[Third POV, Year 2001, Eleventh Loop, 5th of April]
Today was a normal day for our protagonist — at least in his perception. Sadly, he wasn't very good at catching clues about the rift within his family. Having experienced 18 years of life in this universe made it difficult for him to see clearly some details in people's personal relationships — something that not only carried over from his past life but had actually been amplified in this one because of time travel.
So, just after coming back from school, our protagonist decided to head to his studio, to execute his daily part of the Anti-terror plan and because he felt like making some more music. This time, he was specifically going to work on beats — the entire musical background of songs (no lyrics, just the music for those that don't know, the instrumental).
He decided to make beats for hip-hop songs that were famous in the egg. This included beats for tracks like Sipping on Some Syrup, Ride Around Shining, Killa Cam, and, for variety, he decided to make the Chess (Type Beat) from Joyfull — just to make sure people wouldn't think he'd only stick to hip-hop stuff and to prepare for the future with things ahead of this time.
Then the days started to pass. After three days, our protagonist began to notice a little bit of the strange way his mother behaved when it came to him — being more distant, fewer chats, even commenting less on his behavior, like when he ate part of a chocolate bar right after waking up. However, just two days after he started noticing it, she was back to normal. So, he didn't know if he was overthinking it or if something had happened during that time.
What Adrian didn't know was that his parents had managed to talk things out — at least somewhat. It was more about the fact that they realized their son would eventually notice they were fighting if they kept acting the way they were, so his father was able to convince his mother to at least act a little better in front of their son until they could resolve everything.
This didn't mean that what Laura thought of her son had changed — just that she was masking it in front of him. She still looked at him with fear and disgust when he wasn't looking. She still feared that, one day, her son would come into her room and attempt to end her life.
As for Adrian's father? He was considering that if he wasn't able to get his wife to change her opinions about their son in a month, he would ask and file for divorce. Of course, he would at least need to convince her not to call the authorities even if the divorce were to happen— he couldn't let them know that his son was possibly a mutant.
And with that, the days passed until we arrived at the present day.
[Third POV, Year 2001, Eleventh Loop, 13th of April, Stark Mansion in Malibu]
An entire week after our protagonist had started doing basically everything possible to get Stark Industries, Tony, Obadiah, or the military to notice him — it finally happened.
It all came down to JARVIS. And why? When Tony created JARVIS, he gave him the order to constantly browse the web periodically for a series of reasons. One was to gather more information to improve his neural framework and programming. Another was to search for things that would catch his eye — things like science theories.
(Tony is smart, but he's not all-knowing and it's the reason why he likes connecting with smart people like Banner, Peter, etc.)
And, of course, another reason was gathering background information on people. As social media was slowly developing and people didn't fear for their privacy that much in this era, you could probably search some things up.
With this, our protagonist was finally noticed by the AI — thankfully, faster than the military, since being noticed by Stark Industries was the better option.
Tony at this moment was... a little occupied. Being the playboy he was, he was currently flirting with a woman in his house. Both of them were somewhat drunk. Tony's flirting was interrupted by a sound from his phone which was one he'd set distinctly to know it was JARVIS communicating with him and not someone else, like Obadiah. This was because he didn't allow JARVIS to talk through the house speakers when people he didn't trust were present.
Tony, a little annoyed by the interruption, took out his phone and looked at the message JARVIS had sent, together with an attached file.
"Sir, I have noticed something on the net that could interest you. I'll store the video and send it so you can see it when you are available."
Seeing the text JARVIS sent, Tony quickly replied and put the phone back in his pocket to continue flirting with the woman.
"Just send it to Obie, JARVIS. I'll look into it later. If you find something more while I'm busy, just tell me later."
And just like that, JARVIS sent the video file to Obadiah Stane, who, coincidentally, was in his office at the moment.
Seeing the sudden message from Tony (which was actually JARVIS using Tony's phone to message him), the old man looked at it with interest. It was only a video file, which Obadiah started to watch.
As for what the video was? It was obviously the video of the LRAD testing. It included an email account for contact that Adrian and his father had set up.
"Well, would you look at that," Obadiah muttered. "I think someone in the R&D department said something about using soundwaves as weapons, although I didn't expect the idea to actually be implemented by someone. And it looks like it's not even someone from a corporation — after all, who would let a child be part of testing something like this? Unprofessional, but in the end a great device"
Touching his beard thoughtfully, Obadiah picked up the phone in his office to call his secretary, who entered the room within a minute.
Seeing her boss, the woman quickly closed the distance, standing just in front of him. Obadiah sent the video to his secretary's email.
"I'll need you to send this video to the R&D department. I remember someone saying something about weaponizing sound like this — tell me who they are so I can talk with them sometime later. For now, please send an email to this person and ask them to meet me. If they confirm, then prepare a slot in my schedule."
"Yes, sir, I'll get to it."
Nodding, the woman walked away from Obadiah and exited the office to carry out the orders she had been given.
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Author Note: I rushed this chapter a little bit as i want to quickly get to the end of Anti-Terror plan and making our mc grow up biologically, which means i have to speed up character interactions make so that Tony and Mc meet, then get to the end of Anti-Terror plan, then make it so that Bucky not be able to attack MC in short notice and well, future plot points.