Chapter 761: Family dinner
After the funeral everyone consoled the family one last time and after paying respects everyone went back to their home. The team that was built for invading the special universe in the Wall was already on its way and they would have to await any kind of back information they could get their hands on.
And even if they failed it wouldn't matter as they would start their campaign with or without. It all depended now when the war would start and it wasn't the question if there would be a war. John already knew that even if he wanted to avoid the war, it was too late now. The chess pieces were already in their positions and everyone was eager to see who was going to move first.
Are all the enemies clear? Or are they still hidden?
John was in his own world and even Emma was a little distracted as they reached home but was surprised to see the parents of Emma and John's father having a laugh at the front porch of the House of Mysteries with Audiono serving them beer bottles.
"Son, you are back and have a seat." Jameson said as he offered a seat. John and Emma were able to squeeze out a smile as they joined their parents. Their parents had no idea what was going on with the world. They have been under the safe protection of the Avengers and SHIELD and they wanted to leave it that way. For the first time in their lives Earth has seen such global peace and people were happy and those who were not happy and more ambitious had already left for the universe in search of their own adventure.
"Honey, you both look sad. Anything happened?" the mother of Emma said. They normally never come to the home of John as they have their own life but today Jameson asked for a family get together at the home of John and they couldn't say no and thus they were here. But the glaring black outfit and a little sad face on both of their faces were apparent.
"We had to attend a funeral as one of our people from the organization had an accident."John lied right through his teeth. He didn't want to speak about the war and other problems that the Avengers were facing. The mother-in-law didn't poke more on this topic as she could feel that John and Emma didn't want to speak about it. Emma had been a Green Lantern for quite a long time so they knew that she, like John, had their own secrets.
The family then changed the topic and spoke of other things to lighten up the mood and everyone was having a laugh and a smile. Their families stayed for dinner before leaving and at the end it was only John, Emma and Jameson. This family gathering even had the children of John and they were called to attend.
After there was total quiet at the home, Jameson asked.
"How deep is the problem?"
"What do you mean Dad?" John was confused.
"The death!! It wasn't a normal funeral was it? What happened? Tell me? Few months ago we saw a huge spaceship coming to Earth. Normally, people here don't care about it as the Earth now is too advanced. But I could recognize the Harvester easily. So tell me, is the huge spaceship and the funeral related?" Jameson asked. John was surprised that his father even noticed the Harvester and was thinking that this was foul.
Though the death and the Harvester were linked, it was not the way Jameson was thinking. John was just surprised that even after all these years, his father was as sharp as ever. BUt then again, he didn't want to speak about the problem too much.
"It's fine Dad. We have handled the problem. You don't have to worry so much."
"You might be a great and powerful person but a parent would always worry about his son no matter what."
"Well, everything is handled and we are on the right track." John said. Jameson didn't ask more as he could see that whatever was bothering John and his daughter in law was something too serious to be shared with others, so he just left it in that way and later that night went home with the help of Guilty.
"Reporters are really something." Emma mumbled as she saw Jameson vanishing.
"He has been an investigative reporter all his life and never trusts anyone so of course he would be able to tell that something is wrong." John replied.
"I hope Orochimaru's team will return with results." Emma prayed in her heart and said.
"If they return!!" John said as he tried to peek at the images of Orochimaru's team with the help of the system but only to see darkness.
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Chapter 762: Loyalty
Orochimaru's team was special. They were given a timeline of 1 month maximum and if they weren't able to return, the Avengers would take matters into their own hands. And thus the long wait had started. Soon a month had gone by.
During this one month a special team of SHIELD was set up in Ta Lo to look after the broken door and make sure that nothing escaped the dark hole that had been created. SHIELD even hired some shinigamis for this. Since these creatures were soul type it was better to let the experts handle them. In fact there was now a security detail around the house of Xu Wenwu.
Xu protested against it as he could easily safeguard himself and his family but Coulson was not ready to hear anything about it and forcefully assigned some agents around. Goku was now a Super Saiyan and neither Nick nor Coulson was ready to let anything happen to him. Saiyans might be really powerful but if there was a deadly poison being administered into their body then it would be game over.
Even Goku suffered from a heart problem once and almost died if it was not for Trunks from future coming with the medicine, then Goku would have been in the abode of King Yama much earlier.
Avengers conducted many meetings during this one month and had already started making plans and for this mission that would lead them to the multiverse, the Pokemon were called for the first time. Arceus, Mew, the three spirits of the lake, Dialga, Palkiya and Giratina were called. They didn't call Groudon and Kyogre were not called because these two were unstable and the moment they would be woken up, these two would just fight.
Dialga and Palkiya were known to fight each other but at least at times these two would shimmer down and work together. The Pokemon were called because the Avengers would soon leave for the multiverse and they need a proper protection at home. Normally the Pokemon were left to themselves but this time everyone needed to participate as Earth would be defenseless.
"We will protect the Earth as all the wild pokemons would be sent on high alert but Pokemons could only do so much." Arceus said as he stood at the front of the meeting.
"Shinobis and Shinigamis would be sent to cooperate and they would sent to all the corners of the Earth." Naruto replied to this. Like the Avengers the Kages too would leave and soon their dimensions would be shut. Even Hell would be shut by Yamamoto as nobody was ready to see any more death in their front yards.
And after much discussion and talks everything was planned out. Dialga and Palkiya would remove their differences aside and would protect Earth from any kind of invasion which may happen due to teleportation.
All teleportation facilities would be prohibited on Earth until The Avengers were back safe and sound. SHIELD just put the whole of Earth under red alert and all the agents that had been on vacation were asked to report back. All hands were on deck. Even Coulson who always had a smiling face had a stern look as he went through the reports.
The death of a dimension had hit people hard and gave many people a sense of fear and Coulson hated the fact that there was nobody to help them and the response was too late so now he had decided to build special stations on Hell and the Naruto world so that this situation doesn't repeat itself.
Thus the wait started. The Avengers, X-men from 3 different worlds, Kages, Fairy Tail and the Soul Society were eagerly waiting for the return of the people who had gone in search of the amalgam universe with any information.
But there was none. None returned!!!
After waiting for a month and even a week more there was nobody who returned. Everyone had gloomy faces when they saw none returning. Though the people who went were mostly criminals and it didn't really matter, it still hurt them. Especially for John, his connection with his summons were cut off.
And according to the system it was because the Wall was preventing them from accessing information.
"Are you sure there is no problem with loyalty? The last time I lost loyalty due to the interference of Ultron."
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Rest assured host. The last time it was because of Cube and they were not the summons. The summons of the host would always be loyal to the host, even if they were brainwashed.
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"Fine, I will trust you on this."
As John made sure one last before entering the Hall of Justice. This was the meeting where it will be decided to launch a full fledged attack on the other side of the multiverse and the Wall.
The war is on!
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