LIES ||FINAL||

• The GrandMaster •

I don't know how long I've been out for, but I was sitting in a stranger area. It looked as if I were in the VIP seats of a baseball game, there was a huge stadium filling with people cheering. As my eyes fluttered open adjusting to the light and noise, a pal hand landed on my shoulder I looked to see my Dad sitting next to me. "Hey." I blink a couple times before I respond.

"Ugh hi..?" I spoke rubbing my eyes, as I kept my eyes opened looking for whomever may enter this arena. "Hey so where are we and where's uncle?" As if to answer my question in the middle of the arena a 50ft hologram of a man dressed nicely speaks.

"Wow! Look at all of you. What a show, WHAT-A-NIGHT! Who's having fun? Please, I'm your host." There was a big round of applause. "For all of our undercard competitors... who died so gruesomely. Good sports. What a show! What a night! This is what you've come for and so have I." Another applause rumbles the arena, as the crowd cheered with enthusiasm. "And now, without further ado... it's main event time!!" The crowd breaks into an INSANE applause, it could easily be compared to an earthquake with the rumbling. "Making his first appearance, though he looks quite promising, got a couple of tricks up his sleeve. I'll say no more, see what you think. Ladies and gentlemen..." The crowd bursts into laughter as I sat there, eyes glued to the huge hologram. "I give to you...Lord of Thunder!" He finishes.

My eyes widened as I saw Thor enter the arena. He looked completely different with a shaved head, and trimmed beard. He wore minimalist armor, covered in weapons. Two swords on his back, giant mace in one hand, spiked shield in the other. Then I remembered the Bi-Frost, Hela, and his broken hammer that was nowhere to be seen. "Watch out for his fingers. They make sparks." The man adds once again. Sparks? What had I missed? I still wondered how long I had been out for to miss all of this. "Okay, this is it. Let's get ready to welcome this guy. Here he comes. He is a creature. What can we say about him? Well, he's unique. There's none like him. I feel a special connection with him."

"Hey dad, who's that hologram dude?" I asked not taking my eyes off Thor.

"That's the Grandmaster, Darling. He runs the show."

"And you decided to become his bitch?"

"Kara!"

"Sorry!! My bad." I chuckled. "But am I wrong?" I muttered under my breath. The crowd grows more anxious as another bigger door is seen, what could possibly come out of there? If I had to, I would go down there myself to help him. Before I could even try to figure out a plan a giant crash is heard throughout the arena, I watch as a giant green blur breaks through the giant doors. I stand to get a better look. "No. Fucking. Way."

"Kara!! Language!!" I ignored my father's words, Hulk is wearing an armoured shoulder guard and a Spartan helmet. He carries a warhammer in one hand and a battleaxe in the other. Hulk pounds his chest and ROARS, further energizing the already frenzied crowd. Meanwhile, the sight of Hulk makes Thor's arms drop to his sides along with his jaw dropping to the ground. And then... Thor LAUGHS his ass off.

"Yes!!" Thor yells, as I look over to my dad who goes even paler than he already is which I didn't even think was possible unless he died again. I didn't even have to touch him as I could feel the traumatic memories of being hulk smashed radiating off of him.

"I have to get off this planet." He murmurs, getting up to exit. Before I could stop him the Grandmaster stands in his way stopping him.

"Hey, hey, hey! Where are you going? And is this your lovely daughter you spoke of? Nice to see you're awake miss." He smiles kindly, leading Loki to the front row seats of the VIP box. "You can come sit with your father, keep an eye on him for me would ya?"

"Of course, your Grandmaster sir!" I spoke not really knowing how to refer to him. He smiled again sitting back in his spot. Looking back at Loki I watch as he tries to hide his face in his hands.

"Hey! We know each other. He's a friend from work." Taking a deep breath, I astral project from my body going unconscious from an outside perspective, but I flew down to hear Thor and Hulk's conversation. "Where have you been? Everybody thought you were dead. So much has happened since I last saw you. I lost my hammer. Like, yesterday, so that's still pretty fresh." So I've only been out for like a day roughly? That's nice to know. "Loki! Loki's alive and so is Kara!! Can you believe it? He's up there." I watch as he waves to Loki, before squinting his eyes to see my body was unconscious. "Loki! Kara! Look who it is!" I tap my hand on Thor connecting to him able to talk to him.

"Uncle, I'm right here." I spoke as he turned to see me as this was what connecting us does. "I'm going to quickly talk to Thor." He nodded as I let go severing the connection. I then float over to Hulk, touching his fore arm. "Hey Hulk, how's it hanging?" He grunted in response.

"Kara?" He spoke staring down at me.

"Yeah big guy. How's it been? Feels like I haven't seen you in like forever. We definitely need to spar again sometime huh?" He nodded with a smirk. "I'll let you get to it, but I'm betting on you." I lightly joked before returning to my body waking up. The crowd then began to chant Hulk! Over and over again, it was insane how crazy these people were over him. He may as well be their god, if it weren't for the Grandmaster.

"Banner. Hey, Banner!" I face palmed as Loki looked petrified. Hulks face contorts. Something was definitely up, definitely would have to look into that when this is over.

"No Banner!! Only Hulk!!!" Hulk charges at Thor insanely fast.

"What are you doing? It's me." Thor... you've got to understand no matter who you are. He will pit up a fight. It's like his one personality trait, but I mean your one personality trait is obliviousness so you don't have much to offer yourself. Thor dodges the first few attacks, but then Hulk shatters his shield and sends Thor FLYING.

"Go Hulk!!!" I called from the box. Hulk smirked in my direction as I laughed. I could've swore I saw Thor take a quick glance at me to glare in the middle of the fight. Thor draws a sword and stabs it into the ground to slow his momentum. Draws the other sword and faces off against Hulk.

"Banner, we're friends. This is crazy. I don't want to hurt you!" Thor pleaded. They engage again. Hulk kicks Thor, sending him slamming into the wall.

"Here we go." The Grandmaster spoke with a wide grin. Thor jumps down just in time to avoid Hulk's warhammer, which hits so hard that it remains lodged in the wall. With Hulk charging again, Thor rips the warhammer out of the wall and wallops Hulk with it. Hulk goes crashing alongside the arena. He ends up sprawled out in a pile of rubble, slightly dazed. "What?" He spoke confused at Hulk's current position. I sat there continuing to watch their fight, it was hard to tell who was in the lead as they were practically matched, but no match for me of course. I watch as Thor's eyes turn white with electricity similar to Mjolnir's powers. How was this possible? As I went deep into thought of what was going on I didn't notice when they shocked him.

"Excuse me, Grandmaster?" I asked. "May you take me to Hulk's room I'd like to speak with him." The Grandmaster looked over and nodded.

"I can request someone to take you." He smiles. "I must be off, but till we meet again Lady Kara."