New/ old faces
It’s now 4,996 years after the death of most of the Valkyries. I woke up to the sounds of Brunny “gracefully” falling off the couch. I sat up, already annoyed, I had just recently fallen asleep. The Grandmaster kept me at the arena to help get ready for the next match, then he shooed me away to get on what he called his “pleasure ship”. Luckly, I am not needed on those trips, which I’m eternally grateful for. Brunny and I’s living conditions were..ugly to say the least. Every open inch of floor space was covered in ratty brown carpet, full of stains, shattered glass, and puddles of beer. I looked over to Brunnhilde, she was murmuring some incoherent words of confusion as she got up. She put her hand over her forehead and looked nauseous, I was far too familiar with this look on Brunnhilde's face (unfortunately). She rushed over to our makeshift garbage can and vomited.
“I’m going for a walk,” I said. I really didn't want to deal with her mess right now.
“Great thanks, leave me to die over here, i really appreciate the help Espen!” she replied, calling after me sarcastically. I let out a laugh but didn't respond and walked out the door.
“I- Espen, be careful ok!” she yelled out of concern.
“I’ll be fine Brunn!”
The thing is, walking around Sakaar at 43:00 (4:00 AM midgard time) isn’t the safest route to take if, like me, you just want some peace and quiet. Because even in the early morning people on Sakaar were either fighting or partying. As I made my way through the city I passed, an already open market, a dozen passed out dazed citizens, and a couple who were fighting in the back of a bar. Yup, I really can’t think out here. At least I got some air. I came back to our ship a bit later and when I saw Brunnhilde it looked like she had put herself together a bit, or attempted too. She had pulled up her hair into an intricate ponytail, put on some Sakkar-esque armor, she had redone her usual makeup with the white stripes under and above her eyes, those stripes had always reminded Espen of tears of some sort.
“Wow brunnie, where are we getting ready for?” Her nose wrinkled in disgust at the nickname he had just used, even though it was used quite frequently.
“We're gonna find a contender” she said, absentmindedly taking a beer off of the table and downing it. Espen attempted to ignore that.
“Another one? I thought the grandmaster was more than pleased with our last find”
“Eh, Doug lasted unusually long but he's no match for our hulk obviously so we need to find another thing for the big guy to destroy.”
He didn't like when she talked like this, so numb and unfeeling for other people. It scared me. But she's worked as a scrapper for a while now and as Brunnhilde would say “I'd better get used to it”.
“Well then, i’ll go with you brunnie, help you judge who and who not to kidnap”
“Sure, little prince, do whatever you'd like” she grabbed a pack of beers and made her way to the front of the ship. She turned on the engine and sat down, the ship lit up and they started to fly off. Espen quickly put his seatbelt on, knowing brunn it was about to be a bumpy ride.
And a bumpy ride it was. They crashed a few times but didn't find many options for contenders.
“It's slow today” observed the Valkyrie, she was more than a little bit tipsy at this point and was swaying in her seat, espen was getting worried about being in a flying vehicle.
“That it is, hey uh brunn, could we like get some lunch or something, it's been a few hours and i feel like we aren’t getting anywhere-”
“Wait!” She flew the ship over and crashed it into a group of scavengers surrounding a helpless man. Without putting her bottle down she got up from her seat and opened the ship doors.
“Stay here” she warned Espen. As she walked (wobbled) down the runway of the ship, and yelled at the group that was fighting.
“Wait!” she said again. She walked a few steps, failing to walk in a straight line and falling off the ship. “Ouch” Espen grimaced, watching brunnhilde do this gave him second hand physical pain.
“Wait!!” she fell trying to hold onto a dead animal corpse for support but instead her hand went in it.
“Hes mine, so if you want him, you have to go through me”
“But we've already got him” Replied the scavengers to Espens guardian.
“Alright then, I guess I go through you.” Brunnhilde took all of the scavengers out in one go, except for one who lunged toward her but she flung him half way across Sakaar so it was nothing to worry about.
The blond man who was being tied up by the scavengers seemed to think she was rescuing him, unfortunately that was not the case. He thanks her but in response she throws an “obedience disk” at him and electrocutes him. She hauls the man's heavy body into the bottom of the ship, as she does this Espen observes the man. He’s buff that's for sure, he's got blond unkempt hair, he's wearing asgardian armor, he almost looks like-
“I am Thor, son of Odin, god of thunder and i ORDER you to let me out” the man screams as he struggles. Brunnhilde smirks, unimpressed.
“Many apologies your majesty” she presses a button and the man blacks out again.