A clean win

Yea, I fell asleep.

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"Please tell me you're joking Veritas! I cannot deal with another nuke."

And I meant every word.

I am physically unable to stop another nuke. I'd have to stand still for minutes in a battlefield full of aliens trying to kill me while I'm absorbing the energy!

[We could hack into the system and change its course to get inside the portal] That'll kill their system and the army won't be able to sustain itself]

"HELL NO!"

[May I ask why?]

"I want that army!"

[Sir?]

"You heard me! I want that army. Accomplishing that will not only make me stronger, it'll also let me know about my enemy."

[That seems like an unfeasible goal right now]

"We'll only know when we try. You with me veritas?"

[Always, sir]

"Gdiddy up then, we're not delaying this any longer!" I ripped out an alien's heart out and used his body as a shield to block the incoming shot. The other alien growled at me before charging in.

"You all never learn do you" I flipped my arm and the magnetic gloves halted the incoming gliders.

"Die." The blasters compressed to a tiny ball until the power source exploded in his face, burning his face to cinders.

"Fuck You!" I lashed out a devastating punch at the incoming leviathan and knocked it towards Thor.

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!*

Who promptly fried a thunder bolt at it, frying it alive.

"Thor, where's the scepter." I asked while dodging a knife from the soldier on the ground , pretending to lie dead.

"Tony has it!"

"Well he won't make it with that huge army on his back. I'll assist him, think you can fill my gap."

I heard a scoff before he replied.

"Do not underestimate me mortal. I am Thor THE MIGHTY!"

"Good." I answered before flying off."

"I'm coming to you Tony, get ready."

"…You know I'm still older than you right? And get ready for what?"

"For this."

I crossed my arms before releasing the supercharged arc reactors.

*Srrrrrrrrnnnnngggg!*

A magnetic noise bellowed out before three rays of dense energy beams shot out in the middle of the platoon behind Tony and exploded.

The heat from the explosion melted the building walls and even garnered the ground troop's attention.

"Thanks kid, I'm off" He flew off towards the tesseract.

"Duck." I heard a calm vice through my comms and followed without hesitation.

*Swoosh*

"kraaaack-" The alien who jumped above the building got knocked off its course after getting shot with an arrow.

"…Damn, that's impressive."

"Save your flattery for later, find a way to stop the nuke."

"Hey wait…why me?" I asked in confusion. It had been less than three minutes since I've let them know about the cake coming our way.

And they're telling me to solve it?

"You're part of the team. So it's natural that I'd trust you. Also, you're a smart kid."

That…is a big burden to bear.

But I can't say that I dislike it.

Felt good to be trusted…

[Sir?]

"Yeah I got it, we're gonna blow the mothership."

[I've hacked into the system, but we'll need to step in a little to change its course]

"…Welp, at least I get to be in space." I closed my mask before blasting off towards the bomb.

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"Veritas, turn on the thrusters."

[They're not functioning sir]

It was going great. Tony had reached the scepter and Natasha was holding it, ready to shut it off.

I was hugging the nuke like a body pillow and heading inside the portal.

The silent explosion in space was a beautiful sight.

My eyes glistened, looking at the flames erupting like a volcano from the mothership.

However, my suit could no longer connect to earth's network.

You see, the moment you enter the portal, the distance between you and earth is no longer a couple hundred feet but 2.8parsecs.

I still had veritas to help me pilot the suit, but I was cut off from earth's connection.

And it looks like someone has been eyeing me for a while.

*Swoosh*

I swayed to the side to avoid a golden glowing thing coming at me.

"Magic really is my arch nemesis…"

Because as you'd expect from something so nonsensical. The golden blob of light stopped and changed its course again.

And this time I was unable to dodge.

"So where the fuck am I?"

I asked to seemingly no one while dodging a spear flying towards me.

"Not falling for that again you bitch." I turned around to catch the spear that changed its course.

I didn't have the respite to sit down and think due to the onslaught of homing projectile coming for me.

*BOOOM!*

The stone pavement cracked and formed a dust cloud after a javelin lodged itself on it.

"That's a clever move"

I was genuinely impressed by that trick. The projectiles are homing in on me, so this smoke is only hindering 'me' from seeing them, not the other way around.

"But you'll have to do better than that!"

I concentrated around 30% of my reserves to form a wind barrier, blocking all the projectiles.

"Ha is that all..you.."

I couldn't finish my words after l gazed at the entire building rotating at a 90 degree angle.

'Strange…'

The bizarre sight in front of me…made sense.

It was….digitalized?

No, the entire world was digitalized.

Everything in this world made sense if you put math in it, but it made everything weird when you put intuition.

The building was not rotated.

It was the world, or at least a portion of it.

"You've run around long enough."

A muffled voice rang out from above and a man wearing a black cloak appeared.

'He's doing a dramatic landing now?'

[It seems so]

I watched on with a bewildered face as he descended in slow motion with his arms spread out…with a light glowing from behind him.

Aaaand now he has a halo above his head.

[Should I?]

'Yea, shoot him.'

*BANG*

His 'majestic' body dropped dead after getting shot by a revolver hidden on my back.

"Good thing dumbasses like them are always egotistical." I commented and reached out to take his robes off, revealing a man in his 30s, he had black circles under his eyes and wore a newly tailored robe underneath.

"Shitty edge-lord bastard." I cursed while robbing his stuff.

"Veritas."

[Location found, sir]

The twisting world stopped its movements as a crack opened up revealing my beloved ship.

I stepped out before giving a paring gift to my….attacker?

[Victim, sir]

… Let's go back.