Chapter 82: Hunter [#18]
Jackson held onto John's body as they walked around the streets of New York, they did get some eyes on them due to the sheer size difference they had and the fact that Jackson was carrying John on his arms without much of a thought. "So-" John calmly looked at Jackson's face as he licked a white popsicle with his skilled tongue, clearly making eye contact and smirking provokingly with those plump lips stretched around the popsicle: "-What's our deal in here?" John finished his speech by biting down on the popsicle and breaking it, making Jackson's eyes darken even more because he knew John was teasing him because he wanted to be fucked hard and rough tonight, like always. "Our 'deal' as you call it is to collect six stones." John raised his eyebrows, Jackson rolled his eyes and told him through their connection:
'These six stones represent six aspects of existence and this universe, there's Power, Space, Time, Mind, Soul, and Reality. Whoever wields a stone receives the stone's power over that aspect completely.'
'Huh, neat. So, which one is going to be the stone of my ring?'
'Well, depends, maybe all of them? And it'll be more of a band, because outside of their original universe the stones lose their power, they are linked to their universe after all.'
'So they're useless for us?'
'No necessarily, seeing as for each stone i get, I'll get a skill ticket.'
Oh, right! Jackson did use his three skill tickets! He got three interesting skills, they were [Enchanted Reflexes], [Control Negation], and [Existential Immutability]! The description given to these skills were easily understood by Jackson, and they were useful!
[Enchanted Reflexes: You have drastically enhanced reaction speed, allowing you to dodge multiple bullets, catch flies in mid-air, dodge and maneuver around complex attacks, catch falling objects, block detriments and react instantaneously to what others take more time to react to like high speed projectiles e.g. sniper bullets as well as react to a being with superhuman speed.]
[Control Negation: You have the ability to negate/cancel any and all forms of mind control and subordination manipulation on yourself and others. Usage of this power also negates any benefits given from subordination powers and can cancel any form of master/slave power as well.]
[Existential Immutability (Reality Anchoring): You are immume to Reality-Altering powers. Any and all changes to reality will not affect you.]
"Jack?" Looking down at his beloved, Jackson smiled softly- He got lost inside his mind again, it happens a lot and has always happened a lot, it'll probably always happen forever and ever. "Yeah, love?" Jackson wasn't just aimlessly walking through the streets of New York, instead he was following the red arrow that was leading him to the destination of the closest Infinity Stone! "How are we doing this?" Jackson smiled softly at his beloved as they walked before thinking over it- Force? It might work, but a user of an Infinity Stone is really powerful! 'We should see which stone this is first then we may act, I'd rather we use force but we need to be careful, Infinity Stones are really powerful.' And said message was received by John who frowned a little but nodded- They walked towards this large building, it looked like a really large apartment building but also looked like a office building? Weird but okay! "We're here love, it's inside." John was prepared for this- He hoped he was prepared for this.
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As it turns out, he wasn't prepared for this at all.
The owner and user of the first Infinity Stone they found was a man Jackson recognized: Charles Xavier. He was a powerful telepath and Jackson warned him he might be evil or at least unhinged, and such assumptions were not far off. Jackson made it impossible for the user of the Mind Stone to take control over their minds, but it did not made them immune to his mental attacks! John was frowning as Charles Xavier pulled them through a portal using telekinesis and teleported them to a desert? They were fighting then and there, Charles was really powerful, even more so with the stone, he sent waves after unending waves of psionic blasts, his telekinesis was strong enough to break bones, but John was not affected by any of the man's attacks.
Jackson was protecting him.
"Why-" A powerful blast of psionic energy was sent their way, it was so powerful that the air vibrated with it, but Charles was a Telepath, his strength was not on brute power but Manipulation of the mind which was always interrupted by Jackson, and any and all damage that would take the annoying sorcerer out was canceled by the annoying dog! Psionic was not magic, so Jackson could not stop it from being used and affecting them, he could, however, helped John not receive any damage from the attacks by taking them all with [Absolute Guardian]!
[Absolute Guardian:
Select a target, you protect that target from (100%) every type of damage that targer would normally take, this is an absolute.]
Every damage that would hurt John's mind damaged Jackson's mind instead while John was undamaged: "Can you, like, just finish him!?" John groaned as he listened to Jackson's question- He was trying! Every time he gathered the energy for a spell, the energy was dissipated forcefully, he was having a hard time trying to cast spells because not only his focus was being broken, any and all spells he was using were being erased or stopped before he could even try! 'It's like Jackson's Anti-Magic-' He stopped because his brain suddenly caught up to what was happening; Somehow Charles was using Anti-Magic like Jackson, which was why he wasn't able to use his magic! 'I need to change the laws of magic-' However, he did not expect for the fact that suddenly there were other enemies to fight, because suddenly there was a spear cutting through his stomach into the ground beneath: "I've came as fast as I could Charles." A man's voice made him look back to see a floating man with a red cape behind his back, he had this weird helmet on his head too which made him look stupid as fuck.
Jackson's stomach suddenly burst with blood as he moved quickly, pulling the spear from John's body, no damage was done to him surprisingly- it was almost as if the spear phased through his body completely! "Love, any time now would be nice!" Jacksom groaned, blood flowing out of his nose as John annoyed, spread out his hands as he started to overpower the Anti-Magic being used on him-
Suddenly, a large, extremely large amount of psionic energy was concentrated in the bald man's forehead- John was confused for a second as to how he was gathering that much power, but the golden-yellow stone on his forehead made it pretty clear: He was using the stone's energy to charge a powerful psionic attack! "Fucker-" John's hand glowed a bright golden light as golden lightning fell onto the man Jackson recognized as Magneto, the other lightning bolt reaching out to Charles, bending the air as it flew out quickly.
The next three things happened:
The first golden lightning bolt hit Magneto right in the head, he couldn't even react as the lightning bolt was a powerful spell which made those who looked at it unable to move! The moment the lightning bolt touched him, his body was turned to dust due to the lightning bolt's explosive heat. Next, Charles released the psionic attack just as the spell hit the Mind Stone, the attack was telepathic in nature so therefore John's mind was attacked while the second lightning bolt flowed through the bald man's body, making him break down as his atoms were separated by the sheer energy of the spell. John had put almost all of his energy into it- He fell in the ground just as Jackson reached out and held him closely: "You're oka-" Jackson suddenly spit out a large amount of blood from his nose, eyes, and ears and fell right before him. John held on to Jackson's barely concious body as he bled from his nose, ears, and mouth- Jackson smiled up at him: "You're okay? Good." Before John could say anything, he saw Jackson's eyes glow a bright blue as he became a large wolf, protectively guarding John.
Jackson had gone feral.
'How?' He reached out with their connection, listening- There was no music, there was no comment, there was nothing but growls and whines, sounds wolves made. "Oh no baby- Why did you do that?" He protected him, he protected him even though his mind was being shattered by the several attacks frok Charles Xavier, he didn't have mental protections on his mind that could keep with those attacks! The white wolf excitedly wagged his tail as he jumped over towards John, nuzzling his nose over his face excitedly like a puppy whose owner just got home, whines of happiness leaving his mouth as he tried to lick him- "I'm gonna get you back baby, I'm gonna." He held the wolf's head on both his hands and pressed his forehead against the wolf's head- It lasted about 5 seconds before wolf-jack started to try and lick him again. "Even though you're slightly adorable like this."
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So, to fix the damage done to Jack's mind, John had to get inside his head and see it before fixing it! He got the Mind Stone on his hand, the pressure on his mind was almost shattering to hjs psyche so he had to put it on something else, so he enchanted a small bag to be anti-theft before enchanting it to stick close to him- Thanks to his magic, he was able to find a good apartment, he shrank Jack into a puppy who couldn't stop wagging his tail every time he looked at him, as if he couldn't stop his happy feelings when he looked at him. John had to put the wolf to sleep so he could enter his mind, he of course placed wards through all of the room so nothing would attack them! Anyway- It was really rough the entry, it was like walking into shattered glass before he came to a... Throne room? Almost like it, but there was several origami dragons flying around and there were dancing flowers, cotton candy clouds above, there were several little toys running around with brooms cleaning the mess of shards on the ground while a little kid sat in the pink plastic giant throne.
"Jack?" There, holding a small piece of paper, folding it until a small dragon was made, was Jackson- But a small kid version of him. "Uhm?" The little boy raised his head before he smiled brightly and rushed towards him: "Love!" He grinned happily and pulled John forward, who came alongside willingly since whenever you meet a mental version of the person within the same person's mind, then they are likely to help you. "Love?" John smiled softly to him as the kid dragged him towards the pink throne: "Yeah, love!" He pointed at him and John smiled soflty- "You're the core, aren't you little one?" The core of oneself is the strongest part of one's mind, the core represents the person as they are, andif Jackson's core is a kid version of himself, then at his core he is a child.
"Yeah! I'm Little Jack! You're Love, you're here to help all Jacks!"
"Help all Jacks?"
"Here-" John opened his hand as the child version of his beloved gave him a pink bag full of these different colored shards of glass: "-All other Jacks got lost! King Jack, the one who controls us all, has left! Big Doggo is on the controls now but I get to play around the Throne room!" Big doggo must be Jack's wolfself, the barest of his instincts! King Jack must be the Hyper Ego, the one who controls the mind at all times- John has only been at a few people's minds, and only 1 of them had different little personifications of themselves. Jackson is the second one he has ever seen! "How old are you, little one?"
"I'm 7! But I'm way smarter than most kids."
"Yes you are." John looked down at the shards again, seeing his confusion, Little Jack said: "Oh! They bring you find all Jacks!" There were about 10 shards there: "Each for each Jack- Logical Jack, Angry Jack, Jealous Jack, Sad Jack, Love Jack, Hungry Jack, Horny Jack, Happy Jack, Memory Jack, and King Jack!"
John didn't know then, the adventure he was going to live.
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