Guardian Angels (Shevaun)

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Trebekistan was an oil-rich nation that was formerly part of the Soviet Union. It bordered Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and was once the long-time enemy of the nation of Carnelia. It was also, quite unfortunately, the home of a human trafficking ring. The corruption ran deep, thanks in part to telepaths who found their way into the government. While mutants and other powered individuals were barred for running from office, they could still control the people in power. 

Details were scarce, but Marvelous knew the gist of it: humans, aliens and mutants were kidnapped from various "underveloped" countries, where there are no superheroes and little in the way of tracking such an operation. Trebekistan was just one head of a hydra that included the likes of Madripoor, Carpasia and Costa Perdita. The goal, beyond the usual human trafficking, was to forcefully breed their captives and create a new generation of powered people. The most powerful join their forces, while the less powerful get sold off.

Thanks to a combination of the internet, information he learned while on Genosha, and a fun application of his new powers, Marvelous was able to track down one of their hideouts: a seemingly-innocuous mattress store in the main city of Trebekistan. Admittedly, attacking a public area, even if he was careful not to hurt any innocent people, would draw a lot of attention to him. The government could easily cover it up, and the attack would, at best, slightly inconvenience the ring. But attacking this place meant he could at least save the captives inside.

Marvelous stepped into the mattress store. It was, unsurprisingly, fairly empty; most mattress stores were, since he believed they were just fronts for money laundering. Only a couple of people in uniform were in the store, and one of them was quick to dash over to him.

"<Can I help you, sir?>" the man asked, speaking in Uzbek. Admittedly, not one of the languages Marvelous knew, so what he said completely flew over the boy's head.

But he did memorize a simple phrase he learned from an online translator. "<I'm here for the stolen people.>"

Marvelous pulled his goggles over his eyes, then pointed at the man. A small handgun materialized in his grip, and he opened fire upon the man's shoulder.

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Shevaun slowly levitated over a rebel-controlled town in Trebekistan, she had found herself working with the Government in an attempt to recover a magical artifacts that belonged in the Nightmare realm. She was led to believe that the rebels had been using the artifact to imbue people with powers to fight, whilst she usually didn’t lower herself to helping governments she knew the artifact was too dangerous to be in their hands. She would gently levitate down, phasing through the building and underground right into a secret lair, a group of around 20 men looked in shock as the redhead stood there looking at them.

“You boys wouldn't happen to have seen the Shard of Mending down here, would you?" she would ask as they all started to shoot at her. Unfortunately, for them the bullets just simply went through her phase body, she looked at them as they bounced off the wall falling on the floor. She would roll her eyes shaking her head before returning to normal pulling out her Graviton blaster letting two time shells off, “And now that is how you slow down time” she would smile saying before searching the room.

The men could see her moving at normal speeds but their bodies were frozen in time, to get displeasure she would not find anything in the underground cave that would even resemble someone using the Shard. But she did notice a paper that looked like plans to ambush a government transport, she picked the paper up putting it in her pocket before walking to the men. “Give it a couple of minutes to wear off okay loves"

As she hesitated back out of the place she got a call about an attack on a town a couple of miles over, she would take off arriving fairly quickly noticing someone inside the mattress store. She would phase into the building before speaking, “Put the gun down kid, you are in over your head” she would say looking down at him waiting for him to say the wrong thing.

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To Marv's surprise, in came a woman. But he kept his eyes and his gun trained on the man before him, who was now on the ground, writhing and clutching at his shoulder. The bullet would have disappeared from his shoulder, but the pain and wound were still there.

"I-I know what I'm doing...!" he told her. "He's a criminal!"

His voice was shaky, but he wasn't going to waver. This looked bad, but he really did know what he was doing. He struggled to but his motivations into words, but he had a clear purpose. Hopefully he conveyed them to her, because just talking was something his brain couldn't handle right now.

From the other side of the building, a woman sat at her desk. She had watched them quietly and intently. She was afraid of what she saw, but she didn't want to draw attention to herself yet. Too bad for her, Marv took notice of her and started making his way towards her, gun raised.

"H-Hands up..." he said to her, voice still shaking. "Give me all the keys. I'm going to the basement."

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Shevaun wasn't impressed and was quite worried about the young man she was looking at, his words were shaky his body looked rough, and using her Clairsentience ability she was able to tell his emotions were everywhere. “You are not a judge nor an executioner you do not get to say who's a criminal or not.” As he glanced at the woman she had already connected telepathically with her, keeping her calm as he walked over inevitably pulling his gun on her next. Shevaun had seen enough and attempted to cause his hand to phase dropping the gun, she would then walk over to him walking through his body picking the gun up if successful.

“Look pipsqueak I don't have time for someone tweaking out right now, wait have you been exposed to the Shard of Mending?” she would say pausing before using her Retrocognition too look back briefly in his past. Her diamond on her forehead glowed bright as she slowly turned her head, using her telepathy she would speak to the boys head. “I know your past and I know why you're doing this. But this isn't your fight kid this is something the Avengers would handle if it was even real, im inclined to believe that maybe some of what you think is true” she would say pausing looking around.

“The beings that are gaining powers that aren't mutants are getting it from the Shard, I need to get it back it belongs in the Realm of Nightmare. But I think who your looking for is the rebels, not the government surely.” Shevy would insist.

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Marv didn't want to kill, especially since he wasn't sure if the woman behind the desk was a criminal. He was going for non-lethal, but just to be sure, he was going for debilitating. A shot in the arm would be enough to keep her doubled-over in pain, just like the man behind them.

Unfortunately, Hunter wouldn't have the opportunity. As the woman threw a ring of keys and a keycard onto her desk, the gun seemed to slip through his fingers and land on the floor. The woman behind him... phased through his body and picked it up?

Mutant! She must have been a mutant! Was she here to help save the people in the basement? But... what the heck was a Shard of Mending? What? Before he could answer, the woman decided to peak into his past.

She would get quite an interesting look. Beyond his mission here, she would likely see his other recent memories: him, strapped to an operating table while Mister Sinister loomed over him. Beyond that, vultures with electric claws, clawing and prodding at him. Working at a restaurant for strange, alien creatures. Being hit by Absorbing Man's wrecking ball. Kissing a Gothic-looking young woman. A surprising amount of other tragedies. 

Marv was left stunned by this, and her comments. But while his head was left spinning, the woman carried on without missing a beat. Now he knew what the Shard was, but it didn't look like their goals intertwined. So he needed to get rid of her, or get her to help out.

"... The... Avengers aren't here..." he said meekly. "I'm here. I'll do what I can. To help. You can either help me, or get out."

And with that, the gun in Shevaun's hand turned its muzzle to face her. It didn't shoot her, but it was definitely primed and ready to do so, if it felt the need.

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She was more keen to listen to the boy until he decided to use his magic to point the gun at her face, “Child you think weapons scare me? Do you know who I am” Shevy would say slowly, getting more and more upset. The ground had a small Trimble as she walked towards Marv. “Child I know more magic than you could comprehend, I have the power of a piece of the Universe you call home imbued in my body. So I say to you, shoot me!” she would say before pausing speaking into his head.

“Or you play along and I get you out of here alive and help you figure this out. But you have 2 minutes to decide before government forces come piling in to take you down.” Shevy would carry on behaving as before.

“Like I thought! You'll be coming with me, I don't know what's getting into you kids now” she would say attempting to grab the boy's arm taking him out the store by phasing both of them through the roof and over to a different building.

“Here” Shevy would say, handing him the paper with information about a secret government movement, “I found this in a rebel stronghold, whatever you were thinking to find I'm sure will be in that Convoy that's set to arrive some 25 miles west of here.” she paused, unphasing both of them. “Look I don't like bullies and I’m only here to recover the Shard, but you could use the help. So prove to me that you're legit” she would go on saying.

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The woman didn't give him much choice, did she? With his options limited, he had to do what was safest and most logical, which meant playing along for now. So the gun went away in a puff of smoke, is power returned to his body. He pulled the glove off of his right hand and lifted it up... before deciding not to make any big move. He was just going to leave it here. So he dropped it and turned back to the woman.

"... Let's go. "

And with that, he would allow the woman to take him away.

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She brought him to another building, then presented him with paper. Information he wasn't sure he could trust, with promises of helping him. Hunter wasn't fully sure he could trust her. But again, his options were limited. And he wasn't one to rock the boat when he knew he was beat.

"Help me get the people, and I'll help you get your Shard," he told her. "Quid pro quo."

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Shevy let off a smile to the boy's plan “Deal”, she would reply letting him keep the paper. She would pause before she opened a portal to the side of a hill just above a road, “Should be here in 5 minutes give or take so get ready, looking at the possible heavy fire.” She would open a small portal causing a black bag to fall full of weapons, she pulled out a modified AK-47 with magical attachments. “Techno-magic cool right? This bad boy is fully equipped to incinerate a human body with Hellfire, took a little tweaking but it's all good now.” she would say, letting off a giggle.

“So why are you so personally attached to this, whilst I saw your past and battles with people like Sinister I can't quite read your heart. I just gotta know why?” she would pause to look him in the eye before cocking her gun.

About 7 minutes later a military convoy would appear in the distance, “4 Armored personnel carriers, 1 Helicopter, and 6 Trucks with containers. That's weird. I wasn't told that the military was moving equipment in my work zone, are you ready kid?” she would ask to make sure before taking a deep breath. “I’ll handle the helicopter and APC's draw the fire to me while you sneak up on one of the trailers” Shevy would say leading the charge.

Shevy would open a portal for him to enter at the side of the road once she had their attention, the redhead would take off towards the road before stretching her arms absorbing cosmic energy from the sun. She would glow a bright yellow all around her body before causing a bright flash blinding the helicopter, she would then fly over to the craft punching through the glass knocking the pilot out before getting on the side of it slowing the aircraft down for a gentle crash.

The vehicles came to a stop as the APC gunners started to shoot their guns at Dark angels, she would land on the ground now having their full attention distracted away from the trailers. “You know boys you could stop now and it would save me the trouble of having to kill all of you”, Shevaun would pause noticing the containers had the word ANA on them.

“What is ANA?” she would say out loud before blasting one of the APC's open, grabbing a soldier out.

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And so the mission would begin. She'd introduce him to her wide array of weapons. Marvelous would pick up one of the guns and cradle it in his hands. He curiously eyed it up and down. Somehow, he could feel some sort of energy behind it. It was oddly familiar, but he couldn't place the feeling. 

Then she mentioned the incineration thing, which made him immediately drop it and not pick it up again. He was willing to kill if he had to, but he wasn't looking to torture people or anything. What the Hell, lady?!

She asked why he was personally invested. He wasn't really up to sharing his personal backstory with a stranger, so he just went "uuuuuhhh" like he was thinking. This would last about seven minutes, until she gave up and pointed out a military convoy.

While she went off to fight the men, Marv was just going to sit this one out and watch from afar.

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“Who is ANA!!?” Shevaun would say holding the man up with little to no effort, she was getting irritated with the lack of common sense in the area.

“ANA… I…Is an international shipping and mining company, I’m only a driver I don’t know much please don’t hurt me” he would say shivering before she looked closer at him squinting her eyes. She would tie him up before dropping him through a portal right next to Marvelous feet, she would then turn her attention to the containers. As Shevy lifted up the container she would hear what sounded like humans screaming, she would drop it gently on the ground before breaking it open. As she caused her hand to glow for light she would see the container packed with children, some looked like Mutants others normal she was lost for words.

“You… omg you were right” Dark Angel would say telepathically to Marv, what the hell was really going on is all she could think about. She quickly went back to the Soldier looking him in the face, “So you do not wish to tell, fine by me” Shevy would say to the driver before putting her hand on his head. Using Precognition she looked back into the past to see what he knew, what she would find would disgust her. He seemed to somehow manage to dodge the destructive force of Titania and Wasp in New York, only to return back to help traffic thousands of children into this horrible country to be solved off.

“How… Could you” she would say stepping back from him holding herself back from hurting him severely.

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Marvelous would walk up to the scene shortly. Since Shevaun took care of the problem for him, it was probably safe to move. Kind of a dick move to let her do all of the work, but that's what you get when you teleport someone without so much as discussing a game plan. He'd never do that, ignoring the times he has done it, and will continue to do in the future.

"How innocent is he?" Marv asked. "Was he blackmailed into this work? Is he doing it to feed his family, or... anything?"

A gun materialized in the young man's hand. As he approached the duo, he aimed its barrel right at the man's head. There was a shake to his hand, but he tried his best to keep himself steady.

In truth, Hunter didn't want to kill the man. Or anyone, really. He saw it as something he would have to do eventually. But he was looking for any excuse to justify not killing the man. A little bit of innocence or tragedy to make him a victim, instead of a perpetrator.

If not, though? He had to shoot him. Make the world a better place by removing a criminal. Something he should have done years ago.

"... Read his mind some more," he said to Shevaun. "Maybe we can find out where he was going, then go in undercover."

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Shevaun looked at the boy wondering if he really was going to shoot the guy, killing people never bothered her since she got her powers from the Angel of Death. Death was a part of her she embraced it as much as she embraced life, but for other people, death and seeing people die just isn't built for them. As she predicted he would not shoot the man instead asking her to look back further, his wanting for the man to be innocent was generous and so Shevaun would do as he asked, nodding her head.

“Let’s see he was a part of the Democratic government before this he was a soldier, never killed anyone until the coop happened 6 years ago. He was assigned to this task and then threatened with his family death he agreed, he seems pretty remorseful for most of the stuff he’s done. It appears he was heading 20 miles down this highway to Al-Shakea Base, it seems that's the HQ for this secret operation” Shevaun would say before letting the man go backing up.

“Look Kid, don't do anything you will regret. Killing ain't for everybody, when the time is right you will know when to kill. He’s not worth it.” Shevy would say to Marv.

“Besides we need to be thinking of a Plan on how we will infiltrate this base and get out safely because I won't be doing all the work this time. ” she would say, letting off a chuckle.

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Marvelous let out a sigh. So he could get away with letting the man life. There would always be the fear that the man would tattle on them, but if he did, it would be only out of fear for his family. The man was a victim, just like so many others.

But just to be safe, he lifted up his gun and pistol-whipped the man across the face before letting him go his own way.

But Shev raised a good point. About not killing, but also about them sneaking into the base. This time, Marvelous had an idea.

"You ever hear of the Trojan Horse?"

The hero's hands started to glow a soft blue. He threw them forward, and the air seemed to ripple with waves of energy. The light flew forward and began to take on a solid shape. It grew and became more defined, looking more and more human. Slowly but surely, the form began to look more and more like the driver, albeit a simplified version; less wrinkles on his face, no birthmarks or freckles, and no pupils in his dark eyes.

Marv pointed to the back of the truck, which was covered by a large, sand-colored tarp. "We'll hide out in the back of the truck. My monster will drive us into the base, thinking it's the driver."

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She watched the boy Pistol whip the man letting off a grin, “Nice choice” she would say before the boy would mention something about Trojan Horse. Shevy stared as he created a simplified version of the main, “Holy shit you can create people out of thin air? When we’re done do one of me” she would say as she listens to the rest of the plan. “Great and I'll use my telepathy to cause the soldiers to let us in if they stop us, once inside we have to be quick though.” Shevaun would add on to the plan.

Shevy would hop into the back of the truck with marvelous, helping him up as the dummy got in the seat and started their journey. Shevaun was rather observant of the boy, having never heard about him till today, “So have you had the chance to meet other sorcerers? If you want I can introduce you to some when this is all done, might be good for you kido” she would say merely offering a suggestion. Shevaun knew better than anyone that all it took was one bad day, and he could be on the dark side of this.

After 20 or so minutes of up and down bumping on the war torn roads they arrived at the gate, using her telepathy she would have the soldier signal to open the gate. Shevy would stand up walking over picking up a uniform tossing it to Marv, “Here put this on let’s try to blend in” she would say as the truck pulled into a hanger. The doors would open with the soldiers in shock to see Shevy, “Heya boys… mind if I borrow the tall one uniform” she would say before leaping off the truck swiftly taking the 3 men out quickly and quietly.

Shevy would drag one of the bodies around the side of the truck before changing, she would then throw 3 unconscious men in the truck before closing up. “Alrighty shall we begin!”