[The original Avengers are finally assembling again. It's truly nostalgic!]
[I can't even remember the last time the original Avengers assembled as a complete team!]
[It feels like it was after Natasha Romanoff sacrificed herself, after Tony snapped his fingers, after Steve chose to live his own life...]
[People say the original Avengers can never be reunited.]
[I wonder how Clint felt when he took off his hearing aid and watched performers on stage dressed as the original Avengers, just before the destruction of the parallel world.]
[However, I think I can understand. Because that day, Clint and I stood in front of the memorial, looking at the list of fallen Avengers, and we were silent for a long time.]
[We held a funeral for Tony, we mourned Natasha, we celebrated Steve's choice...]
[But, in truth, the surviving members of the original Avengers are the ones who suffer the most.]
[Because whenever a crisis arises, we know we'll never see those familiar figures again...]
Inside S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters.
Sitting in his office, holding the black and gold diary, Nick Fury knew that Su Che would definitely update an entry tonight.
After all, soon, he would be teaming up with Steve, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, and Tony Stark—who was temporarily preoccupied with his own issues—to take on the HYDRA base in Sokovia.
Although, according to previous entries in Su Che's diary, the original Avengers were still missing Thor and Dr. Bruce Banner, Nick Fury felt he could deeply understand Su Che's current mixed feelings of excitement, complexity, and nostalgia.
In that parallel world, he had fought alongside those familiar original Avengers to save the world time and again. Yet, in the end, some sacrificed themselves, others retired, until only a handful remained. And then, even his parallel universe was destroyed.
But now, in this world, those fallen and retired original Avengers were all still alive, and the team was assembling once more. So, Nick Fury fully grasped why Su Che felt excited, complicated, and nostalgic.
Also, just like today's diary update, this was perfectly normal!
Although Su Che was incredibly powerful—so powerful that Nick Fury still had no idea how many cards he held—every time he thought he had Su Che figured out, Su Che would reveal even more formidable and mysterious abilities.
Take this time, for instance: Nick Fury had no idea how Su Che managed to make Stern admit he was HYDRA and blow up the Sokovia base, all in just a few minutes. Was it some kind of mind control?
But no matter how powerful he was, Su Che was still human. And humans are inevitably bound by emotions. Besides, who would complain about their superhero being too strong?
So, Nick Fury was somewhat grateful for the appearance of this black and gold diary. Not only did it reveal Su Che's true identity, but it also provided clues and fragments about the future, allowing them to prevent certain catastrophic events in advance.
Most importantly, its existence had enabled him to realize his Avengers initiative ahead of schedule. And now, he even had a superhero who had been an Avenger for over a decade in a parallel world!
Tsk, perfect!
Turning the page, Nick Fury continued reading. He thought that maybe, after the original Avengers handled the Sokovia HYDRA incident, he should really have a talk with Su Che.
After all, this was the first time the original Avengers were assembling as a team. It was essential to have someone with rich experience guide them to help them become a well-coordinated unit as quickly as possible. From this perspective, Su Che was undoubtedly the perfect candidate!
Perhaps that matter about water compressing into metallic iron could be a good pretext for the conversation. As for using metallic hydrogen to secure funds from the World Security Council, that was absolutely secondary. Why else would it have taken until today for Hill's proposal to be approved?
[Although my feelings are excited and complicated, this time the team is missing two of the original members.]
[According to Natasha, Thor is in New Mexico, involved with a woman named Doris, and still hasn't regained his divine power.]
[But why is Thor with Doris again? Shouldn't it be Jane Foster? Is it because of the butterfly effect caused by my arrival?]
[Also, Dr. Banner wasn't recruited by Clint for assistance.]
[Thinking about it, that makes sense. After all, this isn't like the first assembly of the Avengers in the parallel world, facing the Chitauri invasion, which concerned the fate of the entire planet.]
[So, Dr. Banner not coming to help is reasonable.]
[A single HYDRA base in Sokovia really isn't worth unleashing the Hulk!]
[However, the only thing that bothers me is Thor being with that Doris.]
[Is that really okay? If he's with Doris, can he still regain his power and return to Asgard?]
[If he can't go back, it will affect a series of events, including Loki's eventual encounter with Thanos in the vast cosmos!]
Asgard.
Reading the updated diary, Queen Frigga's gentle smile remained, but she recalled Heimdall's reports about Loki's time on Earth.
Loki had truly matured a lot!
If it were the Loki of before, the mischievous trickster, he would surely have found a way to deceive and break Thor's heart, perhaps even making Thor fall into self-doubt and decadence, never able to lift Mjolnir again. That way, he could use this time to prove himself in Asgard, to prove he was no worse than Thor.
But now, Loki had given her, his mother, a sense of relief.
Faced with his older brother, stripped of his power and exiled to Earth, Loki hadn't chosen deceit and lies. Instead, he offered comfort. The only lie he told was a kind one.
It was as if, during the short period of Thor's exile and Odin's sleep, while he shouldered the rule of Asgard, Loki had instantly grown up and matured.
This change warmed her heart as a mother.
Once Thor also matured on Earth, the future of Asgard would be bright with these two brothers leading the way!
However, the concerns raised by the young man named Su Che in his diary were not without reason.
Loki… and Thanos?
If she remembered correctly, Thanos was the being mentioned in previous diary entries, the one who wanted to wipe out half of all life in the universe.
Why would Loki cross paths with him?
With this thought, Frigga continued reading attentively.
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