Chapter 1: Roped In
It has been nineteen years since I found myself in the MCU, years that I have tried to keep a low profile to the best of my abilities. Nineteen years I have lived here trying to build an illusion that I was just a normal farm boy, an illusion that has worked thus far. As far as I knew, only my parents knew that I was an alien. They found me in the fiels as a toddler toothing at a twig at midnight after crashlanding in their farm. They decided to keep me as they had no children and that's how I was given the Kal El treatment. And yes, I am a Kryptonian, more specifically, I was akin to a more stabilized Superboy Prime in which my solar energy was just as much but I wasn't burning through it as he was. I was essentially as powerful as he was without the weakness of burning through my reserves so quickly.
My parents died of cancer, something they had ever since they had me and I was lucky they died just last year. I amy have caused a huge earthquake when I punched the ground in anger, but that was long ago. I have already put to rest that they were dead and I was the owner of the Richardson farm. As for my name, my father had decided to be funny by naming me Rick, Rick Richardson. I tended to the farm with all my effort and it never let me down. I knew my parents would be proud.
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It was the start of another day and as usual, I was up before dawn doing farm chores from feeding my turkey sized chicken to the gluttonous pigs. The latter were getting on my nerves since they were chewing on a metal beam so much it was starting to give away. I was thinking of what to do to them, most ideas involved eating them not gonna lie, when I heard the roar of an engine five miles away, just at the start of my farm. This meant the vehicle was coming my way, prompting my to use telescopic and x-ray vision to check who it was. It was a black, government issued vehicle with tinted glass and everything. The occupants, on the other hand, were more of interest. There was Maria Hill, Phil Coulson and the baldest motherfacka of them all, Nick Fury.
"Why are they here?" I asked myself out loud before a piglet nubbed me with its snout, I had poured some feed on her and her siblings were getting interested on meals on legs. Apologizing to it, I finished feeding them and got out of the stay before going to prep my tractor ready for half a day of plowing. I had to appear normal and them seeing me waiting for them would make them more sure of whatever that brought them here. They got to the compound just as I was pulling out with my tractor and Maria Hill decided to show she had bigger balls by refusing to move.
"Can I help you folks or do you want me to show you Southern hostility?" I demanded as I got out of my tractor. Fury and Coulson got out of the car as the former was keenly watching me over.
"I apologize for my colleague but we are here on a matter of national security," Nick Fury said as he walked closer to me. Although, I could hear how his muscle were tensing, his heart was erratic and I could smell the adrenaline rushing in him; he was prepared for any hostility I might show.
"Well, you are on the wrong address; the sheriff's fifteen miles to the East, you can't miss it," I dismissed him as I turned to Maria Hill. "You better move your vehicle out of the way miss, least I mow it down with mine!"
"So you are not Rick Richardson, the one in this video?" Fury asked as he pulled a tablet from in side his trench coat and opened it, showing a pre-played video. It showed a paused image of country viewed from outer space. Pressing play, I saw how the video zooms towards the ground and I frowned for I was familiar with this, more importantly, the place it was going to land in. It showed me in the middle of a forest, which didn't have coverage regretfully, and I scream in pain and anger before punching the ground. A shockwave followed, plowing the forest of trees as an earthquake ensued. After, I was gone after using superspeed. But not before I dumbly looked around guiltily and the high-quality video paused on the image of my face!
"That is obviously doctored," I wasn't going to expose myself without a fight, or rather pretend I was fighting. I knew Fury had all the evidence thus was confidence to come here and confront me. Come to think of it, it was 2012 so Loki must have come o spread his glorious dogshit on Earth. Using my super hearing, I didn't hear anyone else around my property so Clint was gone.
"We have been keeping a close eye on you since we got this video, Mr. Richardson and we can say without faut that this is you in the video," Fury didn't disappoint. "That aside, we are not here for anything else but for a chance to recruit you. See, Earth is facing trouble, trouble that prompts me to seek help from special individuals such as yourself. The reason is long and I can explain it more over some Southern hospitality." The man was good, the way he converses shows he is an alpha male in everything he does. Mom would try to hurt me is she knew I was denying guests tea so I showed them to my house.
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"Why's the hot chick still glaring at me?" I whispered to Coulson as I poured him a cup.
"Don't mind her, that's normal," he answered with a chuckle. I know she is not dangerous, to me, but the glaring was bothersome. Finished giving everyone tea, I sat at my chair which was previously my father's, and turned to Fury for explanation.
"Earlier on, we received an energy transmission from one of our sites. The energy signature was unlike anything we have ever seen so we decided to investigate. It was probably a bad decision for the energy signature was a prelude of some type of portal opening," Fury said before taking a sip of the tea. I could see how his paralysed facial muscles almost moved with fascination and enjoyment, that tea was the freaking best; I should know, stole it from a century old Chinese hermit clan.
"From the portal came a being who looked to be just a normal human appearance wise but he held power we have never seen before. He was holding a scepter that took the wills of others, armed with illusions that makes you question reality and a tongue that would make you fight yourself. We had him surrounded but we were all outclassed. Calling himself Loki of Asgard, he laid waste to all my men, enthralled some of my best then destroyed the facility after stealing something of great value," Fury continued. In cue, Coulson passed a picture to me, a picture of the tesseract. A vessel of unimaginable power which they think would hold the key to make weapons of such destruction Earth would be safe. However, I knew the tesseract held an Infinity stone, one of the oldest and most powerful objects in the universe, reduced to a weapon akin nuclear warhead.
"Should I ask what this is?" I asked Fury who gave me a 'are you serious' look. I chuckled before putting it down.
"So, let me get this straight. You want me to go after this Loki, master of illusions and enthrallment, for something I am not even supposed to know what it does?" I asked, looking Fury right into his one eye.
"It's called a Tesseract. Just know it holds possibly an infinite amount of power and if it's in the wrong hands could be used for destruction like no other," Fury answered, dismissively.
"And I am supposed to believe you and your agency are the right hands, huh?" I sarcastically asked.
"Yes, yes we are," Fury answered without skipping a beat.
"Wow, no hesitation," I mockingly laughed. "Spare me your self-righteousness. You want me to get this Tesseract for you so that you can continue doing whatever you want with it, don't you? No, that was a rhetorical question, no need for an answer. So, tell me what would happen if I refuse to help you?"
"You will witness as Loki uses the Tesseract to possibly destroy Earth," Fury said, just as calm as always. "Besides, you won't be alone. As we speak, four other individuals have already agreed to help us, you are just a countermeasure for anything going out of expectations."
"Emotional blackmail, quite the plan for a spy, isn't that right, Nick Fury from the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistic Department," I scoffed as I produced all of their badges. For the first time, Nick Fury showed he was surprised. Maria Hill went to unholster her gun only to find it empty. Without missing a beat, she went for her primary by her ankle and yet found it empty too!
"So you do have super speed, it was debatable," Coulson, ever the cool headed person, spoke as I put Hill's guns on the table.
"You came here without backup and information, how very un-spy like, Nick Fury," I drawled as I leaned back on my seat.
"What makes you think we don't have soldiers surrounding your house at the moment?" Fury asked, is calm returning.
"You don't, we all know it," I laughed at his attempt to glean more of my powers. He was good, I almost told him I had super hearing! Fury stared at me for a few seconds before sighing helplessly.
"What do you want to know?" he asked as he leaned back too.
"Everything you can about this organization of yours and why you want the Tesseract back so badly you would come to complete strangers asking for help," I answered, with atone of non-negotiation.
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