4 Ch.4

Tony was fascinated and Howard merely watched until it was time to go. They got to see the dragon just as they were leaving and I saw a fox pup follow Tony out. I quirked an eyebrow and shrugged, thinking it was kismet or fate. The next time I met Howard, he said the fox had become Tony's friend and his greatest headache.

I chuckled and told him that it chose Tony so it was with him till the end because they bonded for life. He grunted and asked if I could send it back and I shrugged. "I could, but it would just find a way out and find him again or get itself killed trying."

He sighed and we talked business which involved the new element he'd found and arc reactor technology. I'd agreed to make some and even make a miniature arc reactor using the new element as the core, but he had to allow my people full access to the technology to power our own stuff, off the books of course. He agreed and we set to work together, spending the last ten years of his life off and on making the devices.

Once the technology was perfected and he had his miniaturized arc reactor, I had the tech to mass produce it. Unfortunately before we could settle on an agreement he was assassinated over the super soldier serum he'd been working with on the side. It was incomplete and he had been reverse engineering it from Steve's blood, but Hydra wanted it and they got it using their winter soldiers.

We at TR industries distanced ourselves from Stark Industries because of Obadiah Stane taking over until Tony's ready. To put it simply, I didn't trust Stane as far as I could throw a planet which I can't lift. Two years later I had Yelena Belova and Natasha Romanoff kidnapped from their sleeper cell in Ohio. Information was leaked on their fake parents and they were sent back to Russia.

As for Natasha and Yelena, I offered them a place in Ta Lo or outside in America or anywhere they wanted to live normal lives. I told them they could join the Ten Rings and protect the world or even go back to Russia and the Red Room if that's their choice. I walked the fields as they watched foxes play with children and other creatures. I told them we only took them because I wanted them to have a choice and live a normal life if they wanted.

Natasha asked what it is the Ten Rings does and I told the ten year old and her five year old adopted sister all about us. I told them my age, about the Ten Rings, magic, everything. I told them they could live outside with a family of their own and be trained, stay inside and be trained or simply live normal lives there or here. I patted her shoulder saying I could send them back if they want to go, but this would be a one time deal because the Ten Rings doesn't get involved with political affairs, we only fight evil and protect the world as a whole, not one nation or people over another.

Natasha asked to think on it and I nodded before telling them. "The main hall over there is my place. There you'll find rooms, clothes, food and warm beds, safe from any who would harm you. I don't normally stay here so the maids will show you around. Feel free to do as you like, just don't hurt anyone or anything. We treat all life as equally precious here, be they the lowest animal or the mighty dragon that slumbers in the lake."

Their eyes went wide and I left them to it saying I'd return in three days for their answers. Yelena ended up staying inside and Natasha chose to stay outside but receive training. I had Shao-Lo and his wife Yun-Zi, adopt her. They were stationed in China but moved around a lot as the ring bearers of this generation.

I didn't see either of the girls again until after meeting Carol Danvers or Vers as she went by up until I helped her regain her memories. I'd met Fury and several Skrull as well, but beyond that we parted until after the big battle. Carol came back for one night wanting to feel something real and I seemed to be her type seeing as we were both immortal. No fucks were given about condoms in her mind so I didn't bother either having been inoculated against most earth viruses and diseases by our latest vaccine discoveries in science.

She hung around until morning and enjoyed the long hard fucking that came with shower sex. She said she'd look me up next time she's on earth so I left her extra full when she put on her suit and flew off well sexed up. As for myself, I went back to work training and teaching wherever needed and inventing a universal communicator alongside reverse engineering Kree technology from the Kree star force assholes I'd killed when they came to earth looking for a fight.

There was plenty to do and up until 1999, I was busy barely seeing pretty much anyone. When the Sokovian bombings began in Novi Grad, I felt chaos magic alter reality and moved to find a Stark Tech mortar shell in a family's living room. I waved and sent it high in the sky where it exploded before telling the children in Czech, asking if there was anyone alive who needed help.

Two kids crawled out from under the nearby bed and I held them, stopping them from seeing their dead parents. I took the to Ta Lo and told them they'd be safe there. I gathered their parent's bodies and put them in coffins, leaving them in the house with a note. I headed back to Ta Lo and told the two orphans that they could stay or go back, but their parents were dead and there was no bringing them back.

They stayed and learned magic, honing and growing their skills under watchful eyes. Pietro was fast physically and soon his power manifested fully while Wanda was powerful magically and a true prodigy in the mystical arts. I left them to it as they were adopted into families of the warriors I trained with. Matt Murdock had been the same on the outside because of the ties TR Industries had with orphanages across the globe.

The big kicker had been when I stepped in and stopped Dorothy Walker from pimping out her fourteen year old daughter. She went to jail with the producer who tried to assault Trish and Trish was adopted with Jessica a few months later to be sisters with Natasha. It was one of the few times I'd seen Natasha and Shao-Lo. I simply told them how it was going to be and they obeyed while I left to deal with other matters.

Jessica stopped me with her strength and I raised an eyebrow before prying her hand off my arm. I flicked her forehead and told her that if I were normal I'd have a broken arm now so she needed to be more careful. She apologized and asked why they were obeying me. I turned to Shao-Lo and he sighed, telling Jessica that I was the Ancient, the oldest living human on earth and by far the most powerful and experienced being he'd ever met.

He had her sit and he alongside his wife told the girls about the Ten Rings and my place in the world as it's strongest, oldest and wisest protector. Yun-Zi called me the lonely one, he who walks the earth alone protecting it and fighting the gods themselves so that humanity can have peace. I left without a word and continued my work as ever. Years passed and time goes on as they say.

When the Hand went to infect Rand enterprises, I moved in with the warriors and we cleaned them out, killing Madam Gao in China, Sowande in Africa, Bakuto in upstate New York, Murakami in Japan and Alexandra Reid in California alongside countless hand assassins. It was a full scale war that ended with the hand being entirely wiped out and dozens of our warriors killed. TR industries bought the Midland Circle financial building in New York. After making it a headquarters of sorts, I stepped back into the shadows while Tony took over Stark Industries.

His all white nine tailed fox was quite well known these days and he almost never took off his gloves. When Natasha, Jessica and Trish reached college age, they began working at TR Industries like all those trained by the Ten Rings outside Ta Lo do nowadays. Natasha worked as my assistant for several months before wiping out the Red Room with her adoptive sisters, Wanda and Pietro. They began a full scale hunt for anyone and everyone involved and killed them for it once they knew the full truth and that the Ten Rings would neither help nor stop them from helping because we had other enemies and making small attacks against individual countries was too much for the resources we had.

When the returned, all four girls barged into my office and I held up a hand, stopping them before finishing my torture of a Hydra agent. I killed him and washed off my hands before waving a hand and sending the body to feed beasts in a hell dimension. I turned to them and my gaze softened marginally before telling them. "When you're done with whatever it is you want to say, I have assignments for all three of you if you're up for them."

Natasha didn't blink, just nodding before asking me why I was alone. I shrugged. "I'm old, very old and I've seen the ancestors of humanity. First off I'd never be with an ape no matter how much hair it lost back in the day. Then when they reached caveman status, well, you tell me, would you sleep with someone who doesn't have hygiene?"

She quirked an eyebrow and I shrugged. "It was only a couple hundred years ago humanity had evolved to the point of brushing their teeth, shaving and washing with soap on a daily basis. By then I simply wasn't interested. Now what's with the question?"

She fidgeted and Jessica rolled her eyes saying they wanted to help me not be so alone. I quirked an eyebrow and walked to the side door, opening it. Inside was a bed and I stepped aside, waiting for them to decide. Jessica and Natasha were the first ones to move and go in with Wanda trailing behind. Trish said she was going back to be with Pietro and I nodded before stepping into the room and sealing the door so sounds weren't let out.

I stripped and they saw the scars from battles long passed, experiment scars so old Christ hadn't been an idea when they were made. All three of them stripped and Jessica was first, pushing me with her enhanced strength and losing her virginity in the process. Then came Natasha whom was far and away more shy but also more passionate and loved the foreplay as much as the sex once her maiden hood was gone.

Wanda was the youngest of them, but just as enthusiastic, riding me and telling me to let go inside of her while she moaned. All three of them were stuffed and dripping long into the evening. Jessica deep throated me while Wanda asked about the scars. I told them about each one just after Jessica finished swallowing and cleaned me before laying against my stomach muscles.

I sighed and told them of the battles I'd seen, fought in and went without records for so long. I told them of all the warriors I trained, their faces and everything. Hell, I even told them I'd bedded the Asgardian Lady Sif during the years I'd been on Asgard, saying she was the first woman I'd been with since I'd been flung through time. I told them how I became a sorcerer, warrior and everything down to them being the first human females I'd laid with in this world since I'd begun my trek through time.

Natasha asked if it was worth the wait and I I kissed her before taking her again. I told her as she climaxed around me that it was better than I'd remembered. Wanda stuck her rear up and I took her from behind while she cleaned Natasha with her mouth and Jessica shared her mouthful with Natasha. The next morning Pietro, Trish and the three lovers I now had stood before me in my office.

I told them how Shield had been compromised by Hydra and how we needed to know more about just how much. I told Natasha that she and Pietro would become Shield agents and serve under Nick Fury. I told her I'd make the arrangements while Wanda and Trish would go in as scientists. I turned to Jessica and told her she'd be their outside eyes and ears in a cloaked suit and be their backup if anything goes wrong.

I told them to rely on their training and not their powers because Hydra would love to get their hands on the enhanced or the super soldier serum they'd all taken. They nodded serious and I explained to them. "You'll have your bracelets, earrings and anything you need to get eyes and ears on the inside. Fury will supply clearance so you'll have all the time you'll need and backup if necessary will be a simple code word away. Jessica will move in and call on the rest of the Ten Rings. This is a long game so you'll have to prepare for years of undercover work, all of you."

My gaze landed on Jessica and turned to Wanda and each of them one after another. I stood and sighed, wishing them luck when they agreed to do the mission. I left and dropped Fury onto a safe house couch while he cursed up a storm. When he calmed down I told him that all communication devices on him had been disabled as well as the tracking device in his body.

He asked why and I told him we needed to talk in private because I didn't know who in Shield could be trusted. He said he was listening so I played him several hologram recordings of Hydra agents I'd killed and tortured while they wore shield suits and armor. He recognized most of them and I told him how Arnim Zola had become an asset to the SSR later to be named Shield and how he regrew Hydra from within.

Several recordings said as much and when I finished, I told him my plan to weed them out and eliminate them without going to war with Shield directly. I told him who Hydra was, the Kree experiments, his goals and why I could never allow such a being to return to earth or any organization to threaten this world. I told him of the Kree portal stone and the pieces Hydra has, telling him that I hope to destroy Hydra for good inside and outside of Shield by finding those inside and getting more intel.