Draiss staggered under the blow, and gave the barbarian god a bland look, before suddenly seeming to deflate. He tapped his ear, the piece hidden in his head popping out. "This is Draiss to base, be advised, we have a manifested, naturalized Beyonder. I repeat, we have a stable manifestation. All stations, all units, load up near portals, and prepare for portal assaults. No unit is to pass through the portal until after I have set off the deep novas."<br/><br/>He let Thor make the toss, before stepping to the side, and frowning. He was expecting the beyonder to deflect the hammer back at him, but the energy being gathered was not part of that. He stared, and about half a second before it released the attack, he realized what it was doing. "SHIELDS!"<br/><br/>He put his own divine shield up,and dropped into a crouch to minimize how much of the oncoming attack he took, before diving to the side as the hammer was flung back at Thor, catching him square on. He rolled upright, and glanced at Thor, before glancing back at the others, privately noting, with a tiny bit of fear, that five of the nine layers of the shield had been effortlessly burned away. "Told you so. The Beyonders were a major problem, and that just ignoring them isn't going to make them go away. That... is a naturalized, manifested Beyonder, likely 'born' here to overcome the issues they have with the multi-planar-verse. This is gonna be hard enough without having to worry about all of you getting tainted, so would you please leave, and let me and mine deal with this? I has a plan, scary as the thought is. It might even leave me alive at the end, if it works. And if not, well, do we need the Astral plane for anything, or can I just implode it to kill that thing?"