Chapter 52

That's how the days flew. I was making plans to capture the Tesseract, as well as to destroy Hydra itself. Well, in parallel with this, I relaxed in the company of girls. Raven is getting more and more used to the new environment, communicates with everyone and, of course, already shows attempts to manipulate me. In some moments I indulge her, but I don't overdo it, because I don't want some bitch with a hypocritical character to grow out of her. However, it does not prevent me from spoiling her.

Steve and I also had a training sparring session, just like with Sarah and Vika. Only this time we used our "weapon", which was peculiar. My sister and I, for example, had claws and blades, and Stephen had a shield made of vibranium. Sarah generally uses acid instead of weapons, which she has almost learned to control. More precisely, she stopped unconsciously allocating it, but doing it herself requires a lot of concentration from her.

Of course, none of them could beat me, even by teaming up they couldn't. And all why? And all because I took all the blows without any visible effect, since I absorbed their kinetic energy. However, I rarely had to use this, because I got most of my victories solely due to my skill, which I was able to increase even more on Sakaar, and the fact that I control my body with filigree.

All this, by the way, was watched by Ravie, who reacted exceptionally positively, laughing and clapping her hands. The girl even asked to train her, as she also wants to. I agreed, and the others came to the same decision, although we didn't teach her anything serious. So, physics was tightened, but without inflection, and so that everything develops evenly. They also developed her gymnastics. Right now, her body is simply not ready to learn combat techniques.

The little princess sulked, took offense and even boycotted me, but still gave up and accepted my conditions. What are the conditions? Nothing unusual. It's just that I won't teach her anything martial until she's at least sixteen years old. Then her body should have already reached the age when it will be possible to start working with it. I mean, to teach techniques and develop muscle memory. (*)

I also did not forget to develop my abilities and every day I absorbed as much energy as my body can hold. He also slowly expanded the radius of passive reading of thoughts. My telepathy is still developing, so I hope that one day I will be able to cover the whole Earth with my ability. Although now I can only read thoughts and a little memory - I checked it on Sakaar. I still can't get deep into the mind of another reasonable person.

Thus, a little more than a month has passed. During this time, everything was ready for me and I just had to start, since all the right people were in their places. But I was in no hurry to attack. No, it's not about cowardice or any other nonsense. I was just waiting for the right moment to strike when the enemy really doesn't expect it, although this attack should be a surprise anyway.

My current location was not unknown to anyone except my inner circle, and I was in ... Germany, as it is not strange. Even though Schmidt thinks I'm dead, it's still not worth giving him extra information—his spies in America have been stirring strangely lately. So I'm being safe. The phrase about a living paranoid has not lost its relevance for me yet.

There were fifty-three Hydra bases in Europe in total. Someone will say little (for such an organization), but they do not take into account their location, which, by the way, takes place not only on the territory of Germany or the countries closest to it. Imagine my surprise when I found one in New York. Not in Brooklyn, though, since even criminals don't stay with me, but in Queens, but the very fact of finding this infection so close to me makes me uneasy.

And now this whole anthill is going to collapse. I sent a signal of readiness to Steve, Victoria and Bucky, with whom I managed to communicate, as well as to conduct a study of his body, because he was at the base, where experiments could be performed on everyone. Not for nothing. I was able to detect signs of the use of raw diy supersoldier serum, but it will not manifest itself immediately. At the request of my son, I had to introduce a more perfect one. No, if I wasn't sure about Barnes himself, I wouldn't even think about it. He's a guy... well, like Stephen. It will be clearer this way.

A minute later, they sent me a response signal. Each of them had several groups under their command, each of which had to sabotage all the Hydra facilities. The commanders of these very groups had to report to my loved ones about this. In case of an emergency, we have contacts who monitor the situation and immediately report the problem. Sarah is right next to them. They need protection too.

- Let's start— - I whispered into the receiver and moved myself to my goal…

Making my way inside the fortification, where Johann was hiding now, I remembered something very appropriate at this moment, namely one remarkable song. I bypass the two soldiers guarding the entrance, slip silently inside the building and notice two more that were talking about something, standing with their backs to me. With two lightning-fast movements, I knock out those and drag them to the utility room, where I pierce them with my claws and leave them lying around. The first words were already playing in my head.

"There was an artist walking among the bastards"

Telepathy helped me detect enemies even before they appeared in my field of vision, and the cameras now have to show yesterday at all, so for me it looked like a walk through the woods. Dangerous, but you have everything you need to survive.

"In a leather raincoat - a dead anarchist"

What is remarkable is that I really was wearing a black leather raincoat now and I can be considered dead to some extent — I remember how I died in a previous life. Here, a remarkable scientist falls into my field of vision, whom I would very much like to see as my ally, but this individual is a very ambiguous person, since he does not have any prejudices in betraying someone who trusts you. And he serves Hydra exclusively for his own purposes.

"He shouted Hoi! Jaw down!"

I hit him in the jaw and bring him back to the laboratory from where he came out. There was another soldier there, whom I quickly neutralized and took his life. It was not easy for me to mess with a scientist, so I also gave him a painless death. I leave the premises and go on.

"He led the corpses behind him"

Only corpses remained behind me. I had no one to feel sorry for here, since all the people here were not innocent sheep and killed. As they say, when killing someone, get ready to die yourself.