Looking down at the laptop a smile couldn't help but shine on Nick's face, on his screen was a three day old video of a slightly malnourished Tony Stark declaring to the world he will stop making weapons!
After the month since Nick had his talk with Holly, very little had happened. Nick had wanted to take things easy with his injury and did some easy cases.
Using his memories and searching online, Nick was able to stop a few criminals that werent supernatural. It started when he was browsing the news and saw a familiar name breaking headlines.
[Serial Killer working for the Government?! NIA profiler Will Graham arrested and under suspicion for the murder of Abigail Hobbs, as well as being the infamous Copy Cat killer of Baltimore. Those victims included Cassie Boyle, Georgia Madchen, Dr. Donald Sutcliffe, and Marissa Schurr. The potential list of suspect also inclu....]
"I know this guy, this is from the Hannibal tv show! Hannibal lector manipulated everyone into thinking this Will guy was the Copy Cat killer!"
With Nick being supernaturally strong and having watched the show, arresting Hannibal lector was surprisingly easy even with the injured tendon. With Will claiming Hannibal was the copycat, Nick got a warrant to search his property and used his super smelling to easily locate a hidden room that had steaks and various organs from the previous victims.
Besides arresting Hannibal lector, Nick also got Gus Fring. Unlike monsters he could just kill, Nick actually had a hard time gathering enough legal evidence to convict him for his Meth Empire but he still did it nonetheless. It was much easier already knowing that someone was a criminal and working from there.
He'd found another criminal from a TV show he watched in his past, Dexter Morgan! He was a sociopathic serial killer but because he was taught a certain code of conduct by his father, Dexter only went after other Killers or predators.
Nick felt like the world would be a better place with Dexter Morgan roaming around so he didnt arrest him.
It was during this time that Nick had gotten use to his overwhelmingly powerful sense of smell, he could now keep it on all day except for when he sleeps. He still felt revolted smelling the city aroma but he eventually got use to the stench.
He wasn't really doing anything dangerous during this time, any supernatural case he found that didn't involve a living creature with regenerative powers Nick had passed onto other Agent. He hadn't found any creature as of yet to fix his leg but today was a very important day for him. The day he invested in Stark Enterprise!
After Tony Stark escaped from imprisonment, the very first thing he did when the News reporters interviewed him was to declare he would stop creating weapons!
Stark Enterprises stock took a nose dive but Nick waited for it to hit rock bottom before he bought in and that was now!Tony Stark would buy most of his own companies shares back at low before he unveiled the stable Arc reactor and him being iron man.
Just the Arc reactor alone is world breaking technology, it's a clean, cheap, high intensity, fully renewable power source based on a entirely new element. If you combined that with his futuristic suits of armour that turns him a world renown superhero, Stark Enterprises will become the greatest company on the planet!
After taking out all of his previously investments, taking out loans, maxing out credit cards, borrowing from Bobby and even asking Holly to take a loan so he could borrow, Nick managed to rangle $727,319!
It took a lot of begging and trusting from Holly, but she eventually took out a loan against her house which netted him a large chunk of this money!
She only relented when she learned about Nicks previous ventures of turning $45,000 into a little over $150,00 in just 5 months . She didn't even asked about interest or what she'll get out of it, she just demanded Nick to not make her foreclose on their home to which Nick obviously agreed to.
Looking at Stark Enterprises stock being a measily $1.59 and plateauing, Nick used every penny in his name to buy up as many shares as he could, getting him 457,433 shares of Stark Enterprise stock!
This sound like an insane amount but when compared to the 11.3 billions shares that S.E. has, it's only 0.00004% of the companies stock.
Seeing as how Stark Enterprises was previously worth $471.97 and how the Arc reactor will definitely surpass that, Nick knew he'd have at least $200,000,000 after S.E. stock bounces back!
This would be enough money to last Nick multiple lifetimes, but stocks wouldn't be the end of Nick's money making schemes! By the time Nick sells off stark industry stock itll be around 2009-2010, the prime time to invest in Bitcoin!
Bitcoin was a lot trickier for Nick to invest in as it's has a limited quantity and isn't backed by anything, it's value originates from the People's demand of it and how much value they place in it. If Nick wanted to he could buy most bitcoins aa it was literally pennies but doing that would essentially cripple Bitcoin and make it lose a lot of its value.
Nick couldn't be too greedy, he'll have to take just a piece of the pie if he wanted to gain anything, of course his piece would be bigger than anyone else!
With his future secured, Nick exited out of the NASDAQ and began proweling the News headlines like usual. It'll take some time before he see's major profit from his stock, and hell need to make money to start paying back those he borrowed from.
At this point Nick was totally out of the loop of this worlds entertainment but highly tuned into its News and worldly affairs. Suddenly getting a notification, Nick turned his phone on and saw it was from a group chat.
It turned out that after Nick Invited the Hunters into the NIA and they became special Agents, the agency created a secure group chat and shared suspicious news headlines and possible sighting of monsters.
It was through this group chat that Nick off-loaded all of the info on the monsters he wanted to avoid but had spotted, like Jason voorhees who's an undead or Freddy Krueger who's a dream demon thing. If he couldn't absorb them then he wouldn't hunt them, so Nick just passed along as much information on these creatures as he could.
The American Hunters had surprisingly meshed well with the Special Agents branch and were better equipped with tools and knowledge, they were becoming similar to the British Men of letters from the supernatural TV show.
Nick was mostly searching the group chat for sighting of a shape shifter, this monster was the magnum opus of creatures that Nick wanted to absorb the mostly. Not only would this monster heal Nick, but it's ability would be incredibly versatile and would allow him to emulate his other absorbed creatures ability like snake eyes, and bear body!
The more he looked into the sighting Nick could only shake his head, the Intel pointed more towards a wendigo and other Special Agent were already investigating it.
With the addition of the Hunters into the special Agents, they've quickly turned from just the scouting party to mostly dealing with the Anomalies themselves.
Of course Holly would chew out these special Agents but the results spoke for themselves, besides a minor tongue lashing they were actually rewarded for dealing with them.
Closing the laptop Nick looked out the old diner's window, his head resting on his head and sighed loudly.
'If I can't find a villain or creature with regeneration, I guess i could go learn magic from the Ancient One, that should be able to heal my tendons and I can learn magic...But I'm definitely not as talented as Strange, it'll probably take me years just to heal myself and the sorceress surpreme would probably realize I'm not originally from this world."
Another sigh escaped his lips, Nick knew he couldnt go the the Ancient ones. He couldnt chance the Ancient one finding out, he'd only visit her once he was confident he could defeat her but by then learning their magic would be pointless.
Nick gathered his things and walked out of the establishment with his cane in hand. He was about to get into his new SUV and hit the road when suddenly an old beat up blue impala sedan scurted into the parking lot of the establishment.
Nick shook his head at their recklessness and opened the door of his car only to stop as he gave the car a look over.
It's front wind shield was shattered and it back bumper was dented to hell, looking at the people inside of the car he saw terror and fear etched onto their face. Exiting the car was a male and female, they gave each other a terrified looked before hurriedly running into the diner.
"This certainly seems like something, I guess I should make sure everything is okay..."
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(I literally googled most of the stuff about investing and i assume some of its wrong, just assume this is how investinf works in Marvel