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Kate and Abby are walking around Central Park with Pizza Dog, talking about what has been happening

Kate: "so what's with those tracksuits?"

Abby: "they started small but grew. The guy at the top will do anything to grow the operation"

Kate: "I thought Maya was the boss"

Abby: "she is but there is someone above her who is more powerful than any of them combined"

Kate: "they have bad blood with taskmaster, right?"

Abby: "mhm"

Kate: "what did they do?"

Abby doesn't say anything and continues to walk

Kate: "Maya looked at you weirdly"

Abby: "what do you mean?"

Kate: "like she knows you"

Abby: "we don't know each other"

Kate: "right"

They flag down a taxi and get in. Kate gives the driver an address and the driver starts to drive

Abby: "so where are we going now?"

Kate: "to my mom's penthouse to find out some information on my moms fiance and the tracksuits"

20 minutes later, they exit the elevator into a huge penthouse

Abby: "Are you sure no one is home"

Kate: "I'm sure"

Abby looks around the main room, astonished

Abby: "dang... all I live in is a small house in the middle of a forest. three bedrooms one bath, a kitchen, a living room, and a dining room. For most of my life, I lived in a single bedroom underground rarely let out"

she mumbles the last sentence

Kate points up to a chandelier

Kate: "fun fact, i tried to swing from that very chandelier and broke my arm. So uh yeah, pretty impressive family"

Abby: "wow...impressive"

THey walk through the dining room and to the living room. They walk over to a small area with a laptop. Kate walks over and logs into the Bishop Security account

Abby: "look up Kazi, he may have something"

kate types away on the laptop. A few seconds later everything and anything pops up about Kazi

Kate: "he's an employee at this place"

she points to the name of the company and Abby looks at it, trying to recall where she had heard about the company

Abby: "that place sounds familiar"

Abby hears a noise coming from the dining room

she quietly backs up from Kate and quietly makes her way to the dining room

Kate: "great, I've been logged out"

she tries tying something into the computer but nothing works

Abby walks around and into the dining room. as she does, a sword extends, inches from her throat

Jack: "don't move... stay exactly where you are"

he walks in front of Abby, still pointing the sword at her

Kate: "Jack no"

Eleanor: "what the hell is going on and why is there an avenger in my dining room?"

Jack: "oh my god. you're ... you're crossbow"

Kate: "shadow"

Abby: "Abby"

Kate: "it's branding issue I was telling you about"

Abby rolls her eyes eye's at Kate's comment

Eleanor: "Why don't we take a seat and discuss whatever this is"

everyone nods and takes a seat at the dining room table. Abby and Kate on one side while Jack and Eleanor are on the other

Kate: "Shadow and I are working on a case. I needed to use the bathroom so we dropped by"

Eleanor: "you're working on a case together?"

Jack: :how terrific"

Kate: "she's my partner"

Abby: "nope"

Kate: "well, we're friends-slash-partners"

Abby: "nope again"

Eleanor pulls out her phone and looks at it

Elenor: "someone used my laptop to sign onto my work account ten minutes ago. any thoughts Kate...Shadow"

Kate: "you'll never get anything outta her"

Abby rolls her eyes

Jack: "thank you for saving the world, shadow"

Abby's breath hitches

The only time she had ever saved the world or saved anyone was when she fought against Thanos a year ago

Eleanor: "I would like my daughter to start telling me the truth"

Kate: "I logged into your account because i needed information on an actual case with actual people who are in actual danger"

Elenor: "so Kate is helping you with an avengers level threat?"

Abby: "not exactly"

Elenor: "but you are working together?"

Abby sighs and rolls her eyes

Abby: "yes, for this one thing and that is it"

Abby notices her sword in the corner of the room from when she was Taskmaster

Elenor: "okay. Well I guess I'm just gonna have to trust everyone at this table to do whats right"

Kate: "we should probably get going"

She gets up from her seat

Elenor: "Kate, please stay"

Kate sits back down

Eleanor: "Can I see you out, Abby"

Abby nods and gets up. She and Eleanor walk to the elevator

Eleanor: "let me clarify. She is not a superhero"

Abby: "I know that. She's good at this but she-"

Elenor: "Natasha Romanoff was pretty damn good at it, wasn't she? Being good isn't always enough to keep you alive"

Abby is taken back by what Eleanor had just said

Abby: "Тебе сейчас так повезло, что ты мама Кейт, если бы я не убила тебя прямо здесь, прямо сейчас. Одно дело - оскорбить меня, а другое - оскорбить маму. Вы не знаете, сколько травм я перенес за последние пару лет, особенно в прошлом году. ты такая долбаная сука (you are so lucky right now that you are kate's mom if not I would kill you right here, right now. it's one thing to insult me but it's another to insult my mom. you don't know how much trauma I've endured within the past couple of years especially this past year. you are such a fucking bitch)"

The elevator door opens and abby walks in

a few seconds later, the elevator door shuts and starts to move down

Abby slips her sword out from her Jacket and stares at it. It had been 14 years since she had seen the sword that she had when she was Taskmaster

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