White Knight

History

Your pov

"Okay here goes nothing"

"Take your time, Lieutenant we get that it might not be easy," Steve says offering some support. After watching me take a deep breath and steady my heart I downed the rest of my drink. I walked over to the bar and did a couple of shots for Dutch courage.

"So as far as I know, anyone could be my parents. I spent all my life in the system. I was there with a baby, the orphanage looked after me. Barely, I was fed and given a bed, I spent all of the years I was there focused on my school work. Any spare time I had I was either out running or in the library, I was advanced for my class and ended up taking advanced college classes while I was still in school. I would run the 7 miles to and from school and the orphanage every day to keep me fit and my mind active. I was the definition of an outcast, I had no friends at school and the orphanage I stayed out the way, only left my room for dinner. After the age of 16, the orphanage told me to get a job and move out, there was nothing more they could do. So I walked into the nearest recruitment centre and joined the army. I joined the Infantry and was placed out on the front line, I worked my ass off every day, I would run miles around the training camps to put me ahead of the other training soldiers, I was later put on a fast track to becoming an officer. After tours in so many different places, my last one was in Nigeria. Not sure how many of you know the story but, my team and I were scouting base miles in the rainforest and after we spotted movement and we had all the Intel we needed we started to make our way back to our home camp, we were low on rations spare clothes. Everyone hungry, tired and cold. I needed them all home safe to their families so I shared my food and my clothes with them. As we were on our way back we, found a small compound that was not mentioned or even supposed to be there. We were eventually compromised, I sacrificed myself and allowed myself to be captured as a distraction for the rest of my men to make it home. After I stepped into the compound, I was knocked unconscious. I was 22, All of my men had mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, wives and husbands. They all someone to go home to, I would sacrifice my life for them every single time. I wouldn't want to relive what I have been through but there isn't a day that I regret the decisions I made." I took a deep breath ran my hand through my now dry hair. "So after I was knocked out they had dragged me into a cell block. There were other boys all locked up next to me, from young ages up toward mine... This is where I met The Knighthood. They left me to starve for days locked in the cell for a week, the boys that were around me were taken out of their cells and were being trained into being the knight assassins. After a week of starvation, I was forced out of my cell and stripped of my clothing, I was tortured and beaten until the brink of death. I was essentially locked into the mindset that this would be my new home and I would become a knight and protect the world from bad people. After my beating, I was left in my cell to freeze naked, left to heal they fed me water and bread after I had healed completely I was taken to shower and given a black T-shirt along with black work trousers. I was given a full meal. No one had spoken to me in days I wasn't even sure I had a voice any more. I was tested on my abilities from the army and they took my weight, high, reaction time, speed, agility, marksmanship. Every test you could think of and any that they could run they did. After 'Test day' Everyone around me seemed to be speaking Russian. So I started to pick up the occasional phrase, they took me into training every morning and I would end the day fighting against the other boys, they would allow you to shower and have more food if you were the only one left standing at the end. As the years went by I became the best of the best, the Knighthood decided that they wanted more, and took me into a testing room, I was placed into a metal-like coffin and injected with chemicals of God knows what, I was unconscious for 3 weeks after that day. After I woke back in my cell we had another 'Test Day' I could feel the strength and power they had injected into me. I continued to be trained to control my newfound power, and after the advanced strength and speed, my body started to 'glitch' is what they called it and I would move from one side of the room and accidentally throw my whole body into the wall, that's how I discovered I could teleport. After training and using it, the knighthood was thrilled with the new breed of assassin they had created. They wanted to show me off, they wanted to show how the knighthood was superior. This is where I met Natasha... We were all drugged and given knighthood suits. Our skin, that's what they called it. We were marched into the ballet room and paired up, matching our ability and strengths. Natasha was called last, to be paired with me, as one of my hidden abilities from the Knighthood... I mhm read Natasha's mind... I saw she was how she would be treated... If she didn't win the fight... So... I stopped fighting back. Another decision I do not regret bug I caused a lot of pain. I was pinned to the wall and called week. As we left, I was electrocuted beaten, stabbed and had my back pretty much used as a sharpening tool for the knight's swords and knives. After my recovery, I teleported back to the red room. I helped Natasha and the others escape and returned to my 'home'. No one ever found out that I was the one who gave the girls their freedom. As I had recovered I was placed against the best assassin the knighthood had the first experiment, know as. Yeah the Black Knight day in and day out he bested me, I couldn't match him. So I worked my self harder and stronger, I was set to take over his spotlight when the time came. I think it had been about 5 and a half years since I arrived at the Knighthood, and it was completion day. The morning I was given 'My skin, all of us were given a navy hood to represent the completion of our training, we had been given our branding afterwards and led to a waiting room for our last test. I was the last to go, none of the boys before me came back that went before me. I was lead into a room and handed a gun, there was someone in front of me. I was ordered to kill. I refused to do it, I took off the hood of who was meant to be my victim, it was one of the boys who didn't make it to completion day 5 of them didn't 5 of us did. I freed him from the chair and we fought our way through the building until we made it to all of the other boys. I lead them all through the building and to the door. I locked myself in to fend off anyone that went after them. I came to face the Black knight, he called me weak, named me the white knight. Which is the knighthood is a great dishonour, shows mercy and is unloyal, weak and should be slaughtered. So that's what happened. I had my chest sliced just like all the victims you have seen across the globe recently. After the 'Killed' me he blew up the compound to hide any trace of the knighthood, with me inside. The building collapsed in on me, after that, I woke up in Wakanda. Shuri nursed me back to health and T'challa set up my new life back in London. He had me placed within the secret service, still pronounced dead to the world like I was when I walked into the knighthood on the first day. I worked with them to take out Hydra compounds, and replications of the red room. I destroyed them and set free the innocent. T'challa stayed in contact with me, helping me to accept that the White Knight title was a name of honour and that I should keep it as a badge to my strength and not losing myself amongst the trama that I had faced. I later met Natasha again, on a mission and all of you on a second." I breathed out finally finishing my awful past. I heard Wanda and Peter crying along I turned to Natasha silently crying.

"You are a stubborn bastard by the sounds of it. I mean what they nearly killed you 3 times and you went back to face your demon on that roof? To potentially be killed again." Tony said spoke in the silence.

"You're not facing him alone" Steve spoke next. I stood not backing down, my fists clenched.

"All due respect Captin. This is my battle and my war. I know the Black Knight better than anyone in this room. I have passed every test you have thrown at me the last few days. When that call comes in saying he has surfaced, it will be because he wants to finish what he started. He wants to kill me. The knighthood currently follows him, they need to be lead into the light and show what is right from wrong. So I Suggest You Stand Down." I visibly got angrier and angrier as I continued to speak.

"I understand how much this means to you y/n I do. Steve, he is right, none of us has a chance we don't know his weaknesses or his strengths. You saw the White Knight in that simulation, he took Bucky down one-handed, avoided all of Wanda, Sams and Peters attacks. He lifted Thor's hammer. Although I agree with Y/N I think he needs to be on coms with us at all times in case he needs to be extracted. There is no room for argument, is that clear with everyone in this room." Natasha's tone was harsh as she pushed my chest away from Steve. Steve nodded in agreement with Natasha.

"I'll have an earpiece in my ear, as long as you all stay here safe." I agreed as I walked out to the spare room I currently called my own.