"I thought you said it would be impossible to get the film so early?" Esmond asked Carter once he arrived in Malibu somewhere not far from Tony Stark's mansion.
'You'd be surprised what's achievable when you practically own Marvel and their intellectual property.'
Carter could be heard laughed in Esmond mind as the latter flew through the air and arrived a little distance away from Tony Stark's home.
Looking around, Esmond sensed the 40 Hydra Agents moving around the property.
None of them possessed the strength to do him any harm but they were capable enough to cripple the security system of the mansion.
Hovering high above the mansion, Esmond didn't waste time and dashed down to attack, first eliminating all of the agents stationed around the perimeter of the home before making his way towards the Agents inside the home.
"Why isn't J.A.R.V.I.S reporting anything like home invasion to Tony or the police?" Esmond questioned Carter after entering the home of the genius inventor, Tony Stark.
'Probably something to do with the Hydra Agents blocking it out.' Carter wasn't concerned about the issues current present since Esmond was brutal and vicious went attacking his enemies.
No Hydra Agent could resist his attacks no matter how strong they were which made Esmond's job fairly easy to enter the mansion and arrive at before a terminal that was linked to J.A.R.V.I.S.
One of the agents already uploaded their software which J.A.R.V.I.S tried to fight against, but it was a losing battle, thankfully Carter interfered and quickly eradicated the virus while communicating with J.A.R.V.I.S to improve its software.
Carter went ahead and gave J.A.R.V.I.S enough authority to operate on its own thoughts with project data to create a simplified version of a quantum computer.
The plan was to enhance J.A.R.V.I.S capabilities to provide Tony with the right support to not go don the wrong path and cause undue mayhem.
Esmond left Carter to perform the optional tasks while he went searching for the Heli-carrier, which happened to be operating above Europe.
Throwing a nanotech formed blade into the belly of the S.H.E.I.L.D masterpiece, Carter started downloading everything pertaining to the organisation while also inspecting each and every employee.
It wasn't long for Carter to find hundreds of Hydra Agents who all were all combined into a document with the necessary evidence to implicate them for their wrongdoing.
Esmond asked to send it off to Nick Fury right away, but Carter digressed since the information would reach Nick Fury once he started suspecting Hydra's infiltration.
J.A.R.V.I.S would watch over the organisation in secret with the help of several quantum computer directly from the Spatial Ark Star World.
With time to spare, Esmond found himself leaving the world of Marvel in possession of plenty of restricted and highly valuable information that would help him greatly.
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*Ding*
[Scanning surroundings… Analysed!]
[Quest activated in conjunction with Spectral Consciousness Ability]
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[Please select difficulty…]
[Easy] [Normal] [Hard] [Hardcore] [Nightmare] [Hell]
[Nightmare] [Accepted!]
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[Media: Film]
[Name: Ironman]
[Year of release: 2008]
[A Suit Like No Other…]
[During the coup in which Obadiah Stane tried to takeover Stark Industries, secretive agents of Hydra tried their own hand at accessing Jarvis to gain everything related to the IronMan Suit.
[Host is required to interfere and stop the Hydra Agents from infecting Jarvis programming while trying to gain design schematics of the prototype powered armour suit]
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[!!!ATTENTION!!!]
[Due to certain attributes of Hosts have reached certain thresholds, the following mission parameters will be adjusted accordingly]
[Host will be provided with additional Optional requests and tasks to perform to achieve greater evaluation grade]
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[Host needs to:
- 40/40 Kill Hydra Agents stationed around Tony Stark's Malibu Mansion
- 1/1 (Optional) Enhance and Copy Jarvis programming
- 5/5 (Optional) Download Prototype design schematics
- 1/1 (Optional) Supply Project information concerning treatment to deal with metal shards within Tony Stark body and Reactor Core
- 1/1 Establish access with S.H.E.I.L.D database for Jarvis
- 1/1 (Optional) Discover Hydra Double Agents and create timed release for data to selected Official]
[Rewards:
- 8,505,000,000 Credit
- 8,122,000,000 Exp
- Extremis Liquid Nanotech Iron-Man Powered Armour Suit – Elite Grade
- J.A.R.V.I.S Operating System – Elite Grade
- Stark Industries collective project database – Mortal Grade]
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[Evaluation: S+]
[Rewards based off Evaluation:
- 12,900,000,000 Credit
- 10,800,000,000 Exp
- Iron-Man Powered Armour Suit Collective Database Mark I to LXXXV – Elite Grade
- Iron Legion Design Schematics – Mortal Grade
- S.H.I.E.L.D Headquarters (Prefabricated Structure) – Elite Grade]
[Quest: Completed]
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Esmond sent everything straight over to the Spatial Ark Star World, including the Extremis Liquid Nanotech so it could be enhanced and improved automatically into a greater state so the application into his blood stream afterwards would easily combine with the liquid metal.
The rest of the rewards were distributed and set up accordingly around the Space, such as the S.H.I.E.L.D Headquarters that was established nearby the Shadow Intelligence Agency Headquarters.
Everything else went straight to the Necthea Institute for analysis and development so they could improve the projects and create their versions of the products.
The powered armour suits were directed towards military use and application over medical or media use, but it had some uses in the other fields who soon found some use for the Iron suits.
J.A.R.V.I.S entered the A.I World after Carter went through its programming to improve functionality so when they applied the Basic A.I upgrade to J.A.R.V.I.S, it would have a unique aspect of itself that separated it from the others.
So far J.A.R.V.I.S was busy figuring out its own role within the Stellar Wars Universe, while scientists like Sam and David at the Necthea Institute screamed with joy over all of the new information they gained within one day.
They still needed to process everything gained from the enemy ships from the battle in outer space, but now everything from Ironman made the scientists jump with joy as they thoroughly examined the projects from the Marvel Universe.
Esmond on the other hand left his stateroom and used the Transporter Operational System to move straight over to the SAT Vocatus.
The Bloodied Princess already arrived with its crew and started repairs as the three ships moved slowly towards the Tartarus Zone.
Philippa already sent over the coordinates for the Zone, leaving her trust in Esmond but her crew were smart enough to stay behind and watch out for any trap work performed by Construction Drones and Androids.
None of the crew wanted to let the Drones and Androids near their engine but they had no choice to allow them through, only to discover they were making improvements to their ship.
Philippa wanted to offer her thanks to Esmond, but they'd yet to meet but that wasn't for long after he joined the small banquet in the reception hall.
For a second, Esmond paused to take in the beauty of her appearance and sparkle in her eyes, but he didn't let anyone notice his actions as he went over to greet the red-haired charmer.
Similarly, Philippa and her closest associates were startled by Esmond's appearance, only snapping out of their stupor once Esmond introduced himself.
"You must be the daring and wild Captain of the Bloodied Princess, Philippa?" Esmond laughed and smile while greeting his newest ally.
"I think you've described yourself more so than my actions." Philippa smiled back and giggled while shaking hands.
They introduced their closest companions, including Zaro and the Atlaesus Group who came over to meet the fearless woman travelling through deep space.
Geneviève and the girls fell in love with Philippa and her crew made up of females.
The reception hall party went on long enough for Esmond and Philippa to sneak off and have a private discussion among themselves.
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"So… what do you want from the Tartarus Zone?" Philippa asked Esmond as they relaxed by a private observation deck, looking out at the repairs happening to the Bloodied Princess during light speed travel.
"In all honestly, I want the whole Zone but to achieve that I need to secure some space of my own.
I'll set up a Mercenary Corps and start taking quests to clean up the pirates and rogues festered throughout the Zone."
Esmond spoke the truth, hoping to achieve some sort of cooperation between the two of them.
"… You know that's suicide, right?"
"Not as much as you believe.
If you're willing to join up together and cooperate, the Tartarus Zone will eventually fall into our grasp when we make our territory the mecca of the Zone."
Esmond brought up the initial plans set in place for when they finally enter the Zone.
Philippa scanned her eyes over the document, only to find it airtight and well thought.
It even surpassed the information she'd gathered over the last few years about the Tartarus Zone from the Galactic Society.
She never thought as a Princess her life progression would lead to becoming a mercenary, and one that was operating within one of the most dangerous regions of space.
"*Sigh* I'm happy to join your plans for the Tartarus Zone, but I don't want to follow under another person's rule without having a right to say anything."
Largely affected by her past as a princess of the Ashtrok Empire who wasn't destined for anything more than life but marriage with other nobles for favours, Philippa wanted some authority after reaching the Tartarus Zone, especially over her own team.
Esmond understood and offered to help with the establishment of her own mercenary corps once they arrived in the Zone.
The main reason Philippa considered the offer was due to Esmond's plans to create a DryDock once they arrived in the Tartarus Zone and had to opportunity to create a permanent base.
She eventually agreed with Esmond's plans for cooperation and the two joined the rest of the party contained in the reception hall until they needed to head home.
Some of the crew from the Bloodied Princess stayed the night onboard the SAT Vocatus, before returning to their ship the following day.