Chapter 4: chapter four
On the day of the celestial's death the professors at the university used their machines to document what was happening, they managed to see that the fragments falling to earth weren't meteors but actually pieces of a big alien creature,
one of the fragments was actually falling directly towards the university and it was considerably large. Most of the large equipment was stopped midway by the heroes however this one passed as a team of heroes was transporting the head of the dead alien creature.
this piece wasn't as big as the head but it wasn't small either, from the looks of it it was a hand seemingly detached from the wrist with the five fingers still intact, the professors gathered their machines and picked up the hand as it landed.
Technology on earth was on the rise and they managed to grab the hand before it made a splash on the ground, they howled it into their lab and it took up a space equivalent to a battleship easily.
they spent days attempting to cut through the hand to no avail regardless of what technology they used, as they attempted to send a team inside the wrist opening to study it and they discovered the radiation inside the hand was too powerful so they decided to find a diferent way of entering it,
they sent for an expert team from an organization called HIVE, the scientists at HIVE had the resources to enter the hand and study the marvels contained within it. The team arrived on time and as they attempted to enter the hand, something strange happened,
the hand activated like it had sensed something, the wrist pathway lit up and the fingers lit up with power, the hand started releasing waves of force that forced the scientists to evacuate the lab and implement lockdown measures.
outside the lab Lauin felt the increasing waves of celestial energy leaking from the lab and as the waves contacted the two of them, both Leonid and him were teleported inside the lab. The radiation was of no threat to them seeing as cosmic radiation was their fuel
As Lauin entered the lab, his body started madly absorbing this radiation, his body was so hungry that it took him a just a few minutes before he had absorbed all the celestial energy from the hand, the remaining was now a very impressive celestial hand with advanced technology.
his mind had regained its connection to the universe as well as access to his inherited memories from the celestial, he knew that celestials have the ability to alter their size at will so he extended his hand towards the celestial hand,
The hand trembled and started shrinking at a gradual pace, Ziran was already informing Lauin that he needs a costume to keep his identity safe assuming he wants that, besides a suit would also ensure that even when he runs out of energy his body would remain safe regardless of which environment he finds himself in and a made of celestial technology is the safest suit he could get at the moment.
With a little guidance, Lauin managed to link up with the celestial metal and surprisingly it shrunk down to his hand's size and fitted itself with his right hand. Now here is the shocking thing about celestial technology, it doesn't always have to be metal,
the celestials choose metal because they needed the material for a massive form and permanent usage hence they choose a form that is most stable for this material,
however things were diferent for Lauin, he didnt need the suit for permanent usage but rather temporarily and only when he was going in a fight or if he needed to keep his identity secret,
that meant that he can reshape the material into any form he wished and so he let Ziran take over, Ziran formed the metal massive enough to form a hundred meter hand of a celestial into a costume that is not even two meters long for Lauin.
he changed the texture of the costume to resemble fabric blue in color however its tenacity and endurance was no less than a celestial's armor,
then he used the material to reinforce Lauin's legs and feet into knee high golden metal boots, golden vambraces and pauldrons, a golden belt with a golden crystal at the center and a golden helmet with an inbuilt visor.
he used the whole arm reinforcing the material to make it stronger than regular celestial armor, atleast 50 times stronger. His costume had a special ability inherent to all celestials, now Lauin discovered that celestials found it easy mainly because of the material they use for their armor.
It was the ability to warp space allowing them instantaneous travel between different places. Although celestials theoretically could warp space at will, this material made it a hundred times easier as it consumed almost no energy to celestials,
the energy usage was noticable to Lauin but that was because he was still evolving and once he was done then his body would be able to generate it's own energy source.
as he finished the synchronization a 3D view of the planet appeared before him he started noticing the locations where celestial technology was located,
there was a massive spot in the south African underground but there was no way humans would reach that point meaning it was there long before Ziran came to earth.
he shifted his attention to the other hotspots around the world, he could feel the technology wherever it was and one piece caught his attention.
it was a five hundred feet left hand of a celestial except this one wasn't severed at the wrist but rather it was an entire arm severed from the shoulder.
it was in the hands of the Iranian military forces and surprisingly they had managed to somehow tap into the arms energy. Upon closer inspection Lauin discovered the Iranian base was a cover for hydra forces and they had recieved a massive weapon.
he turned to Leo only to find that Leo was already tuned into his frequency, Leo had seen all that Lauin saw and he said they had to intervene. Lauin harmonized his suit to connect to the other arm and once it did,
he warped space around him and Leo sending them both directly into the underground base hydra was using. As they appeared, the hydra scientists were started and they panicked, Lauin instantly severed the connection between their equipment and the arm.
Leo set out to disarm the weapons hydra had already made from celestial energy while Lauin absorbed the energy in the arm as well as synchronize with it to take it away, he started absorbing the energy in the arm and his entire body glowed golden with cosmic energy,
This arm contained 1% of a celestial's total energy which was too much power, it was more than enough to complete Lauin's evolution and the remnant energy stimulated his body to generate his own celestial core.
by the time the energy in the hand was done his core was formed and instantly his mind expanded even further, he connected to what you would call the celestial mainframe meaning he was in communication with all the celestials in his own universe.
his mind had reached the epitome of his evolution. at this point his mind achieved cosmic awareness and an octagonal golden crystal formed in his chest at the opposite end of his heart,
his body pulsed with power and suddenly time slowed down. The core in his body linked to the core in the lab under the ocean and at that very instant a blackhole formed in the center of his core while the dual star system in the main core of the lab transformed into a galaxy.
Suddenly there was a voice in Lauin's mind, the voice was familiar and sent waves of fear into his newly evolved super mind. It told him that he is welcomed among the celestials and that his actions will be watched after which his role would be revealed soon enough.
After the voice passed, Lauin asked Ziran who that was, since they had a mental connection, Ziran had also heard the voice. Ziran told him that the issue about that guy needs to be discussed when it's just the two of them,
however for the time being they needed to deal with hand and help Leo deal with the hydra goons, first thing he did was join Leonid to beat back the hydra goons,
Lauin joined him and beat back the hydra commander who had imbued his suit of armor with a celestial energy core. Lauin stood in front of him and with his costume he looked more menacing than Leo,
the hydra commander who had been giving them a hard time used his suit to release a frontal all out energy blast which Lauin took head on. His body absorbed the blast like it was nothing and in the end he didn't even move an inch,
This was because a core had formed in his body and this core had directly evolved into a blackhole after it appeared, as such the amount of energy he could contain in his body was beyond astronomical, this blast was even less than a drop in an ocean to him.
When the hydra commander realized what was happening it was too late, Leonid trapped him in place using his force field as Lauin finished draining his suit, it wasn't long before law enforcement arrived, however this was in the form of Shield,
They had sensed the space warp from the university as they were already on their way there, as the scientists started studying the celestial wrist it gave off a low level vibration the scientists didnt detect but Shield did.
They dispatched a team to retrieve it but as the team was arriving thr radiation from the wrist sudenely spiked before it vanished without a trace, when they arrived at the lab the wrist was gone but the evidence of the scientists attempting to study it was still present,
As they were reclaiming all the scientists had gotten from the arm their machines detected faint traces of a celestial pace warp and its destination, clearly whoever had utilized it had left them a trail to follow, seems like he had detected them before they arrived.
The trail led to a decommissioned hydra base in Iran but if the celestial energy was there then perhaps the base was nolonger decommissioned like they believed it to be. Maybe whoever left them the breadcrumbs was on their side after all as he had just revealed one of Hydra's hidden bases to them,
Following this revelation they dispatched a team to Iran while the rest collected all that remained in the university lab. As the shield team arrived Leo gathered the rest of the power cores in his force field and Lauin shrunk the celestial arm to over one meter long before teleporting the both of them out.
This time he made sure to leave no traces of his space warp to follow, he wouldn't have used a space warp so soon after the last one but they didnt have time to deal with government authorities so he chose the fastest way out.