Visitors from Asgard

"Oh, damn it, let's test that part again!" Thor stood up and kicked the tire. A colleague next to him handed him a wrench. Thor squatted down and continued fiddling with the tire.

After fiddling around for a while, he threw down the wrench, slapped the roof of the car, and said, "Alright, this should be the last one for today, right?"

"Hey! Benjamin! What's wrong? Someone come quick!! Benjamin has fainted!!!" A loud shout came from outside the workshop. Thor turned around and saw one of his colleagues shouting outside, while another colleague named Benjamin collapsed on the ground.

Thor strode out and asked, "What's wrong? What happened to Benjamin?"

"Damn it! He looks like he's having a heart attack! Call an ambulance right now!"

Benjamin's colleagues rushed out; some performed CPR on him, others called an ambulance, and Thor joined in to help.

Before long, the ambulance arrived, and several nurses ran out of the vehicle. When they saw Benjamin lying on the ground, one of the nurses said, "Give me a hand, let's get him into the ambulance first!"

Thor walked over, and one of them picked Benjamin up. The nurse glanced at him, then pointed to the stretcher next to them and said, "Put him on there, quick!"

When Thor returned from the hospital, the repair shop boss didn't look too good. He said to Thor, "You should have seen it, Benjamin collapsed on his own, right? It has nothing to do with my repair shop..."

Thor's face darkened. He said, "If you hadn't been scheduling night shifts for him for over a dozen consecutive nights, how could he have died suddenly?"

"What does this have to do with me!" the Big Beard boss shouted. "He was a penniless wretch who ate junk food every day, that's why he was in such poor health! He deserved to die, and now I can't find any workers for tomorrow night!"

Thor stared at him, his eyes blazing with fury like a lion. The boss was intimidated by his imposing presence, but quickly raised his fist and said, "What are you looking at? You stupid bull! You'll have to keep working the night shift, you know why? Because you're a stupid Texas Hold'em, you have no brains! You can't even speak properly!"

"I will tell them that if you ever fall to the ground, I will make sure they stay far away from you!"

"Why don't you have any compassion for your own comrade?" Thor stood still, his voice low. "He's dead, you know that?"

"A companion? Idiot!" The repair shop boss spat and said, "He was just a black guy kicked out of the boxing ring, hiding in the garbage dump eating leftovers every day. I'm already being generous by giving him a job. If he dies, he'll ruin my work tomorrow night. What a piece of trash!"

After saying that, perhaps fearing Thor would beat him up, he turned and left. Just then, a burly man rushed in through the back door of the repair shop. He was wearing armor, carrying a greatsword, and punched the repair shop boss on the head, shouting, "How dare you disrespect the Son of Odin!"

"Volstagg, what are you doing here?" Thor rushed over and stopped the burly man from continuing to beat the repair shop boss. He said, "Stop, don't hit him! He's just an ordinary person!"

"But he humiliated you! Thor, how could we stand by and watch you be insulted by him?!"

"Alright, stop!" Thor roared. "This is complicated, but first explain to me how you got here?"

"Oh my god, and Sif too!" Thor exclaimed as he saw the figure approaching from behind. "How long has it been since we last saw each other?"

Sif walked up to Thor and said, "You've been fighting wars all this time, probably for hundreds of years, haven't you?"

"Let's not talk about that now, Volstagg? Fandral... and Hogun! What are you all doing here?"

"Let's find a safe place to talk," Sif said calmly. "Where's your camp here? Let's go there."

Thor scratched his head and said, "There is a camp... but you might... well, I'm living with Loki now, and I know you two have a grudge."

"Loki?" Sif's tone suddenly turned serious. "We were just about to talk to you about Loki."

Thor glanced at the clock on the wall and said, "Loki should still be at work, so it shouldn't be a problem for us to go back."

"Also, could you use your divine power to change these clothes? We can't take the bus dressed like this."

"Bus? What's that?"

"It's the public carriage in Asgard."

"What's wrong with us dressing like this?"

Thor had a headache. He suddenly felt that same kind of speechless naiveté he had when he first arrived on Earth. Helpless, he could only take out his phone and call for help.

A while later, Steve and Hill arrived together. Steve saw several people standing next to Thor who looked exactly like him, and he pressed his temples, saying, "Please, how come there are four people like this here???"

Hill, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, was used to big scenes. She said, "Should I thank you for greeting the natives of Earth after picking up your smuggled companion?"

"I'm sorry, I don't know why they came here either," Thor said somewhat awkwardly. "Logically speaking, we shouldn't be allowed to come to Earth so casually."

Hill drove the group to Thor's apartment and said, "Remember to report to S.H.I.E.L.D.. tomorrow, or they'll be deported as illegal immigrants."

After opening the door and taking the elevator upstairs, Thor's close friends started chattering away once they entered the apartment. They said, "Your place is pretty nice. It's not as big as Asgard, but it's still quite novel."

"What is this? A sofa? It looks a little different from the ones in Asgard."

"Human development is too fast! What's this thing for? It's a light, but why is the switch so strange?"

Thor stood in the middle of the room with his hands on his hips and said, "You guys need to explain to me what you're here for, right?"

Sif sheathed her sword and said, "We're here to warn you, and also to warn humanity."

"Warning? What happened?"

"Recently, Heimdall noticed Loki's unusual behavior. He seems to be frequently traveling between the weapons depot in Asgard and the warehouse in the Asgard Palace. According to Heimdall, Loki may be eyeing the Destroyer."

"The Destroyer ..." Thor frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "You mean that giant robot in the Asgard Palace? What's it for?"

Hogun stepped forward and said, "That's a weapon, the vehicle of the All-Father he used to face many powerful enemies."

"But what does this have to do with Loki and Earth? I'm a little confused..."

"Actually, we've always suspected Loki." Sif's voice was heavy. "Thor, sometimes you're a little too naive. You're honest and kind, but that doesn't mean everyone is like that. We've always suspected that Loki Shade behind all the things you did in Jotunheim."

"I know you trust your brother, and we don't want to ruin your relationship, so we didn't tell you directly. But we've been keeping an eye on Loki during your exile."

"We've caught him red-handed!" Fandral said. "We have no right to enter Asgard Palace's warehouses, but Heimdall, as Asgard's chief steward, does. He discovered that Loki was coming and going from the warehouses very frequently, something he had never done before."

"The Destroyer is All-Father Odin's weapon, but as you know, the All-Father has been asleep for a while. We suspect that Loki is trying to tamper with the Destroyer."

"Heimdall also had this suspicion, but he couldn't question the Prince of Asgard, so he put us in the Asgard Palace to keep an eye on Loki."

"We've discovered that Loki seems to be preparing a spatial portal; he wants to teleport the Destroyer to Earth!"

"He wants to kill you, Thor." Sif walked up to Thor and said with a serious expression, "He knows that you don't have divine power now. If such a powerful Asgard Palace weapon were placed on Earth, you and the ordinary people on Earth would be in danger."

"Impossible!" Thor immediately denied. "I've been getting along quite well with him lately, and what reason would he have to kill me? We're brothers."

Sif covered her forehead in exasperation and said, "But you are all princes too. There is only one throne in Asgard. If he wants to become the King of Asgard, he can only kill you."

"He wants to be the King of Asgard?" Thor asked in shock. "Why would he want to be the King of Asgard?"

The others looked at Thor with a strange expression. Thor hesitated for a moment and said, "Oh, well, yes, he might want to be the King of Asgard, everyone does, but he won't... No, don't tell me that, Loki wouldn't do that..."

Sif sighed, patted Thor on the shoulder, and said, "Like I said, we have no intention of ruining the relationship between you and your brother, but the fact is, even if you don't think about your own safety, there are so many ordinary people on Earth who will be in danger once the Destroyer arrives."

Thor hesitated, Sif further persuaded him, "This is not only for your own safety, but also for the safety of the Earth. The Destroyer is an extremely powerful magical weapon, and we are not confident that we can deal with it, so you must find a way to retrieve your divine power and weapon."

Thor sighed and said, "I have no clue. Where is the divine power?"

He turned around, walked to the sofa, sat down, and leaned back, saying, "Mjolnir is within S.H.I.E.L.D..'s surveillance range. I tried to pick him up, but I couldn't lift him at all."

"It wasn't just me; Loki and some agent from S.H.I.E.L.D.. also tried, and we all failed. The seal that the All-Father placed on it is incredibly powerful; it cannot be opened by force or magic."

"And all the clues he left me, I still haven't figured them out. I went to ask Loki, but Loki wouldn't tell me either."

"Of course he won't tell you," Volstagg said in a muffled voice. "If you regain your divine power and weapons, what use will he be? He just wants to take your life while you're weak."

"No matter what..." Sif walked to Thor's side and said, "...we all stand with you, but you must pull yourself together. You are the future master of Asgard, the heir recognized by the Asgardian. You have a responsibility to protect all living beings in the Nine Realms, including Earth."

"Don't make us think that you're just going to run away when a crisis is looming, Thor."

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