[Comprehensive British and American] Super Mario

New York, Queens.

In the middle of the night, Mary, who was in a deep sleep, was awakened by the sudden ringtone of her mobile phone. She poked her head out of the quilt, grabbed the mobile phone in a daze, squinted at the screen and answered the phone: "Mom, what's the matter?"

"Mary!" Mary's adoptive mother Ashley called her name on the other end of the phone and cried.

After hearing her cry, Mary was so sleepy that she woke up suddenly. She sat up on the bed in shock and asked in surprise, "You...what's the matter, why are you crying?"

Ashley was sobbing on the phone, unable to speak.

Mary asked anxiously, "What's the matter? What happened?"

"Mark...it's Mark..." Ashley choked out, "Mark...he went to school at night...was mugged on the way back...he was badly injured..."

When Mary heard this, she felt a loud buzzing in her head, and her ears immediately buzzed crazily. The ringing in her ears made Ashley's cry sound vague and distant as if separated by a layer of glass.She reached out and tapped her head hard, but it didn't help.

"What should I do? Honey, I'm so scared!" Ashley cried.

Mary wiped her face, tried to make her voice sound steady, and said to Ashley, "Mom, don't be afraid, listen, don't be afraid, I'll be right back, are you in the hospital now?"

"Yes, he's undergoing surgery." Ashley sobbed, "but I heard it's not going well... I... Mark him..." She cried even harder, and could barely speak.

Mary got up and lit the lights in the room, and while gently comforting Ashley, she began to look for clothes in the room: "Don't worry, you'll be fine, don't go anywhere in the hospital, I'll go back now! You wait for me, okay?"

"Okay!" Ashley was still emotionally unstable, she said tremblingly, "I'll wait for you."

"Relax, Mark will be fine, you need to calm down now," Mary said, "I'll be right back!"

Ashley hummed, and under Mary's comfort, she gradually calmed down. She no longer cried like she did when she answered the phone just now. She hesitated and said, "But, there is no flight right now..."

Mary thought about it, yes, of course there is no flight in the middle of the night, she bit her lip and said, "Don't worry about this, I will be back as soon as possible!"

Ashley hesitated for a moment, then said: "No, no, dear, you can sleep well now, and then buy tomorrow's ticket and come back, I, I'm fine, I just..."

"Mom." Mary sighed, "I'll see."

Ashley sobbed quietly on the other end of the phone and said nothing more.

After Mary ended the call with her, she glanced at the time on her phone. It was past 1 in the morning. Why did Mark go back to school so late?She pressed her temples, and the headache that had been slightly relieved by sleep began to toss again and again, no, now the thing to consider is how to get back as quickly as possible!Like Ashley said, of course there are no flights right now.

Mary scratched her hair irritably, frowning, opened the phone app and began to check the flight.The earliest flight from New York to Seattle tomorrow is from Newark at 6:30 a.m., while the earliest flight to Seattle from JFK, which is closer to her, is at 7:12 a.m.Staring at the phone screen, Mary hesitated, and finally decided to buy the morning flight from JFK.After booking the air ticket, she glanced at the time. It was still very early before she needed to leave for the airport. However, she was in no mood to continue sleeping, and she had a lot of things to do. The first thing was to write a leave letter to the newspaper , and then send a text message to Derek to explain the situation and ask for leave, and then to pack the clothes and pack the luggage, and then to send a message to Andrew...

Port of Seattle.

At the exit of the container terminal, the lighting installed on the terminal rotated in a fixed direction. When the beam of light swept across the wet ground, the fighting figures of two men appeared and disappeared in the momentary light.

Bucky was kicked to the ground by the tall man. He jumped up on the slippery ground, grabbed the dagger and shot the man in the face, squinting his eyes slightly, turned around and looked at his face relentlessly. The motorcycle runs.

The man avoided his attack. Seeing him running towards the motorcycle, he knew he was about to leave, so he ran after him and grabbed his back by the collar.

Bucky grabbed back with his left hand, choked his wrist with his backhand and yanked him fiercely, just about to throw him over his shoulder, but unexpectedly, the man's strength was no less than his iron arm, and he pressed firmly Hold Bucky's iron hand and say, "Bucky, I'm Steven!"

Bucky kept silent, and when he was slightly distracted, he stretched his right hand back, grabbed the hand he was holding down, exerted force with both hands at the same time to force the opponent to withdraw his hand, and immediately turned around quickly, He raised his leg and swept across, kicking Steven hard.

Steven was kicked mercilessly by Bucky for a certain distance, but he landed perfectly with amazing reflexes. With his hands propped up in the cold muddy water, he raised his head and rushed towards him again.

Bucky got on the motorcycle, looked coldly at the nagging Steven who kept calling him Bucky, turned the handlebar of the motorcycle, started the car, turned around and drove away.

Seeing this, Steven ran as hard as he could, gritting his teeth and chasing Bucky who was driving a motorcycle in front of him.

Bucky looked back while driving the motorcycle, seeing that the motorcycle was about to drive out of the dock area, but Steven was still running persistently, and the distance between the two was getting shorter and shorter. He turned back expressionlessly, staring at The front increased the horsepower and galloped up.

However, what Bucky didn't expect was that instead of being left behind by him, Steven quickly increased his running speed in a few seconds, and the distance between the two shortened again.

Bucky turned his head and looked ahead, this time with full horsepower, the motorcycle roared towards the main entrance and exit of the pier.

At the moment when Bucky was about to rush out of the entrance and exit with his motorcycle, Steven, who was chasing after him, jumped up suddenly, flew to grab the rear frame of the motorcycle, and at the same time, lowered his body and put The center of gravity of the whole body was pressed on his feet, and his feet rubbed against the slippery road for a certain distance, and finally stepped on a speed bump on the ground of the entrance and exit. He firmly pressed his feet against the speed bump, hard Suddenly pulled the motorcycle to a stop.

Bucky turned to look at him, and punched him with his left hand.

Steven grabbed the frame with one hand, caught his fist with the other, took a breath, smiled, looked at him and said, "You can't shake me, Bucky!"

Bucky frowned, said nothing, flipped his wrist to get rid of his hand, gripped the handlebar with both hands, and kicked his feet on the motorcycle pedal, using his strength to fly back and kick Steven violently.

Steven didn't dodge and was kicked straight by him. However, despite this, his hands were still holding the motorcycle tightly.

The wheels of the motorcycle were spinning at high speed in place, and smoke came out after a while.

Bucky glanced at Steven, quickly jumped off the motorcycle, pulled out the dagger from his waist, threw it at the motorcycle's fuel tank, turned and ran out.Behind him, there was a loud explosion of a motorcycle, and there was a burst of flames...

Steven sat up slowly not far from the exploding motorcycle, put his left hand on his injured right arm, looked at the direction where Bucky disappeared, and sighed slightly.

"Steven?" Natasha's voice came from the communicator, "Have you caught him yet?"

"No!" Steven stood up slowly with one hand, limped towards the direction where Bucky parked his motorcycle just now, and said as he walked, "I feel now that facing Bucky who is being controlled , I, can't be cruel."

Natasha was silent for a moment, then said, "Steven, you have to harden your heart, and I mean in the matter of Bucky Barnes."

Steven said nothing, walked to the place where Bucky parked his motorcycle just now, picked up his big satchel from the ground, and limped towards the road outside the pier, "I will...Maybe, one day .”

"Okay, let's not talk about him, I have some news, but I'm afraid you won't be willing to listen to it." Natasha said.

"What?" Steven asked.

"Professor Walter was seriously injured after being attacked by an unknown person on the way home. The briefcase he was carrying was taken away." Natasha finished speaking in one breath and paused, "The time was half an hour ago."

"It's not Bucky, he was still here at the pier half an hour ago." Steven said, "In other words, someone else is also eyeing that professor's scientific research technology?"

"Not necessarily, maybe it's just an ordinary street robbery and wounding case." Natasha said, "Well, regardless of who the person who attacked Professor Walter is, what plan do you have now?"

Steven crossed the road and entered a grove opposite the pier. He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said, "Bucky doesn't know about Professor Walter being attacked, so it's very likely that he... will go look for what he wants again. Something... Natasha, which hospital is that professor in now?"

"Seattle Gray Hospital." Natasha replied, "Steven, he may not go to the hospital. After all, he doesn't want the professor himself, does he?"

Steven stood in the woods, not far from a heavy motorcycle parked. He casually tied the bag on the frame and said, "I'll take a look first."

Knowing that he had made up his mind, Natasha didn't say anything more, but simply asked, "Do you need me to tell you Professor Walter's home address?"

"No, not for now." After Steven finished speaking, he got on the motorcycle and drove out of the woods...