《A Mutant’s Ascension》A Mutant's Ascension
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A/N: Before anything else, I want to thank 'LordValmar' for this awesome cover. I am completely useless in these kinds of things that is why I never changed the cover before now. Thank you, I really appreciate that you invested some of your time to create this…
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"Leviathan?!!" Sublime stuttered in fear. I saw his whole body was shaking in fear... oh... I am going to really enjoy this. I could see the fear in his eyes… now, this makes me feel really proud.
"It's nice that you remember me Sublime… after all, you were really rude during our last meeting" I finished with a small smile on my face. I looked at Sublime and nodded my head… now, let's check if he can run away or not but I don't think that my aim is good enough to Crucio a bacteria.
"Crucio" I whispered in a low voice and Sublime immediately dropped to his knees in pain. Sublime looked at me with hate in his eyes… seeing his eyes I lifted the Cruciatus Curse, after all, I can't have him leaving the body. Sublime was still inside the body and the body started to heave heavily after I stopped the spell.
I looked him straight into the eyes "Legilimens" I said in a deep voice and entered his mind. I was shocked when his mental barriers were able to repel me… this was the first time someone was able to stop my Legilimency probe. Even though I was taken aback by the strength of his mental shield, I didn't allow him to throw me out of his mind.
With my next assault, I hit his mental shields like a pile bunker and started to rip apart his mental shields one by one. Sublime didn't even stand a chance against my mental assault. It didn't even take a minute for me to enter his mind. Now, that I was inside his mind, I started to search for his weaknesses. He is an arrogant and egomaniac bastard, so obviously, he was going to know his own weaknesses. Those would be his most guarded secrets… he tried to stop me several times but I finally found his weaknesses.
It wasn't something I haven't thought of, he would die in a fire of extreme heat. Obviously, I had something like that, something known as Fiendfyre but I decided to check other options too… extreme cold will make him go dormant but nothing more than that. So, only fire can kill him but I think I can Hakai him too. I don't know if he could survive a Blackhole or not but it was proven that his sister Arkea can survive in space so I don't want to risk that…
Now, that I knew how to kill him, I delved into other parts of his memory. Like the beginning of the time part… after all, his memories can be a treasure trove for me. I found how he came into being like his sister Arkea, how they fought for control over this planet, and when Arkea lost she was exiled into space.
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Then I saw how the other life-forms came into being, it was truly mesmerizing to watch. I could feel the pain Sublime was feeling… I was thinking that he might leave the body when he finds that it was impossible to stop me but Sublime didn't do that… he was still in the body. Maybe he is unable to leave the body when I am in his mind like this.
Next, I saw how different kinds of multiple cellular organisms appeared on earth. At that time plants were very different from what we see now… even the water on earth was very thick… from his memories, it seemed like it was jelly. Many years passed and finally, other beings with intelligence started to appear. Sublime was naturally incensed with that but he was relieved when he found that he could take them as host's and control them… that was the reason he allowed those beings to continue living…
I continued to watch the history through his memories… how in the name of God can he have all these memories in that bacteria brain of his?? I saw how the first dinosaurs formed and how they slowly started to dominate the earth. Intelligent beings like humans also appeared but they weren't humans… they somewhat looked like monkeys in human form. Then the shit hit the fan, the meteor dropped and the dinosaurs were wiped off the earth.
Then came the shitty ice age… it was shitty according to Sublime, after all, he was dormant for several years. I saw the formation of the first human civilizations. He was present there… I saw kingdoms rise and fall, complete civilizations getting wiped off. Since then Sublime started to play his games from the background and he loved the feeling when his manipulations led whole civilizations to die off…
Then something happened which scared Sublime, the first mutant was born. En Sabah Nur, or commonly known as Apocalypse was born. At first, Sublime didn't pay much attention to it thinking that it must be some rumors but after a decade he finally decided to check on the rumors, and what he found shocked him. Obviously, he tried to possess En Sabah Nur but found himself unable to do that. This is what in truth scared him…
He was an egomaniac so obviously, he won't allow someone superior to him to survive in this world. Especially, someone, he can't control. So, he started to plan how to get rid of En Sabah Nur, but he was going to do it from the shadows. After a whole millennium, he was finally able to bring him down by using his own servants and En Sabah Nur still remained buried in his tomb.
Looks like I need to pay a visit there and there might be a way to harness his powers. No, I don't want his powers but it was cool with his body changing powers and all.
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My attention turned back towards Sublime's memories and I found how he was responsible for spreading the hate between humans and meta-humans throughout the years. But he found that the method he has been using was not efficient so he made the virus that would affect all the humans. And then I saw how he planned to make humans with mutant powers… U-Men, well, nothing to worry about now, all of them were dead now.
I saw how many meta-humans he slaughtered like animals in his pursuit to find the secret to their powers. I also found the location of Wakanda in his mind… and he was also the first one to find Adamantium and he knew a lot of secrets about it… I saw how he was able to paralyze Logan with some electricity through his adamantium-coated bones. That was the reason I didn't feel Logan in here or I have become stupid enough to ignore a skeleton made up of metal when I was checking out the life signs in the building.
I spread my senses in Logan's direction… yeah, I still don't feel his adamantium bones that means I have not become stupid to ignore a skeleton made up of metal. I decided to continue browsing Sublime's memories. I found his deals with Governments around the world, his deals with Strucker. At least, Sublime decided not to interfere in the World Wars… after all, people and meta-humans were already killing each other without any effort from his side.
"Well… well, that was an interesting ride" I said to Sublime, finally pulling myself out of his mind. I found a lot of interesting things inside his mind, I got the supposed location of the Tesseract from his mind too…
Sublime was on the floor now, his eyes were completely empty and I found that he was bleeding from his eyes and a pinkish goo was coming out from his ears and nose… oops, I might have melted his brain. But the memories were in the bacteria… not in the human brain, but the human brain might be acting like a conduit for the memories.
I felt Sublime had left the body as it died, but unfortunately for the bacteria, he didn't have the power to penetrate my Aegis Shield. "Aww… are you going somewhere?" I asked in a mocking tone and started to shrink the Aegis Shield around the bacteria. I kept feeling several impacts against the shield but Sublime was unable to get away… only one of my palms remained inside the Aegis Shield sphere along with Sublime.
"Fiendfyre" I said and a Leviathan made up of fire came out of my palm and engulfed everything inside the sphere… not even a second passed and my mark disappeared and before it disappeared I felt the reactions from the cell was completely stopped. To be sure I allowed the cursed fire to burn inside the sphere…
I finally put off the fire but I didn't disperse the sphere, I was so careful because I can't see that fucking bacteria with the naked eye and I don't want him escaping… if he escaped now then I would never be able to find him again. That was the reason I was paying so close attention to it… "Hakai" I activated my power of destruction and allowed it to play around the sphere… I have never tested it before but I was surprised when my Aegis Shield was also disintegrated.
Yeah, my magnetokinesis is obviously weaker than the power of destruction, after all, power of destruction is a cosmic force. (A/N: To quell anyone's doubt Sublime is dead… completely gone, he has been sent to his next great adventure to wherever bacterias go after they kick the bucket)
(A/N: Now, to quell your another doubt Reo didn't torture Sublime even more because, if he would have left the body then Reo would have no chance to read his memories and as soon as Reo finished reading his mind Sublime left his body and Reo mentioned that his aim wasn't good enough to cast crucio on a bacteria)
My eyes turned towards Logan who was still in the tank, he was still watching me but this time his eyes were completely wide. I sent a Bomabarda at the tank and Logan was thrown backward with the explosion. Logan was still unable to move but he turned his head in my direction and growled.
"Who the hell are you, bub?" Logan asked me with a growl and sneer.
"Call me Leviathan, as long as you don't attack me I am your friend, and if you decide to attack me then your executioner…" I said introducing myself, Logan was one of my favorite characters from marvel but no matter what I won't appreciate getting attacked by him… now that he was out of the tank and all the machines connected to him have stopped working I was able to feel the adamantium in his body…
"Now, let's go and kill everyone in here" I said extending my hand towards him. He grunted in annoyance and got up on his own… I like that, with a huge grin on my face I finally exited the room followed by Logan…
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