01: NAMES
"Last name, L/N. Goes by several first names - Iris, Mila, Lisa, Eve, Yvonne, Kira, Katya. Many more undocumented. An expert in combat and in handling weapons. Also highly trained in various forms of martial arts."
Nick Fury let out a breath. He stared down his team with his one good eye, making sure all of them were focusing.
"Stark! " he hollered. The said man jumped in his seat. "You got that? "
"Nuh-uh. Your loud voice definitely didn't shatter my eardrums." he stuck a finger in his left ear dramatically, rotating it as he did so.
A chuckle appeared from the left corner of the table. The new kid, the one with the silver hair, was covering his wide grin with his hand, trying not to draw attention. But Nicholas J. Fury sees everything. Even if he was wearing an eye patch.
The director groaned internally. That sort of reply was not new to him, but nevertheless it bothered him to no end. People loved to say that he lived up to his name, patience never being one of his famous virtues. And it wasn't far from the truth. Sometimes he wondered if God named him Fury on purpose.
He turned back to the big screen, pointing at the picture of the woman.
"To conclude; she is lightning. You never know when she's coming, you never know when she'll attack, when she'll run. This woman is a dangerous being. And that is why, " he paused, eyeing them all to show how serious this was. "She is your mission. "
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"I didn't get everything, for your information. "
Everyone automatically groaned. Nick had walked out, leaving them to plan their next mission.
"You never do," Natasha mumbled, irritated at the fact that she had to explain everything again to her friend.
"Hey, what can I do? " the brunet smirked, "I'm a busy man. It's hard to focus sometimes. "
The redhead scoffed, "Man? That's a very questionable title when it comes to you. "
Everyone who heard Natasha's comment laughed. This left Tony's ego impaled, and he chuckled dryly. "Very funny, Red, " he said, twirling a pen with his fingers and then pointed at her with it. "Very funny. "
She simply shrugged, secretly enjoying how annoyed Tony was.
"Alright," Steve took over, moving to the head of the table so his teammates can hear him clearly. "Stark, you better concentrate. "
"First of all, this woman was last seen at a Hydra base in Berlin, " he flicked through the slides on the tablet. "She may be hard to beat, I mean she's almost as skilled as Natasha-" he was cut off by the redhead suddenly scoffing loudly.
Steve raised a curious eyebrow at her. She mocked him, raising her own eyebrow sarcastically.
"I said 'almost' not 'exactly'."
He continued the briefing. "Powers unknown, we don't even know if she has any. Appearance inconsistent. What else? "
The Captain was quiet for a moment as he tried to figure out what to press on the tablet,.
"Oh good. It says here that S.H.I.E.L.D tried to capture her once, a few years back. They sent two teams—the other one was backup. Apparently they opened fire and...oh."
"What happened? " Wanda questioned at Steve's sudden halt.
"Oh wow. " Steve sighed. "She killed everyone on her own. No survivors. "
They all sat up, intrigued as to how one mysterious woman could survive such a battle alone.
"She must've had some help or something. There's no way she could've survived that much with no powers. " Pietro pointed out.
"Well, " Natasha cut in once again, "I think you shouldn't underestimate a woman. She could just be really strong and determined."
She knew full well if she faced that situation she could've made it through. Maybe not all in one piece, but still.
"I am not underestimating her because she's a woman, it's just... she is not an Avenger. " the silver haired boy shrugged.
"Avenger or not—women are capable enough to be that powerful. " his sister rolled her eyes at him.
"Still..."
"Alright." Steve pinched the bridge of his nose, not wanting to hear anymore of the debate. "That's not the point."
"I mean she has to be Hydra, right? Or at least she's working with them?"
"Pietro." Steve groaned. "Nat and Wanda are right, women are powerful , now would you just sit back and...listen?" He just wanted to get it over with.
Pietro raised his hands in mock surrender, "Alright. Whatever you say, Captain." He wanted to speed over to him and push him to the floor. How dare he scold him? He wasn't a child.
"Please, let's get back on track." The Captain huffed.
They all agreed, trying to get comfortable on their seats again. Pietro, on the other hand, decided to cross his arms and stay quiet. They noticed he was sulking as he wasn't usually a quiet guy, but they ignored him.
"It says here we have an insider, and that she burnt down that base in Berlin. " Steve tried to find more information on her, but he found nothing but still footages of the woman, from all over the world.
"Huh, I guess that's all." He put the tablet on the table, carefully. "I guess that proves you wrong there, Pietro. She's gotta be their enemy if she burnt down that base. "
"Or they could have done that to throw us off track. Maybe they caught our insider and knew we were on to one of their best agents." He blurted out, accidentally breaking his pact to himself to be silent, wanting to prove his point even if he wasn't sure if it was right. He just hated being wrong.
"I gotta say," Tony stopped twirling his pen.
"That makes sense."
"It honestly does, " Clint pitched in his own opinion. It wasn't like him to be so quiet in meetings, but he hadn't had his coffee yet and caffeine was an important thing in his life. In fact, it was one of the things he needed the most right now. These meetings killed him.
"But why go through all that trouble just to throw us off? " Natasha said, her hands moving wildly as she tried to explain her own theory. "I mean, Berlin is one of Hydra's most active bases. Also, S.H.I.E.L.D's tried to do the very thing that she did and it wasn't very easy."
"I don't know, guys. It's all very confusing. I think we need more intel."
"Avengers? "
All heads turned to the door. It was Maria Hill, fully dressed in the standard suit and her famous low hair bun.
"You're needed." she then walked away immediately, heels clacking, not even bothering to close the door after her. Now that was a busy woman.
They all grabbed their things—tablets, pens, mugs and all.
Pietro was still sulking, upset at the fact that didn't agree with him.
"Piet ," Wanda came up to him, hand on his shoulder. "That was actually the least dumb thing you said all week." He smirked in reply, watching as his twin walked out the door, trying to catch up with the others.
"But still." he mumbled to himself, finally dragging himself out.
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