All the ways lead to Sakaar

Chapter 7

The next day Loki and Darcy were made to go away from the tower to seek the thief - before that, the guards checked all the known places inside.

One of the guards led them out and - almost literally - slammed the door behind them. 

Darcy didn't want to look for the scepter - it meant trouble for everybody, including her if she was going to work with Loki.

She had another plan, but once she felt the fresh air surrounding her the first time for days she forgot about it for a moment.

She never thought she will miss the air that much, but there she was - relieved like almost never.

The only thing that kept reminding her about the tower was the metal circle still hooked to her arm.

Finally, she rallied out of her trance and came back to earth.

Her evil-ass plan. She needed to focus.

“So, are you really going to just work for him, now?” Asked Darcy looking at Loki with squinted eyes to see his expression a bit better, the first time since they left the tower. She decided she wasn't going to play hide and seek with him. At least not now. It would be nonsense to lose time.

The god looked at her a bit surprised. Whatever he was suspecting her to do now, surely wasn't an obvious suggestion to ignore the orders.

“You are not as innocent as you look like, are you?” He said with a mockery in his voice. But Darcy was ready for that.

“Well, you look at what you are.” She retorted harshly. Loki laughed.

“A young god with supernatural abilities?” He raised his eyebrows.

“I would more call you a full of himself looser with an inferiority complex, but if that helps you sleep at night.” She shrugged seemingly unconcerned.

Loki rolled his eyes.

“Listen, about your question. Yes, that's exactly what I'm going to do.” 

Well, that wasn't an exact answer Darcy wanted to hear. From the other side, she should have suspected that after insulting her interlocutor. 

“What for? I thought you wanted to be a ruler, not a minion.” She responded.

“Currently my newly known sister is doing my job, so I've taken a vacation.” He said ironically. “I suppose now even Thor will have a problem with handling her.”

Darcy probably should be surprised that Thor has a sister, but that wasn't too odd after how she spent her last few days so she just let that be. 

“Oh, I guess he’ll just wave his my mouth a few times and she’ll be gone.” She shrugged wanting to come back to the topic of the eventual runaway. 

But Loki had another idea.

“Wave what?” He frowned visibly disgusted. Darcy felt a bit bad about that, but this expression made her feel better.

That's why she went for it.

“Myuh myuh.”

“Don't tell me myuh myuh is supposed to be Thor's hammer?” Loki frowned and looked at her with disgust. “Don't get me wrong, I didn’t like this funny weapon of his, but that's just obscene.”

Now Darcy just laughed out loud on so hot under the collar god. Who would think that it will be enough to win with him?

“Anyway, I still didn't get my answer.” Insisted Darcy. “Are you going to help me with getting the hell outta here or serve this madman pretending to be a ruler?” She provoked. 

Unlikely that didn't work on Loki too well.

“What's so hard to understand in word vacation, mortal?” He snorted. “There's no point for me in leaving Sakaar if Asgard is being invaded by my sister, which I’d rather not meet again in the closest future.”

“Oh, so you're afraid?” Darcy didn't let go.

“She destroyed Mjolnir.” Said Loki visibly having enough of this conversation. “What do you want me to do? Play a hero? That's Thor's job.”

Now, that actually surprised Darcy. Destroying Mjolnir? It seemed impossible.

“Myuh myuh? Are you sure we are talking about the same hammer?” She wanted to make sure.

“It’s…” Started Loki irritated but stopped when he saw Darcy's satisfied expression. “No, I’m not playing your foolish game, mortal.” He announced. 

“So what?” Darcy had enough. “We are going to find it, bring back to Grandy and let him close us in the golden cage again?” She asked determined to get out of there. 

Of course, she could try alone - without an irritating and surely not exactly sane god of mischief - but that would be pretty much impossible. She couldn't drive a spaceship, she didn't have any money and most importantly her taser and glasses.

“No.” Loki looked suspiciously happy. “No one said about ‘us.” He said with a weird satisfaction in his voice.

Darcy frowned expecting everything but not the pilot to the metal circle she had hooked to her arm.

No way. He wasn't going to!

Except...

He was.

And before Darcy understood what was happening she felt the electricity flowing through all her body and knocking her down once again.

The last thought she had was that she rathered to be the person on the opposite side of the taser.

***

Well, Loki wasn't proud of himself when he tased Darcy. She was just a mortal without any fighting abilities so even he had to admit he might have behaved a bit too severely.

If Frigga saw that, he wouldn't have life for… 

He quickly shook that thought away.

After all, he actually liked it on Sakaar.

He had everything he needed and almost everything he wanted. Minus Thor and pretending to be an old man he grew to despise over the years.

And if staying without unnecessary competing required victims… well, he was willing to pay the price.

Despite that, he still didn't really know where to begin. He saw the thief, yes. But finding anybody, even the most outstanding could be a nightmare on the planet so messy, he had no idea where was he after a few minutes of walk.

That's why after all he decided to do what he could do best - pretending.

He saw the nearby town when he was flying with the Grandmaster to the tower so after losing the way just a few times he found it.

He stirred in the crowd and walked a few hundred meters wondering what could he say. Asking directly rarely worked so he had to be more gentle. 

The real question was what should he say to get the answer he wanted?

Finally, he decided it will be best to start it low-key. If his first tactics won't work, he will find a plan B. So he spotted a man least standing out and when he passed him, he quickly changed his form on the guy figure.

No one even seemed to notice  - people were too busy minding their own business to watch some random man in the middle of the crowd - so Loki smiled to himself and went to the shopkeeper. 

He thought that they always saw the most while sitting there and selling their silly commodity all day, so he took on a nice face and said with a pleasant voice.

“What a nice bracelet. I'm sure my daughter would love it. How much does it cost?”