Aether

"I will kill every Dark Elf for trespassing and remind the nine realms why Asgard is still the King of nine realms." Odin said as he was still angry.

"Father do you want another war? The soldiers will die in vain if we do that." Thor said rejecting such notion of war.

"Than what you want me to do? There has been rebellion everywhere. And now this attack. Everybody will think that we are weak." Odin said angrily.

"We will kill Malekith and parade his head in the square but we will do it sneakily. We need him to extract Aether as he did the attack only for this. After he takes away Aether, we will kill him and Jane too will be free for Aether." Thor said. Odin became silent when he heard this.

Thor was right, waging a war would be loss of lives as he himself had waged too many wars and knew its horrors. Kratos in the meantime who was listening to all this said.

"We need to ambush Malekith after he takes away Aether. We need to make sure he dies. And for this we need a person who knows how to do this with a plan."

Thor looked at Odin when Kratos said that. Because only one person would fit this criteria.

Loki.

Only he could use illusion and diversion to confuse Malekith while Thor could launch a sneak attack and kill him. Odin thought for a moment and finally said.

"Fine take him. Kratos can you go with them? Since Frigga survived I guess the future has already changed. Now we can act freely while Frigga will stay with me till Malekith is killed."

"Hmm. Malekith wants to bring darkness to this world using Aether. It would be noble deed to assist Thor in stopping Malekith."

Thor went to the prison to free Loki and convince him to help him. Thor insinuated him by saying that Frigga had almost died by the attack. This angered Loki as only his mother meant so much to him and in addition this might his chance to freedom.

As per the original timeline, Loki took Thor and Jane but this time Kratos joined the party. Kratos looked different as he wore Asgardian armor with the Leviathan Axe in his waist and Blades of Chaos on his back.

"Loki you need to take Jane to Malekith and make sure she is safe. Only then we will attack."

"Sure brother." Loki said as he looked at Kratos. Since the son of Kratos was Loki he felt weird a bit but didn't say anything to him.

Soon they reached Svartalfheim. Thor and Kratos hid behind the rocks while Jane and Loki were standing and waiting for Malekith. Since Malekith could sense Aether before, they were sure Malekith would arrive. And as expected Malekith did arrive.

"I have a present for you." Loki said. A nearby Dark Elf passed the information about Loki as he too was a prisoner. Malekith didn't think much and all he cared was the Aether. He summoned Jane as she did perfunctory struggle to sell the story of being captured.

Malekith was successful in extracting the Aether and took the Aether into his body. That was when Kratos and Thor attacked. Loki ran to Jane and took her away from the battlefield. Kratos took out the blades of chaos and started swinging it at the dark elves while Thor started using his hammer.

There were three accursed this time as opposed to the only single accursed from the actual story. Since this time the accursed knew about the powers of Kratos, they were able to dodge and retaliate. Meanwhile Malekith proceeded to his spaceship to go to Earth as Greenwich was the node of convergence of all the nine realms.

As they were fighting Thor was almost sneakily attacked by an accursed as he was dealing with the other dark elves. Loki who just took away Jane saw it and ran to Thor to save him. Before the accursed could stab Thor, Loki put his body between Thor and the accursed. And Loki was stabbed instead.

"NO!!!" Thor shouted. Kratos too noticed that flung his axe to the accursed and beheaded his head. Thor held Loki's body as he was crying. No matter what had happened in New York he still loved his brother, and Loki was going to die to save him.

Kratos killed every dark elf and the two accursed and returned to where Thor was holding Loki. By the time Kratos was able to kill all Malekith had already gone to his spaceship and vanished.

"You fool. You never listen. You never listen." Thor said to Loki.

"I am sorry.. I am sorry.. " Loki said as his skin was darkening.

"I will tell father about what you did." Thor said.

"I didn't do it for him..." Loki said as he had closed his eyes. Kratos looked at Loki and he had doubts but didn't say it out loud.

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