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XXXX MCU: Earth 2,500,000 B.C. XXXX
"Sir we have the meteorite on our scanners."
I stood up from my seat on the bridge. "Holomap please." A detailed map of the solar system appeared on the bridge; a purple light signified the vibranium meteorite moving towards Earth. "Alright will pick it up here, before the asteroid belt." I picked a spot in Jupiter's orbital path, seeing as the planet was well out of the way from the comet.
"Sending coordinates now to the Ha'tak's."
I needed vibranium and instead of raids and battles I decided I would steal my own mountain of the material, though from a different version of the MCU then I had already attacked. Since we now had data on vibranium it was easy to adjust our long-range scanners and find the meteor as it entered the solar system. I had brought all of the Ha'tak with me and all plus Atlantis had tractor beam equipment on them so we could snag the rock and stop it.
"We have arrived at the coordinates."
"Alright, spread the Ha'tak out in a vertical circle with Atlantis in the center." I zoomed in on the meteorite on the map and marked the areas I wanted the ships. "When the meteorite passes they will activate their tractor beams and try to slow it down, we will stop it from the front. Make sure everyone has the data on the meteorite, with it's mass I don't think it's going to be stopped right away and we will have to travel with it while reducing speed."
"All information has been sent, Ha'tak's are moving into position."
"Tractor beam has been reversed."
"And now we wait." I muttered and moved back to the command chair; I wasn't worried we would fail just curious about how quickly we could stop the meteorite.
"Meteorite is passing through the ring, Ha'tak's have activated their tractor beams…. There has only been a small change in meteorites velocity, activating our tractor beam."
"Matching speed and direction, calculating velocity reduction."
I sat back and watched the Asuran's worked, the screen was showing the meteorite and because of its size I couldn't even see the Ha'tak's along the perimeter of it. For several minutes I sat and listened as the Asuran manning the scanner reported our progress. "Meteorite velocity has been halted, it is now under our control."
"Excellent." I leaned back in the chair and accessed the dimensional device. "Let's get it home."
XXXX Star Wars: Novas II, 39 BBY XXXX
Novas II was a planet that was 50 million miles from Novas Prime, terraformed from one of the small gas planets we first discovered. I had partly terraformed it before we dropped the vibranium mountain onto the planet then had the nanites finish up. Unlike Novas Prime I decided to make several continents on Novas II, a total of five with each roughly the size of the United States, and I was letting the humans name each one. I had ten thousand humans moving to the planet, three thousand of which were military, along with the Gibbs family as I felt Jethro was needed more there. While he had made some progress with people there was no one ready to take on the job of a detective, a few Asuran's could help but not many were interested. Five had gone with Gibbs while seven stayed on Novas Prime, though we would move some humans into the position as they progressed.
Novas III was going to be populated by the Jaffa, while I still promoted unity, I understood that both Humans and Jaffa could use a place to call their own that's separate. Novas III was made up of two continents that stretched north to south and I split eight thousand Jaffa, four thousand on each, on the planet. While Novas II had vibranium Novas III currently had nothing special to offer but I would eventually create a military academy there.
Now that I had a base of operations, a real on not just Atlantis, I was ready to move forward with a big step. I had decided I needed some training and using I time dilation field and John, who agreed to help since I could put him in a younger body. I created a training room that would change to red solar radiation and spent five years training with John, after that I spent another two practicing with my powers active. Seven years in training was only seven minutes in the real world, after which I felt I was ready.
XXXX MCU: Earth, 2012 XXXX
Watching a movie and living it were two very different things, I stood across from Stark Tower watching as Tony Stark, aka Robert Downey Jr., landed and started walking inside while his suit was taken off. I had of course arrived earlier and watched as Loki setup his rig to open the portal but decided to wait for a bit. Loki would leave the scepter when he escaped Thor, who would join the other Avengers, leaving me able to swoop in and steal it. I could then go up, close the portal and get the tesseract so I would have the Space and Mind Stones.
"Here we go." I activated my suit as Thor and Loki began their fight, I looked upwards just to be sure no Chitauri were coming down on me. When Thor flew off I moved, flying quickly to the balcony and picking up the scepter. "Easy enough." I thought before flying up to the roof, the portal device was humming away as I made my way to it.
"You have the scepter." I paused and looked to the side, Selvig was laying near the edge watching everything happen. "You have Loki's scepter."
"I do, and you are?" He would eventually talk to the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D so I didn't want to reveal I knew him.
"Dr. Selvig, the scepter is the key." He pointed to the portal device. "The tesseract, the power source, it cannot fight against itself. I built a failsafe." He tried to raise himself up but struggled, I zipped over and lifted him up easily. "My ..your fast and strong.. are you an Asgardian as well?"
"No doctor I am not, but you were saying we can shut it down?" I replied and that seemed to put him back in focus.
"Yes, here you go there, and I will look at my computer." He pointed towards the device as he stumbled towards his computer. "There, right at the crown, you should be able to pierce it."
I walked over to where he pointed, he had flipped the laptop open and began looking at the screen. "Here?" I asked, he looked up and nodded so I began pushing the tip into the shield. I felt a bit of resistance but with my strength I easily pushed past it, I didn't think the nuke was on the way yet so I hit the device. It sputtered before the beam disappeared, looking up I saw the portal close just as another wave of Chitauri came through. I ignored them and walked to the device and pulled the tesseract out of it, which I inspected for a sew seconds before looking to Selvig. "I appreciate you help doctor." I gave him a nod. "Mission accomplished, transport me out."
"Wai-" I heard Selvig start to say something before I was transported back to Atlantis.
"I see everything went as planned." Morgan said as I appeared in my private lab on Atlantis.
"Yes, it did." I held up both items, the tesseract in my left hand and the scepter in my right. With my left I copied Thanos's actions and began to squeeze, it cracked after a good deal of strength and I felt the stone hit my hand. I quickly ordered the nanites away and felt the stone in my actual hand, closing my fist around it I grunted as I felt the power begin to course through me trailing along my veins. "Damn." I muttered, it was powerful and unlike anything I had felt up to this point in time. "And this is just the space, glad I went for this first because the Power Stone might have knocked me out." I chuckled.
"The readings we are getting are incredible." Morgan said as she looked at the stone.
"Good." I walked over to a table and placed the Space stone on it, then took the scepter and pulled the stone out before crushing it to get to the Mind Stone. Once it made contact with my skin it sent yellow energy up my arm, the power was an entirely different feeling then the Space Stone, my mind opened and I began to hear voices everywhere. I concentrated, remembering how it was when I first got super hearing and tried to focus on shutting out the noise. It took a few minutes but I got it under control, as I gained focus I noticed I was breathing heavier and sweating some. "Damn, that took a bit more then I thought it would."
I reached down and picked up the Space Stone, oddly the stone did not increase the power I was feeling as largely as I assumed it would. "I guess once you have one in your possession the others don't take as much out of you." I tapped a button on the table and a compartment opened, from it came several nanites carrying vibranium threads. I put the stones in my right hand and laid it on the table, the nanites swarmed the hand and began weaving the vibranium around the stones to make an armlet. Once secured they moved it up my arm to just below my shoulder, I had decided on that location because it was not easy to access it and when using the stones no one would see their glow if I wore long enough sleeves.
The glow from the stones was still slightly visible through the strands of vibranium but not so much when I lowered my shirt sleeve that you could see it. Nodding I turned to Morgan, who had been watching the entire time. "Let's give it a test huh?" I thought of the bridge and the Space Stone, which activated it and the blue swirling portal appeared before me. "Awesome." Walking into it I appeared on the bridge, the Asuran's had all turned when the portal appeared and were staring at me as I shut it down.
"Congratulations on your success Emperor." 77 said to me.
"Thank you 77." I nodded to him and walked over to the command chair. "What have we gathered from our scans?"
"Sir we have detected several different types of energy, only a few of which branch out farther then the solar system." An Asuran male said. "We will have to follow them to see if they will lead to Asgard."
"Alright, any data on which has the highest probability?" I asked but got a negative shake of the head. "Damn, though that was to much to ask for I guess." I sighed and sat down. "Well, we've got time so pick a trail and lets see where it leads."
"Yes sir." 77 said and looked towards the helm, communicating silently with the helmsman.
I wanted to travel to Asgard next because they were my best shot to finding a path through the rest of the Galaxy. Even if they haven't traveled there I hoped that Heimdall would be able to find the path for us, or give us coordinates to make our own way. Plus, if everything worked out well, I could use a friendship with the Asgardians and Hela's return to gain me a new race of people.
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Another reason for visiting Asgard was I wanted to get their architecture, we hadn't done much building on Novas Prime and I wanted my palace to be Valaskjalf, Odin's palace. They had some other technology and cultural things I wouldn't mind having if I could trade or steal it but I wasn't going to rush anything. "Do we have contact yet?" I asked as we drew closer.
"No sir and we have tired using several frequencies."
I sighed, Asgard was advanced but I had never seen a radio or communications system in the movies so I wasn't sure what they used. "Hold our position, I don't want to seem hostile. If we can't make contact I will fly out myself." Suddenly I felt something in my mind, a pressure I'd never felt before, I rolled my sleeve up quickly and saw the mind stone active. "So someone is trying something." I dropped the sleeve and focused on the foreign feeling.
Suddenly I was on Asgard, in the Bifrost staring at Heimdall and trying very hard not to geek out as he was one of my favorite MCU characters. "Hello."
"Greetings." Heimdall replied as he looked me over, he stood on the pedestal with his sword drawn but the tip on the ground. "I am Heimdall of Asgard, Gatekeeper of Asgard and Guardian of the Bifrost Bridge, why do you approach Asgard?"
"I am Magnus, Emperor of the Nova Empire." I stood straight as I spoke, trying to seem regal. "We discovered Asgard on our sensors and have come out of curiosity, we have no ill intentions."
"I see." He replied and continued to inspect me. "You wield Infinity Stones, long has it been since I viewed their power." I looked at my arm, I shouldn't have been surprised he would see them.
"I do, I hope that does not make me an enemy by default." That wouldn't be good for me in the long run.
"That is for Odin Borson, King of Asgard, The Allfather and Protector of the Nine Realms to decide." Heimdall says. "You and four of your men may come to Asgard and speak to him, are you able to arrive without moving your vessel closer?"
"Yes."
"Very well, land here and I shall take you to the King." Heimdall informed me. "No weapons shall be allowed however you may bring your stones, though any sign of use will bring our wrath upon you."
I nodded. "Understood." I looked around for a second before using the Mind Stone to close the link between us. I looked around, none of the Asuran's were looking at me so it doesn't seem like I was talking here while being on Asgard or at least in Heimdall's mind. "Maybe a combination of his power and telepathy?" I thought. "Morgan, I need four Jaffa, one of which should be Atok, to meet me at my lab." After making him miss out on the battles with Sepa, Ha and Ma'at I decided to make the man my traveling commander.
"Are you going in a jumper?" She asked confused.
"I made contact with them, through the Mind Stone and their abilities." I informed her, she looked surprised. "He is setting up an audience with Odin, I can bring four men, oh tell them no weapons and if they complain tell them you'll find others."
"Oh they are going to be thrilled." Morgan said before disappearing.
"77 you have command, please hold this position until you hear from me." I ordered and headed for my lab.
"Yes Emperor."
Atok and three other Jaffa showed up around ten minutes later, none of them looked happy but were not voicing their concerns. "Atok, Jaffa." I nodded and they all saluted. "Did Morgan inform you of our mission."
"Yes Emperor, we are your guards as you meet with the Asgard King." Atok answered for them.
"I do not foresee any problems, so just be on your best behavior." I looked them over as I spoke and all nodded.
"We will not dishonor your Emperor." One of the Jaffa said.
"I have no doubt." I grinned, focusing on the Bifrost I also concentrated on the Space Stone and opened us a portal.
"What is this Emperor?" Atok asked, he and the others were looking at the portal wide eyed.
"A portal, like the chappa'ai." I said. "Our trip here has allowed me to gain new technology, one allows me to create these portals now, along with other things."
"You are even more powerful Emperor." One said.
"Yes but lets not forget, the Asgardain's here are just as powerful if not more." I cautioned, Odin was not a man to be messed with even in the MCU and I wasn't going to do anything to push his buttons.
"We understand Emperor." Atok said.
"Alright, lets go." Atok quickly moved in front of me along with two Jaffa while the other two took a position behind me creating a pentagon of protection. We walked through the portal and appeared in the Bifrost, Heimdall and a group of the Einherjar were waiting for us.
"Emperor Magnus." Heimdall said with a bow of his head. "These men are of the Einherjar, our army, they will take you to the King."
"Gentlemen." I nodded to them. "Lead the way." There were four men and they turned to walk the bridge but instead of walking a skiff pulled up to the bridge.
"We shall take this to the throne room." One of the warriors said as the others got on the longboat like vehicle.
"An interesting design." Atok said as he got on the ship.
"Our Asgardian Skiffs have long served the defense of Asgard." A man said as we all got on and took off towards the palace. I didn't hide my awe-struck look as we flew towards the palace, I looked around at everything I could.
"You have a beautiful city." I said to one of the warriors as we neared the palace, he simply nodded to me. We pulled up to a balcony with no rails and a few more Einherjar waiting, walking onto the balcony they subtly shifted position to show me where to go, falling in step as I moved. Atok still took point but the rest fell in behind me, we passed a few Asgardians as we walked but I didn't see anyone of note before we arrived at a large pair of doors.
"You are allowed to approach the Allfather, he is seated upon his throne and you are to stop at the bottom of the dais stairs." One of the men said as we stopped by the doors. "Your men may stand on the sides with us."
I looked to Atok, who nodded firmly. "Understood, anything I should be aware of?"
"Show proper respect to the King and he will in turn." The man answered then motioned to the doors, which were opened by other warriors.
The throne room was lined with people and Einherjar, Odin sat on his throne with his spear in hand looking down as I walked forward. Frigga stood on his right side, in her normal mix of clothing and armor, while Thor was on his left. I walked all the way to the stairs and stopped, I wasn't going to bow or kneel even if it offended him, this was my first real test as a ruler meeting another. Odin tapped his spear, Gungnir, to the ground and the sound echoed through the hall. "Welcome Magnus, Emperor of the Nova Empire, to the halls of Asgard." Odin said loudly. "Long have I lived but never have I heard of your Empire, from where do you hail?"
"Thank you for the welcome King Odin, my Empire is young and still new." I replied. "We come from another galaxy, our technology is impressive, and I came here seeking new technology, knowledge and skilled people willing to join me."
"Another galaxy?" Odin mused. "Long has it been since a being from another galaxy has walked these halls." He nodded. "It is good to see a ruler seeking to improve his people, though to travel so far is odd."
"My galaxy is under siege by a greedy, tyrannical, parasitic serpent like race that are able to burrow into a person and control them." People gasped and began to mutter. "They have spread across the galaxy and oppress all races so they cannot advance themselves and rise against them. However, my people have stayed hidden and saw no reason to help. I decided otherwise and with my advanced technology have started to fight back, but advanced technology can only help so much."
"Yes, numbers do play a large part of war." Odin nodded in agreement. "And to spread throughout the galaxy I assume they have some technology to travel through space?" I nodded, Odin looked at me then over to the Jaffa. "Your men, they were of these oppressed races?"
"Yes, I am helping them build a new life, they are the foundation of my Empire and together we are fighting against the Goa'uld." I answered.
"A worthy cause." Thor chimed in.
"My son is right." Odin said and hit Gungnir to the ground. "My father fought such a cause as yours, the Dark Elves sought to extinguish all light from the universe and return it to a state of darkness. My father led Asgard against them and was triumphant." People cheered as he finished. "Heimdall has told me you possess two Infinity Stones, is that the power you seek to help you in your war?"
"I have heard legend of the Infinity Stones but was not purposely seeking them out as I thought they were a myth." I carefully answered. "We were monitoring another planet, Earth as the inhabitants called it." Thor stood straighter at the news.
"You are the one Selvig saw." He pointed at me.
"Thor?" Odin turned and looked at his son.
"Erik Selvig is a friend, he was tricked by Loki to help him open a portal for the Chitauri but he regained his senses." Thor said to his father before looking back at me. "He said a man in white arrived with the scepter Loki used and helped close the portal, taking the tesseract with him."
"The cube?" I asked and Thor nodded. "Yes, it held the Space Stone, when I saw how the people were using it I felt it safer with me."
"That is not for you to decide." Thor started to argue but Odin slammed Gungnir into the ground.
"Enough!" Odin yelled. "You will mind your tongue when speaking to welcomed guest my son." He turned to me. "The Tesseract did possess the Space Stone, and by my sons account of what occurred on Midgard I believe the scepter Loki used had the Mind Stone in it?" I nodded. "Hmmm, two stones finding their way to each other is troubling with the size of the universe but you have removed them from a primitive world who would use them for war so I cannot fault you for that." I was glad he agreed. "I cannot claim to own them either and as you have not killed or conquered to possess them I will not try to take possession of them from you." I gave a small bow of my head. "Though I caution you, the stones have long be sought after for their power, no matter where you run someone will come searching for them."
"I am fully aware of the risks." I replied. "But with their power I can shift the balance of power in my galaxy greatly to my side."
"You play a dangerous game." Odin said. "And I would not be a good King if I allowed such powerful relics into the hands of someone who might bring harm to Asgard, but so far I do not believe you do." I almost panicked before he finished his sentence. "Asgard has much to offer in ways of war and knowledge, stay for a time and learn as we learn of you."
"He wants a better judge on my character." I thought while smiling. "We would be happy to stay and learn all Asgard is willing to teach and share with us." I replied. "Need to let the Jaffa speak to them so they see I am not some warmonger that will turn on Asgard, or else Odin might decide I shouldn't have the stones."
"Excellent, tonight we shall have a feast to welcome our new guests!" Odin yelled and the people began to cheer. "Rooms will be made available, how many are on your ship?"
"One thousand but they will be comfortable there, a few may wish to visit your city but rooms for everyone is not necessary." I answered, I also didn't want to leave Atlantis empty or even low staffed incase we had to make a break for it.
Odin nodded. "Very well, Thor please show our guest around as rooms are prepared."
"Yes father." Thor replied and walked down the dais towards me.
"Thank you, King Odin, I hope this is the beginning of a long friendship." I gave a small bow this time, I needed to show I appreciated him and his words.
"Come friend, let me show you and your men the beauty of Asgard." Thor said as he reached my side.
"Of course Prince..Thor I believe?" Odin had only mentioned his name once so I played dumb.
"Yes, but please just Thor." He said with a smile and held out his hand, while shaking it I used a bit of strength and Thor returned it.
"Of course, Magnus is fine with me as I am still getting used to people calling me Emperor." I joked and he chuckled.
"Very well, come." We walked out of the hall, my Jaffa following behind.
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Asgardians and Jaffa got along wonderfully, while I might have thought they would be more comparable to Spartans but this seemed a good fit as well. While the Asgardian's were far superior in many aspects they still respected the attitude the Jaffa had when it came to training and combat, Atok especially never gave up I the spars he participated in. I of course had to show off some, while Thor was strong and an able fighter he was not stronger than a Kryptonian, even if I was only a half, and with John's training I was able to take him in a fight. He did let me try and lift Mjolnir, after a few weeks of getting to know one another and him to trust me enough to not mess with the hammer. I was surprised with how much time Odin made for me as well, he may not have been the best father but he was a pretty good king and gave me a lot of advice and helped with setting up political positions.
The Asgardians did not have exact coordinates for planets but Heimdall was able to make a map using our technology and his powers. I got all of the planets under Asgards protection and a few planets I had never heard of, included in the list was also Xandar and Hala, homes of the Nova Corps and Kree Empire. Knowhere was also included so I could meet the Collector, now that I had two stones I didn't know if Odin would send the Reality Stone there but it wouldn't hurt to have a relationship with him in case. Morag was not on the list so I wouldn't be able to grab the Power Stone easily but I know the Broker on Xandar would eventually get the info so I would watch him.
I was also spreading out nanites, leaving them active but not using them for now. I wasn't sure how my actions might change up the storyline but if things stayed close to the same I wanted to be ready to take advantage of the chaos with Hela's return.