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Clean and ready for my date with Sif, I walked out of my room, looking fine if I do say so myself.
Finding Sif playing cards with Emily and Nat.
"Are you ready? Or in the middle of a game?" I asked with a chuckle, approaching Sif from behind.
"I am ready, your daughters are merciless warriors when it comes to playing cards," Sif chuckled.
"I made some gold," Nat grinned, showing a few pieces of gold she had won playing cards against Sif.
"Give that back," I frowned, no daughter of mine would gamble, besides I knew she had cheated, I had seen it do it many times before.
"Fine," Nat sighed.
"It's okay Alex, I lost fair and square," Sif said.
"Sif, Nat cheats when playing cards," I snorted, "The only fair and square about those games, is how good she is at moving the cards, heck, she has tricked me a few times during family nights,"
"I KNEW IT!" Emily roared, tossing the cards onto the floor, "You cheating meanie! Give me back my teddy bear!"
"I didn't cheat that time!" Nat shot back.
"You shouldn't cheat at all!" Emily and I said and the same time.
"Where's the fun in that? I mean, you guys play cards, but I play a whole other game, the cheating game, my record so far is three days without no one noticing I cheat," Nat grinned.
"I will get my teddy bear back!" Emily huffed.
"You can play me for it," Nat grinned, shuffling the cards like a fucking pro.
"I… I will come back later to read a book of parenting about how to tackle this… but for now, give me the gold you 'won' from Sif," I sighed.
"Sure thing dad," Nat nodded, handing me the gold.
"Well, see ya girls later!" I chuckled as I walked to the door with Sif, smiling at Nat's shenanigans.
"So, she cheated?" Sif asked.
"Yes, but not with a bad intention, we are simply her test subjects so to speak," I chuckled, "She enjoys testing her skills with us, to gauge how effective they are, last month she was spying on me to see how long it would take for me to notice, the month before that she was testing her surprise attacks on Bucky… every month she changes what she tests, and this time well, she was testing how good she is at cheating,"
"Well, she's very good," Sif chuckled, "I have played with a lot of cheaters, and have caught them all, but her? She's a master, and so young, what a talented little girl,"
I nodded, feeling proud, "That's my girl,"
"So, about Alice?" Oh right, I promised to tell her.
"Well," I sighed, "She's me, but… a female version, I guess, it's complicated,"
"She's you?" Sif frowned.
"The universe is a curious thing, and well, she's the result of that," I chuckled, "She comes from a dimension where… well, where I was supposed to be a woman, I suppose,"
"So… an alternative version of you?" Sif muttered, tilting her head.
"Yes, so to speak, but beyond our last names, we are very different," She was crazy for one.
"Yes, I saw that," Sif chuckled.
"Indeed," I nodded with a laugh.
"Well, enough about that, time to start our date!" Sif proclaimed, shaking his bag of gold.
"About that," I smiled, pointing at her bag, "With that much Gold, we could probably finance a million dates,"
"Really?" Sif asked, "Midgard's finance is confusing."
"Not rea– ok, yes you have a point," I nodded, "So, before we begin, if you truly want to pay for this date, let us first exchange a bit of that gold for money,"
"Sure," Sif nodded.
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After changing a bit of Sif's gold in a gold buyer for cash, emphasis on a bit, because five ounces of all of her gold gave her 2000 dollars, after that, we went on our date.
And in a very cute manner, Sif proved to be ready for said date, she even had a map to navigate New York, and a list of places she thought were worth visiting marked on the map.
Some were not, but seeing her so happy with this made me feel happy.
First, we went to an old restaurant nearby my house and ate traditional Italian cuisine.
Then, from there, Sif took me to an ice cream shop, where she was determined to test every flavor on the menu.
The Shop had two hundred flavors.
From there, we went to the park, where we walked and talked for a few hours, sharing stories, while holding hands, because she had read on a newspaper humans when courting did such a thing.
After that, she took me to a bar, called the Asgardian Home.
Quite the name, if I do say so myself.
"Alex, this date has been wonderful," Sif smiled.
"It has, you did your homework," I nodded, ordering a beer.
"I did," Sif nodded, "Thor helped me, he found this map, and the newspaper, but I did the rest," she smiled proudly.
She was so beautiful, so strong, so fierce, and at times, so innocent, so cute, it was mesmerizing.
"Sif, I want to kiss you,"
Sif looked at me, and with a smile said, "Do it then, or I might take it as an offense if you don't push on your pursues,"
Without another word, I moved closer to her, and let our lips meet for the first time of many.
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[Thor Odinson POV]
Today of all days, I was hanging out with Heimdall.
Why? Well, I wanted to know how Alex's date with Sif was going.
"Did they kiss yet?" I asked, Heimdall.
"No," Heimdall groaned, "My prince, don't you have anything better to do?"
"No, not really," I shook my head, how kind of Heimdall to ask.
"So… how about now? Have they kissed yet?" I asked once again.
"For the hundredth time n- no no, wait, they are kissing now," Heimdall replied.
"Huzzah!" I grinned, for I, Thor the God of Thunder had done the ultimate mighty brother deed, I had become the best winggod ever!
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After my date with Sif, It didn't take me long to figure out it would be inhumane to rescue Janet after I managed to level my [Technomancy], so I decided that instead of doing that, I would trick Hank into helping me rescue his wife.
How?
Well, a few illusions here and there would do just the trick, with my intention being him thinking he was in a dream.
Was it an underhanded tactic? Sure, there was no other way to describe it, but frankly, if the end result of said tactic was him having his wife back, and his daughter having his mom back, what was the problem?
So, during one night after work, where he had had a few drinks with me before going home, I teleported to his house before he arrived and started my plan.
First, I put his daughter to sleep using a basic spell to induce such.
Then, once he arrived, and got into his bed, I started using my magic to not only create an accurate image of his wife, but to access his head to make the illusion believable using his surface thoughts about her to make my illusion a perfect one, and from the shadows, I started to move the strings.
Surprisingly enough, as I scanned his mind about Janet, I found out he knew she was alive, he simply didn't know where she was exactly.
Or how to reach her.
In fact, in his free time, he had apparently been researching about the quantum realm trying to find a way to enter it and find his lost wife.
At this, I frowned.
If he knew, and couldn't reach her, my entire plan was useless, because he wouldn't be able to help me.
"Fuck," I muttered under my breath, if Hank's technology was not there yet, I was royally fucked with this quest, the infinity stones were useless within the sub-atomic realm, meaning even if I collected the infinity stones, I had no guarantee I would be able to rescue her.
Then what? I questioned, walking out of Hank's house using a portal.
If his technology wasn't the answer, then what?
The magical realm?
"It's worth the shot," I sighed.
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"I can't help you there, Mr. Walker," The Ancient One replied, "The quantum realm as you speak of, is well beyond my powers to truly access, for to reach such a realm, is beyond my power as a sorceress,"
"Well, it was a long shot, to begin with," I sighed, if Hank and The Ancient One weren't capable of helping me, I was at a loss.
"But, I didn't say others couldn't help you," The Ancient One smiled.
"Can you not be cryptic for a moment?" I frowned.
"I must apologize, you see, I enjoy messing with you," Oh, and she has the gall to admit it, oh well, I suppose she has earned that right.
"So, who can help me?" I asked.
"Me," She replied, as I was starting to question if she was going senile on me, I mean, she just said, she couldn't help me.
"You just said you couldn't help me," I replied, crossing my arms.
"Indeed," The Ancient One nodded, "You see, when I said I couldn't help you, I wasn't messing up with you, I truly can't help you, not in the way you want,"
"How then?" I asked.
"Well, I can't access the quantum realm, or send someone there, but I can send someone's soul there, momentarily of course, my magic can't sustain such thing for too long, but if I were to send you, you could stabilize it using your mana,"
"What do you mean?" I inquired.
"Well, with my power, I can push your soul into the quantum realm, leaving your physical body behind, from there, it would be up to you to force your soul to stay within the subatomic realm by feeding it mana," The Ancient One replied, "Needless to say, even with your absurdly high levels of mana, the max you would be able to stay within the realm without dying is one hour,"
One hour? I could work with that, "I can work with that,"
"Can you?" The Ancient One smiled, putting her left hand on my chest, "I will need a demonstration, if you don't mind that is," I nodded, and without another word, she pushed my soul out of my body.
"This feels weird," I chuckled.
"It does," The Ancient One nodded, "But enough about that, now try to use your magic in that form,"
Doing as she had requested, I tried to summon a fireball to my hand but ended up exploding.
"That hurt," I muttered, frowning.
Why had my magic backfired? A fireball was one of the easiest spells I knew, besides the portals.
"As symmetrical as you are, the lack of a body hinders your powers massively, you see, when one does magic, one connects the mystical, which comes from the soul with the physical, which in this case is obvious," The Ancient One chuckled, "In your very symmetrical case, this can't be truer, because your body functions like a machine, a machine that without one of its components, becomes a liability, exhibit a, that spell you tried to cast,"
So the Gamer was messing with my magic, because of my body.
"So, what then?" I muttered, without my powers moving within the quantum realm would take a lot of time.
"You train, it's high time you learn how we the normal people manage our magic," The Ancient One smiled, snapping her fingers, pulling my soul back into my body.
"Well," I chuckled, back in my body, "When do we begin?" I asked.
"Whenever you are ready, Mr. Walker," The Ancient One replied.
"Then let's get started right now," The sooner I learned how to use my magic without my body, the sooner I would get to rescue Janet, and who knows, maybe even get a power boost in the process.
"Wonderful," The Ancient One smiled, "Then, let's begin,"
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