Age Of Miracles

I was walking down the street from the mall, with shopping bags resting on both my arms. I was waiting at a crossing light. Waiting for the little white crossing man to appear. It was a beautiful sunny day in Manhattan. Beautiful day to take a stroll around the shopping center before heading back home.
As I waited, a saw a man with a brown jacket wearing a baseball cap stand next to me, and I felt a presence behing me, not thinking anything of it, I patiently waited. When the walking man finally appeared, I walked into the street, with the people following behind. walking back onto the side walk, I noticed the man still walking a bit close to me, and before I knew it, I felt a hand grab my right arm, and yanked me into a passing alley way. I felt a hard object pressed against my back, and I felt a hot breeze on my neck. "Yell, and it won't end pretty for you, girl" I heard a man whisper in my ear. When we reach the dead end of the alley, I felt the man push me towards the wall which causes me to stumble a bit. When I turn to look at the man who pushed me, I see another man push the man with the cap right next to me. In total there were five men. All holding their guns towards us.
I look around my surroundings, garbage cans and their kids laying everywhere, and just the bricked walls. Nothing that I could use as a weapon. Me being in Terra, I didn't think I'd need to carry my Quad Blasters around, so I left them back home.
The men started shouting at the guy next to me, I wasn't paying much attention, trying to think of a way to get out this mess. I didn't want to use my earth powers, I didn't want anyone to see them, I didn't want anyone calling me a freak. That's one of the down sides on being here on Terra, and a reason why I loved being out roaming the Galaxy with Peter. No one would judge you, why would they? Everyone was just so different, but no one cared. No one except for Ronan of course, but that story is for a different day.
As they continued to yell, I didn't notice one sneak up behind me, the man grabbed my waist, and I felt a cold sharp object pressed against my neck.
"If you don't coopperate, this girl will die" He sneered.
I dropped my bags on to the floor, and tried to get some pressure of my neck.
The brown jacket man turned to give the man a blank expression. Thats when I got a chance to take a good look at his face. He appeared to have long brown hair under his hat, he has scruffy facial hair and the most gorgeous deep blue eyes I've ever seen.
As he took a glance at me, one of the remaining goones charged at him, the man swiftly dodged the oncoming punch, grabbed the mans extended arm, and with one move, broke it.
The injured man screamed in pain, and triggered the 3 other men to start shooting. The guy used the injured goon as a human shield, deflecting the bullets, killing the man. Still using him as a shield, he charged forward, punching one man, which surprisingly send him flying off. As he fought off the other two, I elbowed my captor hard in the stomach causing him to let me go and bend forward in pain. I then kneed him in the face. As he fell to the ground, groaning, I quickly grabbed my bags and scurried up to the scruffy man as he took down the last man.
"Hurry we gotta go before they regain consciousness!" I said to him as I grabbed his left arm and pulled him out the alley. As I pulled him along the crowd of people, I noticed that his arm was oddly hard but paid no mind to it.
"Why are they after you?" I asked the man I was currently dragging.
I didn't hear a responce from him so I turn my head just to see him giving me that same exactly blank stare.
"Is there any place you know of where we can lay low?"
. . . . again no respond.
"Wow you're a real chatter box, gunna talk my ear off, that one" I mumbled to myself.
Then, gun shots.
We both look behind to see the man I knocked out making his way towards us, with the pedestrians scattering around screaming not wanted to get hurt by the man.
"HURRY!!"
I pulled the man closer to me, and attempted my best to run, but found it impossible while wearing a tight pencil skirt and high heels.
"Cant you go any faster" I hear a husky voice behind me ask.
"As a matter of fact I can't, these shoes aren't ment for running" I grumbled, the feeling of panic suddenly hitting me.
The guy pulled me back, making me crash into him. I was about to yell at him, but then I felt something hard against my legs, and before I knew it, the man had me in his arms, and then started running, which caused me to wrap my bagged filled arms around his neck.
"Can you let those stupid bags go?!" He asked, a bit annoyed by the fact I was still holding onto them.
"Are you crazy?! Do you know how much money I spend on this!?"
"It's slowing us down!"
"No it's not just keep running- on the next block make a left!" We argued back and forth. As he ran for a couple of blocks, I told him to enter a familiar building, the building where I resided.
At the entrance, he gently put me down.
"Arent you tired? You ran for quiet a bit, do you work out?" I rambled on as gave his right arm a squeeze to see if he had rippling biceps. "Oh wow, yes you do" I blushed, feeling a bit embarrassed.
I made my way to the elevators waiting for a cart, the mysterious man right next to me. " Can I atleast get your name?" I quietly asked him, when we stepped into the elevator, I pressed a button with the number 4 next to it, and awaited his answer. But it never came.
When we got out we walked down the hall, finally reaching my door. I rummage my purse for my key and when I find it, pulled it out and unlocked my door.
I pushed the door open, stepping in first, holding the door for my mystery guest to come in and when he does, I immediately shut and lock it.
"Welcome to my humble domain, make yourself comfortable, you can lay low here until you're sure those creeps aren't after you" I told him and I walked into my room, leaving him to browse my living room.
The place I lived in wasn't to big, but it was sure comfortable. Living on the Eclector we never got huge rooms and bunking with Peter on the Milano for so long got me used to small living quarters, which I didn't mind.
I left all my bags on my bed then made my way towards the kitchen, thinking we both could have a long awaited conversation over dinner.
As I walk pass the living room, I see the man looking around my stationed shelves and cases, looking at some artifacts I got from my time as a Ravager.
"Come eat, I've made us dinner~"
I set the table up with plates and utensils, putting the pots of food in dead center. I see him slowly walk into the kitchen, where the small table was located in. He gazed at all the food cautiously which caused me to roll my eyes. "would you just go wash up and take a seat?" I asked, well more like demanded in a very annoyed manner.
The Man glared at me, but headed to the sink to wash up.
I took my seat and started placing food on both our plates. I hear the chair next to me slide over and that's when I saw him take a seat.
"You must be hungry, I know I am, its something about deadly gun chases that gets me starving!" I laughed as I went and took a bit out of the spaghetti and meatballs I've prepared.
I see him fiddle with the meat balls but I'm too hungry to care, either way, more for me.
"So you going tell me who you are and why you were being shot at?"
For a while he sat there, quiet.
"Are you sure you want to know?" He asked suddenly.
I stayed silent, wanting him to go on.
He then took of his cap, his messy brown hair falling to his shoulders. He then stood up, taking his jacket off, he first slipped off the right side of his sleeve, and when he completely took of his jacket, he was wearing some black get up, he turned around to face me, looking me straight in the eye. I glanced down at his body and that's when I saw it. His metallic left arm.

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