Trick 130: Watch as Time simply flies away!

Ace appeared in a safe house and looked around, Sharon was packing her things as Hermione helped. They stopped and Sharon hugged Ace, saying "You're here." Ace took his hood off and kissed her, smiling "Where you going?"

Sharon looked at him and said "We need to go, you're wanted right?" Ace took out his phone and showed her something, saying "I'm not the only one." Sharon saw herself and said in shock "Motherfuckers!"

Hermione covered her mouth and asked "Well, what do we do now?" Ace grabbed Sharon and said "Take her to jail!" Hermione and Sharon were stunned but Ace let her go and laughed "I'm kidding! Jeez… Am I that unreliable…"

Sharon punched him, smiling "You're such an asshole!" Hermione nodded, "Scared me!" Ace pouted with a heartbroken expression, "You believed me?!" Hermione looked at Sharon, saying "Well, master… You don't usually lie so…"

Ace rolled his eyes and looked at Sharon, saying "Where can we go?" Sharon bit her nails, saying "There is a place, but you won't like it…" Ace was confused and asked "Where?" Sharon looked at him and said "Madripoor."

Ace's eyes widened and he said "Absolutely not! I'm not risking your life for nothing! We can stay here in the Wizarding world." he looked at Sharon and said "Don't bring that up again. It's not gonna happen." Sharon stayed silent and Hermione looked at them, asking "What's Madripoor?"

Ace frowned and looked at her saying "You don't need to go there either. Just be good and find a house to buy. We're staying here." Hermione pouted and Ace added, "Now." she grumbled and left the house as Ace floated to the window with his hands behind his back, muttering "Madripoor. Excellent place to settle down!"

Sharon sat down and said "There's no extradition there! It's the perfect place-" Ace interrupted her, saying "Yeah! It's also crawling with criminals! Dirt scum at the bottom of the world, feeding off of each other like rats! If there weren't so many I would've sent them all to prison at once."

Sharon looked at him, retorting "I'm also a criminal." Ace turned and added "So am I. We're different." She looked at him and smiled "Are we?" Ace snorted and replied "We are. We're not the scum latching to the ground we walk on everyday. Did you forget?"

He floated to her and lifted her up, smiling gently "We're the heroes, remember?" Sharon looked into his eyes and smiled gently "I remember." Ace stroked her cheek, saying "Sharon, I'm sorry this happened. It's my fault… I… I should've signed."

Sharon held his cheeks and shook her head gently, replying softly "No. It's not you, love. You're the only person who'll stick up for me. I stuck up for you, even if I have to go on the run, it's fine if you're by my side."

Ace smiled softly, grabbing her hand and intertwining their fingers as he replied lovingly, "It's a quote from Steve but… 'I'm with you till the end of the line'" Sharon's lips twitched from smiling to laughter as she teared up, Ace wiped her tears and kissed her deeply, floating through the wall into the bedroom.

The wall restructured itself behind them as Ace landed on the bed with Sharon, their clothes dissolving…

And that was a year ago!

Ace was sitting in a huge mansion, he was in the library he created, books stuffed into each and every single shelf. When there wasn't any more room, a bookshelf was created and started anew!

Ace was reading at a big desk, stacks of books on the table as he wrote down, wearing his artifact glasses.

Hermione was sitting at another desk, studying on her own.

Sharon came in, holding 2 babies, smiling gently "My love, dinner." Ace looked up and put his glasses down, saying "Coming. Hermione?" Hermione looked up and shook her head, saying "Still busy."

Sharon smiled "You can continue after, come on young lady." Hermione looked embarrassed and followed along as Ace chuckled, Hermione glared at him in shame as he picked up the babies, going to the kitchen.

In the year after Ace became a Worldwide criminal, he not only received a bounty on his head, but bought a mansion and redid the entire inside, making use of his powers. It was essentially a different space inside the mansion.

Ace had made the library excessively big, there was even a room for artifacts. Although it was practically empty, save for a few knickknacks and other things… Like the Destroyer…

It was inside a glass case with a description in front of it on a plaque.

And Ultron.

Unfortunately, completely dead.

However the Darkhold wasn't in a case.

Naturally, Ace kept the Darkhold on his person. There should be no reason for anyone else to view it. The Darkhold was a very powerful tome. It specialized at invading the mind of Mages who looked at it or was in its presence.

However, Ace had a strong enough will to ignore it. Although, that didn't mean he was immune. He could only read its contents for very short periods of time until he started feeling different. At the beginning the voices were more annoying than anything, then they started to tempt, however it was when they got to commanding was when Ace usually stopped.

It was a Dark Enchantment by Chthon himself.

Chthon was an Elder God of Earth and the Earth's first Black Magician. Although the Darkhold was cursed, Ace found that it was very informative. It detailed many times, not only just spells, but history as well!

Stories about his birth, the birth of his siblings, Gaea, Osthur, and Set, as well as many other lesser Gods, however Chthon named them heathens. He clearly didn't like any of them.

There was also information about Agamotto himself! Not only him, but Modred the Mystic, Merlin, Morgan LeFay, and all sorts of ancient names.

In the pages of the Darkhold, untold and endless history was written. The difference was that it had been so long, Ace wasn't even sure Chthon was alive anymore. The influence it had over him was extremely tiny.

He would only get a bad mood from it if he was exposed for too long.

The rest was negligible, there were practically no side effects.

Ace wasn't sure as to why, he chalked it up to his will and personality. He had never killed and he wouldn't, he pictured himself as the embodiment of justice, not a god to rule above.

He figured that was why the Darkhold couldn't do much to him.

However, he realized the damage it could do to someone who was entrenched in their demons. Someone like Wanda. The results would be cataclysmic, hence the reason he was searching for the other Darkhold of his Universe.

It had to be on Earth, there was nowhere else it would be because it wouldn't make sense.

Chthon wanted to return to Earth to rule, not end up in the middle of nowhere. So it had to be here.

He had been studying and searching at the same time for an entire year with no results.

He had heard here and there about the new Avengers going on missions from the UN, however there was another group. Many people believed them to be the Secret Avengers led by Captain America to solve threats in the shadows.

Ace was out of it, he was studying and staying with his family, he had no business with the issues the Avengers dealt with. Because… Well, frankly, they didn't need him! Ace left Steve with a way to contact him, but there was no call at all.

He was sure that when Steve needed him, he would call.

Hell, even Tony had his number.

Ace never left his phone just in case, secretly hoping one or both would call him. But it never happened.

Ace started working towards his magic historian dream. Collecting Tomes from various places, compiling them in his notes and library. Every book on these shelves was personally written by Ace's hand, gathering various different sources and information from countless books.

They were the cream of the crop in terms of knowledge.

At least, Ace liked to think so.

Another part of the library was filled with the tomes he had gathered whether it was from Hogwarts, the Ministry, Other Universe Kamar-Taj, or Asgard. They were all still here.

He had read almost every book, record, tome, etc in this single room and it stretched almost endlessly.

Ace was very happy with the library.

He even made sure there was a magic array around his house, keeping people away. He didn't want anyone else coming for his scrolls and tomes. It also served to protect Sharon, although she didn't really need it, he was only taking precautions.

Another thing!

Sharon gave birth to twins! Margaret and Jack Brand. They were nearly identical, very cute babies.

Also she seemed to have an obsession recently… Or rather maybe Ace never noticed… Sharon was obsessed with finding the World's Greatest Hamburger. It was quite strange, but Ace liked Hamburgers so he didn't really care too much.

Everything was going great, nothing world ending or life changing, Ace had plenty of time to study in peace as the time flowed…

Another year… One more after that…

And 6 more months.