She found a large piece of a black shirt and Hawaiian green shorts. Although she was tempted to wear one of his underwear, she knows it won't fit because of how large it is.
"I'm still wondering how he does it" she scratches her head.
After making sure she was set, she opens the door only to back up when Matt almost stumble forward.
"What?"
He just grunts looking elsewhere.
"I'll take you home"
"You are not going to ask?"
"No need"
"Pervert"
"..."
-
After getting out of the house, She and Matt have been getting weird stares from the people.
"I think they know somehow"
"Shut up" he hissed her making her chuckle
Suddenly she receives a text message. She pulls out her phone and read it.
"Your mission has been decided"
"Report to me immediately"
"Stick"
She frowns as she read the message. Something was going on here, many things did not add up.
Like the timing of Stick's appearance of saving Matt. He ignores her going to the hospital, instead of healing her a bit just to stabilize her wounds. He didn't even visit her one bit. Then out of nowhere, he just texted her and says he has a mission for her, don't get her wrong but she like the new mission, but can he at least pretend to care that she was wounded and left alone in a man's house? And what if she never heals from her wound? How does she suppose to do her job?
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure"
"Did you tell Stick about my healing ability?"
"Not yet, maybe later I'll call him after I go home. Why? You want it to be a secret?"
"Nope, it's fine."
So he didn't tell Stick, but why did Stick still give her a mission? Did he know she was already healed? Unless they are being watched 24/7 which will be creepy and disturbing because that means someone was watching them having sex, else there is no way for Stick to know she already recovers.
"The hand has started paying attention to me, making Stick alarm so he starts monitoring me? For what reason?"
"As far as I know, I'm just an ordinary girl unless..."
She suddenly finds something very strange, all her memory before seven years old was all empty like a blank white piece of paper. At first, she treats it as a natural phenomenon as the child growing up, children only start to remember when they are older. So having no memory of themselves as a child was only natural, of course, there was an exception; if the child has a higher I.Q than an ordinary child, their memory was more exceptionally clear than their peers making them more clever, easy to memorize and remember any events during their childhood. But the strange thing is, all her memory about her childhood starts when she was having dinner with her family together. The rest was blank as a white canvass.
"Now this is getting interesting" she smirks thinking of this girl mysterious past.
"Hey, what are you thinking?"
"I realized how good you are in bed, maybe you can rethink of your career as a lawyer and think of being an actor in some porn movies, I bet you will sell quickly."
Matt's face began to heat up, crap she can't get used to Matt blushing easily. She has the urge to find an alley and ravish this man.
"Stop teasing me will you, I'm not used to it" he scratches his head in embarrassment
"Hmph, if I know, you'll be a natural charmer when it comes to women"
"I won't be like that."
She just smiles and didn't say anything, she saw in the movie how he becomes a woman sex magnet. He was born to be a natural Casanova, breaking every women's heart wherever he goes. Although he wasn't tony stark material, he was not worse than him in any way.
-
After getting home, she didn't invite Matt into her home causing him to act like a sad dog. She just shakes her head and ignores him. After showering and changing her clothes, she immediately rides the taxi to the familiar dojo.
As if expecting her arrival, a Japanese woman welcomes her and lead her into the living room. Stick was currently wearing black kimono, with a tea set near his knee. Another woman wearing a red kimono was currently attending him. Joan bows in greetings and sat in his front.
He didn't speak to her but offer some tea, she holds the cup and let him pour her some tea. She brought it to her nose and smell its fragrance. After Stick sip to a cup, he nods to a woman at his side, the woman bows and leaves them alone in the tatami room.
Stick put down the cup and pull out a document, he handed it to her silently. She grabs it and starts to read while sipping on the tea.
On the picture was a Japanese man wearing blue kimono, while getting out of the car, along with him was another Japanese with hair stretch to his shoulder and wearing white kimono, he was looking at the camera directly making his profile more visible.
"That will be your target, the one wearing blue kimono, his name is Hiroshi, one of the highest cadre of The hand. On his right side is Kirigi Roshi wearing white was his son. You don't need to worry about Hiroshi, he was just an ordinary henchman doing the dirty work for the Hand, but be careful of Kirigi and his minions, they aren't ordinary ninjas, I heard that some of them possess mystical powers that can rival those mutants."
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"On September 12, in Stamford, Connecticut, there will be a business conference about establishing a new organization called Synchrony Financial. Your mission is before he reaches the location, assassinate him."
"Understood" she nod
-
That week before the mission, she spends most of her time with Matt, fighting crime and having a fun time with him.
One day, she finally had it and personally make her mission to clean his room until it sparkles and smells like a fabric conditioner. This had made Matt ashamed of himself, so he eats his pride and silently helps her.
During the fights, she finally discovers her difference in rank up of her skills;
When she uses the three-time body enhancement, the world around her became slow motion, or to be precise, she had become much faster. By using her physical force, she managed to take down all her enemies within a beat by fist alone, but the backlash is her body become weary easily. She knows she needs to increase her phy stats to decrease the worn-out status for her skills to last longer. But the energy consumption was another matter, by having her energy control reach another rank, her energy consumption of skills decrease, although she still feels her energy being drained, at least it takes a minute to spend her energy while activating her skills.
The other skills like weapon enchantment, she tried to use it, but nothing seems to change except that she can feel a large consumption of energy while using this skill until she tried throwing it that she know finally what the difference is;
According to Matt's analysis, he can feel the weapon surface have a thick energy coating the weapon. When they tried cutting it on metal, they were shocked to see how it cut the piece of metal like butter. After cutting the metal three times, she felt the energy in the knife became thin before the energy vanishes. That means any weapon she imbued can penetrate the metal three times as long as it's not thick.
"How the hell did you do that?"
"Chi"
Matt just shakes his head; he already gave up understanding how Elektra's chi works. So seeing a knife coated by chi that can cut metal like butter didn't surprise him anymore.
The last skill is cellular regeneration...
"Relax, I got this"
"That's a lie."
"Shh, let me"
Matt shut up, and let Elektra put her hands on his forehead.
Elektra concentrate and use her another skill brain enhancement and energy controller. Her brain starts to run at a fast speed, concentrating on controlling the energy within her and start invading Matt's head. Because it's her first time, she was using every single bit of her concentration, or else, she might accidentally kill Matt by exploding his head.
She began scanning his head, then directly going into his retina. She can feel his eyes were blocked or infected by some kind of chemical. If she going to heal him, she needs first to remove the residual toxic on his eyes.
According to Matt, when he was nine years old, he saves an elderly man before he was hit by a truck, sadly he didn't have such luck. The chemical containing the truck was accidentally spilled and some of them splash on his face causing his blindness.
"Have you thought of eye surgery?"
Matt didn't answer for a moment
"My old man did, but since he was killed, I never think of it again. Besides, thanks to the master's teaching, I can "see" just fine."
She nods trying to divert the topic.
"Do you remember the old man you save before?"
"No, I don't remember him now that you mention it. It's been a long time after all."
She was very suspicious of what happened but she didn't tell him this.
-
Currently, she was using her damn most of her energy to slowly destroy those residual chemicals. With so much concentration of using brain enhancement, she can feel her energy reserve has been depleted and was near the critical level. Beads of sweat start to cover her forehead, but she bit her lip and slowly recalled all her energy. After making sure there is no energy left in his head. She gasps for breath and sat down.
"You okay?"
"I should be asking that."
Matt inspects himself.
"Except for the itch in my eye, nope, nothing new."
She nod
"We will continue after I recover." Then she closed her eyes and starts meditating.
Matt sat up and look at her silently. He can feel his heart getting warm. No one ever gives him this kind of care before even his master. He treated his master like a mentor, but a father was far from it. Although they are master-disciple, he always teaches him strictly and indifferently. He was training him because he got potential to be their fighter against the hand but nothing more, but Elektra is different, although she didn't show it, he knows she cares for him. Even its only friendship according to her, to him it's enough to burn this flame for a lifetime.
"Whatever happens, I will protect you," he said to himself
-
They have done this session every day, she can feel inside Matt's eye that the residual of chemical was already left with a small amount. Today was Friday, tomorrow she needs to go to Connecticut to do her mission, so this is her last day being with Matt. She has a feeling that she won't see Matt for a very long time. So she eradicates all distracting thoughts and concentrates on the last chemicals. She began to slowly remove them by destroying them gently to avoid affecting other sensitive regions. After a long battle, she finally removes the last piece of the chemical remnant. But to make sure her job was perfect, she inspects every part of his eyes to make sure she didn't miss anything. After she was sure she didn't miss anything, she removes herself and sits at his side exhausted.
"Step 1: complete"
"So what's step 2?"
She looks at him
"After removing the residuals of chemical inside you, I'm going to try to repair your eye by regenerating the dead cell to a new cell. I called it the Anastasis phase."
Matt nod.
"I believe you" he looks at her with full of trust
"Don't worry, you're in safe hands." While touching his chest slowly.
"A pervert hands you mean?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"I almost believe you, almost except...will you stop rubbing my pecs? I feel insecure, I am not a piece of meat you know?"
"Oh" she looks at her hand then at him then she continues rubbing him as him she didn't hear him.
'Thankfully, I'm willing to sacrifice myself for the greater good." he sighs dramatically while holding her hand and slowly lowering it.
Joan snort
"How gracious of you."
She pushes him aside
"Now shut up, I need to meditate and recover."
"Yes mam" while grinning
-
After recovering her energy, she stood up and put her hands on Matt.
"Relax...Let me"
Matt closes his eyes and relax.
Once again, Joan again inputs her energy on Matt's head and directly goes to his eye zone. She already came here and memorize every part of Matt eye parts, it can be said that except for her, no one was more familiar with Matt's body part...literally.
She clears her thinking and starts to focus on those dead cells floating around inside the optic nerve. Then she began to work her magic. She starts focusing on one of those dead cells.
She wants to try if she can revive one of these dead cells (T-virus reference). If this works out, there was a possibility that she can revive a dead person if her skill ranks up high enough.
Slowly, she concentrated her every energy on that dead cells, energizing it, trying to activate her cellular regeneration skills at the same time. She was pouring it inside a dead cell while trying to control the flow so it can never go out of control and create damage.
Finally, she felt something break within her, but she didn't divert her attention and concentrate on the it. The gray cell that has been slowly energized was slowly transforming, slowly the gray color was cover by a blue coat transforming to the color of teal until it was almost the color of green. After making sure she finally transforms the dead cell to a green cell. She cheered up knowing her theory is correct, now she began to focus on another one. After a few minutes, she successfully transforms three dead cells into green cells but looks like it was her limit and she needs to rest. After resting she did it again 2 more times until she was finally able to transform 9 new cells.
She looks at the time and it was almost midnight, she looks at Matt who was now sleeping in peace. She stood up and look at him, etching his every face on her memory.
"Goodbye Matt, see you later." She bent down kissed his forehead and left his home quietly. She didn't tell him about her mission because she didn't know how to face him when she says goodbye, it's better for them the part as friends rather than have a teenage drama. Ugh, what emotional mess.
"According to my calculations, each of those 9 cells will go mitosis phase and spread around until they overcome the number of dead cells and recycle them, and based on the cell division of each created cells, by 2 years, Matt eyesight will be recovered after the dead cells have been consumed completely, by that time, Matt will see the colors of the world again."
"I don't know if I will be here when that time comes..." she murmurs while walking in darkness.