Chapter 390 - Aftermath (II) & Hela's Mission...

[With Eric] 

"So, what do you think about the war?" Raven asked in a neutral tone. 

Eric, Raven and Emma were standing on the roof of his new office… they could see the whole residential area of Elysium from up here. A small smile appeared on Eric's face when he heard Raven's question. 

"To be honest… there is not much to think… but it wasn't a war, to begin with" Eric said with a smile. He always wanted to do something like this to the humans but he quickly realized that he didn't have the necessary power. So he started to use subterfuge. 

But before he could achieve anything on his own… Itsuki Reo aka Leviathan appeared… Reo had the strength to fulfil his dreams… to save the Meta-Humans race. So, he decided to trust Reo and he wasn't disappointed. 

Time after time they have faced threats but each time the threats were repelled by Reo. "But I really wanted to try our cannons…" Emma said and started to pout. 

"Who knows… we might get a chance someday… We already know that Reo and his family will be gone someday…" Eric said with a melancholic smile on his face. They could be called friends and that is why Reo had told them long ago, that one day he will be gone along with his family. 

"What are the people saying about the war?" Eric asked while looking towards Raven. Raven was the one who interacted the most with their citizens.

"They are happy that the war is over… they were ready to fight but no one wanted to fight" Raven said with a shrug and Eric nodded his head in understanding. What Raven said might seem to be contradictory but it was expected. 

The people of Elysium were to fight for their freedom but none of them wanted to fight… it might seem poetic but it is what it is… everything is back to normal now…

[SHIELD Headquarters, New York] 

"Hah… this is so trying… I should have denied this job, you know" Maria Hill groaned and laid her head down on the table. 

"After Nick Fury… you are the one who had the highest rank… so you were the prime candidate for the promotion" Coulson said with a smile and Maria Hill, the newly appointed Director of SHIELD groaned once again. 

"So, what did Clint say? Did he agree to return?" After some time Hill asked Coulson who nodded his head. 

"He wasn't happy that we were able to find him but after I finished explaining everything… he agreed to return" Coulson said with a deep sigh… "The elections are going to start… Who do you think is going to win?" Coulson asked and Hill simply shrugged. 

"Who knows… but I am really surprised to see how quickly we are rebuilding everything… I had thought that we were going to take more time…" Hill said and leaned back in her chair. 

"Yes… I also had similar thoughts you know… but we are really good at rebuilding…" Coulson mused with a sad smile on his face.

"Yes… that we are" Hill said with a smile on her face and continued to look outside… 

[Retirement Home, Washington DC] 

"You are still young and charming, Steve…" Margaret Elizabeth Carter otherwise known as Peggy Carter… one of the founders of SHIELD said with a melancholic look on her face. 

After waking up, Steve was given all the files related to his former allies including Carter's. At first, he wanted to pay her a visit but ultimately he decided against it. In the war… he came this close to death and vowed that if he survived, then he would go to meet Peggy. 

"...I wonder if things could have gone differently…" Steve said with a small smile on his face. 

"Steve… we can't keep thinking about what-ifs… we need to move on" Peggy said with a similar smile on her face and Steve simply nodded his head. 

"I have heard that you participated in the war…" Peggy spoke softly and a frown appeared on Steve's face. 

"...That wasn't a war…" Steve said and Peggy slowly nodded her head. Even though she was in the Retirement Home, she could still watch TV. Even though they weren't telling everything on the TV, she was experienced enough to read between the lines. 

"How is Bucky? I have heard that they have found him too…" Peggy asked and Steve simply shook his head in disappointment. 

"...He is not good. He is getting help but it will still take a few months to fix his mind and they can't do anything about his spine…" Steve said in a sad tone. He can't believe how his best friend ended up after the war. 

"I should have looked for him and you… with Howard's help, we could have found both of you…" Peggy said and Steve grabbed her hand and shook his head. 

"It's not your fault Peggy… don't blame yourself for something like this…" Steve said and smiled reassuringly… Just like that, Steve spent most of the day talking with his old love… 

[Sub-Saharan, Africa] 

Thousands of tents could be seen erected on a huge piece of empty land. This empty land didn't appear out of nowhere… to the others this place was a forest until now… this is the remains of Wakanda. They lost everything on the day Leviathan decided to take away their Vibranium. 

Thankfully Leviathan didn't take away their money or they would be starving right now. They were still starving because of the lack of resources… "What are we going to do now?" Ramonda asked her husband in a worried tone. 

T'Chaka and his family weren't having a good after Leviathan took away their Vibranium. Wakandans knew that T'Chaka wasn't responsible for their destruction, Leviathan was but they couldn't do anything to Leviathan so they decided to blame the easier target T'Chaka. 

T'Chaka didn't have the power to stop the harassment… the guilt was also eating him away. He has wondered multiple times if he could have done it differently. Like what would have happened if he had decided to stay out of the war. 

"I don't know… I don't know what I am going to do now. I have never imagined something like this…" T'Chaka said while shaking his head. 

"Should we leave this place?" Ramonda asked T'Chaka and he shook his head. 

"No… this was my fault, I can't run away… I need to redeem myself" T'Chaka said while shaking his head. 

A frown appeared on Ramonda's face. "And what about T'Challa and Shuri?? You want to condemn them to lives filled with harassment??" Ramonda asked heartedly. T'Chaka's eyes grew wide in realization. 

"No… I can't do that… they haven't done anything to deserve such a life… I will see what I can do…" T'Chaka said and walked out of the tent… he still had some friends and people who were still loyal to him… he wanted to have a talk with them. 

He wanted to know if they wanted to build a new Wakanda or build a new place for themselves… there was nothing they could do now except rebuilding. After all, they can't spend the rest of their lives wallowing in self-pity… they need to build a better place for their children in the least… 

[POV Hela] 

Boring… I shouldn't have killed him so quickly now, I have no one to torture… tormenting my mother and brothers feels really great but I just returned after tormenting them for a few hours. 

I pulled out a small blue orb from my shadow… This is the Divinity of Thor2. For now, I will be keeping it since Ororo's body is not ready to accept the Divinity. When I finally finished extracting the Divinity… he was already half dead so I decided to send him on his merry way.

Reo is also gone or I could have asked him to take me somewhere interesting. Reo and Momo left after breakfast… They said that they were going to attend some marriage ceremony in their Home World… to be honest, I was somewhat interested in the wedding food but I held myself back. 

After all, I am the Goddess of Death and War… I can't attend someone's marriage uninvited… I have an image to uphold. If it was my brother's marriage then I would have obviously crashed the marriage… It's my duty as their loving sister. 

Didn't Reo say that he had killed Dormammu?? I guess I should conquer the Dark Dimension… now that I was motivated, I got up and pulled out my Crucible from my shadow and with a slicing motion I opened a rift in front of me. I entered the rift and found myself in the Dark Dimension… 

It is going to be too easy… slowly I started to absorb the Dark Force present in the Dark Dimension… I could feel myself getting stronger with each passing second. With a snapping sound, I finally formed the connection with the Dark Dimension… it has also accepted me as its ruler. Good… good… now, I am going to get bored once again. 

Hmm… I simply laid down and decided to float inside the Dark Dimension. That's better than doing nothing I guess… I don't know how much time has passed since I have been here but I felt Death summoning me… Thank Deathness, I am so glad that she called or I would have waged war against some planet due to boredom. 

I quickly teleported into Death's realm and found her sitting on her throne… "How have you been Hela??" she asked me and I simply smiled. 

"I never have been better… but I am somewhat bored… I just finished taking over the Dark Dimension" I said with a smirk and started to look around. 

"Yes… I saw that… I am quite happy for you but I have a job for you" Death and stars appeared in my eyes. Please tell me that you want to eradicate planets…!! 

"You see there is a Multiverse where a group of souls have found a way to destroy other souls… I want you to get rid of them…" Death said and a frown appeared on my face. Destroying souls is something very dangerous and it shouldn't be done or it could collapse the reincarnation cycle of a world. 

"Sure… so when should I leave?" I asked her and a wry smile appeared on her face. 

"...That is the problem… this is going to be an extremely long mission… those souls have gone into hiding inside a pocket dimension… I know that they are going to appear in the future in a few years but I don't know the exact location of their pocket dimension" Death said and the frown on my face deepened. 

How can someone hide from Death?? Oh… I am being stupid… They are already Dead. And since they have a reincarnation system in their world, they are out of Death's reach. "I can ask Reo… he will be able to locate them easily" I said and Death nodded her head in agreement. 

"Yes… he would be able to do that" Death nodded her head with a mysterious look on her face. "Remember Hela, not one of them should survive… all of them must be killed and their knowledge destroyed so that no one else could learn those techniques…" Death said and I nodded my head. 

"But you said Multiverse, right? Do I need to kill them by going to each world?? I am not complaining… I would love slaughtering all of them but isn't that going to take too much time?" I asked and Death smirked and shook her head. 

"That particular Multiverse has a Prime system… There is only one Major world and the others are created due to the excess energy coming from the prime world. Kill those souls in the Prime World and they will be killed in the other systems too…" Death said and I nodded my head in understanding. 

"When they first came to power… you were sealed away… I had no way to deal with them as I personally can't go to that world" Death said with quite some rage in her eyes… yep she is angry. 

"So… what is the name of that Multiverse?" I asked and a sadistic grin appeared on Death's face. 

"Bleach Multiverse" Death growled out in anger…