The findings

20/12/2010.

Yeaha-372366.

Thor and his party came across the ruined Bar with the Barkeep sifting through the rubble to find anything useful.

"What happened here?" asked Volstagg catching the Barkeep's attention.

"What do you think?" asked the Barkeep gesturing to the rubble.

"I can see that; I meant to ask how it happened," clarified Volstagg.

"A barfight," answered the Barkeep before returning to the search.

"What caused it?" asked Heimdall, interrupting a baffled Volstagg.

The Barkeep turned to look at him.

"I don't know; I left as soon as I realised a Mind Raper had entered the bar," answered the Barkeep.

"Mind Raper?" muttered Thor.

"What did this Mind Raper look like?" asked Hogun.

"What do you guys want? I don't want trouble, so get lost!" yelled the Barkeep as he backed away, only to fall on his ass.

The search party from Asguard surrounded him.

"Okay, fine, we won't ask about the 'Mind Raper,' but we are looking for someone called Loki, who looks like this. Have you seen him?" asked Heimdall as he projected Loki's face above his hand.

"The 'Mind Raper!' you are here to kill me, aren't you!?" said the Barkeep as he brandished a space gun, waving it at them as he stood up and left the encirclement.

"We aren't here to kill you. We are just searching for him," answered Heimdall with his hands in the air.

The Barkeep glared at the golden knight for a few minutes, weighing his options before answering.

"Like I said, I bolted when I realised he was a Mind Raper. If he came by spaceship, you might want to check out Mildy's Ship Care. That's where most spaceships are docked, and those assholes usually put trackers on good ships for ...business purposes, and that's all I know, so I am going to leave, and you lot aren't going to bother me anymore, got it?" said the Barkeep threateningly as his suit formed around him giving him protection from the approaching storm.

"Sure, but if we find that you have lied to us, we will hunt you down," said Heimdall.

The Barkeep nodded and left. The five warriors nodded to each other and went for Mildy's Ship Care.

A few minutes later.

"Where is Loki?" asked Thor as he held a blue-skinned dude? Dressed in a white racer outfit and square eyes by the throat.

"I have no idea about what you are asking," said the victim calmly.

Thor narrowed his eyes, and Mjölnir started crackling with visible arcs of electricity.

"I can search for him if you tell me about him," said the alien calmly.

Thor let go, and they made their way to a computer stepping over the groaning bodies of the alien's lackeys.

"How does he look like?" asked the alien.

Heimdall projected Loki's face, and the alien entered a few things, watched a few security cam footage, and then opened a heavily encrypted program with like a dozen passwords and entered a code that showed the last known location of Loki's ship, which was in the middle of nowhere, not Knowere like the celestial head, nowhere like in the middle of space.

"Heimdall, what do you see?" asked Thor.

"He isn't there," said Heimdall.

"I am not lying; please don't kill me," said the alien.

"Do you have any way to track him?" asked Fandral.

The alien shook his head.

"What of the pirates?" asked Volstagg.

"Who and where are they?" asked Thor lifting the alien by the neck.

While Thor and the gang go across the galaxy, thundering down on space pirates and trafficking rings in a futile effort to find Loki. Let's check in on our wanna-be Asgardian, shall we?

IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!!