Chương 54: Technomancer in MCU #47

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Chapter 47

Technomancer in MCU

Previously

She shrugged off his hands and said, "To hell with that. Call the Avengers. I don't care if they find out about Ed's condition. I just want Ed and the kids to be safe."

Then she started crying.

This time, he sighed audibly.

It was going to be a long day. At Least until Ed woke up.

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Onboard the Superclass Carrier

– Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez–

As soon as she heard that something had happened to both Ed and Alfred and the organisation was calling back everyone on non-essential duties, she called her superior which was not easy as everybody in her chain of command was swamped with work as they had to do nearly everything manually without Alfred's help now and asked to be transferred back.

It was a good thing that she was on the Commander's personal team before her current stint so her request was approved immediately.

Due to safety reasons, they had shut down nearly all teleportation pads throughout the bases, and the ones that were allowed to function were strictly used for transferring supplies rather than people.

So, she had to take the long route and come to the Asterisk on a ship.

She had to go through a thorough screening at the Superclass carrier orbiting Earth after exiting Earth's atmosphere.

"So, security's gotten pretty tight, huh?" she asked the security agent, trying to make small talk.

The only thing she received was silence as the agent continued to scan her for the nth time.

"I'm clean, alright? For god's sake, I was on the Commander's personal team. That has to count for something." she snapped at the agent taking her sweet time clearing her.

Couldn't the agent see that she was in a hurry?

Unphased by her outburst, the agent replied, "I am sorry, mam. Who you were before doesn't matter. Orders from the higher-ups."

She waved her hands at the agent, indicating her to get it over with.

Finally, after an agonizing 30 minutes that the agent took with the process, she exited the security chamber and rushed to the hangar for the ship that regularly ferried between the carrier and the base.

But upon reaching the hangar, she could see exactly zero ships present.

Shocked at this as she had never seen this scene before, she turned around and hurried to the hangar captain's office.

She banged on the captain's door multiple times before a person with extremely disheveled clothing exited the cabin.

"Wha–What do you –Yawn—want?" he asked me, clearly out of it.

"What happened to the ships? I need to reach Asterisk as soon as possible. Is there any way I can get out here right now?" she asked him.

"Hmm?" As soon as he heard her question, something in his demeanor changed instantly. Where before she could only peg him as an administrative type agent, now, he was giving off really dangerous vibes to her.

He was registering as a huge threat to her senses right now.

But how could that be?

The number of people that could be a threat to her could be counted on both hands and you'd still have a couple fingers left.

But as soon as the feeling came, it went away as he took a good look at her.

"Oh, it's you? I remember you. Weren't you the one who had to be pried off the winner of the last rookie combat tournament? Now, I remember you. Man, I had a blast watching that tournament." he said while laughing at her.

She gritted her teeth at the humiliating reminder.

It was the last knockout match of the annual rookie event that the organisation had for every department.

Being from the Commander's personal unit, she and Daisy were both expected to compete with anyone who would challenge them. And they did.

After defeating almost a dozen combatants, Daisy and she had been the only combatants standing, as expected. Then they were told to compete against each other in their near-exhausted states.

That was a dream come true for her. Due to the nature of her powers, Daisy would always have an upper hand against her but when competing with their tanks completely empty, she had a good chance of defeating Daisy.

She was looking forward to finally beating Daisy up when that bitch cheated at the final moment and won. She may or may not have gotten a little frustrated at that and fought with her in the arena itself after that.

"Can you or can you not get me there?" she snapped at him.

He raised his hands in mock surrender and said, "Sure, sure. I'll get you there. After all, you are one of the vaunted members of the personal hit squad of Commander Castle."

Why did she get the feeling that he was mocking her for that?

She shook her head. It didn't matter what he thought of her as long as he got her to the base.

She looked towards the agent only to see him halfway across the hall.

Hurriedly following him, she caught up to him and said, "Where are we going? The hangar is in the opposite direction."

He laughed and said, "Ha! You think you'll get any ship right now? Dream on. Everything and I mean, everything is on strict lockdown right now. Short of getting personal orders from the commander, you won't get any space-capable ship that could pass Earth's atmosphere. Hell, the captain has given the weapon holders blanket orders to make sure that no spacecraft breaches the upper atmosphere and if they do, shoot them down with extreme prejudice."

A chill ran down her spine at that.

"Is the situation truly that serious? I mean, I am sure Alfred would come back and things would go back to normal soon enough?" she said to him hesitantly.

He looked at her weirdly as if to say that she was stupid for saying that, "You are living in delusion if you think that is the truth. Forget it, here's your only way off the ship. At least, until we get new orders from the Asterisk."

He said while gesturing to one of the standard issue nanite packages she had seen the spacewalkers use.

She looked at him with a nervous smile, "Y-You are kidding, right? Because there is no way in hell that that piece of garbage would survive in the vacuum of space, let alone take me to the Asterisk."

He shrugged and said, "You asked me for a way and there you have it, the only way off the carrier. The rest is up to you." He then turned around and started leaving the airlock space.

She looked at the extremely basic nanite package and thought of the situation that must be unfolding at the Asterisk. She then exhaled loudly and said, "Wait!"

He turned his neck towards her and moved it up and down in a 'what?' gesture.

"C-Can you come with me?"

He raised an eyebrow at that and then, after some internal deliberation, said, "Eh, Why not? Let's go."

"Wait, really?" she asked him in astonishment.

"Uh, huh" he said as a suit started to form over his clothes.

Her eyes narrowed as she took a look at his suit.

It was the captain suit, issued to only 19 individuals to date, including her. Unfortunately, she had to surrender her suit as part of the security checks at the entrance of the carrier. They were very strict about that.

Something about seizing any and all space-ready vehicles of transport.

Then how did he get his hands on one?

Before she could question him about that though, he threw something at her she embarrassingly started flailing about as the airlocks opened up.

Amid the red sirens that rang throughout the cabin, he pushed her flailing body into the cold vacuum of space.

Bracing for the coldness of space, she opened her eyes in surprise as instead she felt the familiar warmth of her nanite suit.

"Welcome back, Agent Yo-Yo", came the comfortingly familiar voice of her VI from the suit.

She sighed in relief at that but soon narrowed her eyes and looked around for the bastard who pushed her through the airlock before her suit had finished forming around her.

Not finding him anywhere in her sight, she instead switched to her HUD and found the bastard already on his way to the Asterisk.

"Victory, chart a course to the Asterisk at the highest speed please," she commanded Victory, her personal VI.

"At once, Agent Yo-Yo" came the reply and with that, her suit accelerated immensely as was indicated by the numbers going up on her HUD.

She soon caught up to that bastard but gritted her teeth as he mockingly saluted her and entered the Asterisk's hangars before her, all the while we were being hailed by a bunch of raptors that told us in no uncertain terms, to land in the designated zone or pretty much die a horrible death.

Upon landing, she found him nowhere in sight.

Finding herself in a hurry, she just told the nearby agents to be on the lookout for that man and hurried towards the medical bay.

She had to make a quick stop at the security station to get her temporary badge working but she was soon running through the hallways of the base's VIP medical wing.

Soon, she found herself entering the ward where Ed was being kept.

Of course, she couldn't even imagine gaining access to Ed right now but she could meet Maria, Frank, and most importantly, Daisy there.

"Maria!" She called out as she ran and hugged Maria.

"Elena!" she cried out in reply.

"Agent Yo-Yo, how did you get here? I thought that all space travel between the Earth and Asterisk was banned by my order." Frank questioned her sternly as soon as she disengaged from Maria's hug.

"Ah, don't sweat the small stuff, Commander. I thought it prudent to personally escort a high-value asset to the base. You know, for safekeeping." Replied an infuriatingly smug voice from behind her.

She turned around only to see the bastard.

Frank gave a tired sigh at that and said, "Eric, I thought I taught you better than that. Now is not the time to start acting in an immature manner."

"W-Wait, you know him?" she questioned Frank.

He leveled a confused look at her in return and after taking one look at Eric, Frank shook his head and said, "He is the captain of the superclass carrier. You wouldn't have reached Asterisk alive if he wasn't with you."

She turned towards Eric, her eyes wide and unblinking.

Then, Eric had the gall to actually bow at her and say, "At your service, madam."

She was going to kill him.

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Word Count - 1819

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Author Note

So, huh. What can I say?

I guess the hands wanna type what they wanna type.

I had an entire plotline ready for this chapter and somehow, I created an important role for Elena when there wasn't one and also created an OC with that.

Truly, our brains work in mysterious ways.

Anyways, see you guys in the next episode of Dragon Ball-*COPYRIGHT STRIKE*

Ahem, this will connect with the plotline, you'll see.

Please have patience with this poor author. My brain doesn't cooperate with me on the best of days let alone these days with 9 hour workdays which is more like 11 hours with the commute added.

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