[Around December of 2012]
[New York City]
[Avengers Tower]
3rd PoV
The original Stark logo of the Stark Building was already replaced with the large A that meant Avengers as the entire structure emenated majestic aura that will let people know that it's owner was also majestic in his own way.
The owner is currently sitting in a couch in front of a circular glass table. Around him, the rest of the Avengers can be seen, 'cept for the God of Thunder.
All of them is looking and listening to the black man in front of them explaining something with a serious look on his face.
"Tony! Can you just please listen?" Pepper Potts at the side reprimanded the genius who was starting to not pay attention to the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Thanks." Fury nodded appreciatively at Pepper as he then tried to continue but was interrupted.
"How can I listen when this guy is basically saying that he lost the Scepter that Loki gave to us?" Stark said mockingly as Steve just sighed while rubbing his forehead in headache.
"And that's why we are having this meeting right now! I know It's my fault that I let some agents handle the weapon and it disappeared or rather stolen, but more what's important right now is us getting that thing back." Fury responded.
"Fine. I think I still got the copy of the energy signature of that weapon hidden away in my database, I'll see if I can use it to track down the weapon just like what Banner and I did with the Tesseract." Stark finally relented.
"But what if the scepter isn't on this planet anymore?" Bruce Banner commented.
"What do you mean?" Steve turned to him.
"Well, I mean, If we go by the theory of that guy Psionix who said that Loki is possibly not working alone, then what if those that ordered Loki to invade earth have already gotten their hands on the scepter.." Bruce replied.
"Well, if we go by that, then we definitely need to prepare ourselves for another invasion. If movies taught me anything, then it is the fact that villains are relentless and they wouldn't give up until they get what they want." Stark interjected.
"This is not that kind of movie Tony." Steve replied.
"Don't talk to me about movies old man." Stark rolled his eyes as he leaned back to the couch. He then remembered something as he then added "Wait, speaking of Psionix, do you all agree to this thing that he, that Celestial Industries and the government are doing right now? I mean I approve of that shit for sure, what about you?"
Steve thought for a moment and then replied "I'm okay with anything that will further protect the innocents. Because from what I have observed for the past months. This metahuman cops are doing a good jobs as crimes have somehow lowered. My only concern would be that they do not turn into that typical police you see in a movie that would abuse their badge and use it everywhere as if badges are privileges."
"Ohh, so you've been watching movies lately, huh. You should have said already, I've got a few suggestions in mind." Stark replied with a raised eyebrow.
Sigh..
Bruce on the other just sighed at the latter as he then also gave his brief opinion "It's all good for me."
Fury though didn't gave any reply as his eyes just narrowed a bit. Yes, he doesn't hate metas but if they all cross the line and do something bad like if that Magneto suddenly wanted to go back to his old ways, then his Avengers are ready to face them anytime.
But for now, he will see and observe just how far the expansion of the metahumans would go. Arriving at the thought of metahumans, Fury couldn't help but think if he also got that meta-gene, and if so, what is it?.
After their meeting, Fury left the place along with Steve Rogers while Stark and Banner did their thing and started to work on how the hell they will track that damned Scepter.
—-—
Months passed since the publication of the Morlocks, the release of the appearance restoration serum called Rejuvenator, the disbandment of the Brotherhood of Mutants and the implementation of the meta police.
Without the influence of Sublime. The population was easy to accept the metas and their view for them have started to turn for good.
With the success of the implementation of meta police. The president have now also allowed the creation of the Meta Task Force. The Task Force would be made up by some of the most powerful and known metas; with Magneto as its leader.
On the other hand. Seeing the brightening future of the metahumans, Professor Charles Xavier have started to much more actively spread the news that he's running a school for metas and that every metas are welcome to visit and even to enroll if they want.
During that time. Psionix have also reached out to Xavier and discussed his plan of making the Institution much more than it's current state. They discussed things such plans like actively spreading good word about the school to attract more meta students.
Andrew even managed to arrange a meeting between him, Xavier and the president. The latter agreed with the plans and was even considering sending his daughter to the school. He then promised Charles that if the point came that all people already know the school and was happily sending their kids to it or voluntarily enrolling to it, then he would help to expand the Institution more and possibly even make branches of it.
Andrew also asked him and the other X-Men if they wanted to partake in the Meta Task Force but the group just said that it'd be up to their professor who replied that he'll think about it.
All in all, Charles Xavier was very happy with all of this as he can finally see the bright future of the world were metas and humans coexisting, well more like metas living peacefully.
Why he said so was because he has actually started to notice that humans awakening their meta gene was starting to exponentially increase.
From the usual 50 people awakening around the world, now it has increased to 200 people a day. But he doesn't hate this progress as he was even a bit happy because even if he always gaslight himself that he loves humanity, there's still a part inside him that screams to always prioritize his own race but he just doesn't listen to it very often.
On the other hand. With the introduction of meta cops, the crime rate have lessened significantly as normal criminals was wary of encountering a random cop that can crush a solid brick with their hands.
But that is for normal criminals. Because with the emergence of superpowered cops, superpowered criminals have also emerged just to break the now-peaceful state of New York.
Nowadays. The scene of a cop running at an unnatural speed in pursuit of another unnatural person was becoming rather dull as people was already getting used to it. And they are also not afraid since they know that if some superstrong criminal meta suddenly started to wreak havoc and the meta cops aren't able to subdue them, they still got the meta task force that would 100% get the job done.
—-—
Andrew at this time is currently in space, floating with his legs crossed in a meditative position.
The blazing sun can be seen just about a few hundred thousand kilometers away from him as he continously tried to absorb the solar energy it was emitting.
Yes, he's absorbing energy from the sun like a kryptonian and a daxamite in the omniverse next door.
A few days back, Andrew was messing around with his biological manipulation and then the idea of being a kryptonian suddenly manifested in his mind. He then quickly acted on his thoughts and then manipulated and transformed his cells to have the capacity of being able to absorb and contain solar energy.
And here he is right now, having the knockoff version of the kryptonian ability. He called it knockoff because of the fact that he can't absorb solar energy limitlessly like superman can and he needs to wait for his cells to automatically refine those energy before he can absorb again.
But hey! he got heat vision..
'Ugh, I can already do that without all this shit.' Andrew rubbed his face as he then stretched his body comfortably like he wasn't in the fucking space.
He then teleported away as he then invisibly appeared in the sky of New York city. But the peaceful and usually polluted air of the city wasn't the one to greet him as he saw something that made him squint an eye.
"What the fuck is Godzilla doing here?" He muttered.
"ROAAAAAHH!"
[End of the Chapter]
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