Chapter 1: The Mission
AN: This is it everyone! The first chapter of the sequel! I know it's a bit soon but I couldn't wait any longer to get my ideas up! Enjoy!
AN: This takes place about two months after being rescued from the island. Italics are flash backs.
Morgan stood over Alex. She had just been rescued from the island and was about to be tested for being recruited. After everything that happened; Alex wasn't going back. She was starting over and giving her talent to someone who would use it; who needed it. Back at SHIELD, they only kept an eye on her and Fury even had her own parents spy on her. She definitely wasn't going back to that.
Morgan raises an eyebrow and then nods.
"So you are Alex Barton uh?" He says. Alex nods a glare on her face. Not that she was mad, but she was testing him. She wasn't giving into this so easily. He holds out a hand. "I'm Jim Morgan. Head of the Renegade, you'll be receiving orders from me." Alex shakes his hand. "So are you joining our little rebel group?" Alex nods.
"I'm not just going to receive orders and follow them. You need to earn my trust first, and then I will consider listening." Alex makes herself clear. He looks to the man behind her, he shrugs. Morgan nods.
"I guess that's fair enough. How much training have you had?" Alex shrugs; walking past him she pulls her bow off her back and gets an arrow. She stares at him and raises her bow; aiming for something to the left of her. She lets it go and it hits the glass in someone's hand; shattering on impact. The man holding it stumbles and falls of his chair. Looking around in confusion.
Morgan raises his eyebrows and nods.
"You'll be an excellent addition to our group Barton; I count on seeing great things from you." He nods then walks away. "He will show you to your room, get settled in and then we will start with your training." Morgan points to the man behind her as he walks off.
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"Barton! Get down here, we heading out in five!" Morgan calls. Alex nods and picks up her bow and swings her quiver over her back. She heads out the door and to the jeep. She was being sent out on a mission, she didn't know where it was; only that she had to take someone out.
Alex walks up to him. Morgan hands Alex a pad and she looks it over, seeing the mission details.
Location: Kansas
Identity: Howard Miller
Actions: Blackmailing and Murder
Extraction plan: none
Alex looks it over and nods.
"How will I get out?" She asks. Morgan nods; remembering.
"We will drop you ten miles from the location; they have surveillance so we can't get within a certain distance. You will have to get yourself out." Morgan says. Alex slowly nods.
"Which base should I report to?" She says.
"Base 2J. It is the only one operational right now. SHIELD took out the one in Ohio." He says; glancing at Alex, seeing her tense. She nods, then walks over to the jeep and climb into the back of it. A man gets into the driver's seat and they drive off.
They arrive at the border of Kansas a few hours later. Alex hops out of the back of the truck and they drive off. She looks back; seeing the jeep disappear from view before setting off into the miles and miles of plains and farm land.
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Alex pins the man on the ground and delivers a punch to his face; knocking him out. She sighs and gets up, walking over to her bag. Training was so easy now that she had normal trainers. It was easier when they weren't normal like you. Alex couldn't stop thinking about her friends and her pet bird Jace; and also Storm her black thoroughbred. She missed them, but she knew this was where she belonged now.
She takes a sip of water before walking back over to the unconscious man. She gives him a gentle kick; telling him to get up, he stirs and opens his eyes. Alex backs up; allowing him to get up before returning to beating the hell out of him.
She dodges his sloppy punch and does a scissor kick to his head. He falls to the ground with a thud; but gets up quicker this time. He hesitates before engaging in the fight again. Alex looks at him.
"What?" She says annoyed. He glares at her.
"You need to take it easy on this training. Kicking us to death isn't fair." He says. Alex huffs.
"It's not my fault you all are weak!" She says. He rolls his eyes in a disgusted manner.
"If you want to train with your buddy Captain America then why don't you run along home?" He says in a baby voice. Alex's eyes rage with fury. That was it. She run at him and jumps up, using a move her mother Natasha taught her, she winds around him, pinning his head between her calves and pulls him under her, knocking him out again. Alex kicks his side before going to her bag and storming toward her room.
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Alex walks around a few bushes to see a huge factory. Alex takes in a breath; she jogs around the bushes, her bow slightly bouncing on her back as she runs toward the building.
Alex creeps around a few trees; hiding behind one of the trees she sees a heavily fortified gate. Alex lets out a breath taking a moment to think. Then the gate opens and a few soldiers walk out and down the road past her. Alex follows them with her eyes as they disappear from view. She turns back to the gate, Alex then looks down at her side and pulls out her favorite knife, and she creeps toward the fence.
Alex puts her pocket knife up to the fence and starts to cut the fence piece by piece. After making a big enough hole; Alex crawls through, and walks about 100 yards up toward the door. Reaching the door Alex looks in the window and sees a guard standing by the door. Alex knocks and runs out of view. The man opens the door and looks out; he shrinks back and falls outside of the door. An arrow was lodged into his head. Alex creeps out the door and picks up the arrow as she walks past the body toward the door to the main office.
Alex puts an ear to the door; listening in.
"The bombs are almost ready." Alex hears a man say.
"Good, make sure you leave no trace of anything. If that god damn SHIELD comes here we'll have a big problem on our hands." Another guy says. Alex grins; she opens the door and walks in. She gives a grin as the guys look at her oddly. "And who the hell are you supposed to be?" He says. She smirks.
"Lucky for you, I'm not an agent of SHIELD anymore, but you should worry." Alex trails off. They look at her; a guy puts his hand under the table. Alex doesn't look at him as she yanks her bow off her back and gets an arrow, shooting the guy's shoulder. He gives a cry of pain as a gun flies from his hands. The other man backs up in shock ready to pull a gun on her. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Alex says. The man freezes. Alex puts her bow on her back and walks over to the guy in the chair. She wraps a hand around the base of the arrow and gives it a twist. The man shrinks back in pain.
"Where is Howard Miller?" Alex demands. The man doesn't look at her as his eyes are squeezed shut. Alex pulls the arrow down; causing him to cry out in pain. "Where is he?" Alex says louder.
"Here." The other man says as he grabs a wooden chair and smacks it down on Alex's back, it breaks and she doesn't move. The man backs up from the impact as Alex turns around slowly. She smiles. The man looks at her in horror. "What are you?" He says. Alex grins as she walks toward him.
"No, the question is, what are you?" She takes out her knife. The man backs up against the wall, Alex approaches him. "And the answer is: you dead." She raises her knife. But is stopped when an explosion send her flying. Alex hits the wall. The impact of a grenade caught her. Alex raises her head to see the man who is Howard Miller run out of what remained of the room. Alex picks up a knife he dropped and looks at it, she glimpses at the man stuck in the chair and chucks it at him. It strikes his chest; Alex walks over and gets her arrow as she walks out of the room.
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Alex sits in the car as she is driven to a training facility. Morgan was in the passenger seat as Alex sat in the back. He explained to her how she needed to be ready to make sacrifices to work with the Renegade, sometimes you had to do things you didn't want to do but have to. Alex was prepared to do whatever it was. He says that no matter what people say, you can never know what the truth is unless you find all the evidence.
They pull up to a broken down warehouse. Alex gets out of the car and closes the door as she follows them inside. The room had many boxes and pieces of junk. She walks farther in and into a clearing. Morgan steps to the side with two of his men. Then Alex hears a police car siren. She gives Morgan a look.
"Why are they here?" She says. Morgan turns to one of his men. He mutters something under his breath before turning to Alex.
"They must have followed us. Scramble there signals." He says to one of the men. He nods and walks off. Then an office runs at them.
"Freeze!" He says; his gun rose. Alex glares in his direction. She doesn't take her bow off her back. "Put your weapon on the ground now!" He says; he is joined by three other officers. Alex; being stubborn doesn't do it. Instead she tries to reason.
"What is this about!?" She says in an annoyed voice. They all had their guns raised; shouting at her. "Fine." Alex says. She was about to get her bow when a shot ran out and Alex felt the bullet skim her arm. She looks at them as they open fire. Alex rips the bow off her back as she starts shooting back. She takes out the three officers, the last one injured. She walks toward him and he gets up engaging in combat. He throws a punch, which Alex easily dodges. She gets him into a head lock and could easily break his neck. He took a knife and tries to stab her. She moves out of the way. "Please stop! I won't hurt you!" She says. But he doesn't stop. She starts feeling the knife cut her legs, Alex jerks her hand and breaks his neck. He falls to the floor with a thud. Alex stares down at him. "Unless I have too." She whispers to herself. Then Morgan and the men run up to her. Morgan puts a hand on her shoulder; she doesn't look up at him.
"Like I told you, not everything you do you'll be proud of but sometimes you don't have a choice." He says. Alex nods. She stands up and looks at him.
"I'm willing to do whatever it takes to become a member of the Renegade." She says. He nods.
"You already are, now all you need is to get better and stronger." He says. Alex gives a nod.
"What should I work on the most?" She says, more demand than question. He walks a few steps past her and stops.
"It's said that when the Renegade was started, back seventy years ago or so, that one must be without fear in order to become part of the Renegade, I think you have what it takes to become that." He says. Alex looks at him then follows him down a hallway to the training area.
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Alex walks out the door to see a few dozen men running toward her, Alex runs to the left toward the way she entered. A man pursue her but Alex easily knocks him out of her way as she gets out of the building and runs toward the other part of the area. She still had a mission to complete and she couldn't leave until it was done. She had to eliminate Miller.
Alex ran around the corner of the building, seeing Miller running toward a chopper. Alex bursts into a sprint as he is almost to the chopper, she quickly gains on him and just as he climbs in and there about to take off, Alex grabs the back of his jacket and pulls herself onto the chopper. It takes off with both of them inside. Alex had let go of the jacket as he turns to hit her. She dodges a punch and swiftly rolls over and kicks out with her left foot, tripping him as he lands at the base of a chair behind him. Alex pulls out her knife and kneels down, putting it to his throat. The man looked startled, not scared but not fearless either.
One of the pilots looks back and sees them there, he jerks the chopper and they fall toward the side. This chopper has no doors on the side, it was open. They tumble toward the side and before the chopper can go back up; they hit a tree. The chopper loses control as it hurtles toward where they took off. Miller was holding on the side of the chopper, hanging out. Alex had gained her footing as she looks at him, the chopper tilts almost upside down as Miller loses his grip and heads toward the propellers. Alex watches as he is sucked in and blood splatters the chopper and her. She wipes some of the blood off her face as she lets herself fall out of the chopper and swiftly lands on the ground a few feet from where it crashes.
Alex looks back at the wreckage, then looks to her left seeing men running around then looking seeing the rash and running over; not seeing Alex. Her mission complete; Alex runs toward the hole in the fence. Crawling out, she begins her walk toward the base.
AN: Well, that's the first chapter! Hope you enjoyed!
