Maria had a slight blush on her face when she heard my words. Even I was surprised at my own words. To not make the situation awkward between us, I decided to ask her where did she work, and how she met my sister. From her expression, it was very clear that she was relieved since I had changed the topic. She then began to tell me that she was originally from the South, but later her parents decided to migrate to this city. She then got a job was a manager at a reputed place. And weirdly enough, I had never heard the name of the place she worked at in my life, both in my previous life and even now, as Bruce Wayne.
But thanks to my knowledge from movies and comics from my previous life, I knew where Maria really worked. She works at Shield, which should be now filled with more Hydra than Shield members. There was something about them, the Hydra has been infiltrating many important departments around the world, without anyone noticing their existence. Their last existence was on the day, or night, when the man with the shield, Captain America killed their leader, Red Skull and destroyed Hydra, but they weren't destroyed. Since then Hydra has been secretly collecting power, strength enough to make their come back.
And as far as my knowledge from movies go, they won't be brought in light until the NewYork war. And I still have to prepare a lot to survive the war of NewYork. The Chittori can be a huge pain in the ass, since they were made to be the cannon fodder in a war. And being controlled by a mothership, unless destroying the mothership, like Iron man had did, there was no way to completely defeat them, since the mothership can simply send more soldiers to this world and destroy it sooner or later with just the numbers.
Back to the present, Maria had fallen silent after our talk, and I was busy with reading the books. First I had to make an AI, and I was sure that with the IQ that I had, thanks to the old Bruce Wayne, I won't have to wait for long to make an AI. During the time, I was studying, Maria went out once, just to bring two lattes, from the cafe that we had seen not far away from the library.
I could see from Maria's face that she was bored from being alone, since I wasn't exactly talking with her to relieve her from the boredom. So I instead asked her to talk with that assistant girl wearing glasses. Taking my advise, Maria went to the girl and started talking with her. Having no idea what they were talking about, I decided to continue studying all I could. Reading a lot of books later, I stood up and looked at the watch on my hand. I was surprised when I saw that it was almost six in the evening. I had finished reading almost all of the books this place had about Artificial Intelligence.
Thanks to my IQ, I could understand each and every words, just by reading. And I had something like photographic memory, which made me remember every words I had read in the book. If someone were to ask me what I had read from a specific book on a specific page, I could describe the entire page exactly as it was written. And I was excited when I learnt this fact. It means I could study anything and I would understand it and would never forget it.
After reading, I returned home with Maria. While walking back, she asked me, "So what were you reading?" I replied casually, "Just a few books on coding and Artificial Intelligence. " This surprised Maria, but she chose to keep silent, and instead nodded at my words. But then she asked, "So now you know how to make an AI?" I nodded and replied, "That I do. But I need a computer with a good configuration and a server for the AI. It is not possible to make an AI without a server. Unless.. " I was excited again. Maria sighed when she saw this. She had heard from Natasha before that her brother, Bruce was so smart and would get lost in thought when he discovered something new.
At that time, Maria had thought that it was just Natasha being a sister. But when she heard Bruce talking about several things that she had learnt about programming and some that even she couldn't understand, it really shocked her. Meanwhile I was busy muttering about how I could improve the AI and make it without those expensive servers that I would have to buy one day sooner or later.
After dropping me home, Maria said, "I would be back in an hour, wait for me and take care of yourself for an hour. Alright?" My face froze and I replied with a frown, "I am not a kid. I know how to take care of myself. " Just when she was about to leave, I spoke, "By the way, can you help me in borrowing a laptop or computer with good configuration? Obviously I am willing to pay rent or whatever needed. " Maria stopped in her steps. Turning around she replied, "I think I can. " With that she left me alone in the house.
I went back to my room and tried making the AI, as much as possible with the computer at my home, bought by Natasha. Meanwhile, Maria reached the Shield Headquarters, where everyone who saw her nodded and waved at her, since she was the popular one except Malinda, Natasha aka Black Widow, Clint Barton aka Hawkeye, and Phil Colson. But unlike them, she was younger. Her idea was to report to her boss, the guy with blindfold, the walking pirate of the Marvel World, Nick Fury.
Nick looked at the Maria when she opened the door. Without waiting for another second Maria spoke, "Sir, I just found someone you might be interested in. " Nick closed the file he was reading and waited for her to speak. Maria continued, "Cheetah, I found her. But somehow she is able to hide her looks now. " Maria explained him where she had seen Cheetah. And from the talk, Nick was about to find the reason why Maria had gone to library, and also how smart Bruce Wayne really was. It is wasn't such that he had no idea about Bruce. Nick always keeps a close eye on his subordinates.