《Marvel : Eclipse》


 The end/begining of a story (Prologue)

    In the small hours of a bitter winter night, a solitary figure stood lonely against the faint glow of the moon. His name was Noah, a young man of twenty-two, though the weight of the world seemed to have aged him beyond his years. His eyes, haunted by the ghosts of a past he could never escape, betrayed a soul weary from years of solitude and hardship.


    As a child, Noah knew little of the warmth of family or the comfort of home. His parents, taken from him in a tragic accident, left him orphaned and alone in a world that showed little mercy to those without a guiding hand to lead them. From one foster home to another, he was passed like a pawn in a game he didn''t understand, never finding the illusory love in the arms of those who promised to care for him.


    Each new home brought with it a fresh set of challenges, a new set of rules to follow, and new faces to disappoint. Try as he might, Noah never seemed to fit in, always feeling like an outsider looking in on a world that refused to let him belong. And so, he retreated into himself, building walls around his heart to shield it from the pain of rejection.


    As the years passed, Noah grew accustomed to the sting of loneliness, finding solace only in the quiet corners of his own mind and the colorful world of fictions. Those were the worlds he wanted to see with his own eyes. The glamorous tales of loyal friendship, everlasting love and otherworldly powers left him enchanted every time. But when he came to reality again and faced the same ruthlessness again and again, he became introspective, spending countless hours lost in thought, trying to make sense of a world that seemed determined to break him. And when the weight of his own existence became too heavy to bear, he turned to the only thing that made sense ¨C survival.


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    Becoming a mercenary was not a choice Noah made lightly, but in a world where strength was the only currency available for the unprivileged, it seemed the only path available to him. He honed his skills in the art of combat, mastering weapons of all kinds and learning to navigate the treacherous landscape of a world torn apart by conflict.


    Each mission brought with it the promise of wealth and security, but it also brought with it the risk of death and despair. For Noah, the thrill of the fight was tempered by the knowledge that every battle could be his last, every victory a fleeting moment of respite in an endless sea of suffering. But he still would display the same happiness and pure mindset whenever he read manga or novels. They were the solace of his existence.


    So he lived his life in the shadows, a lone wolf prowling the edges of society, always on the hunt for his next payday. But no amount of money could fill the void in his heart, no amount of bloodshed could wash away the guilt that gnawed at his soul.


    It was on one such mission that Noah''s luck finally ran out. Caught in the crossfire of a conflict he barely understood, he found himself outnumbered and outgunned, his back against the wall with nowhere left to run. In a desperate bid for survival, he fought with a ferocity born of desperation, but it was not enough.


    In his final moments, he realized the true cost of his lonely life. As the darkness closed in around him, he wished for nothing more than the chance to go back and change the choices that led him down this path. But it was too late. And so, a young man with a troubled past and a lonely heart slipped quietly into oblivion, his story ending as tragically as it began.


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    Or was it a beginning of a new glorious tale.

 Cleaning HYDRA

    [??????]


    In an area which was surrounded by huge expanse of universes around it, an ethereal figure watched an enormous soul pass through a gate connecting to a world filled with gods, celestials, aliens any many others.


    "You have fulfilled your duty. I wish you will enjoy you rewards in this life."


    The words spoken by the ethereal figure was a mystery to everyone including the enormous soul (A/N: Who''s memory of this time period is erased). No one knew what duty and rewards the ethereal figure was talking about. And when will it be revealed, no one knows that too.


    .......


    [ T.V.A ]


    The whole hall was busy with people working in an office like scenario, constantly eyeing the screen, monitoring the sacred timeline to see any new divergence in it. But suddenly an alternate timeline started forming directly perpendicular to the sacred timeline, filling the workers with both fear and shock.


    "What the hell is happening to the sacred timeline." Hunter ???


    "I have never seen a timeline like that before. Should we send hunters to initiate the pruning?" Random officer.


    "No that won''t be possible. Something is restricting our access to the new timeline. Timedoors can''t be created there."


    When all the people were panicking due to the new timeline. Ravonna Renslayer came to the hall and announced, although her voice contained twinges of doubt. "The Time-keepers have ordered everyone to ignore the new timeline. Everyone focus on their works."


    Hearing the announcement everyone was still confused but still went to their own workplace. Mobius slowly approached Ravonna "Why are the Time-keepers ignoring the new branch. Wasn''t it our duty to prune every other timeline other than the sacred timeline."


    "I don''t know Mobius. Maybe it''s their own work to check something" Ravonna replied sounding not so sure of her own words.


    "Well if you say so." Mobius was confused and also conflicted ''If we don''t erase this new timeline what''s the point of erasing all the other timelines till now?"


    [ Citadel At The End of Time ]


    At the same time the new timeline started forming, He Who Remains also noticed the abnormality.


    "Well that''s new." He Who Remains was both intrigued and wary since this event never happened before in his observation. So he tried to see the new timeline but he was reflected instantly from the timeline. When he focused more, he could see several dragon like creature protecting the new timeline preventing anyone from viewing the timeline.


    "It''s really outside my calculation. I guess I will have to wait and see. It will be interesting." He Who Remains mused in little excitement.


    [ Kamar-Taj ]


    In one of the chambers of Kamar-Taj, Ancient one was slowly sipping her tea but suddenly she felt a change occurring around the world but when she tried to pinpoint the abnormality she couldn''t find anything. That made Ancient one little wary, so she tried to watch the future events to see if anything changed but when she used the Time stone this time, she could no longer see the future. It was all blurry, although she could see the major events still happening, she could no longer see the outcomes or even when they will occur anymore. She can''t even see her death anymore, which was a finality before.


    "What is causing this abnormality. Is this happening because of an individual or something else." Ancient one tried for some more time but still couldn''t get any result. She wasn''t downright panicking because although it''s not guaranteed to be a good thing, seeing no direct threat to earth for now, she was already satisfied and as a plus point their was no hole in the earth''s shield from external threat. All in all she was little happy from the event since it''s something unpredictable in her eons of life.


    [ Xavier''s School for Gifted Youngsters ]


    At the basement of the school, Professor X was using Cerebro to find brainwave of any new mutants. Then suddenly he felt a massive spike of power from somewhere but then it disappeared in the next moment. No matter what Xavier did, he couldn''t find the source again. So he had no choice but to finish his search for the day. Seeing Xavier frowning Hank inquired his findings.


    "What happened? did you find someone new?"


    "Well I did find one new, that too of Omega level or beyond power, but it disappeared the next moment."


    "Well we all know, one awakens their x-gene in extreme condition, maybe he/she couldn''t handle his/her powers or got killed by someone."


    "Yeah I know that could happen but I feel like it''s something different this time. Well for now tell the others to be on lookout for new news, maybe we will get something from that."


    "Okay I will inform the others."


    It was not only them but many others felt the same disturbance but for all of them it was fleeting like the others. But all of them were sure it will bring new changes to the board in the coming future.


    ...


    [?????. Sokovia ]


    [?????. 2005]


    In a secret base, in a room of less than fifteen square meters, There was Noah who was wearing a thin white patient coat, leaning against the white walls of the room. His eyes were closed and there was no one near his vicinity to disturb him.


    It''s been one month, since he has entered the body of this little boy. Although no one was aware of that except him. He''s a soul that is not native of this world. The world of marvel. Though he''s not sure which universe it is.


    Noah is unfortunate but also lucky. He doesn''t know why he suddenly crossed after his death and occupied the body of this boy, who was going through human experiments that were life-threatening, every few days. Noah entered the body a month ago, when the boy couldn''t bear the experiments and passed away.


    Within this month, he understood how painful the human experiments were, even a person with mercenary experience like him could hardly survive it, let alone a child. Fortunately, he has the hope of leaving here. When he first gained his consciousness, he could feel some kind of powers in his body awakening which luckily didn''t show any outward reactions, saving him from more inhuman experiments. One of the powers was simply mystical and completely outside of his understanding. Through this power he could feel a feel a connection to something enormous and when he focused at the power, knowledge regarding it flowed in his brain.


    The power was a connection to the Nexus of whole worlds. And by exchanging Tokens(It''s a unique power in the shape of token which is produced in his body. One a day) he could get things from different worlds randomly. The more token used, more the quality of the things. And even a simplified interface was displayed in front of his eyes after he absorbed the knowledge.


    Noah spoke in his mind ''Interface''


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    <User : Noah Johnson>


    <Age : 15>


    <Race : Mutant/?????>


    <Token : 30>


    - Power Adaptation(X-gene) : When the body gets a new power, it makes the body adaptable to the power and lets the body get the maximum benefits.


    - Nexus connection(Reward for ????) : Let the host exchange things for Tokens.Currently the host can exchange from category- self power, sharable power and equipment. Other category can be unlocked in the future.


    - ?????(Reward for ???? currently sealed) : Many effects are sealed for now but the current benefits are protection from mind reading and hides the host from other cosmic presence and powers. The host can use this ability on others near his vicinity. It also keeps the host calm and protects from exist****** cr****. Other effects are sealed for now.


    - ?????(Reward for ???? currently sealed) : No information for now.


    - ?????(Reward for ???? currently sealed) : No information for now.>Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    <Inventory : Blank>


    <Nexus(Beginner''s luck applied) :


    - Self power


    - Sharable power


    - Equipment


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    Noah examined his interface carefully, then he decided to exchange for the first time. So he mentally commanded like his knowledge dictated. ''Nexus: Self power''


    <How many Tokens will be debited?>


    A new interface popped up in front of him and Noah used all of his token ''30''


    <Exchange successful(Beginner luck applied).


    - Pika Pika no Mi(Modified) :


    -The limit of devil fruit''s powers are removed and it will use physical power as base for energy.


    -Weakness to seawater is removed since it''s different world. Now it''s weakness are opposing type of elements, magic and cosmic energy.>


    As the interface popped up, Noah felt the devil fruit appear in his inventory. Pika Pika no mi, one of the top logia devil fruit from One piece world. When attacked, his body can be elementized. He could also use light for various attack method and also high-speed movement. Although he can only travel in a straight line or use reflection in objects to turn. But the flaws doesn''t outweigh the gains.


    Noah also gained the knowledge regarding the use of devil fruit by Kizaru and now he can even create more styles since the limits are removed. For now he gained an ability which makes him an unstoppable force for normal weapons.


    Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Noah raised his head and glanced at the camera in the corner then turned slightly sideways, using his body to form a blind spot, which not only blocked the angle of the camera but also blocked his front from the bars of his room, in case someone comes to investigate.


    Lowering his head and raising his arms slightly, he took out the devil fruit from the inventory and took a bite. Suppressing the indescribable taste in his mouth, he ate all parts of the fruit. Since he can''t afford to leave any trace. Noah had planned for all this during the month. Noah first confirmed that he was in Marvel world when he saw mutant as his race in the interface and as a mercenary, he observed his surrounding all the time, so when he saw the [[Hydra]] symbol in the wall, he concluded that he was in a Hydra''s experiment for power.


    Noah made the exchange today since he was not sure what power he will get from it. In daytime today, he underwent experiment and there''s 5 days till his next experiment. So he can prepare well and plan his escape more thoroughly. He had already mapped the base, the base has three floors underground and a fake abandoned factory above the ground. At the bottom floor, he and other captives are kept and experimented, in the floor directly below the ground, it''s place for data and researchers. As for security, they are in middle floor, he has seen four groups of armed forces and no mention of any powered person for now. So he has 5 days to prepare more thoroughly and adjust his body to the devil fruit.


    After eating, he sat up straight and closed his eyes to feel the changes in his body. If someone was watching more carefully, they would have seen Noah''s body slowly being transformed by inexplicable forces which was veiled by his baggy patient wares. This night, he will usher in a metamorphosis.


    ...


    Early in the next morning.


    clang


    "Hey kid, get your breakfast."


    A voice came from outside the bars. Noah who had been leaning against the wall all night, opened his eyes to look at the metal dinner plate that was thrown on the ground. The man went away after that. Noah got out of bed and picked up the plate. On the plate there was a box of nutrient solution.


    As an experimental subject, from his memory, the only thing he ate in the past six months was this unpalatable, specially prepared nutrient solution. It was bland but it had to be said that it was very rich in energy, sustainable for about a week. It''s not that these people are benevolent, but they just prepared so that the experimental subjects has a healthy enough body to survive more experiments.


    He tore open the carton and sucked it into his mouth. This thing is the biggest source to enriching his gradually growing body. he is not going to waste any of it. After eating, he put the plate back on the ground waiting for guard to take it away.


    Then he continued to sit on the bed with his eyes closed, thinking about his escape plan. He has 5 days between his next experiment. On the sixth day, the changes in his body would certainly not escape the detection of those scientist.


    At that time, his fate will be even more miserable. Therefore he must make good use of these five days. As for his Nexus power, which was completely random, although theoretically he can exchange every day, but the items given by the number of Tokens are hard to guess. But it''s sure for him to get more quality item with more tokens. So after accumulating to the fifth day, he can try to exchange again. Before that, he needs to exercise, a lot of training. Thinking of this, he got off the bed and started doing push-ups.


    Not long after, the person who collects the dishes came over and watched Noah''s movements. There was not much surprise. Since a month ago, Noah was always exercising in his spare time. What''s more in this closed room, besides being in a daze, there''s no other activity either. So after watching for sometime the man left.


    As for Noah, he has already felt the changes in his body, while sitting and doing push-ups. Before Noah was exercising in his spare time but at the end, he was only 15 years old so his physical fitness was considerably weak. He could only achieve about 100 consecutive push-ups before in his exercises.


    But now, after doing 100 in a row, he still felt very relaxed. This is enough to prove that the devil fruit is already transforming his body and there''s his mutant power in play too. ''Well 5 days till I escape this place'' Noah resolved his heart. he would definitely make sure to kill all the Hydra personals in the base. Under this belief, he started a five-day countdown to hard training.


    Time passed bit by bit.


    Five days passed by in a flash. During these five days, Noah was exercising crazily but he intentionally kept his continuous exercise time growing normally but the interval time was shortening. After that, he secretly changed to one-finger push-ups under the blind spot of monitoring.


    But he still didn''t use the abilities of his devil fruit directly, he wasn''t sure if it would alarm these people, he can''t take any risk. There is also the nutrient solution, rich in energy so his physical fitness is increasing day by day and the 15year old body already has a physical fitness that surpasses that of an athletic adult. And since he has the memory of the use of the devil fruit, he can still use some preliminary abilities of the fruit. Including elementalization.


    it''s finally time for his plan to execute.


    During night, Noah, who was supposed to be asleep in bed, opened his eyes and a faint golden light flashed through his eyes. He sat up slowly and put on his shoes calmly and stood in front of the bars.


    hum


    Slowly his body started to turn into golden light and the moment he walked out of the bars, a long-sounding alarm immediately rang through out the base. The entire corridor in front of him started shining with red light.


    beep! beep! beep! beep


    This crazy alarm also alerted the other captive children in their rooms. The children who were awakened, got up from their beds in panic and ran to their room''s bars, stretched their heads and looked hard at outside. Then these children saw an incredible picture.


    They saw the group of guards in the base react quickly and within half a minute, there were already dense footsteps and at the end of the corridor passage, a dozen men in uniforms with guns in their hands opened the iron door and walked in.


    Immediately the guards noticed Noah, who was walking towards them, their expression changed drastically.


    "Hey brat, who the hell let you out?"


    When the guards walked up to Noah, the leading captain stretched out his thick arm to grab Noah but just as he stretched out his hand, his arm was grabbed by the wrist by a hand. If you look closely, you will see that it was the hand the little boy in front of them.


    The captain''s face immediately turned ferocious: "Brat, are you looking for a fight?"


    After speaking, he pressed Noah with all his strength but Noah''s seemingly slender hands were extremely powerful, making the captain unable to move his hands at all. This power should not be possessed by any 14 or 15 year old children.


    The captain was puzzled and when he was about to speak, Noah raised his head slightly and his childish voice came to everyone''s ears. It seemed a little weird amid the rushing sirens.


    "I will start with you."


    Fwoosh


    Everyone saw a leg with gleam of golden light coming up quickly and kicking the captain''s stomach heavily. A force far surpassing that of an adult spurted blood from the latter''s mouth. The captain''s body hit backwards. Several people behind were knocked over. The captain smashed on the iron door at the end of the passage and crumpled in the floor.


    The rest of guards have undergone strict professional training. So faced with this sudden attack, they immediately drew out their guns without any hesitation and fired at Noah.


    However, unfortunately for them, they were not as fast as Noah. A golden figure flashed across their eyes and the next moment, sharp pain pierced their nerves, their eyes went black and completely lost consciousness. With a few plops, more than a dozen guards fell to the ground with twisted necks and died immediately.


    Noah, who killed more than a dozen people with his own hands, didn''t feel any abnormality at all and only felt a sense of venting. But it was far from enough. The unforgettable torture and pain that made his life worse than death had already filled Noah''s heart with anger.


    He turned his head and glanced at the shock and excitement in the eyes of the rows of children in the rooms of the passageway around him, completely lacking the silence from before. At that time, no one spoke but Noah could see hope in the eyes of these children.


    "I will come back."


    Noah softly uttered one of the most classic death flags. After that he turned his head and ran towards the passage ahead, leaving behind the group of children, who were full of hope and little fear.


    boom! boom! boom! Aggh! arghhh!


    Inside the base, there were crashes and screams everywhere. In the general control room below the ground, a man who was in charge of the base uniform walked in with swift pace and the room was already filled with crowds and noisy voices.


    "Hurry up, Code 69 has broken into the second floor, close all the passages and activate the defense systems."


    "We lost contact with the Alpha and the Omega squadron and the Jackal squadron is currently engaging the target."


    "More than half of the Jackal squadron are Compromised, they are requesting for backup."


    "what the hell is happening."


    Looking at the crowd who were constantly issuing orders, the man directly grabbed a researcher in white coat, who was relaying orders and shouted angrily.


    "Sir, there is an experimental subject named Code 69 is attacking the base, our people are trying to stop the target but there are already heavy casualties from our side."


    The researcher was startled and answered with sweat all over his face.


    "How did it happen?"


    The man pushed the researcher away and walked to the podium and looked up, then he saw the target on the big screens consisting of thirteen huge LCD screens in front of him, and the visuals shocked him greatly. In the picture, a boy in white patient cloth can be seen fighting dozens of soldiers in the passage of the 2 floor of the base.


    But in the end, it was just a one-sided massacre. The heavily armed soldiers pulled their trigger but the bullets couldn''t even hit the boy at all. The boy seemed to have some kind of intangible ability and could turn into golden light and shuttle around, punching and kicking. All of his strikes were full of monstrous strength.


    The guards were slaughtered in less than 10 minute. Blood and corpses scattered all over the corridor passage. Among the corpses, only the boy was left standing, then as if realizing that someone was watching him, the boy turned his body towards the camera and raised his head. What came into the screens were a pair of golden eyes. The originally chaotic crowd looked at those eyes and fell into silence.


    Everyone''s hearts were beating crazily and all they saw in those eyes was their death. The boy looking at the camera mouthed "You''re next"


    The killing intent through the screen seemed to be able to pierce their hearts and that kind of oppressive feeling came from a boy who was less than 15 years old. It was unbelievable but now it was their reality.


    The boy''s eyes were indistinguishable from a devil, in their perspective.


    hum!


    The boy then turned into golden light and disappeared from the screen again. It was only at this time that the man came to his senses and cursed loudly.


    "Damn!!"


    "Immediately mobilize rest of the forces. You must take down that boy for me."


    As he said that, the man showed a frenzied look on his face. Although this is a huge crisis, at the same time it also represents a golden opportunity. The boy suddenly has power beyond ordinary people, which means that their experiments has succeeded. So the boy must be caught at all cost. With him they could have their own superpowered army at their call to do their deeds.


    "Yes, sir." One of the subordinates acknowledged the order but the next moment his voice became weaker and he whispered: "Sir, almost all the soldiers in our base are compromised."


    "What?"


    The man felt a bucket of cold water rousing him from his fantasies and turned his head to look at his subordinates in disbelief: "All compromised?"


    "Yes, sir, Code 69 is too fast and he''s like a perfect killing machine, our people were killed as soon as they met."


    "How many squads are left?"


    "There is only one combat team left to operate. Since we are an experimental base here, there are not many armed forces, so..."


    It was obvious what was implied in between his report, the man understood his situation and his brows tightened, feeling their goal crumbling quickly.


    "What about our power dampening devices?"


    "It''s all scrapped." The subordinates were even more bitter. Originally, those devices were only meant to prevent the superpowered person from running away, if their experiments succeeded, but unfortunately, the boy blew it all up with light beams.


    "That means our base has already fallen? Just because of a boy under 15?"


    "Although I hate to admit it, it is true, sir."


    "Damn it!" The man cursed, then took a breath and gave a new order: "Upload all the data of Code 69 immediately and destroy all data banks in the base. We must evacuate immediately."


    "Should we activate the self destruct protocol sir?"


    The subordinate asked a question and was scolded back by the man: "Idiot, wouldn''t all our efforts be in vain if we blow up that boy? I will report it to the Baron so that they can send personals to catch Code 69."


    After cursing, he turned and left. Following the man''s order, the rest of the staff evacuated immediately after uploading the information. Their action were fast and it took less than five minutes in total.


    20 minutes later, there were crisp footsteps. In the control room, Noah walked in slowly. Judging from the heaving of his chest, he has exhausted more than half of his physical strength. If Noah hadn''t analyzed the base layout and it''s small amount of guards previously, he would not have chosen to break through directly. But would have instead tried to escape directly.


    Elementalization is a bug for ordinary hot weapons but his physical strength is exhausted very quickly. Looking at the deserted room and the black monitors above, he walked to the rows of computers and tried to salvage the hard discs for future use. He was lucky in that regard since they couldn''t destroy it all because of urgency.


    Then after searching for some time, he turned around and walked towards the bottom-est floor where the other captives were held.

 Escaping the base

    Although the base was completely silent now, the same couldn''t be said about the captive children below, who''s heart were going through a maelstrom of emotions. Fear, hope, rage, sorrow all mashed together.


    First they woke up at night due to the blaring siren, then the base was filled with sound of bullets, screams, and explosions everywhere, followed by the final silence in the base. The pressure settled near them was thick enough to be cut by a knife. Then came the sound of slow footstep which somehow sounded unusually loud in their ears. Everyone held their breath waiting to see the one who will either be their salvation or their further tormentor.


    When they vaguely noticed Noah''s figure stepping in through the iron door, the nervous expressions of the children, immediately turned into excitement.


    "You really did it."


    Looking at the excited children, Noah showed a genuine smile since his transmigration, completely shifting from the previous coldness and fury in his face. He then made a sword of light and hacked towards the bars of the rooms of each captives one by one. During which all the children''s eyes were completely glued towards his sword with marvel in their eyes.


    The oldest of the dozen or so children was no more than 15 years old, while the youngest was only 8 years old. In his memory, there should have been more than thirty children since he was brought here, then he realized it was already a miracle for the current ones to live this long. The children timidly walked up to Noah and looked at him with wide eyes, obviously considering him as the backbone.


    Noah spoke: "All of you, we have to get out of here quickly. Who knows when they will send more people here to capture us."


    Although he was now powerful enough to kill dozens of soldier at ease, he was also very clear that now he will be the target of those people who escaped the base today and will definitely expose his ability to their superiors and they will definitely do their best to capture him at all cost.


    This was not a place to stay. As for the kids, most of them are either orphans or have been sold. Coupled with Noah''s maturity and strength that brought them freedom, the children were already dependent on him and instinctively listened to his orders.


    Led by Noah, they explored the base with quick haste. It has to be said that, although it''s a small experimental base, it is still extremely rich in both facilities and resources. There is no shortage of food or equipment. They even found a vault filled with gold bars and stacks of bank notes.


    Counting down, there were a total of 23 gold bars, three stacks of US dollars totaling 300,000 and several stacks of rubles, which are obviously all the property of the base but they were not taken away due to haste, all of which will now aid Noah in his future endeavors.


    In addition, They searched for food, bread, vegetables, frozen meat, etc., and also boxes of nutrient solution packed in cartons. Then Noah instructed the children to wear thick cloths and take some mattress and blankets for accommodation. They also took the guns they can carry with them as well.


    Noah then found a large truck, filled it with all their supplies and started to drive along the road with the children. At the moment it was already approaching the wee hours of the morning. It was still pitch black outside the base and there was a mountain range near them, with the heavy snow still falling rapidly.


    Fortunately Noah knew, how to drive various type of vehicles. Although his small stature made it little difficult to drive, such as vision, steering, handling, etc. But it was resolved quite easily. Noah was quick to adapt and after a while, he got used to it.


    The problem was the direction. Fortunately, Noah found some maps in the base, which included some points in the nearby mountains, Although it was in Russian, it didn''t quite pose any difficulties since Noah knew around 9 languages including Russian. Then he matched some location with the map which he had obtained searching the computers at the base.


    They were currently at the eastern part of the Ural Mountains belonging to the remote Siberian region, close to the European part of Russia. One can reach Yekaterinburg city if they drive along the highway for nearly 700 kilometers.


    After thinking about it, Noah decided to settle these children near Yekaterinburg. Since it was snowing heavily outside, the tire marks of the truck would be completely covered within an hour, making it impossible for people to track them. So the truck had to be destroyed outside Yekaterinburg and he can go to the city to get more equipments.


    Once in the city, it will be much easier to hide. At the moment, the children were already asleep by now which was obvious considering the chaos they went through today. Like this time passed quickly, during day they camped and at night they continued their journey. When they were around 50 km away from Yekaterinburg, Noah noticed an abandoned building about 300 meters away from the road in the dark. So deciding to make a temporary base there, he turned the steering wheel off the road. Finally, stopping in front of the abandoned house.


    There are some trees and vegetation around the house in twos and threes, which makes it more or less a natural shelter. After stopping, he got out of the truck and opened the back compartment of the truck. A dozen or so children were awakened slowly. After seeing Noah with the flashlight, they breathed a sigh of relief and followed Noah out of the truck obediently and began to move the supplies to the abandoned house.


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    The house was a standard wooden house, the inside dirty and dusty, it should have been sometime since anyone live there. The area is neither too big nor too small, about 120 to 130 square meters. Noah and the children briefly cleaned the house under the beam of the big flashlights they brought from the base and then took out the bedding from the truck and spread it orderly on the floor.


    After that, they gathered some branches nearby and took them back and put them in the fireplace, and Noah lit them with the light fruit Ability. The warm flame flickered slowly, the light gradually dispelled the darkness and brightened the house.


    the warmth from the flame also dispelled the confusion and fear remaining in the hearts of the children.


    After that Noah and the children put all the supplies from the truck into the wooden house"s corner. And instructing them to be careful, he drove to a frozen lake not far away. After breaking the ice layer with a light laser, he drove the car directly into the lake. Now they can''t detect any movement by tracking the truck so they were safe for sometime.


    When he returned to the wooden house, those children were well-behaved and hardworking. They had already made their supplies and bedding, so they were just waiting for him. Noah looked at the children who were staring at him helplessly and said with a helpless smile, "Don''t worry, we won''t be discovered for now. Go to sleep and we can talk about it when you wake up tomorrow."


    "Um! O-okay"


    The children looked at each other than glanced back at Noah, then they saw Noah wearing a fur coat and lying on the quilt in the front of the house. So the rest of the children also laid down and fell asleep together with a peace of mind.


    Not long after, the sound of shallow breathing came one after another and the group of children quickly fell asleep. Although Noah closed his eyes, he could not fall asleep. He''s still thinking about what to do next after this.


    Although he escaped from the test base this time, it doesn''t mean the matter is over. On the contrary, this is just the beginning. In the future, he will inevitably be hunted down by those people openly and secretly, and they will have powered people too.


    At present, the amount of information he has is too little and the time line or the whether it''s MCU or world of comics has not been confirmed. The original owner of this body came from a vagrant village from a small, extremely poor country in Eastern Europe. He was an mixed nationality child, as far as he could remember from the original''s memory, he only knew that the original was also named Noah but was an orphan from birth like him. Later he was caught and taken away while he was begging and stealing in the street and then transported to the experimental base.


    Missing any other worthwhile information except from the mention of freaks termed as mutants, so the chances were low of it being MCU but he can''t be sure quite yet. Now the main problem was the other captive children. There is no doubt that they are a burden for the current him.


    However, although Noah''s moral bottom line is ambiguous, he still has a basic conscience. Once he leaves, these children will definitely not survive. They will either die in this harsh environment or be taken away by HYDRA to continue the tragic human experiments.


    After thinking for a long time, fatigue still made him fall into deep sleep. Noah doesn''t know how long it has passed, but he finally woke up from his sleep and slowly opened his eyes. At the moment, there was still whistling wind and snow outside.


    He sat up, turned his head and took a look, finding the group of children had already waken up. One of youngest kid after waking up for sometime was curling up under the blanket and secretly looking at him with her eyes open.


    Luckily they had ignited the fire using tools, so it was warm and comfy inside the house.


    "Are you hungry?"


    "Umm~~"


    "Why didn''t you eat then?"


    "We''re all waiting for you to eat together."


    Looking at this group of sensible and timid kids, Noah''s heart was somewhat touched. After stretching, he got up from the bed, still wearing the much larger fur coat and hat, then walked to the fireplace.


    He turned his head to look and saw that group of kids also climbed up from the bed, looking at him with wonder and longing in their eyes, obviously because he could use special abilities at will, the scene of him using light devil fruit is still fresh in their memory.


    Noah smiled lightly and called out to everyone


    "Come on, let''s prepare today''s...um.. well, breakfast?"


    The children were excited and followed Noah to the corner of the wooden house where supplies were piled up, opened metal boxes and took out the supplies inside. For now Noah took out normal ingredients instead of the nutrient solutions, although they are rich in energy, he''s tired of them for now. They even eat nutrient solution in the road instead of cooking, as not to raise smoke. Also for now the nutrient solutions are an important resource for future growth, so he can''t afford to waste it.


    Noah took a few iron pots from the supplies and asked the children to bring pork vegetables and seasonings to the wooden house kitchen. The kitchen of the wooden house is open and has a special stove for cooking. Noah lit the stove with firewood and made a simple curry for their breakfast.


    While making it, Noah communicated with the children. It turns out that although they gained their freedom, they are more confused then ever, with no idea what to do or even how to live from now on. After some comforting, he found that most of the children were from Eastern European countries.


    A total of fifteen people including himself, ten boys and five girls. The youngest are only eight years old, a boy and a girl.


    "My name is Gennady."


    "My name is Sumarokov."


    "My name is Romon."


    "My name is Sergey."


    Although the group of children were very nervous, they still introduced themselves. Noah listened patiently and memorized their names, until one of the boys with short black hair and the girl with black hair next to him introduced:


    "My name is Pietro Maximoff ."


    "My name is Wanda Maximoff."


    Wait a minute?


    These two names immediately attracted Noah''s attention, he looked at the two kids carefully, his heart was racing quite erratically, could it be?


    Suppressing the waves in his heart, he asked,


    "Are you twins?"


    "Yes, he is my brother." the girl named Wanda said bluntly.


    "How did the two of you get captured?"


    "Um... we voluntarily participated in the experiment."


    "Why?"


    "Because That''s the only way for our revenge."


    The girl said this with undisguised hatred on her face


    "We were originally from Sokovia, living our peaceful live with our family. But the war destroyed that peace and because of ''his'' creations we lost everything."


    Although there is no follow-up, Noah was able to determine the origin of these two twins. There was a wave of turmoil in Noah''s heart. He now has no idea what kind of marvel universe he had came to. It''s seems like MCU but then there''s mutant here and who knows what else. Will the events even follow the same as his knowledge or not? He doesn''t know anymore.


    These two twins should be Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, who will be mega powerhouses in the future. And the person the twins hates, should be the future Iron man, Tony Stark.


    As Noah who is very familiar with the Marvel universes, he is too aware of how deep the water in this universe is. It is almost bottomless. There are various Sky Father level gods and the various aliens. Before he still held the hope that it was relatively safe universe, now that idea was completely erased from his mind.


    Compared to those mega powerhouses, he''s current power is not even worth mentioning. Thinking about it now, the people in the base, should be the subordinates of Baron Strucker, one of the leaders of HYDRA.


    [Wanda P.O.V]


    Seeing Noah silent after hearing our story, it will be lie if I say i am not nervous. Since the truth is we followed him seeing his power and who knows maybe even we will get some kind of powers if we follow him. That will be really nice, If i get powers, I will make sure to kill the bastard stark.


    Thinking back we were really naive back than accepting the researchers offer, I never really thought someone could be this cruel to other, without any reason. They didn''t even show mercy to little babies, bastards. They are also bastard like stark, they all should go to hell.


    Then Noah question brought me out of my spiraling thoughts " Then wouldn''t your plans be ruined since you know... I destroyed the base?"


    "No it''s actually good you did that, after seeing their experiments even we were considering escape" I hastily replied.


    "Even if we had gotten power, those bastard would have dissected us instead." Pietro quipped in.


    "All''s good than"

 Getting ready for the future

    The conversation with Wanda and Pietro made Noah reconsider his plans again. Since it''s confirmed from their description that their origin was the same as MCU, he doesn''t have to worry too much about the possibility of things blowing up to world class disaster for quite some time.


    *glurg,glurg*


    While Noah was thinking, the water in the iron pot warmed up, interrupting his thoughts. He regained his senses and stopped thinking about world disaster for the time being, ''let''s get the meal ready first.''


    For now Noah was too excited to think about other things, since he would eat a proper meal after so much time. Dividing half of the water into another iron pot, he waited for it to cool down. The rest started boiling some ingredients in another pot. Since he couldn''t find any oil, he fried the pork first to get the lard out, then cut the meat with dagger from the base and asked the other children to soak the vegetables and the meat separately.


    Due to limited fresh ingredient, he can''t make any complex dish for now. So he simply used the plain dishes from his memory and stewed them thoroughly. Eggplants, tomatoes, potatoes, green peppers, corn, and a few simple seasonings, plus pork, stewed for half an hour to create a pot of plain stew. Then he used the remaining lard to fry a few large beef, lamb chops and soft breads to serve as a main course.


    The aroma wafted throughout the room, making the hungry children who had not eaten meat for so long drool. Since they lack bowls and spoons to eat stew and meat, he ran outside and used his strength to break a tree that was not too thick. It took him a while to get fifteen bowls and spoons and a large spoon with a dagger.


    His house keeping knowledge is not that great, so the shape of the tableware were a bit abstract, but it can be used to eat for now without much trouble.


    Noah instructed the children to move the clean wooden table to the middle of the room, then together they brought the iron pot containing stewed vegetables, chopped beef and mutton chops to the wooden table and served the soft breads to everyone.


    These children enjoyed the aroma of today''s ''breakfast'' with bread. Interestingly, even though the children were hungry, they were not in a hurry to eat but collectively looked at Noah eagerly. The latter smiled helplessly, knowing the meaning behind the gesture and said gently: "Let''s eat, you all should be starving."


    Then he started eating first for their comfort. Only then did the children showed a smile and began to wolf down the food. The charm of stewing, plus fried beef mutton chops and bread for staple food, and broth, everything hit the numb taste buds of this group of children. And almost made them shed a tear or two, after they were brought to the base, all of them only had the nutrient solution distributed to eat.


    The nutrient solution is rich in energy but the taste is extremely bland. So the meat with its smooth texture and the soft bread made the appetites of the kids satisfied. Even Noah himself was same. Like the autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves, the food on the table, the stew in the pot including the soup were all eaten clean.


    After eating, the children petted their belly and burped one after another. One can say that today was the warmest moment for these children in the past few years. In the snowstorm, sitting in a warm fireplace and eating delicious food with everyone made the children''s heart clear up a lot.


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    After eating, these children were well-behaved and didn''t wait for Noah''s instruction and directly started to clean up the dishes. Even the oldest children wanted to go out to fetch water from the lake not far away from the house, obviously because they didn''t want to waste clean water from base to clean the dishes. It''s just that Noah was a little worried. After all, the ice around the lake has frozen over for a long time. Without him, these children would not be able to break the ice to get water, so he did it himself.


    When they came back, these children heated the ice water a little and then washed the dishes. Noah didn''t want to take care of everything like a nanny. He knew very well that these children were too insecure. During this period, these children were at their most vulnerable and confused stage. They were instinctively showing their worth and were afraid of being abandoned by Noah.


    So he had to decide his future action soon, so he began to sort out his thoughts. He hadn''t planned to abandon these children before anyway, now he was even more determined because of the Maximoff twins. To survive in this world filled with gods, demons everywhere, Noah knows exactly what he needs. Absolute strength.


    The knowledge regarding world destroying events and villains out for blood is more of a curse then a blessing to him, making him feel insecure. In this world, if he wants to live freely without worrying about other aiming for his head, he needs to be strong enough to beat everyone coming after him. While at it he can even became a god, although it''s too far away from his reach for now. His Nexus connection power is the foundation behind this thought.


    While he can do it alone, he was tired of being alone, he was alone for most of his previous life, so this time he wants to make bonds with other as much as he can. And like the saying a army of ant can bring down a elephant, if they group together they can protect themselves more thoroughly. So he had to include the children and specially the twins in his future planning.


    One of the twin is a powerful witch, capable of altering reality and probability using chaos magic and the other one is one of the fastest in the world. If they are properly trained from now on, their future strength will not be any less to their alternate selves in other universes, maybe even surpass them.


    Like him, the other children also don''t have anyone to call their own in this world anymore. So he can just make it so that, they can call each other family. From now since he''s the one with power he have to protect them for now. Maybe he should try the Sharable power option. Noah muttered in his mind. ''Interface''


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    <User : Noah Johnson>


    <Age : 15>


    <Race : Mutant/?????>


    <Token : 7>


    -Power Adaptation(X-gene)


    -Nexus connection


    -Pika Pika no Mi


    -???????


    -???????


    -???????>


    <Inventory : 23gold bars, Money, Guns, Laptops>


    <Nexus


    -Self power


    -Sharable power


    -Equipment>


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    </tr>


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    After seeing the interface, Noah decided to try his luck again. ''Nexus: Sharable power''


    <How many Tokens will be debited?>


    A interface popped up in front of him and Noah muttered "7"


    <Exchange successful:


    -Breathing methods from Demon Slayer(Modified)


    -The ones selected by the host will be able to learn the breathing method. It is modified to create flame, water or mist etc in real life unlike demon slayer world>


    Feeling the huge amount of new memories in his mind, Noah''s eyes flashed with joy, since he didn''t expect to get the Breathing methods for the first time. This power is really suitable for the stating phase of his plans. Breathing methods is a general term for the techniques created by the strongest demon slayer Yoriichi Tsugikuni to fight against demons with a human body.


    The main function of the Breathing method is to strengthen the cardiopulmonary function, so that the blood can absorb a large amount of oxygen in a short period of time, which can instantly increase the body''s capability by a large amount and then temporarily possess the physical strengths equivalent to that of a demon.


    This techniques will help Noah to develop the physical fitness of the children to surpass the limit of human athletes. Also since it was modified the techniques can create the elements upon use, which in itself is a power. So it''s huge boon for Noah. When Muzan divided himself into 1800 pieces to escape from Yorichii who was at his peak, Yorichii still managed to reduce the number down to 300 in mere seconds, which makes the swinging speed unbelievable.


    Now Noah has everything for the starting of his force, which will dominate the multiverse in the future. The Nutrient solution for energy intake, A body which potential is limitless due to the devil fruit and the Breathing methods for quick start. He was little excited for the future now.