#VEGITO POV#
"Could I offer anything to...
"Explain," Percy demands
"Wait," I tell Percy as I move forward
"From what I can tell...we all came from the same reality. Just to be clear," I tell the man who is looking at us in shock but quickly composes himself as much as possible and failing at that
His heart sounds like a drum with the way that its beating
"Alright, to start my name is Thomas Anderson and I discovered a way to travel through different realities," He says while leaning back on his chair
"Are you sure you guys don't want anything?"
"No," We all say looking at him
"Ok, I guess I should explain why I looked for a way out. Simple, I hated our world, the way we were so restricted, so...bound by its rules. I hated being human. More than that I hated being a mundane human," He says as I can see the self-hatred for his humanity in his eyes
"I spent decades working on a way to leave and eventually I succeded," He says with joy in his voice while glancing at a stick on his table
A familiar-looking stick
"The Elder Wand," Percy says while he makes it float over to us
"Yeah, the first world that I arrived in was the Wizarding World, but there were...complications," He says while frowning
"Of what kind?" Connor asks
"Our bodies are not separate types," He answers as we wait for him to explain
"Ever heard the expression of our bodies being temples and all that?" He asks while some of us nod while the rest just stare at him
"It turns out to have been very literal, our bodies, mind, and soul were one in every single sense of the word. I was not able to get magic of my own, even if I managed to create a clone of myself with the magic gene. This...restriction, prevented me from being more than what I was. So, I learned to separate pieces of us and place them on someone, then after a period of time, they would have undergone a change, after the change was done, I would implant it into me, which is how I got magic," He explains and I frown as I try to think about...
"Pure Materialism," I say after a bit
"Yeah, yeah, Pure Materialism, in our origin world, we could only really progress by turning ourselves into machines, casting away the weakness of the flesh and obtain the certainty of steel," He says with a chuckle
"No, just no," Danny says rubbing his eyes
"Sorry, I am just really, really nervous,"
"That's what they did to us isn't it?" I ask Thomas
"What do you mean?" he asks as I turn to the others and I see that Connor already figured it out as he begins to pace
"When I first woke up as...Vegito, this body was originally soulless, but over time it developed a type of blank soul almost like a newborn, a major part of my soul entered this body and took over and began to heal from the damage done to my soul," I begin to explain my arrival
"After some time, I came to know that I had scars in my soul which is near the time that I found out about them," I say pointing at the others
"Holy shit, they actually succeded," Says Thomas as we turn to look at him
"I can explain," He says raising his hands in surrender
"The reason that I kicked that group out, was because they were breaking the rules that I put in place. One of them was to practice extreme caution when dealing with other realities and every interaction was shown to administration for evaluation. This group began to hide things from us, little by little until they began to experiment on people from our reality of origin,"
"Which is..." he freezes as he looks at us and a pit forms in my stomach as I see the emotions on his face
"What did they do?" I ask him
My voice barely whisper
"WHAT DID THEY DO?" I scream at him, my anger and worry getting the best of me
I blink as I see him cowering behind his desk
Glancing at the others, I can see that they were moments away from lashing out in anger themselves
"I...I think it would be better if I showed you," He says as he goes to his computer and we watch him for a minute or so as a projection appears
"This...is what they did," he says as we watch the projection
All fight leaves me, as I watch the burning homes, and dead bodies all around
The worst part is the bodies
Some of them were surgically cut open and the people who still have their faces have expressions of pure agony on them
"Were there any survivors?" Liam asks after a bit
"Yeah,"
"Give us the list of names," Connor demands as Thomas goes back to his computer
"Here," Thomas gives him a list after a few minutes
Connor scans it and stops as he scrolls through the tablet
"Give us his profile and location, NOW," He orders him as Thomas looks at the name and looks up his information
Once I read it myself, it takes every part of my being to not rush him
It's my nephew
According to this, he was the only survivor in the area
I fight back tears at the realization that my family is gone
No...I still have him
We...still have him
#TIMESKIP#
"Everything seems stable," I let out a sigh
Looking at Connor, he passes a finger over our nephew's forearm where he a scar remains
Connor's finger glows as the scar begins to disappear
He is covered by 34% scar tissue
He has severe trauma to the head and is missing his left eye, part of his right ear has been ripped off
Rage swells inside me as I think about what the bastards did to my family
"What do you want?" Danny growls at Thomas
"I...I went over the list that you gave me, at least 1/3 of the people responsible are on the list, but the others,"
"Others," The rest of us ask as a thirst for revenge begins to burn in our hearts
"Yes, there are still some more..." He stops as he begins to shake in place
"CONNOR," I call out causing him to let go of Thomas's mind
"He is telling the truth some of them are still out there,"
A cold fury, the likes I have never even thought myself possible begins to rage within me
Those bastards...
They destroyed our home, killed most of our family, and left our nephew in this state
"Begin scanning for every single piece of information," Connor orders his own Motherbox
"Scanning..."
"That will take too long," Liam growls as his eyes glow with rage
"Everyone," I call out getting their attention
"Calm down, remember where we are," I tell them as I motion over to the bed that our nephew Andrew is currently recovering in
That does the trick as they all begin to seethe in silence
Turning over to Thomas, I give him an order that it does not comply, I will kill him
"Give us...everything," I order him
"Yes, I will be back soon," He says getting out of the room in a way that shows his fear
"We don't need him," Connor comments
"We don't," I admit
"But...he did save a member of our family, even if it was because of his own actions that such a situation happened in the first place. That alone grants him the right to breathe in our presence," I tell them and I can see that they are starting to get frustrated
"Let's focus on the ones who are actually responsible once Andrew wakes up," I tell them as they let out sighs
So...this is how it actually feels when you have to calm down your brothers
Hmm...