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Eve returned to the Speed Force, she said she cannot be away for large period of time or she will just get pulled back into it anyways.

Since I was awake now I had some things to consider.

"Lilly, how is the lab looking?"

"It has been cleaned out, we kept the cells on the lowest level in case we needed it and since it will mainly be you we broke down walls to make 3 labs, one has containment tubes for healing, growing and storage while the other two are a Bio lab and an engineering one." 

"The moment you are ready we can Teleport Hope over to the Lab, but there is something you need to know about her. The in depth testing came back and while she has your and Jeans DNA, the environmental contamination within her body is not the same as this worlds." 

"This is more in line with the conversation we had before about the portal, I am starting to think when the stranger opened the portal from the last universe to here they created a passage that does not heal right away, and changes from that universe have been bleeding into ours as the passage heals."

As I speak to Lilly a small vine in a c shape drops from the roof into my hand.

"She has allowed me to make use of her Bio network, if you place that around your ear we can use your telepathy to communicate, and with her boost there does not seem to range limit we were able to reach."

I take the vine and place it by my ear and I think to myself I do not recall any version of the Island being this social, is this the impact of her chatting with Lilly maybe?

'Hm, so can you hear me now Lilly?' 

'Yes Joel, another idea I had was if you granted me an ability.'

'Will that work? I mean how would I even do that?' I question in disbelief.

'In theory the moment I became sentient I created something like a Soul, Eve said when you grant powers you place it in the Soul. In theory you should be able too.' Lilly explains matter a factly.

'I am fine with trying, but you know how it works right? It is linked to me.' I explain.

I can see Lilly smile warmly, 'Yes, that is one of the reasons I am asking for it. I understand my role is one of trust and it needs to work both ways since I am no longer a system that obey all orders without thought.'

'Right, lets try this then, what power did you want?'

'Technomancy please'

'Oh, lets see, oh I can grant that, so that's the other part of the Anvil, Metal and Technology, duh'

As I speak I notice Lilly flinch and her hologram flickers for a moment.

'You okay? I can only grant it as the 3rd level at the moment, apart from black it's my weakest one, sorry.'

'I am fine, it was the first time my Soul has felt anything, it was like warm current running though it. This will help me to get things done.' Lilly smiles gently as she nods her head slightly.

I smirk as I stand up, ' I need to go visit someone Lilly. Is the man in the White House awake?'

'He is, he is at his desk. It looks a lot like he is debating on those weapon sales you have on file. Should I make sure you are not noticed?'

'Yes please. I wonder what he will want, will it be immortality like most people in power? Oh wait, his body and mind will be his problem, he dies early in the 2000's I think.' I mentally mumble.

'2004 on the file Joel, I quote what you put in the file "Alzheimer's a disease that slowly robs a person of their memories, their intellect, and their personality, hindered Reagan post-presidency, and his physical and mental capacities rapidly deteriorated, ultimately leading to in his death 2004. He was in his 90's when he died.'

I nod and the next moment I appear in the oval office, seat comfortably on the sofa I watch the man at the desk, Ronald Reagan, reading over documents.

"If that's the Iran weapons deal, don't do it, it will come back to bite you on the ass." I comment as I lean back secure in the knowledge Lilly with her her power has taken case of any security alerts.

His head shoots up as I see one hand slide under the desk, "Who are you, how did you get in here!" he demands as I sense him pounding away at the button under the desk.

"So yeah, lets hear your take on mutants. You know, the ones that saved the world years ago from a big blue smurf."

At this point he seems to have realized no-one is coming to help him, he stand up and comes to sit across from me on the other sofa. 

"Mutants? I have asked the military to look into them, try communicate with the group that helped us and see the feasibility or working together, I assume you are one of them?" I notice his confidence comes back as he starts talking.

"Communicate? Now that is strange, this is not what I can attempts to work together." As I speak I ask Lilly to display the video of the laboratory on his office TV.

As the TV switches on his head turns to watch, I am scanning his mind as he watches and am only picking up on anger, annoyance and disgust. Why am I not reading his mind? Minds can be altered, but your emotional reaction can give things away even if you had something erased.

"No, this is not what I signed off on. If you leave this with me I will have … wait, is this the place that was destroyed by a, " he looks back to me with slightly widened eyes as he realized, "mutant?"

I grin and nod, "Oh yes, and any others I find with be going the same way. And you are going to find you and many members of the government will have a vested interest in this."

As I speak I release my power to grant abilities to most of the key staff and their successors, "I have just granted most of you government various powers, I made sure to activate your X gene when I did so, making all of you mutants. Congratulations, you are the first mutant government!"

"As long as someone is not more powerful than you, you should be able to read their surface thoughts, I cannot give you more as you will suffer from a disease later in life, and you might harm those you love if you have more power."

He nods slowly, I am not sure if it is in regards the power, or knowing more about his health. 

"There is an Island, a living mutant Island. The details have been put into your personal file, you will ensure that is kept off all regular books and listed as it's own nation, this will be a mutant sanctuary. If you need our help just type what you need into the blank document in your personal file then delete what you wrote after." 

"Apart from power I am able to grant life, this will come at a cost, naturally, as will anyone beyond your current government who want power."

He nods, still trying to absorb what I am saying, I am sure he will have questions, but do not plan to be here when he realizes them.

"Oh, I was serious about that weapons deal," I say as I teleport out, leaving him to handle the information dump.

With that having been started I teleport to St. Charles, Missouri. It seems like a nice place, it does not take me long to scan and find the person I am looking for.

I head to large park when parents are sitting on benches pretending to watch the children play. One reasonably attractive woman is sitting alone, watching a little boy who looks to be about six. For some reason she seems sad as she watches the child play.

I walk over and sit on the same bench, I smile politely at her when she look over to see who it sitting down.

"Hello Meredith Quill, It is nice to meet you."

The woman seems to get scared, she opens her mouth to speak but nothing comes out, he eyes grow large in fear as the glance towards the child.

"Ah, do not be concerned, Peter Jason Quill, the human hybrid is perfectly safe. From me at least, not so safe from his father though."

I smirk as I speak, this woman is steadfastly in love with Ego, Peters Father. Ego though sees Peter as nothing more than any of his other thousands of children he has killed, a battery to help him terraform the universe.