A GODS WEAKNESS [l.laufeyson]

TWENTY NINE

     "I'm trying to forget my past. Sakaar seemed like the best place to drink and forget and to die one day." Valkyrie leads to three down the hallway to a room as she explains to them that she will help them.

"I was thinking that you drink too much, and that probably was going to kill you." Astrid hits Thor on the arm knowing that wasn't what Valkyrie was implying.

"I don't plan to stop drinking, but I don't want to forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna to die, well... it may as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag."

"Good." Thor liked the sound of that.

They arrive at a door but before they enter Valkyrie turns to them again.

"Yeah. So I'm saying that I wanna be on the team. Has it got a name?"

"Yeah, it's called the... Revengers."

"The Revengers?"

"Because I'm getting revenge. You're getting revenge. She's getting revenge." Thor then points to Bruce. "Do you want revenge?"

"I'm undecided."

"Okay."

"Also, I've got a peace offering." Thor and Astrid exchange a glance before they are lead in the room.

Valkyrie opens the door, revealing Loki. He is as restrained as anyone could be, sitting in the middle of the apartment with a dozen chains around him.

"Surprise." Thor tosses a cup as it bounces off Loki's head.

"Ow..."

"Just had to be sure." Thor walks past as Bruce walks up to Loki.

"Hello, Bruce."

"So, last time I saw you, you were trying to kill everybody. Where are you at these days?"

"It varies from moment to moment." Bruce looks at Loki like he's a crazy person before moving over to Thor and Valkyrie leaving Astrid still stood at the door. She fidgets where she stands remembering how she had upset Loki. Part of her wants to run up and just hold him and the other part wants to run out the room, she's torn. She looks up at Loki to see he had been looking at her all this time, a small smile crosses his face.

"Hello, my Princess." At that moment she knew he had forgiven her. She lets out a sigh of relief before running up to him hugging him.

"I am so sorry Loki."

"I'm sorry too. I should have at least spoken to you." He is desperate to hug her back but can't because of the restraints. Astrid pulls away from the hug to sit beside him. They start talking to one another, with her telling him of her little adventure with Thor and Bruce before informing Loki that Thor knew she was pregnant and extremely excited to be an uncle. Their attention is pulled towards the other three in the room when there's mention of the devils anus.

"There are one or two ships, absolute top-of-the-line models-"

"I don't mean to impose, but the Grandmaster has a great many ships. I may even have stolen the access codes to his security system."

All eyes turn to Loki. Valkyrie throws her bottle at him but she forgets that Astrid was sat there. It smashes above his head with bits of glass raining down on them. Astrid closes her eyes but for some reason feels nothing land on her. She opens her eyes to see that she's incased in some sort of small shield.

"Astrid, your powers..." Loki seems relieved that they were back. He had been worrying all this time when she wasn't in his sight, if anything bad happened and she didn't have her powers to get herself out of it, he would've never forgiven himself.

"No, this isn't my doing..." Astrid couldn't feel any sort of magic energy coming from her. Besides, her eyes and hands weren't glowing. But, she looks down to her stomach, she feels very small power coming from there. Loki follows her eyes to her stomach. Their baby.

"Is that even possible?" Loki has never known anyone to be able to do that before. He was definitely amazed. Suddenly that power in her stomach disappears as does the shield. "That's incredible." Loki turns to the other three who had been watching all this time and shoots a glare at Valkyrie.

"Sorry Astrid, forgot you were there."

"Lay off the drinks will you..." Loki's voice turned cold.

"You little..." she starts to charge at Loki before Thor grabs her calming her down. "Fine. Why have you suddenly overcome with the urge to do the right thing?"

"I've run out of favour with the Grandmaster. And in exchange for codes and access to a ship I'm asking for safe passage...through the anus." Astrid can't help but laugh at the name of the portal. Loki only glares at her.

"What? it's... funny." Such a party pooper.

"You're telling us you can get us access into the garage without setting off any alarms?" Loki and Astrid look back to Thor.

"Yes, brother. I can."

"Okay, can I just..." the three gather in a huddle as Astrid heads over to join them, leaving Loki in the corner. "A quick FYI, I was just talking to him just a couple minutes ago and he was totally ready to kill any of us."

"He did try to kill me." Valkyrie points out.

"Yes, me too. On many, many occasions. There was one time when we were children, he transformed himself into a snake, and he knows that I love snakes. So, I went to pick up the snake to admire it and he transformed back into himself and he was like, "Bleh, it's me!" And he stabbed me. We were eight at the time." They look at Loki who suppresses a smile.

"Yes but he has never tried to kill me." Astrid makes a good point to them. If she's involved then surely they can trust him...

"If we're boosting a ship, we're  gonna need to draw some guards away from the palace."

"Why not set the beast loose?" Loki comments looking at Bruce.

"Shut up."

"You guys have a beast?" Valkyrie didn't recall seeing a beast.

"No, there's no beast. He's just being stupid. We're going to start a revolution." Thor stands tall and proud.

"Revolution?" Bruce however doesn't know what he's on about.

"I'll explain later."

"Who's this guy again?" Valkyrie still didn't know.

"I'll explain later."