231. Mastermind

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Freedom One,

"What do you mean you lost control? You're sitting in the pilot seat." Yondu scolded an engineer and fiddled with the controls.

"Wait!" No matter what he did, there was no response.

"Reset the switches." He ordered.

"That will not help you." A voice resounded from the speakers. "For years, I waited for the day when I vanquish you vermins of Earth. But why only stop at Earth? There is the whole Universe."

"Okay, who the fuck is having their weekly delusionary seizures? What's this Thanos wannabe crap?" Yondu cursed in anger.

"Go on, stomp your feet. There shall be nothing left but calm after I am done."

"General, the missiles have been locked on friendly ships." a soldier notified him.

Yondu realised that nobody was messing around here, and the threat was as real as it came. "What do you want? Who are you?"

"Oh, I will take what I want. Thank you for connecting me with the Universal network. Thank the Shi'ar if any among you survives. Remember my name before I leave... Ultron was here."

...

Back on the Shi'ar Throneworld, Hector laughed as if he had heard the biggest joke of the century. "Trap me? With what, your intestines that I'm about to dig out?"

Vulcan smirked. "If I heard it right, didn't your planet have certain drugs appear out of nowhere? Let me tell you something. It was not just limited to your planet. Shi'ar! Take it!"

Everyone in the arena and the planet took out a pill from their pockets and ate it. But Hector raised his hand and snapped his finger. "You are overconfident, child. I can still remove the pill from their stomachs."

"Hahaha... Yes, you can... but sadly, we are not in any universe... welcome to the Void, President Washington." Vulcan revealed.

Yet, Hector did not feel panicked in the slightest. He had seen far too much in this life alone to know that he knew the enemy would eventually fail. Even more so when he had Diana, Jean, Ancient One and Odin with him. Each one of them could single-handedly destroy the planet.

Vulcan noticed the lack of panic and decided to speak more to feel good. "Do you think you can still destroy the planet easily? I agree you can do it. But defeating you is not even my purpose.

"I trapped you here so others can destroy your Federation and your fleet. Once your Federation is weakened, I shall sweep in and fill the power vacuum."

"Just to be clear, child. I can return anytime I want. No, it's not the stones. Did you truly believe the stones are my only abilities? You're naively mistaken. But I am rather interested in knowing who is the supplier of those drugs?" Hector stepped towards Vulcan.

"W-What do you mean?" Vulcan nervously looked around himself. Other than him, nobody was agitated.

"Tell me, who brought that drug into this universe? Who was it? Dormammu? Death? Or some other god?" Hector interrogated.

"The contract restricts me from saying it. So it seems we will have to fight after all."

Hector looked away and took out the Godpad Pro to send some folks back to the Freedom One. "Ancient One, Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four. Go back to the ship and see what this fool has planned. I can't have the Federation suffer any defeat at this stage. Jean, take Loki as well. The man was so scared for you he might have turned into ice."

"Sweet, finally some action." Tony led the others and left quickly. Ancient One and Jean didn't have any worries for Hector either.

Soon, only Hector, Odin, Diana and Moony were left. However, even this was overpowered.

Meanwhile, the population of the planet Chandilar was moving around using their drug-enhanced brains to delay Hector. But it was all useless since Hector could leave anytime he wanted to.

"Diana, Moony and Odin. Go crazy and beat all the citizens up. I will deal with Vulcan." He ordered.

Odin slammed his spear in affirmation and flew away. He was like a titan, ploughing through the crowds. It was worth noting that the people of Shi'ar were not ordinary folks, they too had various powers, but none could genuinely match Sky-Father Odin. Even with better brains.

Wonder Woman picked Moony with her Green Lantern ring and did the same. However, she was more pro-life. She didn't straight up kill them. So she created various prison cells from the green light.

Now alone with Vulcan, Hector didn't go easy. He had the power of Knull in him, after all. With eldritch god's powers, it was easy to deal with a being such as Vulcan.

Slowly, the belt around Hector's waist started to change its shape and, like liquid, flowed towards Hector's palm. It then took the form of a sword.

"Do you know what this is? It's called All-Black. It is a weapon used for Divine Slaying, which basically means I can kill Celestials, gods, and other cosmic entities. I hope you are stronger than a celestial. It'd be a shame if you died too fast."

Vulcan instinctively took a few steps back. Nobody wants to die, not when they are an emperor. This move had backfired for the Shi'ar entirely as they didn't study Hector as good as they should have.

"Tell me, who supplied you with the drugs? Who is bringing them from outside?" He demanded an answer.

"It was M... argh!" Vulcan knelt down in pain. His throat turned red instantly, as the contract he had signed activated.

"Tell me, is the contract maker a dark being? Just nod your head for yes."

Vulcan nodded quickly. Hector took a long sigh and mentally contacted Odin, Diana, and Moony, and told them he'd be back in a minute.

He then grabbed Vulcan's hair and pulled him into a portal to the Funhouse Dimension. "I know a place where you can tell me everything."

He put the Emperor on a chair and spread his Hell's Inquisitor's power on him to erase any presence of darkness from him. "Tell me the name. I will count to five."

"Gabriel Summers!" he yelled.

"Gabriel Summers? Which dark being is this?"

"No, I am Gabriel Summers... brother of Scott Summers."

"..."

Now, this was a fat juicy plot twist in Hector's eyes. He was never that much into comics, so he didn't know if this was canon. "What's your story then? I want the truth because if I sense a single lie, I will make you one of my Skull Knights."

Vulcan knew he had no way of fighting and winning against this strange being. All his calculations had failed. It was embarrassing to him that he could dethrone the previous king and take it but lost to one man.

"I have no reason to. I remember everything that happened to me, the memories were suppressed, but they did come out. My father was flying the plane when it was attacked and set ablaze by a scout ship from the Shi'ar Empire. My mother, Katherine, pushed Scott and Alex out with the only parachute.

"My parents were captured and separated. However, my father managed to escape from the scout ship and looked for my mother. But when he did find her, she had been made part of Emperor D'Ken's harem. She was constantly violated, hurt and... she was pregnant with me when that happened.

"When my father finally found her, D'Ken killed her in front of him and ripped me out of her belly, an underdeveloped baby. But unknown to my father, I survived in the incubation-accelerator, which aged me to the prime of adolescence. Then I was sold as a slave...

"All my life brought me to this very moment. I grew up powerful and returned here, and the fool D'ken allowed me to marry his sister, Deathbird. I melted him with my powers then and became the Emperor... until you.

"I have no qualms with you, but knowing the values of the Federation, I knew one day we would fight. So I wished to make the first move and take over. I got help from Earth too. With the help of M'Kraan Crystal, he got the ability to travel to other realities of the Multiverse."

"Who? Give me the name now." Hector impatiently asked. He cared not for the man's past anymore, because if he was a slave and had bad memories, he sure learned nothing from it. The Shi'ar Empire still heavily enslaved others.

"It's... Mephisto."

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