A GODS WEAKNESS [l.laufeyson]

THIRTY ONE

     As Korg and Miek enter leading a group of gladiator rebels, Korg points to the Supercruiser drawing everyone's attention to it.

"There she is. Our ticket out of here. Hey, what's this?" Korg spots the obedience disk device on the ground and picks it up. Korg then notices Loki, still twitching and convulsing on the ground and barely made any progress towards the device. Loki locks eyes with Korg, a desperate and furious plea. Korg looks at Loki, then at the device, then back to Loki. Loki gives Korg a maniacal, pleading look and finally, Korg gets it. He deactivates the obedience disk and Loki is able to stand and dust himself off.

"Thank you."

"Hey man, we're about to jump on that ginormous spaceship. You wanna come?"

"You do seem like you're in desperate need of leadership."

"Why thank you."

~

The Commodore nears the end of the wormhole and is spat out into the calmness of outer space. Bruce, Thor, Valkyrie and Astrid are all unconscious. After a little while, they wake up and look outside to see Asgard.

"I never thought I'd be back here." Valkyrie has some mixed emotions about being back.

"I thought it'd be nicer. I mean, not that it's not nice. It's just, it's on fire." Banner is also having a good look around the place.

"Here, up here in the mountains." Valkyrie points go a projected map on the console shows the mountain where the stronghold is located. There is a red dot in the mountain, indicating where the Asgardian citizens are. "Heat signatures. People clustered together. Hela's coming for them."

"Okay, drop me off at the palace and I'll draw her away." Thor had seen what she has done to harm Asgard, she can't let her do the same to its people.

"And take me to the mountain." Astrid starts grabbing more gear ready to fight.

"You'll get yourselves killed!" Valkyrie was all for danger, but this was suicide.

"The people trapped down there are all that matters to us."

~

"Heimdall!" Astrid enters from the back of the mountain, running through the crowd. As she's looking for him, people are getting on their knees and bowing before her. "Please, there's no time for any formality. Where's Heimdall?"

"Lady Astrid." She hears a familiar voice and turns to see Heimdall.

"Heimdall! She's on her way we need to move."

"I know I can see her. Why are you back?"

"To help my people."

~

Hela raises her arms and fires long, thin black lances which burrow into crevices on the mountainside.

With the lances in place, Hela bears down. Summoning all her focus and energy, she begins to vibrate this manifestation of her powers, puncturing crevices and splitting the rock apart. The whole mountain begins to rumble as Hela rips open the side of the mountain. There is an avalanche of rock and debris. The mountain around the doors completely destroyed, the doors fall across the ravine, creating a bridge for Hela and Skurge. Hela waits patiently for the dust to settle and sees an empty stronghold. No sign of Heimdall or the refugees.

Heimdall and Astrid lead the migration of refugees out the other side of the mountain onto a secluded mountain path.

"We must keep moving! Go to the Bifrost!"