Chapter 11

After a dinner the six headed down to the 104th floor living room.

Pepper, Tony, Bucky, Nina, Will and Morgan sat in the living room on beautiful sofas. Tony poured drinks at the glowing bar and programmed light jazz music to fit the atmosphere.

Will had told his story over dinner. He was born with his power and discovered it when he three years old, trying to save his dying pet dog. The real tragedy came when he tried to save his best friend Nick, who was dying of cancer at 16. Will temporarliy took away his friend's pain came that came with cancer but eventually the pain drained out of Will and back into Nick, who died shortly after. He moved to New York to live with his twin sister. He had a blue collar job but he did other things at night. He stole and he was at the bank for that very reason. Will finished the story, "At the bank when me and Morgan took down that agent. She kicked him in the knees and elbowed his back. Then I found another power I had. I transfer pain to others and that's what happened." He said looking at everyone. "I can't wait to run tests on you." Tony said pointing at him. Pepper slapped Tony's arm, "Will isn't a robot, he's a person Tony! You-"

"Sir,' JARVIS said from an invisible speaker, "I'm sorry to interrupt but Dr. Banner is here."

Pepper and Tony got up quickly. "Sorry guys, we have to go. We'll see you tomorrow." Pepper said. Nina waved to them as they got into the elevator.

She pulled out the flash drive and set it on the table.

"What is that?" Morgan asked.

"I believe its called a hard drive..." Will started.

"Ugh, I know. But what's on it?" Morgan said.

"I don't know. I found it at the bank." Nina said.

"You sure they should be involved?" Bucky asked Nina.

"Yeah, we're...a team now." Nina said hesitantly. She looked at Morgan who smiled and Will picked up the flash drive.

"Hmm, its a standard version. No label or sealings on it. Let's check it out." He said hopping off the couch and walking over to the room's computer monitor.

The three gathered around him as he plugged it into the table's usb port. The screen opened up to a black page with password...

"Who were the agents there?' Will started. "What was that organization they belonged to? What was its name?" He asked urgently.

"Hydra." Nina replied.

"Hmm. Wouldn't be that obvious." Will scratched his head. "Do you know if they had a symbol?"

"The red octopus,' Morgan interjected, 'Right? It was on their guns." Nina nodded.

"Well if anyone from Hydra was trying to get in, they would have a universal password." He typed in Octopus.

Incorrect...it read

"Hydra is German based, maybe its Octopus in German." Nina suggested eagerly looking at Bucky who she knew spoke German.

"Its kraken." Bucky quickly said. Will's fingers whipped across the keyboard.

Correct...it read.

The screen showed various codes and sequences that Nina couldn't understand. It read things like hacked and foreign invasion but Will's hands quickly resolved the problem. Moving the screen to various tabs. That read Project Insight, Project Chalk, Project Faustus, Project Sting 2.0...

"How did you do that. You reversed the hacking code." Morgan said, astounded.

"Well I do know some things about computers. When I said I was going to rob the bank. I didn't mean I was stealing money." Will said moving the mouse across the screen looking at various pages.

"As in stealing information." Bucky said.

"Bingo." Will replied.

"What are we looking for?" Morgan asked.

Nina spoke, "What information they were stealing from the bank and..."

Bucky and Nina exchanged looks. They had no idea what they were searching for. Hydra had taken so much away from them. They simply wanted to know more.

"Find anything you can about Hydra bases." Bucky said suddenly.

"Or projects. And notable agents." Nina added.

About two minutes passed Will encountered another problem with the flash drive invading Tony's computer but he also found the information.

"Well there's about ten different projects listed here. Each with their own date and description. It doesn't say much about what Hydra was doing there, nothing recently uploaded or wait a second." Will said clicking the controls. "There's an encrypted file. Not linked to another of data scans that the other file's have."

Nina, Bucky and Morgan exchanged looks rather confused and unsure what Will was actually saying. "Can you unencrypt it?" Nina asked politely.

Will clicked three buttons, the file opened and he glanced at Nina who said "Oh."

The screen then showed someone's face in a video. The room was poorly lit but you could still make out his dark haired features and stunning blue eyes. He looked like he was under a ridiculous amount of stress as he spoke quickly. "I don't have much time. But please whoever gets their hands on this, listen. The Project Needle, they bring in new people everyday. Some last a week, and no one comes out. It's Pierce, he ordered this in his will. So Teaton and Smith are stopping at nothing to get it done. They have to be stop-" The video turned to black and the file deleted itself.

Morgan was the first to speak, with such a sure and determined tone. "He needs help. Look up Project Needle Will, its the only way we can get to him."

"Woah woah. Slow down, this could very well be a set up and fake information." Bucky said holding his metal hand up. "You can't trust Hydra. If this guy is an agent, he's probably loyal."

"We don't know that." Nina said shrugging. "Look it up Will."

"No. It's too risky." Bucky stated.

"Risky? His life..."

"It's Hydra."

"You-"

"Can't trust anyone who is Hydra."

"That's not true." Nina said. He looked up.

"You were Hydra and I...I trust you."

Bucky started down at Nina's face. Morgan cleared her throat, Nina and Bucky were standing nose to nose. Either about to kiss each other or kill each other.

The two backed away from each other, turning to Will and Morgan.

"Project Needle, according to the Hydra files on a Hydra hard-drive." Will said eyeing Bucky. "Is a secret project started by several senior Hydra members in the 70's. It didn't go into effect until two months ago. Hydra's goal is to collect test samples to provide the world with its perfect protector. It doesn't say specifically but who knows what that means. There are two experimental bases. One in LA and one that just moved to Manhattan."

"How convenient." Morgan said, one eyebrow rising and her lips forming to a side smile that was dangerously mischievous. Nina nodded at her.

"Then there's security codes and the guards pass numbers, low level borning stuff."

"No, we'll need that if were going to-"

Nina turned to head to Bucky.

"What?" He asked looking from Morgan to Nina...

"To break into a fully guarded Hydra lab!" He said opening the driver door to one of Stark's SUV's. "Unbelievable." He said starting up the engine.

"This will be a piece of cake." Morgan said. "We get it, look around, get that guy and anyone who looks not Hydra-ish out, badabing badaboom!"

"You make it sound so easy!" Will complained from the backseat. Holding a closed laptop to his chest, looking a little queasy.

"Well we obviously aren't going in without a good plan." Nina added.

Morgan nodded and punched Will's arm when he mentioned that they should have left a note for Tony and Pepper.

"It's ok. A stolen car full of wanted criminals and missing people isn't that suspicious." Nina said shrugging her solders from the shotgun seat.

Bucky quietly chuckled as he moved through afternoon traffic of Manhattan.

"Ok but we do need a plan." Morgan agreed.

They all agreed to one action plan after several near fist fights and punctures to the leg. They were a solid team for sure.

Please review! I love all of your comments and ideas. I haven't updated and I'm sorry. I had writers block about Morgan's story (it will come later) and this whole chapter in general. Hope you liked it!