Whitehall and others had a bad premonition when Rogers said that. He was the last to enter the quinjet. The ninjas walked away from the island and stood a distance away from the island as John had directed them to. There were other quinjets hovering outside over the sea to take them away.
John actually let the lords die. Even though he gave free will to all his summons they could never act against John or his friends. So when Hydra first contacted them with the notion of making plans, it was doomed to fail.John later contacted Orochimaru to help him set up bodies and set the whole plot. The lords were led to death because their death didn't really matter to him and it would make the story more believable. Even in his previous life John didn't like the lords.
He will make kages as the lords of the countries. It was better that way and everything would be in better control. The ninjas stood on the water looking out for agents and people who might try to swim away. Some even tried to swim but the ninjas attacked and made them unable to take a single more step outside. Now everybody were desperate.
Most of the members of Hydra present in the island were high level members, like Gideon Mallick, Whitehall, Pierce, Rumlow, Mitchell Carlson and various others. Now they had no idea what was going to happen and they could do nothing to stop.
After Fury and their quinjets hovered few meters away from the island, Tony finally couldn't stand it and said
"Shall we start? I can't wait for these maggots to die."
"Haha.. Fine. Trigger the transmutation circle." John said. Tony clicked a remote button and the next moment everybody could see a red thin lightning all over the island. The red lightning was so bright that it was visible from many kilometres away.
The red lightning didn't actually harm anybody in the island instantly and everybody were confused about what happened. Rumlow who was watching this finally remembered a story and he screamed
"You piece of s**t! You want to make philosophers stone from our dead souls. This is inhumane even for you."
Sadly nobody in the quinjet could hear Rumlow. After couple of seconds as the lightning galloped over the island all the agents died without leaving anything. This was the transmutation circle for making philosophers stone. A stone with which a person can perform alchemy while ignoring the rule of equivalent exchange.
It means a person can create anything out of thin air if he knows alchemy. But the philosophers stone that John had now created would be an incomplete one. In order to make a complete one, probably a country needed to be sacrificed.
After a minute or so when the lightning died, John and others returned to the island. Tony switched off the working of the circle and all went in to the center of the island. John and Tony had drawn the circle long before Hydra arrived at the island. So hydra never noticed the drawings on the ground which was hidden by leaves and sand.
At the center of the island there was a small red stone lying on the ground. John went and picked it up. He could feel the power of the stone already from the alchemic reactions on the tattoos. He snapped his fingers while directing his hands above. Instantly a huge burst of red fire blasted above.
The heat of the fire was so high that everybody had to step behind. The fire reached a massive distance of almost a kilometre.
"So this is the power of philosophers stone. Man the stone in Harry Potter movie is a joke. This is what real power looks like. What are you going to do with it John?" Tony said as he didn't ask for the stone. The knowledge of alchemy wasn't his to belong with.
"Keep it for rainy weather. This experimentation never happened and no records would be made for it." John said as he looked at Fury.
"Yes. This thing never happened. This much power should not ever come in public." Steve said. As he too saw the power of a snap, though John could always create fire before with a snap but this was too much. A kilometre long fire trail sent chills in everybody's spine.
Fury nodded to it as he too felt it was too strong. "Sure on the condition that the stone will only be used in emergencies."
"What do you think of me? A world conqueror? Do you think I have so much free time to do that." John retorted.
"Okay lets go back. We have work to do and you John have a lot of apologizing to do. What are you going to say to the public?" Tony said with a mocking smile. Even though they were friends, in business point of view they were rivals.
"What are you smiling for? Did you forget the new company we just created?" John said.
"Fine.. Fine.. This little head can't even take a joke." Tony lamented.
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Everybody had tons of work to do after the demise of Hydra's top levels. Fury had to make a huge report to the world council about Hydra and the hidden moves he just made without consulting the world council. Of course appointing Bruce as the new secretary would also count itself in the report.
Tony and others were dispatched to kill the remaining Hydra agents. Since almost all the high levels were dead they needed to root out smaller agents before there is unrest in SHIELD. Fury asked for help from the kages and they happily dispatched many ninjas to deal with them.
John assured Bucky's story would be dealt with after proper time. Bucky was taken to an isolated chamber and only Steve had access to meet Bucky. Only Steve could trigger his hidden memories. John knew that getting back to normal would take time so he had just left it to others.
John reached home the next day. He was little trembling inside as he knew that his actions had hurt his father. He knocked at the door of his old home early morning. He had to wait for almost 5 minutes before the door opened.
What presented in front of him was a person who seemed that aged a lot and reeked of alcohol. Jameson looked disheveled and unkempt. John felt very guilty seeing his father in this situation.
"Dad. I am back."
Jameson who didn't even open his eyes properly trembled when he heard that voice. When he finally opened his eye fully and looked at his son, he was struck. The next moment he threw himself to John and hugged him tightly. Jameson didn't want to let go as he felt that he would loose his son again. After minute he finally let go.
"Son. You are back? You are really back? Back alive?"
"Yes dad. Sorry for all the pain. I was on a secret mission of SHIELD. I had to stage my death and make it as realistic as possible. I am sorry to hurt you."
Jameson looked at his son and finally believed his son to be real and that he wasn't hallucinating.
"Dad let's go inside and talk. You need to go and shower. You reek of strong alcohol. Where is Val?"
"Don't teach me what I need to do and what not. Val is at home. I sent her away. She was in tears everyday. It was hard for both of us. I will call her back now." Jameson said as he went to reach out for his phone.
"You should go have a bath first. I will call Val. I will make some breakfast for us."
"Ok. Don't run away again son. I don't want to loose you."
"Rest assured Dad. I will not run away again."
John informed Val to come back. Val was overjoyed to hear the voice of John again and rushed to their home. By the time she reached, breakfast was ready and Jameson came out of the shower looking fresh.
John apologized profusely to both of them and explained why he pulled such a huge prank. The story of Hydra and it's history and how the Avengers needed to stage such a huge net to catch it.
Jameson and Val finally forgave John as it was involved in world security. But Jameson was surprised that John had such close connections with Avengers group. The group of Avengers became famous after the New York War and Tony himself propagated the name of Avengers publicly.
Though he didn't reveal all the people but the people knew that from videos there were Thor, Diana, Bruce Wayne, Hulk and three other people. The most mysterious one was the man in Anbu mask. Most people didn't consider Green Lantern as an avenger as he didn't belong to Earth and his playground was the galaxy. Many people thought like Batman and Wonder Woman this new guy was a ninja but his powers weren't consistent with ninja powers and they were on the alchemy side.
That's why the people were very confused. Though many people speculated that it might be John Jameson, but he was just one of the suspects and there were many suspects.
"How will you deal with the press and public? They won't let you go after the huge prank you pulled on the world." Jameson said while eating.
"I will deal with them as I had always dealt with things. Using half truth." John said. They continued talking of how they managed to catch Hydra. Of course John didn't mention his powers. And conjured a half truth about how Avengers and SHIELD dealt with Hydra.
Though he doubted that John had alchemic powers but he never asked John as he felt it might be invasion of privacy. John was old enough to handle his private matters himself. In fact, Jameson felt proud of his son after what he had achieved of his age.
He had achieved what few people could not even dream in their whole life. If his son was a superhero too so be it.
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