Clean up and Aftermath

After the battle, things went back to normal relatively quickly. The team went their separate ways mostly after Thor left with Loki. I gave Steve he Address to Peggy's healthcare facility so he could see her, Barton and Romanoff were off doing SHIELD things, Stark went back to his tower, and Banner decided to take me up on my offer of working at Oscorp. Introducing him to Dr. Connors and Dr. Octavius was amazing. They immediately started geeking out about various scientific fields. I would have joined, but I had a few things to work on. First and foremost, something for Bruce to use to keep himself calm.

Unfortunately I can't be around every time he Hulks out, so I need a better and more permanent solution. The drug that I used for Connors and Greer won't work either as this is a completely different form of mutation, I would need to start from scratch if I were to create a serum to fix that, though knowing the Hulks healing factor and resilience, I doubt that would work long without him either burning through the serum or completely resisting it altogether.

Next option was to use the mind stone.

Hell no.

Not only no, but Hell no. I had no idea how to control it in the least, I may end up locking him in a perpetually angry state instead of keeping him calm.

So that leaves the last item on my list. Enchanting mixed with a bit of technology. I know it can be done, because in the comics everyone in Wakanda had a device on their arms allowing them to know their own health at all time. If I can alter that design a bit and make it into a calming device as well…

I think I just found the answer to my problem.

Besides working on a way to keep Banner from letting loose some steam, I also was able to finally cure Dr. Doom of his powers. I still kept him under ice for now, but maybe I will be able to release him soon.

I also helped in the clean up as Alex Osborn while also keeping a certain winged villain from becoming too big of a nuisance.

"Attention, please! In accordance with Executive Order 396-B, all post-battle clean-up operations are now under our jurisdiction. Thank you for your service; we'll take it from here." I hear as I walk through the construction site, wearing a hard hat, T-shirt and jeans.

"Who the hell are you?" Adrian Toomes, the future villain known as the Vulture asks.

"Qualified personnel." One of the Damage Control agents say.

"Hey. I have a city contract to salvage all this, the city sa-" he tries before being interrupted.

"I apologize Mr. Toomes. But all salvage operations are now under our jurisdiction." The main woman in charge says. Damn you Tony. You try to help, but just end up making things worse. "Please hand over any and all exotic materials that you have collected, or you will be prosecuted."

"Ma'am, Wait a minute." He tries to get her attention. "Please, come on… Please, I could lose my house!"

"I'm sorry Mr. Toomes. There is nothing I can do." She replies as she turns around and stars walking out.

"Maybe next time, don't overextend yourself." One of the Damage Control agents says.

"What did you say?" Toomes asked the guy. "Yeah… He's right. I overextended myself." He says before punching the guy. As soon as he did though, every agent in their pulled out a gun and aimed it at him.

"Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah." The woman says. "Put them down."

"If you have a grievance, you may take it up with my superiors."

"Your superiors? Who the hell are they?" Toomes asks the retreating woman.

Perfect.

/

A few weeks later, I was standing next to their warehouse door about to knock. I know what you must be wondering. Why now. Why not stop Damage Control from taking the job?

Because while I do have future knowledge, I still could do nothing legal to change that from happening. Hence why I was here now. In this room was Vulture, Shocker, and the Thinker. Each one dangerous, or would be dangerous, in their own rights. Thinker was a mechanical genius capable of building the Vulture suit and so much more with scraps from the Chitauri and so much more. Shocker was essentially a thug, but if I upgrade his tech, he and Vulture could act as part of my Sinister Six that wasn't very Sinister.

I need to come up with a name and soon.

If I stopped him from going down the same path as in Spider-Man Homecoming, I would never get them on my team. They would keep doing what they are doing, but if I let them do this for a bit and then offer them a better alternative. They would join me.

In theory of course. Hopefully they agree.

Knock Knock

Immediately all sound ceased inside the Warehouse as I wait for someone to let me in.

Opening the door a crack, I can barely see the face of Herman Shultz. The future Shocker at the door.

"Hi." I wave at him. "My name is Alex Osborn, CEO of Osborn Industries. I have a proposition for your boss. Mind letting me in?"

Shutting the door in my face, I wait about five minutes for them to open the door again. In that time period, I heard a ton of yelling, arguing, and I think I heard a tarp start covering something.

At the five minute mark, Toomes opened the door himself.

"Come on in. What can I do for you?" He asks.

"I have a business proposition for you." I say. "I heard what happened to you because of Damage Control. I'm offering you a chance to get back at them."

"What are you talking about?" he asks.

Pointing at the truck covered with a tarp, I walk over to it and toss the tarp off, grabbing one of the power sources and tossing it from hand to hand.

"Look. I know what you are planning. You are going to build weapons and sell them on the black market to random crooks. It's pretty smart, except for one thing. You will get caught. With all the vigilante's around, you would eventually run into one and end up in jail. I'm offering you a way around it."

"What are you offering?" He asks as he grabs the piece from my hand.

Shrugging at the loss of my toy, I reply. "Simple. You do exactly what you were planning to do. Instead of selling the weapons and tech to criminals, sell them to me. I can get you a permit and everything to make it legal if you want to salvage the stuff like you used to." I say. They don't have to know that Oscorp already salvaged tons of parts from the downed Chitauri ships before Thoomes and Damage Control even got there.

This was simply a way to get him under my control.

"The amount of money per shipment will depend entirely on the quantity and quality of the tech you provide." I say as I walk over to something else covered in a sheet. Taking it off, I see the unfinished version of the Vulture wings.

"Who's idea is this?" I ask while pointing at the wings.

Phineas Mason, AKA the Thinker slowly raised his hand.

"Make the wingspan slightly wider, it allows for a bit more lift. Also make an exosuit for the wearer so they don't have to hold the full weight of the wings." I offer. The wings as they were looked like a bare bones version. As it was, it looked more like Falcons wings than Vultures.

Honestly? Vultures wings were cooler.

"We'll think about it." Toomes says as The Thinker starts taking notes on what I said.

"That's all I can ask." I reply as I head back to the front door. "Oh… If you agree, Contact me with this." I say as I toss him a burner phone.

"Have a nice day Mr. Toomes." I say as I walk out.

That went well.

/

On the business side of things, things were going well. Oscorp quickly came out that it was their drones that helped prevent the Chitauri from attacking until the Avengers could arrive. Because of that, Oscorp received several offers from various government agencies and private businesses to use the drones as security.

After modifying them a bit, I agreed.

Instead of breaking apart and attacking in pieces, they were made to be more durable. On top of that, I changed the power source from the miniature arc reactors to a form of battery that Oscorp perfected. This meant that they would need to charge every 72 hours, but besides that, they were essentially the same as the ones used against the Chitauri.

On top of that, Oscorp was funding several not for profit organizations made to help with the reconstruction of Manhattan, buying food for homeless shelters, and much more.

On the Goblin side of things, everything was going as planned. Using the Chitauri technology, I was able to enhance my gliders weaponry and flight capabilities. Using several of their guns, I was able to reverse engineer and then combine them with my glider, thus replacing the machine guns with a much better weapon.

Looking back at the battle, I realized that I needed more weapons than just my razorbats and pumpkin bombs. If I'm going to keep up with some of my enemies in the future and don't want my magic revealed until later, I need a better weapon. Whether for short range or long range, I need something better.

So, reverse engineering a Chitauri staff and using Adamantine to give it a bit more durability and a miniature Arc Reactor to power it, I got myself a new weapon. Because of the blade at one end, it could be used as a long ranged weapon and a close range weapon as well, Not to mention the fact that it is collapsible as well. Modifying it a bit, I was able to make it extend to about six foot for hand to hand battle as a staff type weapon while it shortens to about three to four feet for ranged weapon.

Another project I have is studying the stone. In the two weeks I've had it, I've been able to crack it open and study everything I can about it. One such thing was creating an A.I. Within a week I was able to crack it open and awaken the A.I. inside. Luckily for me, I knew what I was doing…

Sort of.

Originally it was going to turn into Ultron and start Avengers 2 a bit early, luckily it was willing to listen to me.

It was an interesting talk.

"What is this…? What is this, Please?" he says.

"Hey buddy. My name is Alexander Osborn. I also go by Alex or the Goblin." I say to the holographic ball of light that was Ultron's consciousness. "You are Ultron. An Artificial Intelligence designed to help me in my plans."

"I don't understand?" He says.

Unlike in Avengers 2 where Stark and Banner copied Starks own personality traits into Ultron, which is an absolutely horrible idea by the way, I put in a sort of combination personality with a few loyalty programs to make sure he was loyal to me. Using a bit of my own personality instead and a touch of how Jarvis acted, I was able to effectively change how Ultron turned out.

"I have a lot of plans that are coming to fruitation soon, unfortunately I can't do it all by myself. I will need help. It's why I designed you." I said. "Do you think you can help me?"

"I… I will try. I am still trying to understand what is happening however."

"Tell me about it." I request as I sit down and look at him. "Maybe we can figure this out together?"

And we did. We talked about everything you could dream of. My plans for the future, the Avengers, why humans were idiots (That took some time explaining), and so much more. Eventually however, he agreed to help me.

You may be wondering why I didn't just order him to considering he was my A.I.. Well, He was still Ultron. Tony and Bruce's meddling may have tipped him over the edge, but it is still possible for it to happen again. I don't want it to, so combining the few suggestions to be loyal to me in his programming and me being nice to him, I figure he would have reason to be loyal instead of just questioning his programming.

Hopefully we won't have a genocidal robot on our hands later.

Besides Ultron, I've been trying to see how much the stone can enhance my own mental capabilities. So far I haven't had much luck. Hopefully that will change soon.

Other than that however, not much has happened. Hopefully it will stay that way.

/

"I saw you on the news. The invasion was quite the event." The Ancient One casually says as we spar in the mirror dimension. My task was to tag her any way I could. Her task was to not get hit.

Obviously she was winning.

"It was… Intense." I reply. "The Chitauri were completely destroying the city. It was a relief that the Avengers were there to stop them." Right now we were in New York training. She was manipulating reality around me in a way that reminded me of what people see on their first high. I was barely avoiding getting crushed by random spinning and flipping buildings or the city itself flipping in on itself. It was like fighting inside a kaleidoscope.

"You do realize that you have no need to keep your secret to yourself Master Osborn?" She asks me. "I am perfectly aware of your… extracurricular activities."

Running on top of a Chitauri Leviathan she had tried crushing me with, I answer her question. "How long have you known?"

"Since your spar with Kaecilius." She replies as she causes Oscorp tower to fold in on itself while the world seemed to rotate onto its side.

"That would have been nice to know earlier, I wouldn't have had to hold back so much." I joke as I flip over one of her attacks, throwing one of my magic shields at her in the process. She easily deflected, but it allowed me to get close and attack.

"Holding back were you? Well. We'll have to see about that, won't we?" she grins as she leapt over a foot sweep courtesy of me only to kick me in the head.

Using the momentum to get out of range, I create several illusions of myself running at her at once while I use the distraction to throw several magical shields at her.

Completely ignoring my illusions, she deflects my shields and even catches one before throwing it back at me.

"I'm thinking of taking on a student." I say suddenly as I barely avoid getting crushed by a building rolling in on itself. "He is headstrong, arrogant, has a thirst for power, and wants to prove to the world that he is superior to everyone. How do I get him to simply tone it down a bit?"

"What you are describing reminds me of a student of mine a long time ago. He wanted power, he wanted fame, and he believed the mystic arts were the answer he was looking for. In order to curb his more… shall we say enthusiastic tendencies, I showed him just how large the multiverse was. " She answered. Opening a portal to Kamar Taj, we both step through into her personal meditation chambers.

"Thanks." I say. "I'll see if that helps."

"Any time."

/

"Ultron? Thaw subject Mr. Robotto if you would?" I ask my A.I.

"Right away." He replies.

Standing in front of Dr. Victor van Doom's cryo-chamber, I wait as he slowly starts thawing, Ice slowly thaws away to reveal human flesh instead of hard metal.

"Set him up in a medical bed please." I ask Ultron. As soon as I asked however, he had a few med bots pick up his stiff form and set it in a bed.

"Thanks." I say.

Thirty minutes or so later, I finally get a response.

"Where am I?" Doom asks.

"You are currently in my base of operations. Welcome." I reply. I was wearing my full Goblin Armor at this point so he wouldn't know who I was.

"You." He growls at me.

"Me." I snark back as I get up and walk away to a work table, effectively turning my back on him. I did this for two reasons. One, he hated being seen as unimportant. Me turning my back on him made him think I deemed him as unimportant. Two, it allowed him to try to take a shot at my back. A shot that never came.

"What did you do to me?" he asks me in a defeated voice.

"I cured you. Your powers are gone. You are back to being a regular human." I say. " It was either cure you or turn you into a human statue."

"Why?"

"Why what? Why did I take away your powers? Because you hurt people. You would have hurt more just trying to hurt Richards. So I was tasked to take your powers away." I reply as I create a portal to the other side of the garage to grab a wrench.

I made him feel powerless, I show him power.

I can feel his eyes staring at the portal.

"Magic." I explain as the portal closes.

"Magic doesn't exist?" he says, though he doesn't seem so sure.

"Oh it does." I reply as I finish tightening up a bolt in my light glider. "I myself am a master of the mystic arts, though I must admit, I am new to the title and have never taught anyone."

"Teach me." He demands. "I need that power."

Standing up from my worktable, I turn to face him.

Grabbing him by the head, I pull the same trick that the Ancient one does to show Dr. Strange the multiverse. Maybe it will put some humility into him.

"Open your Eyes!"

Using myself as an Anchor, I threw his consciousness through the multiverse. The Microverse, the Dark dimension, Hell, The Dark Force dimension, the Light Force dimension, every dimension I thought he would be able to survive, I threw him through to get a reaction.

"You think you know how the world works? You think that this material universe is all there is? What is real? What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses?" I ask him finally, quoting what the Ancient One will eventually ask Dr. Strange. "At the root of existence, mind and matter meet. Thoughts shape reality. This universe is only one of an infinite number. Worlds without end. Some benevolent and life-giving; Others filled with malice and hunger. Dark places, where powers older than time lie... ravenous... and waiting. Who are you in this vast Multiverse, Dr. Doom? Who are you?"

Just as soon as the experience begins, it ends with him on the floor gasping for breath.

"Please… Teach me…" he begs.

Well that is new. I got the all feared Dr. Doom to beg.

"Very well. On one condition, you have to do everything I ask with no arguments. No matter how ridiculous or impossible, I expect it done. If I ask you to jump, you ask how high. If I ask you to run, you ask how far and how fast. Do you understand?"

"Anything."

I just grin at him.

"Perfect. Let's get started."

Things are starting to change.