The Kaslana sat in the quiet of his apartment in Zürich, the soft hum of the city outside barely reaching his ears. The room was dimly lit, with only the glow from his desk lamp illuminating his figure.
His body laid down on the couch, a stone floating a few centimeters above his hands, his mind half on the mystical concepts he's been unraveling and the other attempting to focus in on Aether once more. He had clarity over how to manipulate Aether as well how to manipulate Mana due to the stone.
It was serene, and calming, although he did this all day he never got tired of the feeling... It was like a deaf person hearing for the first time. It was a life changing experience. And then he felt the world was wrong, it wasn't him but rather something around like from the corner of his eye something disturbing was happening a far....
Auro quickly sensing something was amiss used his Observation Haki to observe his surroundings; and then he found the source of this disturbance, it was.... The Juggernaut?
What the in the countless hells was Juggernaut doing in fucking Switzerland???
Setting the Norn stone into a drawer, he placed a small Psychological invisibility over it and decided to investigate. I AM NOT HAVING MY NEIGHBORHOOD GET FLATTENED CAUSE OF SOME GUY WITH AN EGGSHELL FOR A HELMET.
Auro began dressing up in a suit, taking his time to wear socks and dress shoes and grabbing a suit from his drawer, and grabbing himself a Korean Style coat.
The Kaslana began drawing upon his information about The Red Egg, He had the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak, which gave him near indestructability so much so he has defeated the hulk on many occasion and many other heavy hitters.
The Crimson Gem of Cyttorak was the Source of his powers as well has his weakness one that can easily be exploited and one that the Kaslana had in spades, Cain Marko was weak to magic, in fact that was his biggest glaring weakness. The Crimson Gem gave him indestructability against all physical threats but he was still very weak to magic.
Auro began making his way outside, he quickly jumped atop roof, using raw strength; the Kaslana genes making him more than powerful enough to jump atop a 2 story building in a single leap. He began jumping from roof to roof keeping his Psychological Invisibility active, he began making his way to the Crimson haze he could see from afar until he was about 10 kilometers away.
The Kaslana stood atop a snow pilled roof, his coat fluttering softly in the winter wind. Auro watched as Cain Marko rampaged through steel and concrete like paper mache, his body glowing faintly with the power of Cyttorak. Each footstep shook the ground. Entire chunks of reinforced foundation were ripped from the earth like weeds and being thrown into thunder clouds above.
Auro focused on the thunder clouds above, Storm flying above the Red Giant, lightning crackling from the thunderclouds that swirled unnaturally fast.
He focused down on the Red giant once more, instead of seeing Juggernaut throwing more buildings at Storm like he expected, he instead saw.
Colossus locked in a brutal boxing match with Cain, straining every muscle as they collided like titans of myth.
Wolverine darted in and out between their legs, slashing at exposed joints, yelling something unintelligible—probably angry and personal.
Cyclops, ever the tactician, made orders from afar, his optic blasts hammering Juggernaut's face whenever he got too much of an Advantage against Colossus.
Nightcrawler teleporting civilians away, making sure no one got hurt during the intense brawl.
It seemed Jean wasn't here thankfully, otherwise he would've just ran. He was not going to be seen by the Phoenix home be damned or not.
As Auro focused more on the battle he noticed the very much lack of damage being done to Egg head. He watched from afar as he saw
Juggernaut bellowing like a wounded god, punching Colossus into the distance as he caught Wolverine mid-leap, slamming him into the ground with enough force to leave a crater.
Auro stood still. Silent.
He was close enough to see the chaos unfold like a brutal opera—but far enough that no one would ever know he was there.
The Kaslana used his Observation Haki with the fusion of his ability to see Magic due to the Norn stone to look not only at the Juggernaut; but also at the source of the Juggernauts power, the source of the red haze. And he did The Crimson Gem of Cyttorak was deeply embedded into the Giants chest.
The unnatural tether connecting the Giant to Cyttorak's power. A glowing lifeline running down Cain's spine, to his bones.
Huh so that was how it worked, The Crimson Gem of Cyttorak flowed its extra dimensional power into the bones of the wielder and said wielder bones produced the blood that would give birth to wielders unbreakable body.
But more importantly he found where the source of Giants power, the weakness he would abuse to send the Giant crashing down.
The Kaslana closed his eyes and began to focus, he began to focus on the chest of Giant, its power all too focused on protecting its physical body, it completely left all its Magical defenses useless.
Auro gathered his Conquerors Haki preparing to stun the Giant and knock him on his ass from afar. He could feel his will begin to boil over, his will empowering the metaphysical attack, the damn holding his Conquerors will back beginning to crack, until the tidal wave released.
Red lightning Crackling around him not nearly as much as Storm but rather substantial nonetheless.
In the middle of one of the Titans disastrous charge... the Juggernaut screamed. A primal and sudden scream that froze the entire battlefield. The ground trembled as his knees buckled. He dropped onto his knees mid charge and clutched his chest, falling on his face like a puppet with cut strings.
And that was all the X-Men needed.
Cyclops's voice cracked through the air. "NOW!"
Storm unleashed a lightning bolt so powerful it seared the sky. Colossus came from above crashing down into Cain like a meteor, forcing his face to meet a face full of dirt. Logan cutting his ankles making sure he would not stand up. Cyclops shooting a focused kinetic beam straight into the head of the Giant.
He was down, defeated.
Auro noticing that the Giant had been taken care of quickly strengthen his psychological invisibility to the maximum and and quickly ran into away into a crowd so as to not be caught.
Auro began thinking to himself 'Man don't they fight well for a group that's been active for a group that's been active for what a 3 years or so? I mean that's a while but still...'
'If I didn't have my visionary pathway abilities I'd get killed no doubt about it...'
It was a reminder to get stronger but it also proved his already existing strength.
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Xavier's Institute — A Secure Debrief Room, Hours Later
The air inside the meeting room was tense but quiet, the kind of silence only earned after chaos. The walls buzzed with faint holographic projections of the earlier fight—angles pulled from drones, satellites, and mutant tech.
Cyclops stood at the head of the table, arms crossed, reviewing one paused frame: Juggernaut mid-charge—then, inexplicably, falling.
Storm, arms folded, leaned against the wall, her white hair damp from melted snow. Colossus sat quietly, nursing a bruised shoulder with an ice pack that was rapidly turning to steam. Beast was typing away at a keyboard, while Logan slouched in his chair with a bandage on his arm and a cigar in his teeth. Nightcrawler remained unusually quiet, arms clasped in front of him.
"Alright," Cyclops began, his voice sharp, almost accusatory, "Someone explain this."
He tapped the projection. The footage played again: Cain Marko, the unstoppable Juggernaut, roaring like a wounded beast… then dropping like a puppet with cut strings.
"No psychic interference," Beast said, adjusting his glasses. "Jean's out on assignment, and even if she had been there, the Gem of Cyttorak resists direct psionic influence. We've seen that firsthand."
"Lightning didn't touch him yet," Storm added. "I was building a charge, but I hadn't fired."
"Logan?" Cyclops turned.
The feral mutant grunted. "Didn't smell fear. Didn't hit 'im hard enough to matter yet. One second he was barreling through Pete, next he was screaming like someone cut somethin' deep inside. Wasn't us."
Colossus looked up. "He crumbled. Not from force. From... something else. Like his bones gave up."
Beast paused typing and leaned back. "I detected a metaphysical spike. High resonance, low frequency. It was… not magic exactly, not psionic either. Closer to an… external will. Something hit the Gem. Hard."
"A resonance attack?" Nightcrawler asked, tail flicking behind him. "Like a tuning fork on the soul?"
"More like an anti-song to the Gem's frequency," Beast replied. "Something that understood Cyttorak's wavelength and forcibly disrupted the flow."
There was a pause.
Storm spoke slowly. "So… not an attack on Cain. But on the connection."
Cyclops narrowed his eyes. "And someone did that from outside the field?"
"Far outside," Beast confirmed. "Ten kilometers or more, maybe. There's a kind of psychic residue, but it's subtle. Elegant. Definitely not brute-force."
"You're saying someone helped us," Logan said, eyes narrowing. "But hid their presence the whole time."
Beast nodded. "Not just hid—erased. The level of precision required is... insane. The amount of mental computational power would break most telepaths"
"Any signatures?" Cyclops asked.
Beast shook his head. "None I can isolate. Whoever it was either cloaked themselves with extreme magical subtlety or used a metaphysical construct we haven't categorized yet. It wasn't mutant. And it wasn't human."
A silence fell over the group again.
Storm's voice was soft but firm. "Whoever it was… they saved us."
Wolverine grunted. "Yeah. Or used us to finish the job for 'em."
Cyclops tapped the console again, pausing on the frame of Juggernaut collapsing.
"Find them... discreetly" he said. "We need to know what we're dealing with—ally, threat, or some random benefactor over the ordeal."
"And if they don't want to be found?" Nightcrawler asked, tone cautious.
Xavier interrupted "Then he won't be found, considering that he was able to attack that far and was able to do so spotlessly no amount of psychic tracing could be led anywhere means that he won't be... I doubt even I could find him if I scanned all of Switzerland."
The X-Men looked at their professor from the other side of the desk with weary expressions.
Xavier sighed "Whoever he is it doesn't follow the patterns of any existing heroes or villains, so he is most likely new or at least hasn't been caught in any major incidents and considering he's in the country with the least amount of villains or supernatural focres, I have a feeling that he most likely just doesn't want to be found or be in any trouble."
Xavier looked at his student for a second before continuing "I say that we leave whoever the third party was to his devices I'd rather not make an enemy of him, especially considering how he might as well have just defeated Juggernaut in one hit."
Xavier scanned his students for their reaction, they all seemed to have something to say but they also seemed to be in agreement of their teacher. "Then this topics is adjourned we leave it as is-" A door bell rang from afar, Xavier began turning his head to the door "Ah it seems the pizza is here let's all eat I'm sure you're all rather hungry."
Soon Xavier and his students left the meeting room to go and grab their dinner, a dinner for Heroes.