" To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. "

- Plato

(Rouen, France, 3:30 PM)

Elder Carol Danvers took some snacks from downstairs after she had conversed with her son to pacify his mind. She placed them into the table where he was reading and writing translation notes from Russian to English. The Kree-Lizard boy noticed his mother and smiled as he took a bite on his sandwich.

" This is good, " the boy smiled after chewing his food. " Thanks, mom! "

" You're welcome! " Carol smiled back and replied. " Old Vandark just asked me how you were feeling. "

" I felt better after we talked about what I did back from Ukraine to Germany. I didn't knew you were in Poland when Dracken and Tomulk just told me about you fighting against Rogue. "

" Honestly, Kid...". she paused and cleared her throat. " I was finding for the Kree Eternal's missing son throughout Europe. "

" Really, you're all in search for him? "

" Yeah, it took years..."

" I hope you can find him elsewhere. "

Carol nervously chuckled and sighed when she sat down. Still, she was hesitant to disclose the truth to the hybrid boy. He again noticed her sudden silence and curiously raised his eyebrows. He paused on his meal and work which he snapped his fingers in front of his mother. The elderly blonde widened her eyes to her surprise.

" Kid, what on Hala?! "

" Mom! The MTF Troopers are also after you! " he joked and laughed, calling her attention. " Mother, are you really okay? "

" Of course, I'm okay! What's the matter? "

" You seemed so quiet, " he looked concerned and changed the topic. " Anyway, do you know what happened in my stay in Germany? "

" Yeah, " she smiled and nodded. " I take it. You spent more years with the Baranowskis in Berlin, right? "

" I helped the doctor in taking care of her patients in the Schnee Manor. I befriended her kids, Ada, and almost everyone else. That place became a hospital and a halfway-house for the Rebel Forces to stay along with the former slaves. Indeed, I spent two more decades in living and working with them. I learned a lot from those people and rescued more slaves. "

" How about your friend Flagsmasher...I mean Karl. How was he? "

" He passed away when Dr. Baranowski checked him a week before I left. His disease just came back to weaken him again, " the Kree-Lizard boy sadly sighed. " Everyone decided to cremate him and put his ashes into a fancy jar. "

" I'm sorry to hear that, Kid. " Carol calmly spoke and gently patted his shoulder. " I knew how sad you lost a friend, back then. "

" It was very depressing to see him in agony from that disease he had experience. So, I took care of him and tried my best to cheer him up. "

" That's very nice of you to do that. "

" Well...he encouraged me to continue my mission in finding the Kree Eternal all the way here in France. So, I left Dr. Baranowski and her people and said goodbye as I headed my way somewhere else. "

" Did you encounter some bad guys along the way before I met you here? "

" Well, yeah. Almost everyday, that long journey had made me alot to encounter some of them. "

(SIX YEARS AGO: Strasbourg, France, 11:23 PM)

Reaching the French-German border town, the Kree-Lizard boy ended up in a forest and heard hooting of owls and howling of wolves. Darkness had covered skies as the trees joined it. The strong wind had made them dancing as he saw them. Continuing his walk and thinking of a place to rest, he saw an abandoned house at the middle of the forest where he could stay.

Approaching the tall concrete and wooden structure, it was covered by vines and moss on the walls. The boy careful opened the door when it started screeching. He entered the place and turned on the lights as he discovered it was an abandoned laboratory either from the MTF or any European organization. The boy looked around as he saw some experiments and equipment. It was old and rusty which he inspected.

" There's nothing new, here..." he sadly sighed and thought. " I have been seeing abandoned houses in my trip, but there's nothing to good to see at all. "

He was about to leave the building when he slowly turned around his head. There were glass containment cells. Just inside each of them, there were unconscious people with cybernetic body parts. The experiments were being attached by life-support apparatus. The boy noticed some extraterrestrial writings and numbers encrypted on them.

" Damn, they're all being contained and experimented by the Kree, " he observed the man sleeping inside the tube. " Why did those Invaders get these people and make them like this?! I better get out of here before someone finds me. "

The hybrid boy left the facility which he never wanted to see such miserable fate of those experimented people. He headed back to the forest and searched for another place to remain until morning. Suddenly, a woman with a dark hooded cloak and a grey haired man with a face mask dressed in a leather jacket of the same hair color appeared to him. The boy got stumbled down and frightened to see them.

" Well, I didn't know that this 682 clone is a cowardly brat! He's not indestructible, but trembling like a little poor child! Let's see, if he could keep up with us..." she grinned and taunted.

" No, we'll kill him just like the other slaves who try to turn against us. No one will save you, boy! You will die! " her male partner replied.

" Who are you people?! " the boy exclaimed in fear. " What do you want from me?! "

" Such curiosity you have there! " she evilly laughed. " We have known what you did back there in the countries you have been. My, my, my, you're fighting along with your little friends in saving the day, but the people with armor suits want you down! "

" Dr. Watts asked us to search for you, " the man sternly added. " You as a monster are a hindrance to the activities of our allies. "

" Don't tell me, you were one of those contained people inside the building! What did the Kree have done to you! "

" That's right. We're here to help this planet in bringing a better place, " she replied and crossed her arms. " Oh, I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself. The name's Plague and this is my partner, Tarok Gordon. "

" It's nice to meet you, " the man menacingly added and showed his blade attached on his forearm. " The reason why Dr. Watts or should I say Ar-Watt made us an upgrade to become better product thanks to Kree technology, because we cannot take the stubbornness of this damned human society. We wanna bring change to this world for real. Only, the Kree and the allies can make these happen! "

" You're wrong..." the boy replied even he felt trembling. " T-They just bring tyranny and... disaster! Many lives have been taken away! You don't understand what they..."

The Kree-Lizard boy got stunned by Plague's hands and widened his eyes which he felt the strong electric current from her. The female cyborg ceased her act and turned to her partner. Tarok used his blade to puncture the boy's tail as he yelled in pain which he bled in color blue.

" Tarok, " Plague called the male cyborg's name and intently noticed the blue blood flowing out of the hybrid's tail. " Are you thinking what I am thinking? "

" Oh yeah, " he nodded and grinned inside his mask. " No wonder why our friends and those so-called MTF Troopers chase him! Should we kill him or take him to us? "

" He's a hybrid, " she whispered to his ear. " If we keep him, the MTF has a chance to find him or those Rebel Forces. Secondly, this guy is the rumored Kree Eternal's missing son. That old crazy blue man might get after us for capturing his kid. "

" Now, that makes sense. So, we should end his life? "

" For good..."

The two cyborgs slowly walked in circles, surrounding the hybrid boy. He was like a sheep being predated by a pack of hungry of wolves. Then again, death was waiting for him and preparing to take his soul to another world. The Kree-Lizard was still trembling and thinking to spare his life, but he couldn't. His tail was still bleeding as he nervously gulped and clutched the ground using his fingers.

" What's the matter, Boy? Are you afraid of your own demise?! " the female cyborg taunted and changed her hands into a cannon. " You thought you're indestructible, but you're nothing like a coward! "

" You really deserve to die after all! " Tarok scoffed.

" Wait... " the mustached man dressed in a brown coat walked over and stood between his minions as they noticed him. For humans in Remnant, they knew him as Dr. Arthur Watts. For the Kree people, he addressed the man using his real name. Ar-Watt kicked the hybrid's tail as the boy loudly screamed in pain.

" Dr. Ar-Watt, what are you doing here? " Plague asked and turned to him.

" Before you kill him, I will ask him some questions, " Ar-Watt sternly spoke.

" Why?! "

" I have to find out why he entered my facility, " he replied and intently turned to the boy. " So, you must be Svet the Lizard. I have heard so much about you! "

" What do you want from me?! " he faintly spoke, still moaning in pain.

" First of all, you have let my mentor, Colonel Yon-Rogg almost forty to fifty years ago when you and your friends have taken his operation down in Alaska. But before that, you killed my prototype, Psycho! He was my ultimate killing machine for such deliquents like you! "

" It's because they're responsible for taking lives of people here! My girlfriend could have lived if you didn't use your toy in taking her down! "

" Hah, I didn't know that this 682 clone had a special someone! How sweet of you, " Ar-Watt grinned and stepped on the bleeding tail as the boy loudly wailed. " So, you have done so much, Boy, but there's one thing I could ask. "

" What now? "

" Simple, " the mustached Kree man grinned. " Before you die, I need you to answer my questions. "

" Why? "

" If you're questioning me, then I'll give you your instant death..." he turned to the two cyborgs and smirked as they knew what his gesture he meant. Then, he turned to the boy and asked. " Why did you enter my facility? "

" I...I was looking for a place to stay..." the hybrid nervously answered. " I came from Germany. "

" Germany? "

" Y-Yes..."

" Are you trying to infiltrate my lab? "

" No, I just saw what's in there! Look, I have no intention to destroy or harm..."

" LIAR! " the Kree scientist angrily exclaimed and kicked the boy's gut as he was again groaning in pain. " You're trying to take away my experiments and prototypes! "

" I did not! "

" Really? Next Question: Are you related to the Kree Eternal, Methu-Selah? "

The boy remained silent for a while as he remembered the man whom he had been looking for. He never knew where the Kree Eternal was which he couldn't answer anything. Tarok, Plague, and Ar-Watt waited for him to speak up, but the scientist had become more impatient and crossed his arms.

" I don't know! " the hybrid cried. " I really I don't know if I'm related to him! All I know is I have been looking for him in years! "

Plague turned to her master and evilly grinned. Ar-Watt gestured to kill the boy and also turned to the other cyborg. The two were ready to slay the hybrid as they were eager to do so. The boy widened his eyes in fear as he was about to face his death for another time. He saw them transforming their hands into the sharpest blade. Ar-Watt evilly grinned and stood behind them, watching the boy could die any moment by now.

" Now, you failed to answer my questions, you will experience and meet your impending doom! "

" No, please stop! NO! "

The boy closed his eyes as he heard a sudden explosion from a distance. Ar-Watt and his two cyborg minions exchanged glances and witnessed another explosion.

" What the heck is that?! " Tarok asked.

" It's either the MTF or the Rebel Forces who's responsible for this, " Plague answered.

" I'll kill the boy! Search for any of them! " the Kree scientist ordered.

" Yes, sir! "

The two cyborgs began searching in the woods and prepared for themselves to attack. Suddenly, Tarok was being shot by a stray bullet on his natural upper arm and bled. He yelled in pain when his female partner noticed her. The cyborg leaned on the tree and sat down on the ground.

" Tarok! " she cried.

" Dammit, Plague! Get outta here and search for that shooter! "

" I can't leave you! "

" Just go, you idiot! "

Plague nodded and had no choice, but to follow her partner. She headed her way and sought the mysterious shooter using her bionic eyes in infrared mode. She intently scanned everywhere and turned her head around.

" Come on freak! I know you're here! " she yelled. " JUST SHOW YOURSELF! "

The hooded cyborg felt a sudden pain as she noticed blood coming out of her left leg and a gun shot wound. She fell down and shrieked in pain. Thinking of retaliating the attacker, she crawled on the ground to find him. Looking above, she saw a man dressed in black and angrily glared at him.

" I knew it! I'm gonna let you bleed this time! "

The man remained silent, but rather he used his tail to crush her both mechanical hands. Plague yelled as she saw what happened to her both hands. She angrily glared at him. The Lizard man in black left and ignored her as he heard her wailing.

" HOW COULD YOU! HOW COULD YOU! "

Ar-Watt took his pistol and pointed at the boy's head. He was evilly grinning and watching him weeping. The boy was still shaking in fear which he couldn't stand himself dying again. He was still worrying about his future in meeting the Kree Eternal somewhere else.

" Any last words to say, Boy..." he spoke.

" Please just let me go...."

" I will let you go if you die peacefully, " the scientist replied and readied himself to pull the trigger, but he caught his attention when some people had raided his facility. " It can't be! You fools! "

Suddenly, he was being punched by the face and then his gut by the mysterious lizard man. The boy was surprised to see him taking off his bonnet, revealing to be his best friend. The brunette lizard hybrid assisted his friend to stand up and made a friendly fist bump.

" Jared?! " the Kree-Lizard boy muttered his name and held his shoulders. "

" It's good to see you again, Bud. It's been a long time, " Jared smiled. " I thought you were long dead..."

" No, I'm not. How did you find me? "

" Well, the MTF troopers never gave up in finding you, so we did the same thing, " he explained. " They wanted either to contain or terminate you. For us, you're an important asset. We can't let another soldier get trapped by the enemy lines."

" Thank you, my friend..."

" You're welcome, " the other hybrid smiled. " So, I take it, you're looking for a very important person from outer space? "

" How did you know? "

" We got all sources from Commanders Bav-Tek and Ryliea in Russia to Dr. Baranowski in Germany. You have a long story to tell, Bud. I wanna hear everything from you."

" It is for certain. I do want to hear from you first. "

" Right."

The two lizard hybrids had gone walking and talking while the other members of the Rebel Forces kept confiscating all the items from the Kree scientist's facility. The other cyborgs returned from their consciousness and got rescued. Plague and Tarok Gordon got arrested while their master had quickly escaped as the leader of those troopers kept searching for him. Suddenly, the African-American leader named Jake Fury confronted the two as the Kree-Lizard boy wryly smiled and got nervous in meeting him.

" Coulson, who the heck are you talking to? " the man asked and suspiciously glared at the boy.

" Sir, this is my long-lost friend back in Alaska, " Jared answered and introduced his friend to the leader. " He's a a clone of SCP-682. He used to be Commander Fernal's subordinates back then. "

" Fernal hasn't told me of that guy, " Fury sternly spoke. " Did you know that this boy is suspicious and dangerous in nature? Since the MTF has deemed him indestructible. "

" Sir, he's more different from the original monster. Infact, my friend would tell of his experiences after he got lost in Alaska. "

" Really? "

" Yes, sir. " the half-Lizard nodded no furiously. " If you want to put him in lie detector test, then you could check of his honesty and reliability. "

" Bring him in for further interrogation. Let's see if he can prove to be worthy as our asset. "

(Petite-France, Strasbourg, France, 4:00 AM)

The Kree-Lizard boy remained silent while sitting on his chair and finding himself attached with some lie detector apparatus as Jared Coulson and Jake Fury observed him. On his left, a dark-haired Frenchman operated the equipment and monitored the hybrid's blood pressure and heartbeat. He was nervous and uneasy which the African-American leader of the Rebel Forces gave him a deadpan look.

" So, you call yourself, Svet the Lizard? " Fury asked. " Am I right? Then who gave you that name? "

" It's my friend Smolder Ryliea from Russia, " the hybrid firmly answered. " He named me. "

" What does it mean? "

" It means light, sir..."

The French psychometric nodded as Fury thought of another question. Jared turned to his superior and waited for him to speak. The boy just stared at the two and anticipated for what question would he receive.

" Second question, how come did you make yourself joining our cause against the Kree and the Lizards, despite of you as an SCP-682 clone? "

" It will be a long story if I tell you all about it, " the hybrid chuckled and smiled. " Okay, your friend Spider-Man aka Peter Parker trained me to fight against them and introduced me to Gladius and his faction. I stayed for 20 years and helped them in Alaska. We fought them, but I almost died in taking down an Inhuman who had slain me. "

Jared remembered that day when he found his best friend dying on a mission when Gladius and the others took him away afterwards. Jake Fury remained silent and turned to his Lizard-hybrid companion.

" Then, you also helped them in freeing the slaves? "

" Yes. "

" What inspired you to do those? "

The Kree-Lizard boy paused for a moment which he recalled those days in MTF before Skouro had helped him to set free after the earthquake. From those memories, he understood what it was like to be contained and experimented. But now seeing all the people treated like objects and weapons, he understood how they felt and experienced. Then also, he remembered his beloved girlfriend, Nancy Johnson and knew how painful it was to see her fallen in the hands of those despicable men. Jared and Fury noticed the hybrid's long silence when he sadly sighed.

" Bud, are you okay? " the other Lizard-hybrid asked.

" I'm fine, Jared..." his friend slightly smiled and calmly replied. " To answer his question, I have experienced how dreadful it was to be regarded as an indestructible being. It was the fact that I am nothing but an object of oppression and disaster to the MTF. But in my journeys, I've seen all those people of different races being treated more harshly than the way I had experienced back then. The most depressing day was when I saw how my loved one being brutally murdered in front of me. I couldn't tolerate this kind of scenario. That's why I joined the Rebel Forces, so I could redeem myself and find a way to break this bondage of being 682. "

Fury raised his eyebrows and held his chin to his astonishment. He never realized a SCP-682 clone could answer with such wisdom and depth and turned to the other lizard hybrid when Jared smiled and understood of his friend.

" You know, you're no ordinary guy, Svet, " the African-American smiled and nodded. " You have seen a lot of what I heard from you. Look, I didn't realize that you sound more human in the way you speak. "

" I'm just being truthful...That's all..."

" Last question, what is your real purpose? "

" To search for the Kree Eternal, Methu-Selah, if you can help me find him. I knew some of you had met him. "

" Why are you looking for him, Svet? "

" He's the only one who could help me cure my sanity and answer to all my questions. " the boy replied. " I have been searching for him in decades. "

Jared, the psychometric, and Fury remained silent and exchanged glances when they began to murmur. The boy waited for them to confront him which it took minutes to finish. Finally, the interrogation was over when the Frenchman explained the results of the lie detector test which the Kree-Lizard boy was definitely telling the truth. The African-American man smiled and turned to him when he approached the hybrid.

" Okay, " he nodded. " You are indeed an honest man and an asset to the Rebel Forces. "

" Well? "

" We can help you find the one you're looking for, but you're going to help us in our operations. Understood? "

" Yes, sir, " the Kree-Lizard confidently smiled. " I will..."