Bab 3: Peacful life
Having hovered over the endless snows somewhere in Siberia, I slowly landed down and, touching the snow, stopped supporting my body in the air, and suddenly sank through the snow up to my throat.
Spitting out the snow, smiling, I got out and lay flat on my back in the snow. Spreading my arms, I made a snow angel with my eyes closed. The low temperature did not bother me in the slightest, nor did the howling evening wind. Opening my eyes and determining that it would soon be definitely dark, I sat up and squinted through the snow tsunamis at the nearest forest.
Taking off, not being able to walk on the snow, I flew to the forest and landed, seeing the snow-covered soil. Walking slowly on solid ground, breathing in the smell of a coniferous forest, and admiring the view, I suddenly realized that this was the first time when I got into a real forest.
In my life, I was a city dweller and the only place I went to was a maple park in Germany.
But the wild view that was in front of me with its mesmerizing beauty was a completely different feeling. In addition to peace and not wanting to leave the place, I felt nostalgia. Remembering that I can go around the planet in a matter of seconds regardless of the inhabitants of the planet and in a matter of minutes if I take care of their safety, I realized that it was time to fix everything.
Even if it was not clear how I died walking home from a strange thing that fell on my head, now I'm alive again and that's all that mattered.
And since I'm alive, then I need to use everything to the maximum that is available to me.
Going under the tree, I climbed under it, hiding from the blizzard and sitting down, unfolded the bracelet that beeped, indicating that it was charged and ready for use.
While clicking, looking for how to connect to the internet of the planet, I saw new messages from the vice-captain and opened them, reading what he sent me.
[Credit exchange for all types of currency 1 page]
[ Xander's politics 89 pages]
[ Xander's history 14917 pages]
[ Earth history 3081 pages]
[Galaxy Economy 49 pages]
[Everything about everything 104,900 pages]
[Best brothel in the galaxy 4 pages]
[Codes, Rules, Laws of the Empire 34 pages]
[War with the Kree Empire 90871 pages]
Reading through the gigantic list of titles gave me a headache from the amount of text I would have to learn.
Deciding to postpone the majority for later, I chose the first.
[The currency exchange system offers various types of exchange rates from all corners of the universe in exchange for credits, to get the exchange coordinates, land on a planet with the rate you are interested in, and find the nearest exchanger owned by NTOS.] The story was written about how they decided to bring peace to the whole world having earned on suckers and blah blah blah.
Simply put, I could exchange this currency for the currency of the planet Earth and live in luxury as I once dreamed of. Having reached the most important thing, I looked at the account that was created for me and looked at the number of monies that I had.
[0 credits]
Closing my eyes, I inhaled and exhaled. Fuck. Deciding to find a job, I suddenly saw that a message had come in again. Deciding not to ignore it, I quickly closed my account, land map, and old messages and opened a new one, already from a higher rank than vice-captain. Irani Rael.
[Hello Helmut, I hope your arrival on planet Earth was successful. As a job offer, I sent out proposals that will be quite problematic for us, but for you, they will be quite simple. Since you have just entered our cycle of being, we are ready to provide double payment for the first 2 missions to help you with money. Below are the available quests.]
[An unidentified marauder ship attacked an undeveloped civilization and destroyed it, starting to drain resources. Chitaur is suspected. Destroy a fleet of 6+ mother ships and hundreds of B and C class fighters that have occupied the planet in violation of hundreds of intergalactic treaties and laws. Difficulty: High.]
[Reward 400,000 credits.]
[Participation in the special operation 800,000 credits.]
[Explanation: Chitauri often keeps a batch of slaves for resale from the captured planet. Destroying battleships and opening the way to the planet for the troops of the corps is a new laborious task. However, if you wish, you can go alone.]
"Hm." With a smirk, I suddenly realized what this task was for. Each of them will be a test, and they will know my strength in order to know about my strengths and my weaknesses. However, the double award sounded nice, although I did not know why these loans were needed at all and what courses.
In addition, a double salary beckoned me to get a lot of units.
The inner hamster was ready to take everything for himself.
[Pirates have kidnapped a child of sovereigns and are demanding a ransom. Help the special group of sovereigns in the next 40 hours to attack the kidnappers. Reward 50,000 credits. Difficulty: Low.]
[After the kidnapping of a child, a mess arose on their planet, whose child this is unknown, but for their priestess, apparently, this is incredibly important. I decided to add this mission to make it easier for you to communicate with their race in the future if the mission is successful.]
[The expedition ship went to the planet k -20981-A4 in the system that we just started to explore 4 weeks ago at the edge of our universe, rescue ships flew to the rescue and after entering the system we lost contact with them. The number of missing people is 9104. Find out the reason for the disappearance of spaceships with a crew and, if possible, save whom you can. Difficulty: Unknown.]
[Reward: Variable based on mission result.]
Wow.
Having read it, I have already fantasized hundreds of different options from the most terrible to the point that I got goosebumps. Pretty risky to go, but interesting too.
The wind howled again and, as if singing along, the wolves howled somewhere not far away. First one, then several more, and after a couple of seconds I realized that there was a giant flock. Deciding to ignore them, I continued reading.
The mission to save the child was not a tempting reward, but an opportunity to leave in debt the most narcissistic race of all. It sounded very good. But 40 hours was problematic. Unless they pick me up. I still don't even know where it is and how long I have to fly ...
The thought immediately popped into my head. I need a spaceship.
I can fly by myself, but the spacecraft is much more convenient and faster. Only one ship, the vice-captain, reached my planet in a matter of seconds from some godforsaken place.
[If you are interested in one of the above tasks, send a message back. Sincerely, Commander-in-Chief Irani.]
Sitting with my eyes closed, inhaling the cold air with full lungs and exhaling, saturating the cells with oxygen, I made a decision.
[Send me the coordinates of all the missions, and I'll take them all and start in 6 hours with the rescuing mission.] - typing I sent, smiling imagining what she would think.
The answer was not long in coming, and without further ado and greetings, I received an update on the star map. Grabbing the file, I dragged it onto the map, which automatically corrected the path and showed me where I was flying from my solar system.
Apparently, the closest place was to save the child. It was not far, judging by the map, but the rest of the places were so far away that I could fly years before I reach them. Shaking off the snow, I stood up, spreading my arms and yawning.
Putting the communicator away, I fly off again, rushing into the sky, and squinting through the snow. Having emerged from the heavy clouds, I hovered and began to think about where to fly first. Now that I can travel anywhere, I had no limits and could fly anywhere. Pyramids, ancient structures, I wanted to go everywhere that I had not been in a past life. And the gods, heroes, and villains can wait until I satisfy my interest.
Thinking about the most significant place for me, I rushed to Paris and, having reached in a matter of minutes, hung in front of a bulky tower. There were, oddly enough, few people around the tower, and the streets themselves were quite empty. Having circled the elf tower several times, I quickly realized that it was time for me to fly further. Elf Tower, Cathedrals, and Louvres I flew around in the first 20 minutes and I quickly got bored. All these structures were bulky and clearly had their own history, but I was not interested in knowing it. Hanging over the river watching the ferries watching people having fun, I noticed how more and more people began to notice and even stop cars to get out and look at me.
Crowds of people gathered and took pictures of me from all sides, but I already initially decided not to hide, as this was part of the plan to introduce myself to the world.
The next place was Russia, but apart from the autumn weather, and beautiful parks with maple trees that fell down, creating a mesmerizing view, I did not find any beauty here.
While I was looking at one of the churches, Russians in black cars had already driven up to me and were saying something, but without even listening to them, I flew away. I was not interested in communicating with anyone during my journey around the planet.
A lot of time has passed and looking at the clock, I found that 4 hours had passed. Thinking about where I had not been, I realized that I had not yet flown to the lions to scare and chase them, did not sit on the pyramids, and did not look at the Statue of Liberty.
Arriving in Africa, I began to fly above the ground creating sandstorms and once flying past a car with tourists, I accidentally turned the car over with air currents. Yelling, all the passengers were frightened and tried to hide behind the car while I went down to them.
"Hey guys, sorry about that." - turning the car with one hand back on the wheels, I waved my hand and flew off to look for lions further.
Finally finding a pack of lions, I flew up from the air without being seen and saw a lion. Smiling from ear to ear, slowly flying up from the air to the lion that was mating with the lioness, I crept up and suddenly, yelling with a terrible howl, grabbed the lion by the backside.
The poor animal, out of fear and rage, jumped up with his lioness and began to look around, growling.
"Ahahahaha!" - Laughing in the choke, I flew up, away from the angry lion that jumped growling, trying to get me from the air.
"Who is a good cat? You are a good cat!" - teasing him, I spent another 15 minutes running away from him and playing with his pack. Soon they realized that they could not catch me and ran away.
Satisfied, I flew a little more on the safari, examining the most unusual living creatures until I noticed my mortal enemy. One small creature sat on my arm and tried to pierce my skin. Frowning, I froze in midair and stopped.
I have never hated anyone in my entire life more than mosquitoes. Remembering how I could not sleep at night because of their buzzing, I instantly slapped my hand on it, forgetting that I was a viltrumite. The shock wave passed through the arm and rushed down, creating visible disturbances in the air and kicking up dust on the ground. Luckily, I was far away from people and the only victim was a mosquito…
"Bzzzz…"
*CLAP*
Another more powerful explosion came from the hands and looking at my palms I finally relaxed to see the mosquito stain. Having cleaned the remnants from my hand, I decided to finish with Africa and fly away. I already saw from afar how a convoy of cars was driving towards me and people with machine guns. Given that I was not going to get my hands dirty now, I decided to go further on my journey.
Smiling, I went to Egypt.
When I got there, I sat on the pyramid, but looking down at the tourists and locals trying to rob them of a tour that was already free, I lost interest in the place and flew away.
America was the last stop. Flying there, I felt that they would not leave me so easily, given how many unusual personalities there are that can fly, destroy and do magical things. Flying up to the country, I hovered, trying to figure out where the statue of liberty was, and having found it, I dived, flying in its direction. As it turned out, my intuition did not fail me, and I already saw a bunch of people that were standing under the statue waiting for me. With a sigh, I realized that my photos had gone around the world quite quickly considering that it was only 2014.
Watching the red suit of the iron man sit on the statue and the man in it eats donuts, removing the mask, I raised an eyebrow. Crossing my arms, I looked at him thoughtfully.
While wondering if I should contact any of the avengers at all, I suddenly felt a vibration from the bracelet. Opening it, I noticed Tony's head spinning from the corner of my eye, looking at my technology from afar. Putting volume down so only I could hear with my unique hearing I watched message.
A four-centimeter hologram of a golden-skinned girl unknown to me grew.
"Greetings. I am Agent 9-18Z in charge of a special rescue operation, an enemy ship has landed on an undeveloped planet with good terrain for an attack, the plan has changed, as well as the time to attack. We've got your location and are on our way to pick you up. We'll be there in 4 minutes." - after finishing the message, it deleted itself.
I was over 400 meters from everyone on earth and the statue so I was sure no one heard it. Flying up to Tony, I silently looked at him.
"So who are you? The result of a secret experiment or an alien?" Tony stood up and closed his helmet and started talking.
"Do you interrogate everyone you meet?"
"Only guys that fly through the air and fly around the planet in a couple of minutes."
Trying not to smile, I knew that besides Tony, governments and special secret organizations and other forces had found out about me.
Ancient hermits, magicians or, for example, Odin. However, since no one visited me, I chose not to pay attention to them. And I didn't even worry about the rest.
"Do you want a donut?" Tony suddenly suggested.
Raising an eyebrow, I definitely didn't expect this.
"Sure."
"Catch it." - throwing me a bag from the bakery with two donuts, he watched as I calmly took out one of the donuts and, landing on my head next to him, sat down and began to eat it.
Feeling that I was not going to fight to attack or try to take over the planet, Tony sat back down.
"I'm Tony, by the way. Did you know the hype you've created by flying all over the world? The whole world is already wondering who you are. There are such wild theories that I envy their fantasy."
"You can think of me as an alien. I am Helmut." I introduced myself and extended my free hand to him.
Shaking it, Tony opened the mask, which slid upwards, folding like a jigsaw puzzle with metallic sounds.
"People usually call me Iron Man, but you can call me Tony. So what are you doing on this planet?"
"I decided to visit, see what it is. Now I'm thinking where to settle."
"Wow! For someone from outer space with spaceships, choosing our seedy planet is really strange. Listen, aren't you some kind of fugitive looking for shelter?"
"Good joke, but the answer is no if you're serious. Okay, I have to go, someone is waiting for me. See you again Human Tony. Cool statue, by the way, it's comfortable to sit on it and look at the city."
"Just call me Tony." he grimaced.
Smirking, I jumped neatly off the statue and rushed up. From the enraged stream of winds after my takeoff, Tony covered his face instinctively with his hand, squinting.
"Jarvis, did you write everything down?"
"Yes sir."
"Add in historical alien encounters to my collection."
"It's done, sir."
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Having taken off into space, I sent a message that I had left orbit and opened a channel so that they could see me.
Soon the golden ship smoothly swam up to me and, having flown inside, I immediately found that the ship began to jump across the universe to the planet with the pirates and the child, as soon as the door behind me was blocked.
"Mr. Hellmuth please follow me." - Approaching me importantly, looking like a peacock, a golden-skinned man led me somewhere to the cabin.
Unlike the Intergalactic Police, this ship just looked too weird. All in gold and yellow and white. Everything looked glamorous too. When I walked, everyone stopped their work and silently looked at me, examining me as if I were an unusual beast. Soon we came to the room through an oval opening, where there were already 9 people at the table with an active map. They all had golden skin and in their golden armor without helmets, they looked at me with interest and curiosity.
"Mr. Hellmuth, Miss Irani informed us of your abilities and recommended you. We have a plan suitable for you and your powers, would you like to hear it?" The girl who called me earlier asked me.
I shrugged and told her to continue.
As she explained in minute detail, I noticed her speaking. It was as if she felt superior to me. Throughout the conversation, she used tones as if she were expressing her will, rather than offering a plan for me.
"Did you understand Mr. Hellmuth?" When she finished, she repeated.
Once again focused on the topic, I blinked, directing my thoughts to the operation, which is at stake with my first money.
"No problem, it will be easy. One question, do you need captives?"
She raised her eyebrows and looked at me like I was an idiot. Exchanging glances with the man next to her, he grinned, seeing her look, he took the floor looking into my eyes.
"No Mr Hellmuth. You may not have heard, but they terribly insulted us and our priestess. All that awaits them is death for their deeds. Don't worry about keeping these lower life forms alive." - with a smirk, as if explaining the truth of the world to a child, he said.
"Cool. Then change the plan." – peacefully smiling trying to ignore their narcissism, I nodded. – "I will go alone, being near me you can get hurt."
"That's acceptable based on the data the Nova Corps has given us about you. Then let's get back to where we left off." Turning to the others, she began to speak. Sometimes they interrupted her and marked points on the map of the planet where we flew. Listening to them with an interpreter, I quickly lost interest, as they were already discussing retreat plans or where the kidnappers might fly if they spotted us.
Finally, after half an hour, the time came and, having taken off from the ship, which had been in orbit, I immediately rushed to the pirates, as was the plan. Meanwhile, behind me, the ship went into stealth mode and took a detour path.
Flying forward, I outlined a trajectory to the mountain and accelerated through it, creating an earthquake. The noise excited the pirates who were feasting near the ship celebrating an easy kidnapping and when I landed, creating a deep impact crater about 20 meters from their tables, and knocking over all their food I got their attention and interest.
Sitting in the crater listening to how they scream and run in my direction, I closed my eyes listening to their steps.
15, no 19 pirates.
Realizing that a quarter of the crew was running towards me, I pulled out the smoke bomb that sovereigns gave me and removed the fuse. Holding my breath, I continued to listen. Smoke covered the entire crater and began to pour out, preventing the pirates from seeing that I was sitting inside the 9-meter-deep crater.
At first, they panicked, but then when they saw that nothing was happening and after shooting at the crater, they realized that everything was peaceful and good.
Soon more came running from the pirate ship, and everyone started arguing with each other about what had landed.
"You piece of troglodyte shit! I'll pull that shit out and if it's expensive it's mine! Only mine!"
"Fuck you, you fucking degenerate! I'll pull it out myself without your help!"
"Blind bastard! Go to hell and die twice!"
"Alright girls, I'll take it and go! Breed shit you fucking disappointment of your dads!" – punching someone one, one of the pirates start walking closer to me in the crater.
"Swory Boff" – someone toned down his voice.
The first of the pirates approached the crater and jumped down. Sliding on the ground falling deeper and deeper, he stopped, trying to see something.
"I don't see shit here! Hey! Bring me spectrum glasses idiots!" – outraged, he opened his mouth, but as soon as he closed it there was a crunch of knuckles.
CRACK.
Clicks and cracks were heard in complete silence from the crater. Finally, something flew out of the smoke and landed in the sight of the pirates. The pirate with 8 iron hands was dead. Each limb was broken as if it had been crushed under pressure.
"There is an enemy! FIRE! FIRE!"
Opening fire on the crater, they fired like infinity bullets, but every laser and bullet that hit me was like a tickle. The bullets bounced off the clothes, and the heat of the lasers was distributed throughout the body, accumulating energy.
Taking off, I used my favorite attack, but this time I did not hold back this much. BOOM! The explosion resounded, blowing all the smoke in seconds. At 30 meters, the whole earth went in waves while the corpses flew in all directions of the stunned pirates. Seeing that someone remained standing in the distance, I reduced the distance in a fraction of a second and looked into the eyes of a frightened fish-man who, raising his weapon, opened fire screaming in fear.
Grabbing the muzzle, I snatched the weapon from his hands and stick it in the head, piercing it. Moving to the next one, grabbing his head, I tore it off his shoulders along with the vertebrae and threw it at another fleeing pirate, breaking his neck at an incredibly unpleasant angle.
Looking around, I realized that this was it. After standing for a while looking at the ship slanting to its side due to my cotton, I waited until the shots ended inside and finally saw how the golden ship took off, emerging from invisibility, and landed closer as a signal that everything was over. According to the plan, they were supposed to come in from the other side and land through the roof, setting blockers for the engines so that the pirates would not run away.
Well, then, having good armor, tactics, and weapons, it cost nothing for them to enter and kill pirates like lambs.
The soldiers were already exiting the pirate ship with dented armor, but intact themselves. One soldier came out with a suitcase in his hand and, accompanied by almost a run, ran to the ship as if someone was chasing him. Approaching them, I immediately turned to the girl who led the mission and looked the most important of them all. Before starting to talk to me, she said something to the soldiers, and they dispersed to the pirates that I killed or stunned and began to take control shots.
Paying attention to me, she no longer showed arrogance but tried to be too neutral as if hiding her emotions. Especially when she looked at the broken mountain in the distance, the crater behind me, and the land that seemed to be plowed.
"Mr. Hellmuth, I am pleasantly surprised by your ability. We successfully evacuated the target and the ship will turn to ashes in 20 minutes, as well as everything 400 meters from it." - calmly saying that she planted a bomb here, she continued to speak with much more respect than before the start of the mission - "Payment has been transferred, you can check your account. May I know your connection to the Nova Corps?"
Silently checking my communicator, I saw a message about the balance update. Only then did I speak.
"Mutually beneficial cooperation. The demand for my abilities is quite high as you can see, and they promised to find any information about my race in this galaxy."
The girl's face trembled in surprise for a split second and her ponytail dangled, but I immediately noticed and began to analyze. She did not know that I pretended to be looking for my race and a way to home? Does this mean that the Nova Corps isn't so hopeless after all and have actually hidden most of the information about me?
"What race are you from, if it's not a secret? All we know is your physical abilities, but when we received these numbers, we did not believe in them until we personally saw them."
"I came from the planet Viltrum, it is not known how, but I got into this universe through an anomaly in space during my journey. I was discovered by the Nova Corps and provided assistance."
Nodding her head, listen, the girl thought, holding the helmet under her arm.
"It's really in their spirit to help everyone. I understand you, Mr. Hellmuth, if we find someone from your race, we will inform you as a token of gratitude for your help in this mission. Thanks to the fact that you poached so many pirates, our part of the operation was too smooth. In any case, if you wish, we can drop you off to the planet we picked you up from, or we can fly you to Xander."
"I will be grateful and accept if I fly without a ship, the flight will take me several hours or days, which is tiring." I smiled and rejoiced. I didn't really want to fly through space, it was much easier to get there in a couple of minutes by ship.
After boarding the ship, after 20 minutes we first reached their home planet, where the ship docked with the space station, and a group of military men checked the suitcase and took it away. I already suspected that in fact, the child was some kind of cell or embryo in this suitcase, but I did not ask, since it was none of my business.
After that, we went to Earth, where, having received the coordinates of the exchange of credits for the currencies of the planet I planned my way and flew to Africa.
Arriving in Africa, I reached a densely populated city. The dark-skinned people were alarmed and began to shout, looking at me flying, but as I accelerated, I quickly got lost. Having found the right building, I went into it through the main entrance and I was greeted by an Asian woman, smiling all over her face when she saw my viltrumite suit.
"Good evening. I came to exchange currency." As soon as I took a step inside, I greeted her loudly.
'Welcome! Would you like to exchange currency for the South African Rand?" Pointing to the board with the table of courses, she did not take off her professional smile. "Or are you interested in a different exchange rate?"
"My journey was far away from Africa and I got hungry, I will have to find the nearest restaurant." - remembering the words, when she asked about a different exchange rate, I started.
"Unfortunately, there are not much good food places in this town, but we can recommend any corner of the world."
"Any special recommendations?"
"Perhaps the Euro and the Dollar. Is this your first time here?"
"Yes." Nodding, I realized that she would keep ethics for the sake of interest and would not speak directly about space and aliens.
"Then I recommend Dollar. About 60% of the world's economy is one-hundred-dollar bills. It will not be difficult for you to use them. Our rate at the moment is 1 Unit to 600 dollars. Would you like cash or a credit card?"
"4 thousand credits, bank card, and 6000 cash."
"I understand you. Please transfer the designated amount here." - the girl took out a tablet from under the table and set it up and handed it to me.
Looking at the tablet, I suddenly realized that this tablet is not from 2014 at all. It is like from the year 3000 when technology has developed to an incredible level. Now that I have seen flying spaceships, I understand how vulnerable planet Earth is.
Holding out my bracelet, I confirmed the payment. There were 46,000 credits left and I still needed to find out their value in the galaxy.
"Here is your card, in case of loss you can return it to us. They will also bring your cash now, wait a minute." - touching her ear, she said something in a language unknown to me, and a minute later a huge man came in and handed me the money, nodded, and went back out the door.
"Thank you for using our services! Would you like anything else? - smiling from ear to ear, the girl was clearly happy, but I can't understand the reason for her happiness.
"No. But in the future, maybe I will come back."
"Understood, but before you leave, can I ask you for an autograph?" - the girl took out the prepared thick paper and, leaning across the table, passed it to me across the table, illuminating her fifth breast size through an almost transparent blouse.
Raising an eyebrow, I took the paper looking at it. Taking a pen, I quickly drew a tree with a cat and gave it to her. Looking at the cat with surprise and not understanding, she thanked anyway.
In the meantime, leaving the cool room and back outside to dive in the hot Safari, I was already thinking about why she asked me for an autograph. There were many options, but none of them suited me.
After finding the nearest store, I finally changed my Viltrumite suit to regular clothes.
After paying, I left with the package thinking about what to do next. I had 2.3kk dollars on my balance and I should have found an agency to buy myself a new house as I dreamed of it.
Having flown to America, I quickly used the information from the bracelet and bought myself the necessary documents so as not to stand out.
It so happened that I am Helmut Milton, I moved to America from Germany. Soon after I bought myself an apartment in New York, I finally realized that all my goals were achieved for the near future. In the following days, I arranged the apartment, making it beautiful and pleasant to look at. After making it black and white, I made neon lights above the TV. Having bought a prefix of this time, nailed glass shelves and made plants, laid carpets, replacing the kitchen with a more technological and advanced one, I decided to immerse myself in cooking.
I also redid one of the two bathrooms myself, making it a giant bathtub with hydromassage so that you can lie comfortably. After a month of work, completely forgetting about time and the monsters of this universe, I suddenly realized that I had already spent a quarter of my units, but had not bought a car for myself. Walking like an ordinary person was tiring and sitting down at a laptop, I went online to look at different models of cars. After dozens of hours of thought, I finally chose 4 cars that interested me after a day of walking around car dealerships, I finally became the owner of my beauty.
BMW X 5
However, after a week of driving, I quickly got tired of it - too slowly and I did not feel such an entourage after flying on spaceships.
Finally, one day thinking about what to do now that I have arranged my new home and made myself a comfortable life, I suddenly realized that something was happening on my floor. Voices could be heard outside the door and how people were walking, doing something. Behind the wall, I heard drilling, and finally, tired of lying down, I got up from the sofa and straightened my home shirt, and went outside to find out who was stopping me from being lazy.
Opening the soundproof door, I squinted as all the noise hit me. Drills, hammers, voices. Seeing how a bunch of sweaty men carry building materials to a neighboring apartment, where they demolished the door, I took out my mobile and called the head of the house.
"Mr. Hellmuth, exactly! That's what I forgot!" - Taking the call, the man immediately spoke exclaiming.
"Hello. Do I have new neighbors? - calmly asking, no longer paying attention to the strange man, who reacted too sharply to everything, as if on drugs, I was waiting for an answer.
"Yes, yes, yes! One intelligent woman moves in. Don't worry, I checked everything, there will be no noise, she is a respectable woman who works for Stark Industries. They said they would finish the repair in a week. Such strange guys! There's work for a year, and they work all the time as if their life will be over if they don't do it in a week."
Finishing a call I thought it's okay if I have neighbors. I'll get to know her later, but for now, a new page of the Nova Empire's rule book awaits me.
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"What are the results?" - Irani left the office straightening her uniform and immediately turned to the secretary.
"Oh, the meeting was successful and the council made amendments on the composition of the crime in closed…"
" I have already seen and read this. You better tell me what it is about our guest from another universe."
"Ah, that's what you're talking about!" - she took out the tablet, got up and brought Irani.
Both women took the tablet in silence and walked down the corridors somewhere until Irani stopped.
"He didn't even pick up our double awards? And does not get in touch for a month?" Irani frowned.
"Last report was that he successfully returned to earth after a clean mission with no casualties. After that, he didn't get in touch. In order not to disturb you, as you requested, we did not contact him. However, maybe he just forgot about us?"
As she looked at the face in the clipboard of the smart young man in profile, Irani shook her head.
"I do not believe that such a respectable person could forget something as important as freeing an entire planet from capture or saving thousands of people from different races somewhere in the distance of space. A group of admirals, as I understand, are not happy at all?"
"Oh yes, how, they have already made a couple of sorties themselves, and we have lost a cruiser and 29 new generation passenger drones. However, they managed to save 16 slaves and get more information. They said that the rest were kept on the planet as slaves, forced to work in the mines. Also, many more ships appeared in orbit of the planet. Apparently, the planet is rich in some kind of energy resources, which is quite rare once the Chitauri united and stood up to protect the planet."
Sighing tiredly, Irani thought about what to do.
"Contact Hellmuth. If he is not present on the battlefield, we will suffer more losses in the battle even if we win. I am sure that he is now engaged in an extremely important matter that even the debt of his race has been postponed. But remind him of the captured planet and update the data. Also, remind him of his reward for the last mission. I'm sure he'll be happy with every loan for a new spaceship."
"Understood." Nodding, she turned and walked back to her desk.
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"How is the renovation going?" Fury asked the woman across from him at the table.
Wrapping a lock of hair around her index finger, she remembered her new apartment.
"Not bad, seeing the money, the company sent every worker to make the apartment exactly as we planned. In a week, I can already start the mission." Natasha answered.
"Very good. Before you leave, what do you think of him?" – poking at the screen, he asked.
"I don't know. Too many different factors. From that space warship that it is not clear whether he is still in orbit or not, from which he still jumped directly to the planet without taking any damage, to the fact that he cursed in German all day like Hitler on the podium in his bathroom, because he could not insert the pipe, because the thread does not fit. He is too obscure, but one thing is for sure - his potential and strength is clearly higher than we can imagine, and he can be dangerous if he gets out of control."
Nodding Fury focused on something else.
"Recently, the information department discovered something, look here." - He pulled out the photos of Helmut and showed her. "Do you see something?"
Taking the photographs, she frowned as she looked at each one. Hellmuth stood or walked in different positions, each photo had different clothes and she could tell that he looked quite strong and attractive. In one of the photos, he was arguing with the salesman and the photo caught him at the moment when his mouth was open and a beautiful row of teeth added a bunch of points of beauty to him. Looking at his fangs, Natasha involuntarily shuddered, realizing that she needed to look for something, and, concentrating, began to look. Fury obviously found it, but what exactly?
"I can't figure out what is wrong here?"
"Look at his right hand. Black bracelet. I would say it's a lady's bracelet, but do you see how it is in every photo in different clothes? He does not change the bracelet." The black man folded his fingers and felt satisfied that he noticed something that others did not see. But it didn't show on the outside.
"I see I'll take a look and also try to find out what it is." She sighed as she placed the photos back on the table.
"Don't screw it up Natasha, this person is incredibly dangerous if he could fly like you know who."
"I know." – just said she smiled and left.
As soon as the door closed, Fury took one of the photographs and started staring at it.
What Natasha didn't know was that Fury had already temporarily stopped seeing Hellmuth as a potential enemy the moment he heard the recording of his worries showing his humanity while he was renovating the apartment. Even listening to the recordings of how he swore during repairs, Fury envied his eloquence and wanted to improve his German so that he could swear so beautifully.
He began to think of him as a potential ally, an ally of the Avengers.
However, it was necessary to turn off the operational headquarters above Helmut's apartment. Can be moved to a neighboring house. Thinking, Fury tossed the photo aside and turned his chair around to look out the window, looking at the bridge where the cars were driving.
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Cutting the meat with quick movements and separating it into the garbage and what I would cook, I could not feel that I forgot something.
I licked my finger in the chicken's blood and spit out the shell. The taste was not very good, to say the least.
Continuing to cut, I threw the meat into a bowl and put it in the sink to rinse. Finally, after half an hour, the meat was in the oven, and, having set the timer, I stretched myself mentally tired. Coming out of the kitchen, I sat on the sofa, looking at the unplugged TV, frowning at myself in the reflection. I have strength, longevity, and money. Life can be said to be full of comfort, I have tried many dishes of the world, and much more. But one day all this quiet life will be taken away from me. So many dangers on this planet. Thinking that I need my spaceship, I deployed the communicator and opened the messages.
[1 new message.]
When I opened it, I looked at the date and saw that it was sent a couple of hours ago.
[Mr. Hellmuth, you're concerned from the secretary of the Nova Corps, Taiana, under Ms. Irani. I am writing to ask if we should be waiting for you on a mission to free the planet from the Chitauri? I am also updating information on this particular task. If you do, please let us know and we'll set a date for the attack, as deploying that many troops would be a time-consuming task for more than one hour. Best regards, Tayana, Nova Corps.]
[An unidentified marauder ship attacked an undeveloped civilization and almost destroyed it, leaving less than 8% for work in the mines, starting to drain resources. Chitaur are accused. Destroy a fleet of 28 Motherships and class B and A class fighters that have occupied the planet, violated thousands of intergalactic treaties and laws, and help the fleet capture the planet to free the population from slavery. Difficulty: High.]
[Participation in the special operation 2,800,000 credits.]
I suddenly realized that I forgot. Wops.
[I apologize for not writing for so long, I had an important matter that I could not ignore. Miss Tayana, I can join you in 20 hours. Also, could you tell me if I can destroy the motherships to the ground or if they have prisoners on them?]
The answer was not long in coming and five minutes later I received a new message.
[There are no living prisoners on the Chitauri motherships. However, Miss Irani is wondering what you mean by destroying the motherships? Our initial strategy is for you to help us protect our ships from fighters and help us open fire with long-range artillery pieces and destroy their ships from afar, after which we will enter the system and approach the planet. Our technologies surpass them many times over, but alas, their number is too large. There are more than 800 fighters per mother ship.]
[I can handle this on my own. Do I understand correctly that after destroying the 28 main ships, you can enter the system and free the planet?]
[That's right, Mr. Hellmuth.] - The answer this time came too quickly as if the girl was sitting there and waiting for me to answer.
[20 hours acceptable time? And I need someone to pick me up from the planet. It will take me a few days to get to Xander.]
[Don't worry, Vice-Captain Albert will be in orbit around your planet in 19 hours, after which we will strategize an attack on our ship. See you later Mr. Hellmuth.]
Rolling up the bracelet, I sighed and slid down the sofa, softening.
Dzin. Dzin.
The call rang melodiously around the apartment and looking at the door, I felt that I was too lazy to get up. In general, I would like to sleep and mentally rest before the attack on the Chitauri. The only thing that kept me from satiating my laziness was the ringing of the doorbell again. Yawning and putting my hair back, which was disheveled, I went to the door. I opened the lock and opened the door without fear that there was a thief or a murderer.
"Good afternoon, my name is Natasha, from now on I will be your new neighbor." - A sweetly smiling woman in tight-fitting jeans and a tight-fitting T-shirt greeted me. Her short, shoulder-length red hair was wavy and perfectly styled and tousled at the same time, which only added to the charm of her face.
As I was higher than her she had to raise her head to look out into my eyes and realizing who she was, I immediately realized what she was doing here.
"Like a housewarming tradition, I baked a cake." - lifting the box that is sold in the store in packs for transferring pastries that people themselves do, I realized that maybe she actually really baked it herself.
"Hi, I'm Helmut. Come in, I'll make some tea. I already got a call from the house manager about you." I opened the door and let her through.
"Only if not for a long time, I still have a lot to do, I work at Stark Industries and I need to get back to the office soon. Wish I could switch to work from home." - with a feigned sigh, she entered and took off her sandals, and took my slippers. Putting them on, her eyebrows went up.
"Amazing, the slippers fit me just right!" - looking at my legs, comparing the sizes, she clearly suspected that I knew that she will come and what her real personality was.
Smiling, I opened a cabinet on the wall to show her the contents.
"I installed it as a joke, who knew it would come in handy? There are slippers for guests of all sizes."
"Pretty pragmatic." Calming down, Natasha began to inspect the apartment.
"The kitchen is there, the bathroom is there, you can wash your hands while I put on the tea." - having gone to the kitchen, taking a cake, I quickly made tea and put it on the kitchen table. It's been 4 minutes since she was in the bathroom and finally, she came out.
"Helmut is your name or surname? Sounds like something German." She immediately started talking.
However, I looked at her for a second, thinking. 4 minutes to be in the toilet. Maybe this is normal for a girl, but I had no doubt that a couple of spy devices were lost from this lady's beautiful handbag. Luckily, finding them with my bracelet was a breeze. The bracelet was called a military development not for fun.
"This is true. I moved from Germany according to my documents. Helmut is my name, and Natasha is a Russian name. I know a little like S...." I smiled.
"Oh no don't continue..." - laughing she stopped me after hearing the first letter. - "I am from Russia, but I live here for a long time already."
After chatting about nothing for another 10 minutes, laughing at stupid stories, and discussing the news, our conversation was interrupted by the signal of the stove and getting up, I pulled out a baking sheet and put it on the kitchen table. The smell of baked chicken with vegetables dispersed throughout the apartment.
"Recently tried a new recipe, do you want some?" - politely offering her, I expected a refusal.
Looking at her watch, Natasha immediately replied with regret in her voice.
"Thank you for your hospitality, Helmut, I was very pleased to meet you, but I have to run already, I am too late right now to the job."
"How about you visit me on the weekend in 4 days? I can cook a couple of recipes that I have perfected, I promise you will not regret when you try them." - looking at how her eyes shifted to my hand, looking intensely, it suddenly dawned on me that I had screwed up.
Oh fuck... I just calmly took a red-hot pan from a red-hot stove and just shook off my hands as if from dust.
"With joy, I am alone and free all day tomorrow. How about having lunch tomorrow?"
Shaking my head, I smiled as I walked her down the hallway.
"Unfortunately, I'm leaving tomorrow for a day or several on one business, so I won't be able to."
"Understood, then until the weekend, bye! I left my number on the kitchen table!" - already leaving the door, she put on her sandals on the go and ran up the stairs to the underground parking.
Watching her disappear on the stairs, I closed the door and went to clean the kitchen.
And so, SHIELD made its move. They know where I live, not that I'm hiding. However, the fact that I screwed up so much and showed that I'm not an ordinary person, pulling out a red-hot iron is annoying. How many more mistakes like this do I make and everyone notices but me? I need to be more careful.
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Leaving the house, I sat down and started the car that was given to me for the task. Thinking about Helmut, I imagined him as a nice man, an ordinary person both in speech and in his actions. In fact, he's pretending to be. Although I admit it was perfect, the way he calmly took the red-hot iron and slowly carried it showed everything. He may not have noticed, or if he did, it's too late, but this clearly shows his tolerance for very high temperatures.
Oh, those aliens, are so not attentive to details. Amateurs.
Remembering how he looked in surprise and admiration in the first seconds, she smiled contentedly. What girl wouldn't be pleased when she was considered beautiful? Turning the steering wheel and turning onto the highway, Natasha drove to the office, where she worked behind the scenes with late dates as a cover. Everything must be perfect and he must not suspect anything about her. Even the bugs were not installed so as not to disturb and lose him, who knows what his technologies from space are capable of?
He was found at all only because Tony said to Fury that his name was Helmut and paying attention to the list of citizens, they suddenly discovered that Helmut soon appeared out of nowhere. Tracking his expenses, they immediately found out where he lives, and surprise-surprise he looks exactly like an alien.
However, as soon as he moves to Russia or China, everything will not be so simple...
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" Nutzloses Stück Metall! Nicht funktionierender Müll, der die grundlegenden Technologien dieses Planeten nicht erkennen kann!!" - muttering to myself under my breath, starting the scanner again, I walked all over the apartment and even went into the bathroom where Natasha was.
Having beeped, the Communicator again showed a list of all devices in the apartment and there was not a single spy device among them.
Clutching my head while sitting, I realized that I needed to purchase a new device to detect all these spy cameras and microphones that are in my apartment.
Give me back my privacy!
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