hOLY SHIT YOU GUYS I AM SO SORRY!
Yeah, I've been gone for a while, but the next chapter is almost done! As I've mentioned in any PM's I may have gotten regarding my absence, I am currently doing summer school. I start my first year of high school this September, and I'm kind of freaking out ngl, but the course I'm doing is helping quite a bit.
Anyways, y'all probably don't care, but just thought I'd explain to everybody why there's been no chapter for almost a mONTH NOW OML GUYS IM SO SORRYYY!
I'm halfway done the chapter, and find I'm having to plow through it. Basically, the next chapter is just setting up that time-skip i forgot a few chapters back, so you no longer have to imagine! Woohoo! It'll be acknowledging the struggles each non-dusted character is going through after losing their loved ones, while our gang in the Soul Stone gather up a group to find a way to free themselves. (basically I'm just pulling a Nintendo and adding more characters to the fray so I can confuse myself even more and not understand how to write each character wOOHOO!)
Oh yeah, also might be good to mention I saw Far From Home. It was everything I wanted and more! Gotta love Led Zepplin, amiright?
Right?
Guys?
enough of that. Because I feel bad, I'll give you guys a small exert from the next chapter. For all you new readers who are binging all 11 (technically 12) chapters, please do stick around. The next chapter should be up within the next few weeks if i stop procrastinating enough to just hecking dO IT!
Yeah, anyways, here you guys go. Sorry again!
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"I am not dead," Loki pointed out. "Or—well, I am, but technically we all are."
"What?" Jane asked in a monotone voice, and Loki shook his head.
"I'll explain later," Loki decided, and Jane blinked as if trying to comprehend that. "Do you know if anyone else is here? Dr. Selvig? Your friend who used that electricity-weapon on my brother?"
"Oh, he's your brother now?"
"I didn't say brother— answer the question!"
"No, I haven't seen anyone else in this hell of a forest. If I had, they'd be with me. Does that answer your question?" Jane said, a bite to her voice.
"Well, I suppose that's satisfactory-"
"Tell me about being dead, then!"
Loki frowned, and Stephen stepped up instead.
"Dr. Foster," he greeted formally. "My name is doctor Stephen Strange."
"He's a wizard!" Cooper piped up, and his siblings looked at Stephen with awe written all over their features.
"Sorcerer," Stephen corrected.
"Great. You going to tell me what's going on?" Jane asked impatiently.
"A giant purple raisin with dreams of universal genocide dancing in his head got his hands on the infinity stones, that's what!" Sam huffed, and Peter snorted with laughter at his definition.
"I'm sorry, that's immature of me, but raisin?" Peter wheezed. Loki rolled his eyes at the child, forcing back a fond smirk.
Jane looked utterly confused. "The infinity stones? Like the one we saw on.. Whatever that place was called?" Jane asked, turning to Loki.
"Correct. The aether that you housed in your body was the Reality stone," Loki confirmed.
"There were six stones altogether, each possessing a vital part of our universe; Power, Space, Soul, Mind, Time and Reality. The stones were separated, as they are impossible for any mortal to wield together."
"Even holding one will blast you to bits," Quill added, stepping up with Drax in tow.
"Yes. It is very painful," Drax agreed.
"Course, we could do it because we're the Guardians of the freakin'Gala-"
"And that's enough from you," Loki decided, twisting his palm and making the two guardians walk away without consent. Quill barked a 'hey!' as his feet moved on their own.
"And so a being powerful enough to hold all six emerged, collecting the stones that we tried to protect," Stephen was explaining to Jane as though the interruptions never happened.
"So… where are we?" Jane asked hesitantly.
"Well," Stephen began hesitantly, "it's kind of difficult to explain-"
"Our souls are currently trapped inside one of the infinity stones, Soul, until we can find a way out," Loki cut in, crossing his arms in boredom. He earned a glare from Stephen, which caused him to smirk.
"Well, how are we going to get out?" Jane asked. "If this stone is like a cage, there has to be a way out. Right?"
There was a moment of uncomfortable silence.
"We have yet to discover a means of escape," Loki mumbled.
"Wonderful."
There was quiet except for the children's excited chatter, the Guardians' jokes and Sam bickering with Bucky. Fenrir was sitting next to Loki, almost as though he was afraid to leave his side.
"So.." Jane began. "What's with the wolf?"
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Yeah. Sorry. As always, thanks for sticking around guys! If any of you guys have suggestions for improvements or would like to request a certain something for the next few chapters, the final battle, etc. please do feel free to contact me via PM! If you're on desktop, you'll see a lovely envelope just next to my username that will bring you to my PMs! I answer every single one, so if you have questions or requests or whatever, feel free to send 'em there! Or if you wanna help a poor soul write the characters better, like poor Capsicle and Natasha who I feel like i'm ruining (of course it had to be the dead characters i ruined. so much for honouring the dead,) you can pop your suggestions in the PMs. I'd rather you use a PM so I can reply easier because I don't get notified with reviews! But if you would like to review, feel free, I just might not see it for a while and may not reply entirely.
shoot i'm supposed to be finishing an assignment-
gotta go save my grades byeee