Meta Essence Gacha in Marvel-Chapter 99: Aftermath of The Convergence

Third Person P.O.V.

'Does Dark Elves even go to Valhalla? Well, whatever…'

After his devastating punch, Eidolon calmly looks around to check the destruction caused by his attacks, his senses already relaying Malekith's death to him. But Malekith is not the real problem.

He watches the snowflakes and cloud mist floating in the air, but his focus is on the dark dust mixed with the rest… It's unknown if it is the remains of Malekith or if it's all the Aether, that maybe consumed Malekith, but it doesn't matter.

He extends his hand and with his telekinesis, he starts coalescing the Aether. The thing is still alive, pulsating. It tries to move away, maybe trying to escape by possessing someone else, but Eidolon keeps a tight grip on it.

The Aether spins and spins before it has nowhere to go beyond forming a ball in his hands, when the Aether is finally in his grasp, the air above Eidolon ripples, and another Eidolon appears carrying a huge rock, before slamming it on the main Eidolon.

It's a weird situation, but that rock had a hole in the middle with an empty space inside and trapped the main Eidolon there, but the main purpose of this act is to trap the Aether. This rock is a crude make containment to the Aether, created by Eidolon using the same material he found where Jane was unconscious.

He can't replicate it perfectly with all the runes, glyphs, chants, and magic… So he will simply brute force through it.

*Bam*

Then another Eidolon appears, but this time carrying a huge silver ball with a hole. It's made of adamantium and to add another layer of security. But obviously, this is not enough for the paranoid Hector. He is not any seal master, one of the few things that he is not good at, but he can always brute force through it.

*Bam* Another rock-like contention. *Bam* Another made of Adamantium *Bam* *Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

It goes like that, like a matryoshka doll, he contains the aether in a house-sized ball.

Then the main Eidolon emerges from the ball using his intangibility, leaving the Aether behind, and then he kicks off the huge ball to space.

*Boom*

"Done." He declares to the shocked people around him.

They can't see, but far away from Earth, another Eidolon catches the ball and disappears to somewhere only he knows.

"Good job, everyone." Eidolon gives a hero's thumbs up to everyone.

*Raaargh* But he was interrupted when a giant monster appeared from another wormhole. Even if the threat of Malekith is over, the Convergence is still going.

There's some cleanup to be made.

......…

After another hour of dealing with the many things coming out of the wormholes, the activities of the portals started slowing down when the Nine Realms alignment ended.

Anyway, after Eidolon and Thor arrived, things were already easy enough for most of the other heroes to start packing their things and cleaning the place. Even the population started coming back. ȓＡ𝐍ȯΒΕs̈

"Welcome back, Master." "I'm back." Eidolon and Cortana have a small conversation as he puts her main body back inside his heart.

She updates him with everything that happened while he was away, he also keeps tabs from a distance on his drones talking with the population things like "Keep Calm", " If any damage happened to your belongings notify us" or "Pay attention to the map where it is safe to go, in the sky."

While Eidolon is talking with Cortana, a certain someone approaches him.

"Eidolon, I want to talk with you." Susan Storm walks to him with steps full of purpose.

"Invisible Woman…" He greets her using her hero name "Is there any problem?" He tilts his head calmly

"Not a problem, but I want to know how you will deal with all the living beings captured during the Convergence." She stays very close to him, demanding an answer.

"Oh, about that? It depends… Returning them is the objective. But if there's any criminals or dangerous species amongst them I will act as demanded." Eidolon continues to speak casually, not understanding her "aggressiveness". But Cortana explains that Susan may be "jumpy" because of Shego.

"Oh…" And just like that, Susan deflates a little "That's good, that's good." Susan nods to herself, relieved. "When are you gonna do that?"

"I was thinking about immediately… I bet they don't want to be detained by us for long, it would not be fair… And Thor is here, so we can dump them on him and ask for his thoughts."

"It's a good idea… Let me help you with this job."

"Hm? I can do it alone, no problem."

"I insist." Susan once again speaks strongly

"...okay then." Eidolon answers slowly. She is just wasting her time, but he also understands that sometimes is about her "peace of mind".

'She is kinda right in not trusting me…' He thinks to himself.

A little far away, Lady Jade and Huntress observed the exchange.

"I don't like that." Shego points while narrowing her eyes

"What?" Helena looks confused, there's literally nothing happening.

"That! He is too soft with her."

"??? I remember him giving her a lesson during the Invasion. He is not treating her any better than how he treats other people…" Helena looks at her strangely "It's just two adults having a conversation."

"Nah, you don't get it… That woman is dangerous. She is simply too much his type." Shego is not convinced

"Is her nice ass? Or that Oedipus Complex thing again?" Helena asks sarcastically

"Maybe the two." But Shego answers seriously

"You are crazy…" Helena shakes her head "If you are that jealous, why do you still accept that he has a harem?"

"It's different! Those… outsiders. They can destroy the good thing that we have." Shego starts explaining but then she shakes her head too "You wouldn't get it…" She gives up on talking about anything with Helena and her voice gets lower and lower when she sees another annoying scene.

She narrows her eyes while watching Darcy Lewis, still using Eidolon's mantle.

Now, Shego walks up to the unsuspecting Darcy, who is taking some selfies or recording a video while wearing the mantle.

"Look what I'm wearing~" Darcy says to the camera of her phone while she shows off the mantle "It's like being hugged by Eidolon. And I know about it because I was hugged by Eidolon! Even sat on his lap~ Who else can say the same?" Darcy shows off to the camera

"Wow~ Mad Impressive…" Shego suddenly appeared behind her with a dark smile and a sarcastic tone

Darcy jumps in fright seeing Lady Jade behind her, stuttering and trembling.

Shego decides not to bully the woman too much and whistles like it's calling a dog "Shaed. Come…" It's the name of the mantle.

And the mantle leaves Darcy's shoulders and follows Lady Jade to where Eidolon is standing, still talking with Susan Storm.

He accepted the return of the mantle and started sorting things with the living beings. Eidolon shows Susan a holographic screen with all the living beings in their containment cells. Showing that they are not being mistreated or anything.

"We can first go up there to filter them, and then bring them to Thor so that he can bring them home." Eidolon comments

"Let's do it." Susan nods

"I'm going too." Shego says. No way in hell she will let those two alone… Working together… Alone.

"..."

"...okay." Eidolon answers calmly but internally he is shaking his head because he knows exactly what Shego is thinking.

From the corner of his eyes, he sees the people returning to their homes and on the edge of the restricted area, he sees some reporters and other curious people approaching.

He decides to go clear things up to the world.

Using his ghostly Bio-fission, another Eidolon walks out of him and in the direction of the reporters.

"Let's go up then." The Eidolon wearing the mantle says to them.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. will not like that." Shego says with a laugh, seeing the other Eidolon's actions.

"People deserve to know." It's all he says.

Susan nods. And even this small gesture makes Shego frown at her.

"..." Eidolon sighs again and teleports them to the spaceship above.

Maybe the dull work of checking everyone brought here by the Convergence will make Shego chill.

'By the way, it's obvious but… I missed you.' He sends a loving telepathic message, making her give him a radiant smile.

"Ah, I forgot to ask… What are the casualties from our side?" Eidolon asks.

Shego and Cortana answer at the same time… Zero.

Shego even joins the tips of her fingers way above her head to make a "zero" with her arms.

"Wow… That's so great!" He can't help but smile, genuinely happy.

......

"We just want to ask some questions!"

"Are you planning to keep us in the dark about this?!"

"What really happened here??"

The reporters shout questions to the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that are keeping them away.

"No comment." It's all the stoic agents' answers, not caring about the barrage of questions or any guild-tripping tactic the reporters used.

"Suddenly Eidolon appears, zooming from the distance. "It's okay… I can answer some questions." he says calmly, silencing everyone.

But the quiet moment only lasts that, a moment. In the next instant a barrage of flashes hits the hero and all cameras and microphones are pointed at him.

"Eidolon!" "Eiidolon!!" "Eidolon!!!" They call him frantically.

It's annoying but he will not show it on his face.

"Calm down, calm down… Let's start with the most important." He raises his hands, controlling the situation "After that you can ask me questions."

He starts explaining about the Convergence patiently, even using his powers to create holographic representations of the things that he is talking about.

He shows the Nine Realms, the alignment, wormholes and everything… Putting emphasis on the fact that the Convergence was not something that they could stop completely.

"...relatively compared with a natural cataclysm on Earth, if we downsize by a lot. We could just work around the Convergence to minimize the damages." Eidolon says "And I'm very happy to announce that I just discovered that we had a total of Zero casualties. Compared with the sad reality of what happened in New York, this statistic shows how far we've come and our potential to deal with those threats."

"How did you know that this Convergence would happen?" A reporter asks

"We are lucky that this particular threat is predictable… Thor warned us because is something that happens every 5000 years. It's a cyclic cosmic event, like an eclipse or Earth's rotation." Eidolon says "Again, we have zero casualties because we are 100% prepared for it… In the future, I fear that we will not have such a perfect score that easily."

"And why is that Convergence so dangerous? We saw terrifying sights from here…" Another reporter asks

"Well, there is an extra problem beyond the Convergence per se, but I will get there." Eidolon raises his hand "We acted on the Convergence so that we could protect Earth more efficiently. As much as the Convergence would not destroy the Earth, the same can't be said about Humanity. And when you put people like Malekith on the equation, we are proved right in taking the necessary counter-measures, even if we ended up inconveniencing the people of London."

"Malekith?" Someone asks

"Yeah, it was a surprise for us too…" Eidolon sighs "The Convergence, that should simply be a cosmic event that would cause some damage because of its huge scale, become something Apocalyptic."

"Apocalyptic?!" The reporters exclaim in shock

"Unfortunately yes, Malekith, a crazy extremist Dark Elf desired to use a certain ancient weapon to reshape all Nine Realms in the way he liked. Obviously, he would destroy everything first." Once again his words cause gasps "He would take advantage of the fact that the Convergence links all Realms to increase the range of destruction, affecting everything with considerably less effort."

Many, mainly of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the government, would frown seeing Eidolon revealing so much information. It can cause chaos, panic, and other unforeseen consequences.

But Eidolon thinks being transparent is better. It gains their trust, it shows the necessity of heroes, and he thinks they deserve to know.

And Eidolon also knows that those things are simply the tip of the iceberg. The Convergence? Malekith? Please… The knowledge of those things would not even give normal people an existential crisis or anything.

Imagine if they knew about the Cosmic Entities…

"Luckily we are ready for him. If only it was always like this… The villains announcing when they will attack with big and flashy cosmic events… *haah* It would be so easy~" Eidolon jokes, making the reporters laugh.

Eidolon also explains his late arrival "I was with Thor in Asgard. We made the judgment call that Thor should follow Malekith here while I save the innocent lives of the other races. One thing that I want to make clear is that Malekith's actions come from an isolated individual, akin to a terrorist… We shouldn't create any negative pre-conception against the Dark Elf race because of him. Remember people, generalization is dumb!" He points at the cameras like he is talking with the people watching.

He talks about how the dark elves helped against him, a little white lie, but he doesn't want all the credit.

He also talked about the actions moving forward "Even if we neutralised the main threats, we are not sure that is still completely safe… The Convergence brought air and other things from the Nine Realms, maybe even a pathogen." He then makes another holo-screen "That's why those towers of mine are purifying the air before we deactivate the forcefield."

The holo-screen shows the towers first then a certain chamber the size of a standard phone cabin "Even so, to be on the safe side, I would like to ask everyone to go in one of those medical cabins that I will put around this area. They will check your health, free of charge, scanning your entire body and searching for anything weird… If you want it can even make other conventional exams, but it can be a little invasive. You will see when you use it, it's very intuitive."

Eidolon continues to patiently answer questions, already wanting to leave because they start to get dumber. Like "Why the army was not used?" or some personal things about his relationship with female heroes.

"Hero of Midgard, Eidolon…" He hears someone calling for him with a thick accent.

Turning around he sees Alflyse, the Queen of the Dark Elves, and that is a good chance to leave the parasites.

"Sorry guys." He turns again to the reporters, but starts moving away "You will probably know more after S.H.I.E.L.D. does an official declaration." And he goes to talk with Alflyse, leaving the reporters behind, ignoring their pleas and questions "Your Majesty…" He says in an inquisitive voice

"I think is time for me and mine to return to our Realm." The Queen says with a smile

"I would recommend waiting a little more. I'm also taking care of the stranded citizens of the Nine Realms, and I think some came from Svartalfheim… You can take them with you, with the help of Thor." Eidolon says "And I can talk with him so that he can vouch for you when you go talk with the Allfather."

"Hmm, your words once again are filled with wisdom." Alflyse talks with a pleased smile, her hand reaching for his chest "Say Hero of Midgard, what would be your thoughts in following me to Svartalfheim and…" She starts talking sultrily

'Ayo!' Eidolon already knows where this is going

"... and become my consort. I can assure you the worship that you will have on my Realm would not be any less than the one that you receive here." She continues to caress his chest, smiling at him, cocking her hip.

Despite his surprise, Eidolon keeps his calm face and takes a step back while raising his hand "I'm flattered, but I have a duty with my Realm. I'm sorry." He is polite to try to avoid an Amora-Thor situation.

It would not be a BIG trouble, but wise is the man that avoids problems.

"..." The queen looks surprised by being rejected, but she is old beyond what one would imagine from her looks so she schools her features and simply smirks at him. "A pity then… But remember my offer, you can always change your mind." And with that, she walks away, her hair fluttering on his face and her hips swaying from side to side.

"..." Eidolon doesn't look. He has enough willpower to not fall into temptation. And he knows women can feel people's looks, even from behind…

But Alflyse is not the last woman of the Nine Realms that will approach him this night…

Now, the Queen of the Light Elves, Aelsa walks to him with a male light elf in tow. The male elf is a particularly good combatant of his race, called Faradei.

"Eidolon, I came here to thank you for your assistance." The Queen of the Light Elves is much more… behaved than her "dark counterpart".

"You already did." Eidolon replies amicably. He has a good impression of this one. She is the stereotypical pure-hearted royalty.

"A thousand gratitudes will not be enough." She smiles back

"I just spoke with Queen Alflyse, she will wait for some residents of her Realm that are under my custody… They came through the Convergence."

"Then I will do the same. It doesn't matter the race, we will take them to their home in Alfheim." The queen understood what he was talking about immediately.

"That will be great. Thor can only do so much, and it would be slow. No one deserves to be ripped of their home like that."

"I agree. And speaking of home…" The queen gives him a shy look

'Ayo! They will start thinking that I'm doing this on purpose.' He kinda did. He used some cheap flirting tactics to get the queens to agree so easily with his suggestions, but it was just something light, to make them comfortable with his presence and all that.., Because of the short time… Or so he says.

"...feel free to visit Alfheim at any time that you want in the future. I will make sure that you feel welcome." She is not as aggressive as Alflyse, she speaks with him like a high school girl talking with her crush.

"I… will be honored." He eventually says "But I bet our schedules will be tight… Don't wait so eagerly." He shoots her down gently.

"No… I will." She looks him in the eye and walks away.

"..." He is left alone thinking that assimilating characters like Batman, Yuuki Rito, Helltaker, Sinbad, and others must be giving him some passive buff… A baddie magnetism or something.

And then comes Lady Sif talk to him…

"..." He must be Mistress Love's favorite mortal…

......…..

Eventually, Eidolon and Susan(with Shego in tow) went through all captured living beings. The irrational animals are analyzed, and Eidolon explains that there are no endangered species between them.

That was expected, those species would be too rare to fall into a wormhole. In truth, many of the animals and monsters captured are dangerous, instead of being in danger.

After some back and forth, Eidolon convinced Susan to keep those beasts to study. She tries to ask for some data too, but he gives a vague answer, so he doesn't owe her anything.

About the sentient being, Eidolon's main worry was to separate the innocents from the criminals/dangerous individuals, but that was easy enough with his power.

A portal is open back in the area protected and Eidolon gets out of it with Susan and Shego.

"Thor!" He calls the God of Thunder from the place he was talking with Jane.

"Yes?" He shouts back.

"We have some people for you to take back! 30% are criminals!" Eidolon says "Or something similar…"

This makes Thor leave Jane for a while and come to talk with him, the other Eidolon also approaches, together with Lady Sif, and fuses again.

"I said 'criminals' but is only for a lack of a better term… They are dangerous from our perspective. I hope you can be the judge for that." Eidolon explains from the circle.

"You can leave it to me." Thor nods

"I don't envy this job of yours…" Eidolon jokes while shaking his head

What happened in the next hours was the separation and organization of the groups that would leave Midgard. Eidolon chains together the "dangerous" people while the rest are separated into groups based on their home Realm, then in even smaller groups based on their specific region, tribe, and species.

This is for their protection too… Eidolon knows that if those people are captured by other humans, being in his custody will look like a vacation.

"I think that is all…" Eidolon clapped his hand while watching the group of more than a thousand people that fell into the wormholes "Is the Bifrost already working?" He asks Thor.

Thor checks his hammer, making a signal but stops halfway. "Yes, I can feel the calling… We are ready to go."

"Did you say your goodbyes to your missus?" Eidolon smiles at him, gesturing at Jane with his eyes

"No."

"Go on then, you will have a lot of work to do, God of Hammers." Eidolon jokes "And you may be grounded for some hundred years… You committed High Treason after all."

Thor laughs "That's true."

"If you are grounded, send a crow. I will go bail you out." The two laugh and clasp their forearms together.

Thor goes to say goodbye to Jane and the Warriors Three comes to do the same with Eidolon.

"It was good getting to know you better." Fandral also steps forward to shake Eidolon's hand.

"A friend of Thor is a friend of mine… But you don't need that anymore. you are already a friend of mine in your own right!" Volstagg goes to give Eidolon a bone-crushing bear hug.

The hero answers in kind, making the Viking groan in pain.

Lady Sif steps forward with a smile, and like Volstagg gives Eidolon a hug "Just for your information, it's not always that we need to stop a genocidal maniac." She jokes

"Seriously? I thought that was this trip selling point…" He answers in kind

"There are other good things to do beyond participating in great battles. Come visit again and I will show you."

"I will."

"..." That exchange was not lost by Shego. "He was out for only a few days…" She turns to Helena and speaks with disbelief laced in her voice.

"They… are just good friends…" Helena answers slowly. Even her cynic self is starting to think that maybe he really has some chick magnet superpower.

The Midgardians step back, giving space to the ones from the other Realms. Jane looks at Thor with longing, Darcy waves at them, Eidolon and the other heroes nod…

"Why do you go to mythical Viking land and not me? That's unfair…" Tony Stark quips a little far from Eidolon

"I don't know if you would enjoy it… There was no internet there." Eidolon quips back

"Oh! The horror!"

"Only alcohol, women, fights…"

"Okay, okay… Don't say more, I was sold on the alcohol." Tony raises his hand in surrender,

"I know you would be…" Eidolon shoots a judgemental look in his direction.

"Hey!"

Tony protests are drowned by the sound of the Bifrost carrying the thousands of inhabitants of the Nine Realms and their many ships.

"Well, let's finish cleaning this place and end the day." Eidolon announces to the rest.

"Do you think there's a Shawarma place around here?" Stark asks

"Yes, but is probably not open at this time."

.........

While every eye of England is turned to the focal point of the Convergence, a certain woman is quietly watching what is happening through a smartphone. But she doesn't appear overly interested.

She has other things to worry about.

"You waited for a long time…" Suddenly a voice echoes in this dark apartment, making her fo gull alert, looking around frantically "It must be really important… Psylocke." Eidolo walks out of the shadows, wearing his full dark suit, looking as intimidating as he can be.

"It is important…" Psylocke, who is wearing her characteristic purple leotard stares at Eidolon intensely "And you kept me waiting…"

"I have more important things to do. You are lucky that there's trouble here in England…" The hero says without a hint of apology. "What do you want?"

"This." She gestures to her body, wide hips, thick thighs, flat stomach…

"..." Eidolon waits patiently because she doesn't seem to be seducing him…

"This is not my body…" She finally goes to the point.

"..." Eidolon keeps a calm face

"...and you don't appear that surprised…" She tilts her head.

"Body swapping is not that uncommon… I have a lot of countermeasures against it." He comments casually "Can you imagine the consequences if someone steals my body?"

"..." That she can imagine… And it would not be pretty.

"Considering that you are telling me that, I can guess that you want my help…" He continues "The answer is yes and yes. Yes, I can swap you back and yes, I will help you."

"...That…" She was first surprised that he agreed that easily, but then she remembered… This guy is a hero.

"I just need your real body."

"That is where the problem lies…" She sighs

"Don't have it, huh? Do you want my help to find it too… It will take some time."

"No, I know where it is… But I can't go there." She speaks regrettably.

"And you want my help with it too, I guess…"

"..." She nods almost bashfully, she is a prideful woman who doesn't lack to rely on or owe others anything. But she has no other choice.

"Where?"

"Another dimension…" She reveals dramatically but once again she sees no change of expression in the hero. Other dimensions don't surprise him either.

"That can be a problem, but-" He was answering casually before he paused.

For the first time his expression changed, he frowned… His eyes narrowed in a small show of anger.

Psylocke thought that she would want to see Eidolon crack or something, maybe it would give her an advantage in the negotiations… But now that things are going well and his expression really changed, she can't say that she is happy.

She would never confess it, but it terrifies her a little… This is the strongest and scariest man on the planet after all.

Eidolon doesn't care about her thoughts… His brain finally remembered a piece of lore… An annoying saga, an annoying antagonist…

"Mojo…" He says between his teeth

The next adventure is already decided.

"How do you know?" Psylocke eyes widen in shock

"The bastard is kidnapping humans, huh?" Eidolon ignores her question and talks to himself "Okay then… Okay." Psylocke can feel his annoyance. He sounds done.

He turns around after throwing an object at her.

"I will make some preparations… It will take some days. Be ready." And with that, he disappeared without giving her the chance to say anything, in a typical Eidolon fashion.

.........

The next day, the News Channel is filled with reports and information from what happened in London.

"Two World Invasions in the same year… Are we in danger?"

*Click*

"What should we expect from the future if things continue like this…"

*Click*

"... Eidolon's words are to take away our trust in the Government…"

*Click*

"What are they hiding from us?"

*Click*

"So what is all this about?" Emma Frost mutes the TV and turns to look at Eidolon who is playing with the quintuplets. Her question is to pry if there is something left out from the public eye, after all, she has the main character of that whole thing right here in her room. So it would be a waste to not ask.

"Exactly like was told…" Eidolon answers calmly while making a hairstyle on Celeste's golden locks.

"So we are just some hours away from a psychopath destroying the world? And I was completely oblivious?" Emma sighs with a distant expression "This really makes me feel small…"

"We are always seconds away from being wiped out… Don't sweat the small stuff." Eidolon shrugs.

Eidolon knows that if he is really unlucky, something really big can destroy this universe and he would not be able to do anything.

But he also knows that he is not unlucky.

"Small stuff he says…" She huffs

"Relax, there's a guy protecting us…"

"Hm, who?" Emma asks with great interest

"Myself from the future…" Eidolon deadpans

"..." She stares at him with a dead expression "Are you serious?"

"100%" His expression is really 100% serious "I exist, and I know my plans for the future and my potential… I'm sure that my future enemies will try to come back to the past to kill me or maybe my parents… The fact that I'm still here is proof enough that I'm winning in the future too." He says calmly while giving uppies to Esme "So I also think myself from the future will not allow this universe to be wiped out without a fighting chance…"

"I really don't know when you are serious… 80% of your words are always too outlandish." She shakes her head and facepalms

"I rarely lie."

"Papa…" One of the quintuples calls him

"Yes, princess."

"You. Strong?" Phoebe pints at the TV which is showing Eidolon fighting. She is also shadowboxing… or trying. She is simply flailing her tiny and skinny arms around.

"Yes, Papa is very strong." Eidolon nods while patting her head.

"Teach.Me." Phoebe continues

"Oh…Fine." He raises a palm "Punch here."

While Phoebe maniacally punches his unmoving palms he turns to Emma "They are starting to say more than one word. That's good."

"Their individuality is starting to show."

"They are at the age children gain awareness… Maybe we should stimulate this more."

"And how do you suggest to do that?" Emma asks

"I have some ideas…"

......…..

Hall of the Royal Palace of Valaskjalf

Odin has just heeded the explanations of the the Queens of Dark and Light Elves, he showed understanding and forgave them and their race, keeping the peace and good relations between the Realms.

Now Thor steps forward… He walks calmly and with his chin raised before kneeling in front of the throne. The scene is eerily familiar to some of the people in attendance.

Something similar happened when Thor was banished many years ago, but now Thor spots nothing of the arrogance from before.

"Do you know your mistake?" Odin speaks to him, voice booming from his throne, his face betraying none of his emotions.

"Yes, Allfather." Thor lowers his head.

"Hmpf! If you knew, why did you do it?" The Allfather scoffs

"It's what I thought that was right."

"Did you learn nothing, boy?" Odin shouts "Do you still think that you know better than me?"

"No." Thor shakes his head "But in that specific situation…"

"Always a specific situation with you! Will you call every situation specific so that you can impose us to your whims?!"

"No. It was different from before." Thor tries to argue

"How it is any different? You act by yourself without any regard for the big picture! You dragged your friends into your mess!"

"It was different!" The God of Thunder shows his temper "I did not act for a petty reason like pride or arrogance… I acted to protect someone dear to me! I cared about the big picture, choosing to shoulder that burden first before anything happens to our people again!" Thor looks up to Odin "And I did not drag my friends into my mess… I simply feel grateful and lucky that they followed me despite the risks." He ends his words strongly

"..."

"..."

The hall is filled with silence after Thor's outburst, many fearing the retaliation from the Allfather.

"Oh… It almost looks like you grew a brain…" Odin says almost humorously "And what about Loki?"

"..." To that… Thor can only lower his head again in shame "Loki escaped during the confusion." He doesn't hide the fact.

"Too much for being responsible for your actions…" Odin mocks

"..."

"I should throw you in his cell so that it would not get empty…" The Allfather starts "But what use would you have there? Your punishment is to once again delay your coronation… And your mission is to find Loki!"

The Allfather's voice fills the room while he declares Thor's punishment.

"You will bring him back, even if you have to search under every rock in all Realms… And you will not be King if you don't bring him back." Odin stands up and starts walking away, passing through Thor without looking at his kneeling son "And if you fail, maybe you will not be King after all…" And with that, he leaves the Hall.

It sounds like a harsh punishment, but anyone who knows a little can figure out that Odin is letting Thor off the hook pretty easily.

It's even giving him permission to travel through the Realms… Including Midgard.

Odin will not say, but he approves of Thor's actions. Results don't lie after all… Even he wouldn't dare to say that his actions are 100% right or secure, to him the only thing that really matters is Thor's growth.

Only when Thor matures to his full potential, Asgard will escape it's vicious circle of destruction. Even if he has to sacrifice many things to accomplish that.

To a King that is the most important, and as his father he is also proud of his son.

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Hector P.O.V.

Mojo, huh? The Spineless One…

I remember that guy, weak but annoying… He is that guy that captures humans and makes a Truman Show/Gladiator thing… He is a sick creature, that I will enjoy getting rid of.

And here I thought that I would be able to focus more on "Avengers things" and put "X-men things" aside for a while. But X-men has too many problems, bro… Maybe I should stick to a franchise.

Psylocke and the captured people will have to wait some days, I just returned and need to put some order in the house before leaving for an undetermined amount of time.

I will also need to research how to get to the Mojoverse… Well, brute force always works. You just need to use enough.

I'm thankful for the Sword of Actuation… Maybe I should put more Power Voost cards on it.

"But before all that… So Nemesis, can you eat it?" I turn the dark-skinned loli by my side. In her hand, a piece of the Aether floats in a reinforced flask.

"Maybe… If I go very slowly…" She answers slowly while eyeing the mysterious things cautiously "Where did this thing come from?"

"From outside the universe, I'm sure… And maybe from a really powerful guy." I'm not 100% sure that the Aether came from Knull "Don't force yourself if you can't do it… We can wait till you are stronger."

"..." I don't what is going through her head, but I will keep an eye on her.

Just because my summons are loyal, doesn't mean they can't do something dumb and hurt me indirectly.

Nemesis is to be part of my armor… A mix of the "Hellbat Armor" with the "Endo-sym armor"... When I complete it… It will be glorious~

But instead of daydreaming about the future…

"Time to bring more allies…" I say to myself while opening the cards in my hands

Being everywhere is tiring… One day I will have my people in every corner and plot of this Universe.

Avengers, Defenders, Inhumans, crimes, other dimensions, X-men, Space, Guardians of the Galaxy…

"It will be like an automatic problem-solving machine… Then I will rest…" But is so far away "...Summon."

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