Escaping the base

Although the base was completely silent now, the same couldn't be said about the captive children below, who's heart were going through a maelstrom of emotions. Fear, hope, rage, sorrow all mashed together.

First they woke up at night due to the blaring siren, then the base was filled with sound of bullets, screams, and explosions everywhere, followed by the final silence in the base. The pressure settled near them was thick enough to be cut by a knife. Then came the sound of slow footstep which somehow sounded unusually loud in their ears. Everyone held their breath waiting to see the one who will either be their salvation or their further tormenter.

When they vaguely noticed Noah's figure stepping in through the iron door, the nervous expressions of the children, immediately turned into excitement.

"You really did it."

Looking at the excited children, Noah showed a genuine smile since his transmigration, completely shifting from the previous coldness and fury in his face. He then made a sword of light and hacked towards the bars of the rooms of each captives one by one. During which all the children's eyes were completely glued towards his sword with marvel in their eyes.

The oldest of the dozen or so children was no more than 15 years old, while the youngest was only 8 years old. In his memory, there should have been more than thirty children since he was brought here, then he realised it was already a miracle for the current ones to live this long. The children timidly walked up to Noah and looked at him with wide eyes, obviously considering him as the backbone.

Noah spoke: "All of you, we have to get out of here quickly. Who knows when they will send more people here to capture us."

Although he was now powerful enough to kill dozens of soldier at ease, he was also very clear that now he will be the target of those people who escaped the base today and will definitely expose his ability to their superiors and they will definitely do their best to capture him at all cost.

This was not a place to stay. As for the kids, most of them are either orphans or have been sold. Coupled with Noah's maturity and strength that brought them freedom, the children were already dependant on him and instinctively listened to his orders.

Led by Noah, they explored the base with quick haste. It has to be said that, although it's a small experimental base, it is still extremely rich in both facilities and resources. There is no shortage of food or equipments. They even found a vault filled with gold bars and stacks of bank notes.

Counting down, there were a total of 23 gold bars, three stacks of US dollars totaling 300,000 and several stacks of rubles, which are obviously all the property of the base but they were not taken away due to haste, all of which will now aid Noah in his future endeavours.

In addition, They searched for food, bread, vegetables, frozen meat, etc., and also boxes of nutrient solution packed in cartons. Then Noah instructed the children to wear thick cloths and take some mattress and blankets for accommodation. They also took the guns they can carry with them as well.

Noah then found a large truck, filled it with all their supplies and started to drive along the road with the children. At the moment it was already approaching the wee hours of the morning. It was still pitch black outside the base and there was a mountain range near them, with the heavy snow still falling rapidly.

Fortunately Noah knew, how to drive various type of vehicles. Although his small stature made it little difficult to drive, such as vision, steering, handling, etc. But it was resolved quite easily. Noah was quick to adapt and after a while, he got used to it.

The problem was the direction. Fortunately, Noah found some maps in the base, which included some points in the nearby mountains, Although it was in Russian, it didn't quite pose any difficulties since Noah knew around 9 languages including Russian. Then he matched some location with the map which he had obtained searching the computers at the base.

They were currently at the eastern part of the Ural Mountains belonging to the remote Siberian region, close to the European part of Russia. One can reach Yekaterinburg city if they drive along the highway for nearly 700 kilometers.

After thinking about it, Noah decided to settle these children near Yekaterinburg. Since it was snowing heavily outside, the tire marks of the truck would be completely covered within an hour, making it impossible for people to track them. So the truck had to be destroyed outside Yekaterinburg and he can go to the city to get more equipments.

Once in the city, it will be much easier to hide. At the moment, the children were already asleep by now which was obvious considering the chaos they went through today. Like this time passed quickly, during day they camped and at night they continued their journey. When they were around 50 km away from Yekaterinburg, Noah noticed an abandoned building about 300 meters away from the road in the dark. So deciding to make a temporary base there, he turned the steering wheel off the road. Finally, stopping in front of the abandoned house.

There are some trees and vegetation around the house in twos and threes, which makes it more or less a natural shelter. After stopping, he got out of the truck and opened the back compartment of the truck. A dozen or so children were awakened slowly. After seeing Noah with the flashlight, they breathed a sigh of relief and followed Noah out of the truck obediently and began to move the supplies to the abandoned house.

The house was a standard wooden house, the inside dirty and dusty, it should have been sometime since anyone live there. The area is neither too big nor too small, about 120 to 130 square meters. Noah and the children briefly cleaned the house under the beam of the big flashlights they brought from the base and then took out the bedding from the truck and spread it orderly on the floor.

After that, they gathered some branches nearby and took them back and put them in the fireplace, and Noah lit them with the light fruit Ability. The warm flame flickered slowly, the light gradually dispelled the darkness and brightened the house.

the warmth from the flame also dispelled the confusion and fear remaining in the hearts of the children.

After that Noah and the children put all the supplies from the truck into the wooden house"s corner. And instructing them to be careful, he drove to a frozen lake not far away. After breaking the ice layer with a light laser, he drove the car directly into the lake. Now they can't detect any movement by tracking the truck so they were safe for sometime.

When he returned to the wooden house, those children were well-behaved and hardworking. They had already made their supplies and bedding, so they were just waiting for him. Noah looked at the children who were staring at him helplessly and said with a helpless smile, "Don't worry, we won't be discovered for now. Go to sleep and we can talk about it when you wake up tommorow."

"Um! O-okay"

The children looked at each other than glanced back at Noah, then they saw Noah wearing a fur coat and lying on the quilt in the front of the house. So the rest of the children also laid down and fell asleep together with a peace of mind.

Not long after, the sound of shallow breathing came one after another and the group of children quickly fell asleep. Although Noah closed his eyes, he could not fall asleep. He's still thinking about what to do next after this.

Although he escaped from the test base this time, it doesn't mean the matter is over. On the contrary, this is just the beginning. In the future, he will inevitably be hunted down by those people openly and secretly, and they will have powered people too.

At present, the amount of information he has is too little and the time line or the whether it's MCU or world of comics has not been confirmed. The original owner of this body came from a vagrant village from a small, extremely poor country in Eastern Europe. He was an mixed nationality child, as far as he could remember from the original's memory, he only knew that the original was also named Noah but was an orphan from birth like him. Later he was caught and taken away while he was begging and stealing in the street and then transported to the experimental base.

Missing any other worthwhile information except from the mention of freaks termed as mutants, so the chances were low of it being MCU but he can't be sure quite yet. Now the main problem was the other captive children. There is no doubt that they are a burden for the current him.

However, although Noah's moral bottom line is ambiguous, he still has a basic conscience. Once he leaves, these children will definitely not survive. They will either die in this harsh environment or be taken away by HYDRA to continue the tragic human experiments.

After thinking for a long time, fatigue still made him fall into deep sleep. Noah doesn't know how long it has passed, but he finally woke up from his sleep and slowly opened his eyes. At the moment, there was still whistling wind and snow outside.

He sat up, turned his head and took a look, finding the group of children had already waken up. One of youngest kid after waking up for sometime was curling up under the blanket and secretly looking at him with her eyes open.

Luckily they had ignited the fire using tools, so it was warm and comfy inside the house.

"Are you hungry?"

"Umm~~"

"Why didn't you eat then?"

"We're all waiting for you to eat together."

Looking at this group of sensible and timid kids, Noah's heart was somewhat touched. After stretching, he got up from the bed, still wearing the much larger fur coat and hat, then walked to the fireplace.

He turned his head to look and saw that group of kids also climbed up from the bed, looking at him with wonder and longing in their eyes, obviously because he could use special abilities at will, the scene of him using light devil fruit is still fresh in their memory.

Noah smiled lightly and called out to everyone

"Come on, let's prepare today's...um.. well, breakfast?"

The children were excited and followed Noah to the corner of the wooden house where supplies were piled up, opened metal boxes and took out the supplies inside. For now Noah took out normal ingredients instead of the nutrient solutions, although they are rich in energy, he's tired of them for now. They even eat nutrient solution in the road instead of cooking, as not to raise smoke. Also for now the nutrient solutions are an important resource for future growth, so he can't afford to waste it.

Noah took a few iron pots from the supplies and asked the children to bring pork vegetables and seasonings to the wooden house kitchen. The kitchen of the wooden house is open and has a special stove for cooking. Noah lit the stove with firewood and made a simple curry for their breakfast.

While making it, Noah communicated with the children. It turns out that although they gained their freedom, they are more confused then ever, with no idea what to do or even how to live from now on. After some comforting, he found that most of the children were from Eastern European countries.

A total of fifteen people including himself, ten boys and five girls. The youngest are only eight years old, a boy and a girl.

"My name is Gennady."

"My name is Sumarokov."

"My name is Romon."

"My name is Sergey."

Although the group of children were very nervous, they still introduced themselves. Noah listened patiently and memorised their names, until one of the boys with short black hair and the girl with black hair next to him introduced:

"My name is Pietro Maximoff ."

"My name is Wanda Maximoff."

Wait a minute?

These two names immediately attracted Noah's attention, he looked at the two kids carefully, his heart was racing quite erratically, could it be?

Suppressing the waves in his heart, he asked,

"Are you twins?"

"Yes, he is my brother." the girl named Wanda said bluntly.

"How did the two of you get captured?"

"Um... we voluntarily participated in the experiment."

"Why?"

"Because That's the only way for our revenge."

The girl said this with undisguised hatred on her face

"We were originally from Sokovia, living our peaceful live with our family. But the war destroyed that peace and because of 'his' creations we lost everything."

Although there is no follow-up, Noah was able to determine the origin of these two twins. There was a wave of turmoil in Noah's heart. He now has no idea what kind of marvel universe he had came to. It's seems like MCU but then there's mutant here and who knows what else. Will the events even follow the same as his knowledge or not? He doesn't know anymore.

These two twins should be Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, who will be mega powerhouses in the future. And the person the twins hates, should be the future Iron man, Tony Stark.

As Noah who is very familiar with the Marvel universes, he is too aware of how deep the water in this universe is. It is almost bottomless. There are various Sky Father level gods and the various aliens. Before he still held the hope that it was relatively safe universe, now that idea was completely erased from his mind.

Compared to those mega powerhouses, he's current power is not even worth mentioning. Thinking about it now, the people in the base, should be the subordinates of Baron Strucker, one of the leaders of HYDRA.

[Wanda P.O.V]

Seeing Noah silent after hearing our story, it will be lie if I say i am not nervous. Since the truth is we followed him seeing his power and who knows maybe even we will get some kind of powers if we follow him. That will be really nice, If i get powers, I will make sure to kill the bastard stark.

Thinking back we were really naive back than acceptive the researchers offer, I never really thought someone could be this cruel to other, without any reason. They didn't even show mercy to little babies, bastards. They are also bastard like stark, they all should go to hell.

Then Noah question brought me out of my spiralling thoughts " Then wouldn't your plans be ruined since you know... I destroyed the base?"

"No it's actually good you did that, after seeing their experiments even we were considering escape" I hastily replied.

"Even if we had gotten power, those bastard would have dissected us instead." My brother pietro quipped in.

"All's good than"