บท 90: Aftermath

After few seconds Hal's voice again sounded in the communications.

"Close the portal, their ship is toast."

The Green Lantern returned with Iron Man who was covered in a green ball. He slowly flew down as the portal was closed by Natasha. The Chitauri aliens died after the nuke bombed their spaceship.

"Hello Bruce. Never thought I would be relieved to see you again. You must be the new guys John told me about. Hello to all, I guess you know my identity so I won't bother introducing myself."

"Guys there is a place where they are selling shawarma. We should try it." Tony said as he came out of the green ball.

"Yes but before that we will have to deal with the last person." John who just joined said.

They all went to the Stark Tower to see Loki finally managing to sit straight.

"If it's all the same to you guys, I will take that drink." Loki said referring to the previous conversation he had with Tony. John who was looking at Loki took out his mask and said

"Loki, I am looking forward to see you again. Be well till then."

Then the SHIELD personnels came and took away the scepter. John saw Rumlow and Sitwell coming to take it. John could feel Sitwell trying to be away from John specially after what he saw in videos of John fighting. John just smiled at Sitwell.

Sitwell had always felt a kind of fear in front of John which no other superheroes gave him. "I will have to ask Pierce again to remove him. He is more dangerous than we thought."

Hal who was new to this world was talking with all others while Loki was taken away. Diana who was curious about Hal asked him several questions about their Lantern Corps.

"It's a pity that there are no Lantern Corps here in this world. It would have been easier." Natasha said. As she felt having a single corp would be useless in the vast universe. She didn't know how vast the universe but the presence of Chitauri and Thor gave all of them a glimpse how vast the universe might be.

As they went down the Stark Tower, John kept a keen eye to see if there is any future Tony Stark here but didn't see anyone.

"Did our past change the future? Well there are multiple timelines. It's fine as long as the timeline remains intact."

John thought but since he didn't see the future Tony Stark but then he threw away the thoughts to the back of his mind. They went down only to be confronted by Pierce. There was a huge debate between Thor and them and finally Nick came to resolve the problem.

The Tesseract and Loki would be taken to Asgard for safekeeping and proper trial. Pierce had huge objections but finally succumbed to Fury's persistence. He couldn't make proper arguments as there were many superheroes present here who saved New York and they too took the side of Thor.

If Pierce insisted it might backfire on him. John who was looking at the argument didn't insert himself but invisibly he too showed that he was on the side of Thor. Both Tony and John had huge influence so Pierce had more reasons not to go against their wishes.

Later everybody went to eat shawarma as all were tired and needed a time off. Even Hal and Banner joined turning themselves back to a normal persons. Hal looked very young and handsome like in the movie. While eating Hal finally asked John.

"Will the Lantern Corps come? I would have to recharge my ring from the green element lantern."

John stiffened when he heard this. He had forgotten about the recharge of the ring when he bought Green Lantern. Now it has come back to bite him. He hesitated a bit and said

"I am not sure, they might arrive along with Guardians." John said.

"It would be better if the Lantern Corps is here too." Diana said. John didn't add anything to it as he had to go home and see how much fan values were required to extract the Guardians and the Green element.

"I have a question for you John. Why don't you have the same anger against Loki as we have? I can understand Thor as Loki is his brother. But what's the matter with you? I have seen the way you look at him." Banner asked curiously.

"He is just lost in his way, he isn't essentially a evil guy. In almost all versions of Loki in multiverse that I have dreamed before he isn't that bad. You can say he is mischievous and have a huge hunger to prove himself. In fact in some world he is a good person and I believe this version of Loki too isn't bad." John smiled and said.

"Odin's beard! How many different universe do you dream about? It must be annoying to watch worlds in every sleep I presume." Thor said as he was happy that John didn't consider Loki as evil like the other guys present.

"It's alright. I am used to it by now."

After eating, Thor went with Bruce and Diana as Bruce assured Thor of making a device for him to travel using the Tesseract to his home with Loki who was imprisoned in SHIELD for the time being.

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