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future over powered.

What more could a man striving for power want? Control over the future would be a good start. Does help that Future is weakened by her time spent on Earth searching for her sisters.

Which was the only reason the child Norn was standing before Victor Von Doom at the moment, she had heard he might know of the whereabouts of Verthandi, the sister she was closest to.

"So, where's my sister? You sent word that you knew where she was, and don't try to double cross me Doom, I have no problem killing those who wish me ill will." Hey it sounded good right? Not like she really had the power to cut threads at the moment. He didn't need to know that though.

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"Now, now threats are so unbecoming, my dear Skuld." Von Doom replied smoothly, moving to step around her and size her up. He'd been watching her months now. Ancient. Once powerful. But diminished from her former glory.

Just as science held an allure to him, so had magic, though the his studies of the latter had been done secretly. As he built up his business empire, while working behind the scenes to increase his influence over his home country. He had studied various cultures and the delve into what they believed to only myths about magic. It was in those studies that he had learned of her kind and the people that believed in them and worshiped them.

It was also in those studies that he had come across various spells of binding and neutralizing for beings of her elk. One such spell had been scribbled across the room, hidden beneath the expensive carpet she currently stood upon.

"Why would I ever wish you ill?" He asked, idly lifting a hand up to brush her hair off of her shoulder. "You, Skuld, are quite important to me in fact." He added smoothly, his hand moving to lightly tip her chin.

She kept an eye on him as he moved closer to her. Something felt off, she hadn't been able to read his moves since she had entered the room and it was troubling her. Though Valkyrie didn't show fear often, which was probably the only reason she hadn't called up her armor yet. Though she did palm the amulet she wore lightly. "I won't even ask how you even found out about me, but I know mortals of your ilk, you never just want to assist, you always want something. And I don't like being summoned anywhere."

She scowled more as he brushed the hair from her shoulder and reached to catch his wrist before he touched her chin. "Then explain why you summoned me. If you've done your research you know that I am not a patient person." Cold eyes did glance up at him. "And do not dare to touch me again."

He merely smiled as she scowled up him, lifting his hands up in mock surrender. All to aware of the fact that her bark was greater that her bite at present. Though he stepped away and leaned against his desk. "Indeed I have done my research." He said, a slow smile stretching across his face. "Just how long have you been separated from your sisters now?" He asked her pointedly, grasping his hands together in front of himself.

Only a few uttered words from his lips was all that was needed to complete the binding. However he refrained from fully pulling the trigger, in favor of giving her a sporting chance of figuring out what was happening. Though Victor Von Doom was sure that he would be getting what he wanted, regardless of her unwillingness to aid him.

The inscriptions strategically placed about the room would ensure her cooperation when everything was said and done.

"All these years spent among mortals. It must be so tiring for you to be stuck on 'Midgard' away from your home."

"Long enough." She was half tempted to use the amulet she wore, though she wasn't sure if the rune stone would work, it was always iffy using ancient magic against tech.

The nagging telling her to leave still hadn't stopped when he stepped away from her. Skuld scanned the room a brief second, trying to spot anything that would be a threat to her. Nothing screamed it.

His words brought her attention back to him... Just how much about her situation did he know? "Just get to the point Doom. Because if you're not going to assist I will not waste my time here."

"As you've basically said yourself, you can't get something for nothing. My proposal is a modest one really." He told her, moving one of hands to the desk and dragging his finger across the wooden finish. "You help me complete my plans and I will help you find your sister."

A bargain, he might have even honored had she been more receptive when she appeared. He found her after all. Though as it stood, she would be of much more use to him if he just forced her hand.

She shook her head. "You do know that that is really not a fair deal. The Norn are supposed to be neutral." Not that she sticks to that most the time, if she felt it would be beneficial to the future she would play sides.

"And which plans are these that you wish me to assist in completing?" Okay so the thought of having him in her debt and assisting to find Verthandi was tempting. Even if she knew it was probably a bad idea. Not like she couldn't ruin him if needed. Banpei would probably enjoy that hack job.

"Key phrase, supposed to be." He replied with a smirk. "It's an ever expanding world and I'm just looking for ways to stay ahead." He added leaning forward, placing the palms of his hands on the sides of the desk.

"The competition is pretty stiff." He said jokingly. "Stark Industries, is working on new energy technology and I find myself intrigued."

Of course Tony Stark and his company was of great interest to Von Doom, but not the only interest of his. But it was a start. Just a few predictions of where Stark's tech was going could prove quite useful to him. Though getting a hold of any of Stark's tech would be even better.

"I need to know what Stark is up too and my intelligence gathering network can only get only get so far."

A lie, as a good portion of his intelligence was coming from SHIELD and they had quite the file on Stark, among other things. Though he wasn't quite ready to mention the Tesseract or the group of superheroes that Fury was hoping to bring together to her and tip too much his hand in her line of sight.

She stayed quiet a few moments thinking this over. "So you just want me to help you get a step up over Stark." She toyed with her necklace again.

The bargain would be more to her gain if she thought about it, after all a little information on Stark to get information on her sisters, and it wasn't like she didn't know the ins and outs of his computers already. As well as SHIELD's.

"And that's all you want in return for my sister?" She bit her lip a moment. "Is that all you wish of me?" She tried to read him and still there was a shadow over her visions. Her eyes looked into his, after all she still thought she had nothing to fear, Doom was just another mortal after all, one trying to play god, of course it was laughable at best.

"I did say it was a modest proposal, did I not?" He told her simply, his face betraying nothing of the thoughts that lurked beneath that polished surface of his. "It's not just myself that depends on the success of my company, but my country too. You probably already know that more than half of the money that keeps Latveria going comes from my company." He admitted, as anyone able to do a little digging could find out who the biggest contributions and funds were coming from.

What wasn't on the records was his efforts behind the shadows to take out key members of government, thus setting himself up as the next ruler of Latveria. Just as he had his trap set to neutralize the Norn, plans were already in motion put him on the throne. And the fruits of his labor were beginning to ripen and soon would be ready to pluck.

"Do we have a bargain?" He asked, feeling her out to see just how much more spell work would be needed to get her to do what he really needed to be done.

And the whole reason she was balking on it, happened to be she had seen the evil he had done before. Though she knew he was one of the few people that pushed tech to any significant degree.

The child like being flicked her eyes up looking at him carefully. "We do, I will need something you cherish in order to make the contract binding." She took a step closer and stopped, something felt off and she dropped her hand scanning the area, finally feeling the sigils and enchantments layered in the room.

"That's why I can't see past the present in here... What have you been doing." Her mind was trying to calculate her chance of breaking the spell while she watched him. The spells were primitive, but with her current condition she knew she was unable to break it, her eyes didn't show anything as they silvered out, momentarily almost as if she was trying to connect with something outside the room.

His neutral expression dropped the moment she figured out what was going on in the room, though slowly a sadistic smile began stretching across his face. "I did say I had done my research," he said coldly, pushing himself off the desk. Noting the change in her eye color, he muttered the last of the incantation to fully complete the binding spell as he didn't want her trying to escape now.

"Did you really think that I wouldn't be prepared for you?" He asked her simply. "One doesn't simply call ancient beings to their domain without having an insurance policy."

Skuld caught the change in his demeanor and started to raise protective magic, but he was a split second faster than she was.

The recoil made her groan almost dropping to a knee as she held her head. One hand separated the spear on her necklace to call it forth but what ever he had chanted was blocking her magic completely. Her eyes faded back to their normal dark color as she glared at him.

"You keep me trapped you'll just destroy what you want the most. You're not the first man that's caught me, I can bide my time longer than you can as well." She stood her hand still around the spear, even in the small form she kept it in it could still be a weapon, not that effective of one, but she would try to fight her way out of there if she had to.

"I don't expect you to understand my plans. I've been doing all I can block you from them in fact." He told her, a spell beginning to spark at the tips of his fingers. "I'm not like any other man you've met." He added, releasing the small bolts of lightning at her and her spear, the strength of spell only meant to stun her and show her that he did indeed mean business.

"You're going to aid me, Skuld. I promise you that." His green-eyed gaze darkening as he began to summon more of his own magic. Not many people would ever look at Victor von Doom and guess that he was a sorcerer, especially not with the way, he was constantly working on new technologies.

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She yelped dropping the small bit of metal, it had managed to collect most the lightening and burned her palm slightly. She shook her hand slightly and glared at him. "I've met others who have tried mixing magic and science. You're just another one," She left the shield around her neck not wanting to use what little magic she could summon to call it to her, after all her weapons weren't charmed only for her.

While he was summoning magic she was going a different route, the lights flickered as she started willing everything within her limited range with a microchip into overloading trying to break the charms woven into the room.

"Oh I'm not trying to mix them. Who do you think I am? Hydra?" He replied with a laugh, releasing yet another small bolt of electricity at her in the process. The significance of the flickering lights were not lost on him, cause if he wasn't doing it than it automatically meant it was her. Luckily the main binding spell was underneath and that wouldn't be broken until he released it himself.

Again he muttered yet another incantation to activate the next spell that would begin to penetrate her mind as he needed to get at her memories. He wouldn't trust her to tell him what all she had seen on her own. Which obviously it meant, he would have to force her to tell him.

"Just how much of the future have seen as of late?"

"Those fools aren't worth my time..." She hissed as she was shocked again, this time actually dropping to her knees. Biting her lip she felt the other spell attack her, letting go of the computers. she actually had to touch the floor to keep from falling to the ground completely.

She closed her eyes doing all she could to try to keep him out of her memories knowing it was far too dangerous for a Mortal. The young Norn managed to fight a few minutes, probably draining him as much as she was draining her own reserves.

His power wasn't unlimited but he had been conserving energy in preparation for facing down the Norn. Indeed the fight she put up resisting the spell put a drain on him, but still had enough juice to focus the spell harder on her.

"Surely just telling me what I seek to know would be less painful." He told her. "If I have to pry the knowledge lose it will only cause you more suffering." He added coldly.

"I will not fail in those duties completely." She growled low unable to think of how to rechannel the energy attacking her. Skuld whimpered slightly not sure how much longer she could keep it up.

She thought about sending for help, but wasn't sure who would be able to get there in time.

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not even sure if you wanted to continue this or not ^^;

kidding I love backtags XD