Chronicles of the Night
When we last left off, vacation was just starting for the Night-hunters, but then Felix gets an unexpected call from an old acquaintance he had hoped to never hear from again. General Nicholas Fury has requested the assistance of the Night-hunters for what sounds like a dangerous task, and while they are on their way Felix recounts his time with the legendary super-hero team, the Ultimates.
Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel comics, I do own my Original characters and the plot.
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Training
Felix woke up in a hospital bed. "Huh? Whoa… where the heck am I?" He thought. "Was it… all a dream?" Felix pulled his hands out from under the covers and noticed that his fingers lacked nails. "No… no… it was all real…" He thought despairingly. "But that brings me back to my last question… where am I?"
"He's finally awake sir."
"Hm?" Felix turned to the door of his room. An African-American man wearing a general's uniform adorned with many medals, the most striking feature was an eye patch over his left eye. "Who… are you?"
"So, you don't remember anything that happened do you?" The man asked.
"What?"
"What's the last thing you remember?"
"Again… what? Where are you going with this? What is going on?!" Felix started demanding.
"The sooner you answer my question the sooner you find out!" The man told him forcefully.
"…" Felix took a deep breath and thought for a moment. "Some… man pulled a shotgun and… MOM! What happened to my mom!?" Felix asked.
"She's dead son. The bullet killed her instantly."
"…no…no…" Felix moaned while shaking his head. "Everyone…"
"If it's any consolation, the man who shot your mom is in custody right now for attempt at murder and 2nd degree murder."
"Who are you?" Felix asked.
"General Nicholas Fury."
"Oh, you're that guy who commissioned our project." Felix said.
"Yes. Now, a few more things I need to tell you."
"What?"
"You tried to kill that man who killed your mom."
"What? No… I couldn't possibly. I have no recollection, and… I couldn't if I tried."
"Have you noticed anything odd about yourself?"
"Excuse me?"
"You were discharged from the hospital days earlier than expected, and your hands… take another good look at your fingers."
"…" Felix lifted his hand, he studied it for a moment and then, some kind of reflex told him to flex some muscle, a muscle he wasn't sure he had. Felix's hand twitched only slightly, and sharp claws came from the tips of his fingers. "Sweet mother of… oh my god… what in the world…" Felix started stuttering.
"Here's your medical examination." Fury said as he handed him some folder. Felix sat upright and opened the folder and looked at the papers inside of it.
"According to our own Janet Pym's examination, your joints and skeletal structure allow for above normal flexibility, not only that but examinations of your eyesight and ears have determined that your hearing and sight, and I'm willing to bet your other senses are more comparable to a cat's. And considering the lack of cat blood that should have been on the scene that could only mean…" Fury started.
"That blood I swallowed bonded to my DNA." Felix finished.
"Now you have a few options."
"Options?"
"As a super human that is a legal adult in the United States, you fall under my jurisdiction." Fury said as he got a serious look on his face.
"Jurisdiction? What are you talking about?"
"Like it or not kid, you have powers, and now I'm going to give you a few choices." Fury said. "One, we can hold you in a cell until we have a way to permanently remove your powers. Two, we let you out and keep constant surveillance on you to make sure you don't hurt anyone."
"I'm not liking any of these…" Felix said.
"Three, work here in our labs, continue your project and work until I say you're done."
"This… sucks…" Felix thought.
"Or four, do something useful with those powers." Fury said.
"…" Felix thought for a moment, he picked up a mirror and looked at himself. Now that he looked at his eyes, he noticed that while they weren't as narrow as a cat's would be in a bright room like this, they were a bit more narrow than a normal human's would be. "Could I even live a normal life?"
"Well kid?" Fury asked.
"…" Felix looked at Fury with a frustrated face and then said "What's this fourth option?"
It was the next day, Felix was being led by two soldiers armed with rifles to a room that was built like a gymnasium that an Olympic gold medalist would sell their souls to be able to work out at. It had a balancing beam, a large mat, a vault, uneven bars, just about everything; it also had bench pressing equipment and a treadmill. "You must be kidding me." Felix said.
"Kid, if I was kidding you do you think this would be set up for you?" Fury asked. "Now then, as long as you're not slacking off, do whatever you want in this gym, but please mix it up a little don't spend all day on one thing."
"I'm a scientist not a gymnast." Felix said.
"Oh and there's one more catch." Fury said, he pressed a button on some remote, and the room went pitch black. "You've got to do it all in the dark."
"Oh you must be kidding… hm?" Felix looked about, he could still see nearly every solid object in the room, and even though it was hard, he could even pick up very faint color, but it was still mostly monochromatic. He then heard the door shut and three sets of footsteps walk away. "Hmph."
Felix first walked up to the balancing beam, the beam was high enough to reach his shoulder and two of him lying on the ground would barely equal its length. "This is nuts." Felix crouched somewhat and then jumped up and landed on his two feet on top of it. "Hm!" He was surprised at how easy it was to just jump on to the beam, much less land on it squarely on both feet without even wobbling. "Swee…WHOA!" The claws on Felix's toes came out and snagged on to the cloth on the balancing beam and he nearly lost his balance. "I've… got to work on these things."
Meanwhile…
"How's he doing in there?" Fury asked two guys who were at monitors that were playing Felix, who was now doing numerous stunts on the uneven bars, doing flips, somersaults, and stunts on the uneven bars that no gymnast in their right mind would attempt.
"God… if only I were that flexible." One guy commented.
"Not to mention how fast he is and how perfect that timing is, all in the dark too." A guy commented as Felix grabbed the uppermost uneven bar by his leg joints, spun on it a few times, and then stopped suddenly and grabbed the lower bar to continue his flipping.
"And fact of the matter is that nearly all of the equipment here was raised higher than regulation and yet he can still get on the equipment as if it were set for a child's gym competition." One continued.
"Yeah he's impressive alright, has he been varying it out though, or has he been monkeying around on the uneven bars the whole time.
"The only thing he hasn't tested out were the bench-press set, or the treadmill."
"Okay then…" Fury said. He walked over to the panel and pressed a button. "Hey Dr. Thomas, we do have a schedule to keep so you'd better use that treadmill and bench set before you get out of there."
"Hm? Fine." Felix responded, letting go of the bars and landing on his feet. "Hmmmm… I think I've finally figured out how to make these claws appear and how to keep them retracted."
"How low are the speakers set?" Fury asked.
"Lower than what should be in the human hearing range." One of the men responded.
"Man that's amazing."
"Let's see…" Felix added a couple of weights to it, now more confident on how strong he was, and then lifted, it was like lifting a plastic toy.
"What have you got?" Fury asked, as a monitor measured the rate Felix lifted the weights.
"Judging from the weight he added and the ease lifting it…" The man punched numbers in to the computer and, "He appears to be able to lift somewhere between the eight and ten ton range."
"Oh, he's starting the treadmill." All three of them stared at the monitors and watched as he ran the machine. "Whoa…"
"Tell me how long he can keep that up." Fury said as he walked out of the room.
Later…
"Really?" Felix asked, surprised as he walked down the hall next to fury, wiping away his sweat with a towel.
"Really, you could outrun a car going sixty for short sprints if you wanted to." Fury said.
"I see…" Felix said, revealing and retracting the claws on the fingertips of right hand over and over again, watching them each time.
"Now we're going to get more exact measurements of your ability to hear and smell." Fury said.
"Oy… I have a feeling I'm not going to like this." Felix sighed.
Afterwards…
"If I ever have to smell another raw fish mixed in with compost it'll be too soon." Felix groaned, again behind led by Fury down another hallway. "Now where are we going?"
"Tell me something, you know how to fight?" Fury asked.
"You just hit the other guy with your fist right? What's there to know?" Felix asked. Fury looked at him, and his one eye gave him a somewhat pitiful look. "What? I'm a scientist not a soldier you know."
"Come with me." Fury said after a heavy sigh. "If you're going to be part of the team, you've got to learn how to fight."
"Oh and how exactly are you going to teach me?" Felix asked.
"Thankfully he got a little spare time on his hands so he can teach you a few moves." Fury continued as they approached a door.
"He? He who?" Felix asked. The door opened, it was a medium sized room that had a gym mat in the very middle of it, and standing on the mat was a man that was quite muscular, but it was still proportionate to his body, he had blonde hair, blue gym shorts with red stripes on the sides, and a white tank-top. "No way…"
"Felix, meet Captain America, Cap, meet Felix."
"It's an honor to meet you sir." Felix said, holding a hand out.
"The pleasure's mine." Steve said, shaking Felix's hand. "I heard about what happened and I'm sorry about your loss."
"Um… thanks." Felix said.
"Anyways, Steve, put him through some one-on-one training. And make him wish he could have stayed in that chemistry lab." Fury said.
"Yes sir." Steve said.
"Wait, you'll be teaching me how to fight?" Felix asked.
"Yes, but first put these on." Steve said, handing Felix mouth guards, shaped to fit Felix's cat-like fangs, headgear, gloves, and boots that were padded for safety while Steve put his own in. "First of all show me what you've got now."
"Okay, but you asked for it." Felix said. He threw a kick at Steve, however Steve quickly caught his foot and pulled upward, Felix caught himself on his hands and tried throwing the other foot at Steve, but Steve grabbed that one too, slid under Felix and kicked one of his arms out from under him, causing Felix to hit the ground and allowing Steve to pin him easily. All of this happened in about five seconds.
"Your balance and reflexes are good, but you left yourself wide open to far more counter attacks than that." Steve said.
"No kidding." Felix said. Steve let him off of the floor.
"Now, try again." Steve said.
"…" Felix darted from side to side in close proximity but was soon floored again. "Oof!"
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"Ooooooooooohhhhh…" Felix groaned. "Sheesh, I've tried something different each time, but he always manages to floor me. He knows much more about hand-to-hand combat than I'll know in a thousand years."
"Come on solider, we're not done yet, this time try keeping your hands up, and all of your senses open." Steve said.
"Easy for him to say… wait… all of my senses open… of course." Felix got up and took a wider stance while also holding his hands up to guard his head.
"That stance is better, now try attacking me." Steve said.
"Here I go." Felix said. Felix hopped in and feigned a punch before quickly stepping to the side and throwing a fist at Steve's side. Steve grabbed that arm with one hand and kept one hand free to grab Felix's other hand, anticipating a follow up attack. Instead of trying to knee Steve, Felix jumped up and used both of his legs to kick off of Steve and back flip away from Steve.
"That's better." Steve thought. The blow hardly fazed Steve, and he ran in to deal another blow, however Felix kept his ears opened, the second he landed he caught Steve's punch, spun to Steve's backside while holding the arm, but Steve turned also and grabbed one of Felix's arms with his free hand. Thanks to Felix's somewhat loose skin he slipped away and then immediately hopped back in to throw a punch and two kicks before blocking a few more blows.
"Keep your senses open, keep your senses open…" Felix kept telling himself. "And it wouldn't hurt to try a few of those moves he showed me." Felix pushed two punches to the side, side-stepped a follow up knee, blocked a follow up left hook from Steve, and finally landed a solid punch to Steve's face. "I actually hit him!" Felix thought with joy.
"Not bad." Steve said. "However…" Steve then jumped at Felix and nearly slammed his fist down on Felix, Felix jumped to the side and got ready to attack again when Steve got on the hand he just about hit Felix with and swiveled to that side with his leg outstretched, catching Felix in the waist.
"Oof!" Felix fell to the ground again. "Ah man…"
"You're still going to have to do better than that." Steve told him. "Word of advice, you have a lot more agility than you were using, so I suggest you play to your strengths more often." Steve said.
"Play to my strengths…" Felix echoed. "I'll have to remember that." Felix said, getting up from the ground and walking out of the room behind Steve.
"Oh, I do have one more word of advice." Steve said.
"What?" Felix asked.
"Don't waste all of your strength on one punch, hit your opponents with smaller blows, slowly wearing them down, and then finish them off with a last, powerful blow." Steve advised.
"Yeah, okay." Felix said.
The next day…
"Sheesh, do you know what time it is?" Felix asked, walking down yet another hallway with Fury. "And what's with this costume?" Felix asked. He was wearing a black body suit that had no sleeves, and green insets along the chest and torso. He also had black fingerless gloves, and the feet of the bodysuit had no toes.
"It was specially made not to hinder your movement in any way and so you can use your claws freely." Fury said. "And as much as I would like to spend more time training you, I've got to get you started now."
"Man, and I was getting to like Bruce too." Felix sighed.
"You can talk to Banner after he's finished making a new super soldier serum." Fury told him. "As of right now until Ms. Ross can think of a way to explain your background to the public, you'll be in the black-ops division of the Ultimates."
"Black-ops? Never heard of it." Felix said.
"Of course you haven't, that's why it's called black-ops." Fury said. "Your team is in this room." Fury said, standing right by the door. Felix looked at him suspiciously, the second he opened the door he leaned to the side quickly to avoid an arrow that would have hit his head.
"Son of a… okay who is the damned moron who shot that?" Felix asked angrily.
"Just had to make sure you weren't going to get us all killed." A man wearing a black sleeveless bodysuit with silver-ridged body armor on the chest and red insets at the back and sides and glasses. He also had close-shaven blonde hair.
"You don't have to be so hard on the child." A red-head woman in black spandex said with a thick Russian accent.
"Felix, meet Clint Barton, also known as Hawkeye, and Natasha Romanov, also known as the Black Widow." Fury introduced.
"How come they get cool code-names?" Felix asked under his breath.
"Fury, you're not seriously sticking this guy on us are you?" Clint asked.
"What was that?" Felix asked.
"Yes I am… and you two have a clue that only he's going to be able to help you out with. You've read the diagnostics of his abilities, so you need to get straight back to your case." Fury instructed.
"Where are the other children?" Natasha asked.
"They're busy keeping the brotherhood pacified." Fury explained before walking out.
"Other two?" Felix asked.
"Wanda and Pietro, otherwise known as Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver." Clint said as he started for the door Felix was standing in front of.
"What? But those guys were Magneto's kids weren't they before Professor Xavier… well…" Felix started to say.
"Yes." Natasha said. "However we've got a job for you to do right now, hurry along."
"Wait, what are we even doing?" Felix asked.
Later…
Clint was wearing a long black coat over his outfit while Felix was wearing black and grey casual clothes over his outfit, complete with shades and gloves. "So… you two have been investigating an alien race known as the Chitauri?"
"Right, they're shape shifters, allowing them to disguise themselves perfectly. They are one of the ten known extra-terrestrials on Earth, and the ones we know are most likely to strike us down." Clint explained.
"Okay… and what can I do?" Felix asked.
"Be patient and I'll tell you kid." Clint snapped.
"Sheesh." Felix said. "I hate this guy." Felix thought.
"I hate this guy." Clint thought. "Natasha found one guy that was definitely Chitauri, but he got away, leaving behind only this." Clint said, holding out a simple pen.
"And what can you do with a pen?" Felix asked.
"Nothing, that's what we need you for you idiot." Clint said. "You're supposed to have a great sense of smell right? Well sniff him out."
"All right all right." Felix sighed. He took the pen and sniffed it a little bit when he was sure no one was looking. "This way." Felix said, walking in one direction.
"You sure?" Clint asked.
"You want my help or not?" Felix asked.
"Not like I have a choice." Clint commented. Felix led Clint across quite a few streets, and down a number of side-walks until they finally came to a large parking garage. "Is he here?"
"Hmmm… yeah… his scent is coming from… over there." Felix said, pointing to an African-American man with a goatee.
"I'll handle this. Hey you!" Clint walked over to the man, who was standing just outside his car door. "I've got a few questions I'd like to ask you and you're going to have to come with me."
"Oh… I think not." The man pulled out a pistol and aimed for Clint.
BANG
"Whoa!" Clint dived behind a car, drawing a bow from under his coat. The man hopped in to his car and quickly started the engine. Felix was prepped to jump in but he heard Clint notching two arrows.
"What is he planning on…" Felix started to ask. Clint prepped his bow and as the car drove by his cover, he fired two arrows at a very narrow angle. One arrow hit the front tire on the driver's side, and the other went under the car and hit the other front tire.
SCREEEEEEEEEEEECH
"!!!" Felix jumped in front of the car, used the nails on his toes to brace himself, and stopped the car, sliding backwards only a little bit.
"Oooooooooggghhh…" The man fell out of his car, bleeding slightly from his head.
"By the way… we might want to watch out for the guys around us…" Felix said.
Click
Click
Click click
The next minute, a dozen guys surrounded the two of them, aiming guns at their heads. "Ah crap." Hawkeye said.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang
Those twelve guys then dropped to the ground with a bullet placed in each of their skulls.
"Hello darlings." Natasha said, walking in while brandishing two pistols that she dropped the ground immediately.
"That was convenient." Felix commented, looking at all of the dead guys. "Am I… going to have to kill like that?" Felix wondered.
"Well, this helped along our investigation, your help was most appreciated." Natasha said, walking right by Felix without looking at him.
"Why thank you Natasha… good to know somebody's grateful around here." Felix said, obviously hinting something to Clint.
"Shut up." Clint said, picking up the guy they just captured and following Natasha.
"He is a kid you know." Natasha said.
"So? I don't like kids." Clint said.
"I'm legally an adult you know!" Felix pointed out frustratingly, following them out of the parking lot.
"We're going to get killed by this guy." Clint sighed.
Back to the present…
"You actually got trained by Captain America?" Joseph asked, chuckling at this.
"What? Did you think they taught you how to fight at the chemistry lab?" Felix asked.
"Did you not like that Hawkeye guy?" Lisa asked.
"Not one bit. I hated that guy's guts." Felix said. "Though I wasn't really working with them too often, I got to meet Tony Stark, you know Iron Man, and I met Hank and Janet Pym, nice couple really. Oh and I really enjoyed talking to Bruce Banner, I kind of sympathized with the guy too… although I pitied him more."
"Why?" Both Joseph and Lisa asked.
"Well… you CAN NOT say this to anyone outside the Triskileon but…"
Back to Felix's story…
"Ha! Hiyah!" Felix was in the gym beating on a punching bag. "Whew…" After he had gotten a good workout, he headed out in to the hallway. "Hm? Wow… somebody's heartbeat is REALLY fast… What's that OOF!" Felix was suddenly knocked off of his feet without even knowing what hit him.
"Ha ha…"
"Hm!" Felix immediately rolled on to the side, crouched and grabbed someone's wrist before pinning them to the wall. "Quicksilver I presume?" Felix asked in an annoyed tone of voice. The guy he just pinned to the wall had silver hair, most of it was combed back, but two long strands of hair dangled in front of his forehead. He also had on a black body suit with blue insets along the sides.
"Yes, now could you let Pietro go?" Came a young woman's voice.
"Sorry." Felix said, letting Pietro go and dusting himself off. He looked at the girl who said that, she long, dark red hair, a red and black top that left her stomach exposed, and matching leather pants. "And you must be Wanda."
"Pleasure to meet you." Wanda said.
"I've heard a lot about you two lately… and honestly that's great what you've been doing." Felix said.
"Hmph… our father would say otherwise if he knew about this." Pietro scoffed.
"Well, I was just off to get suited up in case they need me." Felix said.
"You expecting an assignment?" Wanda asked.
"Nah… but hey, we get more work than the public team." Felix remarked.
"CODE RED!!! CODE RED!!!"
"What the hell?" Felix asked.
"This is General Nicholas Fury! We need to dispatch the Ultimates ASAP! We have an emergency in the New York area and we need it taken care of now!"
"What has Fury so riled up?" Quicksilver asked.
"Where did Felix go?" Wanda asked.
"Ugh… he's not with the Ultimates public team, he's supposed to stay here…"
Later…
Felix was clinging to the side of a helicopter, making sure he was out of the line of sight of Iron Man, was flying a ways behind them as per Captain America's plan. Felix was listening to the radio blaring while watching numerous helicopters hold a suspended Giant Man underneath them. "That outfit looks ridiculous." Felix thought, staring at that full-body brown and orange suit complete with goggles that Hank Pym was wearing.
"We contacted Thor sir." A soldier reported to Fury.
"What did he say?" Fury asked.
"Thor refuses to help unless the president doubles the international budget."
"So it's basically just the four of us." Janet Pym said from inside the helicopter.
"Thor… yeah like that guy would ever help a military organization…" Felix thought. His attention was then diverted to the streets below. It could only be called chaos. There were massive wrecks, parts of the street were on fire, there were massive craters in the street, and chunks of buildings were torn off.
"Release!" Giant man was dropped from the numerous helicopters where he landed on the ground, leaving massive footprints in the ground. Felix then watched in awe as he grabbed some large figure clinging to the side of a skyscraper, then clutching it in both hands.
"Okay Bruce… now knock it off or I'll have to squish ya…" Giant man said, struggling to keep clutching whatever he was holding. Then whatever it was leaped out of Hank's hands and grabbed him around his throat, squeezing the throat tightly. "Hack…" He gagged as he fell backwards, taking nearly a whole side of a skyscraper with him.
"Oh my god!"
"Big man make Hulk angry! Hulk not be squished by puny big man!" A raging voice echoed.
"He's going to kill Hank! Do something!" Janet shouted as the massive figure grabbed the upper and lower jaw of Hank and started pushing them apart to the point he started to bleed from the mouth.
"Hang on to your seats!" Iron man then flew in and tackled the figure and the two went flying in to a large building. Felix looked around and saw an opportunity to get in to the building without being seen. He leaped off the helicopter and landed in the hole that was made.
"Holy… crap…" Felix gasped.
"RAH!!!"
"OOF!" Iron man, whose armor was mostly gray with yellow and red spray paint on the shins, arms, chest and helmet, was punched through a pillar with a bunch of rubble coming down on him.
"Metal man keep Hulk away from Betty…" The behemoth said as he removed Tony's helmet and was threatening to crush Tony's head like a grape. Felix finally got a good look at Bruce, he had turned in to a tall and monstrously muscular giant that had green-grey skin, and big blue jeans that only looked like tight shorts on the Hulk's body.
"Hey you big green wimp!" Felix jumped on to his shoulder, then slammed both of his fists in to either side of the Hulk's head. He jumped off before the Hulk grabbed him, but the Hulk then turned to look at Felix with an evil glare in his eyes. "Oh hell…"
"Hulk thought Felix would understand… but he just as bad as rest of them! HULK SMASH!!!" The Hulk roared.
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