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Chapter 66
Technomancer in MCU
–Ed–
As he dive-bombed towards the wreckage of the once state-of-the-art carriers, he noted the law enforcement crowd that was trying to cautiously approach the HQ of S.H.I.E.L.D. It was understandable after all, up until an hour ago, that agency was able to lord over nearly every single law enforcement agency in the world.
Somebody had noticed him because simultaneously, all of the members began looking up and pointing at him. Not in the mood to handle that situation, he just landed roughly on the tarmac, his jet landing gracefully behind him. With his HUD, he could see the same three carriers he had used to generate the forcefield that covered the entirety of upper Manhattan during the Battle of New York, just floating above him in stealth mode. From the corner of his HUD, he could also see another one of the company’s assets floating down. Confused as to what more could be coming, he opened it only for his eyes to widen to comical proportions as Alfred had called down the supercarrier of all things!
“I know what you are going to say but trust me on this, we might need it.” Alfred probably already noticed me accessing that data and tried justifying himself beforehand.
“We might need it? Alfred, we built that thing in case we need it to fight against Thanos and his army, not to be used on Earth. That thing is a planet buster for god’s sake. And how the hell did you override my protocols of the supercarrier never touching down on Earth?” I said out loud, not understanding Alfred’s choices of late.
“Ah,” He could also feel the smugness coming from Alfred, “but that’s where you are wrong, my dear creator. The protocols you hardcoded into my source code can be interpreted in many ways. The discretion of which remains solely in my hands and thus, I have interpreted it so that the carrier need not touch the ground of Earth and can float even 10 feet above the ground level on the planet.”
He just shook his head in defeat, “You know what? I give up. Just where are you coming from that it is taking so long to reach here?”
Just then, a portal opened up in front of him, and through that came Alfred who was carrying the Ten Rings for some reason. Before he could ask more about that though, Alfred opened up another portal beside him and threw the rings and another box through it, to where he did not know.
Now that he could take a good look at what Alfred had done, he had to say that it was majestic to look at. While Alfred had chosen to take on the same face as his digital avatar, the old butler persona with the three-piece suit, he could see the thin lines criss-crossing the entirety of his body, suggesting his cybernetic nature. Activating his HUD, he saw the information Alfred had already uploaded for his viewing.
His eyes widened when he saw the infinity stone energy signature but exhaled in relief when he realised that he only used it to jumpstart the 16th Gen Arc-Reactor that Alfred had built, which allowed the arc reactor to last even longer but realistically it was done more for the overall increased energy output rather than the longevity since even the regular Arc reactor would last well into a century. As he was going over the list of materials that Alfred had used for his new body, he saw, “So you went with the enriched celestial cerebrospinal fluid route. I must say that does limit your future ascension possibilities but does synergise perfectly with your current abilities. And not to mention the fact that should Arishem discover us, we might just be wiped out without even completing our first goal.”
Alfred rolled his eyes at me, seriously now that he had an actual body, he was free to act like a true teenager, “You know that I would not make such an elementary mistake. The cerebrospinal fluid and the will within it were neutralised using a combination of curses that I had already stored in a vibranium jar during one of our hell visits and I am so tightly wound up in runes right now that it would be near impossible to sense me from far away and Arishem would have to be standing in front of me to properly judge me. And,” while saying that, he waved his right hand in the clockwise direction and then as if the timeline jerked, green symbols, not unlike the ones that appear when somebody uses the eye of Agamotto, appeared on Alfred’s wrist and a sphere of green energy appeared in front of him, in which he threw a small stone. Then, he turned his hands in the clockwise direction, the more he turned the higher the energy count he could sense coming from Alfred, and after a while, the sphere dissipated into green motes of light and soon, all that remained of that stone was dust. “Ta-da!” he says.
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He chuckled alongside him. The significance of this event was not lost on him. Alfred had managed to duplicate or at least perform the same function as an Infinity Stone all the while only using Magic to fulfill the energy requirements. That must be the achievement of the century, even in Kamar Taj.
“Congratulations are in order, Master Alfred.” said the Ancient One as she stepped out of the golden portal, “Though I’ll have to ask you to refrain from using that magic for showmanship and only reserve it for truly urgent situations. You’ll soon receive the robes to show you are a true Master of the Mystic Arts, probably even surpassing me in the fields of Runes and Runic Applications. Master Kabir would be very excited to discuss that with you.”
He had turned around, surprised at not sensing her portal opening. She must have developed some new way to mask the portal's opening and closing from him and his technology as it was a sort of game that they both played as it helped both of them develop better sensing technology and better cloaking spells respectively. But Alfred did not seem surprised to see her, indicating that he had already surpassed any tech that Ed possessed to sense her.
His mystical senses must have been amped up ridiculously then because there was no way the average Master could sense the Ancient One coming if she did not allow that.
“I’m sure you have all the prerequisite knowledge and skills to accomplish your goal now?” The Ancient One asked Alfred to which he replied, “Yes, I just need to collect a few more things and I’ll be soon on my way.”
“Ah, the Eternity Shards. Do be careful with them, Master Alfred. While I cannot tell you to do anything, I can advise you that dealing with the Endless always ends in tragedy, in some form or other so be prepared to deal with the consequences.” His pupils dilated and his hair stood on end as soon as the Ancient One mentioned the Endless and for a while, he could feel an overwhelming, otherworldly gaze on them that passed away after a while. Only when the gaze went away did he realise that he was breathing heavily and his palms and forehead had become all sweaty.
He was about to tell Alfred to stay away from anything related to the Endless when he heard a whooping sound coming from their comms. Alfred looked up at that sound so he did the same only to see Daisy barreling straight down towards Alfred, who merely stepped to the side one step, resulting in the comical scene of Daisy’s face being buried in the earth with her feet dangling out. He could see the faint twitching of Ancient One’s lips as she tried to stifle her laughter but the same could not be said for Eric who was doubling down in laughter as he landed behind him with Frank alongside him.
Just like one would in a cartoon world, Daisy put both of her arms on the ground and pushed herself out of the hole her head had created. Upon getting out of it, she tried to glare at us for not helping her but due to the dirt on her face, Eric began laughing even harder while holding his stomach. He tried his best but a muffled chuckle still came out of him and even Frank. Upon noticing us laughing at them and even Alfred joining in on the fun, she stomped on her way to Alfred, which was made all the more noticeable due to the subtle applications of her powers that resulted in minor tremors every time she took a single step and then just slapped him in the face.
He winced as he remembered the composition of Alfred’s body and how much force it would take to actually hurt Alfred. He could not imagine Daisy’s pain but what he imagined didn’t actually happen. She slapped Alfred but due to the usage of her powers, a pocket of air blasted off of Alfred’s face due to the amount of force she put in the blow which resulted in a shockwave that, hilarious enough, pushed her back a few steps while Alfred remained in the same position while looking at her with a haughty look.
As they were laughing and talking about with each other, Alfred got an alert so he opened up another portal, which was much bigger this time, he noted and the Royal Family of Attilan came floating on one of the floating carriages they had built on the New Attilan.
“King Black Bolt and Queen Medusa, I hope the mission was a success?” He asked them and after receiving a nod as confirmation, he said, “Ready for the next phase of the plan?”
He then looked at Alfred who nodded at him and decloaked the three carriers but not the supercarrier that was floating even above the carriers. Upon doing that, he could see the news helicopter that was filming them suddenly turn up and away from the Triskelion building.
As they all floated up towards the carrier so that the public announcement could be made, he sent an email to the President, scheduling a meeting with him and all of the state heads at the UN later in the day and he made sure to emphasise that it was not optional. He was done playing politicians’ games. It did nothing but waste time and energy that he could devote elsewhere, especially, since he had so little of both left.
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Word Count - 1805
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