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"Hey Jarvis. Are you there?" I asked as I plugged his drive into the Asgardian console. I thought it was pretty cool how his drive seemed to morph to fit into the asgardian port. That was obvious nano-tech at play. My Tony wasn't even close to that kind of tech yet. I think only Wakanda had it at this point in time.
"I am here, Miss Layla. What happened to Miss Stark? Is she alright? She appears to be passed out on the floor." Jarvis asked with concern in his robotic voice. I marveled at how advanced this AI was to even be able to feel emotions.
"She's fine. She's just taking a nap because she ate something weird and upset her stomach. We need you to fire up the Bifrost now. At full power please." I said.
"Understood." Jarvis replied from the console. "Please insert the key so that I can start it up."
I walked over towards the Bifrost activation pedestal I'd recognized from the movies and my own Asgard. "And now, ladies and gentle-AI. I present to you the end of the world!" I picked up Heimdall's sword/key where it lay nearby and slotted it into the keyhole.
Nothing happened….
Sif laughed at me lightly. "It's a key, You have to turn it.
"I knew that…" I twisted the sword counterclockwise hard until I heard a satisfying click.
THRUM!
I could feel it all around me. Magical energy started to build up.
"Starting up the Bifrost at full power." Jarvis called out as it started to activate. "...Firing now."
The Bifrost fired…
…Presumably at Earth.
It was literally thousands of light years away so we unfortunately couldn't see it. The first Thor movie made the scene a lot more dramatic by showing Jotunheim get hit by the Bifrost when in reality neither Thor or Loki would have actually seen anything… I didn't have all sight and I wasn't teleporting myself back to Earth to check.
"Hmmm. I thought it would be more dramatic." Sif commented as we watched the Bifrost's giant beam continue to pour out into space. It was very anticlimactic to witness first hand. Especially after the grudge match I just had with Hela that left half of Asgard and its palace destroyed.
"I can confirm the beam has reached earth, but am unaware as to how long the process will take to complete." Jarvis stated.
With a shrug, I sat down on one of the steps so we could wait. I reached into my inventory and pulled out a bag of chips. I ripped it open and took a handful before passing the bag to Sif who'd sat down next to me. "How long can it take for our knock-off death star to destroy a planet?"
4 hours later…
…It takes a long freaking time apparently. I forgot that in the movie, Loki had the Bifrost firing at Jotunheim for around 15 minutes before Thor showed up and it didn't do that much damage in that time. I imagine we had to wait til the Bifrost laser tunneled its way down to the planet's core and then caused some kind of chain reaction explosion that only makes sense because this is a comic book universe. Otherwise firing a giant laser at a planet would in no way cause it to explode… It would just make a giant hole.
Comically scattered around nearby were numerous empty bags and boxes of chips and cookies. Sif and I had just been snacking and chatting the whole time. Jarvis had been relatively quiet and was apparently copying schematics of the Bifrost. He was also a bit sad because he was essentially doing what humanity always feared what an AI would do…destroying the world. Sif and I had told him that we would all never speak of this to anybody so they don't judge him in the future.
Andrea had yet to wake up and thankfully neither had Hela. I'd been periodically checking on the Goddess of Death and she still seemed completely magically drained. I wondered if us having the Bifrost firing for four hours straight had something to do with that. She presumably drew her power in this dimension from Asgard–which was never a real planet here–and so does the Bifrost I'm assuming. The Bifrost had been taking all of the ambient magic so far and stopping Hela from recharging herself.
I counted that as a lucky coincidence. She'd probably destroy the rainbow bridge just to spite us at this point if she could.
[And to think just a few hours ago she wanted you to be her sex slave…]
I wasn't sure why my Hela was so much more sane than this typical 'canon-like' Hela. I believed it was because my Hela decided to directly draw her power from Lady Death instead of Asgard at some point. Maybe Death's power flowing through her restored her sanity?
[Eh, it's as good a guess as any.]
"It is done." Jarvis finally said. "I can confirm that the Earth is no more. The Bifrost is no longer hitting anything."
[Quest Completed! You have destroyed the zombie infested Earth as repayment to Lady Death!]
"Alright then!" I said as I stood up and brushed some of the crumbs off of me. Let's get the hell out of this dimension and never come back!" I walked over to the console and yanked out Jarvis's drive. Following that I walked over towards the pedestal and turned the sword clockwise disabling the Bifrost. Hela should wake up in a few hours and maybe she would rethink her life…Who am I kidding! She absolutely wouldn't, and would probably still be an evil tyrant. But she wouldn't be my problem anymore at least!
Sif shoved a few oreos into her mouth as she walked over and scooped up Andrea. "Agreed. I had no idea that alternate dimensions could be so dangerous and sad."
I called upon my Orb of Anywhere to take us home. A dark purple portal to Earth DxD opened and we stepped through.
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C 115
–Interlude–
"We are approaching Asgard now, Father. News of the Allfathers death has spread far and wide. Without him, they should be easy to defeat." Ebony Maw, one of the children of Thanos, said to his father.
Thanos sat back on his throne and grinned at the sight before him.
Asgard… The only realm to have ever truly defeated him. Thanos would admit that even now, he still had some trepidation to attack them. The mighty Odin had completely devastated his armies over 1000 years ago and it took Thanos hundreds of years to rebuild.
That's why Thanos was leading the current invasion himself and he had recalled all of his children to assist him. He was expecting a tough battle even if Odin was dead. He knew the golden realm would never willingly hand over the Tesseract.
"Bring up Asgard on screen." Thanos commanded.
"Right away, Father." Ebony Maw replied as he hit a few buttons on a nearby console. A large holographic screen appeared in front of Thanos and he took a proper look at Asgard.
"What…" Thanos said speechlessly.
"What the hell happened there? Is that a…giant sword?" Thanos's favorite daughter–Gamora–asked nearby.
Thanos wanted to know what had occurred on Asgard as well. His capital ship drew closer to the realm, and as it did so, he could see that the once mighty Asgard looked absolutely devastated. The golden city was in ruins and the upper half of the famous palace was missing. It looked like it had been blown off from the inside!
"I don't think we're going to be getting the tough fight we were expecting." Gamora said with a shrug. "What a shame." She said with some sarcasm.
"What about the stone?" Thanos said. "Ebony, scan the city! Is the Tesseract on Asgard or did whoever did all this damage take it?"
Ebony started pressing more buttons and their ship began to scan all of Asgard for the signature of the Tesseract. If it was here, they would find it. The readings came up empty…
"It's not just the Tesseract, Father. All of Asgard is lifeless as well. Only a single being is alive in the entire city down there" Ebony said as he pointed towards Asgard. "The life sign is coming from the end of the rainbow bridge."
Thanos gripped his throne in anger. His stronger-than-vibranium armrests warped under his angry grip. "Someone beat us here and took what should have been rightfully mine!" Thanos said angrily. Thanos raged inside! Someone had stolen his infinity stone!
"What do you want us to do now?" Ebony asked. Gamora was looking at him curiously as well.
"We will retrieve the lone survivor and question them. For now though, we shall head towards Terra. Two of my infinity stones are there, and without Asgard to defend them, they should be easy enough to retrieve.
…
"Raaaaaaagghhhh! Damn them!!! They ruined everything! Thousands of years of planning is all for nothing now!"
A shout filled with rage and hatred awoke Hela from her slumber. She jumped to her feet combat ready with two swords immediately in her hands. She scanned the strange room she'd found herself in. She wasn't alone.
The angry shout had come from a large purple giant that sat upon a dark metallic throne. There were various other races different from the purple giant as well in the room. Hela could recognize that she was in a ship of some kind.
The others in the room noticed that she was awake. A woman with green skin drew a sword and pointed it at Hela. "Lower your weapons Asgardian. We have questions for you."
"And who are you to question me? Hela asked haughtily. "I am Hela the Goddess of Death and Queen of Asgard!"
"And our glorious father is the Great Thanos. Conqueror and Savior of thousands of worlds!" Another alien spoke to Hela. She considered him to be one of the ugliest creatures she had ever laid eyes on.
"And what does the glorious Thanos want with me?" Hela asked sarcastically as she turned towards the purple giant who was now eyeing her as well.
"I want to know what happened to the Infinity Stones. And where is Planet Terra? It's supposed to be at these coordinates, but the entire planet is gone!" Thanos said angrily.
Hela was confused at the current situation she found herself in, but still responded. "I know not of why you seek the infinity stones, nor where they are. I only knew of the Tesseract and that was recently stolen from me by…Layla of the Fallen." Hela said bitterly.
Thanos's eyes narrowed. "And who exactly is Layla of the Fallen?"
Hela scowled. "She's an invader from another dimension that came to Asgard and ruined everything for me! She destroyed my glorious city and massacred my undead legion!"
"Another dimension?" Thanos asked. "Tell me more…"
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