After a few minutes spent processing everything swirling through his mind,
Eric opened the laptop again.
This wasn't just any video.
It was Thor.
The movie.
Exactly as he had lived it in the vision.
Exactly as he had felt it in a movie theater that belonged to another world. With music. With rhythm. With an opening that didn't ask for permission.
"This…" he murmured, "…is going to be incredibly confusing."
Eric scrubbed through the footage frame by frame, reviewing it carefully.
Asgard.
The elegant cold of space.
The exaggerated grandeur.
Odin, Thor, Loki. Names that, here, still existed only in dusty textbooks and half-remembered mythology lessons.
He stopped.
Rested his fingers on the keyboard without pressing anything.
Guilt surfaced automatically.
Then he thought about what this world was destined to attract. About his family.
His resolve only hardened.
He closed his eyes for a second.
Remembered the first vision.
Decades lived.
Deaths that could not be avoided.
If this world followed the same path… then guilt wouldn't change the outcome.
Eric opened his eyes.
Something inside him set like steel.
Determination.
"If I'm going to do this," he said quietly, "I can't hesitate every time."
He dragged the cursor.
THOR
Part 1
[A.N: This is Part 1/3. The movie is divided into three parts.]
He decided not to upload it whole.
Pure strategy.
The system said nothing, but it understood.
Eric began cutting.
From the very beginning.
The battle on Jotunheim.
Thor's arrogance.
Odin's judgment.
The banishment.
Each scene landed like a silent bomb for an audience that had no idea gods could fall from the sky.
Literally.
Then New Mexico.
The sky tearing open.
A body slamming into the earth.
Jane Foster's group, completely unprepared.
Eric let the hammer scene play.
Mjölnir.
Heavy.
Immovable.
Impossible to lift.
He leaned forward as SHIELD appeared.
The vehicles.
The lights.
The tents going up with military precision.
That exact moment.
Eric paused the video there.
Silence.
"That's the point," he said. "This is where they stop."
He saved the file.
thor_part1.mkv
Adjusted runtime. Visual quality so sharp Eric suspected the system had quietly made YouTube tolerate 4K.
He opened YouTube.
Channel: Marvel Studios
The title was simple. Nothing flashy.
THOR – Part 1
Minimal description. Almost careless.
"First part."
That was it.
Eric took a deep breath before uploading.
He clicked Upload.
The progress bar crawled forward.
Eric leaned back, arms crossed, staring at the screen as if he could see beyond it.
He wasn't smiling.
He wasn't doubting.
He was bracing himself.
Part 1 went live.
And Eric closed the editor.
…
The video didn't explode.
Not at first.
It started… dripping.
A few views. Scattered comments.
People clicking out of curiosity and leaving laughing.
The 2010 algorithm didn't know what to do with something like this.
Then someone left the first dangerous comment.
"This isn't cheap fake. Where did this footage come from?"
And that's when the fire started.
"LOL yeah right, Norse gods now," someone wrote. "What's next? Zeus in Ohio?"
"Nice fan film, though," another commented. "That Thor guy looks like he walked out of a fashion magazine. Pretty well done for YouTube."
"This isn't a fan film," a user replied. "Did you see the details? The music? The editing? This isn't amateur. There's no way this is indie."
The believers came later.
They always did.
"The Bible talks about giants and fallen beings," someone wrote. "What if this isn't fiction?"
"My grandfather used to say the gods never left," another added. "They just hid."
Laughter. Mockery. Theories.
But also fear.
Because there was one detail nobody could ignore.
"WHO ARE THOSE AGENTS?"
One user paused the video.
Zoomed in.
Screenshot.
A uniform.
A discreet logo.
A military camp in New Mexico.
"I looked up the symbol," someone replied. "It doesn't exist anywhere. Like it officially doesn't exist."
---
SHIELD
Nick Fury's Office
The silence was thick.
Too thick.
The screen showed the video paused on the exact moment agents established a perimeter around the hammer.
Nick Fury didn't blink.
He didn't speak.
That was worse.
"Sir…" Coulson began, holding a folder. "We've verified the footage. It isn't known CGI. No detectable compositing. And those are our people."
Fury tilted his head slightly.
"Date," he said.
"The video was uploaded today," Hill replied from the side. "But what it shows… hasn't happened yet according to our reports and archives."
Silence.
Again.
"How many people have seen it?" Fury asked.
"A lot. And rising," Hill said. "We can't take it down."
"What do you mean, we can't?" Fury growled.
"We tried," Hill answered. "Claims. Reports. Direct requests. Nothing works. It's like the channel… doesn't exist to the system."
Fury exhaled slowly.
"Fantastic."
Hill kept typing, data lines flashing by.
"There's no trace of the creator," she said at last, finishing her report.
---
Eric wasn't watching the video.
He was watching the numbers.
The YouTube page, still clumsy, still innocent, refreshing with a lazy flicker.
Channel: Marvel Studios
"Okay…" he murmured, leaning closer.
Initial metrics (first 18 hours)
Total views: ~88,000
Likes: ~8,400
Dislikes: ~1,900
Comments: +5,300
Subscribers: 24,812
Eric blinked.
"For a channel that just uploaded nonexistent Norse gods…" he said, "…not bad."
What unsettled him wasn't the number.
It was the spread.
Users from the United States, sure.
But also Europe.
Latin America.
Some traffic from Asia.
The system activated, numbers cascading.
>[Shock collection in progress…]<
Eric felt that familiar pressure behind his eyes.
The kind you feel when you know a decision can't be undone.
The reactions weren't screams.
They were pauses.
Uncomfortable silences in front of glowing screens.
Laughs that cut off halfway.
Comments typed… then deleted before posting.
That counted.
All of it counted.
[Shock Points obtained:]
[1,420]
Eric opened his eyes slowly.
".…Wow."
It wasn't the highest number possible.
But it was clean.
Authentic shock.
The most dangerous kind of surprise.
The system broke it down.
[Initial mockery → Low but steady SP]<
[Believers → Medium, stable SP]<
[SHIELD detected → High SP]<
[Active denial → Accumulative SP]<
Eric leaned back in his chair.
"So…" he said, "…the harder they try to convince themselves it's fake… the more I gain."
>[Correct.]<
He looked at the counter.
Available SP: 1,420
He opened the content store without buying anything.
Just observed.
Thor Part 1 kept ticking upward in small increments.
New comments every second.
People waiting for Part 2 without admitting they were waiting.