Chapter 6:
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"Jason, we have a problem," Kalais said to me. I was cleaning my guns when he opened up a screen next to me. "what am I looking at Kalais" I said moving my gear aside and pulling my screen closer. "This better not be a video of that guy in a suit, I already told you we don't need to get involved with that. It's just human innovation" I said while the screen changed showing an image from space of clouds beginning to swirl together, figures started to appear on the side of the screen showing the raised energy levels.
"Okay, you have my attention what do you have on this?" I asked the ghost zooming in on what looked like a storm. "Glad I got it cause if you don't think spontaneous storms with high amounts of energy are weird, well how about that but only lasting a few seconds at most?" Kalais asked me and I started adjusting the time period moving a few more seconds forward and the energy levels started disappearing.
"Another thing the energy originally came from space too fast for us to intercept, nor get a point of origin," Kalais told me changing the images to show me rainbow-like energy entering the Earth's atmosphere.
"Call Fury then link the comm to me we'll see if he can have Coulson meet us there. I'm going to prep the ship to fly down, you start working on the instruments and I'll load them into the ship," I told the Ghost while standing up and began moving towards the ship bay.
It didn't take long for Kalais to connect me to Fury "what's going on Jason I rarely get a call from you?" Fury immediately asked me, understandable I usually only call when there's something wrong. "Something with high energy entered the atmosphere and caused a freak storm over New Mexico I don't know if it touched down but I'm heading there to find out. I was hoping you could spare Coulson for dealing with the locals and keeping you guys in the loop?" I told Fury mostly as even if he couldn't spare Coulson I was still heading down there.
Kalais started transmatting the gear we would need into the ship bay and I began loading it while I waited for Fury to respond "okay, I'll send Coulson down. For the record though he was in the middle of a mission, you need to expand our circle more you can't just take my best man whenever you need something. Jason, you need to get a human operative to be ready for-" I cut the line while I loaded the instruments.
Fury had been wanting me to get a human operative for the ground, I have been against it as that would mean revealing myself to at least one more person, exposing my technology and some of my abilities which is not something I am willing to do. Despite this, I have been debating getting in touch with the Wakandans to get some assistance, but I would have to give them more info on glimmer to get their aid, which I am not willing to do.
Fury had offered to find someone to help me but the thought of a spy getting another spy to regularly help me when I have something that the first spy wanted is not the best idea. In fact, the only reason I work with Coulson is that he doesn't mess with any of my gear try to scan or bug it and I already need to keep Shield in the loop. Didn't need to worry about the bugs the first time they came aboard as they didn't know what they were dealing with yet. Give them a few years though and they'll be able to figure things out, better to keep them at a distance.
Kalais floated in and I nodded to him letting him know we were ready to go, and we boarded the Cerulean Flash. "You know Fury is right you should find someone who can be on the ground for us," Kalais said which I ignored to instead focus on this situation.
"Were you able to tell if there was any damage to the surface by the beam?" I asked the Ghost he just shook his shell to show his annoyance with my ignoring him then he sighed "not as far as I can tell the surface is still in one piece. However, there was an impact near where the beam touched down," Kalais said while the ship broke the atmosphere.
"Okay connect me to Coulson I'll tell him to head there first, we'll check out the area the beam hit," I told Kalais his light blinked in acknowledgment and the commlink switched on, "hello?" Coulson's questioning voice came through. "Hey Coulson, if you haven't put it together yet it's Jason," I replied to him giving him a minute.
"Yeah okay, got it, so why are we going to New Mexico?" he asked chuckling a bit, "something very laser-like shot past my ship and hit the Earth as far as I know though there was no damage. Then something hit the ground and made a crater close to where the beam hit, I'll send the coordinates for that to you, go check it out see what it is. I'll check out where the beam actually hit the earth see what I can learn about it I'll send you the coordinates for that too meet me there when you get the chance" I spoke giving him instructions quickly and concisely not letting him get a word in.
"Okay I'll go get a perimeter set up around the impact sight, then I'll come to check on you. You want me to bring you anything like a burger maybe a burrito?" Coulson offered and I rolled my eyes at that, he's been all about getting me to try Earth food since I gave him a communicator.
"Get me whatever you want Coulson I trust you although I do look forward to trying some of that high-grade human cuisine," I said with a chuckle "burritos it is, see you in a bit Jason," Coulson said to me and hung up.
"I wish I had a mouth," Kalais said his light dimming a bit. I just swatted him "we'll get some movies or something, after all, I shouldn't be the only one to enjoy some pre-golden age culture" I said and he started playing some Queen for us to listen to on our way down "see that's the spirit, we'll have to ask Coulson for some recommendations" I told Kalais as we continued our flight.
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"Have you been able to figure out what the runes mean Kalais?" I asked my floating friend while he hovered over the large runes that had been scorched into the ground, we had been here a day already and had still been unable to translate them.
"No, not yet, I've been running it through the shield database and trying to match it up against any language, the closest thing I've gotten is some old Norse language." He spoke before floating over me to look over my shoulder at the scanner I was using. Knowing what he wanted to see I let him in on my own findings.
"I can't believe there's no residual radiation of any kind" I told him with sigh before lowering the scanner scratching my head shaking sand loose from mt black hair, "I don't know what this thing was and that isn't good, clearly the beam wasn't meant to damage the Earth so it was either to transport something or the runes are a message, hopefully we'll get answer from whatever hit the ground at Coulson's position" I told the ghost putting away the scanner completely Kalais flew back over to the runes to see if there was anything that he could glean from it.
Coulson soon pulled up in a heavily tinted SUV. He stepped out of the car alone with a yellow envelope and a brown paper bag in his hands, "Jason Kalais, sorry it took so long but I was busy causing conspiracy theories" Coulson said while walking over he tossed me the brown bag and I opened it up and pulled out what I assume is a burrito wrapped in white paper, I unwrapped it and started digging in Kalais floated over to see what he had to say.
"Have you guys looked at these conspiracy sights there are some weird things on there. For what we're doing here they think an alien probe crash-landed" Coulson said. I snorted and started laughing "wow that probably makes your job a bit easier," I said to him this time he chuckled.
"It might if I was sure they were wrong but so far we have nothing on what this is, it doesn't look like any satellite nor any conventional technology we've seen. The weirdest part is that we can't even move it," Coulson told me passing me the envelope. I opened it and began pulling sheets of paper out of it detailing the findings they were able to put together, till I finally pulled a picture of the object itself out.
"It looks like a small war hammer," I said simply Kalais' light blinked in confusion and floated forward till he was almost in my face to get a better look at the picture. "I know weird right, we have no idea what it is but it's dense that's for sure considering the crater it made," Coulson added I flipped through the paper again "it's not giving off any energy or radiation?" I asked him and he shook his head in the negative.
"Another weird thing to add to the list we had a guy who seemed familiar with the object break in, took down a lot of our guys before we took him down," Coulson added reaching over, rifling through then pulled out another picture this time of a large man with long blond hair he was muddy and looked defeated.
"What did he do with the object?" I asked Coulson who just shrugged "he tried to pull it out, which was ridiculous as we couldn't do it with a crane," Coulson said I looked at the picture of the defeated man again, whatever had driven him to infiltrate the hastily set up facility was gone.
"Do you still have him?" I asked continuing with the questions Coulson shook his head "he isn't in our custody anymore, we let him leave with a prominent physicist that said he knew him, but I have people watching him. They said his name was Donald" Coulson said laughing I looked at him questioningly.
"He wasn't talking in the cell so I let him go under observation to see if he would share anything, as for the name well it was poor choice for a fake name" Coulson added helpfully I nodded in understanding, after all, who was I to question him I rarely took prisoners back home, and when I did, Variks would immediately take them to the prison of elders.
"Okay sounds good let me know if-" I was cut off when Kalais' shell began to shift "Jason the same energy from before is coming in, it's gonna land here," Kalais said quickly I dropped the papers and what was left of the burrito and grabbed Coulson "sparrow now!" I shouted to Kalais and I jumped having Coulson over my shoulder the golden chassis of the bronco forming beneath me and my helmet appearing on my head, I hit the booster as soon as it landed kicking up dust as I put some distance between us and the beam.
When the beam touched down, I whipped the backend of the sparrow around and hopped off the sparrow pulling Coulson with me to use the bike as cover. "Give me Twilight Oath" I said quietly knowing Kalais was listening and he was as the sniper rifle appeared in my hands Coulson had drawn his sidearm and had leaned his back against the sparrow "can you get me one of these?" he asked me while I focused the rifle to the storm that was brewing where the beam touched down.
"Probably not like this one but I can build you one similar," I told him as I watched the dust settle four figures walked out from the impact zone "I figured out what it is," I said wanting Coulson to ask "well what is it?" he asked giving into the bait I smiled not that he could see with my helmet on.
"It's a transporter." I told him and he blinked "that has to be the showiest entrance I have ever seen," Coulson said I chuckled. "four humanoid Caucasians, actually they just look like human but for a renaissance fair," I told Coulson pulling back from the sniper he looked at me surprised.
"Kalais wanted to learn more about the culture so he found out about the renaissance which led to renaissance fairs" I quickly explained to Coulson he nodded, and I checked how far away the group of armored people were.
I decided they were far enough away and stood up twilight oath disappearing from my hands "I'm going to follow them see where they're headed, I'll take you back to your car." I told Coulson who nodded "I'll get some men down here and set up a perimeter if it hit the same spot twice it's a safe bet it'll hit a third time. They're headed to town remember to keep the civilians safe" Coulson said I nodded and stepped onto the sparrow Coulson got on behind me "don't grab the back of the seat unless you want your fingers fried" I told Coulson and he grabbed my shoulder I kicked on the booster intending to find out what was going on.
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I didn't take the sparrow far not wanting to get their attention, getting off and monitoring them from the side of town through the scope of a sniper rifle again they cut directly through the main street. Stopping off to knock out Coulson's men on a rooftop before walking to what looked to be a converted diner I focused through the window and saw the blond man from the pictures earlier guess he really did have more to do with this.
"Jason, it's happening again," Kalais spoke up through the comms I turned away from the scope towards where the transport beam had come down to see the clouds morph around it and touch down, "Coulson tell me the situation," I immediately called trying to get through to him there was static and once again I shouted "sparrow now" to Kalais and Twilight oath once again disappearing from my hands as I jumped onto the sparrow.
I sped away from the town not caring who saw me, I drove directly towards the area. I spotted a glinting silver object in my path that was speeding towards me I grabbed my malfeasance from my lower back and took aim at what turned out to be a sprinting silver humanoid with full-body armor I couldn't tell what was inside of it at all but I started unloading rounds into it the first five detonating and stunning it knocking it out of its sprint but otherwise it was unharmed.
The mask started to open I took the opportunity and fired another two rounds into the open faceplate, till a blast of pure heat was fired from the faceplate. I cut the boost and swerved luckily for me the heat energy set off the rounds stuck inside the faceplate knocking off its aim so it just barely missed me I kicked on the boost again and curved around it before it could fire again putting some more rounds in it as I got around it's back.
Oddly though the automaton ignored me and instead continued its sprint into town. I cut the boost again and watched it's back, "Aren't you going to go after it?" Kalais asked for my answer I kicked on the boost and swung the sparrow around, heading towards Coulson I was not about to lose another ally, I was never going to lose another ally.
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"Coulson!" I shouted pulling up to the sightseeing a wrecked SUV, "Jason what are you doing here?" Coulson asked as I ran up to him "making sure you're alive," I said calming down, I jumped off the sparrow this time it remained. Coulson, however, looked confused "did you not see that thing; it's heading towards the town?" Coulson asked confused yet calm despite the situation.
"I did and I fought it for a little bit, before it forced it's way passed me and continued towards the town" I told him he opened his mouth again seeming angry I cut him off, "I'll head back to town to find out the situation there," I said turning away from him and getting on the sparrow speeding once again towards town I watched as a storm started to appear above the town and I pushed the sparrow trying to go faster and I arrived as the storm began dying down.
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I pulled into the town and saw the blond man now in a cape holding the hammer-like object in hand standing in front of a women in a flannel shirt the four people from earlier holding different parts of their bodies clearly hurt I stepped off the sparrow and Kalais removed my helmet apparently hoping that seeing my face might make them not want to attack me.
I walked forward the four armored people saw me first and when they did, they straightened tensing up despite their wounded states, the women called out "Thor" while I walked over to the blond man "excuse me" I said and the blond man turned around his eyes widening as he saw my face, then he hit me with the object finally answering why it looked like a hammer, cause it was.
I was sent flying and landed on the asphalt my helmet re-appearing midflight, I laid there while Kalais appeared above me and glowed a bit and any wounds inflicted by the hammer were healed. I stood up slightly pissed off I charged toward the blond man, he stepped away from the woman and threw the hammer at me I kept my charge and slid under the hammer when it was about to hit me.
Oddly the man continued to hold his hand out after the throw I turned my head to see the hammer coming back towards me, seeing this as an opportunity I sidestepped mid-sprint and grabbed the hammer as it flew past hoping to disarm the man what I didn't expect is that whatever was pulling the hammer back towards the man was stronger than I was, therefore, I got pulled along with it.
Seeing a new opportunity, I didn't fight the hammer and instead let it pull me through the air towards the guy, once again the man's eyes widened. Using the momentum from the hammer that was still being pulled towards him when the hammer was about to connect with his hand I let go and punched him in the face this time sending him flying and the hammer fell to the ground I rolled and stood up.
"I don't know why you're here Kree but you choose the wrong area of this realm to invade," the blond man said standing from where I had punched him to and I could hear Kalais laughing through the comms. I dropped my hands shaking my head and said something that confused everyone more than they already were. "I'm not Kree." The warriors looked at me, the humans looked at me, the blond man looked at me and said, "you lie."
Luckily at this time Coulson arrived in his heavily tinted SUV and pulled up next to me, he walked past me and stepped in front of the blond man "Donald I don't think you were completely honest with me," Coulson said stating the obvious.
The blond man now distracted by Coulson began and ended a very short discussion that set up a verbal alliance between those who protect Earth. All based on the returning of equipment to the woman in the flannel shirt. The blond man pulled the women close spun his hammer and somehow flew up and towards the transporter sight, Coulson shouting for him wait so he could "debrief" him.
"he's left us here," the Asian man with the mace said. The older man that had been with the woman in flannel spoke up, "we know where they're going, we'll take you" while gesturing to both him and the younger woman next to him, who looked unsure in my opinion and confirmed this when she asked "we will?" the man glared at her.
"Okay," she huffed and walked towards their jeep-like car the warriors following her and the man. I stepped up to Coulson "you aren't going to stop them?" I asked Coulson and he shook his head "we'll talk to Selvig when they get back, It seemed like they had their own problems," Coulson said turning to look at me his usual smile gone.
"You left innocent civilians alone to face a threat that has demolished a majority of this town, and I know you had no idea that Thor would fight that thing let alone beat it. So, you're going to answer my question why did you leave these people to die?" Coulson asked me and I sighed I looked away from him my helmet once again disappearing based on Kalais' desires.
"Where do you think the rest of my people are?" I asked him to avoid his question with my own. He looked at me confused, so I answered my own question "somewhere way beyond my reach."
This was the answer, I had made the choice to leave my people so I could find something to help the war effort and I had understood that, but I had intended to go back I never expected that portal to leave me in a place I could never return from.
Now that I was here and understood the impossibility of my return. "Coulson I will never get to go home again, and I didn't want to lose one of the few people I consider a friend" I told him and he was silent "let me know what those people say," I said walking away trusting Coulson to stress my anonymity and keep me in the loop. Kalais formatted the bronco and I sped out into the Desert to return to the solitude of the Argo.
AN:Finally, I've been thinking of starting another story, odds are I won't start it till I'mfurther into this one, but I wanted to see which idea you guys would want to see. It will likely also be a crossover, here are the ones I would want to try writing.
Destiny/ Mass Effect
Destiny/ Game of Thrones
Halo/ Mass effect
Star was (force unleashed)/ Mass effect
Destiny/ avatar the last Airbender or Legend of Korra
I know many of them are Mass Effect but that's because Mass Effect has so much story to work with.