Another year has passed, instead of being below like Emily has been for the last three years, or for the most part, that Emily was on the surface. Even though she enjoys having a new half sister, she missed the surface when she been in the underworld for too long. She might an a child of underworld through adoptions but she was a child of nature by birth, being a child of both life and death gives her a different kind of sense of life and death than that of either one of her godly parents. The only one who could see the kind of line between life and death that could see that kind of line was Persephone. That was be jade she was born as another child of nature but was the queen of the underworld, a title that Emily may inherit one day. Despite her underworld status, Emily was glad to be up on the surface doing something other than the normal SHIELD missions or rescuing and helping the demigods. Besides it was mostly SHIELD missions of when she was able to talk to Phil or Melinda if Melinda was on said mission. At the moment, Emily and Phil were in Lola, Phil's car the car that Phil and his father repaired, behind a limo that Howard and his wife was in.

It has been some time since she spoke to Howard even with the fact she works part time for SHEILD and she ran into him a few times in the last many years. But it was not hard for Emily to know what Howard has been doing, for he was the newspaper half of the time. For the time being that Emily and Phil were watching and protecting the Starks from a distance, it seems like in the last couple of weeks that someone has been trying to kill Howard at least. Emily knows that Howard gained a lot of enemies but from the reports that they got about what happen in the last couple of weeks that this seems different. She wasn't sure why, not only that but she has this feeling that here was more to this than meets the eye. Emily also has the oddest feeling that something was going to happen and soon, she wasn't sure what it was. Emily leaned back and shifted as she heard the usual sound of leather rubbing against leather reached her ears. Emily was wearing her SHIELD jumpsuit that was much like Melinda's own jumpsuit but Phil was wearing his usual suit. Her jumpsuit was much like her own jumpsuit but it was purely black instead of red, white and blue.

"Emily?" Emily looked over at Phil when he said that. Phil looked over at her for a few moments before he looked back at the road in front of him. "Is something wrong?"

"What makes you think something is wrong?"

"Well, I know that being a daughter of Hades affected you a little bit for there are times that you want to be alone for one thing."

"Phil, everyone does that."

"But you seem to do it more often than everyone else. You haven't said anything of which is odd for you."

"Sorry, it's that I have been thinking."

"About what? Arabella?" Emily shook her head.

"No, it's more or less this feeling that I have that something is going to happen and ... " Emily froze as an odd sensation fell upon one that she never felt before but at the same time that it was oddly familiar. She couldn't place of what that was but out of the corner of her eyes that whatever she felt was also affecting Phil for his eyes were wide like as if he was being hit by something other than air. Than two words washed over her. 'Flower Princess.' Suddenly the sensation left, Emily relax and let got of the breath she hadn't realized she was holding the same went for Phil. It was Phil that broke the silence.

"What the Hades was that?"

"Don't use my father's name in vain."

"Sorry but what was that?" There was a pause. "Not only that but who on earth is Flower Princess?" Emily opened her mouth to respond to the questions when both the unexpected and expected happen. For the limo that was carrying Howard and his wife exploded, it was expected for Emily knew something was going to happen but she didn't expected at the moment. Emily's cried out in surprise and gripped the seat as Phil turned the stirring wheel hard, Emily felt her heart beat faster as she watched he limo flip over onto it's roof as the debris of the limo went around me but didn't touch Phil, herald for Lola. Emily was surprised when Lola stopped without getting harmed, Emily was breathing heavy and she sat there for a few moments before she unbuckled her seat belt as Phil was shaking himself out of his shock. As Emily got out of the car that she barley noticed something metal moving form the corner of her eye. She paid no heed to that as she went running towards the limo with Phil yelling after her. " Emily, wait!"

Upon reaching the limo that Emily kicked one of the windows before she managed to look into the window. She knew at least Howard and Maria were in there but she wasn't so sure about Tony and she was glad to see that he wasn't in there. However she noticed that Howard was in there next to his wife holding her as he cried, Emily felt her eyes started to tear up as she looked at Maria. It was clear that Maria was dead while Howard was dying, Emily was unsure of how much time Howard had left but she knows that it wasn't very long. Emily managed to crawl inside of the limo, at first Howard didn't noticed her crawling over him. It wasn't till she touched his shoulder that he looked away from Maria for the first time since Emily entered. When Howard's looked at her that she noticed his eyes seem clear, clearer than what they were suppose to see but yet unfocused at the same time. Emily was about ready to say something when Howard did the unexpected and reached out and grasp her the collar of her jumpsuit and pulled her closer to him. Howard spoke in a whisper that showed clearly that he was dying.

"You're alive?" Emily tilted her head and was about ready to say something when Howard spoke. "Emily?" Emily felt her heart pound in panicked.

"How? How can you be able to tell the ti am Emily? It shouldn't be possible. I am in my second appearance."

"I don't know and I really don't care at the moment." Howard looked away from her and tears fell from his eyes. "I failed and I am sorry. I tried to do to much and yet so little. Forgive me."

"Howard, I don't need to forgive you for you done nothing wrong." Howard looked at her.

"I tried to find your brother. I hoped that it might help bring you back to life and that he could be happy as well as Lauren and you. I failed you, your brother, Lauren. Not only have I failed you but I risked my own family. I need you to listen me and don't say anything. There is not much time now." Howard grasp the other side of her collar and pulled her closer to him. "They came after me when I came across something, they are still here working and waiting till the moment is right and I fear they might succeed. Everything I did, tried and worked for is being used by them, the onto thing they don't have is Tony. I need you to promise some things, I need you to promise me that you will do everything you can to protect your family from this threat make sure there is freedom in this world. Fight me destroy me like you did in the war. Keep them safe form this old threat. Promise me that you will protect and guard Tony, so what can for him, keep him away from SHIELD, keep Tony from learning he truth of what has happen. For if you don't, he would meet the same fate as I have today."

"What are you talking about Howard?" His hold on her collar tighten of which scared her and he went on.

"They never died in the war, Emily. For I have came across them and recently as well. They still live on in hiding behind everything that we know behind what Lauren, Colonel Phillips and I tried to build to protect the people. What happen today was their doing, Emily. Protect your family, protect the people like you did in World War II fighting against HYDRA."

"Who is that I am trying to protect the people against?" Emily could feel his hold slacking as his life aura faded more, Emily panicked that he couldn't tell her anything else but he managed to talk again.

"You fought them before Emily, in the war. Both when you were in project demigod and the howling commandos." Emily paled when Howard said that, it was clear to her now of what Howard was saying. "Yes, they are still out there, alive no less and what happen here and now was their doing. They think that you are dead, use that to your advantage, Emily, and take them out like you did before. Make sure they never reach their goals. Protect your family and protect Tony, I don't what him caught up in the world I was part of since the war. Tell him that I am sorry for making it seem that I didn't love him for I really do, I just trying to protect him from all of this. Tell him that I love him and that he is my greatest creation, that I couldn't be more proud of him. That I wanted to see him do what I could never do." Emily wanted to asked and say so much at the moment to Howard but Howard's life aura faded, his hand let go of her collar as the life aura faded and fell across to the hood of the limo. Emily lowered her head as she heard the police sirens coming.

winter soldier's pov

He got a new mission from his superior, when he was giving the mission that he thought the name sounded oddly familiar. He wasn't sure of why, but he was going to do it anyway, as he walked on the street going closer to his target that woman's voice entered his mind. 'Don't do this, please stop and think. Please!' He kept wondering who this woman was, every time he does a mission that she speaks in his mind asking him not to do this. When he saw his target that he shot a mine and the car blew up, and crashed as he took a couple of steps to the side. A red car behind the limo spun barely in control, when the car stopped and the two people got out that he looked at the woman as she runs to the limo. 'Wind prince, go to her!' He was about ready to do what the woman's voice said but he stopped himself, instead he went running back to the base and he hardly noticed that the woman noticed the flash of his metal arm against the building.

Emily's pov

By the time the police came to the car that Emily just pulled out Maria's body and she was about ready to go in to get Howard when the police stopped her and one of the officers pulled Howard's body. Emily stood back as they took the bodies of Howard and Maria away, the crowd that was gathered was looking after the car that contain Howard and Maria or at the destroyed. Emily stood there watching as the ambulance went off towards the hospital, Emily was unsure what to do or what to feel at the moment. What just happen haut shock her to the core, first she was watching an old friend dying in front of her, than she was told by soar friend that HYDRA was alive. The same group that took her brother away as well as her husband away, now they took an old war time friend from her. One that she hadn't spoke to because she felt unable to because she felt unready for the last about fifty to sixty years. Howard asked, no begged her, to protect her family and protect Tony from HYDRA, Emily was unsure of how to do that. Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder, she looked to see Phil standing there.

"Emily?" Emily shook her head before she did something that she hasn't done with anyone else but her father in the last few decades. She hugged Phil and started crying into his shoulder, she felt him hug her back but he seem shocked, surprised and unsure of what to do. She knows she was the one that usually comforts him when things seem overwhelming him, Emily always did her best not to let anyone but her adopted and birth fathers, as well as Persephone and her mother of the times she felt like she was overwhelmed by something. Thought it was her birth father was the one that saw this side of her the most often of the four that usually see her in this state. "Emily, what's wrong? What happened?" Emily took a breath before she spoke so softly so that only Phil could hear her.

"They are alive Phil when I thought they were gone. HYDRA is back and it seems they are stronger than ever." Emily felt Phil stiffen under her.