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"Talking"
'Thinking'
'Biju or anything else thinking'
"Biju, or anything else talking"
"Phone, Intercom, or radio talking"
"Super hearing"
"Text message"
Jutsu, Abilities and Powers
(Location) = Scene Break/Time Skip
Another week passed and Naruto upped Fitz-Simmons, and Skye's weights to a whopping 100 pounds, Naruto was currently playing chess with Skye.
"Can I confide in you and get your help on something?" Skye asked out of the blue
"You can always confide in me, as for the help it depends on what you need help with." Naruto answered
Skye then reached into her bra and pulled out a micro-SD card and handed it to Naruto. Skye watched as part of Naruto's necklace flowed down his arm into the palm of his hand before it encapsulating the SD card before a holographic screen appeared in his palm showing various documents before a redacted S.H.I.E.L.D. file came up.
"What am I looking at?" Naruto asked confused
"Everything that I have on myself." Skye answered
"I was wondering when you would come clean with the SD card." Naruto commented shocking Skye
"Wait you knew?" Skye asked bewildered
"I saw you grab it and hide it in your bra back when we went back to your van before you became a consultant. It wasn't my place to pry so I just waited." Naruto answered "So what exactly do you want my help with?"
"I want to know what is redacted from that S.H.I.E.L.D. file, I don't have access to the unredacted version of it." Skye answered
Naruto's suit receded back into his necklace, and he stood up "Follow me." Before he started walking to Coulson's office, Skye quickly got up and followed Naruto.
Naruto knocked on Coulson's door "Come in." before Naruto opened the door, Naruto and Skye walked into and closed the door behind them "What can I help you with?"
Naruto tossed Coulson the SD card which Coulson immediately plugged in before various files began popping up on his big screen, eventually a redacted S.H.I.E.L.D. file.
"What am I looking at?" Coulson asked concerned that the SD card had a redacted S.H.I.E.L.D. file on it
"Everything that Skye has on herself, she asked me to help her find out what has been redacted from the document and I thought that you might want to help." Naruto answered
Coulson looked at Skye "I'll see what I can do."
Skye started to tear up before she hugged Naruto "Thank you so much. This is the reason I got into hacking in the first place."
Just then a red S.H.I.E.L.D. logo popped up and an alarm started going off, Coulson quickly handed back the SD card "Looks like we have an urgent mission."
(A few minutes later – Main Table)
"Chan Ho Yin. Struggling street performer until a few years ago when Mr. Chan began to exhibit moderate pyrokinetic abilities." Coulson explained as he pulled up everything they had on Chan
"What gave him powers?" Fitz asked
"That is still under investigation, but Chan did live near the decommissioned Wan Tai nuclear plant when it caught fire. But to our knowledge, no other nearby residents have exhibited similar traits." Coulson answered
"So how exactly did we find out about him?" Simmons asked
"An informant saw him lighting torches in a street show with his pinky." May answered
"Brought it to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention. We told him to keep his abilities under wraps. He's been on the Index ever since." Coulson added
"The Index?" Skye asked curiously
"It's a list S.H.I.E.L.D. keep of people and objects with powers." Simmons answered
"What? How many are there?" Skye asked
"Not many." May answered
"Well, there is enough to keep a list." Skye commented
"It's a small list, meant to protect them." Coulson added
Everyone but Coulson and May turned to Naruto "Are you on the Index?"
Naruto just shrugged his shoulders "The only knowledge that I have of my being on a list is my Agent S.H.I.E.L.D. file that I put unbeatable encryption on. Although chances are that I am considering what I have shown in public, they can't really do anything seeing as I am simply too powerful for them to really handle or control. All they can really do is document my abilities and powers, put them in a file on the Index, and watch from a distance. Plus their file probably isn't completely accurate as I hide a lot of what I can do."
"In rare cases, S.H.I.E.L.D. has had to take action." Ward informed
"Action against objects or people?" Skye asked
"Both, it's a case-to-case basis." Coulson answered
"That's a bit dark." Skye commented "How are they monitored?"
"The methods vary, but Chan was low risk." Coulson answered "He was assigned a case agent who checked in with him every few days. That's how we discovered him missing." Before May tapped something on the main table and a live feed was brought up showing a Chinese man with several other people
"Hello, Agent Kwan. How are you?" May said in Chinese getting his attention
"Not as good as I could be." Kwan said back in Chinese
"Everyone this is Agent Kwan, Chan Ho Yin's case agent." May announced as everyone waved
"What can you tell us?" May asked
"Not much, I'm afraid. Chan is a magician, so, at first, I thought he had made himself disappear." Kwan explained
"The file says you'd caught him violating his Index agreement before." Coulson commented
"On two separate occasions. Claimed we were 'hampering his artistic expression.'. But late last night, he was taken by professionals." Kwan explained before he held up a plastic bag with a strip of clothing in it "The only thing they left behind was this scrap of aluminized material."
"Fire-proof clothing." Simmons stated
"So whoever took him knew about his power." Ward stated
"Yes. We think we know why." Kwan stated "In the last few days, tech division discovered a crack into your data stream. The same cyberpunks who hacked us before. Somehow they got in again. It's the Rising Tide."
At this everyone turned to Skye who simply turned to Naruto for support "It couldn't have been her. I've been monitoring every inbound and outbound form of communication on this plane."
"Hello? It got real quiet. You guys still there?" Kwan said tapping on the screen
"If not Skye then who?" Coulson asked
"I can trace the hack if you let me." Skye stated
"Well chase this thing from our end Agent Kwan." Coulson said before he ended the transmission and turned to Skye "You better work fast cause the longer Chan is missing the more danger he is in."
(A couple of minutes later)
Everyone minus Naruto who was meditating in a corner and Coulson were gathered around the main table watching as Skye traced the hack that got Chan kidnapped when Coulson walked in.
"How close are we?" Coulson asked
"Almost there." Skye answered
"She's already identified the remote access Trojan and the infected endpoint." Fitz explained
"Yeah, and is also searching for a TCP to correlate a hypertext with signature information." Simmons added just as Skye finished
"We got our origin. Austin, Texas." Skye announced
"You got a name?" Coulson asked
"Nope, just the café our hacker worked out of, but while I'm in the system. Let me check to see if any credit card charges from that day match up with any known hackers." Skye said as she typed away "We got a hit." As a man's driver's license came up on the screen
"Miles Lydon. Not Skye." Fitz stated
"You know him?" Coulson asked
"Every hacker in the world knows him." Skye answered
"Not just the hacker world. He infiltrated the Kremlin." Simmons added
"The picture of Putin shirtless on horseback, that was him." Fitz added
"May set a course for Austin, Texas." Coulson said as May began typing away at a pad
"Already did." May said
"Maelstrom can I speak with you?" Coulson asked causing Naruto to get up from his meditation as he followed Coulson to his office "Close the door behind you." Coulson said before Naruto closed the door "I want you to tail Skye in case she meets up with this Miles Lydon behind our back." Naruto simply nodded before walking back to his bunk and began meditating.
(Several hours later)
Naruto ended up tailing Skye all the way back to an apartment that he could only assume belonged to this Miles person as him and Skye were the only people that he saw enter.
"Are you sure that no one followed you?" Naruto heard Skye say
Naruto walked up to the door and phased through shocking Skye and Miles "Skye, I am very disappointed in you. You lied to me and the team."
"Who the hell is this clown?" Miles asked
"I am her supervising officer." Naruto answered "Now both of you sit. The others are on their way."
(A couple of minutes later)
Coulson, May, Fitz-Simmons, and Ward had finally shown up. Fitz-Simmons and Ward were going thru the apartment looking for any evidence on Miles while Coulson read thru a file.
"I know how this looks…" Skye attempted to talk only to be silenced by Coulson with a single-finger gesture
A few seconds later Coulson finished "How long have you two been in contact?"
"I contacted him once the day I joined to tell him that I was OK. And once earlier today." Skye answered
"You mean when you tipped off an active suspect?" Coulson stated
"It's not like that. Miles and I met when we were both a little screwed up." Skye explained/pleaded "Scratch that. He was a little screwed up. I was a lot. But we looked after one another. That's why I warned him. Not because we are working together on this, but because we are friends. I'm really sorry."
"Noted. If not you, then who is Mr. Lydon working with?" Coulson asked
"No one. Miles is an idealist. Believes in freedom of information." Skye answered
"That information cost a man his freedom, and you sabotaged our attempts to remedy that." Coulson scolded
"No, I came here to find out what Miles knows about Chan." Skye attempted to clarify
"And?" Coulson asked
"He knows nothing." Skye answered "He is a dead end completely harmless."
"We'll see about that." Coulson stated
"Really. I was gonna find out everything I could to try and help." Skye continued to plead "I felt like I couldn't tell you guys everything."
"I know that's why I asked Maelstrom to tail you." Coulson said "Seems like that wasn't a dead end."
"Why would Skye do this to us for him? I thought she was our friend." Naruto heard Fitz say
"Fitz focus on gathering the evidence please." Naruto ordered
"I am, I didn't even say anything." Fitz defended
"Just keep gathering the evidence." Naruto ordered again
"I think she is, Fitz. He's just obviously more than that." Naruto heard Simmons say
"Simmons that goes for you too." Naruto said
"I didn't even say anything." Simmons protested
"Simmons, I gave you an order." Naruto ordered as Fitz-Simmons went back to what they were doing
"Gather all the evidence and secure the prisoners. We got what we were looking for here. We're going to Hong Kong." Coulson instructed before he headed for the door
(Several hours later – The Bus)
Fitz-Simmons had finally found some dirt on Miles and had given it to Naruto to interrogate Miles. Naruto opened the door to the interrogation room and walked in letting the door close behind him.
"Alright Miles, Skye has been defending you saying you are a pretty stand-up guy. So, I am going to give you a single chance to come clean before I show her what I have here in this envelope." Naruto stated as he dropped an envelope in front of Miles
"I don't have to listen to you…" Miles said trying to call Naruto's bluff
"You had your chance." Naruto said before he opened the envelope and took out its contents "Your boyfriend here made a few deposits in the days following the leak that he made. All totaling up to around a million dollars." Getting Skye's attention
"What?" Skye asked clearly irritated what it potentially meant
"Yeah, a real stand-up guy he is." Naruto said folding his arms
"Skye I can explain." Miles said trying to defuse the situation
"Miles, did you sell information?" Skye asked but got no response "Miles? Yes, or fucking no? Did you?"
"Yes, but…" Miles said before Skye jerked forward
"Oh, you are so dead." Skye said infuriated "What the hell were you thinking exactly?"
"Skye, it was a million dollars. A million dollars. It would change my life. Our lives. That woman was harmless. I looked into it." Miles said pleading his case to Skye
"No one with good intentions pays that kind of money for information. Did you ever think about that?" Skye asked
"Of course, I did. I never would have done it if I thought…" Miles began before Naruto cut him off
"Who's this woman you are referring to?" Naruto asked
"She's a fan of the Rising Tide. Some rich girl in a flower dress. She knew all about me, said I had a gift. Thought people like us deserved more than we were getting." Miles said
"Oh, and you deserve more. Definitely." Skye said sarcastically
"Anyways, she pointed me to a Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. feed, and wanted me to crack it." Miles continued
"And you thought that was harmless?" Naruto asked sarcastically
"I checked the data stream. Didn't seem like anything that we hadn't already put out there, Skye. I even traced the account where the money came from to make sure it wasn't blood money from some corrupt corporation. It was just an eco-research lab. Otherwise, I would have never…" Miles explained before Naruto cut him off
"Wait, Ecological research?" Naruto asked
"Yeah, insects. Some study with centipedes." Miles answered causing Skye to bang her head on the table "What's more harmless than that?"
"Miles, you're a dumbass." Skye commented
"I'm going to have to agree with her on this one, you are a dumbass." Naruto commented before opening the door and walking out
(A few minutes later – Command Center – The Bus)
Everyone minus Skye was gathered at the command center
"It appears Centipede is responsible for Mr. Chan's kidnapping." Coulson explained
"First L.A., now Hong Kong. Exactly what kind of organization are we dealing with?" Ward asked
"International, well-financed, interested in creating a super-soldier. Let's hope finding Mr. Chan will provide some answers. Using the account information Mr. Lydon gave us, S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ believes he's being held here." Coulson explained before he pulled up satellite feed
"Any ideas as to what specifically Centipede wants with Chan?" May asked
"Hard to say, but Simmons thinks that considering he's pyrokinetic…" Fitz started
"You think that something in his blood will stabilize the Extremis in the Centipede serum." Naruto said cutting Fitz off
"Exactly." Simmons said
"If Mr. Chan is Centipede's lab rat, we need to get there, preferably before the experiment's over." Coulson said before they all dispersed
(Several hours later – Hong Kong)
Naruto opened the door to the interrogation room and walked in getting Skye's attention "Coulson's in trouble, I am going to give you guys a chance to prove yourself." Before he undid her handcuffs, both Miles and Skye walked out of interrogation to the command center where Fitz-Simmons, and Ward were waiting.
Naruto saw Ward giving Miles a dirty look "Ward behave yourself." as both Skye and Miles walked up to the table before Skye pulled up a map of the building
"The alarms disconnected the systems from all exterior servers." Skye explained
"Can you fix it or not?" Ward asked
"Yeah, I can fix it but you gotta get me on site." Skye answered
"I'll take her, Ward you watch over Miles." Naruto ordered before both Skye and Naruto walked off
(A few minutes later – Centipede Building)
Bold Underlined "Where are we on the doors?" May asked over comms
Bold Underlined "Almost there." Naruto answered as he sent another 2 guys into the realm of dreams before they continued on their way
Eventually, they made it to the servers and Skye immediately got to work unlocking the doors and getting the building reconnected
"Done." Skye said as she finished unlocking the doors as well as reconnecting the building
Bold Underlined "Doors are unlocked." Naruto stated
Bold Underlined "Simmons are the building's computers back online
?" Coulson asked
Bold Underlined "Yes, sir." Simmons answered
Bold Underlined "Uncuff Miles. We're going to need his help." Coulson ordered
(A few minutes later – Outside Centipede Building)
Everyone safely made it out as they watched Mr. Chan's blast get vented out the top of the building.
"Skye managed to extract some files from the building's mainframe. Not much but it could get us a fix on Centipede." Naruto informed
"Maybe." Was all that Coulson said as he watched the blast from Mr. Chan vent out the top
"You can't save someone that is too far-gone Coulson." Naruto stated
"You can if you get to them early enough." Coulson responded before he turned to Skye
(A few minutes later – Bus)
"Look I'll give you 2 options; Either take and wear what is in this box or be put in a box slightly bigger than this one." Coulson said to Miles who was standing right in front of him while Skye stood behind Coulson
"You wanna give me a hint?" Miles said sarcasticly
Coulson didn't answer and his facial expression didn't change so Miles just took the box and opened it revealing a bracelet
"What's it do?" Miles asked before Coulson took it out of the box
"Whatever we tell it to do." Coulson said as he put it on Miles's wrist and tightened it causing it to make a sound and slightly glow blue "I'd try to avoid any unlawful activity. And I think you will find it hard to use electronic devices for a while. You can go now."
"That's cool and all, but we're still in Hong Kong." Miles stated
"Yea we are." Was all that Coulson said
"And I live in Austin, Texas." Stated a slight bit panicked
"I know. Oh, and Agent Kwan's family thanks you for the anonymous donation." Coulson said with a smile "Now get off my plane." Before he turned around and started towards the stairs "My office." Was all that Coulson said to Skye as he passed her to walk up the stairs
(A couple of minutes later)
Naruto was meditating in his bunk when there was a knock "Come in." before the door slid open to reveal Skye with the same bracelet that Coulson put on Miles.
"Can I help you?" Naruto asked before Skye hugged him
"I am so sorry for betraying your trust. Can you forgive me?" Skye said tearing up
Naruto smiled before he started to pet her head "I already have. I understand why you did what you did. I would have done the same thing if I were in your shoe."
"Thank you." Skye said before she got up and made her way around apologizing to everyone
A/N: If you haven't already guessed, Naruto also has Invulnerability from Clark I just forgot to put that on the list in the last chapter. I will not be putting every instance where Naruto views the future as that would just be annoying for me to do, when he meditates he will sometimes be able to see the future, other times not
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Until next time, Sorcerer12 out, Ja Ne
