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4:00am, Friday, June 13, 2014

"My parents are going to kill me when they find out I skipped class" Shuri jokes as they all get off the subway.

"Please, you're the only one that isn't forced to go to that hellhole" Ronnie rolls her eyes. "Plus we don't have class today, and we can skip graduation." She closely watches the security guards follow the group's movements up the stairs. She can't tell what they're thinking, but her money is on them asking for someone to keep an eye on them. A bunch of teenagers getting off the subway at 4 on a Friday morning isn't the most normal scene around there.

"Cameras?" Xander asks her.

"Two up by the stairs" she responds. MJ and Ned share a worried glance. Is this how they always go out in public. Honestly, it's the fact they they didn't notice stuff like this before is what's really worrying the two. Even Peter was keeping the secret and he's one of the most honest people either of them have ever met. "Peter, MJ, Ned, with me. Meet us by the deli"

Ronnie pulls Peter's hand as Ned and MJ follow them. Henry, Xander, and Shuri go up the stairs the other direction.

"I thought we weren't going to split up" Ned states quietly.

"Yes but out of all of us, who has been on the run before?" Ronnie quips back.

Ned opens his mouth again, about to ask a question but Peter's stare tells him to save it for another time.

"Sis, we found the place. It has a huge orb on the top" Henry informs Ronnie. "Turn right" She tells the group. "Look for the one with the orb"

"There" Ned points to the darkened area from the broken lamp posts. Sure enough, there is the faint outline of an orb on the top of one of the apartment buildings right near where they sometimes go after school to get ice cream. Ronnie nods as they carefully cross the street. There aren't many cars around, though it does worry her a little how easily they were able to find the building. It could be a trap. She almost laughs at her own thoughts, obviously it's a trap. One that they're bringing in untrained regular humans into.

"Is this normally how a morning starts for you guys?" MJ asks.

Ronnie looks over her shoulder. "Not usually" but not never.

"Has anything like this happened before that you haven't told me about?" Peter gives her a questioning look. She shakes her head. "Whoo, calm down, calm down"

"We are calm" Mj and Ronnie say at the same time.

"I was talking to myself" Peter mumbles. Ronnie mumbles something in Russian that Peter is pretty sure he doesn't want to define. Ronnie tells Peter to head over to where they can see two figures standing as she goes to make sure that there's no one else around.

"So what the fuck is going on?" MJ asks more at Peter than Ned.

Peter turns slightly to face her. A confused expression crosses his face. "Why would I know?"

"Cause you've known longer than us" Ned replies.

"Well I actually figured it out. But as you can see, they aren't very open with superhero details. And-"

"That's for your safety" Xander interrupts Peter. Shuri notices the confusion on Ned and Mj's faces. "Super-hearing remember?"

Henry and Ronnie emerge from the sidewalk. "The area's clear. Ring the doorbell"

"Remember, we're here" Henry's siblings remind him as he approaches the doorbell. Surprisingly, the sound of Beyonce comes out from the door. They all look at each other in slight surprise of such a serious looking building having Single Ladies ring out of it. Despite the loud doorbell ring, few moments pass and the door still hasn't opened.

"Try again?" Peter suggests.

"Maybe they're not home" Ned says at the same time.

Henry and Ronnie share a look. Whoever's in there won't open the door if a bunch of kids seem annoying so the groups waits a little longer.

The door is forced open, revealing a short grayhaired man. "What are you doing here"

"My name is Henry, I grew up here" Henry answers. The man scans him.

"Come in, don't scratch the floors, they just got redone" the man opens the door a little further. "My name is Kaecilius. Let me get the Ancient One, she'll know who you are."

'The Ancient One' Mj mouths.

'Why should I know' Shuri mouths back. From what her boyfriend had told her, he had no recollection of anyone called the ancient one so this was bound to be fun.

The man, Kaecilius, walks back into the foyer of the-well the whatever it is. There are several people walking around them. They are dressed in cloaks and stuff from Star Wars.

"I swear if you tell me that you grew up in a Sith cult" Peter whispers but MJ flicks the back of his head. Ronnie and Ned give MJ a look so as to make sure she doesn't kill Peter on the 'redone' floors.

"Shut up" Henry whisper-shouts. He takes Shuri's hand in his.

"You recognize him?" she asks. He shakes his head.

The group stands there kind of awkwardly for another few moments as a woman walks out with Kaecilius and another man behind her.

"Henry?" The woman asks. Henry takes in her appearance. Her robes are more lightly colored, she's very tall, but her most defining part of her look is her bald head. "Wong please get us some tea. Kaecilius did you not welcome them in? Well please come in children, we have much to discuss." She leads them into another corridor lined with pillows on the floor as she gestures for them to sit. "I take it that you don't remember who I am Henry"

"No I don't" He says.

"And who are your friends?"

"Um these are my triplets, Ronnie and Xander" Henry gestures to his siblings, a little unsure of why he should remember this woman. "This is Shuri, my girlfriend. And these are my friends, Ned, Peter, and MJ."

The woman looks at him in surprise before murmuring something to Kaecilius. "Triplets, my boy, I've known you since you were born. How are they your triplets?"

"We're not biologically related" says Xander.

"We grew up in the same foster homes and we got adopted by the same people." Continues Ronnnie.

"And they can talk with their minds" Ned says excitedly, then the triplets give him a stern look telling him 'not the time'.

"Anyways, that's what we've come here to talk to you about. Our mom was taken while we were kind of calling on the spirits of the dead. Some purple mist flew out and talked to us. We went to find our mom but she wasn't there." Ronnie tells her.

"And for your information, their mom is a trained assassin so her getting kidnapped means that they have a lot of power." Peter says.

"Who is your mother?" Kaecilius asks.

The triplets all look at each other in question.

MJ scoffs, more to the woman than the triplets. "Well it wouldn't be very smart for them to tell you an assassin's name now would it?"

"Ha, I guess not. What did the boy mean when he said that you can talk with your minds?" The woman asks, a slight almost Celtic accent sound at the end.

"It's always been that way we don't know why" They say together. "When we're apart, or more like don't know where one of us is, the connection is severed." Xander adds.

"So it's not helpful when two of them get kidnapped." Shuri says.

"Wait what happened?!" Ned and MJ ask simultaneously.

"It can't be Ancient One" Kaecilius whispers once he recognizes her thoughts. "It's impossible. It can't be this easy."

"Yes my student, it can. Lucky for us. They'll have to know some of it. Now children, listen to me carefully. If you do not wish to hear what is coming next, then I suggest you leave." She looks around at them, some staring at their feet, the others somewhat intrigued. "There is a prophecy, which I assume you all know the definition of, of three of the same with minds alike. It goes onto say how their minds and acts are one. They have been bonded by the most powerful force of all"

"Love?" Xander questions jokingly, Ronnie rolls her eyes and elbows his stomach.

"No. The Infinity Stones. Their power shaped the universe. At the moment we only know where two of them are. The time stone lays on my neck and the Tesseract is currently on Asgard. As the Avengers have stated, the mind stone was lost in the HYDRA fiasco. The rest of the stones are spread out among the universe. The prophecy tells that the three will be linked by the infinity stones. So I'm wondering, Xander and Ronnie, how you two were born near infinity stones. It's the only plausible reason.

"I was born at a HYDRA base, the Tesseract could've been tested there." Ronnie says uncertainly. "There may have been an overlap."

Xander shrugs so Shuri takes it as a signal to answer for him. "Where he was born, we keep very close eye on who comes and goes. There are no records of anyone doing any strange traveling around the time he was born."

"Where may I ask are you from?" Kaecilius asks the Wakandans.

"The Kingdom of Wakanda." Shuri answers.

"That is where the only vibranium source on the planet is. Vibranium came from one of the forgotten moons of ours, when a man used the power stone to decimate the entire civilization there" The short man from before says, walking in with a book. Ronnie knows this book, she's read it many times with her mother leaning over her shoulder.

"What does this have to do with ideograms?" She asks.

"You can read these?" He asks. "How?"

"Wong" The Ancient One calls. "If she can read it, than give it to her."

"But Ma'am, this is part of the advanced section."

"I doubt that she'll go raving about it to random people, daughter of an assassin and all." The Ancient One calms. Wong hands Ronnie the book.

She scans it for a few minutes, turning a few pages. "I know this story, it's how the elements came into formation."

"Then you know that we have no way of know exactly how the elements came into existence, but we believe that they were the creation of the infinity stones."

"It's possible, though it's not taught in the books" Xander murmurs. He looks up a little, seeing everyone looking at him. "It's more my field than Ron's."

"Henry, may I speak with you privately?" The Ancient One asks. Henry nods and walks next to her. "Please open this in private and come back when you've made a decision." She hands him an envelope.

"What is it?"

She smiles bittersweetly at him. "You'll know when you open it."

Henry has more questions, but choses to keep them until after he reads whatever is in the envelope.

Henry joins his friends outside of the building where you could see the sun rising over the skyline.

"What did she want?" Ned and Peter ask.

"Nothing" he lies. "ready to graduate from middle school?"

"You make that sound like some sort of elaborate ordeal" Shuri teases.

"Let's go" Peter whines, dragging them back to the subway station.

"Open the letter after graduation, you don't know what it'll say"

"Thanks bro"


"I thought that we would have to spend years searching for them" The Ancient One says to Wong.

"It's definitely suspicious, but as you've taught me, everything happens for a reason."

"Truer words, truer words."

"Will they go to Kamar Taj?"

"You knew his father Wong, and I knew his father before that. It's in their blood to be sorcerers."

Wong stands up next to the Ancient One. "You know that I'm not scared of anything, but I'd be scared to know whay his siblings would do if he dies. What can we teach them of their powers?"

"We don't know their combined powers. Though there is a chance of them having some powers of a celestial. Let me meditate on this, we should be expecting them here soon. Oh and Wong"

"Yes"

"Something tells me that you should keep a close watch on the library from now on"

Wong lets something close to a laugh escape him before he covers it up with a cough. "Yes Ancient One" 'What is with that family and their obsession with stealing books?'