CyberTech Worlds Clash

Chapter XLVIII

The City of Excalibur

Harry and Static had landed in an alley of a quiet suburban area on the outside of the city and looked around. Nobody seemed to have seen them flying, but when three kids on broomsticks blast by, Harry was sure nobody would have cared. The kids looked human-ish, if you discounted their smaller bodies and long ears, fingers and feet. They were still doing the robe thing even after a thousand years, and that made Harry's right eye twitch in annoyance.

"Excuse me, Sir?"

Harry was startled as he and Static had walked a few corners while looking around and both wondering whether they were in a 'transported to another world animé' otherwise known as Isekai Animé. The place looked like it was a cross between a fantasy world and the dark ages of might and magic and before magic hid itself from the world, except everyone and everything seemed to have magical powers.

Harry looked around and down to see a small pasty grey skinned girl with delicate features and ridiculously bright blue hair and some sparkling within her skin and he didn't need Winter's commentary to know the girl had fairy blood in her, and her blue eyes were lit up like they had small LED's behind them. She was short, maybe eleven, twelve, ten, he couldn't tell, but she had a teary eyed and smaller version of herself in her arms looking up at Harry and Static in hope.

"My little sister lost her balloon because of some mean boys!" the girl said while pointing up to a tree lining the street with many others, but this one held a squirming cat shaped balloon of bright red that was magical and moved, but it was stuck and likely not magical enough to get down or fly back to its owner anyway.

"Can you get it?" the girl continued pouting. "It's much too high for me, but you're both huge."

"You like climbing trees, right, Static?" Harry asked while turning to him while he half glared while Harry looked amused.

However, Static rose his right hand and it sparked with purple, startling the girls and they watched with widened eyes as the balloon was drawn down, and Harry shrugged and snatched up the balloon by its string and crouched down to level with the girls.

"Here you go; you adorable little cutie," Harry said and she shyly took the balloon with her grey cheeks pinkening.

"Thank you so much!" the older girl chimed with a bright smile. "Come on, let's go play at home," she added as she pulled her sister with her and they skipped off around the next corner.

"Did you just take credit for me saving the day?" Static asked and he actually looked scandalised.

Harry smirked. "Yes. Yes, I did, and I'm proud of that too," he said laughing while Static pouted childishly but he followed and joined in the laugh as they continued towards the city centre or wherever they ended up.

"Anyway," Static said thoughtfully. "Those girls were kind of… grey skinned and sparkly…?"

"You're not being racist now are you, Static?" Harry asked in mockery.

Static rolled his eyes. "No, of course not, but it's not something you see every day. Those boys on the brooms had huge long ears, hands, and feet, and were a light brown right?"

"The girls are from a human-fae genome template," Winter interrupted over their comms.. "The boys are from a goblin genome. The girls have fae DNA in abundance too… the boys, I didn't have enough time to use Carmine's systems to scan them fully, so I cannot say. It is a possibility that everyone, or most of them have DNA from all sentient species that survived, but to different degrees."

"An interesting thought," Harry muttered. "We'll have a lot of biologists and the like wetting themselves to come here and study this ridiculous amount of cross breeding amongst different races – the things we could learn, eh?" he said laughingly as they slowed as they walked into a city square.

The square was more of a circle than an actual square and had people of varying sizes, colours, and appearances with stalls running around the circle that led to some kind of stage that ran up against a wall with some doors in it. However, nobody was doing any, or much shopping as they watched the stage in bafflement as a man stood up front and was blowing a horn to get the attention of the crowd that looked to hold over a hundred people, possibly more, and surprisingly more people were turning up to fill the massive square. The man rubbed Harry and Static the wrong way as he looked like the smuggest and most pompous person in the universes, and while most people wore more normal colours, he was dressed brightly with a huge powder-puff wig on his head, which kind of looked weird as he looked like his family had had some playtime with those House-elf guys in the past.

However, Harry didn't like the look of the wooden scaffolding and the six hangman's noose's hanging from a beam, at a certain height. Harry didn't know magical beings hung criminals in the past.

"P-please, Ladies and Gentlemen!" the brightly coloured man called with a squeaky and snivelly voice. "I introduce to you our Lord Inquisitor!" he said in gleeful delight as a tall creature with dower face stepped through the backdoor to the stage dragging two young boys with him, long greenish fingers clamped around their wrists while they looked terrified.

The boys were dressed in clothes that looked like they had been rather bright and colourful but they hadn't cleaned in a while, and neither of the boys were wearing any shoes, and the boys both had bruises covering their pale skin. The older of the two boys looked like he was twelve, eleven possibly. It was a little more difficult to tell, but he had more human in him than many of the people around them. The boy had hard green eyes that bled out into the whites, and some lustre of green sparking under his eyes, and with long pointed ears through his matted black hair. The other boy looked like he was only a few years younger than his older brother, as they looked rather alike.

"Oh, and Elder Tiny!" the squeaky voiced man added as if he almost forgot as an elderly man exited. He was wearing bright blues and whites and was a squat man with long beard and grey eyes glaring nervously at the taller man as he followed them out.

The tall man came to a stop by the front of the stage and gave a curt nod and a gracious smile that caused many shudders to carry through the crowd. Harry had to hold Static's right wrist tightly with his left hand as the boy looked furious and would have likely been beating up a smug bastard already if Harry hadn't stopped him.

"Hello! My people!" The man spoke as quiet became near complete, and even Harry and Static shuddered at the sickeningly sugary voice, and the way he said 'my', Harry was sure he was up to no good and by the look, everyone was too scared. "Still, no other family have came forward to my dear nephews, here… looks like I was right and that there is no one, and I shall not claim them," he chuckled. "So, I guess we get a good show out of hanging them. It's a shame my sister died during that tragic fire, but we cannot afford to let such filthy and useless things like these take our resources."

"Filthy MURDERER!" someone hidden in the crowd yelled out while the two boys were shivering and shaking with tears running down their cheeks now.

"You dare!" the man demanded and in a boom of power even Static fell to his knees with the crowd as the power was overwhelming, and even that elder staggered and showed concern. "You are of course within your right to challenge me for lenient judgement on these things, or even to take custody, but you only get out of fighting me if you hold blood to them. That is our way since the Great Harry Potter, my ancestor centuries ago saved magic from the destruction of the metal giants."

Harry had startled as the man gestured up and behind him and atop the wall behind the stage was a huge monument to a human man. Harry could certainly see the family resemblance with himself and the statue, but this guy.

"Winter?" Harry asked in concern as the statue was huge and gold, and rather overdone to be honest, but it looked kind of lively with some enchantments.

"No," she replied within his head. "This man is not related to you by blood," she answered straight to the point.

"You dare stand to me?!" the Inquisitor suddenly demanded and Harry looked around in surprise as he still felt that weight on the world and Static looked like he was trying to force himself up, and even the two boys were on their knees.

"Oh, right," Harry said looking around as heads struggled to look at him, but everybody was held submissive. "You mean me…? Well yeah, I bow before no one! So, this fight you were talking about?" he asked as power buffed him as he glowed with red light and lifted from the ground. "I have a thing about people who would abuse children," he said as lightning cackled in carmine light around him before he landed on the stage and the Inquisitor took a step back as he withdrew a rod from his bright green robe and aimed.

"Mr. Inquisitor!" the elder called out startling him. "You cannot just strike down a man who challenges you for right of the children! That is not within our ways."

"Shut up old man!" he demanded angrily as Harry knelt by the boys as the weight had lifted and they huddled together whimpering as Harry ruffled their hair and looked them over. "Let's fight then boy, right now!" the Inquisitor roared and before he knew it Harry had blinked away and his right fist smashed into the mans gut causing him to cough up blood as the cracking of bones exploded over the quiet.

"Shit like you are beneath me!" Harry growled into the man's ear. "You should heed my warning. Run away and never return," he said before standing up straight and turning back to the awestruck boys.

"Y-you dare!" the Inquisitor demanded as he still held his blackened rod and aimed as he staggered in place.

Harry stood his ground and rose two fingers at the man with his left hand and in a stream of red light a barrelled gun appeared hovering over the arm and just as an emerald-coloured spells shot his way it was cut down by a golden beam that smashed into the man, and he roared and screeched as he was lit up like a Christmas tree before he collapsed unconscious.

The crowd had slowly risen, but kept quiet as Harry swiped his right arm and the whole of the hangman was dissolved into nothingness.

"Executions are for no one's benefit," Harry said coolly. "Especially not executions of the innocent," he added as he offered his hands towards the boys and they shyly reached out and then they were pulled into his warm arms where they shivered and cried their relief.

"My great sir," the elder interrupted looking wholly relieved. "I thank you; I thank you so much. I have never seen you before… please, please explain from whence you came?"

Harry stood with the boys in his arms and turned to the old man. "We came from beyond the barrier," he said to gasps of shock and awe as hundreds of people watched, even fluttering winged fairies.

"Beyond, sir?" he asked as Static finally managed to join them. "Impossible… there are no new people…"

"Humans terraformed this world after they made a huge error and killed it," Harry said as he answered their questions. "They used machines to bring the world back to life. They used machines to reseed this world with at least, six per cent of its original population of lifeforms. They did not know magic existed or they may have turned to it for help instead."

"But… there are people, like you?" the old man asked in awe and hope.

"The world is liveable again," Harry agreed and there were some cheers and Harry and Static shared a look, wondering why nobody ever took a look outside before. "But I am not from this world," he said to their surprise, he wasn't sure what to say but they had to know what was going to happen. "There are whole other universes where this never happened. Now some bad beings from another world, not across dimensions, but across the vastness of space, are tearing multiple universes to bind, and fuse into one, and right now, two of those worlds have a Hogwarts each and both of those Hogwarts are one thousand years into the past, so to speak, and are right now schools, and don't have a city surrounding them."

"Oh," the old man said while many people looked concerned. "Hogwarts is still a school, sir," he said thoughtfully. "But I don't think we could possibly feed three or four times our current student load – we're having to ration foods as it is."

Harry looked at him strangely and looked around; they were missing food stalls he noticed. "What do you farm for food, and we can bring it from our world. It looked like you had many animals in the fields…-"

"Yes sir."

Harry was interrupted by a small man as he pushed to the front of the crowd and looked like the stereotypical British farmer only gruffer and goblin-like.

"Many of those you've likely seen are… not really edible for those of us that are omnivore by nature, and our numbers… the more of us… the more we breed… the more we have to feed. We need cows for milk and cheese, and maize, we run out so quick, so bread becomes scarce. Even vegetables for both omnivore and herbivore runs low enough that we have to prioritise to those who cannot eat meat, and…" he gestured Harry's new boys as they were thin and malnutritional, but looking around even those who were being treated well looked unhealthy.

"You got that, Winter?" Harry asked to their confusion.

"Yes," she replied, but only Harry and Static could hear her. "I've put in the aid request with Fury. He said he can get all the seeds we need within a couple of days, but transporting large numbers of live animals will be rather tricky, he believes that once we have a system set up in Dakota for transporting goods and the network up and running, we should be able to extend the trade network too…?"

"What do you call this place?" Harry asked as he turned back to the confused old man.

"Excalibur," he said eagerly. "It was apparently named after a mighty sword. But… are you talking with someone, sir?"

"Yeah," Harry agreed with a grin. "We can get you the seeds fairly easily," Harry said while everyone looked around at each other expressing their hope and awe. "However, transporting live animals is going to be on the tricky side, but we should be able to set up a trading system between yourselves and the City of Dakota that is from one of our worlds, now stuck on this side, so we can transport food to them, and they can transport food here. That way you won't have to let little twats like him, do as they please," Harry said gesturing where the weaselly trumpet guy was snivelling over his master.

"You dare!" the weasel of a man squeaked. "The Lord Inquisitor is a marvel of men, descendant of the Great Harry Potter… who are you to dare harm his magnificence?"

"Yeah; that bastard doesn't share my blood!" Harry replied coldly. "These boys do though."

"You lie!" weasel squealed and suddenly grabbed the fallen masters rod and went to wave it when he was also knocked out as purple lightning sparked from Static's right hand.

"Oh; that guy offended me," Static said sheepishly as Harry gave him a look. "What… are you going to do with the kids? But more specifically, what are you going to do with those wastes of life?" he asked while gesturing the two 'men'.

"Well, these two are my responsibility now," Harry said as he cuddled the boys a little tighter. "Therefore, I want to charge that Inquisitor thing and his minion with child abuse. Who do I speak to about, taking them with me?" Harry asked the old man.

"Umm… well, I guess since he is unable; that would be me," the old man said as he gesture to the fallen, evil dung. "You are more than welcome to take them both."

"Thanks," Harry said. "We will take you up on that," he said when suddenly from the distance of the city two huge CyberTech helicopters slipped through the barrier and bells started ringing and everything was in chaos with excitement and fear, but Harry smiled as he slipped off with Static and the boys out of the way, and Harry placed the boys down, but they fearfully held his hands.

"So, guys," Harry said with a grin as he crouched to a better position to see them better. "I am Harry Avalon, and this here is my buddy, Virgil Hawkins."

"Nice to meet you," Virgil said with a sigh as he slipped off the white mask around his eyes and slid it into his pocket. "You'll be safe now."

The older of the boys took a moment of nibbling his lower lip before he spoke gently. "I'm Makhohlo, and this is my little b-brother," he said pulling him forward they released Harry's hands, "Artimah. We don't have a family name anymore," he said while looking down.

Harry just shook his head. "Well, apparently, the both of you and me… we're family, so, we have Makhohlo and Artimah Avalon," he said while the boys looked up at Harry with wide grateful eyes and threw themselves back into his arms while Virgil watched with a grin.

"Excuse me, Mr.?" the old man interrupted as he had surprisingly found them, and was followed by a group of guards.

"Avalon," Harry answered.

"Mr. Avalon," he agreed. "But… your… dragons will not attack, will they?" he asked as he gestured as the helicopters were pulling down into the square while civilians had been evacuated back and guards with magical spears were rounding the square at the ready.

"They are not dragons," he replied as he stood with the boys while they held him and looked round in wild-eyed awe. "They are machines. These one's are piloted by people."

The old man nodded and quickly turned to his guards. "Spread the word to stand down!" he quickly ordered, and two guards headed off to it.

It was a few minutes later that several military men and woman slipped out of the two helicopters with CT branded rifles pointing down as they waited out the propellers powering down as hundreds upon hundreds of people surrounded the area, most of which were civilians.

"Those two," Harry said gesturing the two men on the stage as two soldiers approached. "I'm… probably using the wrong word, but you'll get the gist. They're getting extradited back to The Crater, as they're going to be charged with child abuse." Harry didn't need to tell them why, but they saw the two children beaten up and in rags, so they made a gesture and the two vile men were soon in cuffs and secured in a helicopter.

Time seemed to pass by in a whizz and zoom, and more whizzing and booming, and machines and more machines, and space. Makhohlo or Maki as his new big brother called him was awed. He had been in space. He didn't even know anything was supposed to be in space, but apparently there were trillions of planets in the universe, some even had other people.

Maki and his brother, Artimah, or Arti were bouncing around with excitement all the way. They were even allowed a few minutes to float around. Apparently, space didn't have any gravity so everything floated, and apparently it didn't have air either, so outside of the shuttle no one could breathe. They were taken home. They were going to live with their big brother's twin sister, which meant she was their big sister.

It didn't feel real to Maki as he held his little brother's hand as the shuttle had landed and there were so many security people around, but that was nothing to the size of the place and the buildings in the distance that reached into the sky. Then when Maki and Arti met Amanda, their big sister, she smothered them both in love and affection while Harry and their big sisters' girlfriend (they didn't get that) had to pry her off.

They were living in a huge apartment and got their own room each. They had already been washed back on their Earth, and had a nice long bath with their big brother, and it was nice as he scrubbed them clean of months of grime from when they lost their parents. They were also wearing new clothes. They had been surprised that the rich of both other worlds, and the poor and everyone wore the same types of clothes and people tended to wear darker colours, but they did have bright things too.

Maki and his brother were matching in some beige cargo trousers and white tee shirts and trainers. They were so comfortable and light. However, a lovely bath was great, and comfortable clean clothes were perfect; the food was from heaven. Not only was food plentiful, but it was expertly made and so delicious; though, that was partially because they hadn't eaten much in months.

It was all around amazing. Though, Mr. Virgil couldn't join them on their trip as his home was stuck back on Maki's world. Though, there was a bad thing. Their big brother, Harry was heading off to the other-other world, but Maki and Arti were being left with Amanda and Ginny so they could go to school. Though, Maki had until something called September to begin his first year of Hogwarts as he was barely eleven, and Arti would be getting some schooling at the infant and junior school in the CyberTech Headquarters, as he was only seven while he got some home-schooling with big sister Seraph until Hogwarts, well, she said to call her big sister.

Though, on a really positive note, the Inquisitor and his minion had been carted off to prison where they were going to be tried and sentenced, as even back home what he did wasn't legal. They were also investigating Inquisitor for many other crimes as people were happy to step forward when he wasn't the biggest, meanest kid on the playground anymore, and he no longer had power over them.

Harry was great, Maki thought as he had given both him and Arti a big cuddling and a kiss each before he gave the same to Amanda and Ginny and left them by the airlock gangway as they waved Harry off as he reboarded Shuttlebeam, and the doors were sealed and locked behind him.

Meanwhile, Harry sighed as he flopped down in the cockpit of his shuttle after being seen off. Shuttlebeam was quite a bit bigger than Shuttleboom, and was the main reason they could transport helicopters and jets between worlds, and he also wasn't a mecha. That meant they could use Shuttleboom and the Javelin shuttles for other things. The shuttle was only taking him to Watch Tower on the other Earth where they had arranged a seed pickup with some extra crew from S.T.A.R. Labs to drop it off.

"Okay Beam, withdraw the gangway, and let's get out of here," Harry suggested with a grin.

"This is what I was built for," he replied with a smug chuckle. "But you seem to have an incoming call from Mr. Batman."

"Okay, patch it, you can just do your thing," Harry said while Beam made an agreement just as a screen appeared of the Batman on the bridge of Watch Tower while Watcher waved over his shoulder and he gave her a half glare and she shrugged as she went off and chatted away with someone on her phone, funnily the phone was also a hologram.

"We just got a hit on a new convergence in Washington… well, above Washington," Batman said. "In the sky."

"Okay," Harry said with a frown. "I'll make sure to keep clear of-."

"Convergence four," he said blandly.

"No?" Harry replied.

"Unfortunately, it is," Batman said tiredly. "Both John Stewart and Hal Jorden, Green Lantern's fell through while being hunted by a then unknown alien Green Lantern, who I've just been informed is wanted by the Green Lantern Corps for mass-murder and genocide. They have both yet to report back about the situation."

"Oh, shit," Harry muttered as his ship was slowly wheeling itself round passed a few smaller Nova Corp ships and towards a launch pad away from buildings and other aircraft. "Okay, send over all the data, and I'll jump over there and put him down if I have too."

"No… not!" he paused as everyone around him seemed to be heading to windows and Watcher looked like she was confused as tears trailed down her cheeks when the space station seemed to shake for a few seconds.

"Batman? Watcher?" Harry asked gently.

Batman looked down a moment later before back up and looked strained. "A Green Lantern just exploded outside," he said gently as he looked over his computer. "It wasn't Hal or John… it wasn't the alien either… a girl… she was… just a kid. Wait, I'm getting an incoming transmission; they're back. Hal, and John."

"Her name was Bella," came a subdued voice: it was John Stewart. "I was beaten up and I crashed near her… that bastard wanted the rings I recovered from him. Bella… she did as I asked and took the rings and ran… one picked her, and well, he broke some lanterns open and accidentally killed himself and… we were too chicken to try absorbing that power ourselves… and she saved a lot of lives. There are no heroes on her world… not like us… well, there was one. Green Lantern Bella Swan."

Harry sat back in his seat as the shuttle slid into a launch platform. "Shit!" It was unfortunate, but that was all he could think to say.

to be continued…

A/N: thank you for reading, and for those who don't know, I re-branded from Myrddin le Fay or Myrddin MacLeod to Outlaw Realms, so please follow, favourite, and review.