A van is shown in the middle of a desert. 'Puente Antiguo, New Mexico' Appears on screen.
"Wait, if this is about Thor, why does it start in New Mexico?" Peter asked.
Three people are in the van. Jane Foster, Erik Selvig and Darcy.
Thor smiled at the sight of his friends.
The van's headlights turn off, Jane and Selvig stand up through the top of it, Jane has a device in her hands. They look up Jane tells them to wait for something.
"Wait for what?" Drax asked.
Darcy peaks her head up from behind the seat and asks if she can turn the radio on.
The teenagers laughed at that, because 'same.'
Erik turns to Jane and tells her that she can't continue doing what she's doing.
Jane says that the last 17 occurrences were predicted to the second.
"Now I'm even more confused."Peter said.
"Just watch." MJ scolded.
Erik tells her that she's an astrophysicist and she isn't a storm chaser.
Jane says that there's a connection between her research and the atmospheric disturbances. She tells Erik she wouldn't've asked him to come if she wasn't sure.
Darcy notices something in the mirror of the van and tells them that they should come see it. Jane looks out the window, part of the sky is glowing blue.
"What is happening?" Scott asked.
"I believe this is when I was banished. If I am correct, that would be me." Thor said, though it raised a lot more questions than it answered.
The sky starts opening. Erik says he thought Jane says it was supposed to be a subtle aurora.
Darcy starts driving, Jane tells her to get closer.
"Is she joking? Tell me she's joking." Strange said.
They continue driving toward it, Jane is looking at the heat signatures, something blasts into the ground. Darcy turns the car, Jane asks her what she's doing.
"Trying to not die." Almost everyone said.
Darcy says she isn't dying for 6 college credits.
"I would." Tony said.
Pepper slapped him. "We know you would, now shut up."
The van starts spinning. A silhouette of a man appears in the window, the car hits him and he falls. The three of them exit the car and says the legally it was all Jane's fault.
"But Jane wasn't the one who was driving." Ned said.
Jane tells Darcy to get the first aid kit and hopes that the man isn't dead then asks were he came from.
"I was right. My banishment." Thor said, dejectedly.
"Why were you banished?" Clint asked.
"You will probably see later on." Thor said.
A mountain range. 'Tonsberg, Norway 965 AD' appears on the screen.
Odin's voice is narrating he says that mankind once accepted that they weren't alone in the universe.
"Too bad people don't think like that now." Fury said.
People are walking in a village. Odin says that man believed some worlds were home to their gods and that they knew they should fear some other worlds. Lightning cracks the sky, the camera pans to show an army of frost giants, one of them holds the casket of ancient wonders.
"Who are those guys?" Scott asked.
Odin introduces the aliens as the frost giants and says that they came from a cold and dark realm. The frost giant holding the casket uses it to freeze a ship of people, other people start running from it, they freeze.
"Woah!"
Odin says that the frost giants were threatening to start a new ice age. He then says that the humans wouldn't face the threat of them alone. The bifrost opens and the asgardians stepped out with Odin.
"Is this a war?" Steve asked.
"Yes." The three asgardians answered. (Thor, Loki and Valkyrie)
The armies charge toward each other and start fighting. A blue planet is shown. Odin says that the asgardians pushed the frost giants back to their home world, then says that the frost giant king fell.
Odin, missing an eye, points his spear at the frost giant king, an asgardian takes the casket. Odin says that the source of their power was taken and then the asgardians retreated back to asgard. The Camera pans over a mountain and then shows mountains and lastly a very beautiful city.
"You live there!?" Quill asked.
"Its so beautiful." Natasha said.
"It almost reminds me of Wakanda, don't you think so?" Shuri asked T'Challa.
"I almost forgot what it looked like, it does look way better when its not being destroyed by that murderous hag." Valkyrie said.
Thor looked at her, shock and fear evident on his face. "Destroyed!?" He asked.
"Oh, sorry, that is a story for another time." She said.
"You can't just say things like that." Loki whispered.
Thor was still panicking. His home was destroyed? He has to stop that from happening. "H-how did it get destroyed?" He finally asked.
"That will be explained much later. Now let's get back to watching this." Loraine said.
Odin says that the asgardians remain as a beacon of hope and that they brought peace to the universe.
Valkyrie and Loki looked at each other with similar disbelieving expressions on their faces. Odin was full of shit.
Odin is walking with a young Thor and Loki at his sides.
"You were cute as kids." Gamora said. Thor smiled in thanks, Loki shook his head.
The casket is sitting on a pedestal he says that soon one of them will need to defend the peace.
Loki warily asks if the frost giants are still alive.
"Oh the irony that statement holds." Loki said, dramatically. Thor looked at him and sighed. Everyone else just looked confused.
Thor says that when he's king he's going to hunt the frost giants and slay them, and calls them monsters.
Thor cringed, Loki put his head in his hands. "A bit of an ambitious child weren't you?" Tony asked.
Thor sighed again. "Do you still think like that?" Fury asked.
"Oh, no, I changed a lot after my banishment, I stopped thinking as only a warrior." Thor said.
Odin says that a wise king would never seek war but he must always be prepared for it.
"He seems like a wise king." Fury said.
"True. But one can't help but wonder what lessons he learned to become one." T'Challa said.
Odin starts walking away. Thor and Loki look at each other before running to their father. Mjolnir is shown leaning against a pillar. Thor says he's ready be king.
Loki says that he is too.
Odin says that only one of them can have the throne but they were both born to be kings.
Loki rolled his eyes. Odin loved his secrets, lies and half truths.
"Is that foreshadowing, I feel like that's foreshadowing." Tony said. He didn't get an answer just a lot of 'shh's'.
A large stadium full of people cheering is shown. An older Thor is shown, raising his hammer. He walks down the stairs. He flips the hammer in the air and points toward someone. Sif rolls her eyes.
"Who's the girl?" Clint asked.
"She is lady Sif." Thor said.
Frigga rolls her eyes with a fond smile on her face.
"And the other girl?" Clint asked.
"She is Queen Frigga, our mother." Thor said with a smile, with a quick glance at Loki. Loki looked at the screen with a small, sad smile on his face, remembering his mother.
Thor was still walking over to Odin, his hammer still raised in the air. He finally reaches the stairs in front of Odin and kneels, he sets the hammer down and takes his helmet off.
"Bit heavy with the showmanship aren't we point break?" Tony asked. Thor didn't say anything, cringing a bit at his old arrogant self.
Thor smiles and winks at his mother. Odin stands up. Thor sends a smile to the warriors three.
"And they are?" Scott asked. "The warriors three. Hogan. Fandrall and Volstagg."
Odin pounds his spear on the floor, silencing all the people and introduces Thor and says the he was his firstborn.
Loki scoffed.
"Firstborn my ass." Valkyrie shouted.
Thor once again looked at her in shock and panic. "What do you mean? I am Odin's first child." He said.
"We should work on what you can and cannot say." Loki whispered. Valkyrie smacked him, but she agreed, though she would never tell him that. Thor was from the past and he doesn't know about ragnorak and Hela just yet.
Odin talks about Mjolnir and says that it is a fit companion for a king. He says that he's defended Asgard and innocents across the 9 realms since the great beginning.
Loki resisted the urge to scoff at that.
The weapons vault is shown. Two guards are walking inside. One of the pillars freezes.
"What's happening?" Bruce asked.
"The frost giants." Thor sighed.
"Yes okay but why?" He pressed.
Back in the throne room, Odin is still speaking he asks if Thor swears to guard the realms.
Thor says he does.
Odin asks if he swears to preserve the peace.
Thor says he does.
Odin asks if he swears to cast aside his ambition and pledge himself to the good of the realms.
Thor says he does and raises his hammer.
Odin goes to proclaim him king but cuts himself off. The floor the weapons vault is freeing one of the guards looks at it and two red eyes peer at him from underneath it reaches through and kills the guard.
Odin realizes that there are frost giants near. The frost giants in the vault start running toward the casket, one of them lifts it.
"Oh no."
Odin slams the spear down again. The Destroyer emerges from behind a wall. it shoots the frost giants down.
"What the hell is that thing?" Rocket asked.
"That is They Destroyer, it protects the weapons vault." Thor said.
"Now will you explain what the frost giants were doing there in the first place?" Rhodey asked.
"I let them in." Loki said, he received a lot of glares.
"Of course you did." Clint said.
"Why did you let them in?" Natasha asked.
"You'll see." Thor sighed, remembering his reaction to the Jotuns that broke into the vault.
Odin enters the weapons vault, Thor and Loki following. They look around at all the damage and says that the Jotuns need to pay for what they did.
Odin says that they paid with their lives and says that the destroyer did it sjob and the casket is safe.
Thor says that they broke into the weapons vault and tries to talk about what would happen if they stole one of the relics.
"But they didn't." Scott said.
Odin says that they didn't.
Thor says he wants to know what the Jotuns were there. Loki is watching their conversation.
"You look like you should have a cup of tea in your hand." Peter said to Loki.
"Yes sip the tea sis." Shuri laughed.
Odin says that he has a truce with Laufey.
Thor says that Laufey broke the truce and he knows Odin is vulnerable.
Odin asks what Thor would do in his position
Thor says that he would go to Jotunheim and teach the frost giants a lesson so they'll learn not to cross the borders again.
"That's why I did it." Loki said.
"Thor, you can't just start a war with another planet like that." Bruce said.
"I know that now." Thor said.
Odin says he's only thinking as a warrior.
Thor says that breaking into the vault was an act of war.
Odin says that they were doomed to fail.
Thor tells him to look at how far the Jotuns got.
Odin says that they'll seal the breach in the defences.
Thor tries to go on a tangent about what he would do as king.
Odin tells him that he isn't king yet.
"And father realized what I wanted him to see all along." Loki said.
"So you let the Jotuns into Asgard to show your father that Thor was not yet ready to be king?" Rocket summarized.
"Yes." Loki said.
"Sounds dumb but okay." Rocket replied.
Thor walks over to a large table full of food and flips it over.
"I think you could use some pointers from Bruce on how to control that anger. I mean come on did you really have to waste all of that food." Tony joked.
He walks over to a set of stairs and sits down. Loki walks out from behind a large pillar and over to him. Thor tells him that it isn't wise of Loki to be there and that this was supposed to be his day of triumph.
Loki tells him it will come in time.
Sif, Fandrall, Hogan and Volstagg enter the room. Volstagg asks what happened.
Loki leans toward Thor and says that he thinks Thor's right about the Jotuns. He says that they're bound to break through Asgards defences again but with an army. He then says that Thor can't do anything about it without defying Odin's wishes.
"You're manipulating him." Natasha realized.
"He is, but at that point I probably would have used anything as an excuse to... do what I did." Thor said.
"Loki still shouldn't have manipulated you into doing...what exactly was it that you did?" She asked.
"Something that could have been prevented if that guard had warned Odin faster." Loki interrupted.
Thor stands up. Loki recognizes the look in his eyes.
"What is 'that look'?" Quill asked.
"The look he gets where he is about to do something stupid and I have to stop him." Loki answered.
"Hey Tony has that look too!" Rhodey shouted.
"So does Steve." Bucky said.
Thor says that its the only way to ensure the safety of the borders.
Loki says that its madness.
"It is madness." Steve reluctantly agreed.
Volstagg questions Loki.
Thor tells them that they're going to Jotunheim.
"Ok so not only are you going to break your fathers' rule, but you're also going to essentially endanger your friends by doing so?" Maria asked.
"Yes, yes I know I was reckless and careless." Thor said.
Volstagg questions Thor.
Fandrall says that Jotunheim isn't like a visit to Earth where he would summon some lightening and the humans would worship him as a god.
"You do that?" Howard asked, growing more amazed by the second, he didn't even know any of this existed let alone did he ever think he would get to see it. Thor nodded.
Thor says that Odin fought his way into Jotunheim and defeated their armies and took the casket. Thor says that they would only be going for answers.
"If you wanted those why didn't you ask the psychopath you call your little brother?" Clint asked.
"I didn't know it was him who let them in." Thor said, like it was obvious, which it was.
"You say that like you honestly didn't know it was him behind all of it." Natasha said.
Sif says that its forbidden.
"You should listen to them." Fury said.
"I agree I should have, but right then I was far to angry to care about what they said." Thor said.
Thor asks if they've forgotten what they've all done together and asks Hogun who led him into the most glorious battles.
Hogun says that Thor did.
He asks Volstagg who gave him the most succulent delicacies that when he ate it he thought he was in Valhalla.
Volstagg says that Thor did.
"Valhalla?" A few people asked.
"Oh its where we go when we die." Thor answered.
"So like Heaven?" May asked.
"What is Heaven?" Thor asked.
"Christians, one of Earth's many religions, believe that if your good, when you die you go to a place called heaven." Natasha explained.
Thor asks Sif who proved everyone who scoffed at the idea of a woman being a fierce warrior wrong.
Valkyrie looked confused, when did Asgard become reluctant to let women fight for them?
Sif says that she did.
"She's right you know, she's the only one who can prove that. You should've picked a different point to make." Gamora said.
Thor agrees and says that he supported her. Then he says that they're going to Jotunheim.
Everyone sighed.