Kol Mikaelson – Journey To The Multiverse - Chapter 36

Coulson, May, Jemma, Fitz, Mack, and Yo-Yo found Zephyr-1 outside the quaint little town of River’s End.

It had vertical takeoff, so they immediately took off straight to Missouri.

It turned out to be an old abandoned Aerospace industry’s laboratory.

By this point, this whole situation was starting to seem a little serendipitous, so Fitz investigated it further, and discovered that even though to the n.a.k.e.d eye it seemed like the pillar of light was coming down, but adjusting the frame rate revealed that it was a signal that originated from here on earth and was sent into space.

When they arrived at the destination, they found Agent Piper, an agent of SHIELD, alongside an alien artifact that was automatically turning on and off by itself and sending the signal into space.

Piper claimed that she was trying to turn it off.

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Then Fitz and Simmons took over and soon discovered that the alien transmitter was actually attached to some manmade timer that appeared to had been manufactured on earth.

At this point, Piper, who a moment ago was talking and laughing cheerfully with Coulson and others, suddenly panicked and pulled out her gun at them.

“Click!”, Piper c.o.c.ked the gun, and spoke, “I told you, I don’t do science.”, referring to her sloppy work in attaching the timer.

When Coulson, Fitz, and Simmons finally registered the situation, “Relax. No one needs to get hurt”, Piper continued.

Just at this moment, in the other room, the main doors busted open, “Bang! Bang!”, and with the sound of footsteps, a group of soldiers carrying M-16s barged in.

At this point, Coulson, Jemma, and Fitz were being held at gunpoint by Piper, and in the other room, Mack, Yo-Yo, and May were having a staredown with the group of soldiers pointing their rifles at them.

These soldiers were led by a female in a mask.

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This place was a testing facility, so it was constructed differently by design. Both the rooms were only separated by half a wall and people there could see each other through a big glass window.

“I’m sorry. I’m most wanted too.”, Piper spoke.

“You cut a deal?”, Coulson asked with a betrayed expression.

Jemma realized something, “You’re saying, the beacon…”.

“The beacon wasn’t meant to call aliens. It was meant to call you.”, Piper answered her question.

In the other room, one of the soldiers spoke, “Drop your weapons!”, ordering May, Yo-Yo, and Mack.

They were outnumbered and out-gunned. There weren’t many options left by this point, so they complied and dropped their weapons.

“This is just so nobody does anything stupid. “, Piper explained.

Fitz commented sarcastically, “Too late for that.”, indicating what Piper was doing.

“Piper, why?”, Coulson wanted an explanation.

So she replied, “I followed your orders. Truthfully, I thought you were dead. So when they nabbed me, I told your story.”.

“To General Hale… How much?”, Coulson asked.

Piper replied, “Everything… Ivanov, Radcliffe, LMDs, Framework.”.

Then continued, “Look… Hale knows you’re not guilty. She guaranteed your safety. She’s just… she wanted to bring you in. Okay? So you don’t have to run anymore.”.

In the other room, “Your orders?”, one of the soldiers asked their leader.

Mack, Yo-Yo, and May got ready for a fight.

The masked female ordered coldly, “Kill them!”.

The soldiers were ready to pull the trigger, but just when they were about to, a sudden sound of gunfire unexpectedly came from behind them, and they fell on the ground one by one.

This was Kol.

After entering the premises, Kol found that no one was guarding the location outside, so he just waltzed in.

Then he came near the door of the room where May, Mack, and others were held at gunpoint.

The masked female was standing in the doorway.

Since he was standing in the shade, no one had seen him yet.

So he made use of this opportunity and used the energy of Creation.

With a bright white light, two 9mm handguns and an ICER were created out of thin air.

ICER was a non-lethal handgun created by Fitz and a weapon of choice for SHIELD.

Kol had already seen the future. He knew the identity of the masked female, and he also knew that these “soldiers” here were in fact robots, or more specifically, LMDs, Life Model Decoys, robots created to impersonate human beings.

Four LMDs were standing next to the masked female, two on her right and two on her left, ready to pull their triggers at May and others after receiving her orders.

But Kol was quicker.

Their heads were their weak points.

Kol was carrying 9mms in both hands, he raised his weapons, aimed, and fired, “Bang! Bang!”, “Bang! Bang!”, the four soldiers guarding her, fell.

But before she could complete her action, Kol kicked her on the hip from behind.

As she was forced to dash forward to regain her balance, Kol let go of one of his guns, letting it fall on the ground, then pulled out the ICER and fired twice, “Bang! Bang!”, thus putting her to a long, deep sleep.

Simultaneously Kol used his other handgun to fire at the LMD on his right, but aimed at its neck instead, thus making its actions slow and uncoordinated.

Then he crouched down and rolled to the right, dodging the gunfire coming from his left and getting behind the LMD with an uncoordinated, delayed response.

Then he stood up and used it as cover while picking off the enemy on the left one by one.

As for the ones on the right? Well, Mack, Yo-Yo, and May weren’t just standing idly by.

Using the opening that Kol had created, Yo-Yo quickly used her super-speed to disarm all targets on the right while Mack and May picked up their weapons from the ground and started taking out targets one by one.

At the same time, Kol reminded May and others, “IN THE HEAD!! AIM AT THEIR HEADS! They’re robots, they don’t have hearts!”.

Not long after, all the LMDs were down, and the unconscious body of the masked female was picked up by Mack.

Piper was still pointing her gun at Coulson and others, but she had a complicated expression on her face, “Hale, she… she’s US military, she’s an ally. I don’t… Why would… It was ‘do not engage’. Capture, not kill.”, she was very confused by this situation and hadn’t yet realized that she had been taken advantage of.

“Looked a lot like ‘kill’.”, Jemma criticized sarcastically.

Piper replied, “These weren’t Hale’s orders. This wasn’t supposed to happen… I don’t understand…”, but she was interrupted.

Kol entered the room and without bothering to listen to her explanation, he shot her twice with his ICER, “Bang! Bang!”, then spoke, “Coulson! Fitz! Pick wrap it up, hurry. “, while pointing at the alien machine.

Then pointed at the unconscious Piper, “Mack! Pick her up and let’s go. I’ll clear the way ahead.”, then walked away.

On the other hand, Mack, who had just entered this side of the room was very much confused. He really wanted to ask, “What way? All the enemies are down!”, but before he could open his mouth, Kol had already left.

So he could only direct his frustration at Coulson, “So how do you expect me to do this? Do you think I’m a walking stretcher because it’s physically impossible to carry both at the same time! It takes two hands to safely carry one person, and I only have two hands.”.

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General Hale was a high-ranking officer of the U.S. Armed Forces who ordered the arrest of any remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. agents after the events of season 4.

She was also the last surviving sleeper agent and leader of HYDRA.

But Hale wasn’t like other HYDRA agents. She didn’t have much loyalty.

At a young age, she d.e.s.i.r.ed to become an astronaut, but even after all her hard work and dedication while staying at the top of her class, her past and role were very tragic.

She was forced to bear a child for Daniel Whitehall, completely stripping away from what she truly wanted for her future. Much like Grant Ward, she felt remorse for having to kill her pet dog for her graduation.

Her daughter, Ruby Hale was meant to be the perfect specimen for Project Destroyer of Worlds, in which Daniel Whitehall intended to recreate a super soldier by designing an individual capable of taking on the properties of any known material.

Ruby Hale was the female in a mask who led the LMD soldiers. The last phase of Project Destroyer of Worlds hadn’t begun yet, so currently Ruby was the right hand of her mother. She did all her dirty work.

Ruby wasn’t an obedient soldier, but more like a rebellious teenager. There was a time when she worked hard for her mother’s recognition, back when there was some innocence and hope left in her, but now she was just hungry for power.

Engineered and indoctrinated in HYDRA’s legacy, Ruby had never lived an ordinary life. Her training to undergo Project Destroyer of Worlds and ascend into HYDRA’s leadership had molded her into a disturbing individual.

Ruby was a cold, ruthless, sadistic, cunning, self-centered, and unpredictable individual. It was with all the aforementioned traits that she was able to carry out inhumane acts without any remorse.

She did not respect authority and often disobeyed direct orders to further her own goals.

She was a skilled manipulator and employed a variety of sociopathic plays to bend people to her will. It was not below her to employ seduction and intimacy while trying to gain a person’s allegiance.

HYDRA superiors, including her mother, found her to be too emotionally unstable and ill-equipped.

Her mother, General Hale, in need of a viable candidate believed that Daisy Johnson was a more appropriate candidate for the project than Ruby, which was why Ruby was extremely jealous of Daisy. She had an unhealthy obsession with her and very much wanted to beat her to prove herself.

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Coulson, Kol, and others returned to the Lighthouse base and locked up Ruby, the masked woman, along with Piper.

Then Kol had to explain how he was able to arrive on the scene so fast, which was easy since he had already told them that he was an ‘inhuman’ and had an “all in one package” kind of ability.

As for why he didn’t use these abilities before? For this, Kol just told them that he was unable to use them because time travel somehow messed them up and it was only now that they were slowly recovering.

After a while.

Kol was sitting in front of the computer alongside Daisy, trying to find a clue.

“Alright! We’re not gonna find anything like this. I’m gonna talk to that Darth Vader wannabe. Maybe she wanna squeal now.”, Kol spoke and got up to leave.

“May already tried. It’s a waste of time. I’m sending over some encrypted files. I need you phishing the quantum network and converging the endpoint protection platforms to unlock them.”, Daisy spoke while typing fast on the laptop.

Kol replied, “Alright, Alright! First of all, you don’t need me for that. Second, I’m YOUR boss, which means you do what I say, not the other way around. Third, THIS RIGHT HERE is the waste of time. What is it already, like… fifth set of files we’ve decrypted? It’s useless. The military doesn’t know anything about what General Hale is doing.”.

Then continued, “And Fourth and the final most important point. I’m not May… she has a face that says, ‘you move and I’ll kill you.’ But for me… people confide in me. I have a face that says, ‘trust me’ ‘you can talk to me’ and ‘everything’s gonna be alright.’ You’d be surprised how often people just need to hear this and they’ll tell you everything.”.

To this, Daisy just replied, “Yeah… whatever! Just try to make it quick. We’ve got work to do.”, while not even lifting her head from the computer screen.

For her lack of enthusiasm, Kol just scoffed with indignation and walked away.

However, just as Kol was walking away, he hadn’t even reached the door when, “BOOM!!”, with a loud boom, the whole building suddenly shook, like a bomb went off somewhere inside.

“WHAT WAS THAT!!”, Daisy screamed and got up.

Kol acted like he nearly fell, and exclaimed, “It’s like something exploded. A bomb!”.

“That… that alien device!”, Daisy realized.

“It must’ve been rigged to a time bomb.”, Kol concluded.

If it wasn’t a reinforced underground building, then it would’ve been demolished and everyone inside would be dead.