Beneath the Surface

Explanations and Assassinations

Artemis phased back into her's and Garcia's room. Garcia jumped in surprise seeing the agent simply walk through a wall. 

 "Sorry" Artemis apologized, "I have a habit of sneaking up on people" 

"Is that one of your powers" Garcia asked her referring to the walking through solid object stunt she just pulled 

"Yeah, one of many" Artemis gave her a shy smile, she always felt uncomfortable talking about her powers with strangers, she never knew how they would react. 

"Can you show me them?" Garcia asked excitedly. Artemis smiled sensing that Garcia accepted her and was curious about her inhuman abilities, she started telling Garcia when they were getting ready to head out. 

"Obviously you already know about my wings, eye colour, and my intangibility, but I also have invisibility" She smirked as she disappeared from Garcia's vision. 

"That's amazing" Garcia beamed, 

"What else?"Artemis returned to the visible world. 

 "Shape-shifting as you can see" He body melded to 'Amanda's' figure, blond hair, green eyes, slightly shorter than Artemis was, but her metal arm remained the same 

"You can do your whole body" Garcia asked referring to Artemis' metal arm 

"I can but that takes a lot of concentration and power, and I'm not at full power at the moment. Other agencies hove developed the technology to detect an X gene and since mine is so powerful I get caught easily, so I wear a suppresser, it cuts down my power level enough so that I don't set off any sensors" She held up her right wrist where a metal bind was hanging around it 

"I can understand that" Garcia smiled. 

"What else?" 

"Telepathy and telekinesis" She smirked gently levitating a lamp off the table 

"Awesome" Garcia smiled 

"I also have super strength naturally but it's also enhanced thanks to 2 different recreations of Dr. Erskine's serum, and my arm" 

"This is just too cool" Garcia beamed, "I feel like this is a movie" 

"My final 2 are energy and water manipulation" Her right fist started to get a purple aura around it, it left her hand and flew around the room before disappearing with a small 'pop' as Artemis snapped her fingers, 

"The water is basically the same thing, and I don't feel like flooding the hotel room" 

"That's amazing Artemis" Garcia smiled, "You're truly gifted" 

"Thanks but it's nothing really, it's in my genetics" She blushed

"You're too modest, it's amazing that you can do all those things" 

"Thanks, we should get going" Artemis smiled, throwing on a jean jacket, it wasn't her style but it was to keep her cover 

"Yeah we should, and hey! The cell and wireless towers are back up" Garcia smiled at having her sweet sweet WiFi back 

"It looks like" Artemis checked her seeing that she did indeed have a single and WiFi, 

"By the way Garcia, what's my name?" 

"Amanda Stride" Garcia smirked remembering that she had to keep Artemis' cover 

"Thank you for remembering, and please don't forget or I might just have to kill you" Artemis smirked, Garcia got a terrified look on her face 

"I'm kidding, but I mean it don't blow my cover" 

"I won't Amanda, don't worry" And with that the girls headed down to the lobby to begin the day. 

"Target locked" The red head spoke into her com a middle aged man in the sight of the scope on her riffle . 

"Got mine" A male voice responded, a younger woman in his sights. 

"On один, три, два, один" She counted down from 3 in a natural Russian accent, both assassins pulled to trigger of their riffles on один, one.The two people that were in their aim dropped dead as non-traceable bullets pierced their throat or heart. The people in the surrounding area screamed in terror seeing the person fall to the ground dead, some scrambling to get cover instantly, other good samaritans tried to help the already dead victims other looking around to see where the shots had come from.Neither agent noticed the soft clicking of cameras catching their movements the cameras feeding directly back to a laptop downloading onto an encrypted flash drive. The man sat back in the office chair, occasionally looking up at the computer to make sure the pictures were still coming in, his eyes shifted back down to the picture frame in his hands, his beautiful baby girl.Hydra had taken his 7 year old daughter and pregnant wife from him, they threatened that if he didn't work for then they'd kill them which he couldn't let happen, that was Hydra's incentive program they capture the ones you love and hold them at gun point until you agree to do their bidding. He closed his eyes his mind going to one of his happiest memories with his daughter. 

 "Daddy" A small girl screamed running up to him, they were in a park. 

"Butterfly" He grinned, picking her up and spinning her around, loving the sound of his daughters laughter. 

"Again Daddy again" She squealed in delight. 

"Not right now, Daddy's dizzy and tired" He laughed at his daughter's enthusiasm and delight 

"Okay" She grinned, 

"Where's mommy?" She asked his 

"At home, she needs to rest because your brother or sister is coming" He smiled 

"Yay" The girl screamed in delight. He smiled hugging his daughter 

"I love you Butterfly" He had no idea that this would be the last moment he spent with his daughter until Hydra had ripped their family apart.He walked int the house with his daughter, freezing when he saw his wife in tears and man in black SWAT gear pointing their guns at them 

"DADDY!!" Jennifer, his daughter scrammed as she was pulled from his and brought next to his wife 

"Don't hurt them" He begged 

"Oh, we won't Mr. Kane you will" A man in a pinstripe suit walked up 

"Excuse me?" 

"You will work for us, and your family will be safe with us, your wife will be taken care of, you will have a 10 minuet call every month to prove that we aren't lying" The man smiled cooly 

"What do I have to do to join" He couldn't let his family be hurt 

"Say theses simple words 'Hail Hydra'" 

"Hail Hydra". 

 He shook his head at the memory, he craved those phone calls just like an addict craved their next fix, his wife had had their baby a beautiful boy, by her description, they had decided on Michael for his name, he missed his family and hoped that he's be able to contact S.H.I.E.L.D. about it, he knew S.H.I.E.L.D. would help if he gave them information on Hydra, all he has is hope now.