Chapter 42

While running through the time stream, my past tried to phase through my hand but I easily countered it by phasing my hand. I then threw him out of the time stream into my mansion living room in my timeline.

"Who are you." My past self asked, standing up and vibrating his body.

"You, from 10 seconds in the future." I said, walking forward with my hand in my coat pocket. "I came to make a deal with you."

"Why should I trust you?" My past self asked, his eyes darting around the living room, observing it. "You forcefully brought me from my living room, through a stream of events, and back to my living room."

"Actually, my living room. Either way, it is because I am you." I said.

"That's even worse." My past self said, his eyes landing on me.

"Let me put it simply. You have created a new timeline where I from the past traveled to the future so we are the same people from a different timeline." I said trying not to start a fight. We are practically the same in every way except I know how to time-travel but he doesn't. I want to avoid having to fight myself, it will be annoying.

"That makes sense." Me front the past said, looking at me up and down. "So, what's the deal?"

"You will work an operation on me, turning me into a Kree and then I will do the same to you." I said, not believing he will accept.

"And then you kill me after I operate on you? Fuck that. How do I get back?" Past me said, snorting.

"I won't tell you how to get back and since you are in my timeline, you can't leave until I allow you." I said, using my advanced time travel knowledge as a trick. "The longer you stay in the wrong timeline, the more the timeline tries to fix itself. Soon, you will start disintegrating." I lied with a straight face. It is not like he knows if I am lying or not.

"That gives me more of a reason to not experiment on you. After I do it, you trap me in your timeline, killing me." My past self said, running out the house with a purple streak and I quickly followed.

We zoomed through the city as two purple streaks, running on the side of the building, on water, and never once attacking each other. I kept trying to make a deal with my past self before he mistakenly found a way to enter the time stream. After about ten minutes of back and forth, I became frustrated and used the last thing I prepared a lot for, betting my life. 

I told him that he can poison me with his personally created poison and then if I don't let him back or operate on him, I will die. It may seem like I was at loss, but I have prepared a ton of ways to keep myself alive. Well, it obviously worked and we went back to my home and the operation started.

I opened my eyes to my past self looking down at me. My body was bludging with power and vitality as I slowly sat up and looked at myself. Seeing what I looked like, I quickly ran to the human-size mirror in my bathroom and looked at my reflection before smiling.

I was finally back to my old form. 6'5" tall with light smooth caramel skin was a thick-toned muscular body with muscle being at the right place and right angle. The perfect body a bodybuilder would wish for and I always wished to get back.

My past self appeared behind me with a purple blur and said, "Cool right? So the operation on me, you are filled with deadly poisonous cells I created. Even for the Kree race that will go to your brain and kill you in three hours."

I smiled and disappeared with a purple streak and came back. "This is a serum that increases the Kree regeneration 100 fold. It will easily kill your drug." I said, injecting myself.

"I thought you would do that, so I made it that when the poison is feeling threatened, they will quickly move toward the brain to kill it quicker." My past self said, smiling. "You killed yourself quicker."

I left and came back again, injecting myself with another syringe. "This one turns all my genes into a fighter cell that absorbs any intruder and removes them from my body in the form of a gas." I said, fatting.

"I thought you would say that, so I made sure that once they leave the body, that will mutate and reproduce into a deadly gas, you can't stop it as it is an Anti-Kree virus." My past self said, grinning.

"This one changed my Kree DNA signature from Kree to human. Your virus can't tell the difference." I said, injecting myself with another syringe.

"I thought you would say that..."

It went on for five more minutes, me fearing my incoming death and my past self fearing his made-up death.

"Damn you are smart." I said, looking at the floor filled with syringes.

"Of course. I am Dr.Carnage." My past self said, smiling. "Now, can you just transform me so I can go back home and not die?"