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DoorMan #91
Xandar [February 2008]
–Colin Baxter–
He was escorted to a processing chamber of sorts, where a number of people with similar restraints were waiting, entering a glowing door, which was yellow, one by one. He was told to sit and wait for his turn, as the sphere placed on every single alien beeped once before they got up and walked into the glowing door calmly.
"So, how goes your first space trip?"
He sent a sudden spike of anger through their mental link as Jin'Ya finally blessed him with his presence. "Where the hell were you? I thought you had links with Nova Prime. Get me out of here right now."
"Well, think of it like this. We were going to register your abilities anyway so might as well do it this way, and don't worry, this is just a civil offense. They will just write you a fine and leave you back in the city."
"I don't have much money on me, certainly not enough to pay any fine." He hissed back, mentally, as he waited for his turn to enter the glowing door.
"No need for that. They will just put negative units in your bank account. We can pay that off later on."
With that, Jin'Ya cut off the conversation before moving on to do whatever he was doing. Meanwhile, he saw that only two more people were left before it was turn, and honestly, he just couldn't wait for this to be over so he can finally start enjoying his trip.
He knew that Jin'Ya was loaded and he had no intention of letting that dragon screw him over, so, he was going to enjoy the finest hospitality that Xandar had to offer, on Jin'Ya's money of course.
Once he was out of custody, obviously.
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Wakanda [Same Time]
–Shuri Udaku–
With a grunt, she threw her brother back, as he impacted the wall of the training area, far above the training ring. It was quite comical to watch T'Challa slide down from the wall, as if he was being held by something to the wall.
"You will have to try much harder than that," She commented about T'Challa's move, trying to put her in a deadlock. Well, thanks to her many tests, she knew exactly how much T'Challa could handle which is why she never went easy on him.
Her bother dragged his tired and battered body back to the sparring ring, barely getting through without collapsing, as he raised his fists towards her, apparently eager to get beat up again.
Well, she was not so, sparing her brother's pride, she replied, "Let's take a break. I am really tired."
T'Challa smiled as he relaxed and all but collapsed on his behind, "Really? I can do this all day, Shuri."
"Sure you can."
She sat by his side, drinking water filtered through Vibranium blocks, something about the entire process doing something to the water, enhancing its taste and also creating water that could not be contaminated. Like, if she took this water and poured it in the river water that was found outside the borders of Wakanda, she would find this water to be its own solid mass, without mixing with the rest of the water.
She'd already built the purifiers into all the Royal Palace filtration systems and would soon have that installed at the entry points of all the Wakandan rivers, including the three underground ones that they pulled up from the ground for Wakanda's water safety, before they had the power and technology know how to just harvest unlimited seawater.
They also had a direct pipeline to the ocean, buried a hundred feet below the sea bed, completely untraceable, supplying essentially unlimited amounts of water, gravel, salt, and some other minerals to the Wakandan water processing stations built underground.
They were one of the very few Wakandan facilities built outside of the dome that surrounded Wakanda since secured water supply was something that was taken very seriously a hundred years before, which is why Wakanda had over engineered, and overpowered water systems.
There was a moment of silence that was broken by T'Challa's somber voice, "Does it really have to be this way?"
She sighed, and replied, "You know it can only be this way. The Council and most of Wakanda will not accept me unless I defeat you and Father in direct combat."
"Then why doesn't Baba wish to give you the throne? Why is he preparing, even at this age, to somehow defeat you?"
She snorted at that as if anyone in Wakanda could defeat her at this point. She'd checked with the High Priests, who were already notified of her visit by Bast, it would seem, and after some trial and error, they were able to confirm that the potion blessed by Bast that can be used to strip away Bast's blessings does not work on her.
She literally could not be depowered anymore, which is the only scenario where she could see T'Challa winning because he was always the better fighter of both of them. That was all before she had to take some drastic steps and turn herself into Bast's chosen, the strongest Black Panther that Wakanda has ever seen.
"You know as well as I do that I cannot be defeated."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that, Princess. I mean, sure, now? You're freaking unbelievable. But once we are both on the same–"
"We can't be on the same stage anymore, T'Challa." She said, standing up. Pulling T'Challa up, she continued, "The High Priests confirmed it for me. My blessings, unlike yours, cannot be stripped away. So, the fight? It's pointless. I've already won."
Her piece said, she turned around, heading to her lab. She still had some work to do before she could begin scouring the Earth for any entrances to folded spaces, or pocket dimensions like Ta-Lo.
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Ta-Lo
–Red Matron–
"You know, I know this is like within the terms of my contract but I don't like it." She made sure her opinion was heard by everyone involved as she floated in the air, waiting and watching as the Bald headed demon and the Water Dragon did something to the seal that kept the being that made chills run down her spine, at bay.
As usual, it was the Water Dagon who replied, "We are just making sure that nothing in the seal was altered, in the chaos before we can move on to the next step."
Ah, yes. The next step. Apparently, all of the fights that the brat went into was just so the Bald headed demon could confirm something. Something that she could not see and needed that brat's help to confirm, was the presence of the Dread Lord, in the abandoned areas of Ta-Lo.
It was quite funny, the way that the brat and everyone in here believed that their great Water Dragon was the one who made this space. Well, the Water Dragon certainly carved out a place for themselves, creating an atmosphere that is habitable for humans and other animals.
What they most certainly did not do was create this space. That was clear the moment she stepped foot in this space in the first place. This was clearly a much larger plane, abandoned for some reason by their ruler, that the Water Dragon then found and made their home here.
Which meant that none of them knew about the Dread Lord's infestation that was happening in the areas beyond the Water Dragon's sight.
Dormammu. A being beyond time.
Her eyes glanced at the glinting metal around the Bald headed Demon's neck, as she thought of the threat they were about to face. Apparently, she has called in the big guns for the extermination they were about to carry out today.
The Dread Lord spreading his realm into other empty realms was an ongoing concern for everyone with an iota of rational thought but she never imagined that the Dread Lord had gotten this close to the planet, without anyone realising.
Hell, this was one of the few ways that the Dread Lord could bypass the shield around the planet and send his forces everywhere.
Kamar Taj must have been both pissed and afraid of this becoming reality. She too did not want to live in eternal anguish, which is why she would have gladly provided her services to the noble cause, for a fee of course.
But signing that damned contract put her in a fix once more as she was forced to help, for free, which hurt her damned soul.
Once this was done, she was going back to Colin's side. At Least the chances of gaining neutral CHI increased a lot when he was close by.
All she could get from the bald headed demon was trouble and misery.
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