Raft escapee Samuel Sterns, adopting the moniker of "Leader," builds an army of enhanced individuals to challenge the forces of S.H.I.E.L.D., Helix, and whoever else stands in the way of his quest for global domination. Ciciley Livingston is brought...
"I'll explain more about it on my way back to the facility."
Jade listened to the voice of Elendriel on the other line.
"Côn Sơn Island? I think I know where that is. Why is everybody going there?"
She paused again to hear Elendriel's short explanation.
"Wow. A lot did go on while I was away. Well, I'll be on my way there to help."
The phone call ended there, allotting her a moment to check back with Stephen Strange, the man who had been more than plenty help to her in the last few hours. She found him just as he stepped out of his study, closing the sliding doors behind him. As he did so, she caught a fleeting peek into the room, recognizing a rugged man with long blond hair sitting inside.
"Did you get in touch with your friends?" Strange asked her.
Jade nodded. "They need my help down south of Vietnam. You should come with us. Show them what you can do."
"Be one of their Avengers, you mean?" Stephen scoffed. "As tempting as that would be, I've just already made an engagement with two gods and what I'm guessing is an alien."
"I got you," Jade said. "Best of luck on your journey, Doctor Strange."
"You, too, Guardian of the Disneyverse."
Strange returned to his study, while Jade proceeded towards the front door.
On her way out of the Sanctorum, she passed a tall, black rectangular solid that was never there earlier when she arrived as both Mindy and Anne.
She dismissed it as purely another one of the Sanctorum's oddities.
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The team was all prepared to deploy for their mission to Côn Sơn Island.
Sierra was the last person to get suited up, bearing a suit Hank once invented to suppress unstable atomic particles in the human body. He theorized it would assist in sustaining Sierra's unstable molecules during the fight, preventing her age from accelerating again.
She decided to stop by the nursery, where Oneida had been watching over Karter and John, the latter being the son of the Splitter named Heather. Elendriel informed Sierra of this a while ago, motivating her into paying a visit to the child who was conceivably her son in retrospect.
"How's he doing?" She asked Oneida, who was a natural nanny, nursing baby John in her tender arms.
"He was a little fussy earlier, but he's doing just fine now."
"Can I hold him?"
"Certainly."
Gently, Oneida handed the swaddled infant over to Sierra.
