Whatever storm was brewing outside, Nolan didn't care. For him, it was nothing more than ripples on the surface.
With his power and influence, no "human tribunal" could touch him.
Sending the world's strongest superhuman to trial? That kind of thing only happened to boy scouts like Clark Kent men chained by their fathers' dying words.
After a brief rest, Nolan received a message that Tony Stark, Charles Xavier, and Reed Richards were all on their way.
Inside his Oscorp office, Nolan lounged back on the sofa. Wanda poured tea for the guests.
"Alright," Nolan said evenly. "What's the mission this time?"
The three men exchanged glances like kids trying to decide who'd admit to breaking the vase.
"Speak up," Nolan continued. "If it's nothing urgent, I have experiments waiting Knull's power to master, entropy-force integration with my body, stellar fusion theory, magical artifact construction… and Dormammu isn't going to deal with himself."
Tony finally bit the bullet.
"We're putting together a fleet. For extraterrestrial threats."
"So use the schematics I gave you last time," Nolan replied. "Or better Otto's made new models. I can send those too."
As he sipped his tea, he felt the two-dimensional forces inside him, psychic energy shaping his body like Bast's god-form, and Pym Particles adapting him to rapid size changes.
Most beings would shatter under such strain, but Nolan's body was already on par with an Elder God's.
Pym Particles, miraculous as they were, carried dangers massive size changes drained both the body and soul.
Ant-Man's villain, Ghost, had learned that the hard way. Hank Pym himself had never dared quantum-realm shrinkage with return trips. Scott Lang was… simply built for it.
Nolan's mind processed that while still following Tony's words his soul could multitask at hundreds of threads without strain.
"So you want a mutant strike force for space? You're asking if I'll teach Wanda's meditation methods?"
He arched a brow. He could mass-produce mutants and Inhumans now, but grafted powers had ceiling abilities like cryokinesis, telepathy, or magnetism were notoriously hard to upgrade past their awakening point.
"It's doable," Nolan said. "If Earth grows stronger, it benefits me. But you know my rule everything's a transaction."
Tony didn't even hesitate.
"Your full mutant genome archive. Only entries I don't already have."
Charles nodded. His old caution meant nothing here; against Nolan, holding back was pointless.
"Good," Nolan replied. "I'll have Wanda teach at your school. Anything else?"
Reed cleared his throat.
"I… want to join Oscorp."
Tony blinked. That was unexpected Reed had worked with him before, and it had been productive, but their scientific interests diverged.
Reed leaned toward quantum theory, dimensional mechanics, and energy research, practically on the mystical edge, while Tony preferred applied tech.
Tony considered objecting… then thought better of it. Reed's skills would flourish more under Nolan, and Tony couldn't deny his own curiosity about Oscorp's "God Project" a classified program dissecting divine entities like the Black Panther god Bast, whose body parts were under active study.
"Welcome aboard. I'll take you on a tour today. If something catches your eye, you can join that division."
This was a bigger win than he let on. Reed's expertise in quantum mechanics and temporal travel was exactly what Nolan needed for his coming leap into the multiverse. His own time-jumps had relied on the Time Stone and personal abilities both with dangerous drawbacks. Memory erasure was an ever-present threat.
If those memories were wiped completely, he'd snap back to his original timeline.
He needed a safer way.
"Alright," Nolan said, standing. "Let's go, Dr. Richards."
"Wait!" Tony raised a hand. "Can we get the tour too?"
He had visited Oscorp countless times but had never seen the company's most classified projects. And now, he couldn't hide the curiosity.
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