"David!" I felt someone calling out to me.
I opened my eyes to Natasha's worried face.
"You ok?" I asked her.
"I am but you were crying in your sleep." She told me in concern.
I looked at her in confusion. I felt around my cheeks to see it was still wet. "What?" This confused me.
"Did you have a nightmare?" She asked me.
I shook my head. "No, I had a..." I can't remember my dream.
"That's strange I can't remember at all," I told her.
"Well, most people can't remember their dreams anyway." She tried to console me but I shook my head.
"That is the case if it is a normal dream. However, if it was an emotional dream or nightmare then people should be able to remember it at least a few minutes of waking up." I explained to her as I tried really hard to remember.
I felt something was wrong. 'Recall the dream I had today.' I ordered rooted potato.
"You ok?" Natasha began to get worried.
"I am, don't worry about it. You should get ready quickly." Natasha nodded her head as she got off me and went to shower.
A few seconds later I felt rooted potato turn up with nothing. 'This is strange. Its as if I didn't dream at all.'
I got up and decided to deal with this later. I joined Nat in the shower and walked out a few minutes later.
We quickly got changed and I went downstairs to prepare breakfast while Nat began washing the glasses we left on the table last night.
We ate and got ready to leave.
"When will you be back?" I asked her as we walked out of the door.
"Probably 3 to 5 days." She opened her garage where a Bugatti Veyron along with 3 other cars was.
"I still don't understand why you are so crazy about cars." I pointed out.
"Aren't boys supposed to like cars?" She asked me as she got in the car.
"To me, cars are nothing but a modem of transportation that gets me from point A to point B, just like a horse carriage. I don't care about its looks, price or brand as long as it gets its job done." I got in to see her rolling eyes.
"Yeah, yeah. Deep down I know you like my cars otherwise why would you boost them?" She asked me as she went forward causing the garage door to close as we were out.
"To make sure your money is not wasted and you get the best performance out of it." I smiled as she took off while people in the surrounding began to look at us.
"I still don't get how you don't want to show off to people either. Do you not feel the desire to show off?" We waited in the traffic.
"I do, just not for silly things like money and cars." *Beep* I looked at my phone to see an alert had popped up. The satellite I had begun building 3 months ago had completed its production and quality checks. It was ready to be deployed.
"Then what do you like showing off?" She asked as the car began moving forward.
"My secret super spy girlfriend, my tech and inventions aka my babies." I smiled as I placed my phone back.
She chuckled. 5 minutes later we arrived in front of my store. I kissed her cheek. "See you in a few days." She nodded.
"Love you." She kissed back.
"Love you too." I closed the door of the car before she took off.
I took my phone and called Pepper. "Hello, Ms Pepper, I am leaving to rescue Tony," I told her in order to assure her.
"Thank you. How much is it?" She asked me.
"For watching over him for the past 3 months and going to rescue him would be $200 million." I could hear her taking a deep breath.
"But don't worry, you only need to pay me $50 million for showing patience for the past 3 months," I said much to her relief.
"Okay please pass forward your bank details."
"Thank you, Ms Pepper, but I only require my payment after completing my job." I hung the call up before she could say anything more.
I walked in to see Bruce walking down.
*Yawn* "What's for breakfast?" He asked as he stretched.
"You better go out and have something because I am leaving for Afghanistan to pick up Tony Stark," I told him which earned a look of surprise from him.
"You, Stark? How and why?" He looked so confused.
"His assistant hired me," I told him.
"So you knew where he was the whole time?" He asked me.
"Obviously, there is nothing in the world I don't know." I proudly declared as he rolled his eyes.
"Why didn't you inform the police or anyone?" He seemed pretty awake now.
"A bit of payback for what he did to us a few years ago." I saw him smiling.
"Oh well. I have been thinking about going to the lab anyway." He shrugged as he went back upstairs.
We packed up and went our separate ways.
I texted Natasha.
[Hey hon, I am going to India for that job. Won't be back for a few days. Miss you and Love you. XXXX)] I ended my text.
[My mission finishes in 4 days. You better make sure to be home within 4 days. Love you too and miss you as well. XXXXX ;)] She replied back within a few seconds.
I smiled at this before booking 4 tickets. 1 to from here to India. The 2nd from India to Afghanistan as Mr Gary and the return back to India. Then the last one was the return from India back to home.
I hailed a cab in the general direction to my base. I will first deal with my satellite before leaving to rescue Tony.
After several transportations change, I arrived in front of one of the bases I had set up a short while after I had arrived in America.
It was an abandoned warehouse. I walked in to see it was filled with spare tire, car parts etc.
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I climbed through the metal junkyard and arrived at a small clearing. I tapped my watch which caused the floor to suddenly slid off causing me to fall down inside the dark while the floor above slid back to normal.
It was about a 10-meter drop. I activated the HE(Hulk and Extremis) serum for 1 second to heal myself from the impact of the drop.
I stretched my hand out as my hand began emitting fire filling the darkroom with light.
It was an empty room with nothing in here.
I walked forward and opened the door hidden in the wall only to be suddenly assaulted by the sound of countless machinery working.
Ignoring the machines, I went to see the completed product that was to be set off today.
I looked at the satellite I had finished building.
An elegant black sphere about 7 meters in diameter.
"My eyes and hands." I smiled as I ran a protocol check to make sure everything was ok.
This will be the protection I am going to employ to stop any assholes from targeting my family for the next few years until I can get my hands on magic.
"Cloak," I ordered and suddenly the satellite disappeared from my eyes.
The cloaking feature literally made the satellite invisible to any software and literal cloaking.
I activated the take-off sequence.
"Take off in 3…" I began counting down as the overhead roof opened up.
"2…" The satellite began humming.
"1!" *Boom* The satellite literally shattered my eardrum as it flew off leaving behind a minimal trail of smoke from its thrusters. The roof soon closed off bringing the entire base to darkness which was repelled by the sunlight from outside.
I waited 30 minutes watching the satellite soon entering orbit.
"All operations perfect condition. Begin monitoring?" The UI asked me.
"Yes and alert me of anyone posing danger to my family," I instructed the UI on my watch as I left the base.
I made my way towards the nearest airport. Now I had nothing to worry about my family.
If as much as an armed person decided to get close to my family they will soon get a message showing their family riddled with dissolved bullet holes that appeared out of nowhere or they themselves will be riddled with holes before they could even think of pulling the trigger.
This was the protection I employed for my family in preparation for Natasha one day figuring out who I was and the possibility she might inform Shield aka Hydra.
A satellite filled with extremely smart bullets and ejection holes fitted to lock on and shoot out the homing bullets fitted with mini thrusters.
If I wanted I could very much take down every president, prime minister, and royalty in the world if I needed at this very moment. What could they do? Pretty much nothing and hope I didn't feel like killing them.
Until I learn magic in 3 years' time I have to use methods like this.
I walked out of the base and made my way towards the airport.
I arrived in India and exited the airport before I donned my mask for Mr Gary and took the flight to Afghanistan.
Arriving in Afghanistan a man who covered his face with a scarf met me at the airport car park. "Mr Gary?" He asked me to which I nodded.
He pointed at the SUV. "Everything you have asked for is in there." I nodded as I tapped on my phone.
"Please check your bank," I told him to which he nodded and took out his phone.
"Pleasure doing business with you." He smiled before walking away as he threw me the key.
I took out my phone and held it before the SUV. "10 tracking device detected."
"Fry them after I leave the airport," I informed the UI which gave me a tick mark on the screen.
I used my watch to track where Tony was.
Looking inside the car there was plenty of water and emergency treatment for a certain douchebag who is going to need it soon.
I drove off from the airport just as I smelt something burning which I ignored. "All trackers fried." My UI replied.
I arrived at the closest location I could get to without encountering the Ten Rings terrorist and the military. Sure I could mess with their communication device but it was too annoying to do that.
I was still about a few hours away from my destination so I parked my car.
I took my bag and opened the secret compartment where there were 5 high-calorie energy bars I had developed a few years ago. I opened one of them and took a small bite only to be filled on my used energy reserve.
I placed 2 bars in my pocket and got out of the car.
I began changing into the heat resistant clothes I had customised for such a situation. They looked pretty casual and normal unless someone tried to burn me alive.
I could finally go all out.
I decided not to use any of my techs in order to test out the limit of biological capabilities. This was one of the only places I could go all out without worrying about property damage. I mean the terrorist can't really file a lawsuit against me for property damage, can they?
I activated the magnetic field disturbance on my watch while changing my face from Mr Gary to Mr Random. No satellite or electric equipment could recognise me now if they could manage to get past the disturbance field.
I looked at my watch for one final time before I set my eyes towards the east in a general direction, where, in a building, Stark was held by the Ten Rings terrorist group.
I got into a running position before I took off.
*Boom* I accelerated to the speed of sound.
Even though everything around me was moving very quickly my enhanced perception along with my mind could keep up with the speed. My clothes were smoking but they were still alright along with my bag.
Arriving within the boundary of the location in 20 minutes I sat down as I observed the heavily armed area from far. The Hulk and Extremis serum boosted everything about me physically including my senses when active. It was fun to see those guys from far away like looking through binoculars.
'Calm mind.' I ordered one of the rooted potatoes.
'Annihilate all the terrorist and make sure Stark is saved.' I ordered my other rooted potato only for it push my mind back as my body was taken control off.
I looked at my phone which gave me the location of every single terrorist in the vicinity.
*Boom* I set of causing all of them to be alert hearing the massive sound.
Before the terrorist could even identify the cloud of dust rapidly approaching them I approached one of them.
I saw the 1st terrorist moving so slowly as he unlocked his rifle.
Before he could even complete the procedure my fist met his head in full impact. *Burst* His head busted.
The funny thing was his companion didn't even notice it as I busted his head to smithers as well.
They were all speaking and screaming so slowly that it didn't make any sense to me.
I decided not to use my fire or heat ability as it would make the stench of burned skin and boiling blood rise to an unliveable level here.
I started running around 'tapping' every single one of their head or chest.
They started exploding into guts and bloody mist one by one with the sound of *Plop*.
"Ahhh!" Some tried shooting but it was useless as most could only aim at my previous location rather than my current location.
Within 1 minute all the terrorist outside were completely eradicated without any of them even having a chance to see what killed them. Mist of blood and guts laid everywhere along with their corpses.
I took control of my body but made sure my calm mind was still active and stayed hidden behind the wall by the cave as I took my phone out and started aiming the camera towards the wall.
Suddenly I could see 2 heat signatures inside there with few extremely burned parts inside the cave through the screen of my phone. One was already losing its heat signature.
I smiled at this and walked in after pocketing my phone.
I came in just to see a vengeance fuelled Tony looking at me after standing up from the dead body of Ho Yinsen. "You Mother Fucker!" Tony shouted in rage as he aimed his flame thrower at me.
I stood still as the flame approached me.
I excepted my face to start burning so I activated the healing and regeneration, but instead, the fire started replenishing me with the energy I had used so far. 'Interesting, so a fire is my best friend now?'
After a while, the flames stopped only for the suit of armour to stay there in shock seeing me completely intact.
I tapped my nano mask reverting it back to my normal face with a smile. "Hello Mr Stark, it's nice to meet you too," I said to him while dialling for Pepper which I put on the loudspeaker.
"Hello?" Pepper answered before Tony could say anything.
"Ms Pepper as per our agreement Mr Stark is safe. I am bringing him to safety." I announced only to see the helmet being lifted to reveal the absolute shocked face of Tony.
"Is he there? Can I speak to him? Tony? Are you ok?" I walked forward holding the phone towards Tony.
"Yes, Pepper I am safe with a little bit of heart problem. How much did you pay this clown to come and stand around?" Tony asked her as he reached for the phone.
"I am sorry Ms Pepper, but international calls are expensive. I assure you that you can talk to Mr Stark within a few hours." I said before hanging up to call.
"Wait…" Pepper shouted.
"No…!" Tony shouted in annoyance.
I placed the phone back in my pocket before smiling towards Tony. "Shall we Mr Stark?" I motioned outside.
"How did you survive the fire? Are you wearing fire-resistant clothes or something?" He asked me.
"Correct," I told him as I walked out of the cave knowing it would be a real pain in the butt to explain to him.
"Wait there are armed terrori…" He walked out to see blood and guts everywhere.
"*Uahhh*" Stark opened his mouth and crouched on the floor vomiting everything he had eaten today.
"Fuck! What in the hell happened to them?" Tony asked after a while with a pale face.
"I happened to them," I said with a smile while walking.
Seeing him not move I turned around to see him staying still.
He aimed his weapon at me. "Who are you?"
"Did I not give you my business card?" I asked him.
"You did. But what kind of consultant does this?" He asked as he pointed at the blood and guts lying around. Not a whole body was around.
"A 'Jack of All Trades' Consultant known as David Henswick.
I told you Mr Stark make me your bitch and you essentially get a wish-granting genie at your service.
It won't be a lie to say I can give the whole world to you should you be able to afford me for such a task." I said with a smile.
Seeing him not lowering the weapon I became annoyed.
"We don't have time Mr Stark. My flight from here is due in a few hours." I told him as I turned around and carried on walking.