Chapter: 106

Chapter: 106

Andrea continued to give me a deadpan stare. I just gave her a smile like I didn't just ask her something completely ridiculous.

"You want to do what!?" Andrea exclaimed. "Blow up the planet? Why?"

"Death asked me to. And it was kind of an 'offer you can't refuse' situation."

"Who the fuck is Lady Death!? …You know what? I don't even care anymore. Do whatever you want." Andrea said with a sigh. 

The rumbling thunder from nearby told me that we could table this discussion for now. I wanted to go see how Sif was doing in her fight against the undead Thor.

"We'll talk about this later," I said. "Let's hope Sif is almost done with her battle. I think destroying a large chunk of the city might end up drawing more attention than we would like."

"You think?" Andrea said sarcastically. "Did you really have to go this far just to take care of the Hulk?" She gestured once again to the completely ruined section of the city.

Did I have to go that far? No, no, I did not. Was dropping what amounted to a magical nuke on top of his head awesome? Yes, yes, it was. "I'm sorry, but the Hulk was really strong. It was the only way to beat him," I lied.

Andrea sighed. "Thank you for finally letting Bruce rest at least. I'm sure now he's in a better place."

"I didn't know you were religious," I commented.

"I wasn't until yesterday. Then I found out angels were apparently a real thing. At least in another dimension…" Andrea replied.

I didn't give her another response as I spread my now five pairs of black wings and started flying towards the rumbling thunder a few blocks away. When I approached, I could see arcing lightning bolts flying in every single direction. Down on the ground, surrounded by hundreds of charred zombies, were Sif and Thor. I wasn't sure why Mjolnir was still working even though Thor was dead, but it was pumping out a tremendous amount of electricity. Every single swing of his hammer must have come with a couple of million volts. 

Sif seemed to be holding her own, however. With the [Lightsword] I had given her, she was deflecting all of his powerful hammer attacks as fast as they came. She almost made it look easy to fight like that, but I knew it was anything but for her. Even though the [Lightsword] I had given her wasn't conductive to electricity, she was still getting zapped by the aftershocks of each blow. I could see that she was visibly shaking. The Extremis inside her must have been working overtime to keep her muscles from constantly seizing up on her.

Andrea caught up finally and hovered next to me as we observed the battle from the air. "Huh? She's still going pretty strong. I didn't expect your dimensions Sif to be so strong. The way Thor talked about his old companions, they kind of sounded like useless tag-a-longs in all of his quests."

Yeah, from an MCU standpoint, that sounded about right. From the strength of the Hulk and what I was seeing from the zombie Thor down there, I figured we were in a dimension similar to the MCU powerwise. At least when it came to the Avengers. I know there exist many Marvel universes where the Hulk would have shrugged off my final attack and kept coming. Thankfully we weren't in one of those. The powers that be also seemed to have kept the infection to Earth alone here. Death wouldn't have asked me to destroy the planet if the disease had already spread throughout the stars.

I watched as Thor released a devastating punch to Sif's cheek that had her head whip backward. He followed that with a powerful swing of his hammer that sent her flying back dozens of feet before crashing into the ground.

Thankfully, the hammer hit her armored chest, and Penemue's war armor from the Great War was strong enough to tank the blow. Sif let out a cough as she shakily stood up. I don't know if it was her pride, but I'd noticed she was once again fighting Thor head on. Why!? She was faster than him and more agile. She should be dancing around him and wearing him down instead of tanking his powerful lighting blows over and over. 

Her pride to best a version of Thor by matching him at his best was costing her what should have been a relatively easy victory. My Light Manipulation Level 6 should have made that [Lightsword] in her hand a deadly weapon against any undead. 

Sif's cheek momentarily glowed orange. The large bruise forming there faded away. She was still moving much slower though. 

"She's completely exhausted her stamina it seems." I said. There was also the possibility of Lady Death's words to be taken into account. if the zombie virus had gone airborne, was the Extremis formula inside her fighting it off this entire time and tiring her out quicker? 

"I won't lose to you, Thor! This time I'll win for Layla! I swear it!" Sif roared out as she took another shaky step forward before she started charging head on towards Thor again. 

Mjolnir in his hands started discharging more electricity. He raised his hammer high and a lighting bolt descended to connect with the hammer. He was about to blast Sif with a massive amount of lighting.

Well he would have. If his head was still in existence. Too bad it was not. Zombie Thor's headless body dropped to the ground. He had died without even knowing what happened. Mjolnir landed next to him with a loud clunk onto the mostly destroyed asphalt. 

I lowered my hand and let out a sigh. Yeah, I had thrown a [Lightspear] at the back of his head while he was completely distracted powering up his next big attack…

"Really, Layla?" Andrea commented next to me. "Can't you see that was going to be Sif's big moment where she turned the fight completely around and emerged victorious?" 

"Um…no?" I said while scratching my cheek. 

"Yeah me neither." Andrea said and we both laughed. 

Upon seeing her opponent defeated, Sif finally lost all of her adrenaline–or the Asgardian equivalent–and passed out. She landed face first on the ground, which thankfully wouldn't injure a being like her. I flew down and picked her up gently. I then went over to this dimension's Mjolnir and stashed it in my inventory. It wasn't emitting any more electricity and seemed to have shut down after Thor's re-death. We'd deal with it later.

"We should go, Layla. Jarvis just told me that a whole bunch of powered zombies are converging on our location." Andrea said. I opened a portal back to her bunker and walked through while carrying Sif.

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