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  Asgard [July 2015]

  –Jack Sullivan–

  “So, did he talk?” He was just outside the prisoner dungeon, which was now much more secure than before, most probably because of the whole Dark Elf i, leaning on one of the pilrs, when Thor came out, with an unreadable look on his face.

  As far as his knowledge went, this was the first time that Thor had met Loki, ever sihor took ard’s day to day funs. And what a disaster it was.

  Refused aed meetings about revenue, military, prote, and more, had to be taken over by Thor. Loki really was a very shit ruler, not suited for ruling at all. her was Thor, to be perfectly ho but the current Thor was a plete unknown to him so who was he to ent?

  He had heard that Thor had poured over everything that had happened in Asgard over the past few years and had taken some major decisions, including personally going to every single of their allies and apologising fard’s mistake, and also doing a subtle show of power in every realm to remind them that Asgard, while vastly diminished, was still on top.

  For one, he just straight up obliterated the pirate encirclement that was happening around Nidavellir, despite the stupid spell that THor had cast around it. Some people’s greed simply knew no bounds and in the vast cold space, the value of life teo drop signifitly.

  The spell remained, obviously, but a perma cover of Asgardian Einherjars also joihem for prote. He just wished that they could establish tact with Eitri somehow because there was no pusible way of tag Eitri unless he reached some nexus and called them back.

  So far, they had not received a single update from him but that was to be expected. It took time for things to happen in Omnipotey, especially si was filled with Immortal Gods who had all the time in the world and were also quite zy and indulgent in their own realms of power. Also, prideful, the lot of them so ving them to do anything that required effort on their part was going to be a chore and a half.

  Especially since said chore would require them going somewhere that was the territory of Odin Borson, someone who is the “established” stro of them all, someone who has lorded over all of them for most of their lives, even though they didn’t even see eaillenia, simply because the Gods in Omnipotey khat there was a SkyFather out there that could defeat them all, someone on a whole other level.

  Odin robably the reason why they never really came to Earth anyway. ving them to extend prote to Nidavellir was going to take a lot of grovelling.

  And all of this was ti ori actually reag Omnipotey. That was his biggest fear, that Eitri was going to be kidnapped midway by Thanos and then forced to make the Infinity Gau on some other Dyson Sphere that Thanos built and then hid away, however unlikely as that might be.

  “I know where Father is,” Thor said to him and brought him out of his thoughts as they came out of the prison dungeon, which was only guarded by a small group of Einherjars, which were nowhere near enough to stop someone of Loki’s calibre if he truly wao escape but then….

  As soon as they crossed the threshold of the dungeon, Thor snapped his fingers, creating a zooming noise behind him and as he turned around, he saw a golde, crisscrossing with glowing blue lines appear for a sed before it disappeared but his senses warned him of the high energy lihat were there, to ward off any intruder or the more likely oute, slice the intruder into pieces.

  Either way, it would be very hard for anyone unauthorised to enter or leave the dungeon. And the Einherjar squad was equipped with enough resources dowo not leave the ponths at a time, which her was sure was going to be more than enough for them to resolve the issues caused by Loki and theurn for his senteng, because Loki had not been officially punished yet, for his various crimes.

  Something like that would have to wait for ter on, when they had enough time on their hands.

  “So, are we leaving soon?” He asked Thor, excited to get moving a some stuff done, because with him and Thor on one side, he doubted there was anything that could truly stop them.

  “Aye, I must meet Father and make sense of the mess that he has allowed to happen under his watch,” Thor said gravely and he snorted internally. If only Thor khe even deeper pile of mess that his father was about to dump on his p and then just fuck right off.

  “Good. Just tell me when you are ready,” he informed Thor ao his favourite p Asgard, the Medical Wing. Eir was a formidable woman, capable of magic that most of Asgard had fotten already. She was not just the medic of the Valkyrie unit but also the resident magierd of the unit as well. As such, she knew a ton of magic that probably only Frigga and Odin knew about.

  Even most of the nobles were just fat lords who had gotten pt under Odin’s powerful rule and were just sitting ducks for ao kill them. So, expeg advanced magics from them was a fool’s errand. Books of powerful magic could be held by the nobles but Odin had long since fiscated anything truly dangerous so the most reliable source of new magic for him in Asgard was Eir.

  Thor knew all kinds of new magic that he had not seen but the man was very much busy and he had a hunch that Thor’s magic was not going to be pliant with his own magic. So, Eir’s chambers it was.

  “Eir! I am here again!” He said as he ehe Medig, carefully ing himself in barriers as Eir was not above dismembering someone because they were being an annoyand then stitg that limb back together, painfully.

  “She’s not here. She is putting together a report on something, to present to Prihor,” The gravelly, but thankfully, much healthier voice of Heimdall answered his call. He rexed aered the Soul Fe room and was surprised to see Heimdall already out of it.

  “I thought Eir forbid yetting out of that pod without her express permission,” He asked Heimdall who was now doing stretches and lunges on the ground.

  “And I thought Eir forbid you from disturbing her again, just for some shiny new pieagic that most of the Nine Realms had fotten about,” He quipped right back as he tiretg his body, which thankfully, was not just skin and bones. Man, Asgardian bodies recovered quickly.

  His eyes had not sunken in now and they had regaiheir healthy yellow glow. He was curious though.

  “Did yain yht?”

  Heimdall stopped mid stretch, looked at him deeply and then stood up straight, closed his eyes, as he could feel faint swirls of magic appearing around his body, tered around his head.

  He yelped as he jumped forward, a sword of glowing yellow magic barely missing his back as he scrambled with his barriers ready, fronting….Eir.

  “Just what in the Nine Realms gave you the audacity to not only disturb my patient but goad him into activating the single most magically taxing ability in all of Asgard,” Eir s him as she rushed towards Heimdall who was…bound?

  Oh my god, she had bound Heimdall in yellow bounds, and just dumped him right bato the Soul Fe. She then sealed his mouth shut as well, and then snapped her fingers, which released some sort of gas in the Soul Fe and within moments, the small struggle that Heimdall was able to put up against the bonds ceased.

  Damn, this woman was scary.

  “Anyrihor has called for me. I will take my leave,” He had a hunch that he was not going to get any new information on ainct magi this room, without first having to fight his way out of it.

  “Where do you think yoing!” The same bonds reached for him but he was much faster than Heimdall who was rec from life threatening ditions, and escaped her wrath. THough, he should give her ample time to cool down a her sometime in the year or so.

  In the meantime, he floated over to the Observatory, si also housed another iing individual. Someone by the name of Skurge. Yes, the one who would end up betraying Asgard to go on servi right now, he was just someone who oio monitor the BiFrost by Loki and for some reason, Thor had not relieved him of his duties immediately because he had no specialised magic that would help him as the Caretaker of the Bridge. Then again, there was no bloodliher than Heimdall’s which was more suited for that position in all of Asgard and probably the Nine Realms as well.

  “Hello, mortal, I assume you are aware that all travel in and out of Asgard is only permitted by the express permission of Prihor,” Skurge greeted him, trying to be all intimidating but he zily waved him away as he floated by.

  “Yeah, yeah, I know. I was just waiting for him. We have to leave soon,”

  And as he uttered those words, he heard a whistling sound in the distand turo see Thor flying towards them, in the old fashioned, holding Mjolnir’s leather strap as it flew forward, way.

  “Skurge, start the Bi-Frost. To Midgard,” Thor ordered as soon as he nded and began walking forward. He followed through and asked Thor since he had had to maintain his clueless look.

  “Earth? I thought we were going to retrieve Odin?”

  “We are. ODin is on Midgard,”

  “Safe travels, My Prince,” Skurge told them before their vision was ed by the colours of the rainbow before they appeared on a pavement. A pavement that was now carved with the symbols of the BiFrost.

  He looked up and groaned as they found themselves imes Square. He followed THor who had already ged into his civilia up with Mjolnir turned into an Umbrel. Marvel never really did explore the whole Donald Bke persona thing.

  They walked for a few more minutes, and came across a quaint little building, with a very posh receptionist. Thor ehe establishment and every single woman in sight immediately had a blush on her face.

  Stupid Asgardiaics.

  “Let’s go, they moved him,” He looked up from the magazine he was reading.

  “What?”

  “Yes, they moved him to another facility upstate. This is the address,” Thor showed him a piece of paper, which also had a heart and a phone number written on it. He rolled his eyes and stood up, following Thor outside the old age home, only to e face to face with the A One.

  “I had a feeling you boys might need a ride,” She made some sort of internal joke with that statement and waved her hand in a circle, creating a portal.

  Oher side of the portal, was a cliff with greenery, with the faint sound of the o in the background, which was very muot an upstate facility.

  “He’s waiting for you, Prihor,”

  Thor her aered the portal. He wisely didn't go because it felt weirdly personal. In fact, he wouldn’t be surprised if Loki was whisked away by the BiFrost and brought there to have one final father to son talk.

  “So, Odin’s dying? He’s ing then?” He asked the A One while they ehe portal that took them to Kamar Taj, right into one of the lobbies.

  “Yes, that is another fixed point in time, Master Sullivan and you should know about that,” She said as she poured tea for herself and him.

  “I see. So, how do you propose I go to Asgard to help Thainst He if we ’t open portals directly to Asgard? Or do you wao tain her here oh itself once we obviously sense her vile energy entering the p?” He asked her since he was unsure of what she thought best of the situation.

  “Why are you asking me about it? I am just someone who was tasked by Odin to make sure that his sons found him. You are free to do as you wish,”

  He deadpa her. “Seriously?”

  “Master Sullivan, your as are your own. Therefore, the sequences of those as are yours to bear as well so why would you ask someone else for advice? Do what your mind tells you to do ahe sequehat is how you move forward in life,” She was, once again, in her old life guru mode.

  “Okay. Great. I will be in Norway then. If we tain or even kill He without any catastrophic damage to both Earth and Asgard, then it will be for the best but I have a feeling that Ragnarok ot be stopped, at least not pletely,” He said to her and after gulping down the amazing tea, stood up, ready to stop the stro Child of Odin Borson.

  “Don’t fet the Mirror Dimension, Master Sullivan.”

  “Yeah, yeah,” He waved as he created a portal to Norway and flew through, waiting for the Death energy spike to hit his senses so that he could work oing He, in her weakeate, or eveiate with her to fight against Thanos, in the best case sario.

  Atleast, half of Asgard will not die fnarok to happen.

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