25. Ten Black Spheres - James
It had been several hours since they had taken her for interrogation. I open the doors to the workshop, my eyes searching for bike parts and an engine.
"Hydra's going to have complete control of the world. If the Doctor uses that soldier serum on us and that RgX… we'll be unstoppable." I hear quiet voices behind the work stations,
"What's going on here?" I grunt
"You didn't hear, sir?" one of them says, "The Doctor is going to speak with her personally. I'll bet she won't last five minutes." The two of them guffaw and continue muttering.
Shock hits me and I feel my eyes widening. It couldn't be… I myself had not seen the Doctor, but I knew he was a cruel force that would stop at nothing to obtain the genesis algorithm. Would Sophie be able to bear through it?
I reactivate the tracker that I had implanted in Sophie's neck and divert the signal to Hydra's base. SHIELD needed to notice the signal. I myself needed now to maintain a low profile, any suspicious step would cause Pierce to blank me or send me back to cryo.
The next few hours I work systematically, spending time on bike repairs and on each of the ten black spheres at the bench. I had to assume SHIELD would arrive in less than a day. If this was to work, they needed to arrive in the next 24 hours. Sophie needed to hold on, just a while longer.
Suddenly my hands stop moving, a thought that I had put at the back of my mind strikes me: Why was I turning on Hydra?
"Soldier!" A voice catches my attention as I scoop the last of the spheres into the satchel below the bench. I turn. "Pierce has summoned you."
As I secure the satchel and make my way to his office, I contemplate. Had I been out of cryo too long to notice that my ideals were becoming weak? That I was being swayed strategically by her?
Or perhaps it is because I trust more in Sophie's judgement of morality than that of Hydra's. On that sole intuition, I planned to dismantle the very organisation that created me.