Chapter 31: The Cuckoos

As Rudeus stared at the five newly awakened girls, he wondered what he should do with them.

There was a small voice in his head telling him to kill them and be done once and for all with this clone bullshit but he could not bring himself to actually do it. He still had some vestiges of his past human morality remaining in him.

While he was wondering to himself what he should do with the quintessential quintuplets of marvel, one of the girls opened her eyes and looked at him. "Are you here to save us?" The girl asked.

"Do you need me to save you?" Rudeus didn't give a definite answer and asked the girl a question instead.

All the girls had awakened by this time and were looking at each other while sometimes looking at Rudeus as well. They were mentally trying to gauge their situation and most probably discussing their condition with each other as well.

"We wish you to save us from this place." The previous girl who had spoken earler was the one who answered.

'It seems that they somewhat knew what was happening to them and that they need to be rescued by someone from here' Rudeus was impressed with them.

They truly had the potential to be powerful. Although, individually they were slightly weaker than Emma Frost but together in a collective joined mind, they could be one of the strongest telepathic force in the world.

"Fine. I'll help you girls. I'll rescue you all from here and bring you with me to my home. Would you like that?" He finally made his decision and offered the quintuplets.

The five girls again looked at each other having a mental discussion about the choice presented to them and finally nodded to Rudeus after making a decision.

'This is going to be easier than I thought. They are still 'newborn', so they can be easily molded into responsible and loyal members of my familia. All he had to do is just make them believe that he is their true saviour which he in one way actually was.

'They would be useful during the phoenix event if it happens in this universe.' He began to make plans in his mind on how to make the best use of them.

'Plus I did always like the Quintessential Quintuplets anime back in my own world' He smiled to himself as he remembered the slice of life, romcom anime he used to watch regularly.

Finally he stopped wasting more time in his thoughts and quickly opened another boom tube to his mansion. It had become his personal impromptu base for now.

Rudeus and all the five clone girls entered into the living room of his mansion through the portal. Zoya followed them as well.

"Have you finished copying all the machines there, Zoya?" He asked the floating cube.

"Yes master, I have scanned and stored all the machine designs in my archive." Zoya replied.

Rudeus then took out all the other research materials, data and computers he had collected from the entire base as well from his inventory.

"Copy and store these as well. We will see if we get something useful from these" He ordered his trusty AI.

The girls were also looking at Zoya amusedly. They had never seen this type of magic box in any scientist's memory or even in the dreams they had sometimes.

Rudeus however didn't try to please or satisfy their curiosity them. Instead he quickly mentally called Selene to where he was.

They did not have to wait long as within just a few minutes Selene arrived at their location through another portal. Zoya made portals for all the important people of the society. They could all connect to Zoya using specially redesigned pagers and could ask her anytime to open portals to the main base.

Zoya was currently the reason for their organization developing so quickly. She had almost quadrupled their growth.

Not only making portals for them to reach important places that they could not go so easily before but she also helped in their business related problems as well especially in the tech and stock trading categories.

But Rudeus was looking for people to replace her in those jobs. He had much bigger plans for her in the future. Using her to make money and plan heists was an insult to her capabilities.

He had plans to replace Zoya with metahumans instead for his growing metahuman organization. He already had two in his mind, Blink & Sage. They were perfect for his Meta International's grand project.

He was getting close to making this ultimate game changing project into a reality. In the comics it had been tried a few times in a small scale but had never worked since those had always been tried by Villains for their nefarious purposes.

Well, Rudeus was also trying to do it for his own selfish purpose, but the difference would be that he would do it smartly and in a way larger scale.

He was sure that he would be successful in his endeavour especially since it worked quite well in two of his favourite shows ever. All he would need is some good marketing.

And as for Sage and Blink, they were probably still students in the X-mansion at this time.

'Maybe I need to visit the school soon. I do need some rewards for my hard work as well.' He smirked to himself as he thought about the two beauties he hadn't met for some time after the Apocalypse event.

Rudeus brought his attention back to his loyal first priestess standing infront of him and the five girls waiting for him to decide their fate.

"Selene, I rescued these girls from the evil scientist, Sublime. I promised them to give them a home, so they will be living here from now, as from today onwards they are a member of our family"

Rudeus phrased his sentences in a specific way to make them sound even more kind and merciful infront of the five clones. He wanted them to become loyal to him soon because he had already planned to use them in something.

He was going to use their help in getting an excuse to gain access to the X-mansion. He would send them to the professor's school as students so that he could get all the information about what goes on in there.

They would be his spies once they become students in the school but the problem was that he had to make them very much loyal to him before that. So much so that even stuff like the power of friendship or teenage love doesn't make them betray him.

He also had to train them somewhat in their telepathic powers so that the privacy-hating mindreading professor there cannot get into their minds.

He knew that Selene was the best fit for it. She might not be an omega level mutant but as one of the oldest mutants alive, she had quite some knowledge about manipulation and she would do her duty in manipulating and brain washing the newly born clones to be absolutely loyal to him.

She could even train them to a very decent level in telepathy as well.

Till then, he would not even let Emma meet them.

He smiled in his mind. His luck is truly getting better now. He didn't even expect to find the Stepford cuckoos in Sublime's base but still did. 'Golden Rule is truly a broken skill after all.' He thought happily.

'Do you girls have names?" He asked knowing that they probably didn't.

"No we don't. Can you give us new names instead?" One of them spoke in excitement.

They seemed to be quite excited at the prospect of getting a name.

"Fine. I'll give you the names Celeste, Esme, Irma, Phoebe and Sophie. All five of you together will be called the Stepford Cuckoos, the five in one." He named them all from left to right.

He didn't even know if he had given the right name to the right girl as in their canon counterparts. He was just happy that he got to name them since that would increase their loyalty and familiarity to him.

The quintuplets were quite happy to get their new names from their new 'parent'. They happily skipped away as they followed Selene to their new room.

They quite liked the person that had rescued them. He was so... beautiful like the angels they had learnt about from the minds of those scientists. They had decided that they would do their best if their benefactor ever needed their help.

They would be his good girls and make him proud and happy. They had even developed somewhat of a teenage crush on their charming saviour.

As everyone left except Rudeus, he called his personal ninja with an expressionless face.

He wanted to pluck all the weeds in his path before he launched his grand project soon. It was time to cull some cults and organizations that he had ignored for too much time.

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