Hey everyone, here is the first chapter for the week. Hope you enjoy it.
The next nine months or so for Theo’s group was pretty quiet over all. Aldrich ended up accepting the offer. After a thorough background check, medical examination and psychological evaluation. Aldrich became the newest member of the team.
To say he was surprised with what was going on would be an understatement. But he quickly fell in love with his new job and the work environment. He was placed in the medical base and worked with Sarah, Beast and a few of Theo’s clones. But he wasn't the only new person brought in. After about a month, Maya Hansen Williams was brought on board.
Theo had planned to pick her up at some point also, but he was a little confused. Her last name was Williams instead of Hansen and she didn't look anything like her comic book or movie counterpart. She was a stunning ebony skinned woman, who stood almost six foot tall. She had fierce brown eyes and her puffy black hair was cut short into an afro.
The thing that surprised Theo the most was the fact she was about a month pregnant. Well she didn't actually know until the medical exam was finished. But it was a large shock to her and Theo. While she didn't tell anyone who the father was, Theo already knew. Or at least he had a really good idea who it was.
The only issue that cropped up was Maya having complications with her pregnancy. Tsunade, Shizune and even Orochimaru tried everything they could to help. But Maya still ended up having the baby prematurely. Her daughter was born on May 10th 2000, almost four months early.
There were issues with her daughter, but with the medical technology they had and Tsunade's skill. Riri S. Williams was a healthy, yet tiny baby girl. Maya didn't tell anyone what the S. stood for. But a quick DNA test confirmed Theo’s theory. He would let Tony find out for himself one day and it would be glorious. It was also a nice bonus that Riri was actually related to Tony in this universe.
Besides the two new team additions the group just focused on their own tasks. Fury had made a few tiny moves against Hydra. He requested we move against a few of the people we knew about. People who wouldn't be missed. The vote passed and a couple of Ezekiel's clones were brought in to help.
One person was put under a genjutsu and lost control of their car while drunk. Which turned it into a fatal car accident. Theo made sure they were the only fatality. Another person who was older ended up dying from a heart attack. The last person died just recently and it was from a rare disease. All of them were brought back with Edo Tensei so Fury could interrogate them and learn more information on Hydra.
The group received some decent intel from each of them. But the phone program Ezekiel created was just getting integrated into Hydra. So he had high hopes that it wouldn't be long before they knew everything about Hydra. The only issue would be having enough people to completely destroy them in one shot. Maybe after they figured out who were the Hydra double agents in Shield, they would have enough people. But that wouldn’t happen for a while and even though Fury wanted Shield cleaned out. He was no longer fighting the group to rush ahead, now that we had a clearer picture of just how massive Hydra actually is.
As for Hank, Bill and Darren. They worked tirelessly on the quantum tunnel project during that time. It turned out that vibranium was really hard to work with. Theo even hacked into Wakanda’s database and stole info about it. But it was still a hassle to shape and tool properly. They needed to make machines from scratch to fabricate the parts they wanted to make.
Building all the machines from scratch also gave Erik a lot of hands-on training with his apprenticeship/schooling under Hank. Even Bill and Darren only had good things to say about Erik, the kid was a genius and it was really showing under Hank’s guidance.
Theo was also happy to see that Hank was actually putting effort into building a positive relationship with both Darren and Erik. It was easy to see that both of them have started looking at Hank as a surrogate father figure. It’s also made Hank work harder at rebuilding his relationship with his daughter.
Speaking of Erik and the other kids. They all finished their punishment from sneaking out of the base with Ava’s help. Since then Ezekiel worked on a solution to make sure the kids got out more. He picked Magneto's new island nation, since it was the safest choice. The island would be perfect for the kids to roam around on. Genosha was even in the process of building a massive theme park thanks to Ezekiel. Ezekiel paid for pretty much everything to be built on the island and used his clones for a lot of the labor, so it wasn't like Magneto could say no.
The only issue was getting a vote passed, but that ended up not being hard to do. Since it was a locked down island, the kids couldn't get into too much trouble. The kids also never caused issues when they snuck out the last time. So even though Fury was against it, the vote still passed. The island nation of Genosha became another place the kids could explore and hang out on in their free time.
Besides the massive theme park that was still under construction. The island already had a state of the art waterpark and a few other attractions. All of which were built by the previous rulers. And Theo just kept throwing money at the island to make it as nice as possible. He also tried to make everything as automated as possible. It was kind of his test bed to see what would work for building future cities.
As for Genosha itself, it had been almost a year and the world didn’t know anything had changed with it. But it was completely different and could be considered one of the best places in the world to live currently. While they ended up putting down ninety five percent of the population, it was currently home to about ten thousand people. Almost all of them are former slaves or kids. It was a slight hassle to deal with at first, but it’s been working out after everything settled down.
While none of the freed slaves were forced to help out, all the remaining people came together to help. Projects Theo had planned to take over a year finished in half the time. Turned out that with the Yamanaka’s help, most of the people were in a great place mentally. So with the extra man power, Theo was able to build almost everything he wanted pretty easily. Magneto actually handled a lot of the harder work himself. But for him and his powers it was easy. He was also the one Theo put in charge of building all the roller coasters for the theme park.
Once a few other projects were completed on the island, Magneto was going to make an announcement to the world and open up Genosha for immigration. Well after Tao and Agatha finished covering the entire island in a magical barrier.
It was designed to not only protect the island, but hide it from anyone who wasn’t welcomed. The only way someone would be able to reach the island after it was completed would be from portal travel like the bases. They even set up a massive portal room that acted like an airport for the country.
As for planes, boats and satellites, Genosha was no longer visible to them. Even if a boat used GPS to get close they would move into a warded fog bank and pop out not long afterwards in a different spot. Unless you were a powerful magic practitioner or you were invited, no one could get to Genosha.
As for anyone who wanted to visit or immigrate to the island, they would have to first sign up on a website. Then they would have to go through background checks, psychological evaluations and some heavy screening. But if they passed, they would be invited to the island. The bonus for people who wanted to just visit the island was no need to pay for transport. They would need to be portaled to the island and back home when finished.
Something else of note was Alexei and Melina officially getting married. They had a small ceremony on the secret magic island and then had a nice time on a cruise together for their honeymoon. Theo booked the cruise for them as a congratulation gift. Natasha and Yelena didn't join them for the cruise though. But they did get to go to Genosha with all the other kids. Since it was the first week the kids were allowed to go and explore it.
While not really an addition to the group's forces. Clint's wife ended up coming to live with him in the main base. It was Theo’s idea since they could use another person to help out with all the kids. She mostly helped in the kitchen. But she also ran an art club for any of the kids who wanted to join.
They would do different things each week from painting to pottery and anything in between. Clint and his wife were also happy they could see each other more often. She even started dropping big hints they should start working on making a family together. It was probably from spending so much time with all the kids.
During that same time Logan and Sarah Kinney started dating. Theo didn't inquire about their relationship, but Laura and Gabby seemed to be happy about it. Gabby was also adopted by Sarah, so Laura was officially her big sister. Cessily also treated Gabby like a younger sister, just like she did for Laura.
Gabby herself didn't have a hard time integrating and making new friends. Unlike Laura who was like a girl copy of Logan. Gabby was this endless ball of optimism and happiness. While the loss of her sisters affected her, she bounced back from it quickly. Gabby had the uncanny ability to make the best out of any situation and it showed. She had quickly made friends with pretty much everyone in the base. Even Fury seemed to like Gabby which was a big surprise to pretty much everyone.