HP/Avengers/Infinite Stratos
Infinite Sorceress
Chapter 1
A New Beginning
Number Four Privet Drive, Little Whining, Surrey. 1994
It was finally over, the nightmare she'd experienced. Lilith Potter pants as the reoccurring nightmare of the final moments of Cedric Diggory's final moments and what happened immediately afterwards, the resurrection of the Dark Lord. Voldemort, although she remembered the spirit of Thomas Marvolo Riddle, a young man who would later be twisted into the monstrosity that is Lord Voldemort. She fought back tears as she thought of the promise Thomas had had, had he not fallen into darkness. She sighs as she thinks of her life as it currently was, she then shakes her head. 'No More! I will no longer listen to Dumbledore and his stupid rhetoric, It's time I made my own way, a path that I'll have to forge myself. I can only hope that I am strong enough to walk it though' Then Lilith gathers up her stuff both mundane and magical and leaves the house, the only one to see her leave is her cousin Dudley Dursley, when he sees her about to runaway he does something that shocks Lilith to the core. He pats her on the shoulder, gives her a short hug and says "I'm sorry, for everything. Good luck with your life Lilith, maybe one day we'll be able to meet up again and have a nice talk over some tea. Now that I'm no longer thinking like my parents do, I'm actually kind of jealous of you that you can do magic, it must be nice to be able to live in a world full of wonder. Again, I'm sorry"
Lilith although shocked hugs Dudley back "We'll have that nice talk one day, I promise. Enjoy your life Dudley, don't let your parents ruin it for you" Dudley nods and follows her to the door after she walks out he waves and closes the door.
Lilith takes a deep breath and disappears into the darkness, heading for London. Not knowing that she'll find her destiny along the way.
Two Years Later
Lilith smiles as she floats upwards covered in armor with two 'wings' floating behind her but not visibly connected to her. She turns to the two women watching "It works, Chifuyu, Tabane. It really works" The two women watching have wildly different reactions.
One dressed in white lab coat with purple eyes and hair and a triangular face with mechanical rabbit ears starts jumping around ironically like a rabbit in joy, her name is Tabane Shinonono and she is the genius mind behind the technology that Lilith is currently testing. Next to Tabane is a tall woman with long black hair that parts in the middle, with brown eyes and a slightly triangular but more rounded face, wearing a formal white business shirt with a black business overcoat and skirt and a green tie with stockings and black high heeled shoes, she is Chifuyu Orimura, Tabane's first and best friend and (Aside from Ichika, Chifuyu's younger brother, Houki Tabane's younger sister and Lilith) the only person that Tabane actually acknowledges. Chifuyu just shakes her head and smiles slightly, laughing inwardly at her friends reaction.
Floating in the armor Lilith smiles, it was time. For them to begin to change the world. They'd worked out a clever plan, first they would create a corporation with Lilith as the CEO and face, while at night she'd be a superhero cleaning up not only the mundane world but also fighting off the magicals who were out of control like the Death Eaters or the Order of the Phoenix.
But the armor she is wearing, the Infinite Stratos will remain hers and hers alone, for a few more years at least. Thus began the rise of Infinity Spectrum Corporation A.K.A IS Corp., the English based competition to Stark Industries, however the most amazing fact about IS Corp. to the public… was the fact that its CEO was only sixteen at time of its creation.
Three years, three years since she had become the CEO and founder of Infinity Spectrum and she was already one of the richest and most successful businesswomen or men on the planet, only Anthony 'Tony' Stark was in her league, Justin Hammer had been in their league until he and his company fell a year ago due to his own stupidity. Lilith had had troubles not laughing at the Stark Expo when Hammer lost control, she'd almost deployed her Infinite Stratos to help clean everything up. However she'd found that Stark was on top of everything and was content to let him sort everything out while she sat and sipped martinis. She had changed massively in that time, she now sported violet hair thanks to Tabane's nifty little permanent dyer that allowed her to change the color of all the hair on her body, and she does mean all of it. Having grown out of her scrawny build due to the Dursley's not feeding her, she now had a tall, willowy build, yet muscles were clearly evident beneath her skin. Her figure wasn't all that note-worthy, she wasn't a supermodel or porn-star, yet she still had a figure men would stop and stare at, ironically she actually was a model, but she only modeled 'princess' type clothing, so nothing too bizarre or slutty.
But now she had a target to hunt, four days earlier she had launched (With both the Prime Minister's and Queen's permission) a satellite that hung in geo-synchronous orbit over the UK, its name is 'Oracle I' its purpose is many-fold including advanced communications systems testing, weather predictions and most importantly (And secretly) magic detection. Lilith, Tabane and Chifuyu had been shocked at the amount of magical hotspots that had appeared, over fifty in the London Metropolitan area alone! Thankfully there were none near any of the Royal residences, that would have necessitated an intervention. However ten minutes ago Oracle I's magic detectors had sensed a magical emanations on a large scale near a mundane village with no magical hotspots with two kilometers. Immediately Lilith (who'd been relaxing in a bath and had just gotten out and started drying herself) activated her IS (Infinite Stratos) and took to the skies through a special escape hatch every room in her penthouse apartment over the top of her corporate headquarters had in case of emergencies just like this one.
Her IS was to put in a single word, majestic. Covering almost every inch of her body, yet seeming skin tight it resembles a union between a skintight wetsuit, a robotic Mecha from a Japanese Manga/Anime and a Knight's plate armor.
Behind her two mechanical wings float, keeping pace with her yet not actually attached to her. While the wings look harmless they actually conceal four independent weapons systems called 'Strikers' each striker had a power source, targeting CPUs, Ion engine, Mark IV micro-sensor set and a Mark II Pulse Cannon. The wings also had four Mark VI Plasma engines and most terrifying of all, each wing had an experimental 'Railgun' codenamed "Glorious Annihilation" capable of firing exactly two shots each, but each shot could devastate nearly a kilometer of land if fired in the correct (or incorrect) manner.
The armor despite having a plate appearance is almost skin tight, yet capable of stopping a rocket launcher explosive payload in a direct hit. Her legs however were covered in a heavier set of armor where four more Plasma engines were located. Around her waist is a 'skirt' of metal spikes that hide two missile launchers and a pair of close combat knives with a blade about a foot and a half long. Her arms were covered in armor similar to her chest but more bulky with a number of systems hidden in her arm armor. Her face however is almost completely covered, with a visor that covers her eyes and a mask/air filter that covers her chin, mouth and nose as well as acting as neck armor. The visor and mask are joined pretty much, above the visor is a forehead band with some upwards shooting spikes that also act as antenna for picking up short range communications, the tiara/headband continues into her hair and has a couple of side plates that cover her ears and connect to the visor, Lilith has contemplated replacing it with a dragon mask helmet instead.
Lilith's IS has a primary color of white with purple edgings, near the base of the wings. When she wasn't using it changed into a violet-silver tiara that she wore constantly. Gaining her the nickname of the 'Technological Princess' from the media.
For weapons Lilith and Tabane had created a folded space pocket capable of holding dozens of weapons and the IS itself, materializing and dematerializing weapons and the IS itself as needed. Currently she had five weapons programmed in. A Sniper Rifle that fires plasma bolts codenamed "Violet Strike", an assault rifle that does the same codenamed "Pulsar Rifle", a claymore that she wields one-handed that is wreathed in lightning thanks to a Tesla coil in its hilt codenamed "Thor's Wrath", a shotgun that fires a blast of plasma codenamed "Shimmering Rain" and last but not least, a plasma Minigun that can fire 300 rounds per second for ten seconds before it overheats and must cool for a couple of minutes, codenamed "Divine Intervention".
Lastly the final feature of her armor was its energy shield that also doubled as a magic dampening field, which prevented any magic from working within twenty feet of her.
Her Infinite Stratos' name? Lilith had decided to look into ancient and legendary names and had named it 'Valkyrie' after the Norse mythological battle-maidens of Odin who carried the honorable dead to Valhalla.
"Are you sure this is a good idea" the mechanical yet feminine tones of the AI Tabane had created sound off in her comm.
"The only other option is letting innocent people get killed Athena, I can't allow that!" Lilith answers back.
"Understood, please be careful. I don't want to have to create another lie as to why you are unavailable" Athena responds.
Lilith snickers "Maybe I should take up a martial art to explain the injuries, doesn't Tabane's sister do Kendo?"
"Hi-hi, that's correct Lil-Chan. My Houki-chan does Kendo learning at my families Dojo, do you want me to ask if they'll teach you?" Tabane asks (Having hacked Lilith's comms, something that annoys Athena immensely as she still hasn't figured out how Tabane does it)
"If you don't mind, thank you Tabane" Lilith responds.
"Hai, I'll send a e-mail right now. Oh! Before I do, try not to use the 'Glorious Annihilation' or 'Divine Intervention' they still have bugs that need to be worked out" Tabane cautions.
Lilith pouts, she'd been hoping to use her Minigun, but she responds with "Okay, Tabane"
Floating down in the small village, Lilith notices dozens of Death Eaters torturing mundanes and the head-honcho, Voldemort himself overseeing it all. Noticing Lucius Malfoy amongst the Death Eaters she summons "Violet Strike" and shoots him, straight through the back of his head. Immediately every Death Eater and Voldemort whirl around ready to kill whomever had dared attack them only to stop dead (no pun intended) when they come face-to-mask with a armored angel floating a few feet above the ground.
"Who are you to dare slay one of my servants" Voldemort demands.
Lilith looks at him for only a second before scoffing "And who are you, you rude man to ask someone something without introducing yourself" Lilith's voice is distorted by her mask so that Voldemort cannot recognize her.
Voldemort grumbles at the insult before calming slightly and nodding his head "Lord Voldemort and you are?"
Lilith snorts "'Flight from Death'? a cowards name if ever there was one" Voldemort growls "I am Valkyrie, the spirit of vengeance for the mundanes slain by you arrogant magicals"
Voldemort angrily retorts with "You make fun of my name, yet you call yourself 'Valkyrie' is there anything more cowardly then one who only shows up at a battle to collect the dead?"
Lilith shoots forwards quickly while swapping out "Violet Strike" for "Thor's Wrath" and before Voldemort can even flinch, she annihilates most of the Death Eaters following him, leaving twitching corpses on the ground. "I think you forgot one thing, Voldemort. That was that the Valkyrie were also the elite battle-maidens of Odin and were famous for their fighting skills. Unlike the pitiful creatures that follow you"
Voldemort spins around and snarls "Avada Kedavra" only for the spell to fizzle out.
Valkyrie laughs "It seems your magic doesn't work, oh that's right. You can't use magic near me, my mere presence subdues it" Valkyrie floats backwards so that Voldemort is no longer within her dampening field "This is your only warning Voldemort, I care little about your little magic scuffles, but if you or any of your followers attack one more mundane or 'muggles' as you so arrogantly call them. I'll wipe you from existence"
Voldemort snarls in anger but nods "Retreat" He and the surviving Death Eaters (Eight out of twenty six) apparate out with muffled pops.
Lilith then calls the Prime Minister and reports to him the situation. Just after hanging up a mass of pops indicates the appearance of Dumbledore and the Order.
Lilith turns to face them her wing 'feathers' shifting as she does so "So, the cowards appear. Too late to do any good as usual"
Ronald Weasley, a red head with freckles in dirty unkempt brown robes, unable to keep his cool shouts "How dare you call us that!"
Lilith roars and her wings flare out "HOW DARE I NOT! You show up only after I have forced that snake to flee. It has been nearly twenty minutes since they started and only now! NOW! Do you arrive, if that is not the act of a coward then it is the act of a murderer and torturer, for you caused the deaths and suffering of the innocent as surely as the monster who actually did the act" Ron backs away with a wet stain appearing on the front of his robes near his crotch.
"Now, now young miss, how about you calm down. I however am displeased at the fact you killed these men, they deserved a chance at redemption, I would also like to know your name" Albus Dumbledore, an elderly man in bizarrely colored robes calmly states with a hint of disapproval in his voice.
Lilith locks her gaze on him and growls "Your displeasure means nothing to me! I am Valkyrie, the spirit of vengeance born out of your racist tendencies. I have given my warning to the snake and now I give it to you, stay out of the mundane or 'muggle' world as you call it, or I will rain hell down upon your world until every magical being in England surrenders or dies"
Ron, being unable to comprehend the threat snorts "Yeah right, we have magic, we'll stop you easily"
Lilith in answer dashes forwards faster than the magicals can comprehend and grabs Ronald Weasley by his collar and lifts him up, he attempts to Stupefy her only to have the spell fail. In a mock sympathetic Lilith comments "Oh Look! Your little stick can't do anything, maybe you should see a doctor, if they don't die of laughter at the pathetic equipment you're packing" Sirius Black and Ron's older brothers Fred and George snicker at the insult, Arthur Weasley, Ron's father also appears to be holding in laughter. Alastor Moody AKA 'Mad-eye Moody' doesn't even bother, he barks out rough laughter. Nymphadora Tonks, Ginny Weasley and Hermione Granger start to giggle. "Besides your little problem, your magic won't work against me, I am a being forged from the desire of vengeance from the mundanes against your kind, magic cannot exist within my presence" An alert beeps in Lilith's visor warning her that her power levels were below thirty percent.
She lets go of Ron and floats back. Albus steps forwards and says "Stop, you're under arrest for murder and violent threats. Come quietly and your sentence might be lightened"
Lilith barks out a harsh laugh "Not only do you not have the authority to arrest me 'Dumb-as-a-door' but you lack the capacity to do so" Lilith shoots up into the night, engages her optical and auditory camouflage, then shoots back towards London at super-sonic speeds.
Moody stops laughing with a grim look on his face and says "Now we are in trouble, while I very much doubt that that girl was an actual spirit of vengeance, she is obviously powerful and heavily armed. She also somehow suppressed the magic around her, the moment she got within twenty feet my eye stopped working totally. I wouldn't be surprised if every magical item did as well, probably our potions were also completely ruined by her presence. Be careful Albus, she is a foe we cannot afford to antagonize, if we do. There is a strong possibility that Magical Britain as we know it is doomed"
Hermione turns to Moody "What do you mean?"
Moody grunts and roughly growls out "Think about it girl, if magic doesn't work around her, would our wards even faze her? Also she dispatched nearly twenty Death Eaters while Voldemort was here, don't you think he would have tried to stop her or gain revenge? At the very least he would have attempted a Avada Kedavra, if one of the unforgivables didn't even effect her, how would any of our magics do so. I bet she probably knows the location of every magical house, village, probably even Hogwarts and Diagon Alley. Mark my words, if we start a fight with this girl, she'll be the victor. What's worse is that we can't even track her to her base as she just vanishes and any magical tracker would fail once it got close to her, also she knew who you were Albus that alone suggests she has at least some basic Intel on the Magical World"
The rest of the Order and Albus faces grow grim as they realize the seriousness of the situation, they now had an enemy capable of wiping them from existence and even worse their only means of fighting or hiding from her were rendered useless by her mere presence, They were one step from extinction, they all prayed that Voldemort didn't aggravate the situation.
Ironically at the same time Voldemort was praying that Dumbledore didn't aggravate the situation as well, for the first time ever the Lords of Light and Dark agreed, the world shock under the thought impossible situation, through the magical world a shiver travelled. Would this be there final moments?
Chapter 2
Fury, Nicholas Fury
Lilith smiles as she slows approaching her home, she then frowns as she notices something out of place when she drops in the living room. Specifically she frowns at the tall black skinned man sitting in one of her chairs, he is completely bald with an eye patch over his left eye.
Lilith sighs, still in her Infinite Stratos and says "Not to be cliché, but… Who are you and what are you doing here?"
The man chuckles "It's not that cliché at all Valkyrie, or should I say Miss Stratos? Or is it Lady Potter?"
Lilith gapes "How do you know my name, more than that how do you know my original name?"
Again the man chuckles "You'll find that I know many things that others don't. As to who I am, I am Nicholas Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D"
Lilith nods "I remember that name, the strategic something or other. You have a backorder with my company for some of our R-62 Propulsion Turbines. Why you'd want four of those I have no idea. So why are you here?"
Fury raises an eyebrow "Not going to threaten to call the police?"
Lilith snorts "Like you don't have a rock-solid alibi and half a dozen witnesses or contacts to get you free"
Fury nods "Fair enough, I'm here because you decided to take the matter of the magical world into your own hands. While normally that wouldn't be a problem, the fact that you're using hyper-advanced technology to do so makes it one"
Lilith sighs "What do you want, some technology, my help? A guarantee that I won't go on a crime spree?"
Fury looks contemplative "While all three would be nice, the second and third ones are what I'm aiming for, basically I want you to be the British head of S.H.I.E.L.D. I also want to offer S.H.I.E.L.D's support in preventing the magical world from going out of control"
Lilith hums "Wait a sec" She then turns off her external speakers and asks "Tabane, Chifuyu, Athena, what do you three think?"
Tabane instantly chimes in "It's a good idea Lil-chan, I'm sending you a file by the way for something I'm working on, discuss it with the nice director won't you"
Chifuyu follows with "I agree with Tabane, some military help would be appreciated. It would also give us a place to put arrested Wizards and Witches"
Athena finishes with "Logically accepting this proposition is sound, I seem no downsides except for the inevitable increase in paperwork, responsibilities and employees"
Fury waits as Lilith has what he surmises is a meeting with some advisors. Suddenly she 'looks' up and says "My advisors tell me to accept, but first, I want to know what being a S.H.I.E.L.D Area Head entails"
Fury nods, it's a sound thing to ask "Well, you'll be required to watch over any S.H.I.E.L.D operations that enter your jurisdiction. For now that will only be England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. But you may end up watching over all of Europe, but with the technology in your 'suit' you should not have a problem with that. I'll be the one to recruit agents, you'll take over after they have had basic training and direct them to low-risk assignments to get experience before gradually increasing the difficulty. You may equip your agents in any manner you see fit, with your own technology or S.H.I.E.L.D's. I promise we won't attempt to steal your technology and will only ask for it in dire circumstances. Finally you'll be the go-to person on anything magical related. Any questions?"
Lilith nods "What are your views on Artificial Intelligence and do my agents need an allegiance patch to show they are S.H.I.E.L.D or can I have them identify themselves as a separate organization to allow plausible deniability?"
Fury raises both eyebrows "You have an A.I? As long as it/he/she doesn't attempt to harm anyone and has fail-safes in case of a worse-case scenario then its fine. As for the plausible deniability and hailing under another flag. What name did you have in mind?"
Lilith smiles "Well, In order of asking, Yes I do have an A.I, her name is 'Athena', she has several kernel deep codes that prevent her from harming a human without direct authorization from me and a number of fail-safes, the main one being that she was created from my mind interfacing with my suit and is therefore more an extension of my will then a independent A.I, though I am working on making her one. For the organization, I though AVALON has a nice ring to it, don't you think?"
Fury smiles "I think that's perfect, do you mind coming to New York in a couple of days for orientation?"
Lilith shakes her head "No that's fine" she writes out a number on a pad of paper she keeps on the living room coffee table for ideas "Here, it's a number I was given by 'Her Majesty's Government' for my 'extra-ordinary' duties in regards to the magical world, call or text me on this number. Before you ask, it has a constantly rotating ten thousand bit encryption thanks to Athena, but it takes a second for the encryption to engage, so wait a beat before talking"
Fury actually gapes before recovering "Impressive, is there any way of gaining such high-level encryption tech from you?"
Lilith smiles sweetly from behind her mask "Depends, do you want to give an A.I access to your personal files to perform a in-depth examination of all your agents to prevent any possibility of theft?"
Fury thinks about it "Maybe when we get to know each other a bit better"
Lilith nods "So when I go to D.C, where should I head?"
Fury uses the pad to write down a address "Here, this is the head office of S.H.I.E.L.D, and before I go, could you tell when those R-62 Propulsion Turbine will be shipping"
Lilith checks her paperwork with a mental nudge "Within twenty-four hours, they were being held until we had done a basic security check to make sure you weren't terrorists. It finished twenty minutes ago"
Fury nods "Until then, I bid you farewell"
Lilith nods and then heads for her bedroom to get changed.
Washington D.C, Two Days Later
Valkyrie eases out of supersonic twenty thousand feet over D.C, contacting the American Federal Aviation Authority she files a Cl-UL-12 request. (Cl-UL-12, Cl= Classified Government Business, UL= Ultra-Light Aircraft, 12= Maximum speed above Mach 2) her wings shift forwards from their supersonic flight mode to sub-sonic flight mode. Receiving an all clear signal she continues on towards S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters. Slowing to mere 20 Kph (Kilometers per hour, about 12.4 Miles per hour) she slowly flies the last few hundred meters towards the entrance to the S.H.I.E.L.D HQ, she 'touches' down just outside the front entrance. A young woman about 5'8" with short brown hair and blue eyes watches and after the 'touchdown' walks over to Valkyrie.
"Valkyrie, I presume?"
Valkyrie nods "Yes, are you my escort?"
The woman nods "Yes, my name is Maria Hill, I am the S.H.I.E.L.D TIC (TIC means Two in Command or Second in Command. The more common version would be XO, Executive Officer) for Operations. Director Fury has asked me to escort you to him upon your arrival"
Valkyrie nods "Lead the way"
It must be noted that S.H.I.E.L.D agents aren't easy to surprise, when they saw a heavily armored female with a mask and visor with wings floating behind her… they just blinked once, then went back to what they were doing"
They enter the elevator and Maria hits the button for the director's office. A screen pops up showing a portrait of Maria and the following
Executive Officer
Maria Hill
Level 9 Access
Then one shows up of Valkyrie
English S.H.I.E.L.D Division Director
Valkyrie
Level 10 Access
A female mechanical voice rings out "Access
Granted"
Maria raises an eyebrow "Division Director?"
Valkyrie just smirks "Executive Officer"
Maria frowns as she realizes that she's outmatched.