SMST: The Avenging Moon! – By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: SM, R1/2, ST, DC/Marvel Comics and other properties belong to their respective owners.
Note: This is a multi-genre story.
Special Note: A "Lime Scent" alert is in order (nothing shown, but implied).
Part 11
The days and weeks roll on. Adventures come and go. However, the dreams and nightmares of actions most recent haunt the mind of the Moon Princess, who soon will make a decision as to her next move…
Usagi was running, as she faced her accusers.
"You betrayed who you are!" Ranma said, as he and others who were near and dear to her, gave chase. "You betrayed ME!"
"You killed me!" Captain America said. "You killed me by turning your back on me, when I needed you-!"
"No!" Usagi replied, thinking about how she failed to prevent Captain America's assassination at the hands of the Red Skull. "I only wanted to make a better future! I didn't mean it! I didn't mean to fail you-!"
As she ran around the corner, she sees the Sailor Scouts standing there."
"Mamoru!" Usagi said, as she ran into his arms. "Save me!"
"No," Tuxedo Mask replied, as the other Sailor Senshi suddenly grabbed her.
"Wha-?"
"You need to pay for what you have done, Princess," Sailor Pluto said. "Perhaps some humility is in order."
"What are you doing?" Usagi shrieked, as her clothes were ripped off her body, until her hands was bound by shackles. "No-!"
She looks up to see her parents, who had their heads down in shame.
"Mother, Father!" Usagi said. "Help me!"
"We disown you, child," Ikuko said, as she and Kenji turns around, so as to not face their daughter.
Soon, Usagi was strung up for the entire world to see, with her hands bound to an upper steel, while her feet was bound to a lower beam, both by done with chains.
"How does it feel to be humiliated?" Ranma said. "Your irresponsibility cost me a lot of friends, and a lot of respect."
"But, I did all that for save humankind from itself!"
"No, you did it for your own, selfish reasons," Tuxedo Mask said. "I was there for you, and you threw me away for HIM."
And then, Queen Serenity steps in.
"Mother, save me-" Usagi pleads.
"You are my child, but you must suffer the consequences of your actions," Serenity said. "Therefore, I sentence you to be bound to the weight of your arrogance for no less than a 1000 years."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Let's pillory her!" yelled Iron Man, as he and everyone threw tomatoes and other things at a crying Usagi.
Centuries later, a tour guide stops by with a classroom of children.
"And here we have the Moon Princess, who is still being punished for her sins," the tour guide said. "She serves as an object lesson of what happens to people with mounds and mounds of hubris."
A little girl sees Usagi, who was virtually a bag of skin and bones, with her hair bundled and wrapped in coils like the hair of the legendary Rapunzel. She hasn't spoken to anyone in years, and hadn't eaten anything either. Her immortality was keeping her alive, while the rays of the sun fed her cells as a way of keeping her from starving.
Usagi, sensing that the girl was nearby, opens her eyes to look at the girl…
"Little girl, come away from there!" said the tour guide. "You don't want to be like her! The Moon Princess is bad…BAD-!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!" Usagi screamed.
CHOOOOMMMMM…
"End Simulation," said the computer,
Usagi woke up from the latest simulation of the Martian Manhunter's "Dreamscape Machine", as the glass case was unsealed. As she removed the astronaut flight cap of her form-fitting bio-suit from her head, the Martian Manhunter goes over to his old teammate.
"I must say that your need to punish yourself for your most recent actions within the metahuman community is both fascinating and frightening," J'onn J'onz said, as he helps Usagi out of his device.
"Well, it's either this, or go numb with picking up 'partners' at strange bars while in an alcoholic state, or this," Usagi said, as she begins to strip off her bio-suit in front of J'onn. "And I much rather do the former for fun."
"As long as I've known you, you always seemed so unconventional," said the Martian, as he morphs into his Rei Hino guise. "Honestly, Usagi. If you were having problems lately, why didn't you come to us?"
"Because, old friend, I didn't want to involve you in my problems," Usagi said, as she puts on a robe. "And besides, if YOU knew, then Kal would know. And I didn't want him to be disappointed in me."
"Superman would have understood. He loves you."
"Well, I know, but I don't want to complicate his life with mine. His focus should be on Lois, his current wife."
"Speaking of her, is she still suspicious of you?"
"What do you think?" Usagi said. "I was his first love that he actually married, and yet I left him out of a need to protect him from my son Genshin, who had been dead set on ruining my life, when he wasn't trying to kill me, at that time…"
Pause.
"But anyway, thanks for letting me use your machine, Rei. It's easier to use the mind to create a simulation, rather than using a holodeck to do the same thing."
"You can use it any time," Rei said with a smile. "You're my Princess, and your are my team-mate, either within the Sailor Scouts or within the Justice League of America."
"Thanks."
"So, what are you going to do next?"
"I'm going to build a new home for my people."
And with that, Usagi leaves to get cleaned up, leaving a perplexed Rei behind.
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A day later, Usagi was in the middle of nowhere, although the nearest human settlement was miles away…
"Why here, again?" Ranma said, as he surveyed the land, which he and Usagi recently purchased. "Minnesota is nice and all, but…"
"This area has a sizeable German and Nordic population," Usagi said, as she takes out her hairbrush. "Plus, it'll be easier to deal with the Feds, since I still don't trust them."
"Well, then, if that is what you want to do…"
"It is. Once 'New Asgard' has been established, last piece of the Nine Realms of Yggsdrasil will be re-established. The Norns will handle the Yggsdrasil System phase, which will realign the World Tree and the Axis Mundi to Yggsdrasil."
"Then let get this over with," Ranma said, as he strikes his cane onto the ground.
THOOM!
"Ah, good to be back," Ran said, as he puts Thunderstrike into pocket space.
THOOM!
"Do you have the seed?" Thordis asked.
"Right here," Ran said, as he takes out what appeared to be a giant acorn from a wooden box marked with runes. "It wasn't easy getting a seedling from the Rifts."
"It never is, considering YOUR track record," Thordis said with a smirk, as she receives to seedling in her hand. She then says a silent prayer, so that the seedling could be blessed.
"Okay, here goes," Thordis said, as she throws the seedling in the middle of her property…
THUNK!
Thordis then raises her Mjolnir.
"By Odin's beard, make Asgard anew!" Thordis calls, as she willed the storms to strike the seedling.
THOOM!
CRASH!
Once the seedling was struck, it grew, and grew…and GREW, while the land around it was changed as a mist covered it. And when it was over, a freshwater lake appeared, with a large landmass rising from its bubbly surface. A rainbow bridge was formed, as it connected the landmass to the rest of land by crossing the large lake.
And thus, New Asgard was born.
"You did it, hon," Ran said.
"I am not done just yet," Thordis said, as she took to the skies, with Ran in tow. She surveyed the land before landing again.
"Here, we can create a river at this starting point," Thordis said, as she lifts her hammer, while Ran floated in the air. "Stand back…"
With her strong arms, Thordis caused Mjolnir to increase its size, though the goddess could still hold it comfortably.
"Yiiiiiiiii-HA!" Thordis said, as she slams the hammer onto the ground.
THOOM!
Where she struck, a crack formed that ran for miles, until it connected to the Missouri River system and the Great Lakes. Water from the god-made lake spilled, and flowed down the crack, creating a new river system.
"The mortals can name this new river system themselves," Thordis said. "But let it be known that I am a contributor in the community."
"Pretty impressive," Ran said, as Thordis returned her hammer to its normal size.
"Thank you," Thordis replied. "In days and weeks ahead, will we find our people, since they are now living in mortal guises. And when that happens, the peoples of the Nine Realms will be back. Some realms will straddle Midgard, while others will not."
"Well, let's just hope that certain realms are not as accessible as others," Ran said with a smirk.
"On that I agree."
And that was that.
In the days and weeks since the re-establishment of the Nine Realms of Yggsdrasil, Thordis would go on to have more trials and tribulations, starting with the so-called "Secret Invasion" of the Skrulls, and ending with the ascension of the "Dark Reign" of Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin. Osborn had a particular beef with Usagi, stemming from their days as antagonist towards each other, back when Usagi went by the identity, the Bunny Girl. Somehow, Osborn coped the same path that Lex Luthor had done, by gaining some measure of respectability in the general public. In reality, he wanted power, and saw Usagi as an obstacle to that goal, which is why Osborn, after several encounters of being humiliated by her, was planning an assault on New Asgard.
Although, if the truth was known, Osborn was playing right into her hands…
END FLASHBACK!
Thordis took an early morning swimming in Lake Manidis, named after her mother, when a hovercraft appears overhead. She looks up.
"What in the world…?"
"Thordis, this is Captain America (II)," said the pilot over the loud speaker. "We need to talk."
Thordis rose from the waters, and flew up to the craft, which had its doors open. She boards it.
"What do you guys want this time?" Thordis asked, as the Mighty Avengers helped her into the hover jet.
"Um, Thordis?" She-Hulk asked.
"What?"
"You're naked," said Giant-Man. Hank Pym had decided to return to his roots. In light of what was happening under Osborn's reign…
"So? You guys intruded upon MY personal time. And the only reason why you haven't been taken down is because Heimdall knows you as my allies."
"Okay, we get it," Captain America said. "But we need your help."
"What for?" Thordis said.
"It's Tony," The Wasp said. "Osborn caught him, but…Tony…?"
Thordis raised an eyebrow.
Later that day…
"This is outrageous!" Director Norman Osborn yelled, as he and his HAMMER "goons" stood in the way of Dr. Serena Mondkinder (who looks like Thordis in business attire and glasses, which also included her hair done in a bun) and Dr. Mondkinder's attorney Matt ("Daredevil") Murdock. The pair was at the entrance of the medical bay at the HAMMER compound on Triskelion, which also serves as a base for the Avengers Project. In the old days, the Avengers had their original civilian headquarters in the heart of Manhattan. Now, it serves as a museum, while the Avengers headquarters is located in a secured location on the upper floors of "Stark Tower", now under the control of Osborn.
It must be noted that since Mishima Zaibatsu has controlling interest in Stark Enterprises, for all intents and purpose, the Rantsu and Mishma families own Stark Tower…
"Tony Stark was a fugitive, and therefore is under MY jurisdiction."
"Sorry, but the court order is clear," Murdock said, as he presented his papers. "In light of Anthony Stark's incapacitated state, Dr. Mindkinder can take Mr. Stark into her care."
Osborn growled. His attempt to kill Iron Man was caught on live film, which more than likely gave Murdock a chance to win his petition in court.
"You could contest it, of course, Director Osborn."
"Fine, you may take him," Osborn said, as she motions his HAMMER goons to move out of the way. "But now this: this is far from over."
"No, it's not," said Dr. Mondkinder, as her eyes flash with electric sparks. "And when you are ready to deal with me, you know where to find me."
And with that, Dr. Mondkinder and Attorney Murdock go into the private hospital room…
When they arrived, they could see Nathan and Antonia Stark standing by their father's side, as well as the Black Widow, Captain America II, Pepper Potts-Hogan, Rodney Rhodes and Carol Danvers.
"Mom," Antonia said, as she runs into her mother's arms. "I'm glad that you made it."
"I'm glad…to," Thordis said. She then turns towards Pepper.
"What's his prognosis?"
"He's…brain-dead," Pepper said sadly. "His plan worked after all."
"We have a means to restore his mind, but the process is experimental," Black Widow said. "That's why we need your help."
Thordis nods her head, as she continues to stare at Tony's comatose state. According to the Avengers, he purposely ruined his mind in order to prevent Osborn from knowing his secrets. She was surprised that Tony gave her power-of-attorney, after all this time.
"I want time alone with Tony, please," Thordis said.
"You're not going to-?" Carol began to ask.
"No, my beef you Tony is done," Thordis said. "I just need to do this, so I can get my mind in the right place."
Although Antonia was worried, she nods her head.
"Come on guys," Antonia said, as she motions everyone to leave the hospital room. When they were gone, Thordis turns towards Tony.
"Tony, how did we get from what we were to now?" Thordis said, as she thought back to the day the Avengers was first formed…
FLASHBACK!
"Help!" Sailor Moon cried, as an energy sphere created by Loki the Trickster contained her.
"Hush, you!" Loki sneered. He had kidnapped Sailor Moon in an effort to take the power of Thordis for himself. "Once I have the power of Thordis, I shall become more powerful than our hated brother-"
"I say thee NAY!" Thor said, as he and six other strangers converged on Loki's position. "Leave my sister alone!"
"Sailor Moon is Thor's SISTER?" Captain America asked. He and Ronin were in the middle of a training exercise at the Triskelion Base, a man-made island in the middle of the Upper Bay, New York, when they got the call that some clown was controlling the Hulk to kidnap Sailor Moon. It was only after Sailor Moon broke Loki's control over the Hulk that she found herself contained in an energy field.
"Long story," Ronin said.
"Hulk smash puny man for making Hulk kidnap friend!" The Hulk growled.
"What are we going to do?" the Wasp said, as she fluttered about.
"What we need to do," Giant Man said. "Ground him and pound him."
"My thoughts exactly," Iron Man said, as he fires a repulsor blast at Loki.
FWAK!
Loki leaps out of he way, causing the field to collapse.
"Ah-!" Sailor Moon said, as she began to fall, only to have Iron Man catch her.
"Oof!"
"Mind a lift?" Iron Man said jokingly.
"Oh, Tony," Sailor Moon said with a smile.
Nevertheless, thanks to Loki, the Mighty Avengers were born...
END FLASHBACK!
Thordis lowers her head to kiss Tony on the lips.
SMOOCH!
"Perhaps, it's time to make amends, and rebuild what was lost," Thordis said, as she takes off her glasses…
Fifteen minutes later, Antonia, returning from the hospital cafeteria with her brother Nathan, peeks in to check in on her parents.
"Mom, is everything okay-?" Antonia said, as she sees her mother in a rather…awkward position.
"Mmmmm," Thordis said, as she leans on Tony, with both of them under the same sheets. After coming to terms with being a poly-amorist, after having a heart-to-heart discussion of relationships with Beta Ray Bill, which resulted in them being lovers, Thordis decided that love should be shared amongst friends, especially when one of them was the father of one of her grown children. And if her husband Ranma couldn't deal with it, that was tough on HIM. She was done dealing with Ranma's jealousy, stem from thinking he needs to be "man enough" to keep his women happy, even IF he was the love of her life. It was not like she forbade HIM from having lovers and wives if it suited him. And besides, SHE was the All-Mother of the Norse, and being absolute monarch has privileges that were tantalizing. Still, she'll placate Ranma with her gentle soul…and rocking body, as always.
Antonia was about to yell at her mother for her impropriety, when she sees the smile on Tony's face…
"Toni, what's up?" Nathan asked, wondering why her sister was standing at the doorway, rather than entering the their father's hospital room.
CHUNK!
"Oh, nothing," Antonia said. "Let's give Thordis more time to settle…things."
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Fin.
Author's Note: That's that for now, but the Green Goblin's quest for vengeance is just heating up, which will be continued in "TRTSS13: The Blackest Reign and a Dark Night". Also, I know that Captain America did not join the Avengers until after the team first formed, but, in my version, he was found by Ranma and Usagi before the Loki incident. Anyway, later!