Marvel: Faking Technology from the Start and Fooling S.H.I.E.L.D.

With the Synthesis System at his disposal, Luca thought he had everything under control.

That was until he stepped into Marvel. The Battle of New York broke out, Chitauri filled the sky, and Iron Man kept crashing down at his feet. Luca looked down at the "enhanced kicking shoes" and "pencil missiles" he'd just cobbled together, then looked out the window at a Leviathan tearing down buildings.

"What good is this junk supposed to do?"

Plenty. When he kicked a soccer ball trailing a meteor's fiery tail and blasted straight through the Leviathan's armor, a string of unprecedented energy warnings flashed across Tony Stark's faceplate. By the time Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. followed the clues to his door, Luca was crouched in the ruins, stuffing a Chitauri crystal pried from a corpse into a toy monkey.

"You call this a little invention?" Nick Fury stared at the reality-warping vortex before him, his one eye twitching. "Who do you think you can fool with this thing?"

"Fooling you is enough." Luca dusted off his hands and smiled innocently. The System had said that as long as the material names matched, who cared if it made any sense?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.