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  Earth [July 2015]

  –Jack Sullivan–

  Let’s see, so they were on a cliff, overlooking the o with a su in the background, when Odin had his final talk with Thor and Loki before he fucked right off a He on the loose, on Thor and Loki, without even warning them that going to Asgard, or opening a BiFrost bridge straight to Asgartd while in her presence was the most idiotic thing ever.

  He was ont feeling any particur surge of energy or even any visible light from the Rainbe. Still…

  “Um, Jarvis?”

  It took a beat for him to respond but in Jarvis’ defehe transponder was always kept in his ste space, so it was almost never used, “Greetings, Mister Sullivan, what I do for you?”

  “Yeah, so you please keep a for odd energy signatures or shows of rainbows in Norway, specifically the coasts?”

  “Ofcourse, Mister Sullivan, I will keep an eye on any activations of the Bifrost bridge.”

  Good. So, that just left him floating around, in the viity of the event that would shape Asgard or what would be left of it after such a cataclysmic shift in the ruling part, for turies to e. He knew ohing though, there was no way that Asgard could be allowed to settle oh of all pces.

  It was the most votile p the Nine Realms and humans were always the most greedy, ambitious, and more importantly, fast lot of the bunch. Humans could not pete with the other superior species of the Nine Realms in almost everything but the ohing they excelled at, eed, and endurance. Humans had such short lifespans but in that short time, they achieved extraordinary things so he had no doubt that should such a situation arise where the remnants of Asgard or New Asgard found itself in opposition to Humanity, it would suffer terrible losses, even if Asgard somehow won, without Thor or Loki.

  He wondered how he could tain He if her Death energy started causing him issues but then dismissed the thought from his mind as he was with Thor, not the goofy o the edgy brooding Overpowered son of Odin. If this rendition of Thor fumbled He, then that was all but proof that He getting to Asgard and doing a bunch of destru was a fixed point in time.

  Just like her death. His mind wao the events leading up to her death. Strange was still w as an excellent surgeon, with a near perfect record. Still arrogant but that was the pitfall of all geniuses, at least until they fell from their heights. Case in point, Tony Stark, who was, once agaiing pretty up there but Pepper was there to keep him down this time. Once he has a kid, Tony of the past will be all but gone and repced by a responsible, well slightly irresponsible dad.

  While his mind tio think about the major events that would happen in the wo to three years, right before Thanos’ scheduled arrival, his senses were spread outwards, trying to sense any abnormal energy, be it from the Bifrost or from He’s neantiergy.

  e on, what else happened in 2016?

  He khat she was not going to budge on her death. She weled her death, in fact. She was tired of being the rock of Kamar Taj and being the Sorcerer Supreme that held every single eldritch horror back that would love nothing more than to feast on the feeble delicious snack that was humanity.

  The events of Civil War were rendered all but moot due to his previous as, though the idiots in the gover might still try t the Accords to the forefront but without the Wowins creating new problems, the Accords would have very shaky grounds to stand on and this time, they would have to gh him to get even a single rule through that infringed on the rights of enhanced people.

  ANyway, he would have to check up on Strange and his standing in Kamar Taj once he was back from his trip to Asgard, and then NIdavellir and if the situation called for it, Omnipotey.

  Sigh, he missed the days when all he had in the name of uting was a step into a portal that led him to everywhere oh. With the magic of the i and modern maps avaible at the click of a button, he could be practically anywhere on the p within moments, instead of having to gh plicated steps like having Thor use the Power Stone or to use the Bifrost.

  At Least Ego will not be a problem anymore and Rocket had already called for some help from the shuttle service that somehow ran through all of the gaxy, using a transponder he hacked together using maes that Tony provided him. The Guardians had already left the p and were probably on to their adventure.

  He had to–

  His neapped to the right as he watched the Rainbe activate.

  “Sir,” Jarvis’ reminder came right on time as he waited, with bated breath, to see if He’s death energy could be felt. He went closer, but from much higher up, to see what had happened and slumped as he saw just three people on the ground, with Old Man Odin being one of them.

  So, they summoned Loki for the talk then. Great, so there is still time for the old man to croak. He retty certain that Thor and Odin both khat he there, lounging in the sky but they were either ung or khat Earth was his domain and he could not leave Asgardoians with power to carve tis, unsupervised.

  His mind, once again, ran back to Tony and the others, while he waited for the family goodbye dowo be over. He was thinking of taking Tony and some of the others, like Brud Captain to see outer space.

  He couldn’t think of any situation where Bruce would be a huge liability since even in his Hulk form, he retty tame and now knew how tween friend and foe and more importantly, reised the Green Guardian and listeo him, somewhat. Tony, with his myriad of suits would be petent but he still believed that it was too dangerous to expose Tony straight to Space Tech this early.

  Captain, while formidable, would not be much of a fighter in space but Steve was getting bored oh and as of this moment, was just being used as a of SWORD but not for bat purposes but as a mascot, to make sure that the p’s civilian popution and the govers approved their funding and their jurisdis, which was not much sidering all they right now were the three Helicarriers in space.

  They were using the Helicarriers as their perma base, with food deliveries ing from the ground, facilitated by Stark Industries’ Space Tech arm. It would be much easier to just get one of the massive Helicarriers down, load it up with food and then take it up so that they could have months worth of food and water in one go but the problem was the fine print.

  In fact, Jack was the one who had insisted on having that specifiguage in the w, so that it could not be misinterpreted in any other way. The Helicarriers were essentially ons of mass destru, with the way they were self suffit and had ons to wreck the p many times over. So, these WMDs will never be poi the p, never ever.

  They were made to be used against outside threats, they will only be used on outside threats. Against invaders ing from space. He was still w oing some sort of p wide solution against teleportation directly into the p’s atmosphere but that will take work, a lot of work, and a tech stack that he does not know yet. But then again, he wouldn’t have to worry much about that if Thanos is defeated, sino one will ever have the balls to mess with them, the phat took down Thanos and not just Thanos but Thanos, His Bck Order, and his vast army.

  Everything. Once everything was turo dust, they could proceed ahead with a smooth development of the human race, with ease. His memories went beyond the Snap and killing Thanos and he could remember that while Bruce’s hand was injured very badly after the Snap, to the point that his healing factor could not heal it on its own, Bruce had done some Gamam mumbo jumbo and had healed it ba the future.

  So, they had essentially zero risk of permaly disabling someone when someone used all the six Bloody stones in that Gauhat was why he was having Bruce have some versations and iions with his alter ego, in hopes that Smart Hulk would be ready wheime came.

  Because he had a hunch that Eitri either didn’t really reanipotey or was grabbed up after leaving that damned city. So, heh he was going to run ahead with the assumption that Thanos has the Gau but none of the Stones, as of now. ‘

  The Power Stone? With him. Safe. Secure.

  The Time Stone? With her. Even more Safe and Secure.

  The Reality Stone? Huh. e to think of it, where exactly was the Reality Stone?

  His mind drew a bnk whenever he tried to remember it. He remembered something about Tivan, the Collector, and then….nothing. His eyes grew wide as he couldn’t find any information about the Reality Stone in his mind.

  His eyes grew abze with green, as he dove bato hsi mind, to see what had occurred but even after sc his mind for any signs of interference, he could find nothing.

  But then…

  He shook his head, that was still oone. He had to make sure that the rest of them were ated for.

  The Mind Stone? Oh, in Jarvis’ custody. Hmm. That filled him with some unease right now. He should check up on it once he has time.

  The Space Stone? On Asgard. Safe-ish. Now that Thor will stay on Asgard ohe issues with Eitri was resolved, that particur Stone will be just as safe as the Time Stone.

  The Soul Stone? Shit. Gamora. How could he let her pass? Damn, he was going to have to track her down as well because the Soul ay Stones were the two most dangerous, esoteric stones of the bund he didn’t have track of the two of them.

  If Thanos got his hands on them, even if they did have the other four Stones ated for, they could not all use them and thus, would be on the backfoot against a Thanos armed with reality manipution and Soul sug capabilities.

  Evero of fighters he knew did not have mu the way of defense against any soul attacks. He himself could probably resist any such attack due to the virtue of his powers but others? They would be hard pressed to even survive any atta the Soul and Soul attacks were notorious for beiremely painful so even if they did survive, they would be taken out of the fight instantly.

  Nope, not taking that risk, at all.

  He sighed, once agaihought he had time but they were, once agaie all his preparations, rag against time now. He’s issue should not take much time, he will have to vihor to strike against his newly found sister with all his power so they don’t end up losing precious time against their true enemy.

  Oh, looks like things were winding up down below. He could sehe waning energy of Odin from high above and it was weird, like it was a diy of his sehe objectively khat Asgardians only grow stronger as they age, like right up until their death. So, theoretically, Odin is at his stro right now, and his energy definitely felt like it but it was not just his OdinForce he was sensing, he could also sense his life energy and that was almost at its end.

  Which meant that Odin had access to a ton of energy right now and was at his theoretical stro but his own body, his duit of energy was weak so he would not be able to do much without dying instantly. Still, it was worth nothing that Odin could have, just a few weeks before, cast the stro attack of his lifetime and then died instantly.

  He wagered that the attack would have been enough to carve out a signifit line in Thanos’ force or take out a small p, with ease.

  His body jerked as he felt a gaze lo to him. He looked below, to see Odin looking straight up at him. Well, not knowing what to do in this situation, he…waved goodbye.

  Odin shook his head as his body dissipated into motes of light, and at the same time, a voice whispered straight into his ears, making him jump slightly.

  “Take care of them,” And as if he remembered that he had to be polite about his request, the voice added, “--please,” Even that word felt like it was dragged out with extreme reluce. He shrugged; rulers and their extreme pride.

  He then cracked his neck, stretched a bit in anticipation for the mai of the day, and then dispelled his barriers, dropping straight down like a rocket. In his bid to make a badass entry, he didn’t bother slowing down his dest and he was ing down from a pretty high height, so the e was not badass. Not. At. All.

  With a shower of dirt, he found himself a doze into the ground, with mud in his mouth. Damn, a rookie mistake, once again. He cursed himself, enveloped himself in the familiar warmth of his barriers, cast the stro ing spell he knew, and then slowly floated out of the ground, just in time for a shiver to run down his spine, not out of fear but out of disgust.

  He looked back, to see a dark green portal shimmering, with Dark energy oozing out of it, making his skin crawl due to the death aspect of the energy. Grass around the portal withered away, revealing brown soil which too withered to turn into a grey lifeless ndscape.

  Damn, He knew how to make arance.

  “Be Ready, and whatever you do, do not throw Mjolnir at her, and do not call for the BiFrost,” He informed both Thor and Loki, who seemed to have made up, sidering that there was no “I will kill you where you stand” animosity between them anymore.

  “Do not presume to order me around, mortal.” Loki snarked back but got his knives ready, and then he remembered something so he slowly floated back, to make sure that Loki was in his direct vision.

  “After you,” he deadpa Loki ohey both looked back at him in fusion.

  And then she came.

  “Eww,” That came out involuntarily as he looked at the dishevelled appearance of He Odinsdottir, nothing like the royalty she was supposed to be.

  He stopped mid tirade, and then all the three Asgardian siblings (Adopted as well) turo him slowly at his slip up.

  “Well, mortal, five me for my state but daddy dearest did not provide me with any showers in my prison, now did he?” She snarked back as green oozed out of her bad formed two swords in both of her hands.

  “Now, who’s ready to die?”

  “I mean, teically, he should go first since he did just, you know, insult a Lady’s honor,” Loki, ever the silvertongue, pushed it all on him.

  “You really are the worst ally to have,” He muttered to Loki and then smiled at He, his barriers f dozens of swords behind him, which then began rotating at absurd speeds, creating a high pitched whine in the air, and also superheating the air, creating smoke around his spinning wheel of death.

  “Hmm,” He regarded them with i, “So, the mortal is irely useless then. Well, at least this will be iing,”

  And she was right. pared to a thousand years of nothingness, anything would be iing, let alone a battle to the death.

  He just had to make sure that the casualty t of this fight remained zero, be it from Asgard, or from Earth.

  Then, he looked at Loki and remembered the very ret and also the very old back stabbings, along with any future back stabbings that he did in , and thought, well, one casualty might be acceptable.

  After all, they were fighting Odin’s firstborn, the stro of Odin’s children, supposedly.

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