September 26, 2010
"JARVIS, what do we have on monster cat girl?" Tony
"It appears the creature is some form of digital life given physical form. It can seamlessly jump from earth into the internet, bouncing server to server without leaving so much as a trace. Once I lost track of her, I wasn't able to locate her again. The creature is 8 feet 4 inches tall and is around 777 pounds heavy. The creature could move close to the speed of sound. I am unable to determine if that is her top speed. Her affiliations are unknown. She has been monitoring you since September 13th. A master of stealth. Kind of surprising for being a large orange cat monster. After helping you get your Arc Reactor back in your chest, she watched over you until you finished your fight with the late Obadiah Stane. After that, she left through the local network via a website that was a report on palladium poisoning. I have zero references to the other digital life-forms. The closest thing I found was the fictional Pokémon Porygon." JARVIS
"So, where do you lose track of our monster cat?" Tony
"The last place I spotted the cat was in the NYCU servers. There were no recordings of the digital life form leaving the network. Checking over the security recordings of the last two years, the digital lifeform was not once spotted." JARVIS
"Well JARVIS, start up two project files. First one looking into a replacement for palladium in the Arc Reactor. Second file, call it cat watch. Keep an eye out looking out for more information on the cat monster and additional sightings." Tony
"Anything else you want me to look into? Advances in medical technology, odd solar wave patterns over New Mexico, the recent rise of Sonia Nevermind to being queen in the country of Novoselic, the fact that a 17-year-old girl owns 3% of shares in Stark Industries, or maybe Pepper Potts' itinerary for the next two weeks?"JARVIS
"As much as I think that Pepper's life only revolves around me. What kid owns 3% of Stark Industries?" Tony
"Chiaki Nanami, age 17. Orphan is currently living on the outskirts of New York. She has enough online college credits to graduate from both high school and college at the same time. Her main form of income is from Indie Game development. She has released 3 games in an indie horror game saga called Five Nights of Freddy's over the last 3 months. The franchise has generated over 50 million in sales just counting the games; of course, Steam and other digital retailers have taken a 30% cut of that revenue. Chiaki Nanami bought out 35 million worth of shares in Stark Industries when each share was selling for as low as 45 dollars. Chiaki Nanami owns 777,000 shares in Stark Industries. Her shares have gained over 400% value since you outed yourself as Iron Man." JARVIS
"So, indie dev sinks all of her cash into me instead of building a larger studio. Well, if nothing else, that is a vote of confidence for me. Odd choice in hair accessory. A Galiga hairpin." Tony
"That isn't the only thing odd about her. She went missing for 2 weeks in March and was found by Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen, extremely injured. Doctors marveled over her quick healing rate. She should have been in the hospital for 2 weeks minimum. She was able to leave in just five days. Her medical records were redacted, and she was placed under the watchful eye of former CIA operative Sarah Walker." JARVIS
"Likely, Sarah Walker works for Nick Furry. Well, keep me apprised of her activities in regards to Stark Industries. Know what it's been a bit since I last played a computer game JARVIS let's boot up the Five Nights at Freddy's games and we will kill a few hours." Tony
"Very well, sir." JARVIS
September 27, 2010
I looked down at my reward for maxing out sculpting. It was a crowbar. A crowbar once wielded by Grodon Freeman. I debated trying to finish the sculpting challenges, but I figured they could wait. I had no real interest in most of Half-Life's equipment. The H.E.V suit, gravity gun, and Dog are about the only things I would be slightly interested in. The rest of Grodon Freeman's kit were things I could acquire with cash. And I could just make the rebar crossbow. Might give that to Hawk-Eye if I get it as a reward.
"Chiaki, aren't you going to be late for school if you stay here much longer?" Meicrackmon
"Right, right. Might as well take the Fyener out for a ride while I'm at it. Welp, laters, Meicrackmon, see you later." I got onto the motortrike and took off for school
"Wait! Shouldn't you take a shower before you leave? You're still covered in soot from all the explosives you were using last night!" Meicrackmon
-.-
{We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough}
The singer/guitar player stopped when he saw the motortrike pull up to park.
"Wow, sweet ride." The boy said, putting his guitar back in its travel case.
"You had a pretty sweet voice." I took off my motorcycle helmet. "The name is Chaiki Nanami, a senior year student." I put out my hand to the guy with a guitar.
"Oh, introductions and all. I'm Lance Alverse. I'm a sophomore." Lance
"Dam your jail bait. Shame, you were kind of handsome. Oh well. So Lance, why were you playing such an old song?"
"Old? Sure, it came out four years ago, it ain't that old. I just like playing music. It's one of the few things my mom shared with me before she passed." Lance
"Oh sorry for bringing it up."
"It's fine. Cancer is a bitch. So I grew up in Athens with my mom. Dad was always in the States with work. When my mom died, I was flown down to NYC to live with one of my dad's friends. He wanted me to have a stable life in one place and not be on a consistent move with him." Lance
"Doesn't NYC have one of the largest crime rates in the USA? Like we have crime families, gangs, and the occasional wack job with super tech."
"Ah I don't have to worry about any of that. I have ways of protecting myself. Also, there is that Ghost Spider swinging about. She seems to be doing her best to help." Lance
"Yeah, she is cool. Well, I have to get changed for PE. We're doing an obstacle course today."
"Well I hope you brought another outfit that one is covered in ash and gunpowder. You have a habit of going to a shooting range before school?" Lance
"What oh… I was in a scrap yard messing around with explosives."
"In what scrap yard do they allow kids to mess around with bombs? That sounds like fun." Lance
"Sorry, got to dip."
"Well, whatever, I've got to get to art class anyway." Lance
I got into the school shower and took a quick rinse off. Before putting on the school gym outfit. I'm so glad my outfits resize themself to fit my frame. I ran to the gym. …
"The obstacle course did not go well."
"You're exaggerating." Gwen
"She broke a pull-up bar and snapped a climbing rope." Felicia
"She was great when with the parkour section." Gwen
"I will admit she was grateful when it came to leaps and bounds. But she snapped anything that required strength to do. Chiaki is super strong to the point where it's more of a hindrance than a help. It's not like we are here to deadlift cars." Felicia
"Uhgg, don't remind me. The guys looked at me like I was some monster. I think Beck fainted when I broke the pull-up bar. It's not like I'm a bear and going to break their spine if I give them a hug."
"Don't worry about it, you rock the muscle mommy look. And Gwen and I aren't that far behind in that department. I'm just shocked you don't look more like a cut beefcake. With the way you just snapped solid steel." Felicia
"I'm not aiming to be the next governor of Cali. I was going for toned, not ripped."
"Ladies, hit the showers. We're going to NYU for a few lectures from a few of your possible future professors. We're going to be hearing from Dr.Howard Busgang, Dr.Olivia Octiveus, and Professor George Fleming. You need to turn in a page of notes for each presentation by the end of tomorrow." Miss Banks
-.-
"It's our subconscious that we're gonna be talking about today. How can we penetrate the human mind? How can we understand it? How many images do you see? Two." Professor George Fleming showed off what looked to be a picture of a cat.
"Five." John Walker
"Ten." Quinton Beck
"612."
"Are you just guessing? If you are not far off. There are hundreds of images compressed inside this picture. The encoding is special. You only remember that one of the cat named Sprakles. But your subconscious, though, saw them all. I include a section on subliminal image-recognition on the back of the pamphlets, where you'll- Thank you. We'll, uh- We'll end early today. Sorry, class of Mid-Town High, I have an urgent matter to attend to. Class dismissed." Professor George Fleming bolted off the stage.
"Man, he did not look well."
"He was definitely nervous at the end of his talk. He must have gotten some really bad news." Felicia
"Class, that was our last presenter, but we still have an hour until the bus comes to get us back to Mid-Town. So if you can turn in those three pages in, you can call your folks to take you home. Otherwise, we will be spending our remaining time in the university library until the bus gets here." The Teacher announced
Half of the class turned in their papers to go home early. I didn't; I wanted to see the university library. As we were walking to the library, I tripped on a piece of paper. Looking over it I saw it was a report on subliminal image encoding to transfer data to the observer.
"Shoot, I think Professor Fleming dropped this."
"Hey, I know where his office is. I could drop it off." Gwen
"Okay. If you don't mind."
"No worries." Gwen ran of with the report.
We continued to the library, I could have sworn I saw that creepy Superman Danel Shaw in the library for a second. But I lost the guy before I was sure. When the Bus finally got here, I saw there were cop cars parked outside the university gates. Gwen didn't rejoin us on the bus ride back to school.
Chiaki: Hey, Gwen, and what happened?
Gwen: I found Professor George Fleming dead in his office. He had an arrow in his head. I called my dad. I'm getting a ride home with him.
Chiaki: So sorry to hear that. Any ideas on who did it?
Gwen: No Idea.
Chiaki: Well, stay safe.
Gwen: You as well.
I closed my phone and went home. I decided to spend the rest of my day finishing the A Diabolical Detonator and The Scrap Collector challenge. I received Virtuous Treaty and the Blueprints for YoRHa Tactical Support Unit or the Pod, just for short. I was reminded once again that this was the dangerous world of Marvel and death could wait behind any corner.
-.-
"Target dealt with. Data secured. Ready to return to base."
"Good work, that's one more piece off the board. Come back to base. Hail Hydra."
"Hail Hydra."