Ch: 130 [Fake data & threat around Wanda]
[Peter's first person POV] [A few hrs later] [Baxter Building]
After that mess, the workers cleared up the floor, and construction 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 then went 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 on Earth.
The injured and unconscious were taken to the hospital for treatment. The other floors are under shutdown for now.
I sat on the couch and a large yawn left my mouth as I stretched my limbs. Sue and Ben were looking at the footage of Black Cat that I recorded using my suit's camera.
"Damn! It's Black 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 glanced toward me.
He's kinda mad at me for letting Black Cat go and stopping them from pursuing her. Catching 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 place to steal whatever data she stole. With my magic tracker on her, I'll be able to track her down with no effort.
Sue glared 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 catching her?" Sue asked raising her eyebrows.
She knows that with the new suit, it wasn't impossible to catch someone like Black Cat. So, I explained my plan to them.
"Wait! A magic tracker?" Ben scratched his rocky chin, "Never heard of something like that before."
"Yes! Magic tracker," I smiled under my mask. "It's not that complicated actually, but the spell itself is quite advanced. It allows me to track anyone anywhere as long as it stays on the target. And unlike your tech trackers, mine is undetectable, unless we are dealing with a Sorcerer."
"Huh! Interesting..." Sue nodded as she crossed her legs and leaned back on the sofa, "I assume it works like a runic compass?"
"Something similar 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 explained. "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 contained the data of your Cybernetics and Neural implants project. She stole almost everything related to it," Sue answered with a sigh as she pinched the 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 working on it already, did you?" I asked as I crossed my arms over my chest, feeling worried. Cybernetics and neural implants are a dangerous technology when misused. I don't want human cyborgs 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 protecting till now was a fake one."
"Huh?!" Both Sue and Ben exclaimed 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, "Considering 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."
"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 was pouting cutely. Maddie also agreed with May. Walking sometimes is nice, especially in a beautiful park like Central Park.
With no particular destination, they started walking aimlessly through Central Park.
Then Wanda saw the good old ice cream stall. She looked toward May excitedly, not wanting to wait anymore, "Mayyyy..."
May chuckled, understanding Wanda's enthusiasm, and led the trio of girls toward the ice cream stall.
As the trio was walking, Wanda, felt a weird sensation around her. She glanced around. 'What the heck is this feeling?' Thanks to her special training under the Ancient One, she learned how to detect danger around her. She quickly spread her chaos magic in 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 actions didn't go unnoticed.
"Is something wrong, Wanda?" May looked back and saw Wanda standing still, touching 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 and kept 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 concentrate due to the hammering pain coming 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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