Thor jumps over a wall and uses Mjolnir to fly toward the palace. The guards, Volstagg and Fandrall are fighting the freed prisoners. Fandral says that its as if the prisoners resent being imprisoned.
Volstagg says that there's no pleasing some creatures.
"They're not very bright are they." Tony asked.
"Well, there is a reason I have taken to calling them the idiots 3." Loki said.
Loki is sitting in his cell, reading. A prisoner runs toward it and bounces off the barrier. Loki is unaffected.
"How are you just able to remain calm in a situation like that?" Peter asked.
Thor drops down and tells them to return to their cells and they'll be harmed no further.
"You think they're just going to listen to you?" Rocket asked. "They're prisoners blondie, that's not how they think."
A prisoner punches him in the face. Thor kicks the prisoner away, one grabs him from behind. He throws it off and kicks another one away.
"I am Groot."
"How is this going well?" Quill asked.
Odin is walking through the palace, guards follow him. He says to send a squadron to the weapons vault and defend it at all costs. He says to seal the dungeon.
Frigga and Jane walk up to them. Odin says that it's only a skirmish and there's nothing to fear.
Loki looked away from the screen. There was a lot to fear.
Frigga tells him that he's never been a good liar.
Loki and Thor glanced toward each other then back at the screen. Odin had, in fact, been a very good liar.
Sif walks by and glances at Jane.
"I'm sensing a little jealousy." Natasha said.
"The lady Sif has been infatuated with Thor since we were adolescents, not that Thor ever noticed, of course." Loki explained.
"No she hasn't, Sif and I are just friends." Thor denied.
"Not to her you're not." Loki teased.
Odin tells Frigga to take Jane to her chambers and he'll come for them when its safe.
Frigga tells him to take care.
Odin says that she still worries over him despite all he's survived.
Frigga says that he's only survived because she worries about him.
Thor and Loki smiled softly. She was right, if she hadn't always coddled over him he would probably be dead.
Frigga pulls put a small sword and tells Jane to listen to everything she says and ask no questions.
"Good, she has a plan." Wanda said.
The cloaked ship makes its way to the observatory. Heimdall notices, runs to it and grabs to knives to attack. He stabs the ship, uncloaking it.
"I've always wanted to know how Heimdall sees things." Thor said.
He stabs a weak spot on it, sending it crashing onto the bridge. He turns around to see another, larger one behind him. It sends 3 smaller ships to the palace.
"It was a distraction." Thor breathed.
"Dammit." A few people cursed.
The ships dodge some obstacles, the city opens fire. They dodge and one of the ships destroys the gun.
"Those ships are pretty sweet." Rocket said.
"Rocket, now is not the time." Gamora scolded..
A skiff starts chasing the ships, shooting at it. The skiff gets destroyed. Another skiff blows up one of the dark elf ships. Heimdall generates a force-field over the palace.
"That's useful." Shuri commented.
"Asgard has some pretty amazing technology." Tony said.
A ship crashes into the force-field. Their is a group of guards, dead by Algrim's hand. He walks down to where the force-field is being generated. He breaks it. The force-field comes down. The last dark elf ship gets to the palace. It crashes, breaking the columns.
"Shit." Everyone said, worriedly.
Loki and Thor tensed in their seats.
Down in the dungeons, Thor, Fandrall, Volstagg and Loki all take notice.
A few people held their breath.
A group of guards make their way to the ship. The ship doors open and the dark elves start shooting down the guards. One throws a grenade, type thing, that sucks a guard in.
"What the hell is that thing?" Bruce asked.
"A dark elf grenade." Thor responded.
They start killing more guards, another grenade gets thrown. Another group of guards runs in. Malekith walks out of the ship, two more dark elves follow.
Thor looked angry. "No!" He yelled.
He takes a grenade and throws it at the throne, the grenade sucks in the throne. Loki watches as the guards leave the dungeons. Odin walks into the room where the dark elves landed, he kills the remaining one. He says Frigga's name.
Thor gasped. Mother was surely okay, right? She had to be. He tried re re-assure himself, but it did nothing to soothe his panic. Something bad was going to happen to her, he could feel it. What if she died? He couldn't bear the thought.
Loki felt a pang of despair, that brought tears to his eyes. It was bad enough that he knew she was dead, but now he had to watch her die?
Malekith opens the door to Frigga's chambers, Jane stands up and hides behind Frigga. Frigga tells him to stand down and he may still survive.
Thor looked nervous. The bad feeling in his gut returning.
Malekith says that he's survived worse.
Frigga asks him who he is.
Malekith tells her his name and says that he would have what is his.
Thor growled, fingers itching for his hammer. Wanting to protect the two of them from harm.
Jane hided, Frigga strikes him across the face with her sword.
"Beat his ass." Shuri yelled, in a deep voice.
"Your guys' mom's a badass." MJ said.
Malekith pulls out his own sword and they start fighting. Frigga now has her sword to his throat, Jane watches. Frigga sees Algrim standing there and goes to fight him, Algrim takes her by the throat.
"No." Thor whispered, tears in his eyes, the bad feeling in his gut getting stronger with every second that passed.
Malekith stalks toward Jane and says that she's taken something and tells her to give it back.
Thor growled, that monster better not hurt Jane.
He goes to grab her, the duplication of Jane fades away.
Thor sighed in relief, a small mercy.
He turns to Frigga, calls her a witch and asks where the Aether is.
Frigga says that she'll never tell him.
Makelith says he believes her. Algrim stabs her.
"No!" Thor screamed. He started silently crying. Mother was dead, he felt empty now and angry, he wanted so badly to kill that monster, if it was the last thing he did.
Loki, face pale, eyes wide and wet from tears flinched when Algrim stabbed her. He still vividly remembered this day, its haunted him for the past 5 years.
Thor screams. He hits Malekith in the face with his lightening. Algrim grabbed Malekith and they fled, Thor threw his hammer at them. He looks down at Frigga's body. Odin walks into the room, Jane comes out from hiding. Odin cradles the Queens head in his arms.
Everyone had tears in their eyes. Thor wiped at his cheeks, only for them to become wet with tears once more.
Frigga is lying in a bed, in a boat, sword over her legs. The boat floats down a river. Asgardians stand next to the river with glowing orbs in their hands.
"Long live the Queen." Thor whispered, not trusting his voice.
Loki felt a familiar bitterness in his veins, but squashed it down, before could say anything irrational, that he might regret.
Sif, Odin, Thor and Jane, Fandral and Volstagg are all shown watching.
"They didn't let you go?" Thor asked, voice cracking. Loki sniffed and shook his head.
A guard lights an arrow and shoots it at the boat. The boat floats off the edge of the waterfall. Blue sparks float up from the boat, and the boat falls. Heimdall is shown watching from the observatory. The Asgardians release the glowing orbs.
Everyone, yes even Fury, had tears in their eyes as they watched. It was a beautiful yet devastating scene.
Loki is in a cell reading, a guard informs him of Frigga's passing. Loki nods and the guard leaves. Loki puts his book down and walks to the middle of the room. He clenches his fists and all of the furniture is thrown to the sides of the cell.
A few people flinched, realizing that not only did he have to grieve alone, but he was also feeling guilty.
Loki looked at his lap, tears falling onto his legs.
Erik is teaching people about the convergence. He says that the universe rotates on a 5,000 year cycle and once the cycle is complete, all of the worlds align.
Thor looked impressed, so this is what Selvig was talking about, and everyone thought he was mad. He studies the convergence as well.
He picks up a shoe and says to imagine that its their world. One of the patients hands him another shoe Erik says to imagine that its another world. He says that normally they're separate but when the worlds align they're connected.
"So his mind is still intact, but other parts of him are still a little muddled." Clint realized, still silently praying that he doesn't go crazy.
He brings the shoes together and says that the nine realms are passing through each other and gravity, light and matter is crunching from one realm to another.
"So all of those things that they dropped, got lost on another planet?" Bruce asked.
He says that the result would be cataclysmic of this happened now.
"Because of those god forsaken elves in creepy masks." Tony muttered.
He says that his gravimetric spikes can stabilize the focal point of the convergence and says that the alignment would pass them by and its beautiful. he asks if anyone has questions.
"I have a few." Scott said.
An old man(Stan Lee) Raises his hand and asks if he can have his shoe back.
A few people laughed. "There's that guy again." Shuri said. "He has been in every film we have watched so far."
Everyone looked at the screen in recognition. He has been in every single one of these films. Who was this guy?
Malekith and Algrim are on their ship. Algrim, in Shiväisith, tells Malekith to heal because he'll need his strength to reclaim the Aether and when he wakes up they'll kill them all.
"I wish you good luck, because you've just made some very powerful gods very angry." Rocket said.
Jane is sitting on a couch, rubbing her arm. Outside, the Aether is floating in the sky, everything turns red, Jane's eyes turn black.
"You need to get that out of her as soon as possible. Its killing her." Gamora said.
"No." Thor whispered, helplessly.
Tyr tells her that she needs to come with him.
Thor looked scared, what were they going to do with Jane. Where were they taking her?
Fandral is talking to a group of guards and Odin. Fandral says that they are unable to restore the shields. He says that their artilery cannot detect the Dark Elves and Heimdall can't see them. He tells Odin that they're defenceless.
"That's not good news."
Thor enters and asks Odin if Jane's his prisoner. He tells the group to leave. They leave.
Odin tells Thor that he doesn't wish to fight with him.
Thor says he doesn't want to fight with Odin either but he intents to peruse Malekith.
"As you should." Clint said.
Odin says that Malekith will come to them because they possess the Aether.
"Which is exactly why we should bring the fight to him." Thor said.
"Honestly, its like he didn't see the destruction Malekith just caused." Carol said.
Odin tells Thor that he's overestimating the power of the Dark Elves.
"No, I think its you who underestimates it." Thor said.
Thor says that he values their people's lives. He says that he'll take Jane to the Dark World and draw the Dark Elves away from Asgard. He says that the Aether will be exposed and vulnerable when Malekith pulls it from Jane. He says that he will destroy the Aether and Malekith.
"Except you forget that the Aether cannot be destroyed." Strange said
Odin tells him that if he fails he's risking the Aether falling into Malekith's hands.
"Everything is a risk now, you risk the deaths of your people if you keep the fighting on Asgard, and you risk the weapon getting into Malekith's hands if you take the fight to him. There is no upside to this." Vision said.
Thor says that the risk if greater if they do nothing. He says that Malekith's ship could be there right now and they wouldn't know it.
"Listen to your son, Odin." Hope said.
Odin says that when Malekith comes his men will fall by 10,000 Asgardian blades.
Thor asks how many of their men will fall on the Dark Elves' blades.
Odin says as many as they need.
"He's being irrational in his grief." Natasha noticed.
Thor made a noise of agreement, worried for his father.
Odin says that they will fight to the last Asgardian breath and the last drop of Asgardian blood.
"That's not very good leadership." Steve said.
Thor asks how they're any different than Malekith.
Odin says that the difference is he will win.
"That's wishful thinking." Peggy said.
Darcy and Ian are watching the news. Darcy says that Jane, Erik and SHIELD aren't calling her back.
"You gave her a way to contact you?" Tony asked.
Ian asks what SHIELD is.
Darcy says that it's a secret.
"If it was a secret, then why would you say the name aloud?" Sam asked.
Darcy calls Erik again. She leaves a message saying that Thor came back and took Jane to asgard and she isn't sure what she should do.
"Well, at least she's asking for help." Shuri said.
The reporter on the TV is talking about Erik. He says that something went missing when Erik streaked across Stonehenge.
"Wait, went missing, what's missing?" Scott asked.
"Selvig's sanity." Tony said.
Ian tells Darcy that she needs to look at the TV and asks for Erik's last name.
The reporter says that Erik began shouting at visitors at the site and he was taken into custody for psychiatric evaluation. Ian pauses the TV.
"Selvig has been put in a psychiatric hospital?" Thor asked, what was a psychiatric hospital?
As if sensing Thor's confusion, Natasha chimed in. "Its a place where people who... essentially have lost their mind go." She said.
Heimdall joins Thor at a table. Thor notes that he wasn't at Odin's war council.
Heimdall takes off his helmet and says that the Bifrost is closed at Odin's orders and no one can come or go. He says that they're facing an enemy that is invisible to even him and asks of what use is he.
Thor sighed, hopelessly. How is he going to fix this? Heimdall can't see them, and father wont bring the fight to them. Asgard is making themselves vulnerable, susceptible to attack.
Thor says that Malekith will return and he needs Heimdall's help.
Heimdall tells him that he can't overrule Odin's wishes.
Thor says that he's not asking him to. He says that the realms need Odin strong and unchallenged but Odin is blinded by hatred and grief.
"He does not know what he is doing. The problems it will cause." Thor said in reference to Odin.
Heimdall says they all are.
Thor says that he is seeing clearly enough.
Heimdall says that the risks are too great.
"They always will be." T'Challa said.
Thor says that everything they do from there is a risk. He says that there's no other way.
Heimdall asks what Thor requires of him.
"Essentially... treason. No big deal." Scott said.
Thor is now sitting with Heimdall, Sif, Fandral and Volstagg. Thor says that what he's asking him to do is treason of the highest order. Three cloaked figures are walking through the palace.
"Yep, called it." Scott said.
He says that their success would mean their exile but their failure would mean their deaths.
A few people tensed in their chairs.
Thor says that Malekith knew that the Aether was on Asgard because he can sense its power. He says that he'll come for it again if they don't do anything and he'll lay waste to Asgard. He says that they need to get Jane off world.
"Good idea, how do you plan to do that?" Strange asked. "There's more than one way off Asgard than the bifrost." Thor said.
Sif reminds him that the Bifrost is destroyed and the Tesseract is locked in the weapons vault.
Heimdall says that there other paths off Asgard that are only known to few.
Thor says that they're only known to one.
"You." Clint said to Loki.
"Me." Loki smirked.
"No." Volstagg says.
Loki looked offended.
Thor walks up to Loki's cell, which is now put together. Loki makes a comment about Thor finally coming to visit him after all this time. He asks Thor if he came to gloat ot mock.
Thor looked away, guiltily. Had he really not thought to visit his brother?
Thor tells him no more illusions.
"You can see through that?" Strange asked.
"Not usually, but I must have known that there is no way Loki would have been completely fine after finding out mother died." Thor hypothesized.
Loki sighs and puts his head down. The illusion lifts. The room is still destroyed, Loki is sitting on the floor, disheveled.
A few people gasped at seeing Loki in such a state.
Loki says that Thor sees him now. Thor walks over to another side of the cell to see Loki better. Loki asks if Frigga suffered.
Thor says he didn't come there to share their grief.
"Thor, you two just lost your mother, he didn't even get to go to the funeral, at least grant him that mercy." Bruce said.
He says that he's offering Loki a far richer sacrament.
Loki tells him to continue.
Thor says that he knows Loki seeks vengeance as much as he does.
"A very astute observation." Loki said dryly.
He tells Loki that if he helps him escape Asgard he'll grant him vengeance and afterward the cell.
Loki laughs and says that Thor must be desperate to come to him for help. He asks Thor what makes him think he can trust him.
Thor says he doesn't.
Loki winced, he knew he deserved that, he knew it was coming, having already lived it, but it still hurt.
He says that Frigga trusted him. He says that when they fought in the past he did so with a glimmer of hope that Loki was still in there. He tells Loki that that hope no longer exists to protect him.
Thor frowned. He had actually given up on Loki.
Thor says that if Loki betrays him he'll kill him.
"You can try." Loki corrected. "We both know you won't. Even if you say you will, you can't."
Loki smiles and asks when the start.