Strange Start

Chapter 10

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Nat's P.O.V.

I wanted to be alone. I want to grieve alone. But someone shares the same burden as mine, Steve. The father of my son. He was with me. He has always been there for me. He's my partner and my bestfriend. That reminded me how I still have someone with me. And his words somehow assured me some hope. That James will be back home.

"I've called the headquarters and they've sent some agents here now. They might know who's responsible for your child's abduction." Fury said. We are currently in Tony's lab.

"I've gotten some footage before the shut down." Tony said, he projected the footage on the holocom. It was taken on the buildings rooftop. At first I haven't noticed but a drown landed then the camera went off. "I think, that little device caused the system to shut down."

"It's the localized EMP device." the approaching man said, with him is a tall, tanned woman.

"Agents Fitz and Agent Johnson. One of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s finest." Fury greeted the young faces with a hand shake. "Nice to see you. I believe you already know these guys." Fury added, referring to us.

"I'm Agent Leopold Fitz. Engineering." the man introduced.

"I'm Agent Daisy Johnson." then the woman.

"Are you the inhuman Quake?" Scott asked. Yes he is here again. He just comes and goes whenever he wants.

"I-yeah. . . People call me that but I prefer Agent Johnson, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.." Agent Johnson replied. Scott just giggled giddily like a teenage boy fanboying over his favorite female singer.

"My daughter, Cassie, she's just a huge fan of you. She even got a poster of 'Quake is my Hero' in her room. She'd probably be the most excited kid if she knew that I was working with you and - oh! Can we tak a pi-"

"Mr. Lang, can you save that for later?" Finally, Fury cut off his blabbering. "Now, back to the topic. Agent Fitz."

"The drown carried a Localize EMP Device. This device releases an electromagnetic pulse that disables electronics and circuitry within a radius, depends on the size. I personally designed it myself so I am certain." Agent Fitz said.

"How is this in the hands of these people if it's a S.H.I.E.L.D. tech?" I asked.

"Anton Ivanon." Agent Johnson said, showing us Anton Ivanov's files in the holocom. "This man has worked with one of our own. It's quite a long story. We've been chasing his group for a while now. We didn't know what was up their sleeves, until now." She added while we read his file.

"Wait, he's an LMD? What's that?" Banner asked.

"Well, he was a human, but before he died, his memories were transferred in an LMD Andriod through the framework." Agent Fitz explained.

"In other words, he's a robot with a dead man's memory." Johnson added.

"An andriod's a more preferable term." Fitz argued.

"How sure are you that this is the man behind all this." Fury asked assuringly.

"I've been hit by those daggers twice, sir. I am sure." Johnson replied.

"Any lead on where their location might be?" I asked.

"Negative. All we know is that their base in Alaska exploded. They bombed it after the framework. They escaped with their submarine." Johnson replied.

"Fitz." a girl came with a tablet in hand said and went beside Agent Fitz." Those men who attacked here are robots." she said while showing Agent Fitz her tablet.

"Ivanov couldn't perfect a life model decoy." Fitz stated.

"Because AIDA isn't there and he only had limited knowledge about creating a believable decoy." the girl added.

"But they still can kill. There are still other Russian LMD's and other Ivanov models." Johnson said.

"Oh! How rude of me. I'm Agent Jemma Simmons. Biochemist." the girl, Jemma, introduced herself.

"Nice to meet you." Steve said.

"Guys." Tony called. "I've got images." Then he showed the images in the holocom. "This was taken during the shutdown. A quinjet took off and cloaked itself. Then just now, 7 hours later, the same quinjet landed in Estonia. North-west of Pakri peninsula. It was a Russian naval submarine base. Hmmm. . . Make sense."

" Let's get going then." Steve said, picking his shield up.