Kol Mikaelson – Journey To The Multiverse - Chapter 37

The alien artifact that was brought here from the aerospace industry’s laboratory in Missouri was, actually a trap, carefully designed by General Hale to take down SHIELD.

It was attached to a time bomb, which blew up even as it was being placed inside the warehouse.

Fitz, Simmons, and Noah, the Chronicom were present at the scene, and Noah, unfortunately, died in the explosion.

However, that’s not all that happened there.

Coincidentally, the artifact was near the three Monoliths at that time, so they blew up along with it.

The three Monoliths contained the energy of Time, Space, and Creation, and they were intimately linked to some dimension in the multiverse where they most likely originated from.

So, when they were blown up together, it somehow opened up a hole in space-time, another dimension bleeding back into the real world.

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And this dimension was called, the fear dimension.

A strange phenomenon occurred inside the Lighthouse. Everyone’s fears started coming to life.

It could somehow get inside people’s heads, analyze their deepest fears, and manifest them into reality. Physically.

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Piper didn’t mean to betray the team. She just trusted Hale and was taken advantage of. So after spending a few hours locked up, she was released due to a serious lack of manpower, and assigned some not-so-important work.

Currently, she was down in the only remaining storage level, picking up some daily necessities for the team.

With a sigh, “Sigh!”, she dropped a shampoo bottle in the trolley, read the next item on the list, and carefully started searching the shelf for it.

These shelves were made of granite, and they were not see-through, but fully covered. There was no space in them to see in the back.

Suddenly, “Rounngr! RRounnnnngrr!!”, the sound of a motor running came from behind the shelf.

“What the hell!”, Piper exclaimed, “Who’s there!?”, she dropped the item in her hand into the trolley, then decided to check it out.

However, “RRounnnnngrr!!”, she had just started walking yet when the source of the sound started moving in the same direction.

So she stopped her footsteps and stood there facing the end of the shelf, waiting for the person to appear.

After a few seconds of suspense, “RRounnnnngrr!!”, a colorful figure was revealed in the loud sound of a motor running.

It was a clown carrying a circular saw.

The motor was running and smoke was coming out of it, but this clown seemed to be carrying this heavy-looking circular saw with ease.

“RRounnnnngrr!!”, “He! He! He! He!”, “RRounnnnngrr!!”, “He! He! He! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!”, the creepy laughter and the sound of motor was all that remained.

Piper was terrified. Fear had completely consumed her.

She was unable to move. It was like her body was locked up tight by some invisible vines like her heart was getting squeezed by the manifestation of death that made her feel too helpless to even struggle.

“RRounnnnngrr!!”, the clown took a step forward and Pepper’s whole body shook.

When he took the second step, she directly bent her knees.

After a few steps, “Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha Ha!”, the creepy laughter echoed as the clown directly started running towards her.

However, before it could reach her, “Bang! Bang! Bang!”, the sound of gunfire echoed.

The clown suddenly paused as its whole body burst in black smoke and disappeared like it was all just some illusion.

After a while when Piper calmed down enough to look back, she found Mack standing behind her.

However, he wasn’t looking in her direction, but trying to find something on the shelf.

When he noticed her gaze, he mocked, “Clowns! Really?”, then he snorted, and continued, “Help me search that shelf behind this one. We forgot to put a few things on the list, Yo-Yo has a sudden craving for hot chocolate.”.

Piper hadn’t composed herself yet. She didn’t know what to do, these sudden series of events were too overwhelming for her.

But she still asked in a shaky, hesitant voice, “Mack, wha… what’s going on?”.

Hearing this, Mack suddenly realized, “Right! You don’t know.”, after all, Piper was locked up just now. So he explained, “Some alien mojo went off and now there’s a hole in space that can manifest people’s fears. So you know… same old, same old. Everyday life in SHIELD.”, then he started muttering to himself about how unfair the world was and how shitty his life was.

Piper didn’t understand much from Mack’s short explanation, but she did understand one thing, “So I’m alive now because Yo-Yo wants chocolate?”, she asked herself, then felt like crying and laughing at the same time.

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Fitz showed a picture on the big screen.

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This was a picture of May’s ex-husband, Andrew Garner, or “Lash”. He was a very powerful inhuman with a split personality disorder.

As a human, he was a kind, gentle guy, but in his inhuman form, “instincts” took over and he became a mass murderer who killed other Inhumans.

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But the problem here was that Lash was supposed to be dead.

“This image was captured from Level 27.”, Fitz explained.

In response, everybody took a deep breath, and no one was more disturbed by this than May.

Fitz continued, “I’m gonna seal off lower 2/3 of the Lighthouse. That’s where the bulk of the phenomena is occurring… but it’s flaring out. The fact that it’s reached Level 27, as well as the supply pantry, tells me it’s getting worse.”.

May asked, “So, how do we stop it?”.

In reply, Fitz sighed, and then started to explain, “Ok! I have a potential fix. But…”, but he was interrupted.

Kol hurriedly came in from outside, “Guys! It’s Davy Jones! He’s here!”, he exclaimed excitedly.

Then took a deep breath and explained, “Somebody must’ve been afraid of him, so he has been manifested physically. I’ve put him down for now, but as we all know… he can’t be killed unless you destroy his heart. So come on! Hurry up! We’ve gotta find his c.h.e.s.t.”, with a big happy smile on his face.

But everyone else was confused, “Who’s Davy Jones?”, Coulson asked.

May replied, “Judging by the name, I’d say, an outlaw. Or an actor maybe?”.

Daisy explained, “No. He’s a character from ‘Pirates of the Carrebbian’. A movie. It’s… but, who can be afraid of the funny looking guy? I don’t get it!”.

“What’s wrong with you people! How could you not know who Davy Jones is?”, Kol asked in a disappointed tone.

Then continued, “Anyway, that’s not important. Come down now! Mack, Yo-Yo, Jemma, and Piper are already looking for the c.h.e.s.t. We’ve got to find it before Davy Jones does.”, with a smile on his face.

“Wait! hold one a second. Where is this again? Where did you spot this anomaly?”, Fitz asked.

“On Level 25, why?”, Kol replied.

So Fitz typed a few things on the computer, and explained, “Sealing Levels 26, and 25. Done!”.

Then Daisy asked, “This Davy Jones… did he look like in the movies? Or…”.

“No. That was just an actor dressed like Davy Jones. The real thing didn’t look anything like that.”, Kol explained.

“What did he look like then?”, Daisy asked.

So Kol replied, “Well, the tentacle things weren’t his beard, but growing out of his head… and his skin was kind of bluish, and not your usual…”, but he was interrupted.

“That’s the Hive!”, May exclaimed.

Daisy explained, “Kol, that’s Hive… the first Inhuman created by the Kree… not Davy Jones.”.

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“If it’s really the Hive, then he’s dead already. No need to go on any quest to find some magical c.h.e.s.t that doesn’t even exist.”, Coulson commented.

Kol exclaimed, “Oh!”, and asked, “Are you sure?”, still holding that one last hope.

“Yep! Pretty sure. Sorry to burst your bubble.”, Daisy replied.

Kol sighed, “Well, that sucks!”, in an extremely disappointed tone.

Then continued, “I’ll go and tell them then.”, and turned around to tell the others to stop looking for the dead man’s c.h.e.s.t.

However, “Wait!”, Fitz called out to him, “I may have found a way to stop all of this.”.

“And what’s that?”, Kol asked.

“The Gravitonium creates an applied gravity field when supercharged, so I’m hoping, maybe I can create an apparatus to generate a perpetual force that can stitch together that tear in space-time.”, Fitz explained.

“Ok, two things. First of all, we need a lot of Gravitonium for that. And two, we intend to use it to close a hole in space-time, meaning we need to find a way to compress it, thereby creating a relatively greater force at one single point.”, Kol questioned.

Fitz replied, “I know, which is why… maybe, you can help with that?”, clearly indicating something.

Everyone was confused when they heard this.

But Kol realized, “Yes… Yeah, I know exactly what you mean Fitz. We saw a lot of Gravitonium lying around in the warehouse before. I’ll go get it now.”.

This was a lie. Fitz already knew about Kol’s secret, he was told that before when they were still in the future timeline. So he covertly asked for his special kind of help in acquiring the Gravitonium.

“If I may, agent Fitz, I have an idea about how to compress that Gravitonium.”, this time Enoch spoke.

Enoch rarely ever talked. So usually they just forgot that he was ever even there.

And his suggestion was simple.

To use Daisy’s quake power to compress the Gravitonium to fit it inside the machine that Fitz would design.

A very good idea, much appreciated by everyone.

So Kol secretly created a lot of Gravitonium using the energy of Creation, while Daisy used her inhuman power to compress it and fit it inside the machine that Fitz made.

After that, Kol found a chance to talk to Jemma and Fitz alone and urged them to let Coulson be the one to take the device and personally go seal off that hole in space-time.

The reason was simple. To make the future more predictable for himself during the events in the next season of ‘Agents of SHIELD’.

Anyway, all in all, the hole in space-time was then sealed off.

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Project Destroyer of Worlds was a HYDRA project with which Daniel Whitehall intended to recreate a super soldier by designing an individual capable of taking on the properties of any known material.

To accomplish this task, ‘Particle Infusion Chamber’ was built with the intent of infusing a subject with several materials so that they would absorb the properties of these materials.

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Wolfgang von Strucker was the one in charge of this project.

However, even after decades of experimentations, the success rate was so low that it only succeeded three times.

Once with The Twins, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch, where Strucker attempted to infuse them with the properties of an infinity stone, and once with Carl Creel, or Absorbing Man.

Carl Creel gained the power of Elemental Mimicry, which enabled him to duplicate at will the physical properties of anything he touched or that touched him.

Now after years later, this project finally showed promise. It was nearly complete.

In the previous season of ‘Agents of SHIELD’, Artificial Intelligent Digital Assistant (A.I.D.A.) was created by Dr. Holden Radcliffe to assist him in his work, but was later corrupted by the Darkhold and became a rogue AI.

Aida already had a robotic LMD body, but after getting corrupted by the Darkhold, one of her many goals was to become completely human.

To achieve this purpose, Aida used the knowledge of Darkhold to construct a machine that turned energy into matter and created herself a super-powerful organic body with many ‘Inhuman’ powers.

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The very same technology that Aida used was then used to finally complete the ‘Particle Infusion Chamber’.

However, Aida didn’t accomplish all that alone, she had help from Anton Ivanov.

Anton was the leader of ‘Watchdogs’, a radical hate group whose activities targeted people with enhanced abilities, like the ‘Inhumans’. They were basically, modern-day Nazis.

After Anton was defeated by Daisy, Aida cut his head off, removed his brain, and put it inside a machine that kept him alive.

Then she proceeded to create him an LMD body that he could control remotely.

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The robot soldiers that Kol, Coulson, and others fought in Missouri were created based on this body, and Anton was the one who was controlling them.

At this point, his brain had become something like a Hub mind for all the LMD soldiers.

He was working for General Hale because she had found out where his brain was kept and took possession of it.

On the other hand, he wanted a chance to use ‘Particle Infusion Chamber’ to create a living body for himself, much like how Aida did.

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Back in his own world, after Astrid’s encounter with the hunters, Kol and Qetsiyah had created a whole new dimension for the souls of the dead.

This dimension was divided into two parts.

One called, ‘the place of Serenity’, where the souls of their family members and others favored by them would rest until their resurrection.

And the other was called, ‘the place of suffering’, where the souls of their enemies would be sent to for an eternity of endless suffering and pain.

Before leaving for Missouri, Kol had created a time clone of himself and sent it to accomplish a certain task.

This clone, or let’s just call him ‘C-Kol’, or better yet, ‘Cole’, with a ‘C’. He utilized the Energy of Space for the first time since he acquired it, to teleport to Herefordshire, England, to HYDRA’s Herefordshire Facility.

This was where ‘Project Destroyer of Worlds’ was conducted, where the ‘Particle Infusion chamber’ was kept, and where the brain of Anton Ivanov was hidden.

After reaching that location, Cole pulled out the soul of Anton Ivanov from his brain-machine, and placed it inside his M-Ring, ready to throw it in the ‘place of suffering’ after returning home.

This Neo-Nazi was exactly the kind of guy who deserved to be thrown there.

Cole wasn’t delusional. He knew that as long as human beings existed, discrimination will also exist, people like this will also exist, but nobody deserves to go to Hell for simply voicing out their opinions, even if they were somewhat extreme.

It wasn’t that there was something fundamentally wrong with it in general, but these extreme views on life were mostly bred from the narrow-mindedness of a few short-sighted people when they formed a stubborn opinion about a whole category after coming across a few examples that didn’t agree with their already set conventions and beliefs.

Such mentality can be seen in more than two-thirds of the world’s population in the twenty-first century. Be it religious fanatics or those inflexible people who relentlessly express their hate for a particular genre of novels they dislike, all fall into this category.

So Cole never killed anyone simply because they had a ‘Neo-Nazis’ mentality, because then he would simply be considered a hypocrite and an ‘extremist’ himself, rather he killed and punished only those who chose to impose their extremist ideology and opinions onto others, and did hate crimes, like Anton Ivanov.

For people like that, ‘Cole’ and ‘Kol’ sent them to the ‘place of suffering’, to have them enliven it by becoming its permanent residence for eternity.

After he was done with that, Cole started working on the ‘Particle Infusion chamber’.

From the very beginning, Kol could simply end all the threats by himself, he could just solve everything, take whatever he wanted from this world, and then just leave.

However, he downplayed his strength, pretended to be one of them, even deigned to do things he wouldn’t usually do, that he considered beneath himself.

Other than it all being an adventure in itself, Kol preferred to make the people of this world competent enough to save themselves, rather than going out of his way to save them himself.

It wasn’t the question of whether he “needed” to do this or “why” did he want to do it, rather it was simply the person that was ‘Kol Mikaelson’.

Like this ‘Particle Infusion chamber’. It was enchanted so that it could only work once, for one particular individual who could be considered, ‘worthy’, just like Thor’s hammer.

Not only that, but since Kol had seen the future, he knew that General Talbot was the one who used it in the original timeline and became, ‘Graviton’ after losing his mind.

So Kol placed another enchantment that would be permanently attached to the mind of that individual who could be considered, ‘worthy’ and protect and heal his/her mind if and when needed.

This was but one of Kol’s many preparations for protecting the future of this world that was full of countless world-destroying dangers.

Afterward, Cole directly teleported to the Appalachian Mountains in North America, where HYDRA Preparatory Academy was located. This was where General Hale was staying.

However, Cole’s goal was not General Hale, but the Gravitonium that was to be used for the ‘Project Destroyer of Worlds’.

This Gravitonium had absorbed the memories, and possibly the souls of at least two people, therefore it was tainted, and extremely dangerous, and unfit for any experiment. It needed to be replaced.

The energy of Creation came in handy yet again.

There was chaos in this base as all the Hydra’s LMD soldiers suddenly dropped down as soon as Cole dealt with Ivanov.

So he fanned the flames even more by releasing an electromagnetic pulse right on top of the facility, thereby frying the circuits of anything electronic in a few miles radius.

Then he did a little illusion spell to look like General Hale, and took advantage of the chaos to walk right in, replaced the Gravitonium, then got out.

Now all the preparations were complete. It was finally time to unite with the original ‘Kol’ and leave SHIELD.

There were a lot of things that Kol wanted to do in this world. It might take a few years.

After which, maybe he would try and see if he’d be able to convince a few talented and unique individuals to tag along with him.