"My st question. What is up with the elf thing?" Fury asked. This was another way of asking how his power worked.

  "My abilities evolve over time, so it's useless to expin sihey won't remain the same for long," Liam replied. It was the truth. The mames he pyed, the better his evaluations would be, and soon his abilities would rise. But Fury thought this was Liam's excuse for not expining his powers.

  "Uh-huh. So what I'm hearing is, 'I'm not gonna tell you squat." Fury was a bit frustrated. He wao force Liam to at least give one proper answer, but he couldn't. It also didn't help that Liam was a minor.

  He was a child in Fury's eyes, even though he had caused quite the se at the pier.

  "Fine, I will give you one piece of information that might be useful to SHIELD. The Red Room is still active," Liam said. This made Fury's face ge from frustration to full-alert mode.

  "How do you know about the Red Room? Do you belong to them?"

  "Don't make me think that you belong to the lower IQ category, Fury. The Widow name should indicate that the agents must be women. In the bombing in Budapest, Dreykov and his daughter came out of it alive," Liam said. This made Fury's fiwitch a bit.

  The Budapest bombing involved one of his most prized agents, someone he sidered a future Avenger. And this guy knew about it. He was a baby when the bombing happened, which meant Liam was involved with an anization that collected intelligeelligence so deep that SHIELD didn't even have an inkling that Liam was associated with it.

  Under normal circumstances, he would step forward and arrest him on the charge of espionage, but he knew if he did, it might turn them antagonistic toward SHIELD, and he didn't want that. He needed Liam's cooperation.

  "Talk," Fury said.

  "I don't know much. I only know that Shostakov might lead you to Dreykov in the end. He holds quite a bit of information," Liam said. By now, Fury was sure that Liam had a deeply rooted anization behind him. Maybe Erik's disappearance had something to do with Liam's secret anization.

  Which meant Liam was an accessory here, but he couldn't prove it. And his instincts also told him not to antagohis man. A person with resources and intelligence was more dangerous than the Hulk monster.

  He thought Tony Stark was a handful. This guy was four hands full, and even then, it illing out of his hands. He touched his temples a into deep ption.

  "You're a pain in the ass, you know that?" Fury sighed.

  "I get that a lot. And yeah, you tell Phil about me. He's a good guy. But on the record, he doesn't get to open his mouth about it to his fellow agents. Not even those with level 9 or level 10 clearance," Liam said.

  "Alright. We will iigate your words."

  "Doesn't matter even if you do. Don't mind even if you don't. Knock yourself out." Liam replied. While this discussion took pce, Tony actively searched for information about the Red Room, and the little he saw made his skin crawl. Though most of the information was redacted, he got a general idea of what it was. No wohat woman was so capable.

  Fury had more questions, but he knew he wouldn't get any more answers. Liam wouldn't say another word about the Red Room, so he had to bail out. After he left, Tony grew more curious, and Liam gave him vague answers.

  Tony was scrolling through a holographic s, his eyebrows raising as he skimmed through what little information was avaible on the Red Room. He let out a low whistle.

  "Well, that's all kinds of messed up," he muttered. "Secret Russian assassin boot camp for kids. Real lovely stuff."

  Liam sat back, watg him.

  "Most of this is redacted, but the bits that aren't? They make SHIELD look like a charity anization." He finally gnced up. "And you just casually drop this into versation like it's a fun fact?" Tony tinued reading.

  "Thought SHIELD should know." Liam gave a slight smirk.

  "Yeah, see, that's the kind of thing that makes me wonder why SHIELD doesn't already know. And more importantly, why you do." Tony squi him.

  Liam didn't answer.

  "Okay, let's break this down. You could've joined SHIELD. Instead, you signed up with… whatever your mystery club is. I'm guessing they've got some real juicy secrets?" Tony leaned forward, g his fiogether.

  "You assume too much," Liam said evenly. "My anization has ted some vague intelligehat's it. We're all starting from the same pce."

  Tony poi him. "Yeah, see, that's exactly the kind of ahat doesn't make me feel better. It makes me feel like I should be very, very ed."

  Liam chuckled.

  Sihe woman was reted to SHIELD, it wasn't his . They talked about the Expo too, and all seemed smooth, but Liam had a feeling that the Expo wouldn't be as peaceful as it should be. Surprisingly, Hammer Industries also had some robotics to show, and those robotics didn't seem too high-tech at all, as Liam saw in the product description.

  "Dude, have you seen the chess petition? It's so wild," Chris said as they walked by o day of the Expo. The first two days had been b for the trio sihey didn't find anything useful. Actually, Liam wao skip them too, but Bonnie and Chris pulled him into it.

  Their argument was: what if they found something useful iher two days for Marvel? Liam thought these two teenagers had too much hope and maybe had watched too many TV series to start ag like adults. Any major decision o be thought through. But to calm their enthusiasm, he apahem.

  The Expo not only showcased products but also held petitions like chess and others that required brainpower. Chris and Bonnie were disappointed during the first two days, but ohird day, their enthusiasm returned because there were many wonderful things to see and watch.