"S.H.I.E.L.D., also known as the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division. We already have a modest foundation and with The loric S.H.I.E.L.D. might stand a chance against the Mogodorians ." Damien tells them with a smile." With my Uncle's political Connections, two of the founding members of our organization have high-level military connections, Another member has access to one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world if not the biggest, and with swift co's resources we will be able to support the fight against the mogodorians That's not even mentioning the reach and my corporation already has as an international presence, with Swift co's backing for such a project would allow S.H.I.E.L.D. to grow all over the world, in a few years depending on a few factors S.H.I.E.L.D. could become one of the most elite private intelligence agencies in the world and if it grows fast enough we may be able to counteract some of the mogodorians power in the daylight," Damien tells them. He looks directly into Lexa's eyes."You specifically will be helpful in S.H.I.E.L.D. growth if you choose to join us, your hacking skills and gifts with technology would be indispensable."
"how?... How do you know about me? Why do you think we would help you with this? Our ship taking off wasn't planned the Elders left us to Die on Lorien with all the rest."Lexa asks her voice breaking slightly.
"well sure, the elders didn't plan for you to make it off Lorien but that doesn't mean that you weren't fated to," Damien said with a touch of mystery. Crayton is the only one who knows that Ella is the great-granddaughter of the last Tenth Elder. Damien Made eye contact with Crayton nodding to Ella with the words and Crayton understood in an instant that I knew of her lineage, Crayton opened his mouth to speak but Damien quickly moved on. "Even if saving Humanity isn't a good enough reason to join me, I know that you will"
"How are you so sure?" Zophie says with a strained look.
"Because even if you couldn't save your world I'm pretty damn sure that you'll avenge it," Damien tells her. For a moment everyone is silent. Them thinking about their options. Then Crayton moves toward Lexa and grabs her shoulder and starts whispering, Ella a little upset that Clayton's attention isn't on her slaps her hand on his face and starts messing with him like he's a block of clay. That makes the tension drop quite a bit. A few sparse chuckles.
Damien ends up picking the cat into my arms. As Zophie and Janus walk out of the cabin to catch up on their separate adventures through the universe Damien brings out the microphone in my pocket Alerting his Uncle Simon on the other end to come in and greet our guests. Clayton and lexa tensing at the sight but Damien holds up his hand to stop them from freaking out.
"This is my Uncle Simon acting Ceo of Swift, Mike Johnson a Trusted bodyguard who's been watching over my uncle for Five years, and Amon Dalpe Head of affairs in Africa for Swift Corporation and my uncle's childhood best friend," Damien tells Lexa and Crayton.
As they sit down Amon reaches over to pet the cat in Damien's arms in response the cat hisses at Amon. Its head transforms into something larger with a lot of teeth to ward him off but quickly turns back to normal. Amon Jumps back to the wall the chair he had in his hand falls to the ground. He lets out a single loud screch and then starts muttering curses in rapid-fire Arabic quite comically.
"That is freaking cool," Damien responds, he didn't feel any threat from the animal in his arms it purred in his arms.
"You guys need to get ready to leave we don't know where the mogs are exactly but we do know that they have scouts in Giza you could already be exposed." Damien tells Crayton and Lexa." We can iron out Logistics when everyone is safe."
"I'll be waiting in the car with Stanly I say holding up the cat, Mike Help them Pack up we don't know how long it will be until the mogs find us," Damien tells them That sets a fire under Crayton and Lexa to start packing. Uncle Simon's Conversation is trying to calm down amon WHile he knew of the loric seeing is believing and stanly Scared him pretty good ' scan The cat'.
Name: Stanly the Chimera Age=8
level:200
str:300 agi:300 vit:300
Int:40 charm: 120
Powers and Abilities=
Shapeshifter- can change into different animals. Very Versatile.
Adaptable- Can adapt to any environment
Cute and Cuddly- Disarms the average person
Damien stands up and walks out the door towards the SUV. Zophie and Janus are sitting and having what seems to be a heart-to-heart right outside the door so Damien tries not to bother. Damien would have stayed and helped them pack but He didn't want them asking any more Questions and slowing down their speed of packing.
As Damien walked he started thinking how smoothly things had gone, he felt a little different not physically but like almost awake similar to when he had first awakened he was prepared to negotiate but the more he talked he felt clearer and less but he felt proud of himself.
'If I Want to Survive in this world until I get my Powers I'll have to be the guy that is 10 steps ahead. A backup plan for a backup plan never getting caught off guard.' He thinks to himself.
The second that thought crossed his mind he reached the SUV running into it as he wasn't watching where he was walking. Hoping no one say him other than Stanly who was giving the cat the equivalent of hysterical laughter he opened the back seat door on the opposite side of the Suv From the direction of the Cabin. a whirring Sound like when a buzz saw cut through wood came from right beside Damien. He turned to see. A giant of a Man with a Mustache, black shades all Black clothing weird Futuristic Gun.
"Die, Pathetic Inferior," The man said as the gun pulsed. Time seemed to slow down as his Fight or flight Instincts Kicked Time moved more slowly and he started to jump out of the way but he immediately knew he wouldn't be fast enough. The man in question was obviously a Mogodorian by the book's description.
Damien closed his eyes sure he was dead for the second time. Dying the exact same way as he Did in my last life. How many times is he going to be shot in the Head He wondered. A burst of rage surging through him but he had nothing he could do except accept his fate, All at once a cold burst or energy surged down his spine.
*pop*
The blaster goes off. He Open my eyes and he's no longer standing next to the car but instead standing on the roof of the SUV. His Small Stature and The mog's Humongous body make it so that even though He was kneeling on the ceiling of large vehicle, The mog and damien were almost at eye to eye. The mog looks just as confused as Damien is for a moment.'Scan mog' Damien thinks.
Name: Tabnus Sutrak Age=32
level:107
str:140 agi:160 vit:160
Int: 40 charm: 5
Powers and Abilities=
Vatborn scout- Enhanced Speed, Strength, and Vitality- Down grade Intelligence
Good Shot- can usually shoot a target
Great health: In pretty great shape for his age and occupation
Mogodrian Martial Arts: me fight good
Basic Mogodorian Tech: may be able to set use a gun and communicator but if you ask me to fly the plane we better get some marshmallows
Basic knowledge of Mogadorian History: Seketrus Ra version
Mogodorian Progress- Makes Mogodorians more prideful and increases the chance they attack inhabitants of different world
The vat-born soldier's brain finally catches up, with a snarl he tries to Move to slash at Damien with A blade with the arm not holding the blaster Keyword tries as soon as Stanly Sees his arm Twitch his head Grows like it did when he met Amon. But instead of hissing Stanley jumps from my arms.
Half of the Mog's heads Disappeared into Stanly's mouth with a wicked crunch as soon as he chomped down He turned into ash and it went everywhere, the car, Coating stanly and damien in a layer of ash. Damien starts to gag and throw up at the Display as He hopped down from the top of the car. Stanly is back to cat mode purring on my legs.
"Oggh..." Damien groans as he picks up Stanly arms straight out.
" That can not be good for you," Damien tells Stanly. He just keeps purring. Everyone inside heard the blaster shot and came running toward the sound. One By one they Froze Seeing the ash they all knew what is meant.
"They found you," Damien says to the loric his Uncle approaches and picks up the blade and blaster, Before walking over and started dusting Damien off checking for injuries but Damien kept saying he was fine.
"He might have just been a single vatborn warrior but he wasn't a scout so that means they probably have a team nearby being led by a pure blood," Damien tells them and at that, all of them start funneling into the car packing in like circus clowns." Tell Amon He needs to have the car stripped and abandoned to limit Evidence so they cant follow it back to him after we get on the plane." HE tells his uncle, who nods.
"You could have been killed," He said to him in a tone of worry and slight anger. Damien didn't know how to respond so he just kept quiet.
Mike Drove like he had a Pitch fork right on his ass and Damien Honestly respected him even more For that. Amon was Freaking out the most on the drive but other than that we were silent except for The sound of Ella being a toddler in Crayton's lap.
Amon soon decided as we reached the plane he would take a small leave of absence from his position and come to new york with us. The trip back to new york felt much longer than the trip to Giza for Damien. He could't imagine what this would have been like for the loric on the main ship A full year in a crowded box.
The Loric Stared at Damien throughout the flight curious how he was handling it sure it was the first time the boy had witnessed death, they seemed Impressed that He wasn't a sobbing mess at nearly dying. Maybe he should look into that He knew he was handling this weirdly. He did feel terrified but he also felt This rush that I couldn't explain.
But he didn't know which bothered him more the crowded plane or maybe it was the near-death experience. That brought a new train of thought.
'What was that teleport?' had he unlocked a legacy there were several cases in the books where stressful situation caused legacies to appear like when Five when he was dying of dehydration and gained the ability to fly or Marina gaining cryokinesis when Five was about to kill Nine. That didn't feel right though there were no records of it being this young except for Ella's age legacy that she was born with. Maybe it was Demigod Power he had suspected he may have been a Demigod.
Maybe a God had helped him But in the books, they weren't allowed to interfere with demigods much, but if it didn't have to do with the loric at all and it had something to do with the gods it would probably be the Egyptian ones since he was in Giza. That was a while other can of worms Thought if it was them they'd be asking to pledge allegiance and to high jack his body as payment. Which sent a shiver down his spine.
Maybe it was Something from The Third book that existed in this world or whatever The devil's third Gift was.
'Show me my status' I thought.
Name: Damien Swift Age=6
level:101
str:30 agi:28 vit: 32
Int:250 charm: 250
Powers and Abilities=
Ximic-Unawakened
Telekinesis-Unawakened
increased intelligence-Super Big brain Stark Who?
increased learning/training speed-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Smarter?
Devilishly Handsome- women want you, men want to be you(beware some men will want to be with you as well)
Devil's secret gift-?
Son Of ?
Awakened Accidental ?
Billionaire: Money is Power-Throw money at small problems it goes away
Good Hand-eye coordination- can catch and throw a ball
Basic Earthly Martial Arts- Anybody under ten should fear you
Basic Lorien Martial Arts- Ten-year-old Mogadorians Beware
Common sense- Don't walk into traffic
There is some new information under Devil's Gift so He bet whatever that was that saved me has something to do with that. He will need to find out what that is. Both of the sub-tabs under Devils Gift Sounded like a hint. He would have to talk to his Uncle Simon and see if his Father had any secrets. His mother was most likely a goddess but finding out any information would be difficult apparently Uncle Simon had only met her once and when his father had died Uncle Simon had said she was with him flying to England for a meeting with an inventor trying to gain investment. He had been in silent Contemplation as The Plane came in for a landing.
'If my status screen changed, I wonder if the level chart did.' Damien thought. 'Show level chart'
Level chart:
Regular Humans/?/ Completely Untrained Regular Demigods =1-99
Superhumans/Trained cepan/?/ Slightly trained Regular demigods/ TK Garde =100-199
?(?)/Big three demigods under 10/trained regular demigods/Untrained Big three demigods/Full Power Untrained grade =200-299
Battle-trained Full Power Garde/?/?/Trained big three demigods/?/Weak Minor Gods =300-499
Lorien elders/weak Major gods/Powerful Minor god/?/?=500-999
Powerful Major Gods/ Young Pittacus lore/Young Seketras Ra/ Titans/??= 1000-1500
Full power Seketras ra/Full power Pitacus lore/Zeus/Primordials/Odin/Ra=1500+
'In the first book number four said that the Olympians were children of Lorians though he probably thought they were legends that were dead it could be true based on this chart since the level of power is pretty evenly matched they probably some connection in this world' Damien thought. ' That could explain why the gods are staying out of sekatrus Ra's way. If there's a prophecy and maybe he's going to lose either way. They probably feel it didn't matter and don't want to risk their immortal lives over it' Damien pushed those thoughts out of his mind for another time.
Even though He had almost died in the last twenty-four hours. He still think this Mission was a resounding Success. However He knew this was just the beginning.
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