Landing on the ground with a grunt, I looked at the unconscious form of Emil Blonsky to make sure he did not wake up even though I did give an extra not-too-harsh whack on the head to make sure he stayed asleep.
Was it a bit harsh? Kind of, but the dude was a loose cannon right now so making sure he was knocked out seemed to be the right idea.
"Halt!" I blinked as I heard a voice shouting at me, raising an eyebrow at the large group of soldiers standing in front of me with their guns aimed at us while General Ross stood in front of them.
"That man is carrying in his blood the property of the government of the United States of America. Therefore, he belongs in our care. Now, place him down."
"…By right of conquest, I defeated him so he belongs to me. Now, we're stuck at an impasse. Either you guys let me go with him or you try and take him from me. Which would you all like to do?" I asked as I looked at his men, ignoring General Ross glaring at me as the men looked a bit unsure to fire at me.
"To you men, I assume that none of you wish to give your lives for this cause, correct? If so, place your weapons down and let me pass."
"Men, keep your rifles up!" Ross demanded, but I simply smiled as I saw some of them taking their fingers off of their triggers, nodding at them before humming as I turned and made my way towards my penthouse.
"Also, General, if you wish to speak with this guy after he wakes up, just send up a flare near here and I'll bring him, okay?" I said with a grin as I spun Mjolnir, to which the General didn't answer as he just glared at me right before I heaved and lifted myself up into the air.
However, I made sure to go high up and into the dark stormy clouds that I spread out across the entirety of Manhattan before stealthily making my way back to my new home.
They were going to find me, but for now, I'd like to have my home be as quiet as possible.
"Uh, Thor?"
"Yeah?" I asked as I flipped a pancake, catching it with ease and moving the pan about while the sound of eating could be heard behind me.
"Who is the guy wearing a gown behind you?" Darcy asked as she stopped besides me, dressed in a pair of pajama pants and a low-cut top and I turned to look with her at Emil, who simply looked up and waved before I let him go back to his meal as I looked at Darcy's raised eyebrow.
"Remember the monsters of last night? That's Emil Blonsky, one of the two that fought. The other is called Bruce Banner also known as the Hulk, but he left peacefully while this one tried to fight me."
"Ah, that would make sense since it looks as if you're having trouble eating. Got a hammer to the chest?" She asked with a smirk, to which Emil rolled his eyes as he finished off his eggs.
"The other guy got most of the pain. Does she know everything?"
"Considering she's been to my planet, I guess you can figure it all out for yourself." I said with a shrug as I handed a plate over to Darcy who took it with a smile and a kiss before sitting down opposite of Emil as he looked at me.
"What the hell are you?"
"Thor Odinson, Asgardian and god of Thunder. Pleased to meet you." I said with a grin as I held my hand out, chuckling as he looked at the hand before snorting as he shook my hand with a smirk.
"Emil Blonsky, super soldier that can also transform into a monster of gamma-radiation."
"Wait, super soldier? Like Captain America?" Darcy asked and hummed as Emil shrugged, to which I finished my plate before sitting down next to Darcy with a grunt.
"Not exactly. It's an experimental procedure that lets the government implement parts of Captain America's DNA into soldiers willing to undergo the process."
"And the gamma part?" I asked, already knowing the answer while Darcy hummed as he sighed and shook his head.
"More of an idiotic thing on my part. I've always had this envy towards Hulk so when he wanted to take away his powers, I decided to take them for myself. Unfortunately, the Super Soldier enhances any emotional state one has tremendously and combine that with my former hatred for the Hulk along with my anger at being inferior to him, you can guess what state of mind I was in last night."
"Yeah, it's a good thing I stopped you two or else the city might have even suffered more damage", I said as I finished off my eggs and he nodded with a sigh before I blinked as I felt a poke against my side.
"I know you. How much damage did you two do?" She asked and I gave a thoughtful frown at the question before shrugging.
"I do not know. We made a hole in the river and maybe destroyed a couple dozen windows with the shock waves from our attacks, but don't worry. I told myself to go over and personally help with all the damages."
"Hah, fine, but I'm coming with." She said as she stood up and both Emil and I looked at each other and back at her.
"Why would you wanna come with?"
"To get some cool photos of you being shirtless, of course." I just watched her leave before shaking my head with a chuckle as Emil decided to steal her unfinished plate and scarfed it down.
"…Of course."
"Where do you need this?"
"U-Uh, right over there." The foreman answered and I nodded with a smile as I carried the stack of bent steel beams towards the disposal group that needed them, Emil walking past me while pulling along the wreckage of two cars that Hulk had smacked into him.
All around us, dozens of people in construction uniforms were doing their best to move the rubble out of the way, but some of them did give Emil and I shocked looks as I walked past them.
Placing the bent beams down on the back of the truck with a grunt, I groaned as I stretched my shoulders while looking at the area around us.
Most of the rubble had been cleared, but one could see the devastation Emil had left when he awoke as Abomination as bricks and concrete laid everywhere while every car on his path of destruction were torn to pieces.
Not sure why he hated every car enough to destroy them, but I guess that berserker rage really does make everything a target in one's eyes, huh?
"How many left?" I asked the foreman as I walked up to him, to which the man blinked before clearing his throat as he looked at the clipboard in his grasp.
"A-Ahem! Other than this, the Repair team has gone over to the river, but that might take a couple of weeks to place up walls, let the water drain and then fill up the holes there."
"What if someone had the ability to clear the water out? Will that speed up the process?" I asked and the foreman blinked before frowning slightly as he gave a slow nod.
"That might, but we don't know someone like that."
"I can. Emil!" I called out, drawing the man's attention from where he was lifting a large concrete stack up and looked at me with a confused frown.
"I'm going over to the river. You finish up here."
"I'm coming with!" Darcy called out as she walked forward and I rolled my eyes at the smug grin she had on her face while looking at the other women gathered around the site.
"Must you do this?"
"Of course! They need to know who you belong to." She said with a smirk as she wrapped her arms around my neck before pulling me in for a kiss and I couldn't help my smirk as she let out an exaggerated moan.
"Mwah! Ooh~ That was nice. Now, let's go and fill a river!" I simply sighed as I called Mjolnir up from where a few kids were trying to pick it up, all of them jumping as the hammer shot up abruptly and flew to my grasp.
"I'll be seeing you, foreman!"
"Y-You too, Mr. Thunder god!" He nodded with a smile and I nodded back before swinging Mjolnir in the direction of the river, Darcy's squeals drawing a chuckle from me as we shot up and towards the river to the east.
Time to see if a tornado can funnel out the water from a river section.
"Hah, that was quite exhausting." Darcy said with a yawn as we walked into the penthouse, Emil just shaking his head and falling face first onto the couch with a groan while I rolled my eyes.
"Really? You just stood around and took photos if I remember correctly."
"And kept the harlots from touching you like they wanted. That was a very hard job, I'll have you know", She said with a huff as she spun away from me, a chuckle escaping my lips as I walked towards her and wrapped my arms around her waist.
"Of course, it was. How about I reward you with a night out at a restaurant? You pick?"
"Ooh~ There's this really awesome shawarma place near here!"
"Shawarma?" I asked and she nodded as she looked at me, to which I shrugged before planting a kiss on her cheek.
"Okay, shawarma it is. Want us to bring some along for you?" I asked while looking at Emil, who simply gave a thumbs-up before I let out a soft sigh at a familiar voice speaking up.
"I'll take a beef if they have one." A bald dark-skinned man spoke up with a stoic look as he walked into the room, his left eye covered by a black eyepatch and his facial hair styled in a goatee.
Dressed in all black along with a black coat thrown over it, I watched with a frown as Nick raised an eyebrow at me, a glint of something flashing in his gaze as he walked over to the sofas.
"Who the hell are you?" Darcy asked with a raised eyebrow and Emil looked up from where he was lying only to be surprised as Nick Fury sat down next to him, sitting upright on his seat as the leader of SHIELD and I looked at each other.
"Thor Odinson."
"Nick Fury. It's a pleasure to meet the best spy Midgard has on their hands."
"Wait, this guy is a spy?" Darcy asked as she looked at me and I nodded as I unwrapped my arms from her waist to cross them while looking at him with a raised eyebrow.
"He is one of Midgard's best, but I do not understand what problem he may have that may need my presence."
'I mean other than the problems that are going to show up next year.'
"Before that, let's make this conversation private between us three." He said and I caught his gaze flickering towards Darcy before smirking as the woman in question responded by interlocking our arms with a huff.
"Do not worry of Darcy. She has been to my home planet so I trust her with this information."
"I don't."
"Then, you are more than welcome to leave." I responded with a raised eyebrow, watching as the man simply narrowed his gaze before humming as he nodded.
"Very well. A couple of hours ago, the Hulk was spotted swimming across the Atlantic Ocean and heading towards Europe."
"Ah, my friend escaped? Wonderful! Thank you for bringing this news to me, Mr. Fury!" I spoke with a happy smile, enjoying Fury's narrowed eyes as well as Darcy trying to hide her smirk as Emil simply palmed his face.
"Not wonderful news. The Hulk is a trigger-happy being that will eradicate an entire village if they piss him off even once and unlike America, the other continents are not used to having a raging beast loose in their cities."
"Oh, no need to fear that. Emil here was the same until he went back to being human and then he was but a normal man. I'm fairly certain that my friend Hulk will be the same."
"Speaking of Mr. Blonsky here, that brings me to the second reason I'm here. Those above me have ordered me that you return him back to General Ross so that his training can continue as both a Super Soldier and a Hulk variant."
"Hell no." Emil was the one responded with a glare and I shrugged as Nick looked at me with a raised eyebrow.
"The man has spoken. Now, if that is all…"
"It's not."
"Of course, it isn't." I muttered with a shake of my head and I glared at Nick as I could see the enjoyment dancing in his eyes as he stood up and walked over to me.
"I want to know how you found about a classified project that only a scarce few people knew of."
"That depends. Are you going to tell me where you're keeping the Tesseract?"
"What is this Tesseract thing?" Emil chimed in and Darcy shrugged as Nick just raised an eyebrow at me.
"No idea. He keeps talking about it to them, but won't tell me what it is."
"The Tesseract is an artifact of nigh-infinite energy that my father had placed in the safe-keeping of Midgard's greatest to protect it from those that wish to use it for evil. It looks like a crystalline cube that's constantly glowing. It is a very powerful source of energy that could be made into a very powerful weapon. Is that not right, Fury?"
"Coulson told me that you had this idiotic idea of us holding the Tesseract so let me set the record straight. We do not have it at all." He answered and I simply nodded as the man had straight up lied to my face without even the slightest hint of showing it.
I guess that's to be expected of the best spy.
"Very well. Then, let me answer the first question you asked me. I have no clue what this Avengers Initiative is." I answered with a shrug and Nick Fury simply hummed as he nodded before walking over to the door.
"Before I go, I see that you have taken a liking to Ms. Lewis, Odinson."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Just that accidents can happen to people at any point." He answered as he looked back at me while opening the door only to be surprised as I appeared in front of him with a lunge and my eyes sparking with electricity.
"Then let me say this, Nick Fury. Know that if anything should happen to Darcy Lewis, not even Phase 2 will guard you from my wrath." I enjoyed the flash of surprise that appeared in his eyes as I mentioned something that I most definitely should not know, the leader of SHIELD simply nodding as he walked out and closed the door behind him.
"…That was hot." Darcy muttered under her breath as I turned back and I smirked before bursting into laughter as Emil stood up and walked towards the bedrooms on the first floor.
"And that was enough stress for me. I'll see you all tomorrow."
"Deep breaths, Emil, and we'll bring you a shawarma back." I spoke and the man simply gave a nod as he walked into his room, to which I turned to Darcy with a raised eyebrow as she had already taken off her jacket and shirt.
"What? I have to get changed quickly 'cause I don't know how long the shop is open." She answered as she quickly rushed up the stairs while taking off her pants and I watched the curvaceous woman leave before shaking my head as I picked up her clothes.
'I swear, it's like a switch goes off in my head. I really need to get that under control.'
'I may have overreacted earlier today with Nick.' The thought flashed through my mind as I stood against the railing of the penthouse balcony, looking out at the busy street below while thinking about the meeting.
I could have handled it a lot better, but then again, things could have ended with me beating the shit out of him for threatening my new friend and girlfriend so I still counted it as a win.
However, now that I've antagonized him, I'm fairly certain he's probably going to move the Tesseract somewhere else along with scanning every single person that works for SHIELD, which I hope he does as I need him to discover the fact that Hydra is in SHIELD way sooner than expected.
"Why is being a hero such a chore?"
"Because if it was easy, there would be no true meaning to it." I froze at the familiar voice while slowly turning around, shocked to see my brother dressed in a dark green cloak with a similar-coloured helmet that had two large curved horns sticking out from the forehead.
"L-Loki?" I whispered and to my shock, he smiled as he nodded and walked closer to place a hand on my shoulder.
"That is I, yes."
"W-What? W-Where…why…how…?" I couldn't even form the questions as I was bewildered at the fact that he was here and not with Thanos, watching as he chuckled while lowering his arm.
"Allow me to reintroduce myself. I am Loki, but not your Loki just like how you are Thor yet not my Thor." Loki spoke with a smile and I watched as he took a few steps back before bowing with a flourish.
The next moment, I watched as a powerful aura shot out from Loki before all I heard was silence, looking back down at the streets only to stare in shock at the fact that everything was frozen in place.
"I am Loki, former member of the TVA and Custodian of the Sacred Timeline. It's a pleasure to meet you, Thor."
'…Oh, you have got to be fucking kidding me!'
A/N: And on a cliffhanger~! Nothing but a quick and short chapter to start off the next arc.
Anyway, why is Loki here? How is he here and what does the god want?
Well, hehe~ We'll have to find out next time, won't we?
Also, I know Emil is a lot calmer, but that's because I want to treat his transformation like Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde if that makes sense. One side is calm and tactical while the other is a berserker hell-bent on destruction.
Just wanted to clarify that.
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