Aftermath

"This feels good.", I felt almost intoxicated by the power surging through me. My brain felt so light as my thoughts came and went instantaneously I had grasped basic control over my power, comprehended an entirely foreign language and their technological knowledge in an instant.

" Wisdom of Solomon huh? Quite handy. I wonder if I can—", I was looking at my hand upon which lightning danced but a voice broke me out of my contemplation.

"Excuse me, Sir, thank you for your but I don't feel as if I've seen you before.", it was Atom Eve aka Samantha Eve Wilkins. Damn, she looked gorgeous, why did I never notice it before.

" Sir? What is... I'm not that much older than you?", this confused me for just a sec as I assessed the reason. I stood a shoulder and head over Eve.'Peak human potential I get it now, my brain going too fast it's taking me a minute to catch up to it.'

"What? Really?", she stretched out her words as circled me checking me out. " You haven't answered me yet, who are you?"

"My name is... Marvel, Captain Marvel.", I staggered answering her, fearing that if I said Shazam I'll turn back in front of all to see.

" Captain Marvel? You lying to me, I just heard you scream Shazam after lightning struck and you started rampaging.", Eve raised an eyebrow trying to figure me out.

"EVE! Thank God you are fine. And are you old man?", a wild idiot came at the opportune moment but his comment made me want to punch him in the teeth.

" Life truly isn't fair.", saying that I jumped in the air and caught myself accomplishing the feat of floating in the air. With another thrust, I flew away, breaking the sound barrier.

'Flying seems fairly easy, hah, it feels like I've opened my eyes for the first time. I never realised the sky was so beautiful.', as I was just flying leisurely I came to a realisation. The reason I couldn't transform before was that somewhere deep in my subconscious I didn't want to transform.

I knew that my mom died and even if I travelled back to my native world even with my powers at their peak I couldn't revive her soul was long gone. Only when I made peace with that fact could I change.

"*sigh* I just saved thousands of dollars on therapy", a bitter laugh escaped my lips and a tear dropped down my eye. It felt as if a load was lifted off my heart.

I altered my flight path and headed north, constantly increasing my speed. I put my arm out and called for the staff of the wizard.

I don't slow down and look at my side, the staff was speeding towards me.

I grabbed it and landed with a boom. Cold winds blew in my face, I took a deep breath and cleared all the hailstorms and fog. Sunlight pierced the clouds and landed on the mountain covered in ice.

~"Etaerc"~

The mountain shook and slowly cropped up a triangular fortress with sharp pillars pointing outward.

I walked inside and reached the throne placed high at the centre with stairs leading up to it, I sat on the throne mulling over a solution, "Such a large structure is susceptible to exposure, I don't know any defensive spell and like so I should just connect the entire fortress to the staff and make it accessible only to me."

I struck the staff and it dug into the platform beside the throne. The entire fortress jerked and turned invisible, while the interior had black, gold and red lines inlaid in the glaze.

"Hmm... I don't look that old in this form.", I remarked as I looked at myself in the mirror I conjured. I looked like a 30-year-old man with an athletic build, short black hair and blue eyes.

" SHAZAM"

With a strike of lightning, I reverted to my teenage self, though I looked different. My skinny self became ripped, muscular and lean, " Damn I need to hydrate.", I laughed. Magic is broken.

I had saved people, met Invincible, came to terms with my loss, finally grasped the powers of Shazam and built my very own Fortress of Solitude. Quite the productive day.

'But Cecil and his goons will find about my identity but given the extent of my powers and his currently growing suspicions of Omni Man, he's likely to keep things close to his chest.'

P.O.V. Teen Team

"These beings come from a different timezone, the more they were exposed to our timezone the faster they aged and decayed. Pity I would've liked to study them.", A robotic voice permeated the battlefield as a robot inspected the flaxan corpses and the decayed weapons lying around.

" True but the schematics of these weapons can still be re-engineered. But that's not the most pressing issue. The Guardians are dead and Omni Man is incapacitated, we need to select those who can take their place and fill the void of instability. Your team is capable to compete for the spots.", A man with a scarred face walked up to the robot.

"Agreed agent Cecil. What about Invincible and that other hero? I have no data regarding them, are we to allow unknowns in the team? I don't think it would turn out the way you wish.", the Robot stood up leaving his analysis aside and looking at Cecil.

" Leave them to me. You focus on gathering other candidates and preparing your team for the tests.", Cecil walked away leaving the Robot to his devices.

Meanwhile, On the other side of the battlefield;

"Who was that rude old man Eve?", the wild idiot questioned Eve regarding the guy who threw some dirt in his eyes.

" Who knows? His name is Shazam. Though he's quite powerful maybe even more than that Invincible guy.", Eve replied as she gazed into the sky looking where Shazam made his exit.

"Anyways, let's help out with the rescue."

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