Chapter 758: The void
Shang Chi was already ready with his rings after he passed through the waterfall. From inside the cave he could already see the dead animals that he loved roaming about. His rings were already shining on both his arms with an orange color light.
But he stopped in his tracks as he saw John and Strange floating high in the air with 2 huge creatures being held down by what looked like transparent chains and spears. This would have looked cool in any other time but not today.
Meanwhile, Goku was done with the massacre of the whole population of the soul eaters and even not leaving the ones who were trying to escape from the place they walked in he flew down to the place where his family just arrived nearby the floating John and Strange.
John and Strange still hadn't opened their mouths to speak. Even if Strange hadn't seen the family with his own eyes before, he had seen Goku and Xu. Xu' rings were under the supervision of Kamar Taj after he became the Asgardian God. Plus, he had been briefed by John before about Xu.
Thus he knew that this moment from the family was tragic and it was better to stay silent.
Goku floated down slowly with tears in his eyes and hugged his mother. It was all rage as he killed the soul eaters but now there was sadness. He was feeling immense sadness. The fact that Goku had become a Super Saiyan didn't invoke any feeling of surprise among the feelings in the family.
His mother could already feel from the eyes of Goku that her sister and her people from the village were dead. There was nothing that could be done now. She, like Goku, was devastated. They both cried together and her other two children joined her and hugged the mother.
Xu just stood there with a stoic expression but his eyes too were a little wet. He had seen many deaths in his life and that included his subordinates too but her family was the closest family he had and now all were dead. Like Goku he too felt anger and was almost ready to pinch at the body of these creatures that had invaded this sacred land.
"Shenron is dead too, Mom!!" Goku said. His words made the others more sad but there was nothing to be done.
After almost 15 minutes of crying and holding on to the bodies of Jiang Nan and Shenron, all of them wiped off their tears. Even Xu wiped the last bit of water in his eyes with his elbow. Goku and Shang-Chi had started walking towards the last bodies of the soul eaters. They were still pinned down by Strange and they had been constantly roaring loudly. They could feel that their end was near.
They had seen the horror that these people had killed their kind and now they were on the other side of the bridge. But instead of fear, all they showed was hatred for the other kind.
"We didn't expect your kind to have such strong warriors."
Those words rang on the minds of all that was nearby. This surprised John and others. In the movie, Xu Wenwu was seduced by the telepathic words of the monsters and thus he led an expedition to bring the door down. John had always thought that the creatures weren't smart enough to talk. They might be intelligent but not enough but now it seemed that he was wrong.
These savages did know how to talk.
"And for your sacrilege I will kill you in the most cruel way possible. You killed my family and for this there is a special torture that I will inflict upon you." Shang-Chi said as the rings flew away from his hands and had started rotating around him as he was going to inflict some pain before killing these beasts. The soul eaters didn't ask for mercy.
But it was Strange who came down and stopped the first attack of Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi seeing the famous Doctor Strange standing between him and the soul eaters made him more angry.
"Doctor Strange, I know you are a respected member of the Avengers and a magician who is on par with Dr. Fate, but you better not stop us in this crusade or else me and my brother here will not hold back."
"Calm down, Shang-Chi. We stopped you not because to stop from getting revenge but to get more answers. They came through the doorway and from what we can tell, the other side of the door is the Void. That means the creatures came from the void. The void had been a dangerous place recently due to the break of the Wall. If these creatures really came from the Wall, then we would need to investigate who sent them and what did they want." John explained the reason of why Strange had stopped him before.
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Chapter 759: Happy ending
"What is the void? What is the Wall?" Shang-Chi and the rest were confused, but only Xu had a grave face when John explained to him. Only Xu was the one who was always updated with the secrets of the Avengers and their recent move to train a huge army.
The army on any other day would be easily able to conquer this universe and take over any empire. The Hala Empire, the Nova Empire won't even last a few months if the Avengers decide to attack them. But he knew that their realities were at stake at the moment. Though he did not attend all the meetings that Avengers had convened, he had a general idea of the problem that they were facing.
Hearing about the Wall sacred him a bit to be honest. Mostly because of his family. He wants to save his family from the upcoming war. And it seems like unknowingly they have stepped on the battlefield.
"Is this our first contact in this multiverse?" Xu asked, ignoring the question of Shang Chi and Goku's anger. He hadn't informed them of the inner workings of the world and this would need time. Though they had watched the series when it was released, the children didn't think much of it, other than the fact the story was great.
Later he would need to explain to them what was going on in the world.
"I don't know. We can't be sure if they belong to the Wall. We will have to take the body to the laboratory, killing them would just make the bodies vanish. These two soul eaters can actually speak. I am sure the science department would love to uncover secrets from the void and hopefully from the Wall itself."
When the soul eaters talked about the Wall, they started flopping around with more power and started screaming and Strange had to use more transparent mirror dimension fragments to hold them down on the ground.
"So from the reaction I guess they are from the Wall." Strange commented after performing his magic. They were sure that the soul eaters had heard John mention about the Wall twice now and they got agitated.
"You can take them away and I hope these creatures will serve its purpose for the war." Xu answered without having a second thought. He had been in countless war in his life and he knew what intelligence was and its importance so he didn't let his emotions cloud his judgement at the moment.
"Dad, What are you talking about? I don't want the Avengers to take them away and I want them to die." Shang-Chi was not ready to compromise. His eyes were red at the moment and all he needed was revenge against the beings that hurt his family.
"Shang, calm down, I will explain everything to you once we get home. For now let the Avengers take away these two. We have a long war on the horizon and it is time you know the invasion that we might be facing soon. Goku, you too." Xu said as he started walking towards the dead bodies.
They needed to give proper respect to the people who died as they had been dead for quite some time. His wife was still in tears. His daughter too was not ready to accept the death of her loved ones and she just went and sat near the dead body of Shenron.
John sighed seeing this. This was the first major loss they had suffered. Since the Wall had broken, one of the 3 John, Strange or Thor would always have their omniscience on so that they could peek into the working of the 10 realms and the universe and make sure there was no breach of any sort.
But they didn't expect the breach in the attached dimension. The dimensions had always been special and their powers never worked on them. Finding a specific thing was fine but having knowledge about them at all times was impossible. Strange was the first to be alarmed about the breach as the magical defense of the Earth was shaken when one of the soul eaters accidentally poked on the barrier.
He didn't think much at first as there were always signs of poking on the barrier from time to time from the beings of different dimensions. It was when Goku turned super saiyan that he realized that something was wrong as the poking of the barrier happened to be near the place where he felt the power of Goku.
By the time he arrived Goku had already started the massacre and John was alarmed due to his system saying that Goku had turned super saiyan by himself.
John went forward and gave a big hug to his summon. Bringing him here, it was never his intention to make life hard for his summon. He wanted everyone to have their own life but it seemed like this wasn't possible anymore.
Not everyone would have a happy ending.
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