noveltune Chapter 48: The promise
Chapter 48: The promise
Chapter 48: The promise
"Yes I am here. Go on, spit it out." John said without much care. Being a tycoon he had to show some arrogance.
"You are hereby ordered to present yourself for the Senate Arms Service committee in a week." the man said without much expression in his face.
"It's finally here. I have been waiting for you." John said with a smile. This time all were surprised when they heard it including the man who came with the subpoena. "I will be there on time. I guess Tony too will be served the same one. Right? It doesn't matter. Thank you by the way" John continued.
The man thanked him and left.
"Are you sure you can handle it alone? I can use my connection to find something dirty on the senate committee." Jameson said with worry in his face.
"Dad did you think I built an empire for money? No Dad. I made my empire to handle situations like this committee. I have long known that the politicians will come after me. My empire is one of my ways of handling them. And no, I don't want you to interfere. That committee has people with whom I don't want to be in conflict yet. Even though I don't care about their existence I prefer not to be seen by them." John said as he remembered that the committee had members of Hydra. He didn't want them to know his real situation yet.
"Fixit come with me. We have work to do tonight." he said.
"Sure." said Fixit after transforming himself.
After coming to the room John took out three drawings that he drew recently.
"Tattoo these drawings in both of my arms and the small drawing over my hand" he said to Fixit.
John gave a last glance at Casilias and left for the main hall. After sitting near the ancient one he was served tea again like last time. He really loved the tea.
"What happened? Did you want to kill Casilias?" the ancient one said
"Yes." said John without hesitation.
"He is important for Strange. Before he comes you can't touch Casilias." the ancient one reminded.
"Fine. It's just I don't want you to die." John said. She just smiled and didn't say anything.
"Why are you here? New world's emergence?" she asked instead.
"No. Last time I told you I will help you in guarding earth. This is my help." he said while handing out a big bag. It weighed a lot as it had many books. He wanted to help the ancient one as he felt his butterfly effect might effect the defense of earth. So he wanted to add more security for the mages.
The ancient one opened the books and started reading. The more she read the more astonished she was. This knowledge was powerful and dangerous. The she saw the tattoos on John's hands.
When she first saw those tattoos she felt weird because it never occurred to her that John had a thing for tattoos. But now when she saw the tattoos on his hand she had a different expression on her face.
She started reading more into the books with more concentration. After reading for over an hour did she finally put her head up and looked at him.
"You will have to practice the science which you used on your hands. That power isn't simple and I hope you don't forget the theory of equivalent exchange." she said to John with a very serious expression.