Chapter 73 - Fingers Arrested

[January of 2013]

[New York City]

3rd PoV

Stark landed beside Andrew as his helmet opened up. He then look around and said "What happened here? I mean, where's the enemy?"

Andrew replied with a mocking tone "Already dead, thanks to your timely arrival."

"Huh?" Tony Stark was ready to jab back but the sound of a futuristic hovercraft interrupted him.

Swoosh!

The Quinjet appeared from the horizon shortly and then slowly landed beside them. The doors at the back opened up and the all-too-familiar blue suit of Captain America revealed as the guy held his vibranium shield vigilantly.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Steve Rogers quickly made his way to Andrew, Tony and the Defenders direction as he looked around for enemy. Seeing nothing, he then stopped in front of them and asked "Where's the enemies?"

"Like what this glass-face said; Already dead. Looks like we're not needed here anymore." Stark responded at him.

Steve turned to Andrew and did a brief nod before saying "Where's the enemy's corpse?"

"You all don't have to worry about it. I already destroyed every bit of it so that no one can experiment on a demon's body." Andrew waved his hand casually as if to make them calm but Stark's ears was already twitching after he heard what he just said.

Tony quickly spoke back "What do you mean demon? Like a real demon or a metaphorical one?"

Andrew sighed as he then turned to the direction of the ruined building. He then waved a hand as the huge blocks of concrete floated to the side while started walking forward. "Follow me."

Stark and Steve looked at each other for a moment and also followed along. Natasha Romanoff who just got out of the Quinjet also followed behind while surveying the surroundings.

The Defenders also followed along since they were pretty sure that they can't just leave right now since the Avengers would definitely want to have their statements.

...

Andrew then stopped in front of the generic Summoning Circle; The thing had the common evil star inside with some ancient letters surrounding it. It was also made and carved three-inch down to the ground as fresh and viscous blood filled its spaces.

Looking around. All of them spotted a pile of bodies at the corner of the place. All the corpse are naked and they are all women that seemed to be around 15 to 18 years of age. Their bodies are also shriveled and just looked like a husk of their former selves as their bodies are even thinner than a person that didn't ate for 50 days.

Andrew can already guess that the blood in the magic/summoning circle came from these bodies. He can also bet that these girls were all virgins since that's the most common and stereotypical way of summoning a demon or any other evil entities.

"Was this girls drained of their blood?" Stark's face couldn't help but scrunch up in slight disgust since he is definitely finding this whole scene not up for his taste.

Steve was looking at this scene with an uncomfortable look on his face. Natasha on the other hand still had that ever-calm look on her face but deep down, she is also finding this whole picture sad and enraging at the same time.

"Hmm." Andrew nodded as he then nudged his face to the other group of corpse at the side. It was the ones that he beheaded earlier before the demon was summoned.

"These people used the old ways and drained the blood of these girls. Using it, they were successful at summoning a demon which I fought and managed to dispose of."

"..."

"..."

Tony and Natasha was looking at him silently with a "really" face as the former then spoke as he couldn't hold it anymore "You're serious? A demon? They summoned a demon?"

Andrew sighed at their reaction but he already expected as he replied "You have a comrade that is literally the God of Thunder and you can't believe that demons exist? You're all weird."

Stark and Natasha looked at each other but just shrugged their shoulders and gave up arguing since the meta-hero was right.

"Thor isn't really a God since there's only one God." Steve the God's righteous man interjected as he felt that his belief was being challenged right now and he cannot allow that.

Matt Murdock nodded slightly at that and tacitly agreed silently while the others didn't gave a shit as they were busy looking around.

Andrew looked at the man-out-of-his-time and then decided to not entertain him anymore since the argument would get even longer if he continued to talk about this kind of topic.

Steve frowned at that but also didn't speak anymore as he and the others then watched the featureless hero waving his hand inwardly as bodies from outside the ruin of the building came out of the rubbles and concretes and then slowly laid down collectively in front of them.

Andrew then spoke while his focus divided and invaded the mind of the fingers of the Hand. "This three are the leaders of this secret ancient organization that worships demons with the goal of world domination in their minds."

Stark, Natasha, and Rogers nodded at that while the former's trusted A.I Jarvis quickly called for personnels to clean up the whole place and detain the leaders of the Hand.

..

Outside the ruined building, numerous suvs pulled up around the place along with some armored trucks and vehicles that specializes in cleaning the battlefields and collecting anything valuable and can still be used. Along with them, there's also some medic vehicles incase anyone was injured and stuff.

All of them came from and was formed by one company only; The Celestial Industries.

..

Psionix, The Avengers and The Defenders all came out of the ruined building. Andrew continued walking and then stopped as he addressed the metas walking around the place and those who was looking at him, waiting for orders.

"Be sure to detain those old fossils. They've lived for hundreds of years and all of them are influential in their own ways. We don't want any of them leaving their prisons just because they managed to pull some strings behind and shit."

The meta-cops and the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D all nodded in unison as they went to do their work.

Funny thing about the S.H.I.E.L.D was Nick Fury finding the whole meta-cops of the Celestial Industries as a good idea and he had also started hiring and training metas to be agents that will be tenfold more efficient than normal ones.

Magneto – who found about it – quickly complained to Andrew that he cannot allow that shit to happen since he's worried that Fury would take advantage of metas. Andrew calmed the magnetic while assuring him that if anything happens to the metas that will be under Fury, then the that director of S.H.I.E.L.D would lose his remaining eye.

Swoosh!

Back to present. Stark impatiently waved the group a goodbye as he then flew away. Steve and Natasha on the other hand stayed behind as Fury ordered them to talk to the Defenders and ask them to come with the for questioning.

The Defenders all complied and acted cooperative as they all boarded the Quinjet along with Andrew who thought why not since he didn't have anything to do in the mean time.

—-—

[Attilan, Moon.]

A young man walked calmly through the Grand Hall of the Inhuman Royal Palace. He has brown hair and a good body build. He's currently wearing a training suit as he's preparing for a spar he's about to make with the sister of the Inhuman Queen; Crystal.

Walking for a few more moments. The young man finally arrived at the door that leads to the training room. Opening it, the young man saw a young woman wearing yellow training suit, standing in the middle of the large, spherical room.

Crystal Amaquelin looked nothing like her Tv show counterpart and looked more like her comic book one as her body was more developed than someone her age. She also sported a reddish-golden short hair while her face had a slight smirk. She then spoke as the young man walked forward and stood in front of her "Are you ready to get your ass beaten once again huh, Matt?"

Matt Garetty formed a similar smirk on his face as he replied back with the same mocking voice as Crystal "Are you talking about yourself?"

Swoosh~

Crystal tsked at that jab as a small ball of fire manifests on her palm. She the threw it forcefully while adding a gust of wind along the way "Eat this! HaHaHa!"

Matt Garetty also laughed as he also moved and the spar finally started.

[End of the Chapter]

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