AN: So a moderate response to last chapter, enough to get this chapter out though. I hope you all enjoy it and leave a review at the end.
Thanks for reading.
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(Last Time)
Tilting his head at this Kaneki then plunged his hand into the pocket of his trousers and grabbed his eyepatch, pulling the black leather patch out as he did so, before he then covered up his Ghoulish left eye, not that it looked all that Ghoulish at the moment, still it was pretty unique and memorable when the sclera did turn black and the iris crimson, and so was something he would rather keep quiet.
With that done, Kaneki then flipped up the hood of his hoodie, hiding his white hair from view as he did so, before he then stepped out of the bathroom and faced Coulson. The agent only raising an eyebrow at the addition of the mask, and but said nothing, no doubt he had seen Kaneki in a similar getup when he had surveyed the surveillance his organisation had of him.
Ignoring that for the moment though, Kaneki merely rolled his shoulders before giving Coulson a dull look. "Ok then, I'm ready."
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Chapter 2
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(Sometime Later)
It was about thirty minutes later that Kaneki, still in his mainly black and grey costume of sorts, stepped out of a black SUV, and onto a small private airstrip on the outskirts of LA, where a quinjet, a high-tech military aircraft was waiting for them.
With Coulson, the quiet, serious and suited agent who had collected him, following along closely behind him. With the overly serious agent exchanging a nod with two, black clad, armed men who were flanking the quinjet as he did so, after which the pair of them made to board the high-tech jet.
For Kaneki the entire ride from his apartment to the airstrip had been mostly silent, with Coulson only speaking to give a bit more context to the attack on the military facility that had been on the news, the one that was now a crater, and to explain the mission which was to find a man who called himself Loki.
With this man being an apparent alien, and not the immigrant kind, but the extra-terrestrial kind. Not only that though, this Loki was also supposedly incredibly dangerous, capable of mind-control, and was now wielding a blue, square like object that was called the Tesseract. Which according to Coulson, also happened to be an unlimited energy source.
That was pretty much all Kaneki had been told, that and the fact that he would be joining a team of other 'unique' individuals to track this Loki down, capture him, and reclaim the Tesseract.
Following on from this brief explanation, the rest of the journey had passed in relative silence. With Kaneki not being that much of a fan of small talk, or all that interested in speaking with the stoic agent.
Which was something which Coulson seemed to share as the man had seemed content with the silence, and completely disinterested in Kaneki, which was a little surprising considering the fact that he had likely been debriefed that Kaneki was a cannibal with inhuman abilities.
Still the journey had been mostly silent, and Kaneki and Coulson both boarded the quinjet without incident, whilst the two armed men guarding it headed in the opposite direction, and towards the SUV they had just left.
Upon boarding the aircraft though, Kaneki tensed as he noticed that there was already someone else on board, a tall, blond haired man, with blue eyes and a bright smile.
Unlike the other agents that Kaneki had met thus far though, this new man was wearing a brown leather jacket, a white T-shirt and loose jeans, all of which was very casual.
Looking at him with his single visible eye, Kaneki noted that this might be one of these 'unique' individuals he would be working with, though just what made the man 'unique', Kaneki wasn't sure of yet. But as he entered the quinjet and made to sit down a couple of feet from where the blonde was sitting, his heightened senses picked up on the scent of the man's flesh, and suffice to say, he smelled odd, almost artificial, like what a hunk of meat which had been treated with additives and chemicals to enhance the flavour would smell. It wasn't bad, but at the same time it wasn't the same as proper meat.
Still, despite the artificialness of the man's scent, Kaneki still absently rolled his tongue about in his mouth hungrily, he had been interrupted halfway through his snack, and was still a little peckish. That being said the man looked too muscly, which although much healthier than fat, meant that it would be a bit tougher, and not quite as tasty, nowhere near as good as younger, softer flesh.
Ignorant to the thoughts swirling around Kaneki's head, the man instead glanced up as Ken approached, his blue eyes widening in surprise at his appearance, before he looked over to Coulson, his eyebrows knitting together in confusion.
"Ken Kaneki, this is Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America. Steve, this is Ken Kaneki," Coulson said as he saw the look on the Captain's face, his tone of voice far more enthusiastic than it had been when Coulson had just been talking to Kaneki, as the man instead smiled warmly at this Steve, even as he introduced the two.
"Nice to meet you." Steve said with a smile as he reached out to shake Kaneki's hand, only for Kaneki to give him a nod instead and a muttered "you to", with him being polite but not overly chummy or touchy feely.
Nodding at that Steve withdrew his hand, his blue eyes narrowing as he looked at the small portion of Kaneki's face that was visible, and identified that he was a Jap. Not that there was anything wrong with that as Steve knew the war was over now, still it for him it just felt like only a few months ago that they were at war with the Japs, and the US media were telling all the horror stories about them, and their odd culture. It was for this reason, with this thought in mind that he assumed Kaneki might not have shaken his hand for cultural reasons, which might also be why he was coming across as quite quiet and disinterested as well.
"He's a bit young isn't he Coulson?" Steve then said as he tore his eyes away from the still quiet Kaneki as he sat down a couple of feet away, with the blonde instead looking over at Coulson, the smile back on his face as he did so.
"He's older than you were when you first joined up," Coulson replied, with a slight smile. "Besides he's in his twenties, probably not all that much younger than you are now."
Steve simply nodded, glancing back over at Ken as he did so, his eyes lingering on the eyepatch and the half mask on his lower face, obviously the kid looked a lot younger than he was. "That's fair enough, and I am sure we'll work well together after we get to properly know one another. It almost feels like going back to the training camp, what with meeting new people and seeing new things."
Coulson nodded at that, his eyes suddenly gleaming with a hint of excitement, and almost hunger as he looked at this 'Captain America', though likely not the same hunger that afflicted Kaneki. "Well if you have a bit of spare time at some point, I would love to hear some of your stories about back then?"
Steve smiled at that and nodded, his lip curling upwards at Phil Coulson's interest in his stories, it was an attitude he had gotten used to during his time in the military as a war hero.
Coughing slightly a moment later, Coulson seemed to realise the way he was coming across, as seconds later he once again became serious, with him then turning to both Steve and Kaneki, and then pulling a large tablet out of his briefcase, before he switched it on and handed it over to Steve, gesturing for Kaneki to come over so he could see the screen too. "I want both of you to take a look at the files I've had loaded onto this tablet, as these files with contain information about the people who are going to be your teammates for this mission. Though I will say now, not all the information about these individuals will be in the files, as some of it is very sensitive, and has been redacted as you don't have the clearance to see it."
Nodding at this, both Ken and Steve moved to look at the screen, before the two of them watched silently as Coulson, using his own smaller mobile device which was wirelessly connected to the tablet, flicked through several files.
The tablet showing pictures of several different individuals, each of which had a brief bio, personality break down and description of skillset attached, though looking at each of them, Kaneki could only assume that these had all be kept to the bare minimum. Things that were necessary to know if they were working together, but nothing too in depth.
This included an attractive, and lithe red haired woman by the name of Natasha Romanov, also known as 'Black Widow', who was apparently some former KGB assassin/ spy, turned SHIELD agent. With her being someone who was incredibly skilled in hand to hand fighting, an assortment of weapons, and with infiltration and stealth.
Then there was the billionaire, business man/ weapons maker, Tony Stark, also known as 'Ironman', who's profile described him as being arrogant, egotistical and narcissistic, with a severe superiority complex and an aversion to taking orders, but who also a tech genius, with a robotic suit that gave him access to an entire arsenal of high tech weaponry and gadgets.
After that there was then Bruce Banner, also known as the 'Hulk', who was a dark haired, plain, unassuming looking man, and a genius like Tony Stark, though one that specialised in Gamma Radiation, which led to him having a lab accident that had somehow turned him in to a giant, green, indestructible, unstoppable rage monster when he got angry. On top of that it was noted that he was neurotic, suffered from severe anxiety, and would not be taking part in the practical portion of the mission, but instead as support, due to his mental and emotional instability.
Following on from that there was Steve Rogers, also known as 'Captain America', an apparent war hero from the Second World War, who midway through the conflict was given a super solider serum which in turn gave him enhanced physical abilities, and turned a skinny, eight/ nine stone kid, into a hulking, musclebound soldier. Following on from that the personality description, was that Captain America optimised the word hero, and was loyal, dependable, skilled at leading and making tactical decisions, and acted to do the right thing no matter what. A glowing bio that Kaneki assumed Coulson had some part in writing.
Then finally after that, there was Kaneki's file, with there being a distant picture of him working behind the till at the café, and a short description of his observed psychological profile and strengths. Which basically assumed he had enhanced physical capabilities and was skilled in hand to hand combat. With the file then going on to state he had a quiet, standoffish demeanour, and little to no known background, and history, and no known personal connections. It was a very sparse profile, much more meagre than those for his other 'teammates'.
That being said, Kaneki noted with interest that it never once mentioned that he ate people. Was SHIELD trying to keep that hidden? After all depending on how close he worked with these teammates, and how long they were together, his cannibalistic habits would likely come to light eventually? It just seemed a bit unnecessary to hide it, or at least to Kaneki it did.
"Any questions." Coulson finished about a half an hour later as the quinjet continued to fly through the air, and he finished giving them a run down on who they would be working with, and showed them some videos and pictures.
"So, this Doctor Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me?" Steve asked, speaking up in response to Coulson as he watched a short video of the Hulk, a giant nine foot tall, green, mass of muscle and fury, smashing things. Any remnant of genius scientist gone, as this creature instead lashed out in pure, instinctual fury.
Looking at the creature, Kaneki couldn't help but feel pity for the creature, linking the out of control Banner, with a Ghoul that had gone without food for a month, both of them lashed out at those around them, seeking to sate themselves in death and destruction. Only for a Ghoul all they needed was to eat and they could regain control, unless they were a binge eater, as then eating too much could make them lose control even more.
Kaneki himself could understand, even empathise a little bit with Banner's plight, after all he had been human before he had become a Ghoul, and as such had had human sensibilities, which meant he had initially seen the fact he needed to eat human flesh to survive as abhorrent. Which had led to him abstaining from it, and slowly starving, which in turn had caused him to nearly lose his mind and eat his best friend, Hide, alive. So yeah, Kaneki could understand to a point, but unlike Banner, Kaneki now had complete control over his Ghoulish side, in fact he had fully embraced it, probably more than he ever had his human half.
"A lot of people were. You were the world's first superhero." Coulson replied, once again fanboying over the other man. Maybe a bit unnecessarily, after all if people like Banner, Kaneki and Rogers existed now, surely there had been others over the thousands of years that humanity had walked the earth.
To call Captain America the first superhero was being a bit disingenuous to the others that had likely come before him, and who had used their abilities to benefit the world. Though that was just Kaneki's thoughts on the matter, after all he was still new to this whole concept of 'superheroes', and was uncertain as to what actually defined a superhero, and whether the definition would actually stretch to him.
Oblivious to Kaneki's cynical thoughts about Coulson's hero worship, the man instead forged on, his attention once again entirely on Captain America. "And like many others before him, Banner tried to replicate the serum, only he thought Gamma Radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine's original formula, Though as you can see…"
"It didn't really go his way, did it?" Steve said absently, watching as the hulking, green beast picked up a truck and threw it, his eyes narrowing at how seventy years after he was put through the procedure, and Erskine was killed, people were still trying to replicate the process.
"Not so much. When he's not that thing though, the guy's like a Stephen Hawking," Coulson explained with a slight smile, before he paused for a moment as he saw the confused expression on Steve's face. "He's like a really smart person. Oh and by the way, well, I just want to say that it's an honour to meet you, officially, I mean. As, well, I sort of met you already, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping. I mean, sorry that sounds wrong, what I meant was... that I was present while you were unconscious from the ice. You know, it's really, it's just a... just a huge honour to have you on board!"
Kaneki winced as he heard Coulson's disjointed rambling, his grey eyes flicking from the formally, serious and suave agent, to the blonde 'superhero', looking for the reaction.
That being said, Kaneki was pretty sure he had heard of Captain America once or twice since being here, or he had at least heard that his frozen corpse had been uncovered. But he really was curious, was the guy really that famous? He had seen the Captain's profile when they were looking through them, so he knew he had been frozen and thought dead for a long time, but still.
"Well, I hope I'm the man for the job," Steve replied with a nod and a smile to Coulson, before he then glanced out of the window to see that the quinjet was now flying very rapidly flying over water.
"Oh, you are. Absolutely. Uh... we've made some modifications to the uniform too. I had a little design input." Coulson replied smiling at the captain again, Kaneki apparently forgotten as he instead gushed over Steve Rogers.
"The uniform? Aren't the stars and stripes a little... old fashioned?" Steve asked a slight frown on his face, before he then looked pointedly at the simple, but smart black suit Coulson was wearing, and the hoodies and jeans that Kaneki had on, a far cry from, the flashy red, white and blue outfit that he wore during his two years on the battlefield, where he had acted a symbol for the American soldiers and for the resistance against the Nazi/ Hydra threat.
"With everything that's happening, and the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old fashioned," Coulson said somewhat cryptically, before he looked out of the window, and down at the enormous aircraft carrier they were approaching, one which already had more than a score of other quinjets on it, and hundreds of men and women, in dark uniform, running backwards and forwards. "It looks like we're here."
Kaneki looked out of the window too as he heard that, his single visible grey eye narrowing at the thought of being stuck on a floating, metal tub, with hundreds of tasty morsels for who knows how long. He could only hope they kept him well fed down there, as the last thing he wanted was to get hungry and go on a rampage, after all he wasn't sure he wanted to tangle with this Hulk creature.
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(Sometime Later)
It was about ten minutes later that the quinjet landed on the aircraft carrier, and the ramp lowered, with Steve and Ken following Coulson out of the jet and onto the busy landing pad, where they were intercepted by a familiar, beautiful red-haired woman.
Their soon to be team mate, Black Widow, and suffice to say the pictures didn't do her justice, as she looked far more mesmerising in person than she did on a screen. With the red head in question, wearing a full, black combat suit, with the SHIELD emblem on the right breast, and a utility belt around her hips, from which Kaneki could identify that she had at least two guns, as well as however many other weapons she had on her person.
"Agent Romanoff, this is Captain Steve Rogers and Mr. Ken Kaneki. Boys, this is Agent Natasha Romanoff," Coulson introduced, a slight smile on his face as he nodded to Natasha, before gesturing to the two men behind him, both of whom he knew Natasha had had a briefing on, which meant she didn't need to be told who they were. Still social convention dictated that introductions were necessary.
"Ma'am," Steve said, with an incline of his head to Natasha and a smile, even as he strode over his hand out, only for it to be ignored by the red head as she instead just nodded at him, the agent seemingly as picky about her personal space and unwanted physical contact as Kaneki was. With this no doubt leaving Steve Rogers's somewhat miffed.
Kaneki however just nodded at her, getting a brief one and a sideways look in return before she turned her attention to Coulson, her blue eyes locking on the man as she got straight down to the point. "They need you on the bridge. Face time."
"Alright, I'll see you there," Coulson replied with a nod, before he turned and waved at the three, mainly Steve Rogers, and gave a quick "goodbye", before he walked away, heading in the direction of a nearby door.
Leaving Kaneki and Steve with Natasha, as he did so. The two of them standing around awkwardly with the attractive red head as they milled about, waiting to be told what they were supposed to do, or where they were supposed to go, or where they were even staying whilst on the ship.
Looking between the two of them contemplatively, Natasha's blue eyes roamed over the darkly dressed Kaneki, locking on him for a moment, an odd look in her gaze, before it then shifted onto the more normally dressed Steve.
"You know there was quite the buzz around here, when they found you in the ice and thawed you out still. I thought Coulson was literally going to swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?" Natasha asked a hint of amusement in her voice as she looked at the Captain, somewhat putting the larger man off balance, with her sudden and direct words.
"Trading cards?" Steve asked in confusion before he looked between the red head and the inscrutable Kaneki, looking for an answer as to just what she was talking about.
"They're vintage, he's very proud," Natasha explained, somewhat unhelpfully, before she then turned to look at Kaneki, her expression not changing as she eyed him up and down, "And you, no one quite knew what to do with you. A cannibalistic hero who seemingly doesn't kill, or I suppose anti-hero would probably be a better description considering your… tendencies."
"What? Cannibal?" Steve asked in confusion, picking up on the word and what it meant as he turned and stared at Kaneki, uncertain what to make of Natasha's statement. After all he remembered back in 1920's whilst he was in school, learning about some cannibalistic tribes in Africa, but he hadn't believed that was really a thing, and certainly wouldn't be happening in this day and age.
That being said, he also recognised Romanov as a Russian name, and although he had not caught up with everything yet, he knew better than to fully trust a Red on their word, they might have helped during the war, but he had heard some things about Stalin and his commie ilk.
Kaneki however recognised what Natasha was doing, her words were pointed, and were meant to put the two of them off guard. He might not be a trained spy or anything, but he was very observant, and always had been, and could recognised her ploy for what it was.
Which is why he just shrugged her comment off, besides he didn't care what they thought about him, as long as they didn't impede him and left him to his own devices, they could think what they wanted.
Perhaps in a past life, before he had accepted his nature, he might have argued that it wasn't his fault and that he couldn't help it, but the past didn't change the present. And, since he was half human, he was technically a cannibal, though obviously SHIELD's Intel was not absolute if they didn't think him a killer, though from the inflection in her voice, Kaneki concluded that this Agent Romanov obviously thought him very much capable of killing, which he obviously was.
Following on from that there was a few moments of awkward silence as Kaneki kept quiet, not rising to the potential argument, and Steve silently watched him with a thoughtful, and slightly uncomfortable expression on his face.
Soon enough though the silence was broken, by some shouts on deck, coming from another direction. Something which seized Steve's attention as he looked in the direction of the voices, with Natasha sending him one more look, before she too looked over to the source of the voice, a familiar looking middle aged man, with brown eyes, and average body type and facial features, the kind of guy who would just disappear in a crowd.
"Dr. Banner!" Steve Rogers said as he walked over to the man, who at that moment was standing near the edge. With the two of them greeting one another, and shaking hands, no doubt a relief for Steve, after which they began talking about something or other a few moments later.
Seeing this Natasha gave Banner a curt nod, before turned away from the group and went to speak with another agent.
Kaneki ignored all of this as he instead looked around and got his first proper look at the ship, and the scores of people running about it, going about their daily jobs, whatever they may be.
A few minutes later though, Kaneki was interrupted from his musings by Agent Romanov who walked over to him, gesturing for his attention.
"You might want to get inside, we're going up and the winds could knock you straight off," Natasha said once she had his attention, before she turned and walk over to Banner and Rogers to give them the same warning. With looking over her shoulder before she did though, after which she then continued, "Just ask any agent for directions to the bridge."
Kaneki nodded his thanks in response, before he turned and walked over to the main door, the one Coulson had exited through, whilst Natasha continued on towards the two men still near the edge.
Upon entering the vessel, it took him a couple minutes, and several quick conversations with hurrying members of the crew, before he was able to find his way to the bridge, with no one, neither the armed agents, or soldiers stopping him on his way, though that was likely because they had been debriefed on the new arrivals.
Eventually however he did make it to the bridge, and when he did, he was genuinely amazed by the size of the room and the technology that had gone into creating it, suffice to say it was pretty impressive, and something Kaneki had never seen before.
Upon entering the room, Kaneki quickly locked onto the figures of Fury and another pretty, dark haired woman, both of whom were in the centre of the room barking out orders left and right to the many crew members on the dozen or so computers around the side, obviously mobilising them as the aircraft carrier slowly began to lift out of the water, revealing four large turbines that had previously been hidden beneath the waves, all of which began turning as the ship, became an airship, and started to lift off and rapidly ascend into the sky.
As for Kaneki, whilst all this was happening he was just stood uselessly in the middle, gawping like a tourist as he watched all this happen with quiet shock, he hadn't realised technology had advanced this far.
Furthermore as he stood in the centre of the control room his enhanced hearing, allowed him to listen in on some of the conversation going on around him, including how some of the agents in the room were trying to find Loki and this 'Tesseract' thing, by sweeping every camera on the planet?
Kaneki shook his head at this, his own world had nothing like this. Thinking on it now, it was little wonder he had been discovered, especially when not being careful, he was just lucky they hadn't connected him to all the things he had done during his two years here. Though seeing just what information they had access to, made him more than aware of how careful he would have to be in the future, after all if the 'good guys?' had access to technology like this then did that mean the bad guys did too?
A few minutes later Kaneki was momentarily distracted from his thoughts when Banner and Rogers soon entered the room, accompanied by Natasha, both of whom walked over to where Fury and the dark haired woman, Maria Hill, were stood. The four of them talking for a few minutes, and money exchanging hands between Fury and Rogers for some reason, after which Fury broke off from the group, and instead stepped over to where Kaneki was now silently, and thoughtfully staring out of the window, allowing the others to talk, whilst he just waited for Fury to tell him what he actually wanted.
"You know, you don't need to wear that mask in here, we are your allies," Fury said carefully as he walked over to Kaneki, stopping next to him as he did so and looking out of the window too, the dark skinned man still wearing his black, leather trench coat and black jumper, the same outfit he had been wearing the last time Kaneki had met him.
Kaneki's one visible eye narrowed as he heard that, before he shrugged and pulled the buff down, revealing his pale face, though he didn't pull down his hood or take his eyepatch off, bright white hair and a black eyepatch on a pale face did stand out after all.
"But will you always be?" Kaneki asked quietly, turning away from the view as the airship continued to ascend through the clouds, his grey eye now locking onto Director Fury.
"I would like to think so. So long as you do not kill any innocent humans, then yes, we will leave you be. We will never support you, but we won't stop you." Fury said, choosing his words carefully so as to not alienate Kaneki, yet also not give him the impression that SHIELD supported his lifestyle. On top of that he didn't want to limit him in regards to fulfilling his duties, after all Kaneki was more than welcome to kill SHIELD's enemies, and eat them too if he really wanted to, but Fury could not allow him to prey on innocent members of public.
There was a fine line that Fury had to step when dealing with a superpowered cannibal, and if it came down to it, he wouldn't hesitate to cut Kaneki loose if he became a liability, or if the public became aware of his nature, which would then reflect badly on SHIELD, and the organisation was far more important than any single person.
Ken said nothing to that.
"Kaneki, just remember that these people are going to be your teammates for the duration of the mission, not your enemies. There is no point in trying to maintain this facade of apathy, you have people here who could become good comrades if you would allow them to." Fury continued, seemingly softening his previous words now, whilst also trying to cement Kaneki's compliance by encouraging bonds. Not that that was the only reason, as he also genuinely believed that it would be better for team dynamics too.
"How do you know it's a facade?" Kaneki replied dryly, a hint of amusement in his voice.
"Because I know you care about people. You can pretend otherwise to others and to yourself, but I know the truth. You would have tried to kill us the moment we confronted you if you did, and would have openly preyed on living people, but instead made a peaceful agreement with SHIELD, and mainly go out of your way to search for those already dead, who didn't care about their own lives and who didn't have anyone to care for them." Fury replied brusquely, his tone low, but sincere as he once again met Kaneki's placid gaze. "Now, I in no way agree with your actions, and do not take this as approval, but I do appreciate the efforts you have gone to in order to hurt the fewest people possible. That alone tells me you care more than you let on."
"It only indicates that I care when it comes to my own selfish desires, it shows pragmatism more than anything else." Kaneki replied, his voice still tinged with amusement.
Fury nodded at that, however before he could respond, one of the agents sitting at the computers called out to him, getting Fury's full and undivided attention as he did so.
"We got a hit sir! 67% match! Wait, cross-match, 79%. The location is in Stuttgart, Germany," The agent said loudly, looking to Fury now, even as the other agents in the room looked over.
"He's not exactly hiding," One of the other agents in the room muttered as he flicked over to the image the other agent had found.
"Captain! Kaneki! Romanov! You're up!" Fury shouted as he turned and walked back to his spot in the centre of the bridge, his gaze flicking over to the three people he mentioned.
With Steve and Natasha nodding before they immediately turned to leave, Steve following Coulson out of the room as the man no doubt took him to wherever his shield and uniform were waiting.
"Oh, and Kaneki, we have a spare uniform that might suit you a bit better too. It was modified slightly based on your noted preferred style of casual wear," Fury added on, his gaze back on Kaneki as he made to follow the others, with the dark skinned man gesturing for another agent to lead Kaneki to where ever this 'uniform' was.
Following after the random agent that Fury had gestured to, Kaneki soon found himself eyeing up a black outfit similar to the ones the agents on the airship had been wearing, only this one was a bit looser in the top half and had a hood attached to it. Furthermore, there were some thin white lines on the side and front, probably to distinguish him from the actual SHIELD agents.
Reaching over Kaneki noticed it was very similar to the outfit that Natasha had been wearing, only built for a male. Reaching out and feeling the outfit's material, he realised that it wasn't leather. He wasn't sure what it was, but it was actually much more flexible than leather, yet just as difficult to tear though, if not even more durable.
Looking at the suit, Kaneki did notice one issue with it, and that was the fact that if he had to release his kagune, then it would shred the back of the suit. Of course, it would do that for pretty much anything he wore unless it had specifically designed slits in it for just that purpose.
Kaneki frowned at that thought, ripping up the suit seemed like a shame, especially on such a good uniform. Maybe after this mission he would ask for a modification.
With that thought in mind, Kaneki pulled the uniform, stretching this way and that, testing the flexibility as he did, after which he then frowned again when he saw a selection of guns were also in the same locker his suit had been in as well.
Picking up the pistol Kaneki eyed it, even as he felt the cold metal in his hand, and tested the weight of the weapon, with it actually weighing more than he thought it would. He wasn't necessarily against using one, but he never had before and this probably wasn't the time to start learning, with that thought in mind he put it back in the locker, after which he began to rootle though the rest of the equipment in the locker.
After going through the rest of the things in the locker and deciding he didn't recognise any of the tools or know how to use them, he threw his hands up in the air in resignation, and gave up on taking anything more than a pair of six inch combat knives, and some kind of communication ear piece, after which he walked out of the room, heading for the quinjet he was supposed to be taking to get to Stuttgart, where he would face of with this Loki character..
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AN: So what do you all think? I hope you enjoyed it!
Also for those that noted I have retooled a few of the personalities slightly, not excessively, but to take account of bits and pieces of their backstory that I feel wasn't properly dealt with. Captain America for example, he adapts very quickly to living in the 21stcentury, despite the fact that he was educated in the 1920s, and was fighting in a war, which had a lot of propaganda floating around, and had led to the people having different views of the roles of people, based on gender, race etc. I won't be going too heavily into this, and won't be making him racist or anything, but he will have dated views, I am not going to laugh it off with a few jokes and then ignore it like they did in the MCU. Still this story won't be too heavy in regards to that.
The same will be said for Banner, and a couple of others, who although not bad characters come across a little vanilla and hollow, or at least to me they do.
But yeah, anyway I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and continue to read and review.
Thanks for reading, and I'll see you all later.
Greed720.
