Chapter Nine

“Where are you going?” asked James.

“I’m going to make a game plan.”

“Oh…”

“Do you need help?” Asked Steve.

“You're with me, or you’re not. If not, stay out of my way.”

If this was going to work I couldn’t afford any distractions. I had to seclude myself in the file room and get all files and read every one of them, word by word. I had to read them going from the most recent to the oldest. My research has to start with me. Walking into the room I suddenly got nervous. I would have to relive what happened to me… at least I would know what happened in the end. What happened after I smashed the Tesseract on the floor?

Looking at the shelves all stacked with boxes with different files in them, I knew how hard this was going to be. I went to where the files that began with ‘S’ were. I took the rolling step ladder and went to the top shelf. There was six boxes dedicated solely to “Skull.” I stacked three onto one another and brought them to the steel table with a flimsy table lamp and chair. The first box I went into was dated 2030, the earliest and most recent case. The first file was mine. Where I had gotten abducted, beaten, and became and super-human. Not a hero, I haven’t done anything heroic quite yet. I read my name, and opened the file. The first thing I noticed was a photo of me paper clipped to the top left corner. I then began to thoroughly read through my file.

‘Reuben Bailey Stark

‘Daughter of Anthony Edward Stark and Rachel Christine Bailey’

‘Parents whereabouts: Mother- M.I.A. Deceased. Father- Manhattan, New York’

I crossed out Mom’s whereabouts because I wanted to make sure they knew she was dead.

‘Date of Birth- 7/4/2012’

‘Attacker: Red Skull’

‘Information:’

I skipped to the end. I knew everything they had in the beginning. How he tortured me, asked me questions, how he abducted the Avengers.

‘She smashed the Tesseract on the floor which became smoke and enveloped her until it all sank into her skin. She was then glowing a solid, bright blue, the same as the tesseract. She then went after Red Skull who escaped. The power of the tesseract then receded into her, and she passed out. Tony Stark managed to get the submarine up to the surface, where shield met up with them. Reuben was then in a coma for two weeks. When she woke up, she went to her mother's’ home in Alabama. Her mother is still currently M.I.A. Red Skull’s last know location is unknown.”

Ok, so I’m an alien. I’ve never met a Superhero or mutant that ever glowed one solid color. Well, this file was done with. Time for some other files. File after file, word for word, I read every file that shield had, and I found another file with the name “Stark” on it. It was about my grandparents. If they are in the file of Red Skull, that means they were involved with hydra, which meant they had something to do with their death. I skipped this file, because I wasn’t strong enough to learn about more death in my family. I read file after file until the last file came. I already knew who this was about.

‘Captain Steven Grant Rogers’

I just skipped to what happened. I read how he tried to stop hydra, how he crashed a ship in the ocean near New York. How he was found frozen, yet still alive. How he was in a coma for seventy years. Skull didn’t kill Steve. If Steve had died, I would’ve considered it a heroic sacrifice. Skull had a pattern, either sending his henchmen to kill someone, or making them kill themselves. I don’t know how skull killed mom, but I know that I’m going to avenge her by having Skull rot in jail for the rest of his time on Earth.

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