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Episode 77- Broken!

We arrived back on Earth quietly. “It’s good to be back.”

Natasha told me as I scanned her for any foreign virus etc.

Seeing she was fine I held her and refused to let her go. “What happened?”

We both leaned our heads into each other as Nat asked me. “Before we enter step back on earth. I have to tell you few things.”

I felt her head bob to a nod. “Okay.”

I opened my eyes to see she had her eyes closed. “That tablet I gave you contained a permanent regenerative property which will make you a slight superhuman from now on.”

I saw her smile before shaking her head. “I kind of figured that out seeing how you are so overprotective of me.”

I sighed in relief seeing she was okay with it. “So, what can I do?”

“Now that is a question, I am happy to answer. All your physical capabilities are slightly enhanced while your ability to heal is practically doubled whenever you wish to heal faster or when your body needs to. However, I locked your genes to the point no one will ever be able to replicate or duplicate your power using your genes. Anyone trying to do so will see a simple human gene.”

She nodded. “So, I am a super-soldier?”

I wanted to shake my head before stopping myself. “Yes, my super soldier.”

We both laughed as we came apart. A couch formed out of the nanobots on the floor on which I sat. Seeing this Nat sat down opposite me as I waited for her to get ready to listen.

“I would have given you the same thing as my power, but I am restricted in what I can do for a while.”

This time her eyes were burning with curiosity and desire to know, but she stifled it for me. Not to mention I kind of forgot to explain to her about what Daniel had told her, along with everything that I promised to tell her after our wedding night, being lost in our honeymoon.

“Why is that?”

She asked me this question after a long time curious why I have been restricted.

I asked Nat a question back to which she nodded. “Are you aware of what a seer is?”

“Someone who can see the future.”

“Correct, my teacher is someone like that. She can see the many possible futures whenever she wishes to.”

I watched as her face changed to that of a look of shook before she calmed down and began to think. She then added on expecting there was some kind of problem. “But?”

“I am what you can call an anomaly. My very presence can cause the effect of all seers in the universe to have their powers become obsolete including the powerful Asgardian seers.”

Natasha raised her eyes at this statement. “So that is why Thor said that about not calling for you?”

I nodded as I carried on. “My teacher has asked me to restrict my actions as the more I intervene and cause an impact in the world, the foggier her vision of the future gets. However, I am only to do this until all the possibilities in the future point towards her successor coming to take her mantle. Once she can see this future, I am free to act as I like.”

I could see the anger on her face as I said this. “Sounds a bit selfish.”

I smiled as I reached out to her face and caressed her soft cheeks. “No, she was happy to let me act as I want, but I chose to restrict myself.”

I loved seeing the inquisitive look of confusion on her face. It was kind of adorable, and one of the reasons I loved being Mr Know It All. “Why?”

Her question brought me out of my thoughts. “We both need her successor to take her mantle as he plays a vital role in defending Earth in the future as well. Along with that if he failed to turn up, I would be most likely made the next head of our organisation and would be charged with dealing with a nearly omnipotent being. I am 99% sure, if I had to fight him then I would go mad.”

I ended everything there as I watched confusion, anger, helplessness and frustration all churned up in her before she released a deep breath. “So, are you a seer as well?”

I shook my head. “No, but I can predict the future to a degree. However, this knowledge of the future is the one without my presence and actions. The knowledge of it is becoming more and more obsolete with time and my action.”

“How long do you have to stop yourself like this?”

“Maximum until 2016 if I keep interfering like now. After which I no longer have to restrain myself.”

Nat sighed as she grabbed my hands from her cheek holding them in her hands. “Do you want me to keep this a secret?”

I trusted her. “If you can yes. If you can’t then don’t worry.”

“Ok, thank you for telling me.”

She said as she kissed my hands. “Well, I have some more things to tell you like my origins and existence of magic.”

Her eyebrows twitched as she heard the word magic. I opened a portal back to our home in New York causing her to realise what I Daniel had meant. “Fine magic exists. What else is there mysterious husband of mine?”

I chuckled as we stood up. “Aliens, god-like beings that make the Asgardians look like mere humans, hell and anything you can think of it might exist in a corner of the universe in the past, present or the future.”

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Nat shook her head. “You know if I hadn’t seen the aliens, your portal for myself all this would have been too much to take in.”

I nodded at that before leaning in to kiss her forehead. “I know, that is why I won’t tell you anything about my origin until I am sure you won’t go mad in despair.”

She looked at me in shock. “What? Are you Cthulhu or something?”

I laughed and was about to shake my head when I decided to tease her. “Maybe. Who knows?”

Nat rolled her eyes as she walked out of the portal. I followed her out laughing as the portal closed behind us.

We slowly fell back into our daily routine. Nat began going back to work once again, while I went to my lab to finish some projects and start-up on new ones in preparation for… well everything the universe could throw at me or my family.

“Inhuman…”

I looked at the serum on my table. I had held this off for so long now, due to being with Nat.

A nanobot pierced into my heart with the anti-HE serum. I slowly felt the effect of powerlessness from not the strength leaving me but my brain not being juiced up anymore.

I smiled as I looked at the inhuman serum and remembered someone. “Wish you were here Mr Lab Rat.”

The nanobots took in the inhuman serum.

I had no more need for testing on animals or rather a certain lab rat which would have passed away by now. Magic solved that issue for me easily by testing and debugging for any issues.

I called out to my UI as I saw the HIE serum-containing some processed Terrigen Mist I had procured long ago approaching. “Text Nat!”

A simple screen appeared before me. “If I don’t turn up for a few days, don’t worry about me. I am just doing something crazy. Love you, stay safe.”

The words were typed on the screen before sending just as the HIE serum pierced my chest.

“Sweet potatoes!”

I took a deep breath as I felt the warm and cosy feeling going through me along with the massive stimulation, I was getting from my brain catching up to its enhanced properties.

“Wow…”

I suddenly froze because I froze. I couldn’t move or do anything and presumed the Terrigenesis was probably starting.

‘Huh?’ I noticed that my body was not forming the black cocoon it was supposed to.

‘What’s going on?’ My heart began pounding in worry seeing something very different from my calculations occurring.

I had designed and modified the Terrigenesis process down to the letter. The black cocoon was to shroud me for an hour. Yet here I was frozen in mid-air unable to do anything.

‘What is happening?’ I began to panic as I tried moving yet nothing happened.

As my mind began to panic, I employed a calm mind. ‘Let’s see what I did wrong.’

My nanobots still under my mind’s control began to flash all the HIE serum data through my eyes. ‘There is nothing wrong. Then what is happening?’

I wondered as I went through all the data a few more times.

Seeing no other problems, I decided to call the Ancient One. “Good evening David.”

My nanobots passed the message I had through the voice synthesiser. “Help.”

I heard her chuckle as she went into the video call. As soon as she saw my state a smile appeared on her face. “What did you try this time?”

I replied in slight annoyance through my bots. “Inhuman.”

She shook her head as she relaxed in her seat. “Well, the time stone still shows a barely seeable future, so you will survive without me having to help you.”

I felt like beating her up at this moment. “You will be fine within few minutes just relax and enjoy staying still for a while.”

Saying that she hung up leaving me alone. ‘Guess I should just relax for a while.’

I turned off my calm mind and began relaxing. ‘Staying still like this actually feels good.’

Just as I began enjoying this state, I heard a sound. *Crack*

I slowly began to feel control surging through my body. ‘Huh?’ *Shatter*

Suddenly, I regained control back of my body leaving me confused at what the hell just happened.

I shook my head seeing a clear double image of everything I saw in my head. “What the heck?”

I had to cover my ears as even my sound was repeated in my head clearly. ‘The hell is going on?’ I wondered as I felt my brain slowly being stimulated to be enhanced further than it was able to.

I closed my eye and shook my head to get rid of the dizziness I was feeling seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling everything, I was doing clearly as another vision in my head.

It was a weird sensation along with the stimulation of my mind getting powerful.

‘Calm mind!’ I ordered as I suddenly calmed down.

I took a deep breath as I opened my eyes. ‘First thing first.’ I waited to see how far my brain would be enhanced before dealing with everything else.

I felt my measly mind strength which was able to comprehend 1000 books per month rapidly growing to the point I could now comprehend 3000 books per month.

Even though my calm mind was active I still felt shocked at this rapid growth in strength that not even the HE serum could emulate. ‘Just what is my inhuman ability?’ I wondered.

Just at that moment, I felt another empty space in my head. ‘Are you fricking kidding me!?’ I screamed inside in excitement just before the calm mind, dulled my excitement to calmness.

I had just received an additional rooted potato, which allowed me to have in total 3 rooted potatoes. ‘This is like handing a cheat of a being even more broken powers.’

I waited for any more changes for a while only to see there was nothing else. ‘So other than an exact copy of whatever is happening to appear in my mind along with some massive growth in mind, nothing else?’

I wasn’t disappointed but rather confused.

I understood my enhancement of mind came as an added effect of my inhuman ability. If it weren’t there, I would be having a massive headache from the added stimulation of having everything repeated exactly on my head.

But my inhuman ability itself was really confusing. ‘What was the point of being able to sense everything twice?’ I wondered as I thought of the possible way to apply this skill.

‘I could technically guarantee a much more accurate rate of observation, learn much faster etc as everything I am experiencing with my senses is being experienced twice.’ I deduced.

This ability was useless for me. To anyone else, this would have been an ability that would make them a genius if used correctly. However, to me who had an enhanced mind and rooted potato, having this and not having it didn’t make much of a difference.

‘But the additional rooted potato and mind strength is nice.’ I grinned as I decided to keep this ability.

“Talking about potatoes…”

I pulled the feedback of me a few minutes ago staying in stasis. I observed every possible angle of myself through the cam feed. ‘Could it be comfy potato?’ I wondered.

After all comfy potato stopped any physical changes happening to me. “Damn, I got worried for no reason.”

I sighed in relief knowing I had simply forgotten to take comfy potatoes brokenness into account.

“Now back to this.”

I looked at my hand in slight annoyance seeing a copy of the same image appear in my head along with feeling.

It was just weird getting a picture of everything I was looking at in my head.

I tried moving my hand and the same thing happened at the exact moment in my head.

I did not know what my ability really was. It was confusing in a way.

‘Try and understand what my inhuman ability is and the ways to use it.’ I ordered all 3 of my rooted potato.

Even though I deduced the basic abilities of my ability I had no intention of not leaving any ability I received abused and broken to the extreme.

My body was soon taken control of and was forced to do some moving around punching etc as some kind of test.

After a few minutes, I realised what my inhuman ability is just as I got control of my body back. “This is too broken…”

I cried as I realised my ability was not at all what it seemed like.

At this moment I took back everything I said about my inhuman ability. “This ability is legendary!”

I worshipped my rooted potatoes for being the genius they were at figuring this out. I would have never noticed my true inhuman ability was if not for my rooted potatoes.

I declared. "Potatoes really are the best things in the world!"