Skye suddenly calmed down, her breathing steadying as she processed Ragna 's words.
Without hesitation, Ragna spoke directly, his tone unwavering.
"Fight for me, and I will reveal the truth about your origins. I will grant you unparalleled power, allowing you to witness the vast universe with your own eyes! But think carefully—if you refuse, there will be no second chance."
Despite her beauty and perfect compatibility with Black Bolt's power seed, Ragna would never plead for anyone to join his cause. He was the sovereign ruler of the Heavenly Throne, and that title demanded dignity.
Skye hesitated only for a moment, her mind racing. Then, her resolve hardened. She agreed to Ragna 's offer.
Her obsession with finding her parents, her fascination with the mysteries of the cosmos, and her perception of Ragna as a true god—all of it drove her decision. He was not some malevolent entity, not a mindless destroyer. He was a ruler, a force of order. Fighting under such a being did not seem wrong.
The instant she agreed, Ragna tossed Black Bolt's power seed to her. As it merged with her, she successfully awakened the ability to generate and control devastating vibrational energy.
With her power now unlocked, Ragna assigned several God-Given Warriors to train her, ensuring she could fully harness her abilities. Then, without another word, he vanished.
But his promise remained—he would bring her parents to her.
The Return of Jiaying and Calvin Zabo
Skye's mother, Jiaying, was the leader of the Earth's Inhumans, blessed with extraordinary regenerative abilities. She also possessed control over vast amounts of Terrigen Crystals.
Once, she had suffered at the hands of humans—captured, experimented on, and nearly broken. These experiences fueled her radical desire to awaken dormant Inhumans, even at the cost of innocent lives.
Her father, Calvin Zabo, was not normal either. A victim of brutal experiments, his physiology had been altered, making him prone to uncontrollable rage.
Locating them was effortless for Ragna .
Jiaying, in the midst of plotting a mass Inhuman awakening, was swiftly knocked unconscious. Her Terrigen supply? Seized.
As for Calvin Zabo—when Ragna appeared before him, he reacted exactly as expected. Enraged, he attacked. But compared to Ragna , who had the raw power to crush the Hulk with ease, Zabo's strength was nothing.
A single strike rendered him unconscious.
With both of Skye's parents incapacitated, Ragna took them back and placed them before Skye. When she woke them, she would be free to question them, to demand the answers she had sought her entire life. But as for how she handled those answers?
That was not Ragna 's concern.
A Universe in Motion
Ragna had other matters to attend to.
For now, he remained on Earth, blending into its daily life, experiencing its unique essence while waiting for the inevitable—the emergence of the Reality Stone.
According to his memory, the moment was fast approaching.
But his peace was short-lived.
Another problem had arrived.
Captain Marvel's Challenge
Captain Marvel—Carol Danvers—returned to Earth.
Decades ago, she had left behind an emergency Kree communicator, a beacon for desperate times. That call had finally been made.
Upon returning, she learned of Ragna 's rise—how he had executed Nick Fury, eradicated the Skrulls, and established absolute dominion over the planet.
And so, she came for him.
Ragna had to pay.
To her, his secret control over Earth was unacceptable. No matter his power or the authority he wielded across the universe, Earth was off-limits.
The Battle in the Void
To prevent catastrophic destruction on Earth, both Carol and Ragna chose to fight in the vastness of space.
Her expression hardened as she faced him, her body radiating pure cosmic energy.
"The Heavenly Throne may rule the stars, but Earth is not yours to control. I am its protector," Carol declared. "And you will pay for what you've done to Fury and the Skrulls!"
Ragna 's lips curled into a smirk.
"Oh? And why exactly is Earth beyond my reach?"
Carol's fists clenched.
"Because I protect it."
Ragna chuckled.
"You protect it? When did Earth become your property?"
Her eyes narrowed.
"It's not about ownership. I defend Earth from foreign powers like you."
Ragna 's smirk grew wider.
"Ah, I see. So Nick Fury and the Skrulls were allowed to meddle, but I'm not?"
Carol's posture stiffened, but she pressed on.
"They were just trying to survive. They were refugees."
Ragna 's laughter echoed through the void.
"Refugees?" he mused. "Is that all you know?"
Carol had arrived late. She had followed Fury's distress signal, then made her way to Attilan, now stripped of its power and barriers. There, she had spoken with the surviving Inhumans, learning that Ragna had killed Fury and the Skrulls.
But she hadn't seen the truth.
The Rising Tide hacker collective had carefully erased the most damning evidence—the footage of the Skrulls' human and mutant experiments.
What Carol had seen, however, was Ragna 's divine image plastered across every church.
She had put the pieces together incorrectly.
But even if she had known the full truth, would it have changed anything?
The Flawed Ideals of Captain Marvel
"You rule the stars, Ragna , but Earth's fate is not yours to decide!" Carol declared, her energy flaring. "You have no right to interfere!"
Ragna sighed, shaking his head.
"And yet the Skrulls could? And the Earth's own people could tear each other apart unchecked?"
"That's different!" Carol shot back.
"No, it isn't."
Carol prided herself on being a protector of the weak, a liberator of the oppressed.
But how many times had she truly saved Earth?
For all her strength, all her convictions, she had left Earth vulnerable.
She had spent years roaming the cosmos, helping civilizations she deemed worthy, yet Earth had nearly been annihilated multiple times.
And when she did return, it was never in time.
To Ragna , her beliefs were naïve.
And her mission to "end all wars"?
Laughable.
The Reality of War
War could be meaningless.
But war could also be necessary.
The Kree-Skrull War—was it right or wrong?
And if an entire civilization had spent thousands of years preparing for a war of survival, was it truly wrong for them to seek vengeance?
In a universe of finite resources, every civilization fought to expand and thrive.
What Carol failed to understand was that peace was never given—it was taken.
And if there ever was to be a true end to war, it would not be through blind idealism.
It would be through absolute power.
A power only Ragna could wield.
The Battle Begins
"The weak are not always innocent."
Ragna 's eyes gleamed as his divine aura surged.
"And peace is not always righteous."
Carol gritted her teeth, cosmic energy crackling around her.
The battle was about to begin.
And this time, she might not win.
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