Jane is sitting in her bed reading when someone bangs on the door, she gets up and opens it, revealing Thor carrying a very drink Erik. Jane asks if Erik's okay.
Thor says he is fine and uninjured, he accidentally hits Erik's head on a wall. He apologizes.
Jane asks what happened.
Thor says that they drank and fought and that Erik made his ancestors proud.
Jane tells him to put Erik on the bed.
Erik says that he doesn't believe that Thor's the God of Thunder but he should be.
"How are you fine, but he's pretty much blacked out?" Tony asked.
"On Asgard our alcohol is much stronger so we have a higher tolerance, we also probably drink more." Thor says.
Thor asks if these are Jane's chambers.
Jane says that its a temporary living situation. She starts to tidy up the place and says that she never has guests and then takes a dirty bowl out of the cupboard and places it in the sink.
"Awkward." Sam said
She asks if they could go outside.
He and Jane are now sitting in front of a fire.
Jane says she comes out there when she cant sleep, when she's trying to reconcile particle data and when Darcy's driving her crazy.
A few people laughed.
She says she's g;as thor's safe.
Thor says that she's been kind to him and that he's been less grateful than she deserves.
Jane says that they're even because she hit him with her car twice.
"Which was hilarious." Loki said. Thor rolled his eyes.
Thor pulls out Jane's notebook and says that its all he could get back and apologizes for it not being as much as he promised.
"You have made the woman very happy." Shuri said.
JAne thanks him and says that she doesn't have to start from scratch.
Thor asks her what's wrong.
Jane says that SHIELD is going to make sure that her research never sees the light of day.
The scientists glared at the SHIELD agents.
Thor tells her not to give up and that she needs to finish what she started.
Jane asks him why.
Thor tells her that she's right. He opens the book to a display of different planets and says that her ancestors called it magic and she calls it science and that he comes from a place where they're the same thing.
"I would very much like to go there please." Tony said
"Father doesn't take kindly to mortals on Asgard." Thor said.
At the same time, Valkyrie tried to say that it was destroyed, Loki covered her mouth, she licked his hand. "Did you just lick me?"
"Your hand was on my mouth." She said.
"That doesn't mean you can lick me." Loki said and brushed his palm off on her shoulder.
"Once you've entered my mouth I can do whatever I want." Valkyrie said.
Thor drew something on the page Jane asks what it is.
Thor says that her world is one of the 9 realms linked by the branches of Yggdrasil and that she sees it everyday from the images seen through the Hooble telescope.
People laughed.
Jane corrects his pronunciation and asks him to tell her more.
Thor lists the 9 realms and says he comes from Asgard. Thor and Jane are now lying in lawn chairs, Jane is asleep.
"That was a cute moment." Pepper said. Thor smiled.
Sif and the warriors three are gathered in a room. Volstagg is eating Fandrall is scolding him he says that their dearest friend is banished, Loki is on the throne and Asgard is on the brink of war. He says that Volstagg has managed to eat 4 wild boar, 6 pheasants, a side of beef, and 2 casks of ale. he then asks Volstagg is he cares.
"Jeez how much can this guy eat?" Steve asked, astonished.
"Volstagg loves food." Thor said.
Volstagg asks them not to mistake his appetite for apathy.
Sif tells them to stop arguing and says that they know what they need to do.
Hogun says that they need to find Thor.
"Not too sure that's the best idea." Rocket said.
"I mean, I'm all for it but yeah...a lot of things could go wrong." Quill said.
Fandrall protests saying that its treason.
Volstagg says its suicide.
Sif argues that Thor would do the same for them and tells them to be quiet because Heimdall might be watching.
The door opens and a guard steps in and says that Heimdall requests their presence.
Volstagg says that they're doomed.
"Are they actually doomed though?" Peter asked.
"It depends on what you classify as doomed." Thor said.
They are now in a different room, with Heimdall who asks if they would defy Loki, break every oath they've taken and commit treason to bring Thor back.
"Give them a break, man they just want their friend back." Ned said.
Sif says that they will.
Heimdall says that that's good.
Sif asks if he'll help them.
Heimdall says he is bound to honor their king and that he can't open the bifrost to them.
"So he wont help them?" Quill asked.
"I think Heimdall's saying that he wont physically help them, but he's giving them access to what they need to bring Thor home." Natasha said.
Fandrall makes a comment about Heimdall being a complicated person.
Volstagg asks what they're supposed to do.
Sif turned around and notices that Heimdall left his sword.
"Told you." Natasha said, though almost nobody doubted that she was right.
Loki is shown watching the four of them leave.
"Uh-oh."
They land on Earth. In the shield base, Coulson walks over to a technician and asks what it was.
The tech says he doesn't know and that they just got massive energy reading out of nowhere and tells Coulson where they came from.
Coulson says they should take a look.
"This is so intense." Scott whispered.
Erik, Darcy, Thor and Jane are all in a kitchen. Thor walks over to Jane with two plates, Jane puts some eggs on them, he gives the plates to Darcy and thanks him.
"This is oddly domestic." Clint said with a small smile. Natasha gave him a knowing look, confusing everyone else.
Loki is shown walking into the weapons vault, he opens the wall and the Destroyer steps out and tells it to ensure that Thor doesn't return and tells it to destroy everything.
Everyone glared at Loki, they wanted to hit him but Loraine said they couldn't physically fight and they really didn't want to find out what she would do if they did.. "Dick!" Clint shouted. Loki sighed and looked down. He does regret his actions, some of them anyway, not that he'd ever let anyone know that...yet.
Sif and the warriors three are walking down the street, people give them funny looks. Two people are standing on a roof one of them asks if there's a renascence fair in town.
The other says to call it in.
"Shakespeare in the park?" Tony asked. Thor chuckled.
The man says that they have Xena, Jackie Chan and Robin Hood.
Everyone laughed at the nicknames.
Thor, Jane, Darcy and Erik are all in the kitchen still. Erik tells Jane that she has a beautiful theory but she won't be able to convince the scientific community of any of it without concrete evidence.
Sif and the warriors three appear at the door with smiles on their faces.
"To anyone who wasn't expecting that, it looks creepy. Just four random strangers appear at your door." Scott said.
Volstagg says that they found him.
Thor greets them and they hug.
Erik says he doesn't believe it.
Volstagg introduces them.
Thor says that he's happy to see them but they shouldn't've come.
"They shouldn't have, It is technically treason, they defied the Allfather but its a good thing they did." Thor said, sending a glare toward Loki, who pretended not to notice.
Fandrall says that they came to take him home.
Thor says he cant go home and that Odin is dead because of him and he needs to remain in exile.
Thor smacked Loki. Still mad that he made him believe that Odin dies because of his actions.
Sif tells Thor that Odin is alive.
"Shits about to go down."
Heimdall is standing on the bridge. Loki walks up to him. Heimdall asks Loki how he got the Jotuns into Asgard.
Loki tells him that the bifrost isn't the only way in and out of the realm and that there are secret paths that even Heimdall can't see.
"But that begs the question, how did you find out about them?" Gamora asked.
"I read." Loki responded. He spent a lot of his formative years in the library- there were books and documents about so many things that people didn't pay any mind to anymore.
Loki says that he no longer has need of the paths now that he's king and relieves Heimdall of his duties because he committed treason and says that he is no longer a citizen of Asgard.
"Am I the only one who's still really confused as to what the actual plan is here?" Quill asked.
"Explain." Thor angrily commanded.
"So you all know the original plan was to delay Thor's coronation, that changed when I found out I was a Jotun. I let Laufey into Asgard so that I can kill him, I sent the Destroyer to distract Thor, Sif and the others and I relieved Heimdall of his duties so I could use the bifrost to destroy Jotunheim." Loki explained.
"Why!?" Everyone yelled.
"Wait you tried to commit genocide?" Steve asked, but it fell on deaf ears.
"You'll find that out soon enough." Loki said.
Heimdall says he no longer needs to obey Loki.
"Logic."
Heimdall pulls out his sword to attack, Loki pulls out the casket and freezes him.
Everyone watched with a mixture of anger and horror on their faces. Loki watched in guilt.
Coulson and a group of agents are at the site the warriors three and Sif arrived at and says to get someone from linguistics.
The sky starts darkening. Thor and his friends all walk over to the doors and look. The cloud touches down.
Darcy asks if someone else was coming.
"No."
The clouds blow away and the destroyer appears. Someone asks if it was one of Tony's.
Coulson says he doesn't know because Tony never tells him anything.
"I tell you stuff." Tony protested. Coulson looked at him, doubtfully.
Coulson picked up a megaphone and tells the destroyer that it is using unregistered weapons technology and asks it to identify itself. The destroyer stops walking it's 'face' opens and flames reside behind it. Coulson yells 'incoming' and all of the agents run for cover. The destroyer shoots at the cars.
"Jesus."
Thor and his friends are in the middle of the road. Thor tells Jane to leave.
Jane asks Thor what he's going to do.
Thor says he's staying.
Volstagg says that Thor is going to fight with them.
Thor says that he'd only be in the way or get one of them killed because he is only a mortal. He says he can get the civilians to safety.
"You learned your lesson." May said, sounding like a proud mother. Even if he was sent to Earth and punished because of something he was coerced into doing, Thor had still grown a lot while on Earth it seemed.
"I did." Thor said.
Jane says the she's staying if Thor is.
"Not a good idea." T'Challa said.
Thor says they need time.
Erik says he'll get them some.
Darcy tells everyone to move.
Erik walks into the diner and tells everyone to leave and that they can eat later.
Thor and Jane help a man put some kids in the bed of his truck.
The destroyer appears and shoots a building.
Sif and the warriors three walk up to it. Sif tells them to keep it distracted.
Sif and Fandrall throw Volstagg at it.
"Reminds me of get help." Thor mused. Loki froze.
"What's get help?" Valkyrie asked.
The destroyer knocks him away and then walks up to him. Sif jumps down from where she was and stabs it through the neck.
"Ok, its dead." Ned breathed.
"No, its not." Thor said.
The destroyer came back to life and reformed its body so it was now facing Sif. It shoots at the sky and Sif jumps off. The destroyer shoots at a row of buildings. It then shoots at the warriors, knocking them into a building.
Volstagg stands up and the destroyer shoots at him. Thor runs over to Sif, who is ducked behind a car. Thor tells her that she's done all she can.
Sif says that she will die a warriors death and people will tell stories about it.
"Warriors death?" Gamora asked.
"To die in battle. In Asgard it is the most honorable way to go." Thor explained.
Thor tells her to live and tell the stories herself. The destroyer shoots at the car and Sif runs.
Thor runs over to the warriors and tells them to go to Asgard and stop Loki.
Fandrall asks what Thor will do.
Thor says he has a plan.
Jane tells him to wait and the group around her stops and turns around.
Thor walked up to the destroyer. Jane asks what he's doing.
Thor apologizes for whatever he did to wrong Loki.
Loki sighed. "You're not the one who should apologize." He said slowly. After a minute, he added- "And, I am very sorry for what I did to you and your friends."
Thor looked at him suspiciously. Loki had never been one to apologize, it just wasn't something he did. He would find a way to make it up to you but the words 'I'm sorry' rarely left his mouth. "Forgive me if I don't entutely believe you." He said, not angrily, just a smidgen untrusting.
"You don't have to. But I will say in the time I'm from, I have come to realize many things." Loki responded. He left out the part that he only realized those things because both of their parents are dead, but that's not the point.
Loki is shown listening to Thor's words. Thor tells him that these people are innocent and he'll gain nothing from killing them. Thor tells Loki to kill him and end it. The destroyers 'face' closes.
"Hey, you got through to him." Tony said.
The destroyer punches Thor in the face. He starts falling, Jane runs to him. Thor says it's over.
Jane says it isn't.
Thor says it is and Jane's safe.
Thor closes his eyes. Jane, Sif an Erik look over at them.
Loki turns around and walks away, the destroyer does the same.
Jane, Darcy and Volstagg look like they're about to cry.
"Wait, did you die?" Scott asked.
"Something like that." Thor said.
Odin is shown, still sleeping. A tear slips out of his eye.
The words Odin spoke to enchant Mjolnir are heard.
A few people made noises of excitement.
In the SHIELD tent, the hammer starts freeing itself from the rocks, it flies up and toward them. Erik panics and tries to get Jane away from Thor, she protests. The hammer flies into Thor's hand.
"You're worthy again!" Everyone cheered.
Loki turns around and so does the destroyer. Thor's armor starts piecing together around him. Sif and the warriors three share a smile. Jane looks shocked.
Thor throws the hammer at the destroyer. Then creates a cyclone thing. The destroyer shoots at him. The destroyer gets lifted off the ground and Thor blocks its next hit, driving Mjolnir through its 'face, killing it. It falls to the ground and Thor lands.