00142. More recruiting.

00142. More recruiting.

A few weeks passed by and a few things happened in that time. Agatha came back from the quantum realm, because Wong took her place. Kaecilius was meant to go originally, but with his punishment duty going on, he was forced to stay behind.

While Hank’s efforts so far have yielded no signs of his wife, only about ten percent of the place has been searched so far. Or at least that's the best estimate they have. Between Minato, Tobirama and the drones, the task was going relatively fast all things considered.

Back on Earth, Theo helped out Isaiah Bradley and his wife Faith Bradley. Both of them were given a healthy new body, which was cloned from themselves with a tiny bit of Logan’s healing factor. Orochimaru also fixed all the issues he found with them before he made clones of them based around twenty years of age. After they were placed in their new bodies, Ezekiel gave them a credit card and a card with his phone number on it.

After he handed them over he said, “This is for both of you. Go out and enjoy life, like you should have originally.”

Isaiah took the two cards and glanced at them for a moment before he asked, “What are these for?”

“That one is my personal phone number, call it if you ever need anything.”

Ezekiel pointed at the credit card as he said, “That’s a credit card I set up for both of you. I gave you a million dollars for each year you were imprisoned, and then doubled it.”

Faith glanced at the card for a few moments before her eyes widened as she asked, “You’re giving us thirty four million?”

Ezekiel shrugged as he said, “It's fifty million actually, it was easier to just round up.”

Isaiah went to hand the card back as he said, “We don’t need the money. These bodies are more than enough and we still won’t be able to repay you for them.”

Ezekiel shook his head as he said, “The money is already yours, I won’t take it back. Use it however you want, or give it away to charity if you like. But it’s yours to do with as you please.”

“I would personally suggest traveling the world for the next few years and just enjoy your life together. Make it one long overdue honeymoon” Ezekiel said with a smile.

Isaiah put the two cards in his pocket before he asked, “Thanks, but are you sure there isn’t something we can do to repay you?”

“You don’t owe me anything and there’s no debt to repay. I was just righting a wrong, that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.” Ezekiel said.

After they talked for a little longer, Ezekiel made a portal back to their home and before the portal closed he said, “Enjoy your new life, but if you ever get bored. Contact me, I could always use good people like you, to help me make the world a better place.”

The portal snapped closed right after and Isaiah shared a glance with his wife before she said, “I know that look.”

As Ezekiel and the others started to make magic defenses, Tao placed her tea cup down before the erected defenses shattered and blew the defenders off their feet. Tao lightly shook her head as she said, “I expect more from all of you, again!”

Ezekiel wanted to complain, but he knew that wouldn’t help and in fact would just make things worse. Or it might even extend their training even longer, when today was supposed to be the last day of their forced group training under Tao. Unfortunately it was also the worst day, Tao battered them non-stop from the moment they arrived. Ezekiel was sure if Mordo and Kaecilius weren’t given better bodies, they would be seriously hurt right now.

When it was time for training to end, Tao threw them a curve ball and extended the training for another three hours. By the time she completed her lesson for the day, Ezekiel and the others could barely stand properly and were covered in bruises. Well Ezekiel looked normal because of his henge skill, but underneath he was beat up. Tao glanced over them all before she said, “And here I thought you wouldn’t be able to stand. I guess I held back a little too much.”

Tao waved her hand and said, “With today, your group training is finished and you're all dismissed... Hopefully you learned your lesson and this isn’t needed again.”

After they left the training hall, Mordo shared a glance with the others before he asked them, “That was holding back?”

Ezekiel shrugged as he said, “None of us are bleeding, so probably.”

Kaecilius nodded in agreement before he asked, “I’m not sure about you guys, but I’m starving. Do either of you wanna eat?”

“Sure.” Mordo said.

Ezekiel nodded in agreement before he said, “Sounds go to me. Where do you want to go? I’ll pay.”

For some reason they settled on Korean BBQ and after they cleaned up with a quick spell, they teleported to Seoul, South Korea to eat. They went to one of the more famous spots and after they sat down to eat, Ezekiel couldn’t help it as he noticed a woman eating in another group. Something about her just looked familiar and he couldn’t place it exactly.

Ezekiel discreetly watched her for a while as they ate and even though the other group started eating before Ezekiel’s group arrived. Ezekiel’s group finished first as everyone had other things they needed to do. Ezekiel just needed to go home and sleep, so after he left, he used his skills and hid in the shadows and waited outside the restaurant.

About half an hour later the woman left the restaurant with her friends before she split off to head home. Ezekiel used his skills to hide from her as he followed her all the way home. Once there he waited for her to go into her bedroom before he slipped inside and found her purse. He quickly memorized her ID and portaled back home to look her up. While the name didn’t ring a bell at first, after looking into her background he realized why she was familiar.

She was Helen Cho and helped to make the body Vision used in the MCU movies. But in the comics he remembered she was the mother of Amadeus and Maddy Cho. Whether or not that would happen in this world was up in the air, but it didn’t matter to Theo. Since he found her, Theo decided to offer her a job. That night Theo sent her an email titled ‘Interested in a new job?’

In the email itself he gave her a number to contact him at, since the email address he used couldn’t be replied to. Besides that, the email contained a few of the unclassified research notes from a couple of projects people have worked on at the medical base. It was all cutting edge research and anyone as smart as Cho would easily recognize it. With the bait in place, Theo went to bed.

The next morning as his family ate breakfast, Theo’s mom said, “I narrowed down who you can sell your game to. When you get home from school today, I want you to sit down with me and we can figure out which one to choose.”

“Sure mom, sounds good to me.” Theo said with a smile.