Chapter 1
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Six years I lived on Hala. A blank slate that was moulded into a super soldier by the man who indirectly created me. I broke free. I joined the enemy. I saved the enemy.
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it took me a little over 8 months to find the Skrulls a new home. I have to admit I like them, but 6 years of being told this is your enemy, know your enemy, it could be you! It makes you question everything. Are they really the good guys? Am I doing the right thing? Yes the Skrulls had lost everything, but the Kree had lost people too.
one incident that I couldn’t get out of my mind was a school that the Skrulls had destroyed; so many children were lost that day. Innocent little children. Talos had assured me that it was supposed to be a warning, you know, we can get you anytime we like sort of thing. The bomb should not have gone off until the school was empty. I remember the rage in Yon-Rogg’s eyes “Cowards, evil bastards. CHILDREN! THEY WERE JUST CHILDREN. But that’s what they do is it not? Take out the next generation so that there is no-one to carry on the fight” I had never seen him so angry, and I could have swore he had tears in his eyes. I had never seen him so emotional and I never did again.
I had been given access to the Skrulls history. They originally had three branches, the Prime, The deviants and the eternals. These came about after Celestial experiments way back when.
it was the deviant branch that was able to shape shift and they had all but wiped out the other two branches of Skrulls. The deviants’ leader Si’gur’t had fallen in love with the Prime leader Kly’bn and had taken her as his mate, they called themselves “the gods of the Skrull pantheon.”
I paused as I read about the demise of two thirds of the Skrull race at their own hands. “We were barbaric, just as the Kree were. But we sorted ourselves out. It’s not a past we are proud of Carol” Talos brought me out of my reverie. I have to admit I like Talos a lot, but I liked Yon-Rogg a lot too and he turned out to be a lying bastard, who’s to say that Talos is just a good a liar as Yon-Rogg?
If the Skrull history books are to be believed the Skrull had developed a way to travel through space and had come across Hala which were inhabited by and I quote “The then barbaric Kree and the peaceful Cotati” They were given a competition of sorts to see who would be the envoy to the Skrull empire. Needless to say when it looked like the Kree would lose the competition they slaughtered the Cotati and the Skrulls were disgusted. They told the Kree that they would have nothing to do with them, so it is told that the Kree massacred the Skrull on board their ship and stole the Skrull technology. When the Skrulls home world found out it was too late. The Kree were now technologically advanced enough to attack the Skrulls at home and near enough wipe them out.
Over the millennia as the war raged on the Skrull became just as ruthless as the Kree. So in effect they had gone back to their old ways.
Now, If you were to listen to the other side. The Kree had said that the Skrulls had set their sights on Earth as there was some ancient link with the Kree and Terra, but they didn’t realise that the Earth had its own hero’s, The Avengers, X-Men and people called Inhumans. They had tried to prevent our space program among other things but it was the Fantastic Four that sorted that band of merry little Skrulls out. I would have to have a little chat with Mr Fantastic at some point as when I had mentioned it to Talos he had mentioned something about Cows and hypnosis. Totally lost me that one did. I sighed, yes the Skrulls were victims of war, but they had been just as violent in their past and through the war. Would they be content to live on New Skrullos in peace? Only time will tell.