140 Puny God.

I cut my way down, floor by floor, till I found him.

Loki.

Sitting on the steps, awaiting my arrival.

He slow clapped as he stood up, a mischievous smile on his face.

"You did well making your way here, whoever you are..."

"Oh! Did I forget to introduce myself. How rude of me!" I smiled, and pulled out a business card.

"Jay Walker. Researcher, Inventor, Revolutionary, Merchant, Former Senator of the Galactic Republic. Nice to meet you, Loki, God of Thievery!"

"God of Mischief." He corrected, "Why does this say 'I will call you' under contact info?"

"Because I don't give out my contact info to strangers. Had some bad experiences with that before."

Loki raised an eyebrow.

"Intergalactic scam callers. They're a real mess.

This one guy called me asking if I was willing to sponsor a kid from Morglutz Prime. I mean who do they think they're fooling? Morglutz got wiped when their sun went supernova. Everybody knows that! Idiots, I tell you the whole lot of them." I shook my head.

"Right...." Loki made a slight nod as he looked over Riley.

"But enough about me. Let's talk about the real issue here."

"Ah, of course. You may begin to plead for mercy." He gestured.

"I think that dialogue is a bit off there. Shouldn't you be the one begging for mercy?" I raised an eyebrow at him, crossing my hands.

"Why? What have I to fear? I have an army, the Chitauri, famous warriors-"

"Who just got downed by my four year old son. En masse." I pointed out the window as another streak of lightning rammed through the Chitauri lines, burning them to cinders

"Would you look at that!"

"That's my brother's handiwork." Loki replied.

I pulled up the screen and displayed Star throwing off another wave of force lightning, lighting up the sky, arcs cleaving through entire Leviathans.

"Your brother? Thor, God of Hammers? A little young isn't he?" I smiled smugly.

"That- that was your...son?" He gasped, a shocked look on his face.

"Yeah." I turned on the speakers.

"Star! Say hi to the camera!"

Star turned to look at the drone and waved his hands with a big smile on his face.

"Hi Papa!"

Oh you sweet little baby!

So cute!

I smiled warmly as I watched him turn back to face a Chitauri and slice clean through him.

"Alright, Star. That's enough. Come back to the van." I ordered, switching the screen back to me.

"Cute isn't he?" I asked but Loki just looked at ahead for a split second, frozen before she shook his head.

"No. Yes. Very cute." Loki replied oddly.

Hmmm... That's probably not the real Loki.

Just an illusion. That was his whole deal, after all. Loki, trickster god, thief, mercenary and all around menace.

Silently, I spread out my nanoswarm around the room and shock, horror, awe... He was indeed an illusion.

You can see the surprise on my face.

The real Loki was quietly tiptoeing around me to stab me in the ... back?

It was hilarious.

And it was just going to be better.

I switched off my forcefield, just to lure him in, see how my mind control earpiece fares against his staff. If Tony's arc reactor can stop it's power, why can't my bionics?

I waited and watched, trying my hardest to suppress my laughter as he walked closer and closer, till he came to stand behind me and pressed his staff to my back.

"Now if you would just surrender and make it easy for the both of us." I said, spinning back to face him.

"That'd be just peachy."

I smiled, looking his invisible form in the eye.

He appeared out of thin air and took a hurried step back, startled, sending confused looks between me and his staff.

"You should be under my thrall." He muttered, "Is the staff broken, perhaps? This is the second time today...."

He poked my chest with the staff again.

"Hm? Having performance issues? And you struck out twice just today too!

Oof. That must suck.

Don't look at me that way. It's completely fine. Happens to best of us. It's nothing to be ashamed of." I patted his shoulders, pulling out my stamina pill from my coat, handing it to him.

"Here. It's a pill I made. It helps with uh..." I eyed Riley, and reconsidered my words, "...stamina, let's just say."

He swatted my hand off his shoulder, and fumed as he walked up to me getting in my face.

"I am a God! I don't need your ... stamina pill!" He chucked the pill out the window.

"You sure? It's a good pill. Works pretty-"

He grabbed me by the neck trying to choke me.

I just smiled as he strained to do anything much and warned him.

"I wouldn't do that."

I wagged my finger.

"Wha-"

A blinding light filled the room as my nanofiber defense mesh activated sending a wave of disintegration outwards, scalding Loki's face right off.

He flew out, crashing against the glass display on the wall as he pulled on his staff's power to heal himself.

His skin regrew faster than the naked eye could spot and he began to stand up.

"You dirty .... little...mortal...RAT!" He stumbled towards me.

"Says Loki, The Horse Fucker." I snorted.

"IT WAS ONE TIME!"

"Ooh. Did I touch a sore spot. Then again, that horse cock probably touched sorer spots so I can imagine how you must feel." I nodded sympathetically, "Is that why you're stumbling? Guess that trauma never really goes away huh?

I have heard of phantom pains. Must suck to suck. The horse cock that is.

I feel for you, I really do!" I patted his shoulder again as he growled in rage.

"I will kill you!" He shouted, angry.

"Correction. You will try." I wagged a finger at him.

He charged me, angry as a boar only to slam headfirst into the forcefield.

He raised his staff, as the power of the infinity stone glowed and brought it crashing down onto the forcefield.

At first, nothing happened, but he continued, smashing the stick against the forcefield, heavier each time as the power of the Mind Stone threatened to blow, and my forcefield flickered, wildly with each hit.

Alright. That's enough playing around.

The next time he raised his staff in the air, between his laboured breaths, I swung my hand, activating the particle beam in my watch, slicing his hands clean off, mid swing, sending them flying back and out onto the balcony.

"What?!" He cried out, looking at his stumps, and shivered.

Fear grew in his eyes as he took a step back, then another, his voice cracking.

"N-no! You can't do this! I am a god! A GOD! I will not be done in by a mere mortal!

I AM A GOD!"

I smirled as I walked over to him, my nano swarm coiling around my legs to form machine musculature, and I took a forceful step forward, stomp the ground hard, each step shaking the whole floor.

The glasses and shakers clinked at the bar behind me as I took another step forward and Loki crawled back frantically.

"Where are you going? I thought you weren't afraid of anything? A god, you say, yes?" I taunted him.

"See the thing is, I eat gods for breakfast. You are the prey here-"

I saw Riley giving me a questioning side eye.

"What?" I asked.

"You eat gods for breakfast? But all I've seen you eat is chili and sandwiches. Cereal sometimes." She smirked.

"It's a figure of speech, Riley. And you know it.

Besides, I've killed gods before. You've even seen me do it once."

"I have...." She nodded, "But you almost died from that."

"Duh! Scion was strong. He existed in multiple realities at once and had to be killed with a conceptual weapon.

Scion was an eldritch threat from across multiple dimensions. Guy ate entire stars.

Whereas this guy? He barely exists in one reality. He's no god. He barely a person."

I could see the fear spike in Loki's eyes at the casual mention of my deicide and he took on a more...vassalating tone.

"Please....we can negotiate. Join me. We can rule Earth together. I'll give you half, no two thirds! You can be worshipped like a god among men!"

But I continued to walk over as he hit the wall behind him, glass crunching beneath my feet, turned to dust.

"I'll leave. I'm sorry. I'll leave the planet! I'll never invade again!" He cowered, "Th-the Chitauri, they're not even my own army. They're Thanos's men. I'm just a middle man. I have no authority over them. I-i didn't even want to invade the-"

I took one final step and came to a standstill before him.

"Tch tch tch!" I clicked my tongue.

"Should've thought of that before you invaded, shouldn't you? How many innocent lives do you think were lost here today? How many children died meaningless death under falling rubble or from a stray blast from your Chitauri guns?"

"What does it matter if a few puny mortals die for my greater goals. They should be glad! Feel themselves worthy and honored of this sacrifice!"

I just shook my head.

"But you got done in by a puny mortal, puny god." I countered.

"You're no mortal! Someone as poweful... someone like you!"

Loki just looked at me with a profound sense of unfairness in his eyes.

"Say what?" I asked, stomping by his head and he shut right up.

Something I reveled in, deeply.

"And do tell me, your goal is greater than their life because...?" I asked intrigued.

Let him dig his grave some more.

Fatten up the turkey before I roast it.

"Why? Of course, it is because I am their GOD! They should feel grateful I even offered them this chance to be ruled by me!"

"To be honest, I don't quite disagree. Look out for number one first and all that. But I do take offense to the fact that you could have done this way easier by just collapsing their government. Just slaughter all the government officials and be done with it. Leave the general public alone.

It would have been so much cleaner and a thousand times more effective!

See this is what I don't understand about you megalomaniacs.

Why do you always go for slaughtering the civilians first thing in your campaign? Instead of you know, taking out the head of the beast?

I mean don't let me tell you how to do your job or anything.

I'm no conqueror or supervillain myself. Just a researcher." I shrugged.

"But it just seems a bit counterintuitive to attack the cities instead of government institutions when taking over a world. You know they have nukes right? If you don't take them out first it just gives them an excuse to nuke you and their citizens by claiming that they're all dead already with you being around and what not, so might as well nuke the city!"

Just then, my contacts beeped an alert and I pulled it up on the holoscreen.

"Hold on a minute." I pointed at him.

"Oh! Speak of the devil. Here they go. The US government has just launched a nuke against their own civilians.

I was just speculating before but I didn't think the government would actually nuke their own citizens.

Goes to show what I know, huh? Guess the government is even worse than you!" I turned to Loki and chuckled only to find he had disappeared.

Through my nano swarm I felt him crawl to the elevator and he was almost halfway there too.

I walked over to him and slammed my leg on his knee, shattering it, as he screamed bloody murder.

"Now what did I just tell you to do?" I squatted beside him.

He glared at me with the fury of a thousand suns, gritting his teeth to keep the pain in.

"What? Cat got your tongue? Let me open it for you!" I smiled evilly and stood up, right behind him.

He looked back and shrunk in fear as I reared my leg back.

"No! no please Noooo!"

I slammed my leg right between his, and without a word, he collapsed onto the floor, foaming at the mouth.

I could almost hear the clutching of pearls across the world as men cringed inwards, hands on the groin.

I just threw out a handful of stasis beacon around him, this time modded so that only I can undo their locks with technokinesis.

"There. That should keep him in place." I said, turning to Riley who was sat in a stool, watching it all go down, humming a tune and swinging here legs leisurely.

"Riley, would you be a dear and patch him up for me." I asked.

"Sure, Papa!" She smiled and jumped of the stool skipping her way to Loki.

"What was waste of a handsome face." She pouted, poking him.

"Can I disect him? I've never experimented on a god before!"

"No. I don't want to start an unnecessary war yet. Be a shame to destroy Asgard for nothing." I replied, and with a flick of my wrist activated my my telekinetic module, pulling the Loki's arms and the staff with them into my hands.

"Um...Papa?" Riley called out.

"Hm?"

"What about the nuke?" She asked.

"Oh, the nuke? It's no problem. I'll handle it. It's just a nuke. No biggie." I waved her concerns off.

"Wait, you can just 'handle' nukes? What even are you?" Tony Stark asked as he landed on the balcony.

"Just a passing researcher." I replied.

"Bullshit!"

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