Till The Fat Man Sings
8/9/1945, The Royal Palace, Attilan
The Prince of Attilan had been looking at everything he was learning thanks to Alveus and Sterilon who he had been affected by the machine while Auran had followed after him, “What seems to be the problem?” she had asked with curiosity, making the Prince smile at that as they started to walk a little further now, he had been glad for her and how she had predicted his feelings it seemed.
“It appears that humanity is going to be doing something QUITE evil,” he had told her, “They are going to release an explosive so powerful that people will be vaporized.” he told her, making Auran surprised by that as she saw the images that were there, “Will we be taking it or attempting to recreate it?” she had asked, making Maximus laugh at that, “Why would we use a chainsaw during surgery?” he asked.
That made the woman pause, thinking, “So we pivot, keep the area of affect, but change the payload.” she told him, making Maximus grin ever wider towards her, “THAT is why I love you!” he said with a laugh, going and leaving while Auran had looked at him with shock, surprise that he had said something like that right now, so much so, she almost didn’t notice the screams now.
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8/9/1945, Vinatos’s Lab, Terrigen Lab
Astog had been watching with some worry right about now and as he had looked towards his mate and Vinatos who had been helping with the delivery, “Push!” He had shouted out, the woman had continued to scream when they had begun to hear a new noise, a noise that made them all relieved, smiling, the Regent had pulled out the child, “Here he is.” Vinatos had said towards him.
“Here is Mordis Boltastog, your son.” he said towards Astog, making him smile at that, he had looked at his child, so red and so squished, but there was something else, there was a greatness that he could see, in his own mind, he saw that there was going to be something incredible happening when he was born, “Astog.” Gorgon said, notifying him of his and Myrra Petrmatrar’s presence.
“Is this the contender for the throne?” Gorgon had asked with a smirk, making the man smile, “Yes, and when he takes the throne, it will be glorious.” he said which made the two of them look, seeing him now as Myrra had went to touch his head, as she did, her ability had hurt her, making the woman flinch back in fear, “What did you see?” Gorgon asked, seeing her reaction, “Fire.” she said, “Destruction and fire.”
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8/9/1945, North Field, Tinian
Zarda and the others had been waiting there, all of them having their weapons at the ready and watching as Bocksar, The Great Artiste and The Big Stink, “So which are you following?” Toro had asked Joseph, hearing that, Doctor Spectrum had let his prism float before he started to spin it, and spin and spin and spin until it had landed on Bocksar, “Guess that’s where I’m going.” he said.
The others had all looked at that, each of them had a differing thought on what was going to be happening right about now as one of the women that had been in charge of the correspondences had approached them, “Power Princess?” she asked, making Zarda stand up with curiosity as she had motioned for the package, the woman smiled as she offered it, “Can I just say, it’s an honor?” she asked.
That had surprised Zarda, making her looking towards the woman, “You fought with Captain America and Peggy Carter, you fought Nazi’s with super powers and helped so many… can I– can I have you sign this?” she asked, hearing that, Zarda smiled, liking the sound of that as she had motioned for the item in question, making the woman smile as Zarda had went and signed it.
“Thank you.” she told Zarda, making her feel a little bit better as she had opened the device and saw that there was a communication device from her home, “What is that?” The Fin had asked, surprised to see such a device as she had started to activate it, “It’s a Utopian recorder, someone sent me a message.” she told them, going and playing the recording with all of them watching now.
It had opened to reveal a hologram of none other than her parents who had looked scared and worried, “Zarda, if you are listening to this, then it has reached you in time.” Her father had said, “We had learned of the attack that the allied forces are planning,” He mother said, “Such destruction, such savagery… we as a people cannot be a part of a planet that would do such things.” She said.
That surprised the others as her father continued to speak, “We have retrofitted utopia, we will take our home to the stars and we will find peace there, peace away from humans, we request that you come with us, simply press the green button on the device and we will wait for you, but if you press the red button, we will understand.” He finished now.
That made the group all surprised by that as they looked at her, seeing how she had taken a deep breath before she had went and pressed the button that was there, making them all look towards the device and how she had pressed the red button surprising them all as a new video played, “We will miss you, daughter.” Her mother said, tearing up towards them now.
“You have always wanted to be among the people, and now… we only hope that you will not regret your decision.” The Queen had told her before the channel had cut out, seeing that, The Invaders had all looked towards Zarda who had sighed, as she had taken the item and put it into a safe space, “Why?” Liz had asked of her, making Zarda sigh.
“Because if I ran away from the pain that was here, I could never live with myself.” she had told them, making the group all look before Triton spoke, “And you’re not saying no because you’ll be leaving Howard behind?” The Inhuman asked, making the others start to laugh, glad to laugh at the moment as they had each hoped that things would be getting… not better but at least better than before.
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8/9/1945, Japanese Airspace, Nagasaki
Joseph had started to fly with Bocksar now, following the plane now and as he had done so, the Pilot had started to take a breath, trying to think on what it was going to be like, would it be painless? Would there be little to no destruction or too much? There was so much to leave to guessing right now and it had made the man take a deep breath, his Prism at the ready now.
As it twirled around, ready to both attack and defend, Joseph had noticed that there was more of Japan in their sights now and as he had watched, Doctor Spectrum had zoomed ahead, he went and flown over The City, watching with a bit of anxiety as he had watched it all, how he had seen that there was people, if he had wanted to… if he had used his Prism to zoom in, but he was scared to do so.
It could mean a variety of things if he did something like that, taking a breath, he went and zoomed in on the camp that was there, seeing how the soldiers were running away, how they were had been committing seppuku, it made the soldier disgusted when he saw that there was someone familiar coming out of the hole now, making Joseph surprised, “Jimmy?” He thought in surprise.
He had seen how there was a young soldier that he had grabbed, one who had freed him and began to run towards the hole he crawled out of, seeing that, Joseph had hoped that it would be enough, that they would be able to escape from the danger right now, but as he had started to hear a whistling, it was the bomb, Fat Man, “Doctor Spectrum,” Charles W. Sweeney, the commander of the Bocksar had said.
“I’d recommend shielding your eyes.” He said towards him, making Joseph take a deep breath before he went and started to shield up his eyes now as he started to track the movement of the bomb before it had started to get closer and closer, Joseph had no idea what exactly it was, when he noticed that there was contact before eventually there was light.
Shocked by that, he had closed his eyes on instinct, it was so loud and it was nearly deafening when noticing that there was a large mushroom there now, he got worried by that now, scared even as Joseph had looked towards the Prism, furious right now, all he could do was watch and– “How many people died?” he had asked in shock, “Response: between 150,000 and 246,000 have been killed.”
Joseph had turned around, looking at everything and seeing no one, “Who… who is that?” he asked, confused at the voice, “Response: I am Krimonn. The interface for The Power Prism. Greetings.” The voice said, confusing him, “Krimonn?” he asked, “Affirmative. I was developed from the scanned brainwaves of The Skrull Traitor Krimonn. I am here to assist in your usage of The Prism.”
Joseph had been shocked by that, but then he had a thought, “Can you search for James?” head asked, making the voice stay quite for a moment before speaking, “If you are referring to James Howlett from your memories. He is currently alive with another individual.” Krimonn told him, making Joseph relived right now, “Doc, we’e done here and gonna head back, need to land?” The Commander asked.
“No thanks,” he had said towards them, “I’m… I’m going to stay here for a bit.” he had said towards them as they started to leave, “So Krimonn, why haven’t I heard your voice until now?” he asked, making the voice speak, “Response: You have not requested assistance from the interface until now.” Krimonn had told him, making Joseph curious, “Alright, what else are you hiding?”
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8/9/1945, Lai Shi, Nepal
Jiaying and the others had all been enjoying themselves when there was a noise, a screaming that made the group all look towards the sound and see that there was some of their citizens who were screaming, they had felt so much pain right now, already on the move, their healers had started to move towards them, attempting to help in whatever way that they could, “发生了什么？(What happened?)”
Hearing that, the one that had seemed more lucid than the others had spoken, “死亡！现在死了这么多人！(Death! The Death of so many now!)” they had screamed and hearing that, Jiaying had been all the more confused before they had started to speak in Japanese, their group had all started to get worried now and as they had watched them, seen their reactions.
That made them all look towards each other before they had seen that there was one of them who had acquired the ability to hear any radio signal, making a face as he looked towards them all, “我们已获报仇，(We have been avenged,)” he had said towards them all, making the group curious, “长崎被美国人投下的炸弹摧毁了。(Nagasaki has been destroyed by a bomb from The Americans.)”
That made the others all look towards each other with some surprise, “日本人受伤了？我们可以去看看吗？(The Japanese have been wounded? Can we see it?)” One of the Elders had asked, looking towards the only lucid telepath who had taken a breath, “我… 我会努力的。(I… I will try.)” they had said, going and starting to show the images there now, making the group all shocked and gasping now.
They had seen the fire, the destruction burning them to oblivion, making the land streaked with their shadows now, making the group all shocked at the sight and as they saw that, Jiaying had started to throw up on the ground, crying right about now and as she had done so, the others had started to do the same, all of them terrified by what they had seen before the elders spoke.
“我们必须找到我们的亲人，为他们提供一个躲避这样的世界的庇护所。(We must find our kin to give them a refuge from a world like that.)” he had said with the others starting to nod at that, “然后我们必须开始出发去收集它们。(Then we must begin to journey out to gather them.)” Jiaying had said towards them now, recalling her ability, “我自愿出去寻找它们。(And I volunteer to journey out and find them.)”
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8/9/1945, The Royal Palace, Attilan
Sterilon had started to asp in pain, having no idea what it was, but he could feel so much pain, so much tragedy as he had noticed that there was a The Royal Family, “My King! The Americans had dropped a weapon of mass destruction onto Nagasaki! They destroyed so much!” he had said and hearing that, the others had all started to look towards each other before Blackagar had signed towards him.
“<What of Triton?>” he had asked of the telepath, making him search before speaking, “He is safe.” he had said, making the King nod at that as Maximus had started to chuckle, “Good to hear that he and my fellow Invaders are safe.” he said, making the others all nod, glad that he was returned to them now as they started to gather around Sterilon, “What will be the environmental damage?” Medusa asked.
Hearing that, The woman in charge of scanning their planets environment to make sure that they were all safe, “The Radiation will be dangerous, we will be needing to increase the shielding of Attilan, make sure that there is nothing that can come in and harm our genetics.” She continued, making them all nod at that as Maximus had started to do the calculations in his head, “There shouldn’t be too many issue with that.”
Hearing that, they started to nod at that, “Thank you for your knowledge, cousin.” Karnak had told him, hearing that, Maximus had started to giggle at that before recollect himself, “If you will excuse me, I better get to work.” he told them, making the Royal Family all nod at that as they had started to move now, all of them glad he is on their side while The Inhuman got to work.
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8/9/1945, Maximus’ Lab, The Royal Palace
Maximus had started to move now, as he did so, he saw that Alveus and Auran had been glaring towards each other, all of them having their weapons aimed towards each other, “I thought we were done with this?” he asked, making the two of them look towards each other before Alveus spoke, “She had attacked me for no reason–” “You tried to infect me with your worms!” Auran snarled.
“I wanted to see if I would be able to infect you.” Alveus had said towards him and hearing that, Maximus had raised an eyebrow, “And?” Maximus had asked them both, “It felt annoying.” she said as Alveus had sighed, “It seems that I am unable to infect an Essex–Man, their genetics are hostile towards my own.” he explained which made Maximus step towards Auran.
“Interesting.” he said as Maximus had went to stab her arm and retract some blood, “This would make an interesting vaccine, just in case.” he had said, making Auran nod at that as they saw that there was new schematics that had shown a barrer, “Here is our new work.” he told them, making the two turn and look with some curiosity, “This would be interesting to work with.”
The two of them started to look towards the shielding as Alveus spoke, “This will be quite painful to try and break through.” he told the others, making Auran nod at well as the three started to get to work, “I can think of some applications that could be added.” Auran had said, “Here are a few things that we would be able to do so that we can have a spear as well as a shield.” as they got to work now.
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8/9/1945, North Field, Tinian
The Invaders had all been told of what would happen, but none of them thought that it would be actually used, the devastation, they had each backed away in fear in one way or another, each of them concerned by what they had seen before they each started to speak out loud in fear before there was a voice, “Everyone!” Joseph had shouted out loud now, making the group relieved.
“Joseph, what happened over there?” Zarda had asked him, making the man sigh now before he had spoken out loud, “Krimonn, can anybody else hear you?” he asked, confusing them, “Affirmative: This unit has audio capabilities.”The Prism had now said, shocking them at how a piece of jewelry was able to do that before he continued, “Show them what we saw.” he said.
Hearing that, a screen had appeared now and revealed the destruction, showing how it had all been so… world ending, that was the only way to describe it as Toro spoke, “I… I can’t be a part of that again.” he had told them, making the other Invaders all look towards him, “Killing so many… we don’t even know if we killed soldiers! It could have been filled with nothing but civilians!” he shouted.
“James was there.” Joseph had whispered, making them look towards him with shock, “And he was locked up, but Krimonn had told me that he was safe.” he explained, making the group surprised by that, at how one of their comrades had survived while Triton looked towards Zarda, “You might still be able to go home…” he started, but she shook her head, “No… it’s too late.”
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8/9/1945, Utopia Isle, The Utopia
The group had looked towards their people, all of them at the ready and all of them had been geared up while the King and Queen of Utopia Isle had each taken a breath, “Prepare for launch.” The Queen had said towards him, making the others all nod and start to move now, each of them anxious as they had heard the thrusters, the island starting to rise up now.
Going higher and higher, the atmospheric shield had started to protect them as fast as it possibly could, their home would take them away from the chaos, from the danger, and as each of them had their thoughts, all of them knew was that they would be away from humanity, and now… now they were going to go to this new journey away from all of the savagery here at least.
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8/14/1945, The Institute, Mojave Desert
The Invaders were returning home now, he wouldn’t have to worry about them all uniting and attempting to take care of him and yet, as he had walked through the facility that the SSR had dubbed The Institute, had seem impressive, so impressive that he almost didn’t understand how this was all for a child, walking through there, he and the other scientists there when a man spoke.
“Hello there,” he said, “My name is Colonel Walker Price, and you are about to meet one of the most well kept secrets that we have.” he told them, going and motioning for a nurse to bring in a cradle and inside he had seen that there was a little blonde baby boy there, cooing towards them with a smile, “This is Harvey Steven Rogers, the son of Steve Rogers, and we’re going to make a new Captain America.”
That made them all shocked while Phaeder had stepped forward, leaning down over the crib and smiling, “This one is a marvel.” he had said, making Price look, “American or Paperclip?” he had asked of him, “Scientist.” Phaeder had answered as he had started to trace the skull of Harvey with his mind, “Do you have samples of both The Mothers family and Steve Rogers Family?” he asked.
Walker smiled as he had offered a file to him, “Get to work.” he ordered, making the others all flinch at that, but he had only smiled ever deeper as Phaeder had went and looked them over, seeing everything that there was about his little test subject and as he did so, Phaeder was reminded about how primitive everything was about it all before he had started to tickle at his worm.
“Do you think we can work in his mind?” He had asked, looking at the babe, “It would be quite interesting to see what kind of monster we would make.” He said, making Phaeder laugh towards it all before he had went to pick up little Harvey which was when four soldiers had aimed their weapons towards him, “Do not touch the subject, we don’t want him dead.”
Phaeder had conceded to that, but honestly, there was another thought in his mind, one that made him grin as the scientist had gotten to work, already thinking of a few stimulants and ‘lessons’ that had come to mind, “Hail HYDRA.” He thought, thinking that they would be useful for him right now while the little babe had looked towards him, giving a giggle at the little innocence he had for now.