Rebel Vol.2 | TDW & IM3

E11 - On Track?

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Over the next few days, the company went into its busiest time of the year, so I never got the time to revisit Fury. I only got a bit of a break Friday afternoon, when I actually got a log of a shipment of materials ready to go to SHIELD. The order log was weird, and the order was double than last time. I guess this gives me an excuse to visit him now. I sigh and teleport myself to the hall outside his office, folder in hand.

I hesitated for a moment and went to knock but heard footsteps behind me. "Erika wasn't expecting a visit from you today." I hear him say, and I turn to look at him.

"I don't always warn when I'll visit." I state, and he enters his office. I follow in after him and see that all the stuff was moved back into place. "I just got an order log for a shipment that is ready to send here, and I noticed it was double the amount of materials than before." I really question, and he nods, rolling his eye as he puts his coat on the chair.

"The council wants three helicarriers built by the end of April." He says, annoyed, and I could tell he just came from a meeting with them.

"Let me guess, Pierce?" I ask, and he nods sighing. "Anyway, that's not the only reason for my visit." I state and sit down across from him. "I want to apologize about Monday." I admit. "I thought all of it through since then. I shouldn't have snapped at you, and I put you in a potentially dangerous situation." I state, and he nods.

"It's alright, all is forgiven." He says, and I relax a bit. "But Erika, that situation is a clear example of why you probably be on the bench for now. I know that I'm not above you. I actually know that you have power over everyone now. But I know you care about others' safety, and if you can't look after your own, you really shouldn't be out there." He tells me, and I nod, knowing he is right about that.

"You're right, and I agree now that I've looked it over." I state. "My powers are unstable. I shouldn't be out trying to save people when I can't protect myself. I haven't told the team this yet, but I'm going to leave the last-minute missions to them." I tell him, and he nods. "But as for the current mission... Finding out who is stealing the weapons, I'm at least staying on that. I at least want to put those people behind bars." I state, and he sighs.

"I completely understand, but for those missions, you shouldn't try to use the Tesseract Abilities." He says, and I nod at that. As my powers come off as a blue mist, and it's well known, I'm connected to the Tesseract. We've all labeled them as Tesseract Abilities. "Something is clearly trying to block those powers, and you really do need to work through it. Maybe go see a therapist." He suggests, and I raise an eyebrow.

"A therapist?" I chuckle. "To work through an extraterrestrial power from realms away?" I start laughing and throw my head back. "That's hilarious, Nicholas. Golden, the funniest thing I've heard all day." I state, and look back at him, but he was looking at me with a blank face. "Oh, you're serious." I say, and he nods. "Okay, I'll play ball." I say and sit a bit forwards. "Let's say I go to therapy. I talk, they listen, but they don't actually understand my abilities."

I state, and he sighs, looking done with me already. "I'm going to say this, and I'm pretty sure the therapist will say this too. There is nothing wrong with your abilities or your control over them. It's most likely a mental block." He says, and I sigh as my watch beeps.

"I'll think about it." I say and get up. "I have a meeting to get to." I state, and he nods. I then teleported to the company, where Austin was waiting in his office for me.

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After the meeting, we continued our work on the ship project that we had now named Space-Jet-Z. We were the only one's working on this project, as it dealt with Asgardian technology that I really only know how it works. Austin knows a little bit too. The last time we worked on the project was a little over a month ago, and we just looked over the blueprints of the ship with its components for the final time today.