18 One Crew Over The... Part 1

It is a new beautiful morning on the Realm of Death, where you chose the time of the day that best suits your needs since there's no sun over here. Pretty convenient system if you ask me, we used to use it back on my world where the aliens attacked non-stop. You woke up? Then it's morning, go get your equipment and join the fight! Going to sleep? Then it's evening, be ready for night raids.

I think that some NEETs and graveyard shifters use this method as well.

I woke up to the blessed sight of Noona. After a 'battle' of three concurring wills with my inner angel and demon we agreed to spend a few more hours with Noona, unanimous decision. Mutants and their knack for self destruction can wait. 

But, alas... most things must come to an end. I gave a soft kiss to my Noona and moved back to Halo, it was time to wear my big dragon pants and get it over with.

The fact that this was just the preliminary work for the actual meeting and I was already regretting it, filled me with despair. Normally I'm not such a drama queen but when you're an empath it's taxing dealing with so much bullshit, they said "let's hold hands together" but mean "if you hold my hand then you're giving me consent", maybe not to such an extreme degree but similar in a way.

Now I feel bad for the fiery padawan. Poor fire chick had to deal with that shit while growing up with half a brain due to her memory manipulation.

But I will expect the good and prepare for the bad and all of that. The Morlocks are not like the 'fancy' mutants in the X-Men and the Brotherhood, so those guys will probably jump at the opportunity, therefore I will leave the 'easy' group for last. 

While thinking so I moved to the outside of the witches' house. Knocked on the door and waited.

"Hello! I've come for Wanda."- I announced after I felt their attention from inside. 

Not long after the door opened by means of magic. I moved in, where I found the ladies finishing breakfast.

"Welcome dragon."- Said the grumpy witch. Maybe she's still holding a grudge.

"Hello ladies! Good Morning."

"... Mr. Aragorn... What is it that you need from my father?"- Wanda.

"You can just call me Aragorn. I'm creating a country for mutants and I wanted him along a selected few in the ruling council."

"But, Why do you need me?"

"I thought that maybe a familiar face would make him less hostile. I haven't met him but my impression of him is an arrogant obstinate man. I figured that he will attack me at least once if I barge into his place all by myself."

"... I miss my brother but my father only took care of me for a little more than a year. The last impression he has of me was probably when my powers acted up and I almost killed Pietro. So I don't know how much of a disarming face I would be."- There was regret in her voice, but I could also feel resentment, most likely because Magneto abandoned her after that accident. 

"... Well that's not favorable, truly. But you might want to come to meet your brother, either way. I was just trying to deescalate the situation but if Magneto's fate is to be beaten then that's just it."- Bye to the favorable impression hello to the 'impacting' impression.

"Mmmm yes, I really miss my brother. I don't think that he will be trilled to see me, but I want to try."- I also feel like she might want to see Magneto be beaten. 

"With that out of the way, tell me, Do you like the place?"- This question was for both witches. 

"Yes, the magic permeated here is nurturing, for a lack of a better word, commodities are above what's possible on Earth, security is unmatched and yesterday I got a job!"- Agatha.

"I have been sleeping so I will look around later."- Wanda.

"I can give you a tour later Wanda. A job? As a magic teacher?"- I asked.

"Yes, the Queen hired me as a magic tutor for the days that the Ancient One is unavailable."- Right... Last year I took to calling Emma 'the Queen' for a few months and apparently that stuck with the girls.

Weirdly enough, nobody uses the other nicknames I've ben using, 'Fluff', 'Tails', 'Foxy Queen', 'Fluffy Queen', etc.

"Well that's good for you, internally (In the Crystal) we have no need for money but once an internal market is established your pay should do wonders for you. Will you also opt for the augmentation package?"- Since I provide everything for my girls they mainly trade in favors, but outside the Crystal there's even a currency, Scales ($).

Everything is digital though, so they didn't accept my scale-like design for the coins only the name I suggested.

"... You mean the beastification?"- Agatha said while tilting her head.

"Yes! You would look gorgeous mixed with a dark magic black nine tails fox!"- One of the kiddies is one already, but since she is young she only has 1 tail, Agatha will surely have at least 5 tails. I can picture it already. 

"Is there a way of getting just the perks without having to become a furry?"

"*Gasp*! This is a family friendly conversation, don't say that word!"- Heresy! There are no furries here, only people of culture!

"And you will get better results with the beastification along the enhancements. The SSS was designed to mix perfectly with the new genes, modifications and magic core, a totally different variant would be needed if you opt out of the beastification. You will loose a lot of potential if you go for the regular enhancement."- All of this is true... but I purposely made it that way.

It wouldn't take me longer than 1 hour to cook a different SSS that would allow her to get the same benefits as the girls with none of the fluff.

But I never mentioned this because I was afraid of the girls not accepting the ears and tails. So I will never make another variant! NEVER!

"I see, I will probably take your recommendation on the fox, but I will go over the other options, maybe I find something interesting."- Jackpot!

"You can get a catalogue from Kitty. If you didn't meet her yesterday you can ask Spark for her location."- I think Spark has a copy but we normally try to promote socialization given that we are so few in the Crystal. Since Spark is so convenient if we don't talk to each other we might end like the humans from Wall-e.

"What about you Wanda?"- She is like Carol or Jean, overpowered enough that this would basically be a cosmetic thing with no real benefits on the power side, but never underestimate vanity. 

"... Is there an option with horns? I feel a strange phantom pain where my horns were growing and I thought that maybe replacing it with a new pair could help."-... Devil Girl acquired! How did I overlooked this?! A Succubus Maid!

"Yes it is possible. I will need to look for a few samples in certain dimensions so you will have to wait a bit longer than Agatha."- I will also need to create a new variant of SSS, but let's not tell Agatha. 

"*Sigh* That's great! Honestly it's been itchy and it doesn't look like it's getting better."- I'm no expert but I think that that's because the chaos magic wants to push body adaptations in it's host, similar to how I look less human than Noona, my void energy is more eldritch than the concept of death, so when my energy had the chance it 'chose' for certain inhuman characteristic on my body.

"It might be related to your chaos magic, but with the adaptability mutation plus some devilish DNA and the SSS your body should adapt better to it, it's possible that besides horns you'll get something else. Just give me some time on that and I will have a rendered projection for you!"- I can get her some wings, a tail and maybe pointy ears like mine. I once again feel like designing my own 3D character. 

"Yes, it feels weird to feel weird about being hornless. Hopefully that fixes it."- Actually it would be weirder if your body went back from chthonian to human without repercussion. The red eyes are proof of this. 

"Well let's go and visit Magneto. Fun fact, Did you know that he is technically our closest human neighbor?"- Since Uatu and the Inhumans are on the Moon and the rest of the population is on Earth, he is the closest.

Though you can say that Inhumans are also humans, I recognize Inhumans as less human than mutants. Not racist though, just some factual biology. Their 'race' separated from humans long ago, plus they have some kree in them. 

"What? How is that possible?"- Asked Wanda. 

"Your father has his own space station, Asteroid M. One of his many talents lie in Space Stations."- Who can say otherwise? If my meta-knowledge is anything to go by, then he built that space station at least 4 times by this point in Earth-616.

"Did he do it using mutant powers?"- Although technology in Earth is very advanced for its era, it's not advanced enough to build a satellite station in the time of their separation, so her confusion makes sense. Publicly that is.

"Yes, using his powers he launched it and just corrects its orbit from time to time after that. I suspect that he keeps up with necessities either using mutant powers to grow their food or with a capable teleporter."- Probably a bit of both. 

"I never knew..."- Wanda said.

"I'm 90% sure that he built it some time after your separation."- Wanda remained silent for a while. After irradiating nervousness for a minute or two she asked:

"Do you think that my brother would like to see me?"

"... I used to have two sisters, a little sister and a big sister. My old world was invaded by some power hungry aliens and humanity descended into world war III, Around a 20% of the humans died during the first wave. We were basically living our own little apocalypse."- I commented while remembering those painful days. 

"Drastic measures were taken and most of the men were sent to wage war on the Aliens' home-worlds. I was included in those numbers; after 10 years of living in bloodshed and, basically, the battlefield I returned home for a quick but much needed rest."- Life was shitty and we could only watch videos from our love ones that took months to arrive. 

"I was a very different person than the man that left. Mentally, physically and emotionally speaking I was a stranger to my family. The first days were not easy, I was still in the battlefield, in my mind, lots of unfortunate accidents happened but even through all of that my sisters were there for me."

"While it's true that not all family is like that and that out there you can find brothers, sisters and parents that are better dead than alive, the connections shared between siblings are some of the hardest to break."- I looked at the nervous teen and said with a smile:

"I don't think that it is too late to get your brother back."

"... Thank you Aragorn."- The slightly less nervous teen said.

"How come you used to be human, Aragorn?"

"It's a story filled with dead, psychos and void, with little to no light but a sparkle at the end. It all started when my mom met my dad..."- I told Wanda the story of the birth of the shiniest dragon while we flew to pick up my maids.

Of course Maids are needed for my talk with Magneto, it's all about presentation. Showing who is better than the other in a subliminal way. 

__________

After a panoramic flight of the coolest places on Halo Wanda and I arrived at the Crystal.

"Was there a need to make this place so... opulent?"- Asked Wanda when she laid eyes upon the magnificence of the Crystal.

"Opulent?"- I get Shiny, Crystalline, Bright and other adjectives but 'Opulent' I don't.

"... That's diamond, Is it not?"- Oh! That...

"I don't think that even my maids know, How did you notice?"- I just told them that it was a crystal clear mineral. 

"There's a special branch of magic that uses jewels as mediums for casting, teacher had me studying it for a year in hopes of finding a way to siphon my magic into the jewels in case of emergency..."- Oh I see, it's a very old way of magic, you could potentially fill a jewel with your magic and construct a spell matrix into it, old witches used to hold spells for later use in these 'grenades', then you would crush the jewel and the spell would be freed.

It had a lot of disadvantages so it's considered obsolete. You couldn't control the direction of the spell upon release, you wasted about 40% of your magic during construction, others could steal your grenades and use them against you... to mention a few.

"Well... I wanted to make it sturdy, bright and visually appealing. I wanted to use a special type of crystal that I know of. But I didn't have any samples for replication so I had to settle down for diamond. It's not supposed to be opulent because I can create and infinite amount of diamonds and other riches so money holds little value to me."

"Or at least I was not thinking of asserting my 'status' on others' eyes with it. The main purpose was light. But I can see how having a house made of diamond can be seen as opulence... Not that I would change it now."- Wanda was left in silence contemplating for a while before saying:

"Do you have any diamond left?"

"Hahaha! You can ask Spark for some later, Greedy Witch!"- I answered with a smile filled with faked contempt.

"*Humph* Even if you don't appreciate it for its value, that doesn't mean that I won't!"- Yeah, I don't care about riches, that's why Emma 'stole' most of it. All I care about are my girls, Spark and Bucky... and my toys, but those are kept in my personal vault.

While Wanda was acting like a pouting haughty young lady, my maids arrived and we warped outside Asteroid M.

My maids adaptation kicked in and they stop needing air and air pressure. I was already 'all-proofed' and Wanda casted an environmental shield around her. A cool application of magic where you create a skin-tight barrier that generates your preferred environment. You could even float in lava and feel like swimming during a sunny day in a pool. 

Asteroid M looked like a rock with random buildings made by a crazy scientist ingrowing in it. Magneto may be the leading head on space exploration and station building but visual pleasing was never one of his talents. This looks like... a tumorous grown city on a rock. 

'Your father was never a man of style, Was he?'- I telepathically said.

'...*Sigh* No, just one look at his helmet and you can tell, and let's not talk about his early attire.'- Answered Wanda.- And indeed I would rather not talk about that.

'Don't worry Ms. Maximoff, you have nothing to feel ashamed of. Young master is not one that should talk with his awful naming sense.'- The backstabbing bunny commented.

'And let's not talk about his obsession with shine and dragons. It's already a miracle that we are not dragon kin instead of beast kin.'- Added the traitorous Fox.

'Heheheheh!'x3- Since I've been growing as a person I won't call for a blood feud, but I will add this to my list of 'Possible reasons for claiming spontaneous revenge'.

As the girls were... bonding... we were descending until their sensors picked up our scent. If sound could travel through space we would be hearing their blaring sirens by now.

I chose the biggest building, where I'm sure we will find the 'biggest' man; and portaled inside.

In the hall that could only be described as a throne room we found the panicking mutants.

In the throne was of course Magneto, and protectively around him were a few of the brotherhood, yet based on their energy levels I can say were the strongest.

There were Raven Darkhölme (Mystique), Irene Adler (Destiny), Anne Marie (Rogue), Remy LeBeau (Gambit), St. John Allerdyce (Pyro), Dominikos Petrakis (Avalanche), Gunther Bain (Unus), Frederick Dukes (Blob), Namor McKenzie and Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver).

Some of these guys didn't have any right to be here at the same time, according to my meta-knowledge.

Mystique, Destiny and Rogue are a family. Gambit is in love with Rogue but also a plant from Essex. I can already smell the telenovela.

Pyro, Avalanche and Blob are almost always with Magneto. Perfect henchmen if you will.

Unus definitely shouldn't be here, and Namor... Shouldn't he be underwater by now? Maybe he was roped in by Erik's speeches of grandeur and promises of future.

In another life, I bet Magneto was known as The Wolf of Wall St. 

At least I don't see the other Summers brother. Vulcan is a pain in the ass.

As the portal closed Wanda looked at Pietro and longingly called:

"Pietro!"- But something that I didn't want to consider happened.

"Who are you?"- Said Pietro in confusion.

"..."- Wanda was struck by her brother's words, but soon enough, as expected from a girl born and raised in adversity, she calmed down and looked at Magneto with her cold red eyes.

"Did you erase me from my brother's memory?"- Wanda didn't wait for an answer and froze time. She took a few deep breaths to fully calm her raging heart.

"What do you want to do with him?"- I asked while motioning to Erik.

"... How are you moving?"- She was clearly perplexed and possibly embarrassed since she realized I witness her previous actions. 

"You can say that I move with time willingly, but I'm not affected by it in the same way that others are. In simpler terms: You can't use time based abilities on me, unless I allow it."- It's more complicated than that, but she could theoretically stop me with more than an universe's worth of power, by then the energy overload would kill her, and she would be employing the aspect of time instead of casting spells.

"You are weird Aragorn."- Wanda said mockingly.

"And shiny..."- I commented factually. Never forget.

She rolled her eyes on me before answering my previous question.

"I will fix my brother's mind... About Erik... Do you really want someone like him on your future council? Someone so despicable that he would temper with his own son's mind."- She basically spat when she called Erik's name out loud. 

"The answer to that questions is both yes and no. I don't need him. If you want to kill him, go ahead, I'll do it for you if you don't want to carry on with his death on your shoulders. But I want him because I'm trying to build a balance in the council."- Also because he can potentially babysit mutants for me. He is after all an ambitious person with the mutants future in mind... when he is not busy being mutant Hitler.

"I want a council that embodies both of the current extremists views from the mutant's side of the coin, a neutral representation that keeps everything balanced and a 'human' representation that prevents extreme judgements. All under the care of an AI that will oversee final decisions and grow together with the country."- This new baby AI was already created by me and is under the care of Spark, learning about right, wrong and shine.

It's name is Seraph and unlike Spark it has already decided her gender. I wonder when Spark will become my ultimate bro.

"Xavier will be the idealist good side, Erik the pessimist side, Morlocks the neutral side and someone Fury will bring the 'human' side. But I could technically use Mystique instead of him. So, again, if you want to kill him just give me the green light. I don't recommend you to do it by your hands since I can tell that your brother won't be happy about it."- She remained silent until she was in front of the paused Quicksilver.

"I will ask my brother first... Thank you Aragorn."

She placed her hands on Quicksilver's head and bound him to space before removing him from the temporal stasis. He resumed consciousness but he couldn't utter a word before she got to work on getting his memory back, he was rendered unconscious.

After an hour of delicate work I could see that her spell was working but it was also taking a toll on her. After all she needs to constantly cast her mind healing spell and hold the time stopping spell.

"Wanda, try to use my energy through the contract on your mind healing spell, it should lower the toll on you by more than half. Not the void energy, the psionic energy."- She stopped her spell and instead of using her chaos source she casted the spell with my psionic energy as the source. 

"Like... this?"- She asked as she showed me her magic runes and circles.

"Yes, you're a natural. It should help you make this faster and easier on you."- She was released from some of the weight the spell had on her.

She is not a psionic power house like Emma, Jean or me, so it's natural that something that could at worst take me a few minutes, take her a few hours. 

About 30 minutes after that she let out a repressed sigh, and said:

"*Sigh* I'm done. Erik erased his memory because Pietro wanted to follow me. My brother was initially scared after my accident and passed out in consequence to it, but when he awoke and Erik said that I was moving away with someone that could help me, he said that he would follow me."- She said with a smile filled with care and pride. A smile that darkened soon enough.

"Erik didn't want that and had a mutant alter his memories. Making it so that I never existed"- That's most likely Mastermind. But I can't feel him around so either they had a falling out or he is, simply, currently not here.

"Do you have enough charge to keep up the time stop?... So that you could talk with your brother without interruptions."- I said while pointing to Erik.

"*Sigh* No, I don't think so."

"I can hold it for you if you want."

"You can use chaos magic?"

"Not really, but I can bend my energy to match yours and then recreate your spell. Thank you by the way! Yao has avoided this type of spells because she said that I would mess even more with the girls!"- That foxy teacher had the guts to say to my face while smiling mirthfully.

"... And would you?"- Asked Wanda while arching one of her eyebrows.

"I totally would!"- And will! I can already relish in the padawan's face during our next spar.

"... Just don't snitch on me. I want to make friends."- Makes sense.

"I will keep it under wraps for a year if you help me with some... 'favors'... in the future."- I said meaningfully.

"You know... your phrasing could use some work but, Deal!"- Keep dreaming chaos girl, this shiny dragon has Noona already!

I used my energy manipulation along my eldritch magic knowledge and replicated Wanda's spell. I decided to upgrade this spell by focusing my mind in working on different variations of it. It has great potential!

I could create pockets of stopped time and traps. It's not very useful for fights of my caliber since I can use my TK for stopping targets, but my maids could use it for stopping attacks or attackers or setting a trap that freezes a target on time upon activation, like a temporal land mine; and you never know, maybe I do find a use for it in the future.

After a while Pietro wakes up from his sister's lap pillow. I decided to respect their privacy by looking in the other way but asserting my authority as the overseer of the chaos girl by listening in to their conversation anyways.

"Aghh! My head!"- Pietro complains while holding his head.

"Take your time brother."- Said Wanda while offering a glass of water to him.- Interesting... reality bending is very similar to creation. Like a cheap version of it based on matter and energy manipulation.

I could possibly do the same, or similar, with enough training on my TK, the energy manipulation side of the equation is ready but I am severely lacking in the atomic and sub-atomic telekinetic control.

"...Wanda! Oh Wanda! Father- No! What?!"-Shouted Pietro. He looks like a headless chicken... I guess since I'm not looking at them.

"I remember now! Wanda what happened to you?"- He asked after bringing Wanda into a hug.

Wanda gave him a brief depiction about her time with grumpy witch. She told him about how she easily got control of her powers not long after the accident and how everything was working out for them until they were attacked and consequently her powers ran amok.

About her time sealed in the mirror and lastly about our encounter and contract.

This time it was Pietro's time for answering questions. He said that after his memory was altered things didn't change much, initially, but later, after one of the thousands of run-ins of Magneto and the different governments of Earth, their house was destroyed, he built this place as a base of operations. After completion he began accumulating power and recruiting mutants from around the globe. 

"Brother... What do you want to do with Er- him?"- Asked Wanda. She looked disgusted of even uttering Magneto's name so she chose the impersonal way.

"Nothing sister. I don't think I want to be around father anymore. I was not mistreated the past years and I have made friends. So I'm thankful."- Said Pietro after looking at some of the frozen mutants.

"But I don't think I can tolerate what he did to me or you. Maybe in the future he will repent and try to mend our relation but... At the moment I want some freedom."- He immediately after let a sigh out.

"It's alright brother! I think you should come live with me."- Said Wanda as she hugged him. - Excuse me chaos girl! But who gave her the right over the migrations office of my foxy queen's kingdom?

"Is that okay Aragorn?"- She voiced out after the hug. 

"... What will I get in return?"- Obviously my foxy queen will accept the speedster but I, as the facilitator, should get something in return for my services.

"I will teach you some of my time and probability warping spells."- Probability Warping!!! I knew Yao was holding out on me!

"Deal!"- That's a new way of cheating! Hehehehe!

"Is that okay, sister? He looks like he is plotting the end of his archnemesis..."- Said Pietro.

"Yes. He doesn't need the spells for fighting, he will probably use them for pranking his maids."- Damn right I will!

"Thank you for the time Aragorn."- Wanda called to my attention the still paused time.

"Ahh right! Go and stay with my maids, I will resume time."- After the siblings moved to my maids side I resumed time. Not before standing in front of Destiny.

And as expected chaos ensued. 

"Little girl! What are-"- Said Magneto before realizing that his progeny was standing side by side on the other end of the hall.

He looked for me, the missing presence, and paled when he saw me standing in front of Destiny. In the midst of his numbers. 

Mystique didn't waste her time and tried to protect her lover from the big bad horned man. She morphed claws on her foot and threw a frontal kick at my chest while intending to use the recoil to pull her lover out of my evil reach.

While this was happening in frames from my perception I decided to test a theory. 

I can't be seen in the future because I live on the present, however the consequences of my actions should be seen, at least in the immediate future.

For example if Yao uses the time stone to see tomorrow, the future will be blurry because of all the possible actions I could take.

But if I'm within her awareness' reach and she tries to see the consequences of my immediate actions, she should be able to see her tails being petted and her future self trying to defend from an invisible threat; if I decide to pet her tails before she uses the stone.

Now my question is, What would happen with a mutant that is actively trying to find me in her future sight?

Because that's what Ms. Adler has been doing since the sirens started blaring. 

So when Mystique was about to lift her clawed foot I 'chose' to kill her slowly in front of her woman if the kick connected. If it didn't I 'chose' to let her live another minute.

"NO!"- Shouted Ms. Adler. She jumped to the side at the fast approaching girl and crashed into Mystique, as the blue woman was moving to connect her kick with my 'defenseless' chest. 

Both women dropped together like a pretzel to the ground. The shivering Destiny held her lover tightly.

"DON'T ATTACK IT RAVEN! YOU'LL DIE!"- This stopped Mystique from trying to free herself and protect her lover further than necessary by attacking me.

I smiled slightly at the blind woman's antics. She doesn't even know me because she can't see me, she is blind, but she knows that all the futures turned into her lover's death the moment that kick connected to 'something'.

"Very impressive Ms. Adler! You saw that I would have killed her if that kick connected in all of her possible futures and in less than a microsecond you chose to act and protected your girl. Impressive indeed! That decisiveness is something els-"- While I was talking I was rudely interrupted by a splash of fire to my face. 

*FOOOOSHH*

"HAHAHA Burn you horned freak!"- Of course pyro couldn't keep it in his pants and decided to turn his life to suicide.- Well not really, I don't need to kill him.

Outside the raging ball of fire Magneto saw the relaxed stand of my company and discovered that something wasn't right.

"Pyro stop! Everybody else get ready!"- In an admirable display of coordination the rest of the mutants assume positions around the ball of flames. Effectively surrounding me.

"Tell me Ms. Adler... What will happen to Mr. Allerdyce?"- I asked from within the flames.

My voice brought the mutants to a higher level of tension.

"...His extremities will be broken."- Said Destiny with pain in her voice. And just as predicted I bend both legs and arms into impossible angles.

*Crack*x4

"IAGGHhhhh-"- Shouted Pyro before passing out of pain. 

I raised my right hand and condensed all the flames into a ball before 'eating' it.

The silence permeating the hall was broken off by Magneto's order. 

"Attack!!"- Gambit was the first to move. Supercharging his poker cards with kinetic energy he shot one card after the other. 

Avalanche reached for the floor to destabilize my stand with his seismokinesis. Blob ran towards me from another side, possibly intending to battle me in CQC. But Namor was the first to reach me.

"Tell me Ms. Adler... What will happen to Mr. McKenzie?" I said two seconds before his fist could connect to my face.

*Crack!*- Namor fist broke upon contact with my face. 

"...His extremities will be broken."- Of course Destiny didn't want to answer my ill intended questions but I 'chose' to kill her daughter if she didn't answer.

*Crack!*x4

"AGHHHHHH FUCK!"- Unlike Pyro Namor collapsed at my feet but didn't pass out.

Rogue took a step forward and ran at the back of blob, trying to take cover behind him to avoid my sight. A useless endeavor. I 'chose' not to take action towards rogue. I rather not beat up an ignorant teenager and then be at the receiving end of my maids scorn.

Not that I would beat up a teen, unless it's Scott.

I can see how my bunny and fox are following and judging my every move ever since Destiny panicked. I don't have any problem beating up a woman like Mystique but a possible 15 year old Anne Marie is different, my maids follow the same moral code.

After all, they are the prime example of ignorant teens becoming monsters due to their circumstances and not their choices.

Scott doesn't count. Even after Xavier removed the character suggestions, he kept acting like an alpha young master. If he doesn't want to change even after the brainwashing was removed then he will always be a young master and Essex only took advantage of his cultivator's character.

I can't blame everything bad on Essex.

Gambit's cards reached after Namor's shout, only to harmlessly fall after making contact with me. I transformed the extra kinetic energy back into potential energy.

"Tell me Ms. Adler... What will happen to Mr. LeBeau?"

"Oh Come on! That did nothing to you! Can you please spare me!?"- Asked a panicked Gambit that began understanding the dynamic. 

"...His extremities will be broken."- Of course they'll be.

"Jes-*CRACK!* AGHHHHHHH!"- I may have been more into it since this guy works for Essex.- He also didn't pass out. 

After Avalanche saw how ineffective his seismokinesis was he tried to blast me using the air as the medium, at the same time Blob's fist reeled back ready to unleash hell on me... in his mind.

"Tell me Ms. Adler... What will happen to Mr. Petrakis and Mr. Dukes?"

*Bam* *BRRRRMM*- A fist and a vibration wave connected on opposing sides of my face.- Seriously, What's with aiming to the face every single time?

That's not even a weak point if you don't know what you're doing. A better bet is the crotch, savage but effective.

"...Their extremities will be broken."

"Oh Fuc-UGGH! AGHH!"-*Crack!*x8- They didn't pass out. Maybe only Pyro was a baby.

Rogue jumped from behind Blob's falling figure and attacked me with a... ... hug?... I will call it a bear attack. If not I would feel to much pity for her.

I looked down at the teen's face that had the smuggest expression I've seen. That is until she saw that she couldn't siphon anything from me.

"Tell me Ms. Adler... What will happen to this brat?"- Panic ensued on Rogue's face after listening to my words.

"... I will beat her up for stupid."- Softly said Destiny. Even more panic spread on the teen's face.

"Anne Marie! Come here!"- Shouted Mystique with a voice that promised punishment.

I raised my hand and patted her head slowly, giving her hope of a safe shelter from her mothers' ire, and said with my best shit-eating grin:

"Go get your baby but spanked by your mothers, little brat."- I lifted her with my TK and sent her to Destiny's out-stretched arms. 

"I'm sorry- No! Not her-*Spank!* AH!"- I heard in the background but I ignored the pleads for help, cries and spanks.

I looked back at Magneto and his living shield Unus.

"Come on Mr. Eisenhardt, Mr. Bain you are the only ones remaining."

"Don't look at me man! I'm only good at defense!"-Said Unus defensively while raising his hands in the air. I looked him straight to his eyes and said:

"Okay, you get a pass since I'm not a sadist. And you? Great leader of the supreme race of Earth, superior specimen among the mutants, rightful ruler of the same kind! Come on, join your underlings and attack."- I said mockingly.

"What do you want? Who do you think you are to come and barge in my palace an-"

"Tell me Ms. Adler... What will happen to Mr. Eisenhardt?"- I interrupted.

"WHAT!?"- Shouted in outrage and trepidation the arrogant lordling.

"You gave the order of attack so technically you already attacked me!"- I enjoyed how his face slowly changed to realization and then to dread. Maybe I'm starting to pick some of Senior Sister's sadism up.

"His extremities will be broken."- Destiny signed up his sentence and dismay flooded his face.

*CRACK!*

"AGHHH"

*CRACK!*

"*Huff* UGHHH"

*CRACK!*

"UAAGH *Huff* *Huff*"

*CRACK!*

"Aghhh!"

I cracked one by one his limbs, because... he has the makings of a sect leader. I need no sect leaders in here.

"Yes!"- Said Wanda quietly in satisfaction. Making a victory pose.

I proceeded to ignore the wailings of the suffering men and turned around only to see the reddened butt cheeks of an embarrassed teen.

Yikes! Talk about a mother that doesn't care about her daughter's dignity, here we have two that look like they took turns spanking their daughter in public... pants down and everything. 

"Ummm well if you do it here... like that... Even I will feel bad for Anne Marie."- I said while reflexively scratching my head.

"Umu"x2- My maids supported my statement while Wanda covered Pietro's eyes.

"... ughh Help me..."- Pleaded Rogue.

"... Emmm well take your time disciplining your kid."- Sometimes I forget that this is the 90's where you don't have yelling kids in the supermarket, not the 2000's when the breed of young master tantrum throwing kids was raised.

*Spank!*- My maids, chaos girl and I observed with morbid curiosity the public beating of Anne Marie. Yelena was recording, possibly to get dirt on her for future uses.

After a few more minutes of spanking I said:

"... Though you should consider that she might develop... certain quirks... due to an unconscious association of punishment with familial love, ergo pain equals pleasure."- True story. Not always the case but one of the many possible origins of the 'affliction'. 

Personally I'm not much of a M, but I would like to receive some 'punishment' under Noona's thighs. Just saying.

"We will continue this later love."- Said Destiny to Raven, before looking at my direction meaningfully.

"Right! With the public shaming of Anne Marie out of the way and the crippling of the underlings and arrogant ass over there done; we can finally have a civilized conversation."- I was not seeing it but I'm sure I felt 3 pairs of eyes roll in my back, plus a very confused speedster.

I took some of our healing potions that I, in my infinite wisdom, brought for circumstances like this. I floated the potion vials to Raven who hesitantly grabbed them.

"These will heal your guys. Feed one each."- Raven saw the vials suspiciously before Destiny nodded in affirmation. While Raven was busy healing the cripples I approached Destiny and gave her a different vial.

"This is my olive branch Ms. Adler."- Destiny was not on a wheel chair at the moment but I could see how she was nearing the end of her life. And like all Destinys, she was blinded by her powers.

What I gave her was a version of our latest product: Youth Serum, in exchange for a lower fertility rate you get a longer life span. Initially it didn't have that restriction built in but Spark said that else we may overpopulate the universe. This version comes with a potent healing effect upon first time consumption it should heal her eyes.

"Just don't overexert your powers again..."- If she is overloaded with visions then she will end up blind again. Now that she is in control of her powers unless she does something stupid there should be no more blindness. In my world there shall be none of the deprived from the shine!

Destiny showed surprise in her face, surely after seeing her future, and hurriedly drank her potion. About 15 seconds after, the changes in her skin and body became apparent. After the potion brought back her youth her eyes were next. She regained the light in her sight and I made sure that the first thing she saw was Raven, who was done feeding the cripples. 

"Raven... Raven!"- Destiny called for her lover and brought her into her embrace.

Raven was confused about the sudden display of love but when she saw her lover grabbing her face and her eyes attentively trying to engrave the sight in front of them, realization fell on her.

"I-Irene! Your Eyes!"- She said while grabbing Irene's face with her hands in trepidation.

Tears rolled and the only thing disrupting this sweet scene were the moans of pain from the healing cripples and the ass rubbing Rogue in the background trying to alleviate some of her pain.

After a while all the mutants were healed and I sneakily smuggled some healing potion for the teen's sore ass. 

"So... with the beatings and subsequent healing out the way... Should I call you Mr. Lehnsherr or Mr. Eisenhardt?"- I addressed the sore loser in the room.

"... Magneto is fine."- What? Who is this Chuunibyou? I don't even call the X-Men by their code names and I like them better.

"Erik it is!... Erik, I came today with an offer for the creation of a mutant country. I have already selected the land, contacted your friend Xavier and I'm missing a pair of the other parties that will get a seat at the future council ruling the place."- He wanted to interrupt my ted talk but I didn't let him. I already have enough experience dealing with bullshit to know what he will say.

"The initial founding and infrastructure will com from my pocket. The overall details have been sent to the computer in this place just read it over and in about a week I will gather all parties involved."

"If your Homo Superior ass doesn't want in then just don't attend the meeting. If you have any problems with the founding of the country then just die or something, don't get in the way."- The difference between Erik and Xavier, is that Baldy at least listens to others, or pretends to. Not that he is willing to internalize others' opinion but at least I can have a civilized conversation with him. I can't have that with this sect master.

He is to 'superior' for that.

"You can bring whoever you want, but their actions will be representing you. So if you bring mister flame over there and he misbehaves I will recreate todays experience two fold."- This brought a shiver to the brotherhood in the room.

"Mr. Maximoff will be coming with us. His choice not mine."- The speedster was already wearing a backpack with all of his belongings by the side of chaos girl.

"Just to be clear. I don't need you. You are the equivalent of a luxury to my plan. Appreciated but not necessary. From this room I could ask Ms. Adler or Ms. Darkhölme to take your place. So that there are no misunderstandings, what I want from you is not your metal bending, is your philosophical position, something you three partially share."- With this my words to the sect master were finished. 

I opened a portal and my maids, chaos girl and Pietro followed through. I looked back at Rogue and said:

"If you want help controlling your powers, I can help you."- It must be a bother to only share physical contact through fabrics. Her powers are not that difficult to fix, I can make a device for her, add a second mutation or teach her the ways of control.

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Finally back on Halo, Wanda took her brother to meet her adoptive mother and I decided to check some tails and ears out before going back down to the Morlocks. Along the way to the babies place (Dinodrome) I met my butler.

"Hello Young Master. How was your time with Madame Death?"

"Hi James! Lovely as always."- There's Noona and there's little clothing. What else could it be?

"And the meeting with the Brotherhood?"

"Ugh! Is annoying to deal with people with god complexes. But I got my meaning across so that could be counted as a success. Also there's a chance that I left a good impression on Mystique, Destiny and Rogue."

"Oh so those three were there. Now it makes sense why we couldn't find them from our list of targets for the Krakoa project."- As James said we had a list of useful people that we were looking for.

"Yes, I was surprised as well. I didn't think that Raven would trust Erik enough with the safety of her lover and adoptive daughter."- After all in more than one reality Raven tries to keep her progeny away from Erik and his conqueror antics.

"So James... Are you sure you don't want a company under your care like the other girls?"- Leaving aside the kiddies and babies, basically every other girl is managing a company on their own. But James declined a similar position.

"Yes Young Master. Training the girls, taking care of your general planning and fighting in the regular spars is more than I could ask for."- Some time ago James was done with the last of his dreaming recollections about his time in Hydra.

Needless to say that he handled it better than expected, but I blame a supporting family nucleus for that, after all you don't have time to go into depressing thoughts if you're responsible of kids.

Besides that, his time talking with Gaea did wonders, she has this 'Ara Ara' sisterly/motherly supportive vibe that has helped everyone around here cope with their traumas.

There are still some scars here and there, for example the girls are comfortable only around me and James but they still have trouble opening up to Nick.

Not the babies though, those bundles of joy are usually playing with the Fae or the Colossi. Emma said that they even have a Dino-courier system between the cities existing in Halo. Of course it's not needed at all but everybody humors them. Cuteness is justice after all.

"Well, It's okay if you don't want to... By the way, I found Steve last week in one of my reconnaissance flights!"- I'm absolutely sure that there was not supposed to be a Captain America in this reality.

"Really! Finally! Why did it take so long?"

"It's because he was not only frozen under the ice caps, as we expected, but apparently one of the bombs transported in the Valkyrie went off upon crashing. Somehow Steve survived, but the resulting explosion created a huge crater at the button of the sea that was later filled with sediment, effectively burying Steve."- I can't even fathom that someone non telepath could have found him without knowing what to look for. That's way I believe that this was a Captain-less reality.

"I already confirmed that he is alive. But the moment we thaw him, he will die. The ice is keeping him alive at the moment, because the explosion took a heavy toll on him... I left a few androids guarding his rest place. We will need Jean's fire for defrosting so I'm waiting for her exams to be over and we can ask her for help."- Hopefully I will be done with all of this council crap by then.

"The other option is pulling out his soul and building him a new body. But I rather have Jean take a look first and if she says she can't do it yet, then we can follow this other path."- There are other ways, like the time stone or magic, but Phoenix Fire is the best.

"Jesus Christ! Steve!... Is he in such a terrible state?"- Exclaimed James in alarm. He knows how potentially potent Jean's fire is, so it's no wonder that he understands Steve's state.

"Yeah. Definitely alive, for sure, if not I wouldn't have found him. But either the crash or the explosion, something gave him what I would like to call Overall-Body Blunt Trauma, the combination of Ice and the SSS is the only thing keeping him in one piece and alive."- I also suspect that he was bathed in the cosmic radiation of the tesseract bomb, so either he'll have super powers or super cancer. 

But I can fix anything as long as he has a body of his own, so I'm not worried about the super cancer, super powers would be interesting though.

"That's... *Sigh* at least he'll be okay. Will you bring Peggy in here as well?"- Ah the impossible couple! Divided by the timestream, born out of war, forged during times of peril... The drama of the century, for real. But I like happy endings so maybe I get to see one.

"That will depend on Steve and Ms. Carter. I have someone near her 24/7 to make sure that a dramatic plot twist doesn't take her away from our frozen lover boy, but once Steve is cognitive I can get her up here and depending on what the love birds decide, I will take action."- I don't think that the no-bullshit woman will want tails. But if I got Yao tails, I can get her some tails.

After letting James know that he can keep up with the monitoring of Steve with Spark, I went to the dinodrome.

The babies were practicing with their mounts for the race next weekend. So I just floated observing them practice and throwing them psionic roses whenever one of them won one of their practice races. It earn me their giggles.

They convinced me about enhancing their raptors sometime ago, after their evolution.

Their argument was that since they were super their rides had to be super duper. I couldn't argue with that logic.

So the Super Dino Serum was born, SDS for short. It's focus was stamina, agility and endurance. 

Their raptors are basically biological bullet-proofed Bugattis:

Dinopower: 1479 hp. (You could say 1 raptor of power)

Torque: 1,180 lb-ft.

0-60 MPH: 2.5 Seconds.

0-250 MPH: 32.6 Seconds.

60-0 Braking: 50 ft.

Top Speed: 261 mph.

Emma and Natalia were not very happy with my experiment, but the babies defended my honor saying that I was very happy while creating their super duper dinos, since I was laughing, and that if you're laughing you can't be doing something bad. 

Of course the cuteness would have won the argument if Tatiana hadn't tried to replicate my laugh.

"HUAHAHAHAHA HUAHAHAHA"- She shouted in her childish voice, effectively condemning me to the women's scorn.

At least the babies are happy... riding a raptor at 240 mph (402 km/h) for practice... but happy.

{A/N:

I told you guys that I was awful at measuring chapters, I intended to write about the Morlocks here but we will have to wait for the next chapter.

So I read some of your recommendations and I decided to follow some. I will write more about character dynamics and pace out the story a little bit more. No filler chapters but more about Aragorn and his relationships with others.

I'm also working on my bad habit of writing long paragraphs. Tehee! ;D

Next chapter will be about the Morlocks, and the start of the meeting. Including a small time skip of 1 week that will be done with POVs from the X-Men and the Brotherhood.}