At The Core Of It All

Your Family Needs You

 "Come my way Nach, mera hero. Get the evil away Nach, mera hero. You came to save Nach, mera hero. And now you're here Nach, mero hero, oh."

"Now you have come home, give it all to me. You would risk it all for the victory. Waiting for you scarcely can I."

Corey smiled nodding her head along to the music her shaking as she watched the people dance, they'd come to get another one of their Eternal friends. She looked at the others who just stared confused. Once more he'd changed and now wore a . The others didn't really understand why or where the outfits kept coming from.

She knew some of the people here, a lot of them were popular actors, apparently, their fellow Eternal was one of them but they hadn't told her which.

Someone walked up to them and said something in a language she didn't understand.

"I am Karun Patel," He switched to English. "Kingo's valet."

"Hello," Corey waved. Kingo she thought to herself, he was a popular actor who'd come from a long line of other famous actors, (her grandma would make her watch the movies with English audio or subtitles since they were often in a different language) but if he was an Eternal did that mean that it had always just been him?

"It's truly an honour to be in the presence of the great Eternals," The others stared at him.

"I'm not an Eternal, I'm just sort of here," Corey informed him giving him the thumbs up.

"Stop talking" Sprite whispered to her and she looked at them.

"Sorry."

"Like the fire, like the sun. You have risen, mighty one"

The song ended and everyone froze in place.

"Cut! Okay, everyone that was good" Kingo called as a bell rang and Corey covered his ears to soften the noise.

"But we can do 10% better, that was beautiful. Very, very good." He told the actors around him then as someone came up to touch up his hair he saw them and squealed.

"My friends from college are here." He said walking towards them with outstretched arms.

"Hello, boss!" Kingo exclaimed hugging Ikaris. "Perfect timing! Welcome to the set of..."

He said something in another language and the only part Corey managed to understand was Ikaris.

"I'm playing you!" He smiled.

"You like the costume?" He asked then he noticed Corey.

"You're not an Eternal, are you Sprites girlfriend? Cause I always sort of knew-" He asked and Corey laughed as Sprite's face darkened.

"No, I'm not." She told him with a smile.

"Ikari and Sersi's kid? Cause I'm not sure we can add that into the script," He tried again and she laughed once more shaking her head.

"No I'm a human in no relation to any of these three in fact I only met them a couple days ago, I'm Corey pleasure to meet you." Corey smiled waving and he nodded.

"We need to talk?" Ikaris told Kingo but he didn't seem bothered.

"Tell the director I have some notes for him..." Kingo instructed Karun who was still standing beside me.

"We need to talk to you in private," Sprite told him pointing at Karun.

"Oh, Karun he's worked with me for 50 years. I trust him completely. Actually, when we first met, he thought I was a vampire, and he tried to stake me through the heart." Kingo told us and Corey looked at Karun.

"I have apologized so many times," Karun told them.

"Not quite enough times. Very close, though, I'll let you know." Kingo told him.

"Oh, I have to get ready for the next scene," Kingo realized. "Come to my tent we'll talk there."

"You guys are gonna love the next scene. I come in on a wire 'cause you know I can't fly," He told us.

"Wait, are we getting back together?" He questioned.

"We need to talk," Sersi told him again.

"I've been waiting for the day the world learns the true identity of the Shadow Warrior."

"Ajak's dead," Sprite told him wasting no time and Corey stared at the floor, it was a nice floor.

"She was killed. It was a Deviant." Ikaris continued.

"The Deviants are back," Ikaris told him as Karun yelled instructions to the others. "We don't know how many there are."

"You need to come with us," Ikaris told him putting a hand on his shoulder.

"I can't just go, I mean all these people depend on me," Kingo said walking over and staring at the other actors. "We just started shooting this movie, it's the first of a trilogy."

"We just got BTS to do a cameo..." His voice broke.

"Sir, may I say something?" Karun asked him.

"Please don't say anything," Kingo cut him off.

"I think you should go," Karun continued.

"I just said don't say anything!" Kingo told him.

"Life affords no greater duty than to protect one's family." Karun quoted. "Remember? It's your favourite line from the Shadow Warrior 2: Voyage of Time. Your family needs you."

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So we are all just not gonna talk about how BTS canonically exists in the MCU? Alright.
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-Fi