Author's note: I just remembered that I never specified how old King Arthur was in my story. Sure, he is dead by now. But recently, I've been doing some checking on him, the migrations into England by the Anglo-Saxon peoples, and the possible indirect connections with the tales of Beowulf. How did I come to that conclusion? It was hard at first but after doing some reading and checking, I managed to conclude that his wife, Queen Wealhtheow, was most likely came from the Kingdom of Kent and that made her the daughter of King Eormenric of Kent. And why is this significant to the story? That answer is simple. So I can determine how old King Arthur was when he participated in the Battle of Badon and how old he was at the Battle of Camlann. And from what I found, by the time he fought his son, Mordred, the King of Logres must be 60-year-old. And why is that? It's because I decided to have King Arthur being born in 477 and participated in the Battle of Badon in 497. As for the other members of the family whose fates seemed to be uncertain? Well, I have yet to think about them. But obviously, King Uther Pendragon and Igraine are still his parents while Amlawdd Wledig and Princess Gwen of the Kingdom of Gwynedd, are still his maternal grandparents, of course. Also, I don't think Mordred is King Arthur's only son. So I done some checking and found out that he has like five more sons out there! So who knows, I may use some of them when the needs arise.
Also, sorry for the long absence, I've been obsessing with seeing the gamers on YouTube playing Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach for a while. And that extended to the things like watching the the videos made on the channel known as GH'S Channel about FNAF: Security Breach, the reactions of the Security Breach's characters on many videos on YouTube and even take a look into some videos about the theories regarding the game itself as well! To me, I am quite surprise that I've taken a like in such a game because usually, I am not a fan of the horror games like at all! But I guess how the animatronics are being portrayed in the game have proven my idea about the fact that droids are sapient beings like us humans all along! And I am so happy for that because in my view, that appeared to be one of the contributors to why I like this game along with something else like seeing how how the people play it on YouTube! However, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach isn't the one I am seeing at the moment. I am also started looking into the stuffs related to Attack on Titans and Star Wars: The Old Republic as well! If someone asked me a year ago about Attack on Titans, I will literally have no idea what that is like at all. Well, not exactly. I know what it is but I am uncomfortable with a number of things such as seeing the skinless man-eating giants on screen, deaths of characters like Sasha and Petra and the fact that nobody gives a damn about how rotten and broken the Marleyan society is! Also, the fact that the reflection of the Franco-Ottoman alliance in form of the alliance between Paradis and the Mid-East Alliance did not happen frustrated me. As for Star Wars: The Old Republic, I know about it for years. But I only started to seriously dig deeper just recently because of the Attack on Titans. I know that sound strange but that is because the conflict between Paradis and Marley reminded me of the Clones Wars and Eren Yeager reminded me of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. So I was like imagining them existing at certain periods in Star Wars such as the time of the Clones Wars, the Age of the Empire and of course, the Old Republic era when the Sith Empire signed a peace treaty with the Galactic Republic, which seemed to be making sense the most to me.
And if one is not enough, I have five or six ideas for Attack on Titan stories in my head now! The first one was the one with the Old Republic setting I was talking about earlier. And the second one is the idea about creating the nation that happened to be the equivalent of the Qing dynasty with some scientific modfications to put an end this whole thing about discrimination against the Eldians by having the Son of Heaven used his divine authority to issue the edict to pardon all Eldians, both the living ones and dead ones, for the crimes committed by their ancestors. If anyone wanted to hear more and wanted to adopt the other ideas I have about Attack on Titans, feel free to PM and I will tell you guys their details.
Again, sorry for the long absence. Aside from what I mentioned above, I have to watched some videos related to the Siege of the Dragon City, the Battle of Christophsis, the Battle of Kamino, the Battle of Scipio and Mission to Skako Minor so many times in order to figure out what kind of battle I wanted to be played out in this chapter. Yes, you heard that right, this chapter will featured a battle. Why? Because it's time to go back to the past and visit one of Izuku's ancestors who used to be Black Knights again!
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Chapter 12 Unusual First Venture
(Music: Demon Slayer Opening 1 - Gurenge)
Tsuyoku nareru riyuu wo shitta
Boku wo tsurete susume
In the darkness, Izuku Midoriya is on his knees crying after being rejected by his idol, All Might, after he told him that he cannot become a hero without a quirk and using an armor similar to Iron Man is not an option or even being encouraged.
Suddenly, Tomura Shigaraki appears before the crying green-haired boy. The Leader of the League of Villains then offers him a hand to help him stand up. And slowly but surely, Izuku raises his right hand up and take it.
Dorodarake no soumatou ni you
Kowobaru kokoro furueru te wa
Tsukamitai mono ga aru
Sore dake sa
The scene then switches to the group of pro-heroes consisted of All Might, Endeavor, Eraserhead, Present Mic, Midnight, Mount Lady, Kamui Woods, Edgeshot, Death Arms and Best Jeanist are standing proudly before the crowd of the cheering people and the reporters are taking pictures of them. The screen then zoomed out and reveal the darkness above them. In the darkness above the heroes, the mysterious red strings are secretly binded them to the hands of a group of the shadowy figures with glowing red T-shape on their masked helmets, indicating that they're benefactors of the heroes and the de facto rulers of the society.
Yoru no nioi ni (I'll spend all thirty nights)
Sora nirandemo (Staring into the sky)
Kawatte ikeru no wa jibun jishin dake Sore dake sa
The scene then changed to Tomura is putting on his father's hand on his face, Kurogiri emerged from the portal he created, Li Lanying is floating in the air by standing on her flying sword, Mr. Compress is putting on one of his masks, Twice is acting all crazy because he doesn't have his mask on until Himiko puts it on him, Lady Nagant turned her right arm into a rifle, Spinner is putting his sword into the sheath on his back, Magne's adjusting her glasses, Mustard emerged from the purple gas that he released, Blizzard and Dabi are walking out together from an alley and Black Knight is riding on Aragorn's back as the winged steed is flying high into the sky until only their silhouettes can be seen when the Sun is shown above them.
Tsuyoku nareru riyuu wo shitta
Boku wo tsurete susume
The scene changes to total darkness again. Then, it is slowly changed to become bloody red when the enemies of the League of Villains who are neither pro-heores or heroes-in-training but the other villains such as the cultivators who betrayed Lin Lanying from the Ten Rings Sect like as Elder Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar, the Hooded Ghost Slave, the cultivators in black clothing, and the ninjas of the Hand named Kirigi and Kuroyama with an army of zombies in ninja outfits known as the Fists armed with the variety of weapons, ranging from katana to yari, standing behind them.
Dou shitatte!
Suddenly, the scene is changed to Izuku Midoriya as Black Knight is standing alongside with Tomura Shigaraki, Li Lanying, Kurogiri, Blizzard, Dabi, Himiko Toga, Twice, Magne, Mustard, Mr. Compress, Lady Nagant and Spinner on the top of the building in the middle of the night with the wind blowing pass them.
Kesenai yume mo tomerenai ima mo
Dareka no tame ni tsuyoko nareru nara
Nando demo tachiagare
Then, the scene changes to them rush out to confront an army of the Fists, who are firing arrows at them nonstop. Magne uses her giant magnet to hit one of the zombies in the head, crushing it while Mr. Compress uses his quirk to turn another one into a marble. Blizzard and Dabi stand side by side and the former generates a snowstorm that freeze all zombie ninjas in his way while the latter unleashes a swirl of blue fire that instantly burned them all to dead. Mustard simply fires a shot from his revolver into the head of one of the Fists before him while Lady Nagant fires her shot right through the heads of all remaining three zombie ninjas before her and Mustard with a single bullet. Spinner runs around the battlefield and use his sword to behead all zombie ninjas in his way while Twice creates two clones of himself and they create more and more of their own clones to assist the League in the battle against the zombie ninjas. Li Lanying is using her sword to slash at all Fists in her way while nearby, Kurogiri uses his quirk to form a portal to transport all arrows that are heading toward to him back to the Fists that were firing at him while Tomura Shigaraki disintegrates two Fists before him into dusts by touching their heads. Above the battlefield, Izuku Midoriya, in his identity as Black Knight, is riding his winged horse, Aragorn, towards the Giant Fist with Himiko Toga, who is armed with the knives in her hands, sitting behind him on his steed's back. As they're flying toward the Giant Fist, the giant zombie ninja unleashes a mighty and ferocious roar towards them as he's raising the katana in his hands to fight them. In the pocket dimension within the Ebony Blade, Izuku opened his eyes and turn his head to his right to look at the countless of spirits of his ancestors who had wielded the Ebony Blade and became the Black Knight before him. Suddenly, all of his ancestors disappeared and Izuku found himself alone before a giant cage with scary red eyes of Dragon of the Moon glaring down at him.
Sekai ni uchinomesareta makeru imi wo shitta
Guren nohana yo sakihokore
Unmei wo terashite
Izuku, in his Black Knight's identity, is fighting his former friend, Katsuki Bakugo, with the Ebony Blade. Katsuki fires a number of explosions to him but he always dodged successfully in time. Then, Katsuki unleashed a massive explosion to blast Izuku away. However, Izuku stands firm and use the Ebony Blade to block his former friend's attack by pushing the incoming blast with all he has in him. After that, an explosion happened and Black Knight is walking out of the black smoke alone with the Ebony Blade in his right hand.
(Music End)
After they returned to the hideout, the League of Villains resumed their discussion with Queen Alflyse and her comrades, beginning with why her people no longer supported her if they hated Malekith's previous reign. It turned out that there are those who are still loyal to Malekith and his warmongering way because they believed their realm should be rule by a strong leader like him, not by someone like her who prefers diplomacy first and military action as the last resort. After the discussion ended, Tomura asked Mr. Compress, Magne and Twice if they would like to join their group, which they agreed to after both parties shared the common goals of reforming the society for the better due to the corruption and injustice created by the hypocrisy of the heroes and their benefactors like the A.I.M. After that, they left to find some places to sleep at the same apartment that the young green-haired boy is living at the moment along with Himiko and Naoki.
Sometime after Izuku fell asleep, another visit by another one of his ancestors occurred.
"-zuku... Izuku..."Whispered The Voice but Izuku's eyes are still shut.
"Izuku!"Said The Voice a little louder. This time, Izuku slowly opened his eyes and he found himself once again in a middle of nowhere, which is an endless land full of darkness!
"Are you... another one of my ancestors?"Asked Izuku as he's looking at Sir Henry Bart, an Englishman in black shirt, black cape, black pants with scarlet belt, black boots and black turban before him.
"Indeed. And you may know who I am already from those Dark Elves."Said Henry
"You're Sir Henry Bart?!"Asked Izuku
"Yes, I am, boy. One of Her Majesty's Sea Dogs!"Said Henry
"Sea Dogs?"Asked Izuku, having no idea what "Sea Dogs" means like at all.
"It's the informal name to the English privateers in the Queen's services with the duty to raid the trading vessels of England's enemies. Anyway, you wanted to know how the Dark Elves know me, correct?"Asked Henry
"Yes!"Said Izuku
"Well, it's a long story. It's easier to show you instead!"Said Henry and with that, he snaps his right hand's fingers and a bright light occurred! Once the light died down, Izuku and his ancestor found themselves are standing in Plymouth in the late 16th century! He looked around him and see that he and Sir Henry are standing inside the courtyard of a fortified manor that located near the Tamar River. The manor is surrounded by a moat and the walls, and is equipped with a drawbridge, a gatehouse and three other watchtowers in the south and the north, thus forming the square-shaped fortification with a great hall at its center, a kitchen and a bakehouse on its left, two storerooms near the right side of gatehouse, the sleeping chamber on its right, two towers that contained a sleeping chamber on top of each of them in both the east and the west, and a well in a middle of the courtyard.
"Is this the castle where Sir Percival and Sir Garrington used to live?"Asked Izuku as he's looking around the courtyard and the surrounding areas.
"Oh no! This is merely a manor that we built on one of the estates granted by the rulers of the England. This land was granted to our family by King Henry VII of England after we helped him secured his claim to the throne."Said Henry
"And where are you by now?"Asked Izuku
"If my memory served me right, then I am about to come out from the Great Hall soon."Said Henry and as soon as he said that, they heard the door of the Great Hall opened and see what appeared to be the young adult version of Sir Henry Bart himself without the turban walked out from the Great Hall with the sheathed Ebony Blade in his right hand. Accompanying him is the beautiful young woman with blonde hair in long black dress and golden yellow shoes.
"Congratulations for receiving the family's heirloom, I guess."Said Zoe, the blonde woman in long black dress and golden yellow shoes. But upon seeing that his face is still expressing sadness, she decided to say something else.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! What I was going to say was... I'm sorry about what happened to your father."Said Zoe
"I understand, Zoe. And I am thankful for that."Said Young Adult Sir Henry
(From now on, Henry will be addressed as Sir Henry while his young adult version will be addressed as Young Adult Sir Henry to distinguish who is who.)
"What are you two talking about? And who is she?"Asked Izuku
"That's my future wife, Zoe. And she's one of the descendants of the Palaiologos family, the last ruling dynasty of the Roman Empire. As for what I was talking with her, well..."Said Henry
"If it is painful, then you don't have to, Sir Bart."Said Izuku
"Please, call me Henry or Sir Henry. We're related after all! As for what I was talking her, it's about my father. He was killed by the Irish rebels when they sacked a coastal town called Youghal.
After the town was retaken by the Earl of Ormond, my father's body and the Ebony Blade were sent here along with a messenger to inform us of what happened to him."Said Henry
"So this is the day you received the news and the sword?"Asked Izuku
"Yes."Said Henry
"And what do the Dark Elves have anything to do with this?"Asked Izuku
"Well, not for the moment. So we may need to fast forward for a few more days."Said Henry and then, he snaps his fingers and bright light occurred! Once it disappeared, they found themselves are standing in an open plain with some trees around them. Surrounding them are a herd of deers grazing peacefully.
"Where are we?"Asked Izuku
"Another one of my family's estates in Plymouth. Our very own deer park."Said Henry
"Deer park?"Asked Izuku
"It's one of the places where the English nobles and the monarchs spent their free times, kid. As for the Dark Elves, they are going to appear soon if-"Said Henry but before he can finished, a bright light happened before the herd of the deers! When one of them see it, they are terrified and quickly run away. As the deers are running away, the young adult version of Sir Henry runs out from behind the bushes and take a look at what the bright light is.
"Avalon!"Whispered Henry and then, he magically transformed into Black Knight.
After a moment of nothingness, two Dark Elves, one male and one female, suddenly run out from the portal! And they do not come alone because following her out from the portal before its closure are five brownish reptilian humanoid beings with pitch black eyes armed with blasters in suits with yellowish green gas in their helmets with glass visors. Those who chased them are the Z'nox, the races of alien pirates hailed from the planet with the same name as their species.
But before they can capture them, Henry throws the Ebony Blade out and easily behead all five Z'nox in one throw by using his link with the sword. After their pursuers are killed, the two Dark Elves get up and slowly turned around to look at the Black Knight of the late 16th century with caution. The female Dark Elf is dressed in long white dress with a bag hanging on her right shoulder while the male Dark Elf's body is covered in a long brown robe with hood on his head. Their names are known as Mirka and Canker respectively.
"Ruushuudhith, lenger."Said Mirka as she bows before him, thanking him for saving her and her comrade's lives.
"Umm..."Said Henry the Black Knight as he's staring akwardly and curiously at the two Dark Elves before him.
"Wait! Let me get this straight! You saw them in trouble and you decided to help them without knowing who or what they are?!"Asked Izuku
"Isn't that what you've been regularly doing as well, boy?"Asked Sir Henry and upon saying that, his descendant cannot help but blush that he is correct about it.
Back at the conversation between the younger Henry Bart and the two Dark Elves, the two realized that Henry cannot understand them. So Mirka pulled out the Dream Gem from her bag and wave it around her neck and her partner's neck for a few times.
"Now, you may understand what we're saying."Said Mirka
"What the?! Who are you guys?! Who are those five?! And where did you guys come from?!"Asked Young Adult Henry the Black Knight
"This might be a lot for you to take in. But... we're from Harudheen, known to your world as Svartalfheim."Said Mirka
"What?!"Asked Young Adult Henry the Black Knight
"Oh come on! Don't ever heard of Asgard? Odin or anything related to the Nine Realms at all?"Asked Canker but only receive a moment of silence from the only human before him and Mirka as answer.
"Wow..."Said Canker
"If that's the case, we thank you for helping us from our pursuers. But since the knowledge of the Nine Realms is no longer common in this realm, we shall go to the other realms to requst aid instead."Said Mirka as she's turning around with Canker and begin to use the Dream Gem to create a portal to take her and her comrade to Nidavellir to seek help from the Dwarves. But before they can enter, the young Henry Bart stopped them.
"Wait!"Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight and upon hearing that, the two Dark Elves turned around to meet him.
"You two needed help? What is it about? If it is something that I can do, I will do my best to help."Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight
"Are you certain that you can help us? After all, this might be something beyond your capabilities."Said Mirka but the young Elizabethan Black Knight insisted.
"Please, tell me what is endangering your world."Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight
"Fine. Our world is being ravaged and occupied by a horde of pirates and our Queen has been captured."Said Mirka
"So to free her and liberate our world, we needed help. And since we do not have much good relations with Asgard due to some... misunderstandings with out previous rulers, we will have to look for help from elsewhere."Said Canker
"So tell me, are you still up for it?"Asked Mirka
"Of course, I am."Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight
"But alone? You're not going to try and reach out to your government and requested for an authorization to help us first?"Asked Canker
"If I told this to anyone else, you two might be in trouble."Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight, having heard of those witch trials from places like Scotland and other countries on the continent from the servants in his household, who also heard about them from the traders from the markets when they were out to buy the food supply, who also heard them from the seafarers from the port when they went to buy the goods to sell at their markets. And that is why he has no interest of telling anyone about these two Dark Elves because he does not wanted them and his family to be involved in the witch trials.
"What kind of trouble?"Asked Izuku as he's looking at the younger version of his late 16th century English ancestor and two Dark Elves engaged in a conversation.
"During my lifetime, Europe was going through a lot of things, kid. And witch trials is one of them. I heard from the servants in my household who also heard about them from the traders from the markets when they were out to buy the food supply, who also heard them from the seafarers from the port when they went to buy the goods to sell at their markets."Said Sir Henry
"Besides, I am not alone."Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight and then he turned around and yell out to call for his winged steed.
"ARAGORN! TO ME!"Yelled Young Adult Henry the Black Knight and then, Aragorn flies down from the sky and landed before him.
"Now, lead me."Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight he gets on his winged horse's back. Then, Mirka and Canker lead the young adult Black Knight and his winged steed into the portal to their homeworld. When they all go in,
the portal vanished into thin air.
"Alright, now let's move forward a bit more."Said Henry and then, he snaps his fingers and another bright light occurred. Once the light vanished, Izuku and his English ancestor from the late 16th century found themselves are standing in a middle of what appeared to be a walled city located on an island that appeared to be being attacked at the moment! On both sides of the banks, a giant cannon on each bank are bombarding the walls with balls of laser from all three sides. And if that wasn't terrified enough, there is a fleet made up skeletal-looking massive spaceships and a fleet of massive black T-shaped spaceships firing at one another in the orbit as well! To make it worse, the debris falling from those skeletal-looking spaceships are crashing down onto the planet itself!
*CRASH!*
Another piece of debris crashed right behind where Young Henry and Aragorn are as around them, the Dark Elf warriors are fighting against the Z'nox and the other races of aliens known as the Aakon, who appeared to be humanoid aliens with golden yellow skin, black hair and white eyes in red armors that covered their entire bodies. Like the Z'nox, the Aakon are armed with blasters that fire plasma bolts to their enemies.
"What the-"Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight but is interrupted when another piece of debris landed in the fiar distant, causing another loud crash to happen!
*CRASH!*
"This is definitely not like the war I know!"Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight as he's looking at his surrounding, a horde of alien pirates are attacking the Dark Elf civilians while those who are soldiers are fighting against them with their blasters. Then, three Aakon run toward him with blasters in their hands. As they're reaching him, they begin to open fire on him. Without thinking twice, he immediatelys throws the Ebony Blade to them, beheading them as the sword is spinning around. Once done, it returned to him via his connection with the sword.
Suddenly, he heard the smashing sounds from the crashed debris behind him. When he and Aragorn turned around to look at what caused them, they are surprised to see five more Aakons cut their ways out from the debris by using their blasters! As soon as they spotted him, they immediately aim their weapons at him! But before they could open fire, multiple red plasma bolts suddenly hit their bodies, killing all five of them. When the Elizabethan English knight and his winged steed turned to look where those bolts came from, they found Mirka and Canker, armed with their own blasters, standing from afar, right under the rampart.
Before he can thank them for helping him and Aragorn, a cannonball-sized blaster bolt suddenly flies in from the outside and slam into one of the nearby towers, exploding its top into pieces! Wanting to know where that came from, the Elizabethan Black Knight rides Aragorn up to the rampart above Mirka and Canker are standing underneath and discovered a giant cannon manned by a crew made up of both the Aakons and the Z'noxes on the bank of the river! As he is looking at the highly advanced cannon before him, Mirka and Canker are approaching by one of the rampart's stairs.
"There is another one of that on the other bank behind us."Said Mirka as she's pointing into the opposite direction.
"I'll take care of it!"Said Young Adult Henry the Black Knight as he's riding his winged horse toward the laser cannon and its crew. In one throw, the Ebony Blade swings right through the cannon and return to him! before the crew manning the cannon can even run, it suddenly explode and kill all of them!
"That was so awesome!"Said Izuku after he witnessed what his English ancestor just did.
"If you think that was awesome, then you have to see what is going on beyond the sky."Said Sir Henry as he's looking up into the sky of the Dark Elves' homeworld, where the warships of both parties are engaged in a battle in the atmosphere.
"But first..."Said Sir Henry and then, he snaps his fingers and the scene faded in the glowing light once again. When everything is settled down, Izuku and his ancestor found themselves standing on board an alien ship!
"Where are we?!"Asked Izuku as he's looking around.
"Aboard the vessel that command the entire enemy's fleet. Specifically, the chamber where the Queen was being held as a... guest back then."Said Sir Henry as he's showing his descendant the chamber where the Queen of the Dark Elves is being held aboard the enemy's command ship. The room is not luxurious or anything. But it is definitely not a cell. It has five chairs, a couch, a few tables and a monitor. Sitting on the coach is the Queen of the Dark Elves herself, who looked exactly the same like when Izuku saw her for the first time back at the bar but wearing a green dress that show her cleavage and brown shoes instead, while also watching at her world being invaded and looted by the Aakon and Z'nox pirates. While her face shows no expression, her mind is panicking because she is helpless to do anything about this.
Suddenly, two armed Aakons stepped in and tell her to come with them. Without needing to grab her, she raises up from the coach by herself and follow them. After they left the chamber, Sir Henry snaps his fingers once again and another bright light occurred. Once the light died down, both him and his decesdant found themselves standing in another chamber aboard the spaceship. Unlike the previous one, however. This chamber has a large tank that contain the large amount of water inside.
Inside the tank is a giant green octopus-like alien named Kio, who is sitting at the bottom of the large tank that contain him and the water that he required to keep him alive. He belonged to the species known as Siris and now, he is watching the battle both in the city and in the space through the giant holographic platform within the tank. When Queen Alflyse and the two Aakon guards enter his chamber, he presses the button to end the holographic display and turn around to take a look at them, specifically at the Queen of the Dark Elves herself.
"What the heck is that?!"Asked Izuku after he saw Kio for the first time.
"That's Kio. The one who was leading this raid back then."Said Sir Henry
"Surrender now, Your Majesty!"Said Kio
"What made you think I will?!"Asked Young Alflyse
"Either your people died... or you agree to sign a treaty to export the Dream Gems only to my organization!"Said Kio
"Forget about it! By doing so, the Nine Realms and the rest of the galaxy could be in danger! The Dream Gems can be used for a wide variety of purposes! In the wrong hands, the results could be catrastophic!"Said Young Alflyse
"Your Majesty, we all know how these mystical gemstones of your world worked. In the hands of normal people, they're just shining stones for decoration."Said Kio
"But in the hands of mystical experts, they can be powerful tools. And who knows what they are up to."Said Young Alflyse
"I have no interest in knowing what my customers wanted to do with them once they purchased them from me. So this is your last chance, Your Majesty! The Dream Gems or your people?!"Asked Kio demandingly. However, the Queen of the Dark Elves stood her ground.
"Never!"Said Young Alflyse while also glaring at the giant octopus-like alien.
"Fine..."Said Kio as he's glaring back at her as well.
"Take her away! Bring her to a cell this time!"Said Kio and once he said that, the two Aakon guards immediately grabbed her and force her to come with them.
"What do you think you're doing?! I am the Queen of this world! You cannot treat me like this!"Said Young Alflyse as she's struggling against her escorts.
"New plan, Your Majesty! Since you refuse to sign the treaty that will allow me to gain access of the Dream Gems' mines on your world, I decided to make money from you instead! Some pirates and gangsters out there will love to have you as their bed's partner for sure!"Said Kio
"You're going to regret this! I swear!"Said Young Alflyse as she's being taken away by the two Aakon guards. But he ignored her threat and contact one of his men on the ship's bridge and tell him to order a retreat of the ground forces and for all ships to get ready to jump out of the system.
"So they abducted her to force her to sign a treaty with them?!"Asked Izuku
"Yes. Kio wanted to monopolize the Dream Gems' mines so that he can be the only one to export them. But she refused. So he decided to use her as alternative of making money instead."Said Sir Henry
"And how was she rescued? She made it back to talk to me 500 years later after all."Said Izuku
"It's simple. We used what the Dark Elves called the Harrows."Said Sir Henry
"The Harrows?"Asked Izuku
"You will see."Said Sir Henry and then, he snaps his fingers once again and the bright light occurred. The light faded away a few seconds later and Sir Henry and his green-haired descendant then found themselves floating in a middle of the space! And surrounding them is what appeared to be an epic clash between two fleets of spaceships, one from the Dark Elves and one from the space pirates! The Dark Elves starships, the Arks, fired green laser from the cannons on their ships to the pirate vessels while the Harrows, the starfighters/carriers of the Dark Elves, are flying around, firing green lasers at all of the starfighters of the pirates.
Suddenly, one of the Harrows fly passed them!
"What the-"Said Izuku as he turned around to look at the Harrow that just fly passed him and Sir Henry, only to find it's heading for the pirates' command ship!
"Is that-"Said Izuku but before he could finished, his Elizabethan ancestor interrupted him.
"The Dark Elves' vessel that took me to rescue their Queen? Yes, it is."Said Sir Henry
The one certain Harrow that flew passed them earlier suddenly crashed right into the hangar bay of the pirates' flagship. As soon as it crashed, the Aakons and Z'noxes immediately surrounded the Dark Elves' starfighter/carrier with their weapons ready. Suddenly, two blaster cannons opened fire from the Harrow and kill some of the space pirates. Then, the vessel's hanger opened and a platoon of Dark Elf troopers immediately rushed out with their own plasma spears and fire on all space pirates they see. Some of them even throw the black hole grenades to their enemies, creating the small black holes and suck them in the process. As the platoon of Dark Elf troopers are distracting the guards, Sir Henry, Mirka and Canker come out and head for the nearest door to get out of the hanger to search for Queen Alflyse.
Once they entered, they found themselves are running in the hallway that lead to two more hallways on the left and the right respectively. And at its center right before them is the elevator. As soon as they reached it, the elevator's door opened and revealed three Aakon guards in there, who are immediately shot to dead in the heads by Plasma Spears from Mirka and Canker. The trio then get inside and Mirka presses the button that will take them to the dungeon, where they believed the Queen of the Dark Elves is being kept as prisoner. When they finally reached the dungeon, they found the Queen in her cell. However, she is not the only prisoners. There are other prisoners who are of many alien backgrounds such as the feathered humanoid avians with wings as arms known as the Shi'ar, the amphibious orange-skinned humanoids with webbed-hands and webbed-feet known as the Banari and the amphibious dark yellow-skinned semi-humanoid known as the Haab.
As soon as they come out, ten Aakon guards immediately run to them with laser blasters and open fire on them. However, the young adult version of Sir Henry throws the Ebony Blade at them and behead all of them in one throw! Then, the Ebony Blade automatically returns itself to him. Such a scene left his green-haired descendant in shock at the fact that his Elizabethan ancestor managed to slay all of his enemies in one go despite being a rookie.
"So... do we just rescue your Queen or-"Said Young Adult Sir Henry the Black Knight but Cankar fires at the control panel and release all of the prisoners.
"We will need their help if we are to get out of here alive."Said Cankar
"Plus, I believe they have some bones to pick with these pirates."Said Mirka and the Elizabethan Black Knight simply nodded as response.
When all prisoners are released, Queen Alflyse included, from their cells, they immediately headed for the elevator with the weapons seized from the two guards. However, the elevator soon opened and five Z'nox pirates immediately come out and open fire on them. However, five Shi'ar prisoners fire two shots with the blasters they took earlier, killing all five of them. Some other prisoners who did not have weapons yet quickly armed themselves by seizing the weapons from the corpses of their fallen enemies. With all guards are dealt with, they get into the elevator as many as possible while the others took the stairs on the left and the right.
"And after this, we made sure the Queen made it back to the the Harrow and left."Said Sir Henry and as he is about to snap his fingers again, Izuku stops him.
"Hold on! What about Kio and his gang? What happened to them?"Asked Izuku
"Them? Oh! Their flagship has been seized by those prisoners and they left for their homeworld."Said Sir Henry
"And Kio?"Asked Izuku
"You sure you wanted to know what happened to him?"Asked Sir Henry
"Well... yes?"Asked Izuku
"If you insist..."Said Sir Henry and then, he snaps his fingers and show him what really happened to Kio, the leader of his space pirates' gang.
Once the bright light died down, both of them get to witnessed what happened to Kio when the released prisoners unleashed their vengeance on him. Upon witness such a scene, the young boy immediately turned around upon witnessing such a violent and gruesome scene before him because he already had had enough with it after seeing King Richard III ordered the execution of unarmed prisoners in the aftermath of the Siege of Acre. So with him turned around and face covered with his hands, Izuku can only hear are sounds of screaming, piercing, stabbing and laser blasting.
"Get me out of here! Get me out of here! NOW!"Yelled Izuku without even looking at his Elizabethan ancestor.
"As you wish."Said Sir Henry and then, he snaps his fingers and take him to somewhere else. When the young green-haired boy opened his eyes and let his hands go of his face, he found himself and Sir Henry back at the Bart's manor's courtyard in Plymouth during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
"We're back at Plymouth? Why?"Asked Izuku
"Because I believed I may have a lesson that can be help contributing to you and your friends' cause."Said Sir Henry
(Music: Inuyasha Ending Theme 11 - Diamond)
Mou kimi ni aenakute mo
Mae wo muite
Arukidasana kuchanai ima wo
Izuku, in his winter gears, which is a green coat with long arms and green scarf, is standing alone in the light with the darkness surrouding him while it is snowing all around him.
(Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalvaaaa!)
Somewhere else, Tomura, Kurogiri, Li Lanying, Blizzard, Dabi, Himiko, Twice, Mustard, Mr. Compress, Magne, Lady Nagant and Spinner are standing on top of the building as the snows are falling too. The scene then changes to the snowflakes with snows are falling.
Houtou ni taisetsu omou tabi ni
Houtou no jibun wo kakushiteshimau no?
Okubyou wagamama ni narezu ni
Himiko happily plays sled in the empty park with Mustard, who is appearing to be holding on her shoulders for his own life while sitting behind her on the sled while Twice is running after them down from the hill. On the top of the building somewhere in Musutafu, Blizzard and Dabi are secretly observing a villains' attack down below as Endeavor, Burnin, Kido and Onima are rushing to the crime scene to fight the villains. Back inside the Bar with No Name in Kamino Ward, Tomura, Li Lanying, Spinner, Lady Nagant, Mr. Compress and Magne are sitting at the counter while having cups of hot cocoa together while Kurogiri is washing a glass of mug behind the counter.
Kimi ga inai machi wa
Hitori ni wa hirosugiru ne
Doko he arukidaseba ii?
Somewhere else in Musutafu, Izuku is walking alone on the sidewalk as the snows are falling in the middle of the night. Then, the screen is closed up to his face, which is seemed to be sad.
Afuredasu DAIAMONDO
Hoho wa tsutai
The scene then changes back to the front of the Jaku General Hospital with six snowflakes near the edges of the screen, hinting the importance of the hospital and its possible connection with the League of Villains.
Kirakira maiochiru Donna ni kanashii toki mo?
Kizutsukanai Tsuyosa ga hoshii to negau no?
The scene then changes again to the front of the Bar with No Name in Kamino Ward with Izuku is walking toward its door. Later, when the door is opened. The rest of the League of Villains looked up to see that Izuku is entering the bar. Everyone, except for Tomura and Kurogiri, smiles at him, happy to see him return. Like them, he too is happy to see their faces again.
(Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalvaaaa!)
The scene then changes to the dancing snowflakes with snows are falling.
(Music End)
Author's note: Originally, I wanted to avoid using the female Dark Elf whose name is Mirka because her name sounds very similar to everyone's favorite rabbit girl, Mirko. But I have no choice because I planned things out already for the future chapters and in one of them, I've already planned to have another female Dark Elf with the different name to appear. This happened because there are only two characters as female Dark Elves out there in Marvel that we know about! So I am stuck between creating OCs and using one of them and in the end, I decided to go with the latter.
And I know you guys might feel annoyed when I referred to the younger version of Sir Henry Bart either as "Young Adult Henry the Black Knight" or "Young Adult Henry Bart" most of the times. But the problem is that I have no other choice! I needed to find a way distinguish who is the current Henry as the spirit within the Ebony Blade and who is the living one from the Elizabethan Era! So please, forgive me for this!
Also, the inspirations for the Dark Elves' capital are Constantinople, Belgrade and Tenochtitlan. As you can see, it is a city built on an island in a middle of the conjunction of two rivers and that city is also happened to be surrounded by the walls on all sides. And the walls are separated into Outer Wall and Inner Wall on all sides as well. So yeah, like Ba Sing Se in Avatar: The Last Airbender, it is divided into the Lower Ring, the Middle Ring and the Upper Ring.
Some you must wanted to know who Kio is because beleive me, I did not know about him either until I started writing this chapter. As for who he is, he is a space pirate of an unknown species in Marvel Prime Universe. But here, I made him an octopus-like alien known as Siris instead. And yes, the Siris also came from Marvel as well.
In case anyone have yet to get it, this chapter not only does show how did Sir Henry Bart becomes the hero of the Dark Elves for defending their homeworld from being ravaged by the space pirates and rescued their Queen but also to introduce how much valuable and how much important the Dream Gems are to the Dark Elves' civilization as well. And the best way to do that is to make it a target for some space pirates who will do anything to secure such resources for themselves.
Yes, I know that in the prime universe, the Shi'ar do not have wings as arms. But I wanted to do something different to make them looked more like birds or dinosaurs such as the Troodon. By the way, I did not have the intention of turning this chapter into a mini-arc that feature two chapters like at all. However, I cannot help myself and I felt like Izuku has yet to learn anything important from his ancestor from the Elizabethan Era. Who knows, I might have to do the same if I have to establish how powerful the A.I.M is as one of the three major antagonists of the story.
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