Sorry, it took sometime, I just wanted this one to be longer. I hope you enjoy.
Aid is something easily offered but resources were a bit scarcer making it difficult in practice, that is what led to the death of Mar-vel I left the orbit of the Earth to go on a supply run. I had found a deposit of glimmer on Mars and had left to go and mine it in hopes that it would useful to her light speed engine, what I didn't know was that the Kree had finally found her. When I returned to the ship to drop off food, water, and the glimmer, she had yet to return from Earth where she had been testing the engine, I had Kalais scan the planet only to come up with fading fragment of the energy within the engine signifying an explosion. Then Kalais hacked into Pegasus the company she had been using to create the engine, from this we learned that the engine had exploded Mar-vel was dead and her test pilot was missing, this left the Skrull on the ship without hope so I took the designs of the nearly completed engine and began to work on finishing it. With plans to retrofit it to Mar-vels ship.
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It took years to complete the engine and even when it was done the Skrull refused to leave hoping to wait for the family members that had been holding the Kree back. I allowed them to wait but didn't let them send a signal I couldn't risk an armada of Kree coming to attack them and the Earth getting caught in the crossfire. I continued to monitor the Earth and gather materials to create a defense grid for Earth, and of course my own weapons. When the engine was complete though it seemed like fate intervened as it didn't take long for the other Skrull to arrive. Unexpectedly though their ship started to fall apart in orbit and begin to crash towards the Earth I used the Argo to blast the scrap into dust so the Earth would be unharmed and collected the spare material from orbit.
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As someone who has blue skin walking on the surface of the Earth is kind of a no go, thus leaving me with being unable to do anything except observe while the debris of a skrull ship fell to Earth I would have shot down the escape pods but that would be pointless as these were supposed to be the people that my friends were waiting for. I did however begin scavenging the large amounts of scrap that was left behind in the broken ships taking ship plating and weapons and moved them to a storage plant I blasted out on the dark side of the moon. Kalais wanted to build an entire base on the moon, I was against it as it would take a long time and eventually humanity would notice. Luckily I didn't have to hear his argument as I had him go and monitor the situation on Earth from a distance, see if he could help lead the Skrull to the right place without me actually have to take action as my armor isn't inconspicuous and without it I am still blue, I stayed on the Argo after scavenging to prepare for the arrival of the Kree.
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"Jason they're heading to Mar-vel's ship, it also looks like we found out what happened to the pilot who was with Mar-vel when she died," Kalais said over the radio I stood up from the Argos control console, I was unsure of leaving the ship mostly in case the Kree arrived while I was away "I'll meet you there, have you made contact yet?" I asked him, while grabbing my weapons and started programming the transmatt myself to go to the other ship "no I haven't let them know about my presence, and I don't intend to, they have a Kree warrior with them and she seems very aggressive, so if you don't mind I'll switch places with you and man the Argo," Kalais said I just snorted although I agreed with him it was still funny seeing the orb get scared.
"Okay I'm transmatting over when you land head for the Argo, I'll keep an eye on these guys make sure the Skrull stay safe," I said while I was being surrounded by a white light landing in a familiar gray hallway and found Tolos waiting for me, I looked down at her "go tell the others someone found the ship, you all need to hide." I told the young girl, she looked ready to argue with me, but I gave her a glare to try and make her understand that this is serious "go" I told her and she ran off to tell the others, I moved towards the front of the ship making sure my hand cannon was ready, I hadn't fought a Kree warrior yet so I wanted to prepare for the incoming fight.
I moved behind the door that acted as an entrance to the hanger and watched as the ship landed, and the back opened up showing four people and a cat, one was clearly a Skrull although knowing there camouflage ability I was unsure why he and the Kree and him weren't fighting each other, the next one was a Caucasian woman in red, blue, and gold armor I assumed she was the Kree knowing Mar-vel also looked human following her was a black man and women, humans as far as I could tell they lacked armor and Kalais said there was only one Kree, I opened the door. The group halted, I moved into the entryway, aiming my gun at them, "state your reason for being on this ship, if a reason is not stated or threatens the occupants of this ship action will be taken," I stated the Skrull stepped forward "who are you, you weren't with Mar-vel when she collected us" he said and the blond women's hands started to glow I squeezed the trigger of the gun a bit more "that is not what I asked Talos, I asked if you threaten the occupants of this ship." I stated vocalizing my authority in this situation "no we're here to make sure the Kree can't get their hands on the lightspeed engine," the blond women said "I hope you don't plan on destroying it, if you do you won't be making it out of here" I said the blond woman laughed at me I looked to her.
"Lady I don't know what your laughing at all I would need to do is shoot that makeshift engine, and boom. Admittedly it would take sometime to repair the hangar, but I'm willing to put the time in if I have too, but this time I'll add a jacuzzi" I calmly said to them the blonde woman took offense to this and shot energy blasts out of her hands behind herself launching herself forward I moved my pistol down with my right hand as I didn't intend to kill her, but I kept my left arm up as my light flowed through me and the purple void shield burst into life on my left forearm her glowing fist met the shield with a dull clang I threw her back with the shield knocking her off balance her other arm came forward as she was pushed back so I grabbed it with my right hand after holstering malfeasance pulling her forward and slamming her into the wall to my right then pulling her back and forcing her to the ground restraining her and I put my hand cannon to her head with my free hand I heard a "damn" from the group but I was unsure which one said it.
I looked back to Talos "I know your family is here so I will ask you now that I have her restrained. Did this Kree force you to take her here?" I asked him while twisting her arm "no she helped me get here, she's a human affected by the lightspeed engine and given Kree blood, also they have a flerken I'm fine with you getting rid of that" he said and I smiled at the mention of the flerken now knowing they were okay if Goose hadn't eaten them yet, "so she's the pilot that was with her, I'll have a talk with Kalais later about mentioning key details" I mumbled to myself before letting her go. She immediately jerked away from me "big man, little gun" she said pushing past me and further into the ship I chuckled and holstered my gun on my lower back and walked towards the group removing my helmet letting them see my face.
"Now there's a blue guy wonderful," the human man said I smirked at him "Yeah wait till you see the red guys they're really cool looking," I told him chuckling then moved to talk to Talos. The woman was just blinking in surprise at me. "You're Kree," Talos stated simply "nope, but I get that a lot" I told him then faced the women "okay you've met Skrull, I am not the weirdest thing you've seen today" I told her and she blinked before laughing "you're right about that big man," she said raping her knuckles on my armor I smiled I looked as goose came walking out of the ship, and bent down to pet him "we should probably go find your friend before she gets too lost," I told them and gestured them towards the door, they began to walk through and I walked behind them.
I used the speaker system to tell the hybrid women to come back so they could follow me to the main lab "I know Talos's name, but what about the rest of you?" I asked the humans and the not Kree as they walked behind me "you can call me Fury, everyone else does" the man said to me I looked back and smiled "got it, Nick," I said to him obviously I knew their name Kalais had been following them for a while he looked surprised then glared at me "why you big blue bastard," he said back to me "you can call me Jason, instead of triple B less alliteration" I told them looking forward again careful to step around Goose.
Opening the door to the lab where the light from the cube shined on everything "that's a strange name for a Kree," Carol said to me after looking around the room "yeah it would be if I was Kree, and you aren't one to talk after all isn't Vers a weird name for a human?" I asked her "It's Carol" she replied harshly I smirked at her, she immediately forgot about the fact I wasn't Kree. "Well I'm Maria nice to meet ya," the final women said to me I smiled at her "and it is lovely to meet you too," I told her and moved towards the cube. Talos himself stood in the middle of the room and started emitting a sound that seemed similar to a whale song to me and the Skrull began to come out of the woodworks I saw Tolos standing behind her mother seeming nervous for once, I guess it makes sense as she is finally meeting her father after so long, I smiled at the family reunion. It didn't last long as Kree warriors started to come into the room I grabbed my hand cannon and aimed at the sniper in the rafters better to get rid of them first "wait, don't shoot if you shoot they will slaughter us" Talos said as he moved Tolos behind him.
I looked around they were too spread out for me to protect them with ward of dawn, I lowered my hand cannon and I saw Danvers do the same with her hands. "Drop your weapons, and Vers put your hands together. Look everyone there was one more traitor then we thought" a human looking Kree said, I glared at him, but I knew better than to open my mouth with so many civilians in danger.
Danvers didn't "glad you could show, I've been wanting to hit something," was what she said and she proceeded to get shot by the sniper, but it was a stun shot as she just started writhing and crumpled to the ground. "that is why you always keep your mouth shut in this situation," I said, and the human man nodded in agreement with me, I set my hand cannon on the ground and backed away from the gun. A few Kree came down and began cuffing people. They separated me, the humans and Goose, from the Skrull leading them off somewhere else, I assume to execute them.
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I sat next to the two humans while two of the Kree put a muzzle on Goose "he's a cat, what's he going to do" Fury said, I snorted and looked to the guy holding my hand cannon "you better be careful with that I'm going to want it back," I then turned to the other guy "also why do you have a cat-sized muzzle on you, who carries that around?" I asked that guy he turned probably to smack me but there was a boom, I immediately charged my arms with arc energy breaking the cuffs holding me and punched the guy holding my hand cannon I caught it as he fell and shot one of them in the head and the other in the knee specifically so I could find out why he had a cat-sized muzzle later.
I turned to the two humans, and started to remove their cuffs, "I could have done that too, I was just waiting for the right moment," the guy said and I smiled "I know you could but I did it faster," I said while Maria started checking on the one I shot in the knee who was still conscious. I walked back over to him and kicked him in the head to knock him out. Fury had moved to take the muzzle of Goose "don't worry fluffy buddy I got you" he told the cat while removing the muzzle.
"Come on we need to go help Carol and the green elves" Maria said grabbing two of what is likely a gun from the Kree and throwing one to Fury and they started moving down the halls, I stayed where I was, "you two go on ahead I need to make sure they didn't get the information on the lightspeed engine" I said bending down to access their wrist-mounted computers hoping they had shared the information, I pressed somethings trying to access it but I was unable to.
The next step is to contact my hacking expert and give him a piece of my mind, "Kalais, I want to know how the Kree got close enough to Earth to find this ship without you shooting," I asked him while removing the wrist-mounted computer. "Jason, they didn't show up their ship might have been too small or even cloaked," Kalais said to me and I grunted "okay that's fine I'll get my hands on their ship and figure it out. In addition to that I stole one of their computers, transmat it to yourself and see if they got anything on the light speed engine or blueprints on any of their weapons," I told the ghost while placing a marker on the computer and set it down to be transmatted, then went after both the humans.
I caught up quickly and found them already re-captured by the Kree, and our Flerken friend doing nothing but being carried by Fury. I started shadowing the group trying to prevent the Kree from realizing I was behind them. Following them to the hangar I saw the answer to the conundrum that Kalais had about their ship, it was small too small to come up on our sensors.
My curiosity for their ship was interrupted when the Kree began firing on themselves I watched as the Skrull ran onto the modified plane that the humans came on. I moved out from the shadows when Tolos had been shot to help him on the plane, I killed the Kree who shot him and put him on the plane. I turned to Tolos who was being held by her mother and took off my helmet I smiled at her, "told you, you're a magnet for trouble," I said, and she stuck her tongue at me. Laughing I turned to the back of the ship, aiming and firing my hand cannon at the Kree soldiers flooding in. Maria closed the back of the ship and began to take off I holstered the hand cannon and walked to the front of the ship. Maria, of course, shot the Kree ship to prevent them from following us, unfortunately, that would have to be repaired later.
"Could you watch the damage to our ship, we still need it to get these guys out of here," I said hanging on to the roof of the ship, "sorry I just wanted to give us a better chance at living" the women shouted at me not bothering to turn around. "Okay, I meant minimize, but living takes priority so have at it," I said while keeping an eye on the radar. It took very little time for three dots to appear on the screen, oddly enough one dot became two dots making a total of four. We entered the Earth's atmosphere quicker than I thought this DIY spaceship could handle, two of the dots were still on our tail I decided to handle it.
"Open the back for a second I'll handle this" I told Maria and moved to the back of the ship, the Skrull who I passed did the opposite moving towards the front, I got to the back as it opened and I channeled the light through me and my body began to spark with arc energy I coiled my muscles and dived out the back. I flew through the air as a living missile the first ship dodged me, not without getting a small scorching from the energy coming off me, the second ship wasn't so lucky and I went right through it, after I passed through it I cut off the flow of the light and began to free fall towards the ground I spun in the air grabbing my hand cannon and started firing at the ship I missed while the one I went through exploded. I holstered my pistol and continued my free fall towards the ground. I finally countered gravity at the last few moments when a burst of energy came from my jetpack slowing my descent enough to prevent harm, I looked up to see a bunch of small explosions in the sky.
"Kalais what's going on up there?" I called through our comms, watching the line of light that appear from the smoke, "well, I'm not completely sure Carol might have absorbed a bit more of the tesseracts energy then I thought," my ghost said to me, I grit my teeth in annoyance. "No, I meant what in the world is going on with the explosions, she shoots lasers," I shouted through the comms "oh that, yeah Kree warships just showed up and fired missiles at the Earth," Kalais replied back calmly. "Okay and how did they get the chance to fire with you attacking them?" I asked the ghost "oh well they had three big ships and we only have one. I didn't know what they were capable of so I decided to hang back see what they would do, I figured Carol could handle it with her new energy output," he said I just sighed.
"Kalais we are going to have a serious talk about proactivity," I said to the ghost. "I just didn't want to risk all our materials, all our research to stop bombs that were too far away to hurt anyone, anyway I was right Carol took care of it" Kalais said with some superiority, "okay well did the Skrull make it to safety?" I asked changing the subject "yes Maria was able to take care of the other ship, which you missed, and now they will probably be regrouping soon, I'll try to get in contact with them so you can meet up with them. Would you like me to send a ship or a sparrow?" Kalais asked me I groaned knowing what I would have to deal with soon, but I still replied, "get the cerulean and come pick me up, we'll try to meet up with them when we find out where they are going."
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Marias home, a brilliant hiding place, I would do the same if I needed to hide the last of a species. Except instead of a large cabin, my home is a heavily armed warship. Despite this I dropped myself off in front of the women's home and knocked on the front door. It was a little girl who answered the door and looked up at me "Hi I'm looking for Carol, Fury, Maria, and a group of green aliens" I told the kid from behind my helmet. The kid nodded and shouted "mom!" I looked over the kid and into the house and saw Tolos peaking from the stair and the rest sitting around a table which made me question why the child had yelled. I waived to them and the door was opened the rest of the way, Maria stood up to welcome me as I was let into the room, Kalais floated in behind me. "Jason glad to see you alive, what's with the floating flashlight?" Maria asked me I jerked a thumb back pointing to him, "that's Kalais he's a ghost, also my tech guy" I told her "hello thank you for welcoming us into your home" the ghost said while floating in.
"A ghost as in a dead person coming back to life?" Fury asked from his spot by the table "no I'm an intelligence created by the traveler to guide my Guardian" Kalais said the people in the room with the exception of Tolos looked confused "think of him as a robot with a soul that doesn't want to overthrow humanity," I told them and an understanding look appeared on most of their faces. "Anyway, I came here to find out what the plan is as the Skrull can't stay here," I said firmly while sitting down in an offered chair. "we were just talking about that, Carol decided to go with them help them find a home" Maria told me "okay well the wait may be a bit longer then you thought, because someone decided to blow up a ship in the hangar I'll have to repair it, and from the size of the explosion I am going to say at least two weeks before light speed flight is ready maybe less if I have help, so no matter what your staying here for a bit," I said to start a discussion that would change how this world would defend itself.