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Chapter 1078: Father and Son (Part Seven)
🕑 Added 2024-03-17 05:01:20 +0000 UTCIn DC World With Marvel Chat Group : Table of Content/Chapter List
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Upon hearing the strange individual in front of him reveal his identity, Loki stood frozen in place. He tilted Helen's little head to the side and then scrutinized the group of people before him from head to toe with his gaze.
"Who are you all?" he asked.
"We are the Time Anomaly Management Bureau. You can call me B15," replied the leader with dark skin. He reached up and removed his helmet, extending a hand towards Lady Loki.
Loki didn't know what she intended to do, so he instinctively took a step back, squinting his eyes. Suddenly, a light screen appeared in the palm of B15's hand, displaying Loki's wanted warrant.
Loki didn't examine the warrant closely because B15 only let it linger for about a second. She withdrew her arm, picked up her shield, and waved her hand towards her subordinates behind her. Everyone began to converge towards Loki.
Loki raised a hand to halt their actions. B15 was somewhat perplexed but remained motionless. In the next moment, a burst of light passed over Loki, and the black-haired youth disappeared, replaced by a black-haired girl.
The girl had several braids on either side of her head, tied together at the back with shiny hair accessories. The remaining long hair cascaded down her back, adorned with subtle waves.
She wore a white Asgardian goddess's common gown, revealing one shoulder. Her head still bore an unfinished flower wreath atop, with vines cascading down and resting against her ear.
The appearance of Lady Loki, a female, seemed as if she had just stepped out of an oil painting depicting a goddess. It was a completely different style from the strange individuals present, dressed in black protective suits and wielding shields. Therefore, when they saw her, they all froze in astonishment.
B15, the self-proclaimed female leader, stared in disbelief at the girl before her. She extended a hand, and once again, the palm emitted a bright light, revealing the wanted warrant displaying the appearance of the male Loki.
At this moment, a subordinate holding a peculiar staff approached and whispered to B15, "I've just scanned it. This isn't an illusion or a trick of the eyes. Boss, have we mistaken the person?"
"The problem with Lady Loki is even greater," B15 replied grimly. She then shifted her gaze onto Lady Loki and paused on Helen's face.
"Apologies, but it seems you've mistaken us," Lady Loki said with a smile. "As you can see, I may not be the Loki you're looking for."
"Take her away!" B15 declared mercilessly.
However, at this moment, Lady Loki's movements paused briefly as a fleeting thought crossed her mind. She looked at B15 and said, "Before you lay hands on me, let me ask you this: even after realizing that I am not the same person as the male Loki on the wanted warrant, you still intend to capture me? Is that the nature of your orders?"
B15's lips moved, but instead of answering, she pointed her staff at Lady Loki and said, "You better leave with us immediately. Don't think about resisting, as it won't benefit you."
"I'd like to see what you have in store for me," Lady Loki sneered. A vertical halo of light appeared behind her. She raised her hand gently, and a beam of light shot towards B15.
However, B15 remained calm and composed. A golden beam shot out from her staff, but instead of flying towards Lady Loki, it attached itself to her shield. In an instant, the surface of the shield was coated with a golden glow.
The light beam that Lady Loki had unleashed vanished without a trace upon contact with this golden radiance.
Lady Loki was about to raise her hand again, but Helen whispered in his ear, "Don't bother trying. That power can disintegrate our divine power..."
Lady Loki's pupils contracted, but she didn't let go of her hand. Instead, she slightly spread her fingers and said to B15, "Alright, I know you're powerful, but there's no need to make such a scene without dignity, especially with children present."
"Helen, quickly go down and find your grandmother," Lady Loki patted Helen's back and whispered to her. However, Helen vigorously shook her head and said, "No! I have to go with you!"
Lady Loki was about to refute, but Helen clung to her neck and whispered in her ear, "Haven't you noticed? They're after you! You can't go alone!"
Realizing persuasion was futile, Lady Loki resorted to force. She tried to free herself from Helen's grip by extending her hands and capturing Helen's wrist, attempting to remove her arm from around her neck.
At first, Lady Loki hesitated to exert force because Helen's arms were thin. Although the little girl had grown a bit since birth, she remained slim. Apart from her face resembling Lady Loki's, her physique was closer to that of a human girl.
However, when Lady Loki applied a bit of force, she discovered that the power contained within Helen's tiny arms was like the strength of a dying struggle of a crab caught by a ladle near a pot. Lady Loki's efforts seemed futile, as if sinking into the sea without a sound, unable to move Helen an inch.
Wide-eyed, Lady Loki looked down at the innocent expression on the little girl's face. She stubbornly pursed her lips and exerted more force, but Helen remained unmoved.
Lady Loki took a deep breath and muttered, "Fine, everyone seems to be against me lately..."
"You can't take away my mommy!!!!!!"
In the midst of Lady Loki and B15's shocked gazes, Helen suddenly shouted loudly. Tears welled up in her eyes and overflowed, all within a span of less than a second.
"You can't take away my mommy!! You can't take away my mommy!! You bunch of bad guys!!!" Helen began crying loudly.
Lady Loki tried to cover her mouth in a panic. Among the onlookers, the subordinate closest to B15 approached and said with some confusion, "Are we really not mistaken? Loki's file clearly states that he is unmarried and has no children."
B15 was about to say that Helen might be Lady Loki's adopted daughter, but she couldn't bring herself to say it when she looked at their almost identical appearances.
When Lady Loki was male, Helen resembled him about sixty to seventy percent, but when he transformed into a female, the similarity increased to at least eighty percent. Pointing at these two faces and claiming they had no blood relationship, no one would believe it.
Moreover, this group of people had special means of inspection to ensure that Lady Loki wasn't using illusions, and they could even discern whether what she said was true.
B15 glanced down at her staff, emitting a golden glow, then looked at Helen, who was still clinging and crying on Lady Loki's body. A faint glimmer appeared in her eyes, unnoticed by herself. She lowered her tone and said to Lady Loki, "This is my duty. Please cooperate. I can give you five minutes to send your children away, but you must come with us."
Lady Loki, who didn't have any children, helplessly and irritably said, "Then can you please remove these children from me?! I would be so grateful!"
Seeing the subordinate approaching, B15 raised a hand and stopped him, handing the shield to someone behind her. She took out her staff, walked forward, and said, "I advise you not to take any unfriendly actions. Trust me, there's no time to escape the consequences..."
After speaking, she gently captured Helen's shoulder with her large hand, attempting to bring her down from Lady Loki's body. However, B15 encountered the same situation as Lady Loki—Helen seemed to be welded to Lady Loki's body and didn't budge.
B15 tugged again, but Helen remained unmoved and instead cried even louder. Even the strong employees of the Time Variance Authority standing behind B15 were getting a headache from her crying.
What was supposed to be a serious and slightly terrifying capture scene had turned into a family drama of soothing bear children. B15, Lady Loki, and the three subordinates behind them tried every method possible, but they couldn't separate Helen from Lady Loki.
Using force was useless. This little girl, for some unknown reason, had arms that wouldn't budge no matter what. No one could pull her away. Using magic was equally futile. Any magic cast on her disappeared in an instant, as if it had never existed.
Finally, B15 took out a small square device, aimed it at Helen, and pressed a button. But in Helen's mind, the scene of her being separated from Lady Loki as her own timeline was reset did not appear.
Helen stared at her with wide eyes, as if she had no idea what this aunt was doing.
The flower wreath on Lady Loki's head had completely come undone. Frigga's carefully braided hair was unraveled on one side, shapeless, and the other side was not secured by any hair accessory, now hanging loosely on her shoulder.
To put it nicely, her oil painting style had changed from collegiate to wild. To put it bluntly, she now looked like a madwoman.
"Very well, Helen Stark!" Lady Loki put her hands on her hips, standing in the center of the room, facing Helen. "I really should have brought your father and grandparents here to see you now!"
Lady Loki raised her hands high, as if in prayer, and said, "You must have inherited that bastard Tony Stark's rotten temper! Stubborn and unyielding! And completely oblivious to the situation, persistently so!"
"When I come back, I will definitely send you to your grandparents, and have them take you to train in Asgard's army, to get rid of those bad habits you picked up because that damn Stark didn't teach you properly!!!"
B15, holding the staff, stood frozen in place. She turned her head to the subordinate next to her and said, "Did you hear that? She just mentioned... who?"
"Tony Stark?" The subordinate swallowed and said, "Iron Man? The father of the children?!"
"Boss, maybe we should go back and double-check the contents of the arrest warrant? I really doubt if we made a mistake!" The subordinate said with great confusion, but B15 shook her head and said,
"Not possible. The information on the arrest warrant was updated ten years ago. For the gods of Asgard, ten years is just a nap's worth of time. They are the long-lived species, not like those races with lifespans of only a few decades, compressing love, marriage, and children into a few years..."
After speaking, B15 also looked at the scene in front of her with a headache. Then, with a slightly complicated eye contact, she glanced at the subordinates behind her, seeing their cold eye contact and fingers gripping their weapons tightly. B15 approached Lady Loki, weighing the staff in her hand, and said,
"This is your inescapable fate, and it is my duty. If your daughter doesn't want to leave you, then both of you will come with me."
Upon hearing this, Helen immediately stopped crying. As B15 turned away, she raised an eyebrow at Lady Loki and said, "I told you, she's someone who's soft-hearted towards children. See, it worked!"
Lady Loki followed B15 into the portal and said, "Did I ever mention that? Besides being like Tony, you're also a lot like Schiller."
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