HIATUS

CHAPTER 57: Enoch



  LOCATION: LIGHTHOUSE

"How is everything going Howard", Ethan asked.

"This spaceship is incredible advance, it's going to take time even for me to figure this out", Howard responded as he looks at his new workmate, the Skrull scientist who Yon-Rogg killed. After a clone took his body and reanimated him, he was shock obviously, but after a long conversation in what were his options going forward, he decided to work for me. A willing companion is a good companion.

Inside the hangar was a Kree spaceship, Ethan stole one of these spaceships when he placed Yon-Rogg in Mar-Vell's ship. For the last few days, the Skrulls scientist had been teaching Howard all he knew about space travel technology. Due to the spaceship capable of only housing 1 occupant, Ethan had assigned Howard to make a bigger ship.

"Look what I have", Ethan said. In his hands was a briefcase-like container, the moment he opened the container a faint blue glow can be seen.

"The Tesseract, I thought you said that Fury has it", Howard said.

"They did, I'm just borrowing it for a while. You and I will be very busy for a while Howard. I want you to make weapons out of the energy that the Tesseract produces, the Skrull scientist can help you in this matter as well", Ethan said.

"You want weapons like what Johann Schmidt built back in World War 2?" Howard asked.

"No, I want something better. If we have the weaponry then that's one checklist done for 'Project Watchtower'", Ethan said. Before the spaceship was brought inside the Lighthouse, Project Watchtower was the project that Howard has been working on. It's is a project designed to be a weaponize spaceship that will orbit the earth, with it, it will protect the earth from above. For now, it just a design but both Ethan and Howard was hoping that the Kree spaceship will provide some insight into how to build the Watchtower.

Howard took the Tesseract and said, "I'll see what I can do". Immediately after taking the Tesseract, Howard returned to studying the Kree spaceship.

Ethan didn't mind this and he soon went to his lab in the Lighthouse. Inside the lab, 4 clones can be seen studying the body of the dead Kree soldiers. In canon, SHIELD was able to take possession of a corpse of a dead Kree. They were able to make a drug out of the corpse and they named the drug, GH35. When GH35 is administered, the drug causes rapid healing by promoting advanced cellular regeneration, healing severe and fatal wounds, and in some cases can even revive the recently deceased. GH35 was the drug that was given to Phil Coulson when he died in the Battle of New York resulting in him being revived off-screen.

"One of you immediately dispel yourself", Ethan said.

Hearing what Ethan said, one of his clones immediately dispelled himself, causing everything that they learned about the corpses, which turns out to be nothing as of yet were transferred to him.

"Damn, this is going to take some time", Ethan said as he took a pair of gloves and place them on. Ethan wanted to begin studying the corpses when he was suddenly interrupted by Catherine.

"Father, your clone in-charge of the Lighthouse command center wanted me to call you. He is on the phone with someone right now, but he wanted to let me tell you that Sitwell was able to find him", Catherine said as a small portion of the slug crawled to Ethan's shoulder.

Hearing what Catherine said made Ethan smile, for the last 4 years Ethan had made most of the Phantoms search the entire US for one man. It was only after 1993 when Sitwell was able to help him in searching for this man. Agent Sitwell was one of the best investments he took, after placing the seal bomb in his head, the man had begun a quick rise in the SHIELD ranks. Right now he is already a level 4 agent of SHIELD. If Sitwell keeps this up, Ethan theorized that Sitwell may make it to level 8 by 2012.

Ethan went to the clone who was in the command center and waited for his clone to finish talking.

"Where is he?", Ethan said.

"In one of the cities in Washington state, the City of Bellevue. The reason that Sitwell was able to find Enoch, is that he recently took a job as a librarian in the city" the clone said.

"Send the Phantoms in first to scout Enoch, make sure that they are carrying EMP just in case. I'll go there in a couple of days", Ethan said.

TWO DAYS LATER:

Enoch returned home after doing his job in the city library. Enoch can be described as having a calm demeanor. He is a person who never shows emotions, his work colleagues in the library can attest to that, often than not they refer to him as a robot due to this.

Enoch stayed in a small house, he takes 30 minutes to drive to get to work every day. The moment he entered his house, Enoch spotted a man in the dark corner of his living room.

Enoch studied the man thoroughly. The man was wearing a grayish-white mask with a ripple design and long cloak that has the symbols of clouds, but instead of the color white, the cloud was colored in red.

"Who are you? What are you doing in my home?", Enoch said. If other people heard the tone in Enoch's speech they would be mildly confused, for a man who had his house broken into, Enoch was extremely calm.

"Tell me, how has your stay on earth been?", the masked man asked.

"I do not know what you are talking about", Enoch replied, still having the plain and calm demeanor.

With a sneer, Ethan said, "You may fool others, but you can't fool me, Chronicom".

Hearing this Enoch showed no emotions.

Enoch is a robot or more specifically, a Chronicom. Chronicoms, were a race of extraterrestrials machines whose main purpose was to observe and document the evolution of other intelligent species. Enoch has been assigned to earth to study and record the history of humankind.

"I mean no harm to your planet. I am an anthropologist, my job is to record and observed your planet. Nothing else", Enoch responded.

"Tell me, Enoch, what would happen if you learn something that will lead to the wiping out of half the life in the entire universe?", the masked man asked.

"....I am program to only help when I may suspect an extinction-level event", Enoch neutrally replied.

"hmmm…. I believe that the Chronicoms, have something called the Time Stream. Am I right?" the masked man said. The 'time stream' is a tool that the Choronicoms use to predict that future but in order to properly use it, they need to input recorded information from the past of their target.

"Yes", Enoch responded.

"If you gather information of a certain Warlord, say Thanos. Then you will be able to predict what he will do in the future based on his past actions", the masked man said. The masked man wanted to have a possible alliance with the Chronicoms.

"..", Enoch gave no reply.

Seeing this the masked man left a communication device at Enoch's dining table. The communication device looks to be of Kree origin and he said, "You can contact me with this. I for one hope a future alliance between the two of our race". After saying this the masked man left via a puff of smoke.

For a while, Enoch was silent and just stared at the communication device at the dining table. He only moved when the rays of the morning sun were visible in one of his windows. He went to his bedroom and hidden below his bed was a briefcase like-object, he opened it and you could see that it was something extremely advanced. He inputted some numbers and out came a hologram of a Chronicom, disguised as an ordinary human.

"Enoch, why have you called"

"I wish to speak with Atarah", Enoch said.

 


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