MARVEL's Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest, Volume 2 by Brandon T. Snider

Author:Brandon T. Snider
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

“Gah!” Selvig yelped as he tossed and turned. His eyes closed tightly and he began his spiritual journey.

“Wake up, you pathetic, dawdling, flesh bag,” a voice hissed in Selvig’s ear. He opened his eyes to find Loki sneering at him from across the room. Darcy, Felix, and Anoki were nowhere to be found. Selvig patted down each of his limbs. He slapped himself across the face.

Loki rolled his eyes. “Have you concluded your investigation?” he asked. “Are you really here, or am I a figment of your imagination? What’s the verdict?”

Selvig remained silent. He wasn’t sure what was happening yet.

Loki snapped his fingers as the elements of Anoki’s home slowly fell away, piece by piece. “Apparently, you’re one of the most brilliant men on this planet, which begs the question, why haven’t you done what you know needs to be done?” Loki asked. “Hmm?” The walls were gone. The floorboards soon followed. Loki snapped his fingers again. The Scepter appeared, floating in the middle of the space. The glowing stone that once powered it had been removed and replaced with a drab gray pebble. “Are you afraid now, Erik?”

Selvig rose to his feet. “No,” he said firmly. “Your weapon is without its power source, and I cannot be controlled by it.”

“Are you sure?” Loki said playfully.

The drab gray pebble exploded, sending slivers of stone in all directions. Selvig threw his arm up to protect his face. When he lowered it, the Scepter had grown twice its size. It had also gained a new, familiar power source.

“That—that stone… that’s what you used to control my mind,” Selvig stammered. He slowly backed away from the device.

“This old thing?” Loki said, swiping the Scepter and twirling it through the air like a baton. “Don’t worry, Erik, it’s not as if it can control you. You said it yourself.” Loki violently jabbed it in Selvig’s direction.

“No!” Selvig exclaimed. He swerved, lost his footing, and fell to the ground. Selvig was so focused on the Scepter that he hadn’t noticed his surroundings had completely transformed. They were now on a small, cold planetoid. Swirling gas giants glowed in the sky above. Shooting stars soared past his head. Celestial bodies expanded and contracted. Selvig was in awe but unsure of his place in this new configuration. In the distance, a mysterious figure sat in a craggy chair atop a throne of boulders, facing out toward the cosmos.

“You are shaken, aren’t you, old man?” Loki taunted. “Everyone was right about you. You’re not well.” He moved around Selvig, stalking him like prey. “Erik Selvig, you are a frightened animal, lying on the ground, unable to move. Not because you’ve been maimed, not because you’ve been bloodied, but because you are simply frightened by the forest. You know what it contains. The unknown creatures, waiting to attack you. I wouldn’t get up and fight them, either, if I were you. I’d do exactly what you’re doing: Lie there and pretend I was dead!”

Loki sent Selvig flying into a pile of gravel.

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