"If you give me the space stone I'll let both of you live," Thanos bargained as he held Thor by the throat and stared Loki down. When Loki remained stoic, he took the power stone in his hand and started running it along Thor's head, making him scream out in pain.

"Stop!" Loki begged, "You can have it." He showed him the tesseract in his hands.

Thanos dropped Thor and took it from him, then crushed it into his gauntlet. "You really are the worst brother," Thor said as he looked up at Loki from the ground.

Thanos said, "I said you two would get to live, but I didn't say for how much longer." With the power stone he easily crumbled and disintigrated the spaceship they were in. Thanos and his children made it onto his own ship and left the area in a haste as the ship Thor and Loki was in went to pieces around them.

Just before he passed out, Heimdall said, "May the allfather's power and all of the dark energy flow through me one last time." He shot a light through the broken ship and Hulk disappeared through the beam with Heimdall's dying breath as he succumbed to his injuries.

"I hate you," Thor said to Loki.

"Why?" he asked before a blast from the breaking ship hit them both, knocking them out as they floated into space.

Thor woke up hastily and caught his breath. He got off of the table he was laying on and noticed he was surrounded by several people, the guardians of the galaxy, all of a sudden inside of another spaceship. "Is Loki in here yet?" he asked.

"Who is that?" Peter asked, "Who are you? What are you doing out in space? How did you survive out there? How long were you out there? We have a lot of questions to ask you! Hey, wait a minute!"

Thor reopened the door without warning, and grabbed a tether. He went back out into the debri to see Loki floating in the distance, still unconcious. He dragged him in and they closed the door behind him again.

Rocket said, "I don't know what to tell you. He looks pretty dead."

"Wake up!" Thor demanded, and bitch slapped Loki across the face.

Loki screamed and sat up, pushing Thor away. "You didn't have to do that," he said angrily as he stood up and faced the guardians.

Drax asked, "He's alive?"

Mantis asked, "How did you two survive being in space?"

Thor explained, "First of all, we're Asgardians..." he glanced at Loki, "sort of...I am Thor, God of thunder and this is Loki, God of being annoying and YOU GAVE THANOS THE SPACE STONE! YOU HAVE TO REALIZE YOU'VE KILLED US ALL! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT!" He threw Loki against the wall of the ship.

"No," Loki said, "I didn't." He pulled it out of his long coat. "I gave him a spell version that'll last about an hour and then however long I can concentrate on it. You didn't have to hit me."

Thor said, "So now you're saying we have an hour until Thanos wants to kill us both. Wonderful." He let him go.

"I'm sorry to interupt your little chat except I'm not," Peter said, "what are you talking about? How do you know Thanos?"

Loki replied, "He's a very large periwinkle man, that makes him very hard to miss."

"Periwinkle?" Peter asked as he stared at everyone else in confusion. Gamora shook her head disapprovingly at him.

Thor asked, "You know of Thanos as well?"

"Gamora's his step daughter," Peter said sheepishly.

"He nearly killed us," Thor said angrily as he approached her carefully, "and he slaughted half of what was left of Asgard."

"She hates him as much as we do," he continued, "probably even more, to be honest."

Thor put his hand on her shoulder knowingly and said, "Families can be hard. That's my brother over there and a second ago I was sure he killed us all but now I have to work with him to make sure that doesn't happen." He pointed to Loki who waved at them all, smiling.

Gamora asked, "Did Thanos tell you where he was going?"

"No," Loki answered.

"We're going to Nidavellir," Thor said, "at least I am." He started collecting some things into a bag.

"That's not a word," Drax said.

"Nidavellir," Rocket said, impressed, "they've made the most amazing and destructive weapons in all of the galaxy for centuries! I want to see it in action!"

"The rabbit is correct," Thor said.

"Rabbit?" he asked.

Loki corrected, "Thor, he's a raccoon. Maybe if you read a book every once in a while you'd know that."

"He's a what?" Thor asked.

"You know, brother," Loki explained, "they're not as strong as a badger, not as smart as a fox, and they live off of midgardian garbage." He stared Rocket down.

"Ah," Thor said, "a trash panda. I've heard of that one, yes. The trash panda is correct and he is clearly the smartest among you. I need a new weapon since my insane older halfsister broke my old one."

Rocket said, "You really are the God of being annoying."

"God of Mischief," Loki corrected, "actually."

Gamora said, annoyed at their antics, "We need to find Thanos and stop him and in order to do that we need to know where he's going."

"Well mind and time stones are on Earth being protected by the avengers," Thor explained as he continued to get ready to leave, "and Thanos thinks he has the space stone which is on Loki right now. No one knows where the soul stone is so he definitely can't be going after that one. Wherever the reality stone is right now, he's probably going after that one."

"Knowhere," Mantis said anxiously.

"Whatever," Thor replied, "I'm headed to Nidavellir to get a new weapon so I can kill him. I'm going to need your escape pod in order to do that."

Peter Quill said angrily, "No, you're not taking our pod! This is my ship!"

"Oh," Loki said coyly, "and how do you plan on stopping us?"

"How do you plan on taking it against my will?" Peter Quill demanded, "There are 5 of us on my side and only 2 of you."

"Quill there's 6 of us together," Rocket corrected.

Drax burst out laughing and said, "You don't know how to count! There are 6 of us in here, see!" Mantis giggled alongside him.

"I didn't count Groot!" Peter Quill shouted, "He's not going to fight anyone for us, look at him!" He gestured to teenage Groot sitting and still playing video games, not paying any attention as to what was happening around him.

Loki asked, "You really want to try and stop us."

"Loki," Thor said, not even bothering to step in and stop him.

"Yeah, I do!" Peter Quill replied. As he stepped forward, the real Loki used his the hilt of his dagger and bashed him in the back of the head. His illusion disappeared and he turned to face the other guardians.

Drax stared and said, "How-when-what? How did you do that? Are you made of magic?" He made wild gestures as everyone stared at the two of them.

"Let's go," Thor said as he moved toward the pod, "we need to move out before Thanos realizes he has a fake stone."

Rocket said, "I want to see this weapon you're getting! Can I have one?"

"No," Thor said, "you have to worthy. Even if you managed to lift it, it would drive you into madness before you even realized what was happening." He opened the pod door with Loki right behind him.

"Is it bad I want one even more now?" Rocket asked as he followed them.

"I'd say so," Loki said.

"Rocket we need you!" Gamora said, "You can't leave us!"

"Watch me," he replied, "come on Groot. We're leaving the morons behind."

"I am Groot," he said as he stood up, still playing his video game, and went into the escape pod with him.

Loki asked Thor, "Can I drive this time?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because you've annoyed me enough today and you have to concentrate on your spell eventually," Thor said, "goodbye and good luck, morons."

As he closed the door, Loki said, "You know what 'moron' means, Thor. You're not that stupid."

"I know, Loki," he answered as he took off, "that was the whole point. They're going to get themselves killed on Knowhere for no reason while we're doing what's smart and getting a Thanos killing weapon. That is the definition of the word moron, don't you think?"

On the way toward Nidavellir, Rocket asked, "Why do you only have one eye?"

"My older half sister took it from me," Thor explained, "she also broke my hammer, which is why I'm thinking of getting an axe this time. It's the whole reason we're here."

"Yeah that's freaking me out," Rocket said, "I have another one you can use. I stole it off of a guy on Contraxia."

Loki looked at him in disgust as he asked, "Where have you been keeping that?" He watched as Rocket handed the eyeball to Thor.

He said, "You should probably wash it first. And what about you, mister annoying, what happens if Thanos figures out the infinity stone you gave him was fake? What are you going to do then?"

"Run like hell," Loki replied, "and don't look back."

Rocket said sarcastically, "That sounds like a great idea."

"I am Groot," he said.

"Yes," Loki said, "we are here. It sure took long enough."

"You understand Groot?" Rocket asked.

"I know every language," Loki replied, "and I speak Alltounges so everyone understands me as well."

As Thor fiddled with his new eye some more, he said, "Of course we understand Groot. Why wouldn't we? Hey trash panda, I don't think this eye you gave me works, everything is still so dark."

"Thor," Loki said nervously, "Nidavellir is dead."

They looked onward at the now dark star with it's rings completely still. Instead of the countless dwarfs they were used to seeing moving around the entire star, they could only see one, Eitri, the king of the dwarfs.

Thor said, "Don't say that, Loki."

"Well it doesn't look very alive if you ask me," he said.

"I hate to agree with him," Rocket said, "but he looks pretty close to being right. I mean, look at this place. There's no one here!"

"Eitri," Thor said as they walked up to him as a group, "what happened here?"

"This was all from Thanos," he answered, "he came, he slaughtered, and then he left. He only left me alive so I'd make him his gauntlet and his sword, then he cut off my hands so I'd never be able to make another weapon again." He showed them his arms.

Thor said, "There has to be a way to restart the star. I need an axe."

Eitri explained, "The eye has to be open all the way in order for the star to melt enough metal for an axe. Someone would have to stand in it since it's broken and that's suicide."

"No one could survive that," Loki said.

"Again," Rocket said, "he's right, Thor. Honestly I hate the God of annoyance here but I'm going to have to agree with him. It looks like you're not getting a new weapon."

"How long does it take to melt the metal?" Thor asked as he looked up at the eye in determination.

Eitri said, "A few minutes."

"One of us can hold open the eye so it melt the metal in time," he said.

"Do you know what you're saying?" Loki demanded, "No one of us can't! I'm from a race of ice people, Thor, I'm a frost giant, the heat will incinerate me and it'll kill you too. You're not invincible!"

Thor said nervously as he walked away, "It'll only kill me if I die."

Eitri said, "Yes, that's...what...killing you means."

"Trash panda," Thor comanded, "get in the pod and grab a rope." He gestured for him to follow as he walked away.

Rocket asked, "What's the pod and a rope going to do? We're in space! Hey! You're going to get yourself killed!"