to send you to earth?" Jane asks.
"That is correct Lady Jane."
"Alright all of you I would like to finish this at some point please." Fury says angrily.
Loki sighed and raised a hand to cover his eyes in resignation, Fandral scoffing, "What?" at the proclamation.
"Thor," Sif began with a shake of her head, "of all the laws of Asgard, this is the one you must. Not. Break."
Fandral explained, "This isn't like a journey to Earth where you summon a little lightning and thunder and the mortals worship you as a god. This is Jotunheim-"
"If the Frost Giants don't kill you, your father will,"
"If I were you, Thor, I would have listened to your friends." Bruce says while the others including the Agents in the room agreed.
My father fought his way into Jotunheim." Thor supported, Loki swallowing in anxiety, "defeated their armies and took their Casket. We will just be looking for answers-"
"It is forbidden," Sif argued again.
Thor smiled with a chuckle, opening his arms and approaching the four as he said, "My friends, have you forgotten all that we have done together? Who brought you into the sweet embrace of the most exotic maidens in all of Yggdrasil?" he asked Fandral, coming to stand before him.
"Well, you helped a little," he responded with a smirk.
Thor laughed and addressed Hogan, "And who led you into the most glorious of battles?"
"You did," he answered.
"And to delicacies so succulent you thought you'd died and gone to Valhalla?" he asked Volstagg, who had been in the middle of assembling a tower out of bread, meat, and cheese.
He laughed and answered "You did."
Thor laughed with him and approved, "Yes," as he clapped on the shoulder. Then he turned and started towards the brunette, asking, "And who proved wrong all who scoffed at the idea that a young maiden could be one of the fiercest warriors this realm has ever known?"
"I did," she cheerfully answered.
Thor paused for a moment before admitting, "True, but I supported you, Sif." He spun and leveled them all with a never ending gaze.
"My friends, trust me now – we must do this," he says, returning to stand by his brother and gesturing down at him as he questioned, "You're not going to let my brother and me take all the glory are you?"
Loki's eyes flashed up and widened as breathed out, "What?" his gaze shifting from side to side in unease.
"Well I didn't expect that…." Tony says.
"I'm surprised that he didn't want to go." Clint says.
"Well when Loki and I were younger, he would have nightmares about Frost Giants." Thor says causing everyone to look at him in shock.
"Stop talking like I'm not even in the room." Loki says angrily staring at Thor, not happy about him telling all the mortals present about his old nightmares.
"What," Thor wondered, his smile falling as he asked, "You are coming with me aren't you?"
He turned with a smile and answered, "Yes, of course." His composure recollected, he stood and confirmed, "I won't let my brother march into Jotunheim alone." Their stares fell to each other expectantly.
"And I," Volstagg said.
"And I," Fandral repeated with a sigh.
"And I," Hogan says. "The Warriors Three fight together."
"I fear we'll live to regret this," Sif finished, closing her right fist and holding it over her heart as she bowed to Thor's leadership.
They made their way out of the hall to prepare, Volstagg attaching, "If we're lucky," to her statement. Thor laughed and clapped Loki on the shoulder, hopping over the few rows of steps below and striding out of the room, Loki following.
Birds twittered in the trees a bright, round garden; white, pink, and red flowers bloomed a foot from the ground and were planted in interlocking, large circles; a decorative stream coursed down between the flowerbeds. The six warriors strode with purpose side by side, fully armored with their capes (and skirt) whipping about them. They came to a halt at a long rail that allowed them a view out of the realm of Asgard.
"First we must find a way past Heimdall," Thor told them.
"Who's Heimdall?" Bruce asks.
"Heimdall my friends is the Gatekeeper he's the one that controls the Bifrost." Thor tells them.
"That will be no easy task,' Votstagg retorted. "It's said the Gatekeeper can see a single drop dew fall from a blade of grass a thousand words away."
Fandral laughed as he said mockingly, "Yes, and he can hear a cricket passing gas in Niffleheim."
"Jest not," he countered as they proceeded to file over to their horses, "he heareth all"
"Please, getting past him should be simple enough now – since he seems to be letting Frost Giants sneak by under his nose," Fandral says.
"Oh forgive him," Volstagg apologized, addressing the Gatekeeper, "he meaneth no offence." Sif watched him amusedly.
Hogan trailed behind, casting a glance back at Loki who had stopped to speak with one of the guards. The guard gave a nod at whatever was spoken and Loki swiftly moved to follow the others.
"Alright what is he planning now?" Clint asks.
"I do not know, I don't remember seeing this. Loki?" Thor turns to Loki waiting for an answer.
"Well how else did you think Odin found out where we went?" Loki says smirking.
"Oh, very sneaky Loki…they don't call you the God of Mischief for nothing I guess." Thor states.
They mounted and adjusted the holds on their weapons, spurring their steeds into motion. They rode over the wide road that cut through the center of Asgard to the golden, gated walls that led out of the realm. The road transformed into a bridge once it was suspended over the deep waters that surrounded the land, a vibrant array of colors streaming beneath their horses' hooves as they galloped over the Rainbow Bridge to the site of the Bifrost.
"Oh my…..Darcy, Erik that's the bridge I wanted to see!" Jane exclaims.
"I'll be sure to try and take you to see it Lady Jane, when it is fixed."
"What happens to it?" Natasha asks.
"I believe we'll find out later in the film." Thor states.
"So can't you tell us anything about it?" Tony asks.
"The Bifrost's magic is ancient, it would take a lot of extensive time to study the way all it's magic works and replicate it." Thor states.
Jane then speaks, "So if any of the Sorcerers as you called them on Asgard put effort into studying magic in that length, they could teleport somewhere that's in the universe?"
"It is possible…." Thor states but gets interrupted by Loki.
"Are you forgetting that I'm the only Sorcerer in Asgard that was able to achieve that power?" Loki glares at Thor.
"Right, sorry, Loki."
"Wait so you're saying that you and the rest of Asgard have no idea what Reindeer Games here can do? You don't understand magic; don't know everything he could do or his powers?" Tony asks.
"No we don't, warriors of Asgard did not care for magic they liked brute strength while in battle."
Darcy asks, "So when it comes to knowing someone's strengths and weaknesses, you don't that about him but he does for you."
Thor looked down while Loki sat smirking at him.
"Alright if that's the case how are you not escaping right now?" Bruce asks.
"Maybe I have no need to escape right now."
"Alright you guys we can interrogate Loki later we'll need to write all our questions down though." Steve says.
They slowed their steeds as they approached a hefty sphere worked out of metal, a tall narrow, triangular pyramid standing atop it and reaching upwards, the base of the machine at edge of where the sea dropped into the ether. They dismounted and approached an impressively armored, dark skinned male with facial hair trimmed close to his skin and piercing amber eyes. He stood as the unyielding Gatekeeper of the Bifrost, a broadsword held downwards grasped in his hands.
"Leave this to me," Loki said confidently as the six moved towards him. "Good Heimdall-"
"You're not dressed warmly enough," he cut off
"I'm sorry?" Loki asked, feigning puzzlement.
"Do you think that you can deceive me"
He stuttered out a laugh, beginning, "You must be mistaken-"
"Enough," he commanded; Loki obeyed instantly.
"Well looks like there's someone that can get you stop talking after all." Tony laughed at Loki who glared at him.
Thor stepped around his brother, asking, "Heimdall, may we pass?"
"Never has an enemy slipped my watch until this day," he stated. He cast his dissecting gaze onto Loki-
"Heimdall knew it was you? Why wouldn't he have told someone?" Thor asked.
"He probably didn't want to get me in trouble considering he was a better father figure to me then Odin." Loki states, everyone taking this into consideration.
"So he knew that you let in the Frost Giants?" Clint asks.
"Yes, he sees everything even if it's hidden." Thor states before Loki can talk, causing some to raise an eyebrow at the statement.
-before returning it to Thor, adding, "I wish to know how that happened."
"Then tell no one where we have gone until we've returned, understand?" Thor ordered, striding past.
The Warriors Three and Sif followed, Volstagg teasing, "What happened, silver tongue turn to lead?" Loki watched him as he passed.
They entered the golden dome, the inner surface adorned with wheels of swords and circled the raised dais to stand before the semicircular opening at the far end, Thor taking point. Heimdall ascended the steps to the governing mechanism of the Bifrost, sliding his sword into it. Blindingly white branches of lightning split off to strike the walls and floor, an extensive machine shifting and beginning to spin underneath them. The entirety of the spherical outer wall spun with it, continuously gaining momentum as the tall pyramid atop spun and fell down to point away from Asgard; a bright beam shot out, channeled by the point.
"Be warned," Heimdall began, "I will honor my sworn oath to protect this realm as its Gatekeeper. If your return threatens the safety of Asgard the Bifrost will remain closed to you, and you'll be left to die in the cold wastes of Jotunheim."
Hogan and Sif traded looks while Volstagg asked, "Couldn't you just leave the bridge open for us?"
"To leave the bridge open would unleash the full power of the Bifrost and destroy Jotunheim with you upon it," he answered, Loki absorbing the fact.
Thor smiled and held, "I have no plans to die today."
"None do," Heimdall responded.
Fury smirks when this is said while others start to laugh a little bit.
He fully sheathed his sword into the machine and the six were sent into infinite streaks of colored light, dragged through the issued beam and blasted through the starry skies. An array of shades spun around them as they flew through the heavens, finally erupting into the atmosphere of Jotunheim in a splash of blues, greens, and pinks as the Rainbow Bridge parted the clouds and set them on the surface amidst a haze of dust.
"Amazing." Jane says astonished. Others were looking at the screen in awe.
Snow blew through the air of the frosty, dark, barren landscape, the stone of the ground fractured and force upward in monumental, treacherous spikes. They stood in tense silence taking in their environment and the gravity of their decision, Thor turning to learn that their landing site was at the edge of an iced overhang that dropped down into a wide canyon. Fandral faced forward to note lengthy, crystallized spikes hanging from the ridge of an outcropping above, some reaching down far enough to form columns with spikes.
The wind howled as it swung around the mountains and towers of ice, Hogan voicing, "We shouldn't be here." Loki glanced around at their surroundings, chilled breathe visible.
"Let's move," Thor demanded, venturing forward with Sif alongside him. Fandral shook his head as the rest trailed after them.
"Hey Point Break shouldn't there have been a lot more drama when you guys arrived on enemy territory?" Tony asks, causing everyone to look at Thor.
"There will be in a moment." Thor mutters looking down.
Loki isn't looking at anyone not trusting himself to speak about this scene at the moment.
Stone segments of their setting crumpled and collapsed as they moved further into Jotunheim, leaving boot prints in the snow. Crude, far off bridges and stone towers stretched still and silent, castion long, warped, ominous shadows across the country. Many boulders and pieces of fallen structures littered the ground, parts splintering and snapping off casually.
They came to a palace crafted through the collection of tall, rectangular stone shapes, Sif asking, "Where are they?" as they approached the heart of the forbidding land.
"Hiding," Thor answered. "These cowards always do."
They continued to make their way into the building, carefully watching each of their steps due to the many fissures that torn through the mineral of the ground.
"You've come a long way to die, Asgardians," a deep voice greeted, echoing down through the chilled air.
"I am Thor Odinson," Thor called out.
"We know who you are."
"How did your people get into Asgard?" he questioned.
A shadowed, blue skinned figure sat in an iron throne facing away from his guests, a multitude of deep grooves carved down his face torso and limbs. He turned his crimson eyes onto the AEsir, answering , "The house of Odin is full of traitors."
"Do not dishonor my father's name with your lies," Thor raged, grip tightening on Mjolnir.
Laufey sneered and leapt to his feet, standing easily four times their height and pronouncing, "Your father is a murderer and a thief." He then patronized, "And why have you come here – to make peace? You long for battle, you crave it. You're nothing but a boy trying to prove himself a man." Jontuns revealed themselves so to surround them.
"Well looks like you were led to a trap." Tony says.
"Is anyone else freaked out with how huge they are?" Darcy asks.
"Well they are called Giants." Jane says.
"This boy has grown tired of your mockery," Thor announced, heedless to the odds piling against them and the giants transforming their limbs to ice in preparation for the battle that he was promising.
Loki quickly tread to stand close behind him, urging fearfully into his ear, "Thor, stop and think, Look around you – we're outnumbered-"
"Know your place, brother," he growled.
"Thor." Jane says casting a disappointed stare at him along with half the people in the room.
"Seriously it seemed that Reindeer Games was the only smart one in that situation you put yourself into there Point Break. You're basically asking for the entire race that you're angering on their turf to kill you and your friends. I'm starting to lose my support for you there, bud." Tony says and then glances at Loki who has his head down.
Thor sighs, "I have acknowledged that Midgard changed me, but haven't taken the time to recall the regret all of my decisions beforehand and apologize to those that I've wronged with my thoughtlessness. I feel the same way about my behavior as all of you do my friends…..Loki I'm sorry for how treated you in the past and hope for one day that you'll forgive me." Thor looks over at Loki who refuses to make eye contact.
"You know not what your actions will unleash," Laufey began, "I do. Go now, while I still allow it."
A Frost Giant came to stand before them, and Loki bowed his head and replied, "We will accept your most gracious offer." Thor turned to him in resentment before considering the giant again with a hard stare. He exhaled a light growl at Thor. "Come on, brother," Loki says, turning to begin walking away.
Laufey watched as Thor finally turned with a huff, the Jotun behind him provoking, "Run back home little princess."
"Oh come on that guy just provoked you." Steve says.
"Yes friend Steve, the giant predicted that I would start fighting if I was angered." Thor states, looking a little, upset.
Loki halted and muttered, "D**n," as the other warriors sighed and readied themselves for the aftermath of Thor's anticipated, antagonistic reaction.
Thor smiled and allowed Mjolnir to slide into his hand before he swung her around and struck the Jotun, pitching him into a wall. He called out, "Next?" as he swung her again to smack another in the jaw, sending him flying. The giants attacked, one trying to club him, and Thor determinedly beat them away with Mjolnir.
Hogan dropped his weapon into his hand as well, spikes extending from the metal ball at the end, and he used the mace to batter and impale. Sif drew her two swords and connected the ends of their grips, slicing through the large bodies with the long dual blade. Fandral laughed as he drew his sabre, parrying, stabbing, and running the giants through.
Loki flung several knives at an incoming Jotun, shattering the ice of him arm and casting him to the ground with numerous wounds. Volstagg was hit in the face by his opponent before he swung his axe into his stomach, capturing him in a headlock as he doubled over. Thor kicked away a Jotun who he had slammed to the ground in front of him, and called out to Laufey, "At least make it a challenge for me."
Steve shacks his head and asks Loki, "Did he always do that when in a battle?"
"Yes, but the big oaf mostly did it with the big opponents." Loki says smirking at Thor who glares at him.
Laufey looked off into the palace to watch giants swarm through the open halls and leap down into the battle. One slammed his fist to the ground as he landed, sending a streak of ice underneath the surface to snap up some distance away and throw Hogan to the ground. A wide Jotun roared, facing Thor who yelled back. He stomped up to him as Thor swung Mjolnir, catching it in his hand and head-butting him. Thor laughed as he swayed, the sound cut off as he was punched away.
"That's more like it," he approved, throwing his arm back and then forward, letting Mjolnir fly to shatter his opponent's head before being drawn back into Thor's hand.
Sif lunged forward with her weapon but one end's blade was caught and she was disarmed, then kneed in the chest and knocked to the ground. Hogan whipped a blade at the giant advancing on her, and she rolled over, cast him a thankful look before he turned to deal with another.
Loki looked up to find a Jotun charging at him with a bellow. He stepped back but when one ankle slipped off the edge and sent pieces of frozen rock down into the gorge, he looked over his shoulder to find that he had nowhere to move. He turned back and stood facing the giant as he leapt and tackled him – except he caught nothing but air as he flew through the figure of 'Loki', green wisps of smoke releasing upon contact.
"If none of you mortals didn't know then I'll tell you, I'm able to make very convincing illusions like the one you just saw…ow." While Loki was explaining the magic they saw him do on the screen when Darcy pocked him.
"Just making sure you're still here and not an illusion." She explains to everyone."
"Lady Darcy you didn't need to. These cuffs are able to keep him from using magic." Thor states to an embarrassed looking Darcy.
The Giant descended into the abyss, colliding with the jagged walls on the way down. The illusion stood there before Loki leaned out from behind a stone pillar a couple yards away, waving a hand to cause the image to fade before darting back into the battle.
"We like to be able to study your magic when we get the chance to do so." Fury states to Loki.
Loki raised an eyebrow, "And who would you have to do that type of risk of getting hurt?" Loki asks.
"I'll gladly volunteer myself and Bruce." Tony says, which earned him a sigh from Bruce.
"Would you mind if I tagged along?" Jane asks.
"Not at all Miss Foster since you are the girl dating Reindeer Game's brother after all." Tony says, than smirks at Thor.
Sif thrust one end of her dual blade into the ribs of a giant, his skin splintering like ice as she yanked it out of his body for blue blood to gush out of the wound as she turned away. Another Jotun knelt and drove his fingers into the ground, flinging a multitude of icicles towards her as she threw up her shield to protect her torso and head.
Volstagg struck the one standing in front of him, the giant seizing his arms as he threw himself forward at the red-haired warrior. Volstagg cried out in pain as, on his right forearm where the Jotun's hand had made contact, his skin hissed and discolored. He head-butted him to free himself, tossing his axe to his left hand and shouting in pain again as he clenched the other into a fist and looked down at the seared, navy burn. "Don't let them touch you!" he called out to his friends.
Sif paused to acknowledge his word, Thor merely continuing to swing his hammer with a smile as he beat back those around him, one giant thrown away and another slammed in the chest with a yell.
Loki ran towards a Jotun with a knife in hand, managing to stab him beneath his sternum and forcing him to his knees. The giant clutched Loki's arm so to burn him and release himself, but when his sub-zero skin touched him fragments of ice formed and shattered before falling off, a deep blue creeping from the contact to replace the pale skin of Loki's arm and hand. Loki's eyes widened at the occurrence, the other's crimson stare flicking up to stare at him before Loki lunged forward and stabbed him in the chest.
Loki held his hand up and looked at his skin, breath heavy as he turned it over, its fair tone returning. He raised his wild eyes to the battle around him, petrified in shock.
Everyone stared at the screen in shock. Thor asks, "Why didn't you say anything Loki?"
"Didn't think of it." Loki looks down from all the prying eyes.
"I can totally see how that broke you." Tony says.
"So you're really a Frost Giant?" Natasha asks.
"Yes….." Loki says barely above a whisper.
"How come you look like one of the people of Asgard then?" Steve asks.
When Loki didn't answer and kept his head down, Thor answered the question.
"Loki is able to Shape shift with his magic, he is able to create glamours and disguises if he wishes – but he's not naturally talented as a shape shifter. I don't really know how his magic works in this perspective; how he didn't know he was in a different form, from when he was born.
"I'm right here next to you." Loki says still looking down, Thor stops talking after that causing everyone to turn back to the screen.
As he swung and thrust his blade Fandral was laughing, before a giant knocked it out of his hand so to stick in the ground behind him. Fandral backed away, taking in the looming height of the Jotun between him and his weapon in concern as he covered his arm in ice, the end a sharpened point. Fandral set his mouth in resolve as the giant swung to attack and he lunged forward to slide between his legs, grasping the hilt of his sabre and turning to cut off the Jotun's arm before running is blade through his head.
When he tossed his weapon to his right hand to spin to return to the battle, a collection of icicles shot up from the ground and ran through his torso. He shouted in pain as Loki jolted and unsheathed a dagger, throwing it so to impale and strike down the giant who had wounded him. "Thor!" Sif shouted as Hogan and Votstagg gingerly lifted Fandral off of the ice.
Thor continued to strike the Jotuns around him in a frenzy, not listening to her call. Loki cried, "We must go!"
"Then go!" he growled, hurling Mjolner to smash through giant after giant over miles of the hostile land-
"Thor!" Both Steve and Jane yell, glaring at him. Thor wincing at both their yell and his action on the screen.
"Were you always endangering your friends like this? Because I'm hoping that you weren't." Agent Hill stated.
"Oh don't worry he only did this most of the time when going on adventures." Loki says. "Loki please do not exaggerate like that." Thor pleaded.
-Laufey watching in displeasure as one after another they were thrown down. The Jontun King scowled and reached out to direct a fissure in the ground to travel up a robust statue trapped between stone pillars. The layer of frost cracked and broke apart, sections falling off to gradually reveal a deep blue, tusked beast with a predatory gaze.
Sif and the Warriors Three as Loki looked up with a pant at the tremors that rocked the ground beneath them, the beast knocking against its stone casting as it sought to free itself from the ice. Its massive mouth held sharp ivory teeth, its nostrils exhaling as it shifted again with its eyes looked on their small forms.
Thor continued to batter giants as Volstagg pitched Fandral over his shoulder, the beast's claws released as it scratched at the ground. "Run!" Volstagg screamed. Thor persistently fought, spinning Mjolnir by the strap at the end of her grip so to send numerous giants to the ground.
"Thor!" Loki called, looking back as he ran after the others. His brother ignored his pleas.
The beast finally broke free, ridding itself of the remaining pieces of ice along its back as it strode forward and hoarsely roared.
Everyone looked at the screen in fear.
Fandral watched from above Volstagg's shoulder as the beast lumbered towards them, four long limbs wrapped in navy skin propelling it forward. It grunted as its strides lengthened at the chase, barbed tail whipping behind.
Thor lowered the spinning Mjolnir to the ground, her rotation flinging rock and ice at the Jotuns who tried to approach him.
The beast thundered through any fallen stone pillars that were in its way, reaching the five fleeing warriors. It brushed against a standing column as it lunged for Sif, causing it to topple over onto its head. It drove through the mineral and swung its tail onto Sif, the spikes impaling the ground around her as she darted through them, teeth heavy.
Thor noted the army of giants charging him from all sides and so hoisted Mjolnir into the air, her head drawing lightning from the dark clouds above as he slammed her into the ground in addition to Mjolnir's impact, the surface rippling outward with the aftershock; the Jotuns were thrown away and the stone buildings crumbled and fell to pieces as the shockwave hit them. It continued further to thinner ground, breaking it apart and sending the pieces down to the gorge. The deteriorating surface reached where the beast had resumed its chase of the warriors, falling out from under its feet and causing it to try and clutch onto the edge with its claws. It failed and slipped off, its tail swinging up to latch onto the ground.
Fandral smiled and laughed as it groaned as its tail slowly released its hold on the edge. The ground was still crumbling as they ran, the Jotun behind them falling away with the surface. Digging its claws into the ground, the beast continued to run upside down underneath the disintegrating rock surface.
"Uh gravity does not work like that." Tony says.
"What do you mean?" Thor asks.
"That creature shouldn't be able to hang upside down like that." Tony says.
"What Tony is trying to say is that the weight of the creature would cause it to fall."
"It does have claws…." Thor says
"Can we stop talking about unimportant things like gravity? The gravity is different in each world alright." Loki asks and says very annoyed which makes them all shut up.
Sif leapt from section to section, the ground falling and threatening to give way from any one of their steps at any moment, the beast keeping pace underneath them. "Heimdall, open the bridge!" Loki shouted as they reached the rim of the overhang upon which they arrived.
They gasped and reeled back as a thick skinned claw latched onto the ground in front of them, the beast raising its head slowly with a growl as it watched them intently and bared its teeth, releasing a deep roar. At the ruined palace, Thor spun Mjolnr faster and launched himself into the sky. The beast hauled itself onto the ledge and stood on its hind legs, snarling as its shadow dwarfed them. Thor flew with his hammer held in front of him towards it, and as it spread its claws and moved to attack he shot straight through its open mouth and out the back of its head.
There was a shocked silence in the room from everyone including all the Agents.
It grimaced in pain before swaying where it stood, red eyes rolling back and jaw slackening as it fell on its side, the line of the horizon showing through the gaping hole in the back of its head. Thor landed on one knee in front of them, standing as the beast toppled over the side of the cliff. He turned to face his friends with a proud smirk, the expression falling as he faced the army that had assembled.
Laufey smiled cruelly, the Jotuns shifting restlessly in anticipation. As one they charged the small group, but ceased their movement abruptly when a faint glow broke through the cloud cover to shine upon the warriors. They all looked to the sky, the clouds churning as a beam of radiance filled with color shot down to impact the ground astride the six surrounded by giants. A neigh echoed through the white light as a mighty steed reared up on its hind legs and kicked out, its armored rider holding a spear in hand.
The Jonuns looked upon Odin Allfather as the biting wind and flurries of snow whipped his cape, Thor smiling and yelled, "Father we'll finish them together!"
"Silence," he hissed down. Thor frowned in confusion.
Laufey manipulated the ground so to bring him to stand on the same level as the eight-legged horse, his eyes still gazing down into the Allfather's though he was atop Sleipnir.
"Am I crazy or does that horse appear to have eight legs?" Tony asks in disbelief.
"How is a mare able to birth something like that?" Erik asks.
Nobody notices Loki duct his head with a little red on his cheeks.
"I don't think anyone was present at the time of the birth, but you could ask Loki." He points to his brother who's starting to grow even more embarrassed.
"You help a horse give birth or something?" Clint asks raising an eyebrow.
"No you idiot, Sleipnir is my child…before you ask, I was in the form of a mare at the time, and you can ask questions about it later because I don't feel like telling you right now." Loki states even more embarrassed than he was a few seconds ago. No one made a sound and just decided to leave it be for now…..well Darcy didn't she looked it up online while the movie started back up again….
"Allfather," Laufey greeted, his crimson eyes intent on Odin's heavily breathing form. "You look weary," he observed, tilting his head with a mocking smile.
"Laufey, end this now," Odin ordered.
"Your boy sought this out," he defended. The Warriors Three and Sif turned to look at Thor, Loki's stare not wavering from the Kings' conversation.
"Your eyes never drifted to Thor." Natasha points out to Loki who doesn't answer.
"I was not blaming him…." Loki states.
Clint finishes, "So you were blaming yourself because you didn't want it to go this far?"
Loki nods and then looks away.
You're right, these are the actions of a boy – treat them as such," Odin implored, Sleipnir shifting beneath him. Laufey's gaze was steady. "You and I can end this. Here; now – before there's further bloodshed."
"We are beyond diplomacy now, Allfather," Laufey sneered. "He'll get what he came for: war, and death."
Sleipnir shifted again, huffing, Odin answering, "So be it."
Laufey formed a long icicle in his hand bringing it up and moving to stab it forward as Odin raised Gungnir with a shout and hurled Laufey away, the Jotun King clutching onto the edge of a boulder to stay his fight. The clear streaks of light from the Bifrost shone down once again as Sleipnir reared, the infinite array of color from the frozen wasteland, leaving the Jotuns to glare up at the sky.
The Bifrost whirred and spun as the narrow metal spike returned to point to the heavens, away from the waters crashing over the ledge of the land and the direction of the far-off realm of Jotunheim. Thor's angered voice asked, "Why did you bring us back?"
"Do you realize what you've done, what you've started?" Odin fired back testily.
"I was protecting my home!"
You cannot even protect your friends, how could you hope to protect the kingdom?" he says back, lifting Heimdall's sword from the mechanism and tossing it to where he stood at the edge of the platform. "Get him to a healing room, now!" Odin screamed, throwing his arm out and pointing from where Hogan, Votstagg, and Sif were hoisting up Fandral to the exit of the intricate dome.
"There won't be a kingdom to protect if you're afraid to act," Thor stated as his friends rushed out, Heimdall turning to follow and resume his guard outside the Bifrost. "The Jotuns must learn to fear me just as they once feared you," Thor proclaimed, Loki drawing in a deep breath and then exhaling slowly at the escalating conflict.
"That's pride and vanity talking, not leadership," Odin declared. Loki's gaze flicked up to his stand on the dais. "You've forgotten everything I've taught you about a warrior's patience-"
"-while you wait and be patient the Nine Realms laugh at us. The old ways are done and you'll stand giving speeches as Asgard falls!"
"You are a vain, greedy, cruel boy!" Odin spit.
"And you are an old man and fool!" Thor yelled, face flushed as he panted.
"Uh Thor are you allowed to say that to your father?" Jane asks
"No." Thor states before looking down in shame.
Odin stared at him for a moment before lowering his eyes, confessing to the now-quiet Thor, "Yes, I was a fool to think you were ready."
Loki moved to rush forward with worried eyes, begging. "Father-"
Odin wordlessly roared at him, thrusting his fist out and causing Loki to halt immediately, silenced. He lowered his arm and looked down at the floor again. "Thor Odinson," he announced formally, lifting his gaze in determination, "you have betrayed the express command of your king." Thor stared, stunned. "Through your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful realms and innocent lives to the horror and desolation of war!" He grasped Gungnir and thrust it into the Bifrost, bright lightning streaking out to attach to the walls and floor in a splay of light.
The outer wall of the sphere began to spin, Thor unmoving with glistening eyes as he watched the Allfather step down and growl, "You are unworthy-" as he ripped off pieces of the armor on his chest, "of these realms." He tore his scarlet cape from his shoulders as Thor tried to protest, adding, "You are unworthy of your title!"
"You are unworthy-" he paused, steeling himself against Thor's heavily breathing form that had brows drawn together, eyes teary, and a reddened nose, then continued, "-of the loved ones you have betrayed." The Allfather's piercing gaze was intent on Thor, Loki standing some steps away with his eyes darting between the two.
Odin adverted his stare, walking away and up the rows of steps surrounding the control of the Bifrost. He then turned to face Thor's downcast, shocked expression and held his hand in front of him, fingers outstretched. He declared "I now take from you your power," as he summoned Mjolnir to him, "the name of my father," as the pieces of the armor on Thor's right arm fell away, "and his father before," as the same deconstruction occurred on the metal of his left arm. "I, Odin Allfather, cast you out!" he shouted, spearing Mjolnir forward and issuing a beam to shatter what remained of Thor's chest armor and knock him backwards into the tunneled ring of color that was the bridge of the Bifrost.
Loki gasped, turning to look at Odin with an open mouth and appalled red-rimmed eyes before stepping closer to the opening through which his brother had disappeared.
Odin held Mjolnir to his lips whispering, "Should whoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor," as a symbol briefly appeared, inscribed on the side before fading. He pulled her away and, with a final glance at her, hurled her after Thor through the Bifrost to Loki's watchful gaze.
T.B.C
Author's note: Hey sorry for stopping it right here, but I figured it be a great stopping point. Then I will pick up with everyone talking about what they thought of the scene and maybe some brotherly love between Loki and Thor. Please R&R. Also please check out the voting poll I have on my profile.