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25.58% MARVEL: GAMER PATH / Chapter 74: CHAPTER 74

Chapter 74: CHAPTER 74

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Two weeks after sharing the news with Natasha, I went to the prison where I had Melena and Alexei locked up. During those two weeks, I made arrangements to officially keep a very close eye on them and other things, such as Natasha's adoption.

"I have arranged everything for your arrival," I said, staring at them.

Melena shifted slightly, looking at the floor uneasily. "When can we see them?" she asked, lifting her gaze.

"In a moment," I replied. "Yelena is ready."

"And Nat?" Alexei asked, stepping forward.

"She will stay with me," I said in a tone that left no room for debate.

"That's not what you promised us!" Alexei growled, approaching me in an aggressive manner.

Looking at the man in a detached manner, I said. "Think very carefully about what you are going to do, Alexei; it may be the last thing you ever do."

Melena, upon seeing this, moved in front of Alexei. "Stop it!"

"Natasha asked me to adopt her," I said, "And I agreed, by all means, she is my daughter, and if you touch a hair on her head without my consent or hers, it will be the last thing you two ever do."

"Is she happy?" Melena asked.

"Yes." I agreed.

"She hates us?" Alexei asked, his voice a little broken.

"No, but she wants more... she wants to be loved like a father should love his daughter." I replied, "And I'm willing to give her that."

"I understand." Melena smiled a smile of understanding but full of sorrow.

"I'm sorry for my outburst of anger." Alexei apologized.

Sighing, I opened a portal to my living room. "Come in," I said, waving my hand.

Looking at the portal out of the corner of their eyes, Melena and Alexei took a deep breath and began to walk towards the portal with a bit of trepidation.

"I don't have all day; move it," I said this time with a louder tone.

Seeing that I was getting annoyed, Alexei and Melena jumped through the portal, followed by me, who then closed the portal.

In my living room, Natasha and Bucky were waiting for them, sitting on my couch. 

"Nat." Melena smiled at the sight of Natasha.

"Melena." Natasha smiled back, though, in comparison, her smile was smaller and not as full of joy as Melena's.

"Hi," Alexei said, approaching Natasha to give her a hug, but before it could come, Bucky stopped him. 

"One more step, and I'll slit your throat." Bucky threatened.

"It's okay, Bucky." Natasha smiled, hugging Bucky with a faint smile. "Alexei, long time no see. "

"Is it true you want to stay with him?" Alexei said, pointing at me.

"Yes." Natasha smiled, looking at me. 

"I will always love you; I hope you know that," Alexei said.

"Yes, but your love is not enough for me," Natasha replied.

"I know." Alexei nodded.

"Can I hug you?" Melena said, entering the conversation.

"Yes." Natasha smiled, running over to Melena to give her a hug.

"He treats you well?" Melena whispered.

"Yes." Natasha smiled. "For the first time in my life, I feel wanted, desired, loved. He's a good man, a good father."

"I'm glad." Melena smiled.

"Can I hug you?" Alexei said in a weak tone.

"Yes." Natasha smiled as I walked towards Bucky.

"If you breathe out of place, I'll kill you," Bucky commented.

"If I don't kill them first," I replied with a chuckle.

"We can hear them..." Alexei commented.

"So?" Bucky said.

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After the small reunion with Alexei, Melena, and Nat, we went to Yelena's room, and well, this reunion was a bit different; unlike Natasha, who had some encountered feelings about them, Yelena was happy, happy beyond comprehension. 

Which made me wonder, how long would that happiness last? I mean, part of the deal with them was that they had to tell Yelena the truth, how they were planning to enslave her, and such.

I suppose soon enough, I would know. 

For now, I would keep an eye on them, which was an entire ordeal altogether.

For one, I implanted a tracker inside their spine with the help of Fury, a tracker that also worked as a taser courtesy of Stark Industries, which would help in case they misbehaved.

The tracker wasn't for me though, it was for Fury and Bucky to keep an eye on their every move, their rules? They were not allowed to leave the city, one step out of New York, and they would need speech therapy after the electric shock they would receive; two steps out of New York, they would need to learn how to use a wheelchair.

Three steps? They would need to learn how to communicate by blinks, and so.

As for Nat, she seemed happy to be legally my daughter; she was a lot more... expressive now, hugging me, smiling more; it was like she was waiting for a paper to say she was my daughter to open up.

As for Emily, well, after I told her about Nat's adoption, well, I had to go to the doctor to get an ear exam; her scream of joy was so loud I think she might have ruptured something inside.

Things were going well.

"Alex, long time no see." Hank greeted me as I entered his office. "I was starting to think you were dead." he chuckled.

"I was dealing with a lot of things," I admitted with a sigh, taking a seat.

"Well, you got here just in time." Hank smiled, giving me a folder. "We have our first investor." 

Surprised by how fast he had managed to find an investor, I opened the folder he had handed me to see the project he had been working on during my absence and who had invested in it. 

The US government, the project? Clean energy.

"Clean energy?" I asked.

"It was an idea I had from my own masterpiece, as you call it." He smiled.

"Okay..." I smiled, now that I knew it was related to his Pym particles. Well, it was best if I didn't answer.

"It's okay, kid." Hank rolled his eyes. "I know you're not interested in my Pym Particles, so ask away."

And so, I started to ask, I mean, I was quite interested how he came with the idea about clean energy thanks to his Pym Particles.


Chapter 75: CHAPTER 75

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After settling Yelena in with her parents and leaving Fury in charge of them, I decided to take a trip to Switzerland with Emily, Natasha, and Bucky for a short getaway to break away from the monotony.

Once in Switzerland, we took a cab to our hotel, and our vacations officially started.

The girls wanted to go to the Matterhorn, and Bucky really didn't care where we went, so without any objection, we took the first train to the mountain with the intention of taking a few pictures the very next day, after our arrival.

"Do you think they will let us ski?" asked Natasha with a smile on her face as she looked at the scenery outside the train.

"I don't really know," I replied since outside of my missions exterminating Hydra, I had never been here for pleasure. "But it would be a waste of touristic cash if they didn't let anyone ski."

"If they do," Bucky replied. "They have several areas designated for that," he added.

"How do you know that?" Emily asked with an excited smile.

"I read it in the pamphlet," Bucky replied, showing said pamphlet. "The seats have one each," he added.

Confirming what he said, I looked under my seat, finding a pamphlet under it, which made me chuckle. "I think I need to pay more attention, haha."

"I can't wait to ski!" Natasha said with a wide smile. "I always wanted to, but... you know." she sighed.

"Well, let's make this first time memorable." I smiled, ruffling her hair as I eyed the view outside the train through the window. It was really beautiful, breathtaking, a sight to behold.

"I wanna make a snowman!" Emily exclaimed proudly, tackling into a hug. "Three, one for you, one for me, and one for Nat."

"I can help and beat you by making mine faster," Natasha smirked.

Emily gasped. "Betrayer!"

Natasha winked, "Let us battle in a snowman sisterhood war." she grinned.

"I will vanquish thee!" Emily giggled.

As for me, well, I was smiling at the sight of the two getting along so well.

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It took us a few hours to reach the Ski resort thingy, mostly because the girls stopped at every corner to take pictures and throw snowballs at me, which I could handle until Bucky joined, and well, I was at a disadvantage.

After a few all-out wars of snow, where I drowned Bucky on snow more than once, we finally arrived at the Ski resort.

Now, here came the hard part, I had no freaking clue how to Ski, meaning I was about to suck at it; I should've bought a book in skiing, now Bucky will steal the spotlight. 

"Now, before we go out and start skiing, I am legally bound to tell you, our gift store at the entrance has a book with clear instructions on how to Ski." That's an odd legal clause, oddly specific, why would-- books!

"Where is it?" I rushed to the guide/guy that was here to make sure we didn't deviate from the safe path.

"The gift shop?" The guide, whose name I hadn't bothered to learn, or ask said.

"Yes." I nodded with a smile.

"Oh sir, there is no need to hurry." the guide smiled at me. "We will have time to go there later."

"I will give you two hundred bucks to shut up and take me to the gift shop." I smiled at him, one of those smiles that said, shut up and do as I command.

"As I said, let's go." The guide smiled, guiding me to the gift shop, while Emily, Bucky, and Nat stared at me, wondering why I was so eager to go to the gift shop.

In a way, I didn't need the guy to tell me where the gift shop was, with my map and all, but I had promised before coming here to detach from my powers for the week, to truly live the experience, reason why I was asking, and yes, I know rushing to the store to buy books about skiing to consume them goes against that, but... I make the rules.

"Here we are." The guide smiled as I gave him the two hundred bucks.

Rushing to the book section, I grabbed three books about skiing, paid for them, and rushed to the bathroom to consume the books.

"I'm ready." I declared, kicking the bathroom door open.

"You didn't know how to ski, didn't you." Bucky grinned.

I sighed, "No."

"And you bought all those books to try and learn, right?" Bucky asked.

"Yes, but enough about that, now I have the skiing skills of a dummy, according to the books." I shrugged.

"Where are the books anyway?" Bucky asked.

"I burned them." I lied, rushing with the girls, Bucky and 404 error name not found guide back to the start.

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14.28$ I wasted on nothing; here was Bucky looking like he was born with  Ski equipment, while I was barely better than the girls. Skiing for dummies volumes one, two, and three, I will buy your company and fire everyone within.

"Don't feel sad, daddy." Emily hugged me. "We all suck together."

"I suppose we do." I chuckled.

"Talk for yourself!" Natasha declared full with determination. "I will learn how to ski!" 

"I believe in you!" I smiled.

"It's not that hard; all you need is balance," Bucky said, doing a fucking cartwheel as he turned around us.

"Are you showing off?" I narrowed my eyes.

"Yes, I am." Bucky smiled as he continued to majestically ski around us.

I chuckled, oh well, sooner or later I would learn, that was the nature of my power; it was never an if, but a when.

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We continued skiing for the next few hours as I passively leveled up my newfound skiing skill. 

"I'm hungry," Emily said.

"Same here," Nat nodded.

"Bucky, take the girls back to the hotel; I want to stay a bit longer here," I said, tossing the man my credit card.

"Can you open us a portal?" Bucky asked.

"No!" Emily jumped. "I'll do it!" oh right, she was now a proficient portal user.

"You heard the boss." I chuckled as Emily proceeded to open a portal for them to go back to the hotel room; I wonder if the hotel will wonder why they suddenly appear without going through the main entrance, oh well, if push comes to shove, I'll buy the hotel.

As Emily's portal closed, I continued skiing, finding that I really liked the feeling; it was relaxing, the cold air on my face, the sounds of nature around, it was all beautiful, it really was.

I don't know how long I continued skiing, but eventually, I went off the safe zone, finding a cave; and in my childish curiosity, I stepped inside the cave, wondering if I would find a bear or something.

I mean, I knew no wild earth animal could hurt me, maybe a giant squid could, I don't know, but a bear, or a wolf, heck no, which made this entirely safe mission, fun in a childish way.

However, inside the cave, I found nothing.

It was empty, but as I was about to leave, I felt something, a pull, a magical pull, a very weak one, a very old one.

Now, my completely safe mission had been upgraded to a somewhat dangerous mission. Caves and magic usually lead to intriguing scenarios.

Using my knowledge of the Eldritch arts, I followed the magic signature; it felt like a candle about to go out, very old, and very weak, and very unfamiliar, its magic didn't feel like the Eldritch arts, or like that of witches that attacked me, it was different.

My search for this little ember of magic led me to a dead-end, facing a freezing wall of rock and nothingness.

But even then, I could feel it; behind that rocky wall, the faint ember of magic was there, so I did what any responsible adult in my position would've done, I blasted the wall off.

In retrospect, I should've considered the integrity of the cave as a whole and such, but I was having so much doing this, I forgot for a minute I could've brought the entire cave down on my ass.

With the wall down, I now had access to a new section of the cave, which I entered, once again following the magical signature.

Each step bringing me closer to the magic I was chasing until. Eventually, I reached another dead-end, one that I was about to blow until I noticed the walls had writtings.

Nordic, by what little I could understand. 

"Gátt gata at Ásgarðr..." I hummed, reading the runes out loud; from what I could understand, this was at one point a place of worship to the Norse gods, though I wonder why did they write Open path to Asgard, were they trying to open a portal there?

All of a sudden, the runes started to shine in a bright blue color as I cursed internally. "I shouldn't have read these out loud." checking my mana, I noticed a small portion of it was gone, "Yep, definitely shouldn't have read those out loud." I sighed as magic started to engulf me.


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