NOVEL NEXT 13. Things Could Never Go Without A Hitch!
In just a span of about a few hours, the whole planet, Counter-Earth, was under Jerry's control.
There was only one main city to conquer anyway.
High Evolutionary's home city, which seemed like a copy 80's New York, was practically burning. The evolved animal citizens were gathered up in batches in the large empty sites around the city.
Also, High Evolutionary's home base/ship was under Jerry's total control, the Chitauri soldiers had every staff member on their plasma gun's point.
And they have already annihilated the self proclaimed god's defense forces which mainly included the Hellspawn and cybernetically enhanced and genetically evolved animals.
Jerry just monitored everything from the mothership, while Gamora was the one who lead the army to capture High Evolutionary's base.
[[ Do I have to send an invitation for you, Maw? ]] Gamora's irritated voice reached Jerry's ears from the earpiece.
"Already on the way, dear Gamora," Jerry replied with a smile. He couldn't help but notice how, in just a day, she had gotten so casual with him.
Landing the Q-Ship near High Evolutionary's base, Jerry hopped on a Chitauri Chariot and headed to the Gamora's location.
She was in the command center of High Evolutionary's ship and already had the big bad restrained and kneeling.
'OOf, she has already peeled his face mask off, huh...' Jerry somehow maintained a nonchalant expression as he witnessed the state of High Evolutionary.
Well, the state of High Evolutionary was not really pleasing to look at, his armor was barely covering his body and unsightly burns from plasma guns were visible all over his body. Not to mention his... skinless red face.
'I can't believe that even with all that knowledge, he couldn't patch his face up...'
But his power level was just MCU level.
"You executed your role splendidly, Gamora. Though, you could have gone a bit easy on him." Jerry said as he lifted the Yandere lover of Rocket through his telekinesis and slammed him on the red wall.
'That was for Floor, Teefs, and Lylla!'
"Ahhhaggg!!" A pained groan and blood High Evolutionary's mouth.
Gamora just rolled her eyes and scoffed at Jerry's sarcastic remark. Also, there was no way she could've gone easy on the guy. He was way above her league and his gravitational slam attacks hurt like hell.
If not for her combat experience and the help of the Chitauri army, she might've suffered significant injuries while dealing with him. But all of this was within Jerry's expectations.
From the information he obtained from the brokers, the power level of the High Evolutionary wasn't that much different from the MCU, so he knew that Gamora wouldn't have any trouble dealing with him.
His power level added another possible evidence that Jerry might be in MCU but there were still some differences he could spot in this planet that weren't exactly like in MCU. Though maybe, it would look like in the movies after a few years...?
Anyway, Gamora's job was done here. She needed to get back on the mothership, there was no one to oversee it. Can't have someone ambush it, after all. High Evolutionary cannot be underestimated.
Bidding Jerry farewell, she left the chamber.
"W-Why..." High Evolutionary whimpered, still laying on the floor. "What wrong... did I do?"
Jerry snorted, "Your over-smartness was your wronging, High Evolutionary. You knew that you were beneath us yet in your aspirations to play god, you have sinned against the Great Titan. You are merely paying retribution."
"You people are MAD!" High Evolutionary mustered his remaining strength to yell at the end. "I KNEW YOU WOULDN'T APPROVE OF MY METHODS THAT'S WHY DIDN'T TELL YOU! I JUST WANT TO CREATE A PERFECT UNIVERSE! "
Jerry smiled evilly and telekinetically clutched High Evolutionary's throat, and slammed him on the wall again. "That's the thing, High Evolutionary. The universe doesn't need perfection, it just needs... balance."
Jerry just said that since he thought that it would sound cool, his original speeches could really use work.
Anyway, it was enough tormenting the guy, Gamora had already traumatized him enough. Since Gamora was already gone in her Q-ship, it was time to hoard everything in this base including the Cocoon that created Adam Warlock.
Thinking that Jerry transferred all the data on this base into his portable terminal, he gave the data on the Cocoon a quick readthrough. After he was sure he won't be needing High Evolutionary anymore, he immediately punctured Evolutionary's brain, heart, and various other fatal spots, riddling his body with countless holes.
He then moved to the location of the cocoon to see it himself. It looked just like it was portrayed in the G.O.T.G vol.2 end credits. All golden and enclosed in a collection of ribcage-like tubes.
The Chitauri soldiers following behind him, moved to store the Cocoon on a Q-ship. He also took the liberty to ransack all the useful technology from the base.
Jerry also loaded those Abilisk in another Q-ship. They were harmless if you didn't threaten them. Their salivating maws were horrifying, though they just ate Anulax batteries, not people.
Maybe, in the future, he could figure out a way to control the three interdimensional creatures better, but for now, they were gonna be good pets.... well, maybe as long as he could find them some Anulax batteries to feed on. An extremely costly affair! Though with the abundant amount of rare materials, he found in this base, it would be easy to buy them. Not to mention, the mothership is already loaded with abundant riches of the universe.
Once the base was completely ransacked and everyone in the base was killed, Jerry bitterly tasked the soldiers to execute the slaughter of half the population of Counter-Earth. This task was gonna cost Jerry a week.
He needed to finish his last mission with perfection, at least on the surface. The amount of side shenanigans was already enough to earn him a millennium's worth of torture from Thanos.
The week was passed with the preparation Jerry needed done to escape from Thanos, the dismantled stealth ships were also assembled in this week.
And today was the last day of the mission, the army was finished with its tasked slaughtering and was almost done returning to the mothership.
Jerry was as usual in the command center and fiddling with the holographic screens.
Gamora who was sitting on sitting on a chair near him, stared at him intently, "How much longer it's gonna take?"
"Perhaps a few more hours, after that, this device will corrupt the Hive Mind core, making it unsentient, cutting off every connection it has with other Hive Mind cores. Then we should be able to thrust the mothership into the sun. Making Thanos think that we got disintegrated with the ship." Jerry replied as he concentrated on his work.
Gamora knew that the plan was simple, the main difficulty of executing it was the preparation which Maw had already done most of. So, she sighed and nodded, but she was still anxious.
After all, with this, she will have her long-sought freedom from her father.
However, the next instant, the ship went red!
The sirens blared!
"Maw, what's happening?!"
"No, no, no! The Hive Mind... It has marked us as hostiles!" Jerry's hands were moving frantically to resolve the issue, his expressions were distraught.
'Ah, fuck. Things could never go without a hitch in her life, could they?' She cursed internally.
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