Infinity Chapter 20 - Arrival
"What's the problem?" Steve was out of breath from running
"We have a fleet amassing just outside the harbor, about fifty ships" Tony pointed
"Alright get in the air with Charol and go check it out, I'd like to know who were fighting" Tony nodded and took off in the air, and was soon joined by Captain Marvel
Mere moments after they took off, Astrid came running towards Steve explaining that they were allies and not enemies, Steve relayed the message and the two avengers flew back. "Some timing you got young lady" Steve chuckled
"Who are you calling young?" Astrid snapped back and put her hands on her hips
"Your a teenager aren't you?"
"Well yes, but I'm all grown up, we vikings usual marry at this age, and that I am" Astrid tried to sound reasonable
Steve's face lit up at that marriage part, "Well were I'm from you don't that until your over 20"
"Shouldn't you be married by now? How old are you anyway?" Astrid noticed he never wore a ring
"I'm over a 100 years old, how old are you?" Steve sounded so casual
Astrids jaw dropped but didn't seemed convinced, Steve decided he had time so he explained some of his past, she was so intrigued with his story that when her dragon landed beside her for a ride she ignored it.
"And that's how I became Captain America" Steve cringed at those last words
"That's amazing, I wish Hiccup could have that blue stuff they gave you" Astrid smiled at the thought
"Perhaps but there's a lot more to it than just being strong. A strong man who's know power at his life with lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and know's compassion" Steve didn't even realize he quoted the doctor that gave him his abilities.
"Thanks, I think" Astrid then headed off to join her friends at the mead hall
After the fleet had settled into the harbor their chief was meet by Stoick, they greeted each other and went off to talk about the situation they were facing, Steve then met up with Tony who had just landed. "Well anything new so far?" Steve asked
"Well we should be expecting more ships within the day, but besides that we should be good"
Steve turned on the comms, "Alright everyone on my position, we have to discuss something important", took longer than excepted but they met in the Mead Hall to talk.
"We need to talk about how were going to fight Thanos, clearly were not enough, the only person who stands a chance is Charol"
The others nodded in agreement, Steve then asked for suggestions but everyone was silent, "Alright I have a plan but it's pretty far fetched"
"Well, let's hear it" Nat smirked
Before Steve could open his mouth to speak, Tony interrupted and held up Tuffnut by his clothes who was hiding behind a bench, "Why are you eavesdropping dropping on us?" Steve crossed his arms
"Let go of my brother!" Ruffnut barged in
Tony let go of the boy, "That still doesn't answer our question" Tony was starting to get annoyed
"There's was nothing to do so we decided to spy on you" Tuffnut answered very quickly, then was elbowed by his sister
"This doesn't concern you, now if you may leave us so we can continue talking" Steve tried his best to come off as friendly
"Fine" They both said in unison then stormed out of the mead hall, "Well now that's over with, where were we?" Charol shifted their focus back on track
"Right, if Thanos is here for Thor then we can use it since he's not here, also it's really dangerous for us since we have the stones here" Steve opened his backpack to check if the stones were still intact, they were but he wanted to make sure.
"I think we should slipt up, half of us go to take the fight to Thanos and get the gauntlet" Charol suggested
Tony remembered what happened on Titan, "No we need all hands on deck, if we hope at having a chance at standing against Thanos, we need to fight together"
"If Thanos gets here and finds out we have the rest of stones, who do you think he'll come for? The guy who nearly killed him, or the stones he so desperately needs to complete his gauntlet" Charol shot back
There was no arguing there, it is not wise to keep the infinity stones so close together, yet alone 4 of them. After some careful planning, and talking the team ultimately decided to split up, they couldn't afford to fail, not again. "Where ever you are Thor, you'd better come back quickly, we need you more than ever" Steve muttered to himself.
Then in a panic Tony on the comms alerted everyone to something in the atmosphere, "Friday what are we looking at?" Steve recieved his shield
"Not sure still working on it, but whatever is it, it's coming down from the atmosphere really fast!"
Everyone looked up and seen what looked like a burning asteroid, Charol acted quickly and put up a massive force field that covered most of Berk, when the this massive object touched the force field it exploded into smithereens, "Good job captain" Tony shouted.
"Huh?" Steve looked behind him
"Not you the other captain, sorry I- whatever" Tony actives his suit
"Heads up guys, we have more incoming outside the dome" Rhodey told everyone on comms
"Everyone get ready, Scott go get chief Stoick and meet us outside!" Steve then headed outside with the rest of the avengers
SPACE...
"Hey what am I looking for again?" Rocket wasn't completely sure where he was going
"You'll know when were close, Nidavellir's forge harnesses the blazing power of a neutron star, the birth place of my hammer is was truly awesome"
Julian looked down with that thought, but as he was regaining some confidence he was surprised by Sigrunn, "I didn't get a chance to thank you for saving me earlier, so uh- thank you"
"Just doing my job, because that's what heroes do" Julian went to pose but then slipped and hit his head
This made Sigrunn laugh, her laugh reminded him of Heather's, she was cute but now as beautiful as Heather, "Listen I'm sorry to hear about your family, I understand trust me I do, but when all this over you can stay at Berk, there always looking for more dragon riders"
"I'll think about it" Sigrunn was slowly starting to warm up to Julian
Lucky Heather was asleep or she would have become somewhat jealous or worried of Julian taking to other girls, he got up and paid his best friend a visit, he found him staring outside a window studying the stars.
"It's beautiful isn't it?" Julian looked out another window close to Hiccup's
"It's amazing, from Earth they always looked like tiny grains of sand, but now that were up here they seem more further than ever" Hiccup continued to look around, amazed at all the stars.
Julian showed off a bit and started naming all the stars, nebulas, and constellations. Hiccup was taking mental notes on everything Julian said, then they overheard Rocket and Groot talking.
"I am Groot"
"Tinkle in the cup were not looking, what's a twig? Everyone's seen a twig"
"I am Groot"
"Tree pour out the cup in outer space, and then go in the cup again" Julian looked towards the pilot seat then turned to look out the window again.
"You speak Groot?" Rocket was surprised, and tad bit impressed
"Yes, they taught it on Asgard it was an elective" Hiccup thought he knew everything about his best friend, clearly he was wrong.
"Elective?" Hiccup wondered
"An Elective is a class in school in which you choose. But then I again you guys haven't learned about school yet" Julian was always straight up, sometimes it was good and other times it was just terrible timing.
"School right. Anyways your clearly not dumb, how much more do you know?" Hiccup said sourly
"I know a lot more than you know, besides my friends Banner and Stark, I'm one of the smartest members on the Avengers. I know everyone thinks just because I smash things, and have big muscles I must be dumb, well that's just not true" Julian sat down
"Well what sort of stuff do you know?" Hiccup asked
"For starters I-" Julian got cut off by Rocket who was approaching him
"Here" Rocket handed him what looked like tiny ball
"What's this?"
"What's it look like, it's a gift I've been working since we found each other on Earth" Rocket moved to quickly go back to the pilot seat
"Thank you sweet rabbit" Julian smiled then took off his eye patch to put in his new eye
Hiccup cringed at the sight of that, but it soon be over at the sound of a loud beeping noise, "Were here" Rocket called out to everyone, soon everyone was awake to catch the sight of another celestial body, but they didn't see anything, except for looked a pile of junk, Julian tried his best to get the eye working.
"I don't think this thing works, everything seems dark." Julian repeatedly tapped his head to work his new eye
"It ain't the eye my friend" Rocket looked on
"Somethings wrong, the stars gone out and the rings are frozen" Julian couldn't believe his eyes, Julian guided Rocket were to land.
The doors opened and everyone stepped out, the humans excepted more from beings of outer space, but everyone took a look around.
"Hope these dwarfs are better are forging then they are cleaning" Hiccup wasn't that all impressed
"This forge hasn't gone dark in centuries"
"Hey Julian!" Heather shouted, Julian ran over to Heather's call, "You said Thanos had a gaunlet right?"
"Yes, why do you ask?" Julian continued to look around
"Look anything like that?" Heather pointed at the mold of a gauntlet about 15 feet away.
Julian's lit up, "Everyone back to the ship now Hurry befo-" Julian was knocked over by a gigantic figure
The creature then proceeded to knock everyone else over, in a screaming rage he approached Julian, "Etri! Wait it's me" Julian held out his hands to show he was unarmed.
The giant stopped in his tracks, "Thor?" He called out "You were supposed to protect us! Asgard was supposed to protect us!"
"We don't know what happened to Asgard... But Etri the glove, what did you do?" Julian said the got back on his feet
"300 dwarfs lived on this ring. I thought if I did what he asked they would be safe. I made what he wanted, a device capable of harnessing the power of the stones. But-killed everyone anyway. All except me, 'Your life is yours but your hands are mine now'."
"Etri this isn't about your hands." That caught the giant dwarfs attention, "Everyone weapon you've ever designed, every axe, hammer, sword. It's all inside your head. Look now I know all hope seems lost trust me I know. But together you and I we can kill Thanos."
The giant dwarf smiled and nodded, then slowly got up. "Hey Heather are you alright?" Julian helped her up.
"I'll be alright, that hit really knocked my head loose" Heather kissed him
"I apologize for that. I didn't know he'd attack us."
"It's fine," Heather said, "I think he wants you to follow him."
Julian turned and seen the giant dwarf waving him over. He caught up with him as did the others. "What weapon do you need my King." Etri asked politely
"What's the strongest weapon you have?"
"Follow me."
Etri showed them to a giant hallway filled with molds for weapons, Hiccup couldn't see all of them but Julian was right. These weapons are far too powerful for any human to wield. The walk ended when they reached the end of the hallway, Etri then shifted a couple levers and the mechanisms are started to move to bring something big down.
"That's the plan, were going to hit him with a stone slab." Heather said jokingly
"It's a mold. A Kings weapon, meant to be the greatest in Asgard, in theory it could even summon the bifrost." Etri corrected Heather
"Does it have a name?" Julian asked
"Stormbreaker."
"So how do we make it?"
"You'll have to restart the forge. Awaken the heart of a dying star."
"Rabbit. Fire up the ship."