As I watched the golden ashes of the man that was the former god of Thunder float up into the warriors heaven known as Valhalla, I took a deep breath with a euphoric smile as I felt the rush of power racing through my veins, the storm around me rumbling as azure blue and shining gold lightning raced through the skies almost as if they were celebrating my ascension.
However, I was more focused on the fact that I could actually feel the storm around me, reaching my open hand to the sky before clenching it shut.
The moment I did so, the tornado stopped in its tracks and stood still, the lightning doing the same as I looked up in shock before a bark of surprised laughter escaped my lips as I crouched and leapt up high into the sky.
Grabbing onto the first lightning bolt that floated nearest to me, I spun around it like it was a bar before leaping to the next, a bit shocked to find that the lightning bolt I grabbed was following after me before grinning as I grasped the one I was heading for.
Jumping off of this one gave the same result as I jumped to the next one and the next until I was high up in the sky, my hands spread wide and looking up at the beautiful sun shining into the tornado as I felt the lightning attaching to my body like a cape.
With a grunt, I spun and whipped the lightning cape behind me, the force of it sending me flying up high through the clouds and into the bright blue sky above them.
As I looked around at the sea of pure white and grey clouds all around with the one circle of dark clouds right below, I couldn't help the awe I felt as I could feel a connection with each one, the lightning trail that was behind me slowly spreading out until each of the clouds within my sight had a bit of spark in them.
With a thought, the clouds all vanished and left nothing but a vast grassy meadow below me, a smile appearing on my face as the clouds returned once more but this time in the form of a raging storm.
Rain poured down by the liters, blizzards covered the grassy ground in thick layers of snow and hail fell from the heavens in the form of jagged icicles, with me being utterly shocked at my power as I stopped everything and slowly floated back down.
'…Holy shit, I am so much more powerful than I expected.' In the movies, Thor had shown feats of being able to change the weather, but that was only in the times of Endgame and such.
Was me killing off the other Thor and accepting myself as the new one really enough to put myself on that level…or was Thor always this strong and he just holds back all the time?
'I'm going to go with both to make myself feel better and to throw more shade at that damned idiot to make him look bad even though I liked talking to him.' I thought with a smirk before tuning back out of my thoughts as I landed on the ground, looking around with a slightly confused frown before looking up at the sky.
"Hey, uh, Mjolnir? Do you think it may be possible for you to bring me…back?" I was utterly bewildered as I found myself standing in the middle of the desert before I could finish my sentence, feeling Mjolnir's familiar weight in my left before tossing it around and giving it a few swings.
"You know, you are eerily light for a hammer that could make Jotunheim shake." I spoke, watching as Mjolnir's answer was to make itself spark before I frowned as I looked in the direction that I had just came from.
More specifically, the direction Mjolnir had come from.
"Mjolnir, how am I worthy when I haven't even sacrificed myself to save others?" I didn't expect the hammer to respond as I didn't see any proof that it was sentient enough to do so, but to my surprise, I instead found myself staring at a memory of me standing in between Coulson and his agents and Jane, Darcy & Erik.
The next moment, I was back in the desert, looking down at the hammer in shock as I processed what I just experienced.
"So, because I stood up against Coulson and his agents trying to take Jane's research while having guns pointed at me, I was worthy?" I asked and its answer was to whisk me into another one, but this time, I was but one of the many standing in a crowd as another me knelt in front of Odin.
"Thor Odinson, my heir, my first-born. So long entrusted with the mighty hammer, Mjolnir. Forged in the heart of a dying star. It's power has no equal! as a weapon to destroy, or as a tool to build. It is a fit companion for a king. I have defended Asgard, and the lives of the innocent across the Nine Realms, in the time of the Great Beginning. And though the day has come for a new King... Do you swear to guard the Nine Realms?"
"I swear."
"And do you swear to preserve the peace?"
"I swear."
"Do you swear, to cast aside all selfish ambition, and to pledge yourself only to the good of the realms?"
"I swear!"
As I watched myself swearing vows to Odin, I smiled softly as the memory vanished just like the one before, looking down at the armour as it sparked with electricity.
" 'A fit companion for a king', eh? Is that what you wanted me to see?" I asked with a smirk as those words had been louder than the others as if Mjolnir wanted to emphasise them, the hammer simply sparking brightly & even letting off a soft boom before turning its electricity output back to normal.
"Well, I don't know what makes me a king, but we'll find out together, won't we partner?" I chuckled as Mjolnir responded with a powerful lightning bolt being fired up and discharging in the sky in response to my words, nodding my head while spinning the hammer rapidly as I turned in the direction of the city we just left.
"Well, then let's get back to our regular scheduling of getting that date with Darcy." I answered before swinging Mjolnir to the sky, feeling myself being ripped through the sky at a blistering pace before changing my direction and flying towards Puento Antiguo.
Landing outside the warehouse where I had last seen Darcy & the others with a loud thud, I looked around before frowning as I found the place completely empty, tapping Mjolnir against my head before shaking it as I began waking my way towards the diner we used to eat at.
On the way, I smiled and waved at the people I passed, confusing and amusing most that I passed while the rest looked in awe at my attire, puffing out my chest at those looks and spinning Mjolnir in my grasp before blinking as I saw four familiar faces when I got near the diner.
'Wait a second. Are those…? That's right! They're supposed to have come here, but have they arrived a few days earlier or am I messing up the timeline here?' I thought with a frown as I walked closer, not surprised to see the Warrior Three and Sif walking out of the diner alongside Jane, Darcy and Erik.
The seven of them on the other hand looked very surprised as they saw me approach, with me giving them a smile & a wave just moments before I found myself being hugged tightly by three smiling idiots.
"Bwahahaha! Glad to see you're still alive, brother! And with your powers back too! Have you proven yourself worthy of being a god?!" Volstagg asked with a belly laugh and I grinned and nodded as I patted all three of them on the shoulders.
"It took more than I was expecting, but I survived only through the grace of the All-Father." That wasn't true, but it seemed to have work as the Warrior Three nodded before I looked up to see Sif giving me an amused smirk.
"Not just getting your powers back, but I see you've decided to take a Midgardian as your bride?"
"Woahwoahwoah! Woah! Who said anything here about marriage?!" Darcy asked with a panicked smile, Jane giggling and Erik palming his face as I simply stared at Sif's stifling her laughter before shaking my head as I looked at the nervous Darcy.
"She jests. Sif loves making fun of those in a relationship because she can't find someone to have one of her own."
"Ooh~ Those are some tough words from the god that got rejected by yours truly." Sif spoke with a smirk and the two of us looked at each other for a long while before both of us burst into laughter, wrapping Sif in a one-armed hug before patting her on the back as she pulled back.
"It's good to see that Asgard's greatest female warrior has not grown soft in my leave."
"If only I could, but unfortunately with you gone and Loki running amok and ruling our home as he pleases, I had to become the brains amongst the group to make sure these three idiots don't try to challenge him for rulership."
"Hey, that is most certainly not true!"
"That's right! None of us three would even think of trying to take away something that belongs to Thor!" Fandral spoke in agreement of Volstagg's words, Hogun staying silent and nodding as I smiled at the four of them bickering before turning as I heard someone clear their throat.
"Ahem! So, Mr. God of Thunder, I see you weren't lying." Darcy spoke with a smirk and I shrugged as I left the Warrior Three and Sif to argue with each other and walked over to the three that found me when I arrived on Earth.
"As you can see, I did not. Is this enough proof, sir Erik?" I asked and watched as the man looked at me before a bark of laughter flew from my lips as the man snorted in a joking way and shook his head.
"Nope, not at all."
"Ah, then I suppose nothing will change your mind. As for you, Ms. Foster, do you still wish to learn of the ways of Asgard as well as the other realms out there?"
"I-I thought I wasn't supposed to be publishing stuff that would break this unspoken law between countries?"
"Like they said, nothing that is about me can be published. They didn't say anything about them." I answered while gesturing towards the other four Asgardians behind us, who stopped arguing to look at us with a bewildered look while Jane's eyes widened before I watched as the woman smiled brightly and rushed towards her van.
As the woman rushed back with a notepad and her laptop, I turned to the four only to see them trying to sneak away, but to their surprise, I quickly reached out and grabbed all four in a bear hug, the four of them glaring at me as I grinned and carried them towards the diner.
"You owe us so much for this, Thor." Sif spoke with a growl and I nodded as I continued to carry them, placing all four down at a table in front of an excited Jane before walking back out just as the woman began to fire rapid questions at them.
"How long will that keep her busy?"
"You mean how long until your friends try to sneak away? One or two hours depending on how restless they get with her questions."
"Good. Just enough for a quick date then?" I asked while looking at Darcy, but before the girl could answer, I looked up just as a pillar of rainbow energy slammed down in the far distance, staring at it while stopping the other Asgardians from trying to rush towards it as Mjolnir sparked in anticipation.
"You four stay here and protect them and this town. Darcy, when I return, I promise that we are going on that date."
"Aw~ I can't come with you."
"If she wants, I'll come with to protect her." Sif proposed, the other three giving her betrayed looks and as I stared at Darcy's hopeful look, I sighed and nodded before surprising Darcy as I wrapped an arm around her waist and began to spin Mjolnir rapidly.
"Sif, meet you there."
"But of course~" The Goddess of War spoke with a smile before taking off with a lunge, not even disturbing the ground with her sprinting as she vanished from my sight within just a few seconds.
"Hang out tight."
"What do you mean by thaaaaaat~!" Darcy squealed as Mjolnir plucked us off from the ground and through the air at a breakneck pace, quickly creating a layer of air around us to reduce friction and give Darcy a way to breathe as she took deep gulps of air before glaring at me.
"Do that again and I'm hitting your ass with my tazer again."
"That would only heal me." I answered as we flew through the air, to which she huffed before finally noticing how fast we were approaching the ground, with me rolling my eyes as she squealed moments before I landed us both safely on the ground next to an amused Sif.
"That was far slower than your usual flight speed, Thor."
"Could not help it. I had a passenger to care for."
"This passenger wants to kick you in the balls, but knows that doing so would just hurt me more than you." Darcy spoke up from where she was kneeling on the ground while taking deep breaths, to which I gave Sif a look that made her smile before we turned as we heard an explosion in front of us.
"Ah, it is a pleasure to see you again, son of Coul!" I waved with a smile, the agent simply giving me a stare before quickly diving out and away from his cover right as the Destroyer unleashed another beam at the destroyed car and reduced it to atoms.
"I don't suppose this is yours, is it?"
"It is my father's, though since it only answers to the ruler of Asgard, that means that it is my brother's. Is that not right, Loki?!" I called out to the Destroyed, which stopped its attack to stare at me before it started walking towards me just as I walked towards it.
"I do not know what ails your mind nor do I know what I have done to wrong you, but what I do know is that my brother is not to let his mind be the better of him. If it is my fault, I am truly sorry, but taking the lives of these people, hurting them to heal your own pain…it will only worsen the pain you feel right now. So brother, I ask this of you, please return the Destroyer to Asgard and let us talk this out like brothers." I spoke to Loki as I stood still in front of the Destroyer, looking up at it as it stared down at me before I let out a soft sigh as its masked lowered to reveal a beam already charged up.
"So be it." My voice rumbled across the barren plains as the Destroyer went to fire its beam right before I smacked it up high into the sky, thunder booming above us as dark clouds gathered before a lightning bolt flew down and smashed it into the ground.
I was not done as I kicked it high into the sky and away from the cars, leaping after it with Mjolnir raised high as lightning rained down from the heavens and onto the hammer right before I swung it down with a roar.
Thunder roared in the sky as a monstrous bolt of pure blue lightning ripped through the Destroyer's chest and out the bottom, to which I quickly stopped and pulled the bolt up into the sky lest I wish it to impact the planet with the force of a nuke.
Flying down and catching the destroyed form of the Destroyer, I flew over to where the others were before landing with a grunt, shaking my head with a sigh as the Warrior Three along with Erik and Jane were already waiting next to Sif, an amazed Darcy and a frowning Coulson.
"That…was…awesome! Holy shit, that was cool!" Darcy exclaimed with a happy grin and I smirked at her words before turning as Coulson walked up to us.
"While I do thank you for saving us back there, Thor, you are also holding onto a prisoner that attacked our planet."
"If you wish to have this, you can hand over the Tesseract first." I answered, watching as Coulson stared at me before standing back with a slight frown & a sigh.
"Still don't know what that is, but I'll pull back my request in case it is something important."
"Do not worry, son of Coul. You and I are fighting this war as brothers so there is no need for you all to fear me taking the Tesseract back."
'That and I need it to stay here to make sure Thanos sends someone with the Mind Stone to try & take it. That way, I get two stones for the price of one.' I thought with a hidden smirk as I adjusted the Destroyer on my shoulder while looking up at the sky.
"Heimdall! Are you there?! Can you bring the Bifrost down?!" I shouted up, making sure my voice was amplified by the winds as it echoed in the area.
Silence reigned around us for a few seconds after my shout and I frowned as I went to shout once again before stopping myself with a smile as clouds began to gather above us, watching as iridescent light shown from inside of them.
"Well, this is where we part, sir Erik, Ms. Foster."
"W-Wait, what? What about me? Are you really leaving me to go back home?" Darcy asked with a raised eyebrow and I blinked as I ignored the other Asgardians snickering at my dilemma.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Oh, you're saying goodbye to these two but not me, the girl you asked out? Numerous times, might I add."
"Well, firstly, I was saying goodbye to Sir Erik & Ms. Foster because I might take a while before coming back to Midgard. Secondly, I wasn't going to greet you because I thought that you were coming with."
"…You want me to come with you to Asgard? The Nordic version of Heaven?"
"No, that would be Valhalla. Asgard is a planet just like any other."
"We're just better than the others." Volstagg answered, the other Asgardians nodding their heads in agreement as I shook my head before turning to Darcy who was still shocked.
"If you don't wish to, I can simply lea-!"
"Whoa! No one said I didn't want to go! Jane, Erik, thanks for letting me study, but I'm going up to space~!"
"Wait, Darcy! Take some pictures!" Jane quickly spoke with an excited smile as she handed a small camera to Darcy, the others and I simply sharing an amused yet exasperated look as the black-haired young woman nodded with a serious salute before looking over at Erik as he spoke.
"Remember, if he tries any funny shit…"
"Bite his balls off and stab him in the dick, just like you taught me."
"…Thor, I do believe you have a bit of a challenge on your hand." Hogun whispered to me with a concerned yet amused look and I was just as amused and concerned as I turned to Darcy just as she spun towards us with an innocent look.
"So, when are we going?" She asked and I simply walked over and wrapped an arm around her waist right as a beam of rainbow energy smacked down and enveloped us.
"Right now. Goodbye~!"My final words echoed in the Bifrost as I found myself being ripped away from the planet, making sure the others were here along with making sure that Darcy was comfortable & the Destroyer was still in my grasp as I looked forward towards where I could see Asgard in the distance.
Time to beat some sense into my idiot brother and make sure he doesn't destroy a planet.
A/N: And the Thor 1 movie is almost done. To be honest, I didn't expect it to take this long, but hopefully, it's done by next chapter and I can start with a new arc.
Also…Darcy is coming with! That might piss off Odin, but Thor doesn't give a shit as he doesn't want to have her be the next Jane that gets pissed off at him for leaving without calling or texting her.
How Thor & his father will sort this out, we'll have to wait and see.
Another also, there is another reason why Thor has proven worthy of wielding Mjolnir other than the ones that were provided, but that reason won't show itself until a few chapters from now...maybe. It might also be later in the story.
We'll have to wait & see.
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