S.H.I.E.L.D TOWER
NEW YORK
27/11/13
2117 HOURS
"She's a fugitive. A criminal. We can't let her in. Especially when we're sure we can't trust her."
Nick Fury stood in front of hologram committee members and sighed in frustration.
"Many of our best S.H.I.E.L.D agents were against us at one point! Agent Barnes? Agent Romanoff? And we are sure we can trust her. You, have- from this point onwards- no say in this."
The blue holograms began to protest but the images seemed to zoom out; completely switching off.
Agent Maria Hill stood firmly behind him and she understood his small gesture of nodding his head.
She paced to the elevator and pressed a button: "B"
CLUB JADE
HONG KONG
23/11/13
2343 HOURS
"How much?! 20,000 yuan?"
A quite tall and well built up Chinese man was furious to say the least.
"Listen, you imbecile! There was an exchange that was interpreted by the cops last week! After that, the prices of cocaine have risen. We need to live, too."
The girl- no older than 16 (but you wouldn't tell this by the way she looked) was now tapping her foot impatiently as she stated her facts as-a-matter-of-factly.
"Yi Xuan Gege." She closed her eyes in annoyance and smiled with no humour.
"It's that," she placed a hand on the briefcase with a sweet smile that she didn't mean, "or nothing."
Her smile dropped.
The man buried his head into his hand momentarily as if he was drowning but then lifted it again as if to surface.
"Fine. I'll do it. Here you go," he said with no hesitation.
"You're going to need both briefcases"
He sighed and clicked his fingers. The lanky men behind him who were holding the briefcases opened them and placed them on the coffee table in the VIP room of the nightclub.
She leant over and checked the amount as well as their reliability. This might seem like an intricately painful process for some, but for some it was just a formality.
A necessary formality.
"Looks good. Pack up my money. I guess we're done here" she said, now dismissively. "You're free to go."
The men behind Yixuan packed the money diligently into the briefcases and handed them to her.
"Take it" she permitted for the other briefcase to be taken away. Yixuan placed his hand on the door to push it open, so he could leave.
But a single shuriken hit the door, right in between his thumb and index finger.
"Do not get caught. If you do, I hope you know better than to spit out my name with that dirty little mouth of yours," she said, walking over to the sofa and pulling her feet up lounging on the chaise longue.
"Yes. Yes. Of course, mei mei. I'll be seeing you around."
And with that- Yixuan and his men were gone.
As soon as the men scuttered out, slamming the door with no hesitations, Mei's face lit up and she sported now a playful smile.
"Ladies. It's playtime!"
S.H.I.E.L.D TOWER
NEW YORK
27/11/13
2139 HOURS
"She seems interesting enough."
"Chinese Teenage Drug Dealer? Hmm. S.H.I.E.L.D's standards have... become quite something I have to say."
