Chapter 17

"So, Blonsky has been defeated already." Norman Osborn said with a scowl, not happy with the fact that the former spy and current super villain had been, as far as he could gather, defeated without properly hurting anyone in the mansion of the X-Men. Honestly, how hard could it be to take out some of the brats? They might call themselves homo superior but most of them didn't have actually impressive powers, they also didn't have enough numbers to protect all of the students. But somehow Blonsky managed to get himself defeated and sent to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base in a record time.

"Useless piece of shit." Osborn scoffed, sure he hadn't exactly expected much of the gamma mutate but this was disappointing even for him. And now that he had attacked her precious school, Emma's betrayal to their Cabal was just a matter of time. He would need to give Namor some incentives to stay by his side, maybe some sort of tribute to Atlantis, and think of which of the remaining members would help him deal with her.

Doom was out and in other news, water was wet. The ruler of Latveria would never help him in a situation like this. Especially after his scare tactic with Sentry's other persona, the Void. That act had definitely alienated most members of the Cabal but none more so than Doom.

Loki... she, which was still a weird thing to think about, might be willing to offer him some aid but the problem was how much he could actually trust such aid. The trickster god, or goddess, thrived on chaos and Norman wouldn't put past her to give him sabotaged help just for shits and giggles.

Which only left Hood, whom Norman was quite sure that the mystic was waiting for a chance to strike against Norman much like Emma was now. Except Hood would do it out of greed instead of some perceived slight against him.

Huh, this meant he could not rely on any of the Cabal members. Guess that was the downside of a group of supervillains who were used to being the masterminds, there was no sense of comradeship. Not like when he was with the Sinister...

No, no that wasn't him. That... thing was gone. Gone forever.

Still, it wasn't like everything was lost. Sure he had expected more from Blonsky and not being able to make use of the Cabal was disappointing, but there were still other options.

Now that he had launched an attack on their precious students, the X-Men would start to move against him. What he needed to do was to figure out exactly what they would be doing with all the eyes on them that had been placed by the government due to their small population and the wish of the normal people to make sure the population stayed small. Not that they, or at least most of them, would ever openly admit it.

Now then, what should be his next move? First of all, he would call his Avengers in order to make sure they were ready for any kind of response from the X-Men. Then he would…

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"So… what do you normally do without your brother?" The blue haired girl that had been welcoming of them asked Skaar with a somewhat shaky smile on her face. She was afraid, not exactly of Skaar or his brother though. Instead she was afraid of the things they had heard from the leaders of this place talk about, things like some man of Nor having less than pleasant intentions towards them.

A foolish fear, this place had Skaar and Kala. No man of Nor could threaten any of the denizens as long as they were here, they would smash him for even thinking about it; much like they had done to that small band of reds that had attacked them in order to take their food. Just because this new enemy is said to have powerful friends would not change the fact that man of Nor would end up the same way.

More importantly, he need to answer the blue haired one. Kala had been quite strict about that... 'manners' thing since they came to this planet, something about this place not being Sakaar and how they couldn't just smash everyone.

"I sleep... or just wait for him to come back." Skaar answered, hating how soft his voice sounded while in this puny form. Damn puny easily scared earthlings and Kala's desire to not scare them.

"That's it?" Blue haired one asked with a raised eyebrow and her hands on her hips, as if saying that Skaar's answer was not satisfactory.

"So anything you do, when you're not with your brother, is essentially to wait for your brother to come back?" The blue one asked with twitching an eyebrow as he nodded with a smile, it was nice to see that she finally understood. She was a smart one, for an earthling.

"Okay, no. That ain't gonna fly?" When did their conversation included flying?

"You're coming with me." The blue one said as she grabbed him by his arm and started to drag him much like the one with a sword that Kala played with had done to him. Did that mean blue one had a sword too?

"Excuse me, coming through." Blue one said over and over again as they went through other denizens of the school, some of them looking quite different than ordinary earthlings.

"Hey Surge, what are you up to?" Like this one that looked like he was made out of gray stone, did he have some sort of connection to that orange on that he had met before... before father showed up?

"Sorry Rockslide, can't talk now. Gotta teach this kid how to kid." What?

Before he could demand some sort of answer from blue one about this 'kid' business, she entered to a room and then started to search through a box on the corner. Dumb girl, didn't she realize that turning around and putting her head in a space like that made her vulnerable to attacks? She was lucky that Skaar was here or someone might...

"There it is!" She cried out as she raised a... disk, high in her hand. What was so important about such a thing, and what did it have to do with 'kid'?

"This here Skaar, is called anime. A visual story if you will. Something that you just might appreciate; it has action, comedy, music and tension! Perfect for spending time!" She said as she gave him the box of the disk and Skaar wanted to scoff. Watching adventures that did not truly exist, thought it was rather fitting for earthlings who were too puny to have their own adventure in the real world. Unlike... this orange haired guy had a huge sword, almost as big as the one Skaar had on his back.

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