MelKing

The months went by, fading together seamlessly. Reports flooded the internet of strange monsters attacking cites, decimating towns. Deaths reached the thousands mark in a week's time. The reports showed the creatures were moving towards the east coast, towards New York. People began moving in droves to the west coast, trying to get out of the way of the horde. SHEILD Director Nick Fury became a common sight in the tower, telling Tony and Bruce when and where the monsters were sighted. Any time Niki saw Fury she grabbed her interface glasses and listened into whatever report he gave. She spend hours upon hours trawling the web, looking for con

Niki yawned as she opened the fridge in the kitchen. She scowled and grabbed a cherry coke before starting to rummage through the sparsely stocked cupboards. She heard Tony stomping around behind her, and commented, "Why is it that the fridge is always, always, half full of liquor?" "Because I like liquor, and you're not allowed to touch any of it. Do we have any food?" "Nope, because you are crap at being any sort of stable anything." She opened another cabinet. "I'll get something after school." "Don't go housewife on me. I get enough nagging from Pepper." He said, slumping on the table. "JARVIS, turn on the news. I need to see if I did

The rest of the day passed mostly without event. She simply went from class to class and kept her head down, fading to invisibility in the back of the room. Her teachers occasionally tried to make sure she was paying attention by suddenly asking her a question, but all met with the same amount of success as the unfortunate Mrs. Wilson. She would immediately respond with the correct answer without even looking up or opening her eyes. Eventually, they all gave up and let her sleep. The only scene of even the remotest bit of interest happened during lunch. Niki tended to forgo the usual lunch spots like the cafeteria or the library and would g

"While Miss Heiss wakes up and sits in her desk properly, she can tell us a little bit about our new topic, the Greek gods." Niki didn't even look up from where she was sitting with her head buried in the crook of her arm. "The Greek gods are, as one would expect, Greek. They were taken and renamed by the Romans, however they stay essentially the same. The main twelve are Zeus; the king of the gods and the god of lightning, his wife Hera; the goddess of marriage, Poseidon; Zeus' brother and god of the seas, Hades; also Zeus' brother and god of the dead, Demeter; Zeus' sister and goddess of the harvest, Athena; Zeus' daughter and goddess of