Family, Favor, and Enlightenment 2/2

Spectre POV:

Opening my glowing red eyes once more, they start to die down, until they return to normal...

Which is a stable glowing red color.

Looking over at my sister, Lady Death, my eyes are filled with, and I hope also demonstrate, the gratitude I feel for her correction.

I may not have always had company, but I always appreciated it when someone corrected me individually because it showed they cared about me enough to want to see me get better.

"Thank you for that push in the right direction sister dearest" I slightly smirk at her.

She smirks right back and adds. "No problem baby brother, we ARE family after all."

Turning my smirk into a smile I say to her. "Now I most definitely owe you another favor. That is two favors in less than five work days. Do you have to be such a good sister?" I end with a wry smile and my hands placed in my pockets as I fix my posture.

Smiling at me Lady Death says. "Hmm..., how about this then. I will count the first favor as done with the sacrifice Frigga performed, as it is all in some way connected to you anyway, but for your second favor, I would like to cash it in whenever you feel you can."

"Is the favor that simple?"

"For you? Yes. For others, it is almost thoroughly impossible. It was only a few minutes ago that I mentioned my extreme dislike for the undead, I hope your changes do allow you to recall at least that much.

"That much I can recall indeed, and this has to do with the favor because..." As I draw out the last syllable. A memory of a certain pair of universes comes to my mind, and my eyes widen in surprise.

Noticing I finally caught her drift, Lady Death nodded in affirmation and stated. "That is correct, it is the Earth-Z and 2149 universes, stuck in that damnable time loop that not only prevents me from keeping their spirits here but also corrupts the purity of Death myself with that loathsome virus."

Nodding in understanding and agreement I ask. "Alright, what did you have in mind for it?" 'Seriously, there are so many ways I can deal with that virus it is not even funny. I will be needing a direction to take, though with her defining herself to me, I am fairly sure I know what she will ask.' I think to myself and seriously pay attention to her.

"Well, I was thinking of having you use your matter embodiment to fix all the residents affected by that virus in both universes, considering you possess the APM ability, curing them after piecing them back together will be child's play.

After fixing the issue, we can petition The Living Tribunal to allow you to use your powers across the Multiverse to cleanse the virus from within and stop any other instance of this occurrence from repeating itself anywhere across the Multiverse.

We will need some excuse, as his job is solely to look after the balance of the multiverse, he will have no need to interfere or allow your interference across the multiverse to erase the virus..., but would rather allow you to change the virus into a benign one."

"?... The fixing and curing part I understood, but why change the Virus into a benign one across the Multiverse, when I could just erase it?"

To my question her response was. "For balance. Although you have successfully averted two multiversal unbalancing tragedies, this virus is different. It only has an extremely rare and near-impossible chance of causing any real imbalance in the multiverse.

The only ones directly affected are the victims, Eternity, and myself. But even then, it is usually localized or easily quarantined. Thus, as you learned from eradicating the Skrulls, if you just erase the virus, it will be replaced by something worse.

However, change the nature of the entirety of the virus itself, and bio-lock it into being unable to be changed or evolved further, and it will be both neutralized and not replaced as there is nothing to replace, because it still exists. That way the Multiverse will be balanced, the victims will probably either still die, but stay dead, or not be affected at all depending on the modifications you make, and both Eternity and I will be happy.

So, we could do that or maybe let your Champions deal with it as a form of training in the future. Other than that, you could follow them on their training and help protect them from the shadows, the choice is yours." She voiced.

"Hmm, those are pretty good options. Would you be okay with waiting until I obtain my third Champion? That way I could make a more informed decision. After all, my first and currently only champion is Aldrif, and she is not to go anywhere near those universes until at least 500 years pass.

Furthermore, as of right now I only have four Champions planned and none of them would be able to complete this task, thus let's wait and see what surprises HE throws at us, with some luck we could be able to relax and watch our Champions do all the work." I finish with a smirk that she returns in kind.

We both then proceeded to laugh like madmen, for the glorious act that is delegating.

"Seriously though, EVERY! SINGLE! TIME! I take a human form; some great mystery is revealed. I feel like one of our siblings has to be playing a continuous prank, of some kind, on me.

The first time, I figured out how to make Spectrenite. The second time I learned of the existence of pocket dimensions that contain entire worlds filled with deities, spirits, mortals, and the like from outside our Multiverse. And now, the third time, I learned that Spirits are actually super fine and pure matter. That I was subconsciously brainwashing Odin and Freyja, that I was also being affected, and that I can change my personality, traits, and the like at the drop of a hat!"

I presume finding my madman-like ravings amusing, Lady Death smiled at me until she noticed I took a serious expression on my face.

"So, what do I do about Odin, and Freyja now?"

Her expression also turned serious as she answered. "Honestly, nothing."

Furrowing my brow in utter confusion I look at her, hoping she continues to explain, which she does. "Once you recognized what you did, and I presume, asked your APM not to affect anyone you do not actively want to affect, they should have returned to normal.

Though being honest, besides Freyja being totally fine with raising her children without Odin, and Odin being okay with not being present in the early development of his firstborn, you did not seem to affect anything else.

Therefore, I think that slowly, but surely, they will unearth their true feelings, and everything should be back to normal. If you for some reason feel the need to make it up to them, now that we have finished the deep concept talks, and future favor planning, we could have Frigga return to the conversation, and you can present the plan change for Aldrif's development yourself, after all, she is now your Champion, as much as she is also their daughter."

My eyes brightened at that, and I decided that was exactly what I would do. Besides, the reason I came here in the first place, was that I had thought out a training regimen for Aldrif already and wanted to discuss it with them.

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