"Well you were in the group when this happened. In theory you would have been arrested. It's fortunate that I am now the head of TVA." Loki said with his iconic smile.
"How long have you been hiding?" Clark couldn't help but ask.
"I just arrived. When the sword of this big guy went through his chest, it sent ripples across all timelines." Loki said, but now in a more grave tone. He had been doing this for quite some time now and he had seen fair share of Nexus Events and Beings. TVA was even able to stop many problems before it even started.
But this time, it was special. The problem arrived out of nowhere and from the way the timeline showed branches signified that the effect would be huge one and it would change the multiverse forever.
All they had to see was if the multiverse was going for the good or the worse.
"Loki, I know you want to leave the TVA but at this point of time, I can't let you leave." John said.
"I know that. You don't have to rub it on me. After settling everything this time, I am out."
John and Clark didn't say anything against it and their silence meant that this was the last assignment for Loki in the TVA and after this he would genuinely be free and would get to live his life as he wanted to.
"Alright let's head back. I will have to finish one last thing before Light can be free." Yhwach mentioned.
"You mean Dylan?"
Yhwach nodded his head.
John looked at the place one last time where Knull had turned into ashes. Due to the heat of the sun even the ashes had blown away, there was not even a hint of the being that once terrorized the Celestials and the universe. Nothing was eternal! John got reminded of this once again.
John vanished with Yhwach, Clark and Loki and they appeared again at the headquarters of the Avengers. They could already see that the sky was clearing out. The symbiotes which were struck at the land and the buildings were slowly vanishing away to the sky, returning back to where they came from.
Klyntar.
The war was over!!
After a few minutes of waiting, almost everybody was back. Eddie too had returned and John had ordered Robin to bring Dylan to the headquarters. To get rid of Knull and all of its influence, they need to get rid of the last remnant of his from the body of Dylan.
When Dylan was born, the symbiotes of the upper echelon gave him the power to separate hosts from symbiotes. This was the hole in the card for the symbiotes when Knull breaks from prison. It was unfortunate that this never came to fruition and in fact it almost proved fatal to the symbiotes, as Knull had hidden a part of himself on the body of Dylan.
Yhwach and John knew of this. Yhwach knew of this because the Enigma Force had informed him of this and John knew of this because of comics. Now this was the last work Yhwach needed to do before Light would leave and roam in the multiverse.
"So Knull is dead?" Eddie asked. They all had a smile on their faces. The symbiotes leaving already denoted that they had won. Though many were surprised that Loki had appeared in all of this with the team, none of them complained. Not even the 616-Avengers, where Loki was a major villain and had given pain to almost everyone here during the Realm Wars and even had a personal vendetta against Strange who had lost his dog due to the machinations of Loki.
The 616-Avengers could see that this Loki wasn't their version of Loki so nobody raised an eye on this.
"Knull is dead but there is a problem." Clark said.
"Problem? Did he escape or something?"
"No. It's complicated, we will talk about this after we get rid of the last influence of Knull from the body of Dylan."
"What? My son? Did Knull do something to Dylan?" Eddie got scared and he asked anxiously.
"Yeah he did. But worry not, Yhwach will help us get rid of this in a second. Dylan is on the way here."
"You informed Dylan of this?"
"No. But I had a security detail around him with Robin and my children." John said.
As they were talking, Dylan and others had already arrived. Dylan looked like any other American teenager. But there was a small change in his eyes. His eyes had a very vague spiral black and red line. It was very vague and transparent but anyone with a good eye would be able to notice it.
"Dylan. Are you ok? Are you hurt?"
"I am fine Dad. You don't need to be so protective of me. I can handle myself." Dylan said with little annoyance. His overprotective Dad had been a pain in the ass for him for a long time now.
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