Ch.2

The next few days were a bit awkward as I got used to having a baby in the house and Natasha not running of to some far away mission. She mentioned something about a vacation and seemed to have meant it. We did go to see Thor and Loki off but we also took Xander.

It turns out that everyone knew who I was under the mask ever since they were called in. Well, Thor didn't know but the rest were aware. I took off my mask for the first time at the meeting to send Thor and Loki off. Thor was still surprised and so was Banner.

Tony smiled. "So when were you going to tell me you turned into a giant white wolf?"

I shrugged. "If I could get away with it? Never. You're not exactly known to keep a secret. Hell, you spewed your secret identity all over the morning news."

His brows furrowed before he shrugged. "Fair enough. By the way the tech is a bit of a give away. Even if I hadn't already know it was you only one other person on the planet has tech on my level. Anyway, cute kid, he yours or are you kidnapping?"

I snorted and Natasha spoke up to everyone's surprise. "He's ours."

I held up Xander for them all to see clearly and Loki commented from the back. "Oh look another mud monkey."

I calmly handed Xander to Nat and proceeded to beat him within an inch of his life. When I stood over his bloody bruised body I growled. "If you ever so much as look at him again, Odin himself will have to plead for your life. And even then I'll carve out your eyes for the insult."

Even Thor wanted no part of me at that moment. Tony spoke up. "Someone get the god a muzzle before he's a dead god."

Agent Hall, Fury's right hand took out a specialized muzzle for him and put it on him. I walked back over to Natasha and she held up Xander for me. I shook my head. "One moment, I've got god blood on me. I don't want to get blood on our son."

I tapped my bracelet and the blood was collected by nanites before I held up my hands. "There, much better."

She smiled and handed him over. Thor told Loki in a not so hushed voice. "You brought that on yourself brother. I think it's time I got you home to mother and father."

He helped his brother up and they walked over to the empty street space. After they grabbed the specialized capsule and twisted it, they were taken away by a bridge of light. I turned to Stark and Banner. "I'm going to start working on spaceships soon. I think it's time humanity truly reached for the stars."

Tony smiled. "Race you."

I grinned before turning to Banner. "Betty works at Heretic worlds medical research. As far as I know she's not in contact with her father. I hired her a couple days after the whole Harlem event. Feel free to stop by or even join. My company is always open to you and your needs. I'm sure I can even help with your whole rage monster issue. I already have a few ideas that could see you in control all the time."

He frowned before nodding. "I think I'd like that."

Tony spoke up. "Wait, hold up. I was offering him a job already!"

I chuckled. "Let him work for me To y, besides I do own forty nine percent of your company so he can still help you and work on projects at your company. He'll just be on my payroll. Besides, I doubt you could beat my benefits."

He sighed. "Yeah, ok, but he's coming with me."

I chuckled and they left in his electric Maserati. I turned to see Natasha was talking to Clint about visiting. I walked over with Xander sleeping in my arms. "So, what do you say Clint, care to see a couple guests on your farm? I'm handy on a farm anyway."

He smiled. "I think I'd like that. I'll tell Laura to expect company tomorrow."

I nodded. "We'll be there. For now though, I think it's time we got this little guy to bed. He's exhausted from meeting so many new people."

We said our goodbyes before going to the penthouse. Once Xander was asleep, Natasha made her move. She slipped out of her clothes on the way to the bedroom from the living room. She made it a point to stop at the doorway and raise a challenging eyebrow.

The chase was on as we tested my reinforced furniture and sound proof walls. When were was spent and laying on the bed she asked. "Do you think we'll ever be normal?"

I chuckled. "Define normal. I'm fairly certain Thor would think were as normal as any other asgardian couple."

She snorted and clawed my peck before answering. "Normal for humans?"

I sighed. "I've never been that normal and I'm fairly certain I'm not human, so no. But we can be happy, and to me, that's enough."

She smiled. "Yeah, I guess it is. So, what don't I know about your past?"

I chuckled. "A great many things. But to hear those things you'd have to be no longer tied to Shield. I don't trust them and I won't pressure you that way."

She sighed. "Then what way will you pressure me?"

I felt my other appendage rise and she groaned. "I take it back, I get the picture."

I chuckled and growled as I rolled over pinning her down as I entered her. "Not that easy to get away love, relax, I'll give you a message after this round."

She grinned and raised her hips to meet me. "Promise?"

I matched her grin and buried myself in her wet heat. "Promise."

The last round ended up being a rougher fierce and passionate struggle for release. When she found hers, she wrapped her legs around my waist and bucked into me while I began to expand inside her.

Her eyes shifted and she moaned into my kiss as I released inside her. It lasted for eternity and as we began to compound orgasms and she bit into my shoulder. She couldn't break my skin but she did leave a faint bruise while she squirmed and shuddered in my arms.

My own orgasm continued as well. I felt the girls joining us elsewhere in their orgasms. As the feeling scorched through us, Natalie received the excess feeling of orgasms as well. That sent her into another longer lasting one. Eventually, I was able to roll us back over and pull myself out of her with a pop.

We were gasping for breathe and panting at the moment when she finally bit out. "What the heck was that? I've never felt such and overwhelming sensation."

I chuckled. "Just another secret I'll eventually have to tell you. For now just enjoy the rush because I'm about to get the oil."

She smiled and bit her lip. "Well whatever it is, it can't be all that bad."

I nodded and she slid off of me letting me up. I searched through the nightstand and grabbed the bottle of oil. When I turned back to her, I saw her whipping her thighs of my essence and her liquids. "You know the more you do that the more the beast in me wants me to put more inside you."

She blushed and nodded. "I know the feeling. It's like there's some kind of primal satisfaction I get from having you in me."

I shrugged. "Either way it's message time, lay on your stomach, I'll take care of the rest."

When I said that she was staring at my our love essence glistening on her finger tips. She slowly put it to her tongue before her eyes went wide. She tried a bit more before she turned to me. "Did you know you taste like strawberries and cream?"

I shrugged. "I've been told on occasion. I never really tried it myself but I do know you taste heavenly yourself."

She blushed deeply before catching a pool of my essence in her hands that leaked out at that moment. I told her. "There's a clean towel next to your head, use that. Once were done with the message I'll draw a bath and let you soak while giving you some champagne and chocolates."

She shook her head a little before trying more of it and soon enough her hands were empty. I growled and she turned her attention away from her discovery before realizing what she'd just done. She blushed again before laying down on her stomach.

I got on with the message and began working the knots out of her muscles. When I'd finished I had to carry her to the bathroom for a nice long soak. She was heavily lidded when I switched out the champagne for red wine and started feeding her dark chocolates.

While she enjoyed her bath, I rubbed her feet before kissing her and going to clean up myself and the room. When I was done I went back to the bathroom and woke her up. She'd fallen asleep in the tub. I gently finished washing her and dried her before carrying her back to the bedroom. I laid her down on the fresh and soft bed before covering her in the comforter.

She dozed off and I turned out the lights before lighting the fire place. While she slept on went to watch Xander sleep as well. When he woke up needing a change I took care of it before thinking of a better idea than setting him down in his crib to sleep. I took him to our room and gently put him next to Natasha on a makeshift baby bundle. He was fast asleep as well now.

I had Red Queen record it and save it to my most secure servers. I sat by the bed in my leather chair watching them and sipping bourbon. They slept for most of the evening and night like that and Xander woke up at sunrise to make his needs known.

I made sure to put a quiet field around Natasha while I took care of him. When I finished and he was fed, changed and happy she joined us in the dining room. I cooked a rare meaty breakfast for the both of us consisting of rare steaks and crispy bacon and eggs. The steaks were very bloody and fresh so I knew by her look that they were perfect.

So perfect in fact that she finished mine and hers while I was making toast. When I saw that I chuckled and fried a couple dozen more. It seems her appetite had grown since her pregnancy and she'd been hiding it well until today. I didn't have a real problem with it as there was plenty of food to go around.

We headed to Clint's house in my personal hover jet I'd built and kept hidden on the roof after breakfast.when we landed I cloaked my jet and we met Clint and his family on the porch. His daughter and son were there with his wife to greet us.

After he introduced me and Xander to them, Natasha and Laura took the kids inside. Clint handed me a tea and we sat there and talked about my plans to keep Natasha and Xander safe. I was brutally honest with him. "It's a bloody world and I'd die to protect them. If I could actually die anyway."

That got his attention. "What are you immortal?"

I shrugged. "I haven't found anything that could actually hurt me physically. I can palm a grenade and beat the hulk bloody without so much as a bruise. I'm not sure there's anything that can kill me. At least not on earth anyway."

I pulled a spare sword out of my ring and handed it to him. "Feel free to try. It'll only break the blade and that's made of the same materials Thor's hammer and Captain America's shield is."

He frowned before swinging it. A loud crack echoed and I saw the sword hit the ground. I turned to see Clint holding his wrist. "Son of a-"

I sighed. "Sorry about that. I should've figured a regular human probably wouldn't be able to swing it hard enough to break the sword. I thought you were super sized like Captain America and Natasha was."

I pulled out a canister and the nanites took care of his broken wrist. When he stopped cursing the nanites came back out and into the canister. It's shrank before exploding like a fire cracker pop.

His wrist was good as new though and so was all his other aliments. He tried stretching and turning his wrist before he figured it out. "How is this possible?"

I sighed. "Technology. I can't remove bullets or shrapnel with them but repairing the human body to its peak state is the point I think."

He nodded. "Got any more of those things?"

I chuckled. "Not for Shield no, but for a friend, sure."

I made two more canisters appear. He finally asked. "How are you pulling them out of nowhere?"

I grinned. "Tell you what, you swear not to tell Fury or any Shield agents it's leader and I'll show you."

After an internal debate he finally nodded. "Deal."

I took him at his word and took off my ring, setting it on the porch railing. "It's my greatest invention. It harnesses vacuum space energy to create a stable pocket dimension. Basically it's a storage ring that can hold and unlimited amount of anything to be used with a thought. Neural transmitters allow me to access it remotely and take anything in or out of it. Wanna see some of the things I have inside?"

He nodded. "Sure. How do we do that?"

I grabbed his shoulder. "Like this."

With a thought we were inside one of my many vaults. This one was the armory and advanced weapons I'd either made or found in my travels. There was everything from swords to staff weapons and laser pistols. He looked like a kid in the candy store. "This is amazing."

I chuckled. "You don't know the half of it. This is just the experimental weapons and toys I've been making as prototypes."

I waved a hand and we were now in an isle surrounded by bows and archery supplies. I took a case off the back rack and handed it to him. "Think of it as a special gift. It's made from the same materials as the sword only this is DNA locked. Once you grab it it'll only work for you or your family members. The quiver uses some of the same tech as the ring. It's basically bottomless and once it locks to you all you have to do is think of the arrow you want and it'll provide it."

He smiled. "Sweet."

When he opened the case I warned him. "Don't be trying to copy the tech or letting Shield do the same. It's tamper proof and it will destroy itself if you try to do so to many times."

He nodded before picking them up. I waved a hand and we appeared in my treasure vault world. I made a target appear way into the distance of five hundred yards. "Tell you what, I'll make you a bet. I'll make a you a special set of armor if you can hit that target."

He squinted at it bore saying. "Impossible. It's too far."

I snorted. "Then how about the opposite. I'll bet that you can hit that target if you try. If you still fail I'll make the armor. If you succeed though, you'll owe me a beer."

He grinned before sighing. "Are you sure you want to make that bet?"

I snorted. "Look around you. This very place is made of gold and gems. I can afford another set of free armor to give out."

He shrugged and aimed for the target. When he released the arrow something he wasn't expecting occurred. The back end of the arrow caught fire and it zoomed to the target. When it hit I told him. "Each of the hundreds of thousands of arrows in that quiver is equipped with the same laser guided tech and propulsion systems that my suit and weapons are made from. In actuality those arrows cost more to make them a full suit of indestructible armor. Also tamper proof FYI."

He looked at his quiver with a complicated expression and I went over to a pile of precious gems. I made a couple necklaces and a wrist band with some of them before walking back over to him. "Let's go see what the girls are up to. I'd put the bow and quiver away though."

I waved to the case at his feet and he did so. I took us back out and onto his porch. That caused his son to drop the ring that then floated to my finger. Clint asked his son what the girls were up to and he sighed. "Moms talking play dates for Lila and Xander with aunt Nat."

I chuckled and handed him the wrist band. "Here kid, think of it as a present for our first meeting. The jewels are rubies and emeralds surrounding two sapphires in a skull formation."

He took it and tried it on. "Cool! Thank you uncle Alex!"

I chuckled and raised an eyebrow to Clint. He smirked. "You're the one that brought presents."

I shrugged. "There's an energy shield on it for emergencies only. It'll protect him till you can."

He looked gutted and thankful at the same time. I handed him two necklaces. "For Lila and Laura. I figured since my family's protected, why not extend the same to yours."

He nodded. "Thanks man, it means more than you know."

I nodded silently while he collected himself and went to give the presents to his wife and daughter. Lila wouldn't be able to mess with hers and it would prevent her from swallowing it or even putting it in her mouth.

When Natasha saw my gifts, she smiled and walked over to me. Xander and Lila were in the play pin together so she was free to hug me fully before saying. "Thanks for that. He needed the peace of mind."

I nodded and Laura spoke up. "Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but what about Clint? Isn't he the one in the most danger all the time?"

I chuckled. "Not really. Clint, next time you decide to practice say your code name. You'll find the quiver has one last gift in it."

We spent the day with them while I helped Clint around the farm. I fixed his tractor to as good as new while he handed me tools. When we were done we fixed the fences and fed the horses.

As it started to get dark he asked. "You staying for supper? Laura makes this incredible lasagna."

I grinned. "Sure thing. Then maybe you can show off your new toys. While we grab a bite cap. I've got some alcohol in the my ring."

He laughed and we went inside for the meal. Laura asked all kinds of pointed questions and I avoided the ones that led to answers I wasn't about to give. When she finally asked. "Why don't you trust Nat to keep your secrets?"

I sighed and sat back. "It's not about trusting her. It's about putting her in the position to either keep my secrets from Fury or never see me again. Fury answers to the council and if they suddenly took an interest in me, he'd be pressured to pressure her and I'd rather avoid that outcome wherever possible. She has her secrets and I have mine. Once she's free of Shield, I'll gladly tell her all of them. Until that day, I'd rather not put her in that position."

I turned to Natasha who was coming into the doorway with Clint and the desert. She looked like I'd put her on the spot for a second before her face took on a neutral expression. Laura dropped it and we had strawberry cheesecake for desert. Natasha blushed when she tasted it for some odd reason and before long we were send the kids to bed.

When the kids were put to bed and Xander was asleep on the couch. We adjourned to the porch with wine. I set up a target for Clint to hit in the distance on a tree. He took out his gift and when he had it equipped he spoke his name. A band popped out into his hand as he reached for an arrow.

I chuckled. "Put it on. I hope you like the design. It's practically nuke proof once it's on."

When he put the band on nanites came out and covered his body. Seconds later he was standing there in the full dead shot gear except instead of guns there were mini crossbows. While the design was the same, the colors matched his Hawkeye uniform.

I told him. "The colors are changeable with a thought though the rest is permanent. The targeting system on the mask increases your range three fold without reducing accuracy when used with that bow and those arrows. As for the mask itself, it is optional and retracts but it also has a built in air filtration system and prevents all gases and flash bangs from affecting you. The armor itself is guaranteed to stop anything short of the Hulk in a truly epic rage."

I shrugged. "As for the full list of its capabilities just think and the lenses will display the answers to all your questions about it."

He retracted the mask and smiled. "Thanks again man."

I nodded. "No problem. Don't mention it. You're important to Nat so I figured making you safe would give her piece of mind. Besides, I doubt this'll be the last time we'll visit now that Xander has a friend to play with."

He nodded and I set down my drink. "Why don't you test it out. Fire off a few arrows and see how far the limits are now. It has all the same stuff your old one does so be original. Just no lethal poisons please. While they're in there, it would be a shame if the land became riddled with them."

He nodded and thought for a second before drawing and arrow and firing it at the tree target. Lightning crackled and the tree caught fire. He shot another in quick succession and the tree froze sold putting out the fire on contact. One more and the tree shattered creating a loud boom that woke up the kids.

He looked at me. "Seriously? Diamond tipped arrows?"

I shrugged. "There yours now. By the way, each arrow out there is perfectly fine and will be repaired when you put them back in the quiver. Gotta love nanotechnology."

He nodded and I pointed at the moon. "Think sunburst ant fire a shot straight up. You might want to close your eyes after wards or look away."

He went out into the yard and did as I told him. In a brilliant flash of light the whole sky lit up as if it were day time fire the next five minutes. When it went away he asked. "What the heck was that?"

I shrugged. " I figured you might like defense against vampires if you ever meet any. That'll roast them nice and good long before it goes out. It's a concentrated burst of UV rays given of by a miniature artificial sun. It doesn't last long but it's more than sufficient to do the job."

Laura asked. "Vampires are real?"

I chuckled. "I turn into a big werewolf, your husband is on a first name bases with a god and you stop at vampires?"

Clint asked. "Well, are they real or not?"

I shrugged. "My money's on yes. After all, I am a werewolf. I wouldn't be surprised if Dracula was a real being that relished blood and ate people. If there are werewolves and aliens, why not vampires."

Natasha spoke up. "That's something to think about."

I nodded. "On the bright side our archer is now prepared for a full on war with everything myth or legend out there. I included some pretty impressive arrow types in there if I do say so myself."

I thought for a second before asking. "Do you want supernatural reflexes? I have this nifty serum I found from a plant in Africa that can give you the heightened speed, strength and reflexes of a jungle cat."

Clint turned to look at Laura and I promised. "There are no side effects if that's what you're worried about. And any kids you have will still be normal."

Laura finally spoke up. "He'll take it."

Clint turned back to me and I tossed him a vial. "Bottoms up. Don't hold back either. I don't want Fury or Shield getting their hands on it. They'd wage war to get more of it and I don't intend to make super soldiers for profit or otherwise."

He drank it all and took a knee. I helped him sit down. "Forgot to mention it kicks like a mule. You'll be fine in an hour then better than fine by morning. Now that the funs over, I think it's time we headed home."

Natasha went to collect Xander who was awake and watching us at the door with the other kids. Laura asked. "Will he age slower like Captain America?"

I shook my head. "No, he'll age the same. This won't give him any special muscles either. It just improves what was already there. I think you'll find sex is more interesting as well as all his senses will improve."

I set another vial down next to my glass of wine and looked at her. "In case you'd like to experience the same thing. It's a permanent change though so be sure."

She nodded and put it away before grabbing Clint a blanket. I simply shook my head and lifted him and blurred. I came back out side saying. "He's in bed. Once he wakes up it'll be a whole new experience for him."

She looked at her hand and I sighed. "Like I said, no nasty side effects. You'd be able to experience the world like he will. Though I'd put the kids back to bed and head there yourself if you decide to take it."

I left her there and joined Natasha on the jet. I told the Red Queen to take us home. I spent the next six months mostly the same way with Natasha and Xander. I'd had some clones start building ships with strictly earth technology.

When Tony made contact on Christmas Eve asking for help to save Pepper from some terrorist. I sent him my iron legion and told him they were strictly on lone. The Red Queen followed his lead as she was in control of them all.

Each one was equip with cloaking tech and more weapons than he could shake a stick at. Everyone of them were immune to all temperature changes as well. The Uru helped as I'd enchanted them to truly be indestructible by all means except my own.

The next morning he sent them back with a thank you and a recording of the events. Tony still blew up his own iron legion and now he wasn't as on edge as he'd been since the battle of New York.

I spent the day passing out presents to Natasha and Xander while recording everything. It was his first Christmas and I wanted it to be special so I made magic come to life for him. The ceilings and walls had different cartoons he'd been watching on them.

When he saw it he squealed and holograms of his cartoons came off the walls. You've never seen a more happy child than Xander when Bob the builder asked him to help build a city.

Nanites took form so that he could really touch everything and his eye went wide in shock. Nat was smiling as we watched him play with Bob and the seemingly live toy city.

When he tired out I told him. "This is your play room from now on. You can come back to play after dinner."

I carried him to his booster seat and Nat closed the doors to the room behind us. Alfred served us a traditional Christmas dinner. When we finished eating Xander has fallen asleep so I cleaned him up and took him to his bed while Nat went to find something.

When I closed his door she was there with a letter in her hand. When I read it I sighed. "You're leaving Shield."

She nodded. "I'm officially just a consultant now like you and Stark and the rest."

I took her to the living room and sat her down before giving her a kiss. In that kiss, I showed her everything I was and am. I held nothing back as I gave her the only gift I could, the truth. The kiss lasted but a moment but that was all it took for me to release the restraints I had on her powers and abilities.

All of the girls were there waiting when I pulled back from the kiss. She looked hurt and confused at first but I truly held nothing back. I wasn't lying when I told her I knew very little about her passed. I only knew of a possible future she would've lived and died in.

I gave her time to take it all in and catch her breath. Bonnie told me. "We'll take it from here. The ancient one wishes to see you."

I nodded and looked to Natasha before teleporting to Kamar-Taj. The ancient one was there in all her glory waiting for me. I sighed. "You've improved what is it you want from me?"

She took a deep breath before making her request. "Your wives have made contracts with certain disciples and they've improved immensely. I wanted to know if you did something similar and if you'd make one with me."

I looked her over before my eyes shifted. I saw her connection to the dark dimension and Dormammu. "When you're free of the dark dimension's hold, ask me again. Until then the answer is no."

She bowed before asking. "If I broke it now-"

I snorted. "You'd die. Your body is too old to survive without drawing on eternal powers. Once you've passed the mantel to Strange I'll bring you back, you have nothing to truly fear."

I waved a hand and a necklace bearing my emblem on it floated before her. "Wear it and your death shall be your rebirth. When your body reforms you'll be far younger than you are now. If you pray for something while wearing it I will hear you."

She took it and I teleported to Xander's room to watch over him and think about my life. The girls were busy having their ways with Natasha at the moment. Hopefully by the morning she'll have accepted all of us as we are. For now I sat by my sons bed and hummed a lullaby.

Over the next week I hadn't seen any of the girls. They'd thrown a barrier over the bedroom and left me to my own devices. I spent that time with Xander watching him play and even joining him to amuse him.

I thought back trying to remember when life had been that simple. Play and be happy."

Sadly I couldn't remember it. Sure I was happy and I played with the girls but nothing so innocent as a child's amusement at watch his father get smack in the head with a toy hammer.

Even my human lives were never this innocent. As I lay there and my son touched my forehead trying to say boo-boo I felt something I'd been missing in my existence click into place. I'd never known what pure innocents felt like till this moment.

It had taken billions and billions of years and several dozen realities before I felt anything like this. I had a peaceful smile on my face even as Xander slobbered a kiss on my forehead. I pulled him on my chest and tickled his stomach before blowing a raspberry on his stomach causing him to giggle and laugh hysterically.

I continued the tickle frenzy and eventually we were interrupted by the girls watching us in the doorway. Natasha came forwards and took him and I sighed. "So, have you made your decision? I can erase everything you know about us and remove the abilities if you wish. I can't promise I'd still let you die, but barring that, I wouldn't interfere in your life. Xander would still be yours to raise, I won't fight you on that Nat. You were born to be a mother, but I'd still like to see him and be apart of his life."

She sighed. "You're a piece of work you know that? You come into my life like a mysterious gentleman and I find out you're a god of death and destruction. The worst parts of me are things that you thrive off of."

I looked down and didn't meet her gaze. Every word of it was true and I had no ground to stand on. Even if I did, I wouldn't argue with her. I'd treated all of the girls unfairly. She was merely the latest one. While those thoughts swirled in my head she continued. "You save me from my worst mistake and gave me a treasure I thought I'd never have. You healed me and protected everyone you possibly could while being the perfect father."

I looked up with hope and she smiled. "If it means seeing you take a toy hammer to the forehead every now and then, then I'd love to join you on your crazy adventures."

I grinned and Xander bonked me in the head with another toy hammer causing everyone to laugh but him. He wanted to kiss daddy's head and get tickled again. I happily obliged, baby sooner and all.

Later that evening Stark sent me a formula he needed help on to help Pepper. I looked it over before changing some equations and sending back the full equation along with its counter and a way to build on it. He thanked me for my help before telling me in a rush that it was a cure for extremis he was working on. He now had a way to clean it out of Pepper's system or complete it and basically make her immortal.

I'd just unlocked the human genome for him. I sent the same copy to Ayana's lab for when she returned to it later. I went to join them in the bedroom while Xander slept in his soundproof room with the Red Queen nanny and guard on standby for him.

I found the girls were mostly talking about random things they'd experienced over the years. They freely shared memories and experiences with each other I had a hologram of Xander appear and showed them his first words and steps before devolving into random funny things he did or tried to say.

A lot of oohs and ahhs sounded out and eventually it went to family photos then to just me and Natasha. That's when I was interrupted by Harley sliding on my lap and making her wants known. She pointed out the other girls states of undress and sexual actions they'd started when I switched to family photos.

I created clones and proceeded to take each of them to the timeless room in my vault. I was interested in testing their limits while Natasha finished her change.

Needless to say I found the limits of my current body. Apparently after a century of non stop sex, even gods at my level start to wear out. The girls were starting to show now so that's a plus though it was only very slight.

We came out of the vault and I made tubs and clones to take care of and pamper them. Natasha was still inside the time vault though she'd be out soon in our perspective. She could come out on her own when she was ready. Anubis actually woke up as we were coming out.

His new abilities strengthened his body in a truly unique way, much like Cole's eventually would. He told me he was going to find Hades now that he had a body as well and they'd ascend together once they were ready. I gave him my talisman in case he needed me to guard him as he ascended.

He thanked me with another deep bow before tearing a whole in reality and leaving to find Hades. An hour later Natasha came out of the ring and I made another clone and tub for her. She relaxed and moaned as she settled into the hot water.

I had Red Queen put on some relaxing music while I pampered them. They certainly deserved it after all the constant sex acts they allowed me to put them through. I'd truly tested the limits they could take and yet they still loved me regardless.

Natasha had fully ascended into goddess-hood now and was a step away from reaching their level. Harley, Ivy and Selina has taken their turn in the time room while they were off exploring. It only takes an hour or so to gather the strength in the outside world while there inside the time room.

As it was Ivy had become a goddess of nature, taking her own route. Selina had become a goddess of night, doing the same and Harley had chosen to become a goddess of Chaos. She made her own way on that one but still used my connections once she was there to establish herself.

I happily kicked the shit out of some gods of chaos while she took their territory and established herself. I did the same for each of my wives including Natasha. She'd made a name for herself on her own though as she gathered allies in the death domain.

Hel, Nephthys , Morrigan and even Mot, a Canaanite God, followed her lead as they bowed to her when she herself slaughtered a territory lord no weaker than I was in that domain.

The lord in question was Ah Puch, a Mayan god of death and very strong because of the Mayans constant ritual sacrifices in some realities.

He'd already absorbed several of himself as well, making it that much more impressive that she tore him apart. She gave his destroyed avatar to those that followed her, like I did for Anubis and Hades, whom watched the whole event.

She used much of his territory to expand her own before letting the others take the rest as she'd reached as far as she could. Now she was on the same level as the rest of us.

While I messaged her shoulders in the tub, I helped her send out a blood spell to each and every none core reality to have each of her duplicates try for goddess-hood themselves.

Eventually they would succeed but she insisted that only the doubles that were not with someone do so as she didn't want multiple husbands showing up out of nowhere.

I was a handful enough on my own apparently. Not that I'd allow those husbands to stay alive anyway. I'm well aware of my faults and being a hypocrite was one of them but I simply wouldn't let another male be with my women.

Call me a jealous god or a hypocrite or even both but maybe it was the wolf in me that demanded they only be with me. My clones were a different matter because they were literally apart of me and Would return to doing so.

They had no real free will of there own and instead we're less alive than shadow clones in that aspect. I hadn't yet traveled to that reality so I had no real bases to make them like that.

Anyway, while I messaged the aches and pains away and healed the sore muscles I'd been abusing, they talked about their kids and how they wanted to treat them. I had to assure Natasha that Xander wouldn't be any weaker than them in the end, I merely took the excess energy off and once he was old enough, I'd return it so he could ascend on his own.

I even showed her the special vial that I'd stored it all in. It glowed much the same as angel grace only it was far more powerful. His powers had a pure feel to them, not anything like my death, destruction, chaos or even magic domains. The closest, the speed force domain, had a slight tinge of the same feeling.

I had a feeling he'd be a god in his own right and take a path I couldn't even touch as I was now. With that thought, I felt out and each of my children had much the same feel to them. I could tell none were connected to my domains but separate ones they'd grow into.

While they were still growing though, they were protected by mine and their mother's essences. Our will, to be precise. If anyone tried attacking them through their domains We'd be able to defend them with our avatars even if we couldn't enter the domain fully.

With my curse it wouldn't matter much though as I'd be able to absorb them and make my own connection once they attacked. All the gods in those domains could feel was that they were protected by more powerful gods then they were or equal standing gods at least.

No god in there right mind attacked a child unless they were fully prepared to face their parents wrath. Areas in the domains where children were connected were considered off limits to non-parents in those domains. They were protected by all the parents, not just the individual ones that were attacked.

To attack one, meant pissing off everyone there and possibly open domain war. Not that it would stop some I'm sure but it made most rethink their course when it was brought up.

Even though I avoided the community's in the domains, and even with my impending revenge on the horizon, no Zeno, God or Osiris would risk the whole of our domains slamming down into a war that wouldn't end until all involved were dead.

As it was, I told my wives of my findings and they were each curious about what kind of gods or goddesses our kids would be. We discussed it while they dried off and I gave them full body messages, substituting oil for lotion. After morning came, they left to head back to there interests.

Natasha joined me in playing with Xander. Two months passed in peace until I felt gravity fluctuations in starting to occur. I cast my gaze to the stars that night and a beautiful sight to behold came into view.

The convergence was starting. With a thought, I sent my clone to retrieve the Aether and told Kali to have fun whipping out the last of the dark elves. The very next morning she sent me the image of Malaketh's death. She'd beheaded him and destroyed his ship before they could fully wake up.

My clone returned with the Aether inside it and I pulled it out before locking it away in my vaults. I had him replace it with a similar fake that Jane would end up with before Odin pulled it out of her and sent it to the collector. Asgard needn't be harmed over such pitiful stones.

While powerful to most, they'd only ever bring someone to the very threshold of my current realm. And that's all together. Separately they were to weak to be of use to me. As it was I could snap my own fingers and while out this reality without them. Though I'd still have to fight the one above all for doing so without his permission.

As far as I could tell, he was in very much the same position as the presence. From what I'd gathered, they were friends before they fell and did so together.

For the next few weeks I watched on as Jane found the fake stone and it went inside her. Thor took her to Asgard and eventually Odin was able to pull it out of her. I took on my first form, as my body changed to look like Thor, whom I'd actually been born to look like, I teleported to Agard.

While Odin was in council with Thor and his Queen, Frigga. I appeared in the halls before them and smiled. "Greetings Agardians. I am Mikael, god of magic, death, destruction, chaos and speed. I come with humble tidings. I wish to learn of your people and ways."

Odin turned to Thor. "What is this?"

Thor shook his head. "Perhaps another of Loki's games."

I frowned and gave of a burst of power shaking all of Asgard. "DO NOT TAKE ME FOR SOME CHEAP TRICK!"

I lowered my voice as it had boomed out of me. "Sorry, but I'm not a fan of your idiot son or his uses of magic. No, I am not an illusion or trick. Use your own connection to the higher Magic's to see for yourself Odin Borson."

Odin sat back on his throne and communed with his thin connection to the realm of magic. There, I stood before him in all my avatar glory. While his thin connection only allowed him glimpses of me, I was able to prove my words there.

He stopped looking at me and went back to his body, I followed back to mine. "How are your findings little king."

Thor spoke up. "You will not speak to him in this way-"

Odin spoke over him. "Enough! Thor, our guest is not lying, he is a true god, or as true a god as I've ever seen. I had to give my right eye for a small thin connection to that realm. And still he was there larger than life itself. If what he says is correct his has connections to other realms as well and is a real god."

I chuckled. "Very true Borson. I am a real god, much like the maker of this universe. Now on to the reason I am here-"

Odin cut in. "Might I ask why you've taken the form of my son?"

I shrugged. "I was born to this form, I thought it appropriate to appear as it as well. I mean no offense by it. I've spent billions of years looking as I do now. I can take other forms, but I prefer this one. It is after all, my favorite."

Frigga asked. "When you say born, do you mean you were born a god?"

I chuckled. "Far from it. I was born a mortal, human to be exact. In another reality very far from this one. I was born to magic, much like you are. I had a mortal life but circumstances saw to it that I become immortal. From there I fought and grew until one day I killed a mortal bound goddess of hell and consumed her essence. I continued farther and eventually became what you see before you."

She frowned then nodded while Odin sighed. "We would like very much to hear your stories and battles and are more than willing to share our own, but I do ask that you change your form to something less confusing for my people."

I nodded. "Sure, what form would you have me take. So long as it is not an animal or something degrading I will change to it."

Thor spoke up. "I have a friend back on Midgard, he goes by Steve Rogers-"

I shifted to look like Steve easily enough. I got rid of the hairdo and spangled armor in favor of a black jacket and jeans. "This is as far as I'll go on that one. I'm not a fan of the armor he wears."

Thor frowned. "How did-"

I chuckled. "I'm a god, even to you. I can see father and better than Heimdall and even your father. There's very little I cannot find out, past, present or future if I so wished."

He accepted that and odin asked. "Are you here for the Aether?"

I shook my head. "The reality Stone doesn't interest me. The stones themselves are trinkets to something like me."

He nodded. "So they are. Very well, Thor, take the Aether to the collector. Asgard cannot safely house two stones."

Thor bowed and left with the stone and I was left with the lovely couple. "Before we break open the casks and mead I feel I should warn you that Loki was being manipulated by the mind stone. Someone used it to strengthen his hatred of you and his desire for the thrown. They mentally broke him apart and put him back together to fit their needs then sent him to Midgard to retrieve the space stone and cause a war."

Frigga held a hand over her mouth and Odin looked furious. He asked in a deep voice filled with rage and pain. "Are you sure?"

I sighed. "I'm sure. Even now his mind is a scrambled mess of pain, rage and greed. There's confusion and something like addiction from exposure to the mind stones power. Even with all your knowledge and power I doubt you'd be able to reverse the damage. Though I do offer my sympathy's."

Frigga asked. "Could you heal him?"

I shrugged. "Maybe, if I wanted to, yeah. But like I said before, I'm not your sons biggest fan and I'm not a god of kindness."

I turned to Odin. "I'll make you a deal. After you've confirmed my words, I'll heal your son and even turn back the clock for you, giving you your youth back. And in return, you'll free Hela. I wish to meet the would be goddess of death."

Odin frowned and shook at my words. I continued. "You know as well as I that I could simply summon her here or go to her. I'm even willing to remove the strain the stones did to you last time you used them to trap her. All this for her release."

Odin sighed. "What May I ask, do you want with her?"

I shrugged. "That's a bit of my business. Just agree to my terms so that we can get on to the reason I'm here. I'd really like to learn about your people and why there's a group of shadows watching you."

Odin was shook to his core at my words. "Don't-"

I waved him off. "Relax. They're nothing compared to me. The moment they act, I'll skin them alive and consume them."

Odin looked terrified and relieved at the same time. I'm sure he was a mix of emotions, but I couldn't care less. Even if Xander grew up to me just like Hela, I'd never have locked him away. I may give him a spanking but I wouldn't imprison him in an alternate dimension until my death. Time outs are one thing, but Odin, king or not, is truly a terrible father.

The proof is there, as Hela and Loki are both in prison while Thor was spoiled rotten and barely knows common sense. I was a warrior myself, and yet even I know generals and leaders don't rush off into battle and leave there post to be attacked. It tends to lead to chaos and eventually the death of your own people.

Thor's simply not leader material, let alone king material. Odin may be a great king, but like I said, he's a lousy father. He finally found his words again. "Alright, I'll agree to your terms, but might I ask that you deal with those shadows as well?"

The moment he said that the whole palace was tossed into darkness and they acted. I threw chains of fire and trapped them all in them. These were the essence of the humans belief in the Asgardians as gods. The energy of that belief in them made them real beings.

Once all of them were captured, I dragged them into the light and destroyed their hidden realm. The chambers lit up again as pale forms of the Norse gods were revealed.

Odin watched as even his pale likeness was revealed and I told him. "There the results of pretending to be gods. The humans and mortals believed in you so much that that belief gave birth to these creatures. Formed by the energy of the souls that believed in you and your people, they can and have essentially been tossing you and yours into countless Ragnoroks and erasing your memories as they rebuilt it to do it all over again."

"A story is just that, a story, until enough people believe in it that it becomes fact. Magic users would commonly refer to them as Tulpa. This rarer though as your past selves must not have agreed to take in all that faith energy. When mortals pray to the gods or God, they give a energy from their soul in the form of faith energy. Either your past selves failed to live up to the faith or they simply didn't view themselves as gods."

Frigga asked. "What would it do to us if we took it in?"

I shrugged. "If you continued to take it in your become dependent on it. The energy would strengthen your own souls but if ever the mortals stopped believing in you, as they clearly have otherwise these things wouldn't be using you in such a time loop, then you'd either fade away or simply die."

The shadows struggled harder and harder but my chains were apart of my domain and they would last as long as I did. Odin asked. "What are you going to do with them?"

I smiled and waved a hand. The shadow creatures began to scream and howl in agony as their skin peeled of in clumps. "Keep my word of course."

Frigga asked. "Won't you become dependent on faith as well?"

I snorted and my soul came out of my body. It was like a condensed star. It pulsed with green and purple light. "I am beyond faith. This could no more effect me than swallowing all of Asgard whole."

The shadows continued to suffer as the last of their skin fell off and I opened my mouth and swallowed them whole. Once they flew into the mouth of my soul avatar, it floated back into my body. "A light snack to start the day. Now where were we? Ah, your youth."

I raised a hand and turned back the clock as it were for them. In reality I just gave their bodies and souls enough energy then forced there bodies to de-age back to the prime of their youth. When I was done I even healed Odin's eye.

I lowered my hand saying. "I wouldn't sacrifice the new eye if I were you. It won't make a stronger connection and since the shadows are gone, they can't make deals anymore."

They looked at me then each other as his eye patch fell away. They hugged each other and began kissing like teenagers. When I grew bored I whistled drawing their attention. "Your turn to keep your part of the deal. Once she's back here I'll have a chat with her then we can get down to the business of healing your son."

Odin coughed. "Right, right. I'll need you to break the spell. I'm not strong enough to reverse the stones effects myself."

I scoffed and waved a hand, shattering the spell on his soul that prevented Hela from returning while he was alive. A portal opened up and she came out. The first thing she did once she was free was attack Odin and Frigga.

I snorted and waved a hand. She flew against the wall and rose up off the floor, unable to move. She growled. "What is this magic?"

I chuckled. "Mine obviously. I made a deal with Odin to release you from your prison. Seeing as how he's not dead nor dying, your not yet the queen of Asgard. Attacking the current king is treason on its own, heir or not and that can allow him to banish you and disown your right to inherit. I'd refrain from trying so again or else I'll lose my patience with you oh goddess of death."

I said the last part with a smirk, releasing my hold on her. Instead of attack Odin, she tried to attack me, I stood there and watched as she wore herself out over the next half hour. Everything she tried either bounced off my skin or broke the weapon involved.

When she was tired and panting after another hour, I sighed. "Just give up little would be goddess. You may serve the real goddess of death for this universe, but you simply cannot harm a being above even her."

She froze at my words before sneering. "There is no one above death-"

"There is child. He's not from this universe. Even my creator only stands on par with him now."

A women much resembling a certain Teen Titan appeared next to me. "It is an honor to see one so strong in my domain in this multiverse cluster."

I nodded. "It's a pleasure to meet one so rarely among the living. Personally I find them fascinating."

She nodded and Hela kneeled down. "My lady."

Odin and Frigga kneeled down as well. "An honor to meet you my lady, I'm-"

Death spoke with an amused smile. "Odin Borson, yes, I'm well aware of who you are. Originally your name was meant for my books not long from now. Both of your names actually. But it seems things can be changed."

I shrugged. "Screw Ragnorok, it's a boring concept anyway. Surtur can continue to suffer for all I care."

I turned to Hela. "I had you released so that you can bring back Fenrir. Your the only one capable of doing it without leaving him an undead mutt. Once you do so, I'll be taking him as a meal."

That seemed to make them all loose there mind. Odin and Frigga kept asking why I'd go so far for a meal, Hela was furious and even Death was curious why I wanted to it a wolf. I snorted and released pressure enough to drive death to her knees. The rest were on the ground fully gasping for breath. "Enough! A deals a deal Odin. If you're unhappy with the terms of the deal I can always reverse them and see you and your wife dead now!"

I turned to Death as I released them. "My reasons are my own. Go back to your job and enjoy the show, or not, I really don't care. If you want to find out why I'm going to eat him, ask your father."

She nodded before leaving. I turned to Hela and sighed. "I know it's unfair to ask you to bring back your closest companion only to take him away so I'll make a promise. After I've eaten him, I'll take his soul and put it into a pup. You can raise him anew as if I'd never harmed him. I'll even give you a boon. So long as it doesn't involve Asgard or harming anyone you may ask anything of me and I'll do it."

She froze at my words and stood up. "Very well. I shall see what the word of a real god is worth. Allow me to go to the treasury then."

I turned to Odin and Frigga as he sat back on his throne. He stood up. "I'll take you there myself."

We followed him to the treasury and he opened the doors. I commented. "You really should get another destroyer or find and repair the old one. This place is a joke without it."

He mumbled. "The humans took the pieces."

I waved a hand and all the pieces were teleported from Shield lockup to a pile on the floor beside the fake infinity gauntlet. "There, no excuses now."

I turned my attention back to Hela as she scooped up a hand full of the living flame as they called it. In reality it's the flames of the Phoenix. I walked over to it and scooped up some of it.

I cast a probe into it and located its newest host on earth. I made a mental note to visit her and see about becoming the new host. I'm fairly certain god like to be one as a preparation for the future. I swallowed the flame in my hand and burped out smoke to their bewilderment. "Sorry, a bit spicy is all."

Hela shook her head and pointed at a space on the floor. "If you will?"

I walked over and stamped my foot. A perfect circle fell out several feet wide. She jumped down and I teleported down. While it looked like fun to jump, if I landed wrong all of Asgard would be reduced to dust. Besides, teleporting is quicker and I brought Odin with me.

Hela spoke. "All of the soldiers loyal to me, father, you're a right bastard!"

Odin stayed quiet as she walked to the center of the chamber and slammed the living flame down doing a spell. The whole army awoke but I put them back to sleep except for Fenrir that truly revived. Hela spoke to him. "There there my sweet. I want you to know he's not really going to kill you, only make you sleep for a while. When you wake up you'll be in a new younger body."

I stepped forwards and pulled his soul out. I whipped off the muck from the spell and summoned a wolf pup from my ring. Several thousand worlds with animals and people resided inside. A wolf pup was easy to pull out. I pulled the wolf pups soul out and fused them before putting the whole soul back into the pup.

I handed it to Hela. "There, Fenrir is alive and well. He may take a while to get used to his new body but that's life."

I opened my mouth and waved a hand. His larger body shrank and flew in my mouth as my curse took over. Moments later I felt a shift and I could tell my wolf form had grown to match Fenrir's old size. My wolf became on edge as it longed to run free and test its new body.

I turned to the father and daughter. "This has been fun. Now take me to the idiot child so I can heal him and get to the stories and drinking."

I teleported is back to the treasury room. Hela asked. "Whose the idiot child?"

I chuckled. "Your youngest brother. He got himself into a mess and apparently he's locked up like you were only he's just in the dungeon."

Hela raised an eyebrow and I sighed. "Your father may be a great king but he's a terrible parent."

Odin froze at that before asking. "How do you know what-"

I snorted. "Don't get your panties in a twist. I only meant what I said. You were meant to rule, that's clear enough as your people and the nine realms were at peace during your reign. But you've had three children and until a little while ago two were in prisons and the third shouldn't be near a thrown. No offense but Thor clearly isn't meant to rule. You spoiled him and Loki way to much and now their big babies throwing tantrums. Or they were. Thor clearly grew out of that phase but he's not meant to be a ruler. His heart lay elsewhere unlike yours. Hela herself is an example as well of that."

She snorted and I sighed. "You craves war to much. You're a conqueror that craves worship. You may live a long while in the eyes of mortals, but I can tell you now that you are no goddess."

She pouted. "Then make me one."

I stilled and frowned. She continued. "That will be my boon. Make me a goddess."

I grabbed her by the throat and raised her to my eye level. I spoke evenly. "If I do so- it would cost you more than you can imagine- what you're asking- we shall see if you're worthy."

I dropped her and Ivy appeared. "We heard her request. I and the others will speak to her."

She took Hela and Fenrir away as she left. Odin asked. "Who was that?"

I turned to him and sighed. "You have one woman you answer to, I have nine. They rule my heart like an abyss of endless emotion and feelings. It's them that decide the final say in it all."

"I can turn others into god easily enough, but there's a catch, the only way I know how that isn't by their own power is by becoming intimate with them. So much so that I bear my soul to them and help them ascend."

"What your daughter just asked for was the most personal thing she could have wanted. My wives will test her and if she fails, they'll kill her. If she succeeds in whatever test they devise they'll approve of her and she'll take her place among them."

He frowned and I waved it off. "Don't try to be a proper father now. You were ready to see her imprisoned to the day you died before. Now if she succeeds, she'll gain all the knowledge I possess and become a true goddess of death."

He continued leading me to Loki's cell where Frigga was there waiting and speaking to him. When Loki saw me, he asked. "What is a human doing on Asgard?"

I snorted and shifted into him. "Watch your tone boy or I'll pluck your tongue from your skull and use it as a boot cleaner for a few thousand years before giving it back."

Odin spoke. "What you see before you my son is a true god. Something even I for all my powers can only glimpse at in the higher plains. We struck a bargain for him to heal the damage that was done to your mind by the infinity stones."

Loki frowned and asked. "What damage?"

I shifted into a Chitauri hive leader. "The damage done by your supposed ally. They used the mind stone on you to insure your obedience but to do so they had to break your mind and rebuild it. You yourself might not be aware of the damage right this moment, but the memories will return once I've finished cleaning and fixing you. No open wide and say ahh."

He made a screwed up face an went to speak. "I -"

My avatar leapt out of me and into him. He fell to the floor as my soul struggled with his for control for a second. Once it was done I stood up in his body while mine sat down cross legged. His mind was a scrambled bag of cats in a tornado sized blender. "This is going to take a while. There's more deeper damage than i first saw. He's been broken repeatedly and it looks like he fought hard before they finally broke him each time."

Frigga held a hand over her mouth and cried in a sobbing mess. Odin caught her and asked. "You can fix him though can't you?"

I nodded. "I can but like I said, it'll take time."

I sat in the chair and closed my eyes focusing on tearing his mind apart and getting rid of the effects of the mind stone. Once that was done I had to put it all back in its original place and heal each section. Once he was whole again, I opened his eyes. It'd taken an entire day to do it all and now Thor and even Jane had joined them.

I sighed. "His mind is back together and in one piece but it's still not structurally sound. It was basically taken apart in the most brutal sense and fashioned back together with all the finesse of a two year old. He's been mind raped more than actually rape victims. Personally I'd say he's lucky not to be on the ground drooling in a puddled mess by now. Because that's where he'd be if you or any other mortal had tried to fix him."

Thor asked. "What of now. Is he sane?"

I shrugged. "No more than when you fought on the bridge a few years back but that was more of him trying to prove himself than anything else. Right now he's viewing the past few years in a nightmare like state. He'll wake up once it's over and I gotta say, I don't like his odds. If he's pushed to far the welds I did putting him back together may not hold and once he breaks this time, I'd drool time."

Odin demanded. "Do something then! Heal him like you promised!"

I raised a hand and destroyed the prison cell barrier and he flew into my grip by his throat. "DO NOT DEMAND THINGS AS IF YOU COMMAND ME BOY!"

I released him and he fell on his ass ungracefully. "I can only heal his mind so much it's not about physical damage any more. It's deeper than that. Psychological damage takes the willing help of the mind to heal itself and right now he's not in a very participating position. I'm basically forcefully possessing him to force his physical damage to heal. I had to shatter his mind and rebuild it from scratch back to what it was before he was subjected to that abuse. Not even you, proud king could withstand something like that without ending up in a crazed ward. Be glad he's not dead."

I sat back down and Frigga asked. "What can be done then?"

I turned to her and sighed. "Ask the one you consider mortal. I'm sure her people have mind healers."

I closed his eyes and left his body after sending him into a dreamless sleep. I flew into my body and stood up, shifting back into Steve. Jane spoke up to answer the Queen's question I'd missed. "He's talking about psychologists. Loki needs one to recover from the mental assault and trauma."

I spoke. "Got it in one. I've suppressed his magic until his mind is fully healed. I'd imagine a mind healer from Midgard would be safe and sufficient for him."

I turned to Thor and Odin. "I recommend you two as the objects of his rage not be there when he wakes up."

I turned to Frigga. "He seems to love you above all else. I'd imagine you'd be useful to have at his side until he's better."

Thor asked. "What about all the death and destruction he caused?"

I shrugged. "Not my problem. I only agreed to help heal him and your parents. I'm not bringing back that many people to life."

Jane asked. "But you could-"

I snorted. "Simple human, death is a natural part of life. I'm not going to bring back so many people on a whim. They're dead and the dead should stay that way. I only tamper with the balance, I don't throw it on the ground and stomp on it."

I tilted my head. "Though I could, I am a god of chaos after all. Anyway, I need a shower and a beer. That's the first and last time I'll ever be in another man."

I shivered and left them to the awkward silence by teleporting home. My presence is guarded against even Heimdall's gaze. So there was no chance he could follow me. True to my word I grabbed a very long shower and a beer. I sent a special clone back to Asgard. It had some of my abilities and would listen to their stories and learn all they had to offer.

I changed back into my usual form and went to play with my son. A week later Natasha got a call from Fury asking her to pick up Steve and come in for a personal favor. When she got the call I sighed. "Go, play your part. When you run into Bucky, I'll be there to help deprogram him. I may stop by the ship as well in a different form to take care of a few hydra agents. Use the Red Queen wherever needed."

I spoke out loud. "Red Queen, give Natasha full admin access. Add her to the Queen's list."

Red Queen replied. "Very well, admin access authorized. Welcome Black Queen."

Natasha smiled. "Thank you Red Queen. And thank you lover."

I smiled and kissed her before making a clone and having it take care of Xander. When she left I told Red Queen to access all of Shield and Hydra. She was to sift through it all and find all hydra agents and make a list. While she was doing that she was to assist Natasha in any and all matters she required.

I shifted into Klaw and made clones that turned into random pirates. We teleported to the ocean and I pulled a boat out of my ring and we went stealth before heading to the captured Shield ship. An hour later we'd taken the ship and shifted into the new pirate crew.

When Natasha and Steve arrived and started 'killing' them, I switched it up and started firing at the hydra agents. I took out most of the team including Rumlow. Then I fled before leaving an obvious bomb to blow in ten minutes.

Natasha used Red Queen to get the hard drive backup and Steve got the hostages off the ship and into a quinjet. The ship blew almost as soon as they got clear. I was cloaked a good distance away watching the scene.

Natasha asked what that was about and I simply told her I didn't like the guy. Besides, his entire team was hydra so I took the opportunity to tick a few hydra names of the growing list. She thanked me and asked me not to interfere any further for now.

The next event was Fury's big escape and eventual death scene. Natasha played her part well and recovered the flash drive from the candy machine. I was there cloaked and watching in case something went wrong.

When Steve threatened her, she reversed it and slammed him into the wall. "Don't threaten me with a good time. I'm just as surprised and pissed as you are. Now let's go find out what got Fury killed."

They went to the mall and plugged in the device. Natasha smiled. "Red Queen, show us what's inside and destroy the AI trace."

Red Queen appeared on the screen. "Very well, the AI will be dead in a moment."

A virtual clash of fire walls and viruses happened faster than you could blink and soon she spoke. "The AI is dead though it got out a signal. I've masked it to only reveal the general vicinity of the mall. All data is uploaded to your phone for access. It seems to have been originated from the Captain's old army base. Do be careful."

They left there just before the staff member could ask if they needed help. The extra time they were given allowed them to get out of the mall just as the teams arrived to sweep the area. I left them at that and went to Fury's hideout. When I de-cloaked beside him he cursed. "Motherfucker! You nearly gave me a heart attack."

I snorted and held up a canister. "I came bearing gifts. I've perfected the nanites and now they can restore you to full health and even take out shrapnel and bullets. You'll be happy to know they can even fix your eye."

He shook his head. "How did you find out- never mind, your up there with Stark, I'm sure you hacked something and found me. Leave the eye alone. It's important."

I nodded and tapped the instructions on the canister before releasing them on him. They flooded inside his wounds and healed him up in a matter of minutes. When they finished and returned, I heard the click of a gun and turned to see agent Hall there. I snorted. "That's not going to do anything. I suggest you put it away before you hurt yourself."

Fury spoke up from behind me. "Stand down agent Hall, he's a friendly, I think."

I chuckled. "If I weren't you'd be dead by now, so what's next?"

Fury sighed. "We wait for the Captain to make an appearance."

I nodded. "Natasha is with him. When I heard of your apart demise I went looking and found you here. Not a very charming place I might add."

I turned to Hall. "You might want to go deep cover in the capture unit. I've a feeling things are going to get messy when Steve does make himself known."

She turned to Fury who nodded and gave her the orders. A few days of playing chess and eating bad take out with Fury later and Hall brought them in with an added bonus. Natasha was dragging an unconscious winter soldier behind her. Fury was furious. "What the hell is he doing here?"

Nat sighed. "Ask boy wonder. Apparently they grew up together."

Steve explained. "Hydra must've done something to him. He's been brain washed and put under their control. Natasha said she might no someone who could help."

I yawned. "Indeed she does. Why don't you tell them how you survived Nick, I'll deal with soldier boy's brain trauma."

I grabbed Bucky and slung him over my shoulder. "This'll take awhile, count me out of your big plans."

I took Bucky to the medical room where Fury was once hooked up and began my work. I took off the metal arm and put the nanites in him. They'd do most of the work and even regrow his arm. He woke up screaming in agony so I gagged him and tied him down.

He'd received the same crap serum that Natasha was given. After several long hours of agony he finally settled down as his arm was finished regrowing. Steve came in to see him. "How's he doing? We heard the screams."

I shrugged. "Oh, that parts over with. That was the nanites regrowing his arm."

He sighed. "At least he's out of pain then."

I chuckled. "Oh hell no, he's just passed out from it. After the nanites fixed his arm they went to the second greatest damage, his brain. They're effectively undoing decades of repeated damage and torture. The agony was to great so his mind turned off to preserve his sanity."

That took him by surprise. "Is there anything you can give him to make the pain go away?"

I shrugged. "I guess I could put a bullet in his brain. Other than instant death nothing else will work. Any sedatives or pain relievers will be wiped out by the nanites and make the agony last longer. Let them work it's a lot of damage to undo."

He nodded in defeat. "We're fixing time leave, we could use the extra hand if you're done here."

I shook my head. "I need to be here to take the nanites out when they're done or they'll continue to work on him until he de-ages into an infant. Time and weather damage the body and they'll work to undo that if I don't stop them."

He frowned. "Do they work on anyone like that?"

I sighed. "They wouldn't reverse dementia in Peggy, Steve. I'm sorry but that's as much a mental problem as a physical problem. The human mind isn't meant to live forever."

He seemed glum now so I tried to cheer him up. "I'll tell you what. After I've finished all my current projects I'll see about finding a solution to your current problems."

He nodded not convinced but still slightly better than before. He said goodbye as Natasha came inside. I gave her a kiss. "Take care love. When you're done at Shield I'll see about getting you in that bikini on a beach somewhere."

She shivered at my words and I sent her a delicious image of what sex on the beach would be like. She shivered again and I could smell her arousal. I slapped her ass saying. "Hurry along love, I'll be waiting."

While I waited on Bucky to recover I sent Kali a bounty request. I'd give her an extra clone to play with if she found and captured Dracula for me. She negotiated for two clones as she had Harley with her. I went with it and agreed so long as she completed it before Natasha finished at Shield.

My clones finished building a full Enterprise accompanied by a Prometheus and a few smaller versions of the Destiny. They were still bigger than both Prometheus and the Enterprise puts together but only just. They were all equipped with hundreds of Stark's arch reactors and even a warp drive.

The Destiny's all had interstellar and intergalactic star drives. The only thing they were missing was an accurate full map of the galaxies and universes. I sent Tony a message bragging that my ships were nearly read for launch and that I'd win our race easily this time.

He sent me back a video of his own version of a space worthy quinjet. I snorted and sent him a picture of the Enterprise with the captions saying 'It's alive! Well almost!'

I got a call from there. "You can't be serious, how did you figure out the matter transporters or the hyper drive stabilizers?"

I chuckled. "If I told you it wouldn't be much of a race now would it. Now either go big or go home because that's only the fun mock up. While it's fully functional I saved the best for the big reveal day."

He snorted and replied. "Fine, you want a race, you've got one!"

He hung up and I laughed out loud. An hour later the nanites were finally done. Bucky woke up as I disposed of them. I tried calming him down. "Sergeant Bucky Barnes. My name is Alexander Mikaelson. I've been tasked with deprogramming you and getting you back to full health."

He bit out. "Where's Steve?"

I sighed. "He's taking down Hydra and Shield. He left you to me to fix up. You should be able to remember it all clearly now. Why don't you try and go through it all one memory at a time. Once you've finished, you'll be free to go."

He nodded and closed his eyes. Another two hours passed and he opened them up again. He didn't speak now but nearly looked haunted. I sighed and handed him a new ID and set of credit cards. "Take these and go make a life for yourself. I don't have the heart to force you to stay. I've seen that look before all too many times."

He sat up and grabbed his arm in shock. "How?"

I chuckled. "I did more than fix your brain damage. It's real by the way. Though I did repurpose your old arm into a pair of armor gauntlets."

I waved to the table beside the bed where two identical fake arms were. They were both purely vibranium and hollowed our to fit both his arms. "In case you ever need to go to battle once more."

He almost didn't take them until I suggested. "If ever you need to save someone's life, I find being equip to do so more advantageous than not."

He took them quietly and asked that I not tell Steve about the new identity. I agreed and he left peacefully. I saw no reason to stay here any more so I cloaked myself and teleported to Natasha.

She was currently accessing Shield's database and dumping it all onto the internet. When I saw Pierce go for the controls to the thermal explosives on the desk I made a quick switch that only Natasha caught. I watched as Fury arrived and then proceeded to use his damaged eye as a back door into Shield's system.

After him and Pierce used their eyes, Pierce tried to use the switch to kill the council members and hold Nat as a hostage. Natasha laughed as he failed to kill them and pointed behind him where I'd shifted into my wolf form and made my presence known. My jaws were inches from his head as my new towering form had to hunch over to fit inside the room.

I was basically laying on my stomach. As he turned and saw me, I opened my maw and bit him in half. His lower half landed near the Pakistan council member. I finished chewing my meal in a very gruesome manner before swallowing.

I shifted back as my suit covered me and looked at the legs as the other council members cowered in fear. "You gonna eat that?"

Natasha snorted at my antics and Fury introduced us. "Council members, meet White Wolf. The one responsible for exposing your casual nuking of Manhattan. He, like agent Romanov here, is a member of the avengers. So far as we've been able to tell he's by far the strongest and deadliest of the whole group."

I rubbed the back of my head. "Stop it, you'll make me blush."

Nick ignored that and continued. "Wolf meet the sheep who nearly ended millions of lives that day."

My stomach growled as if on cue. The council members backed away and I snorted. "Not a lot of meat on their bones Nick. You must be a bad shepherd."

Nat smirked lightly and I turned to the guards that burst into the room. When they fired I moved faster that the eye could see and tore them apart. When I finished, I hummed. "Oh, lookie here, a buffet."

I then proceeded to eat them all. When I finished Fury told Natasha to activate the full destruction of the carriers for project insight. When she gave the command, Steve, his hawk man buddy and Hall walked into the room. Without Rumlow and Bucky Hydra stood little chance as the carriers were destroyed they hopped in the chopper while I and Nat just jumped down off of the tower.

We landed and watched the insight carriers crash and burn. When Fury and the rest landed, I told Steve that Bucky left to find himself in this world again. He seemed to understand and wished I'd have at least given him a cellphones could call.

I left with Nat as Fury was left with the cleanup. Shield's dirty secrets were revealed and Hydra along with them. It was all crumbling down now. Fury disappeared in the smoke after telling the council members he'd sick me on them if they told anyone he was alive.

They were left there to clean it up in the end. Red Queen had been diligent in whipping all traces of Natasha's past from their files during the dump. She was free and clear now as warehouses with her files in them mysteriously burned down all over the world.

A real perfect clean slate was my gift to her. She still felt bad about all the people she'd killed but since none of them were really children, it wasn't overwhelming guilt. We spent the next few weeks on a beach in maui sometimes even just playing sandcastles with Xander.

Though I did fulfill my promise to her and Kali when she'd admitted to storing Dracula in the vaults and thought I'd find him before heading to help Nat. I treated her to some clones and even the real thing while Nat joined us in the water for an orgasmic ocean three way.

We were forced to take it back on land when a group of horny dolphins showed up and tried to join. Nat had to stop me from killing Flipper for ruining the mood.