Derrick moved the instant the demon faltered because of Wong and Stranger's binding spells.
He pushed off the building so hard it crumbled, The banishment magic was already weakening it. Perfect timing.
Consume. Adapt. Upgrade.
A stupid mistake on his part as the sky detonated.
A bolt of supercharged dense lightning , layered with runic force and divine intent slammed into Derrick mid-motion, tearing him out of his trajectory and driving him into the street hard enough to crater asphalt.
Thor landed like judgment itself.
Mjolnir spun once, snapping back into his hand as storm clouds condensed overhead, lightning crawling across his armor.
"I knew it," Thor thundered, eyes burning. "You reek of Asgard, creature. Stolen blood. Stolen power."
The watching Avengers didn't move.
They didn't need to.
They had already seen it, magic disrupted Derrick's rhythm. Stark's data confirmed it. Strange's spells would hurt him more than brute force ever did.
Thor raised Mjolnir, lightning intensifying.
"You dare steal the essence of gods," he snarled, "and skulk like a scavenger among demons?"
Derrick rose slowly, skin still crackling with residual energy, eyes calm.
"you know. This lightning of yours is annoying ," he replied evenly. "and I didn't steal anyone's essence, that sounds wrong hammer head ."
Thor's laugh was sharp and furious.
"Arrogance, you dare insult the God's ," he spat, hurling Mjolnir.
The hammer screamed toward Derrick and bent left .
Gravity folded around it, twisting as Derrick redirected the force, warping the arc just enough to avoid impact.
Lightning followed, branching violently, but Derrick pivoted again, gravity compressing around , slingshotting the energy past him.
Not negating it's force rather he simply changed the path and let it strike the ground a few feet away .
Thor's eyes narrowed.
"Oh," he growled. "You learn fast for thief ."
Behind them, the demon finally buckled.
The Bands of Cyttorak tightened as Wong reinforced the lattice, Strange's voice booming as the banishment chant escalated. Eldritch magics flared. Reality peeled open beneath the demon's feet.
Ghost Rider didn't wait.
Hellfire chains snapped free as Johnny Blaze surged forward not at the demon, but at Derrick.
"You don't get to take that thing," Ghost Rider snarled, bike screaming as it launched off debris and into the air. "Not tonight."
Derrick eyes widened as he blurred.
Super speed ignited not linear, but layered. Stored momentum released in bursts, each movement compounding force and acceleration.
Johnny's chains missed by inches but hellfire grazed Derrick, ripping through his arm and burning the shit out the first layer of bio armor as the rest of the fire tore through the sky.
Derrick grunted in pain as he said sarcastically.
"so skull face and lightning boy are jumping me now? "
Thor pressed the advantage.
Lightning hammered down, each strike guided by Mjolnir, forcing Derrick to teleport short-range just to survive.
Appear, dodge right then vanish again dodging hell chains as he then appeared behind thor punching his back hard enough to send him flying 30 meters into a building allowing Derrick to focus on the burning skull head..
"So ghost face what's your beef with me?".Derrick asked.
Ghost rider "GUILTY!"
one blast clipped him again, hell fire burning deeper than anything else had.
That shit hurts like a motherfucker , Derrick thought, recalibrating mid-fight.
Magic bypasses his durability since he only has minor resistance thanks to those demon minions he ate .
Further away..
The demon screamed as Strange completed the chant.
With a final wrench of crimson light, it was dragged screaming back into Mephisto's domain, the portal snapping shut like a wound cauterized.
The sky battle exploded upward.
Thor hurled Derrick into the clouds with a thunderous swing. Ghost Rider followed effortlessly, hell bike roaring as it drove across air itself, chains anchoring him to nothing and everything.
Thor burst from the ruins and struck again, hammer hitting the distracted Derrick then followed by a fist to the chest, pushing him back a few feet then divine lightning, forcing Derrick onto the defensive again .
Gravity shields shattered under divine impact his limited experience with this ability was showing.
Teleportation saved him twice. Speed saved him once.
Barely.
Derrick realized that this thor was not the Mcu god of hammers...
For the third time since arriving in this world
Derrick was being pushed to his adaptive limits.
Elsewhere
Latveria.
Doctor Doom stood motionless in his lab, holographic DNA helixes rotating before him, Derrick's data, Biological adaptability, Modular power integration. Fragments of Divine resonance contamination.
"A self-directed evolutionary weapon," Doom murmured. "I will require… contingencies."
He smiled beneath his mask .
Stark Tower.
Tony Stark worked like a man possessed.
"Magic-resistant insulation. Redundant analog systems. No wireless dependencies," he muttered. "Let's see you scramble that, Tentacle creep."
New countermeasures began compiling.
...
SHIELD HQ.
The World Security Council watched the footage in silence.
Teleportation. Super strength. Power theft.
"And the demon was targeting him," one member whispered.
"Which means this is bigger than us," Fury said grimly. "We need containment. Not just confrontation."
Time for more advanced assistance as Wakanda's sigil appeared onscreen moments later.
Back to the Sky
Thor and Ghost Rider pressed Derrick hard.
Lightning forced him left. Chains forced him right. Hellfire scorched his margins. He teleported again longer this time... reappearing farther than before.
Breathing steady.
But measured.
Derrick "hey God of hammers, how does it feel to struggle against a mere creature "
Thor smirks "hm your insult are like rain drop apon my armor "
Ghost rider "you small of a billion sins. Judgment Wil fall on you scum!! "
Below, the Avengers watched, already planning.
"Teleport seal," Banner muttered.
"Vibranium can absorb his force," T'Challa added calmly. "And a adaptive frequency cage on top that ."
"Magic dampeners," Strange who had just appeared said quietly.
High above in the stratosphere in the invisible Xmen jet.
The X-Men watched too.
Cyclops folded his arms.
"He killed Master Pandemonium," he said flatly.
Storm's eyes glowed faintly.
"Then this ends with us," she replied.
The anomaly had crossed many line.
And the world was done watching.