บท 41: Cosmic Cubes

Princess Fen started to regain consciousness and slowly and slowly she opened her eyes. It was very bright so she had to squint and adjust a little before completely opening her eyes and looking around a completely white room with nothing in it.

She was suddenly having a panic attack as there was no water and she was in an unknown place and in complete anxiousness, she failed to notice that her body had completely healed and she was able to breathe on land without any help.

Tony was in a different room, sitting in a office chair while observing the Crown of Serpent, which was a Cosmic cube in his hands.

He raised his another hand and a similar Cosmic cube which he extracted from Mars after Infinity took away the stones from him appeared.

"These are fragments….With a complete Cosmic cube, one can easily rule the universe. A Cosmic cube rivals the power of the Complete Infinity Gauntlet and these are made by the energy from the dimension of Beyonders and so can't be taken from me like the stones…"

Tony's Iron man suits were retrieving all the cubes fragment which were known in the comics and the quickest he got were the ones in the S.H.I.E.L.D facility.

Jarvis immediately separated the multiple cube fragments which S.H.I.E.L.D collected in an attempt to change the reality itself.

Tony remembered that these fragments, if kept together will merge and become a Omnipresence child named 'Kobik', which he obviously didn't wanted and after watching the screen in his mind which was displaying the fragments from S.H.I.E.L.D, he threw the two in his hands in air making them fall in a portal while he himself got up and started walking outside of his office.

He went in an isolated room which was underground of the Stark Tower and as he arrived, the gates opened and he saw Fen cowering in a corner, sobbing in fear.

"Why are you crying?" asked Tony as he started to walk towards her. Fen immediately looked up towards Tony, who was walking towards her with a warm smile on his face.

Her anxiety immediately went away and her mind eased up as she got up and thanked Tony.

"Were you the one who treated me? Thank you!"

"Yeah yeah...I don't really have time for your bullshit right now." replied Tony as he dismissed the Princess and directly invaded her mindscape.

The Lifeline formula was developed by Homo Mermanus and because she was a pure blood Mermanus unlike her Son, she was taught about the formula as a part of their history and Tony with his extraordinary mind, quite easily extracted the information related to the Lifeline Formula.

'Bingo! The alternate reagent could be the Atlantis seaweed and star plant.'

As soon as Tony got what he wanted, he opened a portal under Fen's feet in which she fell with a splash.

He then went out of his tower and got into his car as his bodyguard Happy Hogan opened the door for him and started to drive.

"Have they arrived?" Asked Tony while looking towards his midnight planetarium watch.

"Yes Sir, they are waiting in the S.H.I.E.L.D's facility for an hour" replied Happy with an unusual robotic response.

Tony nodded and they soon reached the S.H.I.E.L.D's Headquarters.

Everyone present their saluted Tony as he was received by many guards and some S.H.I.E.L.D officials.

Deputy Hill too quickly came in front of Tony and said

"Director S.H.I.E.L.D. They are this way"

"Nope, first let me go and meet Fury" replied Tony brushing past Maria and going towards Fury's room.

Everyone just followed him and they soon reached a medical room in which Fury was kept. His condition was not recovering and Tony showed a concerned look watching him and tried to talk to him. He tried to ask him how he felt but as Fury couldn't reply, he turned to the doctors and talked with them about his treatment.

"Keep me posted about his condition" sighed Tony as he said goodbye to the paralysed Fury and exited the room.

Maria then led the way and they started to walk towards a conference room in which four people could be seen through the glass window sitting and shaking their heads as General Ross was standing there trying to explain something.

The gate to the conference room opened as Tony got near and everyone's attention immediately turned towards him while he went towards the main seat of the table and sat.

"Reed Richards, Benjamin Grimm, Susan Storm and Jonathan Storm…" Said Tony while sitting on the chair and reading a file placed in front of him.

The four sitting their remained quite while Tony raised his head and looked towards them one by one.

"You know why you guys are here?" asked Tony while closing the file and placing it on the table again.

"We will not sign the Sokovia Accords, Dr. Stark" said Reed with a little respect in his almost mocking smile.

"Sure, If you don't want to sign then it's totally okay but then if we find you being vigilante and trying to use your abilities in public, we will arrest you." Replied Stark while signaling something towards Ross who then exited the room with Maria leaving only Tony and the Fantastic Four.

Jonathan Storm started laughing mockingly as all four of them showed the same expression. Susan Storm then looked at Tony while holding a laugh and said

"You can't do that Dr. Stark. Now although I respect you but we decline your nifty little offer and would like to go now."

Tony didn't even reply to that statement and just kept staring at Susan with astonishment.

Susan started to feel uncomfortable as Tony kept staring at her and this made Reed a little uncomfortable too as he said

"Dr. Stark. I think we have already said what we wanted to. We will not be the puppet of Government and would like to do what we do. This is a democratic land and we will not be forced to do anything.

Tony's stare then turned towards Reed which made him even more uncomfortable.

"Man..I never really thought that I will hear words like these from people like you." Said Tony as suddenly the temperature of the room dropped dramatically.

The air started to visibly condense and the breath of everyone became foggy.

"Wha- What is happening!"

Jonathan quickly turned his flames on and tried to reduce the temperature of the room but it was futile as even his nova flames started to extinguish.

"You people thought that just because you got mutated by cosmic energy and recieved some shitty abilities that no one else will have them and you will be the Kings and Queens that can just ignore my authority?" Said Tony and with each word, the temperature of the room kept falling.

Benjamin transformed into his rocky giant form and ran towards the door but before he could slam against the door, it automatically opened and a green hand slapped his head making him fall hard on the ground.

"I really don't have time for any of this bullshit so I will leave you guys to my friend Bruce here. He will explain your roles and what you should do and not do. Just sign the damn accord and be on your way..and yes, from now on, there will be no unauthorized space travel. Every space flight will be logged and approved by me first.

All four of them were getting frostbites which was threatening to cripple them. Tony didn't pay any heed to them and just disappeared from the room after which the temperature in the room became normal again and the Fantastic Four turned robotic for a second and then turned normal too while the frost was still on their hair.

"Where do we have to sign it?" Asked Reed in a normal tone as if nothing had happened and it was normal to sign the accord.

Hulk then turned normal and started explaining them about how they can be called to deal with certain situations as Tony reached Asgard and started to work on the serum.

Jarvis in the other room made a machine which was circulating and purifying the Cosmic Cubes while Tony was working on the Lifeline Serum and soon, the Modified Serum which also had its counterpart, the Devil's breath was ready.

Johnny Blaze was trying to achieve the longest jump on a motorcycle in the world in a certain part of the world when suddenly a red star appeared from outside the universe itself.

It descended upon earth while turning into an old man in black clothes who then appeared in the crowd which was cheering for Johnny in a giant football stadium.