The Aether || THOR ODINSON [2]

9; The Plan

2013 ― London, England

WITH THE CAR KEYS IN HER HANDS, Nikita found the car that had been left behind by Darcy, Jane, and Ian, since Ian threw the keys through the portal. She and Thor both got inside of the car, and the first thing that Nikita knew she needed to do was find Jane and Darcy. Once she got the car started, she drove back to the apartment that she was sharing with the girls and used her keys to get inside, with Thor trailing behind her.

"Nikita!" Jane exclaimed as she and Darcy stood up. Nikita walked inside of the room, brushing past the girls, but she did turn to them.

"Hey." She said, very nonchalantly.

"You can't just leave like that. The whole world is going crazy. Not to mention, your sister has called here a lot and she scares me." Darcy said. Meanwhile, by the door, Thor hung up his hammer on the empty hook on the coat rack, not sure what to do with it.

"All the stuff we saw is spreading." Jane said, and then she noticed what Nikita had on.

"Did you go to a party?" Darcy asked, but Nikita's eyes were focused on the man who was sitting at the a small desk in the living room, her eyes widened.

"Erik?" She asked. Erik looked up, a grin coming onto his face at the sight of the red-head and he stood from his seat.

"Nic!" He exclaimed, joyfully wrapping her in a hug. "How wonderful." He said, once they pulled away, they both looked at what the other had on. "You've been to Asgard." Erik spoke at the same time Nikita asked.

"Where's your pants?"

"Oh, he uh. . he says it helps him think." Ian chimed in.

"Okay, well. . I'm going to need everything you've got on this. All the work you've been doing on gravimetric anomalies, everything." Nikita said, before walking back to her room so she could change her clothes, she also decided to give her sister a call.

"Nikita, thank god. What is going on?" Natasha asked.

"Sorry about earlier, Nat. I'm back in London, yes, I was with Thor. I'm currently still with him. I don't have time to explain anything that has happened or what's about to happen, but I wanted to let you know that I'm alive." Nikita said.

"Well. . thanks for that, I guess." Natasha said.

"No problem. What are you up to these days, by the way?" Nikita asked.

"Well, I'm just in D.C. right now, running missions with Steve." Natasha said.

"Just you and Steve? Even after New York, Kat still doesn't want to do missions?" Nikita asked, laughing a little.

"No, she's doing missions with us, but right now she's in Malibu. I guess Tony's been going through some PTSD since New York, she's out there helping him." Natasha said.

"And you're helping Steve in her absence, how domestic of you." Nikita teased.

"Anyway. Whatever you and Thor about to do, please stay safe." Natasha said.

"Always, bye Nat."

"Bye, Nic."

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"Malekith is going to fire the Aether at a spot where all the nine worlds are connecting." Once Nikita had changed her clothes, she joined everyone back in the living room, and gave a slight recap of the events that had happened and how she and Thor got back here and what she saw when Malekith was extracting the Aether from her body.

"Amplifying the weapon's impact. For each additional world, the power will increase exponentially. The effect would be universal." Erik further explained.

"Yes, but the Alignment is only temporary. He must be in exactly the right place at the right time." Thor spoke.

"Well, how do we know where that is?" Darcy asked.

"We follow the directions." Erik spoke, standing up from his seat. He grabbed a map from off the shelf. "This has happened before, thousands of years ago, and the Ancients were there to see it." He said, walking to the table in the living room and knocking everything off of it before spreading the map out for their entire group to see.

"All the great constructions, the Mayans, the Chinese, the Egyptians. They made use of the gravitational effects of the Convergence. And they left us a map." Erik said, then looking down at the map, Nikita watched as he plotted points and connected the dots to get the central location of where Malekith was going unleash his power.

"Stonehenge, Snowdown, the great Orme. These are all coordinates taking us, here." Erik said, he had drawn a triangle on the map, but the place they needed to be was where all the lines met together.

Greenwich.

It was right outside of London. "Greenwich?" Ian asked.

"The walls between worlds will be almost non-existent." Nikita noted.

"Physics is going to go ballastic." Jane said.

"For sure. Increases and decreases in gravity, spatial extrusions. The very fabric of reality is going to be torn apart." Nikita said. In a split second, Thor had reached out and his hammer had flown off the hook and into his hands. Erik nodded his head.

"I better get my pants."

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Another short chapter, I know. But hey, you got another Natasha interaction.

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