Meanwhile in the X-mansion, the mutants were in a busy period since an anonymous letter arrived with files of HYDRA and their involvement in mutant experimentation. But what was the reason why the brotherhood and the X-men could be seen walking together is that they also found the other letter attached.
It was a name and why it was relevant, but from what they read it made the still passive Charles and ever Radical Magneto join hands. John Sublime, that was the name and Paul attached why he is relevant.
An ancient virus that wanted to control all of mankind but found itself unable to infect those with the X-gene, so it made people have an irrational hate and wants to eliminate the whole of mutant kind within the planet.
There were files of what John Sublime made or involved himself in that made the mutants who found the file enraged and was now on a world-wide manhunt. Charles even called for favors with Fury who was happy there were more people to take down HYDRA bases all over the world.
Now all he needed to report is that the mutant 'terrorist' are attacking various bases of 'SHIELD' all over the globe. But he also made sure no one would suspect anything as Magneto made a flamboyant entrance everywhere he goes to kill HYDRA agents.
Paul was able to compile all this because he had hacked in the consciousness of the virus and learned of the things he did to prevent mutant co-existence within the world of humans. He even added the fact that the Nazis were tipped off by him to making them experiment on the Jews.
Max Eisendhart was furious as he remembered his traumas and to think it was just because of a whim of a puny virus made his attacks more lethal. Even Charles did not stop him since he peaked inside the HYDRA agents they had captured.
He mind wiped those forced and brainwashed but the ones that were rotten to the core he let Magneto handle. Even he, a pacifist was appalled at the knowledge he found within the minds of these agents.
But he still used the information to feed more to Fury who was having a picnic taking more out of the equation. Nick knew he could not do this indefinitely but when they realize it shall be too late.
Fury was at least thankful he has a powerful telepath like Charles on his side, but he is still cautious as now he has a gadget installed in his eye patch that might make him protected from mind reading. He had gotten the help of many in his R&D and assistance from a genius Doctor in regards to the Neurological branch of science.
Though he spent a lot of funds into paying the guy but he did his job, Fury was able to recruit a mutant on his own who has telepathic powers only but that guy not being able to read his mind was good news for him.
Who knows when the enemy has their own mind readers too, so he made several for the agents with the highest clearance on his group as well as for the new recruits.
He already got two people being trained to become his agents, Fire Skull and Puma. He felt that his Avengers Initiative is now right on track as these two were getting field training with the Three black widows and Agent Barton.
The teenager baseball player is still in probation but he is legal already so he is starting training from few trusted agents of Fury. Coulson was busy as well since he was assigned by Fury to screen the various potential recruits he found on Paul's Gym and investigating a possible branch or path that could increase man power for SHIELD, magic.
Thus a war within the shadows stirred and blood were spilled as age old enmities were being settled through the rending of flesh and bone. Innocents were saved and memories were cleared of nightmare inducing experiences.
[Archipelago of Anguish and Redemption]
Paul floated along the vast space of the splinter realms and there he found many 'walls' that were weaker and leads to other realities also. The place here is unpredictable with how Space and Time being erratic and random.
He had felt the passage of time and now ten hours happened outside but he has been here for ten months absorbing energy. He could not fathom the amount of power he now has inside him but he still has no signs of breaking through so Paul was stumped as he paused for about a month in thought.
Maybe there is something about him that differed to the people of that cultivation world. He had read it so many times in their books and tomes that cultivation was a way for the mortals to reach the height of heavens by 'plundering' the power themselves to destroy the barriers that holds them down, to break the limit.
An unnatural way of increasing strength which siphons up the life and matter of the universe that you are in, so maybe him being already strong from the start is testament to how much he might need to just improve one bit more that he already are.
Paul was thoughtful and felt that maybe he shod not do this here in a world where many abstract beings might notice the change within the force of the multiverse.
Taking himself out of his thoughts he focused on his power that he rarely used to the fullest extent. He paused the activities of most of his clones and stood there floating within the chaotic space.
Unbeknownst to him there was someone else watching at his figure from afar, in a small splinter realm nearby but somehow this being cannot move past the boundaries of such a small plane.
"What are you…" said the figure lurking about watching Paul with caution, somehow it felt a familiar feeling within Paul as it watched him in silence.
[Kamar-taj]
"Master, the various dimensions within the Archipelago are disappearing. This might be the work of Dormammu and might be planning to bolster his forces." A sorcerer said to the Ancient One who stood there in a daze as she felt the disappearance of small dimensions.
"I know, it is someone I sent there doing it. But don't be alarmed, there is no harm being done to the existence of this Universe for the moment…" the Ancient One said as she remembered the tomes Paul showed her.
From what she can tell it was another way of stealing power from somewhere, she remembered it in her mind as she felt this might just be her way of taking her life back from Dormammu.
If ever there was a chance Paul might plunder in the dark dimension and weaken the Lord of Darkness then maybe the future she saw was not impossibility but more of a probability if the timeline keeps changing every second.
Though the time stone still doesn't show changes as it still did not take Paul's presence as a threat to the flow of time and space in this Universe. So she watched just like the being peering over Paul, she did not try to stop it as she knew it could not leave its prison.
Even if it could she felt that Paul might be able to fight back, he might not see it but she can. She can see the vast potential of the mysterious man that appeared out of nowhere and much of it still is untapped deep within.
"I have no more knowledge of the Future Paul, so please be there to help when time comes I cannot do my duties…" the Ancient One muttered under her breath as she felt the uncertainty she is feeling will remain as it is with her being unable to know what exactly will happen anymore.
[Paul' POV]
'Whoa, holy sh*t this is cool!'
What the in the hell was I smoking… This is not what I imagined how I could see the various places I could go.
Hmm… maybe I should pick somewhere that doesn't look troublesome…
Wait I have an idea, what if I send a clone first and see if I can connect even from another universe? And if it doesn't work then I just pop in that world for a bit and take away the clone.
Okay here I go… focus Paul focus…
Hmm… Geology is really interesting…
Should I teach the simian village blacksmithing?
Whoa, lots of people here in the gym…
Hahaha!! Got fifty new Builder Robots ready to be used!
Wait, should I try controlling North Korea?
Damn, HYDRA is getting pummeled.
Oohh, CGI for Harry potter is better here…
Oh my, Shang Chi just experienced his first childhood trauma…
So that's how Stark makes Arc reactors….
Ohh, they found capsicle…
Banner is already researching under Col. Ross…
Should I buy more spices for the trip?
Coulson forehead is getting wider…
Wrry?! Anime is not at its peak yet, I shall help the sleepless manga artist a bit so they could get a boost. Mwuahahahaha!!!
Maybe I should plant some various spices in my worlds…
Oohh a mugging, let me be a hero for a bit…
Wow that's some juicy gossip there…
Should I save Yinsen?
Games are really behind here, maybe I should dip in the industry and make some classic faves of mine.
Obadiah is getting anxious.
Whoa, the three Black widows are really hot… redhead, blonde and brunette in one family. Red Guardian is really a gruffy looking dude.
Oh a kitten on top of a tree, let me give that to the hungry looking Chinese kid waiting under it… Oh shit he ate it… Damn, Madripoor is really twisted.
I wonder how Shanna is right now…
Maybe I should redesign the canals to make various levels where I can Install water turbines for clean energy inside other than the nuclear reactors I had ready.
Did I leave the oven on?
Oohh, more people with powers…Why does this guy look like a Mandrill with a bright red face and all of that?
Fantastic Four is a go, I'll arrange for Valeria to reciprocate Doom's advances. Poor guy needs some love in his life, maybe I should look for his mom in hell… that's close here right?
The music industry seems lacking here, I'll make it prosperous then…
Maybe I should make a large workshop to, I have a lot of space but no plans for them yet in the Man-cave. Should I make accommodations for future guest? Yes, maybe I should.
Damn, even porn seemed undeveloped here. For the poor single souls I shall make it a booming industry with proper professionalism.
Damn his Mandrill or should I call him Jerome, so he's been born like that huh? Whoa he even got a harem of women… Oh they're hypnotized, hmmm… Pheromones… Interesting…
Wow Wakanda looks cool…
Fury is going all out…
Logan and Sabertooth really are good at fighting together… hahaha is that Wade?
"Achoo!! Damn, my Deadpool-tingle is ringing like hell." Wade said which surprised me as he looked around like he was feeling something.
Damn, his 4th wall breaking powers really is cool…
"Well thanks…" Wade said.
"Wade, who are you talking to?" Logan asked as he looked at Deadpool weirdly, I don't blame him though. They are not like this guy, he's a cheat.
"Hey, I'm right here dude!! But thanks though. I am very unique like my mom used to say…" Wade said as he looked at empty air in front of him but I know better he is talking to me.
"It seems he has gone crazier since we last met him, let's go and kill more of these HYDRA like old times Jimmy."Sabertooth said as he rushed to another group of soldiers.
"The names Logan bub, and don't order me around…" Logan then followed behind killing agents on his way.
"Hey Hugh Jackman, slowdown that pretty butt of yours for a moment and let me fond-*cough* admire it a bit…" Wade followed as he wanted to find the two that went ahead.
Okay…
What the hell are these Morlocs doing?
Whoa, was that Blade? Cool, so vampires exist here.
Hmm… is this how the dish should look? Did I do the recipe right?
Hmm… glittery gems, I likey.
Should I install a small train system in the Man-Cave?
Maybe if I program it like this the bots will have a basic emotional matrix, hmm… should I make them not connected to the internet? Maybe I should, also maybe follow what Dr. Abel Stack did to his Robot but maybe he should program some pre-made Personality and Emotion Matrix.
Trask's knowledge does have a comprehensive approach on a special programming on how his sentinels adapt and learn so maybe I can repurpose that and make the learning matrix more broad and uniquely different but won't hinder the main programming of the designated machine.
I feel my thoughts were happening all at the same time yet it is still clear to me that I am still in full focus even if that does not make sense at all. But right now my eyes were drawn to a cluster of clouds from what I can see.
Something about this world or reality appeals to me for some reason, hmmm… which clone should I send? The Gorilla? No… maybe a clone more durable or stealthy. A Wolf clone? Maybe, ahh! The Boar!
I can feel that it might be able to do well surviving sudden arrival, hmm… maybe the Lion clone. Wolf, Lion or Boar… okay rock papers scissors… wait I'm playing against myself here.
I space out for a moment as I sent my Badger Clone to check over my 'Gaia'… she's still sleeping, maybe I can know how my world ended… who were the 'people' she was talking about? *Sigh* Guess I'll just have to be patient, she seemed recovering well already…
Wolf it is, it is more well balanced than the two… okay… GET OVER HERE!! Hahaha, I really have a small margin for happiness…
Okay space is stable and path ways prepared… Hmm… this world seems made of many Flat Earths… seems familiar though, where have I seen these?
Well this is going to be experiment (Let the Wolf in #1), if this works I shall send one or two other clones somewhere hehehe…
[??? POV]
'What kind of being is this, he reminds me of my race in the energy that radiates him but he seems more 'pure', similar but different.'
'Too bad the barrier my Brother made is too strong for me to bypass, but from what I can feel then maybe this man might be able to break it. Though he goes around with a physical appearance means that he might just have been like me and my brother who did not practice our race's traditions.'
'I wonder how my daughter is right now… Having a body like this really gives me weird foreign feelings I never knew I'll feel. Feel, that word really is something I love and Hate.'
'I felt everything that disgusting man did to me but I also felt something else when I gave my daughter breath to this world… hmmm? What is he doing?'
'THAT?! That's a path to another world!! That is beyond the void! Wai-wait.'
"Wait!!" I shouted before the man could go past the portal.
"Hmm…" He hummed as he looked at my direction curiously. "… weird, I did not feel you there." He said as he waved his hand and another him appeared but has a grey set of hair. I was surprised when the other man appeared similar to him but I can feel that they were all the same person somehow.
"I see, there is a subtle barrier here. Whoever made such a sneaky thing, there are a lot of things around here but I never saw this until you called out… Interesting." As he said that the other 'him' floated to the portal in a blink and the path closed. I can see the man pause for a moment and smile at the end.
I was stunned as I felt something else when I can feel the happy feelings he has making me inadvertently smile too but I paused as I reached out my hands to my face… such foreign feelings were flooding me as some sort of attraction was blooming inside me.
"Hey why are you here and who are you?" asked the man who floated in front of me.
"I… I am Umar." I said after taking a deep breath quelling the weird feelings within me.
[3rd Person POV]
"Umar, hmmm. You are really interesting." Feelings of wonder filled Paul as he looked in at the beautiful lady in front of him. For all the time he had gained the powers, this was the other person who he could not mind read other than his 'Gaia' and the Ancient One.
"Why are you here then?" Paul asked as the woman seemed uncomfortable for some reason. He did not know that him trying to peek inside the barrier while in this unstable place full of dimension near the Dream Dimension had enabled him to influence the surroundings with his feelings.
His interested feeling right now is affecting the woman inside for her to also feel interested towards Paul. The woman is Umar, the Unrelenting, was the twin sister of Dormammu was never always a being with physical body but she and her brother made it so as they did not follow the way their race lived.
They were of a race made of pure magical energy, but she and her brother craved a physical appearance thus made their bodies. Their 'father' tried to stop them but they transmuted him from energy to matter thus killing him. This angered their kind thus chasing them out of their home dimension making them rogues going around dimensions until they found the Dark dimension.
They met a ruler of a dominant race within and played with his desires for war and battle. Until one day they led the war mongering greedy ruler into breaking the barrier between another dimension where the 'Mindless Ones' existed, causing the death of the tyrant leaving Dormammu and her to rule.
But she was heavily weakened then and became enslaved by her brother, but the son of the tyrant lived and deemed harmless by the twins. Then when the child grew into adulthood she felt interested and trysted with him. Yet she felt disgusted by the experience as well to the man she slept with.
But few cycles of the Dark dimension she gave birth to a daughter, but to her horror she lost the ability to turn back into what she was. She abandoned her daughter and got violent, that she picked a fight with her brother. Weakened she was no match and was banished here for many eras.
But still she was ageless as she was thoughtful since her banishment, yet being an immortal creature she doesn't have the thought process of normal beings. Thus she lived in silence and waited out time as she just sat in the small realm until she saw a visitor who seemed able to consume the various small realms around where she was.
Now she stood in front getting more emotion that what she had felt in over the whole time she was stuck within this body of matter. She looked at Paul as her interest deepened by the second, she did not even this have much interest with the man she first slept with or when she felt the time she held her daughter in her hands.
"I am… banished here." She said as she looked more at Paul's face not being able to take her eyes off.
"Banished? Why?" Paul asked regardless of the weird way the woman was looking at him.
"I opposed my brother." Umar said as she felt the physical heart she have beat faster for some reason.
"So family drama I see… anyways, can't you get out of here?" Paul asked as he felt his clone still connected to him flying towards to world he picked. He could see the colorful vortex of energies his clone passed through and still felt his connection strong.
"I just angry about something, why are you keeping your physical form?" Umar asked which made Paul pause as his mind went overdrive as he felt there was something more in what she just said.
"Well why are you keeping yours then?" Paul redirected the question as he looked over the tall woman, she seemed to stand about 6'8" tall and her curves were really prominent. She was even taller than Paul by a head, but that was temporary since Paul knew he could control his body size as he wants.
"I have no choice, I lost my ability to turn back due to giving breath to my daughter." Umar said.
"Oh, your married…" Paul said as he has a hand in his chin in thought.
"Married? What's that?" Umar asked.
"Ohh… so it's like that?" Paul said but he thought. 'So banished from the family due to bringing disgrace by hooking up with a man his family did not approve of and can't go back to her former life.' Paul completely forgot her words about keeping his 'Physical Form'.
"So you can see, I am here for a long time and shall be like that until my brother shall accept me back in his fold." Umar felt a wave of understanding thus she too 'understood' that Paul saw her predicament. Paul felt a bit of pity and kindred to her since he too was alone but at least she has someone left in her family, his feeling of care made Umar pause for a bit as she felt her heart flutter as she felt more comfortable talking to Paul.
Somehow they became chat buddies as she found Paul talking about Earth and many things. His enthusiasm in having someone to talk to affected her as she built an interest in the life of people in earth.
She heard him that even if he is ageless he still found many interesting things within the way humans see the world and find ways to thrive in hard times. Millions of years of existence had made Umar desensitized of things too large for human knowledge but her being unknowledgeable with mortal life made her easy to be influenced by Paul.
She did not notice it but if it was her before she would just dismiss talks about beings that would not live long as her but Paul's powers were affecting her somehow even when her mind is protected from mindreading. She has no defense in emotion affecting powers as this was a first for her.
Paul even took out board games to pass the time, but as she was playing it was then she realized Paul was inside the Small realm she was sealed at. This made her think for a bit and notice he did not seem to be troubled, but her attention was brought back as interest flooded her.
So Paul spent time slowly gathering energy while playing various games with Umar, but what they liked playing for long times were chess since they both took their time making a move. He did not know he just changed the way an inter-dimensional being's way of seeing the world.
[Wolf Clone]
"Hmmm?" Paul fell from the top of a large continent but before he let himself decent he paused and floated in the sky as he focused on feeling his connection with his main body. He smiled as well as his other bodies as he could still feel the others even here, though a bit faint but still clear for him.
He stayed there for a bit counting seconds passing by as he cloaked his presence with what he can do in this body. This body might be stronger in base strength than the original but this was one of the weakest clones he has.
He can lift 50 tons, run for 300 kmph, extendable claws like sabertooth, fangs, enhanced smell, hearing, were wolf form and retractable tail. Then he opened his eyes as he said in his breath. "Time ratio is 1:100 here… where is here?"
Paul then looked down at the large Flat Earth and was confused as he could see many edges and walls that separated many places. But his eyes can tell this place is larger than Earth many times over, he can see many that seemed to be trapped in a bubble covering the worlds.
"Hmm, some of these seemed familiar for some reason." Paul was thinking hard as he looked at the various continents but then he thought of picking the nearest one he could find.
"Okie, here I go…" Paul pressed his hands to the barrier in front of him and thought hard. Then in a blink he was now inside the world but he was shocked, he looked up and he could not see anything what he saw earlier.
He could see the sky as well as the various stars on it as he floated in the night sky. But looking down he confirmed that this was indeed the continent he picked.
"Interesting, many worlds bordering others yet looks very different. Not multiverses since they all differ vastly, but they all have a weird energy within that was present in all of them. Magic…" Paul then floated towards a place where he can see some strange weather conditions.
"Now let's investigate…"
(A/N: This chapter I tried to portray how the MC thinks with all the various thoughts he ahs while controlling the clones of his manually. It is chaotic and random but he can still filter it out, don't ask how just believe it...
Anywho don't be surprised if I pull a lot of things in this Fic as the story progresses but I'll try to make it understandable for everyone, even if I can't sometimes understand myself... :(
So bear with me and let me cook for a bit, if the dish comes out a bit burnt them don't mind it a bit as I'll try to use BS logic when push comes to shove, mwuahahaha!!)