"Give it up. Baron Zemo. We got you surrounded." An African American man who was wearing an eye patch said.

He surrounded the man who was wearing a whole-body purple suit with many men who were armed with plasma guns.

"You are not capturing me easily." The man called Zemo said as he used his rapier and martial arts skills to resist his eventual arrest.

Zemo was a criminal who tried to take over the world during the war between the world and the Hydra army.

The Hydra army eventually fell and Zemo went into hiding.

This is the place where Zemo was spotted briefly for a few seconds after twenty years and it seems like it is going to be the place where Zemo is going to get captured.

As Zemo was trying to make an escape he hit a low-level agent who was working for the eye-patched man in the middle abdomen with his rapier causing him to fall to the ground like he just died.

Zemo continued to resist until he was injured and tired enough to the point that he could not resist anymore.

Zemo was a bad person but he was not a weak person.

He killed 12 Shield agents and injured 38 agents all by himself before getting captured due to his injuries.

One of the people that he critically injured was a shield agent called Acelynn Ciel Evans also known as Ace.

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Ace opened his eyes.

"Is this place heaven?" He said before he got up and turned his head to look around.

"No, this is just the helicarrier." He said.

He then got up.

He looked at his muscular body which was covered in bandages and scars.

He noticed something strange.

He has worked as a low-ranking Shield Agent for a few years already.

A thought that occasionally appeared in his mind popped back again on this day.

Why am I putting up with this job? Why do I have to risk my life every single time? I am basically fodder for the organization they would not care if I died. He thought in his mind.

But then he quickly throws that thought away.

As if I could. The pay is good and there is no one left to mourn me If I ever kick the bucket.

He readjusted his thoughts and got back up.

Jobs that are dangerous or that other people do not want to do tend to pay more than their alternatives.

You are not going to get millions of dollars as a low-ranking shield agent but his yearly income was as much as a dentist without having a degree so it was a great deal for him.

He takes a look at his watch.

It's already 1 in the morning. His duty is already over.

If he was a high-ranking member of the shield he would have been able to stay on the helicarrier without permission from the executives or higher-ups. But he was just a regular soldier so he had to get back to his own home.

He has to catch the helicopter that sends back the shield agents to their ground base.

He walked toward the section of the helicarrier where the lockers were located.

He changed his shield agent uniform into his everyday clothes of a red shirt and blue and greenish Hawaiian-style shorts.

He takes his wallet and keys that were inside the lockers.

He stood in front of his locker and looked around himself.

It was not always so lonely. He used to have friends, brother-in-arms but now he was the only remaining one from his friend group.

Some of them died, and some of them retired because of the disability that they suffered from the dangerous job and some of them moved on and started their own family.

"Haaah. I think I should also retire soon." He said.

He only worked for three years but he had already exhausted his mind and body.

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He threw himself on the bed immediately when he reached home.

It was a small two-bedroom apartment that he owned which was the only place where he could relax.

He used the remote that was lying on the bed to turn on the TV.

"This just in. The god of Thunder Thor, the invisible armoured Iron Man. The Incredible Hulk, the astonishing Ant-Man and the unstoppable wasp have formed the greatest superhero group called the Avengers." a male new announcer said on the TV.

"The Avengers? Another superhero group. First the Fantastic Four and now the Avengers. Haaa. We already have a superhero group to keep an eye on and now another one. And this new group even have the Hulk in the team." the woman's new announcer that was accompanying the male announcer said on the TV.

"Took the words right out of my mouth," Ace said as he turned off the TV.

"Maybe I should take a leave tomorrow." He said as he closed his eyes and went to sleep.

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The next morning he woke up he called Shield HR to ask for a leave which they approved.

As he has the whole day to himself he picks up the newspaper that was on the table.

It was from a few days ago.

"The menace is causing problems for the Osborn cooperation. Graviton is recaptured by the Avengers. Mister Fantastic has created a new material. Wait what is this?" While he was skimming through a newspaper he saw an interesting picture.

It was a drawing of Tony Stark's ark reactor.

The article that the picture belongs to was about Tony Stark explaining the origin story of how he became Iron Man.

Of course, the picture of the Ark reactor does not depict how it was created or any of the materials that were involved in the creation.

It was only supposed to be a visual piece but at that time something clicked in Ace's mind.

However, drawing was still very detailed and if a super scientist decided to dedicate ten or twenty years of their life they might be able to recreate the design.

He was curious about how such a thing was created.

In the article, Toney didn't mention anything about how the Ark reactor works other than the fact that it works as his lifeline just like a heart.

Images of Ironman fighting with supervillains that he sometimes saw on TV popped into Ace's mind.

He burns his enemy with a flame thrower that is attached to his plum. Possessed superhuman strength. Can throw tear gas, and smoke bombs and fly using a jet booster that was attached to his legs. (Model 1 Mk-2 armor)

Most of the article was just him bragging about how good his life is mixed with the occasional praise that he gave the other Avengers.

As Ace was reading the article he realized that his hand was drawing a design of Tony's Ark reactor using a piece of paper and a pencil nearby without him knowing.

"Huh?" He was confused.

He didn't even know he could draw that well as he carefully took a look at the design. He also realized that he could understand how it works.

It's an extra energy source for his armour. Ace immediately realized what the Ark reactor was when he saw the design that he created.

He was shocked. He doesn't know how he did it.

He knew he should not be able to do that kind of thing.

And he knew that being able to do something like that would only endanger his life.

He didn't know that but the reason why he suddenly gained the ability to design highly complex mechanisms was because of the awakening of something called the X gene that he unknowingly received from his parents.

To be except is his secondary awakening as he already has awakened as a mutant when he started to feel intense stress during his first year working as a shield agent.

It was the power of healing that increased the regeneration rate of his own body. He could also use it on the body of others by touching it with his hands.

It also made him immune to all kinds of diseases.

However, it was so weak that he didn't even notice it himself.

The superhuman intellect was the result of his secondary mutation.

The secondary mutation increased his healing abilities and also granted him intelligence that would allow him to use his first ability more efficiently.

To be precise the secondary mutation does not grant him super intelligence but gives him the ability to observe small details, allowing him to recall even the smallest information that he has stored away in his mind instantly and recognise patterns more efficiently.

It was more of an enlightenment rather than something like being able to observe how super-complex machines work.

It was an ability that would make a great doctor instead of a great scientist.

The only problem is that Ace is an agent and healing others would not benefit him much compared to making powerful weapons and mimicking the great technologies that the smartest people on the earth have produced.