183 Chapter 183
"Hello everyone. It is nice to meet you all. I am Shuri, First Princess of Wakanda." She said in perfect English, but with a heavy accent.
Tony let out a whistle. "Damn, we got some genuine royalty here. Good for you kid." He gave her a thumbs up. He probably thought she was only here because she was a rich princess and a fan of mine or something. Judging by the way Shuri was looking at me, that might not be far from the truth. With my meta knowledge, I knew that she was almost as smart as Tony though. Which was very impressive for her age.
"I am not the only royal here today." Shuri looked over towards the elegantly dressed European man who had been quiet so far.
"Indeed! I am Victor Von Doom! The King of Latvia!" He declared proudly!
The fuck!? Dr Doom himself is here!? And he's on the shareholders board of my company?
[I'm sure that will turn out perfectly fine…]
The System's sarcasm was not hard to detect.
Victor didn't seem to have any powers at this point in time, so he wasn't a real threat yet. I knew in some universes that he could grow incredibly powerful and sinister though so I'd have to keep an eye on him.
I think Victor was expecting us all to be impressed or shocked when he revealed himself to be a king, but no one else in the room seemed to care. I found that pretty funny.
"That's nice." Emma said curtly to Victor.
"Right on…King of a country I've never heard of…right on." Tony added dismissively.
I wanted to burst out laughing at the look of anger on Victor's face. He clenched his fist and held his tongue though as he sat back down.
"I am Mr Lee. I am here representing my master in China who can not be here himself. That is all I will say." Mr Lee said.
"I'm Harry Osborn, and I'll be taking back my company one day!" Harry said angrily.
[You're up.]
I stood up and smiled at everyone. "Nice to meet you all and once again, thank you for investing in Fallcorp. I am Layla of the Fallen. The majority shareholder of Fallcorp. My sister Penemue is the acting CEO as most of you probably know. She has been keeping the Grigori afloat for almost 1000 years and is more than qualified to run Fallcorp." I said. That was completely true. Without her, Azazel and the other idiots (Kokabiel and Baraqiel) would have run the place into the ground…
Everyone in the room besides Tony blanched when I casually mentioned how old Penemue was. Human's tended to forget because most Angels chose to look like we were in our 20s or 30s at most. It was only the weirdos like Kopkabiel or Baraqiel that made themselves look older…
"1000 years…True immortality…" Mr Lee muttered while looking at me and Penemue in a different light. Beforehand, he had been almost dismissive of us.
Emma snapped out of her shock the quickest. "That is quite an impressive resume. I can see now why you place her in charge. An excellent decision." She praised me. Her praise was almost over the top and a bit unnerving considering I knew who she was.
Emma Frost was a powerful Mutant and maybe the third strongest telepath in the world after Jean and the Professor. In most universes, she also tended to go off and do her own thing instead of joining the X-men. Most of the time, she ended up clashing with them because of that.
"Right then. Why don't we get to why we're all here?" Victor said.
"I heard that you no longer wish to make weapons and the weapons department may be on the chopping block for today?" Emma asked me and Penemue. "I can't say that I'm not secretly happy about that news. First Stark left the weapons business, then Hammer Industries got shut down for having ties to a global terrorist organization. Now that Fallcorp is leaving as well, that almost leaves my Frost Industries with no more competition." Emma explained with a smile.
I nodded. "Fallcorp is moving in two directions now and will be focusing solely on those. We'll be branching out into genetics and space." I said.
"Space!?" Shuri asked in excitement. "You wish to go to mars!?"
"We're going further than Mars, kid." Tony replied to her. "Genuine Aliens have been on our planet recently. We need ships that can reach their own."
Emma raised an eyebrow before looking between Tony and me. "You two have been in cooperation with each other for a while now it seems. I have no problem with Fallcorp going to space. What does everyone else think?"
"I have no problems either. I would love to study the technologies of other planets." Victor said.
"I do not think my master would have any problems with that either. What about genetics though. What is your plan there?" Mr Lee asked.
I spoke up. "We wish to create a super serum for the use of the masses. But a much more toned down version than the likes of Captain America's or the Hulk's. We want a serum that can essentially double a person's physical abilities." I explained.
"Why?" Shuri asked. She looked a bit nervous. We were essentially talking about turning everyone into Black Panthers after all.
"Space travel for one. Some planets will have weaker gravity than Earth, and some will have stronger." I said our rehearsed pitch. It was far too soon to tell anyone about our world's merging. The only one I could even trust with that information was probably Shuri. Victor was evil in most universes and Emma Frost was usually 50/50 herself. Harry would probably go blabbing to the media and causing a panic just to spite us. And we had no idea who Mr Lee's 'master' was.
"Something Hollywood always forgets in all of their Sci Fi movies." Victor said while nodding. "I like this idea. Having double physical abilities could be the next big step for humanity's evolution. Doesn't that make you nervous though?" He asked me because I wasn't human. "Then again, why would it? I saw footage of what occurred recently in Scotland. That fight was truly ...eye opening for me." Victor finished with a glint in his eye.
Everyone else in the room except for one person nodded at his words.
"What happened in Scotland!?" Harry Osborn asked in annoyance.
"The Devil rose up from hell. Layla and her sister killed him." Emma said in a dismissive tone.
Harry scoffed. He clearly didn't believe her. "Fine! I don't want to know anyway!" He crossed his arms and huffed. Shuri was laughing at him and he glared at her.
The adults in the room all shook their heads at his ignorance.
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