Chapter 23 Establishing A Research Center

Gwen was super smart and could create whatever she wanted, but she needed the initial idea and structure to truly start working on it.

"It's all possible. We'll start with an energy source. Oscorp had quite a few secrets hidden away. One of them being the arc reactor. It is a clean energy source that could power the entire energy shield and more as long as we implement it right." He told her.

It wasn't from Oscorp but he had to give her some explanation. He was going to form the schematics for it himself after referencing Tony's design from the MCU.

In the worst-case scenario where he wasn't able to make it, he would outright steal Tony's design from the MCU Earth for both the arc reactor and the planetary shield. He and Gwen could then tinker with it and enhance it.

Gwen was for sure much smarter than Tony— at least objectively— and given enough time and learning, she would be able to make anything she wanted.

"Oscorp? How did you get their data?" Gwen caught on to his words.

"Well… Before catching up with you, I ended up going to Oscrop to say my goodbyes to Harry. Turns out he'd become a monster. Yada yada… I beat him up and as a sort of petty move, I decided to take all of Oscorp's data archives. When you're not here, I usually spent my time browsing through them." He told her with some hesitance in his tone, showing her that he felt affected by the Oscorp situation.

"Oh, Alex…" She felt bad for him losing his best friend from his childhood and hugged him tightly.

'Now how do I tell her that I couldn't give a flying fuck about that Harry…' Alex thought while feeling awkward as he hugged her back.

"Anyway." He got back on track.

"I'm going to start obtaining some resources and set up a nice research center for the two of us to work in. We need to get everything done as soon as possible."

"Are you leaving?" She understood.

"I'm never leaving, Gwen… I'm always connected to you."

[Always.] He told her telepathically, reminding her of their connection.

[And then again, It's not like you'll be lonely. I can use the bio-suit to have fun with you whenever I want… You seem pretty used to feeling my cock inside you at every moment.] He teased her as he pressed his hand on her crotch.

She'd spent quite a while with that snuggled within her snatch.

"Ahn~ Alex…" Although she'd gotten used to the replica inside her, it didn't mean that it didn't make her sensitive. She'd just gotten used to not reacting to it.

With Alex stressing her pelvis, she was sure to react.

He didn't play with her for now and let her go after teasing her a bit more.

"It'll be a few days before I'm able to establish the research center. So you might not see me in the daytime. But I'll return every night since I want to sleep while cuddled up with my girl." He kissed her on the forehead as he got up with her in his arms and put her on her bed.

"Be safe…" She told him.

"Always, Gwen…" He told her as he jumped out of the window while Camouflaging himself and disappearing.

'I miss him…' She thought as she looked at the window that he jumped out of.

[You don't need to…] She heard his voice in his head.

"Alex…" She smiled as she felt his presence around her.

[I'm with you… Always.] He told her the truth. His main body in this world was bonded to Gwen. What went out was just a separate part of the body. Even if that part dies outside, it wouldn't affect Alex much.

Gwen was a bio-chemical major, so what Alex had introduced was completely new to her. It was a completely different field than what she was familiar with and she would have to get familiar with energy dynamics and research.

She would have to research and understand many things and she was going to spend the next few days, while Alex was busy, getting a handle on the basics.

It wouldn't be enough, but it would be a start. The rest she could learn on the job.

…

Alex was out swinging through the city, planning to capture two of the targets today. They were very successful business owners with an abundance of liquid funds that were close enough for him to reach them.

He was going to establish the research facility within close vicinity of the university.

After getting the funds, he was going to start finding more influential people and start expanding his network. With each person that he devoured and took over, he would get their complete knowledge set and skills, albeit somewhat inferior.

And that was exactly how he spent the next week.

Taking over influential people's identities after devouring them, using a large number of their funds and influence to invest in the facility.

He made sure that any authority figures that would cause problems later down the line were also taken care of.

That was when he hit a problem.

He discovered a limit to the number of people that he could simultaneously live as.

His consciousness was extremely strong for a symbiote, allowing him to split and control a huge number of parts of himself, but there was a limit.

And that limit was around 60 people.

He theorized that his actual limit was a hundred different bodies, but forty of them were already occupied, leaving him with 60 empty slots.

He felt strained as he lived the lives of 60 different people at the same time.

This was when he realized that he couldn't brute force everything. He needed to play it efficiently.

He went on to establish his own company. He didn't have any real identification so he used the identity of a prominent businessman to establish a tech research company.

Having taken over 60 very successful people with prominent skills was very useful.

He decided to discard 50 of those identities and was going to work with 10 major identities to establish the board of directors of his company.

The rest of them were discarded as all of their money and funds were funneled out of the country into an offshore account to access whenever necessary. He started employing a certain amount of finesse in his actions and if that didn't work, he always had the ability to brute force everything.

He got his company through a large number of required permits by manipulating the officials and getting through everything as quickly as possible.

Within a week, the entire country's political and economic landscape had shifted and many undercurrents were running.

At the center of it all, was SHIELD. That was what he named his company.

Since SHIELD didn't exist in this world, he took over that mantle.

He was going to create his own version of the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division.

All 10 identities of his were extremely prominent ones. With people owning industrial businesses, software behemoths, and all kinds of important companies within the European Union.

For all intents and purposes, he would have the initial resources for his research facility.

The company would expand rapidly and gain a monopoly over the energy sector first, making heat-based electricity generation obsolete as slowly the use of all fossil fuels would be finished.

As the other identities got to work making this plan a reality, Alex and Gwen started working on creating the Arc reactor.

He also realized the threshold for the Bonding Rate that would increase the EP generation.

It was 25 percent. Although it took a week for her to reach this point, her sole EP generation had increased to 0.2 points per day.

In that week, he'd also reached the required 10 EP to get the first skill he wanted.

[ «Skill Acquisition»

«EP: 0»

«Owned Skills: ‹Superhuman Grade Physique Creation (22 Tons)› ‹Enhanced 6th Sense› ‹Biological Manipulation› ‹Basic Lightning Manipulation› ‹Weak Magic Affinity› ‹Lesser Heat and Sound Resistance› ‹Camouflage› ‹Host Enhancement› ‹Devour› ‹Copy›»

]

Although it brought his EP to 0 points, at least he got some resistance from weak sonic impacts.

…

During this week that Alex spent preparing for the research facility.

In Earth-65, Gwen had gotten used to the heavy training that she'd been doing with Alex.

They would spend a few hours training followed by her reward that sent her right to sleep.

[ «Status- Host #1»

«Name: Gwen Stacy (Ghost Spider)»

«Bonding Rate: 24%»

«Bonding Level: 2»

«Powers: Superhuman Physique (17 Tons)— Spider Sense— Wall Crawling— Bio-Electricity»

]

She'd gotten stronger after the week of training and this growth was sustainable. It wasn't going to plateau and stop at some point. It was going to keep going.

It was the same with Natasha and Wanda in the MCU. They'd both been training regularly and also had quite a few improvements to their abilities.

[ «Status- Host #3»

«Name: Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow)»

«Bonding Rate: 19%»

«Bonding Level: 2»

«Powers: Low Superhuman Physique (1 Ton)— Melee Mastery— Espionage Mastery»

«Status- Host #4»

«Name: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch)»

«Bonding Rate: 8%»

«Bonding Level: 1»

«Powers: Peak Human Physique (1/3 Ton)—Chaos Magic (Dormant)»

]

Natasha had finally gone beyond the human levels and reached the threshold of superhuman although just barely.

Wanda was also doing well, she'd reached the level of Peak Human with her strength firmly at 1/3 of a ton. It was a very good increase after going from an average human to this point.

He'd also been holding back on having sex with Wanda. It was because of her Chaos Magic. He was a little apprehensive about it and was waiting until he had some understanding about it and would be able to suppress it if push came to shove.

After 4 days of peacefully laying low, It was time for the MCU to go through some shifts. Ross had come to give them some news. The Sokovia Accords had come to fuck the Avengers over.

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