37: Mission

Next week.

inside Austin's room in the avengers' headquarters.

Austin could be seen in a one-hand Handstand position as his seat fell onto the ground below him.

"increase the gravity 1 more time," Austin said with hurried breaths, his muscles tensed and his bones creaked as the gravity in the training room increased.

Austin continued to train like that for a long while, after keeping up this training schedule for a week he realized one thing, his stats were slowly increasing as he trained and put more strain on his body.

[Host]: Austin Smith

[Age]: 18

[Race]: Human

[Class]: Astral Sorcerer (2 Star)

[Pet]: Winged Horse (Lvl: 29)

[HP]: 730/730

[Level]: 36 (21%)

[Str]: 53 (+20)

[Vit]: 45 (+27)

[Spd]: 47 (+13)

[Int]: 92 (+12)

[Stat Points]: 0

the more stat points Austin added to his intelligence stat, the stronger he became, he could now control his void dome for more than 3 seconds in real-world time, don't underestimate this short amount of time.

while using void dome, although 3 seconds would pass by in a flash, to Austin, those 3 seconds felt more like 3 minutes.

"you have a call from, Tony Stark" a mechanical female voice was heard throughout the gravity room while Austin was doing his handstand pushups while sweating a puddle below himself.

"turn off the gravity and answer Tony's call," Austin said before leaping into the air and landing on his feet, he flexed his muscles and wiped off his sweat before the call went through.

"ah, Austin, your training like always huh" a holographic screen of Tony appeared in the gravity room, Tony stark could see everything in the training room as well.

"Well, I have to keep getting stronger after all" Austin replied while grabbing a towel from a robot that was stationed in the training room.

Tony stark didn't bother continuing the topic and began speaking about another matter.

"I have something I need your help with, haven't you always been asking me for a mission outer space, well I somehow have one for you now," Tony said with furrowed eyebrows, he didn't understand why Austin wanted to explore space so much but Austin was his friend now, So tony respected his decisions.

"give me a while, I'll be over there soon" Austin replied before having the AI in the gravity room end the call with Tony.

"After a whole week, something is finally happening," Austin said in excitement before taking a quick shower in the gravity room and wearing some comfortable clothes with slides.

following Tony's attendant, it didn't take long for Austin to enter a room where both Tony Stark and His wife Pepper Potts could be seen sitting there while looking at a screen with a bunch of people in suits.

"Tony, why do you look so worried, what's wrong," Austin said the moment he entered the room.

Tony and Pepper both looked at Austin in excitement for a while before looking at each other.

"Austin, I remember you told me that you can teleport anywhere in the galaxy you wanted as long as you imagined the place right? and as long as it wasn't too far?" Tony said after thinking for a while, he carried a smile on his face but his eyes didn't hide his worry.

"yes I did, what about it" Austin raised his eyebrows in confusion, he didn't want to assume anything so he would rather have Tony just spill it out instead of beating around the bush.

"Well, you might not know but it has been a full two years since hulk has been missing, after the battle at sokovia and the defeat of Ultron hulk has turned his back on the world and headed off into space and has never been seen since" Tony released a breath of frustration before continuing.

"of course, I could send anyone else, but you are the only person who I know can appear on that planet and leave instantly if you wanted to, so I wanted to entrust you to find hulk for me, if you have to, beat some sense into the guy and bring him back" Tony Said while looking at Austin with a serious expression.

Austin thought about the situation for a bit before he nodded, understanding the situation.

the reason hulk turned his back on the black widow and the world was mainly that, on earth, he had uncontrollable powers and people feared him for it, but on the planet, sakaar hulk could let loose and destroy anything he wanted without fear.

Even so, Hulk still needed to return to earth, and although Austin knew that hulk would one day return, he would take this chance to travel the universe a bit to an unknown planet.

Seeing Austin in a thinking state, Tony didn't say much and just looked at him, he had been contemplating for so long on how to get Hulk back, and he felt bad for the green guy.

"Hmm, seems like a mission I can complete," Austin said while sighing, he then looked at Tony and said.

"so when do you want me to head towards the planet that Hulk is on," Austin said, he knew Tony probably had a tracker on the guy and knew all along where hulk was, but Tony was just helpless in bringing the green guy back.

"you can leave today or any time this month it doesn't matter, just let me know and I'll give you a communication device to stay in touch out there," Tony said while releasing a heavy breath of air, he felt like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders.

"I'll leave right now then, give me the device," Austin said expressionlessly, perhaps he could also head to Asgard while he was out there.

Tony motioned towards a man in a suit beside him, The man went out for a few minutes before bringing back a black suit that had a chip inside.

Tony pulled out the chip and handed it to Austin.

"Just connect this chip to the inner area of your Suit's mask, I'll be able to communicate easily with you through there," Tony said before turning to the huge computer screen.

"Hulk is currently on planet sakaar, the fourth planet from the star Tayo, it is also the only planet within this system that is inhabited by life and living beings" Tony pulled up a holographic screen of the Tayo System before pulling up the planet sakaar.

pictures of the planet could be seen all around.

"I got it, I'll contact you if I make it to the planet, if I can't make it then I'll just inform you and head back," Austin said before leaving the room and heading to his quarters.

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