"Everything is perfect, the stones are in set and it should be good to go"
He placed the rune in a cracked platform, his Qi moved beneath his fingers, refined into flawless energy after years of mastery. The array was silent, cold, and brimming with otherworldly power.
He stood at the center, his eyes are calm as still water, stared up at the spinning glyphs above...
"Back to earth... Not that I miss it.. Just unfinished business.."
Then the array cracked.
Just as it bloomed with radiant golden light, a second foreign energy surge tore through space like a jagged blade. In a heartbeat, the array twisted, screamed then exploded
Aran didn't flinch, he simply exhaled as the world snapped sideways.. and the next moment, he was falling.
Wind screamed past his ears. Light and noise exploded all around him, fire, smoke, screams, steel serpents flying overhead, a sky pierced by alien warships and below are buildings crumbled. Yellow cabs were overturned. But in the middle of it all..
Stood a man in red and gold armor, unleashing a volley of repulsor blasts.
"This is not earth.. if it is.. someone's been very busy.."
Aran landed smoothly atop a half-destroyed skyscraper, gazing down as the chaos unfolded. In the distance, a massive green creature roared and smashed through a bus. To his left, a man wielding a shield hurled it through several Chitauri at once. A hammer-wielding god called lightning from the sky.
"Spandex, Explosions, Smash smash, A man with a hammer yelling in english? Yep this is definitely not the earth I know.."
Then he saw Stark Iron Man skimming low across the ground, dodging Chitauri fire. The other strange fighters were shouting at him, something about a nuke.
It was at this precise moment that Aran slowly sat down on the ledge, legs crossed, robe flowing in the wind.
He looked around once more and at this moment he knew.. he-
"...I fucked up"