chap. 9 - Bloody Night

Well, now we have an immortal and super strong Banner, a Phoenix training how to use her energy in a controlled way, with Wu giving her meditations, teas, exercises, fighting styles, everything so she can control herself and not get mad for nothing.

Peter has gained a sister in Jean, they are clingy, when Peter is not at school, he is with Jean. I have been abandoned.

Jean helps the children with their homework, where they have to pay attention to the subjects by giving them tips, but she does it in a fun way, so that they understand and enjoy it.

With Peter, she is not so lucky, since that brain is one level away from us. Peter prefers to study with Bruce. He learns in the blink of an eye, which has earned him jokes from Jean.

It's 2011 now, Tony has done his thing, tried to drive a race car at the Monaco GP, making the driver pissed off and quit. I agree with the guy.

Then a lunatic with power whips shows up and cuts off Tony's car, a fight ensues and the guy gets arrested.

I watched all this on TV, on the couch were me, Bruce, Jean, Lisa and Frank. Surprisingly, so was the Elder. Now that she no longer has the burden of keeping herself centered so as not to lose control, she leads a life like everyone else.

The Stark expo was going to happen in a few days, Peter begged to go, but I convinced him with something better, I was going to take him straight to Stark Industries to see whatever he wants. Which he happily accepted.

After the Stark Expo was attacked, Thor came to earth, kicked out by his father.

Phil calls me "Nox, good afternoon, I don't know if you know, but we have an object that looks like a hammer coming from space. Could you come and help us?"

"Hi Phil, yes, I know, and no, I won't. But I can send you the necessary information, as long as you promise not to steal Jane Foster's research."

"I promise, we just found her. She's fierce." I understand him saying this smiling into the phone.

"Yes, she is. One more thing, this information only you can receive, and it can only be passed to Fury if there is no one there, and no internet access. I will send to your phone the information from the God of the Hammer Thor. See you soon Phil"

"See you soon Nox and thank you."

'Now let's take care of Frank'.

I appear in a shed, very dark and dusty, and notice a gun leaning against my head.

"Hi Frank, how have you been? Did the headache go away?"

He still pointing the gun at my head, walks in front of me, now leaving the gun on my forehead.

"Who are you and how the hell did you find me?"

I see a lot of wounding, apparently he has already gone after Grotto.

"I am Emeric Nox, investigator and currently employer of your wife and uncle of your children Lisa and Frank." I smile "No, they did not die, I knew about the attack and saved them. After that I tried to find you, but you had a bullet wound to the head. Samantha Reyes wanted you dead, so she forbade the doctors to help you." I walk over to a nearby box and sit down.

"My men helped you without anyone knowing, and when you were better, you ran away from the hospital and started your revenge. Which I didn't meddle with because I agree with you."

I finish speaking and light a cigarette. It is made from the same herbs as the Elder's tea. Since I could not reach the tea the way I wanted, I produced this cigarette. "Would you like one?" I offer it to him.

He keeps looking at me, he must be debating whether I am telling a lie or not.

"How can you prove that you are telling the truth?"

I show him my pocket, slowly take out my cell phone, unlock it with him watching, go to the pictures and show him the pictures of the children with me. "This little boy here is Peter, This is Lisa and Frank Prince. For obvious reasons, I replaced their last names so they wouldn't be targeted by anyone." I say as I let him browse through the photos.

He sees me with the children, Bruce teaching them, others is Jean, Maria and May playing board games with them.

I see the dreaded Punisher crumble. He cries a mixture of joy, relief, fear, disgust of himself. He is quite messed up.

"The children and your wife know that you are alive and well. They are waiting for you to finish your work abroad that I told you to do. You know, investigations and all."

He looks at me in disbelief. I smile at him and finish with "So, should I say that another important and urgent job made you stay abroad or can I stick to the excuse I gave when I came here that I picked you up at the airport?"

He freezes. I think Frank.exe has stopped and is restarting.

"If you come back with me, Grotto, Reyes, Jimmy, the dogs, and the Irish will be erased today, and all documentation of your actions will not only be turned over to Internal Affairs, but is freely accessible on the internet." I take a good drag on the cigarette.

"If you are at urgent work, then only the part of the delivery of documents and their free access on the internet can be done." I let out the smoke "What do you say?"

He seems to wake up, thinks for 3 seconds and smiles "Let's go home, I need a vacation boss."

I pick up my phone that he was still holding, pretend to make a call "Number 8, code bloody night" I put it away again and lead him out of the shed, where my car is waiting for us.

Of course, when we leave and close the shed, all weapons and evidence that he was there disappear into the shadows.

We passed a clothing store, where we bought him new and suitable clothes, I gave him his documentation as well as a passport and the ticket he used to come.

Now he was well dressed, bathed, we arrived at the building, I took him to my apartment, where there was a welcome party, he saw his family again. We ate, drank, laughed and then each one went home to sleep.

One more soul saved in this cruel world.