21 Chapter 21: The Defenders and the Aether!

The first interesting thing that happened in 2013 was Carl Lucas getting sentenced to Seagate Prison, for a non-existent crime. I keep an eye on the situation, but do not interfere, knowing that he gets out on his own.

Other than that my first few months in 2013 were filled with a whole lot of nothing. Even petty crime rate had gotten down, or really organized. Peter and me had started going together less and less, as most of the time, we got bored. I do manage to make an arc reactor for myself. I was going to use the Badassium core that Stark developed as core, but then realized, I already have an energy conducting metal available. So I made it completely out of Vibranium and used a Praedium core to power it.

The first arc reactor I made, was installed in my plane. I even made the engines out of the repulsor technology of Stark's Iron Man armour. It made it faster than before, now going at a max speed of Mach 10. Which was loads better than the fastest Jet in the world, which could go Mach 6.

I designed an armour for myself, without any of the additional components Tony uses. Just plain full body armour. I had to use Wakanda's design of using a Vibranium mesh weave to make a suit that could be foldable. I made it exactly the same as the Black Panther's suit, except I removed the panther ears and made it rounder. A silver spider logo on the front and back and my web shooters as well as Vibranium claws thrown in. In one word, it was amazing.

The new suit took everything I threw at it and more. The only thing that managed to hurt the suit was Praedium. But only when I made the dagger too sharp. Or it just deflected it. Even the Berserker's staff had no effect other than one small dent. I made the hands of the suit retractable, so that if needed I can use the Berserker's staff along with the protection of the suit.

I wear the suit only once, after which Venom absorbed it into himself. After that, Venom can just bring it out like he brings out the Staff, directly over my body. Venom was amazing.

"Thanks, dumbass." Venom grumbles from inside.

"You're welcome, Venom." I say, jovially.

I even make a suit in Peter's size for him and gift it to him for his birthday. He was amazed by the properties of Vibranium and had started a few projects with it, which I permitted.

About a week after making the suit for myself, I manage to make my stealth tech small enough to fit the suit and make myself invisible. Which was pretty fucking amazing. I add that function to both our suits, so it's easier to go home after our nightly jobs.

August 17th, 2013:

Today I was going to be recruiting the first Defender. It was going to be a backup for when the Avengers are not enough.

Just yesterday, a child abuser was beaten up in Hell's Kitchen by someone wearing black clothes and a black scarf over his head. Which I knew was Matt Murdock.

I wear my Vibranium suit for this occasion, as it is vibration absorbent, making the footsteps silent. I take the jet and fly to Hell's Kitchen, which only took like a minute at a slow speed. Keeping the plane floating above the building next to Murdock's, I jump down from the plane and onto the building's roof.

I turn to look at Matt's house and see he is reading something in Braille. I see his hands freeze for about a second and his breathing changes. Knowing he now knows I'm here, I whisper, "Hello Matt. Don't worry, I'm not here to fight. Come to your roof if you can, I have an offer to make."

His hearing was so good that he probably heard me, which I'm proved right about, when he gets up and starts going out of the door. I web off the roof and start going to the roof of Matt's building. A few seconds later he comes out of the door.

"What do you want?" he asks as soon as I'm close enough.

"I am here to help you defend New York. And ask your help for it in return." I simply say.

Matt snorts and asks, "And what would I do to help you? I'm blind."

Instead of answering, I throw a blunt knife at him, which he dodges, and I ask, "You wanna say that again? I'm not here to fight you, Murdock. You're a good fighter, but you're human. I'm not. I will give you equipment to make your crime-fighting easier, and if you wish for it, I can even make your strength more than that of Captain America. But you'll have to gain my trust for it first."

"So what? You'll just give me weapons? Just like that? And ask for nothing in return? Forgive me if I don't believe you." Matt shakes his head and answers.

I scoff and say, "I won't give you weapons even if you asked for them. I'll give you armour to better protect you. I don't care for your Vigilantism, but I'd like it if you do it better protected."

Matt pauses for a second, listening my heartbeat probably, and asks, "Why?"

I simply answer, "I don't want your death on my conscience. If I can do something to prevent it, and I don't, that makes me something I'm afraid of becoming. So, do you accept the help?"

Matt again asks, "What would you like in return?"

I think and then answer, "Help. If there's something that's a danger to New York or Earth in general, I might ask for your help. I have contacts in many big organisations, Matt, government organisations. They're all saying one thing. Something big is coming, and it'll be cataclysmic. I want as many people to live as possible. I won't ask for your help to take down any local thugs, or my personal enemies. But someone that kills people as they please? Or something like Manhattan happens again? Then I'll call you for help."

Once again Matt pauses, thinking over my statement and not finding any lies, he nods, and says, "I accept. But if something I don't agree with happens, I'll get out, immediately. And I accept the offer for the armour."

I nod, and take a scan if his body using the inbuilt scanner. I say, "You'll find a suit on your couch in 3 days time, along with my number if you ever need help. Don't refrain from calling me if you do need help. Don't need you to die on me Murdock."

Before he has a chance to say anything, I jump up and land on the open ramp of the invisible plane, and fly out.

"I think that was a cool exit. What do you think, Siri?" I ask once we're on the way to our next Defender.

"Whatever you say, sir." Siri replies.

I huff and start making designs for Matt's suit. Daredevil. Within a minute, we reach the building which housed one Jessica Jones, who was currently unemployed, but was trying to become a private investigator. I drop down to the roof of the building and start going downstairs to where I knew she stays. Knocking on her door, I wait for her to open the door, which she soon does.

When she sees me in my Vibranium Venom suit, she just raises her eyebrow and asks, "What? Did Halloween get here this early?"

I snort and say, "No, Ms Jones. I'm from the Avengers and I have an offer to make to you."

Jessica looks at me for a minute, then just says, "Don't want it." And slams the door in my face.

I look up, asking God, 'Why me?' and knock on the door again.

She once again opens the door, and raises her eyebrow and asks again, "What?"

"You are strong, Jessica. Stronger than I was when I first got my powers. But you aren't the strongest. I want to train you to fight, so no one can harm you again, and you don't harm anyone else by accident. Just having strength is not enough, you need finesse too." I say, passionately.

Jessica looks at me and says, "I'm listening."

So I continue, "I will provide you with training as well as a suit for protection. Bullets still hurt you, so the suit will protect you from that. I won't ask you to fight my battles for me, but I might ask for help in taking down someone who is too tough for me alone. You have the right to reject to help. Big things are coming, Jessica, and I need every help I can get. So you in?"

Jessica shakes her head and mumbles, "Can't believe I'm saying this. Yes. I'll join you for a few training sessions, if I see an improvement, I'll stay and be a fucking hero. But if you try to flirt with me I'll crush your balls and feed them to the dogs, capiche?"

I nod rapidly. I like my balls where they are, thank you very much.

"I'll prepare a training ground for us to work in in a few days. Here's my number if you need to ask anything. Goodbye." I say and jump out of the window and web to the plane. I might be stronger than her, but that doesn't mean she doesn't scare me.

That night, after reaching home, I complete the designs for the suits for both Jessica and Matt and have Siri start making them using the Unstable Particle fibre. I'm not going to make everyone a Vibranium suit. The fibre was bulletproof too, so it was fine.

The next day, I modify one of my empty warehouses into a headquarters/gym. I made it almost similar to my own gym with weights going up to 200 tons, which probably only Thor and Hulk could use. Or Tony with his Iron Man suit on.

The headquarters part I built for the defenders to use, included with a non sentient AI, Oracle. I know, cliche name, but it was all I thought of at the time. I had to upgrade the security of the warehouse, by a lot. Meaning completely automated security systems, I will do something more later on. And I even had Oracle to do it for me.

Oracle had uplinks to most of the police radio channels and always kept an eye on it. She could also scan someone and use facial recognition to tell us who they are.

I had made hard fibre glasses with inbuilt HUD and cameras for that purpose. So what if Matt was blind? He might need to know who he's fighting, right? Never know when he might need something like that.

3 days later, Jessica first enters the HQ, looks around and asks, "You did all this in 4 days? Impressive."

"Thank you." I say and bow low.

"So, Venom right? What are you teaching me today?" Jessica asks, sitting at the chair in front of all the monitors.

"Nothing. Today I'm going to see how much you can lift, both bench press as well as deadlift. And then we'll see how fast you can run." I pause. "But before that," I say and will my suit away, showing her my face, I trusted her, so I wasn't worried, and I needed her to trust me too.

"Harry Osborn, or as I'm known of when I'm a superhero, Venom." I say and give her my hand to shake.

Jessica has upturned lips when she shakes my hand and says, "Pleasure."

"Be warned, you are just about the 10th person who knows who I am. Don't take advantage of it and you won't regret it." I say, narrowing my eyes at her. I don't know if it's Venom's presence or I'm just that threatening, she backs up immediately and nods, a little frightened, judging by her heartbeats.

Then I turn my regular confident person again and have her take the tests. She lifts about 18 tons and supports 27 tons before getting tired. And she runs at the max speed of 25 mph. Which was pretty good for an untrained super. So after adding her to the security systems and making a list of everything she has to do to get into shape first, I then start her on a Muay Thai training routine to follow daily.

She looks at me in horror, but I just laugh at her and say, "Lady, these are just the basics."

Ignoring her look of horror, I turn invisible and swing out of there. The next month, I train her to the best of my abilities. I had to tone down my strength, but I manage it. I offered to make her stronger using the Oz-2, but she refused. She did not want more chemicals inside her.

Even Daredevil came to visit the location a few times, to thank for the suit, the first time, and then to use the gym after asking my permission. I added him to the system and gave an open invitation to use the gym whenever required. He didn't need to know my face to know who I was, so I didn't bother with it.

October 5th, 2013:

It was about a month since I first invited Matt into my club, and I was now going to visit the third Defender. Carl Lucas, or as he was now known as, Luke Cage. He lived in Harlem, working at a bar, and was now married to a Reva Connors, a psychologist. I was standing outside his door, at 5 PM, waiting for him to open the door, this time going as Harry Osborn. The door opens and a woman appears in the door.

"Yes?" she asks.

"Umm.. Is this Luke Cage's house? Or am I in the wrong one?" I ask, purposefully fumbling with words.

She nods and says, "Luke is in the washroom. Would you like to wait for him Mr...?"

"Oh.. Osborn. I'm Harry Osborn. I have an offer to make to Mr Cage. And yes, I'd love to wait if you don't mind Ms..?" I say.

"Mrs Cage. I'm Luke's wife, Reva Cage." She says, with a haply smile.

I smile at her and enter inside. She brings me coffee to drink, which I accept and we wait for Luke to come out.

He comes out after about a minute of uncomfortable silence, and asks, "May I help you?"

I look at him and smile brightly. I say, "Yes, Mr Cage. I have an offer to make to you."

Luke nods and sits down, motioning me to continue with my offer. So I explain, "I work with a government organisation called SHIELD, which mostly works covert. They are the people behind the Avengers, who saved New York. Now, the Avengers are all well and good, but they are only ever useful during global scale attacks. I'm building together a team which will help the small guy out in times of trouble. I already have 4 people on the team. 2 of them are members of the Avengers, who spend most of their nights patrolling New York to help secure it. You might know them as Spider-Man and Venom?" I pause, at which they nod.

"Right. The next person is a woman who was like you Mr Cage. She's strong. Stronger than even Captain America is, in fact. And yes I know you are stronger than normal." I say, with a smile.

Luke looks like he's about to attack me to throw me out, so I say, "Don't worry, Mr Cage, I have no plans to share your secret with anyone. Not even the other members of my team. Each person is entitled to their secrets. But since I already know one of yours Mr Cage, here's one of mine. I'm strong. Stronger than you in fact. But I don't use my strength much. It was deliberate on my part, using an experimental serum. But I had a reason for it, which.. I won't be sharing yet, I hope you understand." I smile at him in reassurance and spread my hands non threateningly.

"What are your terms?" Cage grits out, even Reva looks a little scared and angry.

I widen my eyes and yell out, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm not here to blackmail you lot. I just want to offer you training and some help in terms of work out equipment. If you tell me to go fuck off, I will gladly get the hell out of here, and never disturb you again."

Luke calms down a little, and so does Reva, but not enough, so I say, "Gods, this went so wrong. Listen, guys, take a few days to think. Call me on this number with whatever your decision is and I'll accept it. Just.. think, please."

Luke accepts my card so I nod and say, "Thanks for the coffee, Mrs Cage. Goodbye."

That could have gone better. Did I really came out as threatening?

I shake my head and just ignore the situation for a while. He'll call, either accepting it, or rejecting. I'll know it then.

October 19th, 2013:

About 2 weeks after I made the visit, Luke cage calls me, asking to meet me. I invite him over to the HQ, since nobody was using it at the time and wait for him there. He knocks on the door at about 6 PM. I let him in and first show him around the gym. He looks at all the equipment and just raises his eyebrows.

"So, Mr Cage. Any questions?" I ask once the tour is done.

"Why me?" He simply asks.

I smile at Luke and say, "Why not you? You had some shit done to you, but you rose from it, stronger than ever. And I don't just mean physically. You're a great person Luke. You just need to become someone better." I pause, and then continue, "If you have the capability to do something good, but you don't do it, and something bad happens because of it, then the bad thing has happened because of your inaction. I learned it from my friend's father. He said, 'With great power, comes great responsibility.' And I've taken it to heart. So I selected more people who have great powers and I financially support them, because I can do that."

Luke nods and sits down to think for a moment, after which he says, "I'll join your group, but I want to keep Reva out of this. I want to protect her from anything that might go after her to harm me."

I nod and say, "A face mask for you will prevent you being recognised by anyone. Voice modulator will even change your voice up a little. I will design a suit for you and show you the designs. You can make any changes you like."

He grimaces and asks, "Is a suit really necessary?"

"Of course it is. It'll not only protect you from inhaling gases, harmful for you, but it'll also help protect your identity. Plus, we know that you are bulletproof. The villains don't. They'll just assume that the suit is special or something. If someone figures out that you have bulletproof skin, they'll do anything to try and replicate it. I've known a few people who tried to do it with Captain America's strength." I grimace, remembering Norman.

Luke nods and asks, "When do I start?"

And we start the same day. He was already a pretty good fighter, but I'll have to work on his reflexes a bit. Testing his strength and speed was interesting. He could lift 30 tons on a bench and about 50 tons in emergencies. He could also run at about 24 mph. Which was a lot slower than I expected, but still good enough.

The next few months, I spend in NYU, studying, or training with all the three defenders. Even Peter joins us a few times, improving himself, because he was slacking off a bit. We even went on a few training missions, catching small time criminals, and learning how to hold back strength when punching them.

November 11th, 2013:

Finally something interesting happens! Siri informed me that Dr Jane Foster, her intern Darcy Lewis had gone to London to meet with Dr Erik Selvig, who was researching a new set of anomalies. Which I knew were the signs of the Convergence. So I packed a bag, informed everyone that I was going out of town for a while, and took my plane to London. Selvig was missing, or so they assumed and they had taken turns to watch the gadget, Selvig had made to detect the readings.

I keep an eye on them for a few days, waiting when finally it happens. Selvig's equipment starts acting up, detecting a signal. Darcy interrupts Jane who was on a date, and shows her the data Selvig's equipment recorded.

I follow them, as they, accompanied by Darcy's intern, Ian Boothby, stop their car at an abandoned warehouse. Right before they are about to enter, I drop down from the Jet and land about 10 feet away from them.

I look at them, Darcy holding a taser, Jane holding the gadget and Ian holding his hands up in a punching stance, all pointing towards me. I shake my head and rub my head, "First of all, that won't hurt me." I say to Darcy and Jane. I then turn to Ian and say, "Secondly, dude? Is that the best stance you could come up with?"

Both the girls look at Ian who's now blushing and then turn to me. Darcy suddenly exclaims, "Hey! You're that Venom guy. You helped Thor in New Mexico and New York!"

"Yes, thanks for reminding me, Ms Lewis." I say sarcastically, and look her over. Damn, she's cute!

"Hey! Stop undressing me with your eyes, weird guy." Darcy exclaims, she then gets a smirk on her face and says, "I'm free tonight if you wanna do it for real, though?"

"Darcy! Not the time!" Jane exclaims, while I cough uncomfortably. Thank God for the mask!

"Yes. Dr Foster. I'd like to join you in researching these anomalies if you permit it. Don't want Thor to get angry because he lost his girlfriend." I say and wink at Darcy.

"Okay, first of all, How'd your mask wink? Secondly, I'm not his girlfriend. And thirdly, yes you can join us if you wish. Free country and all that crap." Jane says and looks at me expectantly.

"What? I designed the suit myself, so made the eyes to be as expressive as possible. I don't want people to look and not know that I'm smiling at a joke they said or something." I grumble and start going towards the warehouse.

The three scientists start going too, with Jane leading us, Darcy beside me and Ian behind us two. He was glaring at me, I could feel it. But I ignore him. What's he gonna do?

We all enter the warehouse and hear a noise, that made it sound like we had all entered a haunted place.

"I am not getting stabbed in the name of science." Darcy whispers, lifts up her hands and shouts out, "It's okay. We're Americans!"

I huff out a laugh and ask her, "Do you have any idea how many countries would like to kill you just because you are American?"

She's about to say something when we all hear some kids voice. Darcy gets more scared and moves closer to me, which I don't actually mind.

"Make it go away!" A girl whispers loudly.

"Shhh!" another kid shushes her.

The voices stop and 3 kids come out of their hiding places. "Are you the police?" the girl asks us.

I just raise an eyebrow, while Jane answers, "No, we're scientists." She pauses, looks around and says, "Well I am."

"Thanks." Both me and Darcy say sarcastically. She looks at me and smirks, to which I ignore her look and start looking around the room.

"We just found it." The boys says, still afraid.

"Can you show us?" Jane asks, gently. Understanding that the kids found the anomalies Selvig was searching for.

They lead us to a room which houses a truck. The boy then goes to the truck, and lifts it with one hand. All of our jaws drop.

"The amount of gravitational anomalies must be phenomenal to cause such an effect on its weight!" I say in excitement. This is fucking amazing! It's not my field, but I know how amazing this is.

Jane and Darcy snap their heads at me, one looking in curiosity, while the other in amazement. "You understand this?" Jane asks, amazed.

While Darcy says, "So hot and smart. Nice."

I ignore Darcy and answer Jane, "It's not my primary field, but I understand a little bit of general Astrophysics. I focus more on electronics."

"Huh." Jane says.

We start following the kids around, which sounds so wrong. We all stop at a stairwell in the factory, and the little dude drops a bottle down the stairwell. We all see it go down, down, down, when suddenly it disappears. It made a few ripples in the air like it dropped into water, but disappeared.

"Where did it go?" Darcy asks the small girl with them. She just points upwards.

We all see up just in time to see the bottle come out of another portal just like the one down below. It once again drops down into another portal, only to appear up once again, continuously appearing and disappearing from the portals.

"That's... That's incredible!" Jane says and picks up an empty can. She drops it down from right in front of herself. The can goes down and disappears down a portal. We all look up and wait for a while. But it does not reappear.

"What happened?" Darcy asks.

"Sometimes they come back, sometimes they don't." The girl explains.

"Makes sense. There aren't 2 portals from up to down as we're assuming, but 4, meaning two pairs of portals. One pair transports things from here to wherever it leads. While another portal transports things from that place to here. The bottle passed through all the portals easily, which is why it returned, but the can must have missed the second pair of portals and got stuck there." I muse out loud. The theory was interesting.

"You should really start researching about astrophysics more. You're smart, and you're right." Jane says.

"I want to throw something. Jane, give me your shoe." Darcy says, which Jane ignores.

Jane takes out her scanner and looks at the readings. She says, "I haven't seen readings like this since..."

"New Mexico?" Darcy helpfully asks.

Jane gives her a look and starts going away from us. She shouts back, "Don't touch anything!" and goes away. I'd have followed her, but I don't want the Reality Stone in my body.

Darcy looks at me and Ian and says, "Give me your shoe."

I shake my head and bring out a smartphone. I turn to the intern and say, "Ian, right? Start throwing anything you can find one by one from different places. Lets mark which ones get back through the portals above. You can help too, kids." I order. I find a rock which I drop down lightly, it comes back through the other portal, so I mark it and move on.

Darcy joins in too, finally finding something to throw, which was a shoe. Looking around I check everyone's feet and see that the were all wearing both shoes. Where the fuck did she get a shoe?

After about 5 minutes of throwing things through the portals, we determine that only a few feet diameters of a portal area coincides with the other portal. So, I show my smartphone to the kids, who are excited to be a part of a scientific experiment, and say, "See this phone? This was especially built by my friend for events like this. It can even survive going to space and working there. So now, lets set the camera on Slow motion video, at 300 frames per second, which means it will click 300 pictures in one second, and done. Now, who wants to be the one to throw it?" I ask the curious crowd of 5 people.

Everyone raises their hands, excited. Even Ian and Darcy. I give the phone to the small girl, who was silent for the whole while, and say, "The prettiest girl here, will throw it." She smiles shyly and take the phone from me. We get to the designated spot and I say, "Remember, only lightly drop it. Don't throw it by force." She nods. So I turn the video recording on and nod at her to throw it.

She drops the phone and we wait. It falls, falls, fall... And it disappears. We wait again. About 3 seconds later, the phone reappears, which I immediately web towards myself.

There's a moment of silence. And then literally every person there screams out in excitement. Me included. Hey! These will be the first pictures of an alien planet I'll take!

We all calm down, and I check the phone and see that it's thankfully still working. It would have been a waste of Vibranium if it didn't even work. Opening the video it created in those few seconds, we all look at it.

She had dropped the phone vertically, after holding it in a pinch. So when it dropped, it first showed us a few seconds worth of the factory stairwells. Then, gradually the images change, like sliding a photo in a smartphone gallery. I pause the video and look at it. On one side is the factory, and on the other it shows a dark cave, with red light coming through the opening, everything looking so dreary that Darcy holds me by the arm. Once again, not complaining. The camera angle changes gradually, showing us a few of the things we threw but didn't get back, like the shoe Darcy threw.

"There's the keys, the intern threw!" Darcy exclaims looking at the camera. I pause the video and look closely. Yup. The car keys. I shake my head at his stupidity and resume the video. The camera continues downwards and starts falling to the ground, when it once again starts changing the image, light flowing through again. And then it's the factory once again.

I shut off the phone and look at the crowd, "Ladies and Gentlemen," I start, "You've just witnessed the first images of a cave of an alien planet, who knows where. Literally no one can say that." I say and smile at the girl and ruffle her hair.

She tries to scowl at me but her excitement is too much to care about her hair. Everyone starts clapping, including the two interns.

Darcy looks at me, smirks and says, "Damn! Venom. Didn't know you were so good with kids. And science." She winks at me flirtingly.

I ignore the blood flowing through my face, cough once and ask, "Um.. shouldn't Jane have come back by now? It's been what? 40 minutes?"

Darcy checks her watch and says, "45. She's never gone this long. She always comes to check if I haven't messed something up." She says, seriously.

Then she starts freaking out. "Oh my god! Venom! What do I do? Do I call 911?"

I shake her by her shoulders and say, "Darcy! First of all, we aren't in America, if you call 911, it'll just say wrong number or something. Secondly, lets first have a look around the factory. We'll wait for a day or two, here. And if she still doesn't come back, we'll call Shield."

Darcy and Ian nod at my statement and start running down to have a look around. The kids start helping too, by looking around and shouting for Jane. When after 2 hours, of looking around, Jane is nowhere to be found, I have Siri bring the plane down and let Ian and Darcy inside. The plane was still invisible so I didn't worry about the cops showing up.

"You have an invisible Jet? That's awesome!" Darcy exclaims out, with Ian nodding and looking around the Jet.

"Yup. Stole it from SHIELD and then modified it myself. Don't touch anything, please." I say the last part as I see Ian was about to touch the button to turn off the Invisibility cloak.

We stay in the plane for over 2 more hours, watching British TV, and occasionally checking the camera feed to see if Jane had returned.

More than 5 hours after she disappeared, Jane reappears outside the Factory, walking and looking around, probably searching for us. I wake up Ian, who was sleeping in a sleeping bag in the back and start going towards the ramp which was slowly opening.

Darcy runs towards where Jane is and hugs her, she exclaims, "Jane! Where the hell were you?"

Jane shakes off her head and says, "I was right here."

Darcy looks at Jane carefully and says, "Jane. You were missing for 5 hours. And you were nowhere in the factory. We looked."

Jane looks confused, she says, "I never even went out of the factory. I was looking for the source of the higher readings and went to a room in the ground floor of the factory. I must have hit my head or something, because I just woke up like 2 minutes ago and came out to see you were all gone."

Darcy looks sympathetic when she says, "Jane. Wherever you were, it was not inside the factory. You must have gone through a portal or something."

Jane looks visibly upset. It starts raining and lightning rumbles above us. But weirdly enough, the rain sort of passes over an area around us. I hear another lightning crackle and I turn to a side where I hear a person landing. It was Thor.

Jane sees Thor and starts running towards him, taking the invisible umbrella with her.

"Typical." Darcy says.

I shake my head and say, "Well, you are in London. Seems like Jane's the reason for the invisible umbrella."

Darcy wipes her glasses and asks, "Yeah, what's up with that? Is it like a benefit of dating a God if thunder?"

I snort and say, "Doubt it. Thor himself was getting wet in the rain. It's something to do with Jane. Let's join them, shall we." I then dramatically wave my hands towards Jane who was now done with slapping Thor.

We go there and see that Thor and Jane were about to kiss. So helpful friend that she is, Darcy interrupts them and asks Thor, "Hey! Is that you?" referring to the rain.

Thor looks up and the rain suddenly stops. I hear police sirens, coming towards us and see that 2 cop cars are coming right for us. What the hell happened now? Hopefully they aren't here to arrest me for illegally being here.

2 officers get out of each car and 2 if them start approaching us.

Jane runs towards them to pacify the cops, when one of them tries to hold her hand. A red light erupts from Jane and throws the cop away from her. Jane drops down to the floor, probably feeling tired. We all run towards her to see what happened.

The cop was now slowly standing up, and so was Jane.

"Jane! Jane? Are you alright?" Thor asks her.

"What just happened?" Jane asks instead.

"Put your hands above your heads and step back!" one of the other cops orders, while pointing their guns at us.

"This woman is unwell." Thor says, gravely.

"She's dangerous." The cop returns.

"So am I." Thor says and pulls Jane close to himself.

"Siri, take the plane home. I'll be back in a few days." I order Siri, knowing what's about to happen and start running towards Thor.

Thor looks at me curiously but does not stop me when I reach them and place a hand on Thor's shoulders. Seeing that Thor did not stop me Darcy runs towards us too. Just in time because as soon as she reaches us, we see different coloured lights all around us and feel a pull upwards. I don't fight the pull and hold Darcy close to me, to make sure she doesn't fall off. She made a stupid decision following us, but we can't help it now.

The feeling of passing through the Bifrost was simply amazing. Nothing I've ever done could compare to it. But it was too short. Before we even know it, we drop down on hard floor. I stumble a bit, but manage to straighten myself and Darcy, who was about to fall.

"We've got to do that again!" Darcy exclaims out!

I look around and my eyes land on the all-seeing eyes of Heimdall who was looking at us impassively. I gulp, unconsciously. That guy was intimidating.

He simply says, "Welcome to Asgard." And continues his vigil on the 9 realms.

We all mumble, "Thanks." And start following Thor towards the Golden City of Asgard. I look around in amazement. The Palace of Asgard. It was simply amazing. Everything was amazing.

The view from the Bifrost, the people, the marketplace. Everything. So now I'm on Asgard. What do I do now?

Meh.. I'll worry about it later. For now, I will out the Venom suit and continue walking behind Thor and beside Darcy. Just looking around. Hopefully this time I can save Frigga.