Chapter 9: HYDRA Uprising

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Pierce is holding another virtual meeting with the World Security Council.

Alexander Pierce: Nick Fury was murdered in cold blood. To any reasonable person, that would make him a martyr, not a traitor.

Councilman Rockwell: You know what makes him a traitor? Hiring a mercenary to hijack his own ship.

Councilman Singh: Nick Fury used your friendship to coerce this council into delaying Project Insight. A project he knew would expose his own illegal operations. At best, he lied to you. At worst...

Alexander Pierce: Are you calling for my resignation? I've got a pen and paper right here.

Councilwoman Hawley: That discussion can be tabled for a later time.

Alexander Pierce: But you do want to have a discussion.

Councilman Rockwell: We've already had it, Mr. Secretary. This council moves to immediately reactivate Project Insight. If you want to say something snappy, now would be a good time.

Steve goes to the mall disguised as a civilian as Y/N and Natasha are disguised as a couple.

Natasha: First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk.

Steve: If I run in these shoes, they're gonna fall off.

They go to a Mac store to use one of their computers.

Natasha: The drive has a Level Six homing program, so as soon as we boot up SHIELD will know exactly where we are.

Y/N: How much time do we have?

Natasha: Uh... about nine minutes from...

She pops the flash drive into a MacBook Pro.

Natasha: Now.

Several SHIELD vehicles are heading their way.

Natasha: Fury was right about that ship, somebody's trying to hide something. This drive is protected by some sort of AI, it keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands.

Steve: Can you override it?

Natasha: The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly.

Rumlow and his team pull up outside the mall and head inside. Back at the Mac store, Y/N, Steve and Natasha continue to try and find out what's on the flash drive.

Natasha: I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from.

Apple Employee: Can I help you guys with anything?

Natasha: Oh, no. My fiancé was just helping me with some honeymoon destinations.

Y/N: We're getting married.

Apple Employee: Congratulations. Where do you guys thinking about going?

Y/N looks at the monitor and sees the signal traced to somewhere in New Jersey.

Y/N: New Jersey.

Apple Employee: Oh.

The employee looks at Steve for a moment.

Apple Employee: I have the exact same glasses.

Natasha: Wow, you two are practically twins.

Apple Employee: Yeah, I wish. Specimen. Uh... if you guys need anything, I've been Aaron.

Steve: Thank you.

Venom: Y/N, nine o'clock.

Y/N sees Rumlow and his team are in the mall looking for them.

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