Loki piloted the Commodore towards the battle on the city side of the bridge. Skurge's battalion of Butchers surged forward breaking through Vanessa's shield by sheer force. Loki grit his teeth landing the Commodore on top of them, skidding across the bridge, crushing the front line of the Butchers, and knocking Skurge aside. The impact triggered the party function, setting off music and an impressive fireworks display.
Loki and Val emerged from the ship in full battle mode. Val drew her dragonfang as Loki took out his daggers. Both smiled darkly, neither of them flinching at the wave of butcher swarming toward them. Meanwhile, the Asgardians huddled together, packed so tight that some began to fall off the side of the bridge, loved ones grabbing them and pulling them back up. Desperation was high and hope was severely starting to fade.
Heimdall and Sif fought off Butchers, their skill great as they felled many of their enemies, but became overwhelmed, getting knocked down. Just as the butchers readied to deliver their death blows a loud round of gunfire cut the butchers down.
"Hey guys." Korg stepped up to them casually holding a large blaster. "I'm Korg. This is Miek." Miek waived at them. "We're going to jump on that spaceship and get out of here. Want to come?"
Heimdall was beyond confused while Sif was openly gapping at them, but then loud music filled the air, Bad Reputation by Joan Jett. Emerging from thick low hanging fog was Rhea, resplendent, her hair was slicked back, edgy black and silver make up covered her eyes, and her lips were matt red making them pop. Her suit was seamless from the high neckline down to her feet colored black but shimmering blue and green, and black accenting lines ran along her suit. The catsuit also had a hood that hung down her back and she had on a pair of cat eye black frame goggles with blue green lenses that connected to AL.
"Your savior is here!" Rhea threw out her arms, announcing her arrival in a loud voice.
The fog dissipated around her, revealing that Rhea was standing on the Grandmaster's super cruiser and she was not alone. Prepared for battle behind her were all the prisoners from the Contest of Champions. Armed with gladiator weapons in hand. The ship slowed to a stop at the middle of bridge. Even with Hela's hand on his throat, Thor can't help but smile at the sight of Rhea. Hela, however, sneers in disgust.
"That little..." Hela cursed.
Rhea and the Sakaarian gladiators jumped off the ship onto the bridge, joining the fight against Hela's forces with vengeance
"Everybody on that ship, now." Rhea ordered and the Asgardian refugees began a mad dash onto the ship. The narrow plank connecting the bridge to the ship was the only way onto it causing an immediate bottleneck effect. Thousands of frightened people were all pushing for a chance at salvation. Rhea walked through the crowd to Heimdall, Sif, and Vanessa. Vanessa pulled her into a tight hug.
"You get more like your father every day." Vanessa pulled her daughter into a tight hug.
"Welcome home. I saw you coming." Heimdall smiled down at her.
"Of course you did." Rhea grinned up at him.
"It is very good to see you." Sif gripped her shoulder.
"You as well." Rhea clasped her hand over Sif's. "Now let's show Hela what Asgard is all about."
They all readied their weapons once again ready to fight back the tides of butchers to save their people. Hela was perturbed, but not enraged. She turned her gaze back to Thor for a final farewell.
"A valiant effort, but you never stood a chance." Hela smirked. Thor looked up from his family and friends protecting his people, their people as they frenziedly boarded the ship.
"You see? I'm not a queen, or a monster." Hela grit her teeth as Thor fought for consciousness, images of his father flashing before his minds eye. "I'm the Goddess of Death. What were you the God of again?"
Hela dug two blades into his chest, causing Thor to scream out in pain. Rhea sensed more than heard her uncle's yell, her eyes snapping up to the throne room.
"Rhea?!" Vanessa noticed her gaze locked toward the throne room.
"Hold this line." Rhea felt odd ordering Sif, Heimdall, and most of all her mother, but she was already pushing forward through the mass of butchers using her power to force them back. The others were unable to chase after her having to hold back the butchers from the Asgardians.
Rhea burst into the throne room not pausing in her stride as she charged for Hela forming a force of energy around herself that exploded violently upon coming into contact with Hela. Hela slid back but remained upright as Rhea took up a protective stance between Hela and her uncle.
"Little princess, you are in over your head." Hela formed her blades.
"What would you know about me?" Rhea sneered calling up her energy into her hands.
"You're not a goddess, not even an Asgardian, you're just a disgusting mutt." Hela laughed.
"Be careful Hela, this disgusting mutt bites." Rhea snarled.
Hela slice had Rhea putting her on the defensive as she moved to avoid the black blades. Using her energy, she was able to deflect without getting cut and sent a volley of return punches that had little to no real effect on the dark goddess. Knowing she was fighting a losing battle Rhea started to plan which fell into place upon glancing to her side. With that moment of distraction Hela landed a kick to Rhea's gut sending her flying and landing hard on the ground.
"Did you really think that you could defeat me?" Hela scoffed. Rhea scrambled painfully back as Hela advanced on her, casually twirling her sword at her side.
"You won't get away with this." Rhea spat as Hela raised her blades.
"And what makes you so certain of that?" Hela scoffed.
"At the moment, nothing at all, but it does my morale no end of good just to say it." Rhea stopped moving back, her look of barely repressed fear changing into a snarky smile. She grabbed Gungnir, the reason she had been backing up like she had, aimed it point blank at Hela and released a powerful blast of energy sending the dark goddess back crashing through a series of pillars. Taking her moment of reprieve, she rushed to her uncle's side.
"Uncle! Uncle Thor!" Rhea quicky removed the blades from her uncle's body, but he made no response. Thor found himself with his father back on the fields were first they met Hela when Odin passed.
"Even when you had two eyes you were only seeing half the picture." Thor turned to see his father, sitting where last he saw him.
"She's too strong." Thor fell to his knees. "Without my hammer I cannot…"
"Are you Thor, God of Hammers?" Odin asked him causing Thor to look up, meeting his gaze. "That hammer helped you control your power, focus it. But it was never the source of your strength."
"It's too late. She's already taken Asgard." Thor and Odin stood to their feet.
"Asgard is not a place. Never has been." Odin gestured around them. "This could be Asgard. It is wherever our people stand. And right now those people need you."
"I'm not as strong as you." Thor lamented.
"No." Odin agreed looking back to his son. "You're stronger."
"Uncle! Uncle Thor come on. I can't do this on my own!" Rhea shook her uncle as Hela shook herself free of the rubble, her teeth barred in a feral snarl. Rhea picked up Gungir again taking a stance in front of her uncle. "AL, what about the brooch?"
"It'd sure as heck take Hela out, but it'd also take you and your uncle out." AL answered. "There's no way you could handle that power yet."
"Oh expletive." Rhea muttered.
Hela was no longer in the mood to talk as she picked up her pace. Rhea leveled the golden spear at her firing once more, but Hela's blades were ready as she easily deflected the energy. She moved forward so fast that in matter of moments she had Rhea held up in the air by her throat. Gungir fell to the ground with a clatter as Rhea clawed at Hela's wrist.
"You cannot protect him any better than he can protect you." Hela ginned darkly as Rhea gasped for air. She looked down on Thor with an evil smirk, his one eye half open and still impaled on her swords. "Tell me brother, what were you the god of again...?"
Suddenly Thor's fist clenched, small arcs of electricity formed as the loudest crack of thunder ever to be heard burst overhead. Dark clouds blotted out the sky as more rolls of thunder and crackles of electricity disbursed throughout them. In an instant, Thor, Rhea, and Hela were engulfed in a bolt of lightning! Hela was blasted away from Rhea, out of the lightning and sent crashing into the streets of Asgard. Her costume was tattered, the black extensions of her power were hanging off her body in some places seeming to be unconscious. Rhea fell to her knees coughing for air but was otherwise unharmed by the massive bolt.
All around Asgard, everyone looked up at this massive strike. Thor landed hard on his feet before her. His muscles were swollen, veins pulsing with electricity. He was the embodiment of a living storm. Thor dove into the fray of butchers moving like a bolt of lightning. Surging through the army of Butchers in quick slashing jolts.
Rhea stumbled to her feet as she raced to the edge of what was left of the balcony watching open mouthed as her uncle fought with newfound strength. She wanted to help, to do more, but her power was nowhere near the level it needed to be to even make a scratch on Hela and her brooch would cause more damage than help. Moving back over to Gungir, Rhea picked it up with a thoughtful look then smiled. Spinning on her heal she took off out of the throne room and down the halls.
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Valkyrie charged into the ocean of Butchers with Loki right beside her wielding their weapons, backlit by the fireworks still going off from the ship. They cut through the swathe of relentless Butchers. At the middle of the bridge, Heimdall helped load the fleeing Asgardians onto the Ark. Within the melee Vanessa, Sif, Korg and the Sakaarians held back the butchers from the Asgardian refugees.
In the water below, Hulk and Fenris wrestled in a colossal clash of fists, claws, and teeth. Beyond that, Thor was wielding electrified weapons and blasting entire packs of Butchers off the bridge. Lost in the chaos was Skurge, who sees the tides turning. He threw down his axe and blended into the crowd making his way onto the ark.
Fenris had Hulk in his mouth, underwater, trying to drown the green goliath. Fenris' teeth punctured Hulk's skin. Hulk bellowed, thrashing and slammed his fist into Fenris snout. Fenris snapped back in pain as they reached the realms edge. Fenris was knocked off, plummeting off Asgard into space. Hulk grabbed hold of the slippery rocks, desperately trying to climb back as water poured down on him.
Asgardians continued to rush onto the ship. In the crowd Skurge shuffled onto the ship with the crowd, a cloak thrown over himself to disguise himself from the others. The butchers have drastically been thinned out by the Asgardians. It's pandemonium as even though the Ark's engines were deafening you could still hear terrified people screaming. Loki was forced down during the fight, but Thor was quick to arrive helping him back to his feet while forcing back the butchers.
"You're doing well." Thor commented with a bit of a smirk.
"You're missing an eye." Loki pointed out as Vanessa join them, Sif not far behind her, all of them continuing to fight as they talked.
"And where have you been?" Vanessa moved close to her husband fighting back-to-back with him.
"Here and there." Loki stopped a butcher from stabbing Vanessa. "Are you ok?"
"Of course. I can handle myself just fine you know." Vanessa sassed him with a wink.
"I do know." Loki smirked. "I saw Rhea arrive, where is she?"
"She was up in the throne room, no doubt making her way back to us as we speak." Thor informed them landing another brutal blow to the enemy.
"I'll go find her." Vanessa made ready to charge toward the throne room.
"Not without me." Loki twirled his blades. Valkyrie finished off a handful of enemies, but then noticed something. She whistled to get the others' attention.
"This isn't over." Valkyrie told them as they looked to see Hela arriving at the far side of bridge. She was seething with power, a vision of death. Having just come out of this huge battle, they were all weary and nursing injuries. Loki, Vanessa, and Val were hurting worse than Thor. Hela walked towards them as a menacing and deliberate pace. They all stepped forward to protect the Asgardians still trying to get to safety.
"I think we should disband the Revengers." Thor told them as they all tensed for the next battle.
"Hit her with a lightning blast." Loki gestured toward Hela.
"I just hit her with the biggest lightning blast in the history of lightning. It did nothing." Thor snapped back.
"We need to hold her off until everybody's on board." Val told them as Thor looked back at the people boarding behind him.
"It won't end there. The longer Hela's on Asgard the more powerful she grows. She'll hunt us down. We need to stop her here and now." Thor told them grimly.
"What's our move?" Vanessa asked glancing toward the throne room.
"I'm not doing "Get help."" Loki spoke up. Thor saw Hela approaching. He sees the palace behind her and realized.
"Asgard's not a place, it's a people." Thor said to himself. "This was never about stopping Ragnarok...it was about causing Ragnarok." Thor turned to Loki and Vanessa. "Go to the vault. Surtur's crown. It's the only way.
"Bold move, brother. Even for me." Loki was impressed.
"What about Rhea?" Vanessa was worried about her daughter, but then Rhea flew in, Gungir in hand, landing between Hela and her family.
"Is that Gungir?" Thor looked wide eye. Rhea started to spin her spear, gaining speed as she moved it around her body. Hela watched her, pausing for a moment in her stride before pushing forward.
"You really want to try this again child?" Hela sneered.
"I learned from our last bout." Rhea's movements didn't stop. "And I realize that I can't fight you on my own." Rhea smirked slamming the pummel of Gungir into the ground. "So I brought a friend." Behind Hela the butchers were blasted apart by powerful beam of energy, the Destroyer. It tore through the butchers with ease, reducing them to nothing as it made its way toward a seething Hela.
"Play nice." Rhea ran back toward the others. "That won't hold her for long."
"Excellent job my niece." Thor clapped her on the back making her stumble, her parents grabbing her up into a hug before she fell.
"Should have known you'd make your way here despite my efforts." Loki pressed a kiss to the top of her head. "More like your mother every day."
"Did you see her entrance?" Vanessa smiled down at Rhea. "That's your fathers influence, I have no doubt."
"So what's the plan?" Val got them back on track, glancing to where the Destroyer was looming over and unimpressed Hela.
"Rhea, help Sif and Heimdal get the rest of our people on that ship and get them to safety." Thor ordered.
"Ok, good luck." Rhea ran toward the ship.
"Loki, Vanessa, get the crown." Thor went on. Loki and Vanessa ran for the Commodore leaving Thor and Val to deal with Hela. The goddess of death had just finished ripping the Destroyer apart like it was made of nothing, but paper, her angered gaze once again settling on Thor and Val.
"Shall we?" Thor glanced to Val.
"After you." Val nodded.
Thor attacked with a mighty clash, kicking off the monumental confrontation. Hela manifested pitch black weapons to attack Thor, but Thor is conjured powerful bolts of electricity with the same speed and ferocity. Just as Thor is surging with newfound lightning powers, Hela's powers seemed to be enhanced as well. The battle was relentless and fast-paced, but Thor was holding his own against Hela. After several fearsome exchanges, Hela punctured his shoulder and then darted past him with startling speed.
Undeterred, Thor rushed Hela again. Valkyrie joined in, forcing Hela to fight them both. While the Asgardians still scramble to get on board above, the Commodore ship, swooped down below the bridge. Loki was in the pilot's seat and Vanessa in the co-pilots seat.
"This is madness." Loki surmised.
"It would have to be to work." Vanessa said nervously as Loki accelerated towards the palace of Asgard.
Thor continued fighting Hela while Valkyrie blocks Hela's attempts to spear the Asgardians from afar. Hela wasn't landing any fatal blows, but she was carving Thor up and making steady progress towards the Ark. However, the Asgardian refugees finally made it aboard. An injured Heimdall, Sif, Korg, and Miek are the last to get on while Rhea remains on the bridge unwilling to leave her family. Thor and Heimdall made eye contact.
"GO! GO NOW!" Thor called out. As the Ark's engines began to power up Hela harpooned Thor sending him to the ground grimacing in pain.
Hela begins to conjure an enormous manifestation of her powers in the form of a giant black spike from the bedrock of Asgard that she uses to stab the Ark, preventing it from leaving. Butchers began to scramble up onto the Ark.
Rhea, wielding Gungir, mows most of them down with blasts of energy and melee combat to those that get close enough, but some get past her. The refugees reacted in terror as the Butchers begin climbing in from the bridge to the Ark.
"Ash, Reckoning, Georgie, keep them back!" Rhea ordered two gladiators who held the line, but there were many butchers to replace those who were felled. Still hiding amongst the frightened crowd Skurge, still cloaked, took in the innocent Asgardians huddled together, trying to protect their families. He started to have a crisis of conscience. It was when his eyes met that of children that he had his epiphany.
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Loki and Vanessa rushed through the halls of Asgard into the vault in and picked up Surtur's skull. As ran towards the Eternal Flame, The Tesseract drew Loki's attention.
"If this place is about to blow...I don't think it would be a good idea if that was just left floating through space for him to scoop up. You know, easy pickings." Vanessa said and with her approval Loki snatched the cube before continuing onto the flames. Loki placed Surtur's skull in the Eternal Flame which backlit it giving it an grim look.
"With the Eternal Flame, you are reborn." Loki spoke deeply as the fire crackled with a sudden burst of power, Surtur's skull began to grow.
"I think we should go now." Vanessa said as Loki took her hand backing away and making for a quick exit.
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The first wave of Butchers arrived on board, heading straight for a cowering family. Just as they were about to be killed the sound of M-16 fire split through the air cutting the butchers down. Everyone turned to see Skurge, now uncloaked, wielding his two the two guns from Texas.
"For Asgard." Skurge ran forward, leaping off the Ark, and landed on the bridge right next to Rhea where all the Butchers were still coming at them.
Skurge blasted the Butchers before they could get aboard. Rhea used the respite to turn around sending out a beam of energy cutting the ship free. Skurge seeing the oncoming enemy and taking note that Rhea is panting with effort just to stay standing, her wounds taking their toll on her.
"Thank you Skurge." Rhea took note of his change of heart as he moved to fight beside her, or so she thought he was.
"I'm sorry, for everything." Instead Skurge grabbed her by the back of her suit and tossed her up into the ship.
"Hey!" Rhea tried to get back down, but Sif grabbed hold of her.
"No, Rhea, you need to stay here." Sif told her.
"I can still help." Rhea struggled to the edge of the Ark.
"HELA!" Skurge kept firing. Hela turned to see Skurge blasting his way through her Butchers, trying to make his way to her. Disappointed, Hela fired a blade through Skurge's heart much to Rhea's horror. Skurge had been killed saving them, redeeming himself, but the Ark now ascended unfettered.
"I have to help." Rhea stood to her feet with the help of Gungir.
"We need you here, your people need you here." Heimdal said and glancing back at the frightened crowd Rhea knew he was right. Taking a deep breath and letting it our slowly Rhea squared her shoulders.
"Anyone with medical knowledge go with Eir and start seeing to those who need it." Rhea stood straight as she gave orders and directed those who needed it to the medical wing of the ship. "Sif, Heimdall get everyone settled safely on the ship." She headed for the bridge trying to keep her fear for her family at bay. "Meet me on the bridge when you're done."
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Hela had Val in her clutches, but her focus was on the aftermath of Skurge's last stand and the Ark's subsequent escape. Her face was twisted into a furious snarl, about to unleash hell.
"HELA! Enough!" Thor called out, Hela turning to see him standing, having taken out the harpoon. He looked as though he had given up completely. "You want Asgard? It's yours."
"Whatever game you're playing, it won't work. You can't defeat me." Hela warned him darkly.
"No, but he can." Thor smirked before there was a loud explosion. Ripping through the roof of the palace was Surtur. He was slowly, but steadily growing, and he carried with him a massive flaming sword, which grew with him. Surtur's arrival literally shook the bedrock of Asgard, causing fissures to spiderweb all around him, and dislodging some of the foundation on the bridge and around the palace.
"No...NO!" Hela's eyes went wide not having expected this. In the background the Ark continued its ascent, now high up above the city. Rhea watched from the bridge in horror at the sight of Asgard being torn asunder. Sif and Heimdal stood with her, Sif wrapped an arm around Rhea while Heimdal had placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. Loki and Vanessa too watched from the commadore as Surtur brought about the end of the Asgardian realm. They may have understood the plan, but it did not hurt any less to see it in action.
Hela's attention was on Surtur as the palace collapsed around him. So she was unprepared for Val mustering up all her remaining strength and driving Dragonfang through Hela's chest, effectively pinning her to the bridge. Refocused on Val, Hela went to deliver a death blow when Thor bolted forward pulling Val from Hela's clutches.
Thor turned and firing lightening into the dragonfang which dislodged the section of the bridge that Hela was pinned to. The ground beneath Hela broke free and she went falling into the expanding fissure in Asgard's bedrock. Badly injured, Thor and Valkyrie looked up to see Surtur increasing in size, now towering over the palace.
"Tremble before me Asgard, for I am your reckoning!" Surtur called out swinging his sword, destroying an entire city block.
"The people are safe. That's all that matters." Val comforted him in the sight of this tragedy.
"We're fulfilling the prophecy." Thor said grimly.
"I hate this prophecy." Val told him.
"So do I, but we have no choice." Thor sighed, neither of them noticing Hulk hopping up onto the bridge looking around and zeroing in on Surtur. "Surtur destroys Asgard, he destroys Hela so that our people can live." Hulk charged behind them, still unseen by Thor and Val. "We need to let him finish..." Thor finally spotted Hulk. "No!" Hulk leapt up and landed onto Surtur's face. He began pounding on the giant with furious punches. "Hulk no! Stop it you moron!"
Hulk's onslaught was not doing much damage, but the shock of it plus Hulk's impact made Surtur take a destructive step back. Hulk was trying to rip out one of Surtur's horns when Surtur reached up and grabbed him with a giant fiery hand. Surtur hurled Hulk away from him sending him crashing down. Hulk stumbled to his feet, dazed and smoking. After he gathered his bearings, Hulk got really angry and headed back towards Surtur for round two.
"Hulk, just for once in your life, don't smash!" Thor stopped him.
"But...big Monster." Hulk gestured in confusion.
"Hulk! Let's go." Val said sternly. Hulk stopped looking between Surtur and Thor & Val. On the one hand, he really wanted to kill that thing. On the other hand...
"Friends." Hulk decided before turning to pick up Thor and Valkyrie.
He then squatted down and leapt up with all his might shooting them straight up into the Ark just before is left the lower Orbit of Asgard. Hulk landed gently, as though he were stepping out of bed. He casually dropped Thor and Val, both exhausted. Rhea, having seen them from the bridge, quickly made her way to them, collapsing next to her uncle taking his hand into hers knowing that this is hurting him deeply.
"Where are your parents?" Thor asked.
"Following in the Commodore." Rhea assured him. "We're all safe." This seemed to allow Thro to relax. "Your people, your family, we are all safe."
A bird's eye view showed total carnage and madness on Asgard as Surtur as reached extinction level slashing away at the landscape. Suddenly a massive black spike exploded from the water and slammed into Surtur's chest. From beneath the water, Hela exploded back onto the scene, riding a huge, spiked manifestation of her powers going straight for Surtur attacking with all her might. Surtur held his sword above his head.
"I am Asgard's doom!" Surtur called out and true to his word, Surtur fulfilled his destiny and drove his sword through Hela and into the heart of Asgard. Everyone watched as Surtur drives his sword through Asgard.
"The damage is not too bad. As long as the foundations are strong, we can rebuild this place. It will become a haven for all people and aliens of the universe..." Korg spoke up just before the fiery sword touches the crystalline base of Asgard and there was a violent detonation of energy. A cataclysmic earthquake. The entire realm was split in two and in an instant their home was blown to pieces. Asgard was gone. "Nope, those foundations are gone. Sorry."
"What have I done?" Thor processed the decisions he's made, Rhea gripped his hand tightly.
"You saved our lives." Rhea said as Heimdall and Sif joined them.
"You did the right thing." Sif agreed.
"You saved us from extinction. Asgard is not a place, it's a people." Heimdal said sagely as the Ark cruised among the chaos that once was Asgard.
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Thor looked at his reflection in a mirror. His wounds were bandaged, including his now missing eye and his armor was clean. Thor took a beat, as though trying to get used to the sight of the man looking back at him.
"It suits you." Loki made his presence known.
"Perhaps you're not so bad after all, brother." Thor turned to see Loki standing by the door.
"Maybe not." Loki shrugged.
"Thank you, Loki." Thor nodded to him as he picked up a soap dish throwing it at Loki. "And if you were here, I might even give you a hug."
"I'm here brother." Loki caught the dish. "Do we have to hug now?" Thor laughed pulling his brother into a bone crushing hug. "Come on, they're waiting for us."
Rhea and Vanessa were waiting for them in the hall.
"I cannot begin to thank you enough Vanessa, for protecting our people in my absence." Thor smiled brightly, pulling his sister-in-law into one of his back breaking hugs.
"Of course Thor." Vanessa patted his back before Thor turned to Rhea dolling out another hug.
"And this mighty warrior." Thor laughed. "I am so proud of you."
"Thank you." Rhea smiled proudly before holding out Gungir to Thor. "I think this belongs to you Uncle Thor."
"I believe it is right where it belongs." Thor closed his hand over hers around the spear.
"Father would approve." Loki nodded as Rhea looked between them wide eyed, clutching the spear close. Her grandfather had connected with her most when training her in the art of spear fighting and to hold it again brought back many happy memories.
"Your people are waiting for you." Vanessa gently reminded him. Thor nodded with a sigh before moving toward the bridge, his family with him.
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Thor stepped out onto the main deck to see an assembly of both Asgardian and Sakaarian refugees awaiting their King. Thor looked over his people and began to walk through the crowd. His subjects parted, allowing him through, humbly bowing and grateful. Thor was contemplative and dignified as he made his way to the front. At the end of the procession, Loki, Vanessa, and Rhea flanked the captain's chair. The Hulk, Valkyrie, Sif, and Heimdall stood on either side of them, his family coming together to support him as he took on his mantel.
"Your throne." Val gestured to the chair. Reluctantly accepting his responsibility Thor sat down. He looked to Loki who nodded making Thor sat up a bit straighter feeling more confident with his brother's support.
"So, King of Asgard." Heimdall gained his attention, Thor turned around to see his people staring back, silently awaiting word from their new King and Thor took a moment to collect himself. "Where to?"
"I'm not sure. Any suggestions? Miek, what's your home planet?" Thor asked as they all looked to where Korg, was holding Mike sans robot exoskeleton.
"Oh, Miek's dead. I accidentally just felt so guilty I've been carrying him around all day..." Korg told them all. Suddenly Miek wiggled to life and Korg lit up. "Miek, you're alive! He's alive everyone! What was your question?"
"Earth it is." Thor decided and the coordinates were set into the ship sending them toward their new home.
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Thor and Loki were looking out a large window over the vast expanse of space before them. Stars, distant planets, nebulas, and the like filling up the dark void.
"Do you really think it's a good idea to go back to Earth?" Loki broke their companiable silence.
"Sure! They love me there." Thor smiled brightly getting an amused withering glance from his brother.
"Let me rephrase: Do you really think it's a good idea to bring me back to Earth?" Loki asked.
"Probably not." Thor patted him on his shoulder. "But don't worry, brother...I've got a feeling that everything's going to work out."
Suddenly the window's view was taken up by the massive form of Sanctuary-2, Thanos's warship dwarfing their ship as it came closer.