The next morning found Alex waking up as the sun shone through the window of his room. He got up and went out of his room and outside the house. He washed his face at he back of the house where he jad taken a bath the previous day and started stretching. After about half and hour of stretching he went back in to find Anna was starting to make breakfast amd when she saw him entering she greeted him and told him to get ready for breakfast, soon Andrei joined them and a conversation started. Alex asked them if he could stay for a little while before he could stand on his own and told them that he would repay them by working.
The Ivanov's didn't told him that he could stay as long as he wants and he didn't need to repay them in any manner, "Stay here as long as you like, we don't have much to offer but anything we can do to help you, we will gladly do", were there exact words, Alex was stunned and confused by their generosity and simply asked "Why", to which Andrei and Anna replied that it was the right thing to do, besides they always wanted a child and that he already made them happy by him just living with them.
Alex was touched and decided to repay their kindness in the future. After breakfast Andrei left for work and Alex helped Anna to clean up the dishes even though she protested that she could do it herself. After helping a begrudging Anna, Alex went outside and decided to start his training. He went on a run towards the outskirts of the forest and because of his superhuman physique he had to run for quite a while before he felt the soreness in his muscles. Then he went on to do squats and push ups, and pull ups on the nearby tree. After a while, he decided to see how strong he was and punched a tree and was surprised he felt no pain on his hand the tree had a huge dent where he punched it. After testing his current limits, he went to the nearby stream and had a quick swim and then went inside the forest to try and find meat.
With his improved eyes he was able to see the smallest detail and quickly found some sort of animal trail, he also had advise from his two companions and soon came upon a herd of Elk, about 20 in size. He observed them quietly and after breaking a tree branch and sharpening it with a stone, he slowly came closer and threw the makeshift spear with all his strength, like an arrow the spear found its target and rest of the elk ran away. He quickly went and broke the neck of the elk to put it out of its misery and carried it home. Back in his old world, he came from a country household, so in his childhood and teenage years he often went hunting with his relatives and friends so killing animals wasn't new, but then again he had seen how his body had killed a lot of people back at the Hydra base and still felt nothing so he guessed there was something wrong with him. As he returned and showed his game to Anna, she was shocked and couldn't believe a 15 year old could kill a full grown elk with must a makeshift spear and reprimanded him for his reckless behaviour. Alex understood that she was simply worried about him and assured her he would be careful next time.
After skinning and preserving the meat, Alex helped Anna prepare for their dinner and took a bath after. Andrei soon came home and was told the adventure of his day, he was amazed and said, he must be a natural hunter for killing such a large game. After a hearty dinner, they went to bed and Alex started his first lesson's magic as Scatach explained the intricacies of magecraft. After a lengthy lesson he went to sleep exhausted more from the lesson then his physical stress.
The next day he repeated his training but was able to last longer than the day before. He concluded that this was due to the serum and theorized that the more he pushed his limits the faster he improved. And so this routine of physical training in the day and magical training in the night continued for two whole months, during which he hunted a few more elks, rabbits, boars, and even a few wolves that had tried to attack him while on his way from a hunt. Andrei had taken the fur as well as excess meat to the market and made quite the sum with which they bought new clothes for Alex and various necessities for the house.
After the end of the second month you could see the difference in physique of Alex as sufficient food and training coupled with his super soldier serum made him get a growth spurt as well as build incredible muscle mass as well. He was now 5'9" and would probably grow more in the future.
He could easily break trees with a light punch or kick and that was just his base strength, as in the two months of his magic studies, he had learned the very basic magic spells among which was strengthening. And due to his stong magic circuits and quantity, his strengthening magic buffed him up quite a bit.
After the two months, Scatach decided to teach him a technique which allowed him to fight inside his mind. Anything he learned there would be remembered by his body, but the downside was that the damage would also be transferred his physical body. In his mindscape, he would learn different spells, runes and fighting from both Scatach and Heracles. Which basically meant he got beaten to a pulp everyday.
He also learnt to harness Heracles incredible strength slowly and make it his own, but it was a slow process and would take time to fully make it his own. After he fully masters it, he'd even get the divinity that comes with being a demigod and the son of Zeus.
As time went on, Alex became apart of the Ivanov's and they became really close as Andrei and Anna were sweet and caring people. He also found out that Howard Stark and his wife had died about 3 months ago, this meant that Tony was probably in his late teens or early twenty's right now. And this helped him make a rough outline of the current timeline. Natasha or Black widow was probably in the Red Room right now training and undergoing the basterdised super soldier serum. It wasn't said the exact year of her birth but one of the comics states that a newborn baby was found thrown out of a burning building in 1942 and was found and brought to the ones incharge of the Red Room. There were many backstories to how she was trained and brought up but Alex simply went on speculations so, even of he was wrong there wasn't any trouble as even if she wasn't there, he was still going to destroy the red room anyway. And if she was there rescue her and anyone else that might be there.
And so this daily routine of training continued on as his relationship with his mentors and teachers Scatach and Heracles continued to improve. Time went by quickly and a year had gone by, Alex was 16 years old now, but mentally he was 29. He was currently sitting in the bottom of a river as he concentrated on integrating the power of Heracles and trying to sense the divinity of the Demigod. Although he made progress, it wasn't going fast like his other studies. Due to the serum's effects of enhancing everything, it also effected his brain so he basically having Hyperthymesia. Every spell, every technique, very muscle movement, he remembered it and with constant practice was able to become a master almost everyway. And coupled with his eyes that were able to see minute detail like twitching or tensing of muscles a mile away, he quickly improved in his sparring matches with the queen of weapons and fighting herself, Scatach as well as the greatest greek hero to ever live, Heracles.
Although he improved at an impossible rate in all of his other endeavours, he couldn't do that with integrating with Heracles powers because it relied more on a spiritual and existential level. Sort of going by the feeling kind of thing, so although their was progress, it was slow.
After 2 hours of meditating at the bottom of the river, he finally jumped out and began making his way home as usual. The Iavanov's were waiting for him and they couldn't help but smile as they saw their surrogate son come home. Thanks to Alex's help their lives improved better and better and were now quite well off from the various precious stones and gold that Alex brought home after training his alchemy. Alex decided to repay them by giving them the finished products of his magic training as he could always make more and since it helped them he was happy to give it.
Time went on and 2 more years went by, it had been 3 years since Alex came to find himself in the marvel universe, waking up in the then 15 year old body of a Hydra experimental subject. He was now 18 years old and had truly integrated himself into his new life. During these 3 years not only did Scatach train him but also let him find criminal's and gangs and let him experience life and death battles without using any of his powers by engraving a rune that sealed all his powers and could only rely on his skill, technique and experience. This method helped him immensely in real life combat as well as his mentality in ending lives. And now after 3 years, he believed he was finally ready to take on the Red Room as well as Hydra as a whole.
It was early morning as the sun had just risen and Alex was outside the Ivanov's mansion, yes mansion, and saying goodbye to his family in this life. Anna was quitely wiping her tears as there was a fond smile on her face and was hugged by Andrei as he too had to held back tears, they were proud of their 'son' and now the time had finally come for him to go out to the world and make his own.
"Thank you for everything, mom, dad", Alex said with a smile as he hugged Anna who was the happiest she had ever been in her life hearing those words. Throughout their 3 years of living together, they wanted Alex to call them mom and dad, but didn't push him and this was the first time they heard him call them. Andrei also had a happy smile on his face as he bear hugged his son. "Be safe out there and visit us if you ever have the time. Remember we will always love you, no matter what."
After their goodbyes Alex went on his journey and decided to go to Moscow and start his search of the whereabouts of the Red Room there. He was wearing a black hoodie and military style cargo pants with black boots, all enchanted by himself to be more durable as well as take on any weather situation.
He currently had a gun mystic code he created that could shoot bolts of magic and powered by his magic as well as daggers and various weapons all enchanted to be mystic codes. If someone from the Fate universe saw his inventory, they would be amazed with the amount of mystic codes he had created. When you have a teacher like Scatach, as well as the magical capacity and basically Eidetic memory then this was to be expected. {So this Red Room trains children to become assassins with some sort of serum like the one you have and trained to be living weapons, seems like the Hassassins of Old}, Scatach said, and Alex agreed, they kinda resembled each other. "After we destroy the Red Room we take down any Hydra base we can find and continue my training so i can come and kick your ass so you can join me soon", he said has he had a sheepish smile on his face.
Scatach had showed him what he had to overcome in order to enter as well as bring the guardian away from the Land of Shadows, and frankly it made him sweat as the degree of difficulty was really extremely hard. {Oh, i see my student has become quite full of himself, maybe a few sparring sessions with gael bog is needed then, ufufu~}, Scatach joked, she had really changed in these three years together as they shared their stories and can be said that they knew everything about one another. "Now now, shishiou, there's no need for that, i was just joking", Alex sweatdropped hearing her joking but actually serious reply. Heracles was simply enjoying their litte banter as he knew that the Infamous Queen of the Dùn Scáith, was actually slowly falling for their unusual student and she just simply didn't want to admit it. He himself had grown quite fond of Alex and although je would be sad when he finally leave, he was happy knowing they would still have each other after his departure.