My Mighty Thor

Part 8

"Why did you bring us back?" Liam yelled to his father.  

Odin stared coldly at him. "Do you realize what you've done? What you've started?" 

Liam grunted. "I was protecting my home."

"You cannot protect your friends. How can you hope to protect a kingdom?" Odin turned to the others. "Get him to the healing room!" 

Sif, Volstagg, and Hogun hurry to help Fandral out of the room. 

"There won't be a kingdom to protect if you're afraid to act!" Liam yelled. 

Odin stared at him. 

"Whatever the cost, the world must know that the new King of Asgard will not be held in contempt." He walked towards Odin, staring him down. 

"That's pride and vanity that talks! Not leadership! Have you forgotten everything I've taught you? What of a warrior's patience, cunning?" 

"While you wait and be patient, the Nine Realms laugh at us! The old ways are done. You'd stand giving speeches while Asgard falls!" Liam pointed Mjolnir at him.  

"You're a vain, greedy, cruel boy!" Odin shouted from the top of his lungs.  

"And you are an old man and a fool!" The whole world seems to stop at Liam's words. 

Odin falls quiet. When he speaks again, there's something terrifying beneath the calmness of his words. "A fool, yes! I was a fool to think you were ready." 

Camila takes a step towards Odin imploringly. "Father..." 

Odin turns and gives Camila a look which stops her in her tracks. 

"Liam Odinson... You have disobeyed the express command of your King. Through your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful Realms and innocent lives to the horrors of war." The Allfather plunges Gungnir into Observatory's control panel. The turret turns, the Bifrost energy building along with Odin's rage. It fires, as the Bifrost opens at the end of the platform, creating a portal behind Liam. Odin turns angrily to his son. "You are unworthy of this Realm..." Odin RIPS a disc off Liam's chest. "...unworthy of your title..." He rips away Liam's cloak. "...unworthy of the loved ones you've betrayed. I hereby take from you your powers." Odin extends his hand towards his son. Mjolnir goes flying from Liam's grasp into Odin's hand. "In the name of my father..." A finger of lightning comes off the hammer and hits Liam, disintegrating the right arm of his armor and part of the chest piece. "...and of his father before..." Another strike disintegrates the remainder of Liam's armor, including the cape and torn-away disc on the floor. "I cast you out!" Odin thrusts Mjolnir before him and -- with a CRACK OF THUNDER -- Liam is hurled backwards into the open Bifrost and disappears in the vortex. Odin holds Mjolnir in his hand, stares at it bitterly. He closes his eyes, lost in contemplation, whispers something quietly. "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Liam." Runes appear on the side of the hammer, as if carved into its smooth surface. The runes linger for but a moment, then disappear. Suddenly, Odin turns and hurls the hammer into the Bifrost.

"Father... why? Liam is my brother, best friend. Why would you take him from-" Camila whispered, tears prickling her eyes. "Me. I love him." She fell to her knees and cried. 

"Enough Camila. Now GO! Find your mother!" Odin yells

Camila looked at him through her tears. 

"DO YOU WISHED TO BE BANISHED AS WELL!?" He shouted at her. 

"No father." She got up scurrying out to find her mother. 

^^^^LANDING ON MIDGARD WELL EARTH BUT IM WRITING A THOR FIC SO DON'T GET TOO JUDGEY!^^^^^

Liam opens his eyes, surrounded by darkness. Suddenly, he's blinded by bright headlights of a vehicle -- an SUV. It swerves, the side of it coming straight at him. It slams into him. After a beat, we hear familiar voices. 

"I think that was legally your fault," Maddie told Miranda.

"Get the first aid kit," Miranda told Maddie, "Come on, big guy. Do me a favor and don't be dead, okay? Open your eyes and look at me." 

Liam opens his eyes to see Miranda Foster staring at him, concerned. She looks vulnerable and beautiful. 

"Wow. Does he need CPR? Because I know CPR." Maddie basically was drolling over the man.  

Miranda regretfully watches the storm EVAPORATE above their heads. A thought strikes her. "Where did he come from?" They exchange puzzled looks when Liam groans again. 

He sits up abruptly, and Miranda topples backwards in surprise. Liam staggers groggily to his feet, then turns and offers Miranda a hand up. She takes it hesitantly, and he easily pulls her up. She can't help but marvel at his strength. 

"Uh, thanks. Are you okay?" Miranda asked him.  

Liam searches the ground. "Hammer..." 

"Yeah, we can tell you're hammered. That's pretty obvious." Maddie laughed at the confused Liam. 

Miranda notices something on the ground around them. She shines her flashlight down at the sand. "Erik... look at this." He joins her at her side and sees it. A faint, discernible pattern is etched into the sand. They exchange a look. Amazed and excited, Miranda hurriedly takes out a camera and snaps some photos of the runes. A breeze begins to blow them away. "We've got to move fast before anything changes. We need soil samples, light readings, everything." She pulls out a light meter, holds it up, takes some readings, jots them down in her notebook. Selvig looks at Liam, who stares up at the sky. 

"Miranda, we need to get him to a hospital," Erik said nudging her shoulder.  

Miranda kneels and quickly scoops up a soil sample in the cannister. "Not right now. It'll take too long. County's an hour away. We'll drop him off after we're done here." 

Selvig looks uncertain. 

"Look at him, he's fine," Miranda said. 

Liam stares up at the stars and shouts up at them angrily. "Father! Heimdall! I know you can hear me! Open the bridge!" 

Miranda's eyes were about to pop out of her head. "Okay, you and Maddie take him to the hospital, I'll stay here." 

"You expect me to leave you alone in the middle of the desert?" Erik said. 

Liam turns to the others, frustrated. "You! What world is this?" 

The group is intimidated by his fervor. 

"It's all right, my friend. We're going to get you some help." Selvig touches Liam's shoulder. 

Liam shoves him off, grows agitated, belligerent. "Where am I?! Answer me!" 

Maddie reaches into her fanny pack and pulls something out of it. 

Miranda looks on, concerned. "Erik, just back away..." 

"You're in the desert outside the town of Puente Antiguo," Erik said calming.  

"What Realm?! Alfheim? Nornheim?" Liam glared. 

"Uh... New Mexico?" Maddie raises a TASER at him. 

Liam looks at the weapon, unsure what to make of it. "You dare threaten Liam with so puny A--" 

Maddie fires, the electrified wires shooting out of the taser, ZAPPING him in the chest. Liam convulses, falls to the ground unconscious. Miranda and Selvig stare at her, shocked. "What? He was freaking me out."

As Miranda still takes soil samples, Maddie and Selvig struggle to drag an unconscious Liam to the SUV and lift him inside.  "Next time you decide to taser someone, do me a favor and make sure they're already inside the truck. Miranda, come on..." 

Reluctantly, Miranda joins the others inside the SUV.

The SUV heads off into the distance. Behind it, high overhead, a hole opens in the sky. A last blast of Bifrost energy bursts forth from it, and a small object comes firing into our world. It burns across the desert sky like a meteor.