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22.55% MARVEL: GAMER PATH / Chapter 65: CHAPTER 65

Chapter 65: CHAPTER 65

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Destroying the Red Room in Russia was just step one. Organizations like these usually had roots all over the world; that much had become evident when I tortured the General. And while a bit of extra torture would've made him more... chatty about the operations outside Russia. I had no need for him anymore.

After all.

I had all the data I needed to update my search parameters with the information he had shared during our one-on-one and with what little I had collected through my raids in their bases.

Eventually, I would kill them all, but I didn't have to do it by myself.

Bucky had taken this mission after hearing the facts and was raiding a base a day.

It was easier than hunting Hydra; that much was a given, for one, the Red Room didn't have as much global presence as Hydra, and they weren't in every country, just some, like Cuba, North Korea, China, Italy, and others.

The point was, I was leaving the clean duty to Bucky, as in cleaning the other countries from that despicable organization.

As for me, well. I was trying to connect with the girls. One distrusted me because of her training, the other, well, because in her world, I had ripped her from her parents, making me a monster in her eyes.

But time would fix that, or one day I would wake up to see Yelena trying to kill me; I suppose I will see.

"What do you want, Natasha?" I said, feeling her presence behind my slightly open office door.

"Nothing." She eventually replied.

"It can't be entertaining to watch me read documents," I replied with a chuckle.

"What can we do?" She asked, coming into my office.

Looking at her, I put the documents I was reading on the desk and asked. "What do you want to do?"

She froze, contemplating the question.

"I told you, you are free now," I winked. "Well... as free as a child your age should be," I added.

"Can we go to school?" she asked, her voice soft.

"You can, Yelena. Well, I don't know." I sighed; a girl shouting I had kidnapped her would certainly break my public persona.

"She will forget them. Eventually." She replied, as I gave her a look that said, really? "Maybe."

"Look, if you want to go to school, I can enroll you." I sighed. "But, Yelena is.. she another matter altogether."

She looked at me and, with a low tone, muttered. "I know."

"I really don't know what to do with your sister. For her, life was normal before me; the realities you lived are foreign to her." I sighed; this entire thing was a broken mess.

"I will tell her." She stated. "She has the right to know what would've happened had you not been there." she paused, her gaze turning down. "Had you not interfered."

"Well, if she's gonna believe someone, I bet it's you." I smiled. "So... about school, you really want that?"

"Yes." She nodded shyly.

"Ok," I replied.

She looked at me and allowed a tiny smile on her face.

"So, next order of business. Your training." I said, looking at her.

At this, she tensed.

"Don't worry, I don't mean like the Red Room; I mean like you need to be able to defend yourself." I clarified.

"I would still be allowed to have friends?" She asked.

"Nat, but of course, you can have as many friends as you like." I chuckled. "We can even plan some sleepovers." I winked. "The self-defense training is only to help you be truly free."

"Truly free?" She asked.

"Those who are weak and good tend to be the prey of those who are strong and bad. The only way to escape that cycle is by climbing that ladder, in short. Those who hold the power, hold the cards of their own destiny." I answered.

"So to be free. I need to be strong." She stated.

"Yes, I mean... look at those who we call normal," I said. "They can become rich, they can become poor, they can be doctors or cops, but at the end of the day, people like Hydra, or SHIELD, or even the Red Room, are the ones pulling the strings, the ones that get to decide what happens." I sighed.

"They don't have control over their own lives, and they don't even know it." She added in understatement.

"Yes, in a way that is true." I nodded. "At any given time, those at the top could simply end them, which is why power is such an important part of freedom. With power, you can truly be free."

She looked at me, giving me a long scrutinizing look. "Are you free?" she eventually asked.

"I suppose I am." I chuckled, by the earth power ladder, I was free, but outside the earth power ladder, well, I was not.

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[Melina Vostokoff]

I woke up to find Alexei on the bed recovering from what the doctors described as impalation. Not only that, but the one who had impaled him had kidnapped Natasha and Yelena and had seemingly wiped the Red Room out of Russia.

"Alexei," I muttered, approaching his bed. Doctors were saying that even with his super-soldier body, the chances of him surviving were slim.

"He was right, you know." Alexei coughed.

"What?" I asked, holding his hand.

"We claimed to love them, and yet we allowed our country to hurt them." Alexei chuckled with a hoarse tone.

"It is our duty," I replied.

"I suppose as long as we say that, the bodies of children piling behind us won't matter, won't it?" Alexei chuckled. "I almost died, and perhaps I will, and almost dying helped me see, it granted me an epiphany of sorts, how can we claim to love someone, when we only hurt them?"

Our duty to our country, our love for them, two different things playing at once. To die for duty or to die for love. "I don't know." I eventually replied.


Chapter 66: CHAPTER 66

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It took me a week to get all the papers I needed to enroll Natasha in the same school Emily was attending; it was a bit complicated. I was never a big guy on paperwork, but Fury helped. So there she was, Natasha Walker going to the most prestigious school in all of New York.

Of course, to do this, I had to introduce Emily to Natasha, which went as one would expect, with Emily being the social butterfly she was, immediately taking a liking to Natasha.

Natasha, naturally, was a bit uncomfortable with the open display of friendliness Emily presented went I introduced the two.

But, all and all, she was okay with it, I think, just not used to it. I mean, she was used to kids liking her without knowing her past because she was trained to make others like her, but Emily? She knew of her past and still liked her.

Granted, Emily likes everybody.

Anyway. Emily was in grade two, while Natasha was in grade five, and both had a few extracurricular activities before going to their... other activities to prepare them for what was to come.

As for Yelena, she was in therapy; thankfully, my connections with SHIELD granted me the help Yelena needed, help I couldn't provide. After all, I was a demon in her eyes.

"Knock, Knock." I heard someone say outside my office that someone was Fury.

"Come in, Fury." I inwardly chuckled as he opened the door.

"So, how have you been?" He asked, taking a seat on my imported Italian chair.

"Good, working on my company and other little projects," I replied with a smile.

"I need a favor." He eventually said, his one good eye giving a long scrutinizing look.

"Sure, I am here to help." I nodded, giving him the green to proceed.

"I need you to steal some data from a very particular individual." Fury replied, handing me a file with a name in bold letters. [William Stryker]

"Isn't he a government operative?" I asked my eyes on the file.

"He is." He nodded. "But I have my suspicions the guy is doing some shady stuff. Stuff, I want to know, and considering you already have a record of stealing from the government and getting away with it, well, I knew you were the man for the job."

I eyed Fury for a brief moment before I started chuckling. "Since when?"

"A month after you did your thing." He replied with a chuckle. "I mean, you stole the government's greatest treasure, at least one of them, I was bound to find out."

"And you are not arresting me, how kind of you." I chuckled.

"Bitch, I am not suicidal. Besides, the government is dumb as fuck. So much potential, yet they hide it on a bunker, at least in your hands; I get something out of it." He replied.

"I honestly thought if you did find out, you would be a bit... angrier," I admitted.

"I can see why you thought that." He chuckled, "But considering all the good you have done for the world with Hydra's elimination, and the Red Room's well, I think SHIELD can look the other way with a crime of two, I mean, the only ones you are hurting are the dumb ass motherfuckers that thought hiding one of our greatest weapons was the best way to use it."

"Fair enough." I chuckled. "So, what do you want me to do with this... guy?" I pointed at the file.

"Stryker is a possible threat. Our sources say he's been trying to get economic support for his little projects outside the USA, and while normally, we wouldn't care. He has been seen talking with the enemy." He replied with a sigh.

"Let me guess, he got out of hand," I said.

"His hate for mutants is a... problematic situation. At first, SHIELD allowed his little projects to go on, for, in reality, we needed a way to stop mutants should they rise against us, but now... well, his projects are no longer aligned with SHIELD's interests." He nodded.

"And what do you want me to do?" I asked.

"Capture him, alive if possible." He replied.

"Why me, though, I understand the importance of this mission, but I'm sure a few agents could do just fine." I inquired.

"Because of this." He said, putting a small device on my desk, one that started to show a video, where a dozen agents were killed by no other than Sabertooth himself. "We believe he has more mutants under him, which is why you are our best bet."

"I see." I sighed as a blue block of text appeared in front of me.

[New Quest Created: The Hunt for Project X

William Stryker is desperate; he wants to wipe all mutants out of existence and will stop at nothing to obtain such a goal.

Objectives: You must capture Stryker alive if possible.

Bonus Objectives: Capture Sabertooth, Capture Weapon X Subjects.

Rewards: Weapon X research DATA, Abraham Cornelius Super Soldier Research DATA, ????, ????, 25.000.000EXP

Failure = Possible Death, Capture, ????

Accept: Yes or No]

"So, are you in?" Fury asked.

"Yes, yes I am." I nodded; the rewards were certainly interesting.

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[Natasha Romanoff POV]

Alex Walker was a weird man, his daughter was weird too, but I guess I was okay with that; they know about me, they know about my past, and yet, they welcome me; it feels strange.

I do miss Alexei and Melena from time to time. Well, rather, I miss the fake life we had in Ohio, but as cruel as it sounds, being free outweighs my sentimentalism.

I was still getting training, this time from SHIELD, but it was not forced; I was free to live a life, to not be a slave, though perhaps that was a fictitious sentiment.

Perhaps I was yet to be free; who knew. But, at least I was freer now.

"Nat, let's play something!" Emily, the daughter of my warden, said in a rather happy tone.

I couldn't help myself but envy her; we both had a similar upbringing; we were both shoved into another's life, we both had parents that were not our own, but unlike me, her pretend parent actually cared for her; he actually loved her enough to give her more than she was supposed to have, he actually loved her enough to become her real dad, he loved her enough to turn a lie into a reality.

It was a bitter sentiment that ate me away at times; why didn't Alexei and Melena love me as much as Alex loves Emily? Why was she so lucky? When I never had any luck.

I knew it was childish, but who could really blame me.

"Sure." I nodded; Emily was not to blame for my luck; in the end, I was rescued, so perhaps my luck was turning for the better.


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