He suspects Loki's underplaying the hammer. You don't risk an execution sneaking into Star-Lord's palace over a war hammer, even if it was modded out and you spent your life's fortune on the damn thing and it was in the family for generations. The guy probably isn't telling him the whole story. It wouldn’t make him the last alien to withhold intel and he can’t even be offended about it – it just comes with territory when you’re arguing politics and which planet looks like it could use a good “acquiring”. The idea of Earth under his rule sounds better and better the more he thinks about it. He can’t deny that Loki has a big glaring point there. J'son would give him all kinds of crap if he moved his capital from Holken but maybe he could spin it, something about bringing the "savage, underdeveloped" Terran population up to speed with the rest of the galaxy. Maybe go on about Spartoi superiority or something and then get himself the first Big Mac he’s had in twenty years to celebrate.
It won't take much more pushing to get Peter entirely aboard with Operation Earth. If it's anything like he remembers from '88, they'll be easy to take over. Like it wouldn't even be a full day invasion, he could call it a vacation for his forces because they’d have to pull their punches for a change. It’s that or curbstomp Earth so bad that finding Loki’s rock and hammer might be…hard.
Peter thinks about it, letting the silence on his end stretch out of habit because it's what he does when he wants his audience seekers to squirm.
“I don’t deny it,” Peter lets Loki have that one, “But I’d like something more than a handshake that your price remains small and doesn’t magically change if we get there.”
He catches himself before he jumps the gun and says “when”.
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It won't take much more pushing to get Peter entirely aboard with Operation Earth. If it's anything like he remembers from '88, they'll be easy to take over. Like it wouldn't even be a full day invasion, he could call it a vacation for his forces because they’d have to pull their punches for a change. It’s that or curbstomp Earth so bad that finding Loki’s rock and hammer might be…hard.
Peter thinks about it, letting the silence on his end stretch out of habit because it's what he does when he wants his audience seekers to squirm.
“I don’t deny it,” Peter lets Loki have that one, “But I’d like something more than a handshake that your price remains small and doesn’t magically change if we get there.”
He catches himself before he jumps the gun and says “when”.