81 Chapter 81: A Whole New World.
Author: Warning - Cringe Scene Ahead. Proceed with caution.
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*Tik* *Tik* *Tik* The clock's hand-moving sound is heard in the silent living room. Even though the resident of the penthouse had walked out of the house through the front door, the house is now empty.
Bryan Mills, the bodyguard, is stopping two agents from knocking on Ryan's door. "He is not home. Come again later," Bryan said coldly. He only allowed them to enter because they are being extremely polite.
Coulson feels a little helpless. He was instructed to appease Ryan, with whatever the thing he used to do before. Smiling wryly, he asks, "When will he get back?"
"Don't know. He said he is going far away," Bryan answered curtly. Shield doesn't know whether that's true or not. After Hiddle's operation, their trace on Ryan disappeared.
"Could you let him know that we are waiting for him?" Natasha said. It was either this mission or she needed to go to Brazil and find the Oni girl who had been leaving a trail of blood.
The Oni girl threat level is now raised to level 8! It is at the same level as Ryan Knight. But one of those two you can at least talk to. Also, this mission is in New York.
"I will let him know," Bryan said, then he dismissed the duo. The agents walked outside to the SUV.
"This is going to be a hassle. Nat, don't you have anything on him we can use?" Phil asks after entering the car.
"I have only met him a short 3 times. He only pretended to be interested in me during the first meeting. After that, I wonder if any information we have on him is correct." Nat replied begrudgingly. That man can lose interest in her in a short amount of time. It makes her wonder if her seduction techniques are now rusty.
When Natasha shows more strength in assassination and fighting in her espionage skills, she got more missions that focused on her strength. It is a bonus for her to not have to seduce an old man to get information.
"We have time. I am going to go meet Kai. We still haven't talked since he helped us before. Want to come with?" Phil asks with tact.
Natasha had told him about her week with Kai. He is rooting for them, but they are in two different worlds. Like him and the violinist. 'I want to hear her play again…,' Phil wishes in his heart. It's been a long time since he had met her.
Natasha shook her head at the question. " Not now. I still have work to do." She makes excuses. She wanted to go meet the one who is always in her mind, but the thought of parting with him again stopped her from going there.
'He had lost his wife and daughter. I couldn't imagine someone as cheery as him who has a very complicated past.' She had finally seen his file. She thought that his past is the reason he has an obsessive compulsion to save people right now.
Phil shook his head seeing Nat's response. "We will be here a long time. Tell me anytime you change your mind." Phil then drives the car to a safe house. Natasha is silently thinking during the ride.
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On the Hidden Island.
Ryan and Gwen arrived with luggage. Suddenly, Ryan turned to Gwen and whispered to her. "Don't make any noise. We are just going to stealthily get to the hangar."
"Why?" She asks, puzzled.
"I am avoiding Hela right now. Otherwise, she would kill me. Let's go!" He grabbed Gwen's hand and dragged her away.
"Who is Hela?" She asked but was ignored. Hela is at the bowling alley right now. She is scoring strikes with every throw after learning the game. She had her own personal cheerleader team who would clap every time she scored.
Arriving at the hangar, Gwen is shocked to see the ship docked there. She turns to Ryan, "I know you built the batplane because you are a fan of Batman, but if you tell me you managed to make a working X-wing spaceship…then you need to meet a therapist for your obsession."
"That's what you take from this? How about 'You built a spaceship Ryan?' Or 'We will go to space Ryan?' Where did that go?" Ryan teased.
"Don't know. Most of the ability to be surprised was taken from me after you come back from death" Gwen insinuated. She still isn't letting go of his fake death in the sea.
Ryan smiles helplessly before he says with renewed confidence, " If you think that makes you lose the ability to be surprised, then you are very wrong."
They are loading their luggage from the ship. "Gwen, there is still something else to do before we start." Ryan had planned something for her.
"What is it?" She is listening attentively to what Ryan had to say. This is her first space travel, she is very nervous on the inside."
"Ehem. I need help to do this. Red Queen, will you please." He is getting ready. Gwen is very puzzled seeing his behavior.
"I am always ready, but are you sure you want to go through with this?" The Red Queen makes a confirmation.
"Yes. I am sure. Please start." Ryan ordered.
"(Sigh) I will do so now." The audio system in the hanger is playing an introduction to a song. Gwen automatically knew what the song was. She grew fearful of the situation.
"Please don't." She begged. 'Why the hell did I mention that to him!'
♩♪♬♩♪♬♩♪♬♩♪♬♩♪♬♩♪♬♩♪♬♩♪♬
Taking a deep breath, Ryan starts singing.
"I can show you the world…"
Gwen is extremely embarrassed seeing this. She holds her hand over her face and peeks from the gap of her finger. Ryan smirks at her and continues.
♩♪♬♩♪♬ "Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, Princess
Now when did you last let your heart decide?"
He takes Gwen's hand. It was forcefully pried away from her face. She had to deal with the consequences now. She couldn't stop grinning.
♩♪♬♩♪♬ "I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways, and under
On a magic spaceship ride."
He takes her above board the spaceship and launches it up. *Zoom* Quickly they exited the earth's atmosphere.
♩♪♬♩♪♬
"A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming…"
"Come on Gwen, your turn," Ryan whispered to her eyes. Her eyes are now fixated on the beauty of the universe.
"Could I not?" She asks pitifully.
"No. I did this for you." Ryan asserted. She finally gave up and started to sing her part.
♩♪♬♩♪♬ "A whole new world!!" Gwen sings beautifully. Ryan is extremely happy hearing her voice.
♩♪♬♩♪♬ "A dazzling place I never knew
But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
That now, I'm in a whole new world with you"
She turns to Ryan and locks eyes with him. "Thank you," she kisses him. Ryan asked her what she wanted on her birthday. It was in March, now it's July. But he keeps his promise.
Her all-time favorite movie is Aladdin which Ryan brought to life. Her wish is to ride a magic carpet. She just wishes playfully, and never had she imagined Ryan actually doing it. But a magic spaceship isn't inferior to her wish, right?
They finished singing the song. By that time, they are already near their destination. Gwen rubbed her eyes because she thought she was seeing something wrong.
"Are those trees? On Mars?" She saw a transparent, semicircular dome with a radius of 500 meters. Inside, there are trees, flowers, birds, bees, and many more lives.
Ryan had made a biodome on Mars where he studies the planet and life's reaction on another planet. There is also a research lab he sets up inside. The place is ideal for him to conduct dangerous experiments, away from Earth.
He bought the biodome at the price of 5M tc on the system. It is used by colonists on other planets to support their lives there. It mimicked the environment of earth and can grow up to 50 times its current size.
"Won't the people on earth see this place?" She asks.
"No, I had made some interference in their observation." He replied. This isn't the first time he had done this type of thing.
The biodome opened a hole for the X-Wing to fly in. "We've arrived!"
Thus began his month-long vacation in outer space!
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New York, Earth.
Phil is going over to Kai's house to score some free drinks like he is a hot girl at a bar. Kai isn't home at the moment, so he walks to the clinic.
Kai is tending to a patient right now. She is a young, 16 years old girl. Her black hair is unkempt, she is biting her nails. Her eyes kept shifting around the clinic, searching for someone.
Her mother is next to her. She is pained by the way her daughter is right now. When she was on vacation, she left her daughter alone. The day she came back, she saw her daughter had become this way.
"She claimed someone had raped her. But police show no sign of breaking into the house. Even her body shows no sign of being violated. I don't know what to do doc! Please help me!" The mother is crying for help.
Kai turns to the daughter. He asks several questions, but the kid is traumatized by the man. " Does he order you some things, and your body moves on your own?" Kai realized something.
The question triggered the girl."Please don't. Please help me! He says he will come back! Please!" The girl gripped her head. She had a panic attack and started to throw down everything in the clinic. Kai had to sedate her.
At that time, Kai sees Phil is in the clinic. "What's going on?" Phil asks. Something seems to be strange here.
"Nice timing Phil. I think this is a Shield matter." Kai said. This is the doing of someone who he absolutely hates.
"There have been several cases of young women becoming like this. They reported to have been raped, but there is no evidence. They all can't seem to talk about the perpetrator's face, as if they are ordered to forget it." Kai explained.
"I just came to get some drinks." Phil sighs. It is just a joke. He knows that he has to take this seriously. Kai's instinct in this matter is very precise.
"We are dealing with a superpower here," Kai announced coldly.
"We? Are you going to get involved?" Phil is very surprised. He thought Kai would just throw this matter to Shield.
"Yeah. This time I will come along. The guy had dealt enough damage already," It is an unforgivable action for Kai.
The man had to be dealt with quickly and fatally. His blood boiled. The rapist had signed his death warrant today. Phil can feel the terrifying pressure emanating from Kai.
'What the hell did I get myself into?' The agent quickly reported the situation to the headquarters.
"After this, we are going to get some drinks?" Phil asks.
"Sure. I have some new ones. Also, did you come alone to New York?" There is someone that Kai would like to meet. A person who he had spent two weeks with. 'I miss her.'
In a bar filled with thugs, a British man well dressed in a suit walks through the scary-looking crowd. He said to the toughest guy in the bar.
"Tell your Master, I want to meet him." He said normally.
"Piss off punk," The thug disdains the weak-looking man. The British man smiles.
"Beat yourself up," He commanded.
Before the thug could beat up the British man, his body moves on its own. His arm swings at his face, punching his nose till it is bloody.
He keeps beating himself up. The other thug retreated from the British man. They felt fear looking at the ridiculous scene.
"Tell your Master, the Kingpin, that Zebediah Kilgrave wants to meet him." The man asserted his command. The thug did not refuse him this time.
A few blocks away. A brunette in her 20s is finally going to do something with her power. Inspired by V, she is going to save the people with her superpower.
"Come on Jessica Jones. You got this!" She reassured herself. This is going to be her first day of becoming a superhero!
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On Mars Biodome.
"We are going to become the first couple to make love on Mars!" Ryan yelled loudly!
"Are you crazy?" Gwen is startled by the sudden announcement.
"Haha, What are you afraid of? Someone to hear us? We are the only ones here." He said teasingly. After Ryan parked the X-Wing inside the biodome, he had unloaded their luggage to the wooden cabin in the center of the dome.
She then realizes it. They are the only ones here. She also notices Ryan's naughty look.
"Didn't you say we are going to do some research here ?" She says, a little embarrassed. The title does sound good, but she didn't want that to be her greatest accomplishment.
Ryan takes off his space suit and his shoes. He walks on the grass in his bare feet. "Research plus vacation."
Gwen does the same, but she took off a lot more than Ryan. She is now only in her underwear. "We are the only ones here, right?" She said teasingly. Ryan is very excited that he is practically drooling.
There are only birds and bees, and a human pair that looks like they are stuck together on the greenery of the biodome. After a day of being stuck together, finally, the enhanced couple is fulfilled.
They start to go to the research lab and do an experiment. "The focus of the experiment is to alter the tree potion to make a terraforming potion. My trees can live on Mars because of the biodome. I want to make it live outside." Ryan explained his research focus.
"There is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But the environment isn't ideal for the trees. We also need to study the soil." Gwen quickly gets to work. She is studying the data on the tablet.
They were inside the lab for two days, before they went outside. Gwen sees something weird when she is out. "Huh, some of the trees have fallen."
"Huh, that's weird. There wasn't a sandstorm last night. Maybe the soil couldn't support it." Ryan makes a hypothesis.
She felt a little ominous. "Maybe." Outside the biodome, Gwen's figure is reflected on a reptilian-looking pair of yellow eyes."Grrr" The creature is breathing heavily while looking at her.
The next day, when they left some food outside for a moment before they came back with the drink, they noticed that the food was gone.
"This is… a little disturbing," Ryan said. They couldn't find an explanation for the occurrence. Whatever it is, Ryan thought he could cope with it, so it didn't bother him very much.
A shadow is hidden within the trees, looking at Ryan with hate in its eyes.
They shook off the nerves and decided to have a good time to release the stress build-up. The biodome becomes cheerful again. Birds are chirping. Bees are buzzing. Humans are f*c…sleeping. All is well.
The next day when they went out. "What the" Ryan yelled in surprise. His X-wing spaceship! It is now broken! Not only that, the signal tower that is connected to the earth is also broken!
Gwen became pale. They are now stranded on another planet. And most importantly, it seems like they are Not Alone there.
Author: Tomorrow there will be a side story with the chapter! Also, I watched enough movies to know that if you go to a cabin in the middle of knowhere, the movie will be a horror theme.
