The mob attacking the SHIELD agents was continuously dwindling in numbers as Wanda kept entering and exiting the mob's mind one by one to clear out the Inhuman brainwashing. The method of brainwashing depended on a special type of energy the Inhuman used so she just needed to eliminate the energy to remove the influence.
With Ryan bringing the Hydra Inhuman out of range, Wanda could do her job easily.
"Holy Hell. What did you do?" Phil Coulson asked Wanda who'd just woke up after completely removing the brainwashing on the mobs.
"It's all… thanks to Mr. Knight." Wanda replied in a shaky, just-woke-up voice. It was a secret from the others, but Ryan had spent almost 3 days helping Wanda get the hang of Legilimency and Occlumency inside her mind. She didn't know how, but time inside of her mind flowed very slowly after Ryan had entered it.
"I know that. But what did you do?" Phil asked calmly this time, with a smirk on his face. Wanda felt that the guys seemed easy to talk to, not knowing that Phil's agent training had kicked in for him to make a good impression.
"We will talk later. Right now, the city needs help." Wanda replied.
"Nah. The city is already saved. You guys are too late, as usual." Pietro suddenly appeared with a blue streak on his path, stopping in front of Wanda and Coulson.
"Saved?" Phil muttered.
"Yeah. Me and the brainbots have a bet on who could save the most people, but the numbers end up in a tie. Are there any people who need saving here?" Pietro asked hurriedly, wanting to upstage the brainbots in his debut.
"I don't know… We need to check and regroup..." Phil was suddenly interrupted by screams coming out from the inside of the fort.
"What was that?" Pietro widened his eyes. Before he could think rationally, his feet already moved and carried him toward the direction of the screams. His eyes widened as he saw the sight in front of him, just after he had turned on an intersection. A spikey-haired alien/woman was attacking a SHIELD agent after she got out of her terrigenesis state.
"Why!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!!" Raina screamed hysterically as she saw the transformation on her body. Her skin was filled with thorns, her initial pretty face had turned to that of a monster. Pietro crashed into the thorny woman, injuring his body in the process.
"ARGHH!" Pietro yelled out this time, his voice reverberated through the tight hallways of the fort, causing Wanda to be alarmed.
"Pietro!" She yelled and manipulated her scarlet energy to fly toward the fort entrance.
-Above San Juan-
The Inhuman Hydra head didn't grow into two as they regenerated.
"I wonder how many times I can cut the heads off before the regeneration starts to slow down?" Ryan muttered.
"How would you explain if a mountain of severed heads suddenly appeared near the city tomorrow?" Gwen replied, shooting her webs at the hydra wings and took control of it. The Hydra Inhuman suddenly steered off from the city's airspace toward the edge of the city.
"Maybe it will be a new attraction to the city. Tourism will thrive." Ryan replied happily.
"By the way are you going to let me do all the work while you keep cutting off the heads?" Gwen rolled her eyes again.
"I keep seeing the whites of your eyes today. What is that about?" Ryan asked curiously. Gwen was startled and then realised that she was still wearing her mask.
"Wait. How do you know?"
"… Instinct."
Gwen almost rolled her eyes again, but she suddenly realised that he'd set it up for her to do that.
"You're going to get it after this." She said angrily.
"Hahaha. Okay Okay." Ryan said defeatedly but still smiling around. He created a chain from out of nowhere, completely restraining the Inhuman Hydra while they were still mid-air. The result? All of them plummeted in high speed toward the ground.
Gwen opened up a web parachute and grabbed Ryan in the air. He could actually fly, but seeing Gwen saving him like that, it was fun for him to play the princess who needed a hero's saving.
He's been extremely tired from the world summit preparation. Hundreds of his clones were working hard all day to create the new framework for the United Earth Government and clean up the unstable factors in the process of uniting the world.
He also engineered this universe version of a translator disk to distribute to the populace. The space elevator and the Zeta space station needed supervision too so he was extremely stretched out.
Not to mention continuously running the calculation for the future, he was in a desperate need of stress relief.
BOOM!
The massive Inhuman body fell on the desolate area nearby the forest, destroying a few trees in the process. Dust clouds filled the area before it settled down. Ryan and Gwen safely parachuted on the ground and landed smoothly as the dust cleared. The inhuman hydra was still resisting, but he couldn't break Ryan's chains.
"What kind of restraint is this?" Gwen retracted her helmet and turned to Ryan to ask. Quickly, Ryan stole a kiss from her before answering. "Light dimension chain. He won't be able to break it if I don't let him."
Gwen smiled as she got kissed. "Don't think you've escaped the retribution with just this." She growled cutely.
"What if I add another kiss?" Ryan flirted.
"Ehem Ehem." Suddenly, someone cleared their throat from behind Ryan and Gwen. The couple turned to see Black Bolt – King of Attilan, Medusa – the Queen, and LockJaw – their teleporting pet.
"It seems that our presence is not necessary." Medusa said with a dignified voice. Ryan turned to Black Bolt who nodded at him. Suddenly, a computerised voice of the actor who played Black Bolt sounded with a "Hello."
LockJaw was stunned as it was the first time he ever heard the King speak, but death and destruction didn't come.
Before this, Ryan had given a gift to Black Bolt in the shape of a magi-craft technology – Spoken Mind. The device would help a mute person to relay their thoughts from their brain into the chip stuck at the top of their head.
The chip was easy to remove and was studied by Black Bolt intensely for a few months before he decided to wear it.
"He's part of Hydra?" Black Bolt asked without opening his mouth.
Ryan had been feeding Attilan about the information before Black Bolt stopped by so he knew the situation. It allowed him to avoid explaining the situation multiple times to the people there.
"Yes." Ryan replied casually. Black Bolt had learned about the matters in Earth society and even sent LockJaw to investigate the information that Ryan had given him about Hydra and the Avengers.
"Just kill him then. I don't want unstable factors in my kingdom. I have enough of that." Black Bolt said. "Also, Medusa is so hot today."
Her tight-fitting battle clothes have been making the usually mute husband talkative today.
His wife widened her eyes by the sudden statement. Her face became flustered as if she knew what would happen next.
"Sit on my face." Black Bolt continued while glancing sneakily at Medusa. Gwen snorted while Ryan was trying his hardest to control his expression so as to not embarrass the Attilan King.
His skill in controlling the device that reads his thoughts wasn't perfect yet that sometimes he forgot to shut it down before letting out his intrusive thoughts.
"I need to get LockJaw some food. I wonder if he knew I've been feeding him store-bought dog food for a month now."
"Dear!" Medusa quickly intervened before the situation gets worse. Black Bolt widened his eyes as he realised his mistake. "Oh Shit-" He shuts down the device quickly to rearrange his thoughts.
Ryan patted Black Bolt's shoulder in understanding. "I know how you feel. I always want my fiancé to sit on my face to-"
Before he could continue, Gwen covered up his mouth while being flustered and pulled him away from Black Bolt. Medusa sighed at the sight of the two most important individuals in their own society being so childish with each other.
"Darling. You should end his life. He is one of us now." Medusa said to Black Bolt.
The king stood in front of the restrained Hydra and opened up his mouth to let his voice out.
"Goodbye…"
His voice reverberated throughout the entire forest with the brunt of the attack directed toward the Hydra Inhuman. Slowly, the new member of inhuman society turned into ashes and disappeared from the world.
"That's easy." Ryan exclaimed, putting both his palm at the back of his head lazily. Black Bolt turned his head toward Ryan and smiled softly, his thoughts complicated. He was both thankful to Ryan as he had helped Attilan, and even himself, but also fearful toward Ryan as he didn't know what he should do if Ryan decided to turn his 'gifts' into a weapon against the Inhumans.
"Are you guys staying?" Ryan asked.
"Maybe for a while. I want to taste the new food Gwen has talked so much about." Medusa replied and took out a picnic table. She suddenly realised and looked around the destroyed forest.
"We shouldn't probably have a picnic, right?" She said, The queen actually tags along to have a picnic with her husband on Earth.
"Ohh. A picnic. That's a good idea." Gwen said in excitement. Although it was nighttime, a picnic under the star would bring up a romantic setting to the event.
"I will send you to a beautiful place then." Ryan opened up a portal toward a coastal area where the sky was filled with stars and the sea breeze was gently brushing against his face. Moonlight was reflected on the sea's surface, illuminating the night.
"This is good." Black Bolt suddenly voiced out after his time out.
"Ryan. About the World Summit. Are you sure us coming is a good move? We always keep our existence a secret." Medusa conveyed her concern to Ryan as she got the chance.
Ryan shook his head and replied, "Keeping your existence a secret is the worst thing for Attillan, now that Earth has almost entered the interstellar stage. The moon was always an object of worship for humans. Do you really think that these people won't stop by the moon on their way out to the universe?"
"I know that Attilan people will feel more comfortable in isolation, but it doesn't mean that you should reject everything outside of your society." Ryan advised.
Medusa nodded as she only needed the push to make her decision. However, Black Bolt was faster than her in agreeing to the matter.
"Tell me the dress code."
Ryan smirked as he'd confirmed Attilan attendance to his summit.
…
Gordon, the eye-less teleporter, arrived at the city of San Juan during the battle and went straight away to Coulson's mobile base—the Bus.
He helped Calvin Zebo to escape, but threw the guy to a windowless room where he would be imprisoned until Jiaying met him.
Inside the fort, Raina was punching at Pietro with her newly enhanced strength and thorny hands.
"Dude. Chill!" Pietro exclaimed as he avoided the punches. However, he wasn't as agile as he used to be as a sharp spike had penetrated his legs, causing him to battle in pain.
"I AM A WOMAN!" Raina yelled and tried to kill Pietro now.
Suddenly, the eye-less teleporter interjected the battle between those two, put his hand on Raina and disappeared from the ancient city.
"What the hell just happened?" Pietro muttered as he looked around the empty room. Seconds later, his sister arrived at his spot to help him after hearing his screams.
"Some eyeless man took the spikey woman away!" Pietro reported to Phil Coulson.
Inside the Kree temple, Kai was guarding Skye's terrigenesis process when he noticed a fluctuation in space.
"Come out Gordon." He called out. Startled, the eyeless man appeared in front of Kai.
"You know who I am?" Gordon asked.
"I do. And I'm going to warn you. Just this one time. Touch the stone inside the room, and it would be the last thing you ever do in this life."
The whole temple shook as Kai let out his killing intent, almost suffocating Gordon by the pressure alone! He fell to his knees and tried to teleport away, but he found out that he couldn't! The moment he teleported inside, Kai already activated Ryan's spatial lock device to lock the area around the temple.
"Do you understand?" Kai asked again in a cold and domineering tone. Gordon reluctantly nodded his head as he knew he wouldn't survive if he didn't.
"Good. I will bring her to meet Jiaying on my own later. You can keep Calvin Zebo with you, but any harm inflicted on him, the same one will be inflicted on you."
"You- HOW!" Gordon yelled in fear.
"Do you really think teleporting everywhere wouldn't be detected by others? You underestimated others too much. Go home. Stay in the afterlife. I will come by once the process is finished here."
Before Gordon left, Kai conveyed a message to Jiaying through him. "Tell her, I will bring Daniel Whitehall, or as she knows him, Werner Reinhardt… or what's left of him as a gift to her during our meeting. She can claim what was taken from her during."
Gordon tilted his head in confusion before he ran outside the temple grounds. Once he was far enough and out of the spatial lock device range, he teleported away to the Afterlife community to relay the information to Jiaying.
Back at the temple, Kai was silently meditating and fighting off his inner demons while waiting for his daughter to wake up. The stone statue was still unresponsive as time passed by. The situation inside the city had calmed down and SHIELD had created a massive enclosure around the ancient Kree city.
The media started claimoring about the monster and who'd saved them. Wanda received the moniker, The Crimson Enchantress by the media and Pietro was Quicksilver as he told his name to anyone who would ask him about it before.
A day passed by, and Kai was still meditating inside of the temple. Waiting. Two days pass by. He was still inside the room. Waiting.
Until the third day comes.
(A/N: My financials this month isnt great as the students for my tutoring job are having their year ends vacay now. I don't think I can update regularly this month as I need to work extra hard in other jobs now. I will try to post every other day if I can. By the way, the next chap is the last chap for the world summit pre-arc. See ya.)