Chương 10: Preparation #2
"Contact me if you change your mind. You have powers and a nine to seven job doesn't suit you. In the end, it is your choice though. All I can do is suggest."
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"Aaaaah" I shouted as I chopped off another dummy's head. Jessica rejected the offer, and Emma hadn't contacted me yet. So I was annoyed, there were only three people in Nemesis after all and one of them was Tracy. She was a great manager, no doubt, but I wanted fighters. I alone wasn't enough. Something I clearly understood. I couldn't be everywhere at the same time. I needed powerful and trustworthy allies if I was to create an overpowered organisation.
As I was relieving my anger, I heard the doorknob turn.
"Sir, the island has been bought. In two days' time, we will have full access to it. As per your instructions, the island is located in the Caribbean and is currently the biggest private island there. Originally the owner wasn't willing to trade, but we managed to 'convince' him. The island is mostly forest, but a commercial resort lies inside. We managed to procure the rights to the resort too." exclaimed Tracy as she entered the training room.
"Great news. Declare the island private, also start construction of the underground headquarters and do it discreetly. No one should be suspicious of what is happening on the island, especially SHIELD. I don't want the Moscow mission to fail." I stated.
"Yes, sir," Tracy said, as she turned around to exit.
"And Tracy, great job."
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<Nick Fury: POV>
'Think Fury, think. What is his motive? Why did he want to assist us of his own free will?' I banged the table as I continued to ponder on the subject, a question to which I hadn't yet found any answer. I was frustrated. I knew there was something, but what? There were a hundred possibilities, defection, smuggling, secret contacts, taking over the Red Room, etc. The problem was that I had no inkling of a hint as to what Nemesis wanted.
"What the fuck does he want?" I yelled.
"Maybe just an alliance with SHIELD, you are overthinking this, sir. Even if he does want something, anything, we'll have Clint keeping a watch over him. If that doesn't satisfy you, I myself can lead this mission. But sir the SHIELD has a lot of things on its roster right now. SHIELD needs its director." stated Maria as she entered Fury's office.
After taking a deep breath to calm myself, I said "You are right, Maria. Very well. Contact Nemesis and finalize the plan. Send Clint and Coulson. Inform all our existing spies in Moscow, I need every detail of this mission. Dismiss... Wait, remember the red-dressed woman,"
"Elektra." Maria commented.
"Yeah, doesn't she have a boyfriend, who was he? Hmmmmm, Daredevil. Find him. Dismissed."
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<Alex: POV>
"La, la, la, la..." I hummed as I continued my early morning jog. But I was soon interrupted by the vibration of my phone. Tracy was calling me. 'She doesn't call me this early, did something happen, huh....'
"What happened Trace?" I asked.
"Sir, it's SHIELD, I told them you are out, but they said it's important. Could you come back fast?" She replied.
"Ok."
I opened my wings and soared away towards the bungalow.
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"So, what did you want to talk to me about, Maria san?" I chuckled, as I heard the 'tch' from the other side.
"The mission, Mr Alvarez. I will be messaging you the location of the meeting place, please report there at the specified time."
"Ara, ara. So serious Maria san is. And I thought we were friends, 'sob, sob'."
"Please ensure you are on time." She hissed as she cut the call.
"Well, what are we waiting for, shall we?" I smirked, looking at the message.
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We arrived in an abandoned warehouse, and I'll be frank that warehouse was so abandoned, that it was basically saying, 'enter at your own risk'.
"Are you sure that we are in the right place?" Elektra asked, puzzled.
"Well, the message says that this is the address. Are you sure that we should ally with SHIELD, sir? I am seriously questioning their financial status right now." Tracy remarked seeing the condition of the warehouse.
"I am sure that it will be fine from inside," I said, as I knocked on the door.
After a few seconds, there was a loud creaking sound, and the door opened, revealing a very comfortable-looking place.
"Welcome to SHIELD safehouse no. 74." a voice came from inside, "Come in, I am in the kitchen. I hope you are hungry because I prepared steak."
"Joining SHIELD might not be so bad," I commented, as we walked towards the kitchen.
In the kitchen were Maria, Clint, and a very harmless-looking guy.
"Hi, I am Phillip Coulson, you can call me Phil. I will be joining you all on this mission." the guy exclaimed.
"Sure, dude. So where is the steak?" I questioned, an amazing smell was coming and my nostrils were dazzled, also I was losing patience.
"Give me five minutes, you all sit down and start the discussion, I will join you shortly."
Then we went into the living room and sat silently staring at each other.
"So, when are we going to Moscow," I asked, breaking the ice.
"After a fortnight." Maria replied, she continued, "your main mission is to assassinate Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, one of the most wanted assassins in the world currently. If the Red Room is destroyed in the process, well and good but it is not your priority. Clint and Phil will be joining you in the mission. As the Red Room is a big organisation you might need more allies, hence there are chances that there will be another addition. The Red Room is an organisation created to produce assassins of the highest quality is the only information we have. Most of our spies who infiltrated Red Room haven't come back. The plan is simple ..."
"Are you going to be joining us in the mission, Ms Maria?" Tracy interrupted the speech.
"No, I am not."
"Then I don't think it is advisable for you to make the plan." She smirked. "Also currently not much is known about our target, so I don't think we should be making a plan in the first place. What we currently know is that the Red Room is in Moscow, we have a photo of Ms Natasha, nothing more. I suggest we improvise. Having no plan is better than having a plan without any foundations." Tracy suggested.
"But..."
"I think she is right. I have done plenty of these jobs so I know what to do and what not to. It'll be fine." Clint said.
"Great. We have a plan, now all we need to do is wait." I chuckled.
"Hey guys, the steak is ready," Phil said as he entered the room. He saw our expressions and asked, "What did I miss?"
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We were currently in the process of leaving for Moscow. The last two weeks had been hectic, we had flights to book after all. Not ours, we were going on a SHIELD quad jet. We booked 27 tickets from Moscow to New York all from different flights, all at different times, some being business and some economy. Elektra had been training day and night, she was very nervous, this was her first mission in Nemesis, and also her first mission where she had to save rather than kill. I had been busy with the construction of the underground base, it was going to be our main headquarters, and it had to include everything. Tracy was busy creating new identities for our future recruits.
As I was getting ready to leave, I got a call on my phone from an <Unknown>. 'When will Truecaller be made' I wondered as I picked up the phone.
"Hi, is this Nemesis?" a voice came from the other end.
"Yes, it is. How may I help you?" I answered politely.
"You see, there was this guy named Alex. He gave me a card from Nemesis. I wanted to discuss the recruitment offer he made to me that day." the voice said.
"May I know who you are?" I asked to confirm the name I already had in mind.
"Jessica Jones."
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"Good evening, Jessica. How's Trish doing?"
"Good. Oh fuck !!! Are you Alex?" She yelled.
"Yeah, so you wanted to join?"
"Oh yeah, you see the past two weeks were pretty fucked up. Hey, I can talk informally, right?"
"Sure, I don't mind."
"Wait, first tell me how much I am going to earn and what all I have to do?"
"You will be given missions, some could be infiltration, spying, assassination, etc. Your job will be to complete them. About the salary, you won't be getting any. But the organisation's money and resources are open for all to use, so in the end, you can do whatever you want. Other things can be discussed after you join." I exclaimed.
"Damn, that's cool. I was worried there for a second when you said no salary. Also what about the assassinations?" She asked confused.
"Don't worry, we never hurt innocents. Also if you have a problem with killing you can join another unit, no problem." I replied.
"Cool, very well. Let's do this," she answered enthusiastically. "So when do I start?" she asked.
"Why not today?"
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We were currently on our way to Jessica's place. I had already told her that we were going to Moscow for the mission. And she was ecstatic at first, but then started cursing me when I mentioned that we leave in 2 hours. 'Ahhhh, so much violence all around, so sad.'
"Sir, we have reached." the driver said as he stopped the Range Rover in front of an apartment.
"So guys, we'll be having a new recruit joining us today, Jessica Jones," I told Elektra and Tracy.
"What about the Moscow mission? Will she be joining us in that?" Elektra asked.
"Yeah."
"You sure?" asked Elektra.
"I don't know, but we won't be giving her any tough tasks," I answered.
The apartment gate opened and Jessica stepped out, she saw the car and entered inside.
"Hi, I am Jessica. Nice to meet you all." She greeted everyone.
"Tracy brief her."
"The mission is to destroy the Red Room, an organisation created to produce dangerous spies and assassins. Natasha Romanoff, a part of this organisation, has become famous recently. SHIELD wants us to kill her, and destroy the Red Room. But, you see, SHIELD doesn't have enough information on our target, we do. According to our sources, (mostly me.) the red room abducts orphans, and abandoned girls and trains them using means that are beyond disgusting, to create weapons. These girls have no option but to follow the orders given to them. That's why we are not going to kill them, we will be rescuing them." Tracy explained.
"What is SHIELD?" asked Jessica.
"An organisation created by the government to protect humanity as a whole," I said. "They are what you call, government lackeys. They are funded by the USA after all, and yet their mission is to save humanity. Well, your mission will be to view how we do stuff. You might get to do things once we get there though, who knows? Now let me introduce ourselves, Elektra here is an assassin. Tracy is the hacker of our team, while I will be supervising things and step in if needed. By the way, why did you agree to join? You were pretty adamant that day." I questioned.
"I got a job in a sandwich shop, I handed out fliers to advertise while wearing a big costume. It sucked, and neither was the pay good. So I decided to switch things up, Trish kept bothering me to start doing hero work, so I asked myself, why not?" She smirked.
"Heh, well, as I mentioned we don't do hero stuff here. We are not heroes Jessica, we are honourable mercs as I told you before. We kill if we think that the other person deserves to be killed and we are being paid enough to do the job. Heroes don't do that stuff, they don't like killing. We are also not villains, I don't like to kill innocent bystanders for my benefit. Yes, the work we do is mostly beneficial to us. I killed Kingpin, not because I gave a fuck about him, no. I killed him because I was being paid 60 million dollars to do the deed. In the world we currently live in, being a hero, and protecting people, is a very tough job to do. There are mutants, chemically enhanced fighters like you, people wielding artefacts, sorcerers, etc. And you also have Trish to look after. What happened last time could happen again. So till the time you are not sure that you can defeat everyone in the world, don't be a hero. You will just end up becoming a target."
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