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DoorMan #33
Red Hearth, Mars[January 20, 2008]
–Colin Baxter–
"So, you're some sort of magician, capable of opening portals to anywhere in the solar system with ease?" Bruce asked him as they stood on the balcony, made specifically to enjoy the endless expanse of red, sipping on Strawberry Quick. For some reason, he liked this more than beer.
Then again, he had yet to try the truly hard alcohols, mainly because of overprotective Old Men capable of casting enchantments that could detect Alcohol in their house.
"You will only get Hard liquor when I tell you, and that is not happening a day before you turn 21." He still remembered Wong's chiding face as his finger was pointed at him so many times that day.
He nodded at Bruce's question, "More or less. I just wanted to be transparent because full disclosure, I or rather, we are going to need your abilities, both, scientific as well as your physical prowess."
Bruce took one look all around him, at the red desert, the mountains, the sun in the distance, the breathable air, and at the structure built around him, and mumbled, "At Least you are honest about that.
"So, what do you need me for?"
"Right now? Not much. I didn't want to push it all on you all of a sudden but I have stuff that will be keeping me busy starting next week and just wanted to get this all over with so you can start making progress.
"Once again, progress on what?"
"Well, I'll just show you. Come on," He threw the now empty bottle into one of the trash chutes nearby, which had the ability to clean better than anything that currently exists.
Together, they entered the elevator and stopped at the training floor, an expanded space that consisted of multiple training spaces with multiple terrains.
He even had an underwater world that could simulate the water pressure ranging from a hundred meters underwater to a dozen miles below the sea level, generating a truly incredible amount of pressure that would turn anyone he knew into fine mist instantly.
He glanced at the now nervous and fidgeting Doctor from the side of his eye.
Well, maybe not him.
"Voila! A training space. Something to help you, me, and anyone who might live here in the future, relieve stress."
"I see." Bruce gave a suspicious look at the space, which, while large, was not in any way occupied to be used as a training room even by normal humans, let alone by superhumans.
He rolled his eyes, "Follow me."
Using his access, he opened the general purpose gravity room. This one did not have the gym but just a giant empty room with panels specifically enchanted for absorbing physical blows and redistributing that force across the panels and if that proved insufficient, across the entire Training room as well.
He was still way too far from reaching even 10% of the maximum limit of the room but he was sure that the Hulk would put this room's as well as the enchantment's integrity to test soon enough.
"What is this?"
He spread his arms wide, "This, Dr.Banner, is the training room. The one place where you can wreak havoc without damaging anything."
Bruce chuckled nervously, "I don't think you understand. The Monster, he, he can destroy anything. This room will be nothing to him."
He smirked, he was waiting for this, "I can understand your skepticism, Doctor. Now, as I told you before, I am a man of many abilities, some can be explained, some cannot. I'd like to show you how this room works if you will?"
"Yeah, sure."
He snapped his fingers, making a Door appear in front of him, only this time, it was blinking an ominous red. Oh yeah, he could do that if he wanted to.
Honestly, the amount of aesthetic changes he could do to his Doors was mind boggling.
"Whoa!" Bruce took a step back and so did he. He mentally called on Jin'Ya, who used his awesome magical guardian powers and summoned a block of Titanium in front of them. He took hold of the giant block that was twice as large as him, without breaking a sweat since Titanium was light and he was super strong, and presented it to Bruce who was standing by his side–no–he retreated even further when he saw the block.
"Hey! What are you so afraid of? Come, check this. It's a solid block of Titanium."
"Okay."
"Now watch this," He threw the block ahead and both of them watched as the Red Door followed the Block. As soon as they were aligned, the Door pulsed a deep red before a beam of Kinetic Laser, probably six feet in width shot out of the Door and pretty much enveloped the block of Titanium, before the Lasers impacted the floor, creating what looked like a disturbance on the side of a bubble.
He snapped his fingers, removing the Door from existence as another one snapped into existence below them. "Whoa!" Bruce steadied himself as they flew to the site of the impact.
"Voila!" He revealed the non-existent piece of Titanium and no hole in the floor.
"Y-You can disintegrate stuff?" Bruce subjected him to a look of pure terror mixed in with a pinch of fascination sprinkled in.
"What? No. Well, sorta. Look, it depends. If it were Vibranium? That laser wouldn't do shit to it. It all depends on the Material but my point stands, the walls of this place are very much impact resistant. Now, I don't want you to do this on your first try. I wish for you to better calm yourself and once you feel that you are ready, you can hit this space. It will be open anytime you want."
Bruce looked deep in thought as he looked all around the room, and said, "Okay. I can do that."
He clapped his hands in delight, "Great! Now, let me introduce you to the Guardian of this space."
"Guardian?"
"Yup. Let me present to you, Jin'Ya~!"
Jin'Ya, absolutely dramatic fucker that he was, sparked a deep violet light in the middle of the chamber that then escalated to turn into a giant dragon that touched the very very high ceilings, and looked down on them with its yellow eyes.
Bruce's breathing quickened as he had to flex his own CHI to create a small bubble around them that negated the effect of the Dragon's aura that Jin'ya chose to unravel at this point.
With a thought, the Laser door appeared once more and let loose a giant beam of red that stabbed through the head of the dragon, freezing the entire room at once.
After a moment, the entire thing unraveled, revealing a speck of bright purple that floated toward them and revealed itself to be Jin'Ya in his real form.
"Dr.Banner, please meet Jin'Ya, a dragon who has bound himself to the Red Hearth. He is essentially the second highest authority in this place, and please, do not worry, he is tiny and only eats stolen Barbecue meat."
_____xx_____
Earthen Bachelor Pad, Seattle
He sighed as he all but collapsed in his bed. All the talking with Bruce kinda tired him out, because to him, all that stuff was self explanatory, and combined with his intent to keep Bruce away from the mystical side for now, he had to repeat the same line over and over again, to try and redirect Bruce's boundless curiosity towards stuff that could be more easily explained by Science.
He had two more days left in Seattle before he was whisked off to LA, and Tony had three days until his weapons demonstration in Afghanistan.
BEEP!
His eyes snapped open, sleep all but vanishing from his system as he leaped to his computer, as it began glowing the same orange before the entire operating system switched to that of the computer in the Red Hearth.
He grinned as soon as he recognised the files appearing on the computer at a dizzying pace.
"Jackpot."
It was time to hit SHIELD again, and he was just looking for something to do for the next 24 hours before he had to start preparing for the move.
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