driftfleet | video + action.

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video + action.

Who: Thor + you
Broadcast: video, fleetwide
Action: the Blue Fish
When: now

video.
[The video opens on Thor. For those who've met him, it might take half a second to realise that, because his appearance has markedly changed. His long hair has been hacked short, and he's wearing an eyepatch over his right eye. It's weird. It doesn't even have a strap. Even his armor is different, much less flashy and looking worse for wear than the other silver set he'd had previously.

The look on his face is a bit harried, but he starts off with a long drawn out:]

So... [This just had to be his first address to the network, didn't it. Thanks, fate.] Hello. I had heard before that people in this place could fall asleep and end up back home for a while. It seems I now count myself among them. I have to say it's much more confusing to experience yourself. I think it's been only a few days here.

[He rubs at his chin a bit, looking off to the side in thought for a moment. This whole business on top of everything else makes him feel downright exhausted.]

Doesn't feel like it, though. [Thor returns his attention to the communicator, with a little shrug and less of a pensive look.] I'll add it to my list of grievances against the Atroma. I'm sure we'll have a library's worth to throw at them before the end.

If anything has happened in the last few days, I would be glad to hear it. If we haven't yet met, I am Thor, son of Odin, God of Thunder, and king of Asgard.

[It still sounds strange to him, though he trucks through it as gamely as he can.]

Rogers, Natasha, I need to talk to you both.

Oh-- [He smiles a bit, though it's a shade deadpan.] And happy new year.

action.
[Later, Thor sets about re-familiarising himself with the Blue Fish again, poking around the rooms and going through the kitchen cupboards. He could honestly use the distraction that pointless busy work can give, or conversation with anyone he happens to run into.]

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That's the thing... I'm not certain he really had an angle.

[Things had happened in such rapid succession after Thor returned to Asgard, that he's hardly had a chance to think about what Loki's intentions were in ruling Asgard. Some misplaced sense of self-reward, perhaps. Or just a desire to do what he wanted without his family getting in the way.]

You know I was out looking for the Infinity Stones. When I didn't find any, I returned to the Nine Realms only to find them in chaos. Loki may have been ruling Asgard, but he had let the ordering of the other Realms fall completely by the wayside.

[He pauses at that with a faint grimace, still caught in the old lessons of Asgard being the benevolent ruler of the Nine. After a moment, he continues.]

One of Asgard's enemies told me that my father wasn't there, so that's how I came to find out about it all. I made Loki take me to where he'd sent Odin, on Earth.

[That's a surprise, but Loki is nothing if not surprising. Natasha doesn't argue it. If Loki's plan or lack of one is relevant to the report, Thor will tell her.

She listens, thoughtful, letting Thor pick the details.]

Did you find him?

Yeah, I did. [And then, tangentially--] Did you know there's a wizard living in New York?

[If anyone did, he figures it would be Natasha.]

Wizards are a little out of my pay grade.

[Which is not exactly a no, but it's as close as she likes to com to admitting she doesn't know something.

If she can get away with it.]

So Odin was in New York, an you met a wizard there.

[He doesn't think much of it. It's not like Thor knew about the guy either.]

The wizard is the one who told us where our father was - he was in Norway.

We did find him there, but... [He's quiet for a moment before shaking his head.] ...he died not long after.

[It's still hard to think about, even with a few days passed. It had been sudden, to Thor's mind. Half the time he still thinks about Odin as though he were still alive.]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[She also has to wonder how it happened. Rushing that part of the story in particular seems heartless, though.]

Thank you.

[Thor doesn't seem of a mind to explain the why. He only barely understands it himself, with the benefit of hindsight. He looks up at Natasha once again.]

Our father's death meant the return of Hela. Our older sister.

[This... is not a thing Thor has even hinted at before. But the gravity of it is etched into his face.]

[Natasha doesn't even hide her confusion at that. There's at least three things here that don't make sense.

She focuses n the one she thinks most important to the story.]

I'm not sure I follow. How did his death mean her return? Was he keeping her away somehow?

Essentially, yes. He had banished Hela long ago and it was only his life that prevented her escape from the realm he'd put her in.

[It isn't lost on him either that his father had also banished Thor once. Not the first time it had happened, it seems. Nor the worst.]

And that's why you've never mentioned her before? She's been banished to some magic prison all this time?

[Clearing her throat.]

Is it safe to assume she wasn't happy when she came out?

I didn't mention her because I didn't know she existed. Neither did Loki. It happened before we were born.

[Thor shakes his head, folding his hands together on the table.]

She knew what she wanted: Asgard. Hela broke free onto Earth almost immediately, right where we were standing. She destroyed Mjolnir when I tried to stop her, and followed us back through the Bifrost.

She threw both Loki and myself out of the Bifrost halfway and reached Asgard unopposed.

[And maybe, if Loki hadn't called for the Bifrost, things might have gone differently. But then Hela would have been stuck on Earth, and Thor has little doubt she would have set about massacring everyone there in a heartbeat to establish her dominance.]

So where did that leave you?

[A lot of this is beyond her knowledge, though the basic moves aren't that hard to grasp.

On the other hand, the practical application of what it means to be thrown out of the rainbow bridge is beyond her.]

[It was a new experience for him as well. Thor had never known anyone to drop out of the bridge while it was in motion. Until himself.]

I was flung to the far ends of the galaxy, to a planet called Sakaar. I'd never heard of it before... it wasn't pleasant.

While your sister had run of Asgard.

[Considering Odin was dead and Thor and Loki (for whatever he's worth) both tossed aside.]

Yes.

[Run, and ruin. Thor drags a hand back through his hair, still stopping short for a moment when he runs out of it faster than he's used to. He puts his hand back on the table.]

I knew I had to get back and deal with Hela, but getting out of Sakaar proved difficult. I got captured by a woman who sold me to the madman in charge of the place, who ran forced contests of power between his prisoners. The only way he would allow people to leave is if they beat his champion in a fight.

[Thor doesn't have much of his usual flair for the dramatic when it comes to relaying this story. There are no flourishes or enhancements of the exciting moments. It's too close to home still, and it may never be a tale he chooses to tell with enthusiasm.]

[Natasha notices the lack of embellishment, even if his manner is still flowerier than most reports she'd get from a teammate.]

So you won the fight? Who's going to beat the god of thunder in a fight.

Natasha. His champion was the Hulk.

And of course I won.

[Very important to note that.]

[She won't argue about whether or not he won. Not right now. That sounds questionable, though.

More importantly:]

You found Bruce?

Yeah - I wasn't expecting to find him on another planet, of all places. He got there on the quinjet, it seems. At least that's what the Hulk said. He wasn't very specific.

[Carrying out full conversations with the Hulk is still a problem.]

I'm bringing him back to Earth with me.

But he was okay? Even if he's trapped on—you said Sakaar?

[Not that it makes a difference to Natasha.]

So you and him, you fought?

Yyyes. Mostly. He's kind of the Hulk again at the moment, and doesn't really change back all that easily? But other than that he's fine.

[None of that is fine, just comparatively better than... literally everything else going on.]

We did. The contest was rigged though and they knocked me out before I could properly end the fight. So I had to escape another way.

Sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt.

[She frowns. This is... this is complicated. Very complicated.]

So now you're unconscious with the Hulk on another planet.

It's all right. We all wondered what had happened to Banner.

[And he imagines Natasha most of all. It doesn't surprise him that she would ask.]

Yes. Eventually I was able to stage an escape with Banner once he changed back, and with the woman who had caught me earlier. She was Asgardian, and came around to the idea eventually. We stole a spaceship and headed for Asgard to stop Hela.

And Loki? Was he with you, or...?

[Does everyone thrown out of a magic gateway to Asgard end up in the same place?]

Loki did end up on Sakaar too. He was with us for a while, but I left him there when he acted up again.

[There's a lot more to it than that which he leaves out. He scratches at his neck, seemingly unconcerned.]

I didn't have time to deal with that sort of thing.

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