Chapter 128: ns and Rest
<strong>Chapter 128: ns and Rest</strong>
<span style="font-weight:400">After separating with the Spiders, Benjamin let Gamora, Groot, and Rocket out of the Soul Realm and no longer bothered with them as he went home.
<span style="font-weight:400">Having gone home after what feels like a really long time, Benjamin found Natasha, Ophelia, Mors, and Mara along with H and Selene wearing maid costumes standing behind the two Deaths.
<span style="font-weight:400">Anna, Ororo, and Elsa were also present beside Natasha while Janice was there for Ophelia.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin paused for a moment when he saw Elsa but then remembered that he brought her out from Limbo a while back.
<span style="font-weight:400">This girl was usually out singing so Benjamin had unconsciously distanced himself from her, fearing that he would suddenly break into a musical. Because of that, he also somewhat forgot about her presence…
<span style="font-weight:400">Thankfully, it seems she has stopped her habit of singing every now and then. Natasha and the others must’ve scolded her about it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin smiled seeing all of them together.
<span style="font-weight:400">Whether it was the good, the bad, or those high cosmic beings, there were now all smiling while chatting with each other.
<span style="font-weight:400">This was the sort of peace that Benjamin wanted to see.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m home!”
<span style="font-weight:400">The girls looked back at him and smiled.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wee back.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The end.
<span style="font-weight:400">…Well, of course not.
<span style="font-weight:400">While the scene seemed like a perfect way to end this story, events continued to unfold in the background.
<span style="font-weight:400">This was still the calm before the storm.
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, in the the Life Foundation’s (not so) secret facility.
<span style="font-weight:400">Five figures in stealth suits sneaked in through the vents and appeared at an empty room.
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderman grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Man these suits rocks!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Shut up! The whole point of stealth suits is ‘stealth’!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderwoman knocked Spiderman’s head.
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat rolled her eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You both shut up.”
<span style="font-weight:400">After making sure the surroundings were safe, ck Cat pressed a button on her brace and a holographic 3D map appeared before them.
<span style="font-weight:400">There were five blue dots in one room, representing the five of them.
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat quickly issued her orders while highlighting key areas.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Spiderman and Spidergirl, check the area where Venom was initially contained. See if you can ess anyputers. Copy everything and grab anything of note.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderman and Spidergirl nodded.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Spiderwoman, Silk. You two take control of the security room. I want eyes on everything. Also, secure any footage from the past month till now.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderwoman and Silk nodded.
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderwoman then asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And you?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll be checking all the offices and grabbing all the data I can.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Just data?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderman was doubtful.
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Some personal things might get misced~”
<span style="font-weight:400">The four spiders rolled their eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Anyway, remember we’re only here to grab information. Don’t make anymotion no matter what!”
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat said in a serious tone.
<span style="font-weight:400">Several minutester…
<span style="font-weight:400">*RING*RING*RING*RING*
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat groaned.
<span style="font-weight:400">She quickly shouted in the inte.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Who is it!?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It was Spiderman!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It was Spidergirl!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">She regretted assigning the two in that area.
<span style="font-weight:400">It seems that after the two saw the various cells with people inside being experimented on with the other symbiotes, they lost control and ended up causing amotion.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now all the symbiotes were loose and started attacking people, causing the facility’s rm systems to ring out noisily.
<span style="font-weight:400">Moreover, the noise seemed to have intensified the anger of the symbiotes, causing them to attack even more wildly!
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat quickly regrouped with Spiderwoman and Silk who had already taken control of the security room and they saw the situation with Spiderman and Spidergirl through the monitors.
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">At this rate, it would be detrimental to let those symbiotes continue to let loose.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright, that’s it. I’m pulling the plug. Ben!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yo. What’s up?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin immediately appeared beside her.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then, he saw the monitors and couldn’t help but smile wryly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I kinda saw thising…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin patted ck Cat on the shoulder and then waved his hand.
<span style="font-weight:400">Suddenly, the symbiotes attacking Spiderman and Spidergirl froze in midair.
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderman saw this and sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It seems Capt. Freed is here…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“We are so in trouble…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Spidergirl also groaned.
<span style="font-weight:400">As expected, a portal appeared and Benjamin appeared from it along with ck Cat and the others.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin looked at the two and asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“We’re sorry…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s just…those people…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin smiled and shook his head.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I understand you wanted to help them. But…couldn’t you do it more subtly? Or at least, inform the others first? Felicia would’ve made a proper n to save them without causing anymotion.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The two hung their heads in shame.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin sighed and walked to them, patting their heads.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. It’s fine to make mistakes as long as you learn from it. Since it hase to this, no need to remain stealthy. Go and grab all the data and information you can find. I’ll contain these symbiotes first. Afterwards, we’ll deal with the Life Foundation.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Understood!”
<span style="font-weight:400">The two nodded quickly and went to grab all the data.
<span style="font-weight:400">Spiderwoman and Silk did the same while ck Cat approached Benjamin.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sorry. It was my mistake assigning these two here.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s fine. Things have been going well for them and they’ve bex. Since they made a mistake, just let them learn from it. It’s not a big deal.”
<span style="font-weight:400">ck Cat nodded then grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well then, I’ll go misce a few more things~”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin chuckled at that.
<span style="font-weight:400">After containing the other symbiotes, Benjamin thought for a moment.
<span style="font-weight:400">Will he be able to find hosts for these other symbiotes?
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin shrugged.
<span style="font-weight:400">Oh well. We’ll deal with it when the timees.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin then scanned the ce once with his mental strength to make sure that every thing was okay before deciding to leave it to the others.
<span style="font-weight:400">However, when he scanned just now, he noticed a peculiar object in a sealed vault room.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin went to that room and easily pried open the vault door.
<span style="font-weight:400">Inside was arge room with only a single object ced in the center.
<span style="font-weight:400">Arge rock.
<span style="font-weight:400">No, it wasn’t just any rock…but a meteorite.
<span style="font-weight:400">The rock contained elements that weren’t present on Earth so it must’vee from space.
<span style="font-weight:400">This should’ve been where the Life Foundation found those symbiotes…
<span style="font-weight:400">However, when did this meteorite fall here?
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin wasn’t aware of any meteorite falling since he arrived to this world.
<span style="font-weight:400">Was it before he arrived to this world?
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin shook his head.
<span style="font-weight:400">No matter. In any case, I’ll have to deal with where these symbiotese from.
<span style="font-weight:400">…Well, after Natasha and the others give birth…
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin felt that he has been off-world too muchtely and wanted to rest for a while.
<span style="font-weight:400">Besides, that wasn’t the only urgent thing.
<span style="font-weight:400">He still need to go to the TVA and deal with whatever the System wanted for him to do.
<span style="font-weight:400">There’s also the matter of finding Heven to look for Odin’s eldest daughter.
<span style="font-weight:400">He has put it off for a while now due to being busy with other things.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then there’s the matter with Stephen Strange.
<span style="font-weight:400">As the Ancient One had told him before, the future had changed a lot and it seems that Stephen Strange has yet to be the Sorcerer Supreme…
<span style="font-weight:400">What else…
<span style="font-weight:400">Oh right, I also need to find the Inhumans City at some point…
<span style="font-weight:400">Also, the matter with Wanda and Pietro’s mother missing somewhere…
<span style="font-weight:400">…There’s indeed so many things to do…well, I can slowly do these things while waiting for Nat and the others to give birth.
<span style="font-weight:400">Calcting the time…it should be almost two months now since Natasha said she was pregnant?
<span style="font-weight:400">It kinda feels longer than that…
<span style="font-weight:400">[Host, that is because you have been jumping on and off worlds for a while now. Your sense of time had already changed. It is suggested that you take a moment to rest.]
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin nodded.
<span style="font-weight:400">But that matter with the TVA…was it anything urgent?
<span style="font-weight:400">[The TVA exists outside of time. What has happened has already happened. What hasn’t happened won’t happen anytime soon. Who knows. Maybe a ‘future you’ has already dealt with the problem so nothing is happening right now. However, the host must still visit the TVA in the future toplete this.]
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin groaned.
<span style="font-weight:400">This time stuff is a real headache and if possible, he didn’t want to deal with it.
<span style="font-weight:400">But as the System said, it seems that there is indeed something happening outside of time right now so he should take a visit in the future.
<span style="font-weight:400">Until then, he can handle other smaller things.
<span style="font-weight:400">There were still at least seven months until Natasha gave birth.
<span style="font-weight:400">Although Benjamin decided to rest in this period, he wouldn’t always be idle.
<span style="font-weight:400">For starters, he had already started the investigation of the Inhumans City before. Benjamin figured he should check in sometimeter with Jiaying regarding where the Inhumans City was.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yes, Benjamin had actually already met Daisy’s mother, Jiaying and her little group of Inhumans hidden somewhere in China.
<span style="font-weight:400">It happened sometime before Benjamin went to Xandar with Carol.
<span style="font-weight:400">At that time, Gordon, an inhuman without eyes capable of teleportation, had appeared and took Raina away who was in custody in SHIELD.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then, he appeared in front of Daisy to take her away as well but Daisy managed to attack him properly due to her training.
<span style="font-weight:400">Once Gordon was incapacitated, he was brought over for questioning after waking up.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin was also there and they found out about a group of inhumans hidden in China.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then, Daisy managed to reunite with her mother Jiaying and since Benjamin was there, things didn’t escte as they did in the TV series.
<span style="font-weight:400">There wasn’t anything like what happened in the TV series where terrigen crystals were scattered in the ocean and eventually processed into food and distributed to the whole world.
<span style="font-weight:400">And so, no panic or major changes happened.
<span style="font-weight:400">Instead, Benjamin asked them to investigate the location of the hidden Inhumans City.
<span style="font-weight:400">At this time, there should already be some findings.
<span style="font-weight:400">But well…it isn’t anything urgent. I’ll just wait till they report to me.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin shook his head.
<span style="font-weight:400">Other than that, he still had no idea where to start to look for Wanda and Pietro’s mother.
<span style="font-weight:400">And as for going to Heven…
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin thought for a moment before nodding.
<span style="font-weight:400">I should be strong enough now to go against Heven in case I have to. I’ll go ask Thor where it ister on.
<span style="font-weight:400">After deciding that, Benjamin sighed and went back home.
<span style="font-weight:400">For now, let’s get some long-overdue rest…