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Chapter1: Uprooted
*This version of the Marvel Universe should be considered AU. For all intent & purpose for this story, assume the Greek Pantheon doesn't exist here {no Hercules, no Ares, etc.}**
*Marvel Universe, the Moon 3 hours earlier*.
With a snap, Thor opened his eyes. He was lying down on the ground, his mighty hammer Mjolnir a few feet away from him. Shifting his body to face upward, he was greeted with the sight of the black vastness of space. His memory failing him for the moment, he takes a few seconds to calm himself, suddenly realizing that his breath was going fast and uneven. His ears, he also realized, were filled with an annoying ringing that wouldn't cease. Why were his ears filled with this annoyance? And why was he is space, for that matter?
Then before his eyes, a few beams of blood red energy shot across the blackness to his right, which were immediately followed by beams of blue energy heading in the opposite direction. That was followed, in turn, by the sight of a figure heading in the same direction as the blue energy, a figure clad in red and gold…
Iron Man, Thor thought with a start.
"HOLD THE LINE!"
A voice…it was muffled by the ringing, but he could still hear the words, and the tone. The tone was commanding, inspirational and unrelenting in authority. He recognized that voice, the voice of Captain America, the leader of the Avengers.
He heard a thump over a few feet next to him, to his right. He turned to see what it was, and his eyes are greeted with a bloody sight. It was a body, a rather mangled body, shred completely, blue blood oozing from the gashes. It was a Chitauri body…
The Chitauri.
Thor suddenly remembered, all of it rushing back: the Chitauri base on the moon, their own pre-emptive strike, the laser that hit him and blasted him to the ground.
Immediately the Thunder God stood up, and realized he was standing in a relatively wide crater, about seven feet deep. The ringing in his ear was now waning, replaced by new sounds: alien screeches, explosions, energy blasts, bellowing roars…the sound of war. Thor smiled. It was the sound of his natural state.
"AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE," came the roar that escaped his lips.
With a rise of his gloved hand, Mjolnir zoomed back to its master, immediately sparking the echoes of thunder in the heavens. Whirling the mighty weapon, the Norse deity flew into the sky, allowing him to fully view the scene. They were on the dark side of the moon, battling hordes of Chitauri warriors and weapons in an effort to get to the doomsday laser weapon the aliens had prepared to wreak havoc on what they thought was an unsuspecting Earth. If Midgard truly didn't suspect it, there would not be almost 30 Avengers fighting them this very moment.
Thor saw a unit of energy gun turrets firing heavily upon the position of Spiderwoman, Wonder Man and Iron Fist. The same turrets, in fact, that had knocked him unconscious just a few minutes earlier.
The thunder roared louder, now joined by majestic streaks of lightning, and with his trademark war cry of "FOR MIDGARD!" he flung Mjolnir directly at the machinery. Upon contact, a resonating explosion echoed out as the turrets were consumed in a gigantic fireball. The Chitauri nearby were given no time, however, to try to understand what just happened as Thor immediately landed and began pummeling them, using the hundreds of thousands of years' worth of combat knowledge at his disposal.
"Welcome back, Thor," Iron Fist stated bluntly as he and the other two joined the Asgardian, fist glowing and pummeling through the creatures. "Wondered when you'd finish your nap."
"You know, Iron Fist," Thor said with a smirk as Mjolnir returned to his hand, now letting him pass out bashed skulls to the Chitauri. "A simple thank you would suffice."
"War is no time for pleasantries, Thunder God," Iron Fist retorted, unable to contain the grin on his face.
"Wonder Man, She-Hulk, Hulk!" Captain America's voice came through their ear pieces. "Take the left flank and get rid of those turrets! Hawkeye, Wolverine, Widow, Spiderman! Hard slam through the center! Mockingbird, Tigra, Spiderwoman, Valkyrie, Quake! Take the right flank! Panther, Iron Fist, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch! With me on flanking them from the rear! Iron Man, Thor, Ms. Marvel, Protector, Vision, Wasp, War Machine-give us air support! This is where we show this scum what the Avengers, what Earth is made of! Let's move, Avengers!"
With the battle plan laid out, the others unanimously shouted, "AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE!"
As the ground Avengers stormed across the ground to take down the Chitauri, the aerial Avengers began their assault. Thor immediately began casting down lightning from the skies, striking all over at random intervals in the Chitauri ranks, spreading confusion and disarray among the enemy. Joined by the attacks from the others, the hits were perfect enough to keep the aliens off their game enough for the ground Avengers to steadily move through the enemy, towards the doomsday weapon.
'Relatively easy,' Thor mused. 'Not the battle I had hoped to partake in-'
His thoughts were immediately interrupted by a loud humming. Looking to the source, he saw with horror as the doomsday weapon activated, the laser now glowing a sickening shade of green. As if in slow motion, the laser then fired, right at the ground Avengers.
A streak of black zoomed past the Thunder God, and in the blink of an eye, he saw Ms. Marvel intercept the blast of the laser, her body glowing and illuminated as it collided with the energy. Thor was well aware that the heroine could absorb any energy, even the lightning he commanded, so he was fairly confident that she could hold her own. At least, he was until he heard her screams of anguish.
"AAAAAAUURRRRGGHHHH!"
"MS. MARVEL!" Without a thought, Thor raced after her, Iron Man right on his tail. Using his hammer, Thor blocked the blast, himself now taking the brunt of the blast as Iron Man scanned her body for any internal damage.
"That…hurt, Iron Man," Ms. Marvel said weakly. "It wasn't like…anything…"
"Don't worry, Carol, nothing serious; it just seems-" he started before immediately looked back up at the laser. "Oh no."
"What is it, Iron Man?" Thor yelled over.
"Their laser; it looks like it's going critical!"
Though unfamiliar with much of mortal technology, Thor had dealt with enough machines, robots and supervillians to know just what "going critical" means.
"JARVIS, try to hack into this weapon's computers! Cap," Stark cried out to the Avengers co-leader, "this thing is gonna blow, and I have no idea how to stop it!"
"The Chitauri, look!" Thor cried as he suddenly realized what their enemies were doing. They were retreating, into a portal to whatever corner of the universe they called their own was. "They retreat!" Sure enough, as soon as their laser weapon had fired, they had begun pulling back. Apparently, whatever this weapon's function was, they did not want to be around for it.
A loud whirl then came from the laser, and it suddenly began turning from the Avengers and now aiming directly towards Earth. It began glowing that same sickly green as the laser prepared to fire once more.
"Iron Man, now would be a good time to figure out how to stop this thing!" Captain America roared.
"Yeah, I'm kind of having a problem with that! It's not like we have that much info on Chitauri technology! T'Challa, Spiderman! You guys are geniuses, come help me out here!"
"Wait, did Stark just ask us for help?" Spiderman gasped.
"It's about to fire!" Ms. Marvel cried out. "Thor! Your lightning! Hit me with everything you've got!"
"Aye!" he replied as he summoned the elements to him. With a flick of his hammer, Thor bombarded her with all the lightning he could muster. Immediately her body glowed, her fists blaring with yellow-white energy and her eyes glowed white. With a zoom, she rushed in front of the laser, just as it fired at Earth. But Ms. Marvel was just as fast, firing her photon blasts at it. With the absorbed energy of the celestial lightning, she was able to hold her ground against the laser, keeping the blast from hitting Earth.
"Guys, I can only do this for so long! Figure something out!"
"Let me smash it," Hulk said with a smile.
"Great idea, Jade Jaws," Hawkeye retorted. "How long did it take to come up with that?"
"Vision can you try and phase through it, break it apart?"
"Uncertain. The elements of this device are unfamiliar, and therefore I do not know what to expect to happen to both my atoms and the machines if I do so."
"I may have a way."
All eyes turned to Thor.
"It is an ability that I rarely use, but Mjolnir is able to open the boundaries to other dimensions, other realms that are not of the original Nine. It is risky, but I can open another dimension to us and send the weapon into that dimension."
"Best idea we got! Let's do it!" Stark cries out. "Carol, keep up what you're doing! Wonder Man & Hulk, get ready to pick up the laser & throw it! Thor, do your thing!"
Without a word, Thor flew away a few dozen meters. He began whirling Mjolnir. This was a risky move, hence why he rarely ever did it, but this weapon was of unknown power. The moment called for such risk.
"Hear me, All-Father," he cried to the heavens. "Guide my hand as I open the doors to the unknown!" And with that, he aimed Mjolnir to the emptiness at his right, and lightning flew from the hammer. But instead of blasting onto the ground, it formed into a circle, turning rapidly until it became a pure white ring. The sounds of crackling energy began to ring out as the ring started glowing, and in the middle, a light leaked out, revealing a vortex, one that would act as a tunnel to whatever dimension awaited on the other side. Strong winds came from it, forcing him to concentrate on securing his footing on the ground, lest he get sucked into it, also. He had done it; the gateway was opened.
"It is ready, Avengers!"
"Now, guys!"
With a scream, Ms. Marvel intensified her photon blasts as Wonder Man and Hulk ripped the weapon off the ground and lumbered towards the gateway as fast as they could. Just as they were within throwing distance of the gateway & within distance of being sucked in, Carol stopped her counter blasting, and at that moment, the other two threw the weapon to the gateway, allowing the powerful vortex winds to take its hold of it and drag it into the gateway.
All around the other Avengers cheered, hugging and congratulating each other. They had saved the world again from an alien threat. It was always a good feeling. Thor watched his teammates celebrate, feeling proud to count himself amongst the mightiest team of heroes and warriors he had ever encountered. He'd get the weapon into the vortex, close the gateway and then join in with his teammates.
Or that was what he was thinking until the weapon exploded.
With a jolt, the heads of all the other Avengers turned to the gateway. The explosion was unexpected and caught everyone by surprise, including Thor. The sonic vibrations that resulted from the explosion caused him to lose his footing, and before he knew it, he had been caught in the sucking winds of the vortex along with the weapon wreckage.
"THOR!"
Immediately, Spiderman rushed over, shoot web shot after web shot to try and get a hold of the Thunder God, but the winds were too strong to allow a clean shot. Within a few seconds, Thor disappeared into the vortex, and the gateway, with its keeper no longer there to hold it in place, collapsed onto itself, closing the way for him, and disappeared.
The other Avengers stood there flabbergasted at what just happened. Spiderman fell down to his knees, mouth gapping wide open in shock.
"Tony? Rhodey? Vision?" Cap asked.
"I got nothing on scanners."
"Same here: no energy residue, no gateway residue; nothing."
"Analysis yields nothing. There is no trace of the portal or Thor."
"He's…gone," Spiderman simply said as Ms. Marvel flew over & helped him up. "Thor's gone."
It hit them hard. One of their own-the first one it ever happened to-was gone, fallen in a mission.
"So," the Webhead spoke. "Who wants to be the one to tell Odin we lost his son?"