Plan B

I stepped off the ledge and boosted up with my rocket shoes as I gave a playful salute off to the three on the ledge still.

"I'll be back in a flash." I smiled cheekily, ".... And if I don't, well you know what to do!"

I looked over to Pietro and Wanda for moment and shook my head with disappointment and spotted a sour look on Wanda's face as I shut off my rocket boots.

Then, I fell.

Almost immediately, I could see Pietro rushing past Wanda headed towards me and as if she had anticipated it, she swerved to his side and telekinetically grabbed him, holding him in place giving him a look reserved for cats who make it a habit to toss glasses off of tables.

Then with her other hand she extended it to me, trying to catch me too!

I held back my chuckle and stopped her, channeling the effect of the reality anchors onboard the ship to disrupt her magic, disappearing off the edge as her eyes went wide and she rushed to the edge, panicked, arm extended.

Taking the chance, Pietro rushed out while I dove headfirst through the air and got ready to activate the countermeasure.

Pietro ran down the cliff at breakneck speeds, his hand reaching out towards me, his eyes begging for purchase.

But before he could catch me, Wanda reconstituted her power and caught him, like a tether on a bungee jump and she pulled him back up with a yoink.

Dammit!

Why the fuck are you so intent on fucking with me, Wanda?!

I glowered at the sight and gave up on Plan A.

Sure, I could break her hold again but that would tip her off. One time to stop her from catching me?

Justifiable.

Twice, for no reason?

That would be mighty sus.

Fuck it

Plan B it is.

Time slowed down for me, my A.I. chip working overtime to accelerate my thoughts and I initiated it.

.

In one of the microverses, a father and daughter stood, stuck in glass tubes. Each tube had a button and a display on the inside.

As I fell the display began to read out.

One simple instruction.

Press the button within ten seconds and sacrifice yourself to save your daughter or watch her die.

A countdown began and the dad looked at his daughter, unconcious from the electric shocks they had been dealt in the torture chamber for the past month.

She had pleaded at first, but then midway the pleas and sobs became less frequent.

He suspected it was some combination of brain damage and trauma.

But he couldn't be sure without examining her.

A month ago, he was a respected professor at a medical university.

Now....a guinea pig for some alien robot creature. Or so he assumed.

First New York and now this.

He looked at the timer and made a decision.

Reaching out, he pressed hard on the button and gave his daughter one last look.

"Daddy loves you. Live well, Lucy."

Then he disappeared into a neon green pit.

.

As soon as the portal below the father of the duo opened up, I reconfigured my forcefield. A portal, the size of a pinhole opened up behind me, and a microscopic hyper compressed light beam slipped out, blooming out into a blinding flash of light, causing Wanda and Pietro to shut their eyes.

My forcefield blocked it and to me it appeared as if the world had suddenly gone white. Just as planned.

Now, obscured from vision, I flipped in the air, aligning myself to land feet first.

Beneath me I heard a wet squelch and a dull snap as the father crashed into the altar headfirst.

From the ship I could sense the daughter disappearing into an warm orange glow, collapsing into a point mass.

Alright plan B successful!

I closed the portal to the microverse and slammed into the altar next, splashed up in blood, covering my coat and pants.

Just for further perfection though, I smeared some over my head too, making it appear as if I had suffered a head wound before disintegrating the corpse.

Another portal opened up beneath me and I jumped in, just as the blinding light dissipated above.

I appeared on the salt flats on the other side of the planet, where my nano swarm has spotted and infected the little girl.

With a thought they commandeered her body and she walked up to me obediently, handing me the Soul Stone.

Still, I could see the rage and fear in her bloodshot eyes.

I sighed and pulled out the memory eraser gun, flashing the little girl and wiping her memory of the whole experience and implanting new ones.

With a touch, she fell asleep in my arms and I picked her up.

With a jab of CodeRed, I healed the little girl and sent her back to her room, tucking her gently in her bed.

When she woke up tomorrow she would remember her father and her having gone to Disneyland the day before and be happy, ready to lead a normal life again.

One month in the microverse was less than a day in the outer one.

No one would notice they were ever gone.

Now for the father.

After all, I can't have a vengeful spirit as my user interface into the Soul Stone.

"Sorry little one." I said, caressing her head, and opened a portal to a HYDRA base, grabbing a random mook, dragging him out.

Instantly, my nanobots dug into him puppeting him into silence before he could disturb the girl's sleep.

I shushed him with an evil grin and brought out the Soul Stone.

"A life for a life, a soul for a soul." I said.

The Soul Stone glowed a warm orange and the glow washed over the mook, drenching him into the Stone's power.

Slowly his body began to shift, like a million beads stacked on top of each other and restructured itself.

Slowly, like a granulated sugar, it churned and shifted, changing from the HYDRA agent to the girl's father, and he fell to his knees gasping for air.

He looke ddown at his hands, surprised at still being alive.

"Wha-what did you do?" He asked.

"Returned you to your life. Sorry for the ...trouble. If it helps, let me assure you, it was absolutely necessary." I said, pulling out the memory eraser gun again.

"Necessary?! You monst-" He lunged at me only to be caught by my nano swarm.

With a flash his memories were replaced with a corresponding set to his daughter's. Tomorrow he too would wake up feeling sore and remember the supposed trip to Disneyland that they both took.

And as a wealthy, single father of one, with a gated community house and no living relatives bar his daughter, there would be no consequence to this whole thing.

And I got myself the Soul Stone. Guilt free, if not cruelty free.

I flicked my wrist as a kaliedoscopic glow grew out on my palm and the axe Stormbreaker dropped down into it.

I had enchanted it earlier with my Shard and just like the other Infinity Stones in my possession, I could now summon it anywhere across the multiverse.

With a snap of my fingers, I opened a portal and disappeared again, back to the ship.

I had had a long day too and it's time to rest.

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Here's the extra chapter for 600 powerstones as promised!

MC get's the Soul Stone.

And everything ends happily.

Sorry for the shorter chapter.

Slept the whole day and spent the rest half of the day catching up to my studies so...

Well. Anyways, thanks for reading!

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