A rather short chapter but next chapter will be a lot longer. For now, I hope you guys enjoy this.
Herroes: Well, if you enjoy Grandmaster, more power to you I guess.
Green Hal37: I just like to keep myself busy. And this isn't the first time I've lost a loved one, I've learned how to deal with it I guess. I know, there just wasn't much of it to see before, so they will react more to Asgard in the following chapter. Oh yes, they will.
Guest 1: No spoilers.
Guest 2: I might.
Guest 3: Yes, indeed we did. Legends never die, so he's never truly gone.
Guest 4: See response to Guest 3.
Guest 5: I've already said more than once I am not doing Homecoming. You can either accept that or not, you're choice.
As his guards went out to deal with the unrest, Grandmaster asked Topaz how the revolution had happened and she said the area's mainframe for Obedience Disks was deactivated and the slaves had armed themselves. Grandmaster said he didn't like that word and she asked which one, to which he said the 'S' word. She corrected herself that the prisoners with jobs had armed themselves and he found that better.
"Yeah, because that makes it so much better," Clint said sarcastically.
"Changing the word doesn't make it any less true," Steve said disgusted, a feeling they all shared.
Elsewhere, Loki started accessing the codes as Thor said they should talk but Loki said open communication wasn't their family's forte.
Thor sighed, knowing that was true. Him, Loki, their father, the whole family was just one dysfunctional mess. Was it truly any wonder Loki and Hela had gone down the paths they had, Thor mused.
Thor agreed, saying there had been quite a revelation since they last spoke. Then the doors opened to reveal several of Grandmaster's guards. The two greeted them before opening fire, killing several guards before taking cover as Loki said Odin had brought them together and it was almost poetic his death had split them apart.
"Yeah, talk about irony," Scott noted as Thor winced.
The two then jumped out and killed more guards with Loki saying they might as well be strangers now. Two sons of the crown set adrift, Loki said as he opened another doorway.
Seeing the wounded expression on Thor's face, everyone felt sympathy as T'Challa placed a hand on his shoulder. Loki may be self-serving, treacherous, and, at times, a murderous psycho, but he was also Thor's brother for thousands of years. Steve and Wanda in particular could understand how Thor must be feeling as they thought of Bucky and Pietro respectively.
Loki was about to go through it when a guard with a gun stopped him. He was about to fire when Thor struck the gun, lowering it and the impact set off the gun and sent the alien flying up.
"Nice one Point Break," Tony said and Thor shrugged.
Thor said Loki didn't want to talk about it as the two walked off.
They were later going down in an elevator as Loki said he'd be better off in Sakaar and Thor agreed with him, to Loki's surprise. Thor said this place was chaotic, lawless, savage and perfect for him so he'd do great here. Loki asked if Thor really thought so little of him.
"No Loki, I thought the world of you," Thor said softly but everyone heard him.
Thor said he had thought the world of him, thinking they were gonna fight side by side forever. "But at the end of the day, you're you and I'm me," Thor finished.
"Thing change, that's just part of life," Steve said gently. "It's how we respond to those changes that makes us who we are."
"Wise words Captain," T'Challa said as Thor looked thoughtful.
Thor said there might still be good in Loki but their paths diverged a long time ago and Loki, seeming sad, agreed, saying it's better they never see each other again. What Loki had always wanted, Thor noted with a pat on the back. And then they stood silently for a few moments.
"Hey, let's do 'Get Help'," Thor suddenly said. " What?" "'Get Help'," Thor reminded. "No." "Come on, you love it," Thor said. "I hate it," Loki snorted. "It's great. It works every time," Thor said. "It's humiliating," Loki said. "Do you have a better plan?" Thor asked. "No." "We're doing it," Thor said. "We are not doing 'Get Help'," Loki said.
"I love 'Get Help'," Thor said with a smile as he brightened.
"What is 'Get Help'?" Natasha asked as they all looked at Thor curiously.
"Just watch, you'll love it," Thor assured her.
Thor ran out of the lift, supporting Loki who appeared to be dying as some guards saw them. "Get help! Please! My brother, he's dying. Get help! Help him!" And then Thor threw him into the guards, knocking them all out.
"Classic," Thor said as they all laughed. Even Vision let out a chuckle at this.
"Oh my god!" Rhodey said as he laughed.
"You just threw him!" Scott said, almost collapsing to the floor in laughter.
"This is the greatest day of my life!" Clint said as he laughed. "You think they'll let me take this home?"
"It's you, so chances are pretty good," Natasha said as they gained control of their laughter.
"Classic," Thor said with a laugh. "Still hate it," Loki said as he got up. "It's humiliating." "Not for me, it's not," Thor said.
"You're not the one thrown into the air," Wanda noted.
"Which is what makes it fun," Thor chuckled.
Thor asked which ship it was and Loki pointed at one called the 'Commodore.' They walked towards it but Loki formed and illusion and the real one walked towards the ship as he said it wouldn't make much of a difference. Thor stopped as illusion Loki next to him disappeared and the real one pressed the alarm, saying it was nothing personal but the reward for his capture was gonna set him up forever.
"That son of a bitch," Tony snarled as they all glared at the screen.
"He's becoming rather predictable at this point," Thor noted, not surprised.
"You have a plan then?" Sam asked and Thor shrugged.
"I have my suspicions," Thor said vaguely.
Thor said Loki never was one for sentiment and Loki said it was easier to let it burn. Thor agreed to Loki's shock and revealed a remote in his hand. A shocked Loki searched for the Obedience Disk which was on his back when Thor pressed the remote, sending the toxin through him as he fell down.
"Payback's a bitch," Clint said gleefully as Thor chuckled.
"Nice job Thor," Natasha said and he shrugged.
"He's becoming predictable at this point. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, well, then it's just getting ridiculous," Thor said as they all nodded in agreement.
Thor walked over, noting it looked painful before he kneeled close to Loki.
"Dear brother, you're becoming predictable. I trust you, you betray me. Round and round in circles we go. See, Loki, life is about... It's about growth. It's about change. But you seem to just wanna stay the same. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you'll always be the God of Mischief, but you could be more."
Thor sighed sadly. His brother could be so much more, he thought in irritation, if he wasn't so self-serving.
Thor threw the remote off, saying he was gonna put this over there for him and wished him luck before walking to the ship as Loki continued spasming.
Everyone got a laugh out of that as Thor managed a smirk.
"Poetic justice," Rhodey chuckled.
Thor entered the ship and sat in the pilot's chair, trying to figure it out. He managed to finally start it, taking off into the sky. Grandmaster's hologram appeared and said the Lord of Thunder had stolen his ship and favorite champion so everyone must stop him from leaving the planet.
"In the last two recordings we got a car chase, now we're getting a space ship chase," Peter noted.
"I guess we do have a thing for chases," Steve noted s the Avengers exchanged a glance, each remembering a chase of some kind.
An attack ship fired at Thor but Valkyrie destroyed it with hers as Bruce complimented her shot and she told Thor to open the doors. Thor did and she told Bruce she hoped he was tougher than he looked. He asked why and his seat shot up, sending him into Thor's ship as he groaned, clinging to the floor while Thor laughed.
"It's a flying Hulk," Tony joked and everyone shook their heads in exasperation.
Topaz and others fired at them as Bruce asked if they should be shooting back. Thor agreed, asking Valkyrie where the guns were. Valkyrie said there were no weapons on this ship as it was a leisure vessel, being used for orgies and stuff.
"I know I was asleep for sixty years, but do orgies still mean…" Steve trailed off.
"Yes," Natasha said as everyone looked disgusted.
"Ew," Wanda said, crinkling her nose in disgust.
"At least you don't have to touch anything," Thor said disgusted.
Bruce and Thor were both disgusted as the latter told the former not to touch anything.
Topaz fired at Valkyrie's ship, destroying an engine. As Topaz continued firing at her ship, Valkyrie climbed up with Dragonfang. Topaz destroyed her ship as Thor and Bruce screamed in horror but Valkyrie leapt on their ship, grabbing on.
"It will take more than that to kill an Asgardian," Thor said with a smirk.
Thor told her to get inside and she said it'd take a minute. Valkyrie leapt at a ship and destroyed it with a slice of Dragonfang before leaping away.
"She's a badass!" Scott said as they all watched, impressed.
"She's a Valkyrie," Thor said as if that explained everything.
Thor told Bruce to fly but he said he didn't know how as Thor got up and made Bruce take the wheel. Thor told him to use a PhD. Bruce said he didn't have one for flying an alien spaceship as Thor leapt out.
"Considering how often you have been invaded, I find this surprising," Thor said and all the earth based heroes laughed.
"He does have a point," Tony mused and they only laughed harder.
Thor leapt at a ship and ripped out its engine, taking it down while Valkyrie pointed another ship's gun at another, taking it down.
"You two make a good team," Clint noted.
"So we do," Thor noted thoughtfully.
Thor destroyed another ship with punches as Topaz tried to fire at Commodore. Bruce tried to look for weapons, pressing a random button. Instead, Grandmaster singing 'It's my birthday' started playing with a hologram of him dancing as fireworks burst from the back of the ship, blinding Topaz who crashed her ship into a building and Bruce cheered.
"Well that's one way to take out a ship," Tony joked as they all laughed.
Thor ripped a hatch to a ship open and threw the pilot as Valkyrie arrived. They exchanged a smirk as Valkyrie flew it under the Commodore. They leapt back inside as the doors closed and stood in front of each other as Bruce said they coming up on the Devil's Anus.
"That will never not be hilarious," Rhodey said as they all laughed.
Back in the hanger, Korg, Miek and the other walked to a ship when Korg picked up the remote and pressed the button, with Loki groaning and getting up, thanking him.
"Well, I guess that's over," Clint said disappointed.
"You're enjoying this too much," Wanda noted amused.
"He turned me into his fly monkey kid," Clint pointed out.
Korg said they were hopping on a spaceship to get out and if he wanted to come. Loki said they looked like they were in desperate need of leadership and Korg thanked him.
Valkyrie took over the pilot seat from Bruce and started flying the ship up. She hit the debris as all three of them seemed to be affected as they finally flew into the Devil's Anus.
"And now you're on your way back to Asgard," Natasha noted and Thor nodded.
"And to Hela," Thor said grimly.
One more chapter to go.