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CHAPTER ONE THE AVENGERS INITIATIVE
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The best thing about being able to control light was that, with enough focus, Riley Cho could turn himself invisible.
It was especially helpful when he had to sneak across a large lawn of someone so high up in S.H.I.E.L.D. like Alexander Pierce. His large house was made up of mostly smooth white walls and large windows, but the openness of his home was entirely an illusion. Riley had been watching it for days, taking note of every security camera and every fence and every guard that made his or her rounds around the property, and had concluded that he'd have to rely on his powers to even get past the fence. A giant spotlight shined for most of the night, moving across the yard every minute, but he couldn't wait until Pierce went to bed and the light turned off. That was when even more security systems turned on for the night; he'd have to get in and out while Pierce was awake and inside with his maid, because that was when Pierce felt the most secure and didn't bother with all the other security measures his home had.
Riley didn't know why Nick Fury had told him to spy on Alexander Pierce. He didn't know why he was supposed to get into his office, download his files on his laptop, and then leave without a trace. What he did know was that Fury was a paranoid man, and that sometimes he asked Riley to spy on people who turned out to be completely clean just because Fury needed to be sure. He could only assume that was the case now, because as far as he knew, Nick Fury and Alexander Pierce were friends. But Pierce had moved up in S.H.I.E.L.D. recently, to a position directly below Fury himself, so Riley supposed it made sense that the change had triggered Fury's paranoia.
He checked the time, tapping at the touch-screen of his watch. It was a few seconds until the next opening. There was a total of fifteen guards that constantly moved around the property, each one moving from their spot to the next every hour. He was planning on sliding through the gate during the switch, which lasted from twenty to thirty seconds. He had to assume he only had twenty seconds, and darted forward the second the guard twisted around the corner. He ran as quietly as possibly, his feet light on the ground, and whipped out the decoding device before he even reached the gate. He held the device in front of the number pad by the gate and let it decode the password, typing it in quickly. The pad beeped, and then the gate popped open. Riley slid past it and managed to close it right when the next guard arrived, and slipped behind a large bush right as the spotlight slid across the gate.
He took the next few minutes making absolutely sure he was invisible. He was planning on sticking to the shadows and avoiding the spotlights moving across the yard, but he didn't want to risk getting caught on camera. The cameras probably had heat sensors, but that couldn't be helped, and he knew for a fact one couldn't construct an entire face just from the heat of a body alone. And no one knew Riley could turn himself invisible.
