Refuge and A New Enemy

(Brian's P.O.V)

Obliviating the Sorcerer Supreme is not a joke. I was mentally tired just from trying to bypass her mental walls. Which brought me to a startling conclusion, my powers fed off each other. A strong life force helped elevate my mental strength and both of those brought up my soul energy due to an increase in my overall realm. 

So in my current situation, I had to be in my soul form to channel all my power effectively or in my main body to access all I had. In the child like body I found myself in, things were different. Thankfully, increasing my body's durability was already taken care of. The ball of realm energy in my inventory would elevate me to near my former strength in just a few more years. 

But even restricted as I was to my magic and soul abilities I was sure I was in the upper percentile of motherfuckers you don't mess with. Infact, except for a certain someone with chaos energy and a titan with a magic wishing glove, I could probably take on anyone without resulting to burning away my body to access my full soul and mental powers. But that would need more investigation before verifying. 

I undid the spatial seal in place and found myself in The Ancient One's room. I placed her on her bed lightly and flew up to hover over Kamar-taj. I had to delete the memories of everyone else who had seen me. If I was hoping for a peaceful time, I couldn't leave a trace.

A crowd gathered among the students practicing in the courtyard of the whole premise. They started pointing at me while I was in the air. Master Yanka came out and saw me, his face scrunching up in a frown.

"What is…"

He started as I withdrew my wand from my inventory.

"Forgive me. Maximize Magic: Obliviate."

There was a huge blast of light that washed through the whole of Kamar-taj. The spell followed my wishes and everyone who had seen me forgot about my face and the events that had taken place these past few days. 

I spared Kamar-taj one last look and then shot off towards the sky through Telekinesis. After getting high enough, I turned on True Reveal and made eye contact with The Watcher. 

"I was not expecting this. You really are an anomaly if you can see me."

I shrugged at Uatu.

"Nice to see you again Old Friend. We haven't met yet but I'm hoping we could talk."

Instantly and without warning, my surroundings changed as I felt ahold on my body, whisking me away from earth.

I looked around and found myself in a tavern. 

"Unusual place you've picked, Uatu. Then again, anything would be unusual for this."

"Quite so. You speak with familiarity, yet i do not know you."

He told me from across the counter, his form scaled down to human size.

I smirked.

"That's not true, now is it? I'm sure you've looked into the future of this world or atleast an alternate of it to learn about me."

His face was stern, his eyes hard and the aura surrounding him was unwelcome.

"I have and you're the cause of countless deaths."

He told me, making me frown. That's unexpected. What is he talking about?

A glass of milk appeared on the counter per my yearning prompting me to use True Reveal on the walls of the whole building.

"So this is a pocket dimension huh? The space changes to accommodate the owner's wishes and it can also read the barest hint of intent to serve someone with what they might want. Fascinating."

"You're stalling. And my time is precious."

Uatu stated as I sipped the milk. I snorted while placing the glass down.

"Precious? You can look into the past for anything you might miss."

"We have rules about wanton use of our sight like that. Guidelines put in place stating we are to…"

"…Only observe not meddle in the affairs of mortals, yes I know all about your oath, Uatu. This is not the first time we have done this."

I massaged my head in a little frustration. Barring the fact that he was accusing me of genocide, I wanted to know something.

"You really want to tell me you haven't looked into who I am?

He made to talk and I quickly added, "Leave alone this world's future. I'm talking about where I come from. The future of my universe. An alternate one to this. No?"

The silence confirmed it. 

"Alright. Allow me to show you."

I bundled up my memories of when we met and our subsequent interaction and sent them over to him.

His body stiffened as he reviewed the memories he had allowed into his mind through the telepathic link I had established. 

"I see. I broke my oath."

He surmised making me nod in confirmation.

"Yes. You did, for which I am thankful for. I still owe you a big favor by the way."

Uatu went silent for a while before speaking. And what he said next sent me instantly on guard.

"I find myself…conflicted. Due to my actions, I might have indirectly caused you to arrive to this reality, whereby I have foreseen the end of the multiverse by your hands."

My hand tightened into a fist. What? The Multiverse? Surely he's wrong…wait could he be talking about the clash I would have with Asuma? Maybe. I doubt Uatu can see that overpowered bastard in his sights so naturally he thinks I'm the one responsible. I also couldn't tell him anything about Asuma. Names have power, so I was wary to even reference or talk about him.

Let's try a different tactic.

"The future is…malleable to an extent. What you think you might have seen could change now that I know of the possibility."

A grim atmosphere took over the tavern as Uatu watched me unblinkingly with his ominous white glowing eyes.

"Normally that would be correct but it is an absolute point in time. You, Brian Parker, destroy us all."

( Some time later)

I touched down on the soft grass of the institute and looked around. A few kids were playing out on the grounds of the whole building. They stopped just as one hit a football towards me. The ball bounced to my position and I reached out with a foot to stop it, then I aimed it back to the kids and kicked it. 

Unfortunately, I'd forgotten about the telekinetic shroud covering my body so my strength was more than enough to sent the ball hurtling through the air towards a window. I winced expecting the glass to be shattered before a bright red seared through the ball from the sides. 

"Phew, that was close. We just got that fixed last week. Hi, I'm Scott."

I looked over to the one responsible and found an early 20s young man studying me with a curious look on his face.

"Ok, the professor sent me to get you champ. How about you follow me before you try and destroy something else."

Kids pointed at us and murmured as I hurried up to join him. 

"Champ? Really? What is this, a 90's sitcom?"

I shot back a little annoyed at how he was treating me like a kid, completely forgetting that a) I was a kid and b) It wasn't even the 90s. Scott looked at me weirdly and shook his head. 

"I need a vacation. Dealing with brats all year, every day can't be good. Especially Superpowered ones."

I chuckled a little. This Scott was a bit chill than the one I was expecting. A smile was on his face as he introduced everything interesting we came across. The mutants weren't too many. I'd reckon I'd only seen about 10 kids, so the overall number was definitely below 30. 

We made our way through the building to a section that was reserved for the staff of the institute, given that I saw no kids running around at all. Scott knocked on a door and opened it without waiting for confirmation. I felt telepathic fluctuations in the air assuring me that Charles had probably given the okay through his mind. 

"Wow." I whistled looking around at the office. Everything inside screamed opulence and wealth although that was greatly diminished by how simple the layout was, showing just enough to indicate the owner was wealthy yet humble. Rich people, I snorted inside my mind.

I heard a chuckling from one of the occupants of the room and turned my attention to them. Including Scott, there was four of the X-Men in the room. A beautiful black young woman with white hair who I identified as Ororo Monroe codename Storm, a middle-aged man covered in blue fur who was no doubt Beast, a young redhead the same age as Scott, whom psionic energy was coming off of in waves. The look of love she shared with Scott told me exactly who she was, Jean Grey, host to the phoenix. 

Lastly, my eyes made contact with the man himself, Charles Xavier. Charles tried to establish a telepathic link with me but his psionic energy bounced off my outer mind shields. I crossed my hands and rose an eyebrow, unamused.

"Quick scenario, I have x ray vision and upon meeting you, the first thing I do is use it to invade your privacy."

Everyone turned to stare at Charles who looked apologetic. 

"I am sorry…"

"It's Brian. Brian Parker."

"I'm sorry Mr.Parker. Force of habit I'm afraid, especially given the situation."

"Which is?"

Surprisingly, the one who answered this time was Jean.

"We could all feel your presence from miles away."

I stopped to get something to eat at McDonald's instead of teleporting straight from the Watcher's dimension, so that lined up with her statements.

"I'm curious, what is your mutant power?"

Beast, their resident scientist, jumped in to ask. The others listened intently before Storm interrupted us all.

"I believe it's common courtesy to introduce ourselves first."

Beast drew back looking sheepish at jumping the gun. One by one they introduced themselves and Ororo further offered me some refreshments. I asked for milk which at this point, I was sure this body was addicted to. The glass of milk was refreshing to me and I muttered thanks to Ororo for it.

"My powers include, Telepathy, telekinesis and energy manipulation."

I told them, getting right into it. I saw impressed looks on their faces. Charles hummed at my words.

"But you're not a mutant are you?"

"Not in the conventional sense. I'm half alien."

"Wait, Aliens actually exist?!"

Scott shouted out in surprise. All of them barring Xavier and Beast looked alarmed at the unexpected information. Ororo stared at Charles and Beast in question, the professor shrugged and simply said,

"Government consultation."

"I'm not surprised, further study into Apocalypse's origin indicate the presence of extraterrestrial activity."

Beast explained.

"Wow, putting that aside, I thought aliens had huge eyes and were green or grey?"

Scott still found it hard to believe. I spared him an annoyed look.

"That is incredibly shallow thinking Scott."

"Sorry Professor."

"Why don't you tell us more."

Ororo intervened. I wasn't exactly sure if that was the right idea but I had to get them to trust me enough to allow me to stay. I needed the refuge. A relatively quiet place to consolidate my strength especially given the fight that was on the horizon. My talk with The Watcher warned me I would soon get a surprise visit. The funny thing? I'm talking about the same treatment Ultron with the Infinity Stones had gotten. In other words, The Watcher was putting together a team. A team strong enough to take me down.

(General P.O.V)

The Watcher looked out into the many realities of this layer of the marvel multiversal cluster. The classification of existence went like this, first we have galaxies which made up a universe. Then after the universe there was the multiverse. The multiverse could be divided into pieces of existence called Layers where alternate words that shared many consistencies existed. The MCU was one such layer. Separate from the rest of the multiverse yet making up the whole continuity. Another Layer was the Marvel Comic Universe. All this information was inaccessible to Uatu except for what he needed to know. And what he knew was that the Multiverse which was actually just the MCU layer of the continuity would end. 

Back to Uatu, Each universe had its own preordained future to follow. Futures that more often than not correlated closely with a given universe alternates. But now all this…all this would soon end. And it was partly because of him.

Uatu had a duty to fulfill. A duty that he had sabotaged himself and it was upto him to fix it. For the greater good, it was time to start selecting Champions to destroy the anomaly that was Brian Parker.