Vol 2 ch 18

Loki's voice became serious. It lost its child like quality, "Do not access these dimensions lightly." Loki had stepped forward and gotten in Richards face. "These dimensions have certain entities that will swallow our reality whole."

Loki was staring into the eyes of Reeds, trying to impress this fact.

Reed had looked away first, a thoughtful expression on his face. He had turned to the rest of the Fantastic four.

With a sigh he said. "This choice belongs to Ben alone. Not to any of us. So Ben what will it be?"

Susan had looked encouragingly at Ben. "No need to worry Ben. We will support you."

"Thanks guys." He had looked at Loki with a resolute expression. "Doc, when can we start."

"Well, we need to strap you in first. This may be somewhat painful. I am not sure."

Looking at everyone staring at him, Loki began to answer. "Something like your case has never happened before. So I would like to take as many precaution as I can."

"We can go to my lab." Reed Richard had answered him.

And so Loki along with everyone else followed behind Reed Richards. Reed led them towards his own lab. From there he led them to a room with a series of operating tables and a theatre room.

There was a bed with harnesses present there.

Ben had gotten in the bed and Reed had proceeded to apply the harnesses. After they were done.

"Mr Fantastic, I need you to be ready to act if Ben starts to move too haphazardly." Loki had proceeded to ask him.

"So we can begin. There are going to be two components of the seal." Loki had begun toexplain as he placed the seal in front of them. "The first part will seal the connection and prevent any flow of the energy. The second part acts as the controller and siphons power from the energy in order to power the seal." Loki said as he pointed to the asgardian runes that surrounded the Torii seal.

"Just begin doc." Ben had said.

"This is gonna hurt." Loki said as he started to charge up his chakra to apply the Torii seal.

Placing his hand over The Things chest, more specifically his heart which was acting as the source of the extradimensional energy. Loki applied the first part of the seal. The Torii seal came into existence and Ben began to grunt out. His face scrunched up in pain. The stone that was covering Ben's Body began to slowly crumble. The stone around him slowly began to fall off, showing signs of the human underneath.

And then Loki began to apply the second part of the seal. He began to apply the Asgardian runes. Each of these ruins led to the seal increasing in power. The crumbling began to increase as more of the power was diverted to power the seal.

Soon, Loki was done. The final Asgardian rune was on Ben's chest.

"I am done." Loki said as parts of the stones crumbled and the other part were absorbed by the seal.

Reed was in complete shock, looking as Ben had gotten up. Now transformed into a human.

"So, magic is real." Johnny had said with open mouthed shock.

"When you can define it, you can call it science." Loki had replied in a snarky tone.

Turning towards Ben, He started to explain. "Twist the seal and will it to open and you will transform. Twist it once more and will it to close and you will turn back into a human." Loki had explained.

Nodding, Ben's hand went to the seal once more and he twisted it. The seal opened up and Stone began to grow all over his body, he transformed into The Thing. Twisting it once more, the seal cam into existence once more and the stone had disappeared into his own body, he changed into a human once more. At that point the seal had disappeared.

"Where is it." Ben had begun to look down in fear that he had lost the seal. Or if it was a one time se thing.

Loki reassured him, "When not in use, it disappears. Just will it to appear and it will appear once more."

Ben had proceeded to will the seal to appear and the spiral mark with Asgardian runes surrounding it had appeared once more. Reed, Susan and Johnny were staring at it in amazement.

"Thanks doc." Ben had proceeded to say.

Reed had snapped himself out of his amazement and asked Loki. "What can you tell me about these dimensions."

"Consider them different planes of existences with their own laws that govern them. Laws that are different from the laws that govern our home reality. Sorcerers can manipulate the energy from these various realms and other parallel realities to cast spells." Loki had proceeded to say. "That's all I can tell you and I hope that I don't need to remind you to be careful. There are entities that inhabit these plains" Loki once more began to warn Reed in an extremely serious voice.

"So about my payment." Loki had asked.

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So, after much negotiation. Loki had been handed some cash. He would have preferred some gold as it could be used as a currency almost anywhere. It had a certain value everywhere. Does not matter if you go back in time or find yourself in a intergalactic civilization. You can still trade with the help of gold. Susan Storm the one responsible for managing the finances of the group had handed him the cash. It was about a million dollar. Loki had proceeded to place it back into his personal Kamui dimension in front of them all.

And so Loki had returned to his own home.

And there he had found a bald lady waiting for him.

"You may call me the sorcerer supreme. Loki Odison", She had said while taking a few sips of her tea. A gentle smile on her face.

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(The ancient one's pov)

For generations, the ancient one had protected earth from different mystical threats. She had dedicated her life in teaching others within the mystic arts mystic arts to bring them new hope and stand in the way of forces who would do Earth harm.

She had watched as the timeline had changed from its initial state. Now it was unrecognizable, the future was fluctuating too much for her to tell anything anymore. So, she had tried to track down the source of the changes. There, she had looked into the past and had found Loki looking into a pound.

She saw as he was eventually swallowed up by the portal and she could not view him anymore. The only time she had caused glimpses of him was when he had opened the portal from his eye and left this realm for a brief amount of time. This had allowed her to find his current identity and keep an eye on him.

This Loki was an anomaly, he somehow had gained access to a unique series of arts. Lost his connection to Asgard and was now living on earth. When the ancient one had tried to peak into the time when he had disappeared. All she could see was a black void. The space between dimensions, she had realized. The portal must have taken him outside of reality, she had realized.

And then there was a point where she could not, not interfere. When Loki had performed a rare feat in front of her. He had somehow made a controller for extra dimensional energy by combining an unknown rune system with the Asgardian rune system. The amount of tools that Loki could potentially create. It was time for her to introduce herself.

So she had waited in Loki's house. Sipping a cup of tee.

Loki had stepped out of the portal and found her.

Before Loki could speak or demand anything. She had told him.

"You may call me sorcerer supreme, Loki Odison."

Loki froze in front of her.

She had proceeded to reassure him. "Do not worry Loki, I will not inform Asgard of your presence. You shall do so yourself." The last part, she had stared into Loki's face mask. "I am the guardian of earth, I protect earth from mystical threats." She had proceeded to say while she took a sip of tea.

"And so what does The Ancient one want with me."

Her introductions done. It was time for her to leave, maybe the presence of both Strange and Loki can change the future. Now was not the time. Loki still had more to discover about himself.

"You shall soon meet one of my misguided students. I hope that you can help him." She had informed him of his incoming future.

"We shall meet again, Loki changer of ways." She had decided, she would train Strange and Loki together.