Joe was currently waiting next to the helipad, reading a book in the lost Harrapan language, while waiting for S.H.I.E.L.D. The books were interesting a series of photographs showing detailled stone tablets. To the rest of the group the most interesting parts were the many diagrams of humans with strange markings on them.
Far above them in the Helicarrier Clint and Natasha were preparing the Quinjet to pick up the team, "I think I've seen him before, the man who knocked out Loki, he was at Budapest." Clint Commented
"I remember him to, he was the one who told me that you were hiring." Natasha replied.
"He told me where you were hiding, I would have never been able to find you without his help."
"He seemed oddly comfortable with helping us find each other."
"anyways let's get going."
And with that they took off, dropping towards the helipad on the roof of stark tower.
As they landed, the chair Mr Black was sitting on as well as the footstool he was using vanished from under him as he stood up. He purposefully strode towards the jet, the door, opening at his feet as he entered. The pair in the cockpit even with their inability to sense magic were able to sense his rage.
Far away in the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Sorcerer Supreme, Stephen Strange had finally found the source of the immense power and rage, though he had strangely found out that even the Eye of Aggamoto could not see the man, he was flying towards the storm of magical energy the pure magic was invisible to the mundane but it was bright as the sun to him. The only being he knew of that could produce such sorcery was a man that he had once met known as Hēisè, he was The Ancient One's teacher any while not a Sorcerer Supreme was powerful enough to defeat them without the aid of any spirits such as Aggamoto.
He hoped that he was correct. He Clea had warned him that Dormamu and his forces were stirring, and they set their sights in him yet again.
Joe however was stepping onto the helicarrier striding through the aircraft. As he passed the identification scanners a large number of things happened.
Fury was staring at his computer screen in shock as result after result poured in about the man who had just entered their ship. There were well over nine thousand results, this was unheard of!
As Joe entered the briefing room he was able to utilise his occulumency. 'The monks in tibet knew their stuff,' he thought.
The team finally met up in the conference room, Loki was unbound and Everyone was shooting Thor baleful , who was entering the room raised an eyebrow. "What he do to you, and why is Loki unbound."
Natasha was the first to turn towards Fury, "Loki was unbound because he was under some form of mind control, and we were able to interrogate him."
Before she could continue, Steve cut in, sill glaring at Thor, "and Loki was abused by Thor and his parents because he was adopted."
Banner, whose eyes were dangerously green looked Fury in the eye, "From what we can tell, Asgardians age at 1% the average rate of humans. So we can assume that Loki has undergone more than a thousand years of abuse."
Fury looked at Thor in loathing, before asking the team about the new person.
"I am Mr Black, you have no use for my first name, I have gone by many names in the past, I was on leave from my job, a work related incident you might say and was accidentally pulled into your dimension though the dimensional wake of the destabilised wormhole. That is really all you need to know about me. Though I still don't know your names."
"I am Tony Stark, Also known known as Iron Man,"
"Steve Rogers, Captain America."
"Bruce Banner."
"Natasha Romanoff, Black Widow."
"Clint Barton, Hawkeye."
"Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D"
"Thor, Prince of Asgard."
"Asshole, anyways, I would suggest…"
Before he could continue, a man flew into the room, phasing through the walls, "Hēisè," he cried, "It is you! Dormammu attacks again, I wish for your aid!
Black dropped his head into his hands, mourning the loss of his time, sighing he turned to the man, "where should I meet you, and when." he asked.
"As soon as possible, Clea will meet us at the Sanctum Sanctorum!"
Joe quickly gazed into his eyes, pulling the location of the manor and information regarding Dormammu from his mind before turning to Fury, explaining that he had to leave.
"Why?" was the response of the african american.
"The union I am a part of is multidimensional, my colleague asked me to cover for her, and I assume that this is what she meant," he answered, before mumbling about giant fire demons and vanishing with a small pop.
Meanwhile Loki had pulled out a scrapbook with pictures of Mr. Black on it and began writing in it.
"Is that a…" began Fury, before Stark answered, "Yes, Loki is a Mr. Black fanboy! Though he calls him Surtr."
Meanwhile, Joe had appeared just outside of the Sanctum Sanctorum, walking towards the place and towards a woman, with oddly white hair yelled at him, "Who are you!"
"I am Hēisè" he said, unknowingly slipping into the Chinese used by Strange, "Your friend asked me to help you with some minor fire demon by the name of Dormammu?"
"yes, he is attacking from my home dimension by the name of the Dark dimension."
Quickly looking into her eyes, he pulled out the relevant information, and teleported to the center of the small town.
Here a group of people were chanting some sort of summoning ritual involving several components and human body parts.
"Meh, guess I couldn't save them." becoming the avatar of death really changed a person.
The group started chanting and then they started dancing and then… wait is that a monkey on a unicycle?
While Joe was confused by the appearance of a monkey on a unicycle in a fire demon summoning circle, Dr Strange and Clea managed to catch up to him.
They too were stupefied by the use of a monkey on a unicycle when he asked.
At some point he was sure he saw them sacrifice a six foot tall rabbit.
Eventually after several hours of the group cavorting around, Joe and Clea looked up from their game of Poker to see that they had finally managed to complete the summoning even though Strange had attempted to stop them.
"Doesn't he know that any high level ritual is usually sealed from external magic, his attacks would do jack shit!"
"He is the more of attack first think of the consequences later kinda guy, what I love about him really. Though Stephen says that you are strong enough to kill my father, so afterwards I am going to have to stay in my home dimension to govern it properly. I wont be able to see Stephen again." Clea mourned.
"Why don't we talk about it later, I might be able to do something so you guys can keep in contact."
"Really?"
And then the sky ripped and tore leaving behind a portal showing an odd being very bulky seemingly made of pieces of rock with a fireball for a head.
He sent ahead an army of odd creatures, one of them oddly made of glowing light, 'a light demon, odd those are quite rare.'
He brought out Caledfwlch, swinging it through his ranks of demons cutting them down though he often missed the light demon.
The Army was being decimated before him. A few seconds later Clea and Dr Strange got over their shock and began attacking.
Joe began clearing up the corpses, tucking them into one of his pockets to use later.
But before he could do much, Dormammu attacked he struck hard and fast against the force of nature but Joe was skilled enough to deflect him before returning with an overhead slash.
Dormammu was parrying him effectively, however, Joe with his enhanced strength, speed and reflexes was extremely fast. Unfortunately, the energy being was strong and hard to destroy.
Joe thought back to the last time he fought an energy being, Pessimism if he remembered correctly, and he absorbed it into his scythe.
Deciding to do it, he flicked his scythe out stabbing it into the demon's gut before sucking the energy in, but instead of storing it within the blade he sucked it and Pessimism into himself, returning the scythe into a normal enchanted blade.
He was surprised by the appearance of the light demon behind him and the swing of the blade separated the head from the torso. The essence of the being sucked through the scythe into the wielder.
Joe crumpled to his knees as the energy flowed through him, the mark of flame on his palm becoming outlined with a thick black mark and becoming red in color. On his other hand, a thin white band of light appeared.
Quickly he summoned the remains of all the demons, gathering them into his coat pocket, before looking at the portal.
He thought to his ring, asking his inanimate mentor for advice. 'what is that?'
'that is a temporary mystical unraveling of the barrier between this universe and that, utilising your scythe you should be able to achieve a similar effect compared to how Grim does his portals.'
He then noticed some tingling in his hands, noticing the marks he thought to the ring yet again, 'what are these things?'
'similar to how you absorbed Re'em blood, Werewolf saliva, and Vampire saliva as well as the special properties of Kryptonians, you can absorb the powers of energy beings by absorbing their life force. You currently have the ability to cause extreme bad luck to any person, the general powers of a kryptonian, the abilities of a werewolf, the abilities of a vampire, control over fire, light and darkness and minor control over ice that can be improved over time. However you are unable to be affected by kryptonite, sunlight or silver.'
'Interesting,' he thought. Before quickly conjuring a a small sphere of inky blackness and a sphere of light with his other hand, he sheathed Caledfwlch.
Joe turned to the pair before asking them what they thought of the situation.
Clea was moping crying out in fear of all the paperwork that she would have to do.
Strange was consoling his girlfriend, he knew the pains of paperwork.
Black just thought back to that handy charm that kid had given him, the shadow clone.
It had been a couple years since Naruto had showed up, and he hadn't really had much need for them after the training trip, the only thing he really had done was was round up the tailed beasts and move them to the summoning plane, in their own little areas.
Being able to send a few hundred clones a day to deal with his paperwork was quite helpful.
Finally they all began to calm down and clean up the place, Joe fixing up the buildings causing them to be repaired with simple taps of his scythe.
When he completed his work, he sat down for a while before pulling out his zippo and calling his girlfriend.
"Hi Kara! How are you?"
"II'm doing fine, The Professor and Henchgirl are remodelling the TARDIS to be able to cross dimensions rather easily, he already has time done. Though he is wondering how to move the entire TARDIS from place to place."
"The TARDIS is like a small dimension on it's own, so why not just move the door across time space and dimensions?"
"That is a great idea! I'll tell the professor immediately!"
And with that the call was shut off.
He looked over to Strange and Clea who were yelling at each other while they walked about a Morganna Blessing.
As they approached him he asked why they were so angry.
"Some woman by the name Morganna Blessing is in love with strange here and claims that she was married to him in their past lives, I think that Strange wanted her and would be happier with her but he won't have it. Especially now that I have to leave."
"She wants to leave me because some lady claims to have been with me in my past lives and she won't be able to visit me because she needs to do work!"
"I could anchor a portal from this dimension to to yours but My associates and I would know if this Morganna Blessing was reincarnated and kept her memories, let me check."
As he walked off, the two looked at each other, eyes wide and jaws dropped, "Did we just meet Death!"
After bringing up the paperwork for this world, he looked through but could not find any mention of a Morganna Blessing reincarnated with their memories intact.
"Well, looks like we have a psychopathic stalker here, the papers say nothing of anyone in the last several thousand years being reincarnated with their memories intact."
With all that cleared up and no trace of the battle left behind, Joe and the others started wandering back to the Sanctum Sanctorum.