One by one the girls woke up, like well trained assassins the older ones kept their calm while observing their surroundings, their new captors, the younger ones showed some concern but soon enough they also imitated the behavior of the older girls. You could find them focusing on different things, some of the older ones recognized Bucky and Natalia, some were focused on the advanced technology found in the med bay, some were observing the robots present in the room, but most of all were observing the view, Earth on the window. After some time of studying their surroundings almost all of them set their eyes on me, more specifically my non-human features.
"Hello girls, my name is Aragorn. These are Emma Grace Frost, James Buchanan Barnes and Natalia A. Romanova. They work for me and will be your superiors from now on. I can't imagine a better way of saying this so I will just lay it for you and we can do questions afterward. The red room is no more, your handlers are imprisoned down below awaiting their execution, as you can see we are orbiting Earth so no one will hurt you here, your bodies have been fixed from any past injury, for the ones subjected to sterilization you're capable of childbearing now, the chemical conditioning has been cleansed, the brainwashing has been removed, though you still need a few sessions with me or Emma to help with your mind healing. Any questions so far?"- The distrust was thick in the atmosphere, but I could only smile silently waiting for them to recognized their new reality.
"... What will happen with us now Sir?"- Asked the 19 year old that bucky brought.
"The initial plan was for you girls to work for me, but there are more baby and kid girls than anticipated, so for the young ones... we will raise them. The rest of you that can be considered old enough, you can work for me or choose freedom but you still need to stay under my care for a few years until I have untraceable identities for you. You don't need to worry much about potential danger since I don't need assassins, after all I got rid of the red room on my own, I needed girls that would be loyal to us and preferably with unrecorded identities; you fitted the requirements. I will give you girls education, healthcare, housing, clothing, training and any other necessity that you will need or luxury that you want, what I need in return is your loyalty and help with work, work that you can reject since you're not a slave, you are not captive either, I can drop you on any place on Earth of your choosing but I urge you to consider waiting until I have appropriate identities for you, in the mean time you can study and learn from the available resources."
"... What's the cost?"- Yelena.- Yes girl I know I look like a shady candy seller.
"There's no cost, but it's not for free, It's like any other job, you work you get paid, you work less you get paid less, at the moment you'll be studying and working as maids, but in the future I will need some of you to handle a business that I intend to create."- I plan for some of them to handle any business under my normal identity.
"... Can we stay with you for now and decide in the future?"- Said one of the teenagers.
"Yes, you can test the waters and see if you like it. No rush."- After all we need 2-3 years to create credible identities with real paper trail.
"No more questions?"-I looked at the girls, some did have other questions but decided to refrain for the moment.
"Okay. Let's go eat I bet that some of you haven't eaten a proper meal for a while."- After saying so we went to the kitchen with 49 ducklings following us. The kitchen and dinner table were made to accustom about 80 people at Spark's insistence a few days after going online, Spark's foresight is scary sometimes! Thanks to the fabricators we could catered to any preference, but given that this girls were raised to eat rations for breakfast there weren't any remarkable requests. Well Natalia did try to test the limits of the fabricator but had to admit defeat when the fabricator popped out enough food to feed 5 or 6 people. At the end of the meal I had to mentioned something that almost brought some laughs from me, Emma and Bucky.
"You know girls, the armory is open, available for you, if you feel the need for weaponry you can just get some from there, there's even the option of designing your own weapons, the cutlery won't do much against the people here."
*Cling* *Clang*- Sounded a bunch of forks, knifes and spoons placed back on the table.
"Hahahahahaha!"- I Laughed, I couldn't contain it anymore.- But the girls were looking at me with eyes that promised pain.
"Hahaha!... Sorry! I'm sorry! Is just that that baby over there got a knife but Natalia over here got a spoon! PFFF! HAHAHAHA!"- I laughed while pointing at Natalia.- She looked at me and Bucky who also couldn't keep it in anymore with an embarrassed expression, and said:
"Shut up bastards! Is his fault! Every time I was about to grab the knife he was watching."- She said aggrieved while pointing at me.
"PFF! I know, I just wanted to see what you were going to do if you couldn't get the knife. Hahahahah! But you chose the spoon over the fork."-For a moment I thought she was going to get the glass.
"Asshole!"- Shouted Natalia while skillfully throwing every eating tool on her side of the table. The girls also started to pass along their cutlery to Natalia.
""HAHAHAHAHA!""- Bucky and I had to laugh, while Emma was trying to keep away from us. At the end almost all of the eating tools and some leftovers were floating over Bucky and I. While Natalia was indignant that even with the help of the girls she couldn't mess with us.
"Ok! Ok! We will stop! Sorry! I'm sorry Natalia."- I said while Bucky nodded alongside.
"You better be!"- She was fuming but at least the girls were in a better mood.
"Now that we've had a meal. Spark will guide you to your rooms, you get your own P-Links, you can use those to get information about us and the facilities available to you. I really meant what I said about the armory, if you want weapons have fun in there. You can go to your rooms but I still need some of you to stay here."- It's time for some well deserved "justice", even with this good mood going around I haven't forgotten what the scum did.
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We went to the lower levels, the prison, after I explained to the girls what awaited in the future of our guests. I didn't need to sugar coat it, the girls had a different sense of innocence than a regular child.
For all those indirectly involved involved there was a swift death, some crushed skulls and done, simple, effective. For those directly involved, I sped up their sense of time with some well placed telepathy and biokinesis and then we "talked" for a long time. Dismantling them while alive provided us a lot of information about certain organizations, this should probably speed up the downfall of Hydra.
Once done the bodies, or more like flesh blobs, were repurposed, this is high quality fertilizer and useful organic mass for future experiments, the scum should be grateful that at the end they did a service to the world.
I at least would like to think that these girls got some sort of closure, a few of them sobbed a little when the scum perished, I will think that this was because this meant the end of their tormentors and the beginning of their new life.
______ Different POV ______
Irina 19 Y.O.
It's been a week since our life under the red room ended. Things have been different. Good different. After the execution of our... aggressors... some of us couldn't help but cry after the memories of what we now understand was wrong. We didn't know if Aragorn, as he called himself, was going to be our new captor or not but I can say that I was thankful for what he did to those men.
During our first week on The Halo, our new home, I came to understand that there are many... new(?) things out there in the universe. For example on the same day of our arrival, on the afternoon, two girls... portaled(?) to the crystal house, one of them, Kitty, said hi as if finding new people in her house had nothing to do with her before she went to the gaming room and spent the rest of the day until dinner in there; the other girl, Jean, said that she had to train with Aragorn, since some of us wanted to measure his level of strength we decided to spectate the training, we were told that for our safety we should watch from one of the balconies overlooking the valley.
At first we thought that they were trying to hide their techniques from us, but the way Aragorn levitated the cutlery during lunch should have been an indicator of the type of training that these people do, both flew over the lake discussed something for a few minutes before a world ending fight to the death started. They kept attacking each other with rocks, water, energy blasts that later we were told were psionic blasts, Aragorn moved around at super sonic speed while Jean was not so far behind him, and then, as if what they had been doing was just some harmless game they stopped, flew in front of the other and stayed like that for the rest of the training, apparently they were fighting in there minds... That became a thing now by the way, we participate in mental defense training, so at least once a day we "mental battle" with Ms. Frost or Aragorn. Apparently people capable of reading your mind are as common as mayors, you have at least one in town, according to Aragorn.
He also was not kidding about the armory, with Spark's help, the nicest fellow here, we developed and created new weapons to decorate our rooms with. Later, after some time in the learning room, we understood that weapons wouldn't be enough to harm Aragorn, who turned out to be a dragon and not a demon like we initially expected. So I guess he really doesn't mind that most of us have enough weapons to take down an army as room decor.
Things are better now but our previously broken sense of normalcy was shattered, a few days ago Aragorn started to grab our hands for a few minutes a day, we initially thought that he was starting to show his true colors but when one of the little ones asked what he was doing he said that he was studying our bodies' biology because he wanted to give us powers in the future. After that day he adopted a bunch of foxes, cats and rabbits, he created a pet's room, more like a pet's gymnasium, and spent most of his free time in there, again one of the little ones asked him why he brought so many "fluffies", he said that he was studying their biology to give us powers, apparently he wants to give us the agility, reflexes, senses and instincts of said animals, he said that he was still working on it and that he wouldn't move to the next phase until he had a 100% guarantee of success.
On another day he gifted us lightsabers, he was going to give some to the little ones but Ms. Frost and Natalia stopped him, this of course sadden the little ones who in turn made puppy eyes to Aragorn. He casted a duel by combat using lightsabers to defend the "honor of the princesses", he said that since he was faster he would allow for Ms. Frost, Natalia, Bucky, Kitty and Jean to gang on him at the same time, Bucky and Kitty joined because it sounded fun, Jean because she and Aragorn always fight like brother and sister. Each side had 24 hours to get ready, Aragorn said that he was ready and was giving a handicap to the "lowly dark ones" so he prepared nothing, the other team had Spark fabricate some "Spartan armors", mines, grenades and plasma lances. What followed was a 17 hour long battle which was then turned into a film by Spark so that we could watch the director's cut later; because Ms. Frost lost most of her clothing in a well timed explosion Aragorn was distracted and this gave an opening that Natalia seized placing her lightsaber against his neck, at end it was settled for the little ones to have their own vibranium weave armor... as protection... though later we were given the same protection.
Hectic is the normal state here, today in particular, the reason for this is because today Aragorn has to go to a galactic empire to relocate 3 planets, due to a deal he did when he last bought a planet... this is what I meant about our sense of normalcy being shattered. One of the little ones asked him to take us with him because they wanted to become astronauts... Are we not astronauts already?... Aragorn of course agreed because he is weak to the "shiny souls reflected through their eyes"... apparently the babies souls are his weak point... and Ms. Frost body... the point is that now we are getting ready to board the UNSC Iroquois, he said that we will "have to do" with this one because the others are too big to use near Earth.
After 3 hours of travel we arrived at Xandar, the throne world of the Nova Empire according to my knowledge from the "General Galactic Knowledge" course, it was clear to us that the ambassadors treated us with utmost respect and that they feared Aragorn and Jean. I'm still working through the mandatory lessons of the learning room but Yelena, who is ahead of me, said that we were treated that way because Aragorn is considered a cosmic entity, which is an overpowered being, and we are considered his people.
Watching how Aragorn "ate" a planet with his portals was an interesting experience, it looked so simple, so easy, we took longer moving from one planet to the other than moving said planets to their new systems. He said that it was not so easy because you had to calculate the speed of orbit of the planets but that even some low level gods could do it with enough preparations... right, gods, I have a lot to study.
After the relocations were completed Aragorn brought us to the planet that he and Jean bought, he said that there's nothing here and that we could use it for training but that the beaches here were nice enough. We had a picnic over there because, again, one of the little ones wanted. He mentioned that next week some representatives from Xandar would arrive to build an embassy on Halo but that he was going to put them on the other side of the ring, for privacy.
I've learned that humans are highly adaptive creatures, I no longer get surprised when I see Jean trying to kill Aragorn, or Natalia trying to kill Aragorn. The mention of gods and how weak most of them are? That's just breakfast talk. The talks about the private affairs of the people in power on Earth? Just some casual gossip between Spark and Ms. Frost. Kitty and Aragorn planning to create "Magical Beast-girls"? That's just "common sense" according to them. Talking about the magical beast-girls, we've been receiving classes from a bald lady called The Ancient One, apparently she is the one that taught Aragorn how to portal, we've been told that normally sorcerers have to use dimensional energy but that she and Aragorn are working on a spell where we could use Aragorn as a power source. I don't know why he looked so proud of being a glorified battery, but we didn't mention it, even with all of his flaws we have come to like Aragorn, we would be ungrateful if we didn't but he is also... an idiot, our idiot at least.
Natalia Romanova (Age better left unsaid)
Since I've left my life as an assassin things have become different, as the idiot dragon likes to say, I've been enlightened about the bigger picture. I've learned a few facts that I definitely would like to forget, like the scale of power on the "multiverse", like how behind we are of the other civilizations, like how there are about 999+ secret conspiracies capable of destroying the world going on, like how apparently from a galactic point of view Earth is Aragorn's, like how from a cosmic point of view this universe is Aragorn's... Why would someone give a universe to this idiot?... whatever... I've also seen a few interesting things, like Aragorn talking with the flora colossi, he just woke up early one day in a hurry and said that he was going to hire some landscapers before looking up at a certain direction of space and opening a portal. Two hours later and a forest of trees marched out from a portal, Spark said that these were friendly so no one went to their rooms to pull their doomsday weapons... Why would a 15 year old need a "City buster" as room decor? and Why is nobody minding it?... of course this didn't stop most of us from getting ready to lightsaber some wood; at last Aragorn came through the portal before closing it, he was "talking" with a huge tree, this is what they said:
"I am Shine"- Aragorn.
"I am Ahrbor"- Ahrbor.
"I am Shine"- Aragorn.
"I am Ahrbor"- Ahrbor.
"I am Shine?"- Aragorn.
"I am Ahrbor!"- Ahrbor.
... That was it... Yes?... I thought it was one of his usual pranks... like the time he changed the skin color of the babies to neon colors and then they acted as if nothing was wrong and we were crazy talking when we mentioned it; or the time he made us believe that we died in an accident involving a truck, using his light bending for some illusions and telepathy for some suggestions, and met a "Reincarnation God" who granted us 3 wishes about our new life... but no, Jean and Emma joined the fray and said:
"I am Jean"-Jean.
"I am Shine!"- Aragorn.
"I am Ahrbor!"- Ahrbor.
"I am Emma"- Emma.
It turns out that the tree people communicate by mixing certain psionic frequencies in their voice with some low level telepathy. Aragorn said that you need animal ears to be able to pick up these frequencies as sound or some level of telepathy. I don't know if I should believe him or not, since he and Kitty have been planning on turning us into Beast-Girls... This might be an excuse to turn us into catgirls but Jean and Emma agreed about the need for animal ears so I don't know.
The Flora Colossi apparently lost their planet to an invading force under Ronan The Accuser, Aragorn said that by the time he located them and got there most of the planet was burning and he could only save the survivors, he planned to kill the kree but Ahrbor told him that either way their planet was not in a safe location anymore so it's better to just relocate the survivors, that's how they came to live at the Halo.
After their arrival Aragorn lost no time, he made a few trips to Earth along with some of the maids and came back with containers of every possible seed and saplings they could buy, he then went to a place he called the Savage Lands and brought some exotic flora from there... he also brought some dinosaurs... Not the strangest thing here... It didn't take a genius to realize that some of the little maids wanted dinosaurs and being the idiot that he is he just brought a bunch and told Spark to handle their food situation until nature could sustain them. After he got the seeds he made a few calls and in a hour about 20 sorcerers came following our magic instructor; then us along with the sorcerers and about a thousand of the flora colossi started to plant the designated terrains and magically enrich the seeds and saplings, 3 days later we now have every type of forest from Earth and a few from Planet X from the seeds that the tree people brought with them. Aragorn looked at the view and said:
"Now I just need to make a deal with Gaea to get this place blessed!"
After the mandatory course "Gods, Demos and their History", mandatory for those that are not Jean, I've learned that he was talking about the Elder Goddess living in Earth, as one with the planet. I've come to the realization that Aragorn sees Gods and Mutants the same way... "People with convenient powers to improve the quality of life". He said that he was going to deal with the Nova Empire embassy first and then he should be able to work on the blessing. Apparently he is waiting for a lady called Carol Danvers, he said that she is shiny so he wants to meet her.
Emma Frost (Age undisclosed)
My kingdom has been growing, I have now over 3000 citizens and counting. Sure, except for the maids all of them are trees but my trees can beat most humans on Earth, my kingdom finally has flora and some fauna, dinosaurs mostly, and today we will finally be recognized by another galactic power with the construction of an embassy. I do call it my kingdom given that Spark and I are in charge and Aragorn and Jean (our resident nuclear deterrents) are mostly playing around or training. Did he create this place? Maybe, but the real power behind this place are the babies and I am in charge of the babies ergo I am in charge of this place. For example, I wanted to visit my other territory so I told the babies about becoming astronauts and about having a picnic on our other planet. That place is promising, besides the embassy within the Nova Empire, I will built a resort on the beachy side of the continent, on the other side I will built a training center targeting the power enhanced individuals of the galaxy. I also have some plans for some aquaculture and hydroponics, given that the sea is mostly freshwater.
Aragorn said that once he gets the blessing from Gaea going I could safely introduce new animals, that should start the meat production of my Kingdom, all in the path of sustainability. Creating the new governmental body of my reign is going slowly, I took the girls that didn't want to be maids under me, since Aragorn has enough maids, and gave them careers to choose from, to assume those positions upon graduation, Aragorn planned to wait a few years to offer some refuge to the flora colossi but apparently things took a turn for extinction faster than he expected, that's why we weren't prepared for an influx of people so soon, the good news is that the flora colossi have virtually no needs so I still have time to get my girls ready.
As we await for the people of the Nova Empire Spark confirms their permission for landing and decloaks a portion of the barrier for them. We have to make sure that no one on Earth detects them, just to be safe as soon as they came in range of Aragorn's senses he has been cloaking them. The ambassadors of Xandar that would take semi-permanent residence were five, like always they were respectful of us and fearful of Jean and Aragorn... except for Carol Danvers... she has the same respect for figures of power as any earthling has. Aragorn didn't make things better, the moment she came out of the ship he was in front of her like a fanboy and said:
"Can you shine for me please?"- Had he said that to me I would have honestly believed that he was hitting on me.
"...What?"- Carol.- Obviously creeped out about the behavior of the overpowered idiot.
"Like when you use your light dimension powers!"- Said Aragorn with his golden eyes shining from gold to green.- That's the first time that he shows that color in response to his emotions.
"You mean this?"- Said Carol lighting up.
Aragorn's eyes switched to white, or more like his pupils fully encompassed his eyes. Of course the Idiot dragon with a fixation for shiny things didn't let Carol be. He kept annoying her, so the ambassadors and I left them be. Later at the end of our negotiations Carol came back with Aragorn following her like a duckling and said:
"Ms. Frost! Please do something about him!"- She was indignant that Aragorn brazenly followed her all day.
"Have you tried making a deal with him?"- I mean what do you expect me to do? Fight him off? Get between him and his(?) "shiny"? Ha! I will have a long life I'm not a fool, Thank you very much!
"Yes! But all deals included me being his possession or placed in display. I even tried to blast him but the creep manipulated my photonic blasts."- She said while the ambassadors sweated like pigs going to the slaughter.- If only they knew that Aragorn probably enjoyed the lightshow.
"Okay! I didn't want to go this far but this is my final offer!"- Shouted the resident idiot before transforming into small overcute dragon.
'I will be your super pet companion! Your Pokémon if you will! But you have to keep channeling your powers at all times!'
"..."- Of course now Carol couldn't find any disadvantages or maybe she was further creeped out because of the wording of the statement.- *Sigh* I didn't want to have to do this but...
"Spark, help me out with this idiot please."- I trust that Spark has a contingency plan for situations like this.
"Master Chief... What will you tell Madam Death?"- Lo and behold, he delivers.
"... *TSK* Fine!"- He said before flying away with his clothing comically following behind.
"Ms. Danvers, I don't think that he will fully give up. So it's best if you prepare something as... shiny as you for the next time."-Spark.
If there's anything that we have discovered is that Aragorn has a way of getting what he wants, he will probably make a convoluted plan which will leave her with no other option than to move her residence here willingly. That's the real reason I never fight him, not because of his power but because I rather he dedicates that absurd mind of his to enjoyment than plotting, I just hope that Jean and Natalia learn that soon enough... lately they been bribing the maids to plot plans of attack.
"*TCH* This was not what I had in mind when I decided to follow the Xandarians here. I just wanted to make sure that the new super neighbor of my home planet didn't have any nefarious thoughts about it. Now... Far from it! ... Now I have to find a galactic light bulb or something! *TCH*"- I'm sorry girl, life tends to throw you curve balls from time to time.
In three days, with the help of Jean, Carol and Spark; and Aragorn after Carol told him that if he was going to stalk her while she uses her powers that he should help; we built the embassy in one of the islands far away from our crystal home, it was a beautiful arcology like the ones in their home planet. I gave them P-links to fix the problems of supplying food, I can't have them sending ships near Earth constantly. Before going Carol wanted to drag Aragorn down to Earth to talk with a man named Nick Fury, a friend of Carol. Aragorn didn't want to until she promised to visit at least twice a year, so Aragorn gave her a P-Link and told her that her room is always available. I think he is trying to lure her here with the commodities and comfort of this place, food, recreational facilities, learning facilities and the heavenly mattresses with divine bedding. So... like always... Aragorn kidnapped the man.
Nick Fury (Motherfucker!)
I have been unable to return to my bed for the past 2 weeks, some crazy ass fucker decided to off 1500 people and nobody knows anything about him, he is some sort of mutant with teleportation powers, the only evidence that we have of him are the different recordings that we stole from other countries. A horned crazy mutant! That's who we are supposed to be looking for! I will give it to him and say that some of the killed were not the most innocent... Please! I would have liked to personally kill some of them! But that's not the problem, the problem is that nobody is sleeping soundly with a murderous teleporter on the loose. And Pierce put some pressure on us to find the one responsible.
But today, since there's no trail to follow, we decided to leave it on the classified files and rest, there are other dangerous individuals out there that need some "securing". I arrived at my place and did the usual rounds and rituals to make sure that no one was bombing my ass, or worse! spying on me. But just as I was about to let my guard down (As if! Nick Fury never lets his guard down) a portal opened in my TV-room and I was pulled to the other side.
"MOTHERFUCKEEEEEER!"- I shouted while I was fighting against the invisible force, at least trying.
*Bang!* I rolled on the floor while pulling my trusty MAC-10 ready to fuck some Aliens, Magicians, Mutants or whatever this crazy shit was. But I found myself in a luxurious living room inside an obnoxiously bright room. It took a while for my eye to get used to the light, I certainly didn't expect to find maids in here, I don't know what I was expecting but certainly not maids! And would you look at that?! The horned mutant that has been keeping me away from my bed! Along with an apparent Carol are here, could be a skrull, shapeshifting mutant, magician, other alien I don't know about.
"He thinks that you are an impostor."- Said the horned and mind reader (apparently) mutant.
*Whoosh*- Carol lights up, now I can be sure that she is no skrull or shapeshifter, but could still be a magician or alien.
"He thinks that you might be a magician or alien."- This mind reading prattling bitch!
"... How am I supposed to make him believe that I'm me?"- Said the apparent Carol.
"... See why I didn't want to meet him?"- Said while deadpanning at apparent Carol.
"Fury do you still have the communicator that I gave you?"- Maybe she is Carol.
"Yes"
"Can you use it now?"- Is this a trap to lure the real Carol here?
"He thinks we are trying to lure you into a trap."- This bitch!
"... Just use it! Worst case and the "real" Carol will come to save you!"- I pulled the communicator that is ALWAYS on me, you never know and this situation proves my point!
"Also Aragorn stop reading his mind. It is not nice!"- You tell that bitch!
"... What will you give me in return?"- Their dynamic is strange.
"...Fucker! What do you want? It's just not doing something it shouldn't be so difficult!"- I can't really tell if they are allies or not.
"You have to stay in my house once a week."- Wut? Is he courting her?
"... Once a month. Sometimes I have to fight for more than a week."- I'm done with this romcom bullshit, I pressed to call and I heard a notification sound coming from Carol. I'm 89% sure that this is Carol now.
*Ring Ring*
"...I will accept the deal. Also he is 89% sure that you are Carol now."- ... Bitch!
"*Sigh* Fury can we get this show on the road? It's me Carol Danvers!"
"I will choose to believe that... for now... So why was I kidnapped? And Why are you with a known terrorist?"- Carol looked back at Aragorn with surprise, but said nothing and just waited for an answer.
"... Some scum that were involved in the rape of some of my maids before I hired them. Now they are no more, you are welcome!"- I knew some were better dead than alive, but all of them?
"Even Russia's prime minister?"
"He knew, He died, Everyone that knew and did nothing or had anything to do with it is no more, 1783 of them."- He said while smiling and his weird space eyes shifted to red nebulas.
"... I guess technically you are the owner of Earth; your own Judge, Jury and Executioner; and since they were trash, It's no skin of my back! I would even help you next time." - EXCUSE ME! My belligerent friend you said he is the WHAT? of Earth?
"Excuse me! He is the what now?"- Carol faced me back and said:
"... That's why I had Aragorn bring you here. He was acknowledged as the owner of this sector of the galaxy plus a planet that works as his embassy in the Nova Empire territory, an announcement was made last week to the other Galactic Empires about the new friendly terms between Aragorn The Shine Dragon, Jean Grey the Avatar of the Phoenix Force and the Nova Empire. I wanted at least for you to know from the people down there on Earth."
"Under Who's Authority? Who is Jean Grey? What's the Phoenix Force? Motherfucker?"- I didn't even know that there was an ownership to the planet in question.
"... Well Aragorn here is what it's known as a cosmic entity, if a cosmic entity or similar takes residence anywhere in the universe it's the common galactic law, followed by any empire, to recognize any surrounding territories as theirs, sometime ago the phoenix force burned down an empire because they thought different. The Phoenix Force is another cosmic entity and Jean Grey is the girl that represents it's authority in the universe, she is also temporarily under the care of Aragorn for... For how long Aragorn?"- Some space bullshit this is!
"It depends on Senior Sister, Phoenix for you, but I will be her representative for about 7 years at least or more, due to her training."
"There you have it Fury, nobody in authority from Earth knows so I thought that you should know."- And do what? Go Star Wars on his cosmic ass?
"That's not true, Yao the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth knows."- A magician? I've met some but I haven't heard of this one.
"There's magic on Earth?"- Even I knew that Carol.
"Yes, she is in charge of protecting the dimensional barrier from demonic incursions and dimensional lords. But given my presence here she should be getting less work on her plate in the future."- Really! What the hell is Carol expecting me to do if this... dragon... can make demons shake in their demonic pants with just his existence? And demons? Should I create a department for demon slaying?
"That's news for me! Can I become a magician too?"- I won't berate you my friend because now I'm wondering the same.
"Technically your powers come from the light dimension, after the accident with the Tesseract and the kree tech on board the plane, you were forcefully linked to that dimension. Sorcerers pull energy from dimensions so you could considered yourself as a specialized sorcerer whose focus is the light dimension. But to answer your question, yes you could become a sorcerer, anyone can but you need some teachings and training... If you want to be one you should come more often and get some lessons from Yao when she is teaching us! Possibly once a week!"- That smile at the end has all of your expectations written on it!- And I should definitely become a magician! I got a shot and I will take it!
"*GnuGnu*... Fine! You win you bastard! I will come more often for some magic lessons!"- She said while gnashing her teeth.
"I'm in too!"- Both turn to look at me expressionless.- What? Why wouldn't I be more badass with some magic?
"I see no problem with that... But you won't tell anyone about me or mine... Not your fellow agents... Not your friends if you have any... Not your family... Certainly not the World Security Council... Earth doesn't need to know of my existence yet, so we will keep it that way. You will be given a P-Link, for warping and AI assistance, that you can only use in the privacy of your home, or your office after my AI had it de-bugged."- Honestly this a better deal than I could hope for, I get to be a spy-magician, an AI helping me and best of all I don't have to spy on the seemingly overpowered dragon. Given that Carol is not fretting about him and introduced us, I can at least tell that he is sort of approved by her. I can work with that better than with a psycho-cosmic-god.
"We have a deal!... By the way... Where are we?"- Carol implied that we were above Earth, but above where?
"This place is the Halo, we are between the Moon and Earth. You can take a look on the balcony come with me!"- I followed Carol since being between Earth and the Moon doesn't narrow it by a lot.
But... Motherfucker has his own ring world! There must be some space magic bullshitery involved in keeping this place hidden! And what the heck is that?!
"Carol... Are those little girls dressed like maids while riding a T-Rex?"- This place is wrong!
"Hahahahah! I had the same reaction. Aragorn said that there's a place on Earth were you can find dinosaurs so he went there to snatch some for the little girls. You don't have to worry though, all maids here are dressed in vibranium weave, and Aragorn made some telepathic and biokinetic changes for the dinosaurs to imprint on the little girls. Yesterday they even did a relay race around the lake down there. I won one of their lightsabers from the bets."- There's so many questionable things on that statement.
"I don't even know where to start... Somehow the fact that he uses telepathy for this is the most conceivable part of that statement."- Dinoland, Vibranium clothes, Four years old Dinotamers, Lightsabers, Little girls doing relay races and this crazy bunch betting on them.
"Well I kind of got caught in the energy of this place... Heheheheh!..."- Really? That's your excuse?
"... *Sigh* Just tell me this Carol, is his draconic majesty the cosmic god-king okay?"- Should I start creating a space ark to escape Earth and call myself Black Noah?
"Well... He is not ok if we are speaking in mortal terms, you know he is a little crazy... but he is probably the friendliest and most civilized cosmic entity that we've been able to find records of so far... the second place goes for the Phoenix that burned an entire empire that crossed it's button line. Aragorn engages in commercial trade, has an AI representative, is training an avatar, has a team of servants, has a queen rule his territory and does politics with other powers; something that no one even remotely close to his level of power does; hence he is recognized as the most cultured cosmic entity in record."
"Then the panorama is not as bad as I imagined."- Politics I can do.
"It's actually better Fury... Now you won't have to worry about invasions through space."
""Through space"?"
"It's not supposed to be normal but you can be invaded through warping. You still need a daredevil to try to warp in the territory of a cosmic being, but if the price is the Tesseract some may think that it's worth a try."
"It's always a problem with that cube... Why is he not interested in it?"
"I asked him the same but he said that he can do whatever the cube can do with his own might and that he is using it as bait for someone out there that wants it."
"That's both good and bad, we will have enough time to play with it but apparently someone is aware of it's location but hasn't been able to snatch it or isn't able at the moment."
"You worry too much Fury! Let's enjoy the place for the night I will be leaving tomorrow and even though we will probably meet during the magic classes we haven't seen each other in a while!"- Easy for you to say, you haven't just found out that your planet has a new overlord.
Kitty 16 Y.O.
Aragorn, that genius shiny dragon did it! He got us a magic tutor! Our plan for the magical Beast-Girls is advancing at break neck speed. According to our data we should be able to finish the DNA decoding of the cats, foxes and rabbits by next week, the X-Gene decoding will take 1 more week after that but once we get that done Aragorn is confident in turning me into a real life catgirl. Hehehehehehe! Soon I will be Kitty, a real kitty.
Lots of things have changed since our first meeting, according to sensei Bucky and master Natalia, I should be a full-fledged sword expert in about 3 years, but Aragorn said if I get my cat powers I should be capable of at least halving the time. I've been spending more time training my lightsaber skills and studying the mystic arts than playing in the gaming room recently, so I believe that I will become the first Sith Magical Catgirl of the world, but I can't get ahead of myself some of the maids have more training hours than me... but that's not my fault! I have to spend a considerable amount of my day on my classes on-world with the X-Men.
Though, I can say that my training in the Halo has positively affected my fighting skills, but the problem is that now I'm "stronger" than my teammates so I create an unbalance according to Logan. Is not that I'm stronger per se, is just that I normally train with the maids and those girls are trained by two experts, along simulations, under different climates on Halo, for every different situation that Aragorn, Bucky and Natalia can think of, under the different martial arts that Aragorn stole from another universe... What I'm trying to say is that Aragorn is creating Apex individuals not maids and that I'm being overtrained so I'm ahead of my friends.
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Today the professor called me to his office along with Jean, I met Jean on the way and we were talking about why we would be called together, most likely it has something to do with Aragorn. We knocked and the professor told us to enter. In the office we could find Ororo and Logan along the professor.
"Hi Professor! How can we help you?!"- I said first, Jean lately doesn't talk too much with the professor so I prefer to keep things civil.
"Hello young ladies. I hope that you've been having a good day. We called you here today because I received some information about a possible new mutant, but the description of the mutant partially matches Aragorn. So we wanted to know if you knew about any activities concerning Aragorn about 2 weeks ago in Russia."- Said the professor.- I could also feel some sort of tension in the air... Could this be about the maids?
"Is this about the murders or acts of terrorism depending on who you ask?"- Said Jean with indifference.- Murders? Terrorism? I knew the girls were rescued from somewhere but I didn't know it was this far-reaching.
"... Yes, more than a thousand people were last seen before a warping mutant showed up."- Said Ororo.
"We are probably talking about the same incident."- Said Jean without giving it much mind.
"Is this about the girls' rescue Jean?"- I asked her so that I could get on the same page.
"Yes Kitty, some people did some things to the girls that Aragorn and Emma didn't like, so after saving the girls Aragorn went back to capture these people, later they were executed."- I know Jean is normally not this indifferent to death, so either her inner fire bird is affecting her or these people did something awful.
"Jean you must know that if these people did something unforgiveable they must be brought to justice. If everybody who thinks that they are following a righteous endeavor takes justice in their hands, without going through the proper channels, we will end up with the death of innocent casualties caught in the way or in circumstantial misunderstandings; we would have anarchy and chaos."- Xavier. A sound argument if you ask me, but isn't Aragorn technically the highest authority here?
"Professor you, Aragorn, Emma and I are telepaths, you know we can tell when someone is guilty or not, so there are no misunderstandings. To make matters more binding Spark is capable of unearthing any evidence needed as long as it's connected to the web. Aragorn can warp so there are no innocent casualties caught in the way. Lastly Aragorn belongs under no government, since he is technically not a citizen, nonnative, nonresident or under any lawfully recognized state of existence; he has no possibility of bringing anyone to the law, aliens have no legal rights, duties or liberties, they are simply not covered under any stipulation. So the best option was to take justice in his hands."- I'm guessing she is taking some of the "Law & Order, for earthlings." courses from the learning room. I've been focusing on the "Cosmic Knowledge for beginners." maybe I should take a few courses regarding my planet to balance things out.
"But Jean everyone has a right to live, we should not follow a path of retribution. That's a sure way to create a cycle of hate."- Ororo. Teacher Ororo has always been a softie, but even I can tell that at some point in the future I will have to take some matters in my hands. After all the possibility of Earth getting invade is about 97.8546% according to Spark, and when that happens I believe that Aragorn is planning on sending the maids to take care of it as a matter of training.
"Even rapist, pedophiles and child abusers?"-Jean. Much to teacher Ororo's surprise.
"Jean... Is that what happened to the girls?"- I'm scared of the answer.
"Yes Kitty, to the vast majority of them. Only the baby girls and a few of the little girls were spared."- I think that I can see why Aragorn killed them. I feel so sad for the maids. I can't imagine what they must have felt.
"Aragorn and Emma had to do some telepathic mental therapy with the girls and that's why you can see them better now than the first days. But when they went through their memories after the girls were rescued Aragorn and Spark located everyone who played a role in it, kidnapped them and killed them later the same day."- *Sigh* I'm just glad that the girls are better now.
After this there was a moment of silence where you could see the conflicting opinions clash in the teacher's eyes.
"*Sigh* I guess I can see why he did it. I'm lacking most of my memories so It's hard for me to know what type of man I used to be, but I can feel a part of me agree with his actions and think that I would have done the same."- It's what Logan said.
"... That was all young ladies. Thank you for the trust in giving us this information."- Thanked us the professor.
"You're welcome professor. By the way teacher Ororo... Aragorn wanted to talk to you this afternoon, he said that he was going to visit."- Jean.
I wonder if this is about "Project Paradise", we need the blessing of Gaea on the Halo to be able to rise magical creatures. Aragorn said that we should be able to have our own ring shaped Avalon, but instead of being located in a pocket dimension next to Earth it will be just the ring itself. I didn't understand much but basically we will get an environment where we can have the birth of our own magical creatures. If there's no blessing we will get no birth of new magical creatures so that's why he said that he was going to talk to teacher Ororo who is somehow related to Gaea.
{A/N:
Hi! Thank you for waiting for the chapter!
I added a bunch of different POVs for you! I hope this short time skip will help us move further. I ended adding Carol Danvers as a recurrent character to the mix because I imagined that if I was Aragorn I would like to have a friendship with the shiny hero. I also incorporated some concepts for the origin of her powers from the MCU and Earth-616.
Next chapter is about Gaea and possibly Otherworld. Since this was not on the MCU I will leave some links below in case that you wonder about where I get some concepts. Just to be clear this IS a fanfiction so it won't be the same as in the comics. }
[Gaea]
[Otherworld]
[Avalon]