I'm really sorry about the confusion with the last chapter uploading and not being there. I don't know how to work this fucking site, JFC. Anyways, enjoy.
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Cipher was a terrorist, someone that needed to either be put down and hard, or locked away in a dark hole to rot. People like Cipher didn't have rights, they didn't deserve them. She didn't deserve them. She'd stolen from organizations and people that she deemed unworthy for her own personal gain, stolen hard work from others who earned it through blood, sweat and tears.
Cipher had gotten a number of people killed out in the field, and it wasn't just S.H.I.E.L.D Agents—but S.H.I.E.L.D was the most targeted government agency. Every S.H.I.E.L.D Agent hated Cipher and would love nothing more to put a bullet between her eyes.
None of them would actually feel sorry for her right now, and Bobbi wasn't sure why she did but she was. She was feeling sorry for the kid she was carrying in her arms, the same kid that Alexandra executed without a flinch. Cipher was Cipher...but Cipher had turned out to be just a kid. It didn't excuse anything she's done but Bobbi was conflicted now, between hating her and pitying her.
She's gotten a few of her friends killed, and Bobbi didn't think she could ever forgive that but damn if she didn't feel sorry for the bleeding mess in her arms that was as light as a feather.
She'd been undercover for about a year with The Hand, and it wasn't easy. The shit she's seen and had to do to keep her cover. To prove her worth. In a way, she was no better than Cipher—having to kill S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents just to earn her spot in Alexandra's personal security detail. She didn't know the Agents but still. She was doing her job, but it was still a punch to the gut every time she had to scratch off one of her own.
She had to cut down other government officials as well to prove her worth and thankfully, this mission was almost over. Bobbi, or as Alexandra knew her; Kaitlin, was ordered to carry Cipher...Daisy. She followed Alexandra through the compound quietly, arms and the front of her white shirt already coated with blood. She'd never get to wear this shirt again.
She wasn't surprised to find Madame Gao and her entourage already there and waiting for them. The two exchanged words before Madame Gao ordered her men to stay and guard the elevator. It was only Bobbi and three of Alexandra's men who stepped into the elevator behind two of The Hand leaders.
Bobbi stepped out of the elevator behind Alexandra and Madame Gao. They in the basement of Alexandra's California home. It was dark, cold and had enough space for what they were about to do. One man stayed behind to guard the elevator, and that was just fine with Bobbi.
The rounded the corner, and Alexandra flipped on the lights. They weren't too bright but they weren't too dim either. While the other two men began preparing the resurrection chamber, Bobbi took Daisy's body into the adjoining room. It was a bathroom suite complete, plain and cold.
Alexandra had already expressed everyone's roles prior to Madame Gao putting the plan in motion. Bobbi kept the door open as she laid the girl's body into the bathtub. She grabbed a pair of scissors and began cutting away Daisy's clothing.
Bobbi winced when the three puncture wounds came into view. She tossed aside the ruined clothing and turned on the faucet knowing that they were on a strict time limit. Alexandra wanted Daisy clean and properly prepared for her transformation. As the brunette carefully cleaned away the blood with her back to the open doorway, she discreetly activated her homing beacon on one of her batons by twisting the top notch twice to the left and once to the right.
Bobbi drained the red stained water and lifted Daisy out. Reminded herself that she didn't have to be gentle because she was dead but she just couldn't help but do it anyway. She wrapped Daisy's body in black satin as if she were a mummy before exiting the bathroom suit.
Alexandra came next to her to inspect Daisy for herself and hummed with approval, "Put her in, and be gentle! I don't want anymore damage to her body than necessary."
"Yes ma'am." Bobbi struggled to keep the disgust out of her tone as she lowered the hacker into the old enclosure and stepped back as the two men put the lid on it with a loud clank.
Bobbi stood back with Madame Gao and Alexandra as they all watched the Resurrection Elixir substance began to fill it up.
"How long do you suppose it will take?" Alexandra asked Madame Gao quietly.
"A few hours. Come...your security shall watch over her while we go discuss important matters."
Just then they heard a commotion come from above them, it was muffled but it sounded very much like an explosion. Bobbi pulled her pocket pistol out of her left boot and held both women at gunpoint. (Alexandra didn't allow for guns so she had to improvise).
Alexandra glared at Bobbi while Madame Gao merely tilted her head back at her, eyes flashing but Bobbi ignored them both, "On behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D, Madame Gao and Alexandra Reid, you're both under arrest drug trafficking, money laundering, murder and the list goes on. On the ground, hands behind your back! Now! Don't make me ask again. We can either do this the easy way or the hard way. Which is it?"
Of course no one moved but Bobbi never expected them to. She would've been sorely disappointed if they had listened to her and did as they were told. The two men came forward as they drew their katana's and the third came around the corner with his twin blades. Bobbi knew that she was on her own as the fight upstairs was still going strong, but she couldn't let these two women escape. She would make sure of it.
"I've waited a long time to meet The Black Sky. I will not let you people take this from me." Alexandra stepped forward, drawing a small dagger from her person while Madame Gao stood off to the side, but Bobbi knew it would be her fatal mistake if she labeled the woman as a non-threat.
"You and I both know how this will end, Reid."
"No, we do not. But let us find out, shall we?"
For a few tense moments, no one moved. Bobbi slowly put her gun in her belt choosing to conserve her eight bullets and pulled out her battle staves and got ready. "Hard way it is then."
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By the time Maria Hill and a select few of Agents made it down to the lower floor where Bobbi's home beacon signal was coming from, most of Alexandra's foot soldiers had been dealt with. There hadn't been any survivors unfortunately, none of them would surrender and those who had been detained—well, The Hand made sure that none of their soldiers would talk. It wasn't something that Maria Hill had seen everyday but she wasn't unfamiliar with the Cyanide Tooth.
Bobbi straightened up when the elevator doors opened, leaving Alexandra's own dagger in the woman's chest. Maria gesture for the other two S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent's to check for survivors as she went over to speak with her Agent but her eyes were steadily drawn to the concrete chamber on the other side of the room.
"Good job, Agent Morse. Are you hurt?"
Bobbi shook her head, "Cuts and bruises, Deputy Director. Madame Gao was here but she must've slipped out during the fight. I'm sorry I couldn't stop her."
Maria shook her head, "You did good work here, Agent. Madame Gao will be caught sooner or later. What about that over there?"
Bobbi sucked in a deep breath, "I have updates, ones you will want to hear in private ma'am."
Maria took note of Bobbi's tone and nodded, she would take the younger Agent's word for it, "Can we secure that thing for travel?"
"Yeah, I'll get right on that."
Maria waited until Bobbi left to give orders to the other S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents before crouching down over Alexandra's prone, dying body and she took the dagger out of the womans chest and tossed it somewhere behind her.
"You...you have no idea what you're going to be dealing with," Alexandra wheezed, eyes fluttering, "The Black Sky...you've no idea, Agent..."
Maria looked down at the woman, storing away the name for later in favor of another question, "Where is Madame Gao? Seems like she's left you here to die...again. But this time, you won't be coming back, will you? This is your last chance to die with a little bit of goodwill, Reid. Where is she?"
Alexandra's laugh was painful, but she never gave Maria an answer—she didn't have enough in her to, even if she did want to answer Maria's question. The Deputy Director rose to her feet with a heavy frustrated sigh.
She looked over to see that there were at least three yellow straps around the chamber keeping it closed with hooks on top for aerial transport. Fury wouldn't be happy that one leader was dead and the other one was on the run and warning the rest of The Hand.
"Alright, Agents lets clear out. The demolition crew is ten minutes out, and I would rather not be here when they get here."
Deputy Director Hill watched as they wheel the concrete assembly towards the elevator with Bobbi falling into step next to her. Maria was unwilling to let the thing out of her sight so they all were a little awkwardly cramped inside of the elevator all the way up to the roof where the S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet was waiting to take them to an undisclosed location. A location not even Fury knew about.
Bobbi and Maria stood aside quietly as the lower ranked Agent's secured Maria's new mission aboard the jet before Maria dismissed them to go help the clean up crew to find something helpful to finally take down The Hand for good, but she doubted that they would really find anything here.
"Where are you going to take her?" Bobbi asked after a few seconds of silence, knowing that she shouldn't be question the Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.L.D but she's been undercover with The Hand for a year. And she felt personally responsible for the girl's death, she figured she had a little right to know.
Maria looked at her coolly, "Somewhere private."
"Alone?" it didn't escape Bobbi's notice that Maria's Quinjet was suspiciously empty of other Agent's, "That seems a little dangerous."
"We do live dangerous lives, Agent Morse. But I do have to go soon. Those updates you mentioned; what are they?"
"I only found out about an hour or two ago, but that body you're taking to some dark hole? That's Cipher."
"What?! Agent Morse, are you absolutely positive? How did you come about this information?"
Bobbi sighed deeply, shaking her head, "I think Madame Gao figured it out first, I don't know—I was never given the explicit details but Alexandra said her name was Daisy. Daisy Skylar Johnson, also known as Cipher. Look, I just know that The Hand somehow knew who she really was and they were right. She froze instead of splitting like they thought she would. That's how Alexandra was able to get in the car so she could kill her."
Maria rubbed her forehead tiredly, shit. This was getting even more complicated than it already was and she wasn't sure how the hell Fury was going to take this new turn of events of the 'The Asset' he was already so fond of, "And her powers? You mentioned that she was enhanced? Did you ever figure out what they were?"
"Er, kind of...?" Bobbi shrugged unsure of how to explain exactly what Cipher had done while she had been dying, "There was an earthquake earlier..." she trailed off suggestively, and it took Maria all of five seconds to pick up on just what Bobbi was trying to hint at without actually saying it.
"It...that was Cipher?!"
"On her deathbed. Yeah."
"Is there anything else I should know?"
"You might wanna get going to wherever it is you're taking her. You have a few hours before she wakes up, maybe a day? You should warn whoever that she's gonna be really fucking hostile when she does."
Maria pinched the bridge of her nose, because that 'whoever' was going to be her. "Great. My day just keeps getting better and better." Maria cracked her neck, knowing that she was going to need a much needed nap, "You did good, Agent Morse. I'll log you in with two weeks of down time once I'm in the air."
"Thank you, Director Hill."
"Oh and Agent Morse?"
"Yeah?"
"Her being Cipher? Keep it out of your report, do you understand?"
Bobbi blinked at her boss, the same boss that was asking her to lie to her other boss. Their boss. And she didn't understand why, "Can I know why?"
"At this moment; no. But in time, you will understand why I'm asking you to do this, Agent Morse."
Bobbi wanted to push, and she knew she had every advantage to do so, but she respected Maria Hill, and she even trusted her more than she did Fury often. She held the older Agent's gaze carefully then stiffly nodded, "I expect an answer later, Agent Hill."
Maria nodded quietly, grateful, before she walked up the ramp of her Quinjet and waited until the ramp was closed before letting her cold persona drop. Allowing the dread and uncertainty to take over her mind for a split second. This was her mission now, her responsibility.
She knew that Fury needed to know that his new 'favorite toy' was the one who had been giving him and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D pure hell in the past few years. And she would tell him. When Cipher...no Daisy Skylar Johnson was presentable. Presentable to the point that he would overlook her past misdeeds—it was a shot in the dark, but it was a shot she was willing to gamble.
Once they were high enough into the air on a ghost route to her secret safe house, Maria put the Quinjet on autopilot and signed onto her tablet. She put in her report to Fury that she had the asset and was going off the grid for a while before signing off, not bothering to wait for his reply.
She began searching about The Black Sky on google, because as much as she hated to admit it. Alexandra Reid was right, she didn't have much of an idea of what she was getting into, not yet. Maria clicked on the first link and hunkered down in the pilots seat and began reading the old Chinese folklore.
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