Chapter 114

C 114

"Hey Jarvis. Are you there?" I asked as I plugged his drive into the Asgardian console. I thought it was pretty cool how his drive seemed to morph to fit into the asgardian port. That was obvious nano-tech at play. My Tony wasn't even close to that kind of tech yet. I think only Wakanda had it at this point in time. 

"I am here, Miss Layla. What happened to Miss Stark? Is she alright? She appears to be passed out on the floor." Jarvis asked with concern in his robotic voice. I marveled at how advanced this AI was to even be able to feel emotions.

"She's fine. She's just taking a nap because she ate something weird and upset her stomach. We need you to fire up the Bifrost now. At full power please." I said. 

"Understood." Jarvis replied from the console. "Please insert the key so that I can start it up."

I walked over towards the Bifrost activation pedestal I'd recognized from the movies and my own Asgard. "And now, ladies and gentle-AI. I present to you the end of the world!" I picked up Heimdall's sword/key where it lay nearby and slotted it into the keyhole. 

Nothing happened….

Sif laughed at me lightly. "It's a key, You have to turn it.

"I knew that…" I twisted the sword counterclockwise hard until I heard a satisfying click.

THRUM!

I could feel it all around me. Magical energy started to build up. 

"Starting up the Bifrost at full power." Jarvis called out as it started to activate. "...Firing now." 

The Bifrost fired…

…Presumably at Earth. 

It was literally thousands of light years away so we unfortunately couldn't see it. The first Thor movie made the scene a lot more dramatic by showing Jotunheim get hit by the Bifrost when in reality neither Thor or Loki would have actually seen anything… I didn't have all sight and I wasn't teleporting myself back to Earth to check.

"Hmmm. I thought it would be more dramatic." Sif commented as we watched the Bifrost's giant beam continue to pour out into space. It was very anticlimactic to witness first hand. Especially after the grudge match I just had with Hela that left half of Asgard and its palace destroyed. 

"I can confirm the beam has reached earth, but am unaware as to how long the process will take to complete." Jarvis stated.

With a shrug, I sat down on one of the steps so we could wait. I reached into my inventory and pulled out a bag of chips. I ripped it open and took a handful before passing the bag to Sif who'd sat down next to me. "How long can it take for our knock-off death star to destroy a planet?"

4 hours later…

…It takes a long freaking time apparently. I forgot that in the movie, Loki had the Bifrost firing at Jotunheim for around 15 minutes before Thor showed up and it didn't do that much damage in that time. I imagine we had to wait til the Bifrost laser tunneled its way down to the planet's core and then caused some kind of chain reaction explosion that only makes sense because this is a comic book universe. Otherwise firing a giant laser at a planet would in no way cause it to explode… It would just make a giant hole.

Comically scattered around nearby were numerous empty bags and boxes of chips and cookies. Sif and I had just been snacking and chatting the whole time. Jarvis had been relatively quiet and was apparently copying schematics of the Bifrost. He was also a bit sad because he was essentially doing what humanity always feared what an AI would do…destroying the world. Sif and I had told him that we would all never speak of this to anybody so they don't judge him in the future. 

Andrea had yet to wake up and thankfully neither had Hela. I'd been periodically checking on the Goddess of Death and she still seemed completely magically drained. I wondered if us having the Bifrost firing for four hours straight had something to do with that. She presumably drew her power in this dimension from Asgard–which was never a real planet here–and so does the Bifrost I'm assuming. The Bifrost had been taking all of the ambient magic so far and stopping Hela from recharging herself. 

I counted that as a lucky coincidence. She'd probably destroy the rainbow bridge just to spite us at this point if she could.

[And to think just a few hours ago she wanted you to be her sex slave…]

I wasn't sure why my Hela was so much more sane than this typical 'canon-like' Hela. I believed it was because my Hela decided to directly draw her power from Lady Death instead of Asgard at some point. Maybe Death's power flowing through her restored her sanity?

[Eh, it's as good a guess as any.]

"It is done." Jarvis finally said. "I can confirm that the Earth is no more. The Bifrost is no longer hitting anything."

[Quest Completed! You have destroyed the zombie infested Earth as repayment to Lady Death!]

"Alright then!" I said as I stood up and brushed some of the crumbs off of me. Let's get the hell out of this dimension and never come back!" I walked over to the console and yanked out Jarvis's drive. Following that I walked over towards the pedestal and turned the sword clockwise disabling the Bifrost. Hela should wake up in a few hours and maybe she would rethink her life…Who am I kidding! She absolutely wouldn't, and would probably still be an evil tyrant. But she wouldn't be my problem anymore at least!

Sif shoved a few oreos into her mouth as she walked over and scooped up Andrea. "Agreed. I had no idea that alternate dimensions could be so dangerous and sad."

I called upon my Orb of Anywhere to take us home. A dark purple portal to Earth DxD opened and we stepped through.

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