Chapter 23 – Visiting Asgard

Tony was in his Jet and was watching the infinite space around him as he travelled through it.

The silver compass which was given to him by Hela was placed between the controls while Jarvis was piloting the Jet with its instructions.

“Open the Hatchet” said Stark suddenly

[Scanning the surroundings] [Everything’s clear] [Opening the Hatchet]

In a second, all the air in the hatchet was snuffed out after opening the door and Tony started drifting out of it slowly into the infinite space with his eyes closed.

“Blissful” muttered Tony in the soundless space as he opened his eyes and was capturing this truly breathtaking moment. He was in space, without any protection and was excited beyond belief!

‘I think this is the most happy I’ve ever been’ thought Tony as he realized the grin on his face which was stretching from his ear to ear.

He tried to contact with the cosmic energy around him which truly fascinated him. He then willed it and his black clothes turned into his Endo-Sym Armor after which he started to test all the properties of his suit. Needless to say it was working fine even in the space.

Tony played around in space for quite a while just like a kid left in the playground. After doing everything he possibly could, he adjusted his composure and went back inside the hatchet which then sealed and opened a way into the Jet.

“Resume the Journey”

[Affirmative, Sir]

The Jet again picked up the speed and started to follow the directions presented by the mystical compass.

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Fenrir was guarding the Bifrost bridge so that Heimdall can’t sneak the Asgardians away with it’s help when suddenly his senses detected something and he bared his fangs.

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[Approaching Destination] [Warning! Detected A Protective Shield around Asgard] [Protective Shield reacting to compass…] [Protective Shield is opening to grant access] [Entering Asgard] [Warning! The Jet is under heavy Magical Disturbance] [Detected a Hostile] [Going Offensive, Using lethal force to neutralize the Hostile]

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Fenrir detected the Stark’s Jet and glared at it with absolute menace. He was tasked to kill anyone coming or going to Asgard and as he was about to attack, Tony’s Jet started to light up at extreme speed.

“NO!” Shouted Tony just in time to stop Jarvis from using the Vibranium Repulsars on the beast

“Use Non-Lethal force. Don’t injure the beast or I will have to pay a hefty price to get out of this mess. Just use the bio viruses and make the thing asleep.”

The lights all over his Jet dimmed at his command and a cloud of gas erupted from it. Fenrir suddenly jumped in it’s direction but was intercepted by a Vibranium Net which had a needle made out of Vibranium.

Tony willed it and made the needle go inside the beast though it’s orifices and as it reached the brain, he induced sleep in it by releasing some hormones through the needle and the gas which was releasing from his Jet.

Hela was watching this with great interest as she was sitting on her throne. She was surprised to see Tony deal with her beast without even stepping out of his Jet and more so by his presence of mind that he realized that she wouldn’t have forgiven him for hurting her loyal pet and used another method to deal with it.

She although still had a playful smile as she tilted her head and saw some low level guards rush towards Tony.

She wanted to see what Tony can actually do and if he can’t survive this, she will revive him as her slave as Tony was pretty interesting to her.

‘Interesting’, that was the only thing she could tag Tony with as she thought of talking to him.

His mindset was hugely different from anyone she’d ever met and she wanted to chat with him about different things and wanted to know what he thinks about a certain things in Asgard.

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[Multiple hostiles detected]

“Ok, So she wants to play?”

Tony smiled at the people coming towards his Jet when suddenly the roof of the Jet opened and he flew out of it. He landed on the Bifrost just beside the Sleeping Fenrir with style and all the people rushing towards Tony slowed down as they saw this man in black earthen clothes smiling at them.

Was he not scared of them? They suddenly realized that Tony’s smile was supposedly mocking them, and in anger, they started rushing towards Tony again.

They were twelve people in total and as they were rushing at him, the plane beside Tony suddenly disappeared.

All the 12 guards were again startled by this and before they had the time to do anything else, Tony used his hands and casted a Mystic spell and suddenly the entire world around them started to flip upside down! They tried to latch onto the Bifrost bridge as they didn’t wanted to fall off and were scared out of their wits.

“Isn’t this fun?” Said Tony as he looked at them and the next second they all fell.

Almost immediately though, The world returned to normal and they all fell on the Bifrost, and lost consciousness.

Tony then started walking towards Asgard on the Bifrost but he didn’t immediately went to the eye catching castle, but started walking around Asgard while releasing some flies made out of Vibranium from his shoes.

After walking around the magnificent city of gods, Tony finally started walking towards the Castle and nobody in the way dared to stop him as it was Hela’s order.

Under the watchful eyes of many Asgardian Gods and Ancient Dead, Tony made his way into the Mighty Castle and soon saw the throne on which Hela was sitting in her usual clothes and headdress with grandeur.

Tony came in and just casually looked at her while saying

“Hi! Nice to see you again”

“Welcome to Asgard, Stark” replied Hela with amusement.

“What was that. Sorcerer? The thing you did with those puny guards?” Asked one of the Gods after he greeted Hela

This question immediately attracted everyone’s attention as they all saw Tony suddenly flip Asgard and then break it, bringing everything back to normal. At first they thought that it might be some sort of illusion but the longer they thought about it, the more it seemed real, which was definitely outrageous.

Tony didn’t immediately replied to them and instead looked at Hela and sent her a telepathic message

“*Do I have to reveal my powers? I mean I’d rather tell it to you in private.*”

Hela smirked at Tony’s wish as she thought that this might be his trump card and he didn’t wanted to reveal it to others.

“Let me give you a tour of my home” said Hela in a dominating voice which sent shivers down everyone’s spine.

All the other people were now even more curious about this sorcerer who was given a personal tour by their Goddess of Death.

Tony followed behind Hela as she exited the castle and then disappeared

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Tony and Hela were both walking back to castle after she really gave him a tour of Asgard and were walking through Asgards garden when she suddenly spoke

“You can speak now, Sorcerer. Even I am curious about that ability of yours.”

“Mirror dimension” replied Tony to her question very subtly.

“What? What is that?” asked Hela with even more curiosity.

“It’s a different dimension. Just like Astral plane. There are other dimensions too, such as Dark dimensions but even the mention of it’s name is kind of a taboo. We don’t dwell in the Dark arts”

“That’s quite interesting…So you control these dimensions?”

“Yeah, well we can’t fight in the physical world with our full power or millions could easily die, so we use these different dimensions to fight instead. Mirror dimension mirrors the physical world you are in which you can control and manipulate to fight and only people who know mystic powers or have some other special powers can enter it.”

Tony then went on to explain Hela about the Mirror dimension and even demonstrated it to her, just like the Ancient One did to Stephen Strange when he first came to her.

“By the way, you have some great way of welcoming guests.”

Hela chuckled at Tony’s remark and told him about her most loyal pet, Fenrir.

At first she was just amused by Tony but now after witnessing his sorcery, she came to acknowledge him a little too.

‘At least he is more capable and clear headed than my brothers’, she thought.

“So, Have you decided on a way to lure Heimdall?” asked Tony as they were about to reach the castle.

“For a Genius Sorcerer, you could be quite a moron sometimes” replied Hela with mocking smile.

“Heimdall is an All-Seeing and All-Hearing Vanir. He is even listening to us right now plotting about him.” she continued.

Tony started laughing at her remark about Heimdall which made Hela frown. After visibly controlling his laughter, Tony said with a giggle

“Heimdall? Well He can’t see me. It’s one of the reasons I am still alive you know.”

Hela was in disbelief at Tony’s answer but after giving it some thought, she asked

“Do you have a spell which makes this happens?”

“No…Even if there is any spell like this, I don’t know of it. But the reason why Heimdall cannot sense me is because some years back, when Convergence happened, many portals started opening all over the nine realms which even blocked Heimdall’s vision, causing Thor’s girlfriend Jane Foster to get sucked into one.

Malekith then got revived as Aether, The reality stone got inside of Jane and attacked Asgard as Thor brought her here for her safety.

Heimdall couldn’t see any of it, resulting in the attack on Asgard. It was then concluded that Aether, The Reality Stone was the reason for his All-Seeing eye’s reality to get affected as The Infinity Stone is infinitely more powerful than Heimdall.

Now, You must be thinking where do I fit in all of this, right? Well to put it simply, when the Aether was extracted from Jane, I was nearby as I went there to confront whoever wrecked London and it touched me which caused my surroundings, and even my armor suit to change in something weird.

I found all of it later that Aether had actually changed the reality around me and then Thor informed me about all of this.”

Tony’s b******* explanation was pretty convincing because these events did happened and they were all recorded in Asgard which she read upon her release.

“So that Aether, which is now with the Collector, made it so that Heimdall’s all seeing eye cannot see you?”

“Exactly!”

“Hmm….I think I might pay a visit to Collector in future.” Smiled Hela with a glint in her eyes.

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