SEVENTEEN

1995, Ta Lo.

(John's POV)

It has been over two years since my battle with the devourer and becoming a citizen in Ta Lo. I'm still sure I made the right decision by leaving my old life behind. I had already caused too much pain just by being there and I wasn't going to let that keep happening, and so I left even if it meant I wouldn't see my family anymore.

I really miss the outside world though, I mean it's the reason I lie awake in my bed thinking about it. Like I'm doing right now. Well time to get up and go do my job as a farmer. But first how do I peel a naked Ying Nan off me without rousing her from sleep.

Before I can plan any further action, I watched as the girl in question twitched a bit and then heard her breathing shift to the sort that let me know she has woken up herself.

She slowly shook her head groggily before turning to face me. Her pool of dark hair hid her extra cute facial features from me, nothing a bit of xray vision can't fix. The moment I see her face I can't help but let out a sigh of exasperation, this girl is way too lewd. She just woke up but already has her 'I am going to fuck you' look. Am I really the one with super stamina here?. It's at this point she made the inevitable request,

"uhm, big brother can we do 'the thing'?"

For god's sake, why does she like acting all shy before sex, we both know she's both a screamer and squirter. I'll just give her what she wants, no point thinking about it.

.....

Three hours later

(General POV)

John walked away from the farm with two tons of rice on his shoulders. Instead of flying, he chose to walk back and enjoy the scenery on the way back to the village.

With a smile on his face, he whistled one of the tunes Ying Nan taught him. He continued this until suddenly, the familiar sound of air being torn by sorcery disturbed his peace.

With an exhausted expression, he stood waiting for what he was sure would be an angry sorcerer in search of vengeance or something.

But to his utter surprise, out of the glowing portal came his old teacher/coitus partner. He had thought he would never see her again, but here she is in the flesh injured and gasping for air.

She wobbled forward to meet John but began to fall halfway. Dropping his massive bags of rice, John catches her before she touched the ground. Turning her face towards his, he searches through her body for any fatal injury but found none. Frantically, he asks,

"What happened to you?, why are you here?, who did this?" Still gasping in pain, the ancient one slowly pointed her shaking finger towards the still open portal and whispered,

"You have to stop..."

"Stop what?, fuck this let's get you sorted first." A bang resounded as John flew towards the healer's chamber.

Done with dropping her off, John flies back towards the portal, while quickly putting on a dragon scale armor. Upon reaching the still open portal, he hesitates knowing that returning to the outside world might mean the end of his peaceful life in Ta Lo. He wasn't sure he wanted to leave but his family might be in danger, and so with their safety in mind, John flew through the portal not knowing what to expect on the other side of it.

...

New York City, United States Of America.

Boom!!!.

Another building collapses to the ground. Smoke, ash and death is the scenery of the once beautiful and bustling New York city.

After the appearance of the newly awakened and extremely enhanced Yon rogg in New York, it has been destruction upon destruction. Quite literally armageddon with a spice of ragnarok itself.

Most of the superhero community had been laid waste to. They had died in the hundreds to Yon-rogg's doom beam. The last of them were still fighting the monster but things were not looking great for them. The leader of the heroic group was none other than Captain America. He unfortunately wasn't looking his best either. During the battle he had lost his shield and with it, his arm.

"Hold on!, keeping him down for a bit. Ancient one said she's going to get John, so hold on!" The hero shouted orders at the group of one hundred sorcerers currently holding the beast down with their spell formation.

Unfortunately as each second passed, the links in the formation shattered one by one until finally the entire golden formation broke apart and the force sent most of the sorcerers flying, in the process killing some of them.

With a slight shake of his head, Yon-rogg turned his ugly face towards the captain and spoke

"Who is this John you speak of?, you sound quite confident in his abilities. Could he be the homelander that I came here to defeat and conquer?"

"That's exactly who he is. And when he gets here my boy is going to beat the living hell out of your ugly ass." The angry captain replies.

"Uhm?, my boy?. You are his father?. Then you're death would anger him. Good, I want him angry and at full strength. I want a challenge." And with those words, Yon-rogg began a slow march towards the exhausted and old captain.

Wrapping his hand around the captain's throat, the beast began to slowly squeeze the life out of him, savouring every moment as life left the old man. But right before the man could finally die, a red blur smashed into him, releasing his grasp on the captain and sending him flying through scores of buildings.

"Don't touch my father, asshole." Says the newly arrived John Rogers. The punch did not leave the beast lying unconscious though and the debris around him shifted aside to reveal the completely unharmed juggernaut. With a sadistic grin, he says

"You're finally here. We have all been waiting. I hear you will be quite the challenge. Do not count on that lucky shot though, I wasn't expecting you." Another boom resounded again as the beast was once again flung of his feet and through rows of buildings. This time though the punches did not cease.

Punch after punch, simulating claps of thunder echoed through the city's deserted streets. And at the sixteenth punch, they ceased. The final one came from above the beast, plunging him hundreds of feet into the ground.

Above the ridiculously deep crater, John floated in triumph. The relief of having defeated the beast was quickly dashed as a dark chuckle reached John's super ears.

From the crater, a large bundle of bright red heat smashed into John and sent him into the planet's exosphere. John had never felt so much pain in his entire existence. It was blindingly excruciating and by the time his body smashed back into the ground, he was barely conscious.

With a bout of coughing, John slowly crawled out of the crater his body had created. But before he could take any steps forward, he was sent flying by a backhand from the beast. And like John, Yon-rogg did not let up.

Unleashing punch after punch on the so-called challenge, shockwaves spread about felling barely standing buildings in the area. With a disappointed huff, Yon-rogg finally stops at the thirty second blow. Holding the battered man in the air, he says

"You have been a disappointment. When I heard of you I thought you could do more, but this has been an absolute waste of time. Let me rid this planet of you, the strongest they have and welcome all the wasted resources here to the Kree Empire." With that said, he drops the barely conscious John to the ground and prepares to stab him with one of his bony fist. With a grunt, Yon-rogg releases the blow but before it could make contact with John, a body blocks it allowing the bony fist to tear through it rather than John.

John slowly looks up to see who sacrificed their life for his, but to John's utmost dismay the pale face of his father comes into view. Stretching a hand forward as if to grab him, Steve lets out a gasp of pain. While John shakes his head, muttering

"No dad, no! You can't die, please don't die." At this point they both knew it was inevitable but John simply couldn't accept it. And so Steve held out to him, the gift ancient one tasked him with giving John. The tesseract.

"John take this, your teacher told me you can defeat him with this. So take it and avenge me, no avenge us. And son remember I will always love you."

With tears streaking down his face and in silence, John watched as the light left his father's eyes. The man's lips were curved in that supportive smile he always gave him when he was a child. But his eyes were now forever and ever, dead.