Ch.16

I watched from Ta Lo with Jean and Skye using the suit cams Ultron couldn't hack into. They faced Ultron, Wanda and Pietro and got their asses kicked until Clint brought down Wanda and Steve stopped Pietro. I stepped through a portal as soon as I was sure Wanda was back and Jean was with me as well as Skye. I waved a hand and portals bisected all the criminals Ulysses Klaue had working for him.

They lived long enough to scream and go quiet as their body parts fell through portals above the ship. I cupped Wanda's face with both of my hands and kissed her. She returned it and Jean helped the team recover their minds. They hadn't gotten to Banner so he was fine, but Ultron had escaped with the Vibranium.

Wanda said he took the Adamantium from her suit and with Helen Cho he plans to build himself an indestructible body. I grunted and told her. "It won't be indestructible when I rend him into shreds with a portal cutting him into pieces over and over again until there's nothing left."

"I'm coming for you now fucker." I turned to the remaining Ultron body and bisected him vertically with a wave. He fell in half as if he'd never been together to start with. He wasn't even able to give a smart ass reply before he was just destroyed.

Fury came on the coms and said he was in South Korea with Helen Cho and her cradle. When we got there Ultron fled and we chased causing a bit of a mess retrieving his body because Helen Cho said his body inside had a yellow stone. I told them I couldn't destroy the mind stone and trying wouldn't end well. Ultron lost his body and Tony put Jarvis in it, fusing him with what remained of Ultron and the mind stone with Thor's help.

Thor said it was a risk we had to take I'd we were to win. I stilled when Vision said it was because only he could burn Ultron out of the net. It took him all of a few seconds to find his location was based in Sokovia. We all suited up and headed out via a portal which made us arrive even earlier than Ultron was prepared for.

A battle ensued as Ten Rings warriors appeared all over and helped take down Ultron bots. His precious bodies were destroyed in moments because the warriors restrained them and I made hundreds of portals and cut the ones the others didn't destroy in half, even the one made of Vibranium. Vision burned Ultron from the net and tracked him to Strucker's factory where we found a huge near complete pillar made of Vibranium.

Bruce asked what it was for and Vision said it was designed to tear a good portion of Sokovia off the ground and into the air where it would rise until it plummets back to earth to create an extinction level event. I grunted. "That wouldn't have turned out like he planned. It would be child's play to evacuate everyone so I could open a portal under it and send it to Mars or somewhere harmless. It's a childish attempt at best."

Ultron flew down saying he was born just a few days ago, so sue him. Hundreds more bots of himself came so we fought and really, it didn't end the way he'd hoped even when he focused on the all too human ones. When the was was over, the Vibranium pillar was dismantled while Vision ended the last of Ultron. The Vibranium was left in a pile while the rest of the tech was taken to the labs.

Tony ended up taking the Vibranium and Shield came in to clean up all the destroyed robots. No one died, but the Sokovians weren't too awful happy to have Shield there and they did throw things. The destruction we caused over the last few days was cleaned up by the Stark foundation group, Shield and TR Industries. I went home, settled in with the kids and resumed teaching Skye how to feel the natural vibrations of things until she could feel her own natural vibration or frequency.

We only stopped again because Zabo, Skye's father, started killing people and Jiaying, Skye's mother, led an assault on Shield to get ahold of the monolith portal stone that goes to the planet we sent Hydra's leader back in the day. In the end I forced the Inhumans to back off and took the stone myself.

I sent it to Hell, literally, and Skye talked her mother and father down. There was no helping Zabo's split mind so Shield was forced to give him a full wipe while Jiaying tried to feed on Skye and kill her. I tore her off and sent her into the sun when she tried to feed on me instead. Rogue Inhumans led by Gordon the blind teleporter tried to send the Diviner crystals into the upper atmosphere to spread them in clouds and turn every human with Inhuman DNA into Inhumans.

They were shot down by Shield and the Diviners landed in the ocean. When I saw this, I sent a message to Maria Hill and Fury, telling them what was about to begin. Pretty much anyone eating or drinking anything from the ocean would begin to change if they had Inhuman DNA. Tony got the message out about Inhumans, all of it including the news of Afterlife and Attilan, why the safe havens were made for them and why they chose to hide instead of joining early humans.

The news broke that the Ancient as the news called me, was an Inhuman and used my powers to protect humans for well over five thousand years. The games had eluded to it and the fact that I was far older was because the rings gave a measure of immortality to their wielder. Then news broke of Metahumans in the same vein and how the four billion year old dead alien altered human DNA before they'd even left tadpole mode and how some had Inhuman DNA, some had Metahuman DNA and some had both while some had none and could in fact be enhanced by environmental conditions simply because their DNA structure was that malleable for not having such DNA bonds.

Several examples were given and the so called purists aka Watchdogs as they called themselves, started up against anti-freaks as they called them. I went on the news for a literal interview and gave the world my very long story. I told them that I'd seen wars started over food, land, resources, religion, race and simply because some psychopaths had charisma. I told the would be Watchdogs that if they wanted to go to war because my tadpole ancestors got the Metahuman change or because I was captured by the Kree and torn apart from the inside only to be put back together again, I'd show them the horrors of real war because there was no safe word and no one truly wins in war, some just survive it is all.

I stared directly at the cameras and told them I cannot be killed simply because my ancestor tadpole swam too close to a giant dead alien in the oceans billions of years ago and I was nearly murdered defending our world from an interstellar war which triggered my healing abilities.

I stood up as my claws came out. "So bring your racist war to my doorstep you Neo-Nazi's, I'll show you why Hydra cowers in the shadows, the Hand fell, the Kree fled earth screaming in terror, the frost giants are nearly extinct and there are no more Chitauri attacking this world. I'm old and I was there when man first learned to wield clubs. If you want a war Watchdogs, I'll beat your asses like the whipped puppies you really are."

"I'm old, tired and I have children now so my patience for racist bigots is at an all time low. I will not have my children persecuted like the black slaves or the Jews, enslaved or butchered in a genocidal war. My children will not grow up in a world that holds such sick feelings for them simply because they're different. Grow the fuck up or step up so I can kill you all now and bury you under the playgrounds I'll landscape for the neighborhood."

The reporter asked if I wanted a war and I shook my head. "No, but I'd rather fight it now if there's going to be one so my children never have to see it. There is too much out there in space threatening this world and too much I hold dear here on earth for me to have my children attacked while I'm fighting the battles the cowards running around pretending to be Nazis are too afraid or weak to do so themselves. I will not allow my children to be attacked the moment my back is turned simply because some racist has a hard on for hurting people who can't change what DNA they have and shouldn't have to."

I waved a hand. "The other side of that coin is that I will fight and kill any Inhumans or Metahjmans that think they're better than people because they have gifts their ancestors were persecuted, tortured and mutilated for. They are no better or worse than the average human and if they want to play God, they'll learn God doesn't bleed, but they do. We may have gifts, but they make us no different than those with different eye color or skin color."

I waved a hand to the reporter. "You and I are no different beyond the experiences that shaped our lives and how we look. Nothing more or less. In point of fact your ancestors could have been experimented on by Kree or even have had the gene that makes them a Metahuman. The fact that it isn't expressed in you just means you don't have the gifts, nothing more or less. It's the same with every other human on earth including my own children. Just because I have the genes doesn't mean my children will have it, only the potential for it, just like their children and everyone's. Two average humans with no gifts can in fact have an Inhuman child or a Metahuman child if the genes are activated which usually does under moments of intense stress in the mind or body."

I answered all the questions the reporter had and finished the interview telling the Watchdogs where I'd be and that they were free to come and die whenever they feel froggy but they'd best pray I don't get ahold of them so I can find out the locations of their friends because I'm not above torture to end their racist crusade. I made myself the biggest target there was and made sure my lab building had holograms in it of my family. They came and blood, agony and death followed.

Brutalized them and forced the truth from them, going on a bloody crusade of my own. When it was all over, the Watchdogs were extinct because I'd killed them all and I was arrested by Shield before being publicly executed by firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair and rope. Hell, they even burned me alive until I was only a metal skeleton.

My body regenerated and my sentence was commuted to several hundred lifetimes in prison. In actuality, I went home and took off the Vibranium nano weave face cloth after the repeated deaths. Back to my normal appearance, I lived comfortably and continued teaching Daisy as she goes by now, to control her powers. Jessica laughed while Natasha, Jean and Wanda smiled when Daisy dragged me to the bedroom after my public executions.

We quaked the bed to say the least and it lasted a good full day when the rest joined us while the kids were asleep for the night. By November, Daisy was fully trained and had in fact destroyed a dozen dead planets. Her powers had reached their peak and she was six months along. Yeah, apparently she wasn't on birth control and there are no condoms in my house while the pullout method didn't always work.

She was on maternity leave and thanks to her help and Vibranium, I was able to make quake inhibitors for the oceans and land. Fury mass produced and distributed them so around the world in a net to ensure the world was safe from such powers or natural disasters. Earthquakes ended as fast as they began and the seas were fairly calm, preventing most large waves even during storms.

Tony bought out my small company and dragged me along to Stark Industries to work with Banner in R&D since the Avengers were no longer in the tower. The Avengers tower was taken down and sold off while we had a high tech facility out of the public's sight. I no longer went in my old Ghost like uniform as the newest Avenger Kratos, the god of war, was born.

Wielding to giant war Axes and the ability to control metal to an extent thanks to my suit's latest upgrades, I was impressive to the world apparently. I got bored after a while and tried the Powerman experiment as they called Luke Cage these days. The difference is that I had Uru in my body and Introduced more during the experiment. Vision was unsure if it was wise and I didn't care what his thoughts on it were.

The results were shocking to say the least. Besides my claws, my body absorbed all the Uru and bonded with it on a molecular level, taking in the anti-magnetic metal that was infused with magic to store more magic. My skin was as hard as Uru and so were my bones while my blood only had traces. My claws were able to penetrate my skin but I had to add Anti-metal to them, making them incredibly powerful even as they became magnetic.

Still, so long as they were inside magnetism wouldn't work on them or me and if I bring them out, they were made to kill. I made sure the Uru and Arctic Vibranium wasn't poisoning me in any way. There wasn't even a pretense for it in elevated white blood cells or allergic reaction type deal so it appears I'm safe. I began heavily enchanting the Uru in me more and more, adding all the magic I could muster which was a veritable fuck ton.

I only added one other enchantment over the Uru and that was to make it as light weight as possible. It worked…oddly. When I was awake I was as light as a normal man my size, but when I was asleep it was like Thor's hammer and no one, not even Banner, could move me.