Chapter 10: Ch 10 S.H.I.E.L.D and more
Several of Noels many spare bodies arrived at the Helicarrier long, long before Nicole ever could, maybe he should have just teleported her and her crew with him. Searching for this flying base was a bit of hassle, mostly because when you can teleport you want to experience freefalling, you want the rug pulled out under you, you want to watch earth from the highest highs.
No honorary mention goes to those few brave or stupid Noels, that can't help themselves from still teleporting around or decided not to stop falling, well until the hit the earth's crust anyway. Quelling the chaos from a few hundred purple men falling from heaven, even if they were artificial angels.
Everything was on high alert, as undocumented mutant power manifestations, bodies and deaths were raising awareness alert everywhere they landed. Noels were the root of why the president was on the phone with Charlotte Xavier. Most politically active personal in the white house for some reason didn't like the mutants, when one of the most active members of the mutant brotherhood can blow up countries and the other is racist Magneta.
Mutants in this world are randomly created by a viral mutagen, that just spreads, it was one of Americas design weapon, to mass produce super soldiers, didn't have the predictability the liked and was bad press so they claimed innocence, after the leading scientists were killed by Magneta their daughter and part lab rat, all other evidence erased by Fury herself.
So yeah America was the root cause of mutant hate, which is why they are building, fused mutant infant gods somewhere in the middle east where few can meddle with their military present, although the president might not know about that.
Let us hope they won't free the Sentinels to deal with him, and since Fury isn't available the pressure on upper management is increasing to investigate, hopefully it will be classified as a isolated incident, there will be more of them.
Anyway sitting just on the Helicarrier is getting boring for them, as the see one hotcake after the other walk by in an unusually tightly fitting uniform, Nickoles absence wasn't stopping them any longer from introducing themselves.
Still buffed thanks to persistence spell, all they have to do is speak a single sentence and they would be wrapped around their fingers.
"New recruit Noel reporting for duty!!", he shouted, loudly announcing his presence to as many on deck as he could.
Everybody rushed to his position and immediately halted after just putting their eyes on him, having a southing presence helps so much, he simply moved over to the nearest standing guard.
Putt his hand out and said "Pleasure to meet you, I'm Noel, could you show me around or tell me how I can be of assistance?"
All his opposite could stutter was an enamoured "Yes."
Some still shocked or practically charmed, watched as he simply duplicated before them and repeated what he told her.
One asked almost frightened to draw his ire or to be anywhere near a bother, "Shouldn't we ask the director on how it is?"
Some draw their eyes to her, partially realizing what was being done to them, others looked at her in simple anger, at being disturbed from daydreaming about a potential future.
"She and the active team should be arriving her in a few hours if you want me to catch them and teleport them her it can be done, if you pretty girls desire it?"
A so simple sentence could send waves through the female onlookers, just by having twice a gods a stats.
"No, no I wouldn't want to impose.", she just barely managed to squeeze out.
A few dozen other Noels simply walked around the base not even bothering with the charades, as they could just talk anybody into anything, and get away with it too! One just followed a pretty girl, who he asked to walk in front so that he a physically weak man wouldn't impose on her, he just found her ass divine. And the divine behind brought him into the literal commando centre, no questions asked.
Eyes were raised and whistled blown, but all tried to keep decorum, as on the big screen a Sentinel was seen crushing the X-men, moreover with reinforcement high in the sky about to descend, it was clear the would get ripped new one, until they start getting serious. Or the one girl with nuclear warhead capabilities in her eyes, well almost. Nothing compared to a [Locate City Bomb] but still.
Making a new simulacrum, one Noel to the other they didn't even have to mentally communicate from one piece of the hive to the other just a gaze at the X-"men" was enough. It was gone, in a blink.
Appearing right in the middle of the fight, in robes and purple skinned, no illusions he just appeared.
"Get away!", was all a giant steel lady with a thick russian accent could shout. Sprinting at him at top speed, while all Noels did was turn to her, most at the X-men were either eliminating sentinels left and right or getting quite close to death.
Well you see Noel teleported right in front of a sentinel mid swing, as over the arm off a sentinel with over 50 meter accelerated and descended on him, he just watch what others were doing around him possessing no sense of immediate danger.
The Noel back in the base wandered weather he should help out by reaching out with his mind and tell him, it would just take less than a second and all would be laid bare, or alternatively and far better do nothing, and continue romancing as much of S.H.I.E.L.D as possible.
Paste was all that was left of him, his very spirit just stood over minced meat of his bodysuit, and slowly started rebuilding it, but before that was done he wouldn't be capable of casting or interacting with matter. After a few dozen tons of iron descend on one yes that happens.
The observing one could only remark an uncanny resemblance to the true bodies of the celestials and the unbelievable cold shower that came down on him as he thought about having to live there.
Disillusioned and aghast the X-men now found themselves shifting a gear higher, well until one lone girl went above and beyond and simply froze the last falling sentinel in place.
The onlookers, as the rest of America still shocked from Magnetas massacre and bombing just 7 days earlier immediately identified the mutant menace, and had to start eliminating it too. Throwing bottles and all the other trash the found lying around, at an activist group that just destroyed some of the world's best defensive equipment.
Collosa and Cyclops both went on to check on the single red paste, the sole victim of an attack of over 7 Sentinels, all handily dealt with by the team, just not Noel.
Staring at what they could only define as a creature made of pure heavenly light, charisma buffs working for whatever reason, that could only wave its hand at them, lacking most distinguishing features of even a humanoid. But the flesh it wriggled and merged back together, blood still pooled on the ground, Noels body would simply convert other matter into whatever form or need his respiratory and calculative system his body needed. One of the many good things from being made of none differencing matter.
"What the fuck am I looking at her?", was all Cyclops said to her new teammate.
"Maybe a new teammate?", Collosa spoke back, most of noels shambling corps was as if pulled up on strings inhumanly standing.
Autohypnosis to just fool yourself and reality into reviving yourself is damn useful.
"Hell-o Shields newest recruit at your service!", offering a bloodied hand while, the general area besides the jaw was still being fixed.
"They take us now too?", this was a real shock if S.H.I.E.L.D wasn't known to grab just about every one that wasn't a mutant.
"Oh silly little me, no I'm more extra-terrestrial than earthling, or from this earth to be exact but anyway, situations heating rather up!", more and more spectators were joining the antimutant agenda as quite a few apartments and general parts of the local infrastructure got destroyed.
"Ladies a round of round for applause for our Icegirl, please!", beast lifting the smaller girl of solid ice into the air, in a thrilled mode. Got her heart betrayed at watching a glass bottle sailing through the air, cracking Icegirls head partially open.
"You split his head open, you Idiot!,", she screamed in an outburst at the laceration her new friend just suffered.
"Good! I hope she's dead! Maybe then freaks like you will get the message!", a elderly grandma screamed at them, back and more and more onlookers started getting ready to fight them too.
Jean erected right away a shield, stopping cop's bullets as well as the rubble generated by the fight from being flung at their faces.
Shouting and talking to the passers-by's to see reason only agitated them further.
Immediately taking cover for the both of them, all followed dashing into an alleyway, Cyclops herself picking up an unconscious Storm.
Not moving at all Noel just planned and thought about how to restore the local infrastructure, best. Roads were blocked by robots the size of buildings, then the scratched houses, holes in the pavement just from them walking and one falling into a building, and one held up on ice columns.
Oh so much damn damage, a hammer and a bottle hit him from behind while he was pondering, not even flinching at that level of damage, since it didn't get past his AC.
Anyway he alone could never follow the X-men and clean all this up himself without needing a lot of time, so [Time Stop], between 12 to 38 seconds have been won that way, now [Simulacrum] and a lot of [Twine Doubles] and then they can also cast time stop so that everyone now just has to do a part of this.
One wandered off after the x-men and some just walked up to the surrounding crowds and with boosted charisma just talked them down.
"Please calm down, the danger mostly passed, let the clean-up crew do their job, please keep a distance!", with [Thaumaturgy] so that all would hear his voice, the obeyed.
Completely losing all interest into racism, the second the realised how charismatic he was, and Noels had to start doubting why they didn't just start off with that value in charisma instead of intelligence, as a sorcerer they still could have been capable of casting spells all the same. Wizards get more skill points and e liked versatility and a sorcerer is very limited in TTRPGs.
[Fabricate] and an entire cube of solid metal was made, that times a hundred and all matter simply returned back to its original location, well no he didn't restore anything the Sentinels he compacted them to be stored in his many tiny demiplanes.
The onlookers in awe at a mutant that did something else besides cause havoc and destruction. Applauded his actions, even if he just stole the very technology that made up a tiny part of the United States most advanced defensive system.
Some Noels even went around shaking hands and making small talk with the ladies, some Noels that used their head more wondered where the fucking man were.
Grabbing a newspaper one of them, decided to connect to the wider world at least now that one should be capable of stuffing or erasing them faster than they could all react, considering if they desired it in extreme situations they could multiply by a factor of up to 3 in seconds many times more if they stop time.
They could integrate or dominate this world, they just had to pick a side, several thousands of minds only had to make a near unanimous decision.