Demigod Avenger

Chapter Three - An Interesting Day

Steve Rogers p.o.v.

I went to bed that night thinking of that kid... Nico... his eyes looked so broken. Everything about him seemed wrong. His eyes looked like a WWII veteran, his posture looked like mine, a trained solider. He seemed to treat the conversation as a battle he had to win. 

The next morning we all woke up, and almost immediately began digging into Nico's story. Thor just left as soon as we started looking into Nico. Tony hacked into S.H.I.E.L.D., and we all waited. "Holy sh**!" Tony said. Making us all jump in our seat. 

"What is it?" I asked, anxiety filling my head, what if he was HYDRA or something? 

"The kids a ghost!" Tony said. "It like he does not exist! The government does not even know his last name!"

"Is he HYDRA or something?" I ask.

"I don't know. He was brought into an orphanage once, and before he was placed, he was questioned, which is the only source of information on him, before that he did not legally exist. According to what he said, he never met either of his parents, and has no idea who they are, therefore no idea what his last name was either. According to him he has lived on the streets his entire life, when he was younger, older street kids would take care of him. The police guessed his parents were most likely other street kids who just left him. He ran away from the orphanage the next day. There is nothing else about him after that." Tony summarized. We all looked between ourselves, we had to find this kid and figure him out.

"It is perfectly reasonable to assume that the kid is HYDRA with a record like that." Bruce comments.

"So how are we going to do this?" Clint asks, "I mean we obviously have to find him, but apparently this kids pretty good at keeping to himself."

"Let's just go back to the store, he must have to do his "patrol" pretty often to get food. We can wait and follow him for a while, and wait till he is alone." Natasha suggests. 

"Ok. Should we leave now?" Bruce asks. We start to pack up when Bucky comes downstairs.

"Steve, what's going on?" Bucky whispers to me. He is still not the most comfortable with the other avengers. 

"We found a kid who's possibly HYDRA." I answer him, "Do you want to join?" Bucky nods. Bucky seems to have taken it upon himself to take down HYDRA, probably feeling guilty about all that he did in HYDRA. 

"Hey guys Bucky is coming." I holler to the other avengers. Then we all leave the tower, preparing to go to the store.

TIMESKIP

We went to the store, sitting at the same coffee shop as yesterday, but wearing different disguises and separated into smaller groups. Natasha and Clint are acting like they are dating, Bucky, Thor and I are sitting together. Tony and Bruce are also sitting together a couple tables away. We are all hooked up to coms to talk. We sit there for about 15 minutes before we see him. He finds a trash can and begins digging through it, before he finds a half drank soda. He looks at the soda like it is a gift from heaven. Then he leaves to dig through another trash can. He does this quite a few times, in the end he had found, a package of mustard, a bun of a hot dog, and some cucumber skins. Then he walks away. "Ready to go?" I ask. After a series of yes', yep's, and one 'you got it capsicle' we follow him from a distance. Nico walks down the road, eating and drinking his finds. Then he just walks around, we end up sitting by the window in the bookstore. He helps a couple people carry their bags, in response getting a couple bucks, which makes him look like a kid in a candy store.

"I want to try something," Tony says through the coms, "I want to go out where he is a 'accidentally' drop a 20 and see if he returns it, or takes it."