Stranger In A Familiar World

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(Brian's P.O.V)

I was a rare breed. In what way you might ask. Well, Cats and Dogs all equally hate me. Robert Neville, the main character in I Am Legend was still hanging on the trap that had captured him. Even after 5 minutes, I was wary to approach him because his dog was growling at me menacingly. I wasn't afraid of getting bitten, I was afraid of hurting the dog.

"Fuck this."

Fed up, ki binds tightened around her and pushed her to the side.

"Why didn't I do that in the first place?"

I wondered while cutting through the wire holding Will Smith's character and then posited him on on a ki platform. 

The sun was about to go down too. With my superior senses I could feel heavy breathing coming from all the buildings around me. I knew what they were. A zombie/vampire type of creature that was surprisingly…smart. Especially considering that the trap Neville found himself in was constructed by one of those monsters. The humans in this world were lucky that they only came out at night.

I levitated and took off to find Neville's house after looking at the gps on his vehicle.

Another ki platform grabbed ahold of the vehicle and I took off easily. I barely felt the strain of splitting my ki like that. The weight of the car was also negligible. 

I made it back quickly and then placed both the man and the dog at the steps of his house. The car gently landed on the sidewalk and then I sat down on the steps too.

The Interface appeared at my prodding and I looked over at the benefits Dormammu had indirectly and unintentionally given me. I changed up a few things and afterwards it ended up looking like this.

[Name: Brian Parker]

Cultivation level: N/A

Life force energy: 1200

Body strength: Superhuman.

Soul strength: N/A

Mental strength: High Psionic.

Psionic Skills: Echo.

                          True Reveal.- The analytical portion of the ability had been increased to an unknown degree. 

Special skills:  Danger Sense.

                          Zenkai.

                          Extremis.

Ki Skills:           Superman set.

                          Ki constructs.

                          Dimensional Jump. - A variant ability formed from the combination of the Jumper trait and a lot of energy. Enables the crossing of dimensions. Short range teleportation has been lost due to the drastic change in the ability's working mechanism.

My ki had jumped from 250 to 1200. I hadn't done any tests but I could tell my body strength had practically doubled. My base speed had also seen an increase because of the accompanying strengthened muscles. 

My senses were heightened some more and I took a few deep breaths while trying to bring them under control as much as I could. A few seconds later and my hearing was bearable. I stopped hearing the loud blast of a fly's wings from a block away. 

Opening my eyes I saw a shot gun directly pointed at my face by a wildly breathing man. 

"What the fuck have you done to my dog?!"

Oh. Seems like I still had bindings tightened around the dog. No wonder he's upset. But pointing a gun at me annoyed me. A lot.

"Take that gun away from my face or I'll break your hand."

I calmly said.

He must have seen the serious expression I had on. He slowly lowered the weapon and I smiled, the bindings on the dog faded away as I pulled my ki back into me. 

"Glad to see there's a smart man underneath all that despair."

I told him.

"How? I thought…I thought I was the last person alive."

He responded with a tinge of fragile hope. Afraid that all this was just a figment of his imagination.

I really really didn't want to stick around more than I had to…I couldn't. This world was probably doomed. What happens when you introduce an apex creature right next to another? Assured mutual destruction or the stronger one prevails. In other words, the virus had changed many people into a race of night walking zombie vampires. And they had already formed a society within the city. They also had enough sentience to see Neville's attempts to find a cure as a hostile action and react accordingly.

The humans of this planet were doomed and there was nothing I could do about it. But at least I could save this stubborn man's life.

"There's a sanctuary over at xxx xxx. Make your way there. And for crying out loud if you want to make it out alive then please stop experimenting on the Zombies. It's too late to save them, they've already grown sentience."

"How do you know all that? Have you been spying on me."

I shook my head and laughed.

"Trust me, you're not that interesting for me to spy on. Just keep in mind everything I just told you. Have a great life Mr. Neville."

Saying that, I rose up from the ground which made the troubled man stumble backwards in fright.

I then flew off, leaving behind a man thoroughly shocked. His last words were,

"God is black?"

Mistaken identity aside, I decided to take a trip around the world. My flight speed was faster than ever before. I flew hundreds of miles in minutes. 

A day later and having journeyed across the world, my earlier conclusion stood valid. This world was fucked.

Oh well. Not my problem. There was nothing I could really do to help without trading a lot of time. I spared a final look at the earth and then activated my newest ability and jumped to the MCU. 

Yeah yeah, I know. I said I would first of all get back my cultivation but...I just wanted. No needed to see who I was fighting for. Even if it was just a glance. I had gone way too long without that smokey sexy voice. The luscious red lips and the curves that were just to die for. I finally had the power I had been seeking for and I shall not be denied! 

I cleared my throat in embarrassment. For a minute there I started sounding like a third rate villain.

With a popping sound, the environment changed from an abandoned city to a wilderness that stretched as far as my eyes could see. I was crested on a hill, overlooking a jungle. 

The terrain and vegetation was very similar to the Amazon, of which I was very familiar with. I flew off towards the river. There were a few jungle lodges along the Amazon river that would give me a clue as to which country I was in.

There was something off about the jungle. It teemed with a lot more wildlife than I'd seen before. My suspicions grew bigger when even after flying over a hundred miles, I came across no boat, aircraft or even the aforementioned jungle lodges. 

I stopped in the air and descended. There was something watching me. Once I got closer to the dark water, a shape lunged at me and my earlier thoughts of it being an Anaconda were quickly discarded.

"A Deviant?"

Binds of ki shot out of my hand and captured the creature. It let out a keening sound that hurt my ears so my ki binds lengthened to shut it up. There was no question about it. I was staring at a Deviant. 

The implications hit me like a truck.

"I am sooo many years away from cannon it's not even funny. This means it's either at or before the era of the Eternals. So this is probably, 5000 BC but I'll need to first meet the Eternals to know when I am correctly. No wonder the creatures around looked so strange. Bigger too."

The ki binds tightened on the body of the Deviant and cut through it. Eye beams exploded out of my eyes and destroyed any remaining trace of the extra terrestrial creature.

So the Eternals first landed at Mesopotamia which is the modern day Iraq. I'll just get there, see when I am and then try and jump again. See if I can get closer to Canon. 

The wind rushed through my short hair as I increased my speed. I couldn't help but note just how the air was different. It probably wouldn't be noticeable to a normal person but my enhanced senses picked up on it. It was fresher in a word. Like dew. If dew had a smell.

I flew past Africa and marveled at the huge jungle covering the Sahara desert. I just had to stop and pick a wild fruit which had the flavor of a pear but rounder (Asian Pear). 

I finally made it to my destination. I looked over and saw a huge black ship that was in the shape of a triangle, floating above a village of humans. The Eternals. 

It seems like I'd arrived just after their first fight. There was smoke still rising from the wrecked houses and people were helping out the wounded towards Ajak who was healing them.

How were they going to take this? My presence, I mean. And is it wise to expose myself to them when Ajak would no doubt tell Arishem about my presence? No matter how strong I'd gotten, fighting a Celestial wasn't going to be an easy task. Especially if he thought I'd come to stop Tiamut's birth. The celestial that was in the core of the earth, waiting to be born.

No. Every way I looked at it... showing myself would be a bad idea. I activated my dimensional Jump and pictured the Avengers tower, 7000 thousand years from now.  It was time to skedaddle, there was absolutely no benefit of staying here this far back.

The jump happened but this time... something was different. I'm the midst of the transition, I felt a dark energy reach out to me. Dormammu.

I instantly deactivated the ability and jumped back to my previous position. 

Pain assaulted my senses as my left arm was suddenly corroded black. Dormammu had managed to touch me before I could escape. I landed on a table and instantly leaped away from spear aiming to skewer me. 

There was a brief silence as both parties, me on one side and the Eternals on the other studied each other. The silence afforded me the time I needed for Extremis to heal my left arm.

Fate can be a bitch sometimes. I'd decided to hide my presence away from them but this happens.

I held up my hands to show I meant no harm. Kingo must have thought I was about to attack them because energy blasts shot out of his hands and I blew past the walls of the humble hut they were all in. 

"A Deviant?"

A young voice that I recognized as Sprite asked.

"No. Something else. I'll have to study him."

Phastos replied.

"No time. We put him down before he can hurt the humans."

Ikaris said and true to his words, sudden eye beams exploded from his eyes. The attack was too fast for me to escape from because I was still feeling the effects of Dormammu's brief attack. 

My own eye beams exploded to match him and we entered a contest. A contest that was brought to a close when I jumped away to avoid a very fast tackle. Ikaris' attacks left grooves on the ground next to me. Another whoosh and I had to block a fist to the face from the resident Speedster Makarri. She widened her eyes.

I closed my hand on her fist and then spinned, throwing her towards Kingo who was aiming his energy attacks at me. They both landed on a heap and I leaped away again. 

This time, the ground underneath my feet exploded and cracked due to a stomp from Gilgamesh.

I spread out my hands and ki balls appeared on both of them. They shot out and blasted Thena who was coming up from my left side as well as Sersi who had transmuted a building into a torrential wave of water that was headed towards my body. 

The blast knocked both the wave of water away and Sersi but I felt a spear dig into my sides, as the Thena I thought I had blasted with Ki faded away.

She had been an illusion. 

The real Thena smiled at me viciously and I felt a flash of anger. I slapped her away and she flew off to tumble into the ground. True Reveal activated and Sprite's illusions became meaningless as all was revealed.

Somehow despite all logic the Eternals had grouped up into a formation. I hated to say it but it looked bad ass. There was a brief lull in the fight as Thena got up and turned to the others.

"He's mine."

I smiled despite myself, laughter bubbled out of me at the absurdity of the situation. I wasn't even seeking a fight. Honestly. 

However, since they picked one with me...I wasn't a push over.

"Ok. You want a fight? I'll give you one the likes of which you've never seen before."