Ch. 70

-- Zach POV --

It took a couple of hours for me to explain the whole situation to Jennifer and the Ramsays. Jennifer was, of course, skeptical and the Ramsay's just took me for my word, they after all have met a God and Goddess. Before Jennifer could call the looney bin on us I took them downstairs and through the door to the Wondering Inn. I waved at Dio and Heph at the bar and introduced Dio to Jennifer, and Heph to Jennifer and the Ramsay's. Jennifer was still skeptical and just played it off as another extension of the restaurant until I opened the door to Konoha. Everyone just stared outside in shock as me and Tsunade smirked at each other.

Jennifer: "W-wha-"

Tana: "What the fuck."

Gordon looked at his wife in shock while me and Tsunade snickered.

Tsunade: "Welcome to my hometown."

With that Tsunade handed me the twins and she became the tour guide. First, we went next door to Ichiraku and introduced everyone to Teuchi. Gordon was surprised that he was Ayame's father, and all three of them had foodgasms when they tasted his ramen.

Gordon: "Holy fucking shit, Ayame's ramen was the best I've ever had. But now this is another level! Bloody hell old man, I'm half tempted to try and hire you as well."

Teuchi just laughed at Gordon.

Teuchi: "I've been doing this a long time. I've taught Ayame all I know, it will take her spreading her wings and gaining experience to get this good."

Gordon: "It's still tempting, but by the time I'm done with her she'll cook better than you!"

Teuchi: "Good! That's all I could ask for Mr. Ramsay."

Gordon: "Just call me Gordon."

With that two world-class chefs became friends. We then continued the tour as Tsunade showed her the Senju compound and they all met Nawaki. The little show-off was giving them a demonstration of his skill and it captivated them. I just shook my head and thought they would lose their shit if Minato was here and showing off, or hell if Tsunade showed off her strength.

Nawaki's demonstrations must have drawn some attention. My spidey sense was going off as someone approached rapidly.

???: "DYNAMIC ENTRYYYYYYYYYYY"

Before the clutz could hit anyone I stepped between him and his misfortunate target. I brought my forearm up and blocked his kick, he bounced off it and did a flip then landed with thumbs up and a goofy grin.

Guy: "HOW YOUTHFUL ZACH! I WAS JUST ON MY WAY TO TEACH NAWAKI SOME TAIJUTSU!"

After shaking my arm out from the hit I just glared at Guy.

Zach: "Dude, you almost laid out some civilians."

Guy looked sheepishly at the 3 from the Marvel world. When he caught sight of the brown-haired lawyer I saw his face turn tomato red. He then did a 90-degree bow and shouted at her.

Guy: "I'M SORRY MA'AM! I WAS VERY UN-YOUTHFUL!"

Jennifer nervously chuckled as she walked over and lightly patted his shoulder.

Jennifer: "Uhh, it's ok."

Guy: "THANK YOU SO MUCH!"

Before anyone else could get a word in he disappeared. We just stared at where he, then me and Tsunade laughed our asses off again. Once we calmed down Tsunade started the tour again and Introduced everyone to Minato and explained that he was Kushina's husband. She then explained about the faces carved into the mountain and they were surprised when they saw her face and that she used to be the Hokage. I might have puffed my chest out with pride at my wife's accomplishments.

After showing them a few more stops and introducing them to some of our friends we made our way back to the Marvel world and into our apartment. Once everyone sat down on the couches after all the excitement I turned on the T.V. to the evening. By either luck or Author intervention, we arrived in time for the evening news. They had just ran the mini-intro for breaking news and the anchor was talking.

(A/N: Every time I want to say "home" but it feels weird. They're in a building on fucking Wall Street, and it's not an apartment since they own the damn thing. But that's the only thing that feels right to me.)

Male Anchor: "This just in, we've received footage of the incident from the other night involving Tony Stark and the owners of the new restaurant Kajiya. I want to warn the parents at home that this may not be suitable for children."

After half a minute they played the clips of the security cameras. Even after watching it multiple times it still pissed me off. Once the video ended it cut back to the anchors who were staring with their mouths open at what they had seen.

Female Anchor: "What a fucking as-"

The T.V. cut to commercial before she could finish her cussing. I had a smug grin on my face as other people are seeing what Tony was really like. Not even 5 minutes after the video aired our home phone started to ring. I walked over and picked up the phone.

Zach: "Briggs residents, this is Zach."

George: "Hello Mr. Briggs, it's Detective Stacey."

Zach: "Hey detective, what can I do for you?"

George: "Well, I've called to let you know that the DA has decided to drop the case."

Zach: "Wow, however generous of him. Are they going to pursue charges against Tony?"

The line was quiet as George didn't want to answer that. His silence was enough of an answer and it frustrated me.

Zach: "Huh, what if we want to press charges."

I could hear a sigh from him and the phone shifting. George then spoke in a hushed voice.

George: "Between me and you, I'd love to nail the fucker. But with his money, he'd make a deal and only pay a small fine."

Zach: "Well fuck, good thing I have an amazing lawyer for the civil suit I'll be bringing him."

George: "Sorry I couldn't be any more help."

Zach: "It's not your fault our justice system is fucked. Thank you for all you've done George, come by the restaurant some time."

With that, I hung up the phone and let everyone know what was going on. Tsunade was pissed that there was no justice, while Jennifer and the Ramsay's just shrugged. After the mood was ruined everyone dispersed, Gordon and Tana went to their new home. While Jennifer went back to her apartment, I had to figure out how to change the floor she was going to use before she moved in. Tsunade and I decided to make it an early night and I took my bride to bed, holding onto her for the whole night.

Over the next week, I had Jennifer file the paperwork for the civil lawsuit. I hooked up with Heph to help me remodel her officer/home floor and we made quick work of it in only a couple of days. What really took most of the time was getting a hold of all the law books, even though I was spending the money I felt like it was more of an investment. By Friday I had introduced Jennifer to her new home office, I chuckled as I called it that. She replied by giving me a big hug and ran off to check everything out.

During the week the call volume had picked up for reservations, the high-class clientele had returned after the news broke of Tony's shittiness. I was thankful for that, and a bit glad at the publicity that this has drawn to my restaurant. It also served as a warning to others who thought along the same lines as the perv.

While I was doing my intermittent shows in the forge during the week I had finished my awesome hammer. I then began to work on something that I greatly missed. I couldn't help but tear up as I brought out the same combination of pieces of metals I used for my hammer. This time Truck-Kun, you're going to be an HMMWV that will be able to fly and keep my family safe.

The weekend was uneventful other than the Ramsay's fully moving in, and also Jennifer moving in. Over the week they kinda geeked out over the fact that all the employees except for Ayame were ninjas at some point.

On Monday though things got interesting, Jennifer had called and said that Tony's lawyers would be meeting us in her office. I grabbed Tsunade and left the kids with Shizune and we went to Jennifer's office and waited for Tony's vampires. It didn't take long for them to arrive, and the looks on their faces at how great Jennifer's practice looked gave me a smug satisfaction. Jennifer then led everyone to one of the conference rooms where everyone got situated. The lawyers started it out after pulling some papers from their briefcase.

Lawyer 1: "We've come to settle before this matter even reaches the court. I believe we have a nice offer for you."

They slid a copy to each of us and as I read it I was appalled at the amount. They only wanted to give us 100k for the incident. I quickly balled the paper up and threw it into the trashcan.

Zach: "I want 10% equity in Stark Industries."

Lawyer 1: "We can't do that, the offer we gave you was the bottom line."

Zach: "Like I'll believe that."

Jennifer: "If I take this to court, it will be a slam dunk. Sexual assault along with pain and suffering, not to mention the lost revenue of both a future medical practice and the current restaurant. I'd be asking for 20%. Now quit playing games, and take this to your client."

Jennifer slid them the counteroffer and we got up and walked out. I felt good about this approach, and I knew we could get more if it went to trial. But who the fuck really wants to do that? I mean shit, it's a lot of fucking writing and stupid shit. -Cough- Who really wants to deal with month-long processes and all the shit that it entails. We didn't have to wait long as Jennifer got a call later that night to Stark agreeing to the terms. I decided to take everyone involved out to dinner at a nice steak-house across town as a celebration.

Over the next couple of weeks, the Truck-kun 3.0 project was wrapped up. How did I get to 3.0 you might ask? Well fuck 2.0, I completely skipped it because this sucker would put a quinjet to shame. Tsunade caught onto my building about halfway through, I got an earful but it was already too late to stop me. I added space expansion everywhere in the damn thing, then followed it up with illusions so when you're looking at it nothing seems off. It was the Tardis of hummers and I fucking loved it. I might or might not have added gun emplacements on it.

After the first test drive around the city, I was proud as hell at my work. Everyone was checking it out, and honking at me. At stoplights, people would ask me where I got it and I just smiled and said I made it. But unfortunately with the new beauty there came problems from it.

That night towards when I was letting the last of the customers out of the restaurant a group of people walked towards the door. Looking at them I had a vague idea of who they were and waved for them to come inside. I motioned for the staff to be on alert at the new guests and guided them to an empty table in the middle of the room. I took a seat and only one woman sat down, the rest encircled me and the table.

Zach: "What can I do for you?"

???: "My name is Ramonda, and I believe you have something that belongs to my country."

Zach: "Nice to meet you Ramonda, but I don't have a clue what that could be."

Ramonda: "The vehicle is made out of metal stolen from my country."

Zach: "What metal? The adamantium? The Uru? Or was it the vibranium?"

Ramonda's eyes widened at the mixture. I knew she had no clue about Uru but a place like Wakanda would know about adamantium.

Ramonda: "The vibranium."

Zach: "Yeah... I don't believe it was stolen from Wakanda."

When I said the name of their secret little country Ramonda went on edge, and the guards started to draw their weapons. But before they could do anything I smirked as kunai were held to everyone's neck except for Ramonda. They all froze as I let the tension settle and held my hand out to the side.

Zach: "Now, normally I would say that any vibranium that is not in Wakandan hands is stolen. But, there is always a but, what if there is another source?"

I willed my essence into my hand and created a bar of vibranium. I then held the bar up to show it to all of the guards and then placed it down on the table. Then I slid the bar to the stunned Ramonda who hesitantly picked it up and examined it.

Ramonda: "H-how?"

Smirking I replied back.

Zach: "Magic."

Ramonda waved her free hand to the guards and they sheathed their partially drawn weapons. I did the same and the ninjas disappeared leaving no traces behind. It shocked the guards as they couldn't comprehend what had happened.

Zach: "Now, I'll let you know that we will NEVER sell vibranium. But know that I will still make personal items for my family and friends out of it. So if you won't mind letting T'Chaka know that I would love to invite him to dinner next time he's in New York."

Ramonda: "How do you know so much about Wakanda?"

Zach: "Magic."

I winked at her and she stared me down. They were not getting another word out of me. At least it was a semi-peaceful meeting, could have been a whole lot worse. Once Ramonda figured out she wouldn't get anything else out of me she got up with the bar in hand and left with her guards.

I waved over to a bartender and they brought me a shot of whiskey. After downing the shot and doing the whole "Ahhh" after the lovely burning sensation I walked out the front of the building. Looking around I decided the street was too crowded for what I wanted to do. I already had one meeting from a secret civilization, why not have another? Once I reached the ally there had not been a soul in sight, I looked to the sky and yelled out.

Zach: "HEIMDALL! TELL ODIN I WANT TO SPEAK TO HIM. I GOT SOME AMBROSIA FROM DIONYSUS!"

On top of yelling out, I flared my divine essence around me to make sure he took me seriously. Not even 20 minutes after waiting for a reply an aurora started to form in the sky above me. The wind started to turn into a mini-tornado and light shone from inside it, all the way to the ground in front of me. When everything cleared up I saw a contingent of guards, Thor, Loki, and the man himself, Odin.

Zach: "Hecate, do you mind taking Loki away while I talk with everyone else?"

Popping out of nowhere the lovely Big-Tittied Goth gave a devilish smile. I could see the fear on Loki's face as he couldn't even sense the Goddess. Hell, Thor and Odin had the same look and I just smirked. Before Loki knew what hit him, Hecate was hugging on him then disappeared. Odin started to get angry and I butted in before he could get pissed.

Zach: "Really? You want to show up to a faction that's trying to extend an olive branch with a God of fucking Mischief? Shit, Odin, I know you play games but come the fuck on."