Chapter 35: Chapter 34
"I'm back." I said with a smile as I stepped out of Illyana's portal and started power walking to my destination with the Russian mutant coming behind me.
"You seem awfully excited for this meeting, considering the last meeting you had with the man ended up with your skull within his grasp and then everyone being sent flying by a super powered clap."
"Meh, most families has some form of roughhousing between fathers and sons. Not to mention it was still a far better ending compared to my worst case scenario."
"Which was?"
"Him, Skaar and I going full out and likely cracking you planet like an egg." I said with a shrug, unbothered by the stare Illyana was giving me.
Honestly, the news of my father's arrival on Utopia was quite unexpected. My expectations were more along the lines of Skaar and I tracking the bespectacled scientist slash green rage giant down after dealing with Osborn and then start the whole family thing, likely after Skaar and our father went a few rounds and worked out their issues; hopefully without destroying the planet.
Instead the man had appeared on our doorstep while I was off training with Strange, which was going quite well and I could now make portals much like Illyana except my portals didn't have a pit stop at hell. I couldn't help but wonder what I would learn during our next lesson.
"We're back." I said as I pushed the door open and saw Scott, Emma, Logan, Skaar and the man that I just had been talking about with Illyana. "Hello there."
"...you have your mother's eyes."
"So does every other Shadow Person throughout the universe, wanna try again?"
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"Are these reports accurate?"
"As accurate as they can be without actually having been on Utopia when X-Men and Osborn's Avengers clashed." Quake said with a shrug before plopping herself on one of the crates in their newest safe house. "Don't give me that look Fury, there's a limit to how much I can learn about this without, as I've said, being there on Utopia during the battle and if I was there; I would have revealed myself by killing that son of a bitch Osborn." She said with a scoff as she looked at the one eyed former director of SHIELD, who did not appear to be amused by her words.
"About that..." But before he could make his bemusement clear, a man with a trench coat raised his hand and started to speak. "...not that I'm not happy about learning about how Osborn is having problems, but isn't the purpose of our little Secret Warriors is to deal with HYDRA rather than Osborn. You know, the group that has infiltrated SHIELD and has been causing tragedies since the time of Captain America?"
"Our purpose, Hellfire, is to do our best to protect the world. HYDRA might be one of the more obvious issues we have to deal with but knowing about potential threats is important, like the sons of Hulk." Fury said with a scowl as he crossed his arms over his chest, glaring down at Hellfire who simply shrugged.
"Yeah, but didn't the big green kinda wrecked everyone last time his family got hurt? I don't think immediately classifying the new members of his family as threats will do us much good in the long run."
"We are not classifying them as threats." One of the other members of the Secret Warriors, who had been sitting in a meditative position, said with his eyes closed. "We are merely not staying ignorant of their existence and power."
"It's as Eden says, this is something that's only in theoretical phase right now." Fury said with a nod towards the mutant before turning back to them. "What's more important is how one of the sons have started a personal feud against Osborn, meaning that slime ball will be going after the X-Men again soon. If we can learn when he'll do that, we can have a wider opening for our operations."
"So... you just wanna use them as bait?"
"...yes."
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"So... training with Strange huh?"
"Scott and Emma seemed to think that it was a good idea, and I don't exactly have a problem with learning mystic arts. More power is always welcome." Kala said with a shrug as he leaned back on his chair and watched his brother play with some of the other mutants with his father by his side.
Dead god... he was a father. He still had hard time believing that, and the fact that his sons were not trying to kill him. Though that last part would likely change in the future.
After all, Bruce was a magnet for disasters and had absolutely no idea how to be a father. How could he, his own father had been a piece of shit that got his kicks by hitting his son for being smart and hitting his wife for trying to protect their son. Obviously that was no way to do it, as it was proven when Bruce's had kicked Brian Banner off of himself and into his mother's tomb stone, where the man had broken his neck and died.
There were days he wondered if that really had been an accident.
"I'm more interested in you though, how exactly did you manage to lose your powers? From what I've heard there were many tries on that, none of which have succeeded."
"After my... war, I was taken to a lab where all the gamma inside my body was siphoned off." Bruce said with a shrug. "I think it's less that my powers are gone and more they are out of juice." Which likely meant that Scott was right, Hulk would return.
"Something's been bothering me though. How exactly did you and your brother arrive on earth? We took the only working stone ship when we left." He asked with a frown and Kala's smile immediately turned into a frown. But what was more concerning was his eyes, they had gone colder than the space itself while somehow having the heat of hell deep inside them. And then it was gone, replaced by sadness as his son turned to him.
"I guess it is about time you learned the truth, about what happened after you and the Warbound left Sakaar. And it's destruction."
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