[May of 2012]
[ Stryker's Mutant Facility ]
3rd PoV
Andrew approached the two group as he waved lightly at the group of the master of magnetism.
"Yo."
A smile quickly surfaced on the old face of Erik as he stepped forward and greeted Andrew like they were friends for a long time "Hello there, my friend."
Andrew also smiled as he stretched out his hand for a handshake that Erik quickly received. "It's nice to meet the master of magnetism himself."
The camera orbiting around him was capturing this very moment as the people quickly flooded the comment section with mixed questions.
Boom!
"Its my pleasure." Erik returned the flattery as the sounds of Juggernaut pummeling the Sentinels resounded to the air.
"Tsk." Erik clicked his tongue but couldn't do anything as he can't control the Sentinels himself.
Andrew on the other hand, chuckled a little. He then stretched his hands to the dwindling Sentinels and clenched his fists tightly.
The Sentinels all stopped attacking Juggernaut and then moved as they involuntarily began clumping at each other like a metal attracted to a magnet.
Andrew made a noise as if he's straining himself as his stretched hands trembled continously. But after a moment, all the Sentinels that was gathered together lost their forms as they all merged and turned into a metal ball the size of a average apartment.
He then clasped his hands to his knees and acted in an exhausted manner while muttering to himself that can be heard by the camera "I thought I wouldn't have enough juice to do that.. Thank Gods."
The Brotherhood and X-Men was speechless and the Live's comment section was once again flooded by questions; Some amazed, some suspicious.
The suspicious ones were asking if why couldn't he have just done it at the start while the amazed were asking just how many abilities does he really have.
Though, the former ones were in minority as Andrew have already gained their preliminary trust so the anti-mutant's opinions were already starting to be overwhelmed.
Juggernaut on the other hand, stopped as he lost any enemy to beat up as he turned to Andrew with an angry expression on his face.
"You!!"
He then started running towards Andrew while building up momentum along the way.
Andrew unconsciously readied himself as he knows how powerful is the Juggernaut.
"Wait, Wait!" Erik lost his calm facade as he signaled Juggernaut to stop.
Surprisingly, Juggernaut seems to listen to his orders as he immediately reduced his momentum and finally stopped in front of Erik, Andrew, Brotherhood and the X-Men.
"Why?" Juggernaut asked with a confused expression.
Erik thought of reasons to appease the unstoppable behemoth and just decided with "He's a friend. A new friend, so you can't hurt him."
Juggernaut grumbled for a moment but relented as he walked and settled behind Erik along with the Brotherhood.
Andrew breathed a sigh of relief inwardly while Erik turned to him again with an apologetic look on his face "Well, with all that robots wrapped up, do you have any idea who made them?"
"I don't really know." Andrew lied but then his comment section became more frantic and chaotic which prompted him to look at it.
He pulled his hovering phone and took a look at the comments and all the people were saying the same thing.
[It was the Trask Industries!]
[Some people witnessed earlier that this robots came out of the Trask Building, it seems legit]
[They managed to capture that moment, here's the link to the video; "X-X-X-X-X.Iron- Man-Suits-Copycat"]
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"Oh?" Andrew raised an eyebrow which cannot be seen by everyone but they can feel that something got his interest after he checked his phone.
"It's the Trask Industries. People are saying that these robots was seen coming out of the building of that company."
Magneto fell silent at that and then turned to his group. "We're moving." He then turned to Andrew "Do you want to come with us to see the owner of this company?"
"Not really, I've got other things to do right now." Andrew replied as he remembered the sentient bacteria that is currently hovering around him covered with a force-field that also has the invisibility effect.
"Hm." Erik didn't press it as he and his group floated, he didn't bother turning to look at his lov– long time friend as they flew away towards one direction – Trask Industries.
Charles Xavier and the X-Men frowned as they didn't have good feeling at that. They then turned to Andrew who have already started walking away.
"Wait." Xavier called out.
"Hm?" Andrew turned and looked at him.
"We know this is already late but if you want, you can visit my school."
"Maybe some other time." Andrew didn't entertain him any longer as he floated.
The soldiers and reporters all looked at the floating him with almost all of them having gratitude visible in their eyes.
Andrew turned to look at horizon and saw numerous choppers again that he quickly found out to be there to rescue the reporters and the soldiers.
He looked down and slightly nodded at the people below which elicited a numerous "Thank you!" for him.
He then turned to the camera as he grapsed it while pulling it to the front of his featureless face. "Thank you all for watching and accompanying me on this little journey on uncovering the harsh reality of us mutants and the darkside of the humanity. Till next time. Bye."
After saying that generic outro, he ended the live and flew away invisibly.
—-—
Andrew invisibly teleported along with Sublime as they appeared in the basement of Celestial Industries' Headquarters.
He looked around and spotted a 50-year old-ish man that is sitting in a chair, tied up, while a two little smoky figure that only reached about 3 feet in height can be seen in front of the elder man.
"ARRRGGGGGG!!"
""Kekeke~"" The two figures were pulling the man's nails with pliers made out of the same stuff that made up their body. The two had grey smoke for a body and their eyes were glowing red while a black mouth that is currently grinning sported their faces.
"Okay, that's enough for now.." Andrew said nonchalantly as he waved his hand which made the two disperse in a smoke and dissappear.
Those two creatures were actually from Andrew's own power.
[ Psionic Constructs ]
After absorbing energy from the Mind Stone almost everyday, this simple ability of his that can only be used to make weapons and projectiles in the past have already evolved and he is now able to make living constructs.
Though, still not to the point of living creature that breathes and think for themselves but only something that has a simple mind. You get the gist of it.
Back to the present, Andrew waved his hands and dispersed the two as he made his way in front of the heavily breathing William Stryker.
"Haa.. Haa.. Ha.."
Stryker huffed while looking down and then saw a feet as he weakly lifted his head to look at the owner of said feet.
"I.. Huff.. Knew it. You piece of Huff.. filths all need to die.." He managed to catch his breath as the pain of having his nails pulled off subsided after his healing factor kicked in.
Yes, you heard that right. Andrew gave the scum a healing factor just so he doesn't die immediately because of blood loss or stuff and because he still need the guy to suffer more.
Andrew didn't bother responding at him as he grasped Sublime that was hovering behind him. He then pulled a chair psionically and made the bacteria sat at it.
He then pulled another chair and then sat at it in front of Sublime who was still glaring at him hatefully.
Andrew didn't waste anymore time as Stryker watched and saw him putting his hand on Sublime's head as the latter began convulsing.
..
Andrew began shuffling through Sublime's long parasitic life as he blitz through his memories much faster when he did it with Elliot Randolph.
Five Minutes Later
After a while, Andrew finished. From the memory, Sublime have been alive since the dawn of humanity of about 50,000 years ago.
Andrew carefully scoured his memories and wasn't able to find information if Lemuria existed in this reality and was taken down by the Celestials. He also wasn't able to find anything about the Third Host Event of the Celestials.
Andrew thought that maybe, in this reality, only the First Host Event happened and the rest didn't to accommodate the fact that this universe is more inclined to the MCU rather than the comics.
But after reading Sublime's mind. Andrew then connected and controlled the bacteria's very mental system as he then felt the countless bacterial influence that Sublime had put in the bodies of almost 90% of the population.
Andrew didn't waste anymore time as he controlled all those bacterias that is inside those humans and made them disperse themselves – freeing the humanity from Sublime's subtle influence.
Andrew had the idea of using those bacterias to influence the humanity to not hate but favor the mutantkind but dispersed that thought as he thinks that that is too easy and having something that he didn't worked hard to get is not included in his vocabulary.
After a while, Andrew then ended the bacteria's misery as he overwhelmed his mind with his powerful Telepathy and made sure to annihilate his very consciousness and after confirming that he was truly dead, he pulled out his consciousness.
..
Stryker watched as Andrew removed his hand from the what he recognized as his co-worker as the former took a deep breath and then opened his eyes while turning to look at him.
An ominous feeling covered him while he felt chills in his spine as he saw the malicious glint in the eyes of Andrew and at that point, he knows that he's in for another session of oh-so-good torture.
—-—
On the other hand. Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants finally arrived in front of the Trask Building as the former grunted and the whole building began to shake.
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