(AN: I AM AT CHAPTER 200!! I really don't expect to be writing till this point when I start. Can you believe I am planning a 70 chapter fic at the beginning? HAHAHA. Thank you so much for the support! Your support had helped me went through a lot of difficult times. I owe it to you guys for me to write till this far. Enjoy the chapter!)
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Facing the threat of a thousand strong super powered army, Ryan waltzed into his armory where he kept most of his suits and opened it up – revealing tons of uniquely designed and for-different-occasion suits.
"Are you not going to tell me again Granny?" Ryan asked the floating menace eating a bag of chips beside him.
"No." The Ancient One answered curtly. Ryan was curious about what she had said to Gwen and Natasha during their meeting before this.
The Ancient One smiled softly and patted his shoulder before she went back to the Sanctum after letting out a deep sigh.
"Weirdo." Ryan exclaimed as he watched the Ancient One leave. She had come by to ask him to postpone his matter in dealing with the Elder God– Set, until after Strange passed his learning process.
Inside Ryan's arsenal, some suits looked like a mini Ultraman, some were from Warhammer, a few sleek black suits for stealth and espionage, anti-demon suit, anti-god suit and more.
"Should I go with the Genos suit?" Ryan muttered as he studied the situation in the battle. The Genos suit was a light armor instead of a heavy armor – his mobility would be greatly enhanced inside the battlefield.
Ryan touched the 30 centimeter long box in front of him. Starting from his finger, the exoskeleton armor wrapped around slowly on his entire body. Only his face was uncovered in the sleek black and silver armor he had made.
Equipping the Genos armor and finishing his preparation, he had to do one crucial thing before he went to Sokovia.
"GWEN~" Ryan jogged lightly and hugged his fiance from behind. The yoga outfit wearing Gwen was startled and she turned to look at him. Her long hair stuck to the side of her face as she had just finished her exercise.
Nearby the place, towering stacks of papers could be seen as Ryan was preparing for the World Summit from his house.
Gwen pushed him away as she was still sweaty, but she could feel his metallic armor as her hand rubbed against his chest. "What's wrong? Why are you in a suit? Are you going to Sokovia?"
"Yeah. Wanna come?" He asked casually as he grabbed her butt while they were still sticking close together.
Grinning widely, Gwen summoned her spider-Gwen suit of armor. In less than a second, she transformed into the mechanical arachnid. "Of course."
"Let's go." Ryan said, still grabbing her butt. But the soft sensation was already gone, making him a bit depressed. Gwen retracted her face helmet and kissed his cheek. "By the way, Happy Birthday." She said as the clock had already struck midnight.
"Thank you. I couldn't wait for my present this year." Ryan said intimately as he kissed her back.
"Let's beat up some people first. It's a good thing to start your birthday by vanquishing your enemy." She said with glittering eyes.
"Who said that to you?" Ryan smiled widely and asked as he knew for sure she was quoting someone.
"Granny did." Gwen replied meekly and her face blushed from the embarrassment of being so childish.
Grabbing her arm, both of them disappeared from the penthouse without even any sound.
-Sokovia, Zemo Castle-
"Steve. Only you and me." Natasha pointed out as all of the other Avengers were preoccupied with their own battles.
Steve nodded and decided to press the small box Ryan had given him before. Instantly, he was equipped with a thin layer of exoskeleton armor, painted the same as his Captain America's uniform.
"He didn't want me to infiltrate by bringing my shield, but he gave me an Iron Suit with my color theme?" Steve asked begrudgingly as he felt incomplete without his shield.
Suddenly, a computerized voice whispered in his ear. "The suit color can change depending on the situation. As the infiltration mission is over, I figured you wanted to use your most popular identity in this battle."
"Who are you?" Steve asked as the voice was neither ALBUS or JARVIS.
"I am Not-Ryan, your personal helper." Not-Ryan replied.
"What? Who set up your name like that?" Steve asked.
"My Creator, Ryan Knight did."
"...."
Natasha chuckled from the side. "So, he couldn't escape the curse of bad naming."
"Please hold your right hand up." Not-Ryan said.
Puzzled, Steve followed the AI's order obediently. The automatic flight Avenger Jet in the air dropped a silvery shield from a high altitude. The shield falls smoothly into the forest of Sokovia where it attaches itself to Steve's arm.
"Indestructible Shield delivery. Complete." Not-Ryan said. Steve smirked and touched the shield with his bare fingers, feeling the cold metal on his skin. The shield was both his equipment and partner in tough times.
Natasha and Tony move stealthily inside the castle grounds. But then, an alarm rang notifying the soldiers there of the duo's presence.
"Well we can't expect everything to go smoothly can we?" Natasha said excitedly and took out two small batons. She activated the batons, prompting blue lines patterns to appear on the side of the batons and also on her black suits.
"The upgraded version of the widow's bite?" Steve asked curiously as he saw the changes on her suit.
"Yes. not everyone can get full body iron armor, so I have to make do with this." Natasha teased before she exploded into speed and scissor kicked two soldiers on the head at the same time.
"It's not like I asked him to create this." Steve explained and threw his shield toward the enemy defense. It bounced on the head of 5 soldiers as it flew in an arc before it flew back toward Steve's hand.
The power on his rocket boots was increasing and Not-Ryan gave him the analysis of the castle's wall.
"Nat, you can handle the matter here?" Steve asked. He wanted to enter the castle, but he feared for Natasha as she would have to fight off more than 200 high technology soldiers there on her own.
"Yeah. I can." Natasha said casually. "Go." She ordered.
He hides his body behind the shield as he flies like a cannonball toward the castle's wall.
BOOM
The brick layered wall crumbled as Steve penetrated the castle's defenses. As he infiltrated the castle, Steve instantly broke into a run toward the experiment hall where the infinity stones enhancement was ongoing while he was being chased by Zemo's soldiers.
On the castle ground, Natasha was surrounded by more than 200 soldiers. 10 soldiers flew toward her with the chitauri tech on their back. Purple power was used by the soldiers as they flew at a high speed.
But before they could get near Natasha, 3 black figures appeared and blocked their path. Using a long spear, an electro disk, and a dagger, the figures knocked out the flying troops.
Now, 4 Natashas were in the field, fighting against the confused Zemo's soldiers.
"Ahh. I forgot to let Steve see them…. Me… " Natasha muttered playfully before she turned the table and attacked the enemy soldiers.
-Strucker Castle-
"You don't talk much, do you?" Rhodey asked the Black Panther while he was flying toward Strucker's castle and the Black Panther was jumping through the tree branches in the forest.
"..." Still silent, the Black Panther stopped his tracks as they arrived at the vicinity of the castle.
"There are only two guards." T'Challa said as he saw a pair of siblings stationed in front of the castle.
"Two?" Rhodey asked in confusion as he was promised a hard battle in Sokovia. A young woman in a scarlet leather jacket and a young man in running sportswear were barely a hard battle.
The Iron Patriot's conspicuous arrival alerted the pair of twins in front of the castle.
Inside the castle, Baron Strucker activated the energy shield to protect his base. He also has the other researchers and his henchmen to clear all the data inside the castle and to gather all of the important materials to be smuggled away from Sokovia.
Now that the base has been found, it has lost its value as a secret base. "Time. I only need time." Baron Strucker muttered as he took out his walkie talkie.
"Kill the token Avengers and the other guy too." Strucker ordered the twins.
Hesitant and frustrated, Pietro ruffled his hairs furiously. Wanda looked at him but her gaze soon turned toward the Iron Patriots.
"Kids. I know that being a nazi seems cool on the internet, but in real life? You will get isolated by your friends." Rhodey muttered playfully while trying to talk his way out of injuring the kids in front of him.
"Wanda. You take the machine. I will handle the other one." Pietro said in a low voice.
"Sure. A friend of Stark is also my enemy." Wanda said as hate filled her chest. Pietro flicked his finger on her forehead, snapping her out of her concentration.
"If that is true, then Mr. Knight is also our enemy. You don't want that right? Given that you have an intense crush on him." Pietro teased and hoped in his heart that someday her sister would let go of the hate inside of her.
"Shut up. You have a crush!" Wanda said angrily as her ears blushed from the embarrassment.
In the Sokovian refugee center – built by Ryan Knight in the year 2006, the teenage Pietro and Wanda were provided a home, food and education throughout the years. They also bonded with the other childrens there who had lost their family in the civil war. Ryan also prioritized therapy to the group of children and slowly guided them toward healing themselves.
When the insurgents came to raid the refuge center, Ryan's mercenary group had managed to protect the children of Sokovia from the flames of war. He even came and stayed at the refuge center for a week to help the childrens there. At that time, Wanda's shyness caused her to only peeked at Ryan from afar, leading to no contact between the twins and him.
Wanda and Pietro also learned about Obadiah Stane and his dealing with the Sokovian dictatorship – leading to a hatred of the Americans as part of Strucker's plans to control the country and to get more willing research subjects.
But, all of his plans failed when Ryan Knight intervened in the country. His children refugee center and his uncompromising willingness to help the country had made Baron Strucker wary about continuing his plans to destroy the Sokovia government.
The twins had not been radicalized by Hydra as Ryan had changed their fate in the country.
If they weren't captured by the Hydra agents and were parts of Strucker's experiment, by this time the twins would have gone to college in the United States through an international student exchange program under the Knight Industry.
Back to the battle.
Pietro suddenly disappeared from the place where he was standing while Wanda controlled her powers to interfere with the Iron Patriot flight.
Black Panther widened his eyes behind the mask as he noticed that Pietro was targeting him that was hidden by the forest. He instinctively jumped upward as he lost sight of his enemy, a decision that managed to save him from being slammed by a newbie speedster.
Pietro missed his marks and tried to brake, but his speed caused him to stagger a few steps. Black Panther bared his vibranium claw and tried to swipe at Pietro with his right hand. He aimed for Pietro's chest but with non-lethal forces as he promised Ryan to do so.
Stabilizing himself quickly, Pietro disappeared from his sight yet again, causing Black Panther claw to swiped at the air.
"Miss me!" Pietro teased. T'Challa used his left hand to attack, but Pietro disappeared and reappeared behind T'Challa."Miss me again!" He grabbed T'Challa by his shoulders and spinned him in high speed before he let go of the man.
Dizzy from the sudden throw, T'Challa couldn't recollect himself and was slammed on the tree nearby, causing the tree to split in half.
"That was easy." Pietro turned his sight to the Iron Patriot as he thought his enemy couldn't survive that. A rookie mistake, but nonetheless, it was his first battle. The panther stalked Pietro from the bushes before he threw 2 kinetic energy charged, vibranium triangular knives toward Pietro.
Although it was an ambush, Pietro could dodge the knife easily, but T'Challa had calculated the enemy's response in his attack.
BOOM
Kinetic energy explosion shot out and engulfed Pietro, causing him to be thrown to the sky like a ragdoll.
Wanda, on the other hand, was having a difficult battle from the start. Colonel James Rhodes was a veteran in the army while Wanda barely has any training.
"Stand down kid." Rhodes said and shot the earth around Wanda, causing her to retract her step and shivered. She tried to shoot a telekinetic blast, but everytime she tried to hold her hands up, Rhodes fired a warning shot, breaking her concentration.
Rhodes saw that she was scared, but she still gritted her teeth and tried to fight him. "Kid, why are you fighting so hard? They are hydra you know."
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM!" Wanda remarked angrily. "They will kill Pietro if I don't!"
"What-" Rhodes widened his eyes and he finally understood the situation. Wanda took advantage and shot a telekinetic blast toward Rhodes, knocking him backward tens of meters.
Inside the castle, Strucker watched the battlefield with glee on his face. "Good. Just a little bit more time." He muttered disgustingly as he held the detonator for the bomb on the twins neck on his hand.
He didn't plan to keep the twins with him in the first place. When he was done packing up, he will activated the bombs, killing the pair of twins as they weren't loyal to Hydra in the first place.
"Boss. We're done." A researcher stood at his back and called out to the Hydra head. Stucker felt something was wrong as the shadows inside the room began to dance. He turned backward but then, he saw a face that has been giving nightmares to the HYDRA agents all over the world.
"Knight-" Before he could finish his word, Ryan grabbed the hydra head throat using his right hand.
"Nice Job compiling all the data. Now I don't have to do as much." Ryan said gleefully, and raised the Hydra head slightly. His legs dangled from the air and he started to suffocate from being choked.
"How-" He muttered with difficulty, still in disbelief that Ryan managed to bypass all of his securities.
"Magic." Ryan said and tightened his grip. He wouldn't explain to an enemy about his abilities as he wasn't a shounen protagonist. Not only him, even Gwen was inside the castle and was now wreaking havoc everywhere.
Strucker tried to detonate the twin's explosive to distract Ryan, but he found out that the remote was no longer in his hand.
"Tsk Tsk Tsk. You still don't believe it, do you?" Ryan said. He whispered as the Hydra head was on the brink of losing his consciousness. "I see… everything."
Epilogue: (Post credit scene. Not the ending lol)
The Ancient one had returned to the sanctum after having a talk with Ryan. She used to be able to see the future, but after Ryan became stronger and stronger, the future now seems like a haze and ever changing.
"His future is concerning." The Ancient One said as she laid on the sofa and continued watching her American television drama.
She closed her eyes as the drama finished and she unlocked the enchantment protecting the time stone inside the eye of Agamotto she wore.
One of the futures she saw was a thriving world where Ryan had finished his mission to make the world a better place. Humans become the king of the cosmos, starvation in the universe was solved, and many more ideals being proven true.
"But…" Another future that she saw was a lone throne amidst a burning world.
Sitting on the throne was Ryan with pure black eyes. On his lap and brushing his long hair was the Scarlet Witch. She locked eyes with Ryan and kissed him passionately without catching a breath for a long time.
Nearby the throne, Cthon, Set, Gaia, and even Galactus were kneeling for their new ruler. All of the beings have a collar on their neck, the chain being held in Ryan's hand.
The Kree was destroyed, so did Xandarian and other races in the universe. Thanos's head could be seen inside a glass jar where his existence being both dead and alive as he was punished by Ryan for his transgression on the universe.
Granny, or her forgotten name, Favia, scrunched her brows as she saw both the future at the same time.
"An absolute point in time. But where is it?" She muttered questioningly as she kept searching for the cause of the future being split into exactly the two outcomes.