Five months later, the stolen, Sakkar ship had finally arrived on Earth, in the same, abandoned field in Norway where Thor and Loki had last seen their elderly father alive.
"Yep! This seems like a pretty, good place to rebuild Asgard: uninhabited, strong foundations..." Kong noted as he and Thor led the former citizens of Asgard off of the ship.
"Indeed! Asgard isn't in the place after all, it's in the people..." Thor agreed with an excited grin. Back on board the ship, Loki carefully packed everything he and his people would need to rebuild their new home with into a Space-age bag that contained more room inside of it than it appeared it had on the outside that he had found on the ship. He hummed an upbeat toon with a gentle smile on his face as his pregnancy was now beginning to show from the large lump that had formed beneath his shirt.
"Hey, thanks for packing..." Valkyrie thanked as she gently placed both of her hands upon her lover's shoulders.
"I can handle it from here, love; you should take it easy..." She then offered before planting a gentle kiss on her partner's cheek.
"Thank you, darling..." Loki thanked with a soft smile as he gave Valkyrie a kiss on the cheek in return. His mood-swings had since calmed drastically, now having been replaced with an excitement for the arrival of their new child. As Loki stepped off of the ship, his content smile soon turned into a frown of both concern and confusion when he had taken notice to his people surrounding a large life-form that he was not able to clearly identify from his current distance.
"What's going on?" He questioned as he cautiously approached the group. He was then surprised to see curled up in a sad, pathetic, tight ball in the center of the circle that was formed by the surrounding, Asgardian citizens, Fenris, the giant, pet wolf of his older, adoptive sister, Hela. Fenris whimpered softly from grief as he curled protectively around the supposed-corpse of his deceased owner. Loki frowned in sympathy as he carefully knelt down beside Fenris to gently carry his supposedly, deceased sister into his arms. Loki's eyes became glossy from sorrow as he and Fenris both exchanged a somber glance.
Loki then glanced back down at his sister as he gently ran his gloved hand through her messy, black hair. He could not help but notice how much she physically favored him despite their lack of blood-relation. Though he did indeed miss his father greatly, he could not help but admit that his father was not the best of fathers as he felt sympathy for his recently, deceased sister begin to fill him. As he silently wished for a second chance to get to know his sister better, he mentally took in just how much Hela looked as if she were merely asleep.
"Oh, no..." Loki squeaked beneath his breath once he had realized that Hela was still breathing.
"Loki!" Valkyrie cried out from the fear of the safety of her future family once Hela had opened her pale, green eyes. As images of Hela slaughtering her previous lover flashed through her mind, Valkyrie began to madly sprint toward her impregnated partner's rescue. She stopped in her tracks, however when Hela had done the unthinkable.
"Mommy!" Hela beamed with childlike excitement as she tightly embraced Loki.
"What in the world?!" Loki gasped in surprise as Thor, Kong, Bruce, Valkyrie and even Fenris all tilted their heads in confusion at the strange scene that was unfolding before them.
"Mommy! I love my Mama!" Hela happily cooed, back on the ship as she lovingly snuggled a rather confused and uncomfortable Loki.
"Thor?! Why is my biggest nightmare coming true?!" Loki demanded as he struggled to escape Hela's grasp.
"I'm not sure...Maybe her fight with Ragnarok permanently damaged her mind..." Thor somberly replied with a sigh of regret.
"Good! Allow me to put her out of her misery..." Valkyrie snarled as she began to approach the woman that was currently snuggling her lover.
"Valkyrie, no...she may be stuck like this for the rest of her life...She might not even remember a thing..." Thor explained with pity coating his voice.
"W-What?! N-No..." Loki gasped from horror at the idea of his sister suffering from permanent, brain damage. She may have caused him and his family a lot of grief but she was still part of the family that had taken him in, she was still a part of his family.
"I love you, Mommy!" Hela giggled once again as Loki flashed her a look of sympathy.
"Hela, I'm not your mother; I'm your brother! Don't you remember anything?" Loki begged as he worriedly made eye-contact with his damaged sister.
"I just remember that I love my Mommy!" Hela beamed as she once again embraced her sympathetic brother tightly. Loki hesitantly reached up to hug her in return, viewing this moment as an opportunity to give his sister the life with loving parents that she had never gotten to experience, the life he never got to experience.
"Loki, what are you doing?!" Valkyrie angrily demanded as she still did not trust Hela in the slightest.
"You heard Thor; she could be stuck like this for the rest of her life and she is my sister..." Loki defended with a sigh of sympathy.
"But what if she isn't? What if she remembers who she is and tries to..." Valkyrie trailed off as tears began to well up within her eyes. She did not even want to think about losing Loki at the hands of Hela but the fear she felt was just too strong to ignore.
"Well then, maybe she'll remember how much we loved her and took care of her while she was like this and she'll have a change of heart..." Loki suggested as he gently began to rock Hela to sleep.
"He has a point...We should give him a chance..." Thor agreed as he placed a hand on Valkyrie's shoulder to soothe her anxiety.
"Fine...If it will make you happy..." Valkyrie reluctantly agreed since she was still concerned for the safety of her future family.
"Thank you, darling..." Loki thanked gratefully as he lovingly smiled down at his sister, who was now asleep in his arms with a content smile.