"What was going on with Shade? Was she coming or not?"
In a region of space near the Nine Realms, the Symbiote Thunder leaned against the spaceship's control panel and said, "If we keep waiting, we'll waste too much energy."
"Don't rush. It won't be easy for her to get away from Asgard. Without her, we wouldn't have been able to leave the Nine Realms so easily either," Blue Spirit said as he piloted the ship.
"We have to pay taxes to the Sanctum Sanctorum on the energy we got. We spent another fortune buying our ship back from that black one-eyed guy, and if we want to fly out of the Nine Realms, we have to grease the palms of the Bifrost's controller and Asgard's fleet..." Green Thorn shook his head and sighed, clearly pained by all the energy they had handed over.
These Symbiotes following Venom's plan to transfer the power of faith had not exactly made off with the money easily.
First, they had to pay taxes to the Sanctum Sanctorum on the portion of energy Venom carried. The Agents of the Cosmos' ship had crashed in New Mexico on Earth and was later recovered by S.H.I.E.L.D.
To redeem the ship, the Symbiotes had to pay S.H.I.E.L.D. an additional ransom. After getting it back, they discovered that Nick had stripped out many of its key components. They had no choice but to find the dwarves of the Nine Realms, who gouged them mercilessly before finally repairing the ship.
The moment they tried to fly out of the Nine Realms, Asgard's patrol fleet intercepted them. Though they had Odin's permission when they arrived, Odin was no longer the God King. They could not use the former dynasty's sword to behead the current dynasty's officials. They wanted to leave?