Fellowship of the Avengers

by TheLycanKing

Following Thanos' defeat and the restoration of the universe, the Dark Lord Sauron, who has thought to have been defeated during the War of the Last Alliance, has returned and seeks to finish where he left off by gaining power he needs to conquer the entire universe. Heroes, old and new, must unite together to stand against this new evil.

36. To The Museum

CHIKARA DOJO, NEW YORK

The alarm went off one morning, forcing Danny Rand to wake up suddenly from his dream that he was experiencing. He taps the button as a way to turn the alarm off. Today was Saturday and it was his time off from work. He looks around and saw that his future wife Colleen Wing, had just left a couple of hours ago to head to the Triskelion. Daniel promised Colleen that he would be ready to meet her at the Triskelion very soon since he was about to be drawn into a war against the Dark Lord Sauron. It wasn't until Danny found a note taped on the front of the fridge.

Call me when your ready to come.

"I'll do it," Daniel-Kai sighed just as he was about to pour his own morning tea.

That was when he heard a knock on the door, something that he was concerned and suspicious about. He walks to the front of teh door, forcing his fists to glow to be ready to strike at the person, who was knocking at the door. However, just at the moment of when he opens it, he realized that the person was gone. The only thing that he saw was a letter, which says "Daniel Thomas Rand", lying on the floor. He immediately picks the letter up and opens it.

Dear Mr. Rand, congradulations, you have won a free trip to the

Rose Center For Earth And Space

from 12:00 to 3:00 PM. Science is here to develop all the knowledge stored.

It encompasses the spectacular Hayden Sphere and exhibitions

that explore the vast range of sizes in the cosmos.

Danny was very suspicious. He never won a free trip at all before, but began to suspect that this invitation could well be a trap that might be set up by someone working for Sauron. He then walks over to the window and noticed a number of individuals that were standing around quiet while cars and a lot of talking people had been going by. He knew that those silent individuals were disciples of the Hand that had been keeping a close watch on Danny Rand at the request of the five fingers and Orson Randall, who agreed to form a truce and prepare for war against the Dark Lord.

After having breakfast, Daniel Rand gets ready to go walking around the city like he always does and walks out of the building and ignores the quiet Hand disciples that had been watching him. Among those within the Hand that had been watching Danny Rand were Izzy Anderson, Daryl Joshua Andrews, Benjamin Bredford, Lyle Crawford, Lauren Fai, Mark Hoeppner, Doug & Lillian Hsu, Eliza Martinez, Brian Meecham, Jayce Paz, Mary Pei, Lisa Rizzo, Angelica Roeg, and Jennifer Tillman, all who were trained by Colleen Wing and became disciples of the Hand led by one of the founding leaders Carlos LaMuerto.

Just as he walks by, a black limousine stops right near Rand and the back window rolled down, thus revealing Cecilia Cardinale, also known to the Hand as "Poison".

"Do you often feel uncomfortable?" Poison asked.

"Its a difference," Daniel-Kai answered.

"Please, hop in," Poison insisted. "We have a lot to talk about."

Danny was very uncomfortable since he didn't trust the Hand and had a bad feeling that he would just fall right into another of the Hands' traps as before, but rather than hesitating, he opens the door of the limousine and takes a seat as the vehicle begins to move.

"I really must apologize again for having many of my best disciples to watch over you like that," Poison said in apologetic tone.

"Let's just make it clear that I'm not a BFF kind of a guy to your secret organization," Daniel-Kai scoffed with a glare.

"Well, they won't interfere unless if danger approaches you," Poison said. "I've gave them specific orders. Does that make you less comfortable?"

"As long as they play by the rules, I'll think about it, but I still won't forget the part when you tried to have me and my parents killed years ago, that's something I can't bare to forgive or forget," Daniel-Kai recalled something that had happened in the past.

"That's in the past right now, Mr. Rand," Poison reminded him of that.

"It doesn't matter, but what I want to know is, did one of your disciples give me this letter?" Daniel-Kai asked, showing her the letter he received.

"No," Poison answered. "I can assure you that none of my own left that letter for you to find."

"Well it doesn't matter what you know, but I will find out," Daniel-Kai said.

"Do you suspect that letter is leading you to a trap?" Poison asked.

"I don't know," Daniel-Kai answered.

"Then ask yourself, do you really believe that you are capable of resisting the Dark Lord's dominance over you?" Poison asked. "I know in my heart that he spoke to you. He sensed a weakness in you, but you fail to see it, do you? I may have been a former master of the Dragon-Kings, but I can still give advice to those seeking it, such as you. Orson Randall knows the potential power of the Iron Fist and he knows how the Dark Lord's dominance works on the most weak-minded."

"My mind is not weak," Daniel-Kai hissed. "My mind is strong and I knew how the Dark Lord was being deceitful."

"He was testing you, Mr. Rand," Poison added. "He wast testing your strength and weakness in you. Can you not see, your emotions change in any form while you continue to master your ability."

"They alter while I meditate and of course doing my poses," Daniel-Kai explained. "Point is, you guys caused a lot of trouble to Yaochi and New York, and that's why Davos, who I loved as a brother, became so arrogant that he lost his way and started killing people."

"Ah yes, Davos," Poison nodded slowly. "Heard to me he abandoned his path and became so indestructible. His arrogance would've caused a serious outcome in history. Perhaps if he gained enough power, he would've been unstoppable in eliminating Thanos. But I must ask, why didn't you help the Avengers stop Thanos in the first place? You regained the power of the Iron Fist after you completed your trials inside the Thirteen Chambers. Your power would've been the key in stopping him. The power of the Infinity Stones would be no match against your power. Everything would've changed if Thanos hadn't snapped his fingers."

"I was distracted," Daniel-Kai answered. "I would've interfered rather than being dusted and blipped."

---

BISHOP RESIDENCE

Katherine Elizabeth Bishop, also known as Kate Bishop and now referring herself as "Lady Hawkeye", was born to Eleanor and Derek Bishop, in a wealthy household in New York City. From an early age, she was encouraged by her parents to play various sports, and she displayed several medals and trophies in her room. Kate was known to be extremely confident, brave, and smart with a great sense of justice, who has a tendency to see things others do not due to her high intellect. She is deeply inspired by her idol Clinton Francis Barton, also known as "Hawkeye" and a former member of the Avengers, gaining inspiration from him for becoming a hero, and protecting those that you care about. After seeing Clint's bravery in fighting the Chitauri that were invading the city of New York, Kate herself was inspired to take a stand for whom she deeply loves and cares about.

Ever since her father was killed during the battle of New York, Kate deeply cared about her family a lot, going above and beyond to save them as shown when she had gone to numerous lengths to uncover the secrets of her mother's fiancé, Jack Duquesne. She only uses the ability to use her cleverness and survival instincts to help those that are in need, from her pet dog Lucky to her own mother, Eleanor Bishop, for whom she was hiding secrets from her daughter. Ever since she met Clint near Christmas Day, Kate recognized and saw the good in others. When discovering her idol Hawkeye had been the vigilante Ronin, she deeply understood that Clint Barton mercilessly killed criminals as he was in a lot of pain after losing his family to the Snap. Her opinion on her idol does not change as she was able to noticed that while Clint had made mistakes, he was a good man who wants to atone for actions and has made many sacrifices to save the world many times.

When she found out that her mother had been responsible for the death of Gregory Duquesne under the orders of her former employer Wilson Grant Fisk, who had been known as the "Kingpin", Kate was now in control of her family's wealth and reorganized the Bishop Security into the Hawkeye Investigations, a special elite detective agency that was to work on cases that involved with crime syndicates within the city of New York. As the second boss of the agency, Kate uses the Bishop Residence as one of her personal headquarters and had also recruited members of the New York City Live Action Role Players to join her agency.

Meanwhile while her employees were busy with their LARPING business and bringing members to join the Hawkeye Investigations, Kate had been on the phone with one of her clients Anna Donnelly, who had been trying to find her missing father Liam Donnelly while looking at the previous headlines online. After her last visit with her mother, Kate learned that her father Derek was alive, but was shocked to learn that he had been in the business with people working in Madripoor, including the Power Broker. Kate sought out answers and planned to travel to Madripoor in search for her father.

"Yeah, I know," Lady Hawkeye said while on the phone. "Look, I managed to get a lead from someone and if there's any trace of where your father is, we're getting close." She let out a deep sigh. "Its hard, I know, but like I said, I'm going to Harlem and I swear to you, the case will be cracked once we find him and bring him back to you. I'll be in touch. Bye." She turns off the phone and collapses on the ground to take a long moment to relax. She lets out a deep sigh and says to herself tiredly. "Well Kate, you got yourself into this and you got do this dam* job. Oh boy, what have I got myself into now."

Suddenly, Kate began to hear something in the kitchen. She knew that she was the only person within the residence and ran down the stairs to investigate. She slowly walks over to a cabinet, opens the left door, and takes out a knife, ready to defend herself from the intruder. Once she slowly moves a corner, she realizes that the kitchen was empty and no one was there. Confused, at first, she walks into the kitchen, leave the knife on the table, and notices a plastic bottle filled with hot pepper sauce. Then, she turns to a boil which was filled with macaroni. Having no clue, Kate looks around until she doesn't realize that the intruder was behind her.

"Kate Bishop," A feminine's voice spoke from behind her.

This caused Kate to grab the hot pepper sauce bottle directly at her, only for the intruder to grab in a pace. Out of shock and confusion, it none other than Anna Romanova, who was known as the "Little Spider". Years ago, while still a child, Anna was a candidate for the Black Widows Op Program, a Russian shadow program that trained elite assassins known as Black Widows run by Yurgei Ivanov. From ages three to six, Anna was part of an undercover scheme during which operatives Alexei Shostakov and Melina Vostokoff infiltrated Ohio in the United States, with Anna and fellow but older Black Widow candidate Natasha Romanoff posing as the duo's children. Due to her own age, Anna was unaware of the true nature of her fake family and grew attached to them. In 1996, Shostakov and Vostokoff completed their mission and blew their cover. The team escaped to Cuba. Once they arrived, Natasha showed that she had grown attached to Anna by trying to prevent her recruitment into the Red Room.

Although both Natasha and Anna fell within the five percent of recruits that survived the Red Room training, they became separated early on. Natasha was eventually able to defect to S.H.I.E.L.D. and later earned a position in the Avengers, breaking free of her mental conditioning. Anna however was part of the next generation, for whom condition was not psychological but rather chemical. She remained in the Red Room until 2016 when on an assignment to recover the antidote for their mental control she became doused with it herself and went on the run. With no one else to turn to, Yelena mailed the remaining antidote samples to Natasha, who herself was on the run from after defecting from the Avengers due to the enactment of the Sokovia Accords. Natasha found Yelena in Budapest and learned from her that Dreykov was not dead as she assumed, and that the Red Room was still fully operational. Determined to free the rest of the trainees but lacking the means to locate the Red Room Academy, Anna, and Natasha broke Alexei out of the Siberian prison, who in turn led them to Melina, resulting in their "family" reuniting for the first time in twenty-one years.

As part of the plan to bring down the Red Room, they were captured and taken to the floating Academy that served as Dreykov's headquarters. Melina's knowledge of the facility enabled Anna to escape, recover the antidote samples that were captured alongside them and release it into the group of Black Widows, instantly snapping them out of Dreykov's control. Because Melina had destabilized the structure, everyone was forced to make a frantic escape but Yelena forsook her chance to sabotage Dreykov's escape craft, finally killing him for good. She was rescued by Natasha who, after making the successful landing, said goodbye to her family and tasked them with replicating the antidote and freeing the rest of the Widows across the world. While she continued her mission to free the rest of the Widows across the world, Anna was snapped away by Thanos, only to return five years later, along with the rest of those who were killed by Thanos.

However, it wouldn't long when she learned that Natasha was mysteriously killed and had no clue as to how she died. had come to work for Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who sent her after Clint Barton, claiming that he was the one responsible for Natasha's death. When she came to New York, Anna showed up to kill Clint. After Clint and Kate took out all the Tracksuit Mafia men on the ice skating rink, Anna attacked Clint. When she asked him how her sister died, and Clint told her she sacrificed herself, Yelena told him he was lying and that he was pathetic. Then she proceeded to beat up Clint. After a few more hits, Clint whistled, using Anna and Natasha's secret whistle. This stopped Yelena and she asked him how he knew that. Clint told her about how Natasha told him all about her, and this proceeded to persuade Anna not to kill Clint, finally coming to terms with how her sister had died.

"Hi," Little Spider widely smiled.

"Seriously!" Lady Hawkeye snapped and sighed in absolute frustration. "How many times do you have to keep on breaking into someone's residence without having to knock?!"

"Well I didn't know you were home, so I decided to break in because I was starving, but I didn't break anything that is valuable," Little Spider innocently admitted. "But what I also did was making some delicious macaroni around mid morning."

"Is this some kind of a joke to you?" Lady Hawkeye asked, letting out a scoff by thinking she was being funny.

"No, absolutely not," Little Spider shrugged.

"Then what do you want?" Lady asked, demanding a specific answer.

"Well I..." Little Spider paused, taking a moment to think. She sighed and continued. "Look, I know we didn't start out in a friendly type manner, so I came to apologize for trying to kill your mentor Clint Barton, and when you were fighting, I gotta to say that was badass. Pardon my language, but amazing. But yet, I did hurt you and I'm sorry about that. Plus, I'm also sorry for having to break into your residence again, well of course which belonged to mother, who you put in jail. So, as an apology, I made macaroni, plus I made bacon and mask potatoes. Yum, also my favorite. So, can we at least shake hands, make peace, do some fun together, you know."

"Well, I had my room currently remade, so if you want to stay for a while, you can take my mom and dad's bedroom," Lady Hawkeye sighed, offering her hospitality. "Mi casa your casa."

"You didn't tell me you speak spanish," Little Spider responded in shock by dropping her mouth.

"I know spanish and french," Lady Hawkeye said.

"Oh okay, so your not really hungry?" Little Spider asked.

"Not at this moment," Lady Hawkeye replied.

"Well, that climb was so long, but the macaroni is really tasty," Little Spider remarked. "Really tasty."

"Yeah, I know what boxed mac and cheese tastes like," Lady Hawkeye sighed. "I know... I know its delicious."

Anna begins to look into one of the draws and feels really relieved to find a lot of silverware. "Aw, so now you have as much silverware since you're one person in this gorgeous residence. Am I right?"

"Believe so," Lady Hawkeye shrugged.

"Okay, well you ever change your mind in having some macaroni..." Little Spider paused as she dumps half in a boll and leaves the other half in the pot. "... then you can this one. Besides..." She picks up the hot sauce and places it all around the pot and stirs it around as she goes on. "... I love hot sauce."

Minutes later, Kate Bishop and Anna Romanova went on to sit at the table and have a discussion.

"So what brings you back in New York?" Lady Hawkeye asked.

"Ah, took a business trip in the middle of the ocean," Little Spider explained her story while eating her meal. "Wasn't fun, but I took it anyway. A man named Doctor Anton Rodchenko was kidnapped by one of my former sisters Alicia Wells. She was not willing to give up a fight against me and my other sisters that took part in the mission to him."

"I thought Natasha was your only sister," Lady Hawkeye recalled.

"Well, I had so many sisters," Little Spider began to admit and continued her story. "Look Kate, you may not know much about the Black Widow Ops Program. This kind of project existed for a century. Orphans, well female orphans, who left their families around the world, were brought into Mother Russia to be trained as assassins or should I say killers. No mercy, why?" She points at her head. "Brainwash, duh."

"I never knew about this," Lady Hawkeye said. "So, you were a killer?"

"Its what every Black Widow was in the past," Little Spider sighed. "Train and be ordered to kill any target that poses a threat to the Red Room."

"What about HYDRA?" Lady Hawkeye asked. "Has HYDRA ever had any connections?"

"Not that I was aware of," Little Spider answered by raising her shoulders as a sign that she had no clue. "But what Ivanov was obsessed about was... ruling the world. But what I will tell you is, HYDRA targeted us and we were at war with them, especially traitors in our country. Hmm, I even learned from Natasha that Project Insight was something that HYDRA failed to do. Even Arnim Zola's secret, sinister program."

"What kind program was Zola working on?" Lady Hawkeye asked, wanting to know more.

"Well, this kind of program was an algorithm," Little Spider told more about Zola's program. "It was able to review large amounts of personal information and process it in a very short time in order to assess whether an individual was a potential threat to HYDRA. The algorithm analyzed data from various subject areas: financial records, medical histories, voting patterns, and phone conversations as well as all electronic messages."

"I guess that explains why millions of people, like us, were almost killed by HYDRA," Lady Hawkeye answered.

"And it was no thanks to Captain America, the Flying Falcon Guy, who I don't know who he is, and the very last person to have done it... was my own sister Natasha," Little Spider sighed, beginning to feel a sign of sorrow since she still has forgotten the tragic lost of Natasha Romanoff. "My dear Natasha."

"I'm sorry... about what happened to your sister," Lady Hawkeye expressed her condolence. "As a matter of fact, I'm not upset that you broke in the second time. Natasha was your sister and Clint, well, he told me the whole story about what had happened. It really devastated him so much."

"Hmm, you know I wish you met her," Little Spider yearned.

"Yeah, but I did see her on the news," Lady Hawkeye recalled about seeing the Black Widow. "Fighting crime with the Avengers."

"Oh yeah, the Avengers," Little Spider pretended to sound so cheerful upon hearing that word. "Earth's mightest heroes. But where are they now?"

"Honestly, none of us have a clue," Lady Hawkeye sighed.

"May I ask you something, have you ever thought of becoming an Avenger?" Little Spider asked.

"Yeah, I dream that every day," Lady Hawkeye answered and then asked. "How bout you?"

"Nah, I'm not Avenger material, and I usually prefer to work alone," Little Spider said.

"Well, okay, that seems fair, so that's no problem at all," Lady Hawkeye smiled and clicked her tongue. "So uh, maybe we can do something. Take some time off."

"Oh, that sounds cool," Little Spider chuckled in delight. "I never a chance to see the Empire State Building. Maybe we should do that, even the new and improved Statue of Liberty, and the Rockefeller Center." She laughed excitedly. "That will so be much fun!"

"Great, let's do it," Lady Hawkeye grinned.

"You mean it?" Little Spider asked in surprise.

"Of course," Lady Hawkeye nodded her head.

"I thought you said before you wanted me to stop liking you," Little Spider recalled.

"Yeah that was before, so let's just drop that one and be friends," Lady Hawkeye suggested. "Truce?"

"Aww, Kate Bishop, you are so thoughtful, funny, and cute," Little Spider remarked in a chuckle. "You make me happy. And I think we should go to the Rose Center For Earth and Space since you won a free trip."

Kate Bishop paused suddenly and was confused when she asked, "Uh, what free trip."

"Did you not even notice?" Little Spider asked, shocked that her new friend didn't know about. "You won a free trip to the museum."

"Uh Anna, I never won anything," Lady Hawkeye scoffed in absolute confusion.

"No," Little Spider gasped. "Hmm, let me see." She slowly takes out a letter from her jacket and passes it over to her. "It was your address and it has your name."

Kate Bishop takes a moment to look at the letter and whispered quietly as she reads it through. After finishing it, she was very confused. "Anna, I don't remember winning a free trip to the museum. It just... it doesn't make any sense."

"What do you mean it doesn't make any sense?" Little Spider asked, concerned.

"Something is wrong," Lady Hawkeye began to suspect something and rises from her chair to leave the dining room. "I need to call Fuse."

"Whose Fuse?" Little Spider asked.

"A friend of mine from Los Angeles," Lady Hawkeye answered loudly as she prepares to dial the phone.

"Hmm, okay," Little Spider shrugged and continued to finish up her macaroni.

---

AA969

On the American Airlines plane, Clint Barton and his family were all seated together as they were traveling to New York City. While the kids were excited, Clint was growing a bit suspicious of how his daughter Nicole Barton, who likes to call herself "Hawkette" due to learning how to shoot an arrow like her father, received a letter of winning a free trip to the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Despite missing school, Nicole really wanted to go since she was started working on a science project and believed that going to the museum would be useful for her to write down notes and use them to complete her project early. Clint, on the other hand, was sitting next to his daughter while the rest of his family, including Laura, were sitting elsewhere within the airplane.

"So dad, when we arrive, are we staying at the Sundrenched Cozy Studio?" Hawkette asked.

"Just for three days, just do what you gotta do, okay?" Hawkeye asked.

"Don't worry dad, I have my iPhone to record and take pictures," Hawkette sighed sarcastically. "Besides, its important and exciting. Dad, I honestly didn't know that we would win a free trip to the museum."

"Did you do something on your laptop?" Hawkeye asked. "Like did you look at something that might've been the answer to all this?"

"No dad, nothing," Hawkette admitted and scoffed by shaking her head a bit. "The mail said my name. It was there and it said you won. Honestly dad, are you using your Avengers instinct that this trip could well be a trap?"

"I don't know," Hawkeye shook his head, but continued to remain suspicious. "But you should be happy to include me, your mom, your brothers, and sister. Okay, we're..."

"Family, dad," Hawkette finished. "Right?"

"Yeah, we're a team," Hawkeye nodded to that approval.

"Family Avengers," Hawkette giggled.

"Yeah," Hawkeye sighed as he began to picture himself with Natasha, the very woman that he always loved as a sister. "Family... Avengers."

"And what of Kate Bishop?" Hawkette asked. "She is family to us too?"

"She needed to go back to New York to get all of her family heirlooms ever since last Christmas," Hawkeye explained. "Her mother was working with the Kingpin, one of the most wealthiest and deadliest bosses of crime. Now, I she has opened up special vigilante agency known as the Hawkeye Investigations. Her new friends are helping her out, so perhaps I'll pay her a visit before we leave."

"Thought she was staying with us," Hawkette noted in concern.

"It was just temporary stay, besides she's got her hands full," Hawkeye sighed. "Like I did."

"Dad, aren't you even wondering if anybody here onboard this plane are ready to recognize you as one of the first generation of superheroes that became the Avengers of New York?" Hawkette asked.

"Well, so far nobody does, and that's good so far," Hawkeye sighed in relief.

"Oh my god, are you Hawkeye?" A girl's voice asked, starting to sound excited.

Clint sighed in annoyance when he turns his head over to a young girl with red hair, who had just finished reading a magazine. Her name was Robin Goodfellow, who was formerly known as "Sprite" and calls herself "Red Robin", since she was once an Eternal that was built and programmed by Arishem the Judge to go to the planet Earth to make contact with the humans. As a human, Sprite still comes off as distant, apathetic, cynical, sarcastic, brash, and slightly misanthropic, but behind her prickly exterior she hides a world-weary sadness because of how society has treated her due to her childlike appearance. Despite her dissatisfaction with humanity, she found herself longing for the experience of growing up and falling in love. She is also somewhat antisocial, not interacting with many people outside of the Eternals since they were the only ones who took her seriously and treated her as an equal. Sprite has a love of storytelling, using her powers to inspire many myths and legends throughout history. Now that she is human, she can live a mortal life.

The man sitting next to her was Taj Nital, who was assistant to Arex. As a young man in his teens, Taj met Arex in the home country of India. Having been shocked by Arex's agelessness and unaware of his status as an Eternal, who is immortal by nature, Taj thought Arex was a vampire and attempted to kill him by staking him through the heart. The two eventually reconciled, with Taj and Arex going on to enjoy a friendship that lasted for 50 years. He reserves tremendous amounts of respect for the Eternals, as he recognized them as Earth's first generation of superheroes, but also loved the Avengers since he and Arex had watched the news and were quiet amazed of how the Avengers fought to prevent an alien invasion from happening over the city of New York.

When the Eternals went on to resume their war against the Deviants and Arex was hesitant to do so, Taj spurred his friend to join them and reminded him of the importance of defending one's family, indicating that Taj tends to act as Arex's voice of reason. Taj also demonstrated bravery and a hunger for adventure, when the Eternals were discussing the possibility of killing the Celestial Tiamut the Communicator and Arex instructed Taj to go back home, although he refused, preferring to join their fight against the all-powerful Celestials despite his status as a mere mortal with no superpowers. He is also shown to be committed to his job, as shown when he carried multiple cameras with him to film a documentary about the Eternals, and continued to capture footage of them fighting Deviants even when he was at close proximity to danger.

"Uh, not exactly," Hawkeye responded as if he made a groaning sound.

"Yeah, that's a good's one," Red Robin scoffed in a bit of laughter.

"My dad always says that to people that recognize him as the famous Hawkeye," Spider-B said.

"Sweetie, please don't this," Hawkeye sighed in a bit of ignorance, but kept his happy side on. "This is why its a real pain in the neck for me to keep hearing it."

"Why do you say that?" Red Robin asked, letting out another scoff, and decided to give him some slack. "Oh c'mon, many people, like me, have seen you in action. You and your team did a lot of work in saving the world and kicking ass. Taj here has always watched the news, like me. Say, I even saw one awesome footage of a guy shooting down aliens with explosive arrows, something that Robin Hood can't do. And you know who that guy was?" She scoffs again. "That guy was you. C'mon, I've seen your face."

"Well thanks for that kid, but are you gonna ask for my autograph right now?" Hawkeye asked.

"We're on a plane," Red Robin chuckled. "Besides, I be happy to do it probably after we land."

"So what brings you to New York?" Hawkette asked.

"Well, just about a week ago, I won a free trip to some boring museum in New York just after I got home from school," Red Robin explained. "My guardian really insisted I should go because its a real experience, plus it'll be good for a project that I'm doing for school. Blah, blah, blah."

"Are you talking about the Rose Center for Earth and Space?" Hawkeye asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure that was it," Red Robin nodded if that was it. "Oh, by the way, my name is Robin. Robin Goodfellow, but you can call be Tinkerbell since I'm into so much fantasy over fairy tales, but just refer to me as Robin Goodfellow please."

"You like fairies?" Hawkette asked.

"A little, but I'm into science that involves with space, time, and reality," Red Robin explained. "Besides, you never know whats out there. Seems to me that this planet has made contact with aliens in the past. I wonder why?"

"That's cool," Hawkette scoffed in remark.

"Say, didn't I overhear that you were going to the museum?" Red Robin asked.

"Yep, that's where we're going," Hawkeye said.

"Cool, well, perhaps will see each other again, probably on a tour," Red Robin smirked. "Besides, there's a lot of fun activities to do, especially Manhattan."

"We're not going to have fun," A man's voice said, causing Sprite to sigh deeply in ignorance. "This will be your science project."

The man that Sprite had been speaking to was Ernst Wythim. Ernst Wythim, formerly known as Eric Whitman, was born in England in the late 20th century to a family that, by Whitman's admission, had a complicated history. As a child, he wished to be a giraffe. He came from a line of knights who wielded a magical sword known as the Ebony Blade. Ernst once had a falling out with his uncle, Nathan Garrett, and the two became estranged. At some point while going into college, Wythim managed to get a degree to become a teacher and historian, but had also formed a relationship with Suyin King when he met her and Sprite. He was incredibly accepting of other people, with him quickly accepting the fact that Suyin was an Eternal. He is also shown to be struggling with his family legacy and heritage, but was known to be a very kind and caring person.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Red Robin sarcastically responded as she raised the middle finger. "I got that all handled."

"I know you do," Wythim sighed. "So which stranger are you talking to now, I wonder?"

"Don't you even recognize him," Red Robin scoffed. "I'm talking to one of the Avengers."

Wythim turns his eyes on Barton, and then suddenly, they widen when he really recognized him. "Oh my god, yes you are. You... you're Hawkeye?"

"I suppose I am, and you are?" Hawkeye asked.

"Wythim sir, uh Ernst Wythim, but you can call me Eric," Wythim introduced himself by offering his hand. "Its an honor to meet one of the most famous Avengers for the first time in my life. My ward and I have seen you and your team in action for the past decade."

"Yeah, but I hate to tell you but... this previous avenger here has simply retired," Hawkeye noted. "Besides every hero needs a good time to retire after spending years saving the world, so I prefer that this time I can spend time with my family."

"You don't seem retired to me," Red Robin suspected with a slight scoff. "I think you are working undercover, trying to catch any person who is ready to cause serious sh** and havoc wherever it comes."

"Dad, is it true that your really working undercover in secret?" Hawkette asked with a smirk on her face.

"No sweetie, I'm not," Hawkeye said. "Besides you know I don't do any of this S.H.I.E.L.D. stuff again."

"Now your no fun to me anymore dad," Hawkette sighed in ignorance.

"Same here," Red Robin sighed. "I'm telling you, I already see what a real Avenger can do."

"Alright, well you better not put yourself down on that project Robin, so be sure to take notes," Wythim insisted.

"Yes, sir," Red Robin complied in sarcasm and let out a sigh.

---

ROSE CENTER FOR EARTH AND SPACE, NEW YORK

Outside the entrance of the Rose Center For Earth And Space, many people gather and stand in a line to go inside the museum as part of the free tour. While everyone was gathering and waiting at the front entrance, a black limousine stops near the front of the museum, and Daniel Rand slowly steps out of the car while Cecilia Cardinale remains within her seat. Daniel Rand knew that he would remain surrounded within a circle that the Hand performed, for which it was difficult to avoid those associated with the Hand. While Daniel recognized Izzy Anderson, Daryl Joshua Andrews, Benjamin Bredford, Lyle Crawford, Mark Hoeppner, Doug & Lillian Hsu, Eliza Martinez, Brian Meecham, Jayce Paz, Mary Pei, Lisa Rizzo, Angelica Roeg, and Jennifer Tillman, who were among LaMuetro's students. However, he began to recognize familiar faces that he's seen in the past. Among the Hand's champions were Arnag & Oksen Chalikian, Alessa Geomi, Nina McCabe, and Junzo Muto.

Doctor Alessa Geomi, who was known as the "Bride of Nine Spiders", was an entomologist and master martial artist who came from South Korea and worked at the New York School of Sciences. She was known to be a master of seduction, in which she was good at playing mind games on her opponents and throw them off balance. Arnag & Oksen Chalikian were martial artists that trained for years in the country of Russia. They always believe they speak as one when they prepare to taunt and engage any opponents they are instructed to. Nina McCabe served as an apprentice to Cecilia Cardinale. She worked as an assistant at the Midland Circle Financial, for which she played a vitol role in leading Daniel Rand to meet with Cecilia. While it was meant to be a trap, Nina pointed her gun at him, but Danny Rand was quick enough to disarm her and had her knocked out. Junzo Muto, on the other hand, was one of the most deadliest fighters within the Hand and served under Tomi Shishido's faction of the Hand. For what Danny recalls is that Junzo never shows mercy to his opponents.

Although there were some champions within the Hand that Daniel Rand didn't encounter before, but these were ones that he didn't wish to make acquaintance. Among these champions were known as Todd Fields, Felicia McBride, Bakuto Sasaki, Naomi Chu, David Kai, Victor Creed, Angeline Kutter, Sano Orii, Tanya Adrian, Grigori Sovchenko, Ariel Tremmore, Genin, Sakura Ki, Kenin, Maki Matsumoto, Kuroyama, Chiya Fujita, Kirigi, Makro, Matthew Beacher, Mariko Yashida, Naguchi, and Tommy Nyeung.

Angeline Kutter, also known as the "Surgeon General", was a former doctor who earned a position within the Hand. Serving under Bakuto Sasaki, Angeline's job was to make sure to capture Elektra and make her she truly earns a position within the Hand, and kill Daredevil. Ever since Bakuto was defeated, Angelina disappeared and had been seen ever since before the Snap happened.

"What is this suppose to be?" Daniel-Kai asked.

"These are the Hand's chosen," Poison introduced. "They're our champions and they will help you incase if any danger approaches."

"Fine, whatever, but tell them to keep their distance away," Daniel-Kai warned.

"Understood, but in the meantime, the rest of my associates will be standing by... good luck," Poison said until she turns to her driver and gives him a nod to drive away at once.

Daniel turns around to face the champions of the Hand with a very unsatisfied look on his face. Despite promising himself to keep himself a further distance away from them, he decided to do it on one condition. Despite not meeting most of the Hand's champions that were selected by their leaders to keep an eye on Daniel Rand, he still remembered Arnag & Oksen Chalikian, Alessa Geomi, and Junzo Muto as his previous foes he faced during Lu Wei's Da Jue Zhan. The only person he didn't want to confront was Alessa Geomi, for which she let out an attractive smirk on her face. Daniel could tell that she was ready to use her seduction and play with her own mind games.

That was when Arnag & Oksen Chalikian slowly walk around Danny as if they were on the verge to challenge him before in the past. Danny could sense that the brothers were ready to taunt him like they did before, but still, he had managed to beat them during his first trial of the Da Jue Zhan.

"So you still live in your own home?" Arnag asked, giving his foe a smirk and chuckle.

"Is is New York or K'un-Lun?" Oksen asked, smirking too. "I don't think he knows the answer to that."

"I don't brag about any of my homes," Daniel-Kai scoffed slightly. "They mean something to me."

"Oh, so he thinks he feels a sign of greatness in him," Arnag sniffed and lets out a slight chuckle. "Smells good."

"The power of Sauron still speaks to you," Oksen said. "He wants you."

"He's going to have to try," Daniel-Kai acted confident and strong. "I'm still as strong as I am before."

"Hmm, so we heard," Oksen chuckled.

"The eyes of the Hand watch over you," Arnag said. "Like I do."

"Wherever you go, we will know," Oksen told him.

"Are you going to have some fun?" Arnag asked.

"Not really, but I won't have fun with any of you guys," Daniel-Kai responded with an answer that sounded like a warning.

"Whatever, but I still can't itch my ass about fighting you," Junzo scoffed, but giving his former opponent a slight menacing look on his face. "So let's hope we can get back ot it sometime when this is over."

"You know I've been looking for a rematch a long time," Daniel-Kai glared at him and the other members of the Hand, who were keeping themselves separate amongst the crowd and didn't cause a scene.

"Perhaps, we can do this some place else other than this place," Junzo suggested. "What'ya say to that, Iron Monkey?"

"Come to think of it, I think we should," Daniel-Kai continued to glare at his foe.

That was when Daniel felt a hand sofly press down on him and turns to face Alessa Geomi, who uses her seduction like a Siren. "Oh baby, now that's not very nice to speak to your new friends."

"We're not friends," Daniel-Kai rejected. "I have friends that are nothing like you."

Alessa ignored his words as she walks over to her former opponent, and moves her face closer to her ear and whispers seductively. "Besides, you always have a dream for women. Much pretty in a way. I see you haven't lost your touch towards me. Does that make you... uneasy?"

"No," Daniel-Kai whispered back.

Alessa moves away and chuckles. "It does. I sense your fear."

"I don't fear you," Daniel-Kai resisted her words.

"We all fear something," Alessa reminded what she said to him before. "There's no need to hide."

"I was never hiding," Daniel-Kai said.

"Aren't you?" Alessa asked, placing her hand on the right side of Danny's shoulder. "Then why don't you just forget about your little friend Colleen and think of me. Kiss me. If you take me for pleasure..., how will that make you feel? Hmm, terrible?"

"I would remove that hand if I were you," Daniel-Kai threatened her just as he begins to walk away and pretends to hang out with the crowd.

"Try to keep your hands to yourself," Surgeon General warned. "We have our orders."

Just as Daniel-Kai continued to pretend and find out the answer as to why he would come to the museum in the first place, he slowly walks pass Clint Barton and his family, who were having pleasant talk since they were a bit excited. That was when Clint Barton and Daniel-Kai slowly look at each other through eye contact, but turn themselves away while Izzy Anderson, Daryl Joshua Andrews, Benjamin Bredford, Lyle Crawford, Lauren Fai, Mark Hoeppner, Doug & Lillian Hsu, Eliza Martinez, Brian Meecham, Jayce Paz, Mary Pei, Lisa Rizzo, Angelica Roeg, and Jennifer Tillman were watching from afar the crowd.

"So what now?" Disciple Pei asked.

"Sensei LaMuerto asked us to keep an eye out on the Iron Fist," Disciple Meecham remembered the instructions.

"Museums are so boring," Izzy responded in disgust. "No wonder why LaMuerto wants us to do this sh***y assignment."

"Well nobody cares what you say," Disciple Tillman brushed her off.

"Yo Jenny is right, I mean museums are cool and they all got lots sh** going around in there," Troop remarked.

"Too bad Mr. Troop, I don't seem to care," Izzy scoffed by rolling her eyes.

"I don't get why Danny Rand hates us," Disciple Fai clicked her tongue. "I thought the Hand was meant to help open his eyes to the truth. Its what our Sensei told us, but I don't think we're getting about this."

"You questioning orders?" Disciple Roeg asked.

"No, but I always thanked the Hand for giving me a new life," Disciple Fai remarked. "I'm became a doctor until I was suddenly dusted and missed about five years. I still haven't lost my job."

"Good because we have our orders from the Hand," Disciple Roeg said. "Our job is to keep an eye on Danny Rand. Make sure no trouble comes to him."

"And what happens if he causes trouble to the Hand again?" Disciple Hoeppner asked.

"Then we fight him," Disciple Pei answered.

"Alright well, he's not causing any trouble right now, so just keep yourselves cool," Troop said to the group.

"Fine whatever," Disciple Roeg sighed as she and Izzy turn to look at Robin Goodfellow walking with Ernst Wythim and Taj Nital, who had been busy setting up one of his cameras.

"This is really magnificent," Taj remarked about the museum as he puts the camera away in one of his bags. "I have never been to a museum like this."

"Well I know everything, hey, maybe I should get a job in working as a tour guide in this museum," Red Robin suggested in sarcasm. "Oh I know, about the British Museum or any other freaking museum that I can do. Alright, whatever, all of them around the world because I know every single language."

"Its not that bad," Wythim shrugged. "Maybe you should."

"I wasn't being serious," Red Robin sighed. "I hate my life."

"Well you said you wanted to be human and Suyin suggested I should be an Eternal," Wythim told her.

"Seriously?" Red Robin scoffed. "Look, I'm going to tell you this, Ernie. Suyin is gone. She's not coming back. Wherever she went, my creators might have something to do with her and other Eternals."

"I don't believe she is, Sprite," Wythim stated hopefully.

That was when Wythim walked into a man, who was wearing a fine suit. He had brown-grayish hair, and a smooth mustache. His name was Jacque Duquesne, a noble and wealthy businessman who cared for many people since the time of the Snap and Blip. He had an interest in swords, being skilled in the use of them. He once participated in an auction for the sword of Ronin, a vigilante who terrorized the criminal underworld, but lost the bid to his uncle. Due to his interest in swords, he was called the "Swordman".

"Ah, such an unpleasant way to move into someone," Swordman responded in a very calm manner.

"Uh, I'm sorry, I-I didn't mean to bump into you, won't happen again," Wythim apologized.

"No need to apologize, monsieur," Swordman replied with a smile. "So tell me, what prime tell would man from kingdom of England would come here to museum. Have you come to look at things, swords in stuff. I don't know if this museum may have any, but will see."

"Never been here?" Wythim asked.

"No, but I've seen too many museums around the world to explore, but not this one," Swordman said. "But I decided to attend this since I was invited here."

"Not many people are lucky to win a trip to a museum," Wythim counted.

"No, but it seems I'm one of the luckiest," Swordman chuckled in delight.

---

That was when a New York school bus makes a sudden stop, and the first three people to step out of the bus were the teachers Kyle Jacoby, Courtney Marie Duran, and Sydney Lanning.

Kyle Jacoby, also known to be a Man of Science, was a brilliant teacher who taught students about science. He was described to be a serious and reliable teacher who works along with his colleagues Sydney Lanning and Courtney Marie Duran at Midtown High School. During field trips, Mr. Jacoby was willing to do whatever it takes to make the students feel happy and excited at the prospect of having new experiences, while not forgetting his love for science. He has also been shown to have some degree of interest in World of Warcraft and the NBA. However, much like his colleague and the whole class under his supervision, Kyle greatly dislikes perversion and voyeurism.

Courtney Marie Duran, who was a former student of Midtown High School, earned herself a degree in working at her old school as a teacher. Described to be young and attractive in a way, Courtney was known to carry a very caring side, showing how much she cares for her students like Sydney does.

And finally, Sydney Lanning. Sydney Lanning, often called Syd, was a former student who studied at Culver University. is a serious, friendly, and reliable teacher who strongly supports his students. He knew which elements of the team were the best and did not hesitate to replace anyone. Like many teachers of Midtown High School, Sydney loved his students as if they were his family. When many of his students temporarily perished due to Thanos' Snap, he went to therapy to deal with his trauma, demonstrating how much he cares for them. However, along with most of his colleagues, he doesn't tolerate perversion or voyeurism among his pupils.

"Well, our students will be graduating in the next few months," Mr. Jacoby remarked.

"Yep, well uh, I'm just glad that we got ourselves another field trip to a space museum this time," Mr. Lanning said, sounding relieved. "Cause I'm still not gonna forget about our vacation trip to Europe. I mean, these elemental attacks, which turned out to be fake and this Mysterio guy, who people thought was a hero..."

"Turned out to be a stupid effing fraud," Mr. Jacoby finished. "Yeah man, I know all about that."

"We know, so let's get everyone out," Mrs. Duran suggested and clapped her hands.

"Okay, everyone out!" Mr. Lanning called out.

Immediately, all the students in the bus rise from their seats and step out into a group immediately. Some were excited, but there were those who were bored and didn't take any interest in going into museums. Among the students that were within the group were Manuel Arguelles, Jack Beanstork, Trish Bollinger, Neel Chambal, Riya Chambal, Joshua Coolridge, Melissa Coolridge, Brad Davis, Darrell Duffy, Michele Gonzales, Holly Gillis, Wendy Gonzales, Jordan Harrison, Danika Hart, Tommy Hauley, Jimmy Henderson, Ralphie Hicks, Robert Hinds, Sara Hingle, Sajani Jaffrey, Soraya Khorasani, Ganke Lee, Lindsay Leighton, Marty Levitz, Albert Mansfield, Donna Mansfield, Madeline Mansfield, Maurice Arthur Mansfield, Polly McKenna, Julio Montoya, Charles Murphy, Alison Myers, Heather Noble, William Oakes, Theodore Ragone, Randolph Robertson, Nyra Siler, Luke Tower, Alice Tucker, and Tracy Wiggins.

"Alright class, everyone knows the protocols, so we go in and have some fun," Mr. Jacoby addressed the students.

Ganke Lee and Michele Gonzales were known to be best friends, but they were also friends to Peter Parker, who was known as "Spider-Man". Before Michele learned of Peter's identity, Ganke was the first and focused on assisting his friend's adventures as they attempted to find and defeat Vulture before he could sell high-tech hybrid weapons to the criminal underworld, while also hoping to use the Spider-Man to improve their own social standing at their school. Even after being brought back in the Blip, Michele had been suspicious over Peter while Ganke would do his best to cover for Parker so that his identity as Spider-Man would not be revealed. However, it became fair for Michele to learn the truth and supported Peter in helping him defeat Mysterio, who would reveal Peter Parker's identity to the world.

With nothing else to do, Michele Gonzales and Ganke Lee continued to remain by Peter Parker's side ever since half the people accused Peter Parker as a murderer, while in truth, Mysterio had been behind the Elemental Attacks and had revealed as a fraud. However, when visitors from alternate universes crossed over into their universe, Ganke and Michele continued to help Peter apprehend and even cure the villains. With everything almost fixed, the two spent their moment with Peter since Doctor Strange performed a spell to make the world forget who Peter Parker is and as a way for them to be signed into MIT after their graduate from Midtown High School.

"You know, everytime I think to myself, there's just a funny feeling that I use to have a best friend," Ganke said, thinking to himself. "But, I just... I just don't see it. Do you?"

"No, but at least we can think about MIT, how we're gonna start lives of our own, maybe traveling the world," Michele thought about the future.

"Well, I gotta lot of you good plans once we're at MIT, but do you wanna know what imagine?" Ganke asked.

"What?" Michele sighed.

"Getting ourselveds stranded on an alien world," Ganke imagined. "That would be freaky if something like that would ever occur."

"That would be something that I be not use to," Michele scoffed and shook her head with a smile.

"I-It was just a dumb imagination to think of, but hey, I follow everything by the book on how to survive," Ganke explained. "Food, water, enough power to use. You name it. I even got a lot stuff in my bag."

"We're going to a museum," Michele said. "Nothing alien to worry about."

"Okay, its just my thing to say," Ganke nodded.

---

As Daniel Rand had been waiting patiently, he didn't realize that his brother and friend Timothy Jones, had been standing behind him.

"You too?" Timothy asked.

Daniel spins around and says, "Yes, me too. How did you...?"

"Came into my office," Timothy explained, showing him the letter. "Something fishy is going on around here. I even invited my assistant Deedra Townes with me."

"Bringing her as your date?" Daniel-Kai asked.

"Nah, not really," Timothy shook his head. "I..."

"Timothy!" A woman's voice called out.

Timothy turned around and responded "Yes."

Upon seeing the woman, it turns out that it was Mika Prada, who was known as the "Sparrow", who was an old friend and rival of Joy Jones. Working at a company, Mika took a lot of fascination of the ancient relics and studied about the mystical realm of K'un-Lun. When she overheard that word, Mika wanted to explore more on what she found. However, her life becae a disaster when her husband learned that she was having an affair and divorced her. This act really angered Mika so much, for she blamed Joy for this, but not just her.

Timothy had no idea why Mika was here too, for he was concerned at first until he realized that there was angry look on her face and he could tell that she was really irritated of something that had happened between her and him. Just as she walked right up to him and slapped him very quick in the face.

"Ow!" Timothy exclaimed in pain and absolute confusion. "What was that for?"

Danny Rand was surprised upon seeing that and was very confused. "Uh, can somebody tell me what this is about?"

"This isn't your concern, Mr. Rand, but I want him to know that he deserved it," Mika glared at Timothy.

"Okay... Mika, I think there was must be a mistake, cause honestly, I have no clue as to what I did to you," Timothy said, confused as to what it is.

"Don't bull**** me, Tim, you know what this is about, I always knew that you and your sister had a part to play on this and you two ruined my life," Sparrow responded in anger. "First your sister, Joy, exposed me for the affair that I was having with her friend Davos, and then my husband divorced me when the recording was shown on his phone."

"That doesn't seem ominous," Daniel-Kai whispered to Timothy.

"Mika, I didn't send that recording to your husband and two, I never knew about this," Timothy admitted. "If you really want to be upset, then blame it all on Joy. Wait a minute, is she here? Did she ask you to do this?"

"No!" Sparrow exclaimed. "She didn't send me! I did this on my own!"

"Okay then, well let me tell you this!" Timothy raised his voice a bit. "My sister did the same to me and my friend Danny. She's been plotting and conspiring us. She let me think that I was the crazy one. I was like a god**** punching bag to her, even my father included!"

"You really think I'm going to believe in all this bull****?" Sparrow scoffed. "After everything that has happened to me, I just want you to know that you deserved that slap from me. So let me give you a warning, don't you ever ever come near my company ever again or there's going to be a lot that you and Joy are gonna pay for."

"That's good Mika, because I wasn't even thinking of that at all, but like I said before, you don't have to believe me," Timothy said, giving her a warning. "But I want you to tell Joy that I'm through with her lies and her little plots, its done!" He turns over to Danny. "Now, let us be on our way."

"Sorry about all that," Daniel-Kai quietly apologized.

"Don't be," Timothy whispered back. "I don't know why the hell Joy would ever do that. She still hates us."

"Tell me about it," Daniel-Kai sighed. "There's nothing we can do to reason with her. If she wants to do exactly what she thinks is right, then we have to avoid her next plot."

"Guess we all have things to not think about," Timothy sight too. "What kind of world are we living at now?"

"I can't cure you from that," Daniel-Kai said.

---

A loving couple Delilah Wang and Araman Nila, who had just flew from San Francisco for a holiday trip to New York, were really excited to attend this free trip to the museum.

"Its a pity that Shaun and Katy couldn't come with us," Delilah expressed her disappointment.

"Well, they did say that they had some secret magic work to take care of, so let's leave it at that," Araman suggested.

"I still can't believe that their story about what they did was true," Delilah scoffed.

"Yeah, I bet, it was shocking to see how a guy could just appear out of a sparkling portal," Araman remarked. "That's pretty amazing."

"And creepy," Delilah added.

"Well, nothing seems to be creepy anymore," Araman said.

As the couple pass by, Clint Barton and his family were all standing together, waiting patiently for the manager to come out and open the front doors. However, that was Clint caught of a young woman that he recognized immediately. She had black hair and brown hair, and even had a prosthetic right leg. It was Maya Lopez, also known as "Echo". Born to a First Nation Family, Maya was the daughter of William Lopez, who served in the rank of commander of the Tracksuit Mafia. Despite being Deaf, Maya had been attending a regular school. Although she was struggling, she was able to interpret a majority of the words that her teacher was saying by reading her lips. Noticing that Lopez was writing in her book and not looking up to her, Maya's teacher approached her and reminded her to pay attention, before realizing that Maya had already completed the page in her book that she was explaining, something that impressed her.

As a young adult, Lopez remained dedicated to her training in martial arts and joined the Tracksuit Mafia. After surviving the Snap, Maya and her father William decided to do a lot of good things for people, especially children, who lost their families to Thanos and paid for charity.

Concerned amd nevrous that she still hasn't let go of her vengeance over him and may try to harm his family, Clint left his wife with the kids and slowly walks up to confront her. Maya remained calm and didn't make any move to attack at all. Knowing that Maya was deaf, Clint was ready to use his ASL.

"What are you doing here?" Hawkeye asked, using his hands to communicate.

"I can ask you the same thing," Echo replied with her ASL communication.

"Have you come to hurt my family?" Hawkeye asked her that.

"No," Echo answered by shaking her head and continued to say through her ASL words. "I would lay a hand on your family. If I did, what kind of a person would I be. I be a monster."

Clint looked at her and could tell by the look of her sad looking eyes that he managed to open them to the truth. However, there was a lot more to the story that meets the eye and Clint was willing to tell Maya a lot more about what happened the night her father died.

"I know, and I'm glad to see that you chose to let go of the rage in you," Hawkeye nodded his head in approval. "Otherwise, that rage would've been a lot of worse and it would've continued to lead you down a very dark path."

Maya slowly let out a half smile on her face when she nodded in understandment. "Yes, your right, it would've. But, I really need to know more. Did you really kill him? Did you kill my father?"

"I know you accused me of lying, but this time, I will be honest with you," Hawkeye began to explain the truth. "I didn't kill him."

Maya was concerned and wanted to find out more of what his former foe was willing to provide on how her father was killed. "If you didn't kill him, then who did?"

"When I entered the warehouse, your father was already stabbed by someone," Hawkeye explained his story. "I didn't know how this happened, but I didn't get a good like of the guy who stabbed him. However, I could that guy had blond hair and he rushed out of the warehouse while I killed the Tracksuits. I tried to trace that guy down as to why he betrayed your father, but I lost him."

A shock arose Maya's face. She began to realize who that person was, and replied immediately, "There's no need to tell me. It was Kazimierz Kazimierczak, Janek Bock's partner. While I thought Janek was the only person I trusted, I never trusted Kazi cause in my mind, he was keeping a lot of secrets while I was hunting you. I should've known it was him. But in the end, I realized that he, Janek, and my own uncle Wilson Fisk, were just using me as a weapon to do things that my father never wanted me to do. He was a good man. A very good man. Or should I say... a samaritan. After half the population was wiped out years ago, my father and I were using a lot of money to pay for charity, and even orphans who lost their families to that evil alien Thanos. All my father wanted was do a lot right for those who suffered. He carried a willing heart and would do anything to make a child happy, to show that either he/she is not alone. When Wilson Fisk learned of this, he didn't it was appropriate to do so and requested to stop and focus. Father didn't listen and he secretly continued to do so without anyone else knowing. Janek was aware of this and he was the one who told Wilson Fisk everything."

"Wilson Fisk wanted your father dead for going behind his back," Hawkeye said.

"And that's why I would suffer the same fate if I was ready to learn the truth of what happened," Echo stated her facts. She looks at Clint with a slight smile on her face. "Thank you... for everything. You saved me from suffering the same fate as my father."

"There's no need to thank me, but in my heart, I know your father looks down at you and is proud of the woman who are meaning to be," Hawkeye slightly grinned.

"Yes, your right," Echo nodded her head in approval, but gave herself an apologetic look on her face. "Look, I just want to say I'm sorry for going after your family. I wasn't gonna hurt them, but keep them as hostages as a way to lure you out into the open. Can you ever forgive me?"

"There's nothing to be sorry about, but I truly accept it," Hawkeye nodded. "Right now, the only thing you should do is move on."

"I will," Echo agreed. "But I should do a lot more."

"Like what?" Hawkeye asked.

"I don't know," Echo shrugged. "Maybe help people who can't help themselves."

"There's a lot of people that are struggling and sometimes their lives our on the line and evil, which takes different shapes all the time, it will take advantage over them and those, who carry a great gift, will be ready to protect the innocent from harm," Hawkeye explained the differences of good and bad.

"Is that what I should be... a hero... like you?" Echo asked.

"Its your choice to make, and I'm not the one who has to convince you to do it," Hawkeye said.

"I understand," Echo nodded.

---

Sometime before heading to the museum, Kate Bishop and Anna Romanova decided to go there together. They finish getting themselves ready and left the Bishop Residence at once. Just by a corner, the two wait by the corner for a taxi cab to stop by and pick them up.

"Do you like museums?" Little Spider asked.

"No, not really," Lady Hawkeye answered, clicking her tongue. "They bore me."

"Then why are going then?" Little Spider asked.

"I don't know, Anna, its just... complicated," Lady Hawkeye scoffed, not knowing what else to say to this.

"There's no need to feel down or suspicious about having to go to a museum," Little Spider said, cutting her some slack. "Besides, I've always wanted to go to a museum. I think it'll be fun."

"Okay, you like museums, I hate museums, but since we're on the go, will have fun," Lady Hawkeye said. "No question asked, K."

"Okay," Little Spider rolled her eyes and took a good snapshot.

Suddenly, the two heard the sound of a horn honk and turn around immediately to get their taxi, only to find that it was a limousine instead of a cab. As the limousine makes a stop, a window moves down and the person was Thelma Hogarth, who was previously Eleanor's lawyer.

"Hello, Kate," Thelma resp.

"Ms. Hogarth!" Lady Hawkeye gasped. "What a surprise."

"Hope I didn't catch you and your friend at a bad time, right?" Thelma asked, pretending to sound like she was suspicious of something.

"No, no, absolutely not," Lady Hawkeye said.

"Mind if you tell where your heading?" Thelma asked.

"Uh, we're heading to the Rose Center For Earth And Space," Little Spider answered.

"I see, and you are?" Thelma requested her name.

"Anna... Anna Romanova," Little Spider introduced herself.

"New player of yours?" Thelma asked.

"Uh, she's an old childhood friend that I met in Russia... years ago," Lady Hawkeye said.

"Hmm cute, well, my limousine has plenty of space for two unlucky passengers, so hop in," Thelma insisted.

Kate and Anna exchange looks, and without hesitating, the two just walk right in the limousine. Once they were inside, they make themselves comfortable, but didn't find themselves alone, for Thelma Hogarth had other people in the limousine. Among them were Steve Cornish, Linda Klein, and Maxine Lavender, who all worked for Thelma's law firm as secretaries. It seems that Steve and Maxine had managed to settle their differences ever since before or after the Snap. Even Steve's girlfriend Eleanor Gelden was present, including Thelma's prostitutes Mikayla Robinson, Carmen Castro, and Sheryl Doser. There was even a young red-haired girl that was sitting next to Thelma Hogarth and her name was Rebecca St. Jude.

Rebecca St. Jude, who calls herself "Lockdown", was the niece of Thelma Hogarth and a student who attended Coles Academic High School, but was known to be a social media influencer and had been gathering many followers which made herself the most popular girl in the school. One time while attending the New Jersey AvengerCon in Camp Lehigh, she once dressed herself as the famous Captain Marvel and participated in the competition, but when it suddenly turned to chaos, her life was saved by an enhanced individual. Upon learning that Kamala Khan was the person who saved her life, Rebecca returned the favor in helping her deal with Damage Control.

"So this is what a limousine looks like from the inside?" Little Spider asked in delight. "Pretty neat."

Rebecca was the first to notice Kate Bishop step in and exclaimed in excitement, "Oh my god, Auntie is that Kate Bishop?!"

"You know of me?" Lady Hawkeye asked, confused.

"My niece knows a lot," Thelma explained when she takes out her iPhone and shows Kate a recording of herself fighting gangsters of the Tracksuit Mafia. "And this was taken not too long ago. You were fighting armed criminals who were working for the Tracksuit Mafia during Christmas Eve. Am I right?"

"Well uh, let's just say that I was teaming up with an Avenger who needed my help, and that's the story to it," Lady Hawkeye awkwardly responded since she was too embarrassed to explain all this. "Uh, am I in trouble?"

"Trouble?!" Lockdown exclaimed with a scoff. "You kidding? You're amazing and a lot of us saw that you were fighting with Hawkeye, who is absolutely one of my favorite idols in the world. Oh my god, Kate, I really think you should hang out with us. Maybe come to parties in Jersey City, that would be great."

"Yeah, that sounds like fun," Lady Hawkeye responded, pretending to sound very excited.

"Ha ha, Kate Bishop, you're totally becoming so popular now," Little Spider remarked, taking a sip of champagne.

"Popular for shooting down a bell tower as well," Thelma added with a fake grin and took a sip of her champagne.

"Yeah, that part wasn't so popular at all," Lady Hawkeye sighed.

"Well your lucky that my former client Mr. Rand was able to repair the damage for you, so nothing for you to worry, but none of us will cover you again if you ever break down another bell tower," Thelma warned.

"Okay, yeah, I get that, and yes, it will not happen again," Lady Hawkeye sighed, not wanting to hear that again. "And second, I wanted to beat down a record, but that record didn't involve in breaking down a bell tower."

"And did you even break your record?" Secretary Lavender asked.

"Kinda did," Lady Hawkeye answered and decided to jump to another subject. "So, what about my mom? Is there any news on what has to be done for her trial in two weeks?"

"I spoke to your mother last week, and I'm afraid her trial will have to be extended in the next nine months," Thelma explained. "I know I kept my word to represent her since I've been a family friend to your father Derek Bishop. Her files will be kept under the surveillance of my law firm, and thanks to you, you've provided all the list of her connections with the Tracksuit Mafia and even her boss Wilson Grant Fisk, aka the Kingpin, who had commanded her to annihilate Gregory Duquesne."

"Yeah, that's 100% true," Lady Hawkeye sighed.

"I will make sure that her trial will be made and ready for her, and if there is a problem, for which I may not represent her once those nine months pass, then I will be contact with Miss Jennifer Walters or Matthew Murdock," Thelma assured. "No more delays."

"Thank you, Miss Hogarth, it means a lot," Lady Hawkeye appreciated the effort for this. "So where you are you heading?"

"There will be a special banquet event happening in the next few hours and i can't be late to attend, but will be spending an hour taking my niece to the museum," Thelma explained.

"Oh, that's a surprise," Little Spider sounded quite thrilled by that.

"I love museums," Lockdown said excitedly.

"I'm sure you do, which is why I promised your mother I do this as a special treat for you," Thelma promised.

Upon arriving at the museum, Katherine Bishop, Anna Romanova, Rebecca St. Jude, Thelma Hogarth, Steve Cornish, Linda Klein, and Maxine Lavender all step out of the limousine and walk over to join a crowd of people that had been waiting patiently for minutes once the doors had opened. Mitchell Ellison, the editor-in-chief at the New York Bulletin, was present amongst the crowd with his wife and nephew. Secretary Angela Barbato, Heather Glenn, Harold Jenkins, Elaine Kendrick, Constance MacDermid, Kathy Malper, Kirsten McDuffie, Franklin Percy Nelson, Karen Page, Rosalind Sharpe, Claude Unger, and Kate Vinokur, all who work for Nelson, Murdock, and Page were present amongst the crowd. Even Foggy's siblings Theo and Candace Nelson were present too.

Remaining separate from Hogarth and her group, Kate Bishop and Anna Romanova wondered around through the small crowd, passing a lot of people. They passed through a guy named Aaron Tagma English, who usually called himself "Dollar Bill" and had been known as "Noobmaster69". Also, the newscaster Christine Everhart, was among the people present since she learned of a new discovery and wanted to get a coverstory about it. Amongst those present in the crowd were a trio of talented, special trained nurse, who were members of the Night Nurse Trio. Their names were Doctors Linda Jane Carter, Georgia Jenkins, and Christine Palmer. All three worked together as a team at the Metro-General Hospital. Doctor Emily Flood, the current manager of the Metro-General Hospital, wanted to take a day off from work and attend the museum with her friend Nurse Judith Gettings. Even Betsy Beatty, who worked as a parole officer, had attended the gathering.

There was also a small group of people, who were holding a small sign that was known to be the Killgrave Victim Support Group, for these people were once enthralled by Zebediah Killgrave. Among the members of the group were Rachel Cameron, Vernon Donaldson, and Harry Zachmann. Vernon Donaldson was forced to act as Zebediah Killgrave's chauffeur around New York City for a week, abandoning his son while doing so. After being charged for child abandonment, Vernon's wife divorced him and lost his job because of it. Unlike Vernon, Harry Zachmann's encounter with Zebediah was something that he never forgot about. While waiting for a train, Zachmann was approached by Zebediah Killgrave. Even when Zebediah gave Harry a compliment about his jacket, which cost about $5,000.00 worth of Zenga, he was asking him if he wanted to give him the jacket, to which Zachmann gave him the jacket immediately. After Killgrave left, Harry felt deeply irritated for the lost of his jacket since it was very expensive.

There were also two other people, who both were wearing shirts that said Anti-Enhanced, showing that they don't like people having superpowers and been wanting to rid them from the world. Their names were Maria Calderon and Marcia Lefkowitz, who were both once friends to Elena Rodriguez until they learned that she was an Inhuman, but had refused to accept her as their friend, despite how she risked her life in saving them from the Watchdogs during the Blackout Attacks. Edward Leeds and his wife Elizabeth Brant Leeds, both who worked for the Daily Bugle under the control John Jonah Jameson. The two took a moment to kiss each other while Gloria Grant, who too worked for the Daily Bugle, was on the phone with

"Yeah, we have everything all set and ready for today, Mr. Jameson," Glory said, giving her boss update. "Yeah, ok..."

While Gloria continued to talk the phone, Kate continued to walk around until she ran into Mikka Nguyen, a junior at Kinney College and writes for the college newspaper and a sorta popular blog. However, along with 519 people, Mikka was kidnapped by the T.B.C. led by Gregory Gates, who planned to have them sacrificed for the glory of Thanos. The plan was backfired when Kate Bishop rescued the hostages, and Mikka never had a chance to thank her for saving her life.

"Oh my god, are you Kate Bishop?" Mikka asked.

"Yes I am, I'm the person who destroyed a bell," Lady Hawkeye said.

"Uh, I don't you even know what you mean about a bell, but I just wanted to thank you," Mikka said.

"Oh for what?" Lady Hawkeye asked, confused.

"You saved my life," Mikka explained. "I was about to be sacrificed to a crazy cult."

"You mean T.B.C., yeah I remember, and you're welcome," Lady Hawkeye smiled.

"You know, I saw how you shoot," Mikka described Kate's fighting style. "Did you learn it from someone?"

"Uh I learned myself, but the rest I learned was from an Avenger," Lady Hawkeye said.

"Who is actually Hawkeye," Hawkeye responded immediately, surprising the two.

"Clint!" Lady Hawkeye exclaimed in surprise.

"Oh my god, you... you're Hawkeye!" Mikka gasped in shock.

"Clint Barton, but yeah, I'm Hawkeye," Hawkeye nodded and gave Mikka a wink.

Mikka turned to face Kate and asked, "So he taught you his style?"

"More likely, but he's good with a lot of things," Lady Hawkeye remarked.

"Yeah, but Kate's a total bad*** and that's why she's my partner," Hawkeye said.

"Wow, that's great," Mikka scoffed in pure excitement. "I really gotta get your numbers, your autographs. So, is it true that you guys run an investigation on your own?"

"That's true, well on another note, I run it," Lady Hawkeye nodded.

"Oh my god, that is totally cool cause I've been trying so hard to find a job here in New York, but I hope you have something in position for me cause I be happy to work for you and your idol as well," Mikka said, offering herself a job. "So do I need to fill out a form?"

"Oh, none of that, but I be happy to hire you because, our detective agency is need of people that can help us solve crimes," Lady Hawkeye said. "That's why Clint and I worked together to take down the Tracksuits."

While Kate had been walking with Mikka and Clint, there was this woman walking by, talking the phone with her husband. Her name was Gina Atwater, a kind and caring surgeon who worked at Metro-General Hospital in the ER and a former colleague of Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange, for whom she once had a relationship with years ago. She always tries to see the good in people and help them in any way. She is also not afraid to stand up for herself and is one of the only people who can stand up to someone's arrogance. During her relationship with Stephen, Gina would attend Stephen's talks, however, she never enjoyed them as it was only about him. This self-obsession would then become the reason Doctor Atwater decided to end her relationship with him. After this relationship, Gina made it clear that she attends to create a rule to never date colleagues, which she entitled the "Strange Policy". Despite this, Gina still remained one of Strange's closest friends and continued to work alongside him, even inventing a laminectomy procedure together.

After Stephen Strange was found in the wake of a car accident and then brought to Metro-General Hospital, Gina stayed by his side as he went into surgery that lasted eleven hours. Ever since Stephen tried different operations and numerous rehabilitation techniques to heal his hands faster, she went out of her way to help him and trying to get him to move on with his life even though he pushed her away and treated her badly. No longer wanting to watch her friend ruin his life, she left him and resumed her life. Eventually, she came to reconcile with Stephen after a battle with the Zealots and reunited with him after not seeing him since she left him. With their relationship mended, Gina chose to forgive Stephen since he deeply apologized for being arrogant and saying terrible words which hurt her feelings. She continued to remain in contact with Stephen, and she would often visit the New York Sanctum to check up on him and was truly amazed by the job he was doing as the Sorcerer Supreme.

However, everything began to change when the Snap occured, for which Gina was able to survive while her ex-lover was turned to ashes due to Thanos fulfilling his conquest in wiping 50% of life in the universe. As she spent the last five years mourning him, Gina would go on to marry a man named Jedediah Gordon sometime after the Blip. Despite reuniting with Stephen, they both accepted their roles, but the two would remain in contact for the rest of their lives, no matter what happens. However, Gina and her husband Jedediah would attend Stephen's wedding, for the former Sorcerer Supreme was marrying Clea. Gina felt so happy for Stephen and had given him and his wife a couple of gifts. Even after the wedding, the reception was held in Kamar-Taj at the request of Jason Wong, for which everyone, including Gina and Jedediah, were invited. It was there that during the reception, almost all of the guests were fascinated by the Masters of the Mystic Arts, in which Stephen Strange, Rama Kaliph, and Jason Wong began to show them around and teach them on how this society protected reality.

Despite not wanting to be part of this magical society, Gina, like everyone else in the wedding, came to accept it and began to learn how to become part of a new line of sorcerers of the Mystic Arts. With her own Sling Ring, Gina and Jebediah were able to learn how to create their portals. A couple of weeks after the wedding, Gina attended the tour at the museum while her husband had been busy at work. She knew that he really liked being sorcerer of the Mystic Arts since he didn't have to worry about coming to work late and even going to places without having to fly there.

"Work is good so far, my boss expects one of our projects to be finished in the next couple of weeks before my coming promotion," Jedediah explained while on the phone with Gina.

"Good," Doctor Atwater scoffed. "I'm proud of you right now."

"So, where are you right now?" Jedediah asked.

"At the museum," Doctor Atwater answered. "Just been given a free trip."

"Alright, well, I'll see you tonight around dinner," Jebediah said.

"See you tonight dear," Doctor Atwater giggled as she hangs up the phone and puts it in her purse.

---

Inside a bus, a group of passengers, who had come all the way from Jersey City, were about to depart and head to the Rose Center For Earth And Space. Among the passengers were James Colin Anderson, Aiyla Bahadir, Nakia Bahadir, Amal and Sedara Bakut, Marissa Bernal, Grayson Blair, Heather Carson, Michael Davis, Jordan Deever, Wendy Green, Elizabeth Hamilton, Julie Harrison, Paul Hei, Jeremy Javits, Shawn Kelley, Michaela Gutierrez Miller, Nicholas Orman, Leslie Philips, Nancy Smith, Mich Taylor, Jonah Vargas, and Zoe Zimmer, students who came from Coles Academic High School.

Even Kamala's cousins Razia and Avraham Ali, who had traveled all the way from Pakistan, attended this trip as well since they wanted to come to New York for the first time and wanted to see what it was like on what had happened when the Chitauri attacked the city.

"I can't believe we have to order off the patio menu," Razia expressed her disgust during the ride with her brother Avraham. "I hope we all don't miss the buffet."

Zoe Zimmer, better known as the "Crystal Queen", was born France while her father was stationed there working for Super Mega Corporation Unlimited. As a teenager at Coles Academic High School, Zoe was the most popular girl and was dating a star athlete, Josh Richardson. She would later become friends with Kamala Khan and Nakia Bahadir, for whom she has a crush on.

"I'm really glad my parents allowed me to on this exciting trip to New York," Crystal Queen said in excitement. "This is going to be fun. I know Nakia, we all wish Kamala were here."

"Wish Kamala were here," Crystal Queen sighed.

"Yeah same," Nakia sighed too.

"But look on the bright side, at least she's become a popular heroine of Jersey City," Crystal Queen smiled in remark.

"Do tell, but it doesn't explain how she can just disappear in an instinct," Nakia said.

"I think Damage Control might've kidnapped her," Crystal Queen stated her facts.

"Let's hope not cause if it, I swear we will riot," Nakia planned.

"Kamala is our friend, even though she wasn't ready to reveal herself as the amazing Night Light, still she's our hero," Crystal Queen said. "And we will fight for her return if necessary."

"Right," Nakia scoffed.

"So, has Bruno saying anything?" Crystal Queen asked.

"Nah, he's been quiet, but worried about Kamala," Nakia said.

"Well he has to be," Crystal Queen sighed. "And so should we."

Immediately, the group quickly walks out of the bus and run to join in the small crowd of people that had been waiting for the doors to open. As the rest of the grou, including Nakia's cousin p were moving towards the front to wait for the crowd, Nakia and Zoe decided to walk in between Bruno in order to give him some comfort.

"You talking?" Nakia asked.

"Yeah," Bruno replied in a very low negative voice.

"Look Bruno, I know your worried about Kamala, and so are we, but we swear, we will find her," Crystal Queen promised.

"No message, no calls, its just Kamala nevers does all that, but what changed?" Bruno asked.

"All we know is, something terrible could've happened and if there's any sign of a clue of where she is, we'll find it," Nakia said.

"Well let's just hope there is, otherwise, what kind of a best friend would I be?" Bruno asked her that and walks off to be alone.

Zoe and Nakia stop for a moment to stare at him, understanding how much he meant for their best friend Kamala Khan. Kamala disappears, and hasn't left any traces a clue for her friends to uncover.

"He's right you know," Crystal Queen whispered.

"Yep," Nakia whispered back.

---

Finally, the doors open, and a man, wearing a black tuxedo suit and a black tie, steps out to meet the crowd. The man's name was Noah Swanson, who was in fact a Chronomonitor that was sent to Earth in order to watch over human activities on the Earth, refusing to intervene unless in case of a mass extinction event. It is unknown how Noah would himself a position in the museum, but as a Chronomonitor, he had ways to do so.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the Rose Center For Earth And Space, I must deeply apologize for this 20 minute delay in all, but the museum is finally open for our guests, including tourists as well," Mr. Swanson said to the crowd. "My name is Noah Swanson, but you all can refer to me as Mr. Swanson. If you all have questions, don't hesitate to ask."

Immediately once two of the security guards had opened the front doors, everyone in the crowd, for which there were over 212 people, began to walk inside and look around the museum. So much excitement was happening, in which a lot in the crowd began to look around and explore the museum.

"Here we go," Avraham whispered to his sister.

"This museum is so gorgeous to look at right now," Razia said in excitement, taking a snapshot.

"Well, let's get this over with," Lady Hawkeye sighed.

"You hate museums don't ya?" Hawkeye asked.

"I do," Lady Hawkeye said.

"Well, none of us will be here for long, but perhaps, we should consider doing more practicing," Hawkeye suggested.

"Oh definitely," Lady Hawkeye agreed.

"Dad!" Lewis called over to his dad, for he wanted the rest of the family to look at something that caught his attention.

"Coming Lew!" Hawkeye called back.

While Hawkeye walks over to meet his family, Ganke has trouble trying to avoid this girl, Danika Hart. Thinking on what to say, Ganke walks over to Michele to ask for some advice on how to get to know a girl since he was too nervous and shy to speak to Danika.

---

Elsewhere, Noah Swanson had just been speaking to one of the staff until Karen Page, Mitchell Ellison, Lily Ellison, Jason Ellison, Christine Everhart, Ernst Wythim, Elizabeth Brant, Edward Leeds, Nakia Bahadir, and Zoe Zimmer decided to walk over to him in order to ask him some questions.

"Mr. Swanson!" Miss Everhart called.

"Yes, how may I help you?" Mr. Swanson asked.

"Christine Everhart, WHiH Newsfront, uh, like to ask you some questions," Miss Everhart said.

"Yes, of course," Mr. Swanson nodded, insisting for her questions.

"Is it true that your museum is in possession of an item that hasn't been discovered before?" Miss Everhart asked.

"Yes, indeed," Mr. Swanson nodded his head. "Although, I am a bit curious as to why your asking this at this time."

"I-Its just we're curious, you know, because word was reached days ago from this museum that you and a group of archelogists were in possession of something and you wanted to share to the world," Mr. Ellison explained. "We like to be the first to put this all on the headlines."

"I... see," Mr. Swanson nodded, understanding their point of view.

"We just want to know what it is," Secretary Page insisted.

"And put this on my log," Nakia added, only to realize that everyoine around her looked at her. "What, I want to be a reporter. Like to put this in my story too."

"Well if you ever think of getting a job, you can work for me," Mr. Ellison insisted.

"Thanks," Nakia nodded in approval.

"I'm afraid I can't provide much of the details about this unregistered item that had been discovered not too long ago," Mr. Swanson rejected. "None of my staff, including the manager, think that its ready to be shown to the world yet. But since you all are insisting to see it with your own eyes, I don't think it should be a problem at all."

"When can we see it?" Miss Everhart asked.

Noah takes a look at his watch and says, "About... 20 minutes. Everyone is welcome to attend of course."

"Okay, perfect, that seems irrelevant," Mr. Ellison nodded.

"Yes, of course," Miss Page nodded too in approval. "We're happy to wait."

---

About a half an hour later, Noah Swanson leads all the guests to a room that wasn't ready to be opened yet. However, since several people wanted to get the story, Noah decided to do it without authorization inside the museum. Opening the doors, Noah brings in the whole crowd of people into the room where he introduces a cube that looked preetty ancient. A lot of people stared at the cube in awe and amazement, and were given permission to take pictures of it. Even the young disciples of the Hand were amazed too.

Clint Barton, on the other hand, was very suspicious about that cube, for he recalled that it looked exactly like the Tesseract. He whispers to his wife. "That cube... looks familiar."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Hawkeye asked.

"Remember the Tesseract?" Hawkeye asked her quietly.

"Yeah," Mrs. Hawkeye nodded.

"Well, I don't how the museum would ever keep a cube like this, but I think it should go somewhere else," Hawkeye said, thinking that this cube isn't safe to be placed here.

"I think we need to contact Fury," Mrs. Hawkeye suggested quietly. "Let him him know about this."

"Agreed," Hawkeye nodded in agreement. "I"m give him call after this."

"What in New Jersey is that?" Nakia whispered to Zoe as she was taking a picture.

"No clue," Crystal Queen whispered back to her friend.

"So what is this suppose to be, exactly?" Thelma asked.

"Miss Everhart insisted that I would show you one of our recent discoveries," Mr. Swanson explained about the cube. "No one knows where it came from, but one of our science experts made a claim that it comes from space."

"So its like an alien cube?" Timothy asked.

"That would be correct," Mr. Swanson answered.

"My god, reminds me how evil aliens poured out from the sky to attack New York, well that's something no one will ever forget," Timothy cleared his throat a bit.

"Good thing we weren't there," Mr. Lanning whispered to Mr. Jacoby.

"Yeah," Mr. Jacoby nodded his head by responding in a whisper.

Robin Goodfellow, who had once been an Eternal, began to grow concerned over the cube, for she came to recognize what it was.

"Eric," Red Robin whispered to him. "I know what that is."

"You do?" Wythim quietly asked, concerned.

"That's a cosmic cube," Red Robin continued to whisper to him. "Amaa told me a lot about them, but we didn't think that one of them would exist on this planet."

"What is this cube meant to do?" Wythim asked again quietly, wanting to get the answer while Rebecca Stevens had been watching in amazement.

"If I may ask, how old would you say this cube is?" Miss Everhart asked.

"Its old enough as you think," A voice replied.

Everyone turned to look at a corner and out of shock, they saw a dark armored young man, who had just emerged out from his portal and grins directly at the cube.

"Ah, Foggy Bear," MacDermid pointed at Exile in a panic.

"Stay behind me," Foggy said to his fiancee and pulling his sister Candace behind as well.

"Bro, who is that guy?" Candace asked.

"Everyone, get back!" Wythim exclaimed upon seeing the dark armored man.

Robin Goodfellow stares at him with a slight glare while Taj Nital had been recording during the confrontation. Karen slowly reaches out to her purse where her gun was placed and would be ready to shoot him if trouble ever occured. Rebecca St. Jude and Alison Myers quickly run behind Thelma Hogarth and her employees. Victor Creed stares at the intruder and slighty growls at Exile.

"Everyone, get back, stay behind me!" Mr. Lanning ordered his students move away and stand behind him, Courtney Duran, and .

"Who the... who the hell are you suppose to be?" Timothy asked, confused as to that dark-armored guy was.

"Well, whoever he is, I don't none of us would like to make his acquaintance," Hawkeye said while keeping his family behind him.

Manuel Arguelles, nicknamed Mosquito, and a former bully of Midtown High School, looked at him in shock and confusion, and asked, "Dude, are you like Darth Vader or something?"

"Seriously, does he look like Darth Vader to you?!" Michele exclaimed in annoyance.

"He does from the outside," Ganke whispered to Danika.

"Yeah," Danika whispered. "Totally."

"I hate to tell you, but I'm not a big fan of Darth Vader and I seriously don't have time to answer any dumb questions," Exile glared at them.

"What do you want?" Daniel-Kai asked, giving Exile a glare while Timothy noticed that Noah Swanson was sending a message to security.

"I'm here for the cube of course," Exile answered. "Does that answer your question, Iron Fist?"

Out of shock, Danny Rand realized that Exile knew who he was. He began to suspect that Exile was working for the Dark Lord Sauron. Fearing that Sauron had sent Exile to either capture or kill him, he knew that he wasn't willing to let that happen or even let his new foe take the cube. Even champions of the Hand; Todd Fields, Felicia McBride, Bakuto Sasaki, Naomi Chu, David Kai, Victor Creed, Angeline Kutter, Sano Orii, Tanya Adrian, Grigori Sovchenko, Ariel Tremmore, Genin, Sakura Ki, Kenin, Maki Matsumoto, Kuroyama, Chiya Fujita, Kirigi, Makro, Matthew Beacher, Mariko Yashida, Naguchi, and Tommy Nyeung, prepare to engage Exile as well and defend the Iron Fist while the rest of the disciples stand their ground. Anna Romanova and Kate Bishop look at each other, and they too ready themselves to engage.

Clint, deciding to take matters into his own hands, turns to his wife and kids, quietly saying, "Laura, get the kids back."

"Okay," Mrs. Hawkeye whispered back by nodding her head and stands in front of her kids.

"I don't know what you want with that cube, but I'm not letting you take it," Daniel-Kai refused to let that happen and continued to glare at him. "Nor would I let you take me in to your master."

"Is he crazy?" Cornish whispered to Thelma.

"No, he's not," Thelma whispered back.

"Ah, so you think Sauron sent me to take you in as well," Exile chuckled. "Well, I wasn't planning on taking you in. The only thing I was here for was the cube, but since you've mentioned that, perhaps he'll reward me when I bring you in alive."

Timothy, knowing what was happening, immediately walks next to Danny and pulls out a revolver that he kept hidden since there had been no security to check for weapons, and points it directly at Exile.

"Then you'll have to go through a lot of us here," Timothy warned, giving him a really serious threat as he continued to point the gun at him. "No one is gonna take Danny."

Bakuto Sasaki, the former mob boss who operated in Hell's Kitchen and once allied with Wilson Fisk in exchange for the acquisition of a particular block in the district, walks over to stand by Danny Rand's side.

"You wish to take him, then you'll have to fight us first," Bakuto warned.

"Dude, are you guys really serious?" Ganke scoffed, thinking it was a joke.

"Hmm, servants of the Hand," Exile scoffed. "Looks like I got a competition after all. Well, no matter, everyone here doesn't have to worry about a thing. Just hand me the cube and I'll leave right now with it and the Iron Fist as well."

"Okay, that's good," Nakia whispered in a panic.

"You know, we were just gonna leave right now," Araman chuckled nervously with his fiancee Delilah.

"Yeah, totally," Delilah nervously nodded too.

"Look, we don't know who the hell you think you are, but right now, you really made a serious mistake in coming here," Hawkeye warned, even without his weapons.

"Really, and you think your just gonna fight me without your bow and arrows, Hawkingbird?" Exile asked with a warm chuckle.

"Like he said, you've been warned," Lady Hawkeye said, standing next to her mentor and friend along with Anna Romanova. "And second, its Hawkeye."

"If your an enemy to him, then you're an enemy to all us," Little Spider threatened him.

"Yeah, whatever," Exile ignored their threats and turns to focus on the cube, only to realize that it was gone. "What the...? Where is it?!"

That was when a whistle was heard, forcing Exile to focus his attention directly to the person, who was now holding the cube in her grasp. It was Gina Atwater, who had managed to quietly sneak to grab the cube since she had known that thief was gonn take it.

"Looking for this?" Doctor Atwater asked, holding the cube in her hands.

"Ah, Doctor Strange's ex-girlfriend," Exile remarked in disgust and then responded in a serious threatening tone. "I didn't expect for you to have a warrior's heart. Give me the cube now, and I promise I'll leave without killing you and the rest of your friends here."

"Uh yeah, I don't think I'm going to do that," Doctor Atwater refused.

"Yeah, you tell him!" Mosquito exclaimed in excitement.

"My friend's really brave," Doctor Palmer remarked to her friends Linda Carter and Georgia Jenkins.

"Have it your way," Exile growled in annoyance and made his way to charge.

Immediately, Timothy fires about five bullets at Exile, but no effect. While the rest of the Hand's champions were ready to engage, Danny summons as much Chi in both his hands. Just as his hands were glowing as bright gold, Danny uses his left fist to send Exile flying backwards across the room and lands on his back. Most of the people in the room were completely shocked and amazed of what they saw.

"WOW!" Mosquito gasped in amazement.

"Holy sh**!" Ganke exclaimed. "That was amazing!"

"That was totally wicked," Delilah whispered to her fiancee, who was completely amazed as well.

"This will be perfect for the next film in Bollywood," Taj remarked excitedly in joy to Robin Goodfellow.

"Since how many times do you have to be ready to film all this?" Red Robin asked, rolling her eyes in annoyance.

"Oh my god, that was incredible!" Lockdown exclaimed in amazement too. "Your power is super cool! Are you available to book for parties? You wanna take a picture? I'll tag you. I follow back."

"Uh, later," Thelma said, dragging her niece away.

Gina Atwater was pretty shocked, amazed, and confused while holding the cube in her hands. "How did you even do that?"

"Long story," Daniel-Kai answered and turns to Timothy. "Tim, get everyone out."

"What about you?" Timothy asked, worried.

"I'll handle him myself," Daniel-Kai said.

"Okay, but don't get killed," Timothy replied. "But I think you need backup."

"I'll be his backup," Hawkeye volunteered to help. "He wants you, so we won't let him take you or that damn cube."

"Yeah, same here," Lady Hawkeye offered to help too.

"Kate, get my family out of here," Hawkeye ordered her and turns to Maya, using his sign language to communicate with her quickly. "Help Kate... protect my family... and everyone else."

"Okay," Echo complied and nodded her head.

Just as Kate Bishop and Maya Lopez were turning away to help, Exile immediately stands himself up and uses the Darkforce to summon a weapon of his. Clint could tell how deeply angry he is right now, so he'll have to figure out a way to take him down without his weapons.

"Okay, I can tell by the look on his face that he's pi**ed," Foggy observed the look on Exile's face.

"I doubt we all made him mad," MacDermid nodded next to her fiancee.

"Uh, what should we do with the cube?" Doctor Atwater asked in a hast.

"Give to me," Daniel-Kai insisted, keeping his hands glowed up. "I gotta destroy it."

"Okay," Doctor Atwater nodded.

"Yeah, good idea," Timothy agreed.

Just as Gina gave the cube to Danny, the cube was starting to glow shiny blow like a star. Having no clue what was happening, Danny ignores the glow and tries to destroy the cube with his hand just as Exile begins to rush over to grab it.

"Oh my god!" Doctor Atwater gasped of what she was seeing.

"Danny, what the hell is happening?!" Timothy exclaimed in shock.

"I don't know!" Daniel-Kai loudly replied and struggled to destroy the cube.

While everyone else in the room was about to escape and report this to the authorities, the cube started to glow brighter and brighter. Seconds pass, and everyone in the room was gone. The only ones who were present were Noah Swanson and Exile. Exile rushes over to the spot where Danny held the cube and looks around while Noah had just fled the scene and contacted the authorities at once.

"No," Exile growled in fury and roared. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

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Hi everyone, this is your writer. First off, I like to say that I'm sorry it took so long for this chapter to be posted. I know a lot of you have been waiting to read the next one, so finally, its posted. Its fine to ask me why I'm adding so many of these characters I have picked and are gonna end up on Arda. The answer will be told soon. This was one of my ideas that I've kept for so long after I posted my previous chapter months ago and they will have a role to play in the War of the Ring. Very soon, Daniel Rand will come face-to-face with Frodo Baggins, so I hope you'll enjoy reading this chapter. If there are any mistakes or if there's any sections that are in need of rewrites, feel free to let me know. You're all welcome to help.