It starts up with more narrative, but there's dialogue towards the end of the chapter. Don't give up until then, it's a prologue, it's essential you know these stuff.

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Anthony "Tony" Stark was the first arrival to the uninhabited hotel. At the age of eleven he had been through too much already. He was once the son of a very important inventor. His father built weapons for the US military, but behind his heroic facade, Howard was an alcoholic who had a strained relationship with his son. His mother was unsuccessful to prevent Tony from seeing that cold side of his own father. A couple of years back they tragically died in a car accident. But the biggest tragedy was yet to be found. The car accident was orchestrated by the friend's family, and the man would be Tony's tutor later, Stane. He was arrested after attempting to kill the little Stark (whose death he'd later try to cover up as accidental) so he could take over the Stark business, which eventually bankrupt. Family friends nicknamed Tony as 'Iron Kid' because he was emotionally strong to cope with all he had been through. But they also nicknamed like that because Howard used to tell his son that to be the best, he must have "iron in his backbones", but that's a reason Tony despises due to the little his father meant to him. Tony was being tutored by another family's friend who decided to enroll him on a school abroad. They still believe he's abroad but they don't know he ran away from the airport and has been in New York on his own ever since.

Steven "Steve" Rogers, age nine, was the big talk across the small town where he lived. He was the only child of two American militaries. His father serving for the Air Force and his mother as a Marine, both of them die in the line of action within a short period of time. At his mother's funeral (the last of parents to decease) one of his neighbors tried to cheer him up and called him Little Captain. From that on, all around the town, he was referred as 'Captain America' due to that playful nickname and because of his parents' services and the fact that both of them were devoted to the US government and its people. Steve didn't have any other close family and was put on the adoption system. It didn't take long for Nick Fury to 'capture' him for his 'boot camp'.

Clinton "Clint" Barton, also nine-years-old, was a different story and didn't go through such traumatic experiences has his other fellow friends. Well, not quite, but at least not so disturbing. His mother died during labor, so he never really met her. He lived with his father in a wooden house nearby the forest. He and his father were very close and never had any problems. Clint was a very wild kid, very in touch with nature and used to go play in the deep woods. His father used to call him Hawkeye because of that. Sometimes he'd take with him his bow and arrows. In the weekends he'd go animal hunting with his father until the day he believed to be experienced enough to do it alone. When he walked closer to check what he had hit with his arrow, he ran away as fast as he could all the way back home. He had hit a man in the back of his head. His father tried to cover up his son accident but the Forest Police caught him red-handed. Clint waited for his father to come home but he never did and nobody knew that that man had a son. He went to look for him in the forest and after weeks of surviving the way his father taught him to, he returned home, finding a note his father had left hidden before going to get rid of the dead man. There was an address written down and Clint needed to go there. After days of wandering in the city, he found that abandoned hotel. Fury was an old friend of his father and he'd keep an eye on him.

Natasha Romanoff grew up in the cold Russia land. Daughter of an American father and a Russian mother, Natasha learnt from a very young age to speak both Russian and English. After her father death due to a long-term disease, she and her mother left to the States. With little money, her mother was a hitman by night. She was known as the Black Widow, nickname that was given to her daughter too. Fearing for her daughter's safety, she decided to abandon her in New York and leave for another city. The girl, at the age of nine now, naturally found her way to the abandoned hotel, place she has been staying ever since.

Robert Bruce Banner, the youngest of the group being seven-years-old, luckily didn't witness an event that could scar him for life (more than he already his scarred). His father was a brilliant scientist who deeply loved his wife but never wanted children. The fact is that Bruce was born and so all the troubles began. Rebecca loved their son but Brian always believed his son had genetic defect due (to an accident he had caused years back when he overload a nuclear machine) and so he repulsed him and felt jealous towards him because he was an object of affection for Rebecca. He used to beat him and his wife whenever he was drunk and one night, when Rebecca attempt to run away with Bruce, he caught them. Rebecca told her son to run away and never stop. He cried but did so. Behind he left his mother that was murdered in the hands of his own father. Brian would eventually be dragged to a mental institution where he's still hospitalized, and no-one ever suspected that there was a child. The doctor's believe that when Brian talks about it, it's just delusional. Nick Fury found the kid on the corner of the street, cold, hungry but solving a Rubik's Cube with rather easiness. He could tell that the young kid, of five of age at that time, was special.

Thor Odinson, age eleven and a half, and his brother Loki, age six, are the last ones to arrive to the abandoned Hotel Sterling. Looking at those two, anyone can clearly notice which one is the adopted one. The oldest brings the youngest one by hand, willing to protect him from all dangers. The youngest one, as it happens to some foster kids, was somehow rebelled and didn't feel fit in his new family. Their mother fell into a severe depression and passed away. The family man never forgave his foster kid for leading his beloved wife to such tragic ending, so he planned on returning him. Thor didn't let him and always stuck to his little brother. The eleven-year-old said he'd run away with him if he ever mentioned returning Loki again. His father didn't give him an answer and so the two departure; the man didn't care if they were leaving home. He felt anger towards the adopted one and disappointed by his blood son.

Tired of walking for endless days without eating and with little sleeping, always holding tight to his brother's hand, Thor felt tired at last. He and Loki both looked up at the magnificence of the abandoned hotel right in the heart of Manhattan. A ten-story building that for them seemed to touch the sky was before their eyes.

A façade in brownish stone made it impossible to foresee what was the luxury of the interior of the hotel, which was now degraded and was made the home for the homeless, the drug addicts, and particularly the -1 floor, which was the floor of Nick Fury and his, so far, five talented kids.

Thor led his brother with careful and attentive steps towards the stairwell that once headed to the lobby of the hotel.

"What's your name, son?"

Thor got his breath caught and turned around slowly. A tall man dressed all in black with an eye patch on his right eye made him shake, but he answered fearlessly despite his heart being uncontrollably pounding in his chest.

"I'm Thor, and this is my brother Loki. We need a place where to sleep and something to eat."

"Uhm, floor -1 then. Follow me." He said, turning his back at them, hoping they'd follow him. "I'm Nick Fury, by the way."

"Mr. Fury, you hurt my brother and I hurt you back."

Fury chuckled as he crossed his arms behind his back and continued to walk. "Follow me."

Thor told his brother in low voice as they followed Fury. "If I tell you to run, you run and don't look back, understood?"

"What about you?"

"Just. Run. Now repeat what I just asked you."

Loki looked his brother, repeating. "If you tell me to run, I just run and don't look back."

When they made their way to the only floor below the ground, it was like heaven on Earth for any child. It was a theater. There were ropes hanging from the ceiling and boxes above the stage that they could use to go across the room, the stairs were almost like slides made out of cardboxes and on the stage there were five mattresses on the floor and its respective blankets.

Fury got an arrow in its mid-flight and spoke. "Quit throwing arrows, Clint. The walls don't need more holes."

Clint jumped from one of the stage boxes and hung on one of the ropes and then let go, falling on his feet. He walked to Fury that retrieved him his arrow and then he ran away after being slapped in the nape.

Fury pulled out of a bank note from his pocket and shouted. "Captain!"

Steve appeared running from the backstage, and with a big boost he jumped and landed almost half the way across the room. When the kid was in front of him, Fury gave him the money and said. "Buy a pizza and two sodas."

Tony, who was lying down on the chairs of the arena, sat up and complained. "How come Cap gets to have a pizza and soda?"

"Stark," Nick said with a firm tone of voice. "learn to observe first and comment afterwards. Nat!" He yelled again, waiting for the girl to show up.

"Natasha isn't here." Tony spoke back, having just lied down again. "She's doing business."

"Then move your lazy ass and go upstairs. Get two mattresses and two blankets."

Tony sighed deeply and walked all the upstairs.

Fury started going down the stairs, saying. "Here are the ground rules: one, I'm in charge. Two, you do what I say, not what pleases you. Three, you learn from me. Four, we live in a democracy here. Fi-"

"We learn from you what exactly?" Thor asked.

"Anything you need to know. You don't go to school you learn stuff from me then." He answered, turning around. "Five," He restarted. "make yourself at home, we're not that many."

"Who are they? And why are they here?"

"Same reasons as you two are here. You've got nowhere to live and you have a great potential to prosper in life. It's up to me to help you find your paths."

Clint (tried to) ran past Nick but he got hold of him by his jacket. "Calm down yourself, will you, Clint? Where's Bruce?"

"Off with Nat. They should be coming back soon."

"Clint," Tony called as he ran into the theater again. "Come and help me. The junkies are holding tight to the stuff!"

When the two kids ran off the theater, Fury looked back and said. "Oh, almost forgot. Rule number six, this floor is ours and it's safe. You don't go to any other floor unless I tell you so. Understood?"

"I don't know why you're bothering telling us this." Thor spoke as Nick was walking off. "We're not staying."

"You're not staying, you're not eating."

Loki looked at his brother, saying almost in a cry. "I'm really hungry, Thor."

Thor rolled his eyes and let go off Loki's hand. "I guess we're staying then."

If the idea goes onward, here are the ideas I have for the next chapter:

Chap. 2- Free food mission. – Lesson learnt: Have the initiative but work as a team, it pays off. (Main character of the chapter: Nat)

Chap. 3 - Loki, King of -1 floor. - Lesson learnt: Boastfulness doesn't fit in the team dynamics. (Main character of the chapter: Loki)