•Night Angel•

CHAPTER LIII - MY WAY TO POWER

July 2008. 17:50. Silver Lake, S.H.I.E.L.D HQ. Los Angeles. CA.

Sophia's POV.

-The jet parted from a private airport base outside of LA and landed in Afghanistan 18 hours later. After that, a van came to pick him up and they arrived at Gulmira. He was just there for 30 minutes, tops. After that, they went back.- Nick said to me as I read the file.

-Do you know what he went to do there?.- I asked him as I looked at him.

-Read the next page.- Nick told me and I turned to the next page. The sight made my blood run cold.

I had asked Nick for help on tracking and spying on Obadiah for the next few days. He had gathered me with information that the man had gone to Gulmira and came back. He was just there for like 30 minutes and came back. What was it that he was just there for half an hour?. It made no sense. At least not until I saw the next page.

In the page there were pictures of soldiers and people shot multiple times in their body, all of them littered against the other. My eyes widened and I held a breath. My heart stops at the next picture. A man inside a tent, also dead, but he was not the one that made me almost faint. At the back, there was a red flag with an emblem in it. I knew that sign. I had seen it before. It was the symbol from the Ten Rings.

Obadiah had killed the man that captured Tony. But that didn't make me feel in the slightest better. I looked at the picture closely and saw something way too familiar.

-What is that?.- I asked Nick, as I pointed with my finger in the picture.

-What?.- He asked, as he leaned down and saw what I was signaling.

-This. Did you have evidence of this?.- I asked him and he opened the file in the computer to see it more clearly.

He searched until the file popped up. I got on my feet and walked to the other side of the desk, beside him. He zoomed the picture. Now I was sure I was going to faint.

-Oh my god.- I said as I straightened my back. I let out a shaky breath and took a hand to cover my mouth.

-What is it, Sophia?.- Nick asked me as I just stared at the screen.

-He has it.- I said, to no one in particular but hoping Nick understood me enough.

-Who has what?.- Nick asked me a little confused and mostly irritated.

To get you in context, in the far corner of the picture, was a piece of a blueprint, of a design of something.

The design was a blueprint of Tony's first suit. The one he used to get out of his captivity.

And where the suit was supposed to be displayed, by the hangar that was in there, was empty. Obadiah had taken the suit and the blueprints. Obadiah knew what Tony was doing. Obadiah was going to recreate Tony's armour. And he was going to use it against him.

-I need to stop him.- I said. I don't even think Nick knew what I was talking about, mostly because I was just rambling to myself.

-Sophie, you need to speak clearly. What is going on?.- Nick said, standing up from his chair. I started pacing around the room.

-Obadiah. He has Tony's blueprints from his project. If he gets his hands in that thing and in Tony's technology, then he is in danger. He is going to get rid of him and I can't let that happen.- I said as I stopped, turning to look at him.

He just looked at me. I know he needed more information, but there was not much I could do or say. Or maybe I did, but I still didn't trust them. Not yet. Suddenly a thought came into my head.