When John appeared again, he was near Hela who was all chained up with various golden chains holding her down. She looked all drained out and skinny. Her eyes had anger as she looked at the new visitors who had just arrived in that god forsaken place.
In Helheim, she had dead souls to accompany and was at least free. But here there was nothing. All the time was she chained up and there was no connection to Asgard from which she could draw her power.
"How the mighty had fallen!!" John said as he looked at her sorry figure. Hela looked at him with burning eyes.
"There is no point in having that amount of hatred towards me. It was you who brought this upon yourself. And honestly, if you go out now your brother will just imprison you again. You are in no match for him now and that is even after returning to Asgard again. He has become way too powerful than you imagine him to be." John said.
Hela looked confused when John spoke of her brother. The last time she saw her brother was on the losing side but now this person who overpowered her came to say that she wasn't powerful anymore.
"Let me out. I will show you how powerful I am." Hela said which grinding her teeth. John, who was walking away, stopped and looked at her.
"As you wish, after we deal with another person I will let you out. You will know how we have changed. You will get to see your elder sister too." John said.
"Elder sister? Mine?" Hela was more confused now. John then looked at the whole new dimension that was in his amulet.
It looked endless but there were several broken islands and palaces over the dimension floating. Though John could always feel the presence of dimension, he didn't actually explore much using his consciousness.
"This is bigger than I imagined it to be." John mumbled.
He flew to one of the floating islands where everybody gathered. They would be here for quite a long time so they needed to find a place which was conformable and would be away from the vengeful eyes of Hela.
As John arrived at the place, he was surprised to see Strange had made some burning fire pit with all the materials around and made it seem like they had come for a campfire.
"We are getting too comfortable. Are we?" John said.
"What? Constantine will take a lot of time to reach hell. He will go through rounds of alcohol and cigarettes and God knows what deploring places he will take her." Strange complained.
"He isn't that bad as he shows." Z replied, trying to defend her.
"We know, he was just being an a**hole." Mordo said paying no respects to him as the Sorcerer Supreme. Strange didn't mind the insult Mordo just gave him.
"John, you had fun in the over universe. Tell us about it. Did you kick Strange's ass?" Mordo asked as he was interested in what they did in the other universe.
"Huh.. I didn't have fun. It was them who had fun." John said as he pointed to the other members. It was true, he was just lazing around while the others went and did superhero stuff.
Mordo's eyes shined when he looked at the others. Even Strange was interested to know what had happened. Finally, Triss took the responsibility of narration and said what they had done in the other universe.
They were really surprised to know that the universe was in such a bad position because of John's actions but theiy both believed what John had done was right. The new trio that had joined too got to know new information about John and their travels and they were surprised beyond imagination.
"No wonder Khonsu repeatedly told me not to go on bad terms with you. You are one of a kind." Moon Knight said.
"I am not a monster. Just protective of what I love." John said. Later they all made small talk and passed the time. At one moment John asked.
"What do you three call yourselves? Do you have any names?"
"Name? You mean like the Avengers? We are too small of a team to name ourselves." Blade said as he shook his head.
"Oh right." John said in a low tone
"Why does it sound like that these people have a name for their team?" Strange said as he could feel John was disappointed that the trio didn't name themselves.
"Uhh.. Not gonna lie, I was expecting that." John said.
"What is the name of the team that they have in a different universe?" Mordo asked as he was pretty sure John knew of the name since he had hinted that the team had a name. John hesitated a bit before replying
"There is a name. But that name was given by him." John said, pointing at Strange.
"Me? Why will I use names to indicate a team? I can never do such a useless thing."
"Says the person who calls himself Sorcerer Supreme and has many procedures in the medical field named after his own self." John said, retorting Strange. Mordo too looked at Strange calling out his hypocrisy.
"Fine I will name our team which is going to fight Mephisto. We will call ourselves Midnight Sons. How does that sound?" Strange said as he could feel all were looking at him with fiery eyes.
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