The Dreamer - 2
With coffee and painkillers in their systems Janice and Bianca began to load up the old truck and Janice's sedan. Bianca's lease was up and she had not had the money to pay the renewal fees for her apartment and determined that money wise it was going to be best to cut and run.
By four o' clock in the afternoon the two women were loaded up and ready to go. On their way out of town they dumped the mostly old and worn furniture at a charity drop by a church and stopped at a farm supply to have a locking lid installed on the truck's bed. They had a very long trip ahead of them and needed the extra storage secure. Their next errand was to get some camping gear and supplies to make the trip more pleasant.
They had made it to the New Orleans around ten at night when they stopped in camp area. The tired pair rolled out some sleeping bags and went to sleep under the starry, summer sky.
The new HYDRA wanted to pick up were the old had left off. But they were missing an essential piece. The Tesseract had gone down with Commander Schmidt and the American commando somewhere in the northern Atlantic
HYDRA never died but it did become quiet. They become more delusional and cruel by the day but they cannot tell because they keep to themselves. No one sought them out, HYDRA ended with the fall of the Third Reich. Only the American group known as the SSR knew how powerful they had become, and how distant from the mother land they had grown.
This made espionage much easier than it had been before and during the war. For years nothing came of it, nothing too big going on and agents working their way slowly into different government's intelligence agencies. They moved up ranks and gathered information but no one had yet to get high enough to find what they wanted, until Anthony Stark started causing trouble.
Followed by the doctor Bruce Banner, between these two men a catalyst was formed in the American intelligence agencies and a secret group started to gain more and more pull than it ever had before. Before his demise Commander Schmidt had made Zola to use the power of the Tesseract to attempt to cultivate the serum from his own veins.
By combining science and magic HYDRA hoped to create a new world, and now they were just grasping for power. To some degree it worked. They had Schmidt's blood samples and the work on it had gone smoothly over the years, and now they had notes on the American's experiment. They would not waste their chance. They would wait until they found the perfect candidate to become the first of their new master race.
And during the same time, after an incident in the small New Mexico town of Puente Antiguo, HYDRA knew there was hope and the time to act would come sooner rather than later. Relics from the gods of Asgard appeared and they knew that their efforts had not been in vain. The gods had come to Earth. And somewhere, there had to be something that could make connection permanent.
I watch as a man with no face and a handsome blonde are fighting in what looks like the inside of some sort of ship. They fight with such great force that it's a wonder either of them can move after a few hits. A sudden surge of power grips me and I feel as if I am being surrounded by hate and I feel like I am going to throw up.
I fall, to the floor and then through it, spinning down and plummeting to the water. I feel the cold of the water take over me as I wrestle with the dark force that wants control of me. I go into the deep and after a while I hit the ocean floor; I feel the darkness take me over, but at least the pain from before has stopped.
"Woah!" Bianca sits up, knocking Janice in the head in the process.
"Why the hell did you wake me up?" She tries to go back to sleep but her friend keeps talking.
"There was a blonde guy."
"What?"
Looking down at the disheveled woman next to her "There was a cute, blonde guy in my dream. He was speaking English. Actually, now that I think of it he looked like that actor from those old World War II flicks."
Janice gives her friend a look that states murder and annoyance, "Well July fourth was not too long ago, you probably saw one of them and it influenced your dream."
"I guess you're right, but-"
"No! Shush and let me sleep or they will be finding a body out in the water and I will have put it there. It will be your body and it will be dead and furthermore-"
"I thought you wanted to sleep not talk?"
"Go rot in a swamp!" And with that Janice burrowed back into her sleeping bag as Bianca went to go to the bathhouse down the way from their campsite. Best get a shower in before the rest of the camper woke up and used all the hot water. A hard, cold fact Janice learned in a few hours.
Agent Hill watched in amusement as the vein on Director Fury's forehead bulged and pulsed. She should not be so amused, as the cause of the stress was anything but amusing, but in stressful times as these one must attempt to keep a sense of humor.
Information had gone missing, people had gone missing, and Director Fury's calm was quickly vanishing as well. The World Security Council had recently changed its opinion on how SHIELD's funding would go in light of the busiest week in their history. A week that Director Fury had managed to stay awake through, tell the WSC where they could put their money (into SHEILD), and manage not to kill anyone.
At first it was assumed that the missing data had to do with General Ross breaking into the system, but the further it was looked into the more it looked like an inside job. The combined incidents in Puente Antiguo, Harlem, and at the Stark Expo caused the change in WSC judgment, if only temporarily, but even the meddling of the WSC was not pissing off Fury like this situation was.
It had been a month since the collective incidents which led to their current situation and in that time three agents had vanished off of the face of the planet as far as anyone could tell. Agent Romanoff had been re-assigned again to try and track these individuals but even she was having trouble tracking the three rouge agents. Though it turned out to not be a waste so far as she was able to help out with some of the trouble the Ten Rings were starting.
Though all of SHEILD had been compromised Agent Sitwell had been able to determine that the bulk of the information stolen was about the Puente Antiguo incident, Project PEGASUS, the search and recover mission in Greenland, and the information given to the SSR by Arnim Zola. The information was recovered but now it is out there in the hands of rouge agents and it was unclear as to what they would do with that information.
Janice and Bianca decided to spend an extra day in New Orleans; they were here so they might as well enjoy it. The French Quarter was about five miles from their campsite and they decided to milk the trip for all it was worth.
Janice was thrilled by the music that surrounded her, regretting the decisions that got her kicked out of the music program at the University of Texas. Bianca only knew the bare minimum about it and Janice felt bad keeping her in the dark but with how everything has been moving so fast another bombshell would not be a good idea. Janice looks over to her friend, sauce running down Bee's chin and cheeks full of whatever was on the poboy she had bought. She had missed her: her crazy stories and dreams, her love of food most people would not eat, her warm heart and her open mind.
Though she was mad at her sister and the strange people that she ran off with to God knows where, Janice could not help but be grateful to them.
"Bee, wipe you face off! You look like a messy chipmunk."
"Harumph Muncy gonnuff ca-"
"Swallow your food before you choke; that is nasty!"
As if jinxed, Bianca starts to gag and cough and Janice speeds over to give the Heimlich. 'Yeah,' she thinks 'I missed this' as a chunk of what could have been a fried oyster flies and lands in her salad.
As night falls Loki, by means of Dr. Selvig, observes the fluctuation in energy given off by the Tesseract as it does every night. He wonders what it could mean and knows he will not be the only one interested in the cube.
As the good doctor is not making much progress on the Tesseract he decides to let him be for a bit and to keep an eye on another member that he noticed when Thor was sent to Midgard. Thor called him the son of Coul and he was allowed to see all sorts of useful information.
It is cold and dark and all I can see around me is a faint blue glow. Every now and then I see a fish or some other manner of sea life go past but I am horribly aware that I am very much alone.
