With the help of the guards, Loki secured Odin and entrusted his mother to take care of the Allfather. Loki then took Odin's divine weapon, the Gungnir spear, symbolizing his temporary dominion over Asgard.
Most of the Asgardian wasn't fully convinced by Loki's claim of the throne, but as long as Loki held the Gungnir, they had no choice but to submit to his emergency reign.
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"C'mon, let's see this so-called God of Thunder together!" Tony urged after the figure on the surveillance screen surrendered and obediently let himself taken into SHIELD's interrogation room.
The group's faces lit with interest when they heard Tony's words. They hadn't even known that the Asgardian gods actually existed until today, so their curiosity was understandable.
Everyone present already had the necessary clearances, anyway, so Coulson brought them directly to Thor's interrogation room.
Considering the myth of the God of Thunder, Coulson politely spoke with and accommodated Thor, simply asking that the Asgardian not leave the room.
Thor wasn't in the mood to wander around, anyway. He was still in disbelief that his divine power as the God of Thunder had been taken away.
Thor didn't even raise his head when Li Yue and the others entered the room. It was obvious how hard his ego had been hit.
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"Greetings, God of Thunder, Thor of Asgard. I am Li Yue, nice to meet you," Li Yue was the first to speak.
Thor's head was still lowered, but Li Yue's words caught his attention. This was the first time someone called him God of Thunder since he arrived on Earth.
"Hah. I'm no longer the God of Thunder. I can't even lift my own weapon!"
To be honest, among the Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, The one he liked the most was Tony Stark the Iron Man. The one he respected the most was Captain America, Steve Rogers. But the one he admired the most was the God of Thunder Thor, the man in front of him.
Thor's life was a long story of unending tragedies. His brother Loki turned against him, his parents died one after another, and his girlfriend broke up with him.
He would then discover that he had an older sister, the Death God Hela: a warlord intent on conquering the nine realms, who easily crushed his beloved weapon and blinded his right eye. In order to defeat Hela, he had to trigger the Twilight of the Gods, beginning with the destruction of his homeland Asgard.
Not long after escaping Asgard with his people, he met Thanos, who brutally slaughtered half of his people. His good friend, Heimdallr, was pierced in the heart. His good brother, Loki, was killed by Thanos. All while he could only watch helplessly.
As he said during Infinity War, what else could he lose?
However, it turned out that he could still lose something: his physical fitness.
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"Thor, are you the God of Hammers?" Li Yue teased the downcast Thor.
"God of Hammers? No, I'm the God of Thunder! My divine power might be gone, but I would not tolerate such an insult from a mortal like you!" Thor roared angrily.
He could not accept being insulted by a "mortal," even though without his divinity, he was technically one himself.
"I didn't mean to insult you, but it really begs the question. If you're not the God of Hammer, why did you become a mortal just because you lost your hammer?"
Li Yue's words stunned Thor out of his rage. Yes, why couldn't he become the Thunder God even after he lost his hammer?
"I understand; you can help me find my divine power? You can, right? Tell me, right now, how could I get my power back?!" Thor stood up excitedly, but Li Yue simply shook his head.
"No, you still don't understand. You are the God of Thunder. You weren't given divine powers by others, you were born with them. Nobody could deprive you of the fact that you are the God of Thunder.
"All you have to do is reach within yourself and channel your divine power, just like this!"
Li Yue stretched his right hand, creating a small ball of lightning.
The others in the room already saw this, so they weren't very surprised, but Thor's jaw almost dropped to the floor.
He knew exactly what he was looking at: it was the very power of thunder that he used to have. He couldn't fathom how Li Yue could have it, much less how Li Yue could channel it without Mjolnir. Thor was absolutely shocked.
He thought carefully about Li Yue's words and closed his eyes, trying his hardest to find the energy within himself.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
Everyone was staring at the motionless Thor, waiting for him to show his might.
Poof!
A small noise accompanied by a strange smell suddenly filled the room. Everyone in the room covered their noses and waved their hand in the air to disperse the smell.
(Can Thor fart? I don't know either ^_^)
"Cough, cough, I can't do it!" Thor opened his eyes, embarrassed.
Li Yue was absolutely enraged. What kind of joke is this? If you can't do it, then you can't do it, but why did you have to deploy this biochemical weapon?
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"Ahem, Thor, right? You look like the main lead in Point Break. Anyway, you just lost your beloved weapon, but what's the big deal? Look at me. There's a hole in my chest, and I need this glowing thing to stay alive. But I'm still alive and well. I even became a superhero because of it!" Tony comforted Thor while patting the God of Thunder, showing the glowing reactor on his chest.
Li Yue didn't feel that Tony's words were comforting at all.
"Don't listen to Stark's nonsense. Look at me, frozen for nearly 70 years. I only woke up a few months ago, left behind by the changing times. I know nobody in this era, and I even missed my date!" It was Captain America's turn to flaunt his misery. The intent might be to comfort Thor, but Li Yue still couldn't get how it was supposed to be comforting.
The conversation seemed to turn into tragedy Olympics. The God of Thunder might not have it quite as bad as you guys right now, but his cascade of misery had only begun, so cut him some slack!
"Uh, let's just leave Thor to rest for a while," Li Yue changed the topic after Natasha signaled him with her eyes.
Li Yue and the others left the room, leaving Thor alone...Thor was supposed to be alone, but when he raised his head, a very familiar person was standing in front of him.
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"How long are you going to follow us around? Show yourself, God of Mischief, Loki!" Li Yue said suddenly, stopping in his track a little while after leaving the room. Everyone looked at him in confusion.
"What are you talking about? Nobody's following us!" Tony asked Li Yue after looking around. He had found nothing unusual.
"So you're not going to show yourself? Then pardon me for skipping the pleasantries."
Li Yue looked straight in a certain direction and made gestures with his hands to summon a whip of magical energy. He whipped against a seemingly empty space.
To everyone's surprise, a figure suddenly appeared and caught Li Yue's magic whip.
"Not bad! To think there's someone that could see through my illusion in Midgard. But you wouldn't be long for this world," the figure praised, but his second sentence was bursting with bloodlust, sending a chill to everyone's spines.
Li Yue suddenly sensed something wrong behind him. He immediately disappeared.
The moment Li Yue disappeared, a figure appeared behind his previous position, stabbing a dagger forward. Fortunately, the dagger failed to hit Li Yue.
"I will remember you. I will definitely kill you the next time we meet."
Captain America and Natasha were the first to react. They pounced at the two figures at once, but they both missed as the figures disappeared, leaving an evil smile at Li Yue.
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"Who the hell was that?" Tony asked. He could only react after the short sequence of events was over.
"The God of Mischief, Loki, Thor's younger brother!"