Chapter 82 - [BT] Possible Location of the Serum...

[Before Transition]

Exiting the male restroom I'm immediately ambushed by the presence of Felicia as she immediately bolts up from where she was sat down leaning against the wall though she doesn't actually say anything to me and I don't say anything back as I simply stare back at her waiting for her to talk while she waits for me to talk and it's quite awkward, eventually she relents and forgoing her hesitance she begins to speak up but deciding to be a bit mean I also decide to talk to her just as she opens her mouth to speak. "So, where am I dropping you off? At a dorm here or do you live off of campus?" I ask her, she was obviously waiting for me to speak and tell her we can go but I don't know where she currently living which was why I waited for her to talk but it was clear that she didn't get that so I had to speak up.

"R- Right, I uh- I live at one of the dorms here on campus but I don't think I'll be staying here anymore so if it's not too much trouble can you come with me to pick up my stuff, it's not that much and I can carry it easily, is that alright?" I'm sure that if this girl wasn't just out of a traumatising experience she would be a lot more confident and even maybe a bit of a bitch (who really knows?) but currently she's as timid as a mouth and I just don't think that it suits her, especially knowing the potential she has which I've just set her off course from ever fulfilling. "Sure, that's no problem, lead the way and we'll fetch your stuff." And so we set off with her leading the way although I'm right beside her with her walking just a step in front of me though that doesn't stop her from looking back every two seconds to see if I'm still there, this girl is getting too dependent on me and I've only known her five minutes, I've gotta find a way to break her out of it or before I know it she'll be bugging me everyday unable to go outside without me beside her.

The walk to her dorm is relatively silent with her telling me which way to turn every once in awhile but apart from that she was as quiet as a mouse which I didn't like so I eventually decided to engage her in conversation to bring her out of her newly made she'll and after a few questions she started asking her own questions and when we were eventually nearing her dorm room she was pretty lively and no longer quiet although you could still tell she was a bit down though throughout the conversation we had I learned quite a lot about her with her learning not much about me that wasn't publicly available (at ESU, interning with the Fantastic Four, currently single and ready to mingle).

I learned that she's currently doing an arts major though her mother Lydia Hardy the lawyer is a bit miffed about that, her father is died in a plane crash when she was little (I know that he's actually alive and locked up somewhere) though you can tell she still idolises him and apparently he was quite old when he had her at least 30 years older than his wife and was quite rich to boot as he said it was all inheritance (though I know it's really because he was a burglar, I also switched the conversation over to her father as that's the only interesting thing in her life), apparently her father was a little boy during World War Two and his name was John Hardesky but he changed his name to Walter when he was older for some reason and when he met his wife he took her last name becoming Walter Hardy completely different from the name he was born with.

Honestly it was quite interesting as I can remember two main versions of this man from my memory and one is definitely more interesting than the other but that is more because of the benefits it could bring me if the version in this world is actually that man, the first version is regular plain Walter Hardy who was a cat burglar taught by the Black Fox and he was eventually arrested for a crime he didn't commit which gave Felicia the drive to learn to be like him and free him from prisons though I don't think it's this version as the facts don't point to it, the more interesting version is where Felicia's dad is called John Hardesky and he's a cat burglar though what's interesting about this version is when he's a boy he was forced by hydra to watch observe Abraham Erskine and observe Steve Rogers being injected with the super soldier serum where he memorised the formula (somehow, I think because Vita Ray's weren't a thing in that universe or it simply wasn't needed for the formula, I think it was because he had a photographic memory) but decided not to hand it to hydra before running away.

This version of the man would never tell anyone the formula and he would eventually be caught by SHIELD in the mIddle of a jewel heist where he would be incarcerated by SHIELD for his crime but more importantly to safeguard the Super Soldier Serum from anyone who would want it leaving his daughter Felicia's to believe he was dead, eventually he would be kidnapped by the Kingpin for the formula and after the Kingpin also kidnaps Felicia he decides to give it to them but Kingpin decides to test a modified version of the formula on Felicia making her into a super soldier and eventually Kingpin is beaten and John Hardesky is taken back into SHIELD custody where he would go back to being a prisoner on the helicarrier and Felicia would use her new status as a Super Soldier to become the Black Cat.

I don't think it is the former version and it is most likely the Super Soldier version though the fact that he changed his name to Walter Hardy means I can't be 100% certain though it's most likely since he was around during world war 2 and Felicia believes he died in a plane crash so unless he actually died in a plane crash he is most likely incarcerated by SHIELD though whether he is being incarcerated because he knows the formula or he knows some other kind of top secret information, either way the man likely knows something so it'd be a good idea to stick close to Felicia incase she ever comes into contact with her father so I can find out what he knows though I suppose I could just keep a constant tab on her and not actually have a relationship with her, decisions decisions.

It's not like I need the Super Soldier Serum or anything as I already have spider powers and they are as good if not even better than the serum as they give some other powers as well, I bet some people might think that the Serum is better because Captain America can beat Spider-Man but tags is mainly because captain America had proper training and martial arts while all Spider-Man has is experience (the way of the spider doesn't count since it's not been used more than once for some reason and it's only one martial art style while master martial artists have loads of styles mastered) which Captain America has way more of anyway and is more durable, but if someone with the same experience and martial prowess is Captain America gained spider powers I have no doubt that they'd be able to beat him with ease.

Plus combing two serums together is way harder than all the fanfic so make it look as its combining two miraculous things into one and that's damned hard and even if you do figure it out it would be hard to actually use it on someone as they'd most likely die than get powers, it would be a normal person as it would be much harder to create a serum that would adda completely different set of powers to an already powered person though it's probably not impossible you'd only be able to do it the once as it would get more and more complicated the more powers are added and eventually it would become impossible and probably c.u.mbersome having all those powers and being a master of none as they don't have the time to master them all.

We've been to Felicia's dorm by now and she put all of her stuff into bags (there is definitely a whole lot more than she said there would be) and so I am carrying most of her bags with Felicia's only carrying a box of some of her personal effects as we head out of the dorm and start to walk towards my car, I don't think she'll every be living in the campus again and I can't blame her as she was nearly assaulted on this very campus but as I'm walking to the car with Felicia I decide to voice a question I have that I'm surprised hasn't been answered by now. "Hey Felicia, once we get this stuff in my car where will we be going? You have g actually told me where we are heading." I reveal to her and the gives a little 'oh' as if she's just remembered. "We're going to my mom's house which is in Flushing, Queens, I hope that isn't too much of a detour for you."

I quickly shake my head in the negative. "No it's fine, it's actually on my way as I live in Forest Hills which is close by, small world huh." Small world indeed, although New York is pretty much the main city in this universe...

<AN> I now have a Pa treon up and running and when a chapter is ready it will go up on Pa treon first so please take a look. Some support from you guys would be appreciated and motivate me.

Currently 10+ Chapters.

(pa treon.com/GutsyRipper)

A special thank you to my patrons Tim Brown, Stormrall, Turtle, heller8284, Wanous, Matthew Laird, Sage Honos and Cameron. Thank you for the support.