`Flying away from Hulk and Abomination I started to think about what I could possibly do with my new life. I knew that people like Stark wouldn't bother with me until the Avengers came together as I wasn't some rich genius that could even pique his interest. I knew for sure I didn't want to be stuck under the thumb of the government, I had already experienced that in my last life with my military service and I didn't want it again so that meant no SHIELD.

I came to the decision of learning as much as I could about the world as I already felt sure this was the MCU but wanted to ensure it for peace of mind. Another thing that came to mind was that I no longer had a home, where I would stay was now bothering me. I had two years until Loki invaded and I had to find a way to ensure that I was apart of the Avengers. The first thing I did once I was far enough away from where the fight took place was use my x-ray to look for any crime. You may think "oh look a goody two shoes crime fighter" and you'd be wrong, the only reason I was looking for crime, mainly a base for criminals, was for easy money. I didn't have a wallet on me when the fight with Abomination started, and with the apartment I was in destroyed I doubted I'd find anything.

It honestly didn't take long to find something shady to going on while using my super hearing and x-ray vision, the super hearing part almost screwing me up as when I focused on it, I started hearing things at a ridiculous distance. That's when it hit me, I could remember things from ages ago that I had forgotten, I'm not saying I became Stark levels of smart but things I had read years ago in my last life started coming back to me with ease, one of those things being Homelander's claim in the comics to even be able to hear neurons firing in someone's brain and that's when it hit me, that's why my super hearing was so hard to deal with even when I was hundreds of feet above the city at that point.

Ignoring that revelation, I headed in the direction of the closest bit of crime I could hear. Luckily that was a mildly large drug deal where I dropped in on the two groups hashing it out.

Landing in complete silence where they couldn't see me, I listened for all I would need to hear while also using my x-ray vision to make sure there was no one wearing a wire, body cam, or badge. Not seeing any I made myself known my breaking two of the six guys standing around legs. I couldn't believe I could move so fast until I remembered that Homelander was able to save Billy Butcher from a point-blank explosion and move him blocks away in nearly an instant. Ignoring that thought and the remaining guys yelling dumb things like "who the fuck are you" and "what did you fucking do". I moved forward and broke the rest of their legs before grabbing all the cash and burning the drugs with my heat vision. Looking at them I said,

"Let that be a lesson to you, selling, buying, and using drugs is bad for you." Before I started flying away.

As I was leaving, I heard one of the guys crying while saying,

"Drugs didn't do this to us, you did."

Laughing at what he had said I started flying in the direction of a Walmart, I knew there wouldn't be any good clothing shops open this late at night as it was already around 12 a.m. so wally-world would have to do it for getting new clothes and shoes that had been all but wrecked in the fight, plus you could get a prepaid smart phone from wally-world as well. After getting clothes I planned to get a hotel for the night and after getting a good nights rest hitting a library up the next day to ensure I really was in the MCU.

Have you ever tried to sleep and found it completely impossible? I'm sure you have, even I have before I became what I am now. But this was different, I felt energetic like I was well rested and ready to go… I hated it, I had just fought the Abomination and I still felt like I had only had a morning work out at best. I felt I wouldn't be getting any sleep so I decided I would try to see if what Homelander had said was true, that the view of New York was better from space. Flying away from my hotel balcony and rapidly reaching space I started struggling to breath, so I stopped. Funny solution, right? Well after about 20 minutes I started to realize that while I could hold it for much longer, I wasn't able to just stop breathing, I estimated maybe two hours at the maximum now but maybe I could further enhance that later down the line with practice.

Once I felt I was far enough away from earth I looked back and what I saw was stunning. I'm sure as a normal person you've seen pictures of earth from space, right? Well, it doesn't compare to seeing it yourself. It was like seeing the love of your life, your own child for the first time, it was more than you could ever imagine and more on top of that I wasn't seeing it from inside some spaceship, I was looking at it with my own eyes. I had a moment of realization that earth was perfect, yeah humans messed with it but we made it even more unique.

I don't know how long I was up there as I lost track of time but when I finally came back down to earth I had run out of breath and was pushing myself to an extreme speed to get down to the atmosphere, in the process I had destroyed my clothes. To catch my breath without showing the world my business I flew straight into the Atlantic and the surfaced to catch my breath before flying at my top speeds back to my hotel room, I was praying that my first day with powers hadn't seen me expose myself to someone.

Once in the room I saw people I didn't expect nor want to see, the X-men were in my room. Obviously, it wasn't all of them, just the important ones those being Charles Xavier, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclopes, and Beast. Immediately I realized a problem, I had just thought all their names in quick succession like I knew them. I thought this was a problem because I didn't know if they were the superhero group that the government doesn't mind running around or the group of hated people that were hunted… well they were always hunted but you know what I mean.

Covering my crotch the second I seen them I asked,

"What is the X-men doing in my hotel room?"

"Put some clothes on bub" Wolverine growled.

"Yes, perhaps we should speak after you get dressed" Charles agreed.

"Yeah sure, give me a second to get dressed," I responded as I walked towards my duffle grabbing it and heading into the bathroom.

'God, I hope there aren't going to be any time travel shenanigans any time soon' I thought to myself as I got dressed.

Walking out afterwards I saw that all the X-men had made themselves comfortable. Ignoring them as I walked to the fridge in the room, I grabbed an Uncrustable before asking again,

"So, care to answer my question?"

"I am a power telepath," Charles began, "and while looking for new mutants tonight I discovered your presence." He responded.

"Ok and? Does that make me a mutant or just someone with a powerful presence? And what's the point of all these others?"

"Bub you're already on the news," Wolverine stated, "You're being called a new hero, so you'd understand why we all when came when we have seen how strong you are."

Cyclopes stepped in to say "That doesn't mean we think you're a bad guy, it's more for the professor's protection. You understand right?" He asked.

"Yeah, sure. Still doesn't answer why you came to me."

"There's a powerful mutant out there named Magneto that's trying to do some seriously bad stuff." Cyclopes responded.

"We believe you could assist us in stopping him" Charles finished.

"You want me to join your merry band of misfits?"

"We want you to help us stop a terrorist." Charles responded.

"Look guys I don't mind helping… but I'm not becoming an X-men, also I'm going to need a suit that can resist my abilities. That's why I was as God made me when I flew in, flying at extreme speeds causes friction build up that burns through my clothes."

"I can help with that," Beast spoke up from where he was standing behind Charles.

"Thank you." I said with a smile.

"If you would please join us on the roof, so that we can head to the school." Charles said as he turned his wheelchair around and started rolling away.

"Yeah, sure just let me check out of the hotel real quick." I responded while grabbing my duffel and following them all out of the room.

For those who may be upset that I brought the X-men in please don't be, there won't be any time travel bs and I plan for this to be an arc before we get to the Avengers stuff. I already have a plan of action; I know who the main villain will be for this arc and no I won't tell you who.

Also don't worry about quicksilver, I have a plan for him as well.

I know this chapter didn't have any action but I hope you still enjoyed what I wrote even if it's not that great.