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Power Stones (67/150) ~Extra Chapter~
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Tony was thrown through multiple windows as plasma blasts struck his suit, the kinetic energy thrusting him away despite doing little actual damage to his person. Metallic Hydrogen was inherently resistant to temperature of any level and he couldn't help but feel thankful for that little fact now that he was versing enemies with plasma weaponry.
He came to a sudden and spine-tingling stop against one of grand-central's many pillars, his suit's missile system firing off several HEAPI warheads that simultaneously pierced the aliens' armour, exploded and shed off a descent payload of phosphorus that instantly ignited and continued to burn. He chuckled as the armour of the aliens ignited as well, something with their chemical make-up interacting with the phosphorus and intensifying the flames.
"And, stay down..." He laughed for a moment as multiple video feeds across the city flitted through his helmet. One image showed the Hulk being surrounded by hundreds of chariots that were raining hellfire down upon the giant monster. The next was Hawkeye entering into limited melee with the Chitauri before jumping off the side of a building and then going out of frame. Natasha was on the ground with Rogers, her plasma rifle blasting some alien heads away as Mr. America threw his shield, that acted much too like a boomerang. Finally there was Thor and Drecarios who were fighting side by side on top of a Leviathan, the god bring a monumental amount of lightning into its brain before Drecarios simply dissolved its atoms wholesale.
"I'll be damned, we're doing it Jarvis." The AI drew up more footage of the police force and the first waves of national guard that were arriving.
"Certainly sir. Additionally, a man matching Loki's description but in different garb is currently at the zenith of your tower. Should I inform SHIELD, sir? "
Tony chuckled once more, his sense of exhaustion intensifying as he slowly began standing again, his back aching a little from the awkward position he had ended up sitting in.
"Nah, it's fine Jarvis... Just give me Rage-monster's location." A feed popped up that showed Thor melting all of the chariots with a single blast of arching lightning, Drecarios standing on one of his own chariots as hundreds of floating guns hovered around him and pelted the portal entrance. From the looks of it, it was working to keep other leviathans away and melt most of the alien forces. "Never mind Jarvis, just show me the nearest life signs other than mine."
"Certainly sir. You will find..."
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Loki stood next to the machine that was generating the dimensional portal, his eyes narrowing down onto the Tesseract. The infinity stone's casing was spinning at speeds that would stretch general relativity, the cerulean glow suffusing every single aspect of the machine.
A mortal lay next to the machine, his head bleeding and his eyes wide open. Loki would have considered him dead if it were not for his moving chest and the small intakes of breath through his nose. Why was this important? Well, there was an energy shield surrounding the portal-machine.
"Hmmm, I wonder if it is weak to my stave like it was in my universe?" He slowly raised his stave and pressed it against the shield, the barrier sparking and thrumming like a petulant child. Space was free and uncontrolled for the most part, it didn't like being told no.
"So you are weak to my stave..." Loki's smile turned cheshire, his incisors gleaming in the sunlight as the edge of his stave dug into the barrier of pure energy. His arms tensed and his muscles coiled as resistance was given but resisted. It was nowhere near as difficult as duelling Hela in the arena or on the battlefield. Memories flashed uncomfortably before he thrust the stave deeper in, his weapon submerging halfway into the barrier. The tip of the blade was now caressing the super-conductive material they had used to stabilize the dimensional rift.
"I wonder how SHIELD will react when they see the recordings of me turning off the portal and thus saving them from further invasion..." He wondered aloud before thrusting the spear in the centre of the beam, the Tesseract sputtering as its velocity slowed and space was corralled into normalcy once again.
His green eyes sparkled in mischief as he watched a leviathan get sawed in half by the closing rift.
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I was tearing a Chitauri soldier apart atomically when it suddenly slumped forwards. Looking around I found that every alien that was still alive had collapsed into a gangly pile of limbs and armour. Taking a deep breath in I watched as the remaining chariots imploded and exploded in the sky, numerous metal fragments raining down as the portal above narrowed into a small pin of dark blue light that blipped out of existence moments later.
"Phew... We can all take a break now..."
A scratching filled my earpiece just as I finished my sentence, followed by Tony's voice. "Watch out kids, we've got incoming! A tactical nuke is about four minutes away and soaring towards my tower." Groaning in utter frustration I looked around for Thor. Unfortunately he wasn't present. A minute or so before he had gone to help Natasha and Clint who were fighting on the ground a couple blocks over.
I could absorb the radiation and energy output, breaking it down into usable subatomic components and reassembling them into matter, maybe oxygen or carbon dioxide. It would take all of my concentration to stabilize the process amid the radioactive decay however... That was a level of focus I hadn't really attempted yet. Splitting an atom inside a massive creature like the Purple Worm from Shiroe's world was one thing, taking an already detonating tactical nuke and converting all of that energy into oxygen molecules or any other form of matter is another. Keeping it simple was probably the best idea at the current stage...
My thoughts percolated intensely as I held my hand up to my ear piece. It would be better if I didn't have to stop a blast. "Tony, can I hitch a ride? I can disassemble the nuke as long as I get close enough! "
"Can't manage it Elsa, power core is low after all that fighting." I cursed in frustration.
"Thor wouldn't happen to have a comm link would he? " I queried hopefully.
"No, point-break doesn't have an earpiece. He got here later than us remember...? " Another curse followed Tony's response. At this point I would have to make a chariot or a Quin-Jet and hope to get close enough to get rid of the nuke.
"Nat, Cap? Any sight on Thor? Maybe he could carry me towards it...? " Desperation leaked into my voice more than I would have liked it to.
"I saw Thor get slapped away by a Leviathan. He may be recovering." Gritting my teeth I understood that I'd have to do this myself. If I didn't then there was no one else with the power to do so. Looking up at the sky I spread my senses out and collected all of the alien detritus into a mass of carbon that I soon shaped into a fully functioning chariot; a design I had recorded towards the beginning of the combat.
A minute later the chariot sat before me. I quickly jumped onto the back and used my Technopathy and Xenoglossy to turn the 'engine' on and lift the chariot into the sky. I took off at speeds that would put most supercars to shame, my hair whipping back as the G-forces and wind blasted into my body and face. My balance was strained and my muscles were just as stretched as I soared past multiple skyscrapers. Intact and broken glass edifices glimmered in the afternoon soon, the deep oranges and purples painting the skyline in soothing tones.
Clouds tickled the edges of the chariot as I zoomed past, heading towards Stark Tower. The journey wasn't too long but it bled a minute or two... We now only had 1 or 2 minutes until the nuke impacted and would destroy several square kilometres and kill an untold number of people.
"Elsa, it's about a minute out... it's coming from the direction of the Shield Carrier." My arms yanked on the alien steering device, the entire chariot pivoting in the sky directly above Stark Tower. My head was on a swivel, looking out for any signs of the nuke on the horizon.
In the distance I watched the tactical nuke blast past multiple skyscraper, its fins dragging a large pressure wave of air behind it as the head of the missile blinked green. Licking my lips in nervousness I raised both of my hands and pushed my consciousness into the the atmosphere around me, rapidly jumping from atom to atom in less than a nano-second each time. Five seconds had passed and I was a quarter of the way to the tactical nuke.
The side panels on the tactical nuke began splitting as the activation sequence began. I had reached half way in less than a fourth of a second, my mind sprinting across hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide atoms with as much alacrity as I could summon.
Sequence initiated, the missile dumped all of its remaining fuel into propulsion, the arc of the weapon of mass destruction lowering slightly so that it struck just one hundred metres above the sight that the portal machine was standing. I was on the cusp of touching it when the first minute click of conventional explosives detonating began. Two nano-seconds later pressure and fire bore down onto the solid plutonium core... Just as I made mental contact with the entire missile and began extracting as much energy from it as I could manage.
The fission process started just as I completely turned the propulsion system, the explosives and the other aspects of the nuke into inert clumps of carbon inside the the frame. The fissile material ionized and started bleeding radiation, heat, kinetic energy, gamma rays and neutrons. I felt a pain inside my brain as I grasped onto that clump of expanding energy and shunted it towards generating new matter...
My choice of matter was purely subconscious as my mind strained against the effort to convert the massive nuclear blast. Fortunately for me the choice was simplistic and rather easy to generate with energy... Oxygen.
The entire missile cracked and broke apart as Oxygen expanded out with such energy that it caused a shockwave. As I noted the result of my instinctual choice I felt the core of the nuke dissolve further, shedding their bonds and slowly turning into base protons and neutrons. I was restructuring each single subatomic particle to create a new chain of Oxygen molecules. Where one would expect an intense light, a barrage of harmful radiation types and a malaise of explosive incineration, there was instead the constant shockwaves of oxygen exploding out into the atmosphere.
Ten seconds passed in this state before the shockwaves slowed and the missile itself was subsumed into atmospheric gasses. My powers had stopped the nuke and saved millions of people.
"Pah..." I dropped onto my knees on the back of the chariot, my forehead filled with sweat as my head stung. I could no longer get headaches but that particular immunity didn't help with damaging the brain or anything related to it. I coughed out whilst trying to suck in as much oxygen as I could, my lungs burning and my eyes stinging with the day's activities.
"Whooo! Great guys! Let's take a few days off after this, yeah? Maybe we can get some Shawarma? I heard about a new joint about a block from the tower, haven't tried it but it sounded good." Tony rambled from the top of his roof, looking up at me as I slowly recovered from my exhausted state.
"We did it..." Rogers sounded tired but content, as if he were satisfied with the work we had done but was glad it was over.
"Good job boys, now we just have to deal with the big guy." Natasha's tone was jovial if a bit exhausted, her usual teasing nature more subdued with the day's events.
"Didn't know we needed to worry about the Hulk." Tony chuckled over the comms at my witty comeback.
"Loki... She means Loki." Rogers kindly interrupted the moment and dragged us all back to reality. It was so unkind that I almost wanted to roll up in a ball and just have a nap instead... Unfortunately, I was an Avenger now and couldn't afford to slack off too much.
"So, Shawarma later? " I loudly laughed at Tony's innocent question whilst the other two began arguing with the playboy like a bunch of teenagers. They would never act their age it would seem... Maybe it was something that Tony infected people with upon contact? A thought for later...
Loki Odinson- I've done my part and the invasion is over mortals... I hope you enjoy the caricatures left upon my counterpart's head and remember to grab the Tesseract from the bar fridge in Tony's penthouse
Drecarios Frost- Thanks Loki, really saved the day there
Tony Stark- Why the bar fridge??? That thing is expensive!
Loki Odinson- There are no issues with attaining aid in warfare Drecarios, as for saving the day, I think that goes to you... Seeing as how you dealt with the weapon of mass destruction 👍
Jester Lavorre- WhAtS a WEAPON of MASS DEstRuctIon...????????? 😧😧😧
Shiroe of Log Horizon- They launched NUKES!?!?!?!?
Luke Skywalker- 'Nukes'?
M. Sam Carter- Fission Weapon. Uses conventional explosives around a core of fissile material that begins a process known as radiation decay and leads to the splitting of atoms... Generating high-levels of radiation and energy, such as: Neutrons, Gamma Rays, X-Rays, Heat and Kinetic
Luke Skywalker- Ah, planet irradiators... I understand... Good job Drecarios! 👍👍
Aegon Targaryen- I do not understand what is occurring, however, I must applaud you for winning a war in such a short period of time. Well done. 👍
Gandalf- This space is more noisy than a gaggle of Dwarves
Tony Stark- Zip it wizard, we just fought aliens!
Gandalf- And zero courtesy... I shall return once I reach Gondor
Tony Stark- Yeah, see you whenever old man 😑
M. Sam Carter- How did Drecarios save you all from a nuclear weapon?
Drecarios Frost- Turned each and every atom inside out and reassembled it as oxygen... Unfortunately the fissile material had been exposed to an intense explosion from the inside layer of explosives, thus I had to bleed all of the radiation and energy into creating oxygen... Tired me tf out though...
M. Sam Carter- Holy shit!
Tony Stark- YEP! Now we get to have Shawarma after collecting our version of Loki! 🎊🎊
Jester Lavorre- THAT'S SO COOL!!!
M. Sam Carter- You were able to follow along!?
Tony Stark- ?????????
Luke Skywalker- ????????
Loki Odinson- ????????????
Jester Lavorre- WeLl.... Yah! I told my SUPER cool friend Caleb!!! And he Explained what he could understand 🤗🤗🤗
Drecarios Frost- He sounds intelligent, good for you!
Jester Lavorre- hehehehehehe thanks! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🤤🤤
Drecarios Frost- So, Tony, who's getting Loki?
Tony Stark- Already on it... Hulk is here as well, seems to have beaten him to a pulp and left him in a crater...
Tony Stark- WAIT, Loki, did you use an anvil on him???
Loki Odinson- HeHeHehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe...
Drecarios Frost- That's some loony-toons shit right there
M. Sam Carter- Haha, this chat is so fun... Makes SGC seem boring
Drecarios Frost- It is fun, i'll agree with that
Tony Stark- So we're just going to skip over the fact that Loki just anvilled his counterpart!?
Luke Skywalker- That is not a word
Tony Stark- It is now!
Luke Skywalker- That's not how words work...
Tony Stark- All words are made up! If past human can do it, so can I!!!
Jester Lavorre- OOOOo! oooo! Here's my new word! : Poopidity!
Drecarios Frost- I dread to ask... What does it mean...?
Jester Lavorre- Your a poopy idiot
Tony Stark- I can get behind that 😂
Luke Skywalker- 🤨🙄🤬
Drecarios Frost- Did Luke just use Emojis to cuss you both out?
Loki Odinson- He did...
Aegon Targaryen- I don't understand any of this...
Tony Stark- You know nothing John Snow...
Drecarios Frost- You smooth fucker! 😡
Tony Stark- Heh, sucks to suck Elsa
Drecarios Frost- Get over here so I can smack some brain cells out of you
Tony Stark- NOPE!
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