Hello! I wanted to post this history so much ago, but can´t! Hope you like it, this is the third part of the Chances series
Kuroshitsuji and Marvel universe are not mine!
"I just want to get away from home for a bit" said the young shinigami. His companion sighed, he didn´t need to change countries in an employee exchange to be okay, but apparently his friend do. And out of some need to protect his younger friend, he felt obliged to do so. "It´s just unbearable in England, they always call me red. As if I can forget I had such an strange hair color…"
"It was not strange, just… it dragged attention, okay?"
"I know, Eric, it was me who had to go to the Academy the first day with his horrible red hair, don´t you remember?"
"Come on, William, it was not horrible. In fact it gave you some personality" tried to counter argue the blond, pushing up his glasses.
"Drop it, Slingby"
"But Will…"
"I said drop it!" the teen yelled and the other sighed again. It was their first day in the American Branch and they were already fighting. Yes, he was there for five seconds and already asking for suspension. Why couldn´t he just stay on England? Yes, William wanted to go somewhere no one knew him, where no one would joke about his hair color (which he died brown), his problematic twin sister (who he didn´t like one bit) and his particular heritage. "Now where is…"
"You must be the new transfers from England, eh?" an old man walked up to them, smiling. "My name is colonel Frank Moss, welcome to the American Branch. I personally didn´t like English people, but my superiors said that we need to work with others, so…"
"We are happy to be here"
"Okay then…" he pulled out a list. "Here says… William Crimson Spears…"
"Just William, or in case William C. Spears, no need to say my complete name"
"I put the rules here, young man" scolded the man. "Okay Spears and Eric Florian Slingby"
"Yeah, that´s me" answered the bond with a Scottish accent. He was the only child of late Eric Slingby and Alan Humphreys, that was left orphan after his father´s attempt to save his mother´s life. He looked a lot like his father, but was a little smaller and thinner. The boy was raised by a group of his parent´s friends, with William, Grell and Ronald as his parents and the twins as his younger siblings. That was why he believed he needed to take care of William in a hostile country.
"Scottish?"
"My father was"
"Well, at least not entirely English, that´s better" the older shinigami said. "Your first assignments are cleaning the floors and the bathroom. Begin now"
"What?! We thought we will begin with the reaps when we arrived!"
"Maybe some others, but guess what? In America we didn´t like English people, so start moping, you royal bastards" he gave them mops and left them alone. Eric frowned and started working along with his friend.
"Thank you for bringing me to this beautiful place" said the older with sarcasm.
"Hum…"
-In England-
"I´m home! In the morning like my mother says when you are going to live your life right" begin the alarm clock. The girl that was lying on the bed rose from her red satin sheets, sleepy. Last night she has been partying until twelve o´clock, then chatting on internet and speaking on her cell phone until… well, nearly morning. She gazed at her room groggily, it was arranged for a princess. She got out and grabbed a comb with rubies. She started combing her hair, then pinned it and as a last touch she placed a golden and ruby tiara on her head before putting on a red dress.
"You should wear your uniform" was her father´s greeting while he read the newspaper. Grell was in the in a corner of the room, drinking some tea William made, because she wasn´t able to cook anything without setting the kitchen on fire.
"Mom doesn´t wear uniform either" she retorted.
"Your mother is an especial case, I gave up on making him follow the rules centuries ago, but I´m not about to do the same with my daughter"
"Well, I´m an special case too" she said. "And why did you left Will go to the States? Why not me? I should be in California getting a sunbath, not him!"
"Stop mopping and go to work. If you want to go to an exchange then you need a change of attitude, young lady"
"As you say old man" she talked as she sipped her milk. "I just hope that dumbass is having such a hard time as me"
-Back in the States, a few weeks later-
"I hope you are having a good time" said Eric. Since they arrived they have gotten the cleaning duties, nonstop. And there was no way for him to practice the movements Ronald taught him back in England!
"Leave me alone"
"I won´t until…"
"Spears! Slingby!" called the colonel, startling them both. "You are having a mission, an undercover mission"
"What´s happening?" asked the youngest of them.
"There has been some irregularities in the to die list. Suddenly people that were supposed to be dead were revived, soul and everything" he explained, turning on a computer to show him the information about the missing souls. "After analyzing their cinematic records, we saw that they all have one thing in common: SHIELD"
"SHIELD?"
"Is an organization that in the past took care of global security issues. It was nearly decimated when another organization called HYDRA appeared, but now they are recovering and trying to find new personnel. The thing is that we believe this SHIELD played with the laws of life and dead… that´s pretty dangerous" the colonel frowned. "We need to know more about it, specially how they managed to do so. That´s the reason we are sending you two undercover as aspirant to agent…"
"Why us?" asked Eric.
"Because of the English Branch´s world renumbered… knowledge about the issues of creatures that have been dead and now are alive" he smiled at the younger boy, who tried to make himself smaller. "You should know more than anyone about that, no, Spears? After what your grandfather did in…"
"I don´t talk to my grandfather, sir"
"Too bad, I was going to ask for his autograph…"
"And how did you know who he was? Kept it in secret since I came here…" it was not that he didn´t like the old man… the few times he saw him. It was just that Adrian Craven was a nutshell and a criminal, so he didn´t want to be linked to him.
"With time you will learn, Mister Spears, that you can´t hide anything in America" answered the man mysteriously. "I have access to all your personal information, including your parents and their last names. The last name Craven is hard to miss."
"My mother´s last name? Yes, it happens all the time" he sighed. His family was something completely out of the ordinary. His mother didn´t have a completely clean history… as he was more or less Jack the Ripper. "So we will have other names and back histories?"
"Yes. Slingby" the blond was given a set of documents. "From now on you are the mortal Kingsley Mccoy. You spent some years in the British secret service, but joining SHIELD was always your dream and you now have the opportunity. Your hobby is to play the guitar, you do it very badly but now you are improving."
"I like to grow plants better"
"I don´t care. Next! Spears, you are Alexander Sutcliff… I think the name might sound familiar to you" he smiled and the boy frowned. His mother has committed the serial murders with that last name… even if the mortals didn´t know that. "You were one of the CIA investigators until a year ago, when they kicked you out. Since then you haven´t had another work. Applying SHIELD is your last chance and you won´t fail again, you got it?"
"Yes, sir"
"Good, go!"
-In the mortal world-
"I want to join this…" said young Martin Merrick, or MM for his friends. He wanted to join SHIELD and be a great agent, to save the world, but his physical condition along with some other factors didn´t allow him to do. "I wish…"
"Just stop sulking and do something about it!" said his friend, pushing his wheeling chair. Suddenly they arrived at the library. The invalid boy´s hands stopped in a huge book about dark sorcery. He opened it and peeked inside. There was a spell to form a Faustian contract with a demon to achieve whatever wish you might have. His eyes widened. This couldn´t be real… or could it? Well, he didn´t lose anything trying. That night he, in his dark room, formed the seal and made the sacrifice.
"I call you here, demon!" he added after the spell. Much to his surprise a dark thing appeared in the middle of the seal, red eyes shinning in the middle of the thing. MM immediately got terrified, he had never thought about really conjuring a demon.
"What a master do I have now, what is your wish?" asked the cloud in a very clear English… or maybe it was just his imagination. "No, I´m definitely here. And since you called me it would be of good education to shake my hand or at least tell me your name… first tell me your wish"
"My wish?"
"Yes, to put the contract´s seal in your body and start working in making this true… that if you really want to do this… if you want to give me what I want"
"What might you want from me?"
"Your soul… I want to eat your soul" the poor human shook terrified. "You can reject it, but remember, what you sacrificed to call me will never come back. You will be forever banned from sky and the light. Just decide if you want to live that in the misery or if you want to be happy while you still can"
"Ah…"
"What´s your wish, my master?"
"I… can you make me a hero? An agent of SHIELD that saves everyone in the world? That´s what I want!" he screamed. The demon smiled, just as his parents told him, humans were very easy preys. And that boy was a good catch for his first time. Vincent Michaelis licked his lips, smiling. This answered the boy. "Then make the contract and make my dreams true!"
"Excellent, now give me a name and we will see it"
"A name? Well, demon… eh… your name is… Nicholas Rogers! It´s the combined name of two of my heroes, so wear it with proud"
"As you say, my master" the contract seal was place in the boy´s tongue, much like Alois Trancy, and Vincent stepped out of the shadows, thinking about how stupid the name this idiot have given him was. Well, there was no use in throwing a tantrum now. Soon his soul will be his and this will be all over. He was finally going to show his parents that he was all grown up and capable of getting his own food! "Where now, master?"
"To enroll in SHIELD of course!" answered MM happily, then reminded something. "Eh… hum… can´t you do anything with my legs? I can´t pass the training with them… you know"
"I can tell" he grabbed his new contract and pulled him to his feet, using his dark powers to heal them. This will be enough for the time it will take to complete the wish.
"Hey, this is great!"
"Thank you, my master"
"Not let´s go enroll in the Academy… of course you will enroll too, I need someone to get rid of the competence for me" MM said happily. Contacting a demon might be the best of ideas… then he remembered that the thing was going to eat his soul. "Errr… you are not going to eat me now, no?"
"Well, no, master, it´s going to be after I have granted your wish"
"Hum, okay" it was going to be many years until he could be the agent he wanted to be… but then again, he was underestimating a demon and his ability to make someone accomplish anything. And Vincent was no ordinary demon, he had contacts even in the human world. "Let´s go to enroll in the Academy"
"As you wish, master"
"And don´t call me master in front off everyone, call me just MM. In private you can call me your master"
"Alright"
-The first day-
"This are the new recruits, director Fury" the one eyed man walked in front of the row, eyeing each one with a frown. Most of them looked nothing like an agent and now that SHIELD was being reconstruct he didn´t need that. That´s why he made arrangements to have someone here that will put them in form or kill them in the process. He passed in front of two that wore glasses and recognized the sign of someone that has been trained to analyze everything around himself and discover their secrets. What were they planning? Were they HYDRA? He passed in front of a third one that looked calm, as if her didn´t have a worry in the world… and a malicious tint on his eyes. He would keep that one on his sigh too.
"Hello, new recruits, I´m agent May and will be your instructor for your stay here" yes, asking Coulson to call the Cavalry to help with the training. She made such a good job with agent Sky. "Welcome to hell"
"Yeah, sure" said one of them. Vincent… or Nick, how he was called now, rolled his eyes. He knew this wasn´t a woman they could joke with and that she was extremely hard to mislead, so he had to be careful. He didn´t mind being under her training, after all this was a hell on earth and hell was home sweet home for him. For their part William and Eric glared at him from under their spectacles, the younger tempted to cover his nose at the "demon stench".
"I didn´t know there were going to be insects on this mission"
"Me neither, we better report this to the higher ups… when we are alone" said the older one, noticing that the director was still watching them carefully. "Or maybe not to bring more attention towards ourselves would be better"
-On the outside-
"Adrian, are you sure you want to move here? We were okay in Europe, the States…"
"It´s going to get interesting pretty soon, Lucifer, believe me. I have an intuition to find the funniest places in the world" laughed a bit the silver haired reaper, opening the door to his new shop. "Besides, we have already stolen so many bodies in Europe that the authorities might want to search for us and you won´t want that, won´t you?"
"Well, no but…"
"Then it´s all settled! Let´s start with the experiments…"