(Hey all! Sorry for that Cliff Hanger last chapter! Anyway I now present to you Paragon and Michael's Arrival in Michael's old world!)
The first thing that Paragon awoke to was blaring alarms and flashing red lights as he groans and gets up from the core's metal floor.
Snapping his eyes open he looks around in alarm and his eyes catch a screen with red text.
'ALERT! PROPULSION ENGINES OFFLINE! IMMINENT COLLISION INBOUND!'
At that Paragon scowls, it looks like that Teleport warped the entire ship in the atmosphere of a planet and disabled the engines and core and is currently free falling to Multiverse who knows where.
Getting up and cracking his bones he bolts through the nearest doors, he needs to get outside and stop the ship from slamming into something or flatten a village, this wouldn't be the first time he stopped a ship falling from orbit after all.
As he runs by slowly coming to Balance soldiers he activates his communicator.
"All Troops brace for impact, the ship is free falling, I repeat the ship is free falling, wherever you are I suggest you hold on TIGHT! It's going to be a rocky landing." He orders as he manages to navigate through the ship and come across some sealed airlock doors to which he violently kicks off sending the metal doors flying out of the sky and into the cloud layer.
Cracking his knuckles Paragon leaps out of the door before he catches himself in the air before he flies to the front of the ship which is starting to form an impact cone, if the ship lands anything in a 6-km radius will be reduced to ashes, these cores were built to power a damn city and if it implodes it would make the surrounding area uninhabitable as if it was a nuclear bomb.
Bracing himself he outstretches his hands to which the ship crashes into him while still falling to the ground to which he strains slightly to stop it as he puts all his strength into it, as he continues pushing it they breach the cloud layer and he catches a glance of the area, though he only manages to see a medieval style castle but pays it no mind, he has more pressing matters to attend to than an old ruin.
Gritting his teeth he starts pumping large amounts of Multiverse energies to his arms which seems to be slowing the ship but not enough, looking behind him slightly he notices the ship is going to do a hard landing in a large forest, to which he kicks under it slightly angling it so that the nose of the ship doesn't hit, instead the underside will.
As it descends the ship roughly hits the ground which jolts the passengers inside while Paragon strains holding it to which he summons a vast amount of chains to the front and behind the ship to which the ones behind shoot forward and stab right into the ship as if they were grappling hooks while the ones at the front brace against the ship, the combined might of both Paragon and the Chains he summoned slowed it down immensely, after a few seconds of straining the crashing ship grinds to a halt, which is fortunate considering how it nearly crashed into a mountain behind him.
At that he lets out a big sigh of relief as he disappears the chairs letting his arms slump while they hurt slightly from what he did.
"Fucking hell, i hate free falling ship's." he mutters as he breaths heavily while wiping sweat away.
"Sir! You alright!?" His communicator lights up.
At that he sighs before he cracks his shoulders.
"Yea, give me a situation report now." He says as he scans the woods they are now in.
"Few injuries on the soldiers sir but the Medi-Wizards are tending to them, the Prisoners are pretty banged up, the Medic's say they won't be fit for teleportation or Space Travel until they are fully healed."
"Good, what species are they?" Paragon asks as he kicks a pebble away but he narrows his eyes when he spotted a pair of red eyes which quickly scurries away.
"We got mostly human, a couple of Khajiit, some Dwarven children, a few Demons and a few Angel children, though all of them seem to be from our sectors sir, the Demon and Angel ones are from The White City and The Dark Spire." The Captain responds.
"Good, there has been reports of missing Demons and Angels from both Fear and Mira, they'll be happy to see the children safely returned." Paragon says, it's a protocol that any Demon or Angel child must be taken to The White City or The Dark Spire since the avatar's there tend to them.
"Sir, one last thing."
"What?" He asks.
"Something's wrong with Michael Vendril, he started experiencing some sort of pain and we don't know what is causing it but he is heaving due to this." The Captain says with concern.
"Hmm, i'll come have a look, ensure all squads rendezvous in the Cargo Hold." Paragon orders.
"Yes sir." The Captain says as the line ends.
At that Paragon sighed and looked to the night sky.
Where in the Multiverse are we?
Prison Ship Crash site - Forbidden Forest
It took a while but the Balance Forces and Paragon along with the children managed to get out of the crashed ship, though not before scavenging it for any resources just in case such as food, water and blankets for the children.
"What's the situation on Michael?" Paragon asks as he looks down to an unconscious Michael.
"He's stable sir but he's currently unconscious, though something appears to have merged with his Magical Core, his old one to be precise." The Medic says.
At that Paragon frowns and thinks back.
When Michael Vendril was adopted the Multiverse Magical Energies re-assembled his Magical Core but it still kept a tiny sliver of it, to be precise the old core of his old magic to act as a base since if it tried to make a fresh core it would have killed him or left him magicless.
"Hmm, has it left a distinct trail when it merged with him?" Paragon asks scratching his chin.
"Yes, the trail leads through the forest, it does seem to match the energies that brought us here so I suspect if we follow the trail it will lead us to what is attached to Mr Vendril." The Medic says as she points to the dark forest.
"Hmmm, alright Men pack up everything essential, Rogers i want you to set the Nano Explosives on the ship, Tusker ensure the supplies are ready, Emris watch the perimeter, if it has hostile intent shoot it regardless." Paragon orders.
"Yes Sir!" The 3 soldiers says as they run to do their duties.
"We leave in 5 minutes! I want everything done in that time!" Paragon barks making the marines double time it while the children look around, scared and confused but immediately relax when one of the Medic's use a calming spell.
5 Minutes pass and the group are ready with cylinder's on the ship primed for detonation while the soldiers have floating cargo next to them.
"Move out! Diamond Formation! Medics keep to the middle and VIP's surrounded! Anything moves you kill it!" Paragon says to which they move into the associated formation and before long they march out with their heavy armour filling the silent forest while the Cylinder's activate and the ship is eaten away by a swarm of blue with the Cylinder's following suit and it doesn't take long before the ship is gone as if it was never there.
Forbidden Forest - High Heights Platoon
It's been 10 minutes since they left the crash site and the Platoon has kept formation and moving in sync while any child that collapses a medic immediately helps them while Paragon leads the front eyes scanning the forest edge with the eyes of a hawk.
This forest feels familiar, as if i have been here a dozen times and that castle rings a bell.
As they tred more the faint sound of scuttling is heard to which Paragon gestures the squad to halt with an open hand to which they do and prepare their weapons.
Paragon's eyes scan the area watching for ANY sign of movement while the children in the middle tense up.
Suddenly a bit of water lands on a little Demon Girls nose to which she touches it and see that it feels like saliva and looking up her eyes widen in terror.
"S..S…." she stutters.
"Hey, you alright?" A Medic asks.
"S….S…." she tries to say.
"Hello?" The Medic again asks to which another blob hits her helmet.
"SPIDERS!" She finally yells pointing up to which the canopy lights up with a dozen red eyes.
"Fucking Swarm!"
"TORCH THE CANOPY!" Paragon orders to which they open fire into the tree's not even stopping.
As they fire the spiders start to crawl down with webbing and the tree's while some fall to the ground riddled with laser rounds.
However one gets down and lunges towards a Soldier and before it can munch on him a blue blade pierces it's body before Paragon tosses it aside.
"GO! RUN FOR IT!" He orders as he unholsters his red sword.
"You heard the man, MOVE IT!"
At that the ground moves in sync though a little disorganised as Paragon turns to the Spider horde in front of him.
"First you'll have to get through me!" Paragon says as he brandishes both blades to which he dashes forward and eviscerates a chunk of them before he starts butchering them.
He starts slashing, stabbing and kicking away spiders which accurately dodging any webbing or attacks they throw his way, he stashes a column away from a simple slash while he fires a ball of energy and destroys a big chunk of them, yet no matter how many he kills more appear as if they are a never ending swarm.
'At this rate i'm gonna have to Torch the whole forest, i gotta get the platoon out first tHEN deal with the spider infestation' He thinks to which he jumps backwards and lands next to the platoon.
"Find a clearing! I have an idea as to how to deal with our Spider trouble!" He yells as he thrusts a hand to the left blowing a group of spiders away.
"There should be a clearing up ahead sir!"
"Good! Once we reach it bunker down in the middle!"
At that the Platoon double times it and before long they reach the middle of it and have their weapons primed to the edges of the clearing while in the middle Paragon is condensing a large amount of Multiverse energy, while this is going on the Spider Horde has the platoon completely surrounded with their mandibles dripping while the children are beyond scared.
The silence doesn't last long as the spiders charge forward to which the Soldiers open fire and as they close in and a few leap Paragon opens his eyes and thrusts his hands out to the side to which a dome of intense Multiverse Magic explodes from him and rapidly expands over the Platoon harmlessly but for the Spiders they are burnt to a crisp as they fall to the ground completely burnt and before long the dome burns the whole horde of spiders leaving nothing but charred remains.
"Sit-rep, any red blips?" Paragon asks as he shakes some of the excess energy off himself.
"No more sir, radar is clear."
"Good, 5 minute check time then we head out, a horde that size might have a Spider Queen and in these conditions they may be royally angry." He says as he scans the forest with his eyes.
At that the squad does a casualty check on the children and themselves, other than heavy fatigue and some small bruises nothing major.
"Everyone's in healthy condition sir, we are good to go."
"Good work, move out but keep your eyes on the canopy for more." Paragon says to which the platoon moves in sync.
30 Minutes pass and before long they see a light at the end.
"Sir, I can see a light, we may be near a village." The Captain of the Platoon says.
"Good, i wanna know where in the multiverse we are." Paragon says, however at the corner of his eye he notices Michael has woken up.
"Ugh, what happened?" Michael asks groggily.
"I'll fill you in once we are out of these woods, can you stand?" Paragon asks.
"Y...Yea." He says as he shakily gets up from the stretcher.
"Good, we are near a village once there we can ask around and see what our current location is." Paragon says and as he walks forward a giant shadow lunges from the canopy.
"Sir Watch out!" A soldier shouts as he and the rest bring their guns up.
However as it nears Paragon a sudden Squelch is heard and before anyone knew it a gigantic chain skewered of what appears to be a bigger spider than the ones they fought.
"I'm fine." He casually says as the chain flicks the spider away and retracts back into the portal it came from while the children stare eye wided before they clamber over to him in excitement asking what that was and if he can do it again.
"Hey hey, maybe once we are out I can do some tricks but nothing too flashy." Paragon says with a smile, he always gets these reactions with kids and in the end he has to entertain them.
At that they quiet down and get back into the formation and before long the Platoon has cleared the forest and what they witness some would remember (The kids) while the others would look at it idly as if they seen it a dozen times.
The kids are in awe of what appears to be a giant castle on a cliff with a village while Michael is stunned seeing this, Paragon and the soldiers know exactly where they are.
"Figures we land here of all places….." Paragon mutters pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Sir...is this?" A soldier asks.
"Yea, keep it quiet from Michael, he may react horribly to them of all people, we don't want him to have a magical breakdown." Paragon orders to which the soldiers nod, they too loathe child abandonment and who knows what Michael would do if he saw his ex-parents.
"Let's head for that village, get some food and some information and possibly some warm clothes for the children, the supplies we have are good but we would need extra supplies for this, who here is capable of cooking?" Paragon asks to which a few of the soldiers stick their hands up.
"Alright, half of us will stay outside the village but semi-near it and set up the camp, the children will stay in the camp too, the other half will come with me to get supplies and information, medics how long till the children are capable of Portal Travel?"
"Maybe a week sir, they are still unstable from H.A.D.E.S vile treatment." One pipes up.
"Good, once they are ready we can contact both Fear and Mira to come collect theirs and we can call on a ship to pick up ours." Paragon says.
"Captains i want you to choose who goes with me and who stays." He says as he looks to the 4 soldiers with blue trimmings and a Captain Insignia.
"Yes Commander."
"Dismissed, be ready in 1 hour." Paragon orders to which they salute and run off to do their tasks while Paragon looks at Hogwarts seeing a figure at a window.
So the old fossils watching us, he would be surprised that I don't praise him like a deity.
Hogsmeade - 1 Hour Later
Half of the platoon and Paragon enter the small town known as Hogsmeade and they see wizards and others walking about though it appears to be packed than usual.
"Right gather round for some orders." Paragon gestures as the soldiers gather around him.
"I want you three to head to that clothes shop." He says pointing to it. "And get all types of children's clothing and whatever blankets there are, looking at between ages 5 - 13, along with other things we can use for the camp." Paragon says to which he hands a bag full of Galleons to them.
"You 4, go to any Fruit, Vegetable and Butchers and bring back a good amount of food, pick whatever we could use, buy the whole shop if you must." He says and hands about 3 bags full of galleons over.
"What about us sir?" one asks.
"You 5, keep an eye out for the old codger and any of his members from the castle, if you see one of em radio me, i will be in the building known as Three Broomsticks Inn, once the two groups are finished meet me there and we can return to camp, You have your orders Dismissed!" Paragon sternly orders to which they salute and run off to do their orders.
Once they run off to do their duties Paragon pockets his hands and heads towards the inn, ignoring the whispers and pointing fingers to him, he's used to being the odd one out given both his attire and weaponry, he also ignores the mutters of 'Muggle' too from stuck up wizards.
As he walks down the street a drunkard bumps into him to which he falls to the ground while Paragon continues walking on.
"Ey! Watch where yer going you idiot! Aren't you going to apologize!?" The drunkard says a bit tipsy.
Seeing that Paragon is continuing on he gets angry and walks up to him and yanked his shoulder.
"I asked if ye-" Suddenly Paragon grabs the offending arm to which he quickly breaks at the elbow with a sickening crack making the Drunkard yell in pain and before long Paragon swings a foot right into the Drunkard's head instantly knocking him out cold while onlookers look wide-eyed at that.
"Maybe if you were sober i would have apologized, you'll wake up tomorrow with one hell of a headache." Paragon calmly says to which he brushes his trenchcoat, pockets his hands and walks off leaving an unconscious man and shocked onlookers.
Three Broomsticks Inn
The Three Broomsticks, a popular inn amongst Hogwarts students and one of the busiest buildings in Hogsmeade, currently it is packed more than usual with Students and adults with large amounts of chatter.
The chatter is suddenly halted as the front door is opened and Paragon steps through it, seeing the room is quiet as a church he looks around.
"Don't mind me folks, continue about your business." He says with a neutral tone.
At that the customers and patrons do that, though the chatter is set to hushed with some sending some glances at Paragon, curious of who he is.
Once that is done Paragon walks casually over to the bar where the owner Rosemerta tends to him, though his nose twitches, not at the smell but at some sort of magic has been cast on her.
"Hello handsome, haven't seen you from around before, out of town?" Rosemerta asks.
"Ofcourse, though me and my group are currently camped outside, I'm just here to get a drink and a bit of information." Paragon asks as he slips a Galleon outta his sleeve.
"Sure thing, would you like a Butterbeer or Firewhiskey?" She asks taking the Galleon.
"Eh i'll have a butterbeer." He casually says with a shrug.
"Ofcourse, one butterbeer coming up." Rosemerta says to which she goes to prepare it.
As Paragon waits his ears are at attention to which he starts to catch the husher conversations, even the ones with privacy charms.
"Can't believe that a 5th champion has been chosen."
"Yea, what was the Champions name again?"
"I think it was Harry Potter, i didn't know the Potters had a 2nd son."
"Yea, i always thought they only had one, way i hear it? The Goblet emitted a strong magic and then it subsided, what do you think that was about?"
"Most likely it took the magic from the boy, would hate to be the poor bastard that came across his corpse."
At that Paragon scowls, so his hunch was true, the blasted tin cup brought the ship here, he is surprised the Goblet is capable of Transdimensional Teleportation, though given how much magic it has, it isn't an easy feat bringing a ship that size, he will have to destroy the cup if given the chance, stuff like that is illegal and needs to be destroyed, who knows if it will do it again.
"Here you go Handsome, biggest mug i have too." Rosemerta says as she places a mug full of Butterbeer in front of Paragon.
"Thank you, question is there currently an event going on?" He asks as he takes a sip from the mug.
"You mean you don't know?" Rosemerta asks a bit surprised.
"I don't exactly read the paper or anything." He says.
"Well, currently the Tri-Wizard Tournament is being hosted." She says.
"Ah, I've read up about that, wasn't that discontinued due to the death ratio it had?" He asks.
"Yes, but it was brought back by The Ministry to strengthen the bonds between Durmstrang, Beauxbatons and Hogwarts."
"Sounds like a ticking time bomb for an International Incident if you ask me." Paragon says taking another sip.
"I do agree with you on that, but this one is quite a shock as there is not 3 but 5 champions!" She says with a look of shock.
"Really? And who are these 5 champions if i may ask?" Paragon casually asks though he knows who they are.
"Well the first Champion is Beauxbatons Fleur Delacour, the 2nd one was Viktor Krum from Durmstrang, the 3rd one was Cedric Diggory from Hogwarts, the 4th one is our very own Boy-Who-Lived John Potter! And the final one was an entire shock, the lost Potter twin known as Harry Potter." Rosemerta says.
"Lost Potter Twin?" Paragon asks feigning curiosity as he takes a sip.
"Indeed! It has been quite the talk around Magical Britain! Infact even the Potters were shocked at the news." Rosemerta says.
"Hmm, hope the poor kid is alright." He casually says.
"I hope so too." Rosemerta says to which she goes down the bar to tend to more patrons while Paragon continues drinking his butterbeer while he processes this information.
No doubt the old fart will find a way to have Michael enrolled at Hogwarts or to do a law that would force him to stay in Britain, doubt that'll happen as Multiversal Law trumps Universe law, the blood adoption will nullify their crappy laws here and if they attempt to force him back, well a few dead officials would get the point across.
As Paragon thinks on more plans and what may happen the front door is suddenly kicked open and the same Drunkard from before comes in with some burly wizards though from looking at the reflection in a nearby mug he can tell they ain't the local Aurors, more likely the idiots lackeys.
Honestly, he didn't learn from his first lesson, maybe a brawl would fix his attitude after I knock his lackeys out and then him, though he may not know what I look like since he was drunk.
"That's the bastard! That's the one that broke my arm and gave me a bloody nose!" The now non-drunk man yells pointing an accusatory finger while Paragon counts 15 men.
Must be some sort of leader or low life scum.
Paragon nonchalantly drinks his butterbeer ignoring the big brutes crowding around him.
"Excuse me!? No fights in my inn!" Rosemerta shouts as she stands infront of Paragon glaring at the brutes.
They ignore her and before she can yell about calling the Aurors Paragon interrupts her.
"Ma'am, do me a favor and reach into my sleeve." Paragon asks as his hair casts a shadow on his eyes.
"Ummm OK?" she says confused to which she does and pulls out a bag of galleons.
"Keep the bag of Galleons." He says as he nears the sound of knuckles cracking while he grips the mug.
"Why?" She asks wearily.
"For the damages i'm about to impose to your lovely inn." He says with a fierce tone and before anyone can react he slams his mug right into one of the brutes covering their face in broken bits of glass, at that one of the others reacts sending a fist to Paragon who parry's it and slams the moron's face into the counter denting it and leaving a bloody smear.
The other 3 react by going for their wands to which Paragon kicks their arms away with his foot before they can even cast a spell and slams a fist into one of their faces sending him back peddling away while he slams two fists into the other two sending them flying onto some tables sending students screaming away while the patrons inch to the walls of the inn for the ensuing brawl.
"Kill him! Make him bloody!" The Leader yells.
At that the rest surround him while the other 3 he punched and kicked away come over as well.
"13 against one in Unarmed combat huh? I've faced an army of Demons with nothing but my fists, this is just a school yard brawl." Paragon taunts which gets the reaction he wants as one of the brutes charges forward arm swinging.
He merely parries it to the left and breaks it in half and throws him into another one charging him sending them tumbling away while he ducks a fist to which he responds with a powerful fist to the gut making the man cough up blood before he kicks him away and catches two fists from two different men and applies some power to his grip and the satisfying sound of breaking bones is heard making the men scream to which he tosses them away.
One of them comes at him with a chair to which he catches and kicks him away before he slams his temporary weapon hard on a man to his left sending fragments and splinters everywhere while knocking him out cold, another one comes at him before he unleashes an uppercut and a barrage of fists on his torso to which he punches his now beaten body bag into one of the recovering goons.
Suddenly one of the goons grabs him from behind while another infront of him charges forward but before he can even land a punch Paragon stomps hard on his grabber's foot breaking all the bones in it making him scream and let him go to which he ducks and the front goon punches the one that grabbed him and before he can even react Paragon gives him a swift chop to the back of his neck rending him cold.
Looking around he sees just two more and a quivering leader, as he steps forward the two charge him, the first one is immediately downed when Paragon applies more power to an Uppercut that sends him straight into the ceiling while the last brute swings madly at him to which he flawlessly dodges and at the last one he bats the fist away before he gives another punch spinning him around and grabs him in a tight grip before he does a flip and brings the goon's face and body onto the wooden floor giving a sickening impact but it knocked him out cold.
With the goons dispatched off oh wait ...one gets up and before he can do anything Paragon slams a backhand fist into him sending him back into dreamland.
"That your best? If so I may as well give you a painful lesson." Paragon says cracking his knuckles.
"Uhhh...Sorry?" He says to which he whimpers when Paragon gives him a smile.
Suddenly a vicious punch from Paragon sends the leader through the front door destroying it and into a lamp-post bending it.
"Well he should be alive." He mutters as he surveys the damage, he's destroyed most of the furniture in here and sees lots of gobsmacked Patrons.
"Sorry for that folks, rounds on me for the mishap." Paragon casually says as he tosses another bag of Galleons to a wide-eyed Rosemerta who catches it.
As he looks outside he notices his soldier's are back carrying lots of the required items.
"That everything?" He asks
"Yes sir, everything we need."
"Good, alright back to camp." He says giving a universal sign or moving out to which they do.
After a miunte or 2 a multitude of patrons burst out wanting to report what they had just witnessed while a certain beetle is getting one hell of a scoop from what she witnessed.
"Muggle Out-brawls Wizards!"
(And Done! Sorry for the delay folks had some writers block, hope you enjoyed the small brawl and ill see you in the next chapter!)