My head is ringing and I’m spinning away from the moon in slow motion. So many questions are going through my mind right now. Goat people live on the moon. Goat man just kicked me with enough force to actually hurt me. Me! who withstood 5 missiles earlier today. Does NASA know about the goat people? Does the Avengers? Fuck. World mind what was that.

[A new enemy. We will sort this out on a later date. If there are more it would not be feasible to stage a war when Thanos could arrive any day now]

Hahaha yah we can carry out a ‘righteous purge’ after we beat Thanos.

[That is reasonable.]

You know I was joking right. We won’t be killing any aliens just because they live on our moon.

[Only time will tell. If they are friendly then we charge them for living on New Nova prime territory. If they resist, we purge]

“New Nova prime. Is that what you want to call earth. Wait you want to take over earth.?”

[No, I wish to make the earth as powerful and prosperous as Xandar. I will provide the culture and technology to elevate earths status and once again establish the Nova Corps]

NICE. I get to rule a new earth.

[focus we were just attacked.]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot freaking goat men. I repositioned myself and looked for the goat man. Nothing. He was nowhere to be seen. Scan the surface of the moon.

[scanning… found a facility the size of a city. Heavily armoured and shielded. Caution is advised.]

Ok what time is it.

[1330]

All of this happened in the 2 hours since I left the hospital! This is crazy. screw the space people. I’m going to meet up with quicksilver. Its ok to run sometimes. Plus, todays my first day. I can’t be fighting moon men. Yah. I’m no wimp. I’m just cautious.

Inhumans POV

“My king. That fool Gorgon just attacked the intruder, what should we do?” the man speaking was Karnak. Even though he asked his king for an answer. He had already predicted every possible response which he would receive.

*sign language*

“Call him back immediately. If the opponent pursues. We fight” Black bolt signed the response while focusing on the screen in front of them.

“The perfect choice from the perfect King” Karnak wasn’t just praising black bolt for nothing, he had actually chosen the best option.

“GORGON, return at once! I cannot protect you forever cousin.” Karnak shouted into the microphone connecting to Gorgons earpiece.

“Sorry cousin, I couldn’t help myself” Gorgon apologised as he entered a secret hatch nearby.

Black bolt watched the intruder from the command room. Surrounding him where the members of the royal family. They watched as the intruder readjusted himself as a blue glow surrounded his body.

“Protection maybe?” Karnak couldn’t help but speculate the nature of the energy surrounding the man in space. “it would explain why he can survive in space without air”

“Incoming energy signal! Brace for impact!” Karnak shouted and everyone tensed but nothing happened. “Not an attack then. Maybe a scan?”

They watch as the intruder turned tail and flew off.

“Like a little bitch, shameful” Gorgon couldn’t resist the taunt.

“shut up you big oaf. You chased away a visitor. Big brother Black bolt never lets us go to earth and now you chase off anyone who tries to visit. I hate you” Princess Crystal complained.

“Do. You think he was an avenger. Or maybe an x-man. Do you think he knows my boyfriend?” she fired a barrage of questions at Karnak who refused to answer. The fact that the princess had a ‘boyfriend’ who lived on earth could warrant a death sentence. Luckily Medusa saw how uncomfortable he was and answered for Karnak.

“little sister you know not to speak of such matters openly. Black bolt suffers enough scrutiny from the lower caste. Your secret could bring down his rule so keep your mouth shut. To answer your questions, no he is not an avenger or at least not registered and I doubt he knows your boyfriend. Its racist to think all humans know each other. I mean what are the odds that he knows quicksilver”

Crystal nodded “True. Sorry for talking too much”

*sign language*

“not to worry Crystal your curiosity is the source of our joy never lose it” Black bolt smiled down towards Crystal. Even sitting from a pretentious throne, he had the look of a magnanimous leader.

The rest of the inhuman Royals smiled in return.

Back on Earth

“I mean its not like I’m a little bitch or anything. Who fights a whole civilization without knowledge right?... world mind?”

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[ You have been asking me to reassure your masculinity for the last 10 minutes. Insecurity is not a good trait for a Nova prime]

Sorry. Are we there yet?

[yes. The base we need to enter is just below]

Ok deactivate combat mode.

[what?]

Deactivate combat mode

[right now? We are still in the troposphere and declining]

Yes now.

[fine] I felt my armour melt away.

Shit its cold.

[yes]

Ok. Whatever. I kept on diving. Even though I know I’m safe my heart can’t stop racing.

[your body is producing adrenaline should I inhibit its secretion?]

Hell no! wow without my helmet everything seems clearer.

[explain]

The magnetic fields look clearer. Its almost as if I could touch them.

[then try]

No, I would look stupid.

[who will see your failure]

Ok, hard to argue against that. I spent the next 30 seconds grabbing at the air

[5 Kilometres until we hit the ground. We are currently falling at terminal velocity]

Shut up I’m concentrating. THERE. I held the field. I grabbed at it with both hands and pulled.

[speed decreasing. Decreasing. Freefall has stopped]

Fuck I’m floating mid-air

[you are doing it again]

Doing what

[inappropriate behaviour. You could fly before this so why are you so happy?]

Because I can fly by myself!

[you seem to be riding the earth magnetic fields. I estimate your maximum speed using this method is Mach 2 or orbital velocity. I can transcend the speed of light itself]

Show-off. Whatever. I flew down to the facility below me. To my surprise two men in security outfits flew towards me.

“who are you?” the man who looked like a tetradactyl asked spoke first.

“P-POLARIS! Quicksilver has requested my presence” shit I fucking stuttered.

“Hahaha easy kid we where expecting you. Magnetos boy huh?” the dino-guard looked me up and down

“Stop it Sauron you’re scaring him” this time the man with angel wings spoke.

“Sorry Mimic. I forget that I’m a lot to take in at first sight. especially for newbs” Sauron laughed while eyeing me.

“Follow us” Mimic then led me to a room inside the facility which looked so sterile that it reminded me of the hospital I just left right down to the smell.

Before I could ask why I way here quicksilver appeared before me. “Hey lil bro, I saw you fly in. badass. I thought you were going to mess around a bit then call big bro for a lift. Its only been a few hours you must be fast. Well not fast fast but fast enough you know?”

“Hahaha yah I know. So why am I here. Is this a hospital?” quicksilver didn’t answer my question. Instead he closed the doors and disappeared.

When he reappeared, he spoke “Sorry I was just checking the room for bugs. Plus, I had to switch off every recording device on the facility. Now sit down what I’m about to tell you will literally break your world”

I braced myself. Quicksilvers childish attitude and demeanour disappeared. He was serious

“You know I wished you would never activate your abilities. I wanted at least one member of our family to live oblivious. Happy. Unaware of the madness that is life.” Quicksilver paced around the room. He looked sad. why?

“The world you lived in was a lie. Life isn’t black and white. Its only grey. You have heard about the x-men and the brotherhood, right? Have you ever wondered why I’m an x-man but I work closely with the brotherhood?”

“Because of dad?”

“No, its because the X-men and the Brotherhood are two sides of the same coin. We pretend to be at war so that the humans don’t attack us. Magneto and Professor Xavier are close. Close enough that dad would rather lose one of us than him. Fucked up right? Anyway, that’s just the first secret.”

“there is a powerful mutant called Apocalypse who has been alive since the beginning of mutant kind. His goal is the extermination or enslaving of humans. He is our boss. Yes, you heard me right. He is in charge of the X-men and the Brotherhood. Which is funny because at one point we teamed up to kill apocalypse. Why is he alive after we killed him you ask? Good question. The answer is Jean Grey”

“she is a powerful mutant. Strong enough to kill apocalypse ten times over. She used to be one of the good guys until she unlocked her hidden power. She calls it the phoenix force”

[NO!]

What’s wrong

[If the phoenix force is on earth then you will never rule here. It is all encompassing. All destroying. All creating. It is stronger than Thanos]

“So, Jean uses the Phoenix force to keep Apocalypse in check. Well not just him all of the selected ss well” quicksilver gestured towards himself.

“who are the selected?” I needed to know

“well you just joined us. Think of it this way Jean is at the leader she has a left- and right-hand man. Her left-hand man is called Deadpool. A true agent of chaos. Sick bastard is a psychopath. But he is funny not much is known about his team. Jeans right hand man is Apocalypse. Apocalypse has four guardians which he bestows an increase of power to. Two belong to the x-men and two are with the brotherhood. Each of these four guardians are only allowed to tell the truth of the world to their team.”

“I have tried researching as much about the teams and guardians as I could but I couldn’t get much. It goes like this” quicksilver disappeared and reappeared with a board with a hastily drawn table on it

JEAN GREY DEADPOOL APOCALYPSE DOMINO STORM ROUGUE MAGNETO PROFESSOR X ???? RAVEN,???? ???? ME, YOU & WANDA BEAST, LOGAN, CYCLOPS,????

“OK hope you got it Jeans on top followed by Apocalypse and Deadpool. Apocalypses generals are professor x, Magneto, Storm and Rogue who is Jeans bodyguard. Every general has a team of four. these are just the people I know” quicksilver gave me time to take it all in.

“So, Magneto chose his children to be a part of his team. How does that work. Isn’t Scarlet witch an avenger.?”

“No matter who you are once you have been selected you are a part of the Phoenix. We are her ‘agents of life and death’. Its nothing much really you just follow what she says and live life normally afterwards”

“And why are we here?” I motioned towards the empty sterile room.

Instantly there was a machine at the centre of the room and beside it a metal briefcase.

“Ok I walked into that one, is that a tattoo machine?” I pointed at the futuristic tattoo machine.

“Yah kind of. I told you that Professor x and Phoenix bitch are mind readers / mind controllers. Well they manipulated the stark family a while back into researching different types of inventions. After a while Stark started getting suspicious and created nanotech which resists neural interference. I stole his tech for dad and the other generals now all of the selected have this nanotech protecting their minds in the form of permanent tattoos. Now what sort of tattoo would you like?”

*see previous chapter to see tattoos and yes it includes the sclera tattoo*

“Ok now you look like a suuuuper goth. Good for you. Want anything else?” quick silver worked fast.

“Ah yes I want a few piercings.”

*Again, see previous chapter for piercings*

“Fuck that was fast its like I’m playing GTA. Do you do hair cuts as well?” I said this as a joke but he pulled out a pair of clippers.

“Shit you came ready.” I had to give the man his props.

*SERIOUSLY CHECK THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER TO SEE HIS HAIRCUT*

“Ok, now that your mind is safe its time for your vitamins” quicksilver pulled out a huge injection.

“What is that for!” I started to feel squeamish. That needle was not normal

“How long have the X-men been around?” quicksilver asked me a random question out of nowhere. Maybe he is trying to distract me from the needle

“uhm 1962.” I still remembered our school textbook said something about a fight on an island.

“Yah dad must have been like twenty something when that happened. That was 57 years ago! How is magneto still a threat if he’s like 80?”

“I don’t know maybe his powers mature with age?”

“Shut up. It’s because of this” he motioned for the injection “it’s a super serum we mind controlled Tony Starks dad into making. If a normal human takes it, they become Captain America! If a mutant takes it all we don’t gain any enhancements. We get a little thing I like to call eternal youth or immortality. Don’t get me wrong a bullet can still kill you, its just that old age wont. I’m actually in my 50’s” I can’t even begin to process what quicksilver is saying.

“wait then the whole story about you and Wanda’s parents was- “

“A lie yes. Wanda needed a good cover story to join the avengers so we made one up. It’s a mission Phoenix gave her”

“so why does she hate me. Is that a cover too?”

“no, she’s just bitchy that way. Hates competition for dad’s attention. Now bend over, just kidding. I injected you before the conversation started. You are good to go. Now its time to meet dad”

“Hey bro before we go, I want to show you something” if I can’t trust my brother with my secret then I can’t trust anyone.

“Dude I am not checking out your dick. If you have any problems see a doctor”

In that moment I transformed into Nova.

“Ok that’s new”