The sun darkened as if a solar eclipse were happening. The land grew ominously shadowed with red glowing light seeping out of every crevasse. Fenrir, at least a shadowed version of him, left by Lady Echidna, slowly took shape as a behemoth dog with terrible fangs, dark fur, and glowing red eyes.
Chase, still holding the injured Midgard, felt her wrist buzz. She quickly clicked it on. “This is Chase. We have a situation down here.”
Justin came through, “Yes. A strange shadow is forming at your location. We cannot figure out where it is coming from.”
Midgard said, “Fenrir is eating the sun. It is destiny. But this isn’t the real Fenrir. That creature is dead. I killed it long ago. This thing is just a shadow demon, a monster emulating the real thing.”
Justin asked, “Can you stop it?”
“I doubt it.” Midgard said, “I hate to admit this, but we’re gonna need help.”
Bonnie rushed over, her BADGE agents taking aim at the forming monster. She spoke for Justin to hear, “We’re registering a power level much greater than the Shadow Krampus.”
“Understood.” The comm clicked off, and then the alert system buzzed and his voice came from all the comms present and across the world. “Acting Director Justin to all heroes. We have a code red in Tullstorp Sweden. I repeat, a code red in Tullstorp, Sweden. Respond with all force.”
“WATCH OUT!” Bonnie screamed as the giant head of the dog reached down to snap up everyone.
Midgard suddenly transformed into his massive size and grabbed it by the mouth, holding it off. He screamed with a painful yell and threw Fenrir away. “Don’t just stand there, KILL IT!” He yelled.
EB formed eggs in his hands and threw, “TAKE THAT YOU UGLY MUTT!” Colorful explosions rained across the side of its body.
Chase couldn’t help but notice the bleeding gash in Midgard as he fought. This was hell for him, but he wasn’t backing down. For the first time, she truly had respect for this loud, obnoxious monster. Today, he was truly a hero.
“You heard him!” Chase ran at the thrashing beast and threw her magic blades directly for its glowing eyes.
The agents stood back and took aim with their weapons, pouring fire at it. Gar ran fast and took to the skies. He swooped around Midgard, dodged a thrashing motion of Fenrir, and smashed it in the side of the head with one stone fist.
Fenrir whipped its head to the side and slapped Gar to the ground with a hard crash. It then rammed into Midgard, shoving him back. His feet scraping across the ground. Everyone below had to dive to avoid being crushed. The impact destroyed the BADGE shuttle, with Fenrir continuing to shove.
Midgard, working his best to keep it at bay, “WE CAN’T LET IT GO, IT WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING! AND I’M NOT LOSING TO A FAKE VERSION OF SOMETHING I ONCE ATE!!” He let out an enormous grunt as he head butted it right back, and then grabbed it around the neck.
Chase stopped fleeing the catastrophe and looked for an opening to hit this. “It’s not enough. I can’t do... we can’t do this.”
Bonnie ran up next to Chase, blasting away with a handgun. “Hit it in the eye again!”
“It won’t do anything.”
“We have to try. That thing will crush every city in Southern Sweden.”
The agents joined them and were firing.
EB ran up, with an egg almost as big as him. He threw it quickly to the ground just as Fenrir took a
step. The egg exploded with a massive ball of fire and Fenrir staggered to the side. “HA! Take that!”
Fenrir roared and let out a blast of red flames at Midgard and then turned its head toward the ground, ready to incinerate EB.
EB dashed around, avoiding both the flood of flames and the now burning patches of grass. “Hey. watch it! No burning the bunny!” He jumped, flipped over, and threw another egg at the dog, which exploded with a purple cloud that surrounded its face. “Like that smell? Now you sleep!”
Fenrir wobbled and Midgard grabbed it by the neck again and threw it over himself and slammed it into the ground behind them. The misty black cloud around it swirling about.
“WE GOT IT!” EB hopped around in joy.
The cloud reformed as a standing dog and it bit down on Midgard, its teeth digging into the existing sword wound. Midgard screamed in pain, perhaps for the first real time in centuries.
Chase threw blades at Fenrir while EB threw egg after egg at its face.
“LET OUR FRIEND GO!” EB yelled.
Fenrir hardly noticed their onslaught and shook its head as it almost bit Midgard in half.
Bonnie ran up to Chase, “We can’t do this! If Midgard can’t fight it, we’re lost.”
Chase looked down at her comm unit, it was blinking blue, “We aren’t lost, we just got backup.”
Portals and flashes of light appeared as heroes came running toward the battle. Ten BADGE shuttles rushed by with heroes diving out of them and taking flight. Dozens of speedster heroes rushed in from all directions. One hero, who was three feet tall, came running and met a large troll-like hero who threw the small woman in the air. Her hands became giant stones that crashed down on the abdomen of Fenrir. They forced it to release Midgard as she thrust it into the ground.
Chase yelled, “HEROES, TAKE THAT THING DOWN, I DON’T CARE HOW YOU DO IT! SOMEONE, HELP MIDGARD!”
She ran toward the bleeding legendary hero, who was slowly shrinking down.
Midgard lay on the ground, holding his stomach as greenish red blood poured out. “Heh, betcha never thought you’d see me bleed.”
Chase said, “Listen, you are a true hero today. I never thought you’d be like this. So selfless.”
Midgard laughed, “Don’t tell anyone you said that, you’d ruin my reputation. Besides, I’m not here to save this world. I’m her to get revenge. Nova is my friend, and that bitch has him under her spell. I’ll crush her little shadow demons and then I’ll crush her.”
A hero in shining silver armor ran in and knelt next to Midgard. “Can I help?”
“You think you can heal a god?” Midgard asked.
“I can accelerate the healing process, but it will hurt like hell.”
“Just do it.” Midgard cringed.
The man put his hands on Midgard and closed his eyes. A bright light appeared in the wounds and they healed up. Midgard refrained from any outward sound of pain, but Chase could tell this healing was agony.
“Thanks.” Midgard got to his feet and looked up at the giant Fenrir as all the heroes battled it. “Time to tame this mutt.”
Chase said, “A worthy foe?”
Midgard scoffed, “Never. It just got lucky. Now to pound this puppy to a pulp.” Midgard cracked his knuckles and dashed toward the battle. With each step he grew bigger.
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