Odin and His Sons

On the floating platform.

Leon stood at the very front, looking at everyone as he asked one final question before departure:

"Are you ready to go to Asgard? You might not be used to spending Christmas on another planet, but trying something new once in a while might be nice."

Honestly, Leon did not feel much about Christmas.

Even though he had grown up in the Stark household in this life.

To him, Christmas was merely a long holiday, a day to rest.

But for everyone else, the holiday might carry a more important meaning.

Yet Pietro spread his hands and said, "Come to think of it, Wanda and I haven't celebrated this holiday in years."

Wanda nodded in agreement. "Life in Sokovia wasn't easy. We didn't have the energy to care about Christmas."

"And when we were with Hydra, it was even worse. We didn't even have any personal freedom."

Natasha chimed in as well. "Yelena and I were about the same. The Red Room didn't let people celebrate Christmas."

"Me too..." Sherry held Yelena's hand. "Mom and Dad spent Christmas in the laboratory too. They never came home, and last Christmas, everyone was busy wiping out zombies."

Unexpectedly, Banner added, "Now that you mention it, I haven't celebrated this holiday in nearly two years either. After I was exposed to gamma radiation, the military kept hunting me down."

Only after Leon started the conversation.

Did he realize that no one present really celebrated Christmas.

Because everyone had been through such miserable times...

Wong and Hamir joined in as well. "The two of us are Easterners. We don't celebrate Christmas either."

Seeing the topic drift further and further away.

Leon quickly cut it off. "Since none of us celebrates it anyway, that makes things easy. Once we defeat the