A/N 3 chapters in one day.
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prevously in chapter 90
"Only the breakable ones. You are made of marble. We'll celebrate after the graduation ceremony," Madame B replied coldly. Natasha's younger self, a trainee assassin, looked up with determination. "What if I fail?"
"You never fail," Madame B assured her. Steve's vision took him to a 1940s dance hall. Peggy Carter approached him, a smile on her face. "Are you ready for our dance?"
Back in Thor's vision, he was in Asgard, observing his surroundings when Heimdall, with milky white eyes, spotted him. "Is it him? Is that the first son of Odin?"
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Chapter 91
Thor's eyes widened in shock. "Heimdall, your eyes?!" "Oh, they see everything. They see you leading us to Hel. Wake up!" Heimdall's hands tightened around Thor's throat, strangling him.
In Steve's vision, Peggy's words echoed. "The war's over, Steve. We can go home. Imagine it!" The dance hall emptied, and Steve found himself dancing alone with Peggy. "I can still save you," Thor pleaded with Heimdall in his vision.
Heimdall's voice was filled with sorrow. "We are all dead. Can you not see? You're a destroyer, Odinson. See where your power leads."
Electricity crackled around Thor, destroying everything in its path.
Back in Natasha's vision, Madame B's voice was relentless. "Sloppy. Pretending to fail. The ceremony is necessary for you to take your place in the world."
"I have no place in the world," Natasha replied. "Exactly," Madame B said with finality. Wanda writhed in pain from the electric arrow Barton had hit her with. "Ah, it hurts," she gasped.
Pietro's anger flared. "I'm gonna kill him. I'll be right back." "No," Wanda said, determination in her voice. "I'm over it. I want... I want to finish the plan. I want the big one."
Stark cornered Ultron in the shipyard, his suit gleaming in the dim light. "Ah, the Vibranium's getting away." "And you're not going anywhere," Stark declared. "Of course not, I'm already there. You'll catch on. But first, you might need to catch Dr. Banner," Ultron taunted.
Stark's eyes widened in realization. He shot at Ultron and took off, searching for Banner. The Hulk, now fully transformed, was rampaging through the city.
"News or footage, keyword: Hulk," Stark ordered his suit's AI. He saw footage of the Hulk wreaking havoc. "Natasha, I could really use a lullaby."
Barton, still with Natasha who was trapped in her vision, shook his head. "Well, that's not gonna happen. Not for a while. The whole team is down, you got no backup here." Stark's voice was firm. "I'm calling in VERONICA."
As the Hulk continued his rampage, Stark deployed his Hulkbuster armor. "Alright everybody, stand down!" he shouted, approaching the Hulk. "You listening? That little witch is messing with your mind. You're stronger than her, you're smarter than her, you're Bruce Banner."
The Hulk roared in anger, throwing a car at Stark and attacking him. "Right, right, right! Don't mention puny Banner."
The battle between Stark and the Hulk was fierce, with both trading powerful blows. "VERONICA, gimme a hand," Stark ordered. The Hulkbuster armor provided a new arm, and Stark used it to repeatedly punch the Hulk. "Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep!"
He picked up the Hulk, attempting to carry him out of the city. "Okay, pal, we're gonna get you out of town. No, not that way, not that way!" They crashed through a building, the fight continuing. "Come on, Bruce! You gotta work with me!"
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Meanwhile, Henry watched all of this happen. "Hmm," he thought, as what he wanted was happening. With Ultron and the Avengers fighting each other, they would cause more damage, especially the Hulk. "All I need to do is fan the flames, and the world will turn on the Avengers," which was exactly what he wanted. With the Avengers busy, Henry turned his attention to a bigger project: vibranium. He wasn't going to go there and raid. No, these people, from what he understood from his vision, were highly advanced. If his Crow 1 drone were to get anywhere near the city, it would probably be hacked into.
"However, if someone like Klaue could get into it and smuggle their precious metal, then it should be no problem for me," he said to himself as he pondered. "But for me to succeed in the smuggling process, I need to prepare extensively. I don't want anything going wrong. If I can establish a successful smuggling operation, I need to maintain that smuggling operation to get a continuous supply of vibranium," he thought as he sighed.
[Some time later]
Inside his hideout, Henry was surrounded by essence extracted from his own soul essence, as well as a small essence separated from the large reality stone essence in his vaults, as well as the Destroyer armor pieces. Suddenly, a phone next to him rang, which he was expecting. He picked it up. "The fake attack orchestrated by Jiang has started, just like you said it would," the voice behind the phone was childlike, and it was. "Alright, stay safe. She won't do much damage to her own place," he said as the child behind the voice affirmed before cutting the phone off. This phone was special, with the function to be untraceable. The child behind the voice was actually Patient Zero.
The inhuman child whose inhuman DNA was activated by Henry, whose powers he had named Berserker. The child's powers allowed him to become stronger, faster, and more durable the more he was injured, with the effects resetting once he was not damaged for a while. It was quite a useful ability, and Henry was quite sad to part with it, but he needed a lot of inhuman blood, especially after the outbreak, meaning that Patient Zero, or Shawn as he was named, needed to be in the afterlife, acting as his spy. Henry, of course, trusted the child for a simple reason: because he was under Henry's control permanently.
[Name: Henry's Psionic Elixir]
[Grade: 7th]
[Description: A powerful mind control potion crafted from the essence of the Mind Stone, combined with a fragment of Henry Will's essence. Anyone who consumes this potion will be under Henry Will's control, provided their willpower is weaker than his. The effects are permanent, granting immense psionic enhancements.]
[Effects: +1,000% effectiveness in mind control, +1,000% duration of mind control, +1,000% influence over the controlled individual's actions, +1,000% amplification of Henry Will's commands, +1,000% enhancement of psionic abilities, +1,000% resistance to mental attacks, +1,000% boost to cognitive functions]
[Deterioration Rate: 0%]