Correcting The Future

As long as Coulson and others told him the exact time when they were taken, Kol could easily do a spell to send them all back to their original time, and even go along with them.

However, just because they went back and corrected their own timeline, it didn't mean that this timeline would cease to exist. It was a parallel world.

Whatever was left of the humanity here was enslaved by the Kree, and Kol couldn't just let this go on. He wanted to correct it, and perhaps change this situation in humanity's favor before going back with Coulson and the others.

However, it was easier said than done for several reasons.

Kree technology was very advanced, if compared to the twenty-first century Earth, then many would even call it magic.

It was still far from being any danger to Kol of course, but considering that the Kree already possessed Gravitonium and were still here only for the Inhumans, to harvest Inhumans, it was only logical that they would have more than one contingency in place if this superpowered population ever dared to rebel against them.

That meant that if Kol tried to brute force his way through this, then the Kree could retaliate by wiping out what was left of humanity with the push of a button.

So from the beginning, he knew he would have to play the long game.

Until he met Deke.

Deke Shaw was a scavenger, a native to this time, and he could do anything to survive in this cruel world. He was selfish and untrustworthy, and Kol knew exactly how to make use of him.

Kol knew from the beginning that Deke would eventually sell them out to his masters here, the Kree, to earn their favor and profit.

So he made up a story about them being from Hala, Kree's homeworld, and being sent here by Taryan to investigate his son, Kasaius.

Taryan was the master of House Kasius, a noble house of Kree that was overseeing the humans here and harvesting Inhumans from their population.

Kasaius, the youngest of Taryan's children was the one in charge of all this.

However, from what Kol gathered from the Kree men he tortured earlier, despite his position, Kasaius was never trusted by his family. He was always looked down upon and was considered incompetent, no more than a failure.

In other words, Kasaius's position as the overseer here was also an excuse for his exile.

He harbored a high degree of bitterness regarding his exile and was motivated above all by his own interest, which was earning a great fortune to win his father's favors.

Because his father's recognition mattered to Kasaius above all else.

Therefore, it was only understandable that when Deke went to him, offering to sell information about people sent here to spy on him by his father, Kasaius believed it without question because it seemed like exactly the kind of thing that his family would do.

After Kol, Coulson, and others came out of the spacecraft, they went straight to the floor where human settlements here lived.

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Coincidentally, as soon as they arrived in a place that looked somewhat like a small market, the Kree showed up to distribute rations and check everyone's tokens.

Past a certain age, tokens were planted inside the wrists of every human here.

Besides the tracking and making it easier to trade credits through them, Kol hadn't figured out their other functions yet, but he was sure that there was more to these tokens than just that.

As they were wandering around, the people around them started shifting, and the crowd started moving in an orderly manner.

"Something's going down.", May commented.

Kol replied, "It's the Kree making their move. Looks like our little birdy successfully delivered the message.".

"I'm still not sure if I support this plan... but for now... we need to first worry about survival, so it's better to find out more about this place.", Coulson commented.

Just at this time, a few Kree walked in with a human servant.

They were led by a Kree girl, and judging by their posture, it seemed like she held an important position.

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After coming in, she and the other Kree stayed on a platform on the side while the servant moved towards one of the open pipelines in the corner.

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Then he turned around to face the crowd, and started speaking, "Today, Kasaius has seen fit to feed the most vulnerable amongst us...".

Jemma commented in low voice, "We've hit the North-Korean-dictator level of creepy...".

The others nodded in agreement.

Kol was observing the Kree girl and trying to ascertain her identity with what little information he possessed, "Alright! Everyone's clear about what to do, right?", he asked.

Daisy replied with an eye roll, "Yeah yeah we get it. Look for anything that can be used to kill these people... This isn't our first rodeo you know... we're professionals at this by now.", speaking sarcastically.

By this point, Kol had finally confirmed the identity of the Kree girl.

She was Sinara, the right hand of Kasaius, hot, but diabolical, had some sort of telekinetic ability that she used to control two metallic balls the size of table tennis balls that she kept playing within her hand.

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Kol nodded at Daisy's reply, and spoke, "Yeah... any sort of contingency that the Kree might have that even Kasaius may not know about, like a super bomb in the walls or something... and while you're at it, Coulson and others will find out where Vergil lived, search the place, and find out what he had planned for us to do here.".

After speaking, Kol nodded at Coulson and started walking. Soon his back disappeared into the crowd.

By this point, the speech had ended, so the servant took a few steps back, and then one of the pipelines started pouring out grains.

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As soon as it did, the people went mad. All the order and discipline that they showed until now was thrown out of the window.

They started pushing each other aside, shouting and cursing, trying to be the first to collect their ration.

On the other hand, Kol approached Sinara from behind and tapped on her shoulder from the right, but when she turned around to look back, Kol was already at her left.

He then spoke in her ear, "Hello beautiful!", in a cheerful voice.

But this startled Sinara as she took a step back, and immediately turned around to her left to find Kol.

But without minding her reaction, Kol continued, "You must be Sinara. Hi, I'm Kol. I was wondering if you could do me a solid and take me to meet Kasaius. I have this great opportunity that I think would...", but he was interrupted.

One of her Kree bodyguards reached out to grab Kol's shoulder to push him back.

However, before his hand could touch him, Kol caught it, and "Crack!", with the sound of a bone breaking, Kol broke his wrist.

"Aahhhh!!", he screamed and went down on his knees in pain.

This startled Sinara. She immediately became cautious and got ready for a fight, while her other bodyguard raised his weapon to point it at Kol's head.

But Kol looked as unperturbed as ever.

With a smile on his face, he pointed his finger at where the ration was distributed, and spoke, "Oh, look! Your slave is dying.".

The situation over there had become even worse as two guys who were arguing, suddenly started fighting each other.

One of them took out a knife to stab the other, but the other guy dodged, and as a result, the servant who was standing behind them ended up getting stabbed in the gut.

After coming back to his senses, the culprit had an expression of pure horror. He immediately took a few steps back and fell down in panic while looking at Sinara who was now turning back.

And by the time she turned around to look back and assess the situation, the culprit with the knife was already running away.

She raised an eyebrow and narrowed her eyes in annoyance, then the metallic balls, as if controlled by an invisible force, started floating above her palm.

As the guy was running away, he started feeling like he escaped certain death, but unfortunately for him, as he was getting further and further, the metallic balls were rotating faster and faster above Sinara's hand.

Then, "Swoosh!", they pierced the air to chase after him, and before he could leave the premises, "Bang!", his head was bashed in.

Then he fell in a shower of blood and brain matter.

Then the metal balls returned to Sinara.

She caught the first one, however, the second ball never reached her hand.

Kol caught it first in mid-air, and spoke while observing it, "Imbuing your psychic energy into these seemingly harmless pieces of metal to turn them into terrifying objects of murder... Consider me impressed. Such fine control should take years to achieve.".

Sinara didn't reply, she wasn't the one with many words, but her eyes did narrow in reply, then Kol felt the pull on the ball in his hand increase by a few fold.

But he didn't let go, and continued, "However... such psychic powers...", as he was speaking, Sinara was trying harder and harder, "They have tremendous potential, and using such objects... maybe it served you well against those without it, but overall, you're just dampening your own potential.", and with those final words, he let go.

By this point, Sinara had almost strained herself to the limit, and Kol didn't just release the ball but flicked it at a certain angle.

With just enough force behind it, and at an angle just right, "Bang!!", the ball flew out and got planted in the head of that Kree warrior who was pointing his gun at Kol.

With a spray of blood, his body went limp as he dropped dead.

"Oops! You should've been able to stop that.", Kol commented mockingly.

This immediately startled anyone who was watching, but not many people were looking here because of what was going on with the servant.

By this point, the other Kree warrior whose wrist Kol broke earlier had stood up and was ready to attack, but before he could jump to his death, Sinara ordered him to stand down with a gesture.

Seeing this, Kol continued, "It's good that you can see reason darling... Now, about taking me to meet Kasaius...", but was interrupted.

"You can come.", Sinara replied with an expression of indignation.

As soon as Kol approached her, Sinara was already aware of his identity.

She was the right hand of Kasaius, and she was quite observant. Kol didn't have a token implanted on his wrist, neither did he have any scars there to show one was ever there.

Something like this was not only unusual but impossible here unless he came from outside this colony.

Sinara knew of this information from Deke and was only showing a hostile attitude as a temptation, to confirm the situation.

Kree was a warrior race, to the point that they preferred cold weapons over firearms, they were all but savage barbarians. So with the attitude that he showed, it was easy to assume that Kol easily passed her test.

Just at this time, "Hurry up! I need to cauterize his wound.", they heard a voice.

This was Jemma's voice.

As Kol and Sinara were getting to know each other, Jemma was trying to save that servant's life.

These times were very cruel. It was common to see people killing each other over some scarps and grain.

So Jemma putting herself in the spotlight for someone else for no reason drew the attention of the surrounding crowd.

Kol had seen his fair share of cruelty in his time, but this was something new. These people acted indifferent to the point of dehumanizing each other.

On the other hand, even as everyone looked at her weirdly, Jemma continued to work without concern. And soon, May, Daisy, and others joined in to help her save that servant's life.

After replying to Kol, Sinara ignored him and walked towards Jemma, contemplating whether she should kill this human girl.

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But just at this time, Kol came from behind, and spoke in her ear, "You know what! I think Kasaius would love to meet such a compassionate girl. Let's bring her along.".

Hearing this, Sinara turned her attention towards him, then as if realizing something, she turned around to observe Jemma's wrist.

Seeing no token or any scars for one ever being there, Sinara paused to contemplate about it, but then nodded her head in agreement.

She probably thought that this was all an act of some sort in order for them to meet Kasaius.

On the other hand, Mack, May, and others took a deep breath and relaxed their nerves. Thankful that they wouldn't have to fight here and expose themselves.

Kol then walked towards Simmons, put a hand on her shoulder, and spoke in her ear, "Just follow my lead troublemaker and you'll be just fine.".

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"So... so you're from another universe?", Simmons asked.

Kol nodded, "That's right! And do you know why I didn't come clean from the get-go?", and asked.

In reply, Jemma gave him a questioning look.

So Kol explained, "That's because you're only humans and not all humans can comprehend such concepts... when people are led to believe about something their whole lives and suddenly a walking, talking proof shows up that makes them question everything they already believed to be a fact, then their first instinct is to deny it, the second, is to attack it."

Then continued, "I mean, my very existence questions your religious beliefs. You're different... You're a scientist and your first instinct is to assess the situation from a scientific perspective, but what about everyone else? What do you think would happen if a mortal attacks me? I can literally pull out anyone's soul and put it in a place a hundred times worse than what you understand as Hell.".

Then silence fell.

Jemma had a fearful look on her face as she comprehended his words and remembered what she had just seen him do with Kasaius and the others.

Then Kol continued, "Holy wars, racism, cultural wars, such tragedies could be all avoided if only humans learned to respect each other and didn't try to impose their own beliefs and ideas onto others... this may be a new era now, yet human nature is still the same as ever. Nothing fundamental has truly changed.", then he sighed.

At this point, Jemma spoke hesitantly, "Well... to be fair, I don't think that presence of God can be explained by science.

But Kol replied, "So what can explain it then? Magic? Magic is just science that you don't yet understand. Or is it so perfect that it cannot be explained at all?... Because that's complete bullshit. Nothing is truly perfect and everything and anything can be explained. It is up to the individual to comprehend it, and I believe you can comprehend anything you put your mind into Jemma.".

Hearing this, Jemma had a small smile on her face as she spoke in a low voice, "Hmm.", then asked, "Just out of curiosity though, how would you explain the existence of God?".

Kol replied, "God is just a being with Divinity in its soul. Divinity is a rule, or concept, or authority over a particular aspect of existence. All this can be explained by science, even soul.".

Hearing this, she had an expression of wonder on her face as she commented, "This is amazing.", then she asked, "I have so many questions, I don't know where to even begin.".

"Yeah... there're a lot of Gods out there. Even your God from the bible. I've actually fought Lucifer once.", Kol continued.

"Really?", Jemma asked.

"Yeah. He doesn't exist in this multiverse though.", Kol explained.

"That's great... but... I'm an atheist.", Jemma replied hesitantly.

Kol exclaimed merrily in surprise, "Really? Me too! I know that all Gods exist, but I only put my faith in science.".

But this comment startled Jemma, "You! Really? You call yourself a God, yet you're an atheist? Which is the absence of belief in the existence of Gods.".

So Kol explained, "Well, "Gods", in this case, are all those beings who supposedly have created all of existence and I know for a fact that no such being exists. Different universes have different origins... and in most worlds, there are no Gods... So if you ask me what I believe in, then sure, I believe in myself as long as it's called being confident, but I'm not so full of myself to worship myself.".

Hearing this, Jemma nearly had her mind blown. Wouldn't that be true for all Gods then? So all Gods are atheists? Atheism is the religion of the Gods.

Then silence fell as Jemma comprehended Kol's words.

After a while, she asked while looking at the dead bodies on the floor with a worried face, "So what now? What about them? They weren't the only Kree here. Plus from what I gather, they were in contact with their home planet. That might be a problem now that they're dead.".

Currently, Kol and Jemma were sitting on what seemed like a dining table in a futuristic room with various kinds of weird-looking alien dishes on top of it, and even earth food and beverages.

Nearly an hour ago, they and their escort, Sinara, arrived here to meet Kasaius, who invited them to dine with him. So of course, they accepted.

It was only later that Kol discovered Kree's utter disregard for human life. They saw them as nothing but cattle and only invited Kol and Simmons to the table because they thought they were sent here by Kasaius's father to inspect his work and were from Hala.

This immediately offended Kol, and while they were happily enjoying their meal, he saw an opportunity to turn the tables.

At this point, there was no need for pretense, so Kol used telepathy to freeze everyone's brain, then bit his wrist to feed his blood to Kasaius and Sinara, and then drained them all of their blood one by one and broke their necks for good measure.

He really liked Kree blood. It was delicious.

For Jemma, he only froze her brain and didn't do anything else, so when he stopped the telepathy and she woke up, from her perspective, it only seemed like an instant had passed, which was pretty scary for the nerdy girl.

She freaked out in the beginning, but when Kol sat her down and explained the situation, she calmed down.

After listening to Jemma's worry, Kol seemed as unperturbed as ever, and replied, "They won't stay dead for long. Don't worry about them, Jemma, I hear you're in a relationship with somebody named Fitz?".

"Yes. Yes, I am. It's more than a relationship, Fitz is my best friend. He always has been. Ever since the SHIELD academy where we met.", Jemma replied.

"I see. That's... good for you. You see this watch on my wrist?", Kol asked while showing her his watch.

Then continued, "It's not just a watch. It has many functions. One of which is sending a message beck to my homeworld, where there's a... 'Hall of Adventures' that works on a similar principle to the rainbow bridge of Asgard or Einstein-Rosenberg bridge from general relativity.".

Then continued, "First I send the precise coordinates of the universe I am in and my own coordinates relative to it. Then the coordinates of the universe I wish to go to are automatically calculated, so I choose the timeline and the point in space-time I wish to appear, and voila. The 'Hall of adventures' works its magic and sends me there.".

Hearing this, Jemma had an expression of wonder and surprise as she spoke, "This... this is amazing. You know... I know what you said about magic being just science we don't yet understand, but I can't even begin to imagine how a device like that would work. If Fitz was here, he would be going crazy about it.".

"Yeah, I'm sure he would... Part of the reason why I came here is to fix it... "Here" being of course this universe, and not this timeline, or this particular place and time. I had a plan. A good plan! Everything was supposed to work out great! But now I'm here... stranded in this Hellhole!", Kol spoke in an irritated tone, disgruntled by his current circumstance.

So Jemma consoled, "Well, if we ever figure out a way back home, I'm sure Fitz could help you fix it. He's a brilliant scientist and a great friend.", in a sympathetic tone.

In reply, Kol just sighed and picked up a glass of martini from the table, and emptied it in one sip, "Tok!", then put it back forcefully and sighed once again in frustration.

Jemma just sat there awkwardly. She didn't know what to say at this point.

After a while, Kol spoke, "Anyway... you can't tell anyone about my identity. Maybe we'll tell Fitz later if he can really help but...", but was interrupted.

"Cough! Cough!", Sinara and Kasaius finally came back to life, "Ahh! What happened?", Kasaius asked as he stood up.

But without wasting a breath, Kol commanded, "DRINK!", while pointing at the glass full of blood in front of him.

Without question, Kasaius obeyed and drank the blood without even questioning his actions.

Then not long after, "HISSS!!", he hissed as his sclera became pitch black and white vampire fangs grew out of his mouth.

Then Sinara also got up and followed Kasaius's actions.

After they completed their transition into vampires, they went in front of Kol, dropped down to their knees, and spoke in unison, "My lord!", with their head bowed, almost like in prayer.

The reason for their unquestioning obedience was simple- 'Sire Bond'.

Since a hundred years ago when he became what he became, Kol had never used Sire Bond on anyone. Not even once. It disgusted him. It was a matter of principle. Plus it wasn't like he ever needed to either, so he always unconsciously broke it before it could ever form.

However, right now, in this case, Kol not only used Sire Bond on Kasaius and Sinara but strengthened it to its full potential.

When considering such obscure things as Sire Bond, distance and time were never a factor. As long as Sinara and Kasaius existed, they would only exist for Kol. To make him happy.

Kol might have granted them immortality and the powers of a regular vampire from his world, but as long as they existed, Sinara and Kasaius would only exist to improve the position of humankind in this universe.

Be it the confederacy, the races who were a part of it, or even Hala, Kree's homeworld, Kasaius, and Sinara would use all their abilities to slowly climb up the ladder.

In the end, the earth might already be destroyed here, but mankind would eventually populate the planets of those responsible, along with all their technologies and wealth. A planetary civilization might have been destroyed, but from its ashes would rise a galactic empire.

On the other hand, Jemma just sat there frozen, terrified by this situation. She had checked their pulses before and was pretty sure they were dead. So for her, this situation seemed pretty much out of some horror movie. A horror movie she was now a part of.