Becoming Supreme In Marvel World

Standing at attention Kane was waiting to be shown into the base commander's office. The door had Col C. Philips stencilled on it. He was told to be at easy and sit down but for him standing was at ease. It was drilled into him in his previous training to not sit even when he was at ease, as when you were on a military base you were considered in a combat zone. It was also because he couldn't react quick enough should a threat arrive, thus they were always standing pretty much all the time, even during meals only really resting when they were sleeping. Some people even slept standing so they were on their feet ready to go.

Eventually he was shown into the office by a pretty blonde lieutenant who left shutting the door behind him. Sitting behind his desk was the colonel himself with Agent Carter standing adjacent to him a step behind and Abraham Erskine in a chair diagonally in front of them on Kane's side of the desk. The colonel didn't look happy, but whether those were his true feelings or not Kane had no way to know. It was one of the oldest tricks in the book to put on a dissatisfied look to try and unnerve the person in front of you by seeing an unhappy superior. It could also be the old good cop, bad cop routine with Abraham or Carter playing the good guy.

Kane sat in silence while Colonel read the paperwork in front of him. Another cheap old trick that Kane had used before to let the tension build up. Kane would bet the salary for this month that the colonel had already memorized everything he needed to know about Kane and his circ.u.mstances and was only going through the motions, anything less then he wouldn't be qualified for his job.

Eventually the colonel lowered the paperwork he was holding and cleared his throat while giving a stern look at Kane seated across the desk.

"Son, it is against my better judgement and in direct violation of the orders from my superiors but I am going to give you a chance and ask you a question. All I need is a yes or know answer and possibly a signature then we can go on from there. If the answer is a yes then you will have to sign this doc.u.ment which is a non-disclosure agreement. The question is this; how would you like to undergo a life altering, possibly life threatening medical procedure and become better then you are now? Don't ask me the specifics about how you will become better, because I don't understand it or the science related to it."

"Naturally colonel the answer is a yes. I can guess some of the details but not the specifics but I have worked with Abraham before, as we are both scientists and I trust him implicitly."

Saying so Kane reached over to read the paperwork before signing and once done, after checking there were no traps or excessive conditions that he wouldn't be able to uphold, signed it then pushed it back to him completed.

The colonel saw this and gave out a complicated gaze before pulling himself together.

"I will be blunt here, you were not my first choice candidate as you have no doubt gathered, but I had my arm twisted by the good doctor here. Welcome to the Project Rebirth program in earnest. What you have just signed is basically an agreement to undergo a medical procedure and waive the right to compensation and lawsuits from your next of kin in case of your untimely death, as well as an agreement to never speak of anything related to what happens from here on out to any unrelated or unauthorised person or until such a time as it gets declassified from a national secret."

"Yes colonel, I was able to read that and all of the fine print as well."

"Yes well, tomorrow you will be leaving first thing in the morning, before roll call to minimise exposure to go to a secret location to undergo the procedure. After you have undergone that procedure hopefully successfully, then the next candidate will follow you. Not very efficient but we would rather not put all of our eggs in one basket and it will hopefully confuse any spies watching if there should happen to be any."

"I understand colonel. Both the other candidate and myself are to undergo the procedure to enhance us and if anything happened to both of us it would be a great loss. Rather then take the risk, spread things out and at least one of us should be able to make it to undertake the operation in case of an attack. May I ask who the other candidate is?"

"You can ask, but I won't tell you. You will find out after both of you have undergone the operation all being well. Pack your belongings but be discrete about it as you will likely not be coming back here again. Dismissed!"

Kane stood up and saluted the colonel then about faced and marched out of the door.

The next day at the crack of dawn, when the sun was just starting to illuminate the sky but it was still gloomy, Kane stealthily made his way to the front gate to get his ride to the procedure. Unexpectedly a man in nondescript clothing that would blend into a crowd was the driver and it was the beautiful Agent Carter dressed in her military uniform waiting in the back to accompany him. A women dressed in military garb will draw attention wherever she goes in this era, so Kane couldn't help thinking it was a bit redundant having the driver and himself in plain clothes as they would still draw attention to themselves. It didn't help that Carter and himself were both exceptionally attractive.

Kane was expecting a briefing or something when he got in the car, but both the driver and Agent Carter sat in silence so he decided to make conversation to pass the time as he was bored. If there was no briefing, then Carter was probably there to watch him or to protect him to take care of him in whatever measure the situation demanded. It took a quite bit of small talk and persistence from Kane to get her to talk and open up and even then she probably only did so to pass time because she was as bored as he was.

"I will be honest Mr Titan, I also distrust you like the colonel does. Not that I think you are a Hydra operative, but because after I did a background check on you and after getting in touch with all of my contacts in the intelligence services and extensive digging through everything we know of you with a fine tooth comb, we found some anomalies."

"Is that so? I don't like people checking my background but I understand it is a hazard of the job, especially because of what is about to happen later today. Care to enlighten me on what you found? that way I can correct them in future to prevent other suspicions and investigations."

"Talking like that sounds like you have something to hide. Your accent marks you as a highly educated man from England or maybe even one of the nobility but your immigration papers say you came from Ireland and while your mother is purportedly English we have no records of her existing. No birth records, marriage records or death certificates and no taxes paid. Either she is a ghost, didn't exist or you are lying about something. Same thing with your father nothing on him either and no birth records for you either."

"The village that you are said to be from is a tiny remote out of the way place so while it is true that paperwork might not be filed correctly or be behind the times but for three people to slip through the system like you is impossible. Thinking as such we sent people there to check and you know what we found? Nothing, nobody there has ever heard of you guys. In such a small village everybody knows everybody else but not a single soul has heard of any of you three."

"Why don't you just come out with your point?"

"My point is this, we do not know who you are or what your motives are. You have highly advanced technology unlike anything, anyone else has seen even more advanced then Hydra. While you have helped both Britain and America with it mostly, due to the helicopters which we had our best guys go over and found no traps or pitfalls in the design by the way, we have no idea what your end goal is. Or for that matter why you came to America, when you could have gone anywhere even a lesser advanced country and lived like a king."

"So that is the bee in your bonnet huh? Have you asked Stark or Erskine about me as they should have given you some answers? Fine I will break it all down for you and I am hoping that through you it gets back to whoever it needs to to allay their concerns."

"I am as you surmised, both a highly educated man and member of the nobility but I won't tell you which family as we were disowned and disinherited, so we have no ties or claims to them or their titles. That is also why you won't find any records of us as they used their power and influence to have the records erased. As for not having any records of my father well Ireland did go through a big upheaval and many people's records were lost in their recent war. That is why I put down a remote village as where I came from, as it doesn't really matter where I am from in my eyes only where I go from here on out and I needed a place of origin after what my high and mighty family did."

"My parents changed their identities to avoid being persecuted by the family. Although we have been cast out, one of them might get it into their heads to make us disappear just in case there is a succession problem in future. This might have actually happened because my ship suffered mechanical failure and only I survived. I never meant to come to America but because I ended up shipwrecked and being brought into New York, so I ended up staying."

"I could go to a third world country and lord over them like a tyrant or king but why would I want to? In some countries even a mosquito or spider bite can kill you and the conditions are terrible hence I wanted to settle in a more developed and civilized country."

"I left England even after we changed our identities because I was sick of being oppressed and held back. Some doors are closed to people without sufficient backing and they will remain closed no matter what. At most I could have become a nouveau rich businessman, but I would never fit in with the old families or old money."

"I am sure you can relate to having doors closed in your face and being told what to do, how to do it and having societies notions forced upon you for being a women. How much did you have to struggle to get to where you are now and how high do you think you can climb in the service? My end goal is to become as successful, rich and powerful as I can so I can look down on those guys who oppressed me and when my family come crawling back to beg me to return I can tell them exactly what I think of them and where to go."

After hearing Kane's speech and questions Agent Carter was silent for quite a while obviously digesting what she had heard and maybe trying to mentally tally what he told her with any information she knew of noble families who had the clout to do anything like that. Eventually she spoke to him again but this time her voice wasn't as cold and hostile it was before but laced with emotion.

"So that is how it is? Certainly I know a thing or two about having doors slammed in my face. Most people look at my physical appearance and the fact that I am a women and jump to the mistake conclusions of how I got my position so I am constantly having to reject ludicrous offers, both overt and subtle about how to advance my career."

"I have gone through some of the most rigours and intense training as part of the SOB, that even some men can't complete yet still I am looked down on. I volunteered to be the attaché sent from Britain to join the SSR as a way to both get out of the cage of society that imprisoned me and to further my career but to be honest I thing my career such as it is has reached a peak and hit the ceiling unable to go any higher. With what I have gone through and experienced, I can relate very much to how you feel. I will relate what I should back to my superiors and the fact that you are not a threat."

"Thank you for confiding in me and if you ever want a proper and official British citizenship again I can arrange it for you. You need not worry about your relatives as well, because it will be a top secret and official new identity. Also you know with your accomplishments of providing a significant boost to our military forces, as well as your philanthropy looking after orphans and opening schools and hospitals there is a plan in motion to make you a lord and landed noble in your own right. The crown does recognize your service and contributions you have made."

"I would like that very much but maybe we can discuss this further once I survive what is to come as it is apparently quite dangerous."

Shortly after they arrived and after Agent Carter gave the password phrase to the old lady pretending to be a shop assistant, they were led though a secret entrance to where Kane was about to undergo the medical procedure.

After seeing what he was to be put into, it looked like a giant metal coffin.

"Well at least we can skip on the burial costs as there is a ready made coffin prepared."