"Yes I am here. Go on, spit it out." John said without much care. Being a tycoon he had to show some arrogance.
"You are hereby ordered to present yourself for the Senate Arms Service committee in a week." the man said without much expression in his face.
"It's finally here. I have been waiting for you." John said with a smile. This time all were surprised when they heard it including the man who came with the subpoena. "I will be there on time. I guess Tony too will be served the same one. Right? It doesn't matter. Thank you by the way" John continued.
The man thanked him and left.
"Are you sure you can handle it alone? I can use my connection to find something dirty on the senate committee." Jameson said with worry in his face.
"Dad did you think I built an empire for money? No Dad. I made my empire to handle situations like this committee. I have long known that the politicians will come after me. My empire is one of my ways of handling them. And no, I don't want you to interfere. That committee has people with whom I don't want to be in conflict yet. Even though I don't care about their existence I prefer not to be seen by them." John said as he remembered that the committee had members of Hydra. He didn't want them to know his real situation yet.
"Fixit come with me. We have work to do tonight." he said.
"Sure." said Fixit after transforming himself.
After coming to the room John took out three drawings that he drew recently.
"Tattoo these drawings in both of my arms and the small drawing over my hand" he said to Fixit.
"Ok but it might be painful." Fixit said
"It's fine. I am ready for it." said John.
The next day John packed the books and took them to the Bee's trunk he went out of his home. He now had three tattoos on his arms and hand.
He needed to deliver a promise he made to someone. Soon he came to Bleeker Street. After taking out a bag full of books he knocked on the New York sanctum. Drumm opened the door.
"You are here again? Meeting with the ancient one?" Drumm asked after seeing John. Drumm always felt weird about John. John had such a huge empire and he was probably the only person who got the freedom to meet the ancient one whenever he liked.
"Yes Master Drumm. I hope you can inform her." John asked politely.
"The ancient one told me that you can go to Kamar Taj directly whenever you come." Drumm said to him directly.
It was evening at New York so when he crossed the door towards Kamar Taj it was morning in Nepal. He saw many people practicing magic in the courtyard and then he saw someone he knew from before.
Casilias. He was stunned. John really wanted to change himself and throw a kunai at his face to avoid future trouble.
"John come with me instead of spacing out." A voice from afar came. John who was clenching his fist and contemplating he let go of his thoughts after he heard the voice. The people who were practicing looked at John with curiosity.
They had never seen a normal guy coming to the temple and from the voice of ancient one. They felt he was quite close to the ancient one from her tone but had never seen him before.
John gave a last glance at Casilias and left for the main hall. After sitting near the ancient one he was served tea again like last time. He really loved the tea.
"What happened? Did you want to kill Casilias?" the ancient one said
"Yes." said John without hesitation.
"He is important for Strange. Before he comes you can't touch Casilias." the ancient one reminded.
"Fine. It's just I don't want you to die." John said. She just smiled and didn't say anything.
"Why are you here? New world's emergence?" she asked instead.
"No. Last time I told you I will help you in guarding earth. This is my help." he said while handing out a big bag. It weighed a lot as it had many books. He wanted to help the ancient one as he felt his butterfly effect might effect the defense of earth. So he wanted to add more security for the mages.
The ancient one opened the books and started reading. The more she read the more astonished she was. This knowledge was powerful and dangerous. The she saw the tattoos on John's hands.
When she first saw those tattoos she felt weird because it never occurred to her that John had a thing for tattoos. But now when she saw the tattoos on his hand she had a different expression on her face.
She started reading more into the books with more concentration. After reading for over an hour did she finally put her head up and looked at him.
"You will have to practice the science which you used on your hands. That power isn't simple and I hope you don't forget the theory of equivalent exchange." she said to John with a very serious expression.
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"Of course I know how dangerous is it's powers. Didn't you watch the anime I made?" John asked her.
"You think I have a lots of free time to watch all your works?" the ancient one retorted.
"You really are a monster. You figured out my tattoos with just an hour of reading. No wonder you are sorcerer supreme." John murmured under his breath.
"You want me to keep the books?" she asked speculatively.
"Yes this is my help for now. Of course don't share the core information. That will be dangerous. Such knowledge shouldn't be known to anyone." John said.
"I know. I will make sure that only sorcerer supreme will have access to it's core knowledge. Thank you John. This knowledge will help generations of mages. This is a great help" the ancient one said with all sincerity.
"It's fine. If there are people who comes to the universe which has magical powers in future I will notify." he said with a smile. Then they discussed on the new knowledge, even though she didn't have in depth knowledge she could figure out the general directio of the science involved. After an hour of discussion John felt sleepy so he excused himself and left Kamar Taj. She even asked him if he wanted to learn magic.
John didn't have so much free time for now. If he has in the future he might try to learn.
The next morning John left for LA to meet Tony. After he reached his home he went directly to the laboratory. He noticed that the laboratory has become bigger than last time and it had two separate sections. One section looked extravagant and the other looked a little gloomy. John immediately knew that this two have separate laboratories now to work on their projects.
"Hey John. You are back. Wait what are those? Tattoos? You like tattoos? You never seem like that kind of person." Tony said as he came to greet John after finishing his work.
John could see many small robot like creatures working on the table.
"You seem like you have are using the full force of the cube to your advantage." John said and from the corner he saw Bruce coming out from his laboratory with a robotic dog following him.
"Yeah thanks to you our work has become easier and faster." Bruce replied to that.
"By the way you didn't watch my new series?" John asked.
"Of course we did. Your anime is very colorful. Specially loved 'Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood'. I loved the whole plot. I cried so many times after watching some scenes. Specially when Colonel Hughes died and her daughter crying on his funeral." Tony said with sadness. "It must be very saddening to see such worlds in dreams but can't do anything to stop them" Tony lamented.
"It's fine. I am used to it by now. Since you have seen the series don't you know what my tattoos represent?"
They both were surprised when they heard it. They both came close to see his tattoos and then Bruce suddenly realized something and said
"You used Scar'a alchemy and alkahestry? And that tattoo in your hand? Flame alchemy? From Roy Mustang?" Bruce asked with doubts. John clapped instantly
"Yes Bruce it is exactly as you said." John said.
John made those tattoos after gaining knowledge of them from the world of Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood. It was a world where science was based on transmutation circle and the theory of equivalent exchange. John's right hand could perform decomposition which means if he wanted, whatever he touched, be it organic or inorganic, it would decompose. And the left arm could reconstruct. Any material could be reshaped to any form of the corresponding material. He could make a spear out of bricks if he wanted. Of course it would take practice. And the last tattoo on his hand was flame alchemy. With just a spark he could make fire and attack enemies with fire. Same as Roy Mustang, the flame alchemist in the anime. Since fire uses oxygen for burning and spark giving the initiation the theory of equivalent exchange stood valid.
"My god now you have the knowledge of their world. Wow. Now you can finally use powers. Can you teach me alkahestry? I would love to know more about it and see if it could cure my poisoning." Tony asked with enthusiasm.
"I am here for two reasons. One for the senate hearing tomorrow, I am sure Tony got it and secondly to share the knowledge of alchemy and alkehestry." John said.
Tony was instantly excited as that would mean another means to get stronger. As for the senate hearing, he didn't really care. He just needed to hack on their servers and bring out their dirty work. Both of them are powerful and influential people. The senate can never force them to do anything.
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