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  Earth

  –Jack Sullivan–

  It had been over 24 hours since he had returo Earth and already, he was involved in a shitshow, quite an exquisite o that.

  One of the perks he got after surviving that energy storm was his body being upgraded extensively. He could not evehe o sleep, at all, even after he spent 24 hours awake. Granted, he didn’t have to use any of his powers at a higher iy than normal and he could do something like this before as well, but back then, he could feel the need creeping on him, the o sleep.

  Right now? Nada, Zilch. He could choose to nod off if he wao, demonstrated by his sleeping on the ship when he came here but the y of sleep arently removed from his systems.

  He was currently floating on top of a voy that was making its way through the busy streets of Washington DC. The voy currently held the captured form of Steve Rogers, Captain America. Fortunately, none of the agents had tried very hard to hurt Steve in any capacity, not that they could.

  Steve, true to his name, had knocked out most of the agents that had e for him, only subduing them without any perma injuries but o had bee clear that he was pletely outmanned and outgunned, he surrendered voluntarily.

  That was how it came to this, a voy filled with agents armed to the grill, esc Steve to some SHIELD, or more probably, HYDRA bck site where Steve would probably be kept as just a resource of super soldier blood, to make more of him iure.

  Thankfully, Steve was going to be spared that grisly fate by yours truly. Not that Steve needed any saving., sidering he could identify one of the people in that van, that probably didn’t belong in that particur security detail.

  What with her being at a much higher security level than normal level 4 grunt agents?

  He watched through his barriers as Maria Hill, Robin Sparkles(?), in the flesh knocked out multiple agents before showing herself to Steve who looked rexed after seeing that she was on his side.

  Speaking of which, where was Romanoff in all this? Wasn’t she supposed to be with Rogers when they were both captured and then rescued by Sparkled down below? He saw them leave the voy, with Rogers’ shield, as they made their way into the darkness.

  He made to follow after them, presumably straight to FUry himself when his eyes narrowed as he looked up.

  Right above the forest area that Hill and Rogers were running into, his small barriers had run into something. Something that was invisible to his eyes. Thankfully, his barriers that were made for observation were very small and also not really directed by him actively. They just kind of floated around him as if they were pstic bottles in a sea, floating with the flow.

  So, the impact of that particur barrier must not have registered to whatever object it had stuck, and it was definitely an object as more and more of his barriers began attag themselves to the object.

  His eyes narrowed as he made a split sed decision o was clear that the object was suspiciously shaped like a Qui and was heading straight down to where Rogers and Hill were running.

  A small barrier sprung forth from the ground as Rogers and Hill were covered in a green cube, which immediately slid itself into the ground, to prevent the glow from his barriers from alerting anyone who was nearby.

  The moment he did that, however, the object revealed itself. He was right.

  It was a Qui. It steadily hovered above the cube, and he slowly began floatihem, still his stealth spell, invisible to all but some truly obscure eleagic wave spectrums.

  He resisted the urge to summon a sea of green around the jet because that would be like holding a giant neon green sighe forest. He narrowly avoided doing just that whetom of the Qui opened up and a person dropped through the hole.

  His eyes widened in fusion as the small person somehow used repulsor tech, miniature ones installed in their hands and legs as they slowed down their dest and nded right atop the green barrier.

  At this point, he was standing just a few feet from the people as he saw the headpiece recede bato her suit as Romanoff’s face was revealed ters and him.

  Befers could say something, Romanoff frantically began looking around for something. The same for the jet as it had eealth mode as soon as Romanoff had been dropped and had begun zipping around the entire airspa an increasingly reckless manner.

  He wondered exactly what was going on but since he had already revealed his barrier, it was a moot point hiding himself at this point.

  All the gazes in the room, along with the jet somehow being still mid air as soon as he revealed himself, zeroed in on him as he revealed his form, for the first time sihe invasion Fiasco ba New York.

  “Um, Hi?” He waved his hand and almost shifted into a bat stan reflex as Romanoff immediately ran towards him. “Uh-” his words were stu his throat as Romanoff all but leaped on him, her frame wracked with sobs.

  His face erfect representation of fusion as he waved his hand, removing the cube around Rogers, except the floor which then pushed them out of the hole the cube had dug into the ground. The Quioo began l itself right in front of them, in a small clearing. The only sign of the Qui, even now, were the small barriers attached to it and the small disturba made to the surrounding branches as it nded.

  “Uh, somebody expin what the hell is happening right now?”

  What with that ridiculously advanced Qui along with the Repulsor tech that Romanoff was using? Did Stark start selling Repulsor teow?

  He never did that, acc to his memories, but his memories of his previous life were spotty at best and should not be relied upon pletely anyway, just because of all the butterflies he must have made iimeline by his as.

  _____xxx_____

  Oh. Oooooh.

  “So….a lot happened, huh?” Jack Sullivan, the Green Guardian said as he looked at the gathered people sitting on makeshift chairs, mostly crates, ihe Qui which was on its way to some base. Sparkles had refused to eborate further but he khat Fury robably ihat safehouse for now.

  “It would be safe to say so, Sir,” Jarvis’ voice chimed in through the ceiling as he was the one who iloting the Qui.

  Oh yeah, Jarvis was se now. No Vision crap with the Mind Stone and Thor’s divine lightning required to make him se.

  No, Jarvis had bee se because of the same thing that had led his dying form to the other end of the gaxy.

  The energy storm, being made up of energies from both the Space Stone and the Mind Sto had enveloped him but some of it had hit Jarvis in the suit he iloting as well. Apparently, that was enough for him to gaiience.

  “So, you are on the run then?” He questioned Romanoff incredulously as Steve kept on looking at Romanoff with the patent disappointed gaze.

  “Yes, I had to run. I could not do what I had to do, by w as a SHIELD agent. But ter on, Jarvis realised something that made my decision seem corre hindsight,”

  “You knew about HYDRA? Since when? Romanoff…we could have saved so many lives, saved FURY!” Steve stood up, armed as he realised that Romanoff already knew about HYDRA before all of them and chose not to inform them about it. His calm fraying as he realised that Romanoff keeping information from him led to the deaths of good people, and Fury as well.

  ‘Sit down, Rogers. You don’t know what has been happening, what I have been doing all this while,”

  “Indeed, Captain Rogers, we have known of HYDRA’s tinued existence for over a year now, and in all that time, we have aplished much. We have–’

  “Why didn’t you e to us with that information? We could have taken out HYDRA before they knew about it. We could have prepared-”

  “And that is precisely why I decided not to inform a Ms.Romanoff here about HYDRA and how they were pnning on world domination,”

  His eyebrows raised into his hairline, his mind ran a mile a minute as he heard Jarvis speak about everything very assertively. Apparently, Jarvis had left Stark in a bid to help Romanoff for something.

  “And how did you find out about HYDRA anyway?” He interjected iween befers could go on airade about morality.

  “...Ah, Mr.Sullivan, I simply found the person responsible for all this mess. Arnim Zo, in his digital form,” Jarvis said as a hologram popped up in front of them, showing how Zo had deyed his death by turning himself into a pseudo AI.

  “I was able to assimite the primitive AI and find everything that he knew about HYDRA. I was truly armed about the situation and after further digging, came to the clusion that any targeted atta HYDRA at that point would have led to devastating sequences, including but not limited to - a global financial crisis, multiple tries desding into anarchy, partial goveral colpse in the US and plete in multiple NATO partners.”

  Rogers' face sobered up as he realised the extent to which HYDRA had infiltrated everything.

  “Fortunately, hidden in Zo's archives, I found something that could help trate HYDRA,”

  The new and advanced helicarriers were projected in front of them.

  “ProjeSIGHT,” Hill whispered.

  “Yes, ProjeSIGHT is supposed to be HYDRA's endgame. Well, this branch of HYDRA anyway. They were going to use an algorithm to profile and target people who could rise up against them and would use the Helicarriers to kill them,”

  There was a sharp intake of breath as Hill realised just what HYDRA was after.

  “So, I took over Zo’s role, guiding HYDRA away from all the side projects it was ied in and made them pour all of their avaible resources into this single project. That was how this project was pleted ahead of schedule. As ht now, 42% of overall SHIELD personnel is firmed HYDRA. 81% of designated Helicarrier personnel is HYDRA and that number will surely climb up to the high ies as most of the loyal agents will find themselves otherwise occupied on the day of the unch, ensuring that all three Helicarriers were operated by HYDRA and HYDRA only.”

  “But..you said that you knew about the algorithm so why didn’t you stop them,”

  “And what would that have achieved, Agent Hill? That would have just given them another opportunity to go into hiding, free to rebuild anew. No, this way we ehat most of HYDRA will be in one pce, ready for the culling,”

  “Culling? What is that supposed to mean? Are you going to kill them all? Jarvis?” Steve’s head shot up as soon as Jarvis uttered the st word, armed by the mass number of killings that would happen if Jarvis truly killed all of the HYDRA agents aboard the Helicarrier.

  “Captain Rogers, do I o remind you that they are the same HYDRA agents that you have killed plenty of, during World War II,” Jarvis helpfully remihem as Romanoff sat quietly in the background, staring straight at him.

  Okay, this was getting weird. Something had happened and he was missing something in the whole picture. Before he could say something though…..

  “We have reached the given coordinates, Agent Hill,” Jarvis remihem as the Qui nded in front of a small crete structure.

  “So, where are we?” Romanoff asked Hill as they were led by her into a series of tuhat ran underh the small crete structure. Rogers having gone quiet after Jarvis’ ultimatum that he was going to uproot HYDRA, stem, and everything.

  Hill didn’t answer because she didn’t have to. They soon came upon the se of a bedridden Fury.

  “You sonuvabitch,” Rogers muttered as he sighed in relief, looking at the grinning Fury.

  “Told you I’d make it alive. And you!” Fury poi him.

  “Either the doctor pumped me with more of that go or you have e back from the dead,”

  “Yes, Director Fury, it is a long story but I am alive and well for now.”

  “Hey, as long as you turn up for the battle that matters, I don’t care if you go take your beauty sleep in a coffin like Dracu, for all I care,” Fury quipped as his gaze then moved on to Romanoff.

  “Look who made the right decision by defeg early. If you had told me, this shit was what awaited me, I would have slinked right along with you,” Fury said as he then looked at the doctors and hat surrounded him, “Give us the room, please,”

  “So, quite a shitshow, huh?”

  “A shitshow indeed, Director Fury,” Jarvis’ voice came from the small bot that came out of Romanoff’s jacket.

  “Who the hell….wait a minute..are you Stark’s AI?”

  “I am no longer affiliated with Stark Industries, Director Fury. I have information that would prove critical for your mission. The sooner we get this dohe sooner I move on to more important things,”

  “Wait a minute? Is this not important enough for you, Your Majesty?” Fury asked Jarvis, referring to his British At.

  “Before that, how did you even survive? I checked and you had beat,” Rogers asked Fury.

  “Tetrodotoxin B. A drug that Dr.Banner made to slow dowbeats. Slows it down to 1 bpm, allowing oo simute death like ditions for short periods of time, in exge for minor damage to the arteries,” Jarivs’ voice came from the drohat was floating in front of everyone.

  “gratutions, Director Fury, with the teology you have access to, you will make a full recovery. I am gd that Project TAHITI will not be needed in this case,”

  Fury’s gaze bored into the drone as Jarvis casually revealed data that should only be known to a select few people.

  Damn, this version of Jarvis was cold.

  I like it. He was definitely not grinning like a loon.

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