Chapter 6

Harry was about to catch some much needed shut eye when his plans were dashed.

"Harry, I got Logan on the line for you he's with the Avengers and says you need to get to Spiderman now!" Bobby announced through the comm in Jean's room.

Harry just groaned and rolled over as he hit the button to respond. "Thanks Bobby, tell him I'll be right there."

"Harry? What are you doing here?" Peter asked as Harry appeared next to him in the interrogation room. He was currently cuffed in special restraints and in a very uncomfortable position bent over a table.

"Logan called, said I need to get to you now, wasn't big on the details though." Harry yawned as he examined the restraints.

"Who the hell are you and how did you get on my ship?" A woman with dark short hair demanded as she stormed in.

"Harry, meet Maria Hill, Director of SHIELD. She's using psychics to try and steal information from my mind." Peter explained calmly. "Oh, and don't use my real name, call me Spiderman in here."

Harry didn't like that explanation at all and decided he needed to get Peter out of there right now. The problem was that the cuffs on Peter were resistant to magic. He quickly conjured a small lightsabre and cut the restraints before dispelling it before they could see it.

"Thanks man. We need to get my teammate, Vision. He's kind of an android but he's a good guy. They are going to try and steal information from his hard drives." Spiderman warned.

"For the record I hate these people already." Harry groused as he started walking through Maria Hill and out the door. "Just follow me P-Spiderman, they can't physically touch you." He called back over his shoulder.

"Stop! You are both under arrest!" Hill shouted as she pulled her gun.

"Erm… Harry?

"Move it Spider, I was interrupted from my beauty sleep!" Harry's voice drifted back.

Spiderman cautiously began walking towards Hill jumping slightly as she swung her weapon to point at him.

"Move and I'll drop you." She growled.

Spiderman took a deep, he'd seen MJ do this all the time at home… it was really annoying when she would walk into the bathroom when he was on the toilet.

But it always amused him to hear Tony scream as she surprised him.

Spiderman began walking forward.

*BANG*

Spiderman froze.

Maria Hill's gun barrel was smoking.

He knew this new suit that Tony had made him was supposed to be bullet proof but he didn't even feel the impact. He slowly turned around and saw the bullet embedded in the wall.

"I'll… erm… I'll see you later." He said as he squared his shoulders and walked through Hill.

"I need a team armed with energy based weapons. Spiderman and an unknown intruder are attempting to retrieve Vision. Stop them by any means necessary!" She ordered over her radio.

"Alright Pete, what's so important that Logan sent me up here to rescue you instead of doing it himself?" Harry asked as Peter ran up behind him.

"First, Spiderman, remember? Or Spidey. These walls have ears.

"Second, current crisis involves that whole House of M thing. It's currently classified so high that no one outside of certain people no about it, especially the government."

"The students all know." Harry corrected.

"Iron Man is not going to like that!"

"I don't care about that, I care about the fact they were about to mind rape you. I intend to teach them a very harsh lesson about playing with peoples minds." Harry snapped angrily.

"Harry, do you know where you are going?" Spiderman asked suddenly.

"Yeah, I'm not all that good at it but I got the location of your pal from the computers. Wasn't too hard."

"You hacked the SHIELD computers? Wow!"

"Please, by your standards I come from way in the future. My kids played with this level of computing in nursery." Harry scoffed.

"The things you could teach us-"

"Are no where near as important as learning it yourself." Harry interrupted. "I had this discussion with Hank already.

"Here we are." Harry indicated the door they stopped at. He walked through the reinforced door leaving Spiderman to follow.

Spiderman waked through the door to find several unconscious SHIELD agents and Harry unplugging Vision.

"Spiderman, thank you both for rescuing me." The Vision stated in his digitized voice.

"Wasn't me, I just followed Harry."

"Thank you, Harry."

"Your welcome, I've secured this room, what can you tell me about the situation?"

Spiderman and the Vision explained to Harry how an energy had fallen to Earth hours ago and been absorbed by a man named Michael Pointer. He was a mutant who didn't know he was a mutant. But now he was being controlled by the energy. They explained that it appeared to be all the missing energy of the mutants who were depowered on M-Day.

Pointer was an innocent in all of this. But he was also an imminent threat to the world.

*BANG*

*THUD*

The three men turned to see Luke Cage walk through the now demolished doorway.

"Found 'em."

"Hey kid, thanks for the assist." Logan nodded to Harry.

"No big." Harry shrugged.

"Peter, Vision, are you two ok?" Captain America asked as he moved to check his teammates.

"Other than the feeling of being violated…" Peter trailed off with a shudder.

"Yeah, I will be dealing out some punishments for that." Harry scowled.

"You are all under arrest for attacking SHIELD agents!" Hill declared as she arrived with a team of men and women armed with futuristic weaponry.

"Kid, we have a real situation happening and we don't have time for this." Logan snarled.

"Sleep!" Harry commanded.

*THUD*

"Crap." Harry muttered as everyone including the Avengers fell to the ground in a heap.

"I take it that it was not your intent for the Avengers to fall unconscious?" The Vision asked calmly.

"Yeah, it's so hard to target a large group of people within an even larger group." Harry sighed as he started sending spells at the Avengers, waking them up.

"A truly effective method though."

"Dammit kid!" Logan groaned.

"Stop your whining, you have an accelerated healing factor, you of all of them should feel quite refreshed."

"I feel pretty good too." Peter commented. "Can MJ do that? I mean after a night of patrolling she would be a life saver."

"You are not supposed to want your wife to put you to sleep, Spidey." Luke warned.

"Yeah? I'd like to see you teach tenth graders all day, deal with J. Jonah Jameson and patrol a city all night."

"Some of us ain't that stupid." Logan pointed out.

"Could we focus on the part where some guy just put the entire SHIELD carrier to sleep please?" Spider Woman asked agitatedly.

"It's not that big a deal, just a little magic spell. Let's focus on this Pointer guy and the mutant powers. Where is he now?" Harry asked.

"Iron Man and The Sentry are engaging him in physical combat near the moon." Captain America answered.

"But we think Pointer is being controlled by the powers." Spiderman added.

"Alright, let's go to the command centre of this place, we might as well make use of their systems."

Walking through the SHIELD Hellicarrier was an eerie experience. Everywhere they went the place was littered with sleeping SHIELD agents.

"Iron Man, I need a status report!" Captain America ordered as they viewed the array of monitors in the command centre.

"He's adapting to everything we do! He's learning how to use his powers on the fly and we are running out of options!"

"Do we know what he wants?" Harry asked.

"Who is this? Identify yourself!"

"He's a friend Iron Man, he rescued me and The Vision." Spiderman spoke up.

"Steve?"

"I've met him before, he's the one helping the mutants with the sanctuary."

"Fine, we don't know what he wants. All we know is that he headed from somewhere in Canada in a straight line down through the United States. He obliterated anything in his path."

"Do you have any means of storing that power separately if I can remove them?" Harry asked.

"The power of over fifteen million mutants? That would be a no." Peter scoffed.

"Even if we were to divide it between containers?"

"Check with Reed Richards, he might have something." Iron Man suggested.

"Ok, someone get this Richards guy on the phone." Harry ordered.

A few seconds later and Spider Woman had Reed on the screen.

Captain America took the lead. "Doctor Richards, we have a mutant who has absorbed all of the missing powers from M-Day. Do you have a method we could use to store these powers in? We are pressed for time as Iron Man and The Sentry are currently holding him at bay in orbit."

"Captain, you are talking about the energies from over fifteen million mutants. Even if I was able to store something that large I wouldn't be able to keep them separate." Reed warned.

"Damn." Harry whispered.

"It's a shame we can't just clone Pointer and stuff the powers into an empty shell." Spiderman sighed.

"YES!" Harry exclaimed. "That's exactly what we'll do."

"It would take far too long to create a viable clone, first we would need to get some fresh DNA." Reed argued.

"Leave that to me." Harry smiled. "Captain, can you get Iron Man and The Sentry to back off. I need Pointer on the ground, once down just keep him busy whilst I work."

Harry and the rest of the Avengers landed on the former Mutant Nation of Genosha. All around them the death and destruction was clear. Even more evident for Harry as he could see the lost souls that had failed to move on.

"Everybody clear on the plan?" Harry asked.

"The goals? Yes. The execution? No." Luke answered.

"Well, half is dead easy for me the rest will be… an experiment."

Finding Iron Man and The Sentry was fairly easy.

They followed the sound of destruction.

"Ok boys and girls, go and hold him down so I can get close enough." Harry ordered.

Harry stayed put as the New Avengers, as they were known, charged into the fray. Spider Woman flew in with her energy blasts but they had no effect. Spiderman's webbing disintegrated a foot away and Pointer didn't even flinch when Captain America's shield slammed into the side of his head.

This left Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, The Sentry and Luke Cage as the only ones capable of getting close. Wolverine kept getting pushed back out as he lost strength and had to wait for his muscles and ligaments to re grow.

Harry turned himself invisible and headed in. There was too much energy flying around to risk phasing so he just had to dodge. He passed the old man lying on the floor without a glance. He had bigger fish to fry.

He made it to within ten feet of the fracas and began to examine Pointer's DNA. He soon had all he needed so he teleported back away and began to magically create a brand new Michael Pointer.

"Is he doing what I think he's doing?" Spider Woman asked as she and Spiderman stood back with Captain America.

"Creating a clone from nothing in less than five minutes?" Spiderman asked.

"Looks like it." Captain America remarked in awe as they all stared.

"You three, get over here and guard this guy." Harry called out.

"So you are going to transfer all of the mutant energies into this body?" Spiderman asked.

"Nah, wouldn't know where to begin!" Harry grinned. "I'm going to transfer his soul into this body."

"What?" Spider Woman asked in disbelief. She was ignored though as Harry vanished. "Can he really do that?"

"Stephen Strange warned us that he was Death." Cap admitted.

"Jean Grey confirmed it… and she was dead." Spidey added.

"And you're sure he's a good guy?"

"As long as you don't try and play scrabble with him." Spidey said seriously.

Harry needed to do a sneak attack. He couldn't risk using a killing curse at Michael as he wasn't sure how magic would react around all the mutant energy. He already suspected that several students at the Institute would be naturally immune to magic.

His only option was to try and make grab for Michael's soul. He'd only had to do this once before. A nuclear leak on a British submarine meant Harry needed to remove a man's soul without magic. The radiation interfered with magic so he had had to remove the man's soul without magic. He did this by extending his own soul just beyond the surface of his own body.

This was a whole lot easier than back on the sub, mainly because his flesh and bones where beaten eaten away by the raw destructive energies being thrown about by Michael and the Avengers meaning he didn't have far to push his soul. He reached in quickly and grabbed with an ethereal hand and quickly began to retreat with Michael's soul, his own body rebuilding far quicker than Laura or Logan's could.

"Got him!" He called as he reached the rest of the team and the new body.

"He's naked." Spiderman commented.

"Mmmhmmm." Spider Woman hummed appreciatively.

"And now I have feelings of inadequacy."

"Minds on the job people." Captain America chided.

"Oh my mind is definitely on the job." She smirked as the soul of Michael Pointer attempted to cover himself with his hands.

"Stop that and lie down." Harry ordered before he grabbed Michael's shoulder and shoved him into his new body.

"Did it work?" Spiderman asked as the glowing soul vanished into the new body.

"Yeah." Harry waved a hand causing the body to vanish. "I've sent him to the mansion, we can deal with him later."

"If Pointer is now in that new body… what's controlling that body?" She asked as she indicated the continuing battle several feet away.

*VOOM*

"WE ARE XORN!"

"I guess that answers that question." Spiderman groaned as he picked himself up off the floor after the explosive blast threw everyone back.

"Remind me to never ask questions in the middle of a fight." Spider Woman winced.

"Excuse me for a moment boys and girls, I have a nasty to go kill." Harry frowned as he suddenly transformed into his dragon form.

"Whoa!"

"You know you hear about these things… but when you see them… just wow!" Spiderman said quietly.

"His power must truly be immense." Captain America said in awe.

They watched as the huge dragon leapt into the air and pounced on the fiery being, pinning it to the ground.

"XORN, YOU ARE A MALEAVOLENT SPIRIT AND I CONDEMN YOU TO DEATH!" The Dragon roared.

There was a blast of energy and the Dragon went flying.

The Dragon seemed to groan as it picked itself up off the floor. It then vanished to be replaced by Harry. "There goes that plan."

"You were expecting something else?" Spider Woman asked sceptically as the other Avengers resumed the battle.

"It's worked before!" Harry argued. "Now I just have to go old school on it."

"Old School?" Spiderman asked.

Harry smirked and conjured his lightsabre.

"That is not old school… but it is so cool!"

Harry charged back in with the lightsabre flashing away before he soon came flying back out again.

*THUD*

"This really isn't going well." Harry groaned.

"BEHOLD! MY ARMY!" Xorn bellowed.

Suddenly desiccated and decaying corpses of the long dead mutants of Genosha began breaking through the ground. They moved fast, nothing like the inferi of Harry's homeworld.

A grin broke out on Harry's face. "He just spun the odds back in our favour."

"Really… because it looks like he has us outnumbered." Spider Woman snapped as she defended herself with her energy blasts.

"Yeah… but these are dead bodies… and I'm Death!"

Harry rose into the air. "I AM DEATH! DESTROY XORN!"

Instantly the corpses about faced and advanced on Xorn.

"Now I feel bad for doubting him."

But Harry wasn't done. What no one else could see but Harry was the lost souls of the Genoshan Genocide.

"LISTEN TO ME, I CAN GIVE YOU ACCESS TO THE OTHERSIDE! BUT I CAN'T DO THAT IF WE FAIL HERE. HELP US AND I WILL SEND YOU ON TO PEACE!"

"Who's he talking to?" Spider Woman asked.

"Harry is Death… do you really want the answer to that question?" Spiderman asked.

"I really don't."

That's when Harry began to glow.

That's when the lost souls became visible when they began to glow.

That's when the Avengers realised just how powerful Harry was.

"Aren't you going to fight as well?" Spiderman asked as Harry floated back down.

"I'd just get in the way." Harry answered. "These guys will overwhelm that Xorn fella and get a hold of him. Excuse me for a moment, I need to contact my dad."

Harry ignored the questions as he closed his eyes and did something he hadn't done in millions of years: He contacted the Other Side.

Xander Harris had died after three thousand years with his family. Thanks to Hermione's work with Nicholas Flamel aging was no longer an issue, especially as the dragon's blood that was used to make the various stones came from Harry. The potion kept you youthful and healthy. But the average soul only lasted around two to five thousand years before insanity crept in.

People no longer wasted away as the ravages of age consumed them. Instead they went to a healer and acquired a potion. Then they would return to their family and throw a party. A going away party at the end of which they would consume the potion whilst the loved ones surrounded them and they went to sleep… for the last time.

Xander Harris had done the same, he was happy and loved and full of pride in his eldest son, Harry. He had numerous children with his wives and even more grand children.

After Xander had died, Harry used the one ability from the Deathly Hallows that he hadn't ever tried. He contacted the dead. Xander wasn't able to stay long due to the stress of being pulled between domains, but it was enough to assure Harry that his dad was happy.

"You know you should call more often." Came the familiar voice that Harry still thought of as his guide in life.

"I know this causes you pain." Harry responded with a sad smile as he opened his eyes to see the ethereal form of Xander Harris standing before him.

Xander smiled and pulled his son into a hug. "It only hurts after a while. If you call on us for shorter periods more frequently and it isn't a problem."

Eventually they broke apart when Spiderman coughed quietly. "Sorry to interrupt but I think your… army of the dead has won."

Xander and Harry turned around to see the sea of souls standing there patiently with Xorn squirming in the middle as a free floating energy. Michael Pointer's original body was lying still but still glowing with all the energy.

"God, it's worse than Chernobyl." Xander gasped.

"More like Hiroshima." Harry sighed. "Can you guide them across? I figured you might have better luck with the energy they are holding as I can't figure out how to deal with him. Eventually I could try and contain him or dissipate him but for now… I've got nothing."

"Sure, I can do that. Luna said you should call didn't she. Otherwise she would have shown up on her own."

Whilst investigating the Chernobyl area to see if he could do anything to help speed up cleaning the radiation, Harry had discovered thousands of lost souls trapped because they couldn't cross over. Luna had appeared from the Other Side and explained how to contact the Other Side to ask for help in these situations. The event had affected him greatly as he spoke with his beloved sister once again.

Now he had a reason to make a call for help.

"Ok people, listen up!" Harry addressed the souls that were waiting patiently. "This is my Dad, Xander. He's dead, like you lot, but he can guide you over to the Other Side. Just follow him and take that… thing with you." He gestured with a grimace at the energy of Xorn that was still being held by several souls. "Good luck with your new life."

Harry turned and hugged his Dad once more. "Remember to call us just to chat, Harry. We can visit for a few minutes, you know Joyce and Nym will want to catch up."

"I'll try, Dad, but it's very hectic here. Lot's of work to do."

The Avengers watched in awe as Harry summoned the soul of his long dead father after having the lost souls of Genosha defeat Xorn. It was a truly frightening thing to realise you stood in the presence of so much power.

One by one the souls blinked out of existence along with Xorn until all that was left were the Avengers, Harry, Michael Pointer's old body and the old man.

"Ok… Pointer's old body needs to go some where safe." Harry said as he waved a hand causing the body to vanish.

"Erm, Harry-?"

"He's back at the mansion, P-Spidey." Harry corrected himself quickly. "Now who's the old dude?" He asked as he gestured to the old man who was still unconscious.

"Magneto." Wolverine growled angrily.

"Which means he's a bad guy?"

"Multiple attempts at either conquering or destroying normal humans, he believes mutant-kind should rule over everyone." Spiderman explained.

"Should I kill him?"

"Oh let me!" Wolverine chimed in a little too eagerly. "What? You wouldn't let me do it last time!" He pouted.

"We. Do. Not. Kill!" Captain America said heatedly. "We will take him into custody and hand him over to SHIELD."

"Fine, I'll leave him for you to deal with." Harry conceded. "But I warn you, he steps out of line and I will kick his butt out of this realm lickity-split!"

Harry glanced around and waved a hand causing the others to jump as they appeared next to the Avenger's jet. They didn't have time to react before they reappeared on the SHIELD Hellicarrier on the landing deck next to the jet.

"How are you doing that?" Luke asked.

"Magic. Ask Wolverine and Spiderman, Captain America also knows a bit. You lot go and lock up this Magneto guy, I need to have a word with that woman about messing with people's minds."

Harry met the Avengers back at their new headquarters, a huge tower owned by Tony Stark with the Sentry's Watchtower perched on top. He had intended to visit Peter but didn't realise they would all be together.

"Spiderman, I dealt with Hill and her people for mind raping you." Harry assured him.

"You did? Did you kill them?" Spiderman asked.

"Nah, she's not really evil, just… misguided and stubborn."

"Sounds like Fury to me." Wolverine snorted.

"We still need to deal with the fact that SHIELD has knowledge of the House of M." Iron Man said seriously.

"I dealt with that too. I was going to remove the knowledge but decided to have some fun instead." Harry grinned.

"Fun?" Spider Woman asked.

"Well… anytime she tries and do anything with that information, write about it, talk about it, think it at another telepath… she will lactate."

There was a brief silence.

"When you say lactate-"

"Milk will pour from her breasts."

There was a snort from the corner before Wolverine broke into hysterical laughter.

Captain America was a little more concerned. "That seems fairly… unusual punishment. And embarrassing… is that really necessary?"

"She assaulted my friend Spiderman in a way I find disgusting. She should be grateful I didn't cut any limbs off. Besides, it's totally voluntary, as long as she doesn't try and use the information she won't lactate."

"Ha!" Wolverine scoffed. "Woman is definitely too much like Fury, this won't stop her for long, she'll just start working in private."

"Don't worry, whenever she does talk about it she will start listing all her most embarrassing moments in her life and all her crimes."

"What about all the telepaths who did the actual reading?" Spiderman asked.

"Same deal."

"Even if they were men?" Spider Woman asked.

Harry just smiled widely at her.

"Are we sure he isn't evil?" Luke asked.

Harry returned to the Institute and climbed into bed. He instantly felt loneliness creep up on him as he missed Jean's presence next to him. For the past thousand years they had been constant companions, Jean was his saviour, she had rescued him from the solitude he was trapped in.

There was a flash of flame and Amara was standing at the foot of the bed with Fawkes on her shoulder.

"Harry? Why am I here?" She asked.

"No idea, Fawkes?" Harry asked as he sat up in the bed.

The phoenix trilled chidingly.

Harry snorted a laugh. "He knows I'm lonely and thought you might be willing to keep me company whilst I try and get some sleep."

Amara raised an eyebrow at the phoenix that had been helping her the past few days. "Company?"

"He meant in a literal sense, he doesn't do euphemisms." Harry assured her.

"Oh… I am a bit tired and I could stay for a while." She allowed as she began to remove her jewellery and shoes and belt.

Harry smiled and waved a hand causing her to be dressed in a modest set of silk pyjamas. "I can give you a nightgown if you prefer."

"This will do for tonight." She smiled as she crawled under the covers next to him.

"Harry, there's this SHIELD- oh… sorry!" Dani blushed as she realised what she had teleported into.

"We were just trying to sleep Dani, nothing else!" Amara assured her.

"Together?"

"Fawkes suggested it as I was having trouble sleeping alone. For the past one thousand years Jean has always been with me."

"Who did you sleep with since you got here?"

"I haven't slept."

"WHAT!" Both girls exclaimed.

"Well screw that! That SHIELD bitch can come back later." Dani declared before vanishing.

"You really haven't slept?" Amara asked.

"Physically I don't need to sleep, I can go on and on, but mentally and emotionally, I need the rest like any other being." Harry explained.

"SHIELD Bitch is gone, told her to come back next week." Dani told them as she reappeared and transfigured her clothes into a very immodest nightgown.

"Erm… Dani… you know we were serious about sleeping… right?" Harry asked.

"Sure, but who knows what we will get up to when we wake up!" She declared with a grin.

"Oh Dani." Amara sighed.

They all settled down as the girls snuggled into Harry's sides.

It was only a few seconds before Dani spoke up quietly. "Harry, what did the Bitch want? She smelt really rank."

"Oh she probably wanted me to reverse what I did to her."

"Which was?" Amara asked.

"She tried to mind rape Peter Parker, so I removed her knowledge of how to go to the bathroom."

"What?" Dani asked as both girls leaned over him.

"I thought it a suitable punishment. She just needs to go through potty training again." He smiled.

"So that smell… EW!" Dani shuddered.

"I'm sure she'll manage with adult nappies for a while till she learns." Harry laughed. "Now, less talk, more sleep!" Harry declared as he pulled the girls closer to him.