While Natasha was giving instructions to the people within the fortress and the Widows outside through Dreykov's terminal, she heard a whistle. It was a very specific whistle which was clearly a signal.
Remembering the reply to that signal from her childhood, Natasha whistled back in that specific pattern.
"You seem comfortable." Yelena showed up from the main door that Natasha had left open.
"If you say so…" Nat said. Yelena walked to the dead body of her captor and the person that she hated with a fiery passion.
"So it's done?" Yelena looked at Dreykov's corpse.
"Yep." Nat nodded.
"Good fucking riddance." Yelena was glad and stomped on Dreykov's face.
"So what do we do now?" Yelena asked.
"For starters, I've called in all the Widows that he's got deployed around the globe. We'll gather them all together and hit them with the gas that removes their mind control. Then… We'll give them a choice." Nat told her.
"Choice?" Yelena asked.
"I thought about it and realized that these girls were trained as killers for their entire lives. And I'm sure that it's going to be extremely difficult for them to transition to a normal life, for some it would be practically impossible." Nat continued with a look in her eyes that Yelena both understood and related with.
"Oh… That makes sense." Yelena nodded while looking to the side.
"Yeah. It's better than them becoming contract killers for people who make them do bad things. I was thinking of doing some sort of vigilante operation where we deploy teams of Widows to sweep through cities and slowly root out the deep crime syndicates that are no more than tumors for the world." Nat shared her thoughts with Yelena.
"I want in." She said.
"I was hoping you'd say that." Natasha smiled, "I can't exactly take care of so much all alone." Nat said with a little smile.
Yelena suddenly perked up and looked at Nat with narrow eyes, "Now. We have the time, we've even completed what we set out to do. You have got to tell me." Yelena walked to Natasha and sat on Dreykov's desk, right in front of the chair that Nat was sitting on.
"What?" She acted dumb, just to fuck with her.
"Come on! Tell me." Yelena held Natasha's shoulders and shook her.
"Fine, fine. Stop…" Natasha agreed, "I'm being helped by an alien slime monster. He can take any shape and that's how I am able to instantly change my clothes." To drive the point, Natasha's combat suit morphed into a hoodie and leggings. She didn't even move from the seat and her clothes changed.
"Woah… That's so cool." Yelena practically had stars in her eyes.
"It is. He's also the person that helps me turn invisible and shoot lightning out of my fingers." Nat said bringing her fingers up and giving Yelena a demonstration by creating a bolt of lightning between her index and middle fingers.
"Can I also get one?" Yelena asked with a pleading tone. As if she was a little girl asking her big sister for a toy.
"No, I—" Natasha was just about to refuse when she heard Alex tell her, [I'm thinking of making some automated armor mechanism for the Widow system. Something to give them a basic enhancement to their strengths and also protect them from harm. Tell Yelena to touch the choker on her neck and think about activating it.]
Natasha was impressed by Alex's idea and said, "On second thought, you feel that choker on your neck?" Nat pointed to Yelena's neck.
"What choker? When did this get here?" She grabbed it and started looking for the unclasping mechanism.
[See, they're weird.] Nat said, [Won't change the fact that I like them.] Alex was adamant.
"It's not coming off without my slimy friend wanting it to. But that's not the point. Think of activating the choker while holding it." Natasha instructed Yelena.
Yelena was a little freaked out and decided to follow Natasha's words and just as she thought of activating it, the collar burst into life and started expanding, taking over Yelena's clothes and forming a black combat bodysuit with red tones. There were two baton holsters at the back, forming an X shape and the entire suit had multiple storages for guns.
"Now don't deactivate it, or else you'll be buck naked when it goes back to become a collar," Nat was amused and warned Yelena who was too surprised at the situation.
"Tell the suit that you want to hide," Nat told Yelena again. And she followed instinctively. She didn't feel any different and brought up her hand to look.
She was surprised to see that she couldn't see her hand. It was camouflaged.
"You can't shoot lightning from your fingers since it's a bit more of a complicated ability, but you have quite a bit of strength augmentation. You can stand toe-to-toe against quite a number of super soldiers with your melee prowess being boosted by the suit. You can at least beat up Alexi if nothing else. And at least kinda stand toe to toe against Steve." Nat told Yelena, much to her shock.
"Holy mother of fuck." Yelena looked at Natasha with wide eyes. This wasn't really a big deal for Alex. He'd already made a similar collar for Cindy and he just reused the capability of the collar. It had the same monitoring system installed that could send the wearer to unconsciousness in case they were deemed volatile. But Alex saw no point telling Yelena or any of the other Widows about that little tidbit.
"I know. You can also set clothing modes for this. Mode 1 will be your default combat suit and from mode 2 and ahead, you have custom clothing options, you can just input any clothing outfit that you see and tell the choker to designate it to a specific mode. It's very flexible and you can explore it by yourself later." Nat told Yelena.
"Do you also have all of this?" Yelena asked.
"That's a dumb question, I have a lot more capabilities. I have the real deal, what you have is just an automated item that Apex made for you." Nat decided to namedrop Alex in front of Yelena. They'd already discussed it and Alex thought that Apex would suit him. It painted him as a sort of apex predator or apex symbiote which he quite liked the thought of. The name was also pretty close to his actual name while also matching the ideology of the symbiote names in Marvel. Venom, Carnage, Apex, etc. all of them were suitable names for the theme that symbiote names usually follow.
"I understand." Even knowing that she had a nerfed version didn't stop Yelena's enthusiasm.
"I'm thinking of giving this to the Widows that stay too. They would be an extremely deadly force when their prowess is boosted." Natasha said to Yelena.
"That's a good idea. We would be an unstoppable force in any scenario… We could do so much good. All while living in a huge air fortress." For the first time in a long time, Yelena was looking forward to the future.
"It'll be fun." Nat smiled at her enthusiasm.
"For now, I'll gather all the Widows in the training room and you can go there to blast them with the gas," Nat told her.
"About that. I couldn't find the gas. This fortress is huge and I have no idea about what is where." Yelena told her.
"My bad, I guess. I'll guide you on the way." Nat tapped her ear, signaling to the earpiece that Yelena still has.
"All righty…" Yelena left the room.
"Take a left…" Nat started guiding her through the fortress.
At the same time, she kept making preparations and coordinating with the Widows to have them rendezvous at the fortress.
…
A few hours later, 100 free Widows were standing in front of her in her office.
'Wasn't the number of Widows that were already in the base fewer?' Alex thought as he looked at the higher number of combatants in front of Natasha, 'Whatever,' He didn't care too much about it.
"So girls. I presume that you all understand your situations?" Natasha looked at each and every girl in the room and most of them nodded in response.
"So, as I see it, you have two main choices. One is to retire, look for a way to make a real family, and move to the real world. The other is to stay and become part of the Avengers." Nat told them and took a pause to let them digest her words.
Instantly, there were murmurs from the crowd as they all started discussing.
"You all should have a basic idea about who I am. I'm Black Widow. An Avenger. What you might not know is that I'm one of you. I came out of this very Red Room. Granted, it wasn't a flying fortress back then, but you should get the point." Nat told them. These were all relatively most likely initiates, and she wasn't familiar with any of them. So she wasn't sure if they knew about her coming out of the Red Room.
The murmurs got slightly more intense and were threatening to drown out her own speech so she said, "Silence." In an authoritative tone. At the same time, Alex imbued a mental suggestion in her voice to make it more effective. Natasha wasn't a born leader like Captain America so she needed some help to become a competent authority figure.
Her voice had an instant effect as everyone quieted down. She inwardly smiled as she realized that Alex had a hand in this. She wasn't charismatic to the point of instantly silencing a crowd of competent women like the ones here.
She continued, "So today, I am extending you an offer. The ones who choose to stay will become provisional members of the Avengers who will act as a peacekeeping force for the globe. I will give you all some time to think. Meanwhile, the ones who absolutely don't want to take part in the Avengers can stand on the left side here, "Nat pointed at another spot in the room.
Hearing Nat's words, some of the women were hesitant and quieted down to think. Some had resolute looks on their faces as they decided to stay.
At the same time, some of them didn't even think before moving to the left side.
By the end, the numbers practically halved as half of them wanted to never fight again.
Nat looked at the ones who wanted to leave, "Yelena will guide you all to the hangar, there is an aircraft that will take you away from here. Yelena," Nat looked at Yelena.
She guided the Widows out to the hangar. Nat had already shown her a rudimentary map of the fortress so she knew where to go.
"Now, to you guys. Are you sure?" Nat asked just this.
"We're sure." There was a collective answer. One of them came forward and said, "I think I speak for everyone here when I say, it will be extremely difficult for us to get used to a normal life after so many years doing nothing but killing and destroying. We can't have a normal life. Even with free will, we would've become mercenaries and bounty hunters." She said.
"I appreciate your honesty. And this is one of the main reasons that I decided to take over the Red Room and make it a subdivision of the Avengers. We will act as a peacekeeping force for the world. Uprooting the Cartels and the Families which have too much of an unfair advantage and are unrestrained in their actions. We will be targeting them."
Seeing that none of them budged, Nat didn't ask again. She got up from her chair and walked up to them.
"Fine then, you guys can move to your common room and do whatever you want. I'll be deploying you all on missions in groups of two's to gauge your capabilities and understand how everyone works and does things together. Then I'll decide on everything and make a streamlined communication process. By then, the widows that are deployed around the world will also most likely come back." Nat told them.
"Also, I'll be setting up benefits and a job structure for you all. You aren't eternal slaves and will be paid for your services just like employees and will be contacted by me. I'll let you all know about it after I set everything up." She dispersed the widows.
"This might be a bigger pain than I expected…" She commented.
[It'll be fine. I'll tell you about something that I ended up doing recently. I took over Wakanda.] Alex dropped the bomb on her.
"What?!" She jumped up from her seat. Black tendrils started extending from her body and Alex's figure formed in front of her.
"Yes. I've taken care of Killmonger and taken his place. I'm in control of that entire nation now. And I have a huge number of things planned." He told Natasha.
"You've taken over Wakanda." She looked at him with disbelief marring her face.
"Yep." He told her.
"The same one that we went to?" Natasha just couldn't believe it.
"Yes." He walked over to the seat that Nat was sitting on and sat on it.
"Holy fuck…" She was going to need some time to come to terms with everything.
…
In Research Earth.
"Finally!" Alex looked at the vial of substance that would allow him to make himself immune to the whole sound and heat bullshit.
Ever since he'd gotten the data to create Extremis from Laura's Earth, he'd been working to incorporate its properties into himself.
This was the method that Tony Stark had used during the run of Superior Iron Man to create his strongest suit— The Endo-Sym Armor. It was basically a suit that he'd created using Venom and incorporating it with Extremis to combat Venom's weakness to heat and sound.
Alex looked at the vial that would fix almost all his problems with an almost longing look before shaking his head.
'Not yet.' He wasn't going to directly inject it into himself. He would be running some tests on this first.
Alex looked at a glass box beside him and separated a part of his body before sealing it inside the box. Though this was different from his usual body creation.
This time, he didn't forcefully control this body with his own will. He gave this part of the body free reign so that it could develop its own consciousness. He was basically using the usual reproduction method of the Klyntar race.
A part of the symbiote body that wasn't controlled by a consciousness would automatically develop its own consciousness.
'Now we wait.' He thought. This process could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few days.
"What are you doing, Alex?" Gwen asked from the side. She'd been a part of the whole process of the development of the cure. She was a vital part since she was at her core a biochemical engineer and she was perfect for this job. He hadn't told her about his testing process.
"You know how we made this to combat an issue with the suit, right?" He asked.
"Yeah." She said.
"Well, what I just did was instruct that bio-suit to split a part of itself and store it in that container. Now the catch is that it's not controlling that split body, unlike the other times that it has formed clones, this time, it's not in control of that part of its body. What this does is that it allows this piece right here to form its own consciousness to become a living being. It's like how cells divide, or how microorganisms asexually reproduce." He gave an example.
"I see… And how long will this process that?" She asked as she looked at it with fascination in her eyes.
"Probably an hour or so. Normally this process isn't that long and can be completed within a few minutes, but the situation is a bit complicated. Less time is taken when the reproduction process is natural, but what I did is to force the reproduction, hence it takes more time to develop its consciousness." He explained to Gwen.
"So interesting…" She and Alex spent the next hour or so studying the unmoving blob of black slime while Gwen asked more about the symbiote's physiology.
Finally, there was a twitch in the blob that was present in the glass case.
"It's developed its consciousness." Gwen looked at it and Alex thought, 'Could I devour more of these to increase my mental capacity?'
Not wasting any more time, Alex injected the fluid of substance into the blob that had just developed its consciousness.
'Now we wait before the testing period…' He thought. A few seconds later, "This might take a bit longer…" He said as he turned to look at Gwen with a look that told her about his intentions.
"No horny!" She bonked him on the head.
"But, Gwen…" He looked at her incredulously.
"Come on, big boy. Not here. We have so much more to do. The shield still hasn't been completed." She appeased him.
"Fine." She could've sworn that he was pouty as she looked at him.
…
Soon, Alex left Gwen to her tasks and came to test out the effects of the Extremis formula on his new symbiote 'child'. One that he will be devouring soon.
He pressed a button and an imperceptible high-pitched sound was released within the chamber of the symbiote. It was isolated within the chamber so that it wouldn't affect Alex.
The symbiote acted as if it couldn't hear or feel anything. And that was all the reaction that Alex needed to know that everything was perfectly fine.
'4 different tries…' He thought as he looked at the symbiote that was finally unaffected by sound. He'd already tried this 3 times on his own before bringing Gwen into this since that involved telling her about his weaknesses which he didn't want to do. But in the end, he had to ask for her help. And it worked perfectly with her assistance. She was a genius biochemist for a reason.
Looking at the immune symbiote, Alex decided to devour it to see if his plan about devouring his own offspring is viable.
Another press of the button caused the released sound to cease and Alex put his hand within the jar before devouring his immune offspring.
"Dammit…" He cursed as he couldn't feel himself getting stronger. Neither did he feel like the immunity affected him. It was like the devouring process was no more than him merging back with a clone of his. All of its properties disappeared and all that was left was Alex.
'Worth a try, I guess." He thought before injecting the second injection that he'd prepared into his own body. It didn't matter if he injected any of his bodies since they were all connected to the same consciousness. So he didn't waste any time.
"Fuck, that hurts!" He held his head as he felt like his mind was about to burst apart. He kneeled on the ground in a fetal position while pressing on the sides of his head to feel some sort of relief but it was useless.
And within seconds, he lost consciousness. It wasn't just him, but all of his bodies. Be it clones or hosts or the body in the spaceship. All of them lost consciousness.
His main consciousness within the Klyntar Soul Dimension had gone dormant while its natural glow was fluctuating in intensity.
…
"Alex! Alex!" Laura screamed as she tried to wake Alex up but to no avail.
…
[What's going on, Alex?] Wanda asked as she felt Alex's presence disappearing, [Alex?!]
…
"Hey, wake up." Natasha shook him as she tried to wake him up while he was sitting in Dreykov's seat, [Alex!] "Alex?!" She called out.
…
"Alex!" Gwen screamed as her training session was interrupted. Alex's body just slumped to the ground as she was fighting him, "ALEX!"
…
The scientist Gwen came to the lab to check up on Alex and saw him slumped on the counter, seemingly asleep, "Alex? Come on, come to bed." She shook him. "Alex? Wake up." She tried but to no avail.
-x-X-x-
"Alex… Wake up. Please!" Wanda desperately begged as she focused within herself on the connection that was Alex's body. It had just gone dormant and she couldn't feel his presence anymore. All she could feel was his body, but his consciousness was gone.
"Alex! Please…" She knelt on the ground at the spot that she'd just been training on.
"Please…" She whimpered while clasping her hands together and begging him to wake up.
"Don't leave me…" Tears were falling down her eyes as she begged everything within her power to protect Alex. She didn't realize it, but her eyes had started glowing a deep crimson as she pleaded and pleaded. The tears that were falling on the snowy mountain were boiling as they melted the snow and made steam rise up.
Wanda's body itself had grown warm enough that she was melting the snow below her and was slowly sinking within the snow. Thin tendrils of pure crimson Chaos energy were extending out from her body and were connected to the ground as they pushed her energy within the ground while also sucking it back in.
It was a loop that was concentrating and purifying the energy that she was naturally creating. Purer energy meant that the effect of her magic would be greater with the same amount of energy.
But she wasn't focusing on any of this. She just kept focusing on her dormant connection with Alex as she begged again and again. Her Chaos energy gathered around her instinctively, responding to her request.
This process lasted for no more than a few minutes, but Wanda was just repeatedly begging Alex to not leave her like a broken tape recorder. And the concentration of Chaos energy within her body had grown to alarming levels. If she could use it with full proficiency, it would be enough to completely destroy the Earth multiple times over until nothing remained.
This was when she felt her connection with Alex fluctuating, "Alex!" She tried to call him but to no avail. He was it was just a momentary flicker before he went dormant again.
But this broke a switch in Wanda, "ALEX!!" She screamed desperately and the huge amount of Chaos energy that she'd gathered exploded out, practically vaporizing her surroundings completely.
But that was no more than the remnant energy that was released due to her bad control and unfamiliarity with the energy.
Most of that gathered energy had been thrown into the connection that she had with Alex, passing through space and even dimensions to reach his consciousness as the milky white sphere that was his soul, suddenly gained a light red hue.
…
Just then, "Huh?!" Alex woke up with a jolt, 'Is it done?' He focused on how long it had been and realized that it had only been a few minutes, 'Shouldn't it have taken longer?' He thought. He'd assumed that due to his huge consciousness, he should've taken even longer than the offspring.
That was when the situations of his worried hosts came to him, most of them were just worried and were fine so he decided to appease them with a little explanation.
But that was when he noticed Wanda's situation.
"Fuck…" He was standing in the middle of a wasteland with no traces that it was ever a beautiful snowy mountain with a collapsed Wanda in front of him.
He hurriedly picked her up in his arms and looked around.
'Miles around her destroyed… I fucked up. I should've warned her.' He didn't realize that Wanda would be so perceptible to his dormancy. He knew that the rest of his hosts would be fine and he would wake up by the time it got worrisome. But he had forgotten to account for Wanda's insecurity in this.
'She is why I woke up early…' He had just now noticed the red hue around his soul that seemed to be strengthening and protecting it at the same time. It also seemed to be compressing his soul into a denser form.
'What did you do, Wanda…' He looked at the fainted girl in his arms with a worried look and thought about where he would take her. Her actions had resulted in the surrounding mountain range getting completely obliterated and the mansion hadn't survived either.
'I guess I could take her to Wakanda…' He thought, 'I should wake her up, first.'
"Wake up, little Scarlet…" Alex held her lovingly in his arms as he brought her face close to his and nudged his nose against hers.
"Wanda…" He shook her awake again while revitalizing her slightly.
"Alex…" Wanda comfortably shuffled slightly and pressed her face against Alex's face.
"Wake up." He shook her awake again and she finally woke up, "Alex!" Her eyes shot open with desperation within them.
"I'm here… I'm here." He shushed her and held her close.
"You're okay… You're okay…" Wanda held on to him tightly and felt his presence soothing her. Alex felt his chest getting wet as Wanda's tears fell on his shirt.
"I'm here, Wanda. I was just asleep. You didn't have to worry, so much…" He told her before creating a couch on the ground. He sat on it with Wanda in his lap.
"This was different. Even when you're asleep, I can feel you. But—but this time… I couldn't— I couldn't feel you… I was terrified that I'd lost you…" She cried even harder as she said those things.
Alex shushed her gently while rubbing her back and running his other hand through her hair. "I'm fine, baby. I'm fine…" He felt comforted inside that she cared so much about him. While also chiding himself for not informing her ahead of time.
Some more time later, Wanda fell back to sleep, this time she was as at peace as she could be. She knew that Alex was fine and felt safe while being enveloped in his warm arms. Alex spent that time deep in thought when finally, a ship descended to the ground close to them.
It was Wakanda's Royal Aircraft. It could only be used by the Wakandan Royal family. As it landed, the ramp lowered, and 'Killmonger' stepped down from the craft.
He nodded toward Alex and signaled him to walk to the craft.
This was all for the sake of appearances as Alex wasn't planning on mind fucking anyone in Wakanda unless really necessary. In fact, he was planning on taking over the country in the most normal way. By controlling the politics to be in his favor. He wanted all of Wakanda's manpower and intellect under his control, and mind-fucking people was a very inefficient way of doing that.
Alex walked up the ramp of the aircraft with Wanda in his arms. 'Killmonger' followed Alex and the ramp closed behind him.
"Go back to Wakanda, the Royal Palace." 'Killmonger' told the driver after walking up. Meanwhile, Alex set Wanda down on a bed in one of the bedrooms in the craft. It was a luxury craft with multiple rooms and everything.
…
"Mhm… Alex." Wanda woke up feeling the warm arms of her lover wrapped around her.
"Morning sleepyhead." He kissed her on the forehead as she looked at him with sleepy eyes.
"Alex!" Wanda hugged him tightly and nuzzled her face against his chest. She kept rubbing her face on him and clung to him as if her life depended on it.
A few minutes later, there was a growling sound coming from Wanda's stomach.
[I'm hungry…] She was a little embarrassed, but her actions didn't stop. Her face was still nuzzling on his chest and her legs were tangled up with his.
"I'll need you to let me go so that we can get up to eat…" He told her.
[I don't care.] She wasn't planning on budging. She was terrified that she'd lost Alex too and she would need some time to get herself together. Alex understood this and ran his fingers through Wanda's hair while whispering soothing words to her.
Around half an hour later, she was finally satisfied and her hunger was starting to get a little unbearable. After all, she had just exerted herself to an extreme extent and nutrition was very much necessary.
'I'll talk to her about the level 3 bond after we're done with the food.' Alex thought.
"I'll call someone in for the food." He told her after Wanda was finally willing to separate from him.
"Aren't we at the mansion?" Wanda frowned and looked around, finally realizing that this wasn't their room in the mountains.
"You were too busy cuddling to realize that this isn't our room," Alex smiled at her, "We're in Wakanda." He said.
"What?!" Wanda's lazy expression instantly changed to a vigilant one and she was about to get up. Alex noticed a red glow in her eyes.
"Hey, hey! Calm down. We're safe. I made some moves and took over Killmonger. I'm essentially the king of Wakanda now." He told her, holding her back from destroying the entire palace.
She had a slight surprise on her face as she looked at him with a deeper frown, "You aren't lying?" She confirmed.
"Why would I lie to you? And how would we be in the royal castle of Wakanda if I was? In the master bedroom of the King, no less." He looked at her with a helpless smile. They were in the best room in the castle, which was obviously the King and Queen's chamber.
"Cool…" She didn't treat it as a big deal and continued, "I want the stuff that you made for me on our date in the snow…" She told him.
"Your wish is my command." He said, "Meanwhile, as it's being prepared, we can continue where we left off." Not giving her any time to reply, he pressed his lips over hers and started making out with her again.
***
As the duo of Wanda and Alex enjoyed their time together, Alex's thoughts were also focused on his changes.
The red hue that his soul had gained was just one of his concerns. His main concern was about immunity to his most prominent weaknesses. And he was glad to say that he'd truly achieved immunity to the effects of Heat and Sound waves.
One would need to know what Alex had gone through when he was unconscious for a few minutes to understand what exactly happened.
…
Mere moments after Alex went unconscious, he was thrown into a scene that had him reeling in instinctive pain.
As he looked around the area, he seemed to be in some sort of cave, and a clanking sound was reverberating throughout the cave.
'The forge of the Necrosword…' Alex realized where he was. This wasn't just any average forge, this was the corpse of a dead Celestial at the dawn of the universe. The very corpse whose head would come to be known as Knowhere in the far future. Celestials are among the strongest beings in the entire Marvel Multiverse, and the corpse of one of those beings was used to forge All Black the Necrosword.
All Black was the prime symbiote. The first one to be made using the shadow of Knull. It was imbued by the divine power of the dead celestial and took the form of a sword. All Black was the prime symbiote and the symbiote race was derivative of the prime symbiote.
*Clank*
Alex was brought out of his thoughts by a clank that made him shudder down to his soul and with each Clank, he felt his entire existence whimpering with an instinctual fear. It was the kind of fear that wasn't just felt by his consciousness, but also by his body, his entire existence was permeating with the fear that struck him with each clank.
Trying his best to suppress the pain and fear at the sounds that were created by the hammer striking the anvil, Alex looked around, 'It's like I'm lucid dreaming…' He thought. He had rudimentary control over his movements.
He tried to look around to understand why he was brought here and the significance of the current situation.
As he got closer to Knull, the sounds got louder, but contrary to what he expected, Alex was feeling the pain from the effects of the sounds less and less. It was a very weird situation, but he could understand that this was the effect of Extremis.
As he looked at the repetitive process of the hammer striking a pitch-black substance on the anvil, Alex felt himself getting lost in the rhythm of the sounds. He stayed quiet as he looked at the process of one of the most deadly tools in the universe being created.
At the same time, he felt something changing, as if something was enveloping his entire being. The situation of this lucid dream changed as its time factor changed and started moving slower than reality. This way, Alex wouldn't be stuck here for hours or even days while waiting for the dream to conclude.
"Thee shalt be called All Black!" A loud voice filled with ancientness and authority echoed through the entire forge as Alex was forced out of his reverie. It wasn't English, Alex was sure that it wasn't any known language in the universe, but he could still understand it instinctively. He looked at the sword that was in the hands of Knull, All Black the Necrosword.
Just as the sword was forged from his own shadow, Knull casually swung the sword. And a beam of pitch black was released in the arc as he swung the sword. That black light proceeded to cut through the corpse of the celestial and cut it in half, proceeding to go even further beyond.
"HAHAHA!" Knul started laughing like a madman as he looked at the aftermath of the destruction caused by the Necrosword.
Meanwhile, Alex was left in awe at the destroyed state of the celestial's corpse. Although it was already dead, this was still the body of a celestial. Metals like Vibranium are nothing in front of these beings and the Necrosword just cut through it as if it was nothing.
After calming down, Knull looked at the sword blankly, as if trying to understand something. Abruptly, Knull struck the anvil with the hammer that he was using, and the effects were obvious. The surface of the Necrosword started losing its shape and vibrating with an intensity that conveyed its instinctive pain.
"You'll know better than to influence me. I am your creator. I can destroy you just as I created you." Knull stated. He'd programmed these weaknesses into All Black so that it would always stay under his control. Otherwise, something made from the divine power of a celestial shouldn't have such a glaring weakness.
'I didn't feel anything from that sound…' Alex had a realization as he was observing the conception of the prime symbiote.
'Finally…' He felt as if a huge burden was released from him, and he was finally safe from being affected by unnecessary sounds.
At the same time, his first action was to manipulate his interface.
«Owned Skills: ‹Superhuman Grade Physique Creation (200 Tons)› ‹True 6th Sense› ‹Intermediate Lightning Manipulation› ‹Basic Blood Manipulation› ‹High Magic Affinity› ‹Host of the Scarlet Witch› ‹Biological Manipulation› ‹Inventory› ‹Camouflage› ‹Host Enhancement› ‹Devour› ‹Copy›»
He directly removed that shitty resistance skill. Symbiotes were naturally immune to practically everything in the known universe, the only exceptions being heat and sound. And now, that roster was finally complete. He was truly immune to virtually everything in the known universe, maybe everything except cosmic energy.
He also noticed something else, "Hm?" Just as he was about to delve into it, he was abruptly pulled out of the dream and his consciousness instantly returned to all his bodies.
Though the first thing that he noticed was the new red glow around his Huge blob of consciousness, 'Wanda… I fucked up. I should've told her.' He realized. And he put the thought of ‹High Magic Affinity› to the back of his head and brought everything back on track.
…
"This is amazing, Alex…" Wanda stated as she ate the food that was brought by the same pretentious French waiter that served them during their date. It had become sort of a running gag for them.
"I know." He said.
Wanda rolled her eyes but didn't say anything, "Try this." She brought a bite that she'd held in her hand close to his face. Alex ate the bite and also sucked her finger in his mouth, giving it a thorough lick before releasing her finger.
Wanda had a slight smile on her face as she brought her hand back, but there was a slight blush on her cheek.
After they were done with the food they cuddled back down on the bed while talking.
Alex gave a thought to the reddish hue around his soul and the new ‹High Magic Affinity› skill. He felt internally grateful to Wanda for this.
"Babe?" He asked as he lightly massaged her head.
"Mhm?" She asked, her face buried in his chest as she enjoyed his caresses.
"I was thinking about increasing the depth of our bond…" He said absently.
"Let's do it." She perked up and looked at him with sparkles in her eyes.
"You don't even know what I'm talking about." He smiled amusedly.
"I don't care. If it means that I can feel you even more closely, then I'm up for it." She said as she leaned closer to his face, "I love you, Alex… So much." She looked into his eyes and confessed her feelings.
He held the side of her face and pulled her even closer, to the point that their lips were practically touching, "I love you too, Wanda…" He gently smiled as he brought her in for a kiss.
Wanda moaned into his mouth as she felt euphoric when she heard those words from Alex's mouth. She couldn't help herself and started lightly grinding herself on his crotch and slowly rubbing herself on him. She was feeling amazing right now, and it wasn't due to any external effects. Just his words made her feel such euphoria, nothing more.
She tightly hugged him as she felt herself bubbling with passion, at the same time, in her excitement, her Chaos energy was being released outward and spreading all over the room. Alex saw and utilized his own Chaos Magic to contain her magic within the room. He didn't want to create an unnecessary commotion throughout the castle.
It was just an instinctive release from Wanda's side and there was no intent behind it, so the energy was just permeating through the room without affecting anything as Wanda kissed him passionately.
Feeling her overwhelming passion bubbling, Alex was also being stimulated by those emotions. He was happy that he meant so much to Wanda.
As Wanda kept grinding on his crotch, feeling his erection pressing against her covered core, Alex noticed that the free Chaos energy in the air that Wadna was releasing was being absorbed by the Vibraniun in the walls.
'This might have some interesting effects…' Alex thought. He still made sure that the energy was only absorbed by the Vibranium within the room and didn't extend out to the whole castle since he didn't know what kind of effect it would have.
But he didn't care too much about that. His focus was completely on Wanda. She was tightly hugging him with her hands wrapped around his torso as she rubbed her pelvis over his covered hardness. He could feel her perky breasts and her hard nubs pressing against his chest as she passionately pushed her tongue into his mouth, starting a battle of tongues with him.
He wasn't passive for too long as his hands wrapped around her waist and trailed down to her butt before squeezing both her ass cheeks.
[Oh, Alex~] She moaned without separating from him as her actions increased even more in intensity.
[Let's take things up a notch…] He said in her head with a husky voice.
At the same time, Wanda's and Alex's clothes disappeared, leaving them naked.
Alex was feeling Wanda's unbearable arousal and knew that foreplay wasn't really needed right now. She was excited enough as is.
Realizing their abrupt loss of clothes, Wanda didn't waste any time and skewered herself on Alex's shaft. She wanted to be connected to him as soon as possible. She was so excited that Alex had to hold the sides of her waist and guide her while keeping her upright, lest she takes it in the wrong hole or something.
She moaned with ecstasy as she felt finally herself being connected to him on a fundamental level, scratching the itch that she had been feeling for so long.
At the same time, she could somehow sense his soul that was within the Klyntar Soul Dimension since it was imbued with her Chaos energy, "You're so beautiful, Alex…" She looked into his eyes with infatuation as if she had just gotten a momentary glimpse of his soul.
"I think you're more beautiful, my love." He smiled as he was feeling the weight of Wanda's feelings. She wasn't just connected to him, she was utterly dependent on his existence and would most likely destroy as much as she could before dying if he ever disappeared from her life. Though Alex never planned on letting go of any of his hosts… except Jessica, whom he'd only bonded with on a whim. He didn't ever develop anything with her and didn't bother to interfere with her either. So he didn't have any issue destroying the bond with Jessica.
"I love you, Alex~" Wanda moaned as she hugged him again and stuck herself to him while swaying her hips up and down. Since she was so excited and was taking initiative herself, Alex didn't want to hamper her and let her do whatever she wanted while playing with her butt every once in a while.
She went to kiss his lips before moving to his neck and giving him multiple hickeys. As Wanda sucked and licked his neck, Alex's hands went to her hips and assisted her in swaying so that she would speed up.
For a while, they just enjoyed their time together and made love in the most gentle way possible.
Soon enough, Wanda was too tired and lay down on his chest, both of them still unsatisfied, "I think I should have you be on top every once in a while…" Alex said as he looked at Wanda's pleading expression.
"I'll practice as much as you want me to practice later. But for now, please…" She trailed off.
"Anything for my lovely Wanda…" He smiled and turned around, finally taking control.
He pushed his cock into her depths and held both her hands above her head. Just as he started thrusting into her, Wanda came after just a few thrusts as she was already extremely close.
Meanwhile, as he was fucking her. Alex moved to form the Level 3 bond with Wanda.
He tied both her hands together and to the headboard, fixing them above her head and freeing his hands. He held her face gently in between both his hands and gave her a loving kiss and a look that told her to prepare herself.
Just as she registered the meaning behind his look, she felt an intense pleasure surge through her entire body that originated from her snatch. Alex had chosen his cock as the medium to start merging with her body. And the merger started with her beautiful pink folds.
Instantly, Wanda's body convulsed with an explosive climax and she let out a silent scream, her mouth forming the perfect O face as her back arched and the back of her head pressed into the pillow under her.
Alex didn't stop going as he kept the merger going, the bond started spreading from Wanda's pelvis to the rest of her body as she tried to pull her hands away from the headboard, but it was practically impossible for her. All that she could do was struggle as her hands were stuck above her head while being subjected to extreme pleasure from the bonding process.
After a few minutes, Wanda's climaxes had reached the double digits and suddenly, Chaos energy exploded out from her body and enveloped Alex, extending to his soul.
He didn't even have the thought of resisting as he knew that Wanda would never harm him, even unconsciously. And this was most likely going to benefit him in some way. He noticed that the reddish hue around his soul was getting stronger as Wanda's Chaos energy kept transferring to his soul and somehow enhancing it.
Deciding to let the merger and bonding stuff happen as it was going, Alex's focus moved to Wanda's face. He wanted to enjoy his time with her and that's what he did. Everything moved to the background and his sole focus was on the beautiful girl that was screaming with pleasure under him.
As Alex pumped his girth into her folds, he brought his hands to her tits and started toying with those beautiful bunnies of hers. He squeezed both of her boobs before lightly smacking one of them before going back to massaging it. Repeating with the other and alternating between them.
He pinched her lovely pink nubs in between his fingers and pulled them, eliciting a yelp from Wanda amidst her pleasure.
He spent a good half hour playing with her breasts that he was just so fascinated by. The way they jiggled after he smacked them, and the way they felt against his palms as he squeezed them. He was utterly fascinated by her milky smooth tits.
After having his fill of her breasts for now, Alex's palms slid up her breasts and to Wanda's collarbone as he held her face between his hands. Slowing down the procedure slightly while also slowing down his thrusts within her snatch, Alex looked into her delirious eyes that gained some clarity in them.
"Alex~" She looked at him with a loving expression and smiled, no distress visible on her face due to the cuffs that were digging into her wrists and keeping her hands above her head. All she had was love and affection for him.
His heart melted at the adorable look that Wanda gave him, "I love you so much, baby…" He squeezed her face between both hands and started peppering her with kisses.
"I wuv wou foo." She wasn't able to speak clearly as her face was being squeezed by Alex's hands, but he understood that she was reciprocating his words.
With her reply, he let go of the sides of her face and kissed her lips deeply before picking up the pace again, for both his thrusts and the merger with her skin.
He pushed his tongue through her lips and invaded her mouth as at the same time, the merger extended up her neck, [This might get a little weird, hold me tight.] He told her and freed her arms, letting her hug him tightly while she scratched his back.
At the same time, he felt Wanda releasing even more Chaos energy, most of it being absorbed by his body and by extension his soul, but some of it was also permeating the surroundings. But Alex didn't have any mind to care about it. He was completely focused on Wanda and their connection as it kept getting stronger and stronger.
Holding each other tightly, they both felt blissful on a fundamental level as the merger went up to extend to the skin on her face. Alex's black substance covered her face completely, not leaving any spot uncovered.
And finally, the covering substance started massaging Wanda's earlobe as Alex merged with it, leading to another orgasm from Wanda.
Slowly her entire ear was merged and the substance started invading her ear, making her feel extremely weird as Alex said. It was the same with all of her other orifices as Alex had to thoroughly merge with every part of her skin.
Although it initially felt weird, the arousal that Wanda kept feeling made the entire process very pleasurable and with the thought that her entire being was bared to Alex, Wanda was more than satisfied with the current situation. As she felt herself being invaded on a much deeper level, all she could think of was how her entire existence was bared to Alex and was being enveloped by him. It was like armor that protected her from anything and everything. And she loved that feeling.
That fundamental connection was all she wanted with Alex.
And she'd finally gotten it today.
After a while longer, the whole process was completed and Wanda was out like a light, leaving Alex to admire her sweaty body that seemed to be glowing from the after-effects of the merger.
[ «Status- Host #4»
«Name: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) (MCU Earth)»
«Bonding Rate: 54%»
«Bonding Level: 3»
«Powers: Low Superhuman Physique (20->50 Tons)—Chaos Magic»
]
Another good thing that happened during this process was that Wanda crossed the 50% threshold for the bonding rate, increasing Alex's daily EP generation by 0.1 EP per day. But it was honestly inconsequential for now since he had tens of thousands of EP to squander.
'Now to look at the effects of her Chaos energy on this Vibranium…' Alex thought as he looked at the walls that were densely packed with Chaos energy. The amount that Wanda had released had been astronomical and although most of it was absorbed into Alex, even the tiny percentage that permeated into the air was more than enough the saturate the walls with Chaos energy and more so.
The effects of it on Alex's consciousness were already heavenly, increasing his mental energy by quite a margin, to the point that he could now simultaneously control 300 bodies without any issue from the previous limit of 200 or so.
It also increased his affinity to Chaos magic which was a boon in itself, but he would have to test how much of a difference was actually made.
Alex finally decided to start working on something that he'd been delaying for a while now. A new Earth.
'Ah shit, here we go again…' Alex thought as the container with his dormant body crashed on the planet. He burned some of the biomass that he had stored in his ‹Inventory› and activated that body, disappearing from the location. He'd already sensed Spider-Man approaching and wasn't interested in the scraps that he would get from devouring Spider-Man. Not to mention it could get him the attention of the authorities.
'This seems like a post-Ragnarok scenario where Asgard moved to Earth with its technology and population intact…' Alex thought as he noticed the vastly different infrastructure of central Manhattan. Or at least what used to be central Manhattan.
Although it wasn't all gold, the design and shape of the buildings reminded him completely of Asgard. 'There should be a version of Thor here… I can devour him to truly get my lightning abilities to the next level. Maybe I can even get Thor's lightning divinity…' Alex thought.
'I need information first…' He thought as he found a random pedestrian and went inside them. He was going to read the guy's memories and see what options are available to him.
'Oh, this is an Asgardian?' Alex noticed that the mental defenses of this person seemed to be much more prominent than the average human. There weren't any traces of this being done artificially either, as it had been in the Bastion. This was completely natural which indicated to Alex that this person was most likely an Asgardian. Though he was able to subtly break in after some effort.
'Post-Ragnarok was expected… Dead Odin, dead Heimdal, pity. I could've used his all-seeing eyes, but this helps too, I won't have to think about him spying on me all the time… Loki… Hela… Interesting…' Alex's thoughts were vague as he understood the general situation.
'I should start mapping out this new Asgard that's become the new strongest country on Earth… Far surpassing Wakanda.' Alex decided to lay low for now.
Mostly since he didn't want to pay much attention to this place for now.
…
That had happened a few weeks ago and quite a bit had happened since then.
Vibranium was a rare metal even in the vast expanse of the universe, and although Asgardians had their knowledge, they didn't have Asgard's resources anymore. This was why Loki— The King of Asgard, wanted the Vibranium in Wakanda's possession for himself.
There was going to be a diplomatic meeting between Loki and T'Challa regarding the Vibranium and an equal exchange. Alex was sure that this was most likely going to blow over and Loki would try to trick T'Challa, inciting a war between Asgard and Wakanda.
He was going to insert himself in this scenario and take the opportunity to bond with Hela. Personally, Alex wasn't that interested in bonding with Hela since her powers weren't the most enticing for him. Her Death divinity was pretty cool, but bringing back armies of the dead wasn't really useful for Alex. Especially since the truly powerful beings couldn't be controlled if they were revived. So all it would do is give him an endless army of grunts.
His only attraction was Hela's death touch that could kill any being as long as she touched their skin. And the fact that he'd had to burn a huge amount of biomass to keep his current body sustained without a host.
'This feels so monotonous and repetitive…' He thought as he made his way to Wakanda in an Asgardian aircraft that he'd taken control over.
The meeting spot was going to be the Wakandan royal castle.
'It's like I'm going to a new earth, repeating the same thing with the same people. It's getting boring… I want to explore the vast universe and I'm here stuck on earth doing the same meaningless routine again and again.' He was bored of this same situation repeating again and again.
'I'm bored of the Earth bullshit. I'm going to look for a way to go off of the planet after bonding with Hela. An Asgardian ship if the Bifrost isn't an option.' Alex decided. He was bored of so many Earth plots. And he was also curious about the situation of the rest of the universe.
He had a lot of questions and he wanted the answers to those questions. And the only way to get those answers was to start moving on a cosmic scale.
'I need to get Nightwalker.' Alex put Nightwalker on a higher priority and decided to start moving on to the X-Men after the set-up of Stacy Industries was completed in Earth-65. 'I'll set a trap o get Nightwalker alone…' He was finally going to start acting on some of his requirements. The main reason for all this was because of the increase in his power.
Just the physical power that he held was on par with an average Asgardian and that wasn't including his lightning and Chaos magic capabilities. The latter of which he hadn't even explored yet. After the Level 3 bond with Wanda, he hadn't yet explored the changes to his use of Chaos energy.
He made many plans on his way to Wakanda.
…
"Such a nice little paradise you have here. It would be a shame if someone were to… say, destroy it." Loki said as he walked into Wakanda with Hela at his side. He was faced by T'Challa and the Wakandan army who all had grave expressions on their face.
"Mister Loki, Miss Hela. I see that you decided to barge through the borders of my country without any problems." T'Challa said with sarcasm evident in his tone.
"What can I say, I'm not much for mortal customs," Loki said nonchalantly, his magical power radiating from his voice, adding a level of pressure to his words.
"We will not be giving you our Vibranium," T'Chall stated outright.
"Are you sure? We have countless ways to use Vibranium in a more efficient way. The kind of knowledge that could put your entire country and civilization itself on a path of greatness." Loki told him, the dismissive smile on his face infuriating.
"We refuse." T'Challa was stubborn.
"Pity," Loki said with a tone of pity, "Hela, my general. Take care of everything here." Loki told her and crossed his arms. His grandeur oozed out of him at this display. The entire army of Wakanda stressed at Loki's words, everyone taking a position of combat.
"What do you say?" Hela smirked as she didn't make a move and instead looked at Loki.
Loki sighed, "You just have to ruin my moment, don't you?" He asked, "Please help me out here. You happy now?"
"Immensely, darling." Hela smiled a bloodthirsty smile and raised her arms in the air, calling upon her armies of the dead.
Immediately, a green luster took over the blue sky above Wakanda, At the same time, a green mist was released behind Hela, covering the fields in green.
'Shit is going down!' Alex, who was hiding in the body of one of the Dora Milage was excited. He was going to look for an opportunity to bond with Hela soon, 'Thankfully, I have quite a bit of control over Chaos magic now and can use it to hide my tracks from Loki's magical senses. At least when he's not directly looking for me. I'm far from being comparable to Loki in this regard.'
As the green mist behind Hela faded, a large number of troops were seen standing behind her. Her army was ready for war.
Hela's bloodthirsty smile got even more pronounced as she released a war cry before charging at the army of Wakanda, her undead army following after her.
"Wakanda Forever!" A collective shout ran through the battlefield on the side of the Wakandans as T'Challa also charged ahead to meet Hela, followed by his loyal Kingsguard— The Dora Milage, and the entire Wakandan army.
Loki was floating up in the air with an excited smile on his face, ready to see a fun show.
The Black Panther was just about to reach Hela and they were about to meet in the center of the battlefield before there was a blindingly bright flash of light in the center of the battlefield. That flash made everything and everyone pause in their tracks.
Just then, there was a clanking sound and Hela was thrown off the battlefield to the fat back, "You seem to have grown unruly in my absence, Loki. Having the gall to attack my friends." An artificial-sounding masculine voice said as the light faded away.
It was Thor. He had Mjolnir in one hand while holding a sword in the other. It was Heimdall's sword.
'Why is he so lanky and whatever the opposite of buff is?' Alex thought, 'Wait up… That's Mighty Thor,' Alex thought while feeling extremely weird about not recognizing that this wasn't Thor Odinson, 'Is this some sort of Causality thing? It's just half of her face that's hidden and she's completely unrecognizable. Fucking Green Lantern superhero logic…' Alex grumbled.
"Thor!" Hela screamed and attacked Thor with her shortswords in hand, "Loki, control your dog." Thor shouted at Loki before blocking Hela's attack and throwing her away again. This time, she charged a bolt of lightning and shot it at her face with full force.
"Ahem… All right, Hela. That's enough. We can call a truce, right? Please?" Loki practically begged Hela to not fight. It was as if Thor had some sort of leverage over him.
"Whatever." Hela agreed and recalled her armies. Meanwhile, Thor turned to T'Challa, "I'm sorry about him, I hope he didn't cause too much trouble?" She asked him, extending her hand to shake his hand.
"It's all right, my friend. And we didn't endure any major losses, so there was no harm there either." He said while shaking her hand.
This gave Alex the perfect opportunity to transfer to Thor. Concealing himself with ‹Camouflage› and Chaos magic, he transferred to T'Challa from the Dora Milage guard and then to Thor through their direct contact. She was the perfect host for him with his current requirements.
He was bored of Earth bullshit, she had direct access to the Bifrost with Heimdall's sword. He wanted to enhance his lightning powers, she had Mjolnir, the hammer that was literally infused with Thor's divinity. Not to mention the Asgardian Physiology that the hammer provided her, allowing Alex to finally get a host with a Low Cosmic Physique.
He didn't waste any time and formed a Level 0 bond with her.
[ «Status- Host #7»
«Name: Jane Foster (Mighty Thor)»
«Bonding Rate: 0%»
«Bonding Level: 0»
«Powers: Low Cosmic Physique (Mjolnir)— Lightning Divinity(Mjolnir)— Bifrost Summon (Hofund)»
]
'She really doesn't have anything beyond the powers that she gets from the hammer and sword, huh…' Alex understood and checked her physiology, 'Yep, the cancer's still there too, only suppressed by the presence of the hammer and sword.'
Alex's thoughts went to the movies, 'I still can't believe the shit that the movie pulled,' Alex was lost in his fanboy issues and wasn't going to think about anything else for a while as he incessantly complained inwardly about the events of the movie.
Meanwhile, Jane aka Thor mediated between Loki and T'Challa, allowing Wakanda to sell some of their Vibranium to Asgard in exchange for their knowledge in relation to Vibranium. Loki made sure to meddle again and again with his provocations, but all it took from her was a flick of her hammer and Loki cooperated after that. Considering that she was far from being close to the actual Thor, the only reason for Loki's cooperation must be that she had some other leverage over him.
Everything took around 2 hours to finalize at which point, the three Asgardian gods left Wakanda. Alex was bored with the stuff that was going on, so he spent his time trying to understand the differences between Asgardian Physiology and normal Human physiology. He was planning on enhancing some of the aspects of his other hosts after understanding how Asgardians work.
…
'Sigh…' She sighed, "What the hell is going on with this clusterfuck of Earths?" Jane questioned as she went into her room and slammed the door, dropping off her helmet and rubbing her forehead.
"Fucking Loki… Pain in the ass." She cursed before dropping the sword that was in its scabbard and the hammer to the sides and collapsing on the bed, "Mmm… I missed my bed." She took a comfortable posture.
[Hello, Miss Thor.] As usual, Alex decided to intervene at the time that the girl was most comfortable, startling Jane into jumping from her bed and taking a defensive posture. The sword and hammer flew into her hands.
"Who!" She looked around, ready for a fight, her helmet that covered half her face automatically forming over her head.
[I'm inside your head.] Alex couldn't resist the urge to mess with her.
"Show yourself!" She was ready for a fight and lightning started surging around her as her eyes started glowing with flickers of lightning. She was ready to destroy her house if that's what it took.
Just as she started swinging her hammer around her hand, creating a light tornado, Alex gave in, [Damn, dude. Calm down. I was just messing with you. I'm a symbiotic alien and just ended up bonding with you.]
She snorted, "Yeah right. Now show yourself before I start attacking randomly."
[Geez, can't even take a joke.] Alex grumbled as black tendrils started extending from Jane's body, coalescing into Alex's body that was standing in front of her.
"Hello—" Before he could continue, Jane hit him with her charged hammer and threw him out of her house, breaking half of the mansion in the process.
"I'm going to blame you for breaking my house." She said before pursuing him, just to see him standing in the open field around her house with an amused smile on his face. 'It seems that she's enjoying herself after Asgard took over her home country…' Alex thought as he noticed her mansion seemed even better than Tony's Malibu mansion that was destroyed in Iron Man Three. The seaside view was marvelous.
"Well that's just unreasonable," Alex said as she reached him.
"Yeah, well that's for startling me for no reason, and that too when I was just about to get some rest…" She mumbled the last part under her breath before moving to attack him, swinging her hammer at his face.
"Hey, that's brutal!" Alex said as he did his best to dodge, but failed due to Jane's physical stats that far surpassed him. If it was him with Laura, things would be much different, but since he was alone, it wasn't as easy.
'Then again, this is just a body. I'm already bonded with her.' He thought as he was thrown away again.
Jane looked as the cloud of dust settled and saw him unscathed again. She didn't waste any time before moving to him and hitting him with Thor's hammer as it started charging with lightning.
'Come to daddy…' This was the one shot that Alex wasn't afraid of taking head-on.
Just as the lightning came close enough, it got sucked toward him with an intense gravitational pull that was akin to a black hole. All of it was absorbed into his body. Alex patted his stomach and looked at her with an infuriating expression, "Thanks for the meal."
"Oh, yeah? Let's see how you like this." Jane suddenly smirked and slashed the air in front of her with Hofund, Heimdall's sword.
'Fuck…' Alex just remembered that she also had Heimdall's sword which could manipulate cosmic energies to attack and he had no way to defend against an attack like that.
"You leave me no choice," Alex said with a solemn tone as if he was about to do something huge. The slash from Hofund had already become a semi-tangible, transparent arc in the middle of the field approaching him while leaving a trail as the only proof of its presence on the ground as it sliced through a part of it.
Jane also tensed up, expecting him to pull out something that might be slightly destructive. She'd seen him take her fully powered blows head on so she had some presumptions.
That was when Alex's body split from the middle and the cosmic energy arc passed by harmlessly without harming him.
When Alex merged back together, he looked at her with that still infuriating smirk, "What else do you have?"
"Fucking hell," She cursed under her breath and decided to get into close-quarters combat against him. She jumped from her spot and reached him within a second before swinging her hammer and sword at him.
'She's got a lot of practice with it…' He thought as he dodged her blows, thanking Natasha and Laura's training. Jane was good, but she was just a civilian and wasn't someone that trained extensively. Circumstances had forced her to take up the mantle of Thor and she still wasn't the best at it.
Soon though, Jane's superior physical stats were enough to overshadow Alex and she started getting some shots in. Though he made sure to prioritize dodging the slashes from Hofund since he didn't know what cosmic energy could do to him and he wasn't risking it.
Though after a while of continuously exchanging blows, Jane's inexperience started showing and she started getting frustrated at being unable to hit him, which led to her slipping in her blows a few times. And Alex made sure to leverage those slip-ups, getting a hit every once in a while.
Though, as her impatience increased, so did her slip-ups, slowly, Alex started getting the upper hand on her as her moves started getting more and more predictable, not to mention his sixth sense acting as the perfect beacon for allowing him to dodge most of her attacks.
After a particularly nasty slip-up, Alex grabbed Jane's arm and flipped her over, slamming her on the ground, him following right after her, sitting on top of her.
"You wanna talk now?" He asked. Jane didn't say anything but the blue glow in her eyes started intensifying to the point that her eyes were invisible under the blue. She was channeling more power from Mjolnir.
"Damn, it. I mean you no harm. Why are you fighting me?" Alex asked her, frustrated.
"Just cause." She tilted her head with an impassive expression and raised Mjolnir into the air before slamming it into the ground. That was followed by a huge bolt of lightning falling on top of Alex, something far stronger than what he could summon.
'She just casually summoned lightning and it's stronger than what I can bring down at my best even after I have quite a bit of time for preparation,' Alex was jealous. But that didn't mean he was scared. He had an infinite reservoir of energy within his ‹Inventory› in the Klyntar Soul Dimension and could absorb as much lightning as she could dish out.
Just as the lightning hit Alex, he didn't even flinch and stayed in his spot looking at Jane with an annoyed expression, "Are you done?" He asked.
She sighed, "Fine…" She said, finally relenting, "Get up." She looked at him with narrowed eyes.
Alex smirked and looked deep into her eyes as he slowly got up from his spot.
"Hi, You can call me Alex." He extended his hand to her to help her get up, not really expecting her to grab his hand. But he was surprised when she did grab his hand, only to pull him down again. "Hi, Alex." She smirked, expecting him to fall. She didn't use all of her strength, just enough to make him topple over.
"Well, that's just rude…" He grumbled as he dug his feet into the ground, using tendrils extended from the soles of his feet that dug into the ground to keep him standing. Instead, Jane was the one who ended up getting pulled up.
"So is disturbing a lady when she's resting in her home." Jane looked at him with an annoyed look, mad that she couldn't pull one over on him.
"It was a harmless joke." Alex told her, "I didn't catch your name." He asked.
"Thor." She said.
"Right…" He rolled his eyes.
"What?" She asked with slight vigilance in her tone.
"Nevermind. I think Introductions are in order. I'm Alex, a Klyntar." He noticed Jane's eyes widening a little as she heard his introduction, "I think you're an optimal host for me so I decided to bond with you. Any questions?" He asked.
"Klyntar as in… The Symbiotic life forms that live on planet Klyntar and call themselves Klyntar?" She asked with slight disbelief in her tone.
"Yeah." He agreed.
"I have so many questions…" She seemed to be in disbelief, "And you said that you're bonded with me?"
"Yep."
"I destroyed my house for nothing!" She screamed before swinging her hammer and flying up into the air, instantly crossing Mach speed. Within seconds, she reached the moon of this earth and banged her hammer on the ground, creating a huge crater as large as the grand canyon.
'How frustrated is she with life?' Alex thought as he looked at her wanton destruction of the moon. Not satisfied with one crater as she kept going.
[You all right?] He asked after she seemed to be done with taking her anger out on the poor rock in space, damaging it to the point where it was about to collapse into space debris.
"Yeah… Just annoyed." She said as she rose Hofund and Mjolnir into the air and worded out something obscure that Alex was unable to understand. He could read her lips but couldn't understand what she was saying.
Instantly, a faint glow extended out from Jane's entire body and started repairing the damage that was caused to the moon due to her rampage of annoyance.
'So that's why she was so liberal… Her ability to call upon cosmic energies like this may be related to her leverage on Loki…' Alex conjectured.
Alex couldn't hold himself back from wanting to know more about her and did the next best thing he could, he formed the level 1 bond with her, pricking the back of her neck.
{ «Status- Host #7»
«Name: Jane Foster (Mighty Thor)»
«Bonding Rate: 0%»
«Bonding Level: 1»
«Powers: Low Cosmic Physique (Mjolnir)— Lightning Divinity(Mjolnir)— Bifrost Summon (Hofund)— Cosmic Energy Manipulation (???)»
}
He also added Cosmic Energy Manipulation to her status. He didn't know her source for it, so he just left it empty for now.
"Ow, hey!" Her hand shot up to the back of her neck as she got a hostile look on her face.
[Now, now. Calm down. I'm just deepening the bond with you. It won't harm you in any way.] He told her.
"I don't know if you know this, but there's this thing called permission that you need to ask before doing something like this." Jane admonished him with a frown on her face.
[Is that so…] Alex trailed off.
"Yeah. It's basic decency. And I have a question… Why do you seem so… sentient? As far as I've read in Asgard's records, the Klyntar are symbiotic beings in that they aren't actually fully sentient, they need hosts to find an actual identity. Why are you so different?" She asked, genuinely curious.
[I guess, I'm just built differently.] He said nonchalantly.
"Yeah, that answers a lot of questions…" Jane said sarcastically.
[Anyway, why do you seem so fragile?] He changed the topic.
"What do you mean?" She asked with a slight tremble in her voice.
[It's like you're transformed into a different being. This doesn't seem like your real form.] He asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about." She suddenly got defensive and shot away from the surface of the just repaired moon, going back to her Earth.
[You know that you can't run away from me, right? I'm technically inside you.] Alex stated.
"Yeah, well whatever." She didn't want to talk about it.
[I'll find out sooner or later, so why are you even hiding it from me?] He asked but she didn't reply so he continued, [You know how the whole symbiote thing works, so why are you even hesitant about this stuff? We'll practically be eternal partners if all goes well, what's a little vulnerability?] He said.
"Can you stop? I don't want to talk about it. End of story." She said as she landed in the ruined remains of her house and looked around before sighing and pulling out her phone from her bedroom which seemed to be relatively undestroyed in this situation.
[How is your bedroom still fine?] He asked, deciding to not delve into her identity stuff for now.
"It's enchanted. I was planning to do my whole house, but as you can see I haven't gotten to it yet." Jane told him, glad that he didn't push further. She looked through her recent and called Loki.
"Loki, my house needs repairs." She told him and hung up.
the point where she trusted the God of Mischief with the rebuilding of her house.
[Isn't he the king of Asgard or something? Is he fine with you ordering him around like this?] He asked, genuinely curious about what kind of leverage she had over Loki. To the point where she trusted the God of Mischief with the rebuilding of her house.
"Oh, that's an amazing story, but I'm not supposed to share the details due to a pact." She told him with an amused chuckle.
[You really don't want to give me any answers, do you?] He asked, annoyed that he wasn't able to get any information from her.
"Since you aren't telling me about you, it's only natural for me to reciprocate." She said with a smirk.
[…Fair enough.] Alex could only shrug.
"Hm?" Jane's nonchalant expression changed into a serious one as she looked up into the sky, "Are you fucking kidding me." She quickly pulled out her phone and texted Loki that she was leaving and expected her house to be completed before she was back in a day or so.
With that, she raised her sword up in the air and summoned the Bifrost.
Meanwhile, Alex was feeling weird right now. He was always used to being in control and Jane was throwing him off his game.
[Do you have something against me?] Alex asked, genuinely confused.
"What do you mean?" Jane asked him as she traveled through the rainbow bridge to her destination.
[I don't know, just the vibe that you give off…] Alex said with a shrug.
"I guess it has to do with the fact that I didn't want to bond with a symbiote and you practically forced the bond on me. Now I can't even get rid of you without creating way too many problems. And that's not mentioning your glaring weakness to heat and sound." Jane wasn't enthusiastic about the bond or the benefit that it provided her.
Alex was tempted to tell her about how he was immune to heat and sound and all that bullshit but decided to say fuck it for now. This was all practically meaningless since Jane was clearly not in the best state right now.
'Forget it…' Alex decided as he took the back seat for a while, examining her Asgardian physique to understand how he could enhance his other hosts.
***