49 CHAPTER 49

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Life after Hydra had normalized, without them trying to eliminate me at every turn of my life, things went back to normal rather quickly. Well, as normal as they could be. Emily was now going to two schools, a normal one, for the normal human things during the morning, and the one in Karma-Taj with the Ancient One in the afternoon.

As for the Winter Soldier, well, Bucky was working for me, as my bodyguard, he wanted to thank me for what I did, and well, I offered him a job, and he took it.

Without Hydra being as powerful as it was at one point, I now had the time to focus on other matters, like building an empire, I wanted to be rich, filthy rich, and with that in mind, I founded, Walker's Corp, a company focused on the development of the humankind through the research of genetics, physics and other sciences.

Right now, Walker's Corp was small, with a handful of scientists that Fury himself recommended working for me, but with time it would grow.

In the meantime, as my little empire grew one step at a time, I was doing something else, hunting the Adamantium I so desperately desired to start working on my armor. So far, working with S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken me nowhere with this little quest of mine. Granted, my access was somewhat limited, so I had taken a new approach so to speak, by learning how to hack S.H.I.E.L.D.

This task was by no means easy, just learning how to code took me a month or so, and then I had to practice a lot until my success rate hacking shield was beyond 90%. This brought back some memories, because ever since Emily's operation I had never seen my success rate before for anything, perhaps it was a random occurrence.

Anyways, after six months working for S.H.I.E.L.D., my skills in the art of programming were high enough to infiltrate their old systems without being discovered, and so, my real quest for the Adamantium began.

With the power to hack and access every file within S.H.I.E.L.D. I soon learned the secret behind the Adamantium was so classified that not even Shield's director had complete access to it, in fact the file needed five encrypted keys to be open, and Shield's director only had one.

A remarkable discovery, and for many and very big setback, but not for me, while it was true hacking the file was beyond my current capabilities, finding the other keys was not, Shield was too overconfident in their system's capabilities to stop unwanted eyes, meaning anything beyond a certain level of access was rarely well-kept, what did I mean by this? Well, Shield was fiercely protecting the file that had everything I needed, but it was not protecting those who had the keys as well as the file.

And because of that, it took me less than an hour to find who had the keys, and where to find them. With portals and a bit of patience, I managed to visit every key holder, eventually gathering the codes I needed to break the file open.

Had Shield or the government protected the location and names of those who held the keys as good as they protected the file, well, it would've probably taken me a year or two to find what I needed, so I suppose in a way I should thank them for their negligence.

Now, with the file in my hands, all I needed to do was visit the place where my last ingredient was.

Grinning, and barely containing my excitement, I opened a portal to the ultra secret base that kept the formula for the adamantium as well as some adamantium in it, and hid, the last thing I wanted was to make an enemy of the government, which is why I was using a disguise and an illusion to cover my entire being, I mean, at one point they would discover I was here, and I didn't want no arrows pointing at me.

Using [Sight] I traversed through the base with little to no difficulty, the base was basically a Hydra base with a few extra things here and there, but like every Hydra base I had visited it was rather easy to avoid being detected if you knew how to move through the place.

Eventually, I reached the holy grail of the base. I could barely contain my excitement as my eyes laid on the Adamantium I had been looking for, grinning, and wasting no time. I stole the base dry of the metal, as I opened a portal to one of the many control rooms in the base. If the recipe was around here, I would find it.

Knocking everyone out before they could even see me, not that it mattered I was wearing a disguise, with a sigh, I connected to the main computer and searched for the recipe to find it was located on a floor that was below the base by a few hundred meters, a floor that only one entrance, and one exit, both having only one key, fortunately for me, I had no need for keys. 

Once again, I opened a portal to the floor below, to find myself in front of a massive safe, it was as big a house, a three story house to be precise, with thick impenetrable walls. "I guess another portal?" I guess portals were becoming my old reliable method of solving problems. Inwardly chuckling at that, I opened a portal inside the safe, this time, finding a hard drive in the middle of the safe.

"No guns? Or lasers, it's like the government wants to be robbed," Smiling at my own comment, I reached for the hard drive putting in it on my inventory, effectively completing my quest, though as I rejoiced on that little fact, the alarms of the base went off.

"Escape is impossible," I heard a deep voice declare through the coms of the building, it seemed the safe had some speakers inside, as well as cameras, not that it mattered, I was hiding beneath a disguise and an illusion.

"Well, then I'm about to do what is called a pro gamer move," I replied, opening a portal to Portugal, why Portugal you might ask? Well, if they can see the portal, they can see where I am teleporting, ergo, I don't want them having any clue where I am going. "Bye~" and so, my quest was completed, and now, a new chapter of my life began, a forging one.