[Peter's first person POV] [A few hrs ter] [Baxter Building]

  After that mess, the workers cleared up the floor, and stru work began to repair the broken walls, floors, and windows. The Thing was busy dealing with the hacked robots on the ground floor. That girl did think through everything. She first hacked the ground floor's security the up to hack the robotics department. She sabotaged the entire security system of six floors. It will keep everyone busy for some time. That fucker Reed did such a shitty job making the security system. And people call him the most intelligent human oh.

  The injured and unscious were taken to the hospital for treatment. The other floors are under shutdown for now.

  I sat on the coud a rge yaw my mouth as I stretched my limbs. Sue and Ben were looking at the footage of Bck Cat that I recorded using my suit's camera.

  "Damn! It's Bck Cat!" Ben said as he punched his rocky hands together, feeling annoyed and worried at the same time. "A woman like her has no problem getting under a man's skin." He goward me.

  He's kinda mad at me for letting Bck Cat go and stopping them from pursuing her. Catg her now would be pointless. They will interrogate her and she won't open her mouth, they might torture her, which won't bear any fruit, and then as always, she'll escape. I want to catch the one who hired her in the first pce to steal whatever data she stole. With my magic tracker on her, I'll be able to track her down with no effort.

  Sue gred at me from her spot. She wasn't as mad as the rocky menace over there, but she sure wanted answers.

  "I guess you have a good reason for not catg her?" Sue asked raising her eyebrows.

  She knows that with the new suit, it wasn't impossible to cateone like Bck Cat. So, I expined my pn to them.

  "Wait! A magic tracker?" Ben scratched his rocky , "Never heard of something like that before."

  "Yes! Magic tracker," I smiled under my mask. "It's not that plicated actually, but the spell itself is quite advanced. It allows me to trayone anywhere as long as it stays oarget. And unlike your tech trackers, mine is uable, unless we are dealing with a Sorcerer."

  "Huh! Iing..." Sue nodded as she crossed her legs and leaned ba the sofa, "I assume it works like a runipass?"

  "Something simir to that..." I nodded.

  "So, what are we waiting for?" Ben stood up from his seat excitedly. "Let's track her down."

  "Not yet. We need her to take us to the one who hired her for the job," I expined. "We don't know the target or the employer. If she delivers whatever she stole to them, we might be able to catch them red-handed."

  "Hmm... Makes sense," Sue nodded.

  "But what did she steal?" I asked her.

  "That USB stick taihe data of your Cyberid Neural impnts project. She stole almost everythied to it," Sue answered with a sigh as she pihe bridge of her nose, feeling frustrated. "If the data falls into the wrong hands, things might go south very soon..."

  "You guys didn't start w on it already, did you?" I asked as I crossed my arms over my chest, feeling worried. Cyberid neural impnts are a dangerous teology when misused. I don't want human cybs running around the city anytime soon.

  "We were just prepping to begin. But no, nothing serious yet," Sue answered as she looked at me with a frown.

  "Good..." I nodded. "You see the data you guys were proteg till now was a fake one."

  "Huh?!" Both Sue and Ben excimed surprised as they stared at me wide-eyed.

  "Yeah, it might look like the real deal, but once you build it, it will fail big time. Especially the software. I made sure to make it buggy as hell, and I guess I did a good job, huh?" I smirked under my mask, feeling proud of my deception that even the Fantastic Four couldn't catch, "sidering the fact that even you guys didn't notice it till now, I doubt the one who is going to use it is gonna notice."

  Sue rubbed her temples and sighed tiredly while Ben scratched his head awkwardly.

  "So, you are tellihe data we were keeping in the vault here and proteg it for a year is just a hoax?!" Sue asked exasperatedly as she raised her voice.

  "Yep! Pretty much so..." I shrugged nontly as I leaned ba the sofa. "Aical, yet fake algorithm and a couple of minor but important things ged i, that will lead to a system crash after the first usage. That will pletely destroy any prototype built using the algorithm along with damaging the nervous system of the user too. Probably killing them if the damage is severe."

  "And the inal copy?" Ben asked curiously with a frown.

  "Safe and sound in a po one would ever think of looking," I smirked under my mask. "It's in the big wall clo my room. With the amount of people knog at my door asking for colboration and bh, bh, bh... I decided to hide it in pin sight, where no one would even think of searg. I was about to give it to you this m, but as you know things happened."

  Both Sue and Ben chuckled hearing my answer.

  "Well, I guess we uimated you, kid," Ben grinned as he patted my shoulder pyfully.

  "Haaa..." Sue sighed.

  I quickly opened a portal to my room, webbed the clod pulled it through the portal, then closed it.

  "Don't worry; this one is the real deal. An improvised version of the one you used on Johnny and Reed," I assured Sue as I twisted the back open, took the USB stick, and ha to her.

  Sue took it and ied it for a minute before looking at me with suspi.

  ", don't look at me like that. It's the real deal. You should thank me for hiding it for this long. Or else, you already know what happened. Besides, even though I'm colborating with you guys, I don't want ao start w on the first version without me! Anyway, I think someone insider is mixed in this mess, or how else would you expin the hag and all?" I asked Sue, ging the topic.

  "Someone insider? Who do you suspect?" Ben asked with a frown as he crossed his rocky arms over his chest.

  "Could be anyone from the security department," Sue answered as she shook her head tiredly and pihe bridge of her nose.

  "Or someone from the Robotics department too," I added with a shrug. "Well, we'll know soon enough." I opened my palm, summoning a circur inscription, showing a holographic map of New York. On it there was a blinking dot, moving out of the city.

  "They are leaving the city!" Ben excimed surprised as he looked at me wide-eyed.

  "Yes, probably heading to their employer or a meeting point," I nodded as I closed my palm, g the spell. "I'll track her down with Wanda. You focus on quickly fixing this damage and start the research as soon as possible." I stood up.

  "Need a hand? I'm free," Ben asked with excitement as he flexed his rocky biceps.

  I looked at Sue and she shook her head, answering my unasked question.

  "W with a veteran hero, let's do it. I'll pick you up once she stops. For now, give those poor workers a helping hand," I opened a portal at Frank's hideout and walked inside, leaving Ben behind.

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  [3rd Person POV] [Locatioral Park] [Evening around 6 PM]

  Wanda, Maddie, and May decided to walk home today. Their car broke down in the middle of the road and sihey were close to home, they decided to walk the rest of the way and when they came closer to the park, they decided to take a little stroll and grab some ice cream or sodas and just sit and chat. Wanda wao open a portal right away but May stopped her...

  "You should walk sometimes and take things a bit slower, Wanda. Just walk and take everything around you slowly," May smiled gently as she smiled at Wanda who outing cutely. Maddie also agreed with May. Walking sometimes is nice, especially in a beautiful park like tral Park.

  With no particur destination, they started walking aimlessly through tral Park.

  Then Wanda saw the good old ice cream stall. She looked toward May excitedly, not wanting to wait anymore, "Mayyyy..."

  May chuckled, uanding Wanda's enthusiasm, ahe trio of girls toward the ice cream stall.

  As the trio was walking, Wanda, felt a weird sensation around her. She gnced around. 'What the heck is this feeling?' Thanks to her special training uhe A One, she learned how to detect danger around her. She quickly spread her agi the air, trying to search for the danger.

  "Humf!" She touched her forehead as her eyes gleamed with a red spark. Someone just tried to invade her mind but got repelled back pretty harshly.

  Wanda's as didn't go unnoticed.

  "Is something wrong, Wanda?" May looked bad saw Wanda standing still, toug her forehead as if she was hurt or had a headache.

  'It's gone!' She looked around, but couldn't find anyone suspicious. She didn't sense anyone near her too. No ill will or malicious thoughts either. Whoever it was, they were gone.

  "It's ok," Wanda smiled towards May a walking. "I'm good. Something fell into my eyes, is all."

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  [Somewhere in the park]

  Emma Frost grabbed her head as blood began to drip from her nose. Her eyes looked bloodshot. She was breathing heavily and groaned in pain, not able to trate due to the hammering pain ing from her head. She's in her diamond form.

  "Who the fuck are you to get in my way?" She mumbled as her eyes were fixed on Wanda who was going to the ice cream stall.

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