Chapter 4

'Hook, line and sinker' thought Maria as she heard Thena. She had hoped beating up Gilgamesh would make Thena acknowledge her but when that did not work she proceeded to threaten Gilgamesh's life and this had worked.

After knocking out Gilgamesh with a genjutsu, she and Thena quickly left the country back to San Francisco where her hideout was.

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-Around a week later, somewhere in Iraq-

On an space ship, buried under a century and a half of rubble dust and stones, the other Eternals had gathered after about 1500 years.

"Someone out there clearly knows about us and still targeted Phastos and Thena" said Ikaris, who didn't really seem fazed by the disappearance of the other Eternals.

"A few days ago, she came to Australia and surprisingly managed to convince Thena to join her after beating the shit out of me" said Gilgamesh who was clearly not in the best of moods. He had been found beat up by the other Eternals who had arrived two days after the fight. They had taken him to the Dormo for recuperation but the beat down had left his spirit down.

"Yeah, and that red eyed woman seems pretty powerful from Gilgamesh's fight and the video on the internet" said a worried Sersi who was re-watching the video of the fight in Chicago.

"Can't we just locate Thena and Phastos using the ship" asked Sprite.

"The ship can't find the two of them, I even searched the whole planet but came up with nothing. It's like there are no longer on this planet" said Druig who was eating a packet of chips.

"Maybe that's why they targeted Phastos first as I'm sure he would have found her by now" Kingo added with a hand stroking his chin.

'If she went to Australia to recruit Thena, then she must know the truth, about the emergence as that's the only thing that could make her abandon the mission. The situation is bad, the enemy has a lot of information about us, while we have nothing on them' thought Ajak as she pieced the information they had up.

"We must pair up, just in case they try something again and we wait until they show up to attack as the only thing we can do is react at the moment. We must retrieve Thena and Phastos at all costs and I'll inform Arishem about this" said Ajak after a few seconds of coming up with a plan. She had become very proficient at it after doing it for thousands of years.

"But we can't just leave them with the enemy" hand signed Mekkari as she was worried about her teammates.

"Don't worry, these people won't stay quiet for long. It seems a wild storm is about to come upon this world and we may be forced into it as well, so be alert and always be ready" said Ajak as she walked away from the room, to think more about their current circumstances.

"I still can't believe you didn't even injure her. Not even once" said Ikaris mockingly as he also left the room, worsening Gilgamesh's mood even more.

'Ajak is definitely hiding something. It seems the enemy knows and that's maybe how they convinced Thena to join' Thought Druig as he threw another chip into his mouth.

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"You're making a lot progress, so much that it shouldn't be possible" said Thena as she offered a hand to Maria who was laying on the floor breathing heavily.

"Perks of having these eyeballs" responded Maria as she took Thena's help to stand up. After restoring Thena's memories, she had told Thena about her goal, well part of it. She told her that she wanted to collect the infinity stones to open a multiverse portal but she had not told her why. She then had Thena train her in cqc as she had thousands of years of experience. Luckily for her, she had the Sharingan so she started learning very quickly resulting in Thena's compliment.

Maria then switched on the TV to find a certain bearded Mandrin threatening Tony Stark on the news.

'I have to put a tracker on him' she thought as she changed the channel to find something entertaining.

Luckily, Thena did not freak out after she found Phastos with Maria. After explaining she promised to release Phastos after her use for him was over. The construction of the Infinity stone radar {ISR} then started and according to Phastos was progressing very quickly and would be done by the end of the year. Maria was planning to use the ISR in conjuction with the worm hole generator powered by the Tesseract to gather all the infinity stones. She also had Phastos create a force field around the apartment to stop SHIELD from finding them due to the gamma radiation the Tessaract emits when activated.

YEAR: 2013

-In Earth's Orbit-

Invisible to the human eye and technology was the Dormo, a gigantic triangular ship that belongs to the Earth's current oldest residents.

"So Phastos, is there anything you can tell us about this Maria Chen?" seriously asked Ajak who was standing in front of the bed Phastos was resting in. The other Eternals were also standing around the bed some with worry, some curiosity and some had both emotions in their eyes.

"No. She has an ability that can let her control minds like Druig. Before she let me go she took away my memories about her plans." responded Phastos, " All I remember was that she wanted me to build something."

The other Eternal's expressions grew dark as they heard about another ability their enemy had they didn't know about before and that she had something Phastos had built.

"Do you remember seeing Thena?" questioned Gilgamesh while interrupting Ajak who was about to ask another question.

"Yes. She was training that woman in hand-to-hand combat and she wasn't being mind controlled. Honestly, she's the one who pleaded for my release once my purpose was served" he replied.

"How about we let Druig try to look inside your head for these memories?" suggested Ikaris without even caring about how Phastos might currently feel about 'people peering inside his head'.

"That's a good idea" remarked Ajak as her expression brightened a bit. Without further ado, Druig placed his hand on Phastos' head and his eyes started glowing gold as he had activated his ability.

"AHHHHHHH!!" screamed Druig as few seconds later as he fell on to his knees with his hands tightly clutched around his head. Mekkari appeared besides him in and instant and pulled him in a tight hag while slowly petting his head. The others were horrified at what had just happened.

"What did you see?" asked Sersi both worried and curious a few minutes after the incident. Mekkari had managed to calm down Druig and he was now in the condition to answer questions.

"Those red eyes...they are must be destroyed" replied Druig whose shirt was drenched in sweat.

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-San Francisco-

In her invincible basement, Maria was currently doing squats while she had 400 Kilogram weights on her shoulder. This was part of her daily routine to increase her superhuman strength and stamina which were her Sharingan's power source. She had released Dr Selvig after his help was no longer needed in the creation of the I.S.R with his memories erased of course. Currently Thena was also doing some training. Seeing Maria catch up to her thousands of years of experience in combat in months made her motivated to improve herself.

A computer on the other side of the basement started beeping loudly. Maria quickly stopped her exercises and rushed to the computer.

"Why is that thing beeping?" asked Thena as she had also stopped her exercises after being distracted by the loud sound.

"It seems we might be getting a new member, soon" answered Maria as she moved to her bases armory. Most of the equipment was made with the help of Phastos as she was dressing up to storm the ten rings, Thena approaches her.

"Can I join in this mission of yours" asked Thena who was restless after hundreds of years without any real action.

"Since I was going to storm an secret organization founded hundreds of years ago filled with the worlds best assassins and martial artists led by an immortal warlord with over powered bracelets, the more the merrier" replied Maria as continued suiting up. The description of the mission got Thena excited, this mission was going to be entertaining. Thena also started wearing her armor as she was definitely not going to miss this.

"Wear this for the mission" Maria said as she handed a black cloak to Thena similar to the one she was wearing on top of her combat suit. The two walked to their own wormhole generator. After typing in Slattery's current location, a portal opened on the wall next to the device. The wormhole had opened about 20 meters above a wide Chinese building that could easily house hundreds that was on top of a mountain.

"Thena wanna go first" asked Maria as he moved out of Thena's path. Thena who was now thirsty for some action smiled and jumped through the wormhole and started falling towards the ground. Maria activated her Mangekyou and followed after her immortal partner.