Everybody's eyes went wide when John said the name. It was as if they were struck by lightning.
"How.. How.. How do you know that name?" Luke asked, trembling.
"So she did pass by. Good, bring her here. We need to talk." John ordered.
"Why should we bring a young child here? So that you can torture her?" Barabara asked.
"Do I look like a paedophile to you? Stop with your disbelieving nature. I told you, if I wanted to hurt you, you would have been dead a thousand times. Bring her. I am sure you all have questions about her too. Yes?" John asked.
"How do you know all this?" Moon Knight asked as they were confused with this small girl who showed up at their doorstep yesterday night. The things which she said felt pretty confusing to them.
"I know a lot. You past, your present and even your future to some extent." John smiled and said.
"Bring her. Since he says that he can answer our questions about her, let her face it." Cloak said. A member of the Resistance went out and brought her after a minute or so.
The girl looked like 11-12 years old. Was blonde and she tied her hair from behind. She had a doll in her hand. She was shy so she put her head down. John got up from his seat and bent down to touch her head.
"Hello Layla." John said.
"uhhh.. hiii..." Layla replied in a meek manner.
"I am John Jameson. It's nice to meet you. Do you want a candy?" John introduced himself. He wanted to make the kid as comfortable as possible. So he brought out candies.
"Nice to meet you too." Layla now had a smile as she took the candies from his hands. She put them one in her mouth and her smile became bigger. She really loved the candy that John just gave.
"So Layla, what did you tell these grown ups?" John asked finally.
"I said that this world is a fake one. It's not true. This world shouldn't be like that. But none of them believed me." Layla said with almost tears in her eyes. John looked at her with sadness. She was a mutant but was an orphan.
She was the fail-safe of Scarlet Witch if anything went wrong. It was because of this that she knew everything from the original world. And she knew that this world wasn't supposed to be like this.
"It's okay Layla I believe you." John said.
"Really?" Layla said with almost a twinkle on her eyes.
"Yes. I believe you even if others don't. Now we both know that this world isn't what it is supposed to be." John said. The other members who were listening to the conversation were confused now.
The girl told them that this world wasn't real and was not what it was supposed to be. But they didn't believe her. But since she showed up on the doorstep they couldn't turn away for security reasons, so they let her stay in a separate room.
"Are you crazy or something? What do you mean by this world isn't what it is supposed to be." Clint said as now all were curious about this. John didn't reply to her but instead said
"Cloak, you should roam around the city. I am sure Logan will be causing havoc all around. Bring him. And yes, take out the chip from his body. You don't want sentinels to come after you." John said.
"Are we listening to his orders now?" Clint said.
"Clint, don't get on my nerves. This is the last warning." John said with a stern tone to him. Clint hearing this clenched his bow tighter but didn't rebuke John.
"Why should Cloak go and bring him here? He is a very high level agent of SHIELD." Luke asked instead. He wasn't sure why John spoke of Wolverine but he was curious.
"Because he is on your side! Go Cloak. The way you 'rescued' me, you can do the same for him. Just make sure of the microchip. You will understand why I said so after you go out. Be careful though." John said.
"What Wolverine is on our side? What a joke. A mutant will never side with us." Barbara said.
"They don't. But as Layla said, this world isn't supposed to be like this. Layla knows. And Logan knows too. Go bring him. He can't fight the SHIELD alone." John said. Cloak then nodded and vanished from his place.
"This is dangerous. We are playing with fire." Barbara mumbled.
"You were already playing with fire the moment Cloak decided to bring me here." John replied.
"And to be honest your team isn't much of a Resistance. So few members and you will just die out there. Why not try something else. Layla, do you want to eat something? I am sure you are hungry."
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John then brought out many items from his Gate of Babylon. His noble Phantasm housed many items of food too. So John would never run out of food. His treasure always gets filled with all kinds of weapons and treasures almost everyday so he he would never run out of anything. (this statement is what read of Gilgamesh when I researched, don't know how true this is).
When everybody saw so much food. They were amazed. They were still not sure what John's power was but it was sure a convenient one. All the members didn't live a good life so they salivated seeing such large quantity of food.
"What are you all gaping for? Go. Add chair and table. Eat. Layla and I can't finish this all alone." John said with a smile. All rejoiced as they ran to bring necessary to items and utensils to eat the food that was served in huge plates.
Soon everybody started eating. They didn't care anymore when John came from. All they cared about was food on the table. Surprisingly even Clint didn't hold himself back while eating. John just smiled at it. He brought out a wine too. The exclusive wine from his treasury.
When all others drank the wine they so excited that some had tears. They had never tasted such high quality wine in their life. They felt like Kings.
"What is this wine?" Moon Knight asked.
"It's the king's wine. My exclusive collection." John replied.
"King's wine... fit for its name.." Luke said.
"No offense but can you tell me what your powers are? You can conjure weapons, chains and now even food. What he hell are you?" Barabara asked. This was a question all wanted to know.
"My powers... It's little complex. I am a 2/3rd God, the first ruler of Babylon. I am also the Sorcerer Supreme of my Earth like Strange here. And also I am the Phoenix. These are all different 'personas' of me." John said.
"This is bulls**t. 2/3rd God? Babylon? Who are you kidding?" Clint said. John looked at him with big eyes. That was enough to shut him up.
"You will know when you see me in actual fight. I don't like fighting actually. I don't do it unless absolutely necessary. Like few minutes ago you all forced me to defend." John said.
And as they were talking, Cloak appeared. And this time he had brought Logan. John was surprised to see that the Logan's face matched with Hugh Jackman's. John smiled as the universe really chose the correct face to represent Logan.
This Logan looked very young, as opposed to the face during the movie Old Man Logan. Wolverine looked haggard as there were blood stains on his body and torn clothes. But there were no wounds anywhere.
"You all are eating while I am running around?" Cloak complained after seeing so many food items on the table.
"Dig in. Nobody is stopping you." Luke said having no regard if John gave them permission to let Cloak eat or not.
"Can I eat? I am hungry too." Logan said.
"Come. There is enough for all of you." John replied this time. He didn't mind helping Logan. He was the most straight forward superhero John had ever seen. He wasn't a hypocrite like others and faced the truth with open arms.
Thus both of them joined at the table and started eating. John too joined them and had a hearty meal together. Nobody spoke of any thing and just enjoyed the food. It was too delicious to be talked in the middle.
After half an hour of eating all final was full. Logan ate a lot. He looked like he hadn't eaten for centuries. And of course he loved the wine.
"So I hope all have eaten well. Now shall we start?" John said. He was surprised that Logan was allowed to even sit on the same table as them. In actually story, after Logan was brought Hawkeye shot him on the head. It was probably because Logan rebelled against his fellow agents and Cloak even separated the microchip from his body. And of course the influence of John.
No matter what the people of the resistance couldn't deny that John had a charming effect on them. Thus they believed him so fast.
Except for Clint. He was dead so the charming effect of John had little influence on a dead person.
"Yes we need to talk. First tell me what in the f**king world is wrong with this place? Why is it so messed up? " Logan almost screamed when he asked that.
"Well Logan you already know the answer to that. Don't you?" John smiled as he said that.
Logan trembled when John said that. He had an idea of why this happened but he couldn't believe it. He could never imagine a single person could even do that.
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