Seven Nation Army

Sabotage

"You ready?" he looked at his redhead partner, who only smirked,

"When am I not?" Her eyes turned white and three copies stepped out of her. He was never going to get used to that.

It was easy. They snuck through the vents of the compound, radio silent until one of them found the package. "Lincoln I'm in the computers," she said over the comms, "it says the package is on sub-level two, room 46."

"Okay, I'll meet you there." He whispered back and then froze. He looked down and saw a guard just below his knees. Shit, he cursed, as the guard's eyes traveled upwards to the vents where he was hiding.

The guard slowly lifted his gun and Lincoln held his breath. The man pressed his finger down slowly on the trigger and Lincoln knew there was no escape. He popped out the screen and jumped on top of the guard. He rolled off the man and jumped to his feet. The guard immediately went for his glock. Lincoln punched him in the nose as a distraction. He stepped back, and put his hand out in front of him, electricity hitting the man right in the chest. He threw the guard down another hall, effectively knocking him out.

He straightened up and began to walk quickly down the hall, running down the steps and ducking around a corner to avoid three guards. He began to sprint almost silently down the gray halls, counting the numbers until he reached 46. He sent electricity through the handle, sending it flying off. He stepped into the room and stopped. There, in the center of the space stood a pedestal with a silver obelisk on it.

He opened up his backpack and picked up the diviner carefully, and slipping it safely inside. Suddenly, an alarm went off, making him jump. "Lincoln, we've been made!" she yelled in his ear, "I'll meet you at the extraction point!"

"Got it!" He said as he sprinted down the hall to the vent he'd crawled through to get in. "I have the package!"

He went back and forth, but right now, running through an enemy compound and watching them stumble over each other to try and find the inhumans, he loved his job.

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There was a knock on the glass door of her office, and she looked up from her paperwork. "Come in." She said politely.

A man whose face was devoid of eyes poked his head in, "Jiaying, Alicia and Lincoln are back from their mission."

She nodded thoughtfully, "Send them in." He opened the door further and ushered the young inhumans into the clean and minimalistic office. "Hello," she smiled, "how was the mission?"

"It was alright," Alicia said, "we got made halfway through, though."

"Did you retrieve the diviner?" She asked and Lincoln pulled it out of his bag and placed it on her desk.

"All in one piece," He said, "I don't think they figured out how to use it."

"Of course not," she said, picking up the diviner and admiring it, "Hydra may believe themselves to be great scientists, capable of amazing things, but in truth," she glanced at the two, smiling darkly, as if she were about to say an inside joke of some sort, "they are just men, in a world that's gone far beyond that."

Lincoln smiled slightly and glanced over at Alicia to see her mirroring Jiaying's expression. "Hydra has been fighting for so long now over the control of the earth that they don't even know it isn't theirs anymore." She placed the diviner in a silver case.

"Whose is it then?" Lincoln frowned and she turned back to look at him, her plain and masked expression ever-present on her scared yet beautiful features.