24 Salvation

"THE LIGHT! THE LIGHT!" Bron shrieked after I released him from his coffin, "SO BRIGHT! TOO BRIGHT!"

"Hmmmm… The nails are out and the damage is fixed, but it appears Bron is not taking this experience very well." I nodded sagely, "I blame those shitty kids of his, one hundred percent. The poor guy must not have learned anything from me growing up. He turned out so well, but those kids… total monsters."

"Just like Thanos was one hundred percent responsible for destroying Asgard." Hela groaned as she pulled the fetal curled Bron into her arms, "I am definitely seeing the downsides to filling the Daddy shaped whole in my heart with a near perfect cut out of him."

"That's low Hela." I responded, "I am way stronger, more accomplished, and more handsome than your father ever was."

"Put a beard and an eyepatch on and I won't be able to tell the difference anymore." Hela sighed, "Open a portal home for me."

"Eh, Hela… home is a bunch of space dust spread across the cosmos…" I chuckled, "You just brought that up again."

"No, I will be… and I can't believe I am saying this… staying with my brother awhile." Hela answered.

"Well… that I didn't see coming." I shrugged and opened a portal to Earth in the MCU.

Hela lifted Bron over her shoulder as the enormous man covered his eyes with his hands and whimpered.

"Thor seemed… nothing like my father. And I think Bron needs that right now." Hela stated as she moved through the portal then turned back, "Bron once swore to me that his children would never live in terror of him, like he lived in terror of you. This is your fault Mark, no matter how much you say that time makes these trials inevitable and no matter what dead people you choose to blame."

Hela traveled fully through the portal and I slammed it shut behind her.

"I know." I sighed and portaled out of her living suites to my own private sanctuary.

I arrived in a vast subterranean laboratory hidden under the surface of Pluto. I turned to my workstation and pulled out my new Universe Stone, letting it hover over my work station while I began the process of materializing captured divinity. As I did this, countless new breed symbiotes, perfect beings of biology, technology, and magic emerged from my shadow and began taking salvaged materials and equipment left from the Flaxan Dimension out of the Bag of Infinite Capacity. They went to work on the process of turning Pluto into my personal War World.

After I finished my work of Divine Alchemy, I turned back to my new failsafe. Floating above my work station, glittering in the light with its soul stealing depth, the Universe Stone awaited its next evolution.

As I approached, the All-Black separated from my shadow and formed a low detail homunculus copy of me.

"No, my silent friend, I haven't given up. No matter how spectacular the ending, I achieved six and a half millennia of peace and prosperity on my first try. We just need to shake things up, get some new perspectives… but that is no reason to not be responsible and make a solid back up plan in case the next go around is also an early attempt at success."

I slid my hand over the perfectly smooth surface of the Universe Stone and smiled at the featureless All-Black.

"Knull may have been fine with his afterlife being a purgatory realm for those he slays, but I want to build something so much more… vibrant." I explained as the All-Black also rested a hand on the Universe Stone, "Just because we aren't giving up on Utopia for the living, doesn't stop us from making Utopia for the dead. So let's be gods, my friend, and build Salvation."

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"Can't a crotchety old edge lord do his work in peace!" I shouted at the numerous Kate's playing a ping pong tournament in my secret lair.

"You were working?" Kate tilted her head as she questioned, "It looked more like your minions were working while you and your… shadow held hands meditating around a big hunk of shiny rock like a pair of monochrome cavemen."

"What the hell are you even doing turning Pluto into a giant weapons platform?" Kate inquired with a smirk, "Did the god juice come with the world's cruelest handicap? Is Daddy compensating for something?"

"I know you are riling me up." I informed her, "Distracting me from my work, from making Heaven itself mind you, with pussy. And you know it is working."

Faster than she could react I snatched up a pair of Kate's from their match and put the table to a far more enjoyable use.

"That's what I am talking about, Daddy!" Kate Zero growled in my ear as I went to town on her two ass stacked clones.

"Why don't you climb up on my shoulders and I'll show you a cool new power." I grinned at her as I was balls and knuckles deep in her alters.

"I take it your tongue is now as stretchy and dexterous as your fingers and cock." she smiled back and started climbing up me.

Orochimaru missed his calling in life if Kate's gasps are anything to go by as I performed a one man tongue double penetration on her after her nanite suite parted for access.

"Oh sweet Jesus." she moaned as I worked her over.

Kate clenched her thighs around my head as we felt a locator ritual find us, refusing to let me go as my children portaled in.

"My apologies father for interrupting your victorious celebrations," Cassiopeia addressed me as Calliope gaped like a fish behind her, the poor dear having grown up in a very different Imperial Palace than her great great great grandmother, "but I felt it important that we begin reconstruction as soon as possible. The millions of our citizens working in this universe are very anxious to get back home and find their loved ones."

Kate shuddered as I pulled my tongue out of her and hopped off me with an unamused glare at the other Empresses.

"The Flaxan Dimension was completely destroyed in the fighting." I informed them as I continued my attack on the clones, "No survivors. The Asgardians hit me with everything in the Arsenal. Absolutely everything."

"No." Calliope denied with a motion of her hands, "No one would be that stupid. Some of those weapons would leave the Dimension completely unlivable."

"You seem to think they had a choice." I chuckled darkly, "Desperation can make people do anything. So after I finished hunting the Asgardians down I stripped the dimension of all salvageable resources and tech. Then I collapsed the dimension in on itself."

Cassiopeia sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, but Calliope actually fell to her knees, "I'm not even a bureaucrat anymore." she grieved.

"Hundreds of trillions of lives and thousands of years of culture…" Cassiopeia muttered.

"Don't get hung up on it girls." I told them as I nutted in their stepmother, "I'm not. When one door closes…" I pulled out of the bottom Kate as she gasped, "Another opens." and I slammed home into the Kate on top of the ass stack, "We just need to go looking for that new opportunity."

"I doubt it will be as easy as you have displayed." Cassiopeia shook her head and walked over to the Universe Stone, "What have you been working on father, I doubt your change in appearance came with anything less than astounding results, and you don't collect shiny rocks just to look at them."

"Quite right." I grinned at her, "I became a primordial god before I launched my anti-Asgardian campaign. What you are currently looking at is my version of Heaven, the place where all those who believe in me as their savior go after death."

"You created an afterlife?" Cassiopeia broke her stoic shell in awe.

"Of course not. That would be a significant power sink that would leave me weak for centuries," I denied flatly, "but it was no trouble renovating the one I inherited and relocating it to that gem. Once I get it going I will be your lord and savior in the flesh. At least until I leave on the next leg of my journey."

"This is what you do when you aren't running empires?" Calliope questioned with tears in her eyes, "Become a god, build an afterlife? No wonder you feel like I am nothing."

I felt Kate finishing under me and pulled out to kneel next to the dispirited woman.

"Hey, baby girl." I chuckled as I put a hand on her face, "No tears. At least not until I am in another universe and they are someone else's problem."

"Where are you going? And why? Cassiopeia demanded in a firm tone, half the reason she is my favorite Empress after Kate.

The other half being the way her spine of steel melts and she is Daddy's girl when I am around. That sweetness can still bring a tear to my eye. Freaky black tears now, but still just as emotionally packed.

"Um… could you please put your cock away?" Calliope asked.

The All-Black formed a quick Viltrumite suite over me using one of its slaved super Symbiotes. It directly controls several specialized Symbiotes that live within my shadow, one that forms my armor and clothes, and another that forms a techno-dragon.

That's right, I have a dragon that lives in my shadow. How the fuck did I ever manage to resist making this transition for like, entire weeks? The past me was surely a wretched and deprived being. The poor bastard didn't even have his own shadow cyber dragon.

"I'll be setting off to experience a new universe soon. This one is far more dangerous than the last, but with the knowledge and technology of two universes my Utopia lasted six and a half thousand years. I can't wait to see what I can achieve with a third under my belt."

"Pass." Kate interjected.

"What?" I looked at her in surprise.

"Pass." Kate repeated, "I'm happy here, and Mark Jr. is talking about getting married soon."

"Really, that's great… Who is Junior getting married to?" I asked.

"Eve." Kate answered.

"Atom Eve?" I gawked.

"Yeah." Kate nodded.

"Niiiccceee." I grinned.