9 Arriving in New York

Richmond, Virginia...

"There have been multiple things that have been happening around this town that just could not be explained. The locals are afraid to enter the local forest as they believe it is haunted. Multiple explosions and trees being uplifted were called in. Apparently, it has been going for a while. They say it started nearly ten years ago. That is not all either. Crimes have been going down yearly. The police say they get anonymous tips, or they happen to find someone they have been chasing on the side of the road drugged up with enough dope to kill an adult on them. It has happened enough to make them suspicious but not enough to make them investigate it. What do you think?" Coulson asked Fury standing next to him, right next to the building they heard about where a person flew over to save people. The images they could get from different people told them the whole story, and it seemed to baffle them.

"It seems our missing friend from before has been found. It is good that he seems to be on the good side. Do you think all the crime that has been stopped could be from the same person? Also, how the fuck did we miss this for over ten years?" Fury said as he looked at the building.

"I am not sure how we missed this. We had teams all over this state and the neighboring ones. We are pulling up surveillance cameras to see if we cannot find anything else. All we got so far is a red hoody, white mask, and from the looks of things, the guy was built. He stood about six foot give or take. The locals thought he was a God. They say he came from the sky, rescued everyone, then left the same way." Coulson said

"Put Romanoff on this. She can find anyone. Also, try to find anyone that might know something. He was obviously in the forest, almost looks like training to me; perhaps he has a home between here and there. Search everywhere. From what we know, he can fly, has the strength to jump higher than this building and uplift trees, land from a height he can jump with no issues with people and no harm comes to them, and fucking has lasers that eat through metal. Damn, man does seem like a God. We need to find him." Fury said as he walked towards a black SUV.

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I am 16 now, and I did a lot since arriving. I had to land on the outskirts and get a lift into New York City after walking for about four miles on foot. The first thing I needed was money. Finding a few drug sites was not hard. Like the current one, I am looking at from across the street right now.

The hard part was going to be staying out of sight of all the damn cameras and people I could see around the place. I was currently wearing a black mask this time and an all-black outfit. I did not want anyone to point fingers at me as the same guy they saw on an online video. Which I am sure are out there after this long unless Shield pulled them all down.

I was crouching on the building across the street from the one I planned to 'liberate' money. I have been following some goons selling some drugs all day and finally led here. I then staked out of the building for the last hour. Periodically people would go in, drop off their haul, and then come back out, either to go back to the grind or go home. No doubt, most of these people were probably being forced to do what they are doing by either owing a debt or just being forced from a rival drug gang that got overtaken. Some of these assholes were just relaxing, though, and that told me they were the higher-ups of this little syndicate.

I had no doubt they were working for someone else cause these guys looked like they could fuck up a one-person parade. The goons selling the shit looked smarter than them. They barely had any goons geared up in case of a raid, and even if they did, I did not see more than four ways to escape this place. I planned to wait till dark to make any move. I could move now and be in and out, but it would be easier to make out my details on the cameras that way. I knew I could not hide from them all, so I decided to wait till they would barely be able to recognize anything about me other than 'dark figure dark mask.'

Darkness shortly came, and the people inside decided it was a good idea to throw a party. More goons and women were showing up, and that is when I just said fuck it. I jumped across the street and landed on the roof next to the sunroof I planned on going in. I saw that the glass was locked, so I pulled on the frame hard enough to bend the locking mechanism. As the fixture popped open without making a sound, I silently floated in above some stairs that I saw some of the head goons going up every time some people would drop off cash. I scanned each of the rooms I saw in front of me and noticed the one with a pile of cash in it.

'Jackpot,' I thought. 'Man, if Superman ever decided to be a thief, no one could stop him. I can literally look through everything, find my target, go straight there, and then Get The Fuck Out.'

I went up to the door and slowly opened it to find a guy with his back to me. He quickly turned around at the sound of the door and shouted, "Who are you?"

"I'm Batman," I said as I punch him in the chest hard enough for his heart to stop. I then quickly closed and locked the door. I took a nearby chair and blocked the handle, and turned around to look at my loot. I knew the other guys heard the shout, and they were currently making their way to the stairs, but I did not care. Sitting before me was the most money I have ever seen, and it all happened to be on a pallet, nicely stacked.

'Practically gift wrapped. Thanks for making this easy for me. This is how they must move the money. Pretty primitive if you ask me. How the fuck do they even get it down the stairs?' I thought as I took a nearby industrial-sized saran wrap roller and sped through, wrapping it all up. I then looked up and lasered myself a hole big enough for everything to fit through in the ceiling, and that is when the bangs and shouts came from the door.

"Open this fucking door. You have no idea who you are messing with. This is Kingpin's house, and he will kill you. You have nowhere to go, so open the fucking door. The beatings will not last too long if you do." I heard from outside the door. Apparently, they did not hear the roof falling when they said that. Oh well, jokes on them. I then lifted the pallet and flew myself out of there.

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5.5 million dollars. Yes, that is what I liberated from that house. Currently, I am sitting on a pretty comfy couch in my new apartment I just bought. It only cost Kingpin about 1.5mil. It has a great view and is very homey. It has two floors, the main floor where everything a normal person needs to live like a kitchen, living room, even the master bed, bathroom, and a spare set was down here.

Upstairs though, that is where all the action will be. It had two rooms that were quite spacious, one seemed to be an office, and the other was a library, I believe. They had windows all around to see out into my home or out into the city. They were one way which is the only reason I bought this place. Luckily, I was able to take most of the wall between them down. I only had to leave a few beams that held up the ceiling and apartment above. Now it was one giant ass room that I planned to do all my work in. I quickly set up a game plan where I wanted everything to go and what I planned on as far as tech-wise.

'An AI, obviously.' I thought. I would not be Marvel without one of those, and I cannot do everything I want to by myself. I want to see if I can bring in a few things from DC that I saw, and I could see being here as well, just with a bit of a twist. I plan to open a company in the tech and medical field. I want to incorporate both sides of those coins and see how far I can advance that field. I studied just about everything I could about medicine in my past life. This time I will incorporate that, tech and medicine from this world, and possibly tech from DC.

'Lab over there with bulletproof glass all around it so that any explosions do not wreck the building. The main terminal will be in the middle of the room and easily accessible from all sides. Servers will be in the opposite corner of the Lab as far away as they can be. I will also box them in and figure out a way to make the server room chilly.' I thought, 'but enough planning time for some pizza. I swear I am going to end up as a turtle.'

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Grabbing a bus ride over to my favorite joint, the bus suddenly jerks, and I reached out to grab a girl that was about to fall. She quickly turns around to face me, and I was struck dumb.

'This girl is gorgeous.' I thought. The girl standing in front of me had deep green eyes, auburn hair with a white steak down the right side framing her face. She stood about 5'8" and had a perplexed look on her face.

"Hey, sorry about that. You were about to fall. It was all instinct that I was able to catch you. I did not mean anything by it." I said to the beautiful girl in front of me.

'God, these hormones need to go away. I swear my X-ray vision is about to activate on its own.' As I finished my thought, the words coming out of her mouth were a bit different than I thought she would say.

"You can touch me?" She said

'Ah shit. Rogue.' I thought but what came out of my mouth was, "What?"