Chapter 59: Pocket World
<strong>Chapter 59: Pocket World</strong>
<span style="font-weight:400">The matter with the dark elves’ invasion of Asgard hase to an end.
<span style="font-weight:400">Thanks to Spiderman and the rest that followed Benjamin, the Asgardians were able to quickly contain the situation and bring peace into their realm once more.
<span style="font-weight:400">Naturally, they held a huge feast at the end and celebrated till they all passed out drunk.
<span style="font-weight:400">The following day, Benjamin dragged their drunk asses back to Earth and gave them a day off.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, except for Spiderman who was not allowed to drink alcohol.
<span style="font-weight:400">Still, Peter was quite enthusiastic about the whole thing and brought a bunch of souvenirs to show off to his best friends Ned and Harry as well as his girlfriend MJ.
<span style="font-weight:400">Currently, they were gathered in his room.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So I was like, ‘Sir! Please put down therge goat!’. But of course, he didn’t do it so I had to whup his ass! Also, do you know that goats there are like, sooo huge! Like the size of a horse! But…goat! And they’re pretty noisy too. Ah, but they gave me some of its milk. Yes, their goats have milk. Don’t ask. It’s tasty though.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Ned, Harry, and MJ just stood there silently while Peter rattled on and on about his trip to Asgard while introducing the various souvenirs he got.
<span style="font-weight:400">He has been like this for an hour already and he doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon…
<span style="font-weight:400">Finally, even MJ couldn’t stand it anymore and quickly patted Peter on the shoulder.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright, tiger. Slow down. We get it. It’s amazing. But did you do your homework yet?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Peter trailed off.
<span style="font-weight:400">Homework?
<span style="font-weight:400">What homework?
<span style="font-weight:400">…AHHH!
<span style="font-weight:400">“Shit! Ipletely forgot about it!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Peter panicked and quickly took out his notes in his bag to do his homework.
<span style="font-weight:400">Seeing him like this, the three looked at each other andughed.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was quite something to see someone who had just fought a bunch of dark elves in Asgard to panic about school homework…
<span style="font-weight:400">While Peter scrambled to do his homework, the others started picking up the souvenirs that Peter brought with him and looked at them curiously.
<span style="font-weight:400">Harry picked up a tooth-like thing and asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey, what’s this one supposed to be?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hm? Oh, I think that was some kind of goblin tooth or something. One of the Asgardians was talking about fighting one in the past and showed it to me. I must’ve brought it back as well.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Dark elves, goblins, Thor, Odin, Asgard…it really makes one wonder. What is myth, what is real?”
<span style="font-weight:400">MJ sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">In the past, they were all just normal kids in a normal world.
<span style="font-weight:400">But at some point, it seems that the world around them has gotten a whole lot stranger.
<span style="font-weight:400">Their friend Peter became Spiderman and fought a lot of crazy viins. Eventually, the three of them were pulled in as well as they helped Peter in the background.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then there were aliens from another…now Gods….
<span style="font-weight:400">Everything just made them feel…powerless.
<span style="font-weight:400">Harry looked at the goblin tooth and muttered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Goblin huh…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Then…he put it back down.
<span style="font-weight:400">Nothing happened of course. Actually, the Asgardian who spoke about it was quite drunk. That was just a normal animal tooth and he was spouting nonsense before.
<span style="font-weight:400">Suddenly, several police sirens rang out from outside.
<span style="font-weight:400">Peter didn’t think twice and quickly pped a spider emblem on his chest which then started to expand and cover his body, creating his Spiderman suit.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was something Benjamin made for him so it’s easier to put on.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Gotta go!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Stay safe!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Just like that, Spiderman left through the window and quickly swung through the city, leaving the three of them in his room.
<span style="font-weight:400">There was an awkward silence for a moment until Ned picked up a Viking helmet and asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Do you think this was made from an Asgardian woman’s breastte? You know, like the one in How to Train Your Dragon.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">Both Harry and MJ were speechless.
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, Spiderman was swinging through the streets of New York following the police cars, and quickly arrived at the scene of the crime.
<span style="font-weight:400">But as he got there, he found that someone had already beaten him to it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderman groaned in frustration.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ugh, it’s her again!”
<span style="font-weight:400">By her, he meant another spider-themed hero like him who calls herself, Spider-woman.
<span style="font-weight:400">She had a white slender suit with pink linings and a mask and hood.
<span style="font-weight:400">Peter doesn’t know it yet but this woman was actually a transfer student in his school who had transferred a few months back, Gwen Stacy!
<span style="font-weight:400">Spider-woman just finished webbing up the bunch of thieves and saw Spidermannd on amppost.
<span style="font-weight:400">She doesn’t show it with the mask on but Spiderman swore that she was smirking at him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Toote again. Hehe.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Then, she quickly left after saying her piece, irritating Spiderman even more.
<span style="font-weight:400">At this moment, a giant billboard was showing the Daily Bugle with JJJ.
<span style="font-weight:400">“First it was Spiderman, now there’s even a Spider-woman! What’s next!? Spider-gay!? Menace! I’m telling you! This city is being infested by these menaces! You all need to wake up and see it clearly!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderman was a bit speechless.
<span style="font-weight:400">When is this guy ever going to give up…
<span style="font-weight:400">Suddenly, JJJ looked somewhere off-camera.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What? What do you mean we’re being sued!? They can’t do that! What do you mean I have to go to court!? Huh? This still on? Jarred! Cut the feed! What the hell are yo-”
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderman sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">It seems the EPD had also had enough and the legal team had started to do something about JJJ.
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderman felt a bit bad about JJJ but…on second thought, nah, he deserved it. Who told him to run off his mouth without thinking?
<span style="font-weight:400">Shrugging, Spiderman left and went back to his friends and continue his ‘normal’ everyday life.
<span style="font-weight:400">Although his ‘normal’ everyday life may soone to an end as well…
<span style="font-weight:400">He doesn’t know it yet, but his world is only about to get a whole lot weirder.
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile…
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Okay, even for me, this shit is weird.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin waspletely dumbfounded by what he was witnessing before his eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">As he floated in the sky, he watched a certain white-haired woman dancing and singing in the heavy snow while casually creating an ice castle around her…
<span style="font-weight:400">To exin the current situation, let’s wind back time for a bit.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin had just finished dealing with the matter in Asgard and was about to help Steve and the others catch Red Skull but…well, they seemed to have already finished the job.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was to the point that Steve felt bad about Red Skull. It was his bad luck that Captain Marvel was currently on Earth too and had time to kill so she quickly solved the matter.
<span style="font-weight:400">Even Benjamin felt speechless at how anti-climactic it was.
<span style="font-weight:400">Of course, it was Red Skull who was the most angered.
<span style="font-weight:400">Years of patiently nning…gone! Just like that!
<span style="font-weight:400">Why aren’t they ying by the rules!?
<span style="font-weight:400">Isn’t it supposed to be only Captain America who will fight me!?
<span style="font-weight:400">They cheated!
<span style="font-weight:400">But well, this was just how it is.
<span style="font-weight:400">Frankly, Benjamin was more confused about why in theics or movies, in a world where there obviously are other heroes, why don’t they appear when another hero is fighting their viin?
<span style="font-weight:400">Sure there may be some special circumstances but…when the viin is affecting the whole city or even the whole, where the hell are the other heroes!?
<span style="font-weight:400">Although, it seems that they weren’t able to catch Red Skull as he had somehow vanished. Benjamin was also unable to locate him.
<span style="font-weight:400">Anyway, Benjamin was quite free now and decided to explore Limbo since he hasn’t gotten the chance to do it yet.
<span style="font-weight:400">Limbo was quite a strange ce. Although it looks like hell, there were also sometimes rifts that appear now and then that seemed to lead to strange new worlds.
<span style="font-weight:400">Sort of like, a small pocket dimension.
<span style="font-weight:400">It’s not a whole world as big as a universe, but still a unique world on its own.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin saw a lot of things as he explored those pocket worlds but he was most speechless about the one he was currently in.
<span style="font-weight:400">Because this world seemed to resemble a whole lot like…the movie, Frozen from his previous world…
<span style="font-weight:400">Right now, he was watching Elsa singing ‘Let it go’ on a snowy mountain.
<span style="font-weight:400">He has no idea why he can hear background music even though the storm was quite hard.
<span style="font-weight:400">This pocket world isn’t big and it was just the size of a continent.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin was at aplete loss and couldn’t understand how all these were possible.
<span style="font-weight:400">It seems that Limbo has its own set ofws. Normal logic doesn’t work here at all.
<span style="font-weight:400">Still…
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin watched Elsa and thought to himself.
<span style="font-weight:400">Isn’t her ability being wasted here?
<span style="font-weight:400">Such a powerful ice power user…can’t I recruit her in the EPD somehow?
<span style="font-weight:400">It would be quite funny to see Elsa fight against Thanos. Will it also turn into a musical? Is the world going to be saved by music?
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin thought about it some more and the more he thought about it, the more he feels it was interesting to bring her over to his side.
<span style="font-weight:400">At this moment, Elsa has finally finished singing ‘Let it go’ andpleted her hair and dress transition.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin’s gaze lingered at her chest for a moment and cursed the Disney of his previous world for nerfing it in the movie.
<span style="font-weight:400">But he could understand.
<span style="font-weight:400">This was definitely not the type of body one can show in front of kids!
<span style="font-weight:400">Ahem.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin shook his head and descended in front of Elsa while pping.
<span style="font-weight:400">Elsa was confused and quickly went on alert. Ice spikes appeared and floated around her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Who are you!?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“That was quite an impressive…performance you did. My name is Benjamin Freed. I mean you no harm.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Elsa frowned.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...What do you want? And…how were you flying just now?”
<span style="font-weight:400">She was surprised to see Benjamin float down in front of her.
<span style="font-weight:400">She thought her powers were already an anomaly in this world, but…she doesn’t seem to be the only one?
<span style="font-weight:400">Could there be others?
<span style="font-weight:400">A slight hope appeared in her eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">For a long time, she’s suppressed her powers, fearing losing control and being treated as a monster.
<span style="font-weight:400">She knew she was different from normal people.
<span style="font-weight:400">She was special…
<span style="font-weight:400">But such a specialty brings loneliness.
<span style="font-weight:400">No one can understand her. Even with her sister by her side, she still felt alone in the world.
<span style="font-weight:400">But…what if there were others? Others like her? Gifted with extraordinary powers!
<span style="font-weight:400">Of course, while she was hopeful, she was still wary in front of a stranger like Benjamin who just appeared.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin could understand her thoughts and smiled.
<span style="font-weight:400">He lifted up his hand and…suddenly, the whole world seemed to stand still.
<span style="font-weight:400">No, it wasn’t that Benjamin stopped time. But rather, he stopped the current snowstorm so it seemed as if time had stopped abruptly.
<span style="font-weight:400">He had control over Nature. Stopping a snowstorm that was caused by nature was naturally as easy as lifting a hand for him.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then, he pointed at the mountain they were on, and suddenly, fresh leaves and trees started to sprout.
<span style="font-weight:400">Soon, the once snowy mountain had turned into an abundant forest!
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin looked in the distance toward the direction of where the town that Elsa came from.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ve fixed the cycle of nature in this pocket world. It shouldn’t cause something like a long winter ever again. The townspeople will be fine.”
<span style="font-weight:400">This pocket world was still a part of Limbo and there were all sorts of things that could affect it. It was normal that the cycle of seasons would be out of whack every now and then but with his power, it shouldn’t be a problem anymore.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin turned back to Elsa.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You don’t have to be shackled in this world forever. Out there, there is a muchrger world. A world where you can properly use your abilities to their fullest. You won’t need to be afraid of being alone.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Elsa looked at the hand that reached out to her and fell silent.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was all too sudden and she didn’t know what to think at first.
<span style="font-weight:400">But it seems that to her, at least, Benjamin didn’t seem to have any ill intentions.
<span style="font-weight:400">It may be worth trying…
<span style="font-weight:400">What was the worst that could happen? She was still confident of her own abilities in case the need arises for it.
<span style="font-weight:400">After a while, she opened her mouth and Benjamin suddenly heard soft music in the background.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I~”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nope. I’m not gonna do a duet! Just say yes or no!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Y-yes…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Elsa could only helplessly stop her urge to sing and nod.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin heard the background music stop and sighed in relief.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was close.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But umm…would I no longer be able to return here?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hm? You still can. Don’t worry. You are free toe back here anytime you want.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Then, alright. Ah, but I need to tell my little sister first.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin nodded.
<span style="font-weight:400">Speaking of, Anna was already on her way up the mountain when the snow turned into a forest. She should be reaching the ice castle soon.
<span style="font-weight:400">As expected, she appeared at the foot of the castle.
<span style="font-weight:400">Elsa went down to talk to her and calm her down.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin sighed in relief seeing as he managed to trick- ahem- convince Elsa somehow.
<span style="font-weight:400">Suddenly, he heard another upbeat background music.
<span style="font-weight:400">Looking down, he saw Elsa and Anna singing together and making a huge fuss….
<span style="font-weight:400">Uhhh…is this really a good idea?
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin started to regret it a bit…