Remember how in Avengers: Infinity War, Thor was defeated and his body drifted through space, where he was eventually found and rescued by the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Rocket Raccoon once had a chat with Thor.
Rocket asked Thor about his father. Thor said he was dead.
Then Rocket asked about his mother, his brothers, his friends…
But Thor's answers were all the same: dead.
To be honest, being a superhero is never easy. Everyone carries their own pain. But for Thor, losing family and friends one after another was a pain few could bear.
Alex wanted to say something to comfort him, but the words stuck in his throat. After all, even he'd been dumped by his girlfriend — what right did he have to talk about loss?
"Alex? Do you have anything else to say? How is my mother in the future? If my father really dies, she must be heartbroken, right?" Thor looked at Alex, waiting for an answer.
"That won't happen," Alex shook his head.
But before Thor could relax, Alex's next words made him freeze.
"Because, in the future I've seen… your mother will die before your father."
"How is that possible? That can't be true…" Alex's words left Thor shaken.
His father Odin was already very old — it wasn't strange if he passed away naturally. But his mother still looked so young. How could she die so easily?
"Hmph, how can a mere mortal claim to see the future…" Loki, who'd been silent in his cell, finally snorted coldly.
No one knew if Loki really didn't believe it, or just didn't want to believe it.
Loki never truly hated Odin — it was always a mix of resentment and loyalty. But his mother? Loki loved her deeply. In the original story, when he learned of her death, he fell apart completely — that part was real.
So when he heard Odin would die, Loki's face showed a hint of conflict, but not deep sorrow. Yet when he heard his mother would die — and die before Odin — he couldn't stay silent and snapped back at Alex.
"My condolences. But now that we've seen the future, if we take precautions, maybe we can change it," Tony Stark spoke up, glancing at Thor.
You had to admit, Tony's sharp tongue usually made people want to strangle him, but when he chose to comfort, his words worked. Thor's expression softened a little.
Hearing this, Thor pressed for more. If he knew when and how, maybe he could save his parents.
Alex shook his head. "I can't say too much. The more details you know, the more the future might twist and backfire."
He paused, then added, "But remember this — when the Aether appears, the Dark Elves will invade Asgard. At that time, protect your mother well…"
He paused again, then continued, "Also, before you two, Odin actually had an eldest daughter — Hela, the Goddess of Death. Ask him about her when you return."
"Aether… Dark Elves… our sister, the Goddess of Death?" Thor and Loki exchanged a look, burning these details into memory.
One thing was clear — they would remember every word.
"Okay, thank you very much. I'll remember everything you said…" Thor, who had already heard what he needed to know, seemed impatient to head back and waved a quick goodbye.
"Wait, there's still something — very important…" Just as Thor and the others turned to leave, Alex hurriedly stopped them, his tone tense.
The progress bar for the copy had only just crossed the halfway point and would need at least twenty more minutes to complete; if they left now, everything he'd done so far would be wasted, and that was something he absolutely couldn't allow.
"Huh? Is there something else that important?" Thor paused at Alex's words, a little puzzled by his sudden insistence, but since they had fought side by side, he didn't suspect anything strange and just looked at Alex, waiting to hear more.
Captain America, Tony Stark, Hulk, and the other Avengers standing nearby all turned their eyes towards Alex too, curiosity flickering in their expressions — if this so-called astrology of his could really see the future, maybe it was worth hearing him out one more time; good news would be welcome, but even if there was bad news, it was always better to have a warning than to be caught off guard.
"Well… I saw that your hammer — Mjolnir — will be destroyed…"
Honestly, Alex was scraping the bottom of the barrel and didn't know what else to say to buy time, so he could only mention Thor's beloved hammer to keep him interested.
Sure enough, as soon as Thor heard that Mjolnir might be destroyed, he tensed up, his expression shifting in an instant, and even Loki, who had been standing to the side with his usual smirk, looked genuinely surprised for a moment.
After all, Mjolnir was almost a symbol of Thor himself — how could it be destroyed, and what kind of terrifying enemies would he have to face in the future to make that happen?
Alex kept chatting with Thor, throwing out one or two vague bits of "information" from time to time just to keep him steady and stop him from leaving, all while keeping a close eye on the copy's progress bar in the corner of his vision.
It crawled forward slowly but steadily, inch by inch — 55%… 68%… 82%… 97% — until in Alex's eyes, he could finally see it drawing closer and closer to being done.