Help you brother here with power stones, pleasse!
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Chapter 019: He's just a chill guy.
"... Oh? You became more like me, but at the same time different, strange." He narrowed his eyes in confusion; his senses were acting abnormally in front of the man before him.
Sentry's confusion is understandable. Adrian had simply become someone of the same race as him, and since he is the only one so far, he didn't understand why he was feeling that way.
"It's one of my specialties." Adrian shrugged as he let go of his hand, his mind already processing the DNA he received.
And in a brief analysis, his DNA is completely alien. 'Yes, I became Superman in physical strength... Something like a Viltrumite then? I just need an energy source, something like the power to absorb energy from a source. Adam's abnormal genetics are perfect for that.' He thought while eliminating any trace of connection between Bob and himself. After all, he can't risk that dimension coming after him if something happens to Bob; he doesn't want to become the new Sentry.
An evil personality inside himself? That's only cool in anime; it's not cool when it happens to you!
'He changed again... This time, I'm not feeling the same familiarity. How strange.' Sentry thought.
The disguised Captain America, Black Widow, She-Hulk, and Carol Danvers were just watching this exchange in complete shock.
Since the Void incident, they had never seen someone react so normally to Sentry.
Which, to be fair, Adrian is dealing with a lot of mental nonsense. Not only is Galactus coming, but possibly a Super Skrull invasion is already underway.
And since the Super Skrull is immune to telepathy, it's no wonder no one noticed them, although the hint was quite obvious—the Ghost Rider!
'My God, Woman! You're standing next to a fraud, the Ghost Rider is giving hints, and you don't notice!' Adrian shouted to himself while glancing sideways at Natasha.
Adam entered the room with a smile on his face. "Haha, that was a good workout. It's been a while since I had an easy job. Guys, let's talk now about Thanos. I recently discovered that he is going crazy over his beloved."
His tone became much more serious. "He is gathering the Infinity Stones to honor Death herself and ask for her hand in marriage by exterminating all life in the universe."
"What!?"
"....." Adrian, for the first time since he arrived in this universe, had his super brain blue-screen!
"Haha... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He laughed in a broken way like the Joker.
Galactus, Phoenix, Super Skrull invasion, Thanos and his nonsense. All of this in less than one month!
'Universe, I know you're bullying me! You're not even hiding it anymore! Even for comics this level of chaos is way too excessive! Something is definitely wrong with you! Go get treated, damn it!!'
"... Huuh... Is he okay?" Adam asked with some concern. The emotional fluctuations he was sensing from Adrian were completely all over the place; he was one step away from a breakdown.
"Honestly, that's a good question." Steve said.
"Adrian, calm down, here, take a glass of water." Sentry felt strange; for the first time since his incident, he wasn't the crazy one who needed supervision.
"Thank you..." Adrian grabbed the whole jar and drank it in one gulp.
Adam soon ignored Adrian and began to talk about what he knew, which was basically nothing. He only came to warn the Avengers that Thanos is coming. After all, some Infinity Stones are here. Specifically, the Space Stone and the Time Stone.
Adrian was listening too, but his mind wasn't on that problem—it was on this universe.
'No matter how much I analyze it, whether this universe is an amalgam of multiple sources or not, there is definitely some fundamental problem with it. This level of chaos is disproportionate even for comics... Unless.' Adrian swallowed dryly.
'The beating of a butterfly's wings can cause a tornado on the other side of the world.'
'My existence is the butterfly effect.'
If this were a normal world, or a normal Marvel universe, the problems wouldn't be so glaring. But this universe is an amalgam of multiple sources.
The proof of that is that even though the Avengers already exist, the events of Loki invading Earth didn't happen. Instead, Thanos came personally—but unlike the MCU, this Thanos is the comics version who seeks to please Lady Death.
The female Silver Surfer herself isn't the one from Pedro Pascal's movie, but rather her comics version.
Thinking about it that way, combine an already chaotic amalgam universe with the chaos that is the existence of a transmigrator... The entire timeline of major sagas was thrown off the roof.
'But that still doesn't explain why this is happening at the same time...' If you look at it coldly, from the recent events, only the Phoenix incident is something that can be attributed to him. Therefore, the logic above doesn't completely hold up.
'As expected, there's something fundamentally wrong with this universe.' Adrian has seen similar examples before. For instance, in the universe where Galactus already appears dead—the Zombie universe is an example.
His super brain ran through multiple scenarios until it reached one. He sighed. 'This universe isn't just an amalgam of comics, movies, and animations. I'm 90% sure more timelines were added to this chaos.'
An amalgam of several Marvel comic timelines, along with the movie timeline and animations, plus the existence of a transmigrator... The result of that is pure chaos.
Adrian can't rely completely on future knowledge. From now on, he must only use it as reference, or else his psyche will blue-screen again!
'So I'm the butterfly of chaos, huh... In that case, instead of a butterfly, I'll be the damn hurricane! Screw everything!' Adrian's eyes shone with determination.
Adrian looked at Captain America, then looked at Sentry.
"Bob, I have a request for you." For the first time since arriving in this universe, Adrian asked for help.
"... What is it?"
"Don't let anyone intervene for 5 seconds." He whispered.
Adam narrowed his eyes. "What are you planning to do?"
"Something you won't like, but that's necessary... One thing, I promise—no one will die or get hurt."
"...." Sentry looked into Adrian's serious eyes, searching for anything—anything he had already seen in many villains or greedy people.
Instead, he only saw someone determined to do the right thing.
"If I see that it's going too far, I will intervene." Sentry stood up from the couch, and his modern outfit changed into his golden suit with the S on his belt.
"Thank you." Saying that, Adrian disappeared in a nightcrawler-style teleport. He appeared behind Captain America and then grabbed him by the neck. Using his biological powers, he put him to sleep.
Chaos was instantaneous.
Carol glowed with power, Black Widow burst into flames and became the Rider, She-Hulk prepared to intervene, as did Adam.
"What are you doing, Adrian!?" She-Hulk shouted.
Sentry floated between Adrian and the heroes. "Stop." His eyes glowed pure white.
And just that made everyone present freeze. His deterrent power was oppressive.
"Sentry? What are you doing!?"
"Believing in a hero." Sentry said with a neutral expression. His face turned toward Adrian, and his expression became more complex when he saw what was happening to Steve Rogers.
"And it seems I made the right decision..." He sighed.
Seeing Sentry's look, everyone looked at Steve in shock.
"... A Skrull?" Adam said.
"Wrong." Adrian stood up away from the alien. "A Super Skrull biologically engineered to infiltrate the most protected place in the world and replace one of its most beloved heroes without anyone noticing."
"....." Everyone, except Adam, felt a metaphorical slap to the face for not realizing that, although that wasn't Adrian's intention—he was just stating a fact.
"Captain America, Steve Rogers has been compromised, and an invasion may be on its way to Earth."
"Congratulations, Avengers, your workload just quadrupled."
"... Thanos, Galactus, and now a Skrull invasion." Sentry sighed.
"It's just another Tuesday." Adrian shrugged.
"...." Sentry stared at Adrian speechless.
"Why do I feel like meeting you is going to be the cause of a lot of headaches for me?" He raised an eyebrow.
"The feeling is mutual, Bob. After all, I have to live with you potentially turning emo at any moment."
"... Turning emo... Pffft, that's a perfect description of him." He laughed genuinely.
Adrian showed only a tired smile, then sent everything he collected from the invader to Carol. He didn't even filter the information; he just dumped everything into her head.
"... What—... Ugh, you could have warned me." Carol grumbled when she felt the flood of information in her mind. "This..."
"They're his memories."
"You're a telepath...? How did you get into my mind?" Carol was a furnace of power, and even without that, she was using a device for protection against telepaths.
"I'm good with technology in my spare time." Adrian said with the same humility as Norman Osborn from the Bully Maguire Spider-Man universe, and then: "I'll see you after I rest for a whole day and play my favorite video game. I'm tired of dealing with this universe's nonsense."
Adrian made a card and threw it to Bob. Sentry caught it and saw it was his address. "If you want to play with me, I have the classic Warhammer series."
"Your favorite faction?" He asked.
"Necron."
"Heresy." He laughed.
"Salamander?" Adrian guessed.
"Yeah."
"A good choice." Adrian nodded.
"I know."
"One favor—don't let these busybodies know. If they want to talk to me, the elderly woman over there has my number. If someone bothers me, I'll lose it."
Natasha's face tightened when she heard him call her an elderly woman.
"Leave it to me." Sentry said as he ignited the card in flames.
"See you another day, Avengers." Adrian teleported to his house, and instead of doing anything, he went straight to bed. Physically, he was fine, but emotionally? He was tired of the universe's nonsense.
"Awoo!" Jeff entered the room, jumped onto the bed, lay beside him, and then closed his eyes.
"Thank you, my brother." Adrian said tiredly.
Meanwhile, at the Avengers, an unprecedented silence fell around them.
"......"
"... He just walked in here, discovered a possible alien invasion, and left?" She-Hulk asked.
"Yes." Everyone except Adam answered.
"... Respect... I want to sleep with him."
Everyone, even Adam this time, rolled their eyes.
"Who don't you want to sleep with, woman?" Carol huffed. "Honestly, this is problematic, and we don't even have time to deal with him."
"Don't start, Carol."
"You saw it yourself, Sentry. The report doesn't match his capabilities. He is..."
"Dangerous...? Just like me? Just like Adam? Just like you?"
"....."
"Leave Adrian alone. It's for the best."
"Why are you defending him so much?" Carol narrowed her eyes curiously.
"Because he could have hidden behind the mask. He could have ignored the problem until it exploded in our faces and caught us off guard. He could have done several other things for his own benefit. Instead... he did what needed to be done like a hero."
"... An admirable attitude." Adam nodded several times agreeing with what Sentry said.
'And because for the first time since I became what I am, someone doesn't call me just Sentry, but Bob. Someone doesn't treat me like a damn nuclear bomb, but just Bob.' Sentry thought.
"Actions speak louder than anything in our world."
"...." Those words silenced Carol completely.
Sentry turned around, his suit began to undo itself, and soon he was in his civilian clothes.
"Where are you going?"
"To play video games at a friend's house. Call me only if the world is about to explode."
"... Well, the new guy won over the golden boy." Black Widow laughed. 'In a way, this is a good outcome. That kid needs someone who doesn't treat him like a nuclear bomb.'
The elderly lady looked at the Skrull's body with complicated eyes. 'I should have noticed... Steve, when were you compromised?'
[I warned you, witch.]
Black Widow's eyes trembled when she heard the words of the Spirit of Vengeance.
[Seriously? After all this time, that's what you tell me?]
The spirit went offline and ignored the elderly woman.
Natasha felt her blood pressure rise. Everyone was calling her elderly and witch—she's not that old! She's still hot and perfect!
"Carol, you're the leader now. What are you going to do?" Adam said.
"What else? We solve the problem, or the world explodes, or gets invaded. Whatever comes first." She sighed.
"It's just another Tuesday." She-Hulk repeated what Adrian said.
"Give me the Skrull. I will study him." Adam spoke up.
"We need to understand his biology and build something to identify them."
"Don't let him escape."
"I won't... I've seen planets under the control of the Skrull Empire, and it's not pretty." Adam said with a frown as he levitated the alien.
"Don't let this matter leak. We need to act in secrecy for now until we have the means to find them." She warned everyone.
"... Our means of finding them just left with the golden boy, as the elderly lady says." She-Hulk said.
Slap!
Natasha slapped her butt.
"Ow... Okay, I deserved that."
"From the information he gave me, this Skrull's mission was to take Steve's place until further orders. He knows nothing about the invasion plan."
"A foot soldier then."
"Yes."
"This is complicated. They were extremely cautious because they know the capabilities of our strongest heroes." The Widow didn't like the scenario she was seeing.
"We need that man's help. However he discovered the infiltrator proves he has the ability to identify these individuals." The redhead said.
"Tomorrow we'll call him. Before that, we need to deal with the problem at hand and investigate the matter from four years ago... which is when this Skrull took Steve's place."
"...." No one in the room wanted to think about the possible scenario of Steve being dead. Because of that, no one commented and simply left to do their work.
"I'll assume leadership for now and say that Steve is on a private mission."
"We can't delay for long, or questions will start to be asked. After all, it's rare for Steve to be gone for so long."
"I know." Carol nodded as she began working to erase all the footage recorded by the security cameras.
Fortunately, there is no artificial intelligence controlling the building for that busybody Stark to know what's going on. And unlike usual, when a file is deleted, it is truly deleted and leaves no records.
"Jennifer, keep your mouth shut about what happened. Don't say what happened even to your boyfriend in a pillow talk."
"Relax, you taught me. I don't do that anymore. Besides, I don't have a boyfriend right now."
"I hope so." The Widow narrowed her eyes at the green woman when she saw her licking her lips thoughtfully.
"Give up. He won't go out with you."
"... How do you know?"
"He's a man with a goal, a determined man, and a man who knows what he wants. You've met those types before. You were in the room with two of them."
"Adam slept with me." She said.
"But Sentry didn't." The Widow started walking. "Nor did Steve five years ago."
"And Adam was going through a lot at that time. After that one time, he didn't go back to you, right?"
"... That's true."
Jennifer shrugged. She tried to sleep with Captain America, but the man refused and she respected that. The only person who achieved that feat was the woman beside her, at least among the women she knows. The Captain is very reserved about his personal life.
"And think about his attitude since you met him. Did you ever feel his gaze on you? I can say I didn't." Natasha said.
"... Hmm, that's true. I didn't feel his gaze on my body." She-Hulk basically wore a Japanese swimsuit and called it a superhero suit. Combined with her tall, muscular, green body, she attracted attention wherever she went.
But Adrian never even looked at her for more than one second. And that one second was only to acknowledge her existence. During the rest of the tour, he only answered her politely and never looked at her body. Even on that tour, she felt him only looking at her face.
Now that she thought about it, she felt a certain displeasure, but she didn't dwell on it. As the redhead said, he is that type of determined man, or he's just not interested in her. Either way, she doesn't care much. Jennifer is too carefree to dwell on something like that.
Anyway, it's not like he's the only good man out there. She has an entire contact list of men who would want to sleep with her at any moment.
'His loss for not being able to have this body.' She was very confident in her body.
"Well, your instincts have never been wrong so far... In that case, I'll talk to Hercules. He might want a night to vent just like me..."
'Damn, it's really a shame.' She had never felt such intensity in a man. Just thinking about it made her feel warm.
'He should tell me why he came here too. From what I know, he should be with the gods or something like that.'
"I hope it's nothing problematic. God knows how many problems we already have on our hands." The Widow sighed.
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