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This is a work of fiction.
'Italics means he is talking to himself /inner voice '
"inverted commas" means a normal conversation
Discovery & Acceptance :
It wasn't until three weeks after acquiring the blueprints that I managed to build an extremely downgraded version of the exoskeleton.
Warmonger's armour was mostly mechanical which was great for me since I didn't have access to all the fancy advanced components needed to build a more advanced armour.
The exoskeleton looks just like a slimmer version of the Japanese "Hal"exoskeleton.
It is nothing like an armour it has no protective plates or any of that rich stuff
it was just a purely basic powered exoskeleton aka a poor man's version made for very specific purposes.
So no rockets,no arc reactor,no super strength to lift cars clear off the ground like toys, and the only protective gears on the exo were the black web vest I made prior to it and a Repurposed half face visor which was retrofitted with micro intense image projectors and control units, it doubles as a HUD(heads up display) as well.
Hooked up wirelessly to various sensors and then fitted onto a black closed mouth ski mask.
But it still was a powered exo,
it had enough power to lift two times my weight which isn't that impressive when compared to Stark's or Stane's but regardless it's still appreciated.
It was of relatively little weight,light enough to wear while unpowered and mobile enough to not get in the way when performing complex moves.
I designed it with flexibility in mind as
I was going to be using it in conjunction with web shooters.
I had very sharp tipped claws fitted to the end of the glove piece which will enable me to scale rough surfaces,
I took inspiration from lizard claws, And the ceiling glitch ninjas are known for.
Since I didn't have an arc reactor to power the exoskeleton I just used a normal highly efficient battery pack.
No I can't build and arc reactor... yet.
where would I get the money to do that?
I was not rich at all neither was my family we were just comfortable mid class citizens.
I wouldn't go hungry but I couldn't spend cash like it didn't matter either.
The pen testing job and white hat hacking bounties? I wasn't the only computer expert in the world
this is the marvel verse for goodness sake I wouldn't be surprised if somebody uses computers as an extension of themselves and companies also did have their own tech teams.
what happened to all the money I made before? the microbots happened dammit.
looking at it now
I might have gone a bit overboard with a whole unit of microbots,but it was worth it just to acquire the blueprints.
Even if I did have the money where would I find connections to acquire materials with radioactive elements for the reactor that would otherwise be illegal to even have in your possession.
Back to it then.
The battery pack for exo after being switched on only has enough power for about four hours of operation. Beyond that and it ceases to function.
Looking at the finished exo,now that I think about it, it is kinda cool looking like a less bulky version of the one Matt Damon wore in Elysium.
I had managed to locate Dr steins' lab.
I actually found his address online and monitored his digital footprints by hacking into his computer.
I knew he would be talking to banner so there would be much more dedicated data usage to that end and his lab would be consuming a lot of power due to the gamma rays machine and computer systems.
I was then able to trace the connections and power usage back to his lab which I had then found.
I then proceeded to bug and rig Steins' place in Harlem,
the reason is that I want to get blonsky's blood before he gets the gamma treatment.
blonsky was injected with a low dosage variant of the super soldier serum which gave him enhanced speed, strength, agility,and healing.
I say it's a variant because after hulk delivered a Spartan kick(heh) to him,his bones were destroyed and he healed it all in a day.
I know for sure that Captain America doesn't exhibit such feats of regeneration.
I might have borrowed some of stein's equipment while I was at it rigging his lab.
Ones he wouldn't need for the procedures really just the spares or rarely used ones.
I'm on a tight budget so just cut me some slack plus it is for a noble cause.
Not like he would notice it, with him being so occupied with banner and the antidote.
It took a month for the events at Culver University to occur,
It was never on the news.
I had made an online bot to search for specific phrases such as "green monster" "army" "culver university" and it paid off.
People online, most likely the students were making posts and threads on forums as to how they saw a green monster and footage was posted but everything related to the topic was either taken down or banned with immediate effect it was all buried and made to look like an online hoax but I knew this was the government trying to cover up the events.
I came up with various plans but all of then would either lead to my quick death or to my painfully slow death.
So after a week of pushing my mind to the limits I came up with
operation "Vampire".
it took some time to iron out the edges and streamline it but it was a solid plan.
Now I wait...
2 weeks went by and everything was falling into place.
It was late in the evening,
I was geared up to the teeth wearing my exoskeleton and my costume underneath it,Which consists of a black jacket with a hoodie covering the ski mask and visor on my face, under the jacket is my web vest for any stray bullets , and a metal canister strapped to my side.
Black jeans and to top it off all star converse sneakers .
I didn't put any symbols on the jacket
Because I didn't want to be recognised .
I just want to get what I came here for and leave.
Now fully prepared and lying in wait in my hiding spot
I'm focused on watching the live feed on my visor of Bruce banner and Betty in Stern's lab where the antidote had been successfully administered to banner.
Blonsky comes in with his unit and proceeds to beat the shit out of Banner.
Vindictive isn't he. Guess they didn't show that scene in the movies.
It's a miracle banner doesn't hulk out.
Banner and Betty are then secured and taken to the helicopter by blonsky's unit.
Blonsky remains behind and then proceeds to demand that sterns give him a dose of the Banner's gamma radiation procedure. Sterns warns him that the
combination of the Super Soldier formula and a gamma treatment would be
unpredictable and that could turn him into an "abomination",but I think he notices that Sterns is curious and interested in what the outcome of the procedure would be.
Blonsky doesn't even bat an eyelid he then continues to strip and lies on the bed.
This is where my plan comes in,
See I thought about various scenarios like should I attack blonsky with my power exo and get his blood? Nope he'll kick my ass and then kill me.
Should I convince him to give me his blood? Nope he has shown signs of increased aggressiveness and why would he even trust me. He then proceeds to kick my assignment and kill me.
The plan I could come up with and accomplish within the specified timeframe without getting my ass kicked or killed was to rig an automated device that would push a needle fitted to a vacuumed tube deep into his muscles to draw blood and this device would be rigged under the the lab bed. Then after he transforms and leaves I head in,grab my tube and head out.
Would it hurt him? Yes immensely since I wanted the blood to be drawn before the gamma bombardment I made the vacuum in the tube really really really high.
He would notice it but I was hoping he passes it off as the super serum fixing him during gamma bombardment.
After blonsky gets strapped to the bed
I push the switch for the device he grunts a bit but sterns starts talking and hitting switches here and there the gamma machines are revving up
and my device is done extracting the blood it's sealed and ready for extraction
now I just gotta wait for abomination to leave.
This is the day Murphy bi**h smacks me.
Abomination is growing too large and at this rate he will crush the bed destroying the tube of blood. I had to get in there and get my tube out before that happens.
I power up the exoskeleton and burst into the lab and using my web shooters I fire a goldline web grabbing the sealed tube and pulling it towards me, I looked over it thanking God that it wasn't broken and stashed it away in the metal canister strapped to my side.
And then I looked up and I wish I didn't, I should have just ran instead of looking. Sterns doesn't notice me at all his eyes are glazed over there's drop of blood on his forehead.
Abomination is standing in all his 10ft of terror looking down at me and then at the metal canister. He is absolutely menacing with bones protruding from his limbs the movies don't do justice to to show you how terrifying and horrifying he is.
Into his eyes I peered and they looked back at me with a sick amusement written all over them.
"HOLYSHIT!" I voice out freezing from head to toe I an absolutely terrified my thoughts revolving around my death
'I am going to die, I am really going to die, why didn't I just stay at home and live a peaceful life, why am I here doing this, Now I am going to die,I'm too young, I don't wanna die!,I won't die, I won't die'.
'CALM DOWN!' I scream mentally
'just do something' I tell myself
Meanwhile the abomination is about to take a step towards me and my mind goes to over drive pushing my panic back.
'WEBS' I thought of the ones I made to specifically hold back the hulk.
I shoot his feet with my golden-graphene super webs and start to Bolt the hell out of there, jumping over cars looking for any breathing room I could get.
I turn back to see him rushing towards me just bulldozing everything in his path there is nothing stopping his momentum at all. I notice the golden-graphene Webs still attached to his feet but I saw that they were pulled along with the flooring.
'He ripped out the damn floor!' with only his feet.
"WHAT THE HELL!" I try shooting at him again with the goldengraphene webs but the web shooter nothing comes out the canister is...…...empty.
'IMPOSSIBLE !'
' what did I ever do to you Murphy'
'FOCUS! Man FOCUS'
Abomination takes a wide swing with his arm I know I'll die if that thing connects with my body.
I then switch to the normal goldline webs, shooting it towards the buildings and whatever platforms there are and I pulled, I pulled with every fiber of my being I pulled the web so hard my arms hurt.
Parts of the exoskeleton arms were broken and rendered useless but the was enough and I was propelled through the air,
His finger misses me my mere inches but the shockwave sends a force through my body that leaves me missing my landing,overshooting and slamming through a phone booth instead.
I see him running towards me and all I can think is that ' Even if I'm done I won't die lying down '
with tears in my eyes I push myself to stand , when I spot a light approaching him and he catches it and pauses to look at it,
then it explodes and engulfs him in flames I use that as a distraction to shoot my webs at the opposite building pulling hard and shooting my body through the window.
It's been about 10 seconds since I burst into this building but it feels like an hour to me.
I'm Sprawled across the floor taking deep breaths while staring at the ceiling I notice the paintings and graffiti on the walls ' the tenant must have been an artist '
I Slowly sit up and take account of my condition.
My left exo arm is busted, I have some bruises here and there,
a bruised rib as well as some minor injuries overall I'm thankful it could have been worse.
The canister is safe and soundly strapped to my side.
So in a good condition but a very bad situation.
'Abomination almost killed me, I nearly gave up on it all, I don't want to die,but I don't just want to survive I want to live.'
'I'm doing all this so I could be immortal and powerful but I almost died. I'll have to be more careful from now on,
Without power you're a just like a sheep in a slaughterhouse'
This is a wake up call.
I'll have to deal with this later right now
I can hear screaming outside and the explosions going off as the deafening roars get louder and more primal, hulk must be fighting abomination.
I stand to look through the window to check if it's as bad as I imagine it to be and it is worse that I could have imagined,I witnessed the most heart-rending and sorrowful sight that I have ever seen. I have never seen so much destruction you'd think it looks cool in movies but in real life it's on the level of a natural disaster.
I get now why fury was so paranoid.
'This is just unbelievable'
Harlem is devastated.
Broken and burnt bodies in cars litter the streets.
These are the ones that couldn't escape fast enough.
The Parents, the brothers and sisters the children,the sons and daughters,the lovers, the friends, people with relations to someone alive ou there one way or another.
The people Who never expected their lives to end so soon, such unexpectancy.
What a sad sight it is indeed.
I raise my hands and check my web shooters.
'I have the power to help
I may not be able to save everyone but there's nothing stopping me from trying.
Someone I save today might rescue me tomorrow.
I know what the cold grip of death feels like and it's something I never want to go through again.
So seeing all these innocent people die people who couldn't even put up a fight.
Swept away by the waves of the powerful.
I may not be a saint or a saviour but I have the ability to help.
It's not right for me to ignore someone's call for help when I can help them.
I was given a chance,let me give others as well.
Such fragile lives we live.'
I silently say to myself.
I feel the energy orb begin to rotate
'I think I'll call it chi from now on' I mused
It's like something lost has been found.
Something out of place before now clicks in perfectly.
I feel my soul evolving and growing it's a gradual process but this is one of the fundamental steps necessary to my development.
I feel very comfortable in my body it's like the empty slots are being filled with my soul .
My chi that was the size of a marble is now the size of golf ball the energy is brighter and more intense than it once was.
My wounds are slowly getting better and the bruises are healing,and I feel energized like I was never even tired begin with.
'I'll have to find a teacher to guide me on using it'
I feel it now ,I have just been scratching the surface before,but now I feel that
it's deeper than what I thought it to be.
I need to be able to access this. I need a teacher.
I push the exo off of my arms and
I take my jacket off.
I grab one of the red spray cans in the room and went to work on my it.
Drawing the outline of a red spider with the fore tentacles overarching all the way to the front of the jacket. I took a moment to admire my work and then wore back the jacket and put on the exo.
I look out the window and saw parts of buildings on the verge of collapsing but with people still in it and others trapped under debris and car parts.
'Let's help people first.'
I then jumped out the window
web shooters drawn out and
weblines shot through the air.
'Time to be a Hero.'
*That took a while to finish.
I hope you all enjoyed it.
Things won't always go according to plan for Miles' he'll have to learn to improvise on the spot to solve his "spontaneous" problems and the unknown variables.
Thank you all for sticking around through it all.Victory*
