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Four Asgardians stepped onto the meeting room floor, their golden armour gleaming as the sunlight struck the articulated plates and scales that covered their arms and shoulders.
At the head of the band was a woman with long, wavy, black hair, bright emerald-green eyes and the posture of a warrior used to combat and warfare. Beside her was a peacock of a man that held a rapier on his side and walked with a confidence that his scruffy blonde hair definitely didn't give him. His cocksure grin made me shiver in slight discomfort as he stared out at all of us, ending his glances with a surreptitious roll of the eyes to the large barrel of a man next to him. Said big man was positively giddy at seeing Thor again, his extraordinary brown beard puffing forwards as his mouth churned backwards into a smile.
Finally there was the man at the back of the band, an Asian-looking man with a top-knot and a Fu-Manchu-style moustache and beard. A katana slapped against the side of his thighs as he silently analysed the room's exits and entrances, his hawk-like beady black eyes carefully scraping over every little detail, including how many staff members at the consoles had weaponry on their person.
"Lady Sif! Volstagg! Hogun! Fandral! It is good to see you once again!" Thor's voice boomed throughout the command centre, every staff member stopping what they were doing for a moment to listen in, before begrudgingly going back to what they were doing.
"Thor!" , "Shield Brother!" , "My Prince!" , "Mmm" The four warriors responded back in kind, Sif responding with decorum whilst the other three responded with a familiar casualness that made me and Tony chuckle.
Fury was over the pleasantries however, his singular eye locking onto Thor.
"Whilst this is great and all, I want to know if Loki is actually an enemy or a victim in this mess. Additionally, I would also love to know where he has placed this damn tesseract!" Tony and Bruce coughed at the same time, the two scientists looking to one another before laughing... Bruce spoke up soon after.
"Director, me and Stark have already begun searching for the Tesseract using the Gamma Radiation it outputs." Tony broke into his speech like a child that was excited to show off something he had done, "In thirty minutes we'll know where that Tesseract is." Fury shifted his focus to Tony before nodding in acceptance, a staff member walking up to him and speaking into his ear.
I shifted in my seat, leaning over towards Tony and whispering. "That exotic metal that Loki got from that gala in Stuttgart, do you think they were trying to stabilize the portal that Loki came through?" He frowned whilst staring out at Thor, who was conversing with his friends.
"If their goal is to stabilize the quantum tunnelling effect to achieve a stable wormhole-portal…... Then they would need to understand the quantum tunnelling effect and manipulate it." I nodded, taking a moment to 'think it over' before speaking once again. "If they can do that, then they can make every single nuclear reactor on the planet go into melt-down or possibly detonate every nuke on the planet." He paled and stood up abruptly.
Everyone at the table turned and looked at Tony and I, all of them noticing that he was as pale as a piece of A4 paper.
"Stark, what's wrong?" I stood as well and grimaced a little at the idea that someone could just fuck the entire planet with a single usage of advanced physics.
"We need to warn every Nuclear site on Earth about an impending build up of gamma radiation with their facilities." Bruce blinked several times before paling as well.
"You think they've managed to do that!?" The man who could turn into a monster slammed his hands onto the table as Fury licked his lips in nervousness and quickly shooed the agent away.
I answered. "If their goal is to stabilize the quantum tunnelling effect to achieve a stable wormhole-portal to allow an army through then they could use the Tesseract to interact with every Nuclear Power plant in the world." Everyone else at the table went silent before Fury rushed over to his command post and began typing away furiously on one of the screens, Agent Hill rushed over to him, paled, and then proceeded to do something similar as the rest of the bridge went into fast-response-mode.
"Thor, we need you to secure Loki and get him checked as soon as possible." I made my voice clear and concise as I spoke to the god, turning away to Natasha who was positively lost in what was going on; alongside Rogers who looked like we were all speaking Chinese.
"Nat, Steve, I need you both to stick near Banner and Stark, they are going to be targets for the other side. If we don't have them there is little chance we can find out where the Tesseract is located." Both of them nodded, used to following orders and protecting high-profile targets. I turned towards Banner now, my voice remaining steady.
"If you wouldn't mind Bruce, could you compile a short list on the most likely locations that a portal may be created?" The man frowned as he slowly collected himself.
"That would be like searching for a needle in a haystack... There are an infinite number of places that the portal could be being manufactured..." Tony blinked and frowned, his mind working something over. I hoped that it was his epiphany about Loki being a Deva and wanting to use his tower to create the Portal.
My hopes were meaningless however as I needed to get everyone on the same side. I didn't want Phil to 'die' because of Loki's manipulations; or should I call them Thanos' manipulations?
"Damn, well, find that tesseract then." Everyone sensed that was all that needed to be said, Nat and Rogers taking off after Tony and Banner who rushed towards the laboratory. Thor and his friends were already walking out of the room towards the detention block whilst Fury and Hill communicated with the governments of the world.
I sighed, my part wouldn't really come up until the army arrived and we started fighting. My knowledge was no where near Tony or Bruce and my powers could really only work on enemies or in preparing for a fight. I slowly followed after Tony and Bruce, making a steady pace towards the lab. Maybe I couldn't do much, but perhaps, I could scan Loki's sceptre and sneakily yoink the mind-stone from it. Creating something that imitated it was entirely within my means after all.
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Emma Frost was sitting in her study, looking over a multitude of investments and portfolios relating to Frost International and the other branch-companies that fell under it. Her fingers lightly tapped the exquisite table as her laptop idly played the news in the background.
So far her day had been monotonous and filled with superfluous meetings. These meeting usually encompassed the day-to-day management of Frost International's country headquarters, discussions with department heads and the shareholders. Some of these shareholders included Stark Industries' Pepper Potts, Elon Musk; CEO of Tesla, Charles Xavier; Headmaster of a private school in upper New York, Danny Rand; CEO of Rand Enterprises and Madelyne Pryor; a private investor.
The conversations were mainly pertaining to the takeover of Stark Industry's weapons branches and military arms division. It was all going well so far and Frost International was taking over the contracts that were once given to Stark Industries. In recompense for the easy takeover she had diverted some assets and RND personnel to boost Stark Industries' efforts to break into the appliance market, the clean energy market and also the fashion industry. From all reports these 'donations' were boosting Stark Industry's stock prices significantly and also creating hype around prospective communication devices and other technological marvels; the Stark name was doing wonders for publicity.
She huffed as she looked over the Alchemax investment, her hands pausing their incessant tapping. Her eyes widened when she studied some of the weapon designs and beverage designs that were being proposed. They were all very basic in their design but were supposedly promising to be 100% more effective than any of their counterparts in sale now. The drink was an alternative power drink that was aiming to actually provide energy without negative side-effects to the lymphatic system and teeth of the drinker. Their weapon design was for tanks primarily and was termed 'Gauss Cannon'. It was a patent for a working railgun fixture for tanks.
"Holy shit... How did my brother know...?" Her words faded into the empty room as she flipped the pages, finding the annual growth chart and annual income from the investment. She had wanted to wait a week or two more before consuming the company completely but now she was certain that she needed to secure it before anyone else stepped in or they became wealthy enough to resist a takeover.
Dropping the papers she quickly navigated her laptop and began writing emails to the acquisition department of Frost International. It took several minutes to message everyone that was needed but eventually her orders were out and the full assimilation of Alchemax would begin with all haste. A crooked smile spread across her face as she considered the amount of money those two designs would be able to net her.
"Breaking News! There is activity on the top of Stark Tower..." Her mood plummeted as intrigue replaced her happiness, her fingers gliding over her keyboard as she pulled up the News broadcast. "A middle-aged man has been recorded tinkering with a device that continues to spark. There is, as of this moment, no footage to relay to you all... However, it has been reported that the man is holding a glowing blue cube of energy." Emma blinked several times as the screen which had previously just shown the reporter in the studio shifted.
The broadcast had been interrupted to show grainy footage of the man and the device, the cube being held by a pair of blacksmith's tongs that softly guided it into a chamber of the device. A shield quickly emerged on the broadcast, surrounding the device, before some form of visible pulse blasted out and struck the helicopter the cameraman was sitting within. The sound of rapid swear and the beeping of instruments followed before the footage cut, the last image being the same man inputting some code into the panel of the device.
Emma ignored the channel and immediately began calling Pepper Potts to inquire as to the nature of this experiment. The call rung out after a minute as in the distance a loud explosion rumbled through the air. Panic filling her, Emma rushed to the window and spotted an aircraft carrier falling from the sky.
"What, the, fuck!?"
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"Yeah, fuck this!" I yelled out as the entire aircraft carrier tilted downwards.
Loki had done his thing again and tricked Thor into letting him out all the whilst the Warriors Three dealt with an angry Hulk, who was tearing through the bottom sections of the massive fortress like it was made out of cotton candy and he was a fat kid. The Shield Agents were in complete chaos as many didn't know who was foe and friend. All the while Hawkeye disrupted the control systems of the fortress whilst, no doubt, retrieving Loki.
The only positive that I could bring to this situation was that I was able to switch the mind stone out of Loki's staff, the infinity stone now sitting inside a small Metallic Hydrogen container inside my lead-lined pocket; a new addition that I made after acquiring a stone that could literally fuck up minds.
Shaking my head I poured my senses into the aircraft carrier around me and began fixing any damage done to the systems that was close. I continued to send my mind through the atomic chains and links that kept the flying fortress together, bringing what was there back to what it originally was as I could.
"Drecarios, one of the engines is down, we need help to repair it!" Agent Hill shouted up at me as I dealt with another wave of Shield Agents who had been placing C4 on the chambers surrounding the fusion generator.
"Right, which engine!?" I winced as I felt a section of the ship's wall missing entirely, the rotors of a fucked up engine filling my mind. "Never mind, I'm on it! Get Tony to intercept their Quin-Jet before they take out another engine!" A massive explosion rocked the entirety of the Aircraft Carrier as another rotor went out, blowing away a good half of the overall structure of that engine.
"Fuck, I've got that one too... It's going to be a massive drain the fusion reactor though..." Fury grunted as he quickly worked on contacting the council, my efforts at repairing the comms systems being much appreciated by the spy master. I grunted with effort as the first rotor engine was restored to full effectiveness. My mind sped away from that one however and hurriedly spread through hundreds of thousands, nay, hundreds of millions of atoms towards the nearest engine.
"The Hulk has broken through level 48 and has made it to one of the lower hangers, Sir. The Asgardian Warriors have engaged him in close quarters but are suffering wounds in doing so. Permission to launch a bird?" Fury muttered curses before turning to her.
"No, get Rogers to go help them. Hell, at this point, just tell them to shunt him off the damned ship!" The spymaster groaned as the world council finally picked up their phones. I ignored their conversation as I found the next engine and began piecing it back together from pure memory, the energy of the fusion reactor being syphoned away with an efficiency that was, currently, technologically impossible.
"Thank you Drecarios, the ship is stable and all systems are returning to nominal levels." Hill quickly began issuing orders as the loud animalistic sound of the Hulk resounded from outside, the green giant's form flailing about as he was dropped from just under a thousand feet.
"I think the Hulk has been temporarily dealt with...heh" My chuckled comment was frowned down upon by Fury as he turned minutely to listen to me before the council called his attention away.
Hill hovered over the comms station down below before turning to me. "Drecarios, Tony says that we all need to be at Stark Tower." I groaned and ran my right hand over my face, my mind working away at the coming invasion.
"Are there any casualties with Loki's escape?" Hill looked down at the station before looking up once more, her face softening into a rocky façade.
"Agent Coulson was killed in his attempt to apprehend Loki using Asgardian Weaponry." My teeth clenched tightly against each other, my inner monologue fuelling my self deprecation. If I had just decided to forgo my advantage he wouldn't need to be cloned and 'resurrected'. Opening my eyes, I watched the sun mid-way through its zenith. We had been awake all night and were about to fight a war.
"I'm sorry to hear that..." I glanced over to Fury who was shouting at the world council, his hand hovering over the button to hang-up. Hill spoke up again, her voice positive this time, "Agent Barton has been returned to duty however, he was struck over the head by Agent Romanov." A small smile broke through my miserable mood.
"Good. Have both of them and Rogers meet me on a Quin-Jet, I have a feeling Tony found where they have been creating this portal and we need to meet him at his Tower." Internally I grimaced at the false reasoning but quickly threw the feeling deep into the pits of my mind.
"Go. Be as quick as you can. I want this whole mess fixed before they realise they can just end us all by beginning a nuclear Armageddon." All i did was nod as I stood up from my crouch and walked away, heading for the hanger bays.
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[WARNING!!!]
[WARNING!!!]
[WARNING!!!]
[WAR MISSION PENDING!!!]
[MISSION TRANSLATED AND CODIFIED]
[ALIEN INVASION OF NEWYORK- EARTH #######- MARVEL MULTIVERSE]
[MISSION DETAILS:
TIME LIMITED (Mission will take less than 24 hours and will not be slowed),
URGENT (Portal Must be Closed within 24 hours),
ALIEN (Enemies will have a mixture of technological, magical or metaphysical abilities),
SAVIOUR (All members on mission will need to save as many civilians as possible; rewards will be based off of how many people you have saved and aliens killed),
LIMITED (Only one member of the chatroom, besides those already present, will be allowed to join this mission),
DANGER LEVEL (S-RANK)
Luke Skywalker- Loki, you go.
Loki Odinson- I recognise this event from my own world and this is definitely not something I would want to intrude upon...
Luke Skywalker- Stop being a coward and go
Loki Odinson- How dare you!?
Luke Skywalker- I dare you, now go
Loki Odinson- Fine, i'll go. But it's because I'm interested in meeting another version of myself, not because you asked me to
Luke Skywalker- Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep better at night
Loki Odinson- YOU!!!
Jester Lavorre- STAHP INTERFERING WITH MY SLEEP!!!! 👿👿👿👿👿👿
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