Asgard 2013

Thor, Rocket and Amethyst sent a quick look towards Loki's cell as they stealthily made their way out of the Asgardian prison. The God of Mischief didn't even saw them. He layed on his bed as his eyes were on the ceiling of his cell. A rather bored expression was on his face as he tossed an object up to the ceiling, simply having nothing else better to do in his cell.

The moment the team consisting of the God of Thunder, a talking raccoon and a gem entered the royal palace of the kingdom of Asgard, the two latter ones were able to see Thor's homeworld for the first time. Starting with beautiful architecture, then going to the dresses and suits the Asgardian women and men wore, or even the armor the guards were clenched in was something worth admiring. 

Amethyst and Rocket, neither of them really focused on how Asgard looked in it's glory, before it was destroyed by Ragnarok to get rid of Hela, because they had a task that they had to focus on. But Amethyst knew a certain gem that would adore this place if she found herself here. She sighed at the thought of her fellow Crystal Gem admiring this place. Pearl would definitely fall in love with this place if she found herself here.

But there was someone on their team that was clearly uncomfortable about being here. That someone was of course Thor Odinson. Too many memories of what happened to his home went through his mind as they snuck through the hals of the royal palace. The memory of his father banishing him, his brother betraying him, his mother dying at the hands of the dark elf, him having to cause Ragnarok to kill his sister, which resulted in the complete destrucion of Asgard, and when the thought that they were finally safe, Thanos attacked them. He still remembered the talk he had with his brother about everything starting to work out for them just moments before Thanos and his goons attacked the refugee ship.

No one in the halls of the royal palace saw them as Rocket made sure that his team would snuck in without anyone spotting their presence. Having Amethyst and Thor with him made it quite harder than usual, but he managed. Amethyst wasn't causing much trouble with sneaking through the palace because she was not much taller than the talking raccoon. There were much troubles with Thor, because despise him being more overweight, him having more overgrown hair and beard, him overally having less goodly appearance than all those years ago, the God of Thunder was still recognizable and they had to watch out with it.

The group stopped by a pillar, gazing towards Jane and an Asgardian woman that led her to her room.  Jane thanked the woman for bringing her to her room, before shutting the doors, disappearing from their sight.

Thor waited until the Asgardian that brought Jane to her room walked away before confirming who it was to Rocket and Amethyst, "That's Jane."

''All right. Here's the deal, guys." Rocket said as Amethyst's and Thor's eyes went to the talking raccoon, a small syringe was in his palms, He hopped off the stone railing and held the syringe up towards Thor, "You're gonna charm her, Amethyst is going to hold her down with her whip and I'm gonna poke her with this thing."

"And we're going to borrow the Reality Stone and leave." Amethyst finished for him.

Rocket pointed the syringe at her, "That's right."

Amethyst nodded her head as she summoned her whip, wanting to get this mission done as fast as she could. She knew that no matter time they spent here, one minute would pass in their times, but if it was the opportunity to see Steven, Pearl, Bismuth, and the others again, then it had to work, "Let's do this."

Rocket waved the syringe forward, as Thor breathed in, stating, "I'll be right back, okay?" 

Amethyst and Rocket looked up at him in confusion, with the gem asking, "What? Where are you going?"

The God of Thunder gestured towards the other hallway, taking a few steps towards it, "There's a wine cellar, that's just down there. My father used to fish huge barrel of ale. I'll see if the cellar has a couple of...''

''Hey! Hey! Aren't you drunk enough already?" Rocket asked, with Amethyst nodding her head in agreement.

Thor was about to reply but then the sound of someone opening the doors rang through their ears. The entire team quickly crounched down to hide themselves from the sight of whoever just walked into the hallway. They peeked their heads a bit to see who it was. They saw a group of women, walking along the hallway. They waited for a moment until it was safe for them to come out out of their covers.

"Who are they?" Amethyst asked, not excepting to get an answer, but she did as Rocket hopped onto the stone railing.

"My mother..." Thor answered, his expression breaking upon seeing his mother again on this day, "...She dies today."

Rocket and Amethyst cringed at that, slowly turning back to Thor. "Oh... that's today?"

Thor stumbled back, his breathing taking a turn for the worst. He shook his head between breaths, "I can't do this,  I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't have come. This was a bad idea."

"Come here." Rocket called over to him, gesturing for Thor to come closer to him.

"No, no, no. I think I'm having...I'm having a panic attack." Thor said, slowly coming closer to Rocket, "I shouldn't be here...this is...this is a bad..."

He was cut off by Rocket slapping his palm across his cheek, immediately silencing Thor, "You think you're the only one who lost people? What do you think we're doing here? I lost the only family I ever had. Quill, Groot, Drax, the chick with the antenna, all gone. What about her. She lost people too." He pointed at Amethyst, "Tell him who did you lost five years ago."

Amethyst sighed, trying to recall everyone. Steven, Pearl, Bismuth, Connie, Lapis, Vidalia, most of the Famethysts, actually most of the gems from the human zoo were killed in Thanos' snap, a good portion of Little Homeworld and Beach City residents. She shook her head, answering, "Too many to name..."

"See?" Rocket said, his going attention going back to the God of Thunder, "Now, I get you miss your Mom. But she's gone. Really gone."

"He's right." Amethyst added, deciding to add her part in Rocket's words to Thor, "I know how much you've lost in these past few years. I'm sorry for what happened to your mom, and I know that coming back here on this day is hard for you, but there are people in our times that can be brought back if we succeed. You can save them."

"It is just like she's saying." Rocket said, as he pointed at Amethyst, his eyes not leaving Thor, "You can help them, you can save them. Is it too much to ask that you brush the crumbs outta your beard, make schmoopy talk to Pretty Pants, and when she's not looking, suck out the Infinity Stone and help us get our families back?"

Thor looked down at the floor, "Okay."

Amethyst titled her head in confusion, as Thor's gaze was not leaving the floor, "Uh, Thor?"

Rocket furrowed his brows, "Are you crying?"

"No..." Thor looked up at them, shaking his head, "...Yes."

''Get it together! You can do this. All right?" Rocket told him.

"C'mon, dude. It just going to be a few minutes and we'll be gone." Amethyst said, putting her hand comfortingly on Thor's, "You can do this."

Thor let out a few deep breaths, "Yes, I can."

''Good." Rocket sent him a quick small smile, hopping off the the stone railing. He walked towards the room where Jane was at this moment, with Amethyst by side.

Thor stayed behind, whispering to himself, "I can do this. I can do it." He took one step forward, but quickly stopped in his tracks, shaking his head, "I can't do this." He turned around and walked off, the talking raccoon and the gem didn't even had a chance  to notice him leave them.

" Alright, Heartbreaker. She's alone. This is ..." Rocket said, thinking that Thor was walking behind him and Amethyst.

"Uh, Rocket..." Amethyst cut him off as Rocket glanced over to and turned back to see that Thor wasn't anywhere in their sight, "He's gone."

''Thor? Thor!" Rocket called over for Thor, but didn't got any answer from him.  

"How are we going to get her without him?" Amethyst asked, gesturing towards the syringe Rocket held, "Someone has to distract her while you put this in her."

Rocket quickly came up with an idea, but knew that it was a very bad one, "You kept turning into me when I was staying in Little Homeworld with Nebula to annoy me, this puma thing when were building the time machine, you can change into Thor now."

Amethyst stared at him for a second, before replying, "That's a terrible idea."

"I know." Rocket agreed with her, knowing that his idea was idiotic, "I know, but do you have any other ideas?" 

Amethyst thought for a moment, then shook her head, "No, I actually don't..."

'Then, come on, use your shape shifiting thing to change into him." Rocket told her.

At his words, Amethyst changed into Thor, but didn't look like the one from this year. She turned into Thor from their year. Rocket send her a look, making her ask her, "What?" 

"Change into Thor from this year. Now into Thor from our year! You had a chance to see how he looked like in this year, unlike me!" Rocket pointed out.

"I've only seen him on videos and TV. To be honest I never thought that I'll end up meeting him!" Amethyst stated.

Rocket sighed, "Just try to change into how you remember him from those videos."

Amethyst's answer to this was instant. She changed herself into another Thor, but this time into the one she saw on the videos recorded during Loki's invasion. She wasn't sure if this was exactly how Thor looked like, because it was quite a while since she watched them for obvious reasons. Still she hoped, that she'd look very similiar to Thor from this year.

"What about now?" She asked him.

Rocket eyed her for a moment. Jane was most likely going to ask her why she is purple, but this should work, at least he thought so, "This should work."

Amethyst nodded her head as they slowly made their way over to the entrance of Jane's room. She opened the doors slightly, and both of them saw Jane having a nap on the couch, "So, how are we doing this?"

Rocket pointed the syringe towards the couch, "I will hide behind the bed and once I'll give you the signal you knock on the door and wake her up. After she will walk over to the door, I'll stick this into her and extract the stone."

"Will this work?" Amethyst asked.

Rocket's answer was, "How is your impression of Thor?" 

"It should work for a moment." Amethyst answered.

"Then it should give me enough time." Rocket stated as he quietly snuck into the room. He carefully made his way over to the bed Jane was sleeping on and hid behind it. He tightened his grip around the syringe and gave Amethyst a signal that she can start.

She nodded her head to that, her whip going back into her gem for a moment to make herself look more believable to Jane to give Rocket enough time to put the syringe in Thor's former love. She quietly closed the doors and started knocking on them, intending to wake Jane up. It took her a moment, but she managed to wake Jane from her slumber. Thor's former love slowly rised up from the bed and started making her way over to the doors.

When she was in safe distance away from the bed, Rocket left his hiding place and carefully started to follow her. Jane stopped herself in front of the doors and opened them, revealing Amethyst disguised as Thor.

"Hey, Jane." Amethyst said, as she gave Jane a quick wave, doing her best to mimic Thor's voice.

A smile grew on Jane's face, clearly rejoiced to see Thor, "Thor! You didn't had to knock."

"I know I just want to be sure you weren't sleeping." Amethyst said, knowing that this had no sense but it was the first excuse that came into her mind while Rocket was resisting an urge to facepalm at Amethyst's poorly adaptation of Thor as he slowly made his way over to Jane

Jane opened her mouth to say something but then noticed something she failed to notice at first, "Why are you purple?"

Before Amethyst could answer, Rocket quickly leaped forward and stuck the syringe in a rather questionable part of Jane's body. Jane screamed as Amethyst quickly summoned her whip and wrapped it around her mouth to make sure no more screams escaped her mouth. She changed back into her normal self, her whip still covering Jane's mouth as she watched how the syringe was filling itself with Aether. 

When it was fully filled, Rocket pulled it out of Jane's and tightly secured it in his grip. He showed it off to Amethyst, the red and black substance of the Aether swarming in it, trying to escape. She nodded head and pulled her whip of Jane's mouth. The woman thankfully didn't screamed for help as it must've sent her back to sleep.

Just as Amethyst was about comment that it went well they heard a group of Asgardians running towards this room. They knew who it was by the sound their boots were making. Some of the Asgardian guards must've heard Jane's scream and were heading to this room to check on her. The talking raccoon and gem quickly walked out of the doors and started making their way towards a safe place, but unfortunely for them, they were spotted the guards.

They quickly  broke themselves into the run started running away from them, trying to find Thor so they could get out of this place without hopefully getting caught.

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Thor quickly hurried over to one of the pillars and hid behind it as the same group of Asgardian women led by his mother walked past them to avoid getting himself spotted by them. He slowly started to lean his head forward to take peak out of his cover to make sure if they were gone or not. 

''What are you doing?" He heard a familiar voice ask him from behind. He immediately knew who it was. It was his mother. He shrieked so loudly that it made her jump, backing out of his cover.

"You're better off leaving the sneaking to your brother." Frigga stated, slowly approaching him.

"Yeah, I was simply just going for a walk, and uh..." Thor told her, trying to hide his belly.

Frigga observed her son from top to bottom, furrowing her brow, she asked, "What are you wearing?"

''I always wear this. This is one of my favorites." Thor exclaimed, brushing his hoodie and shirt and putting his palms into his pockets.

His mother placed her hand on his face and took a good look a thim, "What's wrong with your eye?"

''Oh, my eye." Thor said, moving her hand away from his cheek, "That's... you remember the Battle of Haroquin? When I got hit in the face with a broadsword?"

Frigga smiled, shaking her head, moving her hand along his overgrown hair, "You're not the Thor I know at all, are you?"

Thor gave her a quick smile and nodded his head, "Yes I am."

Frigga's expression broke at that, almost sharing the agony her son must've been through in the future, "The future hasn't been kind to any of you, has it?"

''I didn't say I'm from the future." Thor pointed out.

"I was raised by witches, boy. I see with more than eyes, and you know that." Frigga explained.

Thor attempted to hold back his tears but failed, miserably, he spoke up again, his voice breaking, "I am totally, totally from the future."

Frigga nodded her head, ''Yes, you are." 

''I really need to talk to you." Thor told her, breathing loudly.

''We can talk." Frigga nodded her head again. She moved forward and wrapped her arms around her son, embracing him. Thor didn't know how to react at first, but eventually closed both of his eyes, real and fake one and hugged her back, finally having a chance to hug his mother for the first time in ten years.

His mother was the one to break the hug between them. She led him towards one room at the end of the hallfway. Thor sat down on the bed that was giving a beautiful look at entire Asgard from the windows as Frigga stood in front of him. It was he explained everything to her. His reasoning for being there, for traveling to the past and hopefully trying to undo what the Mad Titan has done.

He was nearing the end of his explanation when he started to tell her about what happened with Thanos three weeks after he snapped, "...His head was over there, right before Azurite's feet... His body over there... What was the point? I was too late. I was just standing there. Some idiot with an axe."

''You're no idiot. You're here aren't you? Seeking counsel from the wisest person in Asgard." His mother told him.

''I guess, yeah..." Thor said, giving her a small nod of his head in response.

"Idiot? No." Frigga leaned her head forward, "A failure? Absolutely."

''That's a little bit harsh." Thor stated, looking down at the floor.

Frigga walked over to the bed and sat down next to her son, putting her hand on his shoulder to comfort him, "You do know what that makes you? Just like everyone else."

''I'm not supposed to be like everyone else, am I?" Thor asked her.

''Everyone fails at who they are supposed to be, Thor." Frigga stated, rubbing his shoulder, "The measure of a person, of a hero, is how well they succeed at being who they are, "The measure of a person, of a hero, is how well they succeed at being who they are."

Thor nodded his head. He turned his head towards his mom and faced her, "I really missed you, Mum."

Frigga sent him a smile, as she pressed her forehead against his.

"Thor! We got it!" They heard Rocket's voice from the hallway.

It was quickly followed by Amethyst's voice, "Where are you?" 

And another voice came, this voice belonged to one of the Asgardian guards, "Get that rabbit and that gem!"

At the sound of their voices, Thor jumped back on his feet, "Ma, I have to tell you something."

Frigga stood up as well. She grabbed his hands into hers and said, "No, son. You don't. You're here to repair your future, not mine."

"But this is about your future." Thor insisted.

"It's none of my business." Frigga shook her head.

They both quickly turned their heads towards the entrance as Amethyst and Rocket bursted into the room, and quickly ran over to them.

"Oh, you must be his mom." Amethyst said.

Rocket held out the syringe, "We got the thing. Come on, we got to move."

"We managed to lose them for a second, but they can find us at second." Amethyst added.

Thor nodded his head as he turned to his mother, " I wish we had more time."

''No, this was a gift." Frigga said, grabbing his hands into hers again, "And you're going to be the man you're meant to be." 

Thor smiled at his mother, ''I love you, Mom." 

Frigga returned his smile, "I love you." They embraced each other tightly, Thor sharing one last hug with his mother, thanking her for everything. After they released each other, his mom said to him, "And eat a salad."

Thor nodded his head as Amethyst's and Rocket's eyes were already on their Time Travel GPSes, the talking raccoon saying, "Come on. We gotta go."

"No!" Thor said, as he held his out for them to stop, "Wait!"

This sudden cry made everyone stare at him. He jutted out his left arm, eyes closed as he steadied himself.

Rocket was obviously confused, as he asked, "What? What the hell am I lookin' at?"

"Oh, sometimes it takes a second." Frigga stated, pointing over to the open window.

Rocket and Amethyst turned towards the window Frigga was pointing at.

It was just a second before the hammer flied throug the window and landed in Thor's hand.

Amethyst's eyes widened at the view of the hammer Thor defended the city of New York from Chitauri all those years ago. 

Thor smiled widely, glancing over at his hammer. Mjolnir had finally returned to it's owner. The hammer he hadn't seen in years after it was destroyed by Hela. What was more important to him is that it flied into his hand. He was still able to wield it, "I'm still worthy."

He turned over to Rocket and Amethyst. The talking raccoon rolled his eyes, "Oh, boy."

Amethyst grinned and gave the God of Thunder a thumbs up, "Good for you, dude."

Her Quantum Suit covered her body. So did Rocket's shorty after. Thor's suit was the last one to cover it's owner body as the God of Thunder turned over to his mother and sent her one last smile.

"Goodbye, mom." He told her.

It was the last thing he said before all three of them disappeared from Frigga's sight.

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Someone is going to make a comeback in the next chapter. You may already know who that is going to be :)