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  Birnin Zana, Wakanda [October 2014]

  –Jack Sullivan–

  Well, it was nice of them to vacate the entire meeting room. He’d hate to deal with more people than absolutely necessary. The more people knew about Wanda, the riskier the ehing became.

  He could still remember the bnk vat gazes of all the Avengers, sans Bruce, as they tried to attack him haphazardly.

  Ohing that tio gnaw at him about the enter in Aveower was the utter ck of pnning for it. It was as if she just ordered them to attack him, and that’s it. Either her mind trol robbed the target of their iy and made them take the backseat in their own mind or she just purposely robbed them of the ability of using their abilities at the highest level.

  Tony, for example, could have taken trol of the vast amount of onry hidden in the walls of the Tower, or the Captain could have taken position with the Shield ready to decapitate him. Barton could have hidden himself at a vantage point.

  He truly did not know what had entered her mind to not just attack Aveower but also take down Jarvis with it, and then escape with the Hulk.

  The Hulk was the one person whose mind trol could not be silehe avatar e would simply shrug off the mind haze, increasing his rage in a way that all other emotions would simply slide off his mind, leading to a se of absolute devastation.

  But when he came to the Tower, Bruce was o be seen. It was as if he was targeted somehow, or maybe he was ralised first and then taken because he was the most dangerous of the lot and she wished to deprive the Avengers of one of its stro members?

  “Now, I assume that the Earth itself is in danger for you to be running around the globe with panicked desperation that I had not expected to see in someone of your powers,” T’Chaka intoned as he sat ohrone, with T’Chaka standing at his side.

  He had to hand it to these guys, they did things with style. The subtle shadows in the room made the empty room feel much tehan it was.

  As for T’Chaka’s question, “You are correct, King T’Chaka. As of 3 ho, I entered ay that had no pce existing at this point in time. Capable of mass mind trol, telekinesis, cyber interfag, and all arouy ing, it would not be wrong to say that the individual is currently the most dangerous human on the p.”

  He nodded after seeing the father son Bck Panther duo pale when he mentioned reality ing as one of owers.

  I assume you have satellite footage of my as taken in Novi Grad?

  “Yes but the strange red nd is hardly enough evideo decre someone of iy as we know it,” T’Chaka said, skeptical of his cims and…fair, he had every right to be suspicious of something like that eveing iside world.

  But the truth was that he had no time to deal with things. He heir help and while a long winded expnation might help speed things up, other things worked just as well when it came to getting the support of an absolute monarchy.

  “Look, I know it might not look like it but I know what I saw and I would prefer your support in the fight but as things stand, you will not be able to help much, if at all. I just need you to make sure that the Avengers are safe and sound, while increasing vigil across the try, while monit any signifit event happening iside world,” He said abruptly, his patience wearing thin in the face of the skepticism dispyed by the aged King.

  It was not his fault. Even as old as Wakanda was, and how old their records might be, there must hardly be aion of magic at all, let alone Agic being used as a tool to reality itself.

  “O-okay. Very well, we will make sure that the try is pletely locked down. Do you need any help in disarming the ores of the world? Because you mentioned Jarvis to my daughter, I assume that anything ected to the digital world is promised then?” T’Chaka asked him gravely.

  He did a double take at the entire line of questioning.

  “You do that?”

  “We do that?”

  He looked at the equally surprised T’Chal who asked his father in a fbbergasted voice. T’Chaka sighed and looked at both of them, replying.

  “Yes, a few years back, we figured out how to disable any surface to air missile that be uhat was based on an algorithm that we purposefully let the US Military use, ohat was much more advahan their usual trag algorithms.

  Of course, the cept had already been used and discarded by us but we khe ins and outs of the trag algorithm. We phe cept of the algorithm in the military and now, we remotely disable any missile, nuclear or otherwise, within minutes of them ung, provided we act swiftly,”

  T’Chaka said with the air of a man who just signed his owh warrant.

  He blinked in fusion, only for realistion to hit him like a ton of bricks. His brows furrowed as he looked at king T’Chaka in fusion.

  Why would he admit to something like that, especially to his face?

  He almost flinched as T’Chal lept in front of him, holding a bat pose as he tried to shield his father from his rage, or rather, the rage that both of them were expeg to erupt out of him. He could feel the fear and resignation wafting off both son and father, as they expected him to go on a rampage.

  Holy, what was the man thinking? Revealing such a bombshell at such a bad time?

  The expected explosion e never happened as he simply sighed, tired of all the bullshitery going on around him, and said, “While that is certainly disappointing, I only hope that T'Chal, as the new King, will make better decisions in his reign. And yes, please keep an eye on all the known stockpiles. If the time es, something like that could happen. The ces of that happening were very low but we are dealing with someone who manipute probability like it was their bitch,” He said and turned around, not sparing the king annce.

  The fucker could have stopped that missile. He was not angry because he was the one who suffered because of the attao, he was angry because it might have been true in the timeline as well and that meant that this man watched as the Avengers fought a losing battle and still didn’t do anything to stop the nuke from reag Manhattan.

  Or did he also believe that the nuke would do any sort of substantial damage to the ongoing invasion? Did Wakandands not have absolutely better ted intelligence?

  He took a deep breath, opened a portal to Aveower and stepped through, he had to get some fresh air a some clues as well.

  For one, where ietro? Why did she take Bruce with her? Could she trol the Hulk as well?

  If that was the case, theied Bruce even more. The man already feared a part of his alter ego. It would do his mind no good to spend even more time uhe trol of another vilin.

  Pietro was also another mystery iuation as well. Logic dictated that if things turned out the same as , Pietro should also be with Wanda.

  With the sceptre in her hands, presumably, he had not seen it being used by her, nor had the A One, she could have made Brupliant. Pietro was not signifit because of his bat potential as a speedster but because of his retionship with Wanda.

  If he remembered correctly, Wanda was not born the Scarlet Wito, she was made into one because of the back to back tragedies in her life.

  Each tragedy happened just as she was healing from her previous wounds. Precious people were stolen from her life just as she was about to get some sembnce of life.

  Pietro when she lost her parents.

  Vision when she lost Pietro.

  Her kids and reanimated Vision when she lost the love of her life, Vision.

  Good Lord, the woman had her fair share edies. He wouldn’t fault her for being grumpy but doing something like this was uable.

  He looked to the Tower and spread his barriers to get a general idea of the situation. His eyes narrowed as he realised the eower was closed down. More than that, there was no power to the entire building.

  The Arc Reactor was still active and supplying energy to the city but all the things that made Aveower the most teologically advanced building in the Uates were shut off. There were no personnel in the building as well.

  He had to wonder if Pepper had taken the decision. He should probably warn her as well. He was about to create another portal when he paused and looked up, his senses warning him of something approag him at high speeds.

  He didn’t even have to use his observation barriers as the familiar colour scheme told him exactly who or what was ing. The droform came to a stht in front of him, the at lights blinking in the signature e color of Jarvis.

  “Hello, Jarivs, I am gd to see you are alright.” He said to Jarvis as he ied the makeup of the drone and the speed with which it was deployed.

  It would seem that Tony had figured out Orbital ptform delivery much earlier than he did in the movies.

  “Hello, Mr.Sullivan. I’m sorry but my memory banks are somewhat fuzzy when it es to the events that transpired atop the Tower. you please firm if Mr.Stark is safe or not?” Jarvis asked him as another drone found itself near him, this one blinking with purple highlights, as it seemed tent to let Jarvis do all the talking.

  “Yes, Tony is safe. I ’t yet release him because of the suspected mind trol but I assure you, he is absolutely safe. You tell Pepper that she rex and safely focus on the pany,”

  “Now, Jarvis, what the hell happehere?” He asked Jarvis though he had a hunch what had happened.

  It stands to reason that if he could somehow cast a spell, granted with aid the energies from an Infinity Stohat could i with a strictly digital entity, Wanda should also be able to do the same. Her bullshit powers probably did it all for her on the fly.

  Fug agic.

  He listeo Jarvis’ words as he told him his side of the story. So, they had lost all tact almost as soon as they had nded in front of the castle. The description of the effect of Wanda’s spell on Jarvis’ digital space was enlightening. That robably the reason why the Tower’s defenses were not actively used against him.

  “Alright, Tony is safe. I assume you are actively looking for the perpetrator?” He asked Jarvis, who was currently projeg a visual representation of the digital corridor that the wave of red had taken hold of.

  The thing about being an AI meant that in addition to having perfect memory, Jarvis could recreate his entire memory on demand. The red firmed Agic but the question remained, did Jarvis have any idea where Wanda currently was?

  “Unfortunately, Mr.Sullivaher the myriad cameras oower nor any cameras iirety of the city mao capture any suspicious individual who could have done all that damage so my searet has holes that ot be plugged because of inplete information,” Jarvis’ voice spoke from the Drone, his main mind already doing a thousand other things no doubt.

  “I see. Well, let me give you a feoints. Late Teen to early twenties. Female. Caucasian. Average Height. Red eyes. Sokovian in in. See if the name Wanda Maximoff pings anywhere but the st part could be wrong,”

  The lights on the drone blinked rapidly as he told Jarvis everything he could about Wanda, even though he khat she would not use normal methods of transportation.

  “Very well. This should help narrow the search signifitly. Mr.Sullivan, I would like to know when Mr.Stark will be ready to return to active duty. I tact you using this?” Jarvis asked as a portion on the back of the drone’s body slid off and a small arm came out holding a small lighter shaped block.

  He created a barrier on top of which the lighter was dropped, the barrier then brought it to him.

  “This is an advanced unications tool, built with all the test transpohat I could design and build,”

  “Very well,” he accepted the unication devid then watched as both the drohen bsted back up into space. He then looked at the device for a moment before slipping it into his pocket and creating a portal to the ship kept uer.

  He had to che on Jessica Jones.

  In all the rush, he had actually pushed her down to the priority list but he couldn’t really keep her hostage, now could he?

  He might also have to hand her over to Wakanda, they were the only ones he knew who could heal the extensive damage that might have occurred to her mind,save for the A O that was a ndmine he didn't know how to disarm without blowing up his retionship with the A One.

  He paused mid step as the portal closed behind him as a thought fshed through his mind.

  Wasn’t he just handing over enhanced individuals, both natural and artificial, to Wakanda on a silver ptter?

  Damn.

  The good news was that the pod could clusively say that Jessica Jones’ brain activity was entirely of her own. It reeked of depression and ay but the thoughts were her own.

  Well, guess who had a shit ton of therapy to gh before she could gain some sembnce of a normal thought process and brain chemical position.

  Once again and he couldn’t overstate it enough, Damn.

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