Till the End of the Line Vol. 6

Chapter 7 - Secrets

The following day, Sofia is at her desk working at SHIELD. As she is working, Becca comes by and says, "Hey."

"Hey," Sofia replied.

"How's it going?"

"Not bad. Just going through the records over the last two years."

Becca leans over Sofia's shoulder and looks at her computer screen. "And?"

"Nothing so far. The Power Broker is hiding really well and is making a lot of deals so far."

"You sure?"

"Check your tablet."

Becca pulls out her tablet and sees all the information on the files. She puts it down and sighs. "Well, then, why is the power broker sending us photos?"

"Did he send you anything?" Sofia asked.

Becca replies, "Not today, no. You?"

"No."

They glance to the side. Becca sighs. "Something weird is going on."

"Well, maybe we should look at any suspicious activity with anything the powerbroker bought."

"You mean like black markets that SHIELD hasn't raided?"

"Exactly. There's always more than one."

"Please tell me you got a location."

"Better." Sofia shows Becca the list. "A list of all the black markets that SHIELD hasn't raided yet over the last two years. And the ones that we have raided."

"Well, that's great."

"Exactly. So let's split this list up and take a look."

"Sounds good to me."

"Well, let's get started."

"I'll get a whiteboard."

"I'll split the list." Becca gets a whiteboard while Sofia splits the list.

A few hours later, Becca and Sofia are looking at the list. The whiteboard has a map and pins of the location along with the names of people there. Becca is shocked as she says, "Fifty. I can't believe we missed fifty of these places that haven't been raided."

"Yeah, but you know, when we take down one, more appear, just like the websites," Sofia implied.

"And you think that the bad guys will just give up." They snicker and smile. "So what is so special about the markets?"

"Well, SHIELD has been trying to tighten some buildings with weapons of mass destruction. But of course, someone always finds a way."

"Such as?" Becca raises her eyebrow.

"Well, according to the inventory on this one list. Its weapons that were found in each other's battles over the last twelve years."

"Like what?" Becca crosses her arms.

"Oh, blasters, Chituarian aliens and the armor, Ultron robots that were found in the debris, and a whole lot of alien weapons that we don't have the technology for."

"Wow."

"Yeah. And that's not the only thing."

"What else?" Becca asks.

Sofia replies, "Files. Highly classified files."

Becca tilts her head in shock. "Project Pegasus, Project Green, Project Pennant -"

"There must be a dozen of these."

Becca looks at the whiteboard and sighs. "We should show this to Steve and Sam."