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Truly Divine

by Onomonopia

Chapter 36: In Your Prayers

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With a snap of his fingers Discord cleaned up the remains of a building that had been brought down with ease, finishing off the last of the buildings that had been destroyed by Galactus. The ponies that owned the house thanked Discord with heartfelt thanks and offered to reward him, but all Discord did was wave to them with a smile before he moved onto the next prayer that needed help.

Discord was still not too certain about himself being in the position of being a god, but he figured now that he had been given this title he would do his best to do the previous goddess proud. So in the days since Galactus had left and Thor had gone to the castle, Discord had spent all of his time answering prayers and helping those that needed it. Some days it was hard, but Fluttershy and her friends continued to encourage him, making his job easier.

The next prayer that he heard came from the city of Stalliongrad and Discord wasn't surprised that a prayer had come from there. 'There have been numerous attacks there from some sort of flying creatures, which have been trying to steal supplies,' Discord thought to himself as he snapped his fingers and sent himself flying through space and time to appear at the city.

As Discord's body reassembled itself over the city, he had to detach his head to avoid it being ripped off by a strange, moth looking creature that flew by him. Discord snapped his fingers towards the bat and a giant, sixteen ton anvil swatted the creature out of the air. With the annoyance dealt with, Discord took a moment to look around at the sky and sigh to himself.

"It's always something. Herd of buffalo nearly trampling a wild west town. Giant sea creatures trying to raise the ocean. Luna getting stuck in the toilet without paper. And now this," Discord muttered to himself as he cracked his fingers, before placing his hands on his back and then cracking that. He then spun his neck a full three sixty, wincing slightly as he heard everything up there began to pop.

Then he fully took in the swarm of flying beasts that were terrorizing the citizens, smirking to himself slightly when he saw that all of the creatures resembled giant moths in one way or another. If they hadn't been so dangerous, he might have enjoyed watching the giant insects of the night fly around. Yet as he spied a pair of moths trying to take off with a few ponies in their grasps, he knew that it was time to intervene.

A snap of his fingers teleported the ponies out of the grasps of the bugs, getting the insects to look down at their appendages with some confusion. Discord then snapped his fingers and created a giant bug zapper that he dangled seductively over the edge of the city.

"Oh boys!" Discord called out with a whistle, turning every head towards the giant light. "Come and get it!"

Just as he had predicted, the moths dropped whatever they were doing or holding and swarmed towards the giant light in the sky. Discord lowered himself to the streets below and allowed the swarm to pass by, while placing a pair of sunglasses on his face in the process. The moths reached the light and swarmed around it, burying the light under their sheer mass of bodies. Then the bug zapper went into effect.

Discord raised his eyebrows and "ooo'd" at the crackling electricity and sparks that flew from the bug zapper. The lightning arched through everyone of the moths and turned them to ash on the spot in a way that made them seem like fireworks blowing up. The citizens down below watched the fireworks as well, before one last snap of Discord's fingers put an end to the light show.

"You know, Celestia and Luna think up all these complicated and unnecessary solutions to these problems, but sometimes the tried and true methods are the best way to go about things," Discord said to himself as he summoned a broom and dustpan, sweeping up a little bit of the ash before looking around at the piles of ash that had covered the city center. "Well, I've done my job for the day. I'm sure that you guys can do the rest, right?"

The ponies looked at him like he was crazy and after a moment a smirk crossed Discord's face. "Kidding. Come on, I'm not that kind of god anymore. I'll get this half of the city and you guys get the other half. Sound fair?"

The ponies rolled their eyes at Discord before they started to gather up brooms and trash bags, helping Discord clean up the mess that the swarm of giant insects left behind. "Hey don't get mad at me guys. Just because I'm the god of this world doesn't mean that I'm going to do everything for you. I'll deal with things you can't handle, like that swarm or helping to repair the changelings homeland."

"But as for cleaning up messes, you guys don't need me for that. Lazy bums."

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Autumn blew into her whistle and raised a hoof to stop the group of small foals that were following along behind her. She then looked both ways across the street to make sure that there weren't any carriages or stampedes heading their way. Only after she made sure that the roads were perfectly fine did she allow the group to cross, motioning for them to follow after her.

From a window overlooking the seen sat Summer, who watched her daughter lead the foals with proud smile on her face. Her daughter was growing up to be just as responsible and kind as Summer was, without any of the bonedheaded mistakes Summer had made as a foal. But what really made Summer smile was that even with everything that had happened, and even with her special connection to the god of thunder, Autumn never called for his help whenever things got rough.

'He has a lot to look after besides us, mom. I'll call for him only if we really need him,' Autumn had told her mother one night. And Summer knew her daughter was right. Thor was a god of more than there world, so there were plenty of other places that needed his help far more than they did. And as Summer turned her gaze towards her daughter once more, who was now applying a bandage to a foal that had scrapped their leg, she knew that the world was in safe hooves.

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With one last flick of the quill Celestia signed her name to the bottom of a piece of parchment, a parchment that finally restored the peace between Equestria and the dragons that she had fought so hard to recover. A sigh of relief escaped her lips as she folded up the parchment and placed it within an envelope, before it vanished in a flicker of magic a moment later.

'This has been a good day,' she thought to herself as she finally lifted her head, glad to finally be done with all of the paperwork that she had to deal with. The repairs for the battle with Galactus were done, peace had been restored with the dragons and even the elk, who still had made no effort to get their deity back. The three lands were providing aid to the changelings, who were starting to repair their home, along with finding a new god. But most importantly Discord was living up to the title that Faust had bestowed upon him. All was good.

That was until something crashed down hard in the room next to her, nearly knocking Celestia off of her hooves in the process. A moment later she had ripped open the door and rushed into the other room, ready for some unholy abomination to be waiting there for her. But what she saw instead surprised her far more than any unholy terror could have. For in the center of the room, resting upon the now split in half table, was a hammer.

The hammer had a crimson red handle, which was almost as long as her horn, and was attached to a massive chunk of metal at the top. The chunk of metal was a square shape, while the coloring of it was red and orange. Upon the sides of the hammer were a pair of wings that looked remarkable similar to the design of her own, while the square had designs on it that caused it to look similar to the face of a pony.

Celestia extended the hoof towards the hammer and it flew to her an instant later. She caught the hammer with relative ease and the moment she laid her hooves upon it, she instantly felt like it was a part of her. Once again she felt the hammers weight, amazed at the balance it held, before she saw an inscription upon the handle.

'Solar Storm.'

A smirk crossed Celestia's face as she read the words, before she turned her gaze towards the heavens.

"Thank you for the gift, Thor. I love it."

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Discord let out a small whistle as he gazed around at the chamber of darkness that he found himself in. After a few days of tracking Janis's divine power, Discord had finally managed to locate the room where the dual god had led his forces of darkness. It was in a land far from everypony else, far enough away that nopony would be able to find it. Nopony but a god. Discord was thankful for that.

"And I'm also thankful to you as well," Discord said to the darkness, knowing who was there. "I honestly didn't believe that you would listen to me at first, what with our past and everything. Kinda surprised you gave the dark forces to Janis, however."

"Well with Thor around, all they would have done was led him to me. And while I might be evil, I am no fool," a voice replied from the darkness. "Thor would have ended me. No question about it."

"Yes, but he's no longer around. Yet you've still remained in the darkness and haven't tried anything new," Discord added as he walked up to the throne, spying a pony sitting on it. "Have you, Spellbinder. Or rather should I say, Sombra?"

Spellbinder narrowed his eyes at Discord before he turned back into the dark king, one who looked far stronger than Discord had remembered. "Well, I may be an arrogant, power hungry dictator, but even I know to listen to the words of my gods. One of which happens to be you. I couldn't be any happier."

"Yet you still gave your dark forces and information to Janis as well," Discord pointed out.

"Well, if he were to kill all of you, it would still be a win for me. After all, I've never really liked any of you."

"Thanks, I can just feel the love oozing out of you," Discord replied, before a serious look crossed his face. "So tell me, have you found anything?"

"I have actually. It's amazing how much I can get done with one of the gods of Equestria willing to help me, as well as promise me freedom in exchange for information," Sombra replied as he pulled out a fragment of a very ancient mirror. "Found this little guy in the land of the zebras. You know what this is?"

"It looks like...a mirror?"

"Ding ding. This is the very first mirror Rose created. It is the same mirror that was used to "kill" Faust all those millennia ago. But here's the thing. It didn't work."

"What? How do you know it didn't work?"

"Simple. Equestria is still here," Sombra said with a dark smile. "Think about it Discord. When Thor killed Toraxo, the changelings land went to hell, right? Earthquakes, plagues and deaths of young changelings all followed his demise. I did some research after that and found that the nations on Equis are tied to their gods. If their god dies, then their nation falls to ruin. But Equestria, all these years after Fausts "death", is still here. Which means..."

"She's still alive," Discord put together, before a very dark thought crossed his mind. "Wait. If the nations are connected to their gods, what would have happened if Thor had slain the other gods and goddess?"

"You seriously don't know? You're a god and you don't know? Ugh, nopony reads ancient text anymore, do they? According to what I've studied, without the gods of old, Equis would have been obliterated, turning into a plant of magma and death, devoid of any life," Sombra replied while giving Discord a massive, evil grin. "Had Thor killed those gods, we all would be dead. Now I'm not normally one for sparing foes, but I think this once we should thank the princess of the sun for being so foolishly good, shouldn't we?"

"Yeah...we should," Discord muttered in reply.

"But that leaves us with a little conundrum. We've got a missing goddess to find and odds are Rose will be anything less than cooperative," Sombra said with a smirk. "We have no idea where Faust has gone or what was done to her. All we know is that she's alive and was apart of this mirror. My money on when Rose realized she couldn't kill Faust, at least not without destroying the nation she sough to conquer, the mirror was shattered and scattered. It's what I would do to be rid of a god yet not kill them."

"Then we need to find her and bring her back together," Discord said and Sombra nodded in agreement. "So I suppose I only have two questions left. Will you help me? Or are we going to return things to how they used to be?"

"Discord, my lord, I wouldn't dream of facing you," Sombra said with a laugh. "Not yet, anyway. Now come. We have a goddess to fix."

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The sight of the Avengers tower was one of the beautiful sights that Thor had set his sights on for a long time. As the god of thunder descended onto the landing platform where the Quinjet normally landed, he rolled up a long sheet of parchment that he had been holding and placed the parchment within his belt, right next to the silver sphere he still carried.

'Dozens of star systems, hundreds of planets and none of them match what I promised to Galactus,' Thor somberly thought to himself, knowing that he would have to double his efforts soon.

"Welcome back to Avengers tower, Thor," the voice of Jarvis said over the speakers, getting the god of thunder to nod as the glass doors slid open to allow him access inside. "How was your trip?"

"Tis a tale for another time. Right now Thor needs all of the ale in your possession, a day of rest and something to hit," Thor told Jarvis.

"I have none of that Thor, but I do have something else for you. A visitor." At this Thor gave his full attention to the A.I. before motioning with his hand to continue. "With all of the other Avengers out at the moment, I am having him stay in the waiting room. He seemed to urgently wish to speak with us, but I have been unable to contact Master Stark or Captain Rogers. Will you be seeing him now?"

"Aye, Thor will find out what this man wants," Thor said before he headed towards the waiting room. Jarvis opened all of the doors in a way that allowed Thor to rapidly reach the waiting room. Yet when the doors to the room opened and Thor walked inside, even a god wasn't ready for who he saw.

Standing near the window was a man in a whitish gi with a red headband wrapped around his head, with a set of old and weathered beads around his neck. Laying near his feet was a bag filled with all of his possession, which, given the fact that he went barefoot, didn't include shoes. But what drew Thor's eye was the beard upon the mans face...and the fact that both his beard and the hair upon his head had far more gray in it than Thor remembered. But Thor recognized him all the same.

"Friend Ryu!" Thor called out as he walked over to Ryu, who turned his head with a smile upon his face. The two shook hands and Thor let out a boisterous laugh. "It has been too long my friend! Not since the last crisis on our worlds have we met! Tell me, what brings you to my Earth?"

"Unfortunately, it is not good news. I am in need of the Avengers help," Ryu said in a serious voice. While serious was Ryu's default, Thor knew him well enough to tell that something was the matter. "I don't have time to explain anything. All I can ask is if you and the other Avengers can come with me right now. Before I am found."

"Sadly I am the only Avenger here at the moment, but I will gladly follow you into whatever battle you are currently waging," Thor promised Ryu. Ryu's face fell for a moment before he regained his composure and nodded. He then pulled out a small device and pressed a button upon it, causing a vortex that tore through reality to appear next to him. "Before we go, friend Ryu, answer me this one question. What ancient evil or universe destroying threat are we going up against this time?"

"Sadly, it is nothing that simple. Tell me, have you ever heard of a being called the Maestro?"

Author's Notes:

Though Thor may not be on Equestria any longer, none will ever forget what he had done for them or what he brought them. And whenever any are in need of his aid, a prayer is all that it will take to summon him to their side. But now we move on from a story of gods to one of jerks, for in the next story-

Oh goody, it's finally my time!

Oh dammit all, not this shit.

Yeah you better believe that this is happening baby! It's finally time for me to shine! Y'know people have been asking you to do me for a long time and I don't mean in that way. So I was thinking maybe we start with a parade in my honor and then maybe a harem of...hey wait a second! What the hell is going on?

Whatever do you mean?

I mean that there's another big name character in my story! And didn't I kill this asshole already in some other show? Why the hell would you put him in with me?!

Because you're not supposed to be the next story! Slade is the next story!

Well too bad! Do you know how long I've waited to be the star! To have my name in the title! The answer to that is too damn long! So I don't care if you're next story is about space Nazi's or that kid in the green tunic named Zelda, I'm going to be in it. If you need me, I'll be in my trailer! (Storms off)

...Well then. I guess it's Wade and Slade next time. F:yay:ck.

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