I was reading through the long technical document that Luke had given me, having used my bathroom break to transfer the PDF-like document to my phone using a small feature of the chatroom. The Hellfire club was doing depraved stuff like drinking wine from the tits of both men and women. If I had learnt anything tonight it was that the rich were fucking perverted weirdos and barely deserved saving from alien invasion.
Oh, Emma and the other VIPs were all snazzy up here in the exclusive box, witnessing the depravity with all the cares of an ant eater watching a human pass by. In other words, they couldn't give a fuck and were too busy playing mind games with one another.
Shaw was an utter pussy and resisted speaking unless it was required or he wanted to make a point. Selene was the top in their political relationship and it was clear to see. My sister was palmed off as the outcast due to the odd state of her counterparts' actions and reactions. Honestly the night was turning out to be a big bore. I didn't know why Emma was so concerned with these bozos, I mean, Selene was an issue... Sure... But she was somewhat tamed by Shaw and didn't devolve into baser conflicts. She got close for a time with my irreverent comments but she deflated immediately.
"I see that you invested in Stark's quaint company Emma, any reason why?" Selene dragged her words as if she were pulling teeth from a chicken. I instantly tuned out and started observing chat...
Tony Stark- Wait, you're from Game of Thrones!?!?
Aegon Targaryen- I don't know what this 'game' you speak of is, but I was raised in the North, on the continent of Westeros.
Tony Stark- That's Game of Thrones kid... Damn... That's pretty rough! Especially being a Targaryen
Aegon Targaryen- No one knows I am a Targaryen
Tony Stark- Good, if they knew you'd probably be hunted down by the Lannister family and any others who helped Robert Baratheon
Aegon Targaryen- Well, the family name helps me little at this stage... It is not as if I could gain armies simply for being a Targaryen
Tony Stark- ... There are remnants of your family Aegon. In the East I think there is two members of the Targaryen family, Daenerys and Rhaegar. From what I know they gain an army of Dothraki before Rhaegar gets killed for his arrogance and stupidity... Then Daenerys frees some slave cities and gains a massive army of unsullied. It was a cool read in my spare time...
Aegon Targaryen- I, I don't know how to understand all of these revelations
Tony Stark- Just start with the basics kid. You are a Targaryen, which means you'll have some form of influence over certain groups and people. Secondly, you can use your family's reputation and name to gather support from nations or baronies that conflict with the Lannister Banner... Sky is the limit Aegon!
Aegon Targaryen- I'm abandoning the night's watch with my uncle, he is a Stark by birth, perhaps I can contemplate my choices on the journey...
Tony Stark- Hah, all good, let me know if you want some deep info, I can get Jarvis on it and have an entire breakdown of people in your world; from what we have in books.
Loki Odinson- If you must reclaim the power of your family once more it would behove you to uphold the tenants and reputation that the family has created for themselves; beside any negative ones. When I ruled over Alfheim for a short century I found that subjects would more willingly follow a leader who followed their own rules and lived up to some form of mythical story or tale... It was very easy for me since I was a son of Odin, but they are still details to pay attention to.
Aegon Targaryen- The Targaryens were known for riding dragons and being impervious to flames... Perhaps I could test my resistance to flame and heat? Dragons are all but extinct across Westeros, a consequence of the Targaryens being slaughtered.
Loki Odinson- I could perhaps get an egg of a dreki for you, It would take some time however and I would require an oath from you.
Aegon Targaryen- What oath... If I was considering said offer?
Loki Odinson- To cause as much mischief as possible with said Dreki egg, for the longevity of whatever war or strife that you run into
Aegon Targaryen- Done!
Loki Odinson- Excellent... I shall go and procure my Dreki egg for you...
Aegon Targaryen- You said it would be hard to get???
Aegon Targaryen- Hello...???
Tony Stark- Forget it kid, you just made a bargain with a 'god' of trickery and mischief
Aegon Targaryen- That, doesn't sound good...
Tony Stark- Don't stress it, it'll all work out in the end
I barely resisted my inner need to smirk. They were getting on well and the chat group was just becoming another part of all our days now. Tony was the worst since he'd be on constantly, trying his best to scrape information and ideas from us all. Jester was on sporadically and often only spoke after she got into her bedroll, something about travelling under a mountain or something such was causing her and her party's days to be long and exhausting. Shiro was almost always lurking in the background but was so inundated with paperwork that he barely got time to just chat. Luke was much the same as he needed to meditate and oversee his Jedi Order on Yavin IV.
Everyone maintained tabs on the chat group though, to see when a new member would be added or some mission would turn up. It had been about six to seven days since the group first started and my new life began, yet there was no sign of missions or complications. I did have a feeling that would change when the invasion of New York happened, but that was more intuition than valid, statistical, estimation.
"You dare refuse my command Emma!?" Shaw's voice pierced through my pondering like a knife through butter.
Instantly zoning in on the man I noted his deep anger at whatever my sister had denied and the buzz of energy around him. He was using some form of mutant power and was barely holding himself back from attacking.
"Yes, I refuse your disgusting order to submit myself to your lustful intentions." My own anger spiked at the revelation of his command's intent. My sister was fully glaring at the man as he reach out into the air and started squeezing the air until it screeched out in pain from the amount of pressure his grip-strength caused.
"YOU, WILL, OBEY!!!" He snarled and took a step forwards. I didn't know why things were devolving like this but I wasn't about to have him speaking to my twin sister like that.
"She will do no such thing, parasite." I drew on all of the molecules below my feet and stretched my influence through the floor below him. His movements became sluggish to my perception as my mind entered into the vast chains of atoms inside the various uniform matter-structures.
'Take the High-purity cellulose from the wooden floor boards below us, and convert 90% of the remaining material into Cellulose Nanocrystal... Then use some of the remaining material to create a chemical reactions that lifts that new material upwards into spike...'
As the thought was had, the change was made. In nano-seconds the wooden floorboards below Shaw turned a pallid grey colour that then turned slightly transparent, forming back into a white substance that many would not be able to identify with just their eyes. The ignition of the chemical reaction caused the left over material to flash burn, the Cellulose Nanocrystal stabbing up into Shaw's feet and through his shins. Seconds had passed at this point and the man had yet to be able to respond.
'Then we take all the molecules and break them down into atoms, break the atoms into subatomic particles... Strip the neutrons, protons and electrons from the surrounding material and reform them into the standard pattern and array for Uranium-235.'
I used a mental image of a textbook I once read to form the orbits, I found in my last experiments that my brain could automatically array them how I envisioned them to be... A very cheat, considering I had access to my phone through Technopathy and could immediately search for the details of all the periodic elements.
'Convert the majority of the CNC inside his body into pure Uranium-235 and then watch as he slowly becomes inundated with radiation poisoning...' A smile tugged on my face as I watched the man grimace in extreme pain, my attack bypassing his ability to suck the energy out of kinetic attacks and other more direct methods.
My perception returned to normal and brought with it a rather significant headache, my brain throbbing after doing extreme amounts of mental math to get the proton, neutron and electron counts right. This was a new downside, one I would have to pay close attention to...
"Holy fuck, his feet are glowing... Wait, no, his veins are glowing!" Emma was slightly panicked as Selene stood and glowed with a magical nimbus.
The Black Queen was quickly glancing between me and Shaw before licking her lips and scowling towards me. She said nothing to either of us whilst Shaw attempted to move his feet forwards. Her magic was formed around her in a bubble, ancient Egyptian runes for protection and isolation weaving amongst the energy in a tide of uncertainty.
"Yep, that's what happens when I turn the floor below him into Uranium and stab him with it..." My tone was so dull that Emma just blinked in stunned silence.
"AHHHHHHHHH! FUCK! Y-YOU FUCKER! I, WILL, END, YOU!!! FR-FROST FUCK-FUCKER!" I rolled my eyes and tugged at the connection inside my mind, expanding my control over the matter inside his bloodstream to introduce mercury into the mixture. My brain didn't appreciate the extra pressure, but that was fine, it could handle it. Luckily the changes were permanent, unfortunately... the changes were permanent...
"Come sis, we need to get out of this room before the radioactivity starts getting into the air through his body." She just nodded in perplexed confusion as I slowly dragged her out of the room, my eyes tracking Selene as she too exited through another entrance.
I was on her radar now, which meant she was never going to be caught off guard by my powers. Unlike Shaw, she wouldn't be ambushed and poisoned in the future. I was pissed that I'd had to show my cards, but also proud at how easy it had been to poison Shaw and essentially kill him. With that dose of radiation and mercury, he was finished. Five minutes wouldn't save him and that was all the time he had left.
We rushed through the hallways and corridors, dodging stray security guards and servers through quick movement and genial excuses. Staff asked where we were going, we ignored them ruthlessly. Mercenaries that had, at some point, joined the security team inside the building, asked us whether we wished for an escort out of the premises. Once again we declined... Or we would have, if it weren't for the alarm that blared through the entire building, dragging the attention of the ex-soldiers away from us.
I used the lull in their focus to push Emma ahead of me and chase after her. Some guards asked what was happening as we passed which Emma quickly explained as some sort of attack on the meeting and that Shaw was hurt. The security ate up that description and quickly rushed past, an ex-seal team member following us at a blistering pace as he ensured we passed by security checkpoints easily.
Perhaps people would discover what happened to Shaw, perhaps they would be confused, but for now there was just the urge to get out of here... And that is what we did. Our limousine was waiting near the front entrance as we exited and we entered it as if the devil was chasing after us. I looked around in attempt to locate Selene but failed to do so, the energetic hubbub of the security teams covering any potential trace of her location. She was free and knew what we had done, not that she could prove it.
The night had escalated quickly and the situation with the Hellfire Club had devolved even faster. I didn't know what position Emma would be in or if she could even be part of the secret little fetish club anymore... That was fine though since my sister would no longer have to listen to Shaw nor bare with his indecent requests.
And then I was punched.
"HOLY SHIT DRECARIOS! What the FUCK was that!?"
I rubbed my shoulder and frowned at her before rolling my eyes and grabbing a whiskey bottle.
"That, was a brother protecting his sister from a rapey motherfucker who wanted to do rapey things with her..." She paled and grimaced, curling into herself now. In public she was as strong as a diamond and as stubborn as one too. Privately she was as soft as a marshmallow and was rather emotional.
"Y-you could have just threatened him..." I took a long swig of the booze and then regarded her with an emotionless stare.
"That guy was seconds away from trying to thrash you. He was barely holding back because there we a chance, in his mind, that you would acquiesce to his demands. Threats would only serve to exacerbate his anger and show that we were weak."
She grumbled under her breath but I continued.
"Selene would have smelt blood in the water and she would then try to devour you whole... Plus me, she certainly licked her lips at me enough." Emma broke her grumbling for a short snort before breaking back into a glower.
I took another long drink of the whiskey before setting down the half-full bottle into the cupholder beside me; the limousine taking off at a speed that would normally be impossible in New York.
"How many times has he made you do sexual things sis...?" There was silence before she answered, her voice croaking somewhat.
"Twice before this. He mainly only asked me to sit on his lap. At the time he wanted to go further but was interrupted by Selene or father..." I couldn't help but feel hatred for the newly departed scum. I started to wish that I had done more when I had the chance, though my brain kindly reminded me that it would have been even more painful.
"Never again. No one will ever touch you again without your permission, you get me?" She nodded softly, her eyes glued to the floor of the limo.
I reached out and softly dragged her into a brotherly hug, her body leaning into mine as I provided some comfort for her. It was there that I understood truly that this was a real world and that it operated like one... The comic knowledge and movie understanding could only get me so far...
Emma slowly cried into my suit as I stared out the window. She wouldn't go back to the Hellfire club unless it was over my dead body...
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