Etched Memories

Hello world.

Today, we are going to talk about a twisted story. Trust me, you will not be able to guess the ending and I can't guarantee that this story is less mind taking than Life is Tough.

In this story you don't have to waste you time piecing out the story like the Life is Tough. This is a lighter version of that story except this is a different one. And entirely different one.

You will not like it. Probably like it. I don't know. Currently, I am writing this on 19 July, three days after I got my first dose of Vaccine and I am thinking of posting this by the start of December. I am hoping this should be posted by the time Life is Tough is over or going to be over. As this is a Marvel fan-fic and we already have a Marvel fan-fic in slot, many they would clash.

I am your not-so-newbie but still-in-the-process of being a Pro Writer. I hope I become one by the end of the year. This year. I hope so.

And for that, I need you love, comments, feedback and your money, I still need to have a motivation for writing and what is better than a good amount of money that I could use to get a girlfriend or wife. Already have a house due to my parents, so don't worry about the house part. I also have a mother, a car that is my father's (will be mine after he buys a new one) and to complete the sentence, I have three bank accounts with balances that are required for the debit card.

Currently, I am working on 43 projects and most of them are better than my previous works. I mean grammatically better than my previous works. Story wise, there are some where I think why am I even writing it, like the Life is Tough. There is a best one as well, but that is for later.

And also this one is inspired by another marvel fanfic except I forgot it's name and I don't want to waste my time searching for it, so if you find it, don't come here complaining that I stole his content.

And finally, Many thanks to you all for giving me the courage to write. My first nine stories ( Dev, For I am, Blue Silver Grass, Riolu's Trainer, Of blood and stove, Altruist one(the actual name was Becoming Extra but I have to change it.), Storytime with me, and Life is Tough.

I had wrote that in 2017-2018 because I was inspired by the writer of The Strongest System.

After that I wrote many things but in my mother tongue. Most of the stories are in that as well.

And my first review was done by my sister who said that I was too blunt in my writing, it was as of everything is in front of the reader, there is no suspense. No thrill or mind guessing. The result of that was the re- write of Life is Hard and Blue Silver Grass- Original.

So many thanks to you guys. Even though you guys are not more than 10 in number but thanks anyway.

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The reason why I made this was because many of you who are going to read my stories will sometime think, why is everything happening that way or how does the stories connect or who are the Net geek or chunnibyou, or gloomy forest or whatever. So for that, the special ones contain the side stories of all my novels and not just that, I also have some extra side stories that are not a part of the novel itself but os important. Side stories that can make a series of their own.

So this is all for the introductory message.

Okay bye.

The chapter starts from here

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Hell's kitchen.

10:30 pm.

"Hi guys, I am Elza, 14 years old virgin in the New York City. I look like the hero from legend of ace but that is for another time.

"Tonight, I am here, in the dark and shady suburbs of the Hell's Kitchen and it had already been 30 minutes, 16 gunfires, two rape attempts by males on me by now yet I haven't seen a single sight of Daredevil and I am a boy. I mean a male. A pure bonifide male."

"So moving on, you guys said that you would donate me 5000 dollars if I survived half an hour in the Hell's Kitchen alone at night and I did just that. This recording is the proof that I did. So over and out."

Elza said in this camcorder and stopped recording. He was a pretty looking tan boy.

He was an orphan and to gain his livelihood and living expenses, he worked at a small eatery as a a cook with low payments due to his age.

He also took care of his father's trust that supported widows and orphans in a Queens, New York.

The reason he was in the Hell's Kitchen was also because of a bet that he made with his rich classmates.

Due to the death of his foster father and losing a major income source of the charitable trust, the trust was in a bad shape as the money was boy enough to feed everyone.

It had been a year and many of the people that were once a part of the trust or had taken shelter in there had moved towards to the Hell's Kitchen in hopes of lessening the burdens of the already frail economic conditions of the trust.

Elza felt pained due to it. In the past seven years that his foster father cared for him, along with the teachings from his old family, he had become a sympathetic person.

He wanted to help and support the orphanage in any way and this leads him to join a bet where some rich kids were paying 5000 dollars to anyone that would spend half an hour in the Hell's Kitchen alone and without any weapon.

Elza accepted it and that leads us to the present.

"If only earning money was this easier than I would have been able to earn a lot except reality is cruel. Haah, the only way to earn a lot of money is to do shady things and that's not going to happen." Elza muttered while packing his camera and started looking at his surroundings.

"All clear. Now, I just need to safely get out of the Hell's Kitchen without losing my life or dignity and it would be perfect. I hope so." Elza said with confidence to no one.

He started to move out of the small alley and got smashed by a pair of something.

It was a girl! At night! In Hell's Kitchen.

Elza looked at her and couldn't help but mutter," that's a hot and sexy damsel in distress."

The girl got up from him and started to flee while ignoring him.

Elza was looking at the back of the running girl and then got up from the ground as well. He dusted off whatever could be dusted of his clothes and heard the mass footsteps coming his way.

He looked at the people running towards him in a three piece suit with guns in their hands, he started to run in the direction of the female as well.

"What the heck am I doing? Me and my stupid morals." Elza shouted while running at breakneck speed towards the female that the men were following.

In a few seconds he reached her and asked," are you innocent?"

She was so confused by the question that she nearly stumbled while running.

"Who are you? What the heck is wrong with you?" The female asked.

"I am asking if you are innocent or not." Elza repeated.

The female took a deep look at his face and said," what does that even mean? Why are you asking me that?"

"Okay, why are they following you? Did you do something to them?" Elza asked.

"I am beautiful." The female answered.

"...🙄" Elza stopped asking.

The female also stopped. Stopped because there was a dead end.

Elza looked at the female, the female looked at him.

"I forgot due to the fact that you disturbed me when running." The female said while putting her hands on her bag.

"...I am sorry for that. Let me help you get out as compensation." Elza said after a moment of thought.

"How?" The female asked while her hands were ready for some action.

"I should know the way. Which way would you like to go from? The gutters or the roofs." Elza asked.

"The roof?" The female said with doubt.

"Okay, let's climb from here." Elza said while pointing towards the backstairs of an apartment.

"They are down so we can flee from there." Elza said.

"But we won't have the time to pull the stairs up and we are also prone to shootings from the ground along with the fact that it is difficult to navigate from the rooftop." The female reasoned. She had already crossed out that idea since the beginning.

"And that's why we should hurry and get to the top. After that, it will be easy. Should be." Elza mumbled the last part so slowly that even he was unable to hear it.

The female looked at him and then at the shadows that were creeping closer to them, she decided to take the chance and if worse comes to worse, she will just show her real skills and flee.

"Ladies first." Elza said with a smile. The female felt that something was off about his smile but due to the fact that she didn't feel any danger from him adding the innocent and naive face, She immediately got on the staircase and started to ascend the stairs.

Behind her Elza also started to climb the stairs but at a slower pace.

'A sight to die for.' Thoughts of a 14 year old virgin pervert.

The shadows reach the alley where the female and Elza once were and started to gazed at the area.

Above them the female had stopped her movement and came to a still but Elza didn't. His mind was somewhere else and it happened.

*Chaang* the sound of Elza's footsteps.

All the persuers looked above them. Especially towards the stairs where the female had a hand on her face while looking towards the boy.

"Catch them. They must be accomplices. She had important information about us." The head goon ordered. The rest followed and madly dashed towards the stairs.

On the stairs.

"What are you doing?" The female asked although she had gotten a rough estimation of why he did that.

"Um sorry, I was a little dizzy due to the low BP, you know, heavy running and all, yeah, it was due to low BP. Trust me, it was." Elza said while staring at her eyes. It was as if he was telling the trust except his breathing was calm and his chest was moving rhythmically.

The female wanted to say so much to expose him but seeing the group of people climbing the stairs she chose not to and started to run upstairs.

Elza also started to run. The female stopped.

"You will run in the front." The female said while thinking about the boy, she had wore a bullet proof vest and she had confidence in her skills but if the boy was to be taken hostage, she would be caught in a really troublesome situation.

Elza looked at her and gloominess was overflowing from his eyes while he went ahead of her. The female ignored the look in his eyes and got behind him.

And naturally, their speed increased. This was due to the removal of a major blockade called puberty in a small boy causing the speed to increase. Soon both of them reached the rooftop.

Elza looked at the various roofs and said,"follow me, I know of a good way."

The female looked at him with a doubt as big as her cheeks and reluctantly followed him.

Elza went towards the end of the roof and looked at the second roof that was in a hands reach. He casually jumped down from it and looked at the female to jump down.

Unfortunately she had had jumped down and was standing behind him with her eyes saying 'show me the way.'

Elza got up and said," Now we need to go to the other roof by that plank and then drop the flank when we reached the other side. After that...."

Elza told her the plan while moving towards the plank. The female understood the plan and went to speedrun through the plan.

They both got on the plank and got on the other side safely while the female dropped the plank when the people reached the rooftop.

"What's next?" The female asked while running towards another rooftop.

"We just need to paddle our way towards the other side of the roof through this messy roof and then take the elevator on the next rooftop. On its basement is a secret exit that is connected to the subway. "

"Okay, but how do you know so much?" The female asked.

"Why are they not shooting us?" Elza asked.

"They need me to be alive and beautiful if they want to use my body, isn't that common sense." The female said without any care.

"... A good answer. I haven't thought about that ( and yeah, I also don't have ears that heard that 'the female had information about us'. Yeah I totally didn't hear that.)" Elza said.

The female started to skim through the easy part of the messy roof easily but had to use her acrobatics to tread the messier path.

Elza on the other hand, just jumped on another roof that was beside the building and used it to reach the other side.

"You are really beautiful and elegant even though you were crossing a pile of junk and trash." Elza said to the female when she finally reached the end of the rooftop.

He was on the rooftop with the elevator looking at her while she was still on the rooftop of the messy building.

"How did you?" The female asked while jumping near him.

"Pacman!" Elza dramatically pointed towards the rooftop beside the messy building.

The female looked at it and then went into internal depression. She looked at the boy and felt more depressed.

Elza on the other hand was looking at the loft that was coming up while taking stealthy glances towards the female. Glances that makde the female more depressed.

'how can I chose to completely believe this kid who isn't even out of his puberty?' Internal thoughts of a world renowned agent.

"Are you a circus escort? You know, the ones that are trained to fulfill some really particular hobbies of the rich. Just asking, you do not need to answer." Elza said while waiting for the lift.

The female looked at him and said," I am not. I am just a regular trainer that came to be a model in the New York City. Some things happened and I was just being chased by the men of the person who wanted to take my dignity."

"So you are one of the naive ones that got fooled into doing all this by some shady guy. You look like one. Well don't be sad then, you are not alone, everyday, around 38 out of 100 girls that came to the New York City to get big become like this. Not a thing to say, but welcome to reality." Elza said with a calm voice.

A voice not befitting of a young person.

*Ting*

The lift opened a few seconds after Elza finished his sentence.

"Ladies first." Elza said but this time he wasn't smiling or smirking.

The female sensed his change in persona but chose not to delve deeper into it.

Half an hour later.

Elza and the female got out of the a secret entrance in the subway station.

"Okay bye." Elza was the one to speak that.

"What happened to the pervert that kept taking glances at me?" The female asked.

"Just the sheer reality of our world and can I have a favor from you?" The boy asked.

"What do you need?" The female said while looking at him.

Currently they were on the subway station. The conversation between them happened while walking towards it.

"Can I take a picture of you? I want to be a photographer and I want my first professional picture to be you." Elza asked. He didn't know why he asked but deep down he was blaming everything to lust and hormones.

"... Okay." The female said after a moment of silence.

After a quick picture taking.

"Okay and for the last time, bye." Elza said and started to move.

"Don't you want to know my name?" The female asked while he was going towards the exit.

"I am not going to do any holy ceremonies that I would need your name for and I feel really creeped out at the sheer fact of giving my name to you, so sorry and forget it. Think of it as a one night stand without any illicit happenings between us." Elza said and ran towards the exit while ignoring the female.

"Weird kid." The female mumbled.

"Send a pickup at the Subway near Hell's Kitchen. I have got the information about the drug organization." The female aka Black Widow said.

She was on a mission to get information about an international drug organization that was supplying drugs that were made to enhance the humans. An unstable super soldier serum that suddenly came to the market increasing the crime rates in the world.

She was there to get a sample of it so that they could create an reverse serum of that. The other part being that the drug could also help their research as well.

All was going according to the plan until Elza decided to help her. This caused her to miss her way and then the whole situation.

"A truly weird kid and he still didn't answer why he knew so much about the Hell's Kitchen." The female aka Black Widow thought.

...

Queens, New York.

Near an abandoned building.

Elza was standing in front of a small house that would qualify as a broken house of a female protagonist in Korean fantasy novels.

"Weird example but it is rundown."

It was Elza's home and he was the one who muttered above. He was living in there because he had already sold his previous home to salvage the economic conditions of the orphanage that his father left behind.

That was also the reason why the orphanage was able to survive more than a year after it lost it's income source.

"But really, all the charitable foundations and trust that I have heard and seen just doesn't match upto the kind charities that I have heard. This city is rotten, be it the government, the people or even the superhumans residing it. Even though not everyone is like that but not everyone has the money and those that have are like that."

Elza said while opening the door to his house. He chose this one because it was free and no one came here to check about nearly everything.

It was the property of Wilson Fisk. No more explanation needed after that.

"Unlike those that have money, there do exist people that are compassionate, kind and gentle towards the poor and needed part of thee society, except they have to do various things to get money. You know things like charitable events or donation campaigns. Many others like that."

Elza said while sitting on the chair beside the dinning table.

"So why do you think you are doing Fisk?" Elza asked towards the immobile person in front of him.

"I said that the medication that I made should not be used for any purposes that involves the death of people. Countless of them. May I ask what was your reason for not heeding my words? I need to decide the extent of your punishment based on that, you know."

Elza asked while taking off the gag that was depriving Fisk of his life.

"Spare me, I promise that I won't do anything like that again." Wilson Fisk pleaded Elza.

"Why do you think that you will live to even think about doing it again? Just for the sake of re-introduction, I am Elza, END-016, a former HYDRA chemical specialist, currently living an ordinary life with difficulties, 14 years old in age and I am still a virgin. "

"I am living like this because this was the last wish of my foster father, although he was the one who took me to Hydra but yeah. He felt like he had sinned enough and committed suicide to force me to change my life. Pretty dedicated for a father, except who is he to decide that? That I have to live alone once again just because he couldn't bear the fact that I was turning to the dark side."

"Well, for the world of it, he was a Hydra agent himself and he was the one who helped me to join hydra and then suddenly one day, he thought that he was destroying my life and to change it, he committed suicide in front of my eyes (around 500 metres away) and left a small note that said I should live a life of honesty without dabbling my hands into any and all kinds of 'evil' practices."

"Except he forgot that he was running an orphanage to hide our identities and we have no money, I used most of my money in my research so I didn't have a single penny on myself and he used all his money on the orphanages leading me to becoming a pauper."

"But I had to earn money from somewhere as there are nearly 200 people in that widow and children orphanage and the monthly expenses are higher than you can think. Hence I thought of a plan; I contacted you and made a deal with you. A pure and legit deal about making medicine to cure Cancer, I gave you a prototype and what did you do? Sold it to the one of the many institutions of Hydra. Good, really good."

"They, in turn, were able to implement the prototype into the their own failed version Super Soldier Serum and in turn sold a lot of it to the underworld market.... Adding to the fact that they might have guessed that I am alive. Hmmm 🤔, now what do you think I should do to you as you have destroyed my peaceful life?"

Elza asked.

"I can still upheld your situation. Plus you just said that you won't do any kinds of evil acts." Kingpin tried to reason after knowing the story.

"Killing you is freeing the world from evil so I do not think I would have a problem with that and just for an example, you have been sitting immobile here for the past 4 hours, would you like it to be permanent? I can also make it so that you won't be able to speak also. And how are you going to salvage the situation?" Elza said while going to the kitchen to take some milk to drink.

"Don't underestimate me just because you were able to kidnap me. Half the gangsters and various other goons and companies are under me, in reality, my wealth surpasses that of even Stark and Oscorp, even if you combined them together." Kingpin said to Elza.

"So what, I can still kill you anytime I want to. Your life is just that worthless in my eyes, so it would be beneficial for you if you tell me how you are going to salvage the situation instead of being narcissistic about your wealth and power for it won't take even a second for me to take it all away from you."

Elza said and the started to drink milk.

"I will buy all the stockpile of the new drugs that they are supplying while my men will destroy any and all the group that are going to sell it in New York." Kingpin said in a hurry.

It was a little funny to see a fat guy bigger than twice a child trying to please the child.

"Then let's do it your way." Elza finished the last drop of his milk and went to retrieve a small case from under his bag.

He put out the contents of the case and in it were three different sprays.

He picked them up and returned to Kingpin.

"What is it?" Kingpin asked in fear.

"Just a special blend of perfume." Elza said with a naive and innocent smile.

*Three sprays later*

"Congratulations you have been poisoned with three different poisons, now you have 12 hours to live a life that is painful but you will realise the painful part later on. Now as a warning in advance, all the things in here are second hand, so if you break even a single of them when I release you, I will liquefy your tendons." Elza said while picking up Kingpin and putting him out of the building.

"On other thought, let's do it outside."

Once they were outside, he sprayed another spray that he was hiding who knows where.

Once Kingpin was out, his first words decided his fate," hahaha, silly kid, you think that I am afraid of you. Now that I am free, you are noth—"

*Slap*

Kingpin who was looking down at Elza wasn't able to finish his words before he flew tens of metres to the side due to the impact of the slap.

"I was working at Hydra and I am a chemical specialist, do you really not think that I would have been enhanced or had any backups. Idiot." Elza icily stated while coming near Kingpin.

"Now you have 12 hours to die painful death if you salvaged the situation or to live your whole life in a constant hell that you won't be able to escape. And I promise you, I would be happy to fulfill the latter one with all my heart." Elza said and left Kingpin lying on the ground.

He was Huffing like a ragged husky because he was unable to breathe properly due to the after effects of the attack.

"You have won today but you will regret it." Kingpin said after a few minutes of lying down on the dirty ground while looking at the sky.

"Well, you would be dead before before that." Elza said with a bag of potatoes and tomatoes in his hand.

"I just went to get some vegetables from the nearby mart, and make sure to pay me compensation for breaking the contract. You have an hour to do that. I need full compensation of 58 million, twenty times the price of my prototype, as written in the contract. Goodbye, you already know where to find me." Elza went towards his small house and shut the door.

He forgot to close it when he left the house.

"A tough day of my life ended without me getting my hands dirty. Except I don't know whether I should be proud of it or feel angry at my cowardice."

Elza said before going to sleep in the basement. Of all the things, he had no tension that someone psycho would suddenly attack his house or him with his men because the the area surrounding the 600 diameter of the house was filled with paralysis toxin that had the less weight than air.

As for aerial attacks, his basement was modified by him to specifically counter that.

"I had a limited life, don't want to waste it by dying anymore. With the 58 million from the Kingpin, the situation in the orphanage would not be a problem for the next few years. The only thing that is left is for me to settle down and enjoy the rest of my life."