October 17, 2016
9.00 a.m.
Two days after the #DoorOfQueens incident the mysterious dimensional gate that appeared above the skies of Queens New York had thrown nearly the whole city into panic PTSD resurfacing among those who had lived through the #FirstInvasion when aliens attacked New York in 2012
(Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is a psychological condition that occurs when someone encounters an event similar to one they experienced before one so intense it left a deep scar When something happens that reminds them of it the fear anxiety and panic come rushing back for example someone once bitten by a dog of breed A might shudder or feel pain in the same spot again when seeing another dog of the same or similar breed even if the wound has long healed)
But the situation ended peacefully The portal closed after staying open in the sky for half an hour Nothing else happened beyond that. . . at least in the eyes of ordinary people
Because Wong my disciples and I from the New York Sanctum had already wiped out every last Chitauri that dared invade through the gate When things turned against them they abruptly withdrew and shut the portal themselves
How they managed to open a dimensional gate I still had no idea Last time they did it using the Tesseract the Space Stone but that's now secured in Asgard
Even though I knew more than most there were still plenty of things beyond me All I could do was have my disciples track the space-time coordinates of the scientific energy source that opened the gate to predict when where and who might invade next
For the past two days I've been recording lessons on basic spells meditation techniques and notes from my 403 deaths fighting Dormammu Whenever I got tired I'd stretch a bit then check social media where all top 10 hashtags were still about the portal over Queens the same sky I had used as a battlefield to train my hundreds of disciples living nearby
And the 9 tags trailing #DoorOfQueens were. . .
#BlackHoleInHongkong still holding strong in the top 5#Avengers skyrocketed from the top 20 into the top 3 after theories spread that the portal might be related to the aliens the Avengers fought in 2012#FirstInvasion slipped to 4 five hours ago#AlienISReal has stayed at rank 5 for four days#BlackHole has held in the top 10 for four straight days swapping ranks with Alien between 5 and 6#DoomsDay and #GodJudment keep the tension alive in the top 10 as believers and skeptics argue over divine punishment#AncientAlien #AlienInvasion and #WhereRThor chased each other through the top 20 and now burst into the top 10
" Impressive really whoever runs these real-time trend trackers must be both diligent and very free" I muttered while scrolling through the 10th tag this hour full of people asking where the God of Thunder had gone
Some cursed him for being irresponsible some worried that his absence meant he was off fighting something even worse than what the world was facing now some pleaded for Thor and the other Norse gods to protect humanity before believers of other faiths and mythologies jumped in boasting that
Thor was merely an alien with electricity powers not as mighty as their own thunder gods but were swiftly met with simple retorts like
" So what if they're powerful they don't even exist" or " All that divine might means nothing if they don't use it to help humanity just another dusty legend"
Well. . . let them argue I wouldn't step in to tell them the truth that. . .
The other gods abandoned Earth long ago after Odin's victory in the war among the gods millions of years ago when he demanded "dominion over Earth" as tribute to Asgard channelling its magic there Many pantheons lost interest and left for other worlds Some remained but shifted to other dimensions sending fragments of their power to humans through a system known as
AVATAR a loophole to Odin's rule forbidding any god or goddess from manifesting physically on Earth But spirit forms or partial power projections were still allowed no energy sent to Asgard meant no alarm to Odin's wards that detected divine presence on Earth
It was frustrating but unavoidable If they pushed further the gods might unite and attack Odin himself
This was something I only learned after becoming Sorcerer Supreme gaining access to the global watchlist of entities worth monitoring with numerous avatars of gods from various pantheons living secretly among humans waiting for. . . something
Still if it wasn't magic-related Kamar Taj would not interfere
Deities differ from the Lords of the Mystic Dimensions in that the gods' lifespans rarely reach 10 million years The oldest Asgardian Odin himself is only about 2 million years old while the Lords of the Mystic Dimensions have existed since the birth of the universe their mystical energies so vast they require isolated realms to prevent them from collapsing into physical space
But the gathering of gods and goddesses within the divine city Omnipotence has amassed combined strength roughly four-fifths of a single Dimension Lord though only if they stay unified at all times. . .
" This world really is more complicated than I thought" I sighed shaking my head before tapping the top trending tag again to see where public attention was heading
Of the 50 posts I skimmed 28 claimed this was a natural phenomenon that since 2012 the balance of the world had broken leading to dimensional cracks like the ozone layer damaged by CFCs letting ultraviolet rays pierce the Earth's surface more easily
" From now on dimensions will be fragile easy to breach like cracked glass we'd better be careful who knows maybe tomorrow or the next day aliens might rip through space again"
I nodded in agreement with that thought but when I looked at the username my right eye twitched uncontrollably
" PeteTheDeathStar @PeterParker_231223 why does that name feel weird" My instincts screamed that whoever owned that account would definitely mess up my life someday But whatever For now I just wanted to enjoy my morning coffee a bit longer before heading to the office to check on today's cases
" May today be a good day. . ."