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Super-Agents of SHIELD

(A drabble)

Carmilla Black aka Scorpion was NOT impressed. The young woman had been working as a mercenary as part of her SHIELD cover, taking on jobs while working on infiltrating criminal networks. But the black haired woman was abducted by SHIELD, tressed up, and now was being frog marched through a SHIELD facility.

"Would someone PLEASE tell me what's going on?" Camilla demanded plaintively.

"Sorry, Agent Black," the older man in the office nodded as she entered. "Now, you're a level five agent, yes?"

"Yeah, though I thought I wasn't supposed to discuss it," Camilla said dryly. "Why the hell did you yank me off my case?"

The man, wearing a name tag reading Coulson, just ignored that. "So, what can you tell me about agent Victoria Hand?" he asked.

Camilla gave him a look, but he was annoyingly unreadable. With a sigh she said, "She was a agent of SHIELD. Was fired for giving Nick Fury lip. Got hired by Norman Osborn to work for his HAMMER outfit, did her best to keep him under control. When HAMMER was disbanded, she was recruited by Steve Rogers to be the representative on Luke Cage's Avengers team. Was killed in action by the brother of Brother Voodoo."

"There's a mouthful," Coulson noted as there was a tap on the door.

A tall woman with red streaks in her black hair entered, smiling wryly. "Sorry I'm late," Victoria Hand smiled, "and welcome to SHIELD special ops."

"WHA..." Camilla yelped.

It took some explaining, which Hand did as coffee was delivered (soda for Camilla) and Coulson got the paperwork ready. "So, in essence Doctor Strange put my soul in a copy of my old body, and I asked SHIELD to leave me legally dead," Hand finished.

"Why would you do that?" Camilla asked, fascinated.

"SHIELD is too well known to be a effective undercover, too many agents are publically known," Victoria shrugged, "but I'm DEAD. No one is looking for me because they know I'm gone. It's very effective for covert work."

"Makes sense," Camilla conceded. "So why, exactly, am I here?" she asked.

"For my sins of working with the Avengers," Victoria smiled wryly, "I've been put in charge of SHIELD's super-agents. Including you. So you are now back in from the cold, Agent Black... your country needs you."

To be continued...?

Notes: Recently caught up on New Avengers and found out how Victoria Hand got offed. So... here she is. May or may not continue this, based on interest.