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Tony Stark folded his arms, giving Aiden a skeptical look. "Alright, Dragon Boy. You said she can do what we couldn't. Big claim. Even I couldn't lock onto the Surfer, and that guy's basically riding the cosmic equivalent of WiFi."
Bruce adjusted his glasses. "Every scan we ran came up null. His cosmic signature folds space around him. Tracking him is like trying to chase a reflection in shattered glass."
Reed stepped forward, brows furrowed. "We tried quantum triangulation, negative space echo-locators, and even applied tachyon backtracking through the anomalies caused during his last planetary exit. Every method either failed or self-destructed under feedback."
Valeria stood calmly, her hands behind her back.
"I know," she said simply.
Tony raised an eyebrow. "You know?"
She walked up to the console and began typing without hesitation, her fingers dancing across the keys. "You were all looking for a consistent cosmic signal. Something trackable. Logical. Predictable. But the Surfer isn't bound to that kind of logic."
Banner watched her work, curiosity piqued. "You're saying we shouldn't treat him as a static entity in space?"
"Exactly," she nodded. "You were looking for a needle in a haystack. I'm looking for the magnetic distortion the needle leaves behind."
Stark scoffed lightly. "Yeah, we tried residual cosmic trails. Even tried mapping galactic wake patterns. The signal collapses almost instantly behind him."
"I know," she repeated. "But you were trying to track that signal in real-time. I'm using chronal ghost imaging—"
Reed blinked. "Wait—"
"—in combination with Neutrino Drift-Trail Persistence Scanning," she continued.
Tony narrowed his eyes. "That tech doesn't exist yet."
Valeria grinned.
"It does now."
The three men stared at her, dumbfounded.
"That's not even possible," Banner said slowly. "Neutrino trails don't persist. They decay in picoseconds—"
"Unless you magnetically lock them to a temporal anchor stabilized within a fold of compressed quantum space," she said, activating a rotating hologram of the Earth with massive sweeping rings of distorted energy flowing across it. "I built one last night."
"You built a temporal anchor last night?" Tony repeated.
"Yes."
"…From what? A cereal box and a prayer?"
"Actually, a vibranium core powered by a miniaturized arc reactor I reverse-engineered from your original suit design. Don't worry—I made it better."
Tony blinked. "I'm both insulted and turned on."
There was a beat of silence—then:
"Language!" snapped Reed, glaring at Tony. "She's my daughter, Stark!"
Aiden didn't even blink. "And she's my girl," he said, stepping slightly in front of Valeria. "So the playboy should pipe down before he ends up with a broken arc reactor."
He narrowed his eyes. "Also… she's seventeen. Creepy much?"
Tony raised both hands, backing off with an awkward grin. "Okay, okay—geez. I was joking. Mostly. Sort of. Look, can we go back to the part where she just invented time-anchored neutrino scanning?"
Reed muttered, "You better stay in the 'mostly' zone, Stark..."
Valeria rolled her eyes. "Boys."
She pressed a final key. The holographic Earth pulsed, and a golden waveform rippled across it.
From the outer rim of the hologram, a sleek, comet-like signal arced sharply through the upper atmosphere of the planet.
"There," she pointed. "He's in Earth's orbit. Low-gravity drift mode. He's cloaking in an abandoned exo-satellite shell, surfing gravitational anomalies from the moon to stay hidden."
The three men just stared at the signal as it moved.
Speechless.
Tony finally broke the silence. "I… wow."
Bruce gave a short laugh. "She did it."
Reed leaned back slowly, shaking his head. "You just cracked a problem I've been trying to solve since I was in college."
Valeria turned to Aiden and gave a triumphant nod.
"He's not invisible anymore."
Aiden smirked. "Told you she was smarter than all three of you combined."
....
As the Silver Surfer's signal locked into place, a pinpoint marker hovered in midair, flickering in red over a zone just above Earth's upper orbit.
Aiden cracked his neck.
"I'll handle it."
He turned sharply, but just as he was about to take off, Valeria called out, "Wait!"
She grabbed a small, sleek device from the table and tossed it at him. Aiden caught it midair with ease.
"It's a comms relay—quantum-linked to me and the Helicarrier. Just in case he moves or… you go off-script."
Aiden gave her a lopsided smirk. "When have I ever followed the script?"
Valeria grinned. "Exactly."
With a nod, Aiden stepped back—then azure energy surged around him in a pulse of wind and radiant light. The others instinctively shielded their eyes.
His wings tore through the air, massive and majestic, scales shimmering like crystalline skyfire. His form shifted as the full Azure Divine Dragon aspect unfurled—elegant horns curling back from his temples, dragon-like features rippling through his limbs, and radiant runes glowing faintly across his arms and cheeks.
"Show-off," muttered Stark under his breath.
With a mighty flap, Aiden launched into the sky—breaking the Helicarrier's upper deck shield as if it were water, vanishing in a streak of brilliant azure.
A beat passed.
Then Thor stepped forward, gripping Stormbreaker.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" he said, a grin tugging at his lips. "Are we truly going to let the young lad earn all the glory while we twiddle our thumbs like cowards?"
"Not a chance," said Carol, her body flaring up in golden photon light. "I've got a reputation to keep, and I'm not losing to a teenager."
The two rocketed into the sky seconds later, trailing lightning and light.
Reed sighed as he looked up, muttering, "So much for sticking to the plan."
Namor, arms folded, looked around at the room filled with hesitant world leaders and heroes.
"If that boy truly has a solution," he said coldly, "Atlantis will follow it. But make no mistake—my kingdom has no interest in the Surfer's mess. The surface world bred this chaos. Make sure you know where you all stand."
He turned sharply, his cape flowing like a current behind him. "Between the world's safety… or the damn rules you made for your rotten surface."
Without waiting for a response, he leapt into the air, diving into a small water pod that shot out from the Helicarrier toward the ocean below.
Fury raised an eyebrow and said under his breath, "Well... that escalated."
Banner chuckled nervously. "So... uh. Should we get coffee or... prep planetary defenses?"
Reed, already working on his tablet, replied, "Both."
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