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Dreams seem the obvious choice, but I have never seen his mother, should I just go with what I saw in the cartoon? Well, if I set the dream right it might work.

I would normally just give the powers to anyone, but I need the right personalities, actually, that counts for many villains. 

Huh, a prayer? That's unusual in this universe, oh, Crystal from the Inhumans. She is paying for clarity, to understand my will, there is actually a sliver of belief, okay then.

'Hello my child, my will was simple, I came to save my children.' I reply with a gentle but powerful tone.

'Oh my, sorry, sorry, I thought you would be like other gods who do not reply.' she starts stammering in her prayer.

'That depends on the prayer, in this case, some of my children can still be saved if there is someone who believes, then naturally I will respond.'

'This is like meditating, I feel so relaxed when I connect to you.'

Wording child, I think to myself.

'This should be normal when connecting to your god in prayer.' I make sure to elaborate.

'Urm, all the others are in meetings, no one can make the words come back, but they know it was Kree. I said we should just pray and ask you, but no one listened to me.' Crystal complains to me and I give her more comfort with my divinity.

'It is rather simple, to the Kree you were failed experiments, but just in case you actually became useful they left a backup to let them know.'

'Then are they coming? I like my home, will they separate us?' as we speak I can feel her faith in me growing.

'They are not so nice, they will take the one who reached the right level and kill off the rest as there is no need for them anymore. Then they can clone or breed the one.'

'Should I try to tell the other? Or are you going to let them suffer for the way they treated you?' she asks carefully.

'You can do as you like, if I wanted to stop you from doing something I have many other ways to do it without you knowing.' I chuckle.

'Oh, yeah, that makes sense since you are a god. I will try to talk to them, I will tell them you are our God and want to save us.' She says with determination.

'I wish you the best of luck my child, and remember, even if I do not reply, I do hear your prayers.' I break the connection and chuckle, well that was interesting.

'Fury.'

"What the hell? Who? I will end you Mother … wait, that was in my head?"

'Just think what you want to say, it is Lord Paragon.'

'Oh, urm, how am I supposed to do this? Not going to lie, not used to speaking up to anyone.'

I chuckle, 'I know, just talk with respect, that is all. I am going to pass you a rock I will infuse with cosmic energy, I need you to invite the CEO of Von Doom Industries, Susan Storm who works with him, and Reed Richards, then can bring one extra each. You just want them to examine it. Something will happen, but if you are lucky some of them will be heroes, I am not responsible for the path they take, my path is only to allow them to have the chance to bloom.'

'Sounds a lot like you saying some of them will not be very nice to deal with afterward.'

'If it helps, I do things to maintain balance. Well at the moment I do.' I chuckle and place a random rock from Venus I infuse with cosmic energy on his desk.

'What the hell, why would you just dump it on my desk?'

That night Victor has a dream, about his youth, the happy times, his country and how good it was before the dictatorship, and naturally his mother.

He comes home after playing, and as he walks in the door he is suddenly an adult, walking into his office. At his desk is a woman who is staring at him with a very loving gaze.

"Mother?" he asks, knowing she is dead.

She smiles gently, "My Victor, if only I was not tricked I could see how much my boy has grown."

"Tricked?", She cuts him off, "This is nothing, it is my debt. But for you, I found a God that entered our universe who is kind, and willing to give you a chance."

"Mother I do not understand, Gods. Debt?"

"Shush, just listen, he will give you a chance, the world will change and will give you something to live through it, you will get a chance to do something soon, take it, my child. The devils will return soon, I do not have long now."

"You make a deal for me? At what price mother, and where are you?" he asks in concern.

"He was a kind God and said he would only ask for memory of this visit and all the details of Hell I have learnt, I know he had to ask something and he chose what would not harm me. Always remember, although Gods can be kind, an equivalent exchange is the best way to have an honorable deal, and son, never ever trust the Devils, ever. Mother loves you Victor, be strong." as the words left her mouth the dream faded and Victor shot up drenched in sweat from his bed.

It was already morning and he had just received a personal email, asking if he, Sue, and Reed would be available to consult over something the government had found. Victor looked up, his hand clenched, his mother was being held somewhere by Devils, he understood this much. Someone would dare hold his mother against her will, Doom would not stand for that.

Very well, his mother had arranged something to help him, so he would do as his mother wanted, if it had been anyone else he would have ignored it. He could find his own power, he still had his mother's books back in Latveria, and if Gods and Devils were real, then Magic should be as well. After this consult he would head back, it was time to rethink his future.

"Reed, it's money, we need it for the rent. We go there, you look at what they found and we walk away and can pay the rent." Ben said pleadingly.

"I know Ben, I am just so close to solving this."

"It says Sue is invited as well you know."

Reed stops tinkering and looks towards Ben and says with a deep sigh, "Okay, let's go see what they got."

Sue on the other hand was just glad to be consulted and asked her assistant, Frankie Raye go with them and drive Victor and herself.

I chuckled as I watched, fate likes to mess with even gods it seems. Well if this world wanted two women on the Fantastic Four who was I to complain, that is if they even formed up.

Days later I watch as the two groups head towards the building Fury chose. Looks like he made an effort to make it seem like a proper lab as well, although I see he put some agents close, maybe hoping he can get some powered agents. Well, maybe luck will be on his side.