Yesterday after meeting Fury, Ben has been preparing his QuinJet for space travel using Upgrade. The next day, early in the morning Ben took off in his QuinJet towards an unknown pitch black space. His only guide will be to trace the radiation of infinity stones.
The new modification of Vibranium, Uru and Orichalcum of QuinJet felt very useful, especially after using the no-spell [Enchant] with [Accel], [Boost], [Power Rise] and enchanted the weaponry with [Wind Arrow], and [Shining Javelin]. The defensives of the Jet were increased to many levels by the use of Orichalcum and Uru. It could further be increased by supplying mana due to the mana-conducting nature of the said metals. Just as Banner used the radiations of the sceptre to track down the Tesseract, Ben plans to use the radiation of both the Space and Time stones to find his way to the Power Stone.
Ben shot forth from earth's atmosphere into space and entered the pitch black environment surrounding the earth. Excitement building up inside him seeing the twinkling stars and thinking of exploring the far away galaxies.
"Ben, I am picking up reactions from both the infinity stones in two directions. One is a bit weaker as if it is very far away but the other is near us most likely our neighbour galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy." Julie's voice sounded from the speakers. Since the radiation detectors were connected to computer system of the Quinjet, Ben had Julie keep an eye on it.
"Save the energy signatures. The QuinJet will take us too long to reach there. I am going to put it in storage." Ben said to Julie and stopped the QuinJet in the space.
"Ben, the saves are successful. I have marked the direction with Omnitrix's map function. It will guide you straight to the Power Stone." Julie informed. The biggest cheat Ben has is the Omnitrix which has the map of several Galaxies inside it. Hearing Julie's reply, Ben exited the ship and entered space. He could feel Anodite's [Space Survivability] ability kicking in. He put the QuinJet in his [Inventory] and activated his Anodite's transformation which was now called [Celestial-Anodite Transformation]. Bright yellow light shined all over his body producing a blinding glow of rainbow colour and a yellow covering appeared on his skin.
Ben activated [Accel], [Boost], [Power Rise], [Fly] combined with Anodite's Flight, Flyrokinesis, and Electric Force Fields gave him an unbelievable speed. When Ben's speed reached its limit, he used [Reality Warp] and contracted the space in front of him and expanded the space behind. After repeating this method for a while, he heard a 'ding' sound from his status and [Ability Created: Interstellar Traveling]
Seeing his new ability, a knowing smile crossed his lips and he activated it immediately. His speed increased even more. But then suddenly he was felt as if he has crossed an unknown barrier. He came to a stop in confusion. He turned around and laid his eyes upon a faraway shape looked like a shining star but was not exactly a star but the galaxy Ben was looking for. It looked very smaller because it was very far from him.
'Guess, it was a jump point between dimension. It means, I can travel between hyperspace.'
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Far away from the Benjamin's current location, in a dark place where floating pieces of rocks could be seen all over. It was called the Sanctuary by many, a place of asteroid field inhabited by the Chitauri.
"Master, we have detected a signal coming from the boundaries of the solar system. It's similar to the infinity stones and travelling in space just a couple of light years away from solar system but then it vanished." An inhumane figure with a massive mouth clad in black robes said towards a floating throne.
"In which direction was it going?" asked a grumpy voice from the floating throne.
"It was most likely towards the Andromeda galaxy, Master" replied the dark figure while kneeling on the ground.
"Must be the Tesseract or someone powered by the Tesseract. Inform the Accuser that the time has come to fulfill his part in our partnership." The man turned around and revealed a full blue colour skin. He looked like a giant, bigger in size than the Hulk, clad in golden armour, The Mad Titan.
"I will inform Ronan, Master," The Other, personal servant of Thanos bowed and said.
"They must be using the Tesseract to find the power stone. It means someone else is carrying the Infinity Stones, but whom? But it is good that they are bringing the Tesseract to me."
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By using [Interstellar Traveling], Ben covered a massive distance without having any sense of time. What came into appearance was a bard spiral colourful shape surrounding a shining cloud of white glow. The [Interstellar Traveling] nullifies all the effects of space including gravity; otherwise it would be a huge problem. He was almost feeling like a Kryptonian when he was in space. As Ben came nearer to the Galaxy the double nuclei at the centre of the galaxy became visible. He can't find any comparisons to the size of the two giant balls at the centre of the galaxy but it could be said that the bigger among the two nuclei sets a supermassive black hole that should be about millions of times bigger than our sun. The other ball seemed like a mist of many stars gathered together in one place.
Ben ignored the centre of the galaxy and sped towards the location which Julie pointed, towards the radiation signatures. He passed by many stars and planets. Soon a giant planet came into view which was showed by the small screen on the backside of his gauntlet,
"Julie, can you carry out another scan on this planet. It looks very huge and will take a lot of time finding the stone. More people looking for the stone must be notified by now.
"Roger that, Ben," Julie replied in an emotionless voice.
After a few seconds, Omnitrix beeped and showed a map pointing a red dot on the map. Ben landed on land and judged his own location which was showed as a Galvan symbol on the map. He then preceded forward and soon came to the front of a large temple-like building which was lying in runes but only one gate was in shape probably, due to enchantments. The shapes and situations of surrounding felt like a ruined civilization.
Ben proceeded to the middle door of the temple. Runes and magical symbols were engraved all over the temple. Ben always felt over joyed by seeing these kinds of enchantments. Perhaps, one of his clones would be able to learn it in Kamar-Taj. He walked through the doorway into a destroyed massive conference-hall looking structure. This place's filled with overgrown plants surrounding tall pillars. Ben used [Telekinesis] and levitated himself above the ground not bothering with the little rat-like creatures.
"Ben, this planet has been host to a very advanced civilization. Judging by the situation this planet is in, its demise is definitely due to global warming."
"Hmmm, no doubt Thanos was intent on cleansing half the population of the universe, to avoid over population, a very ridiculous reason to kill someone." Ben murmured to himself with a short laugh. He snapped his fingers and his green jacket, shirt and jeans turned into black t-shirt, jeans and a jacket that he had made from the chain mail of Vibranium. It looked stylish but they were on par with bullet proof armor, especially when the Vibranium chain is enchanted to absorb impacts combined with its ingrained ability to absorb vibrations.
Ben then took out a modified a Special Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR) which could fit a Gauss Attachment as an under barrel. It ammunition was limited but it can penetrate strong armor and can switch back to normal fire mode. He also put two pistols and a knife on his either sides.
He walked forward to the front of the door, put his hands on it, and then cast [Cracking], a no-spell magic that changes any kind of enchantments, it even works against locks. Then the small key like hole turned and rotated on its own and with a *CLICK sound, the door opened.
On the other side of the gate, was a small dark room. The only light seems to be was of the rays on the pedestal in the middle of the room. The rays were surrounding a silver orb floating above the pedestal.
Ben stepped inside the room and used light elemental [Illumination Sphere] spell and a yellow sphere of light appeared above his hand illuminating the room. He walked towards the pedestal without wasting any time and stretched his right hand and focused on the orb. Then he cast [Apport] - a non-elemental spell that brings far object to the user - , a white magic circle shined on his hand and the orb appeared. When he looked back at the pedestal, the blue rays protecting the orb were missing. He shrugged it off and focused his attention on orb in his hands.
Ben opened the orb using [Cracking] and took out the Power stone using his telekinesis. His abilities including Telekinesis and Telepathy has become a very useful asset in using touch dependent spells such as, [Paralyze], [Gravity], etc. Ben just has to reach to the object through his mind and cast the spell. Ben has also discovered that by imagining the diagram of the magic spell he could just use his intent to cast the spell rather than shouting the spell name.
Ben pushed the thoughts to the back of his head and levitated the Power Stone out of the orb. He concentrated his magic into his hand and created a mana crystal and then he held the crystal in one hand and the power stone in another. He could his body cells engulfed in a power surge and his eyes shined a purple hue, then it calmed down as if being suppressed by Ben's pure magical energy. He let the power stone's energy to flow into the crystal and it got coated into purple glow. He put the crystal into the orb and closed it. Then he put the infinity stone in the [Inventory] and tossed the crystal to the pedestal again and surprisingly the blue light appeared again. Ben concluded after seeing this that the pedestal was using the energy of the Power Stone to power the safety runes on the pedestal.
He then begun observing the runes on the pedestal and was fully engrossed in himself that he didn't noticed someone standing on the doorstep.
"Hey Buddy! Can't find a way to remove it?" Ben looked towards the door and saw a man wearing brown jacket and a bad on his hip.
"Yeah I was checking the runes on the pedestal. It is magical." Ben replied without reacting much he thought that it must be someone looking for the orb.
"Magic!? I don't think there something such as magic." The man replied with a smile not believing Ben.
"You don't believe it. Then tell me why is everything destroyed on this planet but not this room? Leave this discussion for later. Do you have a way to take this thing out? Name's Ben Tennyson, by the way." Ben asked with another question. Ben offered his hand for handshake which Peter took without any delay. It gave Ben a chance to absorb his DNA. When he absorbed DNA from Peter, he could feel his power sparkling inside his body.
"Oh! Hi, I am Peter Quill. People call me Star Lord. And yes, I do have something that might pull this thing off this field." Peter said and took out small prism-like metallic object from his bag and put it on the floor. The triangular structure opened and revealed star like shape and suddenly the orb started moving. Soon the orb crossed the electric field, came down and stuck to the triangular metal.
"Wow! That's amazing. But do you know what this orb is?" Ben asked keeping Peter calm. If he kept him calm for a while it means he can take Ben along to Zandar. Therefore he was constantly using telepathy to influence his mind.
"I don't know. I have taken the quest to bring this thing to Zandar. Why were you here, Ben? Can I call you that?"
"Yeah, I don't mind. In that case, I will call you Peter than. And to answer your question, I was investigating an invasion. Someone tried to invade our planet a couple of months ago. I was on my way back home when my ship stopped working due to a glitch which I cannot fix without proper tools. I was walking around since I stumbled upon this place." Ben said honestly but he already knows who the attacker is.
"Really! Which planet are you from?" Peter asked tossing the orb in his hands.
"Earth," said Ben.
"I am… was from Earth," Peter said.
"We need to get out of here first. Just as you were looking for this thing, I am sure more people will come looking for this." Ben said and both began to make their way from the temple.
Ben and Peter ran out of the temple. They passed through the pillars in a massive-ancient-looking hall and as they were about to exit through the entrance. Someone else entered holding a gun in his hands, with two guards following behind.