BXBX NOVEL Chapter 301 - Reactions (IV)
[Kamar Taj, Nepal]
The Ancient One was spending her time like any other normal day, while sipping tea and munching on potato chips. All of a sudden the Eye of Agamotto started to humm... this shocked and scared The Ancient One, after all, something like this has never happened before.
The Ancient One took off the Eye of Agamotto and started to probe it... she wanted to find out what could be happening to such an artefact. She quickly found out that there was nothing wrong with the artefact... at least not technically.
The Ancient One knew the true nature of the artefact and she knew how it worked. She also knew everything about what was inside the artefact... The Time Stone. It was not the artefact that was acting odd... It was the Stone that was acting odd.
The Ancient One wished that she could discuss about this with Luna... She was sure that Luna would have been able to help her. Still The Ancient One needed to know whatever she could find out about it decided to use the Eye of Agamotto to get some visions of the Future.
The Ancient One spent a lot of minutes trying to watch visions. What she found was even more shocking to her... She didn\'t know what to make out of the visions she just saw.
She saw Itsuki Reo, the Cosmic Entity who represented destruction absorb The Time Stone in all of her visions. In some of them she handed it to him on her own will and in some she fought which was obviously useless and he took the Stone from her cold hands.
But there was something common in all of those visions... At the end of each vision Itsuki Reo got The Time Stone and absorbed it. In some of those visions the order was different... Sometimes she saw him collecting all the Stones and absorb them and sometimes he came after The Time Stone as soon as he returned from Space.
She immediately decided that she should find more information about this. The Eye of Agamotto has always failed to show the future of Itsuki Reo until it was fixed to happen in the future... This meant that Itsuki Reo was going to collect all the Infinity Stones and absorb all of them and there was nothing she or anyone else could do to change it.
In some visions he faced a lot of challenges and in some he wasn\'t even bothered by anyone but each time he succeeded. The Ancient One released a huge sigh... She couldn\'t see anymore of the future since the Stone was absorbed by Itsuki Reo.
For now The Ancient One decided to watch what Itsuki Reo has been up to and saw him absorb The Power Stone... suddenly a dangerous thought clicked inside her mind... Is it possible that these Infinity Stones belonged to Itsuki Reo?? Was that really possible??
She had researched these Stones once out of curiosity and found that there were only a few beings who were capable of using their power without a medium. The Eye of Agamotto was a medium for using The Time Stone and Itsuki Reo just absorbed the Power Stone and he was going to absorb the other Stones too.
This was something which shouldn\'t be possible... Unless the Stones already belonged to him. She knew that something like this scenario was very unlikely but what she just saw pointed in that direction. For now she felt that she won\'t get any more answers and decided to give up.
She decided to talk with Itsuki Reo as soon as he returned. She knew that Reo wasn\'t someone evil and fighting him would be really foolish but she needed to talk with him... At least she would be able to get some answers from him.
[Sanctuary, Asteroid Field]
A being donned in battle armor was sitting on a throne that was floating in air. The being was holding a sceptre with a yellow stone embedded on it with a curious look on his face. A few moments ago the thing hummed... This caught the attention of the being.
But no matter how much the being tried he didn\'t find anything odd with the sceptre... He knew what the sceptre contained... The Mind Stone but it he didn\'t think that it was possibly the Mind Stone, after all, there was no being within this Universe who was strong enough to make an Infinity Stone react like that.
Unable to find anything the being decided to give up for now... This was something he could ponder at a later date. For now, he had more important things to do... Like search for the other Stones...
[JDEM Facility, Mojave Desert]
"So, what exactly happened here?" Fury almost growled in anger. He was currently standing in the room where the Tesseract was kept, they had to bring lights from other rooms because everything in the room was completely burnt down.
"No one knows sir" Barton answered with a serious face. Fury raised his non-existent eyebrow in his direction... The gesture meant that Barton should continue.
"Sir, no one knows what exactly happened but the researchers are saying that there was some kind of power surge from the Tesseract which caused the fire" Barton said and Fury hummed in understanding.
"So, was there anyone inside the room running tests?" Fury asked.
"No sir... The room was completely sealed. When the fire alarms went off we unsealed the room to put out the fire" Barton answered. Fury looked thoughtful for a few seconds before his head snapped towards Barton.
"I don\'t like this... but keep me posted if anything happens again" Fury growled and walked out of the room.
He didn\'t like this because he never liked not knowing and this could be a threat to Earth so he decided to keep a much closer eye on everything going on inside this research facility...
[Somewhere Unknown]
It a completely dark and barren place a red liquid hummed but there was no one around to notice it. It looked like no one had been there in thousands of years...
[Vormir]
The Soul Stone hummed when in Reo absorbed The Power Stone in another part of the Universe but no one noticed it.
Not even the so called Keeper of the Stone noticed the reaction from the Stone...
[POV Reo]
"So, you are some ancient God of Destruction?" Jean asked looking somewhat frantic. She had known that I was a Cosmic Entity but she didn\'t know stuff about the God of Creation and stuff like that so she was more than little surprised.
"Yes, that seems to be the case" I deadpanned. Nat looked towards Luna who was still playing with her new pets. I don\'t think that it was a coincidence that Luna caught a male and female and she had named them Adam and Eve. Both Adam and Eve were completely taken by Luna and won\'t leave her arms.
"It\'s just really hard to wrap my head around everything" Jean muttered.
"Well, I had never thought deeply about things like space... Though sometimes I wondered how all these planets or galaxies came into existence" Nat shrugged dismissively.
"The Phoenix said that it has been quite long since she had heard about beings like this... Apparently they stopped entering this Multiverse about billions of years ago" Jean said. She must be having a really hard time wrapping her head around all these things.
Only a couple of years ago Jean thought herself to be a human with some powers then I unlocked her memories and she found that a Cosmic Entity was stuffed inside her and now she found that her existence didn\'t mean much when everything was considered. This would obviously throw you for a loop.
"Jean, are you going to be fine?" I asked her softly.
"Yeah... Yeah... I will be fine..." Jean said with a smile and sat down beside me.
"So, what do you want to do next girls?? I mean I got what I came here for" I asked the girls and they looked thoughtful... Well except Luna, she was still playing with her pets.
"I say we spend sometime flying in space and look around" Jean said and Nat shrugged once again. I think Nat doesn\'t have many desires... She just wants to keep spying and then my eyes finally turned towards Luna... Well she was Luna.
"What do you think Luna?" Jean asked Luna when she saw that Nat wasn\'t interested.
Luna finally looked towards us and smiled innocently. "I know a place where we could go... I think all of you will love it" Luna said with a bright smile.
"Sure" Jean immediately agreed. After all, drifting through space without any destination wasn\'t a good plan.
"So do you girls want to spend the night here or leave now?" I asked the girls and this time it was Nat who answered.
"Since we aren\'t in a hurry... I say we spent our night here and leave tomorrow morning... Whenever that will be" Nat frowned at the end when she notice that the our shadows were still the same even though hours have passed since we have been on this planet.
"I also think that it would be better if we do that... Adam and Eve will get time to say goodbye to their birth planet" Luna said in a caring tone and patted both of them who looked really happy because of that.
Now that we have decided a makeshift plan... I need to plan about our future. Hmm... I have no freaking idea where The Reality Stone is so that has to wait... and Soul Stone is on Vormir and I am in no hurry to get my hands on that.
After I came back I am able to sense the locations of all the Stones except The Reality Stone and The Soul Stone. The Mind Stone is somewhere near the edge of the Universe while The Space Stone and The Time were on Earth.
I think The Reality Stone is elusive because it is stored in a completely different Space and I don\'t have any Space Powers which could be corrected right after I absorb The Space Stone. I know about Vormir and how the Soul Stone is kept but I don\'t know why I am unable to sense it. It\'s like something foreign is stopping my senses.
Hmm... Looks like that I need to do some research if I want to get The Soul Stone, after all, there is no way in hell that I will sacrifice any of my girls...