Bringing Back Thor
As the Warriors reached Heimdall, he turned to look at them, his amber eyes holding knowledge and clear insight to everything.
"Good Heimdall, let us-"Volstagg started, but Heimdall cut him off.
"You would defy the commands of Loki and Eris, our King and Queen, break every oath that you have taken as warriors and commit treason, in order to bring Thor back?" Heimdall asked them, noticing the look of guilt that all four of the warriors shared at being reminded of what their act would mean.
"Yes, but-"Sif started but was also cut off by Heimdall.
"Good!" Heimdall told them as he walked towards the entrance.
"So you will help us?" Sif asked, watching him walk away.
"I am bound by honour to our king; I cannot open the bifrost to you."
"Complicated fellow isn't he?" Fandral asked as the Warriors all watched him walk away.
"Now what do we do?" Volstagg asked, his voice hinting upon despair.
Sif sighed and looked back at the portal, though was surprised to see that Heimdall's sword was opening the portal. "Look!" She managed to get all of the Warriors to look at the sword, and then they all ran towards the portal as the bifrost opened up. When they all landed onto Earth, they looked around lost.
"We must be close by, otherwise Heimdall wouldn't have sent us here." Volstagg started, no one seemed to notice Hogan walking away from the group. "It's time that we put our tracking skills to work, look for indentations of his boots."
"No, the wind would have blown them all away by now, we should look for signs of a campfire." Fandral told them.
The Lady Sif looked around and she soon spotted Hogun walking away, and she saw the town that he was walking towards. "Or we could just start there." She soon started running after Hogun as Volstagg and Fandral looked on after her.
"Well, it would be worth a start." Fandral nodded, and they too soon followed them.
Meanwhile back on Asgard, Loki was standing on a balcony overlooking the whole of Asgard, the sun shining off of his armour, yet for once he wore no helmet but still held the staff in one of his hands as his other held his wife's waist lightly touching her stomach, Eris was stood at his side, back into a formal dress, the light blue and silver one that her husband loved so much.
"My, liege." A guard suddenly spoke and they both turned to face him, watching him bow to them. "The Warriors Three and the Lady Sif have gone missing."
Loki looked over at his wife who looked both angry and confused, before he walked back inside, the guard following and then Eris went with him.
"Did you know something about this?" Loki asked her through her mind as she caught up to him.
"All I knew was that they wanted to bring Thor back, nothing more."
"Speak the truth to me, my dear wife."
"I swear to you my love that is all I know, I will find them for you if that is your wish."
"That won't be necessary, though what I wish is for you to take it easy and not do anything reckless whilst I deal with this little mishap is that clear?"
"Loki, I still have my own duties to do, but if I am called upon, you know that I cannot deny them my help, wherever they are."
"I know I just want you to be careful." He kissed her quickly, before he left her to her own devices as he walked towards the weapons vault, accessing the Destroyer device.
"Make sure that my brother doesn't return, destroy everything." Loki ordered it, and he soon made the Destroyer disappear, heading to Earth. However, unbeknown to Loki, Eris had witnessed the whole thing, and she actually didn't look amazed that Loki was capable of doing this, and she blended into the shadows and Loki walked past, before she headed back to her chambers and changed into her armour.
Whereas on Earth, the warriors had come across the town, and they ignored all the weird looks as they walked down the main street, though Volstagg stopped when he saw a little girl trying to fetch a ball from underneath a car, and he put his axe down.
"Hold on there, allow me." He told her, before he lifted one side of the car up, like it weighed nothing at all, and retrieved the ball that she was after, before he handed it to her. "Here you go little lass."
The girl looked up at him in amazement, before she smiled. "Thank you."
He smiled and watched her go back to playing before he joined the Warriors. "Is it just me, or does Earth look a little bit different to you?"
"Well it has been a thousand or so years." Sif reminded him.
"Well, change has happened so fast, I mean you leave for a millennium and look at the state of the place." Volstagg told them as he sat down, but as he did the warriors started to walk away again. They looked through every window that they could see through, and they eventually came to Jane's lab, and they all put on bright smiles as they all tapped the glass having found Thor.
"We found you!" They chorused, causing Jane and Darcy to jump and Thor to spin round, smiling.
"My, friends!" Thor laughed as they joined him inside the building.
When the Warriors were all inside the building, they started on their greetings to the midguardians who stood in front of them, still slightly shocked and surprised at their sudden arrival.
"Lady Jane, Lady Darcy." Fandral smiled, kissing their hands in turn, before Volstagg pulled them both into a hug and Hogun shook their hands.
"Eric!" They men then descended upon Eric, sharing man hugs and laughter as Lady Sif walked to the woman and hugged them in turn.
"Sif, Fandral, Hogun, Volstagg, what are you guys all doing here?" Jane asked, a bit over whelmed by it all.
"We came to find Thor and bring him home!" Volstagg cried out in joy.
"My friends, I cannot return home, Loki has informed me that my father has died because of the stress that my actions put him under." Thor told them sadly.
"Thor, your father lives; he fell into the Odinsleep after you were banished." Sif told him, and she looked confused whilst Thor's expression hardened as he realised his brother's betrayal. However they all rushed outside before more could be said, and they noticed that something was coming to Earth through the bifrost.
"Is someone else coming?" Darcy asked.
Meanwhile back on Asgard, Eris was in her room, just finishing up with getting dressed in her armour, and she hooked her swords to her belt. However, as she did Loki waked in and stopped looking at her.
"My Dear wife, where do you think that you are going?"
"To watch the Destroyer do its work on Midgard."
"You know." Loki asked her, his emerald green eyes meeting the beautiful hazel eyes of his wife.
"Yes, I know." She sighed. "I don't wish for us to argue over this my love, but please reconsider."
"What's done is done, our friends need to pay for their betrayal and Thor needs to remain in banishment, I'm sorry my love but this has to continue."
Eris sighed. "Just don't hate me for going to stop this." She kissed him gently. "I will be careful, you have my word, but this has to stop." She told him, before she left the room. "I love you."
That was the last thing that they said to each other, before Eris disappeared with speed, running down towards Heimdall, and she simply disappeared with ease and found herself appearing where the Warriors had before her, and she looked around at the number of broken cars and melted items that the Destroyer had come across. However, that was all forgotten when she saw the burning town ahead, and she took off running in that direction.
At Darcy's words, a large silver man walked towards them.
"The Destroyer." The Warriors and Thor breathed.
"Loki must have sent him after us after learning about our treason." Sif whispered and Thor looked at her, before everyone got into action, Thor telling Jane to go and hide, yet she refused and then the Midgardians and Thor setting about getting everyone else to safety, whilst the Warriors all lined up and got ready for battle.
"Distract it." Sif told them as she walked off to the side whilst the Warriors Three continued to walk in a straight line towards the Destroyer. They all watched as the Destroyer destroyed a petrol station, before Fandral and Hogun ran ahead of Volstagg and looked back at him, trying to stay out of the path of the flames, whilst the Destroyer got ever closer.
"For Asgard!" Volstagg yelled and when the Destroyer was close enough, Volstagg took a running jump towards the other warriors and they suddenly threw him in the direction of the Destroyer. However, he didn't count on the Destroyer suddenly hitting him and sending him backwards until he landed on his back on a car, in obvious pain. Volstagg, Fandral and Hogan looked on, as the Destroyer got set to finish Volstagg, but soon had a speared shoved through the back of its head by Lady Sif who had run along the rooftops and suddenly landed on its back, forcing it down. Sif looked at her fellow warriors, with an almost smug look on her face, however it soon vanished as the Destroyers body suddenly turned around and Sif just about managed to get out of the way as an energy blast from its mouth, landing on the floor.
"Fall back!" Sif yelled as she got up and ran back towards the others, as they dragged Volstagg up, and they all ran backwards, away from the Destroyer.
When they had all reached a distance that they deemed safe, for now, they all turned to watch the Destroyer as it came ever closer. However, the watched in surprise as it suddenly hit the floor on its front with two swords in its back, and then they heard a familiar voice.
"Next time, try and take on someone your own size!" Eris walked out of the dust clouds and she picked up her swords, running over to the others.
"Eris!" Sif, Jane and Darcy hugged her when she was close enough.
"We thought that you couldn't do this to your husband." Fandral asked.
Eris hugged them back, before she looked at Fandral. "I can't, but I told him that I can't stand by while he kills our friends."
"Eris!" Jane suddenly screamed, as the Destroyer had gotten back to its feet when they were all preoccupied, and it fired a beam at Eris, but she ended up deflecting it with one of her swords. As Eris tried to battle the Destroyer, the Warriors tried to protect Thor and the Midgardians, and they all looked at Eris in worry for her. As they fought, Eris was suddenly thrown into a wall, her swords ending up meters away from her, before she hit the floor, out cold. Sif and Jane watched, worriedly and Sif even had tears threatening to fall.
"Eris, get up!" Jane screamed.
"Eris, come on!" Thor ran to her, gently shaking her, and he looked up at the sky. "Brother, punish me, that is fine, but don't punish your wife!"
Unbeknown to everyone, Loki was sitting in the throne back on Asgard watching everything that was going on, however to the guards there, he looked like he was just staring at the far wall. His face was expressionless, as his lips rested against his hand as he watched and listened, and he didn't change even as he heard his brother's plea.
"Brother, whatever I have done to wrong you, I'm sorry. But these people are innocent, taking their lives will not bring you peace, especially not if it's Eris' life that you wish to take. So take mine and end this."
Loki watched as the Destroyer turned as if to leave when Thor walked to stand in front of it, but instead of leaving, it suddenly turned back and hit Thor was such force that it threw him miles away. He even heard his mortal scream Thor's name, and saw her run to him, but he also noticed his wife's movements, she was forcing herself to her feet, he prayed to himself that both her and their child was unharmed. Then Loki noticed the only movements that he had made, and that was to b suddenly standing on the edge of the top step in front of his throne, and he turned and walked back towards the throne, however something drew his attention and as he looked back down to Earth, he saw Thor suddenly receive his hammer. This was when Loki knew that he was in trouble, since Thor now had all of his power to return to Asgard, he would surely do that and go after Loki when he could, so Loki put the last few steps of his plan into action. He left the throne room and soon appeared at the Bifrost.
"Tell me Loki, how did the Jotuns get into Asgard?" Heimdall asked him when he approached.
"You think that the Bifrost is the only way in and out of Asgard? There are many secret passages to which even you with all of your gifts are blind." Loki replied. "But I have need of them no longer, now that I am King, I say that for your act of treason you are relieved of your duties as gatekeeper and no longer a citizen of Asgard." He told him, his voice holding nothing but anger.
"Then I need to no longer obey you." Heimdall told him, before he suddenly unsheathed his sword, and went to strike Loki, however as he did, Loki suddenly held the Casket of the Ancient Winters and used its power to freeze Heimdall in place, his Jotun form coming to light as he did. Once he was satisfied with his wok, he went inside the Bifrost and used the staff to open the portal, he smirked as Laufey, King of the Jotuns walked through with a handful of his men.
"Welcome to Asgard." Loki told him, and he and Laufey walked away with another one of Laufey's men, as two stayed behind to guard the Bifrost. This was going to turn into a war, and this jut made Loki smile more.