Fun Fact about this MCU+ world, the dates for events don’t exactly match up to the movies so I’m having to do a lot of guessing about when things actually happen. This is only going to make things harder since I don’t know what the changes, I’ve made so far are going to do to the timeline going forward. But I do know for a fact that Stark’s birthday is not for a couple of days so, I have enough time for me to get my company off the ground. I’m thinking about calling the company Next Med because it just sounds like a comic book company.
Hank and I have put in a lot of hours to get most of the bugs worked out of the nanites. They are ready for humans trials but we need more time before they will work on Metas. But that’s not our main problem, there is no way the FDA or the Health insurance/Drug companies are just going to let me release them without going through a lot of red tape and trouble. So, my plan is to start out with a version of “Super Neosporin” that I made but didn’t finish on my homeworld, to build up a brand name and public trust. I know for a fact that an ointment that can heal any open wound in an hour, that’s completely 100% all-natural will fly through testing and isn’t a big threat to Big Pharma. (Size of the wound determines the speed of healing. Ex a deep paper cut will heal in seconds.)
The second product is something I’ve been working on for Fury and the military. Thanks to Bruce’s blood sample I’ve been able to make a weak super-soldier serum. It’s nowhere near Captain America levels for many obvious reasons but it should be able to double any soldier’s stats. So basically, it just doubles their strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, senses, and mental processing. If the original Steve was to take this serum, he would probably only end up being a little better than a regular soldier. If you gave it to Usain Bolt, he would start to blur when saw he run. So nice improvements but not so earthshaking that I have other governments and evil organizations beating down my door to get it. The bonus is that I would get government backing for the future and a solid in with Fury.
The only problem I have now is startup money. I’m going to need at least a couple of millions to get started. My solution for this comes from an idea I got while reading one of my favorite web novels back home. The MC in that story had his system hack into bitcoin and steal all of it. I don’t have a system and my hacking is not that good so I plan on robbing the bad guys to give to the poor and me. For the past few weeks I’ve had my drones following the street-level drug dealers find out where all of their cash houses are so I could rob them all. I wanted them all, the street-level gangsters, Triad, Hand, Italians, Mexicans, Jamaicans, Kingpin, and even the Maggia. That way hopefully a big retaliation war won’t break out between them and they would all focus on me. We haven’t really been going after them before but now that we're out in a bigger more public way, I wanted to put them on notice that their time was up and we were coming for them now. Thinking about it, that’s one things that really bugged me about really powerful comic book heroes, they never really went after the street-level crime unless it was right in front of them. I mean hard would it have been for Superman to sweep up all the drug dealers in Metropolis. After doing it for a couple months they would have got the message and moved on to another city.
Other than that, I mostly spent my time tweaking our suits and the base. Or working on my powers. Jean was studying for exams so she didn’t patrol as much as I did but we both looked forward to our weekend trips back home to the X-mansion.
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Stark Estate 9:30 pm
I gotta tell you guys this is a great party but here comes the drunken Avenger to ruin it. “Blast it!!” “Blast it!!” “Blast it!!!” Well, that’s my cue. I release my invisibility and make my way over to Ms. Potts and Black Widow. Of course the super spy, Nat was the first to spot me. “Hey, you’re that guy from New York, Nighthawk, right?” “Good evening ladies. I drop by to give Mr. Stark a birthday gift but it seems like he’s not in any condition to accept it.” That was when Tony started taking potshots at stuff thrown by the crowd. “Ms. Potts this is getting dangerous, if you could start escorting people out of here, I’ll try to keep the property damage to a minimum.” For a second she looked like she wanted to argue with me about me butting in but Rhodey showing up in the second suit nixed that idea. Pepper started ushering people out and Natasha was about to help out too but I called out to her. “Hey Nat just a sec, tell the one eye bandit that I will drop in a pay him a visit soon so we call talk, I know he’s been looking for me.” She froze for a second and was going to call me out on how I knew about her and SHEILD but Pepper called her and she turned away to go help.
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Once again there’s nothing like seeing an epic action scene in person but right now there at the part where their getting ready to blow up the living room and each other so I better jump in.
“That’s ENOUGH!!” I froze them both with Tk. “You guys really… Do you know what would have happened if you kept that up? Half the house would’ve been blown-up probably.” Tony opened up his mask. “I don’t remember this being a costume party.” “Aww, but I brought you a gift and everything. In fact here, let me give it to you now.” I went over to him and tap him on the forehead and he slumped over out cold. “Hey guy, what did you just do to him?!” Rhodey was still trying to move even though his suit was frozen. “Relax Colonel, I just knocked him out before he passed out drunk. The better question though is, did you know your best friend is sick and dying?” That shocked him. “Wha..what are you talking about?” I shooked my head. “You and Pepper are the only family he’s got and both of you missed all the signs.”
“The guy was selling all his stuff and giving it away to charity, all the risky stunts he’s been pulling, and the biggest sign was giving the company to Pepper. Not that she doesn’t deserve it but come on, Tony Stark is the bigg… (I flashed on Fury) ok, one of the biggest control freaks in the world. Do you really see him letting someone else run his company especially after what happen with Stane.” Rhodey was devastated, you could see it all over his face so I let him go. He walked over and stared at his best friend like it was the last time he would ever see him. “What’s wrong with him?” “Well having a mini nuclear power plant in your chest is probably not the best thing for his body. Although its clean power the metal he’s using to run it isn’t and it's killing him. That’s why I came today to give him an alternative.” “Will he be all right?” “Yeah eventually, right now I’m going to have Jarvis get him out of the suit and I’ll tuck him in. As far as his poisoning goes, I have a better suppressant then the one he’s using now that should last until the new metal materials come online.”
He gave me a long look, then nodded and turned to go. “Oh yeah, Colonel when you call in Hammer, make sure you don’t let me anywhere near your operating systems and make sure you have someone go over everything he does to the suit when he’s finished.” He frowned and got suspicious. “How do you know all this?” “Let's just say I’m not from around here and where I’m from its very easy to get this kind of information. Just know I’m here to help and pose no threat to America or any of her interests. He gave me another long look but eventually decided to give me a chance. After one last look at Tony then turned and blasted off through the hole in the roof.
“Ok, Jarvis are you online?” “How may I be of service sir?” “First did you hear the conversation I had with the good Colonel?” “Yes sir. I too would like to know how you came upon all of these sensitive pieces of information?” “All in good time my friend but first let's get Tony out of this suit and into bed.” So, after putting the deed to word. “Hey, Jarvis I need to know if you can do two things for me. One, have someone send the model of the old Stark fair sent here from Tony’s old office and Two record a message for me. Can you do it?” “It would be my pleasure, sir.” “Alright let’s begin the recording.” “…” “Morning Tony. Well probably not so much for you with that hangover but I can cure if you want. Take those pills on the nightstand and you should be right as rain in 2 mins tops. Now for your real birthday gift, I want to give you some help with your palladium problem.
Unfortunately, I can’t just give you the answer but I can give you a clue, along with the thing you need to solve the problem yourself. Alright here goes, when you get stuck and think it’s all pointless, remember big things are all made up of small things, really really microscopic small things. Now for some bad news, Vanko is not really dead but is working with someone to do you some massive harm. This sucks for you cause you won’t be in any condition or position to do anything about it for a while. But when he does strikes, I’ll be around to help you out so for now prepare but don’t freak out. That’s about it on my end so why don't you go out grab a donut or something and relax you’ve got this.” “Alright Jarvis end recording. Later after Tony watches a film of his father, you can let him know about the delivery of the model. He should be good from there but if he still doesn’t get it tell him that ‘he can see atoms are everywhere’.” “Later Jarvis.”
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I didn’t know it at the time but Tony did go get a donut and meet up with Fury but only after spending hours freaking out about the hangover pills and how I knew as much as I did about his life. The only major change to the restaurant scene was me. Fury wanted to know all about me and he grilled Tony for everything. He even ended up telling him what I said about Vanko being alive. Fury said that he would look into it. Other than that, things went just like they did in the movie. Fury dropped him off at home and put him on house arrest and Tony instantly figured out that the model was the key after watching the film of his dad. So now it was just a waiting game until the expo.
While all that was going on, I was down in New Mexico stealing some D.N.A. samples from Thor. This was a key part of my master plan. Eventually, I should be powerful enough to be able to modify my own D.N.A. I’m pretty sure that as long as I have a sample of a god’s D.N.A. I should be able to modify my own to match it and become a god myself. Genius right??? And it doesn’t stop there I could do this with anybody as long as I can get a sample of their D.N.A. I already have some from Logan and Tony but the people I really want are Reed, Peter, and Shuri. If you could make your self as smart as some of the top-level geniuses of this universe combined, imagine all of the things you would be able to do or create.
My timing was pretty good and I was able to catch Thor before he woke up in the hospital. So, I didn’t have to fear the “Son of Odin” going medieval on my butt. A funny weird thing did happen at the hospital though, Darcy hit on me and gave me her phone number. I wasn’t planning on sticking around though because Thor and his friends have handled a lot worse than Loki throwing a temper tantrum. Plus, I needed to get back and finish up work on the company and this weekend coming up was an X-men weekend so yea!!