Her steps where quiet and quick. She had 5 more seconds. 4. 3. 2. 1. The alarm blared and she slid into the vent. She held her breath as footsteps began to thunder through the hall in front of her. This was a floor level vent which meant no one would see her unless they were looking into the vents. The footsteps died away. Then the one she was waiting for began to approach. By the sound five others accompanied the target. Easy take down. She set her feet agents the vent wall of where it curved sharply away. She pushed, hard and fast. No more than ten seconds passed as she shot out of the vent rolling up and taking down the five others. She turned to face the target. He had not had to time to put on his uniform, but wore a simple t-shirt and sweat pants. He had been asleep and had responded simple by picking up his red white and blue shield. She moved quickly. His shield bounced off the wall where she had been milliseconds before. She landed and pulled a gun from one of the dead soldiers. He caught his shield and she aimed, four distracting shots at him causing him to block his view with his shield a fatal mistake. She moved closer fired again then rolled under him. He fell forward a small hole in the back of his neck. She dropped the gun on top of him.
Now to get out, using the same vent she had been hiding in she crawled. Right, Left, Right and out into a small room with a window from which she fell. Ten stories down, she caught a ledge then slid down the smooth metal wall of Stark Tower. Her feet landed softly on the concrete and she walked away pulling off the hood she wore.
She was normal looking with short brown hair and hazel eyes. By looking at her you would not suspect that she could lift twice her own body weight. Designed to blend into a crowd, someone you could forget you ever saw. Perfectly designed in strength and smarts to be able to infiltrate Stark tower and within ten minutes assassinate Tony Stark, Bruce Banner and Steve Rogers. The three targets of today's exercise
The simulation dissolved around her and she stood in the center of a large room. The suit designed to put the pressure of any circumstance on her body was removed and taken away, to wait for the next time they decided to test her. She jumped to attention when a tall slender man walked in, his lab coat bore the name Dr. Aparh and he was holding a clip board in his hand.
"At ease" he simply stated. She widened her stance so that her feet were just past shoulder length he hands rested on her lower back. "Report"
"Mission elimination complete. Targets: Tony Stark known as Iron Man, Bruce Banner known as the Incredible Hulk, and Steve Rogers Known as Captain America." Her voice was monotone and lifeless
"Weapon status" Dr. Aparh marked something down on the clipboard
"Used: one four inch dagger. Weapon stocks full." She reported. She had not lost a weapon in the last two years this was no exception.
"Dismissed" he walk away, back to the door he came in by and she turned to walk the other direction.
The door she walked through lead in to a simple hallway with grey walls and evenly spaced doors. This was her life she had only really been here, all 15 years of her life. Four doors: sleeping quarters, dining hall, gymnasium, and isolation room. There were two doors at each end of the hall one to the simulator and one that she has never seen open. This would be the door she would go to if she was ever needed.
She wandered into the gymnasium. It was small for a gymnasium with a climbing rope, a pull up bar, a treadmill, a few lose weights and a lap pool along the back wall. She wandered over to the treadmill and turned it on. She sped it up to nearly as fast as it could go then jumped on. This was nothing every day work out. She ran for half an hour. Then swam laps for another half an hour. She floated in the center of the pool for a few minutes. The thin black bracelet blinked and dinged signaling lunch.
Today the dining hall was thick forest. She hoped there was rabbit, she loved rabbit. She moved silently through the forest and choose a branch that she snapped it off expertly to create a point. She found a stick that was pliable enough to bend. She pulled some string from a utility belt then attached it to the stick. She climbed a few trees down and waited. This was much slower of a method, she had tried other ways and found many that work. Bucks were bigger meals, roots and berries where the quickest way, squirrels fall into traps but rabbits were the best. Five minutes passed, ten minutes, twenty minutes. Then one came by and her aim was true. Right through the eye. The fire was quick to make and the rabbit slow to roast.
Her bracelet dinged she was being summoned. Two battles in one day, they had never done this before. But she stood and navigated her way out of the forest and to the gray door leading into her hall and to the door that lead to the simulator. She waited for the suit, it did not come. The door slid open. She looked at her bracelet, no mission. She had no mission and no suit. She walked through the door slowly. The room was blank and the door on the other side was open. Her foot steps were quick and silent, her movements sure and practiced. She slid through the door and down the hall. The doors on either side of the longer hallway had names and titles she did not pay attention to these. Finally a door was open.
"No need to hide" Dr. Aparh said from inside the door. She moved into the door way and saluted. "At ease"
She relaxed her stance to see more people than she had ever seen before. Dr. Aparh stood between two men one she knew well, she had killed him many times before, and one she did not know. The one she did not know was tall and dark skinned with an eye patch the one he did know was Tony Stark.
"Good afternoon" the unknown one said. She said nothing.
"This is Director Fury and Tony Stark" Dr. Aparh gestured to each man in turn.
"Some concerns have arisen about your treatment here" Director Fury said
"What's your name?" Stark asked her "It's just I couldn't find it in the reports"
A nod from Dr. Aparh told her to respond "I have no name, I am whoever I need to be"
"You will no longer be living here" Director Fury looked at Stark "you have been reassigned to Stark Tower, effective immediately."
"Yes sir" She saluted
"You may collect your items then report back here, 2 minutes" Director Fury turned to talk to Dr. Aparh.
She turned and sprinted. One minuet and thirty seconds later she stood in the door way, a loose fitting sweat jacket and jeans thrown over her usual suit. Five different daggers, 100 feet of string, lock picking tools, a pair of specialty gloves and her belt with several different tools were hid under this new clothing.
"I expected one minuet twenty seconds" Dr. Aparh said not looking around
"Yes sir" she said
"That was amazing" Stark said
She did not know why he was giving her a complement. He was an enemy, he always had been and he always will be.
