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  Kamar Taj [August 2015]

  –Jack Sullivan.–

  Welp, it was official. Strange rodigy, eveer than himself. The Eye of Agamotto did not respond to him at all. In fact, the sequen the movies itself was a big fat lie. The number of spells that one has to cast at a dizzying speed, just to get past the authentication phase of the protes of the Eye was staggering, let alone casting the spell to open the Eye.

  Then, while keeping that spell cast, one had to manipute the Stone ihe Eye to get the various effects one could get by essentially toying with the Space Time tinuum. Strange could do it with seeming ease but even that freak of a man had to cast some spells as practice to open the damhing and then even more practice to actually use the energy for something useful.

  Damn shame, he couldn't actually use it. Although it was niough that the Eye clicked on the pedestal and he felt the defences going back up, which were quite strong and had very strong energy from the Eye interwoven directly into the defenses so it would be safe to say that there were some nasty time spells and traps ihing.

  “Hey, Jack?” Tony’s voice crackled to life in his s. The team was still trag down any anomalies around the world as well as around the two remaining sanctums so that he could e bad regroup at Kamar Taj.

  “Yes? Anything?” He asked, ready to open a portal to either of the Sanctums’ general locations. They could not afford yet another Sanctum falling down, that would bring them oep closer to literal doom.

  He knew how Strange did the whole “Dormammu I’m here tain” thing but he didn’t have the magical chops for that yet.

  “No, nothing of the sort yet. I have Jarvis with two suits per Sanctum and also Captain and Widow at both locations just in case Jarvis’ surveilnce isn’t patible with your Voodoo magic,” Tony snarked back, tension clear in his voice. Yeah, he did y it ohick about what could happen if the Sanctums fell and it was clear that Tony took it pretty hard, what with his PTSD already about the inal Invasiohough Tony was not the one who had to deliver the tactiuclear payload, uhe inal one where he saw the Mothership and how many more Leviathans were headed their way, while making peace with the fact that he was dying alone.

  “Then?” he asked, ready to read more about the spells required and try again with the Eye si retty critical to winning this battle or would serve as a power boost for him even if Kaecilius was killed, in the middle of enag his pn.

  “This energy signature that you have given us, it is glitg Jarvis’ systems so bad that I had to create another VI for it and it is tellihat I have a simir energy hit in a, some pce called Hunan,”

  Tony’s aopped him right in his tracks, as he realised that Hunan was the same pce as the demon but that demon was not like the typical Dark ones. No, that was more akin to a Hell Prince.

  “Tony? yain? Any ce that there was a glit your end?”

  “Jack, my systems have been glitg nonstop ever since you had my sensors read that weird piece of book but no, I have triple checked everything with fresh systems, and the answer is the same. It is kinda far so I thought you could go check it out,”

  He breathed out, snapping the book shut, “Yeah, I’ll go.”

  With a wave of his hand, a portal opened in front of him, taking him straight into the vilge that had been sughtered by a demon who had in turn been killed by him without much fuss.

  As soon as he crossed the threshold, a foul smell assaulted his senses as he immediately used his barriers to filter out everything, falling ba the stored supply of pure oxygen he kept in the back of his barriers for emergency situations just like the one he was in now.

  His eyes were wide as he reached the area where there was no such demonic sti, when he had left this pce. Just so that no demoniergy was left lingering in the area which could be harmful for anyone who would stumble on this pce, he had spera time sealing the entire area, and that seal was now gone.

  Not just go was as if the demoniergy had quadrupled in volume with the Dark Energy of DOrmammu being the primary one here. That was not the case st time he was here.

  “What a drag,” he muttered as he went to work oing this much Dark Energy tained. It was as if Dormammu sent some of his empowered ones, and actually desded in this pce.

  He froze mid way, his barrier still cast but not moving as his miraced his previous thought. What if Dormammu had used that leftover energy from the Demon, energy that was obviously useful sihe Demon was using it, to cast some sort of ritual using Kaecilius?

  That didn’t expin many things but that was just yet another possibility he had to look into.

  W oing this entire pce sealed, he saw he the energy spread was and said, “Fuck it!”

  He waved his hand, casting a giant barrier thaurned into a dome above them, digging into the Earth and then below the nd as well, f a giant sphere, holding onto all the corrupted nd, he even spotted a couple of corrupted rabbits, already in the process of mating, when he sliced them in two using his barriers, covered the entire ndmass, and lifted.

  That actually put a strain on his abilities as he lifted the entire ndmass, and flew straight up. He did not have the means to open a portal rge enough to fit this through, otherwise this would have goraight into the Mirror Dimension where he would iigate it ter on.

  Right now, he was just getting it off the p, and into space. With no other habitable p, it was bound to not be his problem though he mentally vowed to e bacjk and properly dump it into the sun, just to avoid any future problems.

  He robably noticed because he had to tain three different missiles from the ese Military before Tony probably got in touch with them, stopping the volley of missiles though he khat they were keeping a close wat him, their finger h above the trigger button.

  The unist Party did not like him all that much, calling him the attack Dog of the West because of the Whole America tric theme of his superhero career.

  He actually paused a moment at that thought. Huh, he always wondered in his previous life why the majority of the Superheroes lived in or around the Uates of America, or at most, the Americas. For having just 4% of the world’s popution, the US sure did enjoy the prote of a lot of Superheroes. Then, the moment passed and with a somewhat exerting grunt, he threw the ndmass out into space, where it would not nd on the moon, defag its surface even more.

  “Alright, Tony that was taken care of.”

  “Uh-huh, I saw that. The Whole lifting the vilge thing. Might not wanna do it anymore, we don’t have a lot of arable nd in the world. If you start doing that regurly, everytime a problem pops up, we might just end up running out of food,”

  And once again, there goes Tony with his exaggerations.

  “Yeah, I’ll keep that in mind,”

  He had to keep looking for the attacker because right now they were in possession of some of the most dangerous knowledge in the Nine Realms and could cause a lot of damage, even if their magical abilities were not much to go by, judging by the plete agical residue when they id waste to parts of Kamar Taj.

  Normal bombs were used to jostle around the Apprentices, along with the demon in a and the attack used on Mordo articurly peculiar thing on his mind.

  (It was a matter of personal for him because he did not want to be the one who had to die an untable number of times before Dormammu was ready tain. He did not know if he could hold on for that long if the time came to it.

  “Oh well, first learn how to open the damhing, Jack” he muttered to himself as he opened a portal aered Kamar Taj, uhe disapproving gre of Wong who was standing with his ons ready, since he did ehe Library directly.

  “Mater Sullivan, do I o remind you that–”

  He waved Wong off, not in the mood for his extreme rules, “Yeah yeah, I know Wong. Fine me once we are through this. Now, please excuse me while I familiarise with the Eye,”

  Wong nodded, “Yes. That would be wise for now, instead of gallivanting across tries and ung small vilges into space,” With that baded ent, Wong stalked off, taking the catalogue of books which was tched onto his back, going back to his work.

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  Undisclosed Location

  –Kaecilius–

  “It is all as per your pn, My liege,” He informed his Master of the foolish alien who thought himself above everyone and assumed to and him.

  “Hmm. Sooh will be mine,” With that, his Master’s voice faded away, letting light ehe room once again. They were in a secluded Motel Room with the owner’s mind impnted with thoughts of going to his family and not leaving for a week, which should be more than enough time for him to prepare for his Master’s arrival.

  Standing up, he turned around, his face already set in stone, “Let’s go. I am sure Jack is back by now. We ’t let him hinder our work. The sed they hit the first one, we will hit the sed. I have long since wao spar with Drumm,” he ordered the minions and got to work.

  Apparently, the alieentacle powers and could eat brains to get information but it would seem that all that braiing did not enhance his intelligence because the alien was not realising that HIVE ying right into the hands of his Master.

  HIVE was yet another pawn, if an unwitting one of his lords, sharing in the Immortality bes along with the darkness powers. HIVE himself did not seem to be aware of it, allowing his lord to pn around him, getting them the maximum ce of success.

  The creature itself made it easy because of his lust fical knowledge, presumably in a bid to get stronger.

  He s that. Stu[id creature. Ohey were all in their Lord’s embrace, there would be o put anyone else down. They would all be immortal, unaging in their Lord’s dimension.

  A ptouched by time, the greatest enemy of all life.

  Time.

  His fists ched as he thought of his family, the ones he lost to the rivers of time and could not be resurrected. He thought of the other family he made when he came to Kamar Taj and while a small part of him felt guilty over injuring them, he khat ohey were all in his Lord’s embrace, he would be fiven because then they would all be in Utopia.

  His eyes then reddened in anger as he thought of the one persorusted the most. The A Ohe supposed bea of strength, virtue, wisdom, and sheer fug power.

  The one being who had betrayed all that Kamar Taj stood for, drawing–no stealing energy from his Lord while using her powers to push back his Lord himself.

  No, she would pay and she would pay most spectacurly. While his Lord was fident in killing her ohey all were in the Dark Dimension, he khat he did not hat. He could kill the traitor in the physical world, ond for all.

  He felt giddy at the thought of his Lord being pleased with his work and then giving him a reward iurn. Maybe a ce to get back alternate versions of his family and kill his Variant in that timeline?

  Oh, he couldn’t wait!

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