Capítulo 56: Take off to Afghanistan
"Here's the situation Mr. Cruz... give it to him Fitz!" Coulson said
Fitz is a little confused at first what he would do. Coulson seems to notice that he's confused so he told him.
"Fitz, the tablet, give it to him!" He said with worries that he would make some mistakes and Coulson added "forgive about him, since they are still fresh about this haha" Coulson only chuckled awkwardly.
As one of the great agents of SHIELD, it was quite nerve wracking to have their first mission especially to a field agent. Even though Fitz is a tech guy that only watches their back but anything can go wrong in a mission no matter what is it.
Fitz gave me a black tablet and he let me see the picture. It was a shadow in the middle of the sandstorm, making it's red eyes flicker with dangers. It made me a bit surprised how they get this kind of picture since I definitely knew that it is not an edited picture.
"This is.. that's quite interesting isn't it? It's kind of like a scorpion… Is there something wrong with it?" I asked them, confused. Why would they let me see that picture?
Coulson told me, "that is the last picture of one of our agents in Afghanistan. Until now his body and other 7 agents' bodies we're not recovered. He was able to send this dying massage before we lost contact with him."
He paused for a bit seeing the pain on his face losing one his agents but as an Agent it takes a huge risk just to save or protect something that must not be on public. Then he continued to tell me more.
"Fitz is still trying to find out how and what kind of monster or maybe it is an alien lifeform so we are dealing with it. One thing that Simmons found some clues, is that thing might have an ability to produce a highly toxic poison that was left in that area, it's highly toxic that is almost 15 times more potent that box jellyfish." Coulson said to me.
"We commonly know that the box jellyfish is the highly poisonous living object on earth but after what I found out this thing… It made me realize that there are still things that are undiscovered by science.
As we are saying that thing can produce such as that, even just a tiny bit of touch of it you will be killed instantly no matter what kind of resistance you have" Simmons added while putting the picture on the screen in front of us the poison.
"Then... what does it have to do with us? It's Just a scorpion isn't it?" I asked them.
"Yes, it's a scorpion that is the same size as a whale…" Jemma answered.
"ohh… so that means..."
"A whole city Mr. Cruz, we are talking about the city. According to what I just noticed, this is moving slowly within the center of the sandstorm and it will go in Kandahar Afghanistan. There's tons of people living there, it will be truly massacred if it's a worse case scenario." Fitz told me like his face showing some worries.
"Are you guys saying that we're gonna hunt this thing? You must be joking right?" I only made a dry laugh.
I didn't say I will fight an unknown monster, but still we are talking about people who live on here. If things will go on like this, I guess I have to do it willingly. As someone once said the great power comes from a great responsibility.
"We are not hunting it, instead repel or defend as much as possible to gain some time to evacuate the whole city." Melinda made a comment.
"And what do you mean we are not hunting it? We can blast it out with some missiles right?" As I gave them a suggestion since they are SHIELD, why can't they use their weapons just one of them?
"First of all, our organization can't just fire a missile in another territory it may cause a war because of it. Second, we already made some negotiations with the Afghanistan government to make use of some of their weaponry, and yet they used 2 Jericho missiles made by Stark Industries..."
Before Coulson finished his sentence I smirkly said to him, "it's still alive isn't it?".
When they heard that, their face turned into pale ones like they already used everything they got but still no use.
"I suspected that thing has ability to detect dangers and also can dug faster in sandy area. It's like it's his territory, like the king of monsters in a desert area" Fitz said while shivered a bit whenever he thought of that thing.
"Looks like you guys seem pretty desperate for this mission... Well then I'm in, but you have to remember, I'm not omnipotent when it comes to fighting ok?" I said them with a confident smile.
Just as I was talking to them, a notification panel alerted me.
[Quest Alert: Kill the dessert monster "Sandking"
The heroic monster is rampaging in Afghanistan, please host delay or if possible kill Sandking. The host has only 2 days before Sandking reaches the city.
Quest Difficulty: AA+
Quest Rewards: +1 heroic shard, 20,000 exp, 400 gold, +10 free stats points, + 1 ultra lottery spin ticket
Quest Failure: -15 to all stats points, SHIELD trust will fall greatly, -5 levels, -600 gold]
'This is my first time I got this high difficulty quest since last 7 years. But still, the greater risk, the greater reward' I thought silently.
"Then that's good, let's take off" Coulson gave a questionable command.
*shhhhh* (air pressure noises)
*rumble*
Just a few seconds, the whole office shook off like you've felt going upwards when in an elevator. I was confused about what's going on and so I asked Coulson.
"Wh-what the hell is going on?! Is the base under attack or something?!" I asked
"Just put on you seatbelt sir!" Fitz told me as he gave me assistance with it.
"Oi! Don't tell me this office is-...!"
"Yes, Mr. Cruz, we are already inside the plane since the first you came in. Quite unexpected right? We called it the Bus mark 2" Coulson as he is proud of his plane.
'The Bus! It's the famous plane but, mark 2? I never heard it in movies! Then, they must be hiding it in those movies or maybe they might don't have time to change or upgrade their equipment' I thought while remembering some memories regarding the TV series.
I watched the series but I didn't continue to watch it since I was so busy with my studies, well except for all the movies in MCU.
"I saw some information about the bus but I never heard another version of it?" I asked them.
"It seems you a lot about us Mr. Cruz. But this time,we have made some upgrades to it like new weaponry from caliber 50 minigun, rotary cannon, missiles and etc. We install some major upgrades, such as hyper sonar that can detect the inside out no matter what kind or unknown things can block it" Coulson said non stop talking.
*whiinngg* (engine roaring)
The plane takes off without any problems, the thing I have noticed is that they keep staring at me for 20 mins straight. That was damn awkward for me. I really do not know why they keep staring at me or maybe they are like that.
"Ken, can I request to have a match with you since you're good at martial arts , may I?" Melinda asked me with some expectations, even though she's still like a terminator face, doesn't have any reactions.
"Mmm? Sure why not?" I said nonchalantly
"There's a room next to us, we can fight in there" Melinda said as she led my way.
At the other side of the plane, Fitz seemed to be excited about our fight so before we started all the team including bastard Grant Ward. They seem to want to see my abilities but I think they made a mistake on it, they would never attain any information about my strength, that's the harsh truth.
"Man, I'm kinda excited who's gonna win this fight. Who will you bet Sir?" Fitz said excitedly while waiting for an answer.
"I bet my whole collection that May will not be able to touch him at all." Coulson told Fitz in serious talk.
"Uhh, that's kinda a bit overconfident isn't sir?!" Fitz asked him confused on what Coulson just said.
"Just watch kid, you know soon enough why sir is confident in it" Grant said to Fitz.
They stop talking when two of them reach the training room and focus only on the computer monitor.
Inside the room there's black wall, maybe this type of metal will be able to block any stronger people such as Captain America. I looked at Melinda and said...
"This kinda cramp in here isn't it? Well then, let's start shall we?!"
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