Author's note: Hey everyone! I'm pretty sure this chapter will have the last of the Thor movie, and maybe the end credit. I might end up having the end credit scene in the next chapter with a note and a few more people that will be joining the watching of the movies. I hope you enjoy and I don't own the Marvel movies at all.
Thor pt 9:
"Loki! You froze Heimdall." Thor looked at him in shock.
Loki raised an eyebrow, "How else did you think he ended up weak?"
Before a disagreement can start up between them, Jane steps in, "Alright you two calm down and talk things out with a counselor."
Loki sneered, "I don't need to talk things out mortal….. (Points to Thor) He's the reason I'm like this."
Thor looks shocked, "How am I the reason you are so evil. What happened to you this past year?"
Everyone is staring at the two brothers that are starting to argue waiting to hear why he came to earth.
"The one that sent these videos has already told you how I'm here. Figure it out."
"Okay can we start watching instead of having a big sibling disagreement?" Tony asked bluntly causing some people to glare at him for not being considerate.
"Get somebody from linguistics down here," Agent Coulson ordered from his position, crouched on the ground where he had been attempting to understand the intricate pattern of runes left imprinted from the Warriors Three and Lady Sif's arrival. The dusty wind swirled relentlessly around the agents swarming the Bifrost site, thick clouds gathering overhead.
At the edge of the town a crowd was drawn at the site of the spinning vortex, the four warriors, Thor, Jane, Erik, and Darcy gazing in dread from the doors of the glass building. Those collected in the streets wondered at the grey accumulation in the midst of the clear blue sky, while the SHIELD agents underneath the event watched the development of the eddy warily. The wind shook their vehicles, and on the dashboard of one an uncovered coffee cup teetered and tipped onto its side, sloshing its liquid over the surface.
Suddenly the churning mass of cloud spun downwards and struck the ground with an explosion of sand.
Citizens flinched back and exclaimed in shock at the sound of the impact, Darcy asking hopefully as she gaped, "Was somebody else coming?"
The agents had taken refuge crouched behind their cars, rising at the materialization of the gargantuan machine on the runic circle they had been examining. The Destroyer stood tall and flexed its metal fingers as the granular debris settled around it.
"Is that one of Stark's?" an agent asked from Coulson's side.
"Why would they think that it's one of mine?" Tony asks scoffing a little. Everyone just looks at him before turning back to the screen.
"I don't know," he answered, reaching to grasp the megaphone in the other's hand before continuing in exasperation, "guy never tells me anything."
They moved out from behind their cover Agent Coulson greeting 'hello' through the speaker as The Destroyer walked towards them. "You are using unregistered weapons technology – identify yourself." It paused, emitting a sound unlike a growl as the platting cavern of its head. "Here we go," Coulson stated, turning briefly back to the other agent, evidently expecting an explanation.
The Destroyer glowed from within, amber light shining from the slits between the elegant strips of metal of its composition as its chest expanded. The agents took a step back before moving to dart behind their vehicles in earnest, Coulson shouting, "Incoming!" as the Destroyer emitted a beam into the center of where they had been previously gathered. The attack tore through the car that was parked directly in front of it, a fiery explosion consuming it. The Destroyer repeated its attack on another pair of vehicles, the blast flipping the remains and throwing agents.
The colors of the explosions could be seen from the town, the residents beginning to vacate the streets. "Jane you have to leave," Thor said at the sight of destruction in the distance, Erik, Darcy, and her standing astride him as the Warriors Three and Lady Sif stood with their weapons in hand.
"What're you ganna do?" she asked, facing him defiantly.
"I'm staying here."
"Thor's going to fight with us!" Volstagg clarified excitedly as he threw his arms across Fandral 's shoulders, both of them grinning.
"My friends," Thor started, the warrior's arm falling to his side again as Thor turned to clasp Fandral's shoulder for a second as he continued, "I'm just a man. I'll only be in your way – or worse, get one of you killed. But I can help get these people to safety."
"Well if you're staying, then so am I," Jane said with furrowed brows.
"You seem to be stubborn to leave him." Steve says.
Jane just blushes.
Thor smiled lightly. "We'll need some time," he ordered of the warriors.
"You'll have it," Fandral asserted as he and Hogan separated from the others.
"Okay, move it people," Darcy shakily demanded of those who still lingered outside.
Erik burst through the door of a diner, commanding, "Everybody out – use the back door," as he ushered the ones in the establishment out. "Go on! You can eat later!"
Volstagg exited a house with one male over his shoulder and another under his arm, tossing them both out onto the street. They ran as he defended, "It's for your own good."
"It's gonna be okay, don't be scared," Darcy murmured to the small black dog cradled in her arms. She kept glancing worriedly over her shoulder at the looming figure of The Destroyer as she hurried down the sidewalk, others sprinting past her to escape the town. "I'm not gonna let the big, huge monster step on you."
"Excuse me," Darcy called as a car approached the corner she had reached. "Hey! Stopstopstopstop," she said as she forced the vehicle to brake as she stood in front of it, before circling around to the driver's window. He rolled the clear pane down as she begged, "Hi, hi – can you take my dog?" The driver nodded and reached to pull the small canine into his arms and against his chest as she continued, "His name is Baker, I just named him ten seconds ago – be careful-" The car pulled away as she screamed an 'I'll miss you' after the dog.
"Really Darcy?" Jane asks Darcy.
"What? He was a poor, helpless, cute, little creature. Why wouldn't I have saved him?" she says as Erik raised an eyebrow at her. Nobody else decides to speak after that.
Thor and Jane carried a blonde child and another child to a pickup that was being filled with children and their guardians, Thor passing one and then the other into the box of the vehicle.
The Destroyer stepped past the city's outer limit to the escaping of its citizens, mother screaming to her daughter to 'run honey!' as they fled from it. It charged with a whir of machinery and shot its blast through the corner store in front of it; the glass of the windows shattered as the walls blew apart, all the shelving and merchandise inside being consumed in flames. It targeted another beam at one of the vehicles parked on the other side of the street, the resulting explosion flipping it onto its roof as the Warrior Three and Lady Sif strode down the center of the road to meet it.
"Keep it distracted," Sif ordered with a smirk as she veered behind their line of combat to attack from another angle.
The Destroyer sauntered closer to them, turning briefly as it walked to destroy a gas station; the pumps lit instantly at the flare and ripped apart the adjoining convenience store, flames spilling outwards onto the street. Fandral and Hogan halted and faced each other a few feet apart, glancing at the monumental metal figure stalking nearer through the fire before they cast their eyes back to Volstagg. Fandral beckoned and he took a fortifying breath before running at the two, proclaiming, "For Asgard!" as they threw him towards it.
He swung his axe as he approached, but The Destroyer merely raised a hand and swatted him backwards like one would an insect. He let out a small scream of pain as he flew, landing on the hood of a car. Thor, Jane, Erik, and Darcy watched as The Destroyer walked to him, Volstagg not moving from his spread-eagle arrangement. Overhead, Sif leapt off the roof of a building and readied her spear as she kicked off the side of a streetlight as The Destroyer's 'face' shifted away and it readied itself to attack. She impaled it through its neck as she crouched on its back, its form forced to bend at the waist by the weapon.
"Okay, is anyone else finding this thing to be really creepy?" Clint asks and everyone nods their heads.
"Yes and what she did to that thing couldn't have been that easy." Agent Hill stated.
"Oh believe me it wasn't." Darcy says and the ones that weren't there at the particular event looked at her confused.
Then the glow returned and The Destroyer whirred into motion.
Thor surveyed it with an anxious swallow as its hands, arms, chest, and torso twisted. Fandral sent a nod to Hogan and they both rushed to Volstagg to lift him to his feet as the metal of its knees, legs, and head turned to face upwards where Sif rested on one knee. She dove off its chest as The Destroyer fired a beam skyward, landing harshly on her back on the ground as it pulled itself off her spear.
"Fall back!" She commanded as she struggled to her feet, running with Volstagg helped between them. The Destroyer aimed and attacked again, the beam carving deeply into the road behind Sif and blasting her into a car before it continued on through a streetlight and the upper wall of a couple buildings. The Warriors Three paused and jerked to move towards where she had raised herself onto all-fours, The Destroyer punching a parking meter before directing a beam to the area between them and her.
The resulting explosion threw Sif into the car again, the Warriors Three flying through the windows of a diner to crash into the counter.
"Go, now – run," Thor ordered Erik, Jane, and Darcy as he started towards his friends.
Volstagg managed to unsteadily climb to his feet and look to The Destroyer just as it turned towards them to shoot another incinerating ray. The extensive explosion decimated the diner, Volstagg hurled into the concrete wall of another building and splintering a wooden bench with his landing; Erik, Darcy, Jane, and Thor ducked to cover their heads as they ran from the flung debris and pieces of glass, though Erik was knocked down regardless. He skid and fell to lie on his back to Jane's concerned call of his name, all three immediately kneeling at his side and gasping in horror at the large shard of glass protruding from the right side of his chest.
"Oh my God." Bruce whispered at the sight of the wound.
"How are you even alive right now?" Tony asks Erik in shock.
"I have Thor to thank for me being alive and here today." Erik says but nothing else, causing some to look at Thor confused.
He struggled to breath at the pain, Darcy cradling his head as Jane muttered, "Don't move, don't move." Thor scrambled to his feet and dashed away from Erik's injured form, past the diner where Hogan was climbing to his feet against one of the remaining walls, casting his eyes over the charred road in search of something. He raised his arms against the heat and smoke of a small fire he passed, then slid on a patch of dirt in his haste to fall to one knee and grab a petit pouch that had been pitched to the ground.
"Stay down!" he shouted to Sif as he ran back to Erik, her having gathered herself and her fallen shield from behind a car and moving to attack again.
As Erik lay he shakily addressed Jane who hovered above him, "I-I should tell you to go on and leave me behind but-" he panted to regain his breath before continuing, "-please don't." He offered a fleeting smile before a pained grimace overtook his features, Jane smiling as well for a moment before touching his face in sympathy.
Another blast echoed in the distance, causing the two women to just slightly before returning their hands to their positions bracing Erik as Thor fell to his knees roughly beside them. "Just one, just one…." He muttered to himself, unrolling the pouch he had found and holding one of his hands beneath its opening as he shook out its contents. Dust poured over his palm as he scowled and growled, "Come on."
A small, smooth stone fell into his hand at last, seeming to be what he had been hoping for as he tossed the empty pouch away. Jane asked, "What is that?"
"It's a healing stone," he answered, grasping it in his left hand and clenching his fist to begin to crush it as he finished, "I just hope it's enough."
The granular particles of stone coursed down onto the wound, the injury and glass glowing white where they touched. The glass gradually disappeared similar to mist as Jane and Darcy watched, Thor breathing heavily as he completely reduced the stone to dust. He lowered his hand to hover over the remaining piece of glass as it shone and disintegrated before waving his hand over the bloody wound. It knit itself and the material that had been covering it together.
Everyone besides the two Asgaridians, Jane, Erik and Darcy stared at the screen in shock. They were witnessing someone be magically healed.
No one was able to say anything since they were in complete awe of how the healing stone worked.
Erik breathed easier and relaxed, Jane and Darcy sharing an astonished, gawking gaze before turning to Thor, who allowed a relieved smile at his wellbeing. A loud boom sounded again and Thor stood and rushed towards it as Jane and Darcy helped Erik into a sitting position. "I'm starting to like him," Erik uttered softly, his hand lightly resting on his chest.
"Sif, Sif," Thor called as he ran to her side, falling to his knees in front of her and grasping her by the shoulders, "you've done all you can."
"No," she insisted, shaking her head, "I will die a warrior's death – stories will be told of this day."
"Live, and tell those stories yourself," he argued, firmly cupping her cheek. She shook her head again, but clenched her eyes shut and covered his hand with hers in acquiesce. "Now go," he ordered as The Destroyer attacked again, the beam cracking the road where it met it and overturned the car they had taken refuge behind. Sif had darted one way and Thor the other, the wave of the blast's impact throwing his slightly and forcing him to roll as he landed so to avoid harm.
Darcy and Jane helped Erik to his feet as Fandral and Hogan aided Volstagg, Thor running to them and saying, "You must return to Asgard – you must stop Loki."
"What about you?" Fandral panted.
"Do not worry, my friends," Thor stated with a smile, "I have a plan."
"Come on," he said, pulling the other two warriors towards the mortals as Thor cast his eyes to the ground and his smile fell.
Everyone looked towards Thor, some of them knowing that look on his face. "You're going to sacrifice yourself aren't you?" Natasha asked.
Thor didn't say anything and just continued looking at the screen.
"We need to fall back – come on," Fandral repeated to the others, Sif having joined the three humans. 'Come on,' Jane urged as she supported Erik, all of them turning to distance themselves from the colossal machine.
Thor threw down the shield that Sif had left in his possession with a steely gaze.
"Wait," Jane said as she stopped, turning to seek out Thor's figure. The seven watched as he walked assuredly, empty-handed, towards The Destroyer. "What's he doing?" she gasped.
The Destroyer moved forward at the same pace as Thor, the Warriors Three behind trading glances in debate and occasionally motioning to join him. Smoke plumed upwards from the scattered fires, The Destroyer kicking a car from its path as it advanced.
"Brother," he began, "whatever I have done to wrong you, whatever I have done to lead you to do this, I am truly sorry." In Asgard, Loki sat in the Allfather's golden throne with one elbow propped on the armrest, his index finger tracing thoughtfully over his bottom lip as his eyes flicked up from the ground in attention. "But these people are innocent – taking their lives will gain you nothing."
The Destroyer prepared itself to attack for the final time, fire burning at its core as Thor finished, "So take mine, and end this."
Loki gazed unseeingly into the distance, his hand falling after a moment to rest along the arm of the throne.
The glow extinguished, the metal of The Destroyer's 'face' shifting to reform over the hollow space of its head.
Jane gaped at the confrontation while Thor's lips twitched at the corners to pull his mouth into a smile. It turned to walk away, but then abruptly swung its arm and backhanded Thor.
"Oh!" The agents in the room on computers, said wincing, Thor's teammates, Fury, Hill, Jane, Erik, and Darcy winced and gave Loki a look a few of them glares. Loki doesn't respond to them he just looks down that looks like in shame.
Hit with the impenetrable metal, Thor's mortal form was airborne as he was hurled backwards to Jane's panicked shout of 'no!' She ran to him as he landed roughly and was forced into a roll due to the momentum, crashing onto his back and grasping. There were two bloodied stripes across his right pectoral muscle, the upper finishing across his mouth, and one on his cheek and forehead, bracketing his right eye. She collapsed to her knees beside him, cupping his face gently in her hands.
"It's over," he whispered.
"No," she insisted with a furious shake of her head, "it's not over."
"I mean," He corrected weakly, "you're safe."
"I'm safe," she nodded with a small smile, the expression quickly abandoning her at his labored breathing.
"It's over," he whispered again.
She stroked his cheek as he gave a final, rattling breath, murmuring, 'no' at his closed eyes. She hovered over his prone form, gaze searching his unmoving face. The other six stood with mouths open in shock; Loki spun to return to his throne from which he had moved, The Destroyer mirroring his actions and turning away as well. Jane placed a shaking hand on Thor's chest, muttering another 'no' as she bowed her head and began to cry.
In Odin's chambers, a tear fell from beneath one of the slumbering king's eyelids.
Everyone in the room stared at the screen in shock and kept looking over at Thor to remind themselves that he was there and didn't die that day.
At the crater site, the radiation emitted by Mjolnir increased, lightning cracking through the surrounding air as Odin's words rang through her. "Should whoever holds this hammer," the rock she was imbedded in crumbled away as she shook, "if he be worthy," the monitors scrambled the feed they were receiving because of the interference, the watching scientists hurrying to record the energy readings she was providing with all of their instruments, "shall possess the power of Thor."
His rune appeared etched clearly upon the side of her head, and she broke free from the rock she was encased in. She shot into the sky with a roll of thunder, a trail of cloud left in her path at the speed.
Tony was laughing about that and teased all agents in the room, "I bet that threw you guys off." A few of them mainly Fury glared at him.
Lying partly on Thor's body, distressed, Jane twisted to look into the sky at the sound. Mjolnir soared in an arc towards her as she stared, Erik running to her and crying out her name in warning. He grabbed her by her upper arms and hauled her away from Thor as she protested, "No, no, no!"
Mjolnir twirled as she plummeted so as she neared the ground her handle was offered, and Thor's arm shot up to grab it.
From the mass of cloud that had gathered, lightning streaked down and connected with his figure and caused his eyes to open wide as he gasped. Loki's cape snapped about his heels as he turned his attention back to Midgard, The Destroyer pivoting as well. The injured Warriors Three and Lady Sif smiled elatedly as Thor's armor reassembled and clasped his arms and chest in the midst of the bright white lightning that enveloped him.
"Oh – my – God," Jane uttered in wonder as Erik gaped in disbelief.
The Destroyer whirred without delay and glowed amber as its 'face' shifted again, but Mjolnir hurled herself to impact its head, the destructive beam knocked askew. She was called back to Thor's hand, smashing into The Destroyer's head once again and sending it to the ground before resting in his awaiting hold. Thor stood wearing his restored armor, Mjolnir in hand and scarlet cape fluttering in the wind; Jane laughed, overwhelmed.
The Warrior's Three, Lady Sif, Darcy, Erik, and Jane ran from the fight as the wind swelled in response to Thor flying into the sky, Mjolnir held aloft, dodging another one of the Destroyer's beams. Dark, thick clouds were drawn into an all-consuming eddy that lightning and thunder crashed within, wind tearing around and creating a vortex beneath it that dragged in the debris lying scattered. Cars lifted around The Destroyer to spin around and around, Thor spinning Mjolnir by the strap on her handle. He increased his efforts, and the machine was lifted as well.
As it rose, it fired a beam towards him that Thor batted away, the following attack deflected with the same ring as it bounced off Mjolnir. The third ray was fired as Thor flew down to The Destroyer, Mjolnir meeting it head on and forcing the flames to flare outwards and away from her charge as they traced the path of the beam back to its origin and smashed through the metal at the back of its head.
There was brilliant auburn shockwave that exploded outwards upon impact, expanding past the walls of the clouded whirlwind. The Destroyer fell heavily to the ground, conquered, and the cyclone dispersed as Thor landed. He strode confidently to his awaiting friends, vehicles crashing to the ground behind him.
"So is this how you normally look?" Jane questioned in amazement, noting the billowing cape, gleaming armor, and the heft of Mjolnir in his hand.
"More or less," he replied with a smirk.
"It's a good look." She nodded in approval as Erik smiled from her side.
"We must go to the Bifrost site – I would have words with my brother," Thor stated to the Warriors Three, who nodded in response.
"Excuse me," a voice called, Thor, Erik, and Jane turning to see several agents climbing out of a car. "Donald," Agent Coulson addressed sarcastically as he walked to stand before him, "I don't think you've been completely honest with me-"
"Know this, son of Coul, you and I fight for the same cause – the protection of this world. From this day forward you can count me as your ally – if," Thor stepped back to stand alongside Jane, resting a hand at the small of her back, "you return the items you have taken from Jane."
"-stolen-" she adjusted.
"-borrowed," Coulson corrected before considering the request. "Of course you can have your equipment back – you're going to need it to continue your research." She lifted her chin smugly and traded a pleased look with Erik.
"Would you like to see the bridge we spoke of?" Thor asked, gazing down at her.
"Uh, sure," she said with a shrug and a smile.
He pulled her close with an arm around her waist to her excided grin, then laughed as he lifted them into the air; they were unmindful of Coulson's shouted, "Wait, I need to debrief you!"
"Well it's all settled down here on earth." Steve says.
"Don't forget my friend that Loki still needs to be taken care of in this film." Thor reminded him.
"Oh that's right! We're going to see what happens after you left us back on earth." Darcy shouts out excitedly.
Loki gave her a look because of her excitement.
The streaks of light from the Bifrost's center faded as Loki removed Gungnir from the controlling dais he stood upon.
King Laufey and three other Jotun's stepped forward, Loki greeting, "Welcome to Asgard," while Laufey smiled.
He led the Jotun king and another over the Rainbow Bridge, the remaining two flanking the Gatekeeper's frozen form.
Thor and Jane landed at the circle of runes imprinted to the dirt, Thor pacing to the center and bidding, "Heimdall, open the Bifrost." After a few seconds, when there was no response, he called, "Heimdall?"
The All-Seeing Gatekeeper groaned lowly, struggling within his confines at the sound of another call. The ice cracked along the surface of his icy prison.
"He doesn't answer," Thor stated to his friends.
"Then we are stranded," Hogan observed gruffly.
Heimdall, we need you now," he repeated to Heimdall's increasing efforts. The cracks spread to the thinner ice over his hands and sword, and he ripped himself free.
The ice shattered around him and fell down to the surface of the bridge with a crash, he spun as two Jotun standing guard leaped towards him. He swung his blade and swiftly decapitated one, spearing the other through the stomach and flinging him over the edge.
"Heimdall!" Thor hollered again.
The Gatekeeper stumbled up onto the pedestal and gingerly inserted his sword into the machine, eyes rolling back into his head as he slumped to the floor.
The clouds swirled overhead and began to spiral downwards around the array of color being made. Lady Sif and the Warriors Three smiled and ran to the site directly underneath it, Fandral releasing Darcy's hand as he went.
Jane walked to Thor and he pulled her to him by the waist promising her, "I must go back to Asgard, but I give you my word I will return for you." Their faces swayed nearer to one another before Thor glanced down and lifted her hand to his lips to place a kiss at her knuckles. "Deal"
She suddenly surged upwards and caught his lips with hers, wrapping her arms around his neck for leverage as she kissed him.
Jane and Thor were slightly blushing when Tony whistled while he and Clint where smirking at their embarrassment.
Loki looked bored out of his mind when they kissed on the screen but secretly he was happy for his broth- not brother having a relationship, but also feels jealous that has someone to love.
After kissing for a few moments and then breaking apart she says, "Deal," she concluded with a smile as she stared into his blue eyes. She then watched as the five warriors were drawn into the never ending rays of color and pulled into the sky.
They flew through the waves of light and bodies of stars before arriving in the golden dome of the Bifrost. Thor commanded after seeing Heimdall's condition, "Get him to the healing room," the four other warriors rushed to obey. Volstagg removed the sword from the dais and the passage to Midgard closed behind them; Fandral, Hogan, and Sif knelt around the Gatekeeper's limp form.
Thor jogged down the steps of the pedestal and exited, demanding, "Leave my brother to me."
"Ha, you're finally going to get it!" Tony exclaims pointing towards Loki who just raises an eyebrow at him.
"So you're going to stop the frost giant guy from killing your dad?" Darcy asks.
"Yeah are you going to get there before he would kill him?" Jane asks.
"You shall see in a moment." Thor states and then glances at Loki.
The doors to Odin's chambers started to ice over, frost creeping outwards from the middle seam to overtake them. Frigga hurried to the side of her husband's bed, drawing a sword from the frame and turning just as the ice continued over the walls and the doors swung open.
She took a bold move by slashing the first Jotun across the torso while he was reaching for her sending him to the floor. She didn't raise her blade quick enough for when Laufey came at her and slapped her causing her to roll on the floor. His crimson eyes locked onto the unguarded form of the Allfather.
Thor held Mjolnir before him as he flew over the city and to the palace.
"It's said," Laufey began while holding open Odin's left eye with his fingers, "you can still hear and see what transpires around you. I hope it's true, so that you may know your death came at the hand of Laufey." Just as he lowered his hand and forms an icicle in his grasp and raised it high above his head, he went to plunge it into his enemy a fiery blast connected to his back and threw him to the floor sparks showering him.
Loki lowered Gungnir with a satisfied look on his face, declaring, "And your death came by the son of Odin."
Laufey's eyes widened while wheezing, he tries to move, only being able to move his head. Loki aimed Gungnir again and released another beam that incinerated the Jotun King upon contact.
"Loki, you saved him," Frigga says gratefully, getting to her feet and rushing to hug him.
"What, just, happened?" Darcy asks with wide eyes.
"Okay you are very confusing you know that." Tony huffed out.
"It's going to lead into something more isn't it?" Steve asks.
Everyone turns to look at Thor and Loki, Loki doesn't say anything but Thor only nods his head sadly to all of them.
They turn back to the screen to figure out what's going to happen now.
"I swear to you, Mother that they will pay for what they've done today," Loki vowed to her.
"Wow that's a full circle of events." Darcy says, everyone giving her questioning looks.
Jane rolls her eyes, "I believe what she's trying to say is that we went from Thor rushing into the Frost Giant's home world and Loki knowing it to be a bad idea. To what about now, is probably going to be in reverse: Loki going to be trying to destroy their home with Thor trying to stop him." She finishes.
Everyone nodded now understanding what Darcy meant with the help of Jane but both Thor and Loki were slightly grimacing.
"Loki," Thor called as he came to stand in the open doorway.
"Thor!" Frigga exclaimed happily, running in a rush to hug him in her arms. "I knew you'd return to us." Thor's gaze never wavered from Loki's form as he hugged her in return.
Thor then started to move towards his brother looking angry, their mother watching in confusion. Loki stepped further in the room quickly while holding Gungnir up in front of himself in defense. "Why don't you tell her how you sent The Destroyer to kill our friends, to kill me?" Thor snarled, gripping Mjolnir's handle even more firmly.
"What?" their mother says, looking at Loki in disbelief.
"Well, it must have been enforcing Father's last command," he defended, Odin's extravagant bed now between them.
"You're a talented liar, brother, always have been," Thor says to him teeth bared angrily.
"It's good to have you back." Loki calmly says with his hand over his heart. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to destroy Jotunheim." He then suddenly fired Gungnir at Thor through the palace walls outside and plummeting down below.
"I highly doubt that when he says 'destroy' he's not exaggerating." Erik says.
"How would you even be able to destroy, the place the Frost Giants live on anyway?" Darcy asks.
"Yeah. What you going to do blow the place up or something?" Tony asks sarcastically.
Loki is seen on a horse urging it to go faster as he rode it across the Rainbow Bridge. He came to the mechanism of the Bifrost. He put Gungnir into the control upon the dais, white streaks of light making the outside of the dome spin and letting it gain enough momentum before it aimed towards Jotunheim. A bright beam was lasered out through space to land on the planet. When this happens the ground shakes while the ray of energy destroys the buildings that are touched by it.
"Oh of course that's what you were going to do." Tony groaned in exasperation. Other people glared at Loki for trying to do something like what he's doing.
When the Bifrost's full power was free, the pedestal froze over causing a barrier to form from stopping it. Thor flew in the air from the capital to the edge of the realm which is the Bifrost. He slowly landed on his feet with Mjolnir in his hand. He saw the 'tree' of energy in the center of the machine.
"You can't stop it," Loki stated. "The Bifrost will build until it rips Jotuheim apart." Thor ran at the 'tree' swinging Mjolnir at the thinner 'roots' of the 'tree' around the control center but Loki fired a beam from the top of Gungnir hitting him on the chest. This sends him to the floor onto his back.
The Bifrost continues to ruin the structures on Jotunheim, tearing them apart by the stones and their foundations. The Jotuns are seen trying to escape from the destruction.
The sky above the site on Midgard was dark as clouds gathered, color flying through the portal that is seen in the sky. Darcy, Erik, and Jane circled around looking up at the sky. Erik murmuring, "Jane," while they watched the episode in the sky.
"So that's what we were seeing in the sky." Jane realizes in disbelief.
"Why have you done this?" Thor asks him being in distress.
"To prove to Father that I am the worthy son," Loki says. "When he wakes, I will have saved his life, I will have destroyed that race of monsters, and I will be true heir to the throne."
"You can't kill an entire race," Thor says.
"Why not? He says, his face suddenly turns grim glaring at Thor as he asks angrily. "And what is this newfound love for the Frost Giants? You – who would've killed them all with your bare hands."
"I've changed."
"So have I," he strikes Thor across the face with Gungnir. "Now fight me," he insists and hits him again when Thor doesn't immediately go to attack him back. Thor was tossed backwards by Loki's second blow, landing on his back. Loki screams at him, "I never wanted the throne!"
Thor climbs to his feet as Loki circles the pedestal snarling at him, "I only ever wanted to be your equal."
Thor looks towards Loki distraught after hearing that confession again. Loki doesn't even look at him or anyone else in the room feeling really upset.
Jane and Darcy were shocked as much as anyone else about what was transpiring in the movie between the two brothers. It was sad how they didn't act more like brothers before these events took place.
"I will not fight you, brother!" Thor shouted to him.
"I'm not your brother, I never was."
"Loki, this is madness," Thor tries reasoning.
"Is it madness? Is it?" Loki asks shaking with eyes full of tears. "Is it?! Come on, what happened to you on Earth to turn – you – so soft? Don't tell me it was that woman!"
Thor's expression changed, he was pleading but now looked defensive and narrowing his eyes at Loki. "Oh, it was," observed Loki with a tear rolling down one cheek. "Well maybe, when we're finished here, I'll pay her a visit myself!"
Jane's eyes widened after hearing Loki say that in the past, a few others looked shocked too. Erik glares at Loki, not happy about him threatening Jane.
Thor yelled as he and Loki jumping at each other hitting Mjolnir and Gungnir against each other. Thor pinned Loki to the floor when they landed, but Loki kicked him off. He stands and strikes Gungnir down but Thor rolls out of the way extending his leg and tripping Loki. Thor stands after Loki falls onto his back, and Thor goes to swing Mjolnir down.
Mjolnir meets Gungnir causing a shower of sparks, Loki tries to keep Thor from forcing the hammer down to his chest holding Gungnir in front of him. Loki then kicks Thor in the face, forcing him backwards and to fail at his attack. Loki gets to his feet yelling as he charges at Thor. He swings Gungnir only for it to be deflected by Mjolnir. Loki eventually is able to throw Thor sideways.
The two of them continued to fight; Loki jumps up with a scream trying to hit Gungnir against the back of Thor's head but hits it on the floor when Thor rolls away. He tries pulling Gungnir free but it won't budge, Thor rushes at him swinging Mjolnir at his head, but Loki bends backwards. As he was returning to a standing position Loki grabbed onto the spear with both hands and pushed himself around the shaft to kick Thor in the chest with a laugh.
He pulled Gungnir from the floor and lunged, swinging and being blocked twice before Mjolnir's head caught the spear's shaft and he was forced to spin Gungnir in a tight circle to throw her (Mjolnir) off. This made Thor go off-balance so Loki was able to move forward, the head of the spear just missed impaling his not-brother's chest. Thor took advantage of his miss and elbowed him in the neck, the blow was to his windpipe which stunned him for a moment. As he was gasping, he made himself open for Thor to take hold the back of his armor and hurl him across the area.
"This is a really intense fight." Tony says looking at the screen with interest, others looking a little annoyed but otherwise not talking.
He landed hard on his stomach hurrying to get on his feet as Thor had wound Mjolnir over his head and jumped to attack him. He was able to manage blasting a beam from Gungnir but the strength of Thor's swing overcame the blast he took to the chest and he slammed into Loki. They crashed through the spinning dome of the Bifrost and tumbled out over the bridge, Loki losses his spear while rolling to the edge of the bridge.
He slipped off with a cry of 'Thor!' as he clung to the edge, and said warrior glanced over to the fingers that he could see on the edge and stood walking over to him. He gazed down at Loki's suspended form as he implored with red-rimmed eyes, "Brother, please." Loki pleads.
Thor sighs as he falls to one knee to reach down, but Loki's figure shimmered a bright green then disappeared.
"Why, you tricky little brat." Agent Hill says glaring at Loki, around her others were saying their own comments and facial expressions some not being very friendly.
Thor gaped as his fingers grabbed at nothing as Loki appeared behind him with a cackle and stabbed him as he turned, the tip of Gungnir burning through the armor and charring the flesh of his stomach. Loki tossed him off his spear to lie on his back on the bridge, Thor emitting a pained yell at the jarring impact.
Loki stood over him with Gungnir in hand, armor and helmet gleaming as his figure blurred and he multiplied his image to surround his not-brother's fallen form with cruel laughter. Over thirty Loki's at least readied their spears and lunged forwards just as Thor shouted, "Enough!" He held Mjolnir to the sky causing lightning to be streaked down to him with a crash to echo his command, and blasting the illusion apart to leave a single Loki to be thrown backwards and to land roughly on his back.
Gungnir clattered to the surface of the bridge as Thor climbed to his feet with a pained grunt, walking over to where Loki was laying trying to recover. Loki looked up at him nervously, awaiting a devastating blow, but Thor merely crouched over him and laid Mjolnir on his chest before standing and turning back to the Bifrost's destruction.
Clint started to crack up seeing the Loki on the screen be forced to stay still by a hammer laying on him. Loki glared at him as Clint continued to laugh hysterically, Clint finally stopped when Natasha elbowed him in the ribs very hard.
This causes Loki to smirk as Clint doubled over in pain, Fury glares at all of them causing them all to turn back to the movie.
Loki lifted his head to gaze at the hammer in shock before attempting to move his torso. His body did not move a fraction of an inch at his efforts, though he also strained the muscles in his arms to reach up and grab hold of Mjolnir's head to try and push her off of him. He yelled as he struggled, Thor moving in the distance to approach the Bifrost. The immense amount of energy being released began to draw him in as he moved closer, lighter debris pulled from the waters and edge of the city dragged to follow the beam's path to Jotunheim.
"Look at you," Loki heaved out breathlessly, "the mighty Thor, with all your strength – and what good does it do you now, huh?!" he threw his head back to rest on the bridge as he yelled jeeringly, "Did you hear me, brother? There's nothing you can do!"
Thor stood in front of the whirl of light and energy that the metal dome had become, mouth open as he panted and debated possible actions. He threw his arm back, hand open, and Mjolnir was called to his grasp. He paused for a second before he resolutely swung her down, fracturing the surface of the bridge.
"No." Tony, Jane, and Bruce gasped in horror. Thor's other teammates were staring in shock along with most of the SHIELD agents.
"So that's why you weren't able to come back immediately." Darcy acknowledged stunned while Erik was also starring in shock.
"I didn't want to let it rip Jotunheim into pieces." Thor justifies for himself.
"You don't even know how it works, what you did was a crime against everything and everyone in the world." Tony whines and Loki raises an eyebrow at him.
Odin's eye opened wide.
Brow furrowed in determination, Thor smashed Mjolnir into the bridge over and over again causing an increasing number of cracks that were spider webbing out across its surface. Loki sat up slowly, staring in disbelief as he continued to work to separate the Bifrost from the energy that flowed through it from the Rainbow Bridge, the array of colors streaming more fervently to supply the power needed to sustain the prolonged opening.
"What're you doing?" Loki whispered in shock as he gaped, reaching a hand out to try and stop Thor's actions. Thor ignored his disgust and roared as he swung again, Mjolnir's head breaking through the first couple of layers of the bridge.
"If you destroy the bridge you'll never see her again!" Loki shrieked at him.
"Well that is a perfect argument." Darcy says, others rolled their eyes at the way Loki tries to stop Thor from finally breaking the bridge.
Thor purposefully swung again; the cracks now spread the entire width of the surface and through the lower layers of the bridge. Loki shakily got to his feet and clutched Gungnir in his hands as he persistently stalked forward, surging into a loping charge as he neared his brother's turned back.
"Forgive me, Jane," Thor pleaded as he gathered his breath, heaving Mjolnir into the air so to swing her down a final time with a roar as Loki shrieked and lunged with ruling spear aimed to impale his back.
Mjolnir struck the Rainbow Bridge again, the impact expanding the cracks littering the surface and severing through the structure. The connection broke with an explosion of white light, the damaged section of the bridge fracturing into jagged pieces that flew into the air. A sphere of energy surged with no direction, Thor and Loki hurled violently at the aftershock that thrashed the waves below. The Bifrost whirred in lament as its momentum slowed and the mechanism caught fire, the smoking wreckage toppling down into the remains of the portal.
Loki yelled as he began to fall after the ruins, his descent halted by Thor reaching to grab onto the head of Gungnir that he still held, his own drop prevented by Odin's sudden appearance and grasp of his ankle. The Allfather panted from the edge of the splintered remains of the bridge as he held his two sons above the distant, colored tear in space, the vortex's pathway along the branches of Yggdrasil skewed and ruptured without the anchor and direction of the Bifrost.
The gravity of the passage continued to drag the debris in nonetheless, their forms pulled towards it as well as they hung. Loki's completion was pale as he gripped the shaft of Gungnir, Thor growling as he determinedly maintained his hold on the spear also.
"I could've done it, father!" Loki implored. "I could've done it – for you! For all of us," he said, his voice breaking with the assertion.
"No Loki," Odin solemnly stated.
Tony swears angrily about that whole sentence.
Loki just looks down upset about hearing Odin say that again.
Thor sighs sadly and tries to give Loki a reassuring smile.
Loki swallowed as he absorbed the words, tears gathering in his eyes and spilling over and down his cheeks as his expression grew saddened and hopeless. "Loki no-" Thor started as he watched his brother, but he paid him no mind as he continued to stare into Odin's eyes and slackened his hold on the end of the spear.
"No!" Thor cried in distress as Loki let go, falling without struggle down into the expanse of space and drawn into what was left of the broken portal. Odin repeated 'no' unsteadily as they watched the swirl of shades disappear into the darkness and scattered stars.
Thor started to cry having to be forced to watch Loki's fall and 'death' again as Jane tried to calm him down.
A few others in the room had a few tears running down their faces after the look of despair before his fall.
A lot of them thinking that, that's how he ended up with the Chitauri causing them to rethink that he truly wanted to take over earth. This confirming with whoever sent the video's said earlier about there being a more powerful person at work, someone named…..Thanos.
After Thor had calmed down somewhat he looked towards Loki, "Brother-"
"We aren't brothers you imbecile! How many times must I say it to get it through your thick skull before you get it?"
"Loki," Thor says sternly, "Did you end up with the Chitauri and….Thanos after you fell?"
Loki looks down sadly, everyone waiting for him to answer, "I was in the void for about a couple of months or so, when I finally landed in the Chitauri's company. That's where I met Thanos and The Other."
"How long were you with them?" Darcy pipes up with a questioning look.
"About a year or so." Loki shrugs not making eye contact with anyone.
Thor looks at him, "Loki what did they do to you?"
"What makes you think they did anything to me? And even if they did I wouldn't have told you." Loki says nervously.
"Well did they at least feed you?" Thor asks, Loki shakes his head no.
Thor's eyes widened in shock. Tony yells out, "Wait, when was the last time you ate?!"
Loki looks down sighing, "Before you were banished."
"Oh my….we got to get some food in you like now! How are you even still alive?" Bruce yells out.
Out of nowhere an apple appears in front of Loki with a note. It read,
(This shall help you get something in your stomach without making yourself sick)
"Alright let's finish up this movie and them we can focus on him." Fury says.
Erik, Jane and Darcy gazed up at the clearing sky in the fading light of sunset. Jane uttered breathlessly, "It's gone," as the clouds dispersed from where they had previously been gathered dark and tumulus.
Darcy and Erik cast sympathetic looks towards her before they each turned their eyes down to the sand and began to make their way back to the truck. Jane's disheartened stare wandered aimlessly over the ground as the dry wind tossed her hair, before she walked away from the Bifrost site as well.
Above the streaks of drifting cloud there stretched an expanse of deep, dark space; it was endless and empty throughout the void before stars came to litter the region. Over a thick mist and ebbing waters, surrounded by colorful auras and shinning stars, the glimmering capital of Asgard sprawled.
The Rainbow Bridge sparkled in the light of dusk as it ran through the city's gilded structures and to the lofty golden palace. Inside one of its halls a number of the high-born were seated around a long table, garbed in flowing dress and conversing in the cheery tone of celebration.
Loki slowly chewing the apple he was given: comments sarcastically, "Yes it sure does look like everyone mourned me."
The many dining released a clamor of laughter suddenly; Volstagg resumed speaking, gesturing with a leg of meat in one hand and a landed fork in the other, "-and then, with a mighty bellow, I flew into the mighty metal creature and laid him low."
"Is that another way of saying you fell on your huge a**?" Fandral remarked, Lady Sif laughing from across the table as she placed a grape into her mouth.
"As a matter of fact, falling was a tactic lulling the Destroyer…."
Thor smiled softly at Volstagg's rendition of the battle, standing and circling around the room so to distance himself from the others. Sif's smile fell when he passed behind her seat, her gaze becoming downcast at the thought of him not being able to enjoy their victory. He slowed by his mother who stood at the columns of the opening that led out into the open air, and grasped her hand in his before continuing on.
Frigga turned to watch him walk away, hands folded in front of her as she attempted to hide the extent of her concern. Sif approached and stood alongside her, saying sincerely as she turned to face her, "My Queen, I am so sorry for your loss."
She rested a hand on her upper arm in thanks, and they both turned their attention to Thor's distancing form as she asked, "How is he?"
"He mourns for his brother. And….he misses her – the mortal."
Thor wearily climbed the few steps that led to the end of the terrace, armor bright as his scarlet cape draped from his shoulders. He came to a halt behind his father, who stood gazing into the distance.
"You'll be a wise king," the Allfather acknowledged without turning.
"There will never be a wiser king than you," he answered after a moment. "Or a better father." Odin cast his eyes to the ground.
"I have much to learn," Thor admitted, "I know that now. Someday, perhaps, I will make you proud."
Odin smiled and turned to face him, resting a hand on his shoulder. "You've already made me proud," he stated earnestly. He patted his shoulder reassuringly and walked past him.
Thor walked to the broken edge of the bridge, the severity of the fracture lingering as a great scar evident in the jagged crystal shards that reached away without purpose. Heimdall stood at attention in his thick armor and with his halberd held solemnly in his hands, observing far-off scenes unseen to others. "So Earth is lost to us," Thor states.
"No," he responded, turning his head briefly to note the prince's arrival at his side, "there is always hope."
"Can you see her?"
The Gatekeeper chuckled from above where waters crashed over the border of the land answering, "Yes."
"How is she?"
"She searches for you."
Thor smiled.
T.B.C
Author's note: I'm going to put the little bit that's played after this with the end credit scene in the next chapter. This chapter is already so long that I needed to stop, can any of you guys guess what exactly Thanos, The Other, and the Chitauri did to Loki? I hope to get the next chapter up soon. To recap of what's going to be in the next chapter, it will include the last few minutes of the movie, the end credit scene, a note from the being that sent the disks (me), and I'm going to be adding two more people in before they start to watch 'The Avengers'. Try to guess who the two people are. I've been dropping hints half way through this story of one of them. Please R&R.