An orange cube-shaped portal opened.
Wade stepped out of the portal with a shield-sized medal strapped to his body: Honorary Captain of the Avengers.
"What time... where am I?"
Wade raised his wrist and looked at the time display on it. Why did it feel like he had been pierced by the Tesseract's energy?
This thing wasn't working very well anymore?
Wade resorted to his repair skills again, raising his hand and smacking it twice. The numbers began to tick.
The next second, a cube-shaped portal appeared beneath Wade's feet and dropped him straight through it.
"AAAAAHHHH!!!!"
Wade howled in terror. With a plop, he landed on a chair, only to find his head surrounded by a dense array of firearms.
Orange-yellow screens filled the surroundings, along with gun-toting soldiers who looked like clones. It all felt so familiar...
His head itched. Maybe his brain was finally growing in. Wade scratched his head, conveniently tearing off the mask on his face.
"Okay, where are you locking me up this time?"
"No. This time, the question is: where do you want to go?"
A man dressed in a dark green scale-patterned trench coat walked over. He wore black shoulder-length curls, his expression gentle, every movement radiating effortless elegance.
He snapped his fingers, and the Time Variance Authority soldiers neatly parted down the middle, opening a path.
"I saw your performance. It was absolutely marvelous!"
Wade's eyes widened as he stared at the man before him in disbelief—the prince of Asgard.
Loki Laufeyson.
"Wait... how are you here?"
Wade was stunned. He remembered that Loki was not supposed to have appeared yet. Then where exactly was this timeline?
"Don't be so worried. I'm just working here, you know. Clocking in, doing my job, then brewing myself a cup of coffee to pass