"What is it that you need sir?"
Black Widow stood at attention in front of Director Nicholas Fury. It was after the Chitauri Invasion. She and the Director were currently flying on the Helicarrier.
"I need you to take a look at these files, Agent Romanoff," he replied. A hologram screen appeared in front of Black Widow.
Looking at it, she saw a picture of an old man with spiky dark blue hair, wearing a brown cloak, and holding some kind of pointed weapon.
Name: Unknown
Description: Spiky; dark blue hair, wrinkled face, green spiral eyes
She stopped at the mention of his eyes. "Green spiral eyes, sir?" she asked. Fury shrugged slightly. "Well, what else did you expect? Red glowing ones?"
"A mutant, sir?" she asked, while rolling her eyes.
"He doesn't seem to show any powers, other than insane speed. He helped Captain America stop a robbery just yesterday."
She continued reading. There actually wasn't that much information about the old man.
"This file isn't really informed, is it?" she asked.
"And that's why you're here," said Fury. "Your mission is to find out more about this man, and bring him into the Helicarrier."
"If he fights back?"
"Neutralize him. And if he's a mutant, don't garner too much attention. We don't want Xavier and his mutant students coming along."
"Can I bring someone with me?"
"What," Fury smirked. "The Black Widow can't handle taking on an old man?"
Romanoff again rolled her eyes. How she puts up with him, she has no idea. "Well, the man DID help Cap with a robbery. That's gotta be something."
Fury nodded. "Then take the captain with you. And Stark. He's got nothing to do, and is annoying by sending spam messages to the Helicarrier."
Romanoff nodded, and went to find a jet, smirking the way there.
As Romanoff left, Fury sighed, massaging his forehead. He took a glance at the file once more. "Let's find out what you've been doing, Simon of Dai-Gurren..."
Tony sighed. He started fiddling with one of his robots.
Steve was watching him, also bored. "What are you doing?"
"Well, I've got pretty much zero things to do, so I'm going to go adjust Dum-E. Maybe make it so that he spits fire out of his mouth if people break into my tower."
"Dummy?" repeated Steve. Tony waved his wrench at him. "No, dummy, it's Dum-E. Hey, did you know that I sent spam messages to the Helicarrier?"
"Spam messages?" Steve repeated again, totally lost with the modern world.
"Yep. I wonder if they're enjoying getting emails about 25% off coupons for McDonalds. I mean, that's gotta be a pretty good deal. You can buy, like, a $2 hamburger for half a dollar!" said Tony.
"So you're the person sending Fury those things?" said a voice. Jumping, the two males turned to see Black Widow jumping out of a SHIELD plane that was parked on the landing pad outside.
"Sir, Agent Romanoff has arrived," informed Jarvis.
"Gee, like I didn't know that already," retorted Tony, before getting up. He pressed a button on Dum-E, causing it to move as normal.
"So! Agent Romanoff! You liking those 25% coupons to McDonalds?" asked Tony.
"I'm still at a loss at what a spam message is," muttered Steve. Tony waved him off. "Go search it up. I'm sure you'll be fine. Anyway, what're you doing here?"
"You assume that I'm here for something," deadpanned Romanoff.
Tony shrugged. "Well, what else?" Romanoff sighed, before clicking something on her wrist. A hologram appeared in front of Steve and Tony.
"… Wait, so first of all, how is it that you can do that in MY place? Also, haven't we seen this guy before Cap?"
Steve nodded. "Isn't this the man who helped me out in that robbery yesterday?"
"No, it's the man that helped US out with the robbery!" argued Tony. Steve looked at him. "You didn't even help; you came after everything had already happened."
"So you ARE here for something," noticed Stark. "What, you want us to help you bring him in or something?"
"Well, that's what Director Fury wants," said Romanoff. "For one, I want to know why he wants to bring him in. He's not just going to want us to bring in some random mutant."
"I think I might know why?" answered Tony. He opened up a hologram. On the hologram, were old pictures, some dating to centuries ago.
Looking at one, Steve was shocked to see that there were pictures of the old man in the background. A drawing of the Mayflower plantation, was seen, with men chopping trees, women hanging up clothes, and kids frolicking around, or reading the Bible.
There, however, in the background, so miniscule you might have never seen it, was the man. He was behind one of the log cabins. There he was, planting white flowers, with prominent dark blue hair sticking out of his hooded cloak.
"I doubt that he would be this old though," Steve thought out loud. "I mean, how is that possible?"
"We did just get invaded by aliens that came out of a portal on top of Manhattan," shrugged Romanoff. "Anything's possible, really."
"There's more where that came from," said Tony, pulling up more pictures or drawings.
Another drawing, was painted back in the era of the Tang Dynasty, in China. He, along with others, were holding the scrolls made out of the precursor to modern paper. Again, he was at the background, now reading a scroll, and grinning.
Yet another, was one taken recently, was Barack Obama, being inaugurated as the President of the United States of America, him being in the crowd.
Another, Queen Elizabeth II, the current queen of the UK, walking around the crowd, and her shaking hands with the old man.
There were surprisingly many pictures, all with some kind of important figure or moment, and him being there.
"Okay, how old is this guy?" asked Tony. "Because he's definitely older than Capsicle over here."
"I don't think I'm that old," Steve muttered in slight defiance.
"I guess it's all the more reason to turn him in, and find out how he's got himself in so many historical events." Romanoff gestured to the SHIELD plane outside. "Suit up."
"Well you've become bossy after jamming Reindeer Game's stick into the Tesseract," muttered Tony, but nonetheless had his armor fly around him, before going on to him.
"Anyway, time to hunt down a ridiculously old man, who may or may not have found out how to dye his hair dark blue, back before hair dye existed," said Tony, putting on his helmet.
"It might just be natural," suggested Captain America, putting on his mask, having already put on his uniform… How?!
"Then I guess that's another thing we'll have to squeeze out of him when we get him," said Black Widow, as they all went into the plane.
AN: Oh mY GoDs!
I only got one review… *cries* You guys are so mean…
Anyway, the one review I got asked that I make more, so thank RainbowMelon Kira 1999!
The person asked that I have Team Dai-Gurren meat up with the Avengers, and I thought, '… I have to do this!' So ye.
Don't worry, it's coming. I'm just having them meet Simon more XD Maybe I'll have Leeron after. That would be cool.
Anyway, let me clarify over the paper thing. Yes, I know that the Egyptians invented papyrus. However, Ts'ai Lun was the one who created what would later become our modern paper. He just added more ingredients, I think.
Hope you've enjoyed this chapter! And yes, this is no longer a one-shot. Which will mean that I'll have to change the summary. Oh well.
See ya in the next chapter!