It was the next weekend that Harry was making a portal to the X-Mansion allowing a wave of teens, kids, and adults to see the new resort for the first time. Harry was standing off to the side watching as the kids were running all over looking at the campgrounds, when he was approached by Charles and the X-Men.
"Harry, it's good to see you. Thanks for allowing the kids to come over here." Xavier said as he was pushed next to Harry.
"Not a problem Xavier. I'm glad I could do something to make them feel more like the kids they are supposed to be." Harry said, waving off Xavier's thanks. The conversation was cut short when Wanda and Pietro started dragging Harry off to get a tour of the place.
Xavier just watched with the other adults, "It's good to see them all so happy." Ororo spoke up.
Logan chuckled, "Just wait until we start working them through the obstacle course. Harry said it would be quite the challenge." Jean and Ororo rolled their eyes as Scott smirked.
"Now now Logan, give them a day to settle before you start training them." Xavier said as he and Jean moved to start corralling the children.
It took a little bit of time, but eventually they had all the kids pick out their bunks and put their things away. After everyone had been shown where the facilities were, Harry and Logan stepped up. "Alright kids, we know you're excited to go out and explore but there are some things we need to teach you first."
Logan spoke up at this point, "I know some of you already know some form of survival skill, but this is a new area and you need to listen to the rules before running off."
Harry stepped in here, "Rule #1: No swimming without others nearby. The lake is very large and can get very deep. So no swimming without supervision. #2: Do not. I repeat, do not wander off by yourself. This forest goes on for miles and the nearest settlement is very far away, so always have a buddy and try to stay in sight of the camp."
Logan took over from here, "If you do get lost stop where you are and make noise or fire. We will find you and bring you back. There are several things about his area that you should also be aware of." From there Logan got into the nitty gritty of surveying in the wild, how to find north, and what they could and couldn't eat. Each time Logan would mention an animal or plant Harry would conjure one in front of the group giving a visual demonstration of the area's flora and fauna.
For the first night they just got everyone situated in rooms and allowed them to roam until nightfall. When the sun set Harry set up the bar-b-que and grill and started preparing dinner using the animals and plants from nearby, showing how they could be prepared.
It was an early night for the excited students, who were tired from their day. When the last of the kids was asleep Harry threw up some monitoring charms and showed the Adults up to the main resort. Getting everyone a room was preceded by a small get together in the lounge, where Harry manned the bar. Xavier had retired for the night and they proceeded to chat and plan the weekend for the kids before all heading to bed. Logan went to bed slightly drunk from Harry's liberal amounts of Fire Whiskey.
The next morning the kids were stunned to see the adults all grinning and making breakfast while Logan was off to the side rubbing at his head. Harry noticed the early risers, "Good morning!" Logan proceeded to wince at the noise. Causing Harry to smirk and give him a look from the corner of his eye.
When Wanda came out dressed but slightly tired she just climbed into Harry's lap at the picnic table and proceeded to steal his food. "Well good morning little miss." Harry said with a smile and a gentle hug, "How did you sleep?"
Wanda just mumbled something as she slowly ate the eggs and bacon on Harry's plate. Next to him, Ororo, Jean, and Scott were all smiling at the typically stoic little girl being spoiled. Harry looked up from his pseudo daughter to look for her mischievous brother, only to find him swiping bacon at a rapid pace from Kurt's plate. Shaking his head Harry finished up breakfast and allowed the children to wake up before standing before them and explaining the plans for the first part of the day.
"Good morning everyone. I hope you all slept well." Harry said to the gathered group. "Today we get to start off with something, both fun and challenging. Today we're doing an obstacle course!" Harry exclaimed and the children all got pretty excited. "This obstacle course will be special. One it was built by yours truly," Harry said as he dusted off his shoulders, "Meaning it has magic. This course will change and adapt to keep it challenging regardless of your powers." Harry eyed the blue-skinned prankster, "Most of your powers."
Harry started leading them to the beginning of the course, "Now what makes this both special and challenging is the rules." Waving his hand towards the mostly hidden course, "There are going to be items for you to collect throughout the course. Each item will have a number on it denoting points. These points will be tallied at the end and the person with the highest score will get a special prize." Harry had to wait out the cheers until he was able to show off a hexagonal token with a 5 on it before continuing. "This is what the token looks like. Now I know what some of you with movement abilities are thinking, but it won't be that easy. See, throughout the course, the place these items are hidden will only reveal themselves if you land on certain platforms or pull switches. This means it isn't a race, but a hunt. This will require you to use your physical abilities and mind to explore and gather as many points as possible."
At this point Logan finally joined them, "You will be doing the course in groups of 10, from youngest to oldest. Each group will have 30 minutes. So line up and get ready." Getting the youngest together was easy and they were sent off to the course as a group of 13, all between 7 and 11, with Jean and Scott following after them, "Now for you older students," Logan started with a feral grin, "If you thought you could slack off you are wrong. The 5 people with the least amount of points get put on cleanup duty."
The remaining 40ish kids gulped and started giving each other challenging looks. It only took about 25 minutes for Jean to come back with the youngest kids all holding several tokens in their hands and smiling. Harry sent a thumbs up at a girl with large bat wings and red eyes that was holding a special golden token. "Good job Vicky! That golden token is special so hold onto it until later okay?" Harry said and she responded by nodding her head and smiling widely.
While Harry was doing that the first group of teenagers, that included Wanda and Pietro, were led to the start of the course. Logan started them off while Harry pulled out a broom and flew above the area he had made the obstacle course in. From the sky Harry could see the entire course. Encompassing a whole acre by itself, the course led the challengers in a spiral inwards, using platforms, swing bars, mud pits, and log platforms.
At first the group all sprinted off, Pietro gaining an easy lead, until they ran into the first obstacles. When Pietro was seen being tripped by a hidden trap the group decided to slow down. Pietro continued to try and speed up but was tripped or trapped every time he hit a higher speed.
Harry watched from the sky as Wanda floated through the course, using her physical skills when she was forced to or unable to float high enough. Pietro on the other hand was barely moving faster than an olympic sprinter now. Wanda ended up winning and finding the special token, mainly due to Pietro being slowed on purpose. Pietro did learn to use his speed in bursts to make large jumps or run along trees to skip a hazard. He ended up getting second.
The next few groups were all tested much harder, considering most of them have used the danger room back at the mansion. The course lifted itself higher with each group, leaving the final group swinging and jumping from platform to platform, dodging animated branches and dummies. Harry was fairly impressed with the skills shown by some of the younger years.
When it was all done Harry took all the children who grabbed a special token off to the side. "Alright, each of you grabbed one of these special tokens. Now what you can do with that is give it to me and ask for something, and as long as it's in my power, you can have it." Harry grinned as Wanda, Vicky, Kurt, and Kitty all tried to think of what they wanted. "Don't worry about answering now. You can wait until the weekend is over to tell me. Now I know we're doing lunch next, but after the water slide and zipline are both being opened up." Harry finished with a large smile as they all ran off to tell the others. Wanda didn't move though.
Harry looked down at her. "Everything good Wanda?" Wanda looked up at him and nodded before biting her lip and looking down. Harry kneeled down next to her, "What is it? You know you can tell me anything."
Wanda looked him in the eyes before looking back down and mumbling out, "I want to live with you." And handed him the golden token. Harry sucked in a breath and slowly pulled her into a hug.
"Oh Wanda you don't have to use your token for that. I would love for you and your brother to come live with me." Harry said softly as he held her against his chest, his eyes slightly glistening. Wanda was quick to return the hug, "We'll set something up so you can stay with me okay?" Wanda nodded against his chest and Harry looked up to see Ororo looking at him with concern. Harry just gave her a big smile and waved her off.
Picking up Wanda and standing, Harry started moving towards the outdoor cooking area, "Now let's go get something to eat so we can use the new waterslide. It's quite fun." Harry said as he set Wanda down and she walked next to him, "Just make sure you think of something else to ask for alright? I'll talk to your professors about you living with me later. Now go find your brother and let him know." Wanda nodded before she dashed off looking for Pietro, Ororo came up to Harry as he watched Wanda talking to her brother.
"Anything we should know about?" Ororo asked softly.
Harry just chuckled, "Well I told you all about allowing them to ask for something right?" Harry turned tot see Ororo nod, "Well she asked if she could live with me."
Ororo gave him a beaming smile with moisture gathering in her eyes, "That's wonderful Harry."
Harry gave a watery laugh, "It was slightly unexpected to be honest, but I'm happy. Now I just need to finish my research with Tony on the portal doors so she and Pietro can go to school easier."
Ororo was about to respond when Jean yelled out to them, "Food's ready! Are you two coming to eat?" Both just gave each other a look and smiled before walking over and helping the adults dish out food.
Lunch quickly restored the flagging teenagers and soon enough they were all bouncing in their seats ready to be unleashed on the camp. Harry gave Xavier a look who just smiled and nodded so Harry popped away to make sure the enchantments were on for each of the activities and before long he was swarmed by a horde of students looking to use the big water slide. Harry held up his hand and looked down to the pier to make sure someone was watching the landing zone before he waved through the first slide goer.
Like that hours passed, kids would zip down to the campgrounds from the cliff, the water slide was constantly in use, and other older students were out on the water in canoes having races with one another. Everywhere Harry looked he could see the kids all laughing and smiling. It was when the sun started setting that Harry shut down all the attractions and everyone gathered for food and campfire stories. Logan took over the largest campfire and started off on his scariest stories, trying to spook the teens who joined him. The younger students were being told stories of Harry's home world. Stories of dragons and unicorns, dastardly wizards and princesses in castles. Harry was of course censoring his adventures to make them more fun and less dire.
That was how the next two days went. The mornings were dominated by the obstacle course, where Rogue, or Anne Marie, was the next to find one of the 10 special tokens, the final five still being somewhere in the maze of platforms and traps, undiscovered.
It was a tired and worn out group of students who walked through the portal back to the X-Mansion on Monday. Harry chuckled at them dragging their feet ready to hit the hay. Instead of heading home, Harry got to help pack for Wanda and Pietro, who were both excited to go and stay with Harry. Before he left Xavier approached, "Harry it's good to see the twins are so happy about the move. I just wanted to let you know we won't have any classes until next week, so take your time in getting them settled in."
"Thanks for that Xavier. I will be back soon. Tony and I are working on a special mode of transportation and will end up installing one here when it's ready." Harry said as Wanda was tugging slightly on his hand that wasn't carrying their expanded bags. Looking at her she gave him a look of impatience making Harry chuckle, "Looks like I need to go."
Xavier nodded with a smile, "Have fun and we'll see you soon."
As soon as Harry was through the portal he was leading the twins to the rooms he set up for them the moment he furnished the house. "I already had rooms ready for you if you ever decided to come stay with me." Harry explained as they moved up to the second floor. Taking a right, Harry opened the room directly opposite to his office, "This is Wanda's room." Harry said as they walked in and found a large room with a big four poster bed, the walls were a soft red with dark purple accents throughout. The floor was stone but had a large soft rug covering most of it, the area to the right side of the bed had an empty bookshelf and a pair of chairs with a desk in the corner. The other side had a private bath and a walk-in closet with a vanity up against the wall.
Wanda squealed in excitement as she ran around the room looking at everything before she took a flying leap and landed on the bed with barely a bounce as she sunk into the enchanted mattress. "This is wonderful! Thank you!" Wanda said as she got up and ran to Harry giving him a hug. Harry just smiled while Pietro was starting to get impatient.
"Come on! I want to see my room!" Before Harry could say anything Pietro was running, disappearing in a blur. Wanda giggled as Harry just shook his head, leading Wanda to the room across the hall and next Harry's office. The door was already opened and they found Pietro just staring at the room colored in soft blue and highlighted with silver. Much like Wanda's room, Pietro's room had a bookshelf and sitting area with desk, but unlike her room, Pietro also had a treadmill that could be used by him to burn extra energy.
"Now Pietro, I want you to be careful with that treadmill. It can keep up with you at a decent clip, so if you stop, it will launch you off of it." Pietro just nodded before rushing over to try it, Harry just shook his head as he say the speed quickly climb to over a 100 miles per hour. He left Pietro's bag on the floor near his bed and took Wanda's back to her room. "Take some time to unpack and I'll give you both the tour in a little while. Good?" Wanda had a huge grin on her face as she started pulling out clothes and walking into her closet. Harry just smiled before he walked over to his office to read some of Tony's research notes.
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It was a few weeks later that Harry had just finished cleaning up breakfast after dropping off the twins at the mansion for school when Tony called him, "Hey Merlin, I got something to show you. Come to the Tower." Before hanging up quickly. Shrugging, Harry opened a portal to their main work area that had moved up to the top floors as they became finished.
Seeing Tony tinkering with his suit Harry walked over, "What's got you in a tizzy this morning?"
Tony stopped and turned, giving Harry an incredulous look, "Tizzy? Who talks like that?"
Harry just raised an eyebrow, "Says the man who doesn't like to be handed things. We all have our quirks." Tony just rolled his eyes before standing up and leading Harry to the front of the suit of armor he was working on. "What's new on this one?"
Tony grinned, "This isn't just another version of the Iron Man armor." He then proceeded to input something in his holo-keyboard. The suit quickly powered up but the general hum of machinery was a lot less than normal and the slot for the arc reactor was pentagonal in shape. "This is the Magi-tech Mark I."
At that Harry's eyes lit up before he started running scans and inspecting it up close. The power pumping out of it was high and he could feel several expanded pockets attached throughout the suit. "This looks impressive Tony, but what did you add to it?"
Tony started rubbing his hands together, "This is the culmination of my work in runes, The entire suit is inscribed to be fairly difficult to damage. When it's not being worn it's lighter than your average backpack." Tony said as he easily picked it up by lifting it from under it's arms, "I did have some issues with weapon systems, due to the interference of magic, but made do with some consumable rune work." Harry already had an idea but let Tony continue, "Each shoulder mount, that used to carry rockets, now has expanded pockets, that you made for me, attached and filled with runic rockets. Each mount has a banishing rune cluster that will launch a runic rocket and can be aimed using the typical interface that comes in my other armors."
Tony stopped at this point and moved over to a holo-desk, "The arms have two new systems for weapons." Tony pulled up an animation or recording of the armor being used, "The first is something on my original suit, the flame thrower. Using runes for creating fire and some application of various wind runes I created these flame throwers that can hit something within 20 feet." Tony brought up the next demonstration, "Next is the lightning weapons. I can empower the gloves with lightning and hit much harder, or I could shoot out these detachable cables that carry the lightning down their lengths, also hidden into expanded pockets."
Harry hummed for a moment, "This leaves you with less long range abilities. Maybe I should give you some lessons in martial arts."
Tony waved him off, "I already got some training going, but I added a few other things to help combat that." Moving back to the suit he lifted the arm, "I still have the repulsors to aid in flight and attack short to medium range, but I added these as well." Tony said as he allowed a part of the suit on the forearm to pop up revealing a wide barrel that extended out just above the top of the gloves. "These are magic bolt throwers."
"Ah yes. I remember working on those. So you incorporated them into the suit?" Harry said, snapping his fingers.
Tony nodded, "Granted I didn't get to add all the enchantments and inscriptions you were mentioning, but I got the general magic bolt, the wind blades, and the stupefy jinx. I figure those three will aid me in most situations."
Harry nodded, "So I scanned it a bit and the new power source is surprisingly powerful."
Tony grinned, "Oh this is the best part!" Tony rushed off to the side and picked up a new arc reactor that was also pentagonal in shape, "This is a new magical arc reactor!"
Harry's eyebrows rose in astonishment. He quickly grabbed the new reactor and started scanning it and breaking down the runic arrays that were now viewable to him, "My god Tony, this is good work." Harry noticed that all the runes were too small for human hands, "Did you get Jarvis to inscribe these for you?"
Tony nodded as he watched Harry examine his work, "Yeah. I wanted to do it on my own and knew I couldn't ask you to enlarge and shrink it for me, so I had Jarvis do the detail work after making sure my idea would function properly."
Harry listened as he continued to break down the way it functioned. It was surprisingly simple, but ingenious, "You're using the five element ritual primer to spark a magical generator! This is ingenious! Not only that, you're using an eight trigram sealing array to hold a large magical charge, but use intentional cracks to bleed off anything extra." Harry just stared at the reactor on his palm in bafflement. He always knew Tony was smart, but he's only been studying runes for around two years and this is what he makes with it.
Tony was smugly grinning, "I think this is my best work. It should power any suit I make from now on, even my non-magical suits if I add an energy converter to the housing unit." Tony did frown when something else came to him, "Unfortunately the batteries and capacitors I use are filling too quickly and tend to be damaged by the amount of energy pumping out of that new generator."
Harry smirked this time, "Oh I got something for you then." Harry pulled a flat square battery out of his pocket before setting it on the table and enlarging it. "I was researching magical batteries and came across this by accident. This is a phone battery that has been inscribed." Tony went to inspect it, and lifted it inspecting it. The runes surrounding it were mostly legible to him
"Seems like a bunch of reinforcement runes. What makes it so special?" Tony said not seeing what would make it so interesting.
Harry grinned, "I made a new magical metal. That metal can hold 25 times the amount of energy that the best batteries on the market can. This battery doesn't require chemical reactions either, the material itself can absorb and discharge energy with almost no loss."
Tony gaped at Harry, "Magical metal? A new alloy?"
Harry shook his head, "It isn't an alloy. It's alchemy. I took silver and used a set of rituals to prime the metal, and now it's almost completely indestructible and can absorb most energies, including kinetic energy!" Harry finished as he dusted his shoulders off. When he didn't hear Tony say anything he looked over at him only to find Tony giving him a look that passed somewhere between baffled and glee. "What?"
Tony just shook his head and moved off to the side of the room inputting a few codes to open up a small hole in the wall and pulled out a small piece of metal. Tony handed it over, "Like this you mean?"
Harry checked over the sample in his hand and sent some magic into it. When it reacted like his new metal Harry was shocked, "What is this?"
Tony couldn't help but laugh, "Harry, you beautiful bastard, you made a metal that was thought only to come from space. It's called vibranium and is an extremely precious material. In fact the majority of the vibranium on earth was used to make the shield that Captain America uses."
At this point both Harry and Tony were laughing like loons, only to calm down and look at each other, breaking out into crazed laughter again. That's exactly how Pepper found them 20 minutes later, "What are you two laughing about?"
Tony couldn't stop his exuberance and rushed to Pepper and picked her up, spinning her around, "Harry and I are going to change the world!"
Pepper squealed in laughter as Tony spun her around while Harry just chuckled and smiled fondly at his best friend and his girlfriend.
Evidently Pepper had come to see if Tony wanted to grab lunch, and so Harry and Tony both walked back into the lab two hours later, ready to craft some new items.
Harry was looking over Tony's designs when a thought struck him, "How would you feel about making some items for our future teammates?"
Tony liked the idea, so they both got to work brainstorming and planning the arsenal for the current roster of potential Avengers, consisting of Hawkeye, Black Widow, Hulk, Iron Man, Summoner, and Captain America.
Eventually Harry had to leave to pick up the twins, but was right back in the lab the next morning. Tony had already started planning the MT Mk II using the new source of vibranium. Together they spent a few weeks developing new weapons and calling in the potential user to test and bond the final products.
First was Clint Barton, or Hawkeye. He got a new magical bow that could shoot energy arrows, meaning he'd never run out of ammunition. His quiver was filled with arrows that would explode, electrocute, freeze, and stun his enemies. Clint was quite excited by his new weapons and was even more excited when Harry bonded the bow to him and gave him a pouch for his quiver and bow to carry on him at all times. His suit was also upgraded to have a heart-guard and shin and forearm protectors, all made of dark purple colored vibranium. His actual suit was made from Hebridean Black hide and looked good with the purple accents.
Next was Natasha Romanov, or Black Widow. She was more at ease in physical combat and received a new suit that incorporated vibranium. The suit itself was made with some Hungarian Horntail hide, making it look like a dark almost black-red. The forearm and shin guards were a black vibranium and her hide gloves had vibranium studs on the knuckles. She was equipped with the lightning tethers on her wrists and twelve enchanted throwing knives that would return to the owner. Not having finished his flying harness, Harry added some feather fall enchantments to her boots, allowing her to slow her fall if she ever needed it. Harry and Tony ended up making a small magic bolt launcher that was barely larger than a typical gun and added that to her equipment set.
Harry, not expecting the Hulk to want to use any weapons, made Bruce a set of pants that would change size with him and fix any damage automatically and moved on. Steve Rogers, or Captain America, was still in his coma, only got some basic upgrades to his old suit and Harry helped enchant the shield to return to it's owner.
With everyone else done Harry helped Tony finalize his new suit and added some enchantments that would make it hit harder and take less damage. He also bonded the suit, just in case.
"Alright Harry, everyone else is done. It's time to spruce up your look." Tony said as he started pulling out designs that he had created for Harry in his spare time. It took a little longer, because Harry was fighting him on every change, to complete Harry's new suit.
Eventually Harry was standing in his new suit, with Pepper and Tony looking it over. He was wearing his typical black monk clothes as a base, the shin and forearm wraps now covered in green vibranium. His feet were still covered by viper tooth hide boots. His hands had fingerless opaleye hide gloves that were enhanced with green vibranium knuckle dusters. The opaleye hide robe he used to wear was now sleeveless and held tight against his body leaving the bottom to flare out and held down on the waist by sectioned green vibranium links. His chest below the robe was covered in bronze colored vibranium that wrapped around his whole torso. His cowl was covering the bottom part of his face, but his hair was now a pale white, instead of brown, and his eyes their familiar glowing emerald.
"Looking good!" Tony said with a big grin.
Harry rolled his eyes in response but secretly he was happy with the new look. "Well now that that's over, we can work on Christmas presents."