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Although Harry was tempted to break out the reality bomb, set the timer to five seconds and say Adios, he wanted a better idea of the situation before he started destroying everything.

Harry opened the eyelids of one of the unconscious lab coat wearing personnel and used Legilimency combined with telepathy to target and read specific sets of information.

It seemed this location was a vast compound run and owned by Mister Sinister, the one Nanny and Orphan Maker escaped from. Their goal after kidnapping Jean was to implant some mental programming into her mind, collect some DNA, and then wipe her mind of the procedure and release her to be found by the X-Men.

What surprised Harry was that after learning that they had no intention to kill or keep her, he didn't feel a need to adjust his plans for wiping out the complex. The fact that she was a target in the first place was the issue. If they had politely invited her, asked nicely, and accepted a refusal if given, then he wouldn't care. But no, they had ambushed her when she was alone, captured her, and taken her.

*Ping*

[New Quest Detected: Sinister Takedown

Quest can only be taken from Dungeon: Sinister's Lair at the Hard or Hell mode difficulty.

Dungeon Settings currently disabled. To enable quest, please exit Dungeon, enable Dungeon Mode, and re-enter and choose either Hard or Hell Mode Difficulty. ]

The pop up certainly got Harry's attention. Since the fiasco with Hell mode at Hogwarts, Harry had kept the Dungeon Generation system turned off with the intention to never turn it on again. And yet he was tempted. He did need to level up after all.

As for the innocents in the complex, Harry knew there to be none. From his mind, Harry learned that the man was a clone as were all the other personnel. They were created to be loyal and controllable. They didn't even know what the programming they were going to apply to Jean had been for.

Harry Paused and went over the ups and downs for a while before deciding to give it a go. Worst case scenario was failure to destroy the place.

Harry made another portal and left the place before opening his settings and turning on the Dungeon settings. He also took a swig of polyjuice potion and changed his clothes. He had been in too much of a rush to disguise himself before getting Jean, but since he was about to go on a rampage, a little precaution wouldn't hurt.

Harry made a portal back to the same spot and the moment he was about to enter, he got the pop-up he never thought he'd see again.

[Dungeon Generation active.

You are about to enter Sinister's Lair. Please Select a difficulty.

-Easy

-Normal

-Hard

-Hell

Rewards scale to match difficulty.]

Harry physically poked the selection for Hell. He had changed the settings a while back so that he had to poke the selection instead of think it. The reason he chose Hell on purpose this time was that unlike his time at Hogwarts, he was actually prepared.

[Hell difficulty selected.]

Once a dungeon had generated, it would not change so if Harry left and came back, it would not give an option to select a lower difficulty unless he destroyed it and it was rebuilt.

*Ping*

[New Quest: Sinister Takedown

-Destroy Mister Sinister's Evil Lair

-Defeat Vanisher

-Defeat Prism

-Defeat Azimuth

-Defeat Aries

-Defeat Mister Sinister or force him to flee.]

Harry opened up his minimap and saw a half dozen areas where he figured each of the targets were located. He zoomed out of the minimap and though there were no details for areas he had never explored, if he zoomed out enough, he could tell his location on the planet.

From what he saw, he appeared to be somewhere in central Africa. When he compared the map to some of the Atlas' in his inventory, he appeared to be one of the mountainous regions.

After another Pause, Harry had a plan that was both vicious, ruthless, and would leave both horror and nightmares to any of the few that may last long enough to survive.

The first thing Harry took out was a crystal sculpture that was in the shape of a bunny rabbit. In the center of the crystal was a fist sized gold sphere of vibranium engraved adamantium which held more magic than any other artifact Harry had ever created and was even comparable to some of the relics Harry had seen in Kamar-Taj.

Harry cast several unlocking spells on the crystal rabbit which allowed the magic within to activate. The final measure to unlock was a voice command from Harry. "Rise, Rabbit of Caerbannog."

The moment the final word was spoken, the crystal turned into a slightly chubby white fuzzy bunny rabbit. Harry telepathically sent the parameters for its targets into the rabbit's mind. Those with clean clothes in this facility, and those who attack the rabbit. Any who meet these criteria were considered targets.

The rabbit was gently placed on the ground and it took a moment to scan its surroundings and Harry. By default Harry would not be a target even if he fell in the parameters, but the unconscious personnel in the room were.

The rabbit vanished from where it stood at speeds that would have given Pietro a run for his money and it reappeared where it stopped next to one of the unconscious lab techs.

Harry turned away and went over to a corner. From his inventory he took out four difficult pieces of tech and assembled them into a reality bomb. Unlike that unstable first iteration he used against the Knights of Wulpurgis, this one was far more stable. Relatively speaking.

Harry didn't purposely set out to create a reality bomb one day. He was simply trying to create magic that could replicate his inventory while looking through the magics of how the Room of Requirements worked. Since his inventory worked through means he couldn't understand, Harry's experiments went far beyond the recommended practices and right into forbidden territory.

Eventually Harry had the idea to expand a point of zero volume into empty space. At first no matter how much he tried, it didn't work, so he tried overcharging the spell.

What Harry didn't realize back then was that expanding a zero volume point was the Wizard equivalent of dividing by zero. The reason the RoR could do so was because the origin of its space was Chthon's Nether Realm while Harry was trying to expand nothing into something.

Harry did not create a pocket of space from nothing, instead he created a bubble that rapidly expanded and lasted for a few moments before it popped. The bubble itself seemed to reject the laws of reality and everything caught within would practically have its logic removed. When the bubble popped the laws of reality would impose themselves back on the space which had a myriad of unpredictable effects. Even matter outside the bubble would be affected as the laws of reality would be pushed from the bubble and then swept back in like a flowing tide and those near the shore were affected as well.

The range of this bomb would be about half a kilometre and wouldn't go off on its own without substantial tampering. Anything caught within may end up crushed, disintegrated, altered, or erased from existence. Harry tested a number of them in the Mirror Dimension which fixed itself regularly so he knew the effects well enough.

Harry set the bomb's timer to thirty minutes and headed up the stairs.

The dozen guards and workers Harry had knocked out earlier had become blood stained skeletons with shredded lab coats. Harry spotted the last guard in the ground who was surrounded by more than thirty white rabbits, gnawing at the man's flesh and stipping it bare.

Harry felt no pity for any of them. The Rabbit of Caerbannog was a construct that Harry put a lot of the life force he gathered from Limbo into making. It was designed to be used if Harry was ever surrounded by enemies like in case he got trapped in hell again with nothing but demons.

The adamantium and vibranium core of the original rabbit included over a dozen spells which was a feat only possible thanks to the magic conductive properties of the two metals. Unlike the adamantium of Logan's skeleton which was actually an artificial adamantium made with a base of iron, true adamantium made of alchemically synthesized gold could hold spells better than any other.

The Rabbit of Caerbannog could absorb energy and replicate itself using the flesh of others through a combination of transfiguration and the gemini spell. Though it looked like they were eating.

The rabbit's skull and teeth had hardness near that of adamantium and it could move at battering ram speeds allowing them to bust open doors. They could also jump at blinding speeds and their teeth also had a severing charm constantly applied to it. If a rabbit had absorbed enough energy, it could use that to replicate itself as well.

Harry chose this weapon of mass destruction for two reasons. First, from the memories of the lab tech, Harry learned that Sinister had a fondness for energy weapons. The second was that Mister Sinister was a scientist who devoted years to studying mutants. He likely had a contingency plan for any mutant he encountered. But how would he react to Harry's Swarm of Caerbannog? Harry wanted to know.

Once their meal was over, the rabbits quickly leapt to the upper floor and headed down the hallway.

Harry turned himself invisible and decided to just guide his swarm from the back.

At the end of the hall was a group of thirty rabbits and many of them were smashing themselves head first into the door which, dent by dent, seemed like it would give way any moment. Harry however was not the patient sort so he quietly conjured a replica of the Kestrel Key of Krakkan. Using it as a wand he fired a beam of light at the door which lit up green and opened.

Although Harry's wizard unlocking spell would fry a computer lock, he was free to use the sorcerer spell to unlock things as he pleased.

Harry was not concerned with cameras or sensors. The moment he decided to end this place, he released the tight grip he had on his wizard magic and every piece of tech around him was flashing, sending off sparks, or shutting down due to critical error. Not to mention the fact that each rabbit contained a massive amount of wizard magic as well. The door he opened earlier had actually already fried and only opened due to the nature of the unlocking spell he used.

The swarm of rabbits was met with a platoon of six armed guards who started opening fire the moment the door opened. Harry stayed to the side to avoid the incoming blasts and though he could easily survive them, he didn't want them to target him while invisible regardless.

The energy weapons made each rabbit it hit glow for a moment but did nothing else. The swarm of rabbits launched forward like arrows fired from a bow and only a single guard in the back who ducked down at the last moment found himself not deprived of his head as he watched the headless forms of his squad fall lifelessly to the ground.

He didn't even have time to scream before another half dozen rabbits launched forward removing his head and both arms.

One of the scariest things about the Rabbit of Caerbannog was that each copy possessed a hive mind. This made it easier for Harry to direct when needed but it also meant they could attack in formation. The inspiration for the artifact was half from Monty Python and half from that story Mr. Rasputin told about the 3000 rabbit army which defeated Napoleon in history class.

The corpses were quickly swarmed and transfigured into another dozen rabbits which continued down the hall.

The room at the end of the hall was large and had another fifteen or so people in lab coats. There were no screams. The white fuzzy bunnies spreading out was strange but not something the lab techs would run away from. They didn't see what happened and the rabbits were spreading out at Harry's command before going for the kill.

Harry almost smirked to himself when a few of the personnel actually ignored the rabbits. What they didn't ignore was their computer screens suddenly looking like they had been exposed to a magnet.

An alarm on the wall turned on which got everyone's attention and made a great distraction. Harry used to have a bunny rip the head of each of the lab techs.

Harry didn't consider the spell which prevented the rabbit's fur from getting stained with blood useless because in situations like this, the clean white rabbits made people lower their guard too easily.

A bald male appeared in the room out of nowhere and Harry's minimap showed him blinking, indicating him as one of the targets.

The man had extensive tattoos over his head and arms and after taking a look at the rabbits, took out a gun and started shooting them.

Harry used his control over the rabbits to prevent them from retaliating. The man continued to shoot rabbit after rabbit and when he stopped to reload, Harry shot him with a spell he found in the Black family library which didn't emit light or sound. After he confirmed the spell made contact, Harry had the rabbits attack the man from his blind spot. Harry wasn't surprised when the man vanished in thin air. Many teleporters had excellent space perception and attacks from behind wouldn't do much unless he couldn't sense them or were fast enough.

The man did not return though as a check mark appeared next to the name Vanisher on the Quest board. The spell Harry used was a weaponized version of the effect of the blood replenishing potion using the gemini charm as a base. It caused the opponent's blood to increase without end until the physical body exploded. It didn't have much use on magicals as their blood required a lot more effort to replicate, but a muggle without anything special in their blood would be affected without issue. Though a mutant, the man teleported with his mind, meaning there was nothing special about his body.

The rabbits that were shot did not dispel. All rabbits would only dispel when Harry dispelled the activation magic on the original. What did happen though was that the live rabbits went over and made it look like they were reviving their dead, though it was just a recasting of the transfiguration magic on the flesh.

Harry had the rabbits rip open and consume the materials on the biohazard marked containers which Harry found contained blood samples. Two minutes after entering the room, there were now about a hundred rabbits. Harry looked up his minimap to learn where his remaining targets were and where the dead ends likely were and went about opening doors and leading his rabbit horde while remaining invisible.

The sirens seemed to have been the evacuation order as the following rooms were empty. Harry used his map and door unlocking spells to continue up into the compound until he made it to a room containing a massive brute of a man with enormous goat horns on his head and a long frazzled white beard. The other targets save one are all heading in his direction and this is the one that got there first.

The twelve foot tall behemoth wore thick armor over his torso and shoulders but looked more than a little confused when the herd of fuzzy white rabbits calmly hopped out of the hallway.

He holds a hand to his ear and says, "Um, sir? Its rabbits. Dozens of them. Uh huh. Did you find Vanisher yet?"

Harry has the rabbits do the same as earlier, spread out and look docile.

The giant continued, "Yes sir, they are white and fuzzy. I don't know sir. Do you want me to check?"

He walked over to a pair of bunnies and stepped on them, squishing the pair beneath his massive foot.

He lifted his foot to confirm the gore and said, "They squish like bunnies. No sir. Sir? Sinister, I can't hear you."

The communicator fell to the effect of the magic in the room and Harry launched his dimension splitter from behind the massive man. The last time he used the spell it only barely wounded the immortal black dragon but this man was far from Chiantang's standard and the armor had no magic defense as it appeared to be solid metal.

The rabbits quickly devoured both halves of the giant and the hundred rabbits quickly turned to a hundred fifty. Harry vanished the bones which left traces of his magic before heading into the next room.

Harry continued unlocking doors and leading the group up the complex. Two of the final targets had grouped together and were waiting in the next room.

Thirty armored guards with high tech weaponry stood at the ready against the swarm. In the back of the group were two who stood out. A man seemingly composed of sand colored crystal and a short woman with pink skin stood in the open, waiting for the horde.

The crystal man said into a communicator, "Aries is gone. I don't see anyone opening the doors except the rabbits. Understood sir." He motioned forward and the armed guards opened fire. Harry apparated to the far side of the room behind the group as he had no way to easily dodge incoming fire from such a confined space.

The rabbits took it in stride and after being struck two or three times the rabbits would glow brightly and another rabbit would form next to them. Harry had the rabbits slow their advance so they could soak up more energy fire from the guards.

The crystal man shouted, "Hold your fire!" and Harry used that moment to order an attack. The rabbit's teeth and magic easily ripped through the guard's armor and limbs and heads were ripped off one by one.

The crystal man ran over to the wall while several rabbits had their teeth locked onto his limbs and they were slowly nibbling away as the dense materials. He swatted them away like mosquitoes but they would jump back at him as soon as they had a chance and he shouted, "Azimuth, now!"

The purple skinned woman had been deftly dodging the attacking rabbits and did a backflip over to the wall herself and opened her mouth wide. From Harry's perspective, it looked like a black hole had formed in her mouth and a vortex of suction force was dragging everything not nailed down in the room into her mouth.

Unfortunately for the pair, they were on the same wall as Harry. The young wizard cast an over powered transfiguration spell at the crystal man and turned him into sand. That spell had little effect on organic tissue but turning glass or crystal to sand wasn't difficult for a strong wizard.

Azimuth closed her mouth and turned to see her partner turn to sand just as the severing spell came at her. The woman's reflexes were impressive as she ducked the decapitating slash but the horde of rabbits had taken the moment she closed her mouth and dodged Harry's attack to gain the distance. Surrounded from all sides, she had no place to dodge and she was quickly devoured by rabbits leaving only a skeleton.

It cost more magic to transfigure bone into a rabbit compared to flesh so all the corpses left bloody skeletons. Also made for a nightmare inducing atmosphere which appealed to Harry's nature as a prankster with arguably bad taste. Though he did vanish the sand of the crystal guy and repair the damage done to the wall by the severing spell with a Reparo charm. The less evidence of his capabilities, the better.

The minimap was showing more and more hallways so Harry had groups of rabbits split off and go on their own while Harry led the main horde to the final target. Harry had no idea how it worked, but he even got experience from the kills of the far away Rabbits. He had already leveled up twice from the massive amount of human guards killed through the complex, not to mention to four targets Harry suspected gave more Experience than usual because of the quest.

By the time Harry's swarm reached what appeared to be a throne room, about twenty-two minutes had passed meaning the bomb would go off in another eight minutes.

The throne room was empty save the target sitting on the throne watching the approaching rabbit horde. Harry's energy senses barely reacted to the weapons and the mutants in this place, but this guy was at another level entirely.

Harry's first impression of the man with the ash grey skin was a vampire, but the lack of death energy put that theory quickly to rest. He had a red diamond on his forehead and red eyes. His suit seemed to be made of metallic ribbons which looked both decorative and functional.

As there was only one target without a check mark in the quest list, it was obvious this was Mister Sinister, the boss of this place.

The moment the rabbit horde got close enough, a telepathic attack was sent by Mister Sinister and attempted to take control of the rabbits.

Bad call. Unless he could mimic the signature of Harry's thoughts, they wouldn't listen to him and went into a frenzy as that was considered an attack. The group of more than fifty rabbits launched forward at the same time but Sinister fired red energy beams from his hands which Harry sensed had a similar signature to Scott's and matched the power of Scott's beam without his visor.

The rabbits were blown back but glowed white and multiplied in the air leading to more rabbits gathering together and charging once more.

A few rabbits made it through but a powerful psionic barrier formed and the rabbits bounced off. A few rabbits hopped onto the top of the barrier and began to gnaw on it but the barrier pulsed causing the rabbits to be shot away.

Mister Sinister then telekinetically lifted the hundred rabbits into the air and one by one, snapped their necks.

Harry pulled his magic guns out of his inventory and fired. Sinister's barrier shattered but another smaller one behind it glowed revealing the layering the man had set up. He shouted, "Finally showing yourself huh? I'll admit that your stealth ability is most impressive. My sensors are some of the best in the world yet they cannot see you nor these creatures of yours."

Because Harry's magic was invisible through indirect observation, unless you were recording the light bouncing off their bodies or touched them to feel their weight and fur, these constructs of Harry's magic could not be detected through infrared or energy sensors. Even recordings weren't great as they were the most sensitive to wizard magic and as soon as a rabbit entered the camera's picture, the screen would turn to fuzzy grey snow rather quickly.

Harry wasn't going to give his position away yet to a Hell level boss and continued moving with magically silenced steps while firing his guns at random intervals from random locations.

Sinister's hand motioned to the side and one of the columns supporting the roof was stripped from its place with his telekinesis and swung through the air where he guessed Harry was. This forced the young wizard to play life or death Limbo and quickly duck beneath the force of the pillar which matched Chiantang's tail sweep in overall power.

Sinister sneered and closed his eyes. A moment later, Harry found an intruder in his mindscape, The man couldn't locate his presence or energy, but he could locate his mind by spreading his presence into the whole room.

From within the library, Mister Sinister remarked, "What a well built mind. I shall enjoy turning you into my puppet and taking everything you know."

*Ping*

[Physical Paralysis Debuff added, Movement speed decreased by 75% while debuff remains active.]

Harry felt that his body was far more difficult to move while Sinister was inside his head, however he wasn't worried, the man would not be there for long.

The intruder took a book from the self and smiled at how easily the book allowed for assimilation of the knowledge. Before he could start downloading the knowledge himself, the books of the library all jumped off the shelves and created a gigantic mess. This was nothing however as each book transformed into a monster and started attacking Sinister.

Sinister's astral form fired red beams and psionic blasts at the various monsters to dispel them, but each time he did, Harry would Pause. When paused, any intruder was also paused. Harry couldn't do anything to them, but he could repair any defenses they broke. Sinister's mental might was extremely impressive and all but the strongest beasts in Harry's mind were torn apart like tissue paper to the man, but Harry had a resource Sinister could never imagine, infinite mental time.

Sinister was aware that each creature was weak but he could not grasp how each construct so easily repaired itself.

Seeing as he was making absolutely no headway, Sinister retreated.

*Ping*

[Physical Paralysis Debuff has been resisted.]

However Harry's head didn't just have psionic defenses, it also had wizard defenses. The reason Harry could sense the presence of even Charles Xavier was due to these defenses and he could even reverse the tap to learn Charles' identity through his own mind tap.

Harry amplified each of the thousands of creatures with his own version of a weaponized Legilimency spell and had them follow Sinister's astral form back into his own mind and assault it from within.

Sinister's shield wavered and many of the rabbits held in the air fell down. Harry renewed his own magic bullet assault and broke through another layer of the man's shields.

Sinister snarled, giving a show of his pointed white teeth and threw his hands out. The remaining rabbits in the room were telekinetically torn to pieces as he gave up on active defense and relied on the passive defenses of his mind knowing the creatures that had broken through were too weak to do anything to his own mind.

Harry used the opening to throw three grenades. The Stunner Grenade, the Blasting Grenade, and the Slow Grenade went off at the same time with a deafening explosion which shook the room. The Slow Grenade was a new combination of the Arresto Momentum charm and the Impedimenta jinx which had an effect of removing momentum and slowing time of the target.

When the smoke cleared, Sinister was still standing as his third and final shield was still holding against the power of the blasts. He was however looking towards Harry's position with a cruel smile and said, "There you are."

Harry noticed the smoke and debris was going around him which gave away his position though invisible. Sinister grabbed Harry with his telekinesis and pulled him forward, but Harry used his own Psionics to resist and broke free. He was however marked meaning Sinister didn't need to see him to attack so Harry removed the invisibility spell making Sinister smile again and say, "It will be a pleasure dissecting you, cell by cell."

His hands glowed red for a moment before releasing another copy of Scott's beam but Harry had observed enough of Sinister's tricks to have prepared in advance. Harry tapped a buckler he had removed from his inventory while Sinister was facing off against the rabbits and caused it to expand. The red beam bounced off the mirror like shield and was directed back at Sinister while Harry charged forward and emptied another clip of his magic gun. No matter how good he was, his magic casting speed was still slower than a gun so there was little point in not using it. The reason he didn't use spells like Dimension Splitter was that he wasn't sure if it would work against those shields and that the quest stated Sinister might flee. Harry wouldn't show all his cards to someone who might live to prepare for them, so he used guns and grenades and what could very well be stealth tech.

Sinister stopped the beam and jumped forward as well. Once within range the pair quickly entered close combat. Harry measured the man's strength at ten tons which was five times stronger than his base strength without magic. Harry was matching and even surpassing him though as he was controlling the Dimensional energy within his body to move his body faster and with more force using the combat style of Sorcerers.

Sinister initially took each blow with a confident ease as Harry quickly realized the man had regenerative capabilities which were close to Logan's. The man's confidence however waned with each exchange as he realized his own blows were having little effect as Harry too had some sort of healing factor and his body did not weaken with each connecting strike. Sinister couldn't sense any energy from Harry and since he wasn't using Cyttorak's Strength energy or Immortal Dragon Chi, Harry wasn't glowing red or gold making it look like he was fighting using natural strength.

Mister Sinister took a step back and said, "This has gone on far enough. Your abilities are impressive, but no one is a match for Sinister!"

He moved in close and went for another exchange of blows Harry was happy to give, however at the last moment he withdrew his own fist and allowed Harry to strike him. Using the opening he grabbed Harry's arm and slid up the sleeve, revealing Harry's bare flesh. He grabbed it with the other arm and leveled his eyes with Harry while giving a sinister smile.

*Ping*

[Dilate Power Debuff added, mutant power disabled while debuff remains active.]

Harry stared dumbly at the pop up while Sinister clenched tightly onto Harry's wrist. His grip however suddenly slipped through as Harry's wrist lost color and turned to black ash like substance that dissolved into a cloud of black mist along with the whole of Harry's hand. Sinister's sneer turned into confusion as the pair both looked down at Harry's severed wrist which was slowly breaking down bit by bit.

Harry's only comment was a curious, "Huh." And in the next moment, he exploded.

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Something Harry used to distinguish Wizard magic from every other form of magic is the fact that Wizard magic is inherently emotional. The difference between Chaos Magic and Wizard Magic was that Wizard Magic synchronizes its emotion with the caster while Chaos Magic does not. This means Chaos Magic can be used even when the user lacks the specific emotions required to cast the same magics with Wizard Magic while Wizard Magic could be considered far more controlled, though there were exceptions to these generalizations.

Because of the emotional component of Wizard Magic, a degree of emotional strength is required for each spell. When emotions are high enough, magic effects could be cast with ease or even without intention, as is the case with accidental magics. This is also the reason that those incapable of casting nonverbally must state their spell name aloud and are incapable of whispering it below hearing level as whispering cannot project the strength of emotion require to cast spells for those lacking in practice.

Harry's magic was not an exception to this rule, though due to the mental aspects of his abilities initially provided by the Phoenix Force, he rarely showed off the depths of his emotions.

The inherent cohesion keeping the Obscurus Particles that composed Harry's cells together had remained throughout his life after his revival. They even retained partial cohesion during the respawn process. Though Sinister's ability released the ability his body had to keep them together, the passive cohesion remained in place making Harry similar to a sand castle that stood upright even after completely drying in the sun.

Sinister's tight grip on his arm however broke the bonds between his cells and in the next moment, like a bubble bursting, the dam broke and the hundreds of Obscurus Magic Particles that composed each and every one of his cells broke apart and separated at speeds no slower than the ignition of a stick of dynamite into gas.

The force of the expanding volume of Obscurus Particle partially collapsed Sinister's chest cavity before hurling the man into the far wall. However the moment before impact his body vanished in a screen of light. He was unaware of how lucky he had been. The Teleportation system tied to his health monitor would have failed to lock on his position even an instant later due to the interference of the Obscurus Particles that immediately saturated the room.

At the moment of detonation, Harry's emotional limiter failed. He had done his best to suppress his rage at what had happened to Jean and had even done his best to keep each and every death quick and relatively painless. Now however Harry's mind was a sea of red. Instead of thinking with logic and concepts, he processed information with emotions and instinct.

The pillars holding up the room of the Throne room were shattered but before the room collapsed the mass of black mist like particles within were drawn out into the hallway.

A Obscrurs's size is determined by a number of factors, but it mostly boiled down to the magical strength of the Obscurial. Historically, the most common Obscurus that appeared centuries ago would be about as large as a car or as small as a shopping cart and was born of witches and wizards between the ages of seven and ten. However these Obscuri were separate entities from the Obscurials they formed from. The most notable exception to this was the Obscurial Credence Barebone who suppressed his magic so long, his own body became an Obscurus partially under his control and had a volume measured to be four to six times larger than a double decker bus.

Harry's cells however contained multiple times more particles than Mr. Barebone's could have due to the nature of Harry's mutant ability. The shockwave of his detonation spread through the entire underground complex and nearly half of the upper rooms were saturated in black mist.

At the moment Harry regained consciousness, though emotional consciousness, every spec of black mist started to churn and every location saturated with it was ripped to shreds and torn asunder. His fury at the location and what they had done was without filter or limitation. Like a massive swarm of insects he destroyed each facilitated, room by room. The heavily armored doors that stood against the rabbits held no longer than a breath of time against his might which rammed through the door with a force so hard the wall the door was fastened into shattered and exploded out.

Harry's emotional state did not differentiate between what to destroy and what not to destroy so even the rabbits remaining in the various rooms were smeared into dust as if they had been clawed at a million times in a single moment.

Eventually his form struck even the Reality bomb in the basement which then went off prematurely.

The reason the Reality bomb was so unstable was that it contained Harry's version of a frozen explosion within which when released would power the reaction required to expand a point of empty space at the center. The only real means to stop it from going off was quick disassembly to allow the stored energy to be released correctly.

As the suitcase exploded out, a wave appearing to be a ripple of space expanded instantly out from the room and in a fraction of a second the entire complex was within the bubble.

Those still alive within would only be able to watch on in horror as straight lines within their field of vision began to wiggle around like living worms and colors began to bleed into each other as various points of space started twisting or shaking apart. Body parts of various individuals would stretch or pop off and noises unlike anything that could be comprehended echoed back and forth.

Any who moved found that whatever moved would twist or be pulled in an unpredictable direction as relative space lost meaning and function. Some solids could be seen behaving like liquids or gasses and every surface started shifting around like leaves against the breeze.

Harry's Obscurus form however actively fought against the effect of the collapsing reality and held itself together when there was no logical reason to do so. Harry had never survived exposure to a detonating reality bomb because once Harry's durability reached his limit it would always break a part, return to his inventory, and then emerge in a safe location and reconstitute itself.

Harry had set up Rogue's and Wanda's room as his safe zone with their permission so he was prepared to die if needed but had not expected this to happen.

This time however his Obscurus particles were active instead of passive. Although space and direction had lost meaning, Harry's particles instinctively pulled themselves together regardless of the space distorting effects of broken reality.

In what could have been minutes or seconds later, the bubble popped and a wave of reality passed through re-establishing the properties of logic to the space causing everything within to shatter, turn to dust or worse.

Thankfully for those within, there were no survivors as any alterations that occurred within would not have returned to normal once reality returned to normal.

Harry's Obscurus particles naturally survived but the facility around them did not. Every structure collapsed as the weight of the mountain above it crushed the support beams which had lost alignment during the logic free period and instantly gave way to the shuffled mass of stone above it which had lost cohesion within the bubble as well.

A familiar Ping was detected by Harry's senses but his emotion based consciousness ignored it and he instantly started pressing up against the ceiling and charging through the collapsed stone. As he moved higher his compressed body expanded forcing him to move more and more rock out of the way. As his form expanded he exerted more force upwards and upon reaching the top he instinctively pressed the whole of the mountainside above him far into the air as he reached the open air and faced the sky

*Ping*

[Dilate Power Debuff has been resisted.]

The black shadow floating in the sky immediately coalesced into a solid form and a moment later, Harry was reformed and falling out of the sky. The polyjuice potion had been burned through so he took his normal appearance.

He Paused.

The first thing that came to mind was the fact that although he was not thinking on the same level he usually did, he was still conscious and aware of everything that occurred and could recall it with crystal clarity, including the pop up he got for the completed Quest.

[Quest Complete: Sinister Takedown

Reward: Sinister's Backup Hard drives.]

The moment the quest was completed, several servers appeared in his inventory which at a quick glance seemed to contain all the data the base itself seemed to have stored and saved. Considering the degree of bioscience the man's lab appeared to possess, Harry knew he would get a lot of mileage from those files, especially since he chose Hell mode.

When he thought back to Sinister's vanishing act, he was partially confused, but only for a moment. Harry figured the man had teleported out but the teleportation signature did not originate from the man himself, meaning someone or something else targeted him and got him out. That wasn't much of a surprise as the Quest hinted at the fact that he was likely to escape and was the main reason Harry had not used direct magic in Sinister's presence.

Though even if he could, he'd still likely use his guns.

The bullets from Harry's guns contained far more power than his individually cast spells, they moved faster than the travel speed of his spells, and Harry could pull the trigger faster than his spell casting speed. Plus, he could fire his weapons while invisible as long as he cast spells to ensure the sound could not be pinpointed. Most spells look like beams of light so casting them while invisible would be pointless.

Harry's current guns were made of Adamantium and his bullets contained magic charged gemstones while the potion which acted gunpowder was multiple times more powerful than the erumpent potion as it contained crushed magic infused gemstones as well while leaving no trace of residue upon detonation. Harry had considered making a magic railgun system using Adamantium and Vibranium, but he hadn't been able to reduce the theoretical size to something shorter than a long barreled sniper when he preferred handguns. Long barreled snipers were tools of assassinations and if Harry needed to assassinate someone, a sniper would not be his first choice. He had no interest in making and selling such weapons either and at the moment such a weapon would only move marginally faster than his hand guns. Railguns only had real power when they had very long barrels and anything handheld he could make would not prove useful. For now anyways.

When Harry fought monsters during Battle Meditation, he could only use himself, his skills, and his powers. Basically fighting naked. When in the real world, his equipment raised his fighting abilities multiple times. If Harry could bring his equipment into Battle Meditation, he wouldn't be afraid of fighting level 250~300 monsters, even though he was still under level 200. That's how he was able to defeat the Immortal Black Dragon.

His reality bomb could also take care of anything that lacked ridiculously dense magic like immortal sorcerers, immortal dragons, or demigod level figures. With exceptions of course. He had no idea his Obscurus form could survive the reality bomb.

Harry was rather upset with himself for how he acted but he knew holding it against himself wouldn't do. He had no idea that not only could his mutant power be removed, but that it would transform him into a full fledged Obscurus.

Although Paused in midair, Harry was not falling, rather he was floating a bit in the air. He looked over the mountain he had just destroyed and gave a light sigh of relief that there appeared to be no settlements anywhere close by.

His original intention was for the reality bomb to simply make the location collapse which, although suspicious, wouldn't draw too much attention. When Harry looked up however, he knew that was no longer possible. Harry's emergence was so forceful, hundreds upon hundreds of massive boulders had been sent into the sky for all eyes and anything recording the situation to see. Thankfully Obscuri are invisible to nonmagicals and normal folk so they would not have been able to see or record him, but the rocks were very eye-catching and there was nothing he could do about it.

Even if no one sees the rocks shooting into the air and no one sees them fall, the massive impact each one causes when they land will change the landscape on a level that could not be ignored.

The main reason Harry kept his cards to himself was that in the afterlife, his father had told him time and time again not to draw attention to himself or to make people pay attention to the wrong thing. They'd watch TV and James would give his own little monologues during the commercials about why the villains or heroes lost and it was usually because their enemies got enough information to prepare to defeat them.

There had been many points where Harry felt he could not be defeated, but that was not the case.

First of all, Harry discovered a new weakness of his. His level which had been at 202 after absorbing the energy of all the slain foes had reduced to 201 after his time as an Obscurus. It wasn't a full level as he had barely reached 202 and now it seemed it was pretty close to reaching 202, but it was a fact that his Experience bar decreased.

It wasn't the same as a death and respawn, but it was still a level drop all the same.

In other words, the power of his Obscurus form had a cost of his Obscurus Particles permanent destruction. If he fought something powerful as an Obscurus, he'd risk permanent death because his respawn system didn't work as an Obscurus.

Of course, damaging him in that form wouldn't be easy. Severe blows may disperse him but they wouldn't injure him. He wasn't certain he could survive nuclear fire, but that too was more likely to blow him away than it would be to fully dust his particles into nothing.

Looking up at the destruction to come, Harry decided he needed a new plan. Laying low wouldn't work anymore. He needed a distraction.

Harry spent a long time going over various plans and ideas, but no matter how many he cycled through, he kept coming back to the same plan. He needed a perfect Alibi. A way to ensure he was cleared of suspicion even if he was caught red-handed. And there was only one real way to do so.

Harry unpaused and turned invisible. He was likely only visible for a single moment and as he was surrounded by massive rocks in the air, he doubted anyone noticed him. Harry then took his animagus form and flew around to dodge the incoming boulders and find a safe spot to land.

Harry needed to stick around for a while and was curious to see if anything would show up soon.

It took about fifteen minutes for something to show. Surprisingly, it was cloaked, just like Harry. A cloaked drone if Harry guessed right. Since Harry was already going to draw suspicion elsewhere, he decided to play around a bit. While invisible, Harry attacked the drone with his claws, alerting the drone it was being targeted. The drone moved fast but Harry was faster and caught up with it to deliver another midair attack, damaging one of the wings this time causing it to swerve and lose altitude.

Something Harry discovered a while back was that he could not drag something under someone else's control into his inventory. For example when he gave the Ancient One a remote control and had her control a remote helicopter, Harry could not place it into his inventory even if he grabbed it unless he broke it, turned it off, or if the Ancient One turned off the controller.

The drone in front of him was small enough to be taken into his inventory but it was under the control of another. Before it landed, Harry cast the Ebublio Jinx on the drone which caused an invisible bubble to appear around the drone. The bubble did not allow air to pass through it causing the drone to fall out of the sky as if its propulsion had failed. That wasn't all it did however. Moments before it reached the ground, Harry was able to snatch it and place it into his inventory. Since it was Wizard Magic, it was effective in scrambling signals and caused the drone to eventually lose contact with its controller.

The first thing Harry noticed when the drone was placed in his inventory was the presence of processed vibranium. Something to consider later.

Harry flew away since he had played enough and continued waiting while flying invisibly through the sky.

Eventually his waiting bore fruit. Travelling to him through the Astral Plane were a large assortment of monstrous creatures. These beings were the very same ones that had left Harry's mind and traveled into Mister Sinister's. Sinister had given up on active defending and went for passive defending under the impression his mental defenses would hold. However Harry's mental constructs included built-in Legilimency attacks which were undetectable just like the rest of Harry's wizard Magic. That had also been one of the other reasons Harry did not go in for the kill against Sinister when he did have some possible options. He didn't know if the man would somehow escape and the longer the fight, the more Harry's constructs would be able to dig out of the man.

After the constructs returned, Harry Paused once more and set aside the information to be assessed later. There was more he already needed to do.

Harry flew for the closest cloud and within he made a portal for London and flew directly for the Ministry of Magic. The building had many entrances for Post Owls allowing Harry easy access to some of the deeper areas without prior preparation.

Next Harry returned to human form, though still invisible and made his way for the elevator.

Harry wasn't sure how it worked, but his Obscurus transformation somehow stored his clothes so when he returned to human form he was not naked. He knew the clothes were not stored in his inventory though so for now it was a mystery how that worked. Still, he was grateful as he did not have to arrive as the Minister naked.

Once at the elevator, Harry made his way down to the Department of Mysteries and after dodging a number of Unspeakables to make sure he didn't run into anyone, he found his way over to a cabinet containing a neat display of fifteen necklaces bearing a pendant with a small hourglass inside.

There were several reasons Harry had never tried to get a Time Turner before this point even though they'd held his interest ever since he learned several were used to research his living conditions after he exploded.

First of all, Bones, Sirius, and Albus all knew he was powerful and if one were stolen, he'd be the first suspect had he gotten it during or shortly after Hogwarts. Especially after Hogwarts. Next, a majority of the things one normally used a Time Turner for were things he could do with his Inventory and Pause function. Namely taking extra time to study and read.

The following three years he'd held back because he knew he'd get scolded by the Ancient One who would certainly be able to sense any time travel shenanigans he's gone through.

Something the Ancient One told him about short period time travel usage was that you could get trapped in randomly generated time loops. One day you would see yourself walking up to you and then you would kick your own ass and leave and you would have no choice but to go back in time and kick your own ass or risk the destruction of reality. Such things have happened before and they can be considered the price of convenient time travel.

However now it was the best of the worst options he had.

There were only fifteen Time Turners total and to prevent the very Time loops the Ancient One warned Harry about, the Time Turners were always kept on this rack rather than in the possession of others. The rack itself included all manner of warding, security, and secrecy spells. Most wouldn't even be able to see the rack itself if you were standing near it.

Still, Harry had plenty of practice on magic based security. It took him no more than three minutes to figure out how to nab one without anyone the wiser. As Snape had once said, 'For a sufficiently powerful wizard, almost any security measure is little better than a delaying tactic.'

Harry placed one into his inventory and Paused to analyze the magic.

From what he understood, a ridiculously unstable spell called the Hour Reversal Charm had been made into a slightly less unstable enchantment and placed on the Time Turners. The turning of the Hourglass would allow consecutive uses of the charm, however from the Arithmancy Harry calculated and what he had heard, turning it more than five times was nearly fatal.

Time Travel using a Time Turner was basically boring a hole into the past from the present.

In this sense, the present was like a layer of sand and each second caused more sand to fall onto the top layer. A Time Turner could drill a hole into the deeper layers, into the past where the traveler would then slowly dig back into the present and reach the surface. If they went back further than five hours, the hole was likely to collapse and they could not of course go back further after already going back five hours.

Once the traveler return to the moment they left from, the changes to the timeline would stabilize. However because it was not stable during the overlap, it was dangerous to use a Time Turner in the same location for the same period. That meant he could not use the Time Turner to go back to the same moment twice. That was a bit of a shame since if there was no limit, then he could create an army of himself simply by using the Time Turner to go back to the same location over and over.

After nabbing one, Harry used transmutation one some spare metal bits to perfectly recreate a copy and place it where the original was. However, Harry wasn't going to leave it like that.

Harry spent a few days Paused to calculate the effect he wanted and once finished, he went over to find an empty room.

The Department of Mysteries was filled with Researchers so it had many research rooms.

Harry found an unused one and placed several explosives. These explosives however were made from unstable potions instead of his magic so they would leave residue.

Harry placed a few spells on the room to prevent anyone from entering for a few minutes and returned to the cabinet and waited.

A moment later an explosion shook the floor and Harry used telekinesis to knock over the cabinet from a distance.

The moment the cabinet hit the ground, the space around it blurred and the cabinet was upright once more and started falling over once more.

It was in a time loop. Wizards, especially smart wizards, never touched time loops so that cabinet would fall over and over again for the rest of time. A random explosion was not uncommon in the Department of Mysteries according to a few journals he'd read and anyone monitoring what happened would conclude the cabinet was knocked over from the explosion. It was a fact that the cabinet didn't have any charms keeping it upright after all.

There were numerous reasons Harry wanted the Time Turners unusable. The main reason however was that Harry could detect that they were ridiculously unstable and their very existence was a threat to anyone around them. That was one of the two reasons he was only taking one. The second reason was that he calculated that an infinite time loop may not properly generate if there were not enough Time Turners breaking at the same time and he wasn't confident it would work with thirteen as he would fourteen. Fourteen is a far more magically capable number after all.

Harry was not worried they would make more. There were very few practical reasons to justify the use of one and many Witches and Wizards had lost their lives in their attempted creation so it was unlikely to be done.

As Harry left the floor, he thought back to Hogwarts and considered that if he stayed, this would have been his fifth year. Harry wondered what were the chances of him breaking that display in his fifth year if things had gone differently in his life. Oh well.

After clearing a certain amount of distance, Harry apparated to the London Sanctum Sanctorum and knocked on the door, visible this time.

Sol Rama answered and greeted Harry before ushering him inside. Harry made his way to Kamar-Taj and after a few moments, arranged for a meeting with the Ancient One.

Harry still considered himself the Ancient One's student and would not meddle with time lightly without her permission. The main reason for that was because if he messed up, it would likely be her responsibility as his teacher to clean up the mess so he wouldn't hide this from her.

The Ancient One was pleased to see him though when they spoke, she was not as pleased to hear what he had been up to during the last two hours. Still, she understood and after making a few suggestions and conditions, she gave her permission. Although she knew Harry would not exactly be responsible with its usage, he would at least be thoughtful with it which was good enough for her. Harry had already explained how there were no longer enough hours in the day for all his projects in the first place so it would prove invaluable to him outside of its use to give him airtight alibis.

The Ancient One still wished to see its use and they took a Portal to a remote location where Harry turned the Hourglass three times which when released, cast the Hour Reversal Charm three times on Harry causing him to flow backwards through time while remaining in place.

*Ping*

[Age Settings are now available. You may turn Aging while outside of the Present Flow of Time Off.]

Harry was more than a little shocked at that and immediately opened the new settings.

From what he could see, after he turned seventeen in two years he could disable Aging and manually change his age to anywhere from seventeen to thirty-five. He could also prevent himself from aging while using the Time Turner meaning he would only age while in the present.

Harry wondered why this was not available when he went back in time and freed Merlin but he figured it had to do with how Harry went to the past as he used Timelord Math that time instead of Wizard Magic.

Once the time was right, Harry made a portal back to the Institute moments after he left and found Wanda there, cleaning up the crystals and sand Harry had asked her to clean up.

She asked, "You're already back?"

Harry nodded and said, "I had someone else take care of it." The fact that he was now capable of Time Travel was not something he'd share for a while. Especially since they would in fact age with its use.

Harry collected the crystals back into the backpack he'd gotten out and Wanda vanished the remaining sand and the pair went into the infirmary to meet up with Jean and Rogue.

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What Harry had not expected once he arrived at the infirmary was a standoff. Rogue was staring dangerously at Xavier and her hands were glowing red with Wanda's Hex Magic.

Dr. McCoy was standing to the side looking very concerned.

Harry stated, "What's going on?"

Before Xavier could answer Rogue quickly summarized, "The Professor wants to wipe Jean's mind of what happened before she wakes up."

Harry immediately Paused just to stop himself from overreacting to that. Perhaps Rogue left something out or misunderstood or perhaps it was as she said. In either case he had let his emotions run wild once today so it was best not to let it happen again. Harry mentally took a few moments to calm himself and unpaused. He looked over to Xavier and asked, "Is this true?"

Xavier hadn't expected Harry to ask that so calmly but that actually worried him more than if he had reacted in anger. It wasn't until tonight that he realized that both Rogue and it seemed even Wanda had somehow developed layered mental defenses. He could still knock them unconscious if he forced it, but both appeared ready to fire those Hex Bolts he knew were disruptive to mutant abilities meaning it was a stalemate. Harry's own presence here further worsened his stance forcing him to negotiate.

Xavier stated, "Jean has obviously been through enough tonight and recalling it will do no good for her powers."

Harry took in a few deep breaths without pausing in an attempt to stop himself from ripping Xavier a new hole.

After centering himself Harry flatly stated, "Xavier, the next time you prioritize a student's powers over that student's mental health, we will have words you are not going to enjoy. Do you understand me?"

Xavier realized that the way he worded that did indeed sound like he was prioritizing Jean's powers. He quickly tried to defend himself, "That's not what I meant. You know I care about all of my students. I would never-"

Harry had a Smoky Quartz crystal in his hand before Xavier finished and was looking at the man with unreadable intentions. The crystal wasn't glowing but the threat of it remained. Harry said, "I know you think you know what is best. I want you to accept that in this situation you are wrong. Jean is not her powers. Her ability to control her powers is not how you should measure her mental health just because she is a telepath. I know you think you have experience in this field, but what may or may not work for you won't necessarily work for others. Unless you can convince me you are secretly a fifteen year old teenager girl, I think the others in this room have more of a say for what will and will not help Jean mentally."

Xavier wasn't unaware that from the position of Rogue and Wanda, he had overstepped his bounds. However he was not able to argue against Harry's dispassionate logic. What was most disconcerting for him however was that Harry was alluding to the fact that he knew Xavier had done things to his own mind and Harry was even indirectly telling him not to assume what he did to himself will work in others. In fact he actually implied that what he did to himself didn't even work for himself. That was what shocked Xavier the most.

Still, he knew that Jean's powers would definitely manifest in a negative fashion if this was left alone which was why he had been set on helping her.

Harry said, "I can guess what you're worried about. I will take full responsibility for helping Jean with her powers should an issue occur. I think my track record in this speaks for itself."

Rogue spoke up, "Not just Harry. Jean's always been sweet to everyone and I'll be there for her if she needs it."

Wanda added, "Count me in. I know what it's like to have powers that are overly affected by past traumas."

Xavier gave it a moment of silent thought before nodding. "Very well. I shall entrust this matter to you three. I do however ask if anything happens you seek my help."

Dr. McCoy let out a breath of relief that everything had been resolved peacefully. He said, "Excellent, now onto the important matters. At the moment Jean is asleep and her vital signs are normal though I can tell she was under a lot of stress until a few moments ago. May I ask what transpired?"

Harry said, "Because I didn't have any of Jean's blood I wasn't able to track her easily so I asked for Rogue and Wanda's help. Using a ritual I made, Wanda strengthened the connection between Rogue and Jean which I was able to track and locate Jean. She was bound to a table and it looked like someone was about to stick a needle into her. She was crying for help but no one in the room seemed to care. They all wore lab coats and had equipment that looked suited towards experimentation. I used a Smokey Quartz to knock them out and get Jean out of there. I had Rogue take her to the infirmary and I cleaned up the ritual area with Wanda and we came back."

Xavier asked, "You made a Portal in Cerebro didn't you? Was that how you accessed her location?"

Harry nodded. "Yeah, but that uses Dimension energy which I can only access by absorbing a big Diamond. Those are harder to make synthetically than a big Smoky Quartz which allows teleportation. However Portals have almost no impact on the tech around them so I could use it in Cerebro without damaging the place."

McCoy confirmed, "Well, at least you made it in time. Nothing seems to have been injected into her system so I expect after she wakes she'll be fine."

Harry nodded and said, "If you don't mind, I'd like to stay in the infirmary until she wakes."

Wanda spoke up, "Me too." Rogue added of course, "And me."

McCoy and Xavier smiled. It was early morning so there was no real issue with not going back to bed.

Xavier said, "I'll cancel the classes for today. There is much that the teachers and I need to discuss."

McCoy nodded and looked back at Harry. "Now you mentioned something about blood and tracking her. Is that to say, if you do possess someone's blood, you can find them?"

Harry answered, "Not directly with their blood. My powers don't work that way. There is a way however to turn someone's blood into a gemstone. I can't exactly absorb one, but I can use something similar to magic to use a blood gem to track any person."

McCoy asked, "That is to say, if we kept a stock of blood gems for each student. You would be able to use them to track the students down if they were kidnapped?"

Harry nodded. "That is correct."

McCoy gave Xavier a look that Xavier understood. Xavier was reliant on Cerebro to find people but the number of ways to hide from Cerebro seemed to be growing lately. It was something to consider.

Rogue said, "I'm up for it."

McCoy said, "Can the way to make a blood gem be done here? I'd like a demonstration if you would be so kind."

Harry answered, "No problem. It's just a bit of esoteric chemistry."

Harry explained the process to Dr. McCoy who got to work prepping some of his equipment. If they could make them without Harry, they could store them for emergencies.

While McCoy was setting things up. Harry was going over the knowledge he had stolen from Sinister. Harry actually wanted to make a blood gem for Sinister and use that to kill him, but he understood from what little he had already gone over that Sinister was no longer close enough to human for that particular ritual to have an effect. Unfortunately the knowledge Harry's attack was able to copy from Sinister's mind was random and it would take a while to process it all.

Harry also hoped Forge wouldn't kill him for suggesting blood gems.

The creation of a blood gem was not exactly dark magic itself but many, many, many forms of dark magic could use a blood gem. Having your boss use your blood to make a blood gem basically guaranteed your loyalty as if you betrayed him, there would be nowhere to run or hide. He'd be able to track you down, track your descendants down, and cast powerful curses directly on you through the blood gem.

A little after sunrise Jean woke and felt someone was holding her hand. She opened her eyes and saw Harry was at her side and Wanda and Rogue were smiling back at her with the latter saying, "Well good morning sugar."

Jean noticed that for some reason she felt more connected to Wanda and Rogue than she had before and she could feel their concern and care for her. She thought it was just because they had decided to stay with her until she woke up which was a real show of care from them. Jean felt that she should hang out with them more often, they were great friends.

The actual reason for the feeling of closeness was the ritual Harry used to locate Jean. It had a permanent side effect of strengthening Rogue's connection to Jean and it created a connection from Wanda to Jean as well as it was Wanda's power that strengthened that connection.

This connection would last for their entire lives which was why Harry would not have used that method to find her if he had another choice. Both Rogue and Wanda knew enough about magic to understand that as well and both accepted it when they chose to help with the ritual. Harry's connection to her was strengthened as well but Jean already felt so close to him she didn't notice it.

After remembering what she had just been through, Jean started crying. The worst night of her life was over and now she was surrounded by those she could really feel cared for her and she just wanted to let it all out. She cried into Harry's shoulder and Rogue and Wanda put their arms over her to comfort her.

McCoy watched from the side and smiled. He left the infirmary and headed upstairs to meet with the rest of the teachers to discuss what had happened and what steps they would take to prevent it from happening again.

Once Jean had calmed down, she told the trio what had happened from her perspective. A group of mutants had ambushed her, defeated her, and taken her away via teleportation. She shouted with her mind for someone to help but they placed something over her head to cut off her telepathy and telekinesis.

Harry took her hand in both of his and told her how he heard her cry and went to Xavier who heard it too. Cerebro was not able to find her, but with Wanda and Rogue's help, Harry was.

Out of earshot of the security cameras Harry also whispered, "And steps were taken to ensure that place no longer exists."

Jean could hear the fire in Harry's voice and she telepathically thanked him.

Harry walked the girls upstairs and began making breakfast. It was actually Bobby's, Jubilee's and Domino's turn but the latter wasn't there to prevent the former two from destroying the food due to the staff meeting so Harry took over. He knew what everyone would be discussing and wanted a lighter atmosphere so he practically emptied the walk-in fridge and covertly brought a few things out from his inventory.

Once the first couple of students saw Harry at the stove instead of Jubilee, they ran back upstairs to tell the other students. Days Harry cooked were treasured in the Institute and the difference between food cooked by Jubilee and Harry was as great as the difference between black and white.

Jean enjoyed a warm meal sitting between Rogue and Wanda who talked with her about small and silly things to get her mind off her ordeal.

Jean wasn't happy with what the Professor had tried to do and knew he meant well, but she still felt that leaving her to Harry, Rogue, and Wanda was better for everyone.

It didn't take long for Scott Summers to learn what had happened to Jean and race over. Jean assured him she was fine and that Harry rescued her before they could do anything terrible.

Scott walked over to Harry and said, "Thank you man, just, thank you."

Harry smiled back, "She's not just your family Scott. Remember that."

Scott nodded and went to get some of the hunger inducing breakfast plates.

A few hours into the day, Forge came looking for Harry. The fact that he did not appear to be wielding any kind of disintegration cannon was something Harry took as a good sign. The 'we need to talk privately' expression seemingly carved into his face, less so.

After finding a spot not to be overheard, Forge said, "I looked for you in the lab and was almost surprised not to find you there. When I realized you were probably sticking close to Jean to help her through this, I decided to put down my Ion Disintegrator."

Harry tried not to look nervous.

Forge continued, "I'll make sure the staff knows exactly what a person with enough know-how can do with a blood gem. I won't suggest you will do anything, but I will imply that if someone else got their hands on one, what they could do."

Harry nodded, "Reasonable. I brought it up full accepting that the entire suggestion might be rejected. However if someone gets kidnapped or taken, I don't want to feel like its my fault because I could have done more and didn't. I at least want to give you the choice."

Forge sighed. "I figured as much. Can't say I wouldn't do the same if I was in your position."

He walked away and Harry rejoined the group. They asked what happened and Harry answered.

Jean was shocked by what a person could do with a blood gem but Wanda said she knew all of that already and already made one and gave it to Harry for safe keeping. Thanks to that, if anything happens to her, she knows Harry will be able to find her.

Jean looked conflicted at that and decided to wait and see what the teachers said.

The eventual outcome was that the students were told a small amount of blood could be taken from them and used to find them if anything happened, but the giving of blood was voluntary only.

What surprised Harry the most however was when Logan showed up.

He asked, "Just to be clear. You use these blood things to find the person or find their blood?"

Harry answered honestly, "Their blood. It can even be used to find relatives."

Logan said, "Alright then. Make one for me. I got a favor to ask."

The pair went to the infirmary and took some of Logan's blood. Dr. McCoy wasn't around so Harry handled the procedure alone and added a few bits of magic to improve the quality of the gem since it looked like Logan was interested in using it for something.

When finished, Logan took a look at it and said, "A while back I lost all my memories. I know I got experimented on and I know they took my blood. Wade Wilson, Deadpool. His abilities came from my blood. If they got more of my blood. I want it found and destroyed."

Harry nodded and went to his room to get a few things. He returned and made a proper locator that could use the blood. Logan didn't even twitch when Harry assembled it using magic without taking out a gemstone.

Once finished, he started the Locator and cleared his mind.

Thirty seconds later.

*Ping*

[New Quest: Blood Ties

-Destroy every sample of Wolverine's Blood at Site A.

-Rescue X-23 from Site B.

Bonus

-Rescue X-23's mother from Site B.

-Don't get identified.]

Harry sighed. He said, "I got five matches from the tracker. The first is you, obviously. The second was a larger bodied blonde guy with shoulder length hair, larger than normal incisors, and a wild, almost bloodthirsty aura. He seemed to be a direct relation. Likely brother or half brother."

Logan's eyebrow shot up. "Sabertooth? Hmm. That explains a lot."

Harry continued, "Next was... Deadpool. Ok, don't ask me to look for that guy in the future. I could swear when I saw him, he turned around and waved back at me."

Logan grunted and didn't seem surprised by Wade's seemingly impossible actions.

"Last two are what you're looking for. Two large facilities in Canada. One contains lots of your blood, but it's the other which has me curious. There is a little girl there I'd say is twelve or thirteen years old with half your DNA. She's being kept in a locked cement room. I couldn't see more details than that."

Wolverine's claws shot out on instinct at that.

Harry continued, "Obviously we're going to get her. However we need to be smart about it. You also have to decide if you want the help of anyone else or if we should just do this ourselves."

Harry could get a general sense of the area and a more detailed sense of the exact location which were enough to make portals, but he couldn't see the rest of either facility.

Logan retracted his claws and began to think. He knew what Harry was really asking. Do you want to go in with or without killing them all? If they took the X-Men, they wouldn't take any lives. If they went alone, well, Logan already knew Harry didn't have issues with permanently dealing with some people.

Logan decided to ask, "Got any suggestions?"

Harry nodded. "If it is just the two of us, I can get us in and out easily enough. If you want to go in loud that is fine. However we can also go in quiet. Besides, in addition to your blood, the first place might have other things that need dealing with. The second place could also have others there beside your supposed daughter. Give me a day to scout the locations and do some prep work and we can figure out the best way to do this."

Logan flatly said, "You sound like Gambit."

Harry smiled. Gambit was another member of the Original X-Men team but unlike the others he was not a teacher at the institute. Instead he was Charles' eyes and ears in many places and go-to fixer for many situations.

Harry added, "Now if we're going to do this, we may need to use a different skill set and use disguises. Besides your claws, can you use anything else to fight? Preferably something distinct."

"I'm good with a Katana."

Harry smiled, "That works."

Harry spent the next two days in two places at once.

He went to sleep at midnight and woke up at 4am. Via Portal he went to his Workshop and used the Time Turner to go back five hours. He then spent the next ten hours working on various projects and at 9am he would use the Time Turner to go back to 7am and start his classes. At 2pm he would leave the Institute and go back in time five hours and then spend the next ten hours on outside projects which currently included scouting and prepping Sites A and B. Harry would then Time Turner back five hours to 2pm and return to his classes. When classes were over around 5pm, he'd head over to the study group and help Jean and the others until about 8pm. He then spent four hours in Battle Meditation and went to sleep at midnight.

In this way he added eighteen extra hours to his schedule which opened a lot of possibilities.

The following Saturday morning Harry brought out several maps of both sites. Much of it he'd explored using astral projection and some viewing spells. Logan of course directly asked why not get in and out with portals, but Harry said that it was better to leave a false trail.

First, Harry made a portal to an unmonitored area near Site A. Harry wasn't wearing a mask and had taken a Polyjuice potion to look like someone whose blood he'd taken in the seventh century so Harry felt it unlikely even the most advanced facial recognition software would recognize him. Logan was harder to conceal. He was shorter than average yet had broad shoulders and weighed several times what a normal person did. Harry gave him an Invisibility Potion and an invisible Katana he'd made. He also cast a Featherlight charm on Logan which, although did not make him as light as a feather, did reduce his weight.

Harry himself would be using psionics and spells which looked like Psionics to make people think he was a telepath.

Harry checked his watch on arrival and the pair waited another five minutes for Harry's prep to start working. At 11am exactly, the enormous ward Harry had painstakingly set up around the location activated.

Harry and Logan ran for the gate at the signal. Harry's Psionic skill was enough to make weak people sleep on command which was how he dispatched the guards. Harry also got close to each one and cast a powerful Obliviate that would permanently erase any knowledge the guards had about this place other than the fact that they worked there.

The main entrance to what looked like a bunker was locked with a keypad so Logan slashed through the lock with his sword. It wasn't adamantium but with all the spells on it the thing could cut just as well as his claws.

Guards opened fire the moment the door fell so Harry hid behind the entrance until the shooting stopped. Logan swiftly entered and disabled the guards with the back of his blade and they were all unconscious before they noticed the invisible samurai. Harry used Obliviate on them as well. He was making himself appear to be a nuisance of a telepath as wiping memories was one of the most troublesome things a telepath could do. And since he was removing them with magic, another telepath wouldn't even be able to recover them.

The pair encountered more guards and dealt with them all. A number of them were strong minded enough not to be put to sleep by Harry's psionics so Logan had to deal with each of them.

Their goal was to take out and erase the minds of as many of the employees as possible. Harry's targets for Obliviate were not the guards. In fact he even cast an overly weak Obliviate on a number of guards so they would remember Harry's uncovered face and give details of what happened. No, the true targets were the researchers. When Harry encountered one of them, he didn't just erase their knowledge of the facility, he erased their education. Everything they learned working there and all the education required to get there would vanish from their minds.

The main reason Harry had decided on such a ruthless outcome was because of how he felt about X-23 and what he discovered during his scouting. He decided there was no reason for this place to continue existing and this was the best way to thoroughly destroy the essence of the place without killing anyone.

The ward around the site had a number of effects. First, it would completely cut off communications. Next, it would prevent those outside from coming inside using a basic muggle repelling field. And last, it was set to saturate the entire place with magic through a magical implosion when Harry was done with it.

Harry and Logan made their way to the main control station and Harry plugged in every sort of hacking tool after he incapacitated and removed the knowledge of everyone inside. He would make it look like this place was his goal and everything else was secondary.

Once the servers were downloaded, they made their way to the place where all biological samples were stored. Harry removed a backpack he had brought with him and set it inside before closing and locking the door. By this point all of the faculty were either hiding or incapacitated so the pair left returned to the entrance and made their way out.

No alarms, even through hard-line communications, could get through the wards. A few of the trucks on their way to the site suddenly remembered they had forgotten something and turned around without entering. Once the pair were out, Harry released a signal which caused a massive surge of magic he spent the last few days charging the ward stones with to implode in on itself. The backpack in the room holding the blood was set off and the explosion shook the whole of the base. Every computer and camera was fired. As the offsite security feeds were cut by the ward which meant no digital recording of the pair entering the location existed.

Harry got out the Time Turner and placed it over his own and Logan's neck. It was time for part two.

Logan was more than a little surprised that Harry's plan involved time travel to hit both sites at the same time but decided he'd seen stranger things. Harry already told him that it couldn't be used to change the past, it only let you be in two places at one. Such a thing was only useful to someone who didn't age so he didn't mind Logan knowing about it.

The point of much of the plan was to throw suspicion off themselves and onto something else with false clues and breadcrumbs. X-23 would likely be attending Charles' school so they would know it was Logan who took her no matter what they did. Because of that Logan wouldn't be using the sword or an invisibility potion at Site B and would go in claws blazing. The point was to make whatever group was behind them to think Logan was working with a large, skilled organization and make them target that group before trying anything to Logan. Maybe they'd figure it out one day, but by then Harry would be even stronger.

Harry had another portal take them outside the grounds for Site B. Surprisingly, Harry was not able to find any other mutants at the location meaning X-23 was the only one they needed to rescue while taking the place down.

Harry used yet another Polyjuice potion to shift into yet another face from the seventh century. He'd run out of it eventually but until then it was a waste not to use it. This time he was going to use telekinesis and magic to move things and make shields. Harry's psionic shields were too weak to stand up to bullets but he knew how to make a Dimensional energy shield that kinda looked like a psionic shield which was good enough for him to take a more active role in the combat.

Site B was more than double the size of Site A and Harry had to spend a few hours on top of a leyline to recharge himself while charging the ward stones required to cut this place off. The reason this place was larger was simply because it needed to be. If site A was where the safe tests were done, Site B was where the dangerous tests were done. There was also a large number of enhanced guards using advanced weaponry within and even if they didn't have backup it wouldn't be easy to take them down. Well, not as easy.

This site was two time zones over from site A and they waited until 1pm for the wards to kick in and charged forward.

A dozen or so fully armed guards started firing at the pair but Harry used an overpowered banishing charm to throw them back. The few out of range of his charm continued firing but a shield appeared over him which blocked the shots. Thankfully they used energy weapons which were far easier for his shields to block over material weapons as the former was closer to magic.

A few of the guards that had hidden behind cover before Harry sent the others away popped out once the pair got close but Wolverine slashed through their weapons and backhanded their faces hard enough to knock them out.

Once the guards were fully taken care of Logan used his claws again to slash the door but this time it seemed too thick to penetrate with his claws. Harry destroyed the cameras with Telekinesis and then conjured the Kestrel Key of Kraken which fired at the door and caused it to open. Logan actually took a moment to give him a look that implied even he thought, 'what the hell?'

Harry shrugged. The key was weird, he wasn't going to deny it. He was just glad he could still use it after his wizard and sorcerer magics merged. It was very useful magic.

When the doors opened Harry had his arms raised to make it look like he was opening the doors with telekinesis. He made a shield to block the barrage of gunfire that greeted the pair and Wolverine charged forward directly into the mob. Those who targeted him Harry threw back with either a banishment charm or with telekinesis. To shake things up he'd occasionally use a summoning charm on the armor of the armor plated guards to drag them into the line of fire.

Turrets would occasionally drop down from the ceiling or rise up from the floor but Harry would break them either with telekinesis or magic. Some of the heavier duty turrets were not as easy to break so Harry just threw an invisible surge of magic at them to fry them. It was his own version of Wanda's Hex Bolts.

The location had about fifty guard total and seven minutes into the intrusion they had taken care of half of them. Earlier that morning Harry had snuck into the place with a portal and placed a tracking and monitor spell on X-23 and the woman he was pretty sure was her mother.

Both mother and child were in the same room at the moment with a man who brought two guards with him. Harry had chosen this time for the extraction because this was the only time of day the pair were in the same room.

Thankfully the guards seemed to be pointing their weapons at the door rather than at the mother and child pair.

Eventually they reached a hall where Logan went left and Harry went right. X-23 was in Logan's direction, the main computer terminal of the base was in Harry's. According to the backstory Harry cooked up. A group had found Logan and told him they intended on breaking into this site and stealing all the data before erasing it. They invited Logan to come after telling him about X-23. Logan didn't know anything else about the group and didn't care.

Of course Harry had monitoring charms on Logan as well so if anything happened, he'd be able to get over there fast enough to help.

Much of the remaining security was in fact on Harry's route including several guards in what appeared to be over-sized mechanical outfits. Harry couldn't break or even move them with telekinesis, so he pretended to use an overpowered TK Throw while sending another surge or magic at the suits. Unsurprisingly, the suits stopped working and Harry moved on.

Every once in a while Harry would encounter someone who demanded to know who he was as if he was obligated to respond. Even when he made it to the computer terminal and pulled out his hacking tools, the people standing to the side he hadn't bothered with because they hadn't drawn their weapons were giving impassioned speeches about how Harry would never get away with this. A few of the creative ones described the manners in which Harry would be dissected. A few of the ones who thought they were clever tried to stab or cut him. Not to kill him, but to make him bleed so they could get some of his blood. Harry was tempted to give some to get their hopes up, but decided against. He'd save that prank for another day.

From his observation of Logan, the old man slashed his claws together.

That meant he needed help. X-23 was also looking very mad and her mother appeared terrified. The important looking man in the room seemed to have something in his hand which had everyone worried.

Harry cast a sleeping spell on those in the main room so they wouldn't unplug his hacking tool and he teleported into the room behind the man and grabbed what he was holding.

Logan had been expecting this and used the moment they were caught off guard to take out the guards and punch the man's face in.

Harry, still holding the metal thing asked, "What's this?"

The woman next to X-23 said, "That's Laura's trigger scent. If she smells it, she won't be able to stop herself from killing everyone in the room." The woman looked down and said in a quiet tone, "Including me."

The man Logan had knocked down wasn't out cold and glared at Harry. Logan had told the man the fake backstory and the man said, "I don't know who you are but we will find you. And nothing you do will change the fact that she is a weapon. Even if you take her, we will have her back."

Harry smirked and said, "Nothing I can do? Is that a challenge?" He turned to the woman and asked, "Are there many of these trigger scents?"

She frowned but nodded.

Harry walked over to X-23, Laura, and pointed a finger at her and cast a silent Obliviate. Laura frowned and felt something, but she didn't know what it was. It didn't seem like anything changed.

Harry then opened the can in his hand and tossed it to her.

Laura's eyes widened in shock and the woman almost screamed.

And nothing happened.

Harry turned back to the man and said, "You were saying? If she is a weapon, why isn't she doing anything?"

The man said, "That's, that's impossible. What did you do?!"

Harry smiled and said, "That would be telling." He then cast a Stupefy at the man and knocked him out. Once out cold he cast a light Obliviate to remove the last few moments of memories and then cast the False Memory spell to make him remember opening the scent container himself and nothing happening before being knocked out by Logan.

Laura picked up the can and said, "I don't recognize this scent."

Harry nodded. "Sorry, but I had to remove your memory of all scents. Whatever conditioning they did to you is still there. But now you won't remember which scents were conditioned to which reactions meaning your brain won't recognize them as triggers. You'll have to relearn your scents but it's a small price to pay, don't you think?"

Laura's mother froze in shock at the implication. Laura was trained to be completely incapable of resisting her trigger scents, but now they were all ineffective. That meant Laura wouldn't lose control and could live a normal life.

Harry said, "Escort the pair to the entrance, I'll meet you there," and teleported back.

Harry actually woke the sleeping staff members and used a Confundus charm to prevent them from noticing they were asleep meaning they went right back to rambling on as to the consequences of his actions there.

Once finished Harry unplugged the hard drive he'd downloaded everything onto and left, ignoring the rambling staff. A few tried to shoot him but Harry threw them back to the wall with telekinesis the moment they grabbed a weapon which put a stop to that. All of them saw Harry's 'face' but none heard him speak as he had not responded to any of their provocation.

Harry met Logan, Laura, and her mother on the way back and made their way to the entrance. They met a few stragglers on the way but were taken care of without issue. Harry made sure a few of the guards spotted them running from the entrance into the woods before he set the wards to implode and fry everything. This site mainly focused on weapons and tech. Removing the memories of the researchers wouldn't have as much of an effect since tech was tech. As long as all the computers at the site were fried and the data was lost, it was good enough for him.

Once they were clear of witnesses, Harry opened a portal to the Institute's infirmary.

*Ping*

[Quest Completed: Blood Ties

Reward +4 Warrior Path Rank.]

Dr. McCoy was quite surprised and asked what had happened and who the girl and woman were.

Harry casually answered, "New student and her mother. They both need a check up though." And with that he left the infirmary.