POV Thanos
"Your reign of terror ends here, Mad Titan," Odin threatens.
"Nothing will stop me in my quest, not even you, Allfather," I say confidently.
"Let's get this over with so I can go back to ruling Asgard," Hela says angrily while forming her helmet and creating blades.
Odin raises his spear and prepares for battle.
"I'm afraid you misunderstand something. I am not here to fight you," I say with a smirk.
This seems to confuse them, but they soon understand as a massive portal opens behind me and a figure walks through. The titan shakes the dimension with its every step.
"Heh, it seems we will have to work as one," Odin comments to Hela.
"One last battle with an old man for glory and Asgard? Seems like even after all these years, nothing has changed," Hela jokes.
"Yes, one last battle as father and daughter," Odin says firmly.
I smirk at their foolish ideas.
"Numidium, destroy them!" I order.
Its arm changes from a fist to a blade and cleaves towards Odin and Hela. Odin uses something to block the first attack. I fall back through a portal as the attack hits, as I have other goals. I would return later to retrieve the Numidium when it was done annihilating them. I land on Nidavellir and prepare for battle, but instead I find an empty room. It was also incredibly quiet, causing me to narrow my eyes in suspicion.
'Let's see what foolishness they have made for me.'
I walk through the halls and rooms and start to suspect that they didn't leave anything behind but rather evacuated.
'Strange. The proud dwarves decided to flee instead of fight?'
Even the forges were cold and empty of anything of value, making them completely useless to me. I was a bit annoyed that I couldn't get the gauntlet forged right now, but as long as the Nine Realms are crippled, I could eventually find them and make them forge it.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" says a voice.
I pause and look around for the source of the sound, but I don't notice anything.
"Who's there?" I ask.
"What, is the Mad Titan scared?" the voice jokes.
"Reveal yourself and see if I am," I counter.
"Sigh. Always so self-righteous. It's cute that you think you're the Hero of this little Adventure, but... you're not," the voice says mockingly.
Then it happens: I sense a spell activate, and a portal is opened near me, which distracts me enough that I don't notice, or rather, don't bother to notice, when I am tackled by a robot through the portal. As I land on the other side, I notice I am on another planet.
"Welcome to Pandora, kiddo," the voice mocks as I crush the annoying robot.
BOOOOOOOOOOOM
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Crash
I move the rubble that I was buried under off of me and straighten myself up. I spit out the blood in my mouth with annoyance and wipe my bloody nose.
'That was unpleasant.'
I prepare to teleport away, but the voice comes back.
"Oh, you survived my gift? Man, if only I had predicted that you could survive that," the voice says.
CRASH
"Oh yeah, I did. Now for the welcoming party!" the voice mocks.
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" a chorus of robot voices screams at me as numerous robots deploy their weapons.
I attempt to teleport away, as I didn't want to have to deal with this.
"Ah, ah, ah! You can't leave yet; you haven't even tried the local specialities," the voice mocks.
"I'm going to make you suffer when I find you," I threaten.
"Ohh! I'm quivering in my boots! Hahahaha! Whilem, kill this savage," the voice says in a much darker tone.
That was when they all opened fire.
POV Shift Rio
I watch as the robots open fire on Thanos. I knew this wouldn't do much more than annoy him, maybe injure him if I was lucky, but that was all I needed. As long as Thanos was busy on Pandora, the planet I turned into a trap world, then that was good enough. It did suck to lose my robots, but they could be easily replaced, and they weren't needed right now, as they had built what I needed them to build.
'I'm sure the Handsome Jack Digiclone should stall him long enough for our needs.'
My thoughts are interrupted by two things happening at once. The first was long-range scanners picking up a massive group of signatures.
'Ugh. This is gonna be annoying.'
There were around 5k contacts. A vast majority were small craft, but that didn't stop it from being a pain in the rear to deal with so many.
'Whatever, I am ready as I can be, and Earth and Mars are on alert if any manage to slip through the net. Now I should deal with that other pest.'
POV Shift Ebony Maw
I arrive on Terra and wait to see if anyone comes to stop me, but it seems this backwater is just as primitive as was suggested. And with no sorcerers to hinder me, I was clear to obtain the item my lord needs.
I enter the ruins of Kamar Taj and begin my search, but quickly sense what I was looking for. Behind a hidden wall was a small chamber with an amulet resting on a pedestal.
'The Eye of Agamotto.'
I smile in glee as I approach the amulet to obtain the Time Stone and cement my worthiness in Lord Thanos' eyes. But it seems in my haste I made a grave error, as I miss the obvious signs that this is a trap.
BOOOOM
POV Shift Queen Aelsa
I fall to the ground and look up with hatred at the b*tch that caused this.
"Don't look at me like that; you brought this on yourself," Alflyse says while grabbing my face.
I am thrown to the floor once more.
"You started this war when you kicked us out of our rightful home! I lost everything because of you. My people suffered horribly just because you begged Odin for help!" Alflyse says with vitriol.
"You were a threat to Alfheim," I defend weakly.
"You lying b*tch! We were fine with keeping things as they were! Svartalfheim kept to itself, and we kept things civil. But then you opened those legs of yours and had us removed!" Alflyse says as she kicks me and steps on me.
She keeps kicking me until she is satisfied.
"I had to watch as my people slowly starved to death as we were forced onto those ships and banished from the Nine Realms. We drifted from planet to planet trying to find a new home, but we never got that wish. But, hey, that was in the past. You wanted Svartalfheim, and I'm going to give it to you," Alflyse says with a crazed grin.
I look up at her with confusion.
"Did you know that during the Convergence, the realms become closer to each other?" Alflyse asks rhetorically.
I didn't follow what she was saying.
"Well, I thought to myself, why not make us closer? To really bury the hatchet?!" Alflyse says with emphasis on bury.
I am dragged to the window, and then my face is forced to look up into the sky. My eyes widen in horror at what I see.
"What better way to get closer than to merge our two realms together? You always wanted Svartalfheim; well, now you can have it forever," Alflyse says with a crazed look in her eyes.
I watch as Svartalfheim comes closer to Alfheim, and I feel nothing but regret. I let my greed get the better of me, and now my home will be destroyed and most of my subjects killed.
"Well, what do you think about my gift? We can now truly end our feud once and for all," Alflyse says before falling into crazed laughter.
Even as the panicked screams can be heard, all I can focus on is the mad laughter of the former Queen of the Dark Elves.
POV Shift Odin
Pant Pant
I was out of breath and tired, yet we had made no progress on defeating this machine.
"We're not getting anywhere; call the Bifrost and get us out of here," Hela demands as her armour slowly regenerates.
I stare at her missing arm and sigh.
"That won't work. This machine is beyond us. There is only one way to beat it now," I say with grim determination.
Hela looks at me with conflicted eyes.
"Are you sure? The consequences might be too much for Yggdrasil to bear," Hela says cautiously.
"The Numidium cannot be allowed to leave here. Thanos cannot be allowed to possess a weapon of this level. It can remake time and reality; only by fighting it here can we be certain that Asgard will survive," I respond firmly.
"Very well. I shall give you the time needed," Hela says while summoning a horde of blades and embracing her Death God powers fully.
As she goes to fight, I start to tap into an energy that no God was ever meant to handle by themselves. The primordial power of Yggdrasil, but with my Odinforce, I could use it just long enough for one last strike. The colour of the world drains away even further, and I feel time slow as I feel a connection.
"I will miss you, my love," Frigga says while sending her magic energy to me.
I appear in a new space and see the branches of Yggdrasil start to wither, and I fear I might not have the energy, but then, with a smash of light, two realms vanish and give Yggdrasil a second wind, allowing me to collect what I need. I return to Hel and find myself floating above the battlefield. Hela was slowly bleeding out as she had been severed in half from the waist, making the Numidium focus on me again. With a last act from Hela, she sends her energy to me as I channel everything into the Eternal Spear.
The Numidium charges up an attack to challenge my own, but I was certain of one thing. I will win this exchange. For me. For Frigga. For my children.
"FOR ASGARD!!!" I shout as I heave the spear straight at my foe.
The spear hits the energy attack from the Numidium and slices right through it, impacting the machine and pushing it back. Slowly, the spear starts to bore through the shell of the Numidium. When it does, I feel something break, not physically, but breaking all the same. And I see what I did. The core that makes up the machine was broken. As the power starts to leave me, I do one last act to contain what is to come next. To do so, I use Hel and Helheim to create a barrier to at the very least reduce the result. I don't stop until the last bit of power leaves me weak and helpless on the floor as I watch the core fail to contain the power of a true god. Something that Thanos never would have understood, nor do I believe the original creators of this machine understood what they were truly messing with.
The light takes me, and I see the soul of Hela right next to me.
"It's time to go, Father," Hela says calmly.
"You're quite calm for being dead," I comment.
"Death is but another stage of life. It comes for us all eventually. Now it seems it is our time," Hela says calmly.
"Yes, I suppose it is," I respond as I take her hand and walk with her.