CHAPTER 42

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According to Charles, even with his immense psychic powers, it would take him a few months to completely erase the programming Bucky had endured for so many years, so with that said, I left Bucky with him, Charles, after all, he was strong enough to deal with the broken soldier, and perhaps helping Bucky would give Charles a new sense of belonging, a new mission in life, time would tell.

As for me, well, with Bucky in the process of being saved under Charles's care, I was focusing on other things, like helping Emily with her transmutation homework, trying to become a geneticist to understand the super soldier serum, and training on the gym, and such, as for my Hydra quest, no the personal one, but the gamer one, well, I was apparently five bases short from destroying the twenty something I needed to complete the quest, if I had to take a guess, I would say the bases the quest counted were the main ones, but honestly I didn't care much for that, without Bucky, Hydra was at best a nuisance, a fly under my thumb.

I was also focusing on making money, well, not so much making money, but on blatantly copying ideas from my world, to make money, like Facebook, there was no Facebook here, or Amazon, there was no Amazon here, meaning I could capitalize on such ideas, to multiply my money.

I already had enough liquid capital to start, all I needed was to code the entire thing, and build the business model from basically zero. Funny thing, Ebay does exist here, weird right, Amazon doesn't exist, but Ebay does, the weirdest thing is, Ebay came after Amazon.

As for what I needed the money for? Well, many reasons, heck the list was nearly infinite, for one, I wanted to invest in the Extremis project, which sounded like a nice power boost, which meant I was about to erase Iron-Man 3 out of the canon timeline altogether. I also wanted money because, well, Gamer power or not, Money is basically an infinity stone in every universe, also… who doesn't like being rich? Realistically no one would ever reject such a thing.

I had also bought stocks in Starks industries, which right now were at an all time low, because of Tony being depressed and all, but I knew soon those stocks would triple their price, reason why I had invested a few millions in his company.

"I got a B!" Emily exclaimed as she entered my room, a frown on her face.

"I didn't know the Ancient One had a grading system," It really took me by surprise, I don't recall seeing her grading anyone, I mean, she does look at you when you fuck something up, but that's it.

"I asked her to grade me," Emily pouted.

"Well, I am sure you will get an A next time," I smiled, ruffling her hair.

"I will!" Emily declared with a new found fire within her.

"Oh my, to think grading someone would push them so much towards the path of success, maybe I should've graded you," The Ancient One chuckled, as she walked into my room.

"No thanks," I didn't like that idea at all.

"How is business going, Mr. Walker?" The Ancient One asked, her eyes on me.

"I just started investing, and hiring programmers, so… slow I guess?" I replied.

"Well, everyone has to start somewhere, don't you think?" With that she left, once again leaving me to wonder, what was she all about.

"Can we go to the market to buy some cereal?" Emily said, seconds after the Ancient One left.

"Sure," I nodded, as Emily opened a portal to the market in Nepal.

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Back from the Market, I continued studying about genetics slowly but surely, rising my level on it, until an idea came to mind, a completely unrelated idea to what I was doing, but brilliant one nonetheless, what if I could connect my map to a satellite above the earth? I mean, I didn't have the option to connect my map to anything, but…. If the satellite were to be mine, there could be a chance where it would be possible to connect my map to it, in the process discovering where every enemy I have on earth was?

I mean, it was an idea/theory worth investing some time into it, because regardless of if my map could or could not work with said satellite, a satellite was always a welcomed tool to anyone's arsenal, now that I think about, I could also invest some time learning how to code AI, I mean, it could be beneficial having a highly intelligent AI helping me with my projects.

"I guess, I could call my AI, Corn, or Crow," I hummed, getting more and more excited with the idea, "Fuck it, I will create my own AI." Though I would have to make sure, I didn't create a second Ultron by mistake, Ultron was not what I wanted, a Jarvis was what I wanted.

As I pondered about my new personal goal, I got a call, from no other than Fury.

"Fury?" I answered the phone.

"No, the Easter Bunny, of course it's me," I swear Fury is like a cat, I just can't get mad at him.

"Well, what can I do for you buddy?" I asked.

"Well, I need your help," Fury said, as I looked at the Calendar, it was still 1994, early 1994. So either Captain Marvel had decided to come a year earlier, or he had another problem.

"Where are you?" I asked.

"In New York, by your old apartment," Fury replied.

"Ok, on my way," I said, opening a portal to where he was.

"Ain't that efficient," Fury whistled, hanging up the phone, as I stepped out of the portal.

"Why are you here though?" I asked, wondering why of all places he had picked my old house in New York to call me.

"It was the only place I could think of," Fury sighed, "Look, I think Hydra… is… well, the motherfuckers are acting," so it wasn't Captain Marvel.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well, you've been bombing their asses left and right, and I think they have changed their approach about how to proceed with their plans," Fury started to explain, his eyes full of worry, "In the last few months, a lot of agents have been hired, and some of our best, have been fired, in a terrible way things have started to get weird, I think… it's them, they are absorbing SHIELD, taking over in a rather aggressive way, and well, you are the only fucker I know that has experience with them."

"Are you sure it's them?" I mean, realistically chances were, it was them, but this seemed out of character for them, they were more of the type that took their time moving the pieces.

"Well, it's either them, or Shield is going to hell," Fury sighed, "Look, all I need is for you to do your voodoo magic thing, and see if we are clean, if we are, well, that's on me, but if we are not, I need you to help me clean SHIELD from Hydra's grasp," 

With a smile I nodded, "Of course, I not only hate them, but I consider you a friend, so let's kick some Hydra ass,"

"Friend, huh?" Fury chuckled, "I guess I could do worse,"

"I take great offense to that," I scoffed.

[New Quest Created = The Poison of S.H.I.E.L.D

S.H.I.E.L.D is slowly but surely being taken apart, but the question is, by whom? Help Nick Fury find out who's behind the poison within S.H.I.E.L.D.

Reward = 15.000.000EXP, 5.000.000$, ????

Failure =  S.H.I.E.L.D' demise.

Accept = Yes/No]

Hmm, so there was a chance Hydra wasn't behind this, ain't this interesting.