"ROAAAAAAR—!!!"
"What's up?!"
Tony stared blankly at the towering form of Godzilla · Leon, while simultaneously watching the radiation levels on his Mark VI HUD spike at terrifying speed.
"Were you raised on nuclear waste or something?!"
"Wait—no!"
"You were clearly raised on—never mind! How did you suddenly mutate into this?!"
Leon's colossal draconic face broke into an unmistakably smug grin. Twin plumes of white vapor burst from his nostrils.
"Well~"
"A lot happened during my 'Leon Slumber.' Long story short—I got stronger."
No more explanation.
He began charging.
Hum—
Hum—
HUM—
The dorsal spines along his back ignited one by one. His chest swelled.
He "inhaled"—
Pointlessly, in vacuum.
But the Atomic Breath erupted anyway.
A blinding column of icy-blue annihilation lanced forward.
Unlike a traditional Godzilla, Leon didn't rely solely on biological ignition.
The Starlight Template provided energy conversion.
The Storm Template supplied plasma ignition.
He could fire in any environment.
SCHHHHHHH—!!!!!!!!
Where the beam passed—
Reality seemed erased.
Everything in Tony and Thor's field of vision vanished into nothingness.
The seemingly endless Chitauri swarm was wiped out in moments.
Only the colossal, spider-like mothership remained.
Leon didn't pause.
His comparatively tiny forearms tucked inward. His massive tail snapped behind him.
The Bio-Field flared—providing propulsion proportional to his kaiju mass.
He accelerated like a living missile.
True Rocket Headbutt.
Despite his size, his speed was absurd.
He slammed straight through the mothership's hull, carving a tunnel through it.
Inside—
He unleashed Atomic Breath again.
And began spinning in place.
The ship—dozens of times larger than he was—was carved apart from within, reduced to mangled metal and roasted organic biomass.
It wasn't completely atomized only because its scale exceeded the beam's full coverage.
But it was finished.
Drifting debris floated everywhere.
Leon sniffed.
A rich, smoky aroma wafted through space—
A chunk of charred Chitauri biomass drifted conveniently toward his mouth.
"Ah—"
He bit down.
Chewed.
Then—
His black-scaled face turned an alarming shade of purple.
It smelled heavenly.
It tasted… catastrophic.
Sour.
Bitter.
Rotten.
Slimy.
The exact opposite of durian.
"BLEAARGH—!!!"
He spat it out instantly.
With nothing substantial in his stomach, he dry-heaved miserably, clawing at his own tongue with his stubby forearms.
Tony doubled over laughing.
"I can't— I can't breathe—!"
Thor chuckled despite himself.
"Brother, eating random alien carcasses is unwise."
Leon's enormous mouth curved into a sharp Nike-shaped grin.
"Oh. You're laughing?"
Tony and Thor froze.
Before they could escape—
Telekinesis pinned them mid-flight.
Two appropriately sized chunks of roasted Chitauri biomass were shoved directly into their mouths.
Leon even helpfully assisted their chewing motion.
A moment later—
"BLEAARGH—!!!" ×3
The trio vomited in perfect harmony.
It took several long minutes for them to recover.
"That," Leon said calmly afterward, "was my prize for winning the bet."
"Fair?"
Thor nodded solemnly.
"A wager is a wager."
Tony wiped his mouth.
"But it shouldn't just be us."
The three exchanged a conspiratorial grin.
"Kehehehehe—" ×4
They froze.
Four laughs.
Only three people were present.
"…What?" ×3
Thor reacted instantly.
Mjolnir rose skyward.
Lightning branched outward like the World Tree, saturating a wide radius in blinding arcs.
Crackle—
Sizzle—
A familiar figure materialized mid-electrocution, skeletal silhouette briefly visible through the lightning.
Thor's face lit up.
He rushed forward and grabbed the figure into a crushing hug.
"Loki!"
"I knew you weren't dead!"
"Oh really?" Loki smirked weakly.
"Which idiot was sobbing and screaming vengeance after I 'died'? Heehee."
Thor answered with a hammer tap to the forehead.
Thud.
"Idiot!"
"If you weren't dead, you could've told us! Do you know how worried I was?!"
Loki clutched the rapidly swelling bump on his head—
His grin fading instantly.
From "heehee"—
To decidedly not heehee.
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