Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 96 of God of Lies and Mischief and the Woman of Many Faces. I want to thank everyone who has left reviews for this story. It does mean a lot to me that you guys are enjoying it. I hope that you guys enjoy this next chapter. We're getting closer to the point that I'll be updating two stories at once on Monday. Since it will be dealing with the Loki series. Hopefully I will be posting those chapters before Season 2 of Loki comes out, but we shall see how the updates go with this story and which will lead us to the second story of this series. Without further ado Chapter 96. ENJOY!
Chapter 96
Rhodey came out of the room that Tony was resting in with Pepper by his side. "Bruce gave him a sedative. He's gonna probably be out for the rest of the day." He said softly knowing that this wasn't easy on anyone that was involved.
"You guys take care of him. And I'll bring him a Xorrian Elixir when I come back." Carol said, walking away holding her head high as she walked.
"Where are you going?" Natasha questioned her brows furrowed knowing that it wasn't a good idea to allow Carol to go out on her own.
"To kill Thanos."
Steve and Natasha shared a look before walking after her.
"Hey, you know, we usually work as a team here, and between you and I, morale's a little fragile." Natasha said looking at the blonde haired woman.
"We realize up there is more of your territory, but this is our fight too." Steve pointed out knowing that they needed to go with.
"You even know where he is?" Rhodey questioned his brow.
"I know people who might." Carol said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Don't bother. I can tell you where Thanos is. Thanos spent a long time trying to perfect me. And when he worked, he talked about his great plan. Even disassembled, I wanted to please him. I'd ask "where would we go once his plan was complete?". His answer was always the same: "To the Garden."" Nebula explained, causing everyone's attention to go to her.
"That's cute, Thanos has a retirement plan." Rhodey said with a scoff.
"Well even villains… when work is done… if they're not killed they tend to make retirement plans." Everleigh said, crossing her arms slightly as she looked at the group.
"So where is he?" Steve questioned hoping that Nebula would easily give them the answer that they needed.
"When Thanos snapped his fingers, Earth became ground zero for a power surge of ridiculously cosmic proportions. No one's ever seen anything like it... Until two days ago." Rocket said as he brought up a hologram of a planet. "On this planet."
"Thanos is there." Nebula said softly confirming everything.
"He used the stones again." Everleigh said softly, shaking her head lightly. She didn't like the idea that the stones were used again.
Bruce blinked a few times coming out of the room. "Hey, hey, hey. We'd be going in short-handed, you know."
"Look, he's still got the stones, so…" Rhodey said, turning his attention to Bruce.
"So let's get him... Use them to bring everyone back." Carol said thinking that it was just that easy.
"Just like that?" Rhodey questioned his brows furrowing together.
"Yeah, just like that." Steve said, sharing a knowing look with Carol.
"Even if there's a small chance that we can undo this... I mean we owe it to everyone who's not in this room to try." Natasha said, thinking knowing that it was the only way to bring everyone back alive and well.
"If we do this, how do we know it's gonna end any differently than it did before?" Bruce questioned crossing his arms.
"Because before, you didn't have me." Carol said, looking over at Bruce.
"Hey, new girl, everyone here is about that superhero life. And if you don't mind my asking, where the hell have you been all this time?" Rhodey demanded as he looked at Carol.
"There are a lot of other planets in the universe. And unfortunately, they didn't have you guys."
Thor stood up and walked over to Carol, causing to look at him. He held his hand up and caught Stormbreaker as it flew to him, missing Carol by only inches.
Carol didn't flinch, only smiling at Thor.
"I like this one." Thor said before smiling.
"Let's go get this son of a bitch." Steve said with a firm nod of his head.
"Lets gear up and go." Everleigh said as she moved towards the room that she had in the compound knowing that it hadn't been touched in a while. She walked up the stairs slowly taking soft breaths keeping herself calm. She couldn't break down when they were so close to bringing everyone home alive, but there would still be some that were going to be gone regardless of using the stones.
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This is the end of Chapter 96. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. I do apologize if this chapter is a bit on the short side. I hate writing short chapters, but it does happen. Hopefully it doesn't happen too much more. But I think that you guys will continue to enjoy this story hopefully. I still have quite a bit of ways to go to make this story good. But I do have a question. Currently I'm clear up to Chapter 134 and that is finishing up WandaVision in retrospect. But the question is, should I go into Falcon and the Winter Soldier just for a few chapters. But the question is where would you want to see Everleigh pop up in it? Please leave a review and let me know what you would like to see.
Also I'm planning a bit ahead and I'll be adding a bit of SpiderMan Far From Home if I do a bit of Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Then we will have SpiderMan No Way Home following that part which will lead up to quite a bit of stuff going on with the Multiverse, and then the final part that I have planned for this story so far is Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. But the question is, when do you guys think I should end it? After Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness or continue on after that? I'm just trying to figure out since Loki is pretty much out of this story for the most part unless you guys would like to see a new love interest for Everleigh. Even though I really do love her with Loki.
Reviews help me keep going when it comes to writing. I will hopefully continue to update on Monday like I have planned. I think once I get to Chapter 100 I'm going to take a small break from writing this story since writing this chapter it's October 7, 2022 and I need to kind of work on other stories that I've had brewing for a while. Some series stories for first books need to be finished so that's what I'm going to try to do after I finish Chapter 100 and try to work on one story, get it fully finished and then come back and write a few chapters and then write another series and write another few chapters. Just kind of give me a small break from writing this story for a little bit. Until next time.
