Marvel-ous Ninjutsu 00020. The Ancient One wants to talk

00020. The Ancient One wants to talk.

The Ancient One shook her head in pity and said, “Without a soul as a container your life force is slowly ebbing away. I can already see it, if nothing is done, you will die within a few weeks at most.”

Ezekiel laughed at her words and said, “For being The Ancient One, you sure don’t know much, do you? I will be gone by five, before my father gets ho to take a shower.”

The Ancient One frowned at that and said, “You might be close to sixty in age and currently dying, but you should still show a little respect, young man. I have worked to keep this planet safe from threats for over nine hundred years.”

Ezekiel finally stopped typing as he rolled his eyes and said, “Alright granny, whatever you say.”

He started to save his work, before he shut off the computer. As he did that, The Ancient One frowned a little more and said, “You know I was going to try to help you, since you are not corrupted. But with your attitude, I think not.”

Ezekiel stood up on the desk and put the keyboard and mouse back in place before he jumped off the desk and landed on the floor. He walked closer and looked up at The Ancient One as he said, “Nothing you can do could help anyways granny. You would just be wasting my ti, like you are now. You said you ca to check out, are you finished or do I need to strip naked?”

The Ancient One stepped back and said, “No, but I want to et your boss before I leave.”

Ezekiel let out a laugh as he said, “You made lose another bet, old won. You wanna et my boss? Then take us to the mirror dinsion first.”

The Ancient One nodded and flicked her right hand, the area around them started to break like glass. After a mont they were both in the mirror dinsion and The Ancient One said, “Now summon your boss for .”

Ezekiel started to giggle, before his laughter beca manic and he said, “I really wish you would have found us in a few years, it would have been more fun.”

“You would have been dead long before then, now summon your boss for . Please.”

“You know, the boss isn’t gonna like this one bit. But I know you ca here ready for a fight, so it would be a sha to let all that work go to waste wouldn’t it? How about you show how well you can dance!”

Ezekiel’s body flickered for a mont before it disappeared, and a shield glimred into life behind The Ancient One’s head where Ezekiel had just tried to punch her. The next second his body flickered, he reappeared in the air in front of her mid punch. She gently blocked the punch with her palm and then gripped his fist. She pulled him downwards and moved him into the path of her leg as she kicked him in the chest, which sent him flying away from her. As Ezekiel slamd into the wall of the mirror dinsion, she watched the boy closely and noticed his life force was depleting even faster then before. Ezekiel recovered slowly and as he got up he started to laugh again as he said, “This body is so weak it makes sick.”

The Ancient One shook her head and said, “You could beat a normal human with no training. But a trained combatant, even with your speed, you would lose. You also pack no power behind your attacks and with this amount of skill, I won’t need to cast a single spell to beat you.”

Ezekiel started to laugh nacingly and said, “You wanna bet?”

The Ancient One stepped back and put up her guard as she watched Ezekiel. The boy brought his hands together as he started to make signs, she wasn’t sure what they ant, but as he made them, the life force in his body began to move. Most of it started to gather in his chest area and started to spin at a rapid pace as he inhaled. When he finished, he said, “” A huge fla erupted from Ezekiel's mouth and sped towards The Ancient One.

“May the aegis of the intertwine to protect !” A glowing orange shield bubble engulfed The Ancient One as she watched in fascination as the life force in the body of Ezekiel disappeared and turned into a giant fla spewing from his mouth. It didn’t last too long, less than fifteen seconds and the boy was spent. The last bits of his life force were about to fade away as he gasped for his last breath, he said, “I win,” as his body fell forward and disappeared into a puff of smoke.”

The Ancient One started in shock at what just happened, in all her years she had never once seen soone act so reckless with their own life. She just stood there, staring at the spot where Ezekiel just was.

---------------------------------------------------

Ezekiel was in the backyard walking around practicing his control exercises when he was flooded with knowledge from his clone. He almost tripped mid step, when he saw what they had done to The Ancient One. After he stopped walking, he looked around and observed everyone in the backyard for a few seconds. He then walked towards the shed in the backyard and once behind it out of sight, he created a new shadow clone.

The clone snickered at its creator before it nodded and walked out from behind the shed. It sat down on the ground next to it and started to do his best Shikamaru impression. Ezekiel’s body flickered and he quickly scaled up the fence and over the wall into the alleyway behind the house. As he ran towards his house, his body flickered with each step and he made it to his backyard fence in only a few seconds.

He quickly ran up the fence and jumped over it into his backyard, then ran into the open back door and looked around his living room as he ca to a stop.

The Ancient One was still in the mirror dinsion when Ezekial flickered in front of her, and looked around the house for a mont before he let out a sigh of relief and said, “I knew it would be fine, but that idiot still gave a scare.”

The Ancient One snapped her wrist and pulled the new Ezekiel into the mirror dinsion with her and said, “What exactly was that? I’ve only seen dark magic that uses life force like that.”

Ezekiel studied The Ancient One for a few minutes in silence before he said, “It’s a personal skill I have, but it wasn’t life force.”

The Ancient One nodded and started to cast examining spells, one after another on the new Ezekiel. Once the last spell was cast she asked, “I assu that you are the real Ezekiel, but what was I just talking to?”

Ezekiel smirked at that and bowed as he said, “I must apologize for him attacking you, by the way. He was a clone of myself that I share mories with. They each have their own personalities and can act however they wish after I make them. But they normally act like and less like that… Most of the ti.”

The Ancient One regarded Ezekiel as he stayed bowed, before she finally said, “Apology accepted young man. Now I have so questions for you, and you are on a ti schedule I believe.”

Ezekiel stood back up and said, “I just need to program, but I will just call today a break. You have till my father cos ho to ask whatever questions you want. But I might not answer them.”

“Who sent you here?”

“They told to think of them as the One Above All. But I also know there is a One Above All here, but it’s not him.”

The Ancient One nodded and asked, “Why were you sent here?”

“Because I asked to be.”

The Ancient One shook her head and said, “I said before that you don’t ask beings like that for things. Unless you traded sothing for it, that just doesn’t happen.”

“I traded positive karma.”

“Positive Karma? Like doing good deeds?”

Ezekiel nodded a little as he raised his right hand and scratched the back of his head as he said, “Ya sothing like that.”

The Ancient One examined Ezekiel for a while before she asked, “So you were a really good person in your last life or sothing?”

“I would like to think I was.”

“So why here, to this tiline? You seem to know what is coming and you aren’t planning to sit on the sidelines from what you have done so far.”

Ezekiel laughed at that before he said, “I didn’t pick this place first or even second. I picked my world first, I wanted to see my kids. But I was told that wouldn’t be allowed. So I picked sowhere else, but I was told I wouldn’t be able to affect the tiline much and I didn’t want to live my second life like an NPC bystander.”

“NPC?”

Ezekiel smiled and said, “It’s a term from video gas, non-player character. If I went to that world, that’s how I would feel. You should really play so video gas when you have so free ti, I think you would enjoy it.”

The Ancient One just nodded for a mont before she asked. “So this was your next choice?”

Ezekiel shook his head and said, “No, he made an offer, an already made tiline. I wouldn’t be able to change where I started, but he would give powers I could use to shape the future of the tiline.”

The Ancient One frowned a little and said, “So you mostly ca here because you gained powers?”

“No, I would have had powers in the other worlds I went to. I had another reason for coming here. But I doubt you would understand, it’s kinda childish.”

“Humor .”

Ezekiel raised his head up at the ceiling with his eyes unfocused as he looked past it and he said, “After I was born, I was told that I was special, it was a miracle that I was even alive.”

His eyes beca focused as he looked at The Ancient One and said, “During my mothers pregnancy, she did everything she could to have a miscarriage. Her personal beliefs, wouldn’t allow her to get an abortion and I was just a reminder of the worst night of her life. So she attempted to get rid of in a way that wouldn’t affect her “soul.”

Ezekiel let out a sigh as he said, “Well nothing worked, I sohow survived everything she put in her body to kill . But it wasn’t without a cost. I was a miracle baby, with more health issues than the average cancer patient ward. Luckily my mind was sohow spared and it was the one thing that kept alive.”

Ezekiel shook his head as he said, “My mother was forced to give up for adoption after I was born. Not like she wanted to keep anyways, but after the doctors figured out what she had been doing to do to get rid of . Well she was sentenced to a ntal institution for her condition instead of prison. As for the man who donated the other half of my genes… He was in prison for what he did to my mother and so other won.”

Ezekiel sat down on the ground and started to examine his hands for a mont as he said, “You know, everyone loves a baby. Unless the baby needs to be hooked up to machines just to live. I didn’t even get to go to an orphanage, I had to stay under dical care for my body to function properly. I was lucky my mind worked though, otherwise they wouldn’t have kept the machines on.”

Ezekiel laughed and said, “Apparently if you aren’t considered brain dead, by law they had to keep you alive. Even a kid no one wanted. I spent the first part of my life till I was about six alone. dical staff would see everyday, I would be fed, cleaned and taking care of. But that was it, I had no true interactions with people.”

Ezekiel looked back up at The Ancient One and said, “While my mind did work, they still didn’t try to teach anything. They treated like a coma patient, except I had my own room and I was placed in a long term pediatric ward. I learned language by listening to people talk around and the TV that they played kid shows on. I actually learned to read from watching Sesa Street.”

Ezekiel smiled at that, his eyes looking past The Ancient One and into an old mory, the edges of Ezekiel’s eyes glimred a little and his voice broke slightly as he said, “Around six is when I made my first friend… His na was Sam… He introduced to the world of comic books and he is the main reason I took the deal for this world.”