MARVEL: GAMER PATH - CHAPTER 62 (Patreon)

From the top of one of the many trees outside little Natasha’s house, I waited, hiding in the shadows, as I formulated a plan to deal with this whole situation. All while Natasha and Yelena played around like two little kids, it was like seeing two sides of the same coin, one was obliviously happy, and the other, well, not so much.

Normally, I wouldn’t need a plan for such a situation, I was vastly overtrained for this little raid, but my mission had changed the moment I had discovered kids were on the line. In truth, before today, I had completely forgotten about the Red Room, but now that I had remembered, well, I just couldn’t let things play out as they should, so for now, Fury and his data would have to wait.

Sighing, I turned my attention to the house.

Inside the house, there was a woman, the other red dot in the area, she was level 29, and was currently cooking some dinner, playing her role perfectly. The typical suburban middle class wife, waiting for her husband.

“Girls let’s come inside, dinner’s ready.” [Melina Vostokoff LV 29]

“Food!!” Yelena exclaimed, with a toothy smile.

“Did you make the corn we bought yesterday?” Natasha asked, with a significantly lower amount of enthusiasm, but even then, her eyes laid on Melina with love, she cared for her, even if this entire thing was a lie.

“Yes, now, come on, dad is about to get home.” Melina repeated, pushing both girls inside the house delicately.

Well, this made my whole bursting through the window plan go to shit. If she cared about Melina, I had to play this carefully, hurting Melina would scar both girls for life, making them my and by connection Emily’s enemies.

Though for now, even if I didn’t care about making enemies out of them, doing a Kool-Aid move was out of the window, as ironic as that is, because I was still waiting for that last red dot, that was now a mile away.

Shrugging those thoughts for the moment, I jumped out of the tree as I casted a low tier illusion spell around me to render myself invisible. Then, I walked behind the girl like Hydra had taught me, making no sound as I followed them inside the house. God, I felt like a creep.

Inside the house, I started to scrutinize the rooms one by one, while keeping tabs on everyone around, surprisingly the inside of the house was rather normal, with the normal amount of weapons expected in an American household.

“Here it comes.” I muttered to myself, as the last red dot finally arrived.

“Dad!” Yelena shouted filled with excitement, the cry of happiness was so hard, I heard her from the second floor of the house.

Sighing, I walked out of the room I was inspecting and walked into the kitchen, as the fake family started to gather around.

The man, who was the last red dot, was nervous, his whole body language said that much, something, not only I, but Natasha and Melina noticed, leaving only little Yelena in the dark.

[Alexei Alanovich Shostakov LV 95]

Well, ain’t that interesting, the guy level is close to the hundreds, well, not that it matters.

Knowing what would happen next, I walked out of the house through the front door the man had graciously left open, and hopped above their SUV, where I comfortably took a seat atop of the car, using my telekinesis to avoid making a mark on it, also to hold onto it.

Five minutes later, the family walked out of the house, all in a hurry, with Natasha and Yelena being the first ones to enter the SUV, then on the garage both Alexei and Melina stood still, having a conversation about the mission for what it looked like, with the man showing Melina a floppy disk.

At times I forget the USB has yet to come, such dark times we live in.

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Soon after their short lived conversation about their mission, Alexei and Melina hopped into the car and drove away with both me and the girls, as multiple police cars came into the scene driving into their house, their sirens wailing, which made me curse internally, for every single police car was under shield, meaning it was all a facade, which also meant, Fury had discovered something after our talk and hadn’t say shit, our prior our talk, though who really cared.

“Where are we going?” I heard little Yelena ask.

“Home.” Melina replied with a rather somber tone, perhaps she was worth saving, something to debate on later.

“Mommy you’re silly.” Yelena giggled. “We just left home.” such is the innocence of the youth, such a fragile treasure.

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Three hours later, the sun was already down, and I was still sitting above their SUV, cursing their slow method of transportation. At least the air was nice, I can see why dogs like to feel the air on their faces.

Eventually the SUV turned into a corn field driving towards a bunch of hangards.

Needless to say, I jumped off the car, the illusion still in play as I walked towards the play hiding beneath one of the hangards, as multiple SHIELD agents approached the scene, by my calculations they would be here in a minute or two.

So far, everything was playing according to the small part of the movie I had watched, though from this point on, I had no idea what would happen next, but considering there was a plane, I assumed they were about to fly that shit up, so once again, I use my telekinesis to cling into the plane without actually letting weight affect the plane, as I stood above the plane.

“Get in, get in!” Alexei said in a hurried tone, turning around as many cars started to arrive in the area. As for me, well, I took this chance to levitate the floppy disk he had stolen out of his pocket into my inventory, replacing the thing for a drink coaster of the same size Bucky had gotten me from a gas station, sneaky, sneaky.

Floppy Disk, disgusting really.

With Everyone but Alexei in the plane, Melina started the plane, as Alexei ran towards the metal trailer blocking the way, effortlessly flipping the thing over, and now I understood why his level was so high, he was a super soldier, god damn it, it seems they now sell the serum in your local market shop or something.

Maybe I should also get a blood sample for him, it could help me in the long run.

With the plane running, the action started with SHIELD that had just arrived, and Alexei shooting at each other, with me slightly deviating the bullets that came my way with my telekinesis.

I had to admit, so far, Alexei was doing great, keeping up with the plane at foot, while shooting his rifle with incredible precision.

The real question now was, what to do. I could interfere, capture them all, and offer both Natasha and Yelena assylum, or I could see where they were trying to escape and get the man responsible for the entire Red Room situation.

I mean, I knew that with my satellite I could eventually locate them, the problem was that all of fuckign Russia was red in my minimap, which would make the hunt considerably tiring.

“AHHH!” Melina screamed, breaking me out of my long reverie.

On one of the wings, Alexei clung into the plane, shooting at the SHIELD agents coming their way.

I really had to stop daydreaming about my plans, a lot of shit happened, and I didn’t notice.

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With Melina slowly dying, Natasha had no other option but to grab the wheel and fly the plane to Cuba, which took a long ass time. Again, I think I was getting pampered by the portals.

“Medics!” Alexei shouted, carrying the wounded Melina in his arms, as both Natasha and Yelena followed their fake mother with tears in their eyes as their fake father laid her on a stretcher.

After that, Alexei walked back to the plane as a few soldiers walked towards Melina to treat her wounds.

“Forgive me mom…” Natasha said in fluent russian, tears falling from her eyes in pure pain, she was not acting, she really cared about Melina, she really loved her.

“The Red Guardian returns.” I heard someone say, drawing my attention.

With Alexei, a rather fat man walked to Alexei with a smile on his face, his arms stretched as he approached the Russian super soldier to hug him, then with two kisses on the cheek, he grinned at Alexei.

[General Dreykov LV 22]

“Please general, no more undercover jobs.” Alexei sighed. “I need to get back in the action, I need my suit.” he added, with a tired smile.

“Did you get it?” The general asked, his eyes on Alexei like two piercing hollow windows with no emotion.

Alexei smiled, handing the general the drink coaster. “What…?” he muttered, realizing what he had given to the general.

“Is this a joke?” The general asked, his tone dangerously low.

“I.. I know I have it.” Alexei replied, checking every pocket on his jacket.

As this hilarious event happened, the soldiers took Melina into a truck, making Yelena cry, who in turn rushed to her father figure looking for some type of comfort only to be stopped by one of the soldiers, who grabbed the little girl by the hand like a sack of potatoes.

Angry at this, Natasha ran towards the man, kicking the hand holding her sister, while also disarming the soldier with surprising ease.

“Get away from her!” Natasha growled, aiming the gun at everyone around, her eyes gleaming dangerously. “I will kill you all, don’t touch her!” she roared once again.

With sigh, I walked towards Natasha, the illusion still in place as I equipped my armor, for it was the time to intervene.

“Honey.” Alexei called, as he approached Natasha who in turn aimed her gun at him. “Hand me the gun.”

Natasha looked at him, her eyes watering even more. “I don’t want to go back there.” she cried, looking at Alexei with pleading eyes. “I wanna stay in Ohio.”

“You know you can’t.” Alexei replied, slowly walking towards her.

“You can’t take her… she’s too young.” Natasha muttered, feeling hopeless.

“And they won’t.” I replied, breaking the spell, as I stood in front of the girls.