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  Kamar Taj [July 2015]

  –Jack Sullivan–

  “Master Sullivan, you do always e with the of surprises,” He was greeted by the absolutely dry voice of the A One once he arrived at the training stage, the spot most visited by the Sorcerer Supreme as she watched over the crop of initiates, from whom the group of Masters would e.

  Unfortunately, he khat this group would not have the pleasure of hosting the Sorcerer Supreme, and so did the A O that did not stop her from frequenting the same spot, overlooking the same training of the same average talented initiates for some reason.

  “Uh. Yeah, so I kinda need a favour from you,” He said as he retrieved the box that taihe Power Stone. A gift that was also a big fuck you since he could not open the box and use the Stohout alerting the Xandar Empire about it and sequently, their allies as well that it was the Green Guardian of Earth who was after the Infinity Stones, and not the purple S himself.

  “I was not talking about the Infinity Stone, Master Sullivan,” She said as she waved her hand, c the tainer in a soft e glow as it rotated in front of her. Multiple glyphs appeared on the surface of the tainer before they all verged into a single circur symbol that glowed a deep red before it dissipated, leaving a mark on the tainer, which he was sure was made from some Vibranium alloy.

  She then floated the tainer right ba. He could see the tainer en to him now, with the energy of the Infinity Stone almost gushing out if it were not for the barrier that the A One had cast around them the moment he had arrived. He covered the tainer in one of his barriers as he finally got the opportunity to get a long deserved power up.

  It was only then that the A One’s words caught up to him, causing him to look up at her in fusion.

  “What?”

  “Thor Odinson, Master Sullivan. The Thor you have brought back is quite different from the one you met during the Invasion of New York, as I am sure you must have noticed,”

  And notice, he did. How could he not? What with Thor suddenly gaining the ability to perform magic as if he had been doing it since birth and on a scale that would be more suitable for Odin in his prime rather than Thor who hadn’t even ied the Odin Force yet. The sheer ease with which he summohe Bi Frost was as arming as it was exg.

  Another powerful ally in the fight against Thanos and He, and all the things that went bump in the night.

  “Yes, I did but for now, I have chosen to ighe ges. Do you know what exactly happeo him?” He wasn’t going to ask Thor about it but if the A One knew something about it, which she probably did, then it was fine.

  “Yes…but not much. My sight grows blurry around the God of Thunder, his immense power cloaking him from my sight. Still, what I do know is that the Thor you met is not just ohor but the amalgamation of multiple Thors, made ohrough sheer happenstand the will of all the other Thors to die,”

  He blinked in fusion.

  What the fuck?

  That…raised more questions than it answered and now he was really curious as to what happened a, he had a hunch that Thor would not be really receptive to his questions.

  Oh, well. Something for Future Jack to worry about then.

  For now, it OWER-UP time.

  “Oo-kay, that’s odd. Anyway, I will be iual room. See ya!” He shouted and dashed into the ritual room, setting the isotion to the max.

  Once firmed that the room was w as it should, he covered the tainer in his barriers and theended his barriers, slowly, into the now open tainer. He slowly, steadily, let his barrier touch the Power Stone.

  The oute was….underwhelming.

  Sure, he felt the energy flow and the barrier line ected to the Stone began glowing purple but it was nothing like what he had expected. It was not as absurd or dramatic as it should be.

  Maybe, something was wrong in his approach? Maybe he needed direct tact?

  Hesitantly, he removed the Power Stone from the tainer, covered the stoirely in his barriers a float above his open palm. He gulped, feeling his hair rise on end as the sheer energy of the Stone suffused the atmosphere around him.

  He just hoped that he didn't do something that bleart the ritual room. The Power Stoainly seemed like one of the few things in the universe that could do that level of damage to something that was built by Agamotto himself.

  “Well, time to find out,” He muttered to himself as he removed all the barriers c his hand, and slowly maneuvered the Power Stht above his open palm, just waiting to be dropped. Damn, he had never really e so close to an Infinity Stoentionally. His st experience left him half dead, all the while making him feel so much pain that his mind bcked out, and couldn't think of doing anything else.

  He took a deep breath and just…let it go. He dropped the Power Stone on his palm. He could wat slow motion as arcs of power raced out of the Stoowards his palm, as if joining the two together even before they made tact.

  And the sed the Power Stone made tact with his skin, his vision bcked out. All he could see urple. He could feel the sheer amount of energy c through his body. He could also feel all that energy being automatically siphoned by his barriers and dispersed, without any scious input from his side. Slowly, he blinked as his vision adjusted, or rather, his nervous system adjusted to the sensation of having so much power running through his body.

  He looked at himself and saw his hand having criss crossing purple veins of power that dimihe lohey went up his arms. His barriers helped a lot in that regard, by dispersing all that power.

  Well, at least he didn’t spontaneously explode on the spot. That would have been terrible.

  He grinned as he created a barrier around his arm, but with the Stoill making tact with his body. He could feel the toll it was taking on his body and he khat he could not keep this up indefinitely but it was more than enough time for him to make some actual differen the fight.

  Time to test it out then.

  He tried to cast a spell, the easiest spell, the Tao Manda. They weren’t even a spell, just scious expression of dimensional energy given form.

  And….he failed.

  His brows furrowed as he tried, again and again, to trol the flow of dimensional energy to create the Tao Mandas but nope. No luck. He tried other spells, some easier thahers but evehe result was the same.

  He could not cast spells while having the Power Stone equipped. Well, it did disrupt and overwhelm all the other energy sources in his body just by its sheer volume so there was that. Only his barriers were able to coexist with the votile energy of the Power Sto would seem.

  He looked at the ent e sparks, even as he rotated his left arm while imagining the location he had dropped into the most, Kamar Taj, and sighed. Nothing involving Dimensional energy be used while he was using the Power Stone.

  Or more accurately, dimensional energy spells could not be used yet. He could feel that with enough practice, he could wrahe Power Stone's energy enough that he might be able to cast the Tao Mandas.

  But that was a moot point anyway. He didn’t hat much versatility going forward. He needed pure power and the Power Stone was the definitive ao his question. So, he fell ba his innate powers.

  His barriers.

  He cast a medium sized Gundam around himself, nothiraordinary. Simple shroud with unbreakable barriers. He then pulled the energy from the Power Stone all around him. He could see, from the exploratory barrier he had cast in front of him, the veins of purple that now adorhe Gundam. He could also feel the power output being increased by a lot.

  Before, he had to rely oia, momentum, and whatever kiic bursts he could create to exert force with his barriers. He mostly relied on the sharpness of his barriers rather than the force with which he could hit them.

  But now? Now he could hit someoh even the lightest of toud they would most likely vaporise, due to the sheer energy output from his Gundam.

  He winced as he felt the energy from the Power Story to overwhelm his barriers. It could not do it yet, he still had hours, if his calcution was correct but it was going to be something that he was going to have to get used to. Having to sciously bahe energy flow from the Power Stoh the number of barriers he had cast at any given time.

  “Alright, step. Mirror Dimension,” he grinned as this was the favourite part of his power testing. Wanton and utter destru at first and then figured out the trol aspect as he went oroying vast swathes of cities at once.

  He covered the Power Stone in his barrier, lifted it from his body, sighed in relief as he immediately felt the load on his body lessen, and then dropped it bato the tainer. Sealing the taiight in his barriers, he went out and after making sure that the ritual room had properly absorbed the residual Power Stone energy, opened a portal to the mirror dimension and floated right into it.

  He noticed that even after he had removed the Power Stone from his system, he could feel a slight imban the way dimensional energy flowed throughout his body. Hmm, something to think of ter on.

  “Let’s do this,” he muttered as he equipped the Power Stone, created a Large gundam around himself, and floated right into the Himayas.

  Taking a deep breath, he let the energy from the Power Stone loose into the ey of the Gundam. Immediately, he could feel the snow around him sizzle as a deep purple glow was cast into the valley he was floating in.

  “Show time,” he grinned as he created a sword around his Gundam. That si would have required some mental gymnasti bang the power from the Sto this ohing was saving him that trouble.

  His entire Gundam was now tinuously releasing waves of energy from the Power Stone, essentially bleeding off all the excess energy tinuously. This was more taxing than just mentally bang it but it was much faster and much more battle worthy.

  The sword was created and he didn’t even sharpen it all that much, just let the Power Stone energy flow through it, making it glow mostly purple.

  Then…

  He blinked in fusion and awe as the mountain, which he had sshed with his sword, just…ceased to exist.

  Oh yeah. He grinned menagly, as he dispelled the sword, increased the flow of energy all around his Gundam, and just rammed into the mountain ranges, or at least, he tried to anyway. All matter disied as soon as it came into tact with the Gundam’s shroud, which sisted of both, the excess energy bleed-off, and the scious flow of Power Stone energy.

  Damn, he could get used to this. Literally deleting small towns off the map simply by flying through them. Or destroying Sanctuary II, Thanos’ fgship spaceship, by simply flying through it, while releasing scious bursts of Power Stone energy.

  He grimaced, as a beat resounded in his body, with the Gundam simply dispelling on its own. He covered the Power Stone in his barrier and cut off all energy flow with difficulty as apparently, his body reached its limits within an hour of high iy usage. In that hour though, he had wiped out the Himayan range in its ey, in the mirror dimension of course.

  He slowly sat dout the Stone bato its tainer.

  This was harder than he had expected it to be. He hadn’t eveed the energy beam aspect of the Power Stone. If he could create multiple barriers and then shoot giant fuck off beams through them, then he would be a mobile assault system, with the perfect defense sinything that came close to his shroud would find itself disied due to the sheer energy of the Power Stone.

  Despite the clear exhaustion, so much so that even opening a portal felt difficult to him, he smiled. A genuine smile, filled with relief.

  He had it. Finally, a way to definitely destroy Thanos and his forces, is to actually make a giant differen the final fight.

  Not that he ever intehanos to ever reach that level. The first thing he was going to do, once he was recovered, is meet Thor, try to see if Thow would be ameo sharing what the fuck that happeo him, and then move to either Asgard or directly to Nidavellir if Thor could once agaihe Bi Frost without any equipment.

  A feat that should have been impossible for the current Thor, without the Stormbreaker anyway. The memory of that proje of Stormbreaker was still fresh in his mind and that too only added more questions than it answered.

  “Welp, time to leave,” he once again surveyed the sheer destru left in the wake of his power testing and opened a portal straight to the Aveower. It wouldn’t do for Tony to annoy Thor into erasing Manhattan off the map, however unlikely it might be.

  Tony was a genius unlike any other but his talent in pissing people off was something that could not possibly be replicated anywhere in the universe.

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