It had been three months since the incident at Stark Industries and Stark's reveal on his alter ego.
Obadiah Stane's matters had been set under the rug. The public thought he died while on vacations while all the shares he owned were transferred to Stark.
Which made Stark's shares shoot up to sixty-five per cent and gave him absolute control over the company.
His company reform started and couldn't be stopped anymore.
The first change was the CEO position went to Virginia Potts to everybody's surprise, except me obviously. Everyone thought that Stark would take the position himself but he preferred to work on the creative side of the job.
They stopped all production of lethal weapons, which hurt the company's finances deeply. The army was none too happy about that.
Stark Industries kept supplying the logistic side of the army and even increased the value of the contract they had but it was still far from what they got for the weapons they sold.
So instead they invested heavily on their other business such as their microprocessor branch or other civilian tech. But their main priority right now was energy. Which wasn't a surprise to anybody due to the revolutionary tech he created for energy production.
What surprised everybody, including myself, was he didn't want to use the arc reactor technology commercially in any shape or form. Instead Tony Stark wanted to collaborate with my company on energy tech and business ventures.
Stark wanted to use my already established distribution channel, market share and existing technology to gain a foothold in the energy industry faster.
I was sure he didn't need my company to gain a foothold due to how big and famous his company was. But Pepper thought it was the better and faster way to get Stark Industries back at the top.
I think they proposed this deal because I was on their side during Obadiah's attempt to take control.
If it was the case then, I'm gonna say it was really worth it.
Because after Pepper and Elizabeth negotiated the details of the deal, I was sure the deal was going to be very profitable for me.
The goal of the cooperation was to create better ways to produce energy based on the tech of my company.
Kang Enterprise would provide the distribution channel, the tech and 10% of the searching Funds.
Stark Industries would provide the rest of the research funds and the scientist.
We both would put our company name on the product and the profit was 60 to Stark while I got 40.
My profit was lesser than Stark's but he was the one who put in the most money. After all, the tech may seem to be valuable to the outside world, but they were worthless to me. They were tech that SEVEN made in five minutes and that I knew wouldn't last long before better tech replaced them. I believe Stark could cook something better in a day.
It was also very good for me because I wasn't able to compete against Stark for the energy market. I didn't have the men or the resources or the tech to do so. The only way to go against them would be to have SEVEN go all out but doing that would draw a big target on us.
Elizabeth warned me that Stark's might drop us at any time once they got what they wanted, but I knew there was little to no chance of that happening because neither Pepper Potts or Tony Stark were that kind of person. They weren't snakes.
These three months were also very good for Kang Enterprise. It wouldn't take us long before we become the undisputed leader of the smartphone market. We were about to leave our competitor to the dust, all we needed was more time to expand.
Selling phones wasn't the only revenue. The app that the company made earned just as much. We hired more people to manage the app and create more under my direction. I just fed them the most popular app concept back at the OG earth.
With that much money flowing in, big plans appeared in my mind. I learned the most profitable business in the MCU was weapons, but it wasn't something I planned to venture in for now as it came with a lot of dangers. The next was energy, I was somewhat in it but it wasn't a field that I could dominate right now or wanted to focus on. Then came the category I was equipped to thrive, entertainment.
The term entertainment was vague and covered a lot of things, but I was focusing mainly on games and movies/TV series. With my soon to be dominance in apps, I could dominate the streaming services and apps games. Then I could follow it by creating my own content like Netflix did in the OG earth.
I thought of buying Netflix but it would depend on their willingness to sell and the price. If it was too high, I would rather create my own streaming service or buy a cheaper one.
So I inquired about Netflix's price and it wasn't cheap, also not many people were willing to sell after the value of their shares rose after the app I made for them gave them hundreds of thousand new subscribers but I was able to convince them to let me buy in would be in their best interest.
We may have the six years exclusive contract and my company was obligated to maintain the app service in the MarvelStore, I let Elizabeth explain to them that we could be terrifying competitor to them with our expertise on apps et influence toward the consumers via Noble phones creating a monopoly of the market due to the technology gap.
My company may not have the extensive catalogue they offered but it may not be the case in the future with our superior financial power compared to Netflix.
They were finally convinced I revealed a bit of my future plan for them with original contents and other advantages they would get if they had me as a partner.
After Elizabeth negotiated with them with a mix of threats and benefits, we were able to buy 41% of Netflix for the sums of 110 millions dollars after all of the shareholders diluted their shares and some of them were even totally bought out. Thankfully Netflix wasn't at their peak otherwise the price would be much higher than that.
Unfortunately, we didn't have enough cash so we had to borrow 50 million from the bank and put some of my company's shares as collateral but we should be able to pay back the debt with interest included at the end of the year if Noble continued to sell so well.
I even had the ambition to concurrent Amazon in online shopping before they got too big to beat. But all of it will depend on how much money I will make in the next six months.
I might be overly ambitious and tried to do too many things at the same time and that all of it might blow on my face and fail, but I wanted to be rich enough and influential enough to even make the president of the united states my bitch so I can literally do anything and get anything without any repercussion.
I'm not going to lie that one of the reasons I wanted to do it was because this will give me the opportunity to interact with the best women that this world can offer. So as usual, my dick was a huge part of my thinking.
For now, I was working on Susan Storm. We saw each other only a couple times these past few weeks as she was busy with their new and big project with Space X.
I learned from her that they were working on a new satellite and spacial platforms for Space X exploration on Mars.
She didn't tell me the exact number but the fee they would receive would be enough to hire more people and use it for the next two years, they may even turn their foundation around from their downright spirals.
However, the relationship between us didn't change. My relationship point with her was still 67 points and our meeting was still platonic. But I wasn't worried or anxious about it and even was quite comfortable with the pace on how it was going.
My relationship with Vanessa and Ophelia came quite abruptly and it was quite taxing to adapt into it. My stamina could barely keep up with the two and three may be too much for now.
LVL 23
XP: 568/2300
Charm: 3
Sexual Prowess: 23
Point: 0
That was why I put all the points I got to my sexual prowess category. I didn't have as much XP as I expected due to Vanessa's low libido and Ophelia being busy with her underground crime organisation.
Without Ophelia frequent visits to arouse her libido, there weren't as many threesomes battles on the bed as people may expect while being in a relationship with two beautiful girlfriends.
It wasn't as if I didn't have any one on one action with Vanessa. I did succeed in getting her into the mood sometime even though it was hard, and I didn't want to come off too pushy or seem too needy.
We spent most of our time together in leisure such as frequently going to the theater whenever a movie caught the blue mutant's eyes, going out for a meal since we rarely cooked or spent our time either gaming or shopping. I especially loved being the little spoon whenever we cuddled, them cushy melons were sure comfy.
We do work sometime as I was in charge of hiring people and Vanessa helped me since she could tell when someone was lying as long as they were nearby.
There was nobody special among the people I recruited these past few months and everything was running smoothly in the company.
As for Ophelia, she certainly wasn't as emotionally dependent as Vanessa and was more independent. She came from time to time to relax with, which was mostly sex.
We did talk also, such as discussing about her new occupation, interesting things she'd done during or news around New York and in HYDRA. But she wasn't really into the more romantic side of a relationship and although she would enjoy a romantic dinner once in a while, it must end with a happy ending. She rather just chill in bed and have a partner that supported her and helped her in running her 'business' while kicking ass together.
We did hang out once with just the two of us.
It was when I paid a visit to the base of her recently established crime organization after she told me of the place. It was a bar as the front with the higher floors serving as the main meeting place for the members and even as living quarters. The bar was also not far away from my building as her group mostly started around downtown of the city and the territory where Kingpin used to rule.
They just started and didn't occupy much of a territory.
It took a 5 to 10 minutes walk for me to arrive at the bar from my building before I could see the big neon sign of the bar. It was called 'The Snake Pit'.
It went without saying that it was snake themed as there were snake themed decorations for the bar front.
I really shouldn't be surprised by this as Ophelia's alias was Viper and when she called her organization The Serpent Society.
She sure likes snakes and the color green, snake must be her spirit animal or past incarnation.
I directly entered the bar as the door wasn't locked even if there was a closed sign on view.
I looked around the place after entering the bar. The establishment was well furnished, stylish and gave a luxurious vibe even though it was snake themed as its name suggested with dark green and black as the main colors.
There were also three women inside, one cleaning the floors while another tidied the bar and I noticed they either had snake-like earrings or bracelets. The third woman was Ophelia and she was talking to the girl at the bar.
The three women turned their heads in my direction when they heard me come in.
"There you are." Ophelia said with a hint of sultriness.
She walked up to me and gave a deep and lingering but chaste kiss before I could say anything.
"What do you think of the place?" She asked as she motioned around.
"Stylish and quite luxurious." I replied.
The bar was empty of customers since they only opened at 5pm and it was 1pm.
"Let me show you around." Ophelia took my arm and led me around.
"He's the boss' boyfriend? He doesn't look like much."
"Way below boss' league."
I could faintly hear the two other women talk even though they whispered and if I could, Ophelia definitely could too, but we ignored it as she led through a door to the second floor where her office was.
Her office was quite ordinary except for the few daggers, guns and cash laying around, a big safe and glass box with what seemed like a cobra in it.
"It's a king cobra, a beautiful animal." Ophelia said as she made her to the glass box and opened it to take the reptile out.
It wrapped around her hand and thoroughly enjoyed her caressing its head without showing any hint of its reputable aggressiveness.
"Do you want to pet him? He's very friendly." Ophelia proposed.
"I'm good." I refused and went to sit on the seat in front of her desk.
I rather not take the risk of being bitten by a venomous snake. I may be resistant to poison after SEVEN's super soldier serum but I'm not immune to it since I didn't take EXTREMIS.
"Your loss, his skin is very smooth." Ophelia said and put back the cobra to the box before closing it.
Then she made her way toward me but instead of sitting on her seat behind the desk, she sat on the desk and faced with her sultry smile she only gave to me.
"How's your group going?" I asked.
"Just trying to recruit more people. We're quite shorthanded at the moment. We can't do much before we have enough people to defend what we take. "
"How do you guys go recruiting people anyway?" I've always wondered about that.
"Oh, you know, poor people trying to earn money, ex convicts and some contacts here and there…" Ophelia maintained her sultry smile.
"What do you guys do now?"
"For now, arms dealing and some real estate. Those are the most we can handle currently, we will dabble in drugs and contraband later when we get supplier chains and establish further into the city. We are just starting."
Ophelia got up and then straddled me. Her hands went to my head and my back as she rested her head on my shoulder.
"I missed you…" She sighed after breathing my scent on my neck.
"We saw each other two days ago." I noted while rubbing her back.
She lifted her head and looked at me in the eyes with a hint of amusement.
"So you didn't miss me?"
Realizing my mistake instantly.
"Of course I did. " I immediately replied and kissed her deeply.
Truthfully, I didn't. Two days weren't enough to make me miss anybody, especially when I had another girlfriend.
It was like the PS4 was gone but the Xbox was still there.
"You seem to have forgotten about me in two days, huh?" Ophelia playfully said with a growing smirk. "Were you having a good time with the blue princess and you forgot about me? Do I think I need to make you remember me, or make more memories so you can't forget?"
She then grinded and rotated her hips on my laps. I couldn't feel much with my pants and her Jean on but it was enough to get the sleeping dragon awake.
"Oh, it seems that schrompty neglected Kenan Junior and is clamoring for mama's attention." Ophelia hummed and bit her juicy lower lips.
Let me make this clear, I wasn't sexually frustrated or horny but I was easily aroused, especially when done by someone as alluring as this vixen.
I groaned as I trusted my hips slightly and grabbed her supple but fit bottom.
"Want to test the sturdiness of this desk with me?" Ophelia asked with a seductive growl.
"You bitch, you always know how to get me going." I growled back and was prepared to stand up but somebody slammed on the door.
*BAM* *BAM*
"Boss! Our warehouse is being hit! It's those spaghetti bitches!" A girl yelled over the door.
Ophelia instantly jumped from my laps and shouted back, "To the warehouse now!"
"Come with me Kenan! Let's hunt some Italians." Ophelia declared and dragged me with her. "Don't worry panda boy, we'll resume after we get rid of the trash that dared to interrupt us."
Her eyes turned red eyes for a moment.
I wobbled to the car along with her and tried to adjust my boner, the last thing I wanted was to have a promiscuous tent during a fight. I already felt embarrassed enough by being stared at by Ophelia's subordinate while I walked with a hand on my crotch.
I looked like someone who jizzed in his pants.
"Who is striking at you in the middle of the day?" I asked Ophelia in the car.
The car with four people speeded through the roads and luckily the traffic was pretty good on their way with no apparent cops in sight.
"It's the same Italians who I acquired the one million from when I just founded the society." She replied. "They're Italians mafioso that doubled in size after Fisk died. They tried to expand here but we beat them to it while taxing them on the way, I assume they came for payback today."
I heard Ophelia mention these Italians sometime but I barely paid attention to them since they had no links with any super crime syndicate in marvel.
"Aren't the police going to be there?" I asked.
We were going to the middle of the city and albeit a less populated part, any fight of that scale would get noticed.
"They probably already bribed them to look the other way for a bit, it's how things usually work, which also works for us." Ophelia explained.
It didn't take us more than ten minutes before we arrived at the warehouse. There were many cars parked in the surrounding with barely any pedestrian walking.
I realized at that moment that I was awfully equipped for a fight. I only had the protective amulet with me as I left my gun back at the building.
"Eh… do you have a gun? I forgot to bring mine." I asked Ophelia.
"Don't worry, everyone is trying to lay low so the fights are mostly limited melee." Ophelia quickly kissed my cheek and said, "Let's go!"
Everyone got down of the car and ran into the warehouse.
The mafia not using guns in a gang fight was weird, and we were in America on top of that, the country of guns. What is this? A Kung fu flick?
"What's stored in here anyway?" I asked as we ran.
"Nothing. We just acquired it recently and planned to stash our weapons cargo in here."
I wanted to ask what was the point of attacking here but we arrived at the place of confrontation between the two parties before I could.
The warehouse seemed to be still in renovation as the paint was half done with renovating tools lying around but the place looked like it had been recently trashed with two guys lying on the ground, badly beaten.
Further away, there was one woman and two men being surrounded by dozens of men.
It seemed that if we were any later, those three would have ended up like the two other guys lying on the ground, if not worse.
The Italians mobsters were easily recognized as they weren't only acting in groups but were also 'refined' dressed than Ophelia's men who were dressed like workers that painted homes.
Ophelia rushed in without losing a stride along with her other subordinates while I slowed down before stopping at the outskirts of the fight.
Was I even needed? Ophelia alone could take on all of them by herself without breaking a sweat.
While I was being lazy, I watched Ophelia send a guy spiraling five meters away with a single punch. Multiple men turned their attention at her and swung their blunt weapons at her, however, the Hydra spy elegantly avoided their strikes and struck back powerfully.
The gap in strength was so evident that it was like watching an athlete trashing a bunch of toddlers.
My gaze switched away from her when I saw two men making their way toward. No idea if they were trying to run or thought I was the easier target.
I sighed in annoyance and noticed this would be my first brawl. My heartbeat quickened up in anticipation.
"Let's not embarrass myself here. " I muttered to myself.
The protection amulet only worked against projectile or sharp objects and didn't work when people swung their blunt at me otherwise it would activate every time somebody bumped at me or slapped at my direction so I would have to do without it. I also didn't want to show it to them or I risk attracting even more attention toward me unless they all died.
One of the thugs swung his bat at me and would land on my shoulder if I didn't move. The thing after receiving SEVEN's serum was that my reaction and thought were much faster than the average human, and coupled with my above human level speed, that swing seemed as slow as a drunk man's punch to me.
I had all the time to dodge it, and I did, by taking a step back to let the bat pass the empty space before me and as soon as it did, I stepped forward and kicked his chest.
The man flew 3 meters away and glided on the ground for another 2 before coughing some blood and clutching his chest in pain.
The other thug was shocked by the power and his comrade flying that he stopped in his tracks for a few seconds. I could've decked him right there but I wasn't in a hurry.
The thug came back from his shock and with courage that came from god knows where, he swung his wrench at my head.
I stopped the approaching wrench by grasping the man's wrist before punching right on his face and knocked him out cold as sprawled on the ground.
Well, that was easy. The gap in strength was too huge.
Ophelia also finished on her side a few seconds later.
"Take the injured to the clinic before packing these Italians to the truck and send them back from where they came from." Ophelia ordered her men.
This gang war wasn't as bloody as I thought it would, at least for now. I guess they kept it mild in fear of catching too much heat on them.
As for the injured, they would be patched up at those private clinics that accepted to care for anybody without any question asked as long as they paid.
"Had fun?" Ophelia asked with a grin as she approached me.
"Meh." I didn't think I would ever have fun from a fight or beating people.
"You're right, those guys were too weak. How about we go back and resume where we left off?" She hugged my waist and whispered to my ear.
Now, this was something I enjoyed.
I gave her a light kiss and grabbed her plump peach to express my agreement.
OOO
Susan Storm
These past few weeks had been very good for Susan. She felt like it was back to the good days when she wasn't constantly being stressed by the finance of the foundation.
Everyone in the foundation was working together in this new project they received from SpaceX. It was a mission to send exploration robots to Mars and their job was to help upgrade some equipment to make this mission a smooth one.
The job was like a god sent gift in Susan's view. It brought the team back together again and solved many of their problems.
So she was in a very good mood recently.
The team was on their way toward SpaceX launching site in Texas so they could help out with the rocket and other technologies needed for this exploration mission to be successful.
Rocket science and robotics wasn't Susan forte so she mainly the contact point and took care of the logistics of this job.
"I heard it's the military that handles security on that site." Johnny said as he drove the team to the launch site.
"Johnny, it's a rocket launch site with key national technology in there, of course they are going to protect it." Susan replied in exasperation as they got down the car and walked toward where they would work for the next few weeks.
"Ha! Maybe they use the satellite to spy people or house aliens in there!" Johnny declared clearly not in seriousness.
"That's a stretch." Reed spoke up as he crossed his hands but they extended and also crossed at his back before resting on his hips.
"What is this, some dad joke? Man, you're so smart but you'll never be able to fix your unfunniness." The blond man slapped the stretching man's arm.
"I can be funny too!" Reed said in indignation, "Sometimes…"
"When you are the joke…"
Susan, who was walking forward, chuckled at that.
She noticed that Reed returned to his friendlier and more outgoing self instead of his reclusive self that focused on his own research ever since they took on this project.
He spent more time with the group now and they felt like a family again.
For this trip, only the three of them came as Ben stayed back in New York to watch after the foundation. Ben thought he wouldn't be much of a use if he came so he opted to stay in New York.
They continued their short walk until they reached the first building near the parking where they would meet their guide.
"Good morning you all, I'm Gerard Maine. I'll be your guide today and take around the facilities and show you where you'll be working for the next few weeks. We also booked you three rooms in the nearby 5 stars hotel during your stay here. I will gladly lead you to it after the tour."
"Thank you, we're happy to be here and ready to work."
"Hello, thank you for having us."
"Sup man!"
The trio greeted back. They received their working ID and a tour of the site and they also set up their personal computers on their work stations before they were led to their hotel.
"There will be a meeting for project Falcon X tomorrow at 8:30 am. We hope for your presence at the meeting." Gerard asked after leading them to their hotel.
"No problem, we'll be there." Susan agreed.
The guide left soon after they exchanged their farewell.
"Sue, do you want to eat dinner together later?" Reed asked nervously.
Susan was a bit surprised. It was the first time he asked since her refusal a few months ago and she didn't expect him to ask again even if their relationship was much better than back at that time.
But she wasn't against it. She was in a good mood and pretty happy recently with Reed as he was back to the man admired and loved. Moreover, what could go wrong with dinner?
Love didn't just fade away like that. But it could be chipped away by resentment and clouded by anger.
"Sur-"
"Did I hear dinner? Let's try Texan steakhouse! I heard the beefs here are build different." Johnny loudly exclaimed while walking in front of them.
"Hum, Sue and I planned to-" Reed tried to explain the situation but was in turn cut off by Susan.
"Sure, I also want to eat some steaks!"
Susan gave an amused smile before continuing, "Let's meet the lobby in an hour!"
She then left toward her room with her luggage.
It wasn't what Reed planned it to be but Susan found it quite amusing as things never went as planned when it concerned Reed and her.
Reed was certainly not pleased with this but she preferred it like that. A romantic dinner was too unpredictable and she didn't know how she would feel about that.
She took a shower and dressed casually for the dinner. She didn't bother to dress up or put any makeup since this wasn't a date but just a family dinner.
Johnny was the first to arrive in the lobby with Reed being last.
The trio went to a nearby steakhouse to have their meal.
The steaks weren't any different than those from New York. They talked about their incoming works before they left for their hotel.
However, Johnny wasn't quite ready to sleep yet as he went to chat up some girls hanging around the restaurant.
"You better be awake at 7:30 tomorrow or I'll send you to the doghouse!" Susan warned before she slowly walked with Reed toward their hotel.
"This isn't what I imagined for tonight's dinner." Reed said with a self deprecating laugh.
Susan smiled and said, "Well, it was still a good dinner."
"This isn't what I envisaged but it might as well be the best time to say it." Reed gathered his courage before looking at Susan with a determined expression.
"I'm aware that I was a bit of a recluse and focused a bit too much on my research but I sincerely believed it would help us…"
"You were also insensitive and irresponsible…" Susan chipped in and looked at him with an eyebrow raised with her on her shapely hips.
"What were you researching? You never told us. " Susan asked.
"About our genes and powers." Reed admitted after some hesitation.
Susan frowned and continued her questioning, "You could ask for our help, moreover genetics is my field of expertise."
"I know, but I didn't want to waste everyone's time. I still couldn't find anything useful now…" Reed looked down.
"And yet you spent so much time on it…" Susan sighed and decided to let this matter go.
"Yes, I wasted time and effort. But this isn't what I wanted to talk about." Reed said and renewed his determination.
"I realized something when I felt that you started to distance yourself from me. I started to miss our small interactions, our talks and many other things." Reed had a regretful expression as he continued, "You only start missing it when it's gone, they weren't lying about that. I miss you and I realized I took you for granted."
"Yes, you did." Susan agreed with every word he said.
She felt she was the only one trying and dragging whatever they had between them forward. It was tiring at long. She had no problem doing the chasing, the seducing, but when the target of her affection barely reciprocated or acting in a way that made people feel they were playing hard to get, it felt annoying and the romance of pursuit lost.
"You were selfish. I shared my worries with you but you ignored it and when I asked for your help, you didn't put your mind into it. So it is only natural that I got annoyed and distant, moreover, I was busy since you didn't do your share of the administrative work." Susan said as her tone lowered by a few decibels since this discussion soured her mood.
They stopped completely from their way to the hotel, but thankfully, the street was quite deserted so they didn't attract the attention of anybody.
Susan didn't know what to expect of this discussion and didn't know what Reed wanted to say but this may allow them to know where they stand now.
"I know it now and promise you it will change. I'll share the burden with you and hope we can make the foundation into what we imagined, together." Reed assured her with a smile and took her hand.
Susan let him, she looked into his eyes, his eyes filled with assurance, determination and love. It had been a long time since she saw those eyes.
"I love you Sue. I love you with all my heart Susan Storm, you have always been there for me and I also want to be by your side too, seriously this time. I want us to be more. Be a couple officially and try to make this work."
Susan felt joy wash over her. Reed taking a step toward her and proactively trying was something she dreamed, prayed and hoped.
She put her free hand on top of Reed's and wanted to say something but hesitated.
She remembered the past and feared this may just end up like last time where he put priority in his research over their relationship and that she had to put most of the effort in it before she broke it off again in fury. However, if it was only that, she would have already jumped into his arms and kissed him.
The main point was that she harbored feelings for someone else. It wasn't just some slight feeling of attraction but thought of him being the one for her. She would have gone for him if he wasn't already in a relationship.
Although her girlfriend told her in no uncertain terms that she didn't mind sharing, she wanted a real relationship and a family. Even though she wouldn't mind a threesome to her surprise, she wanted to be the main girl, not the side piece.
However, she could be the girl to a man she loved, to a man she also thought was the one and yet she hesitated.
Was it weird she loved two people romantically? That she thought both of them as being the one? Was it possible to love more than two people like that at the same time?
She didn't know and felt confused.
However, this let her know that she was young and had time so she didn't have to settle for anybody.
All because she had options now.
"This is too sudden. I don't think I'm ready for this level of commitment. I want to take my time." Susan said and gave Reed a gentle smile.
"Does this mean we're a couple?" Reed asked hesitantly.
"No we're not. I'm not closing down the door on that but as I said, I'm not ready and I need to sort out my feelings. The window has passed, and it doesn't depend only on you now."
Reed was visibly disappointed but it was her time to take things slowly, to not commit fully to anything and to focus on herself and personal happiness now. It was her turn to be selfish.
"I…" Reed seemed to want to say something but his phone suddenly rang like an alarm.
He looked at it and his expression slowly turned serious.
"I left my laptop at our work station in SpaceX, and my anti hack alarm just activated. Someone is trying to get into my computer!" Reed said.
Susan also frowned at that. It wasn't the first time it happened. It was generally from people that wanted to steal some research or install some spy malware in their system.
"Should I call Gerard and get the security to stop it?" Susan asked.
"No. They might not be able to catch the thief. He won't be able to hack it so fast and we can make it to there in five minutes if we run. We have a higher chance to capture the thief if by ourselves." Reed reasoned.
Susan agreed with him and started to run toward the launch site.
She tried to call Johnny since he could fly to quickly join them and his power was very useful in a chase but she couldn't get him on the phone.
It would be only the two of them then.
They quickly bypassed the guards at the entrance
It didn't take them long to reach their working stations and Susan turned invisible just before they reached it.
They saw a man clad in black with a black face mask and messy medium long hair. He was typing something on Reed's computer but immediately noticed the arrival of Reed as he faced Mister Fantastic.
"Who're you?" Reed asked as he tried to distract him while Susan closed in sneakily.
However, the man in black didn't answer and just stood there staring at Reed.
Susan got close and made a right hook toward his face with intent to knock him out but the man seemed to have felt something as he swung his left arm as if he was slamming a wall.
The speed of his arm was unnaturally fast, which didn't give Susan any time to react as she got hit squarely on the chest by a powerful blow that sent her sprawling 5 meters away.
The strike was powerful enough to make her wheeze as she struggled to breathe.
"Sue!" Reed exclaimed in alarm.
Reed charged and punched out his right arm while he was far away but his arm extended and propulsés forward like a certain straw-hat pirate.
The man's reflexe was pretty good as he dodged the missile like fist by leaning sideways while taking out his handgun from its holster and fired it on the elastic man.
But all the bullets did was stretch Reed's skin abnormally backward before those bullets lost their force and dropped on the ground.
Reed's still stretched arm curved around and grasped the man's hand holding the gun but the thief just tore away from the grasp by sheer brute strength while continuing shooting on the genius.
The black clad man retreated toward the computer and retrieved an USB.
Reed shaped his stretching hands into hammers and swung it at the man but he did nothing but hit air and crack the ground. The man dodged every single of his attacks and ran toward the windows before jumping out.
Susan recovered and was the closest to the window so was the first to rush after him but she lost all sight of him when she glanced down the windows. They were at the third floors but the thief seemed to have dealt with the fall easily and moved fast enough to get out of their vision field.
"Was he able to steal anything?" Sue asked Reed who went to his computer to check.
"Well, he somehow succeeded in copying 50% of the date on the computer. I didn't think he would be able to get through my firewall. It seems that I've to upgrade the system's security. Thankfully, there was nothing important on this computer except some works on exploration robots, which isn't that important." Mr. Fantastic replied as he typed on his keyboard.
"He isn't a normal human. His physical is through the roof and could generate a lot of power with barely any momentum." Susans stated.
"His reaction is also above normal."
"Too good to be a mere corporate spy." Susan started to wonder about the situation.
However, their room was soon flooded with soldiers and guards. After all, the gun wasn't on silencer and Reed's hammer hands smashing on the ground were quite loud.
Susan took this time to call Gerard to explain the situation to him while the security was searching the lunch site and checking the camera for sight of the intruder.
Then a man in his fifties and thinning hair came to see them.
"I'm John Garrett, in charge of security here for the moment,." The man said and shook hands with Reed and Susan.
"Did you get the thief? Or know who it might be?" Reed asked.
"Sadly, no. But things may have been different if you gave us a head up instead of going in alone. You should leave these things to the pros." Garrett admonished them with a frown.
"The security here is lax and we had a higher chance to capture him by ourselves without alarming him." Reed explained himself.
Susan saw Garrett's frown deepened and immediately stepped out to cool the situation.
"What he's trying to say is we thought the thief was just some normal person and we didn't want to bother you."
"I damn hope so, I'll increase the patrol around here from now on and please don't play the hero again, Mr. Richards and Ms. Storm." Garrett warned them before leaving.
Then soon everything left the room except the two.
"I think we were the target." Reed said when everyone else left.
"Who do you think it is?" Susan asked.
"I don't know but we should be careful here." Reed was solemn.
"I'll call Johnny and also warn Ben back in New York." Susan said as she took out her phone.
This simple job just turned complicated.
However, what Reed didn't tell Susan was that the computer also contained research on the mutation of their cells.
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Kenan
The next part of the story was coming. After the event of Iron Man, the Hulk storyline was there and I wanted to be honest, there was nothing for me to do there.
There was nothing special to take advantage of, except maybe gaining Hulk's blood.
Anyways, Bruce Banner was on the US's soil and I asked SEVEN to monitor him.
I couldn't remember much from the film since it had been a while since I'd watched it but I remember at least he was going to meet with his belle and shit happened, then he had a showdown with alligator looking Lieman.
The best moment to steal his blood was when he was fighting and we sneak into the lab of big brain to get the blood.
That was exactly what I did.
I could have sent Seven to sneak the blood but it would be too easy… Too boring.
So I personally did it, for fun, but still remotely did it.
I asked Seven to make me a robot that I could remotely control. It wasn't nowhere near better than the sentinel but still could contend against the mkII.
The op of getting Hulk's blood was like a walk at the park.
I was pretty sure the blood would end up in HYDRA'S hands if I didn't intervene, but it wasn't like they did much with it. So, I had Ophelia tag along.
The people were too focused on the fight between the two titans so the lab was undefended.
We walked right in without being noticed. Vials of bloods, cracked or not, were everywhere. I took a few for Seven to research on it while Ophelia also took some and the knock out Sterns with her to an HYDRA base to earn some extra credit.
With that done, I gave back the control of the robot to SEVEN and got up from the seat of the remote control station back at the Kang Tower.
Vanessa was nearby and watched everything I did.
"Remind me why you want his blood, again?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
"As the wise Bruce Wayne once said, always be prepared and have contingency plans for everything." I replied while imitating a wise old sage,
She gave my a confused expression as if to say, who the fuck is that?
"It's for research, honey."
"Are you trying to become a hulk? Because if you do, you won't get ever near my bed." The sexy blue mutant declared while pushing her bust up, "You can kiss goodbye, these two pupies."
She was being cheeky.
"It's not like Hulk is always Hulking. He's normal most of the time so you'll be just fine." I said and then wrapped my arms around her waist.
In fact, there was no way that I would ever become a hulk. Aesthetics was very important to me and Hulk just ain't it, whether it was green, red, gray or a godzilla, they were ugly. It didn't matter how strong they were but their blood could be very good research materials for an improved version of the super soldier that didn't change anyone's appearance.
"That's what you said until you get too excited in bed and transform and shred my vagina open."
"Damn, I never thought of that. No wonder he's always angry." I said with a look of realization.
That was what no pussy could do to a man.
"Don't worry babe, I'll remain my little self, after all, the hotdog needs to be between the buns and my holy sword needs the holy scabbard."
Vanessa laughed and said, "What a predictable answer from you but I'll still hold you to it. Alright, time for dinner."
She pushed my wrapping arms away and slapped my butt before leaving for the kitchen.
I looked at her leaving figure and thought that nothing big should happen in the coming months in the MCU.
Iron Man 2 was a few months away and there was nothing to do with Thor.
I should the time to further build my strength for the alien invasion at New York.