《The Merchant of Death》Favored By The Fates
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[Successfully Integrated with the Dragon Scale]
[Bone Density Increased]
[Defensive Scales properties adopted by the Skin]
[Affinity with Ice increased]
[Icy Dragon Core manifested]
Tony's eyes turned normal absolute black from slit blue after which he stepped out of the bathtub while a silver robe appeared on him.
The temperature of all the realms connected to Bifrost started to go normal and all the Frost on the Bifrost bridge started to melt. Everyone was incredibly confused at these strange happenings while Tony himself just went back in his lab while glancing at the different videos playing on different screens in his lab as well as in his mind.
The table in front of him split open to show him a completed Devil's breath potion, which he took in his hands to check but the temperature of his skin immediately froze the potion and while looking a it, a very faint smirk appeared on his face.
Hela had kidnapped many people from the realms she was conquering and was watching them train as Skuruge was instructing them of their jobs and Fenrir was intimidating from the sides when suddenly a chilly wind came from Hela's side and was then immediately embraced by Tony who then kissed her neck with his cold lips which made the Goddess of Death swoon. Everyone was surprised to see Hela with that expression or releasing a moan like that and were immediately captivated by this scene.
"Where were you….and was the weather change your doing?" asked Hela with her eyes closed in Tony's embrace as they started walking towards the Bifrost Observatory.
Tony kept kissing Hela's shoulder, then her back and as they reached the observatory, he turned her around, threw her headdress aside and captured her lips with his.
After making out passionately, Tony separated from her and turned around to stand at the Observation spot from where he could see and hear everything from all the realms connected to the Bifrost.
"What are you looking at?" Asked Hela as she came up behind him and she too looked at all the trillions of souls.
"....Odin" Said Tony as he kept staring at all the realms.
Hela's expression froze as she heard her father's name and then with a mocking smile said
"He won't reincarnate in any world connected to Bifrost….and the day he arrives on Asgard…"
'Idiot' thought Tony as he looked at Hela sighed at her stupidity.
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'She really thinks that she can just chew the All-Father and spit him out? He is Odin! He tore away the Heavens from Yggdrasil in a fit of anger. The Odin-Force is even more powerful than cosmic energies and he could single handedly take back Asgard from Hela if I were to just disappear and it won't take long for Odin to assemble his own personal army of gods who journeyed together with him and his brothers in his teenage days.'
"I am going somewhere" Said Tony which immediately put a frown on Hela's face and before she could even say something, he disappeared.
Hela's headdress then appeared on her head again and as she was about to leave, she looked towards all the realms and tried to find where Tony went but when she could not, she just sighed and walked away.
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Tony was in a grey business suit while falling towards the vast Atlantic ocean. The air around him was condensing quickly and he soon entered the ocean water without any splash.
"Now let's visit these Homo mermanus"
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The Elders council of mermanis were having a huge argument about a certain group of four people who their King Namor was meeting.
Namor had also wanted to wage a war against the surface world after recovering his memory by Jonathan Storm. Tony was moving towards the sunken castle of the underwater city of theirs as he was watching everything happening in the Atlantis through the several vibranium trackers which were spread around in the ocean.
Without delaying, Tony moved and soon arrived in front of the beautiful underwater city of Atlantis.
"Wait...Why has the water suddenly became colder?" questioned an Elder with suspicion as everyone in the circular room felt the temperature change too.
Namor too felt the temperature change and immediately came out of the castle and started to swim towards a crowd of Elders and Civilians of the Atlantis.
Everyone in the city of Atlantis was blue in color and was wearing very traditional clothes. They were all surrounding Tony with caution as some had also prepared spears to attack if anything goes wrong.
Namor swam towards the crowd and soon arrived to see a human man in a grey suit smiling at him as if he knew who he was.
"Who are you?" Asked Namor with suspiciousness.
Tony didn't immediately replied and just made a hand movement towards a mermani who immediately flew towards Tony who then caught his neck in a deadly hold.
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"Socus!" yelled an Elder as he and other prepared to attack when suddenly they heard a *snap*.
Tony then flung away the body of a mermani he just killed and raised his own hand in the body's direction after which the Serpent Crown flew out of his lifeless body.
"Thats!...That's the Helmet of Power!" yelled Namor with a shocked expression to which Tony replied
"Helmet of Power? Calling a Cosmic cube a Helmet of Power….Just how are you people even alive?"
"What did you say? You dare-"
"Shut the fuck up or you will be next. I am not here to chat with you shits. I am here for your mother." Reprimanded Tony with a straight face.
Tony didn't wanted to waste time in explaining to Mermais about how the legendary Princess Fen could still be alive so he just used his psychic abilities and made everyone quite.
He then went towards the Atlanis Royal Castle and went towards the Graveyard of the Royal family where he immediately located the graves of Fen and Thakorr, who was Fen's father. Tony didn't waste time in explaining anything as he turned around and their coffins floated out and followed behind him.
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Tony was soon in his Lab where he used his advance medical skills to heal Fen's body while Jarvis was dissecting Thakorr's body for research purposes.
Tony used his psionic abilities to power up Fen's mind as he knew that she was still alive and after completing the surgery, he exited the lab to let her recover while he went straight to Thakorr's body in another lab and started to study the mutation of Homo Mermanus.
"Nothing Special….Worthless" Was Tony's ultimate conclusion after researching the blue body of one of the strongest Mermanus.
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"Wait! So you are Thanos' father!? Where is he? I will have his head!" Shouted Peter with aggression.
"I will cut him in a thousand pieces before you could reach his head" Said Drax with even more aggression.
Nebula was sitting with Peter and Drax as they were listening to A'Lars, who was telling them about Thanos and the History of Titan.
"If I knew where he was, I would have killed him with my own two hands" replied A'Lars with guilt in his throat.
A'Lars always blamed himself for everything and thought that if only he had paid a little more attention to the demon who was living in his home, if only he had been a better father, all the people Thanos killed would still be alive and all their loved ones would still be happy.
Peter and Drax got quite to listen Thanos's father speak in such a way while Nebula spoke
"So..Thanos still hasn't come to Titan? Then who converted Titan to this state?"
"I don't know...It was all too sudden. One minute there was sunlight in this world and the next second, there were clouds and chilly winds. The whole planet plunged to an Ice age in the matter of hours."
"This doesn't make any sense...Who except for Thanos could achieve such a feat? And what reason could Thanos have to freeze an already desolate planet?" Questioned Nebula while thinking.
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Far away, In the roots of Yggdrasil, there lay a Well of Fate which was watered by Norns, the three sisters of Fate.
These sisters use to stay in Nornheim which was located on Asgard but after Odin's fall, they all migrated back to Urdarbrunnr, located in Yggdrasil's root.
These sisters were quite baffled as they were the overseers of the the fates of the people of Nine Worlds, and absolutely everything they wrote about the nine worlds was not happening since some time ago.
Their powers sure increased when Asgard's empire increased but they were angry when one of their main person, who they favored, was beheaded and was robbed of his infinity stones.
The threads of fates were being played with by someone they were not even able to detect and this was driving them to insanity when suddenly their vision fell on Peter Quill, whose resolution to kill Thanos increased so much that it turned into an obsessive desire.
".....kekekeke...This Child shall be the next favored by the fates…."
"Yeah…...khekhe..Let's write what this child will do after discovering that his love has been sacrificed by Thanos"
"..You two...sometimes I even like you sisters...khekhekhe"
Suddenly, The threads of fates surrounding Peter increased and something inside of him clicked.
"Soon..child….soon….."
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