Firing lasers have never been so fun for Nicklaus. He was hunting down the Chitouri with his eyes blazing hot for minutes as he felt the thrill of the chase he was participating in. Some tried to spilt from the group but he melted them before they went far. The people of New York were watching this chase with wide open eyes and worship. On the ground, Steve and Natasha were doing their best to make sure the aliens do not get anywhere near the civilians who for some reason had not finished evacuating the area.
"Superior Man, I have couple of annoying tails on me, care to help out?" Tony asked.
"Sure," Nicklaus answered as he finished off the ones he was after then headed towards the place Tony was. He was surprised to see more than a hundred flying Chitouri after him and a Techdragon. Nicklaus lasered down a couple of them then flew off to the opposite direction. The Chitouri screamt at each other then they went after him as the Techdragon continued on after Tony.
"You can keep the big guy. Hope you two robots can bond," Nicklaus said with a chuckle.
"I am wearing a suit of armour, not a robot!" Tony reprimanded Nicklaus but got no response to that.
Nicklaus looked back and saw the Chitouri still following. He smiled as he turned, his back facing the ground and his eyes turned red before firing the lasers at them, disintegrating all of them. He smiled at himself then looked around to see if he had more targets. That's when he realized he was above the most iconic building in the Marvel MCU, the Wizard Building. He saw a bald woman on the roof, one hand behind her back and the other just waving and the flying Chitouri or the footsoldier Chitouri would explode. Nicklaus could sense the aura of another in her spells so he landed in front of her making her look at him warily.
"I sense a dark presence all around you," Nicklaus said as his eyes glowed red.
"I can almost sense the aura of demons in your soul," the Ancient One also said as magical circles appeared on her palms.
"You want to fight me with someone else's power? That's pathetic," Nicklaus said then the Ancient One felt all her powers she got from Dormammu disappear. She grew even more wary of this stranger. Nicklaus frowned when he saw how she looked at him. "The Time Stone never showed you of my presence or how we would meet, huh?" She frowned even more and he chuckled as he knew the answer.
"My name is Nicklaus, I am a Demon King, though when I go back to the Abyss I will be named a Demon Emperor. For the time being I am playing as a hero because I was human before circumstances made me fall into being a Demon King," Nicklaus told her.
"That is not a good enough reason to play hero. Also, why would you chose to be a demon when you can fight it out? If you can stop me from channeling powers from the Dark Universe then you must have a more powerful universe where you channel your powers from," she said.
"I have a whole Eternity to live, I could grow bored then start becoming crazy if I do not do anything. But with my little games in this multiverse then I jump to another I will be able to stay sane though I do not know how long I will last. Secondly, the person after me is more powerful than me that I suspect he can create a being with a whole universe to try and kill me, he made an Asura go after me and I nearly died! Thirdly, I do not try and channel powers from a universe, I am the Universe, technically more than a few tens of thousands of them. I would like to come to a deal with you."
"I am not going to give you my soul!" she said, firmly.
"I am not that kind of demon. All I want is for you to send me a copy of every spell in your sanctuary and I will give you a whole universe for you and the future Sorcerer Suprimes to use. Of course, I will also put in the clause of not sharing the spells with any one else and not using the dark spells on humans of this universe intentionally or unintentionally and if I do the punishment will be in the payment of a Universe for each broken clause," he said to her. The Ancient One was surprised to say the least. He was saying he would give her a whole universe to power up her powers! Just how powerful was this demon? Also, he was to pay with universes when he broke any of the clauses they put, she was the winner in every situation here. She could not help but feel a little bit paranoid.
"You are wondering that because I have so many universes I could just break the clauses and be comfortable but for each Universe I give you my power will drop drastically and it might take eons to cultivate it again and as a demon I have many adversaries, also, there is the fact of the man hunting me and I need every bit of strength I can master in order to do to stay alive. That ease you up it would you rather see the goods?" he asked then clenched his fist as a sudden light escaped from it. He drew it towards her then opened it up. In there was a shining blue pearl.
"I just put it all in here so you can use it any how you want. I also put in safety measures, you will activate it with a drop of blood from you and when you decide to give it to your successor, you will also use his drop of blood so that he can be the owner. It will go on till this world dies and the pearl will come back to me. Is that an acceptable term?" he asked her.
"It is," she agreed. Suddenly, a demon contract appeared in front of them. The Ancient One picked it up and read it carefully. Usually, it would be written with words from the Abyss but he made it so that it was in English for her not be so suspicious. She nodded then used her blood to sign it.
"Time to seal the deal. As the ritual says, you have to kiss me," Nicklaus said with a small smile. The Ancient One glared at him then reached out and did it. It was more of a peck than a kiss but he was not complaining. He almost felt like a weird uncle tricking a little kid for as Tsune told him, he was a couple of millenniums old and she was just centuries old! When she finished her peck, the pearl flew from Nicklaus's hand and onto her forehead just between her two eyes. She suddenly felt raw power going to every part of her body and she felt so alive it was like she just gained a new body for herself. She looked at her hands in excitement and then back at Nicklaus. If she felt that powerful with one universe, what about this demon with thousands of them? She shuddered at the thought.
"How does it feel? I picked it just for you, it is the smallest one I had but it might be hundreds times more powerful than the dark dimension," Nicklaus said then threw her a ring. "This is called a storage ring, it will store countless things in it. You can stuff all the books I asked for in there then add a little bit of energy and it will teleport to me." Just then, Hulk landed onto the roof, making both of them turn to look at him at the same time. They both knew at once he was not from this time. Hulk was surprised to see Nicklaus there and Nicklaus saw him shudder a little bit.
"Hello," Nicklaus greeted him with a smile then turned to the Ancient One. "Guess that's my cue. Good luck." With that, he took off back to the fight. He knew Hulk was here for the time stone and also the Hulk from this timeline was back in the action.
"Hey, where were you?" Steve asked when he landed beside him.
"Talking to a friend. So, everything seems to be going well, though I see you lost your cowl," Nicklaus said. Steve just sighed at that.
"Natasha found a way to close the portal but Fury said the army was bringing a nuke to us. Tony went to deal with it. Hulk is being pinned down by numerous Chitouri, care to help him out?" Steve asked.
"Sure," Nicklaus said then flew off in search of the big guy. He found him being harrass by hundreds of the little buggers. Nicklaus was surprised at how resilient Hulk's skin was that it was not injured by the beams. He then fired his lasers and the Chitouri were halved in an instance. Hulk looked up at him and must have remembered the one hit knockout for he roared at him and was about to jump up and start another brawl but then saw Tony flying under a nuke heading towards the portal.
Nicklaus saw him too but did not intend to help. It would ruin so much so he just watched as the suit of armour flew with the nuke into the portal then heard Tony tell Natasha to close the portal. At the least moment, Tony fell back through the portal as it closed. Nicklaus knew he would be caught by Hulk so he flew to Natasha's side and looked at the machine that generated the portal.
"It's crazy how humans can grow when introduced to alien technology, isn't it?" he asked as he took out the Tesseract and gave it to Natasha. Then he used his lasers and destroyed the machine into nothing else but a puddle of molten metal. He then turned to Natasha. "Big fan by the way."
"Me too. I was wondering if you would spare time to teach me a few things. I heard you are an awesome combat trainer. Would you teach me?" she asked.
"Why not? Come find me in National City, I am sure Fury would ship you immediately," he said then a slight chuckle then shot to the sky and flew away.
"Wait, did he just fly away?" Tony asked through the coms. "I wanted all of us to go for the shawarma. Also, I had a lot of questions for him!"
"If you are gonna fan boy over him you can find him in National City. Also, we still have one more criminal to take in," Steve answered him and they all remembered about Loki.
"Well, I would like to fight him next time," Thor said with a smile on his face.
Nicklaus flew back to the National City which took him seconds at most. A day had not passed since he left so Olsa did not have time to show case her authority. When she saw him she was a bit sad.
"I thought you would be gone for a few days. Guess if it is you saving the world would take a few hours," she said with a disappointed look.
"My sweet disciple, even if I did not do as you expected, you must know that saving lives come before everything else. But, as your master and seeing that you are disappointed by the amount of time I spent away, for the next two months you will be the one patrolling National Island and letting the citizens know you are an awesome superhero. Also, since the Island is not in flames, this means you get your very own cape," Nicklaus told her. Lisa's eyes grew big with surprise then her face morphed into a happy one as she squelled in joy. "You might also get a fellow disciple soon."
"Really? Who? A new mutant?" she asked hurriedly.
"No, her name is Natasha Ruminoff or Black Widow. She is a human though she has been experimenting on since she was a child and was made a very combat competent assassin. She was also one of the heroes I was working with to save the Earth moments ago. So prepare to act like an elder Martial Disciple soon."
"Yes, Master," she said with a bow.