Marvel One-Shots [NO REQUESTS]

NICO DI ANGELO (PART 1)

Nico opened the lid for the hundredth time that hour to look fondly at the engagement ring Hazel and Leo helped make, forcing him to let them do it. Together they decided on a simple golden band made from a mixture of celestial bronze and imperial gold with a small black diamond carved into the shape of a simple heart encrusted on top. Apparently, according to the two other weirdos, it was perfect for the couple then proceeded to tell him they knew Will would eventually go to them for Nico's ring and had already made it.

He was on his way to the picnic he had been planning for a few months when he noticed the thunder and lightning cutting across the sky. He frowned to himself, the sky was clear moments ago, and (unless Hera had called Zeus a big baby again) but out of nowhere it was suddenly turning violent. 

That was the first hint something was off in retrospect, the second hint was when a man in a red and gold metal suit was backhanded by an angry cyclops sending him flying past Nico into a poor struggling card shop.

The robot-man crashed into a store meters away from the demigod and almost immediately pushed himself back onto his feet in a fighting stance. Nico rolled his eyes at the foolish mortal, froze the suit in its place with barely visible shadows (planning to wipe him memory later) then summoned his sword into his right hand. 

He sprinted to the monster, leaping through the air and thrust the deadly blade into the back of its neck. He swung his body round to finish off the job, pulling the sword with him to create a wider cut,  and smiled, satisfied when the creature dissolved into gold dust like his brethren had countless times.

He sent the sword back to the shadows then spun to face the metal-dude, whom he could notice was getting frustrated at the fact he couldn't move or even get out of his own suit despite his attempts.  Smirking at the strangers short temper, Nico waved his hand to remove his invisible prison and had to hold in a laugh as metal-dude immediately fell over. The person picked themselves up then pointed the inbuilt blasters in his hands at the chuckling teenager who just saved his butt.

"Who the hell are you kid?" He ignored it when the boy flinched at his choice of words an instead continued asking questions "And where the fuck did you learn to fight with a sword, let alone get one?"

"Chill out, soon you won't even remember this." Nico raised his hand to manipulate the mist and remove his memories but the man fired his bullets (that Valdez could of done a better job of creating in his sleep while hanging upside-down) then propelled himself directly at Nico. 

Although Nico's reflexes were too fast for him to be knocked out Stark did get his inbuilt AI (JARVIS) to take a clear picture of his face then save all footage of him before Nico removed his memories.

Nico clicked his fingers, instantly mending the ground that the idiot had destroyed, then shadow traveled back to camp to quickly give a fast run-down of events to Chiron, thinking it'd be the last time he'd have to think about the strange iron-clad hero.

However this was far from the case. Tony Stark noticed the lapse in memory the moment he found himself in a partially destroyed field and flew back to his tower, landing in a private office. From there JARVIS replayed the events then identified the boy as Nico Di Angelo, an Italian-American that supposedly died in one of the last few bombing raids of WW2. Who could he possibly talk to about WW2- of course!

He called Captain Grandpa (while coming up with new annoying nicknames that if Steve was ever greeted with he'd instantly leave the room) and spun his laptop around to show the blonde Di Angelo's profile. Steve's face turned pale and his eyes widened in shock.

"Why are you looking at Nico's file?" This would of been normal until you realized Steve was too far away to read the boys name.

"How do you know him?" Tony raised one of his brows and rested his head on his hands.

"He's- he was, Bucky's little step brother. I'd met the kid a lot of times when I visited his house until-" His voice broke off and he had to take a moment to compose himself again "When I was out with Bucky on a double date he had set up, to see your dads show in fact, their house was destroyed." His voice got quieter "They could only find the mum's body and the rescue team had decided that the two kids must of been completely crushed by the rubble."

Tony stayed silent out respect and even felt guilty for Bucky as the story added new tragedies to the long list of why his past was so depressing. But on the slightly happier side he could get a date of birth but probably no explanation to how the kid survived the bomb, let alone didn't age as much as he should.

"Do you need a minute, Cap'?" Tony asked in a hushed tone but since the room had fallen silent, excluding the ticking of the wall clock, since Steve had told the horrific story.

Rodgers managed to clear his throat "You never answered me, why are you looking at Nico's file?" Tony realized that, the idiot that he was, hadn't told Steve that the boy lived or that he had fought a one eyed thing with a sword.

"Because while fighting a new threat, he appeared and killed it for me then somehow wiped my memory of what happened." Tony knew he sounded like a mad man.

"This is a new low, don't even say that to Bucky-" Steve was disgusted that his 'friend' would make up something ridiculous about one of the kindest kids he had ever met death.

"JARVIS pull up the footage of the Nico-boy fighting, the entire clip" Tony called to his AI before Steve beat him up.

The scene played of a eighteen year old Nico Di Angelo fighting what was flickering between a cyclops and a really tall homeless man with a nail-ridden club. Steve stood in silence, with his jaw dropping to the wooden floor, while he watched an older version of a deceased boy fight with ease then use what must of been magic/witchcraft.

Bucky would never believe him.

A/N

[PUBLISHED 14/10/2018]

[FIRST EDIT 23/01/2019]

Holy crap, how bad was my writing? How did i manage to mess up spelling and grammar THAT much? I hope you can see the improvement or if you're new here, i hope you like it.

Keep an eye out for part two, the later parts might be a bit spaced out since i'm working on other one-shots.

See ya!