Park entered the room, David in her arms, Blue was sat on the bed with his head in his hands as he sighed.
"Are you feeling alright, Blue?"
"Yeah, just...having a kid, it's got me reconsidering a lot of things, I know that I should start working again but...I don't want to, I don't want to leave this kid without a father." Blue said as Park sat next to him, she handed David to Blue as she smiled at him.
"It's wonderful that you want to be there for this child Blue...but right now those people out there need their leader, someone who's brave enough to stand up to people who threaten this world and others, someone with something left to fight for. You go out there and you lead these people, at the end of the day when all's said and done, you can come home to me and this boy knowing you've saved us. Go, now." Park said as she brushed Blue's cheek with her thumb.
"Blue, the team are in the briefing room, they're ready for you." Blovinka's voice said over the comms unit.
"copy that, on my way." Blue said as he approached the door, handing David to Park as he left the room.
Blue walked through the hallways of the S.H.I.E.L.D HQ and found the briefing room, his arm still playing up from when he dislocated it. As he stepped in he felt the eyes of everyone in the team fall upon him. In Blue's hand was a comic book of 'The Avengers'.
"Sir." The entire room said in unison, all with smirks on their faces.
"At ease, I owe you all an explanation."
"What?" Woods voice said as he looked around.
"As you know this group was formed to fight threats like Perseus, human threats that the world could understand and forget, but it was also to delay threats that the world isn't ready to put a stop to. Has anyone heard of this lot from comics."
"Sure earths mightiest heroes, all that crap, why?" Lazar said as he ate a Chinese take away.
"Well, the plan was to create a military version of that, the best soldiers in the world brought together to fight alongside one another in the hope of stopping the threat that I've been worried about. This isn't just another Perseus or Linda, this is stuff that until now only the top brass in the CIA have known about. The reason they're after Maxis. The Ather. The Director wants my mother because of her powers, well...he's not getting her, not while we're breathing."
"What's so important about the Ather, what the hell even is this ather?" Woods said calmly.
"It's...complicated, my guess is it's a different dimension. My mother passed through it when she was pregnant with me and Damien, granting us our powers. To explain how they work, imagine our world is a bubble there are more bubbles surrounding us, some are identical to the world we're in, others...not so. me and my mother can use our abilities to jump between bubbles, however it costs me my memory. the point is if any nation gets their hands on the ability to control it..."
"We're fucked. So what do we do? Kid they know about my son."
"David I know, we can keep him safe, take him to this address, it's off any record so no need to worry. As to what we do, we're now dedicated to two things now, stopping threats like Lovanya and keeping the Ather from anyone who wants it. understood?"
"Yes sir!" the room said as they saluted him.
"Oohrah...yeah the American accent makes that sound badass." Blue said in an embarrassed tone.
"Yeah...that was stupid, anyway...any leads?" Woods said as he laughed.
"There is a gala in Austria tonight, the target is this man, Daniel Marcov. 6'5 ft, medium weight, average build. We believe he has information on Lovanya's present whereabouts, she finds out we capture him or he's presumed missing then she'll move, meaning he has to lead us to her." Blovinka said as she stared at the image of him, Blue picked up on this but kept quiet for the moment.
"Could try to honeypot him." Adler suggested as Blonvika kept staring at the picture.
"Best bet is to go with Adler's plan, any volunteers?" Blovinka said as she hoped no one would put their hand up. "Okay, I'll do it."
"Alright, the rest of you provide over watch, Adler, Coulson and Portnova, you'll be on sight undercover, anything goes wrong you all bug out, Blovinka that's you included, anything goes wrong you bug out info or no. understood? Dismissed." Blue said calmly.
"Yes sir." The team said in unison, as they all walked away Blue approached Blovinka.
"Okay...talk." Blue said as he stopped her.
"What are you talking about?"
"You didn't take your eyes off that fucking picture, you know this man, who is he? to you?" Blue said calmly as he looked the former Black Widow in the eyes, he knew she could kill him easily if she wanted to.
"He was on the list you gave me, I've been working to get to that man for over five years." She admitted as Blue looked exhausted.
"Hey, remember, we need him alive, much as we both want him dead we need your mother to believe she's hidden, when we have her in the ground then you're free to execute the bastard, until then, hold yourself back. Please." Blue said as Blovinka smiled at him.
"No need to worry, I'll get the job done, I can wait until you have my mom in custody. But as soon as you do I'm heading after him." Blovinka said as Blue nodded. She walked away leaving Blue alone in the war room. He let out a lonesome sigh.
As he was about to leave the war room the he thought he should visit his parents, at the Rosemary and Thyme, he knew they were staying in Novigrad for a few days so he deduced that they would visit Dandelion and Priscilla. he opened a portal and left after he told Park where he was going. He appeared in the muddy cobbled streets of Novigrad, his wax coat keeping him warm as he walked through the grimy streets. He arrived at the Rosemary and Thyme and walked in, ordering a glass of water and passing a coin.
"Blue?" A womans voice said over his shoulder, Blue turned to see Triss stood there with a look of shock on her face.
"Triss, how are you?" Blue asked calmly as Merigold sat down next to him.
"better seeing a friendly face. How're things with your wife?"
"In truth, terrifying, we've had a son, today, I keep thinking to myself, what if...what if I let this kid down, not come home from a mission or something like that, what if they end up like Ellie?" Blue said morbidly as Triss smiled and handed him a photo she kept with her in a satchel.
"That boy in that photo, he saved everyone here by bringing down a helicopter before they were seventeen. You can manage parenting. believe me I have a sixth sense for things like this."
"Really?"
"yeah, I see dad people." Triss joked as Blue let out a small chuckle.
"Triss...that was...terrible but also brilliant. Have you seen my mum and dad? I kind of wanna tell them in private."
"Yeah they went to Priscilla's place, She's lending them a room here, they went to pay her, it's by the water."
"Thanks, good seeing you again Triss." Blue said as he stood from the bar and left heading down the street and along the waterfront his lungs filled with the sea air.