Earth-Ragnarok.
Once, it was home to gods.
Now, it's home to monsters made from gods.
When the Bifrost shattered and Thor fell to madness, the realm fell with him. Fragments of Mjolnir became sentient. The Nine Realms merged into one unstable, apocalyptic husk. And somewhere in the ruins—hidden deep inside what was once Asgard's vault—is a data-core containing multiversal coordinates Obsidian Ardyn wants hidden.
Objective: Infiltrate. Extract. Escape.
Team: Ardyn Voidwalker. Ben Tennyson, Omnitrix Wraith.
Timeline Stability: [DEAD]
Threat Level: Class-Ω
Arrival – Bifrost Ruins
The portal dropped them into chaos.
Lightning stormed from the sky like veins across a dying god's skin. Floating islands of shattered cities orbited what remained of Asgard—now a floating citadel of bone and gold, half-swallowed by the void.
Ben activated his Void-Sync Omnitrix—and chose a new form:
XLR-9, a lightning-phase variant of XLR8 fused with Speed Force particles. Static danced around his frame as he blurred into motion.
Ardyn hovered beside him, cloak flowing with anti-gravity void runes.
"No backup. No resets," Ardyn warned. "This realm doesn't unmake you. It twists you."
Ben cracked his neck. "Just like old times."
Minutes In – Entry Point Breached
They flew through broken Bifrost shards, dodging divine wreckage and remnants of the Stormforged Einherjar—dead Asgardians who now served as lightning-wrapped phantoms of willpower and grief.
One nearly impaled Ardyn through the chest with a spear made from shattered Heimdall's eyes.
Ben intercepted, switching to Heatshock—a combination of Heatblast and Shockrock—melting the spear and blasting the specter away.
"Getting a lot of unresolved trauma vibes here," he muttered.
Ardyn landed on a floating platform carved with runes.
"This is it. Vault should be beneath us."
A roar shook the skies.
Then came the Thunder Warden.
Boss Encounter – The Thunder Warden
What was once Beta Ray Bill had been merged with fragments of Mjolnir, the Destroyer armor, and Bifrost circuitry.
A twenty-foot tall fusion of god, machine, and madness.
Face warped, hammer-arm crackling with cursed lightning.
It landed in front of them with a crash that split the ground in all directions.
"INTRUDERS OF FATE. ERASE YOURSELVES."
Ben didn't hesitate. "I hate boss fights."
He activated Omnibreak—a temporary override that forced the Omnitrix to cycle forms every ten seconds. Feedback surged through his body as he shifted into:
• ChronoRex – A time-shifting dinosaur with gravity breath.
• Pyroscourge – A living starfire elemental.
• TetraVibe – A vibrational construct of four-dimensional mass.
Each form slammed into the Warden, but the beast adapted.
Ardyn stepped in.
He raised both hands—and rewrote gravity.
The floating platform cracked and bent upward, forming a prism of converging gravity wells. The Warden staggered.
Ardyn flicked a void glyph—and snapped the temporal loop in its core.
"Become what you once were."
The fusion began to collapse. Pieces of Beta Ray Bill's soul screamed as they were freed—until the Warden fell to one knee.
And whispered:
"He sees you."
The Vault – Below Asgard
Inside the last surviving room of Odin's treasure chamber, the air was still.
Ben scanned the core while Ardyn erected void shields.
"Got it," Ben said. "Coordinates for the Obsidian Cradle—whatever that is."
Suddenly, a hologram triggered.
Dark Gwen.
"You're early," she said, smiling like a goddess of death wrapped in starlight.
"Gwen?" Ben whispered, stunned.
She stared right at him.
"No," she said. "Not your Gwen. She died. I evolved. And next time we meet…"
Her hologram turned into a black Anodite shape—
"I'll kill you properly."
The vault exploded.
Escape
They barely escaped through a collapsing time fracture. Asgard vanished behind them, sucked into a rift of its own making.
Back in Konoha, they landed hard.
Both bruised. Bloodied.
But alive.
Ben tossed Ardyn the data shard.
"She's stronger than we thought," he said.
Ardyn caught it, eyes grim.
"She's not the only one."
Elsewhere – The Obsidian Cradle
Obsidian Ardyn stood before a cradle of pulsing void-light.
Inside: a child.
Sleeping. Breathing. Glowing with every timeline's energy signature.
He looked at Dark Gwen.
"It's almost time," she said.
He nodded.
"Let the Multiverse believe they have a chance. Then…"
"Let him wake up."
[CHAPTER END | NEXT: Data Decoded – The Secret of the Obsidian Cradle]