"Power without trol is useless," Alex said casually as he approached me. "You o know yourself and what you and 't do."

  "I..." I stuttered as I tried to speak. My head is really foggy. "How did you do that?"

  "Your soul..." Alex blinked and closed the distaween us. He grabbed my shoulder. "You were someone else before your rebirth as Alex Wilson, then you died again before awakening your true power and once again reborn as Peter Parker. You awakened your memories ter, huh? Ah! That fucker Sims... Tsk. That slippery bastard."

  This guy figured out everything within seds.

  "You know Sims," I asked.

  "Yeah. That slippery bastard tried to kill me and ran away afterward. Anyway, I'm running tight on time, so..." Alex let out a massive wave of energy clearing out the darkness around me.

  My head cleared as the bloodlust and the urge to kill and trol everything... All those bad thoughts disappeared instantly. Dang! What the heck was I thinking?

  "I once had one of these episodes. So, I imagine how you are feeling," Alex said as he stepped back.

  I ched my fists, trying to summon that intense energy back. But this time, it flowed naturally through my body before coating my fist in a pale blue energy.

  "I've ed your celestial power. You won't have any trouble like before anymore. And you won't be able to use magic or chi anymore like you usually do for a while. You have to tame this new power, or you just discard magid Chi and only focus on this celestial power," Alex expined.

  "Dang! I don't have that much time. Without my magid chi, I won't be able to stop the hreats ing for Earth and I o leary manipution magic to fix a timelihis is really bad," I said with a grim expression.

  New power es with new risks. Magid Chi were easy to master, but this is the celestial power we are talking about here. I've no idea how fast I train and master this new power. Most importantly, I've no idea what this power even do. I've read in ics about Celestials reshapiy aroying universes and doing some crazy shit, but time... I don't have time to start everything from zero.

  "That's where you are wrong. You use celestial power to create things with their own rules and apply them to this present world. For example, a room where time flows faster than this reality. Pretty coht?" Alex said with a smirk.

  I was stunned by what he said. I make a room where time flows faster than this reality, so if I ehat room, I spend a whole month in that room, while just a few hours would have passed in the real world. It's like a time chamber from DBz.

  "So, what are you waiting for? I'm sure you figure it out. It's not much different from how you use magic or chi. But it requires focus way too much focus. Good luck," Alex said as he stepped back. "I'm gonna leave now. If you somehow mao survive... No, I'm sure you will survive... I'll invite you to join Mortal Kombat. Till then... Take care."

  Alex's body began to fade away

  "Wait!" I called out. "Mortal Kombat is real?"

  "Yup! You'll find out soon enough much more than just Mortal Kombat. The merge is yet to occur in this timeline. Sooner or ter, this reality will alse with the other verses. You have to be prepared for that day. Keep a for the rise of superhumans... Not mutants but superhumans. Regur human awakening superpower. That would be the sign of the merge," Alex said as he gave me o look before disappearing pletely.

  "Damn! Mortal Kombat is fug real and other verses... Just hope it isn't Berserk or Atta Titan or shitty worlds like those... Those are fucked up worlds," I muttered.

  I opened my eyes and found myself surrounded by a bunch of sorcerers. The A One, Wanda, Dr. Strange, Wong, and all the masters of Kamar-Taj were there. Oh, I feel groggy as if I'm drunk.

  "How are you feeling?" The A One asked.

  "I think I'm good," I said as I sat up on the floor. I looked around and saw a k of the room was missing. "Did I go berserk?"

  "It's nothing we 't fix," Strange said with a shrug.

  "How long was I out?" I asked.

  "Just a few hours," Wong replied.

  "Ah! I see," I stood up ahe celestial power. My body was glowing brightly with a pale blue hue. It was stable unlike before. This feels good.

  "What the hell is this power?" Wanda asked as she narrowed her eyes.

  "This is the Mystical Energy," I said as I felt like I was drawing power from something, an endless o of energy. Then there was this other power. It was very faint. If I wasn't trating on it, I would have missed it pletely. The color of my energy ged tht green. Life... I feel every living anism around me, including those that aren't visible to normal eyes. "This is probably the Life Forergy."

  Wait! There are more... I tapped into the sourd my body began to glow with a yellow hue, just like Captain Marvel.

  "This is iergy," I said as I stared at the yellow hue around my arms.

  There were a couple of more power sources, but let's not get ahead of myself here. Let's go o a time, then I'll think about fusion.

  "This is amazing!" The A One said as she stepped forward. "I've never seen something like this before."

  "her have I," Strange said as he stood beside the A One.

  "No wohe Great Weaver chose him," The A One said.

  I turo her. "Well, it seems I 't use magic or chi at the moment. So, do you know someone who help me master these iergies?"

  "Captain Marvel is your best bet. I'll tact her today. Till then, try not to destroy anything, please," Dr. Strange said before leaving.

  After the versation with the A One and Dr. Strange, I took a deep breath and focused on the raw energy surging through me. The iergy hummed beh my skin, making me feel like I could burst out of my own body if I wasn't careful. But Alex's words echoed in my mind: power without trol is useless. That much was true. I wasn't going to let this power trol me. I'd tame it, just like I did with magid chi.

  [A Week Later – Kree Warship, Training Room]

  "Not bad, Parker," Captain Marvel—Carol Danvers—said with a smirk, watg as I unched another bst of iergy at the training drohe yellow energy arced from my fists, vaporizing the dummies in a burst of light.

  I had to admit, I felt pretty damn good. I'd spent the st week with Carol on her warship, where she put me through the wringer. From day one, she'd pushed me to my limits, f me to master the basics of trolling iergy. Carol was tough—borderline brutal—but she was also a good teacher. Even she was surprised by how quickly I picked up the teiques.

  "You've got a talent for this," she said, h beside me. Her binary form ulsing with iergy, like a mini sun iraining room. "You've grown fast, Peter. Faster than anyone I've ever seen."

  "Thanks, I guess?" I wiped the sweat from my brow. Even though the iergy c through me gave me enhaamina, Carol didn't let up. She had me practig day and night. I was exhausted but determined.

  "Not just your powers," she tinued, crossing her arms. "You're learning how to tap into different types of energy as if it's sed nature. That's not normal, even for someone like me."

  I nodded, still trying to process everything I was learning. The iergy felt like the most accessible of my new powers, but the life forergy was more elusive, and the celestial energy still intimidated me. Carol had told me that harnessing iergy was ohing, but if I wao manipute time or space, I'd o unlock deeper levels of trol.

  "You ready for the step?" Carol asked, snappi of my thoughts.

  I squared my shoulders and nodded. "Yeah, let's do this."

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