Albus Dumbledore entered his quarters after a long day and blinked in surprise as the device linked to the tracker he had placed on Sirius was glowing green.
Thar was only supposed to happen if he came close to one Harrison James Potter. The boy had vanished years ago and his aunt and uncle were thrown into jail for his murder...but he knew the boy wasn't dead and had used every method of tracking him he had access to. He had even resorted to using his blood...but to no avail. So when Sirius broke out and was proven innocent of all crimes he had never truly committed he knew the man would look for the boy the second he was healthy enough to do so and he had taken advantage of that.
"America...why of all places did it have to be America," he grumbled. The American magical side, or MACUSA, was one of the few magical communities he had no eyes or ears in...well, one of the ones that weren't small villages hidden in the middle of nowhere.
Back in the Grindlewald days, he had sent young Newt out a few different times, one of them breaking his travel ban. When he had saved the Statute from being broken by an errant Obssucrial...one that he was particularly sore about, they had found out about his involvement and have kept anything dealing with him to strict business.
Leaning back he sighed and rand his hand through his beard, "Perhaps..." he looked over to a stack of papers he had been ignoring since 94. It would take a few tweaks and modifiers...but if all went to plan he could get his savior back and get a few eyes in the American magical government finally.
Harry knelt next to Kenny, or the thing that Kenny had turned into, "Hey...you'll be alright."
Kenny snarled at him and would've leaped at him had he not been restrained.
Gwen started as her brother howled in agony, "Harry stop!" But Grandpa Max held her back.
"It's fine Gwen. The pain is only because the thing hasn't completely absorbed Kenny into it." He waved her off as the alien parasite came off of his head with a nasty suction sound and the rest of the alien's body began to peel and fall off his body.
This had truly been a weird day. Max had appeared out of nowhere asking for help because the DNaliens had kidnapped Gwen's brother, and when they had arrived at the hatchery they had taken over they found a veritable army of aliens who had turned the factory into a farm that developed the parasites that turned others into DNaliens...and Kenny was one of them.
"You weren't kidding...with places like this they can just take over the entire world." Harry huffed.
"Shouldn't you have called in the plumbers?" Kenna asked as Kenny groaned and sat up
"I'm thinking it might come to that. This is getting far too big for a small team." He rubbed his grandson's back, "Kenny...are you alright?"
"Other than a headache...I'm fine Grandpa." He rubbed his temples.
"Oh. Here." Harry held out a bottle of green liquid.
"Harry. You know that potions don't work on non-magicals." She blinked in surprise as he held out a notebook, "Whoah..." The recipe was still basically a pain relief potion, but it had been heavily modified so that the Potions Magic replaced the takers Magic, "that's amazing...you modified a potion so it works for someone with no innate magic?"
Harry just smirked, "I'm hoping to get stuff like arthritis relief working too."
"Do let me know when you get that working kiddo." Max stood with a slight groan, "for now, we need to shut this place down."
"The face huggers Shouldn't be too difficult. They are underwater. Just add electricity." Kenna shrugged.
Harry smirked, "Not bad Kenna. We should also disable the weather machine. It won't overly affect the highbreed unless this drags out for a long period of time, but the DNaliens don't do so well in heat at all."
"You thinking brood wing?" Gwen asked.
"It's a possibility. The Highbreed are so egotistical they practically lose sight of everything if their species is 'defiled'" Harry nodded
Max felt a surge of pride at the kid's tactical analysis of the situation, "All alright then. Gwen, you take care of the xenosites and then meet us at the weather machine, Kenna will keep them off your back while you charge up. Mr. Black, do you have anything to help us take it down?"
Sirius just had a wide smile on his face and Remus merely palmed his own, "I know that look..."
"I got just the thing for you Max!" Sirius rubbed his hands together.
Max nodded, "Harry. You do what you gotta to distract the highbreed general."
"I wasn't expecting to see you here. I expected the filthy old man." The highbreed said as Harry entered the room.
"Well. Max had...other priorities." He smirked as massive bolts of lightning came down from the sky and struck the liquid pools around the factory, filling the air with the screech of dying alien parasites.
"I had underestimated you. Filthy human. I hadn't expected you to be willing to kill so many." Harry had to smirk, he had spent time in this alien's shoes...he could tell the thing was just barely restraining Its rage.
"It's like squashing a bug. Your little parasites may be alive, but they are like pests, their life is meant to only take over another...I'm not usually that casual about killing, but when a self-entitled species is going to commit genocide on a universal scale just because they fucked themselves out of existence, well. I'm a little more loose with my morals." The green light of the Omnitrix lit up the room as several loud sounds echoed from outside as the weather tower fell.
In a flash of light, the highbreed general was seeing pure red as this inferior speck took the shape of his people, "how dare you take the form of your clear superior. You insignificant worm!" He leaped at the false image of his people.
Harry dropped down to his knees and twirled around, sending a kick into the higbreeds gut launching him into the roof.
You're people always say you were the first to develop intergalactic travels...the first to develop a true society. You could have been the heralds of the universe. The ones to guide the rest of us into something greater.
Broodwing roundhoused the alien as he came falling from the roof.
Instead, you decided to flaunt your superiority, you began to see others as inferior. You became so inbred you doomed your society. Now you are trying to drag everyone else down with you. Maybe had you just faded away quietly the rest of the galaxy would have seen you as a great civilization...but now you're gonna go down in history as dictators.
The highbreed general snarled and launched a volley of his fingernails, "All other species are Inferior! You were never supposed to exist."
Broodwing reeled back from the projectiles and jumped over him, too bad nobody else shares that thought.
He held up a small round object, "You fool!" The highbreed screamed as he threw it into the pile of eggs nearby.
The resulting explosion launched the alien out of the window.
"You're sure this will work Sirius?" Max asked as he shot an approaching DNalien.
"Oh yeah! This was a prank Harry's dad and I worked on in school. It turned out a little more...exciting than it was meant to be." Sirius had a wide smile as he began smearing a paste onto the metal as holes began forming.
Remus rolled his eyes, "yes. Until every female in school realized who was responsible for all of their clothing melting right in the great hall. I recall both you and James having to spend a week in the hospital wing to get decursed. Probably would've been longer if you had been stupid enough to get her too. McGonagall broke a record with the amount of detention you got."
Sirius just chuckled and watched as the potion began eating away at the metal of the tower, "even you have to admit Remus, for an old lady like her, she had a pretty nice body."
Remus just sighed and pushed the tower with all he could, luckily Harry's little cure didn't get rid of the enhanced parts of his disease. Super strength came in handy sometimes.
The clouds began to dissipate as the tower was no longer falling under the ex- werewolf's strength and now was of gravity.
"Good work boys. Let's link back up with the girls and see how Harry is fairing." Max said, deciding not to comment on that conversation. Everyone did some stupid stuff as kids.
"Grandpa! We have to go soon, Kenna managed to hack into the hybreed network from a terminal nearby, and she's pretty sure they called for backup."
"Not until we find the egg machine sweetheart. Killing all those Xenosites won't do anything if we can't destroy what's making them."
"Harry found that." Kenna said, "The general was right next to it. That was part of the transmission."
A massive explosion ripped through the entire upper floor of the factory, and they all watched stunned as the general landed next to them, "Filthy insignificant worm! Do you have any idea what you've done?!" He rolled out of the way as Broodwing came flying out and attempted to axe-kick the general.
Let's see...snuck away one of my grandpa's grenades and blew you're egg machine sky high...
Max frowned, "I didn't have any..." His eyes widened as a white light flashed and suddenly a massive hole formed above the factory, sucking everything in, "that wasn't a grenade Harry! That was a prototype device designed to create a null void portal that will suck anything living inside of it!"
Then what do we do Grandpa? How do we stop it?
"It'll only stop once something living passes through it! And it'd take a lot of xenosites to do the job" he frowned.
I think we have the perfect volunteer for that. He turned towards the general.
Max sighed as he watched Harry make his way over to the general slowly, "Gwen...I've been so proud of you three. I need you to take this and contact Magister Patiliday. He will get the plumbers mobilized." He handed her a round badge with a red dot in the center.
"Grandpa?" Gwen asked confused, which turned worried as Max let go and launched himself at the general, both of their bodies being sucked towards the null void portal.
"Grandpa!" Harry called out as he turned back into his human form.
"It's alright Harry! I'll be back, but until then, you have to take charge."
Harry stared in horror as Max vanished into the Null void.
Harry sighed and turned to Gwen, "At least he's alive..."
"The Null void isn't an easy place to stay alive in Harry," Kenna said.
"You managed it without any training at all and next to zero control of your powers Kenna...I'm sure he can manage it."
Kenna chuckled and nodded, "You're probably right...I know how resilient that old man is."
Arriving back home Harry frowned at the woman sitting down on his front porch, which was weird since the wards prevented just anybody from entering his property line, "who are you?"
"Oh...a shade from the past. A promise for the future." She stood, revealing what had probably once been a beautiful woman underneath, but now was dangerously thin and pale.
She had scraggly crimson locks but it was her eyes that caused him to pause. One was crimson red and the other a dull brown.
"You realize that possession is a forbidden art?" Harry scowled.
"Oh, I am very well aware. But you were the one to reduce me to this." She growled in fury, "Back in ninety-two the little girl who came to me gave me a chance to come back...but something you did disrupted my resurrection. I wasn't able to manifest properly so I had to take this pathetic girl's body as my own. For years I researched you. Tried to figure out how you stopped me...where you went. Tell me, Harry Potter...how did you stop Voldemort."
Harry snorted, "that pathetic excuse for a wizard? That's why you're here? I'll tell you the same thing I told every jackass follower of his that came after me. I was only a little over a year old. Last I checked nobody could remember that phase of their life."
"So...my followers have been searching for me." The thing murmured.
"Ah...you are him then," Harry put together, "I see. That's why they have searched for you. They knew you were alive, but not where...and you didn't want anyone to see you like this."
The girl sneered, her face becoming shallower and the life fleeing her face lightly, "I suppose It won't matter how you beat me...you'll be dead soon enough."
Come to my pet...slay our enemy!
Harry raised an eyebrow as he felt the ground begin to rumble, "you know that body won't last much longer. She was never built to hold the soul of a dirty old man who is probably around ten times stronger than she would have been."
"It matters not...lord Voldemort shall be eternal!" The nearby trees ripped out of the ground revealing a massive snake.
"A basilisk...that's rare." Harry leaped back as the snake lashed at him, "but also stupid. You know snake magic does not affect parslemouths."
"She is still the most deadly species on the planet Potter! His venom can kill anything."
Harry started in surprise as he dodged, "he? What the hell...this basilisk is a female. You call yourself the heir of Slytherin but a real Slytherin would never mistake the gender of the top snake. How far have the Gaunts fallen..."
"How do you know about that?" He scowled.
"My great-grandfather on my mother's side was a squib who ran from the family. He was well aware of your mother's obsession with a man named Tom Marvolo Riddle. Always figured she'd do something stupid, like kidnap him and conceive a child under a love potion. That's why he took this from his family and ensured a perfect replica was left behind so they would never know."
The boy held up a familiar necklace to Tom and he scowled as he felt the Magic emanating from it, "That is mine by birthright!"
"Except it's not. My grandfather knew that eventually one of his family would hunt down the founders' relics thinking it was theirs. He found all of them too. The diadem was hidden in an old tree in Albania...took him a lot of convincing to get the Goblins to make an exact copy. The cup...well, when some old fat bitch named Hepzibah was bragging about it, it wasn't difficult to find. Hell, he even found the sword. But figured it would be safe where it was." He smirked at the shade of Tom, "You don't get it, do you? Everything you've stolen is a fake Tom." He turned to the snake and placed his hand on its snout, instantly stopping it.
Peace dear queen...you are a little too old to be rampaging like this.
Her snake tongue shot out and licked his hand, you've ascended...my master always said you existed..."
Harry smiled as his magic mingled with hers as she fell asleep.
"What did you do?!"
"She was never a weapon. She was meant to be a guardian. You just forced her to be one." Harry said turning back to the possessed body, "Besides. You were so distracted you never noticed your vessel was at its limit. Can you survive without one I wonder...what was your plan here?"
With a scream of desperation, Tom fired his last killing curse before the body of the girl gave out.
Harry narrowed his eyes and Tom's last sight in life was a raw wave of magic erupting from the boy's hand and shattering the spell into pieces.
Black smoke emitted from the girl's body with a horrifying scream before it was gone.
Harry sighed and shook his head, "It's gonna be a long night..."Several pops of apparition sounded.
Several gaps sounded as they took in the giant snake.
"Hello. You're aurors, right?"
"Y...yes sir. Is that a basilisk?" On asked nervously.
"Relax. She's asleep. You may want to call in a magi zoologist to transport her safely away."
"And the...inferi there?"
"Not an inferi...her body was possessed by the spirit of Tom Marvolo Riddle Jr. That's just what happens with prolonged possession."
"Sir! This is the missing Weasley child." An auror knelt.
The lead auror groaned, this was about to become a shitstorm of epic proportions.
"You're gonna have to come with us, Mr. Potter. We need the entire story and memory."
"I figured as much...the basilisk alone would warrant that." Harry shrugged as Two more pops sounded and an older man and younger man appeared, ones he recognized. He loved the man's book after all, "do be careful with her Mr. Scammander. She's over a thousand years old." He called out as he followed the Aurors.
"A thousand...she's beautiful." Newt said in wonder, "Let's get to work."
"Right." The younger man huffed, knowing how his father got.