Ch.18

Odin left and we stayed with Sif and had our own apartments. Thor returned for a time while Loki was pretending to be Odin and left again to find more information on the infinity stones. Jessica and the others continued to go back and forth with portals to earth to help Steve while I sat with Heimdall most days and taught the children things.

He liked the peace and happiness as I did. Over a full year passed in peace on Asgard while Loki played the fool as Odin in disguise. He left me and mine alone until the eighteenth of November the year after we moved to Asgard. What changed was that Thor came back and found "Odin" making a play while praising Loki's heroic sacrifice.

I told Thor that Odin went to earth and like Frigga, his time was nearly up. I suggested they go because I could feel the Allfather slipping away today. Loki lost his composure and Thor asked if I could send them to Odin. I shook my head. "He's cloaked himself from my power. I can only feel his passing time is soon, nothing more. It will be today Thor, so go now and say your goodbyes."

He nodded and dragged Loki away while I told the other Asgardians that Odin had been gone for over a year now and left soon after my arrival because he felt it time. Hours later, I told the Asgardians that Odin was gone and soon the veil over his sight lifted as he ended up bringing Hela to Asgard. When the warriors three were killed along with the armies of Asgard in a brutal slaughter by Hela, I sent Sif and the women alongside the children to Heimdall who was in hiding.

I took a drop of Kratos's blood and imbued it in my body with a spell. With it I was able to connect and draw power from Asgard itself temporarily. I faced Hela and her legion of undead Asgardian soldiers. I drew upon the most powerful familiar abilities I'd had contact with, that of Thor's power of thunder and lightning.

I laid waste to the undead armies and battles Hela blow for blow for five days while drawing in power and laying waste to half the planet. The battle was brutal until she stripped my false ties to Asgard and banished me to the farthest reaches of the universe with the tesseract. I was frozen in space for what felt like eternity, dying over and over again as soon as I revived until I fell one time, burning in the atmosphere of a planet and landing with the force of a meteor made of Uru.

The planet I landed on wasn't populated by much. In fact the only one there was Hydra. When my flesh and body regenerated, I stood there naked until I brought out my ring and more clothes. I put on my suit and told him when he appeared that earth had no use for him before killing him outright.

I tried to make a portal to Asgard and found it destroyed and gone. So I made a portal to Jean and found her on earth with Natasha. They told me Thanos used the infinity stones to stop Jean and kill half of everyone in the universe including our children, all of them. I fell to my knees and lost my cool as I roared in agony.

A massive portal between realities into the screaming void opened up and it nearly destroyed the world. I was going to destroy myself at all costs when Carol Danvers arrived and knocked me out, shutting the portal as my will kept it open before. When I woke up again, Natasha and Jean kept me calm, knowing I wanted to die. Then Thor came in a ship saying the stones could bring everyone back so we hunted down Thanos.

When we found him on a planet called the Garden, we found he'd destroyed the stones. I stopped Thor's axe mid swing with my hand and healed, telling him I had a better plan. I turned to Thanos. "You took my children from me, destroyed all I loved want me to be grateful?"

I grabbed the sides of his head and he screamed unendingly until his purple head and body exploded. I grabbed his soul on the astral plane and pulled him through so that they could watch as I brought out hellfire. It glowed blackish red in my hand before I shoved it into the center of his being. His soul screamed and burned before I shredded it, unmaking him in the very literal sense.

I told them coldly. "It's done. Not even the infinity stones could bring him back anymore. Nothing and no one can undo the complete incineration and shredding of his entire being down to his soul."

I walked away as a portal to earth opened up in front of me. I washed off Thanos's blood and gore before Thor lumbered off to get drunk and live amongst his people. Natasha and Jean tried to comfort me and I could tell they needed me so I stayed for now and hunted down every murderer and rapist on earth, cutting a bloody swath through those that survived the snap.

All I could think was why did they get to live when my family did not? Clint took up my cause and hunted them like me. I knew Natasha and Jean didn't approve, so I stopped coming back to what they called home. I killed and killed until soon five years had passed and we'd wiped out almost every criminal on earth.

In that time ships were built to defend what was left by the Ten Rings led by Trish and Pietro. Fury had been dusted like half of everyone else. When I wasn't on earth killing people, I was on Sakaar taking the trashed ships and building a city ship. It was the only thing that kept me sane and when it was done, I told Thor it was for his people when I brought it to earth.

It was Asgardian technology, but of Ancient design based off schematics from another universe. Said universe had been a show here and one of Jessica's favorite long running shows called Stargate. When Scott Lang, aka Antman, came to Natasha about time travel and simply taking the stones from another timeline. Banner in his Professor Hulk state all the time now because Betty was gone in the snap, said it wasn't possible.

When Tony figured it out, Natasha found Clint and I wiping out the remnants of the Yakuza. I tore the last member in half there in the rain and smelled her on the wind. I was barely human anymore and my rage showed as much. Natasha told me I could stop now because they found a way to bring everyone back.

I told her she should've let me die but she insisted it would work. I growled and Clint asked how before Natasha told us about Tony figuring out time travel and their plan. Clint looked to me and I put my claws away. "I'll do it, it'll work even if I have to kill another Thanos to make it work, but we won't all have to go back, just me."

She shook her head telling me how it had to be so I growled because she knew I'd want to just kill Thanos and take the stones before he could destroy them. She said I'd violate causality and Tony warned against it. We went back with her and suited up before Clint volunteered to go back as a test run. He came back saying it works so we all suited up except Jean saying the Phoenix doesn't like time travel and it won't agree to let her go.

She told Natasha to bring me back even if we fail. Natasha promised and I growled before setting my time to during the convergence since Clint was going with Tony, Steve and Scott to get the Scepter and Tesseract. I reminded them that the scepter, tesseract and time stone would be in New York, but they had to tell the Ancient One in the New York sanctum about Strange's actions to get her to agree.

Banner said he'd take care of it so I handed him a medallion. "If she refuses tell her the oldest immortal of earth wants it back and if I have to I'll come for it and her head. The girl is stubborn as a mule except when it involves me. For whatever reason, I terrify her."

Bruce said he couldn't imagine why with my sunny disposition. I gave him a cold stare and he fidgeted before saying he'd get the stone. Clint said he'd go with him just to be sure and I set the time on my wrist guard before we went back in time through quantum tunneling. Nebula and Rhodes went after the power stone while I opened a portal for Natasha and I to Vormir.

There the red skull said we had to sacrifice one of us and I snorted. "Fuck you and no we really don't. The soul stone is on this planet and since I've mastered the time stone, I can feel it's presence. It may have sentience but it doesn't set the rules, I do."

I opened a portal and made it appear before me. It clearly felt irked, but I didn't give a fuck. I took it and put it in a pouch before telling Natasha we had what we needed. She agreed and we left without a word using the suit.

We appeared with everyone else and Clint told me that whatever I did to the Ancient One, my threat made her freak the fuck out and nearly run with the stone. I grunted and told him she may have witnessed me slaughter an army of arch demons and forty-three of the seventy-two demon lords that rule the hell dimension back when she was still an apprentice, but I couldn't be too sure as I was busy stripping their power away at the time and confronting Satan, the living dimensional consciousness of hell itself.

They all paled and Rhodes said I was one scary mofo. I gave him a cold stare before saying I did what I had to do, nothing more or less. I set the soul stone in the case and the others presented their stones. When I gave Tony the chemical analysis for the glove so it didn't melt or explode, he made a proto-adamantium, carbon and Uru composite that was twelve times tougher than proto-adamantium by itself.

Then the stones were applied and the glove was ready. He asked who was going to put it on and Bruce volunteered, but I shoved him away. "Sorry kid, but you don't heal like I do. We all saw what it did to Thanos and not even you can heal from that. I however can and I'm strong enough to wield them."

He held up his hands in surrender and I put the glove on before power like I hadn't felt since I first picked up the time stone ran through me. I gritted my teeth and it leveled out evenly before Tony reminded me what to focus on, bringing everyone that died in the snap forward in time to our time while leaving the past intact. I focused and snapped, feeling the power ripple out and fail to burn me, just washing through me and scorching the floor into slag around me.

They jumped back and I jumped as well to dodge it. When I landed, I asked them if it worked before Clint got a call from Laura, his wife. A portal opened only for the room to be bombarded from a ship firing down on us. The building collapsed and I got the others outside with a thought before I was crushed under the building itself.

I called Thor's hammer to me that he brought from the past and ended up using it and the reality gem to destroy the building atop me and climb out of the pit of dirt, mud and wreckage. Aliens attacked me and were reduced to deep fried dumbasses with the hammer. Seeing the army and the ship above, I stood up as Natasha said we needed to get the stones back to the past. I grunted. "You need better priorities and I'm missing the mind stone so we can't exactly snap this away."

Tony asked. "Well, where the hell is it?"

I grunted. "Someone took it through the portal that appeared. I can only guess Pietro since it was gone before I could see who it was."

We faced another Thanos as well as a Nebula from the past. He went to cut me and I blasted him into a crevice before taking his weapon and throwing it with immense strength at the ship that began firing on us. The ship's right wing was hit and it began to fall out of the sky even as it fired on us. Chitauri and everything came at us just as portals opened up revealing an army on our side as well and one far larger now that the Ten Rings were a hundred and fifty thousand strong and whole once more.

Wanda said she used the mind stone to repair Vision and we needed to buy time for them to finish disconnecting him from the stone so we can use it to end this. I kissed her and she said the kids were in Ta Lo now. Jessica and Daisy were with her so I turned and punched the first alien to reach us before raising the hammer and making a massive cloud of densely packed lightning.

I told Thor coldly. "Let me show you what Ragnarok really looks like."

I reached out with my gloved hand and made his axe fly into it before crossing them as hell itself screamed. Lightning rained down like rain itself, killing thousands in mere seconds and chaining to more and more, blasting creatures out of the sky and frying everything in its path before a massive beam of plasma split the sky and tore Thanos's ship down as half of it had literally disappeared with the beam that boiled the ocean next to us. The rest of the ship crashed into the water and I tossed the weapons to Thor.