Freeman's Odyssey
Chapter: 44
The Avenging Freeman:Part.3
Avenger's tower: Living room
New York City, New York
Standing before the Avengers minus Black Widow who is in the cells of Avengers Tower interrogating Gordon Freeman is none other than the King of Asgard and protector of the Nine Realms Odin the one-eyed father of Thor prince of Asgard. Who just appeared by way of teleporting that Thor knew he had come from the Bifrost. The real question is why he is here and what threat is there to the so-called nine realms.
"Father, why have you come here," asked Thor.
"All the nine realms are in great danger," said Odin "Of a threat you do not understand."
Wait what does Thor's father look like," asked Pepper
"Think of him as a one-eyed Santa Clause," said Gordon "That has a mentality of a Viking,"
"Then how come there is no Thor here," said Tony
"Different dimensions in different combinations," said Gordon "There may have been at one time in this dimension, but it is unknown."
"Makes perfect sense," said Howard Stark "As there are certain mathematical probabilities."
"Uh-oh," said Hawkeye "Sounds like an old folks story,"
"Can it archer," said Iron Man "If the old guy is here it must be important and the fate of the worlds hang in the balance,"
"Heh," said Hulk "Just tell the story, so we can go smash it like always."
"Aye," said Thor "Then a mighty battle will take place, of a worthy challenge,"
"Challenge boy," said Odin "You have no idea of what fate awaits you all and I demand you release the one used your hammer whelp,"
"Why?" asked Thor
The mortal known as Gordon," said Odin "Speaks the truth about The Combine." He cleared his throat "It all stared with the first king of Asgard before my father's time and before his father's time. It was regarded during those ancient times as the Golden age, of the thirteen realms."
"Thirteen realms," said Thor "I always thought there were nine,"
"The story has been passed down from one Asgard king to another, finally Me." said Odin "It was a dawn of the golden age of the thirteen realms, a time of peace and prosperity with little battles. Until they came, an Empire from beyond known as the Combine, wave after wave they came to three of the realms. Destroying them, until the first king of Asgard assembled an army of all the other realms….the ancient peoples of Midgard joined in the fight," he continued to speak "The final battle took place upon the Heaven Realm as the battle had been bloody and violent."
"Heaven," said Thor "How come I have not heard of this realm,"
"One story at a time boy," said Odin "You will know about Heaven another time," he clears his throat and speaks some more "It was long as well, the first king knew the prolonged fight cannot last forever so he initiated the first Ragnarök that destroyed the Combine invaders and caste them out of the other realms never to return or so we thought, the ten realms have been spared and many laid dead on the battlefield. Including the ancient peoples of Midgard….that is my tale and I fear these Combine have returned for revenge."
"All I heard is a lot of blah, blah, blah," said Hawkeye "Why do old people tell such boring stories,"
"Silence worm," said Odin "Before I turn you into one for my pet crows,"
"Ok, I am just joking," said Hawkeye
"This is serious," said Thor "Not a time for jokes,"
"Man," said Iron man "It's all hard to swallow, but still Gordon Freeman did killed Falcon,"
"Sir," said Jarvis "I would strongly disagree as the autopsy shows from Mr. Wilson's body that all of his bones have been broken, his mind suffered from a tremendous strain of hemorrhages to suggest, he died from-"
"A telekinesis attack," said Tony "Something like that can ripe a persons bones out of their body,"
"Sir there is more," said Jarvis "I have access to the security footage from the Hydra base to show that Mr. Freeman is telling the truth,"
"Show us," said Tony "Widow you better take a look at this," he patches the footage to her
There is static at first and then shows the footage of Sam Wilson Falcon is hovering in mid-air, to their surprise to slug like creatures are near him and also two villains Loki and Red Skull. The Avengers were not surprised at this considering those two have always craved power, Black Widow grew angry at this and punched the wall as she turned away, every else did not like this one bit. Two villains working with an Interdimensional empire, it seemed things turned from bad to worse.
"Widow," said Tony "Set him free,"
Avenger's tower: The cells
New York City, New York
"Understood Tony,"said Widow as she lowered the force field to the cell. "Well you're free to go,"
"Wow," said Pepper "With the footage and Odin's story they were completely convinced, I guess us heroes can make rash decisions,"
"A lesson well learned," said Rhodes "Right Tony,"
"Yeah I guess," said Tony who is rubbing the back of his head in a sheepish way.
"All of this gets dangerous soon," said Gordon who continued his story,
"No problem," said Gordon "Take to your leader or Santa Clause instead,"
"Look-"said Widow who is struggling to say the right words "I uh…"
"Let me stop you right there," said Gordon as both of them are walking out of the cell "You or your friends don't need to apologize for anything, consider it water under the bridge. I would have acted the same way if anything happened to my friends, so save your anger for the Combine and you are right before Falcon indeed was a damn good Avenger."
"How generous of you," said Widow
"Now let's go," said Gordon.
Both of them nodded and wordlessly headed to one of the elevators to go to the living room of Avengers tower.
Avengers Tower: Living room
New York City, New York
Gordon Freeman walked in with Black Widow as he can see the other Avengers waiting for them, along with an armored older man with a white beard and hair in which he looks like Santa Clause.
"So you are the mortal that used my son's hammer," said Odin "Shows you are worthy,"
"Uh…right," said Gordon "I guess you're going to say ho-ho-merry Christmas, but that holiday is a long way off,"
This brought snickers to the other Avengers as Odin and Thor did not understand the concept of Christmas or the Santa clause joke. Then the room got serious again as Gordon is about to speak.
"I over heard the man with the red skull face and the man with the butt-ugly looking hat," said Gordon "Speak about some sort of spire or tower of some sorts,"
"Those two are Red Skull," said Tony and "Thor's brother Loki."
"Loki is a fool," said Odin "Thinks he can trust the Combine, he will only be doomed,"
"We fight them and so it will be done," said Thor
"There are many tall structures on Earth," said Widow "So that narrows it down, maybe modern or ancient,"
Elsewhere
Standing outside of a tall structure is Red Skull along with his new Hydra forces, and Loki as well with a sinister smile as the Combine slugs or worms fly in to speak to them. It is warm outside as the sun beats down upon them, but all of them ignored that sensation.
"The time has come," said one worm
"The world will be changed forever," said another one
"A whole new world," said Skull
"And then the nine realms," said Loki.
Above the tower an energy stream shoots up into the sky as a portal opens up. The tower shows it's true form
Back at Avengers tower: Living room
New York City
Gordon Freeman's suit portal scanner picked up a portal opening up as he used the omni-tool to determine what location, everyone else looked on at the holographic tool.
"Sir," said Jarvis "Satellites have picked this up on visual," it goes to the view screen as all of them look on
"What is that?" asked Tony
"Unknown sir," said Jarvis "Gravimetric readings are off the scale,"
"It's a portal storm," said Gordon "It's a combination of energies between time, space and dimensions. The combine are about to invade,"
"It is like the great story had described this storm," said Odin. "I will bring the armies of Asgard to help,"
"Jarvis," said Tony "Avengers emergency assemble…summon everybody protocol omega….to that location, Widow contact S.H.I.E.L.D we'll need their help"
"Copy that sir," said Jarvis
"Got it Tony," said Widow.
"Looks like the end of the world is near," said Hawkeye "And I don't feel fine."
"Not if all of us have something to say about that," said Gordon
All of them nodded as the battle is coming and soon it will begin.
Chapter: 45
The Avenging Freeman:Part.4