The Perfect One

by choejhulkp9

SHIELD. The Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division protects the world from a much weirder one. But they soon meet someone with a unique ability set that makes him a force of nature. One of Earth's mightiest heroes will turn into its last hope from total annihilation. You don't mess with Inhuman perfection.

6. No peaceful vacation

Here is Chapter 6 of the Perfect One. In the aftermath of the Battle of New York, The Avengers have gone their separate ways and adjust to a world where everyone now knows that they and SHIELD exist. The cat's out of the bag. But Will's been given some well deserved time off which he uses to finally get some answers out of Fury about Carol Danvers and what really happened in the 90s. But it's not all bad…scratch that, it sucks because he takes it upon himself to end a serial killer's reign and bring justice to a lot of people. Enjoy!

The Perfect One: Not even vacation time is peaceful

May 2012: Atlantic City, New Jersey

The Battle of New York is over and the whole world witnessed an alien army invade and try to take over the planet. But the planet was saved by a group of heroes known as the Avengers. It marked a vital chapter in history as that event was solid proof to the rest of the world that there was life in space, and they were hostile. It also gave them a group of protectors comprised of Earth's Mightiest Heroes. SHIELD has been revealed to the world and was now the lead organization to deal with anything and everything strange or odd. It's been a week since the battle of New York and cleanup of the battle was nearly complete. People didn't think it would be done so fast, but SHIELD worked overtime to clean up everything as well as the Department of Damage Control and Stark Industries. The reconstruction of the city would take some time as well as the recovery of those injured and those who lost loved ones in the battle. Memorials were set up throughout the city for those that were lost during the battle and so that they would never be forgotten.

The media was a firestorm following the battle with amateur footage of Iron Man and the Hulk fighting aliens or of Aegis flying the nuke through the portal. There were interviews with people who witnessed the battle and sang praise for the Avengers for saving them while there were people who had justifiable fears and uneasiness about the whole thing and the secrets being kept. The political world was also turned on its head with the Battle of New York. Any political figure with a smidge of power commented on the Avengers with Senator Stern in particular throwing shade at them. Given he was the one who tried to take Tony's Iron Man suits it was no surprise, but SHIELD was protecting them for now.

Will was enjoying every minute of his vacation after the exhaustion of the Chitauri invasion. Unlike the other members of the team, Will's identity was a secret. To the rest of the world and most of SHIELD, Aegis was a mysterious enhanced individual and was supposedly under the direct command of Director Fury. Tony Stark was known to the world as Iron Man and Captain America was celebrity from the 40s. Thor was a god from another planet and Widow and Hawkeye's faces were known to the world now. Will work a mask during the whole battle so no one knew Aegis's face. With SHIELD, all of Will's information on his powers and Aegis identity was locked under a level 10 security clearance that could only be accessed by Director Fury. Even on missions, anyone who has ever seen him use his powers or knew Aegis's identity was ordered by Director Fury himself to never speak of it again. Will enjoyed the fact that he could enjoy a regular life outside of the mask and not be hounded by people like Tony endured on a regular basis but now that the world knew of Aegis, he needed to make sure that no one could make the connection that it was him. So, unless Aegis was ordered specifically for a mission by Director Fury or Commander Hill, Will would just operate as a regular SHIELD agent.

He got back from a trip to Portland, Oregon to pay his respects to Audrey Nathan, Coulson's girlfriend. She was distraught over his death and he wanted to pay his respects and help her. He was currently at home, having just gotten out of the shower and getting ready to get some breakfast at Maria's. He sent his Aegis gear to Tony who asked for them because he was going to do another upgrade. Will was in the mood for a garbage omelet, extra bacon on the side, side of rye toast and a glass of fresh squeeze orange juice along with Maria's famous coffee for breakfast. He got out the shower and dressed in converse sneaker, blue jeans, and a form fitting blue t-shirt. He grabbed his spare Glock 17 pistol and slipped it into the holster in the back of his jeans and put this shirt over so no one would see it. He grabbed his motorcycle helmet and the keys to the black and red 1970 Harley Davison Titan V-rod Motorcycle. He decided to take the bike instead of his dad's pickup. He was thinking of buying another car, but he'd do it another time. He drove to Maria's and parked his bike outside. He turned off the engine and took his helmet off when he noticed a SHIELD style Chevy Suburban parked down the street. He walked in to see the place was busy and stocked up with no empty seats at the counter.

"Hey, Will. Long time no see." Grace greeted him as she walked over with a coffee pot. Grace has been a waitress at Maria's for a long time and since Will has been here for years growing up, he knew her very well.

"Hey, Grace. You got room for one?" He asked. She nodded and grabbed a menu and the coffee pot.

"Come on." She escorted him through the small diner to an empty booth in the corner. "I haven't seen you in a while, Will. Work keeping you busy?"

"Yeah, a lot of traveling recently but I'm back for now." He said, grabbing the menu, and sitting down in the booth. He held out the coffee cup and Grace filled it up for him.

"Glad to have you back. Place isn't the same without you and your merry band of misfits running around. How are they? I saw Grant and Daisy in here a week ago." Grace said, taking out her order pad and a pen.

"They're doing good. I check on them all the time and they're doing better. All busy with work and stuff." Will said as she nodded.

"Ok, what can I get you? We're running a special. The Heroes of New York breakfast platter has the Iron Man Taylor Ham topped over-easy eggs, the Hulk spinach and hash browns, The Widow and Hawkeye red-eye gravy and grits, with the Aegis Espresso and the Captain America smoothie." Grace told him and Will had to withhold laughing outloud from hearing that.

"No, I'm ok. I'll just take the garbage omelet, extra bacon on the side, side of Rye Toast and your famous orange juice." Will ordered and Grace wrote that all down.

"All right, I'll get it out to you as soon as possible." Grace left leaving Will to enjoy some peace and quiet. He took a sip of coffee and grabbed the newspaper to read over the headlines which were about the clean-up in the city and everything Tony was doing. He turned the page to read the sports when he heard some footsteps come up and someone sit down in the booth across from him.

"I'd ask how you knew I'd be here, but I know better than that now." Will turned the page as another waitress came by and poured another cup of coffee for his guest. "I've been trying to get in contact with you for the last week and got nothing. Not even from Hill. Where were you?"

"Taking care of some business, Agent Detmer. I come and go as I please." Will put the paper down and saw Fury sitting across from him, wearing regular civilians clothes. "And last I checked as the Director of SHIELD, I don't need to inform my agents of where I go."

"Guess not." Will replied, taking a sip of coffee. "So what? You came by to tell me that we can't talk or just to check up on me?"

"I came by because the last time I was here there was some French Toast on the menu that I was interested in." Fury said as he looked at the menu. "All the fancy, posh, and expensive meals in the world and nothing's better than scratched cooked American classics at an affordable price."

A waitress came by and took Fury's order. "You can't deflect and ignore me as much as you want, Director but I won't stop until I find out the truth." Will told him.

"Sounds to me like you already knew plenty." Fury replied.

"But there are still gaps that need to be filled." Will told him. "I learned enough but there's still a lot you never told me, and I think I have a right to know the truth about my own birthmother."

"It's called compartmentalization. It's the basis of SHIELD's entire organization and structure. I told you what you were ready to hear and that it." Fury explained.

"Well, I'm ready to know more. I deserve to know more. What happened in 1995?" Will asked as Fury took a sip of coffee.

"What happened was I learned a lesson that the rest of the world learned a week ago: that despite all our advance technology and weapons, heroes are the best defense for mankind." Fury said. "If you would have told me that one woman would have changed my idea of planetary defense then I would have turned in my badge that day. Glad I was proven wrong. But first things first, tell me how you even knew I was hiding information from you?"

"It was during my astral projection episode. When I interfaced with Loki's scepter, it granted me a power boost." Will said as he levitated the sugar container over to his cup of coffee without even looking or moving his hand which is something Fury never saw before. Fury always saw Will would use his hands to direct his powers, but he was now able to do it without even looking at what he was moving. "The power boost is what let me keep up the pressure when the Chitauri invaded but it also let me dive deep into the memories of the team…including you. Guess my upgrade let me bypass your electronic interference bugs but knowing you, you'll devise something more powerful to counteract it."

"You'd be right about that." Fury replied. "Nothing that is discussed here will ever be spoken of again, is that understood?"

"Even the Flerk—"" Especially that." Fury cut him off instantly. "Only one other person in SHIELD knew the truth of what happened that day."

"Coulson." Will said and Fury nodded.

"Even then, Coulson knew very little. Only what I told him." Fury said.

"Why am I not surprised." Will commented. "What happened that day in 1995?"

"We were called in to investigate an O-8-4 in Los Angeles? Coulson and I were just agents back then and we got reports of an object falling from the sky and landing in a Blockbuster. When we arrived, we saw a woman dressed in a green/blue combat uniform, calling herself Veers of the Kree Starforce. She had your sense of humor." Fury said and Will perked up when he heard Fury mention the Kree.

"Kree? Kree as in the Kree empire?" Will asked and Fury nodded, wondering how he knew about that.

"I thought she was a few braincells short of full functioning and when she mentioned shapeshifting Skrulls I didn't think she was serious. I had dealt with Cold War spies and North Korean agents attempting an invasion of Washington DC and never did I think that the future enemy of SHIELD would come from the sky. But when I saw a Skrull fire an energy rifle at me and Carol blast apart a concrete roof with a photon blast I became a believer. I saw her in action, and I saw the body of the Skrull as well." Fury told him as Grace came by with the food and placed it down in front of them. Fury spread the whip cream on his French Toast while Will took a bite of his omelet with everyone else in the diner completely oblivious to the conversation they were having. "At first, she seemed to be right about the Skrulls and the thought of a secret invasion made me think she could be the key to stopping them. I tracked her down and we went to Project Pegasus for answers on someone named Dr. Lawson."

"The woman who recruited Carol Danvers for the project she was working on." Will said and Fury nodded.

"She was working on something called a lightspeed engine and it's at Project Pegasus that we learned your mother knew her years ago but with no memory of how, we tracked down the next person who could tell us." Fury said.

"Maria Rambeau. My mother's co-pilot and friend in Louisiana. There you learned that Carol was human all those years ago, was recruited for Project Pegasus and had me a year before she disappeared and there you learned that the Skrull might not be the bad guys." Will added in, surprising Fury with what he knew.

"Right. It turns out the Kree are more like the Chitauri and invade planets. They nearly decimated the Skrulls and Professor Lawson was a Kree defector who was trying to help them find a new planet. She was building them a ship to help them find a new planet and its power source was-"" The Tesseract. That I know. Along with Carol saving your butt, Goose eating the Tesseract and then scratching your eye out. Which by the way, was pretty funny." Will joked and Fury just gave him his patented death glare, so he quickly shut up. "And I know she beat the Kree back and the last memory I saw was of her and you watching over me when I was a kid."

"She left with the Skrulls to find them a new home. Leaving you again was the hardest thing she ever had to do." Fury said.

"I want to speak to her." Will said and Fury gave him a look.

"And what makes you think I would have a way to make that happen?" Fury asked, taking a sip of coffee.

"Because I know you well enough that you wouldn't have let her leave earth without some way to talk to her." Will pointed out.

"You're right and I do but it's only to be used for emergencies." Fury replied.

"And the Chitauri invasion wasn't one of them?" Will made a valid argument.

"I figured that her son would be able to handle it." Fury explained his reasoning for not calling Carol back to earth. "She's halfway across the galaxy and by the time she did come it would have been too late. I designed the Avenger Initiative, so we didn't have to rely on one woman to save us. I had faith that her son would rise up to the occasion and you did. But I can't contact her for a chat, and she told me that I was to do so only if something serious comes up. I hope to never have to use it."

"So much for a family reunion." Will said as he took a bite of toast. "Where do you think she is now?"

"I don't know but wherever she is, she must be doing something important." Fury told him. "I told you everything about Carol that you deserved to know. Never think you can order information like this from me again, Agent Detmer."

"You know, it's kind of hard to take you seriously after seeing you before you were Director." Will said as Fury gave him another death glare. "Understood, Director. And thank you for looking after me."

Fury didn't say anything but gave a subtle nod. That was Fury's way of saying your welcome. "Now, do you plan on sharing anything with me, Agent Detmer?" Fury asked.

"No." Will replied, eating more of his omelet.

"Really, anything about how you got that tattoo on your arm and what it has to do with your super soldier upgrade? Or better yet, the reason you perked up when I mentioned your mother was a member of the Kree Starforce or did you think I missed that?" Fury asked.

"Was kind of hoping that you would." Will replied, eating another strip of bacon. "It's information I'd rather keep to myself, Director."

"And I'm prepared to remove all your SHIELD access and stick you in a padded cell unless you tell me the truth, Agent Detmer. I've given you more freedom than any other agent in SHIELD, but my good grace has its limits. Tell me the truth." Fury warned him and Will knew Fury would go through with that threat. And having SHIELD and Fury as an enemy was not going to help anything. He needed Fury on his side because he kept the World Security Council off his back and in the aftermath of the Battle of New York, that would be a necessity.

"What I'm about to tell you is never mentioned again, put in any report, or anything like that. It dies here. That's my only condition." Will told him and Fury thought about it for a moment. Fury took a sip of coffee and looked at him.

"Done." Fury replied as Will sighed in relief.

"All right. We've been invisible since we've gotten here, and no one has batted an eye at us but for this I can't take any chances." Will's eyes flickered blue and everyone in the restaurant froze. Fury looked and everyone was frozen in place like someone pressed pause. He saw a waitress frozen in place after putting a coffee cup down, a man with a fork frozen halfway in his mouth and a small child frozen mid-sneeze. "New trick. Everyone here is still alive but mentally and physically frozen. No chance of someone eaves dropping on us here."

"There are just more surprises with you that I'm not surprised anymore." Fury replied. "Now explain."

"Ok, it happened when I first got my powers but I wasn't able to make sense of it until I got a better handle on them." Will told Fury, stretching the truth a tiny bit. "It must have been some kind of genetic memory hidden in my alien-DNA when I underwent my transformation but it filled in a lot of blanks on how I have my powers and why this happened to me."

"What kind of genetic memory?" Fury asked.

"The kind that proves that earth had alien contact long before 1995 or even 1989." Will told him and Fury listened intently. "Your story wasn't the first time I ever heard of the Kree, because the Kree race are the reason I'm like this. Thousands of years ago, the Kree were locked in a deadly intergalactic war with another species, probably the Skrull. They were taking heavy losses so the Kree science division began work on a super soldier project that would give them an edge in combat but rather than subject their own kind to the horrors of the project they went out to other planets and did the experiments on the local population. Earth happened to be one of them."

"What happened?" Fury asked.

"The Kree used their own blood along with other metamorphic compounds to mutate the local population in an effort to create super soldiers for their war but those experiments failed on every planet except for earth. On earth, the experiments needed to be stopped. The science division went rogue and began building cities and expanding the experiments, until another Kree faction shut them down. They left the planet and put that bloody chapter behind them." Will told Fury.

"And the changed humans…you're one of them." Fury said and Will nodded.

"We call ourselves Inhumans. That was the name given to my ancestors who have the Inhuman gene. When the Kree left, the Inhumans interbred with regular humans and the gene was passed down." Will said.

"Then why aren't there more…Inhumans like you running around with abilities?" Fury asked.

"Because an Inhuman transformation can only be triggered by a metamorphic compound known as Terrigen. It's a small blue crystal that releases a mist and puts the Inhuman through Terrigenesis. Only after that does an Inhuman acquire abilities or change. It's why there aren't other people with abilities running around. It's not triggered by puberty or stress but Terrigen." Will told him.

"The meteor you said crashed down that changed you?" Fury asked.

"That was Primagen, a more advanced and purer version of Terrigen. It can unlock a greater Terrigenesis in an Inhuman. It's why my abilities are much more powerful but I'm the only one and the Primagen turned to dust after it changed me. It's powerful but unstable after one use. I'm the only Primagen Inhuman on this planet." Will told him. "But I wasn't the first. On Rook Island, I found cave drawings and had a vision of another Primagen Inhuman years ago who was transformed. It's how I got this."

Will gestured to the tattoo on his left arm. "The ink activated with my Inhuman DNA but once I found out the truth, I destroyed and buried any evidence of it." Will told him.

"And other…Inhumans on earth?" Fury asked.

"Just normal humans with a unique potential that could be activated. Edi estimates that 1 in 100 could have an Inhuman gene but without Terrigen, they're human." Will informed him. "After I learned the truth, I spent every free second I could to track down any remnants of Terrigen or Diviners but found nothing yet. To be honest, I've been looking everywhere with no idea what to look for. It was millennia ago so I'm not even sure where to start."

"We handle it like any potential O-8-4 or Index evaluation. From now on, you'll be the lead agent with any potential finding regarding enhanced individuals or ancient relics. If there is more Terrigen out there, we can't risk it falling into the wrong hands and creating more people like you who would use their powers for the wrong reasons." Fury told him.

"Yes, sir but I think it'll be odd if you have a level 6 operative acting as lead agent on something important like an Index evaluation." Will pointed out.

"It would but not a level 7 operative." Fury informed him and Will nodded. He just got a promotion.

"Roger that." Will replied.

"Is there any chance the Kree will come back to Earth for you?" Fury asked.

"For me, I don't think so. The Kree thought the Inhuman experiment was an abomination and think they wiped us out. They have no reason to think another one is alive now." Will replied. "If anything, they'd probably be more interested in Earth after the Battle of New York but even then I don't think they'd come all the way back here. But if they do, then they're gonna be in for a sorry surprise."

"Yes they will. This stays between us." Fury said and Will nodded in understanding. Will began to suspect that he really was one of the few people the Fury actually trusted. Fury paid for his meal and Will did the same, ending the mental freeze on the denizens of the restaurant and they went about everything like nothing changed. Some noticed some odd things but didn't pay Will or Fury any more attention. Will grabbed his helmet and walked over to his bike when Fury signaled him over. Will walked over to Fury's SUV and wondered what else he had to tell him. Fury opened the passenger side door and to his surprise, saw a fluffy pet pillow and Goose laying there.

"Goose?" Will was shocked to see the cat there. Once Goose saw him, he jumped from the pillow and walked up to him. Goose sniffed him a bit before letting out a happy meow and rubbing up against him like he did to Carol in the memory he saw. Will knelt and scratched Goose behind the ears and under the chin and if the purrs were any indication then Goose was happy. "Where have you been all this time?"

"With me." Fury said, walking over to the trunk and taking out a large duffel bag. "After Carol left and Goose swallowed the Tesseract, I felt it was best to keep him close."

"And now that I'm here, you want to hand him over? Why me?" Will asked as Fury dropped the duffel bag next to him.

"Because you're the closest thing Goose has to family with Carol gone." Fury told him. Will scratched Goose on the head and Goose happily meowed and nuzzled into his hand.

"And because you don't want another scratch fest and figured handing off a Flerken to a super-powered Inhuman is the best option." Will said. Fury didn't respond and got into the car.

"Enjoy your vacation while it lasts. I expect you ready to be in business when you come back. The world's just gotten a lot weirder." Fury said before rolling up his window and driving away.

"You have no idea how right you are." Will said to himself. He looked down at Goose and activated his telepathy. His eyes glowed blue for a second as did Goose's which indicated he performed a mind-link with the Flerken. It would allow Will to understand him as if he was speaking English. "So, Goose I have to ask…why did you scratch Fury in the eye?"

[Meow] Goose replied, and Will understood him. Pretty much, he didn't like the way Fury was holding him.

"Good to know. I won't hold you like that." Will said, picking Goose up and getting him comfortable in his arms. He opened the duffel bag and saw it was filled with Goose's bed and other cat items. "All right, let's get you home and then we'll go shopping for dinner."

[Meow] Goose replied, saying awesome.

Will got on his bike and got Goose situated as best he could so he didn't fall off. He drove as slow as possible so Goose didn't fly away and took him home. He set up Goose's bed and toys in his bedroom and once that was done, Will took his dad's truck and drove him and Goose to the farmers market to buy food. Since Goose was a Flerken and not an earth cat, he wasn't restricted by the same cat laws meaning he could eat whatever he wanted for food and not risk being sick like an earth cat would end up.

He strolled through the farmers market with Goose by his side as if he were a dog which drew a few odd glances from people but other than that they didn't pay him a second thought. He got some fresh vegetables, fruits, got some fresh bread and some steak and then stopped at the fish monger where Mr. Davidson, owner and operator of Davidson Fishing Company was there like he always was for the past 50 years. "Hey, Will. Haven't seen you in a while." Mr. Davidson greeted him as he finished with his customer.

"Hey, Mr. Davidson. It's good to see you." Will said as Goose jumped up a stool so he could see all the fresh fish and choose what he wanted for dinner.

"Oh, who's the little guy?" Mr. Davidson asked.

"This is Goose. I'm just here to pick up some food and figured fish would be nice and get him a treat as well." Will said. He looked at Goose who was eyeing the salmon. "Ok, I'll take a pound of the fresh salmon, a pound of the yellowfin tuna, and one Spanish mackerel."

[Meow] Goose meowed and looked at him causing Will to sigh. "Make that two Spanish Mackerels." Will said and Mr. Davidson got to work.

"Sure thing." Mr. Davidson took out the fish and began preparing them for Will. "I never knew you were a cat person."

"Neither did I but I like the little guy. He's family." Will scratched Goose on the head who purred.

"Very well behaved cat." Mr. Davidson commented. He began filleting the tuna and salmon. He cut off a two little pieces of the tuna, put it on a piece of parchment paper and handed it to Will. Will took one to eat and put the other one down so Goose could eat it. Goose happily crawled over and ate up the piece of tuna as Will scratched him behind the ears. Mr. Davidson finished up with the order and Will paid him. "There you go. It was nice to see you, Will. Don't be a stranger."

"Thanks, Mr. Davidson." Will bid him adieu and went home with Goose, made dinner and the Flerken happily ate its full of tuna. After dinner, Will got ready for bed and slipped under the covers when Goose jumped up and curled up on the pillow next to him. "Good night, Goose."

[Meow] Goose bid him a good night and they both went to bed.

Line Break xxxxx

Will woke up the next morning and saw Goose asleep in his bed, curled up on a pillow. Will carefully got out, so he didn't disturb the Flerken and took a shower. He cleaned up and got dressed in his regular casual clothes and saw Goose wake up. "Hey, buddy. How'd you sleep?" Will asked, scratching Goose behind the ears.

[Meow] Goose stretched a bit and jumped off the bed. He slept great last night.

"All right, let's eat some breakfast." Will and Goose walked into the kitchen. Will grabbed some bacon, bread, eggs, and leftover salmon along with some other ingredients. He cooked up some eggs with the leftover salmon, onions, and herbs to make a scramble along with a side of bacon and toast. He chopped up some extra salmon for Goose and used his powers to turn on the coffee machine. Goose sat on the kitchen counter, patiently waiting for his meal as Will finished cutting up the fish and putting it in a bowl for the Flerken. He levitated a coffee cup from the cabinet and placed it down on the table. He tended to his scramble, adding in the eggs and without looking, levitated the coffee pot into the air and poured some coffee into his cup before putting it back and levitating the milk and sugar over and adding it to his coffee. He grabbed two slices of bread and threw it over his shoulder with both slices expertly landing in the toaster. Goose walked over and pressed down the toast lever.

Will fried up the bacon and plated it along with his scramble when the toast popped up done. He levitated it out of the toaster and onto his plate. He grabbed a fork and knife and sat down at the counter to eat with Goose. Goose began chewing up the fish as Will took a sip of coffee when his phone beeped. He checked it and the house's security system picked up an unknown energy signature. After his initial interaction/kidnapping by Triton to Attilan, Will installed a state-of-the-art security system with a sensor system that could pick up explosive, detonation, and communication frequencies with security cameras along the perimeter that he could control with his phone. His sensor system picked up some kind of energy frequency outside in the backyard. He held out his right hand and the hallway closet opened up to show a regular closet but then the false back slid open to reveal his secret armory. His HK pistol shot into his hand and he quickly moved to the back door. He opened the door with his gun pointed forward ready to act at whatever was happening but stopped himself because he saw it was Crystal and Lockjaw.

"Crystal?" Will walked out into the backyard, not expecting to see her there. He holstered his gun in his belt as Crystal rushed over and hugged him. "Whoa, what's wrong?"

"The seers showed us the Chitauri invasion. All that death and destruction. It was horrible." Crystal said.

"Yeah, you have no idea. But things worked out for the best." Will told her. "How much did the seers show you?"

"A lot. We saw the portal open up and the horde of Chitauri pour through. I tried to convince Black Bolt that we should come down and help but he wouldn't." Crystal said as Will hugged her.

"It's fine. It's a good thing that you didn't because the Inhuman's sudden arrival would have complicated things. The Avengers and I handled it." Will assured her. "But thank you. I can't believe you came all this way to check up on me. I'm very flattered."

Lockjaw came over and licked his face, causing him to chuckle. "And I'm glad to see you here as well, Lockjaw. Did Black Bolt send you?"

"No, we came alone. Black Bolt and Medusa don't know we're here." Crystal told him.

"I thought you weren't supposed to come to earth." Will said and she nodded.

"We're not." Crystal replied. "But after seeing what happened, I wanted to make sure you were ok."

"I'm much better now that you're here." Will said to her and she smiled. "Since you're here, let me show you what earth is like. Think of it like your own min-vacation."

"That sounds great." She replied.

"Come on." Will escorted her into the house when he saw Lockjaw walk up and knew he wouldn't fit. "Sorry, Lockjaw. We make doggie doors but not your size."

Lockjaw barked before vanishing and teleporting inside the house right into the living. Room. "Or we could do that." Will said.

"So, this is your home?" Crystal walked around at the place.

"Yup. I grew up here. It's mine now." Will told her as she smiled at how small and quaint it was compared to Attilan. She walked over to the wall where some pictures were hung up that showed his childhood ranging from his preschool years up to his time at college. "It must be strange seeing all this. It's a lot different from Attilan, isn't it?"

"Very." Crystal walked over to the kitchen counter, smelling something delicious when she saw the Flerken and instantly backed up. "What is that doing here?"

"Who, Goose?" Will asked, walking over and scratched Goose behind the ears. "He's my friend."

"Will, that's not a simple house cat. You have no idea how dangerous it is." Crystal warned him and Lockjaw growled at Goose who was unamused and began to clean himself.

"You mean that he's a Flerken?" Will asked and Crystal was shocked that he knew what a Flerken was. "Don't worry about Goose. He's family and he likes me. You don't have anything to worry about. Right, Goose?"

[Meow] Goose replied, saying ok as he got back to work cleaning himself.

"It's ok, Crystal. Goose is family." Will assured her. He pulled out a chair for her and she hesitated for a bit before sitting down at the kitchen counter, wary of the Flerken. "Don't worry. Here, since you're here on earth, allow me to introduce you to earth food."

He grabbed some cups from the cabinet and opened the fridge to pull out some orange juice. He poured one cup with juice and another with coffee. "Here." Will handed the cup as Crystal looked over the orange liquid. "It's orange juice. It's something that everyone enjoys."

Crystal took a sip and her eyes went wide-eyed from the taste causing Will to chuckle. He grabbed bowel from the cabinet and poured some for Lockjaw as the large dog easily gobbled it up. "This is amazing." Crystal said, drinking all of it very quickly.

"Take it easy. This is barely the beginning. There's a lot of earth I have to introduce you to." Will said, taking the fork, and putting some of the scramble on it. "Here, try this."

Crystal took the fork and ate some of Will's breakfast and she was in love. "This is amazing. We don't have eggs on Attilan." Crystal told her as Will took a bite of toast.

"Yeah, I figured that based on the vegetable soup I had there." Will said, giving Lockjaw the other piece of toast and the large dog happily ate it up. "And I'm guessing you don't have fish either."

"No, we don't." Crystal happily ate the scramble and it was the most delicious thing she had in a long time. The one thing earth had on Attilan was food. She looked and saw another cup with a black liquid. "What's this?"

"This is coffee. Pretty much the lifeblood for many people on the planet. Here, try it." Will took a sip of his coffee as Crystal picked up and took a sip, wincing at the bitter taste which made him chuckle. "Yeah, it's bitter the first time you try it. Adding in some milk and sugar helps with that."

Will poured in a little milk and added some sugar to the coffee and Crystal took another sip but still winced. "It'll take some getting used to." Will told her.

"I'm not sure if I want to." She replied. "I would see what the Seers show us of earth, and never did I think I'd ever be here."

"Well, this is just my house. If you really want to experience earth, then we need to go outside." Will gestured to the front door. "Come on, you got to show me around Attilan, I'll show you around earth."

Crystal smiled and walked over with him to the front door and Lockjaw followed them when Will stopped. "Sorry, Lockjaw. There are dogs here but you're too big for earth standards."

Lockjaw whimpered at not being able to come so Crystal rubbed him on the head. "Sorry, Lockjaw." Crystal kissed him on the head.

"You can stay here so long as you don't trash the place. Hang on." Will quickly went to the bathroom and filled up the bathtub with water. "The bathtub's filled with water if you get thirsty and I'll bring back something for you to eat. What can Lockjaw eat?"

"He can eat anything. He's not like an earth dog." Crystal replied.

"All right. I'll bring back something for you. Just relax here and get some rest." Will said. Lockjaw barked and licked him on the face before moving over to the living room and getting comfortable on the rug and laying down. "Goose, stay here and don't cause any ruckus."

[Meow] Goose replied, saying ok as he got back to cleaning himself.

"Well, Princess Crystal, shall we?" Will held out arm and Crystal hooked hers with his. He grabbed his keys and helmet and they walked out the front door to his motorcycle.

"What is this?" She asked as Will put the helmet on her head.

"It's a motorcycle." Will got on the motorcycle, inserted the keys and turned on the ignition and it roared to life. She was intrigued with the motorcycle, having seen it a lot in the video transmissions they intercept from the satellites orbiting the planet. It was a little low-tech but intriguing, nonetheless. "Get on."

She hesitated for a bit, trying to figure out how to get on but remembered what she always saw on those old videos and did the same thing, getting behind Will. "Now what?" She asked, her voice muffled a bit from the helmet.

"Now, just hold on." Will pulled up the motorcycle's kickstand and drove from his house to the boardwalk. Crystal nearly fell off during the initial acceleration but quickly wrapped her arms around Will's midsection and held on tight.

"Is this safe?" She asked and Will chuckled.

"It is. Don't worry and hold on tight!" Will shouted, kicking up the speed and heading towards the boardwalk. He drove through the suburbs and Crystal saw how open spaced everything is. She was accustomed to growing up in Attilan and while it did have its open spaces, it was nothing compared to what she's seen so far. She looked around in amazement as Will drove them in one direction and she noticed more cars and the area around them change a bit. She began to see more tall buildings, people walking around and enjoying the weather and she saw something in the distance. She saw large structures in the distance that she didn't recognize but also noticed that the closer they got, the more people there seemed to be.

Will drove them down a road close to the water and parked his bike in an empty space on the side of the road. He took his keys and helped Crystal off the bike, taking the helmet off her head and putting it back on his bike in one of the compartments on the side saddlebag. Crystal smoothed out her hair and looked around.

"Where are we?" She asked.

"The Boardwalk. Come on." Will led her to the Boardwalk and she saw it was like all the pictures she saw on his phone. There were stores lit up with lights with a lot of humans ranging from small children to grandparents enjoying themselves with games or food. "What do you think?"

"There's a lot of activity here." Crystal was a little unsure of everything here but that ended when Will held her hand.

"Don't worry. I'm right here." Will led her through the Boardwalk and showed her the sights. He showed her the old James Candy Company and had a blast showing her all the flavors of salt water taffy. She was a bit apprehensive of eating something with salt water but he assured her it was just a name. After her first bite she was hooked and they walked out with a large bag of assorted flavors. He noticed Crystal was still a little shell-shocked with all of this so he took her to the end of the boardwalk pier where the two could have a moment of peace. "Everything ok?"

She shrugged her shoulders as she looked out at the ocean. "Everything here just seems so…chaotic." She told him.

"At first it may seem crazy but when you take a closer look, you see there's some balance and order. The boardwalk…" Will gestured around them. "…it can seem chaotic and crazy at times but when you take a step back, you'll see patterns."

"Like what?" She asked.

"Well, the small and orderly flow of lines at concession stands or the tourists walking all along the pier. Sure, it may seem like they're going nowhere but nothing is random. Everything has an underlying cause. It just takes a second to find it." Will told her. "It's called controlled chaos. If things really were crazy, then this place would be a madhouse and it's not. There's an underlying understanding of how things work here. I guess when you grow up somewhere, it's just second nature. A lot of earth is like that. Take the ocean for example."

Crystal looked out to the ocean and saw the waves crashing against the sand. "It may seem chaotic and unorganized but there's a structure to it." He told her.

"I can control the elements, but this…there is so much water, it looks like it keeps coming towards us." Crystal said, causing Will to chuckle.

"It's just the tide. The ocean rises and falls by slight variations in gravity between the earth, the sun and the moon." Will told her which surprised her. "It may seem chaotic but it's a set balance and order that been around for as long as the planet. Nothing like Attilan."

"No. Everything there was very organized and controlled." She told him.

"Yeah, and zero fun." He told her as she gave him a funny look. "Oh come on, admit it. Before I got there, you just had Lockjaw. There's nothing wrong with a little fun every now and then. It's why you came here, isn't it? To have some fun?"

"Maybe." She replied, playfully bumping shoulders with him. She looked out to the city in awe when she remembered the footage of the invasion. "It's hard to believe that your people experienced their first alien encounter and they go about their lives like nothing happened."

"Oh, I wouldn't say like nothing happened." Will said as she looked at him. "It's true, the Chitauri invasion was definitely an eye opener for the world. Singular proof that we're not alone in the galaxy and if things had gone differently, a lot of people would be more on edge but they're not because of the efforts of me and my team."

"Your Inhuman team?" She asked but he shook his head no.

"I'm the only Inhuman on Earth. The rest of my team are just unique individuals like me. The planet and its people are a lot weirder than Black Bolt might think." He told her. "Anyway, it's not just my team that keeps everyone safe. After the Battle of New York, pretty much every single government organization is putting their resources into planetary defense to make sure something like this doesn't happen again. And SHIELD is monitoring them all to make sure nothing bad happens and the alien technology doesn't end up in the wrong hands. That'd be a massive headache the world doesn't need."

"The seers show us a lot of earth and we've seen all the pain and violence." Crystal said.

"Unfortunately, the cycle of violence seems to be something that's bred into every single species in the galaxy. Humans aren't any different but with the Chitauri invasion, it just made things a lot more complicated." Will said. "But it's my job and the work SHIELD and I do help keeps people safe."

"But they don't know it was you. You wore your mask the entire time." She said and he nodded.

"And I want to keep it that way. I don't need all that attention and if anything, it'd make my job harder. To the rest of the world, Aegis and Will Detmer are two different people." Will told her but she was a bit confused on the whole thing. "And I see that I confused you."

"A little. We don't have to worry about such a thing on Attilan. We're proud of our Inhuman heritage." Crystal told him. "It's something you shouldn't be ashamed of."

"And I'm not." Will told her. "True, when I first found out I was different I didn't handle it the best way but it's a part of who I am now and I'm not ashamed of it whatsoever. But I've also lived on earth my entire life and watched enough sci-fi movies to know what would happen if I proclaimed to the world that I was half-alien."

"What would happen?" She asked.

"I'd end up in a government lab with scientists poking and prodding me to figure out how I can do the things I can do." He told her. "People are afraid of what they don't understand, and the world doesn't need that right now. I'm better off in the shadows without people knowing who Aegis really is. The only thing I need is knowing that these people are safe. It's the whole point of SHIELD, to protect people."

"Well, the humans are lucky to have you." Crystal said with a smile. "I still think you'd be happier in Attilan being around people like you."

"Maybe, but I think if you get to know Earth more that you'll like it here." Will told her. "We may be Inhumans but a part of us is still human."

"I'm not sure how a lot of people in Attilan would view that." Crystal replied.

"Well, we take it one day at a time. And I'm glad you came down here." Will said with a smile of his own. "You think this can be a regular thing?"

"I'm not sure. Medusa can be so overprotective." Crystal reminded him.

"True, but you also have a teleporting dog and will be visiting one of the heroes who protected the planet. Something tells me that she'll be a little at ease if you're here with me." He told her and she smiled.

"Maybe. I wouldn't mind coming back to see more of earth." She said. "And you. When you left months ago, Attilan wasn't the same."

"Well, if it's any consolation…I missed you too." He said. Crystal smiled and leaned in close so Will met her halfway and kissed her. She kissed back and reached her hands up around his neck while Will reached around her waist and pulled her close. They pulled apart for a brief second as Will kissed her cheek, causing her to chuckle. "I guess a kiss from a beautiful princess is a good reward for saving the planet as well."

Crystal chuckled and kissed him again and with the sun shining down it looked like a moment ripped out of a movie but was soon interrupted by a familiar shouting. "WILL!" He heard as he and Crystal pulled apart only for Will to be blindsided by two small children. One girl about 10 and a boy about 9 and when he saw them, he recognized who they were.

"Lisa, Frankie Jr, what are you two doing here?" He asked, kneeling down to their height and lifting them up in a massive hug. They smiled and laughed, and Crystal smiled at the scene. Will put them down on the ground and ruffled their hair. "What brings you two miscreants to my boardwalk?"

"Mom and dad took us here for a day off." Lisa said and, on that cue, their dad Frank Castle and his wife Maria Castle walked up to them. "We were heading to the Ferris Wheel when we saw you."

"Yeah, you two little munchkins kind of ruined a moment I was having." He told them, ruffling her hair. "But I'll let it slide considering it's you two. Hey, Uncle Frank."

"How you doing, kid?" Frank asked, walking up and hugging Will and he hugged back. "God, look at you, you just keep getting bigger."

"Eh, what can I say. I'm just lucky." Will replied. Frank Castle was a decorated US Marine and soldier. He and Will's dad operated together when Frank was just a grunt and before Will's dad left the service. They operated together on several joint taskforce missions and became good friends like he was with Rhodey. Whenever Frank came back to the states, they always hung out. As Will grew up, he considered Frank and everyone like family and it's why he called him Uncle Frank even though he wasn't really his uncle. "What brings you four to Atlantic city?"

"I've got some time off before I need to redeploy back so a family vacation out seemed like a good idea and some time out of the city was best. It's a madhouse there." Frank said and Will nodded.

"You don't have to explain that to me. It's good to see you." Will then took Crystal's hand and pulled her close. "It actually allows me to make some introductions. Crystal, this is Frank Castle, he was good friends with my dad. This is his wife Maria and their two rascals Lisa and Frank Jr. Everyone this is Crystal, my girlfriend."

Crystal smiled when she heard him say that and kissed him on the cheek. "Wow, she's really pretty." Lisa said with a smile, causing the adults to laugh.

"And she's smart and funny, Lisa. Kind of like your mom." Will replied.

"Very smooth." Maria said as Frank kissed her head.

"I like your outfit." Lisa said and Crystal smiled and knelt down to Lisa's height.

"Thank you. My sister made it for me. I like your shirt." Crystal pointed to Lisa's pink shirt and white jacket. "They're very nice."

"How'd you too meet?" Frank asked and Crystal wasn't sure how to answer that given Will didn't want people to know about his Inhuman nature.

"Kind of a happy accident. I wound up in the middle of nowhere for work and I met Crystal. We hit it off and she came here to surprise me, and I've been showing her around the boardwalk when you four showed up." Will replied. "She's one of a kind."

"Lucky you, kid. Guess you got your dad's penchant for charm." Frank joked.

"What can I say? Detmer's are charming individuals. Anyway, we were relaxing after heading to James and I figured that I should introduce Crystal to Rita's Italian ice while she's here if you're up for it? I'm buying." Will suggested and Lisa and Frank Jr. instantly lit up when they heard dad.

"Dad, can we?!" They both begged.

"All right, let's go. I could use a pick-me up myself." Frank said as the group made their way to Rita's Italian ice and Frozen Custard. Best place to get ice-cream in the city. Will and Frank got simple vanilla soft serve cones while Maria helped Crystal and the kids pick. "She seems unique."

"You have no idea how right you are." Will replied, looking at her. After Will underwent his Inhuman transformation, he didn't put much focus into dating or finding a relationship because of his alien DNA. How would a girlfriend feel about him being part alien and having these powers? With Crystal, it wasn't even an issue. She didn't look at him any different and she was someone he could see having a real relationship with. Plus, he was dating a princess so that was a fringe benefit.

"I'm glad, kid but in our line of work a relationship is going to require more work than normal." Frank said as Will looked at him. "I've been in the Marines long enough to know the look and posture of someone who's seen combat."

"Forgot who I was dealing with." Will licked some of his ice-cream.

"How long?" Frank asked.

"Not long after the funeral." Will told him. "But it's not the armed services if that's what you're thinking. My line of work is different."

"How so?" Frank asked as Will looked outside the door to New York City.

"That was my last mission." Will told him. Frank looked out to the city and immediately understood what he meant. "You'll understand why I can't go into detail."

"Hey, far be it from me to mess with the Intelligence agency but you sure picked a heck of a line of work, kid." Frank told him.

"More so it chose me than I chose it." Will replied. "But it's my job and I help a lot of people doing it like you do."

Will look at Maria, Frank Jr, Lisa, and Crystal and smiled. "It's dangerous but worth it."

"Amen to that." Frank replied. Maria and the others finished with their order and walked around the boardwalk. Crystal got to know Frank, Maria and the kids and she was enjoying herself. She didn't really have friends to talk to on Attilan since most of the people there didn't interact with her because she was the princess but on earth it was different. Will was right, she was enjoying herself and the food was another highlight. They walked around the boardwalk and enjoyed themselves, playing some of the games and going on a few rides. Seeing Crystal's reaction to the rollercoaster was hilarious and he was glad she was enjoying herself.

They got some of pizza and Will introduced her to more of the food there and she was loving it. It was getting late so Frank and Maria had to head home with the kids soon. Will and Crystal walked them to their car when he saw some punks screwing around and hassling innocent people who were trying to enjoy themselves. They walked over the car when the punks began to get more violent after what looked like a kiddy stroller accidently dinged the door of one of the cars. Will looked and saw the shouting and confrontation and knew he had to deescalate it quickly.

"Hang on. Crystal, wait here." Will told her as he walked over to see four tattooed and douchey looking men and a woman in an over-sexualized outfit were shouting at the father of a small family of four.

"What the hell is the matter with you, you stupid son of a bitch. You're gonna pay for this. Do you have any idea how much my car costs?" The woman asked the husband as the mother shielded her two kids.

"Whoa, everyone calm down." Will got in between the two to deescalate the situation. "There's no need for all this yelling. We're in a crowded place. Let's all just take a moment to relax."

"I'm not going to relax. That asshole dinged my car. Look at it!" She said, pointing to the car where there was a small, unnoticeable scratch.

"That? That'll buff right out. No harm done and he didn't mean to do it in the first place." Will told her.

"Yeah, it was an accident. I'm sorry. The stroller wheel got caught up on the grass." The husband said.

"You calling my woman a liar?" One of the dudes asked, stepping forward and pushing the husband to the ground so Will got in front of him and stopped him.

"Ok, that's enough of that. Let's not let this get out of hand." Will told him. "Guys, come on. There's no need for this."

"Unless you want to end up like he will in a few seconds, I suggest you get out of the way." The dude said, pushing Will back.

"And unless you and your socially challenged friends want to involve the police then I suggest you all calm down." Will told him, helping the husband up off the ground and over to his family.

"What the hell did you say you son of a bitch?!" The dude swung at Will while his back was turned but Will blocked his arm and threw him over his hip. The dude's friends pulled out switchblades and attacked Will, but they were just punks. Will grabbed one of their hands and broke it before kicking out his feet and kicking him in the face. He kicked the second in the stomach before blocking the third one who tried to stab him in the side. He took the knife, broke his wrist, kicked out his leg and punched him across the face. The girl pulled out a knife from her purse and tried to stab him, but he grabbed the knife and kicked her feet out from under her when the asshole who started the whole thing reached into his belt and pulled out a pistol. Will grabbed it by the muzzle, broke his wrist, pulled the gun out of his hand, and smacked him in the face with it, taking out all four punks and the crazy lady.

"You escalated that very quickly." Will told him, turning the safety on the pistol and saw the serial numbers filed off. "Serial numbers filed off. Your day just got a lot worse."

The bystanders all clapped and cheered for Will as two Atlantic City police officers showed up. Will looked and recognized the officers. "Donnelly, Adams, hey guys." Will waved and they waved back. "Got four disorderly conducts, assault with deadly weapons, illegal weapons possession and attempted assault."

"Right." Officer Adams got on the radio and called in a police cruiser. A few minutes later the cruiser arrived, and all four punks and the girl were arrested.

"You have no idea who you messed with pal! You're so dead!" the woman shouted.

"Wow, don't know how you put up with her." Will said to one of the punks before closing the door of the police cruiser and they were driven to the police station for booking.

"Nicely handled, kid." Frank said as Will nodded.

"Sorry, about that." Will hugged Frank, Maria, Lisa, and Frank Jr. "It was nice seeing you again."

"Yes, it was. Come into the city one day and we'll have dinner." Maria said. "Bring Crystal to."

"Sounds great. I'll let you know." Will replied as they got in the car.

"Bye Crystal!" Lisa and Frank Jr. waved goodbye and Crystal smiled and waved at them. Frank waved one last time before driving his family back to the city.

"Sorry for all that. I didn't mean to interrupt our date." Will said to her.

"It's all right." Crystal replied. "I've had an amazing day. I'm glad I came here. Although, I'm worried about how Lockjaw is doing."

"Let's go check on him and I can make dinner if you're hungry." Will suggested. She liked the idea so Will drove them back to his home. Crystal and Will walked inside and were greeted to the sight of Lockjaw sleeping on the carpet with Goose curled up on his head. "Huh, I was not expecting that."

"Me neither. Lockjaw is pretty defensive and Flerkens are known to be unpredictable. Where did you get him?" Crystal asked.

"I didn't get him so much as he belonged to my birthmother." He replied.

"Your birthmother owned a Flerken?" Crystal was confused at that statement. How did a human stumble upon a Flerken and keep it as a house pet?

"Why don't you wake up Lockjaw and I'll get started on some dinner." Will told her and she nodded. She woke up Lockjaw and Goose while Will got to work on dinner and decided to make some pasta. He had enough to make a simple spaghetti algio e olio for dinner with enough for Lockjaw and some more fish for Goose. While he made dinner, he introduced Crystal to wine, and she liked it more so that coffee. He told her more about how he got Goose and what he had to do with his mother. Crystal was intrigued when Will told her that his mother was a member of Kree Starforce, but he reassured her that he never had any interaction with her and there was no reason the Kree would come back to earth.

Will told Crystal more of earth food and had her help him make dinner and it led to some comedic moments and got them closer. Will and Crystal had an amazing dinner despite Lockjaw's sloppy eating. After dinner and the dishes, the two got comfortable on the couch and Will introduced her to more of earth with television.

"What's a Kardashian?" Crystal asked with the remote in her hand. She stopped the channel surfing and stumbled on Keeping up with the Kardashians.

"Them along with most of reality TV will only diminish your value on humanity." Will joked. She changed the channel and stumbled on the Sci-Fi channel that was having a Star Wars Marathon. "Oh, Star Wars."

"Star Wars. I remember getting glimpses of that on the video feeds we intercepted but they were only pieces." Crystal said.

"Well, then this is a good you're here on earth." Will and Crystal relaxed into the couch and began watching Star Wars episode 4. A few minutes into the movie, Crystal snuggled into Will's side, so he put his arm around her and pulled her close. He kissed her forehead, but she brought him down for a quick kiss. "An amazing day out on the boardwalk, James Salt Water Taffy, Rita's ice-cream, amazing dinner and Star Wars with a beautiful girl at my side. I know this was about making sure your first day on earth was great, but this was great for me too."

"I couldn't have said it better myself." Crystal kissed him one more with more passion. Will kissed back, cupping her cheek, and leaning back on the couch and pulling Crystal with him. The two broke apart briefly to catch their breath but got back to kissing as Will ran his hands down her side and Crystal moved her hands up his muscular arms and shoulders. Before the kissing went further, Crystal's communication band beeped. "You've got to be kidding me."

"Any luck it's a wrong call?" Will asked, laying down on the couch as Crystal sat up and checked her band.

"Nope." Crystal activated her band. "Crystal here."

"Crystal, where are you? I checked your room and you weren't there." Medusa spoke as Will and Crystal sighed in exhaustion.

"I'll be right there." Crystal replied, shutting off her communication band. "I need to go."

"Yeah, I figured." Will replied. Crystal got off of Will and straightened her clothes and fixed her hair when Will gave her another quick kiss. "Here's to hoping that she lets you come back to earth to visit again."

"Me too." Crystal replied, kissing him once more before walking over to Lockjaw.

"Oh, wait!" Will grabbed the bag of James Salt Water Taffy and put it into a plastic bag along with some things from the refrigerator including earth food like the fresh fish he had left over and the steak and meat he bought from the farmers market. He put in some bottles of wine and a bottle of Jack Daniels Whiskey. He finished up with a carton of Haagen-Dazs ice-cream from the freezer. "Here."

"What's this for?" She asked.

"A gift. And hoping that the earth food is enough to sway your sister to take it easy on you and to not come here and kill me. By the way, take it easy with the wine and the Jack Daniels. Alcohol is dangerous so drink very carefully." He said causing her to chuckle. Will kissed her one more time. "I hope I see you again."

"I'll see you again, I promise." She replied, kissing him once more before petting Lockjaw on the head. "Ok, Lockjaw. Back to Attilan."

Lockjaw barked and teleported them back to Attilan, leaving Will and Goose alone. [Meow] Goose spoke, saying sorry she left.

"Thanks, buddy." Will scratched him on the head. He sat down on the couch to watch Star Wars and Goose curled up next to him.

Line Break xxxxx

Will woke up the next day and decided to go see Tony in the city and see how he was doing and help with the Tower. He got dressed in jeans and a blue t-shirt and slipped his HK pistol into his belt holster behind his back and hid it with his shirt. He grabbed his helmet and keys and drove his motorcycle to the gas station. He pulled up at the local garage/gas station and saw Jack the owner was busy with a car repair.

"Hey, Jack." Will waved at him, putting the kickstand down and turning his bike off.

"Hey, Will. I'll be with you in a second." Jack told him.

"No, it's ok. I got it." Will told him. He grabbed the gas nozzle and began filling up the tank in his bike when a pick up truck drove up behind him. Two men got out of the car and began arguing over some kind of bullshit something like work or whatever. The smaller, bald guy walked over to the pump behind Will and saw it wasn't working so he walked over to Will.

"Nice bike." He said to Will.

"Thanks. It was my dad's." Will replied.

"Do you think I can get that pump from you?" He asked as Will checked the pump meter and saw he needed a few more gallons.

"I'm almost done." Will replied.

"You see I need the god damn pump right now, you here me?" He warned him as his larger, tattooed friend walked up next to him.

"Can I help you all out here?" Jack asked.

"No, it's ok Jack. I'm almost done." Will told him before looking at the bald guy. "Look, I'm almost done and then I'll be gone."

"No, you're done now. Hit the pump." He told his friend and his friend shut the pump off.

"You want me to ring you up, Will?" Jack asked. Will looked back at the gas meter and saw he still needed a few more gallons.

"I wasn't done yet." He replied.

"I think you are." The guy warned him. Jack and the other workers in the garage began to take steps back and didn't want to get involved. Will took a breath to himself and kept his cool.

"Whatever you're thinking…you might want to rethink it." Will told him, causing the man to chuckle.

"Rethink it. He wants me to rethink it." The guy joked to his friend. Will reached over to the pump but the man got in his face. "You aren't turning that back on."

Will didn't bother to speak to him and turned the gas pump back on and kept refueling his bike. "Oh, you just fucked up." The guy said. "Why don't we step around side the building, so I kick your fucking ass upside your shoulders."

"What's the matter? Don't want an audience to when you go to jail?" Will asked as the guy grabbed his arm but Will pulled his arm free, took the gas pump and slammed it into his gut before smashing his head into the gas meter. The other guy punched Will, but he blocked it, punched him in the face and kicked him back, knocking him into the pickup. The bald guy grabbed Will from behind, but Will locked his arms, broke his wrists and headbutted him before smashing his head onto the hood of the pickup. The larger guy threw out punches but missed as Will uppercut him, kicked him in the groin and smashed his face into the pickup truck window before kicking his feet out from under him. "You idiots just earned yourselves a long time in jail."

"You ok, Will?" Jack asked.

"I'm fine, Jack. Call the police, would you?" Will asked and Jack nodded, calling them on his cellphone. Will knelt down to the bald guy and slapped him upside his bleeding head. "Who put you up to this?"

"Nobody." He replied with a chuckle. Will sighed a bit before taking out his pistol, cocking the slide and pointing it at his head.

"Whoever put you up to his has no idea the shitstorm he brought down." Will took out his SHIELD badge to show him and the man immediately gulped. "You two idiots assaulted a federal agent which earns you both minimum of 8 years in jail. But I could end that now and kill you both."

Will placed the gun on his forehead. "Give me the name of the person who told you to attack me." Will ordered.

"I don't know." He replied. Will pistol whipped him across the face.

"Try again or this time it's a bullet in the leg." Will warned him.

"All right. Cole Midas." He told him. "Midas wants you dead."

"Thank you." Will pistol whipped him once more and knocked him out.

The police soon arrived and arrested both men and took Will to the station to take his statement and to fill out the paperwork that would send both men to jail for assaulting a SHIELD agent. Will finished up the paperwork at the front desk and was ready to leave when an officer walked over to him. "Will, Captain Menendez would like a word." He said and Will nodded. He was escorted through the police station and noticed some officers and detectives were eyeing him. He walked through the station until he arrived at his dad's former office which was now being used by Captain Alicia Menendez, his dad's former lieutenant. Along with Alicia was two other Lieutenants, a police sergeant and the head of Vice.

"Hey, Will." Alicia said with a smile, shaking his hand.

"Hey, Alicia." Will shook her hand and looked around the office. "Like what you've done with the place."

"I wish this was a social call but it's not. It's about the two people who attacked you." Alicia told him. "It wasn't an accident or a case of a man with anger management."

"One of our CI's informed us about a recent greenlight on a civilian target and that target is you." Lieutenant Jones told him.

"Yeah, I know. The bald one who started the whole thing told me." Will said.

"With the greenlight, we're going to put you under protective custody. I have four officers ready to follow you and keep you safe while we work on getting the green light lifted." Alicia said. "Don't worry, we'll keep you safe. Your dad always taught us to take care of our own and that hasn't changed."

Will chuckled a bit before calming down and facing them. "I appreciate that Alicia, really I do. But if anything your officers would only get in my way. Whoever greenlit me for a hit has no idea who they messed with." Will said, taking out his SHIELD badge and showing them and they all were shocked to see it. "I know it's not what you were expecting but I've been busy since my parents' funeral. I can handle myself. The only thing I need from you guys is to let me handle this and be ready because you'll probably be getting various calls for arrests."

"You sure about that? This is serious and you'll need all the help you can get." Alicia told him.

"Don't worry. They're the ones who are gonna need help. I've dealt with worse scumbags when I was in training but I appreciate your concern. I'll be fine." Will told them, walking away and heading back home to gear up.

While Will was at the police station, a group of 7 men armed with guns had driven to his home with the full intent to plant a bomb and blow it to pieces. They checked the house for Will but he wasn't there. "All right, he's not here. Get that thing set up." One of them said as another opened up a bag to reveal some C4 explosive with a remote detonator.

[Meow] They heard and aimed their guns down to see a small cat sitting there on the floor.

"Relax, it's just a cat." One of the guys said.

"So, take care of it. The boss said to send a message." Another said. One of the guys cocked his gun and aimed it at the cat which was a big mistake. Goose growled and hissed at them before opening his mouth where his tentacles lashed out and grabbed all the men. They all screamed in fear and pain as they were smacked around the kitchen and hallway before they were swallowed one by one. One of the men grabbed onto the counter with everything he had to save his life.

"DEAR GOD HELP ME!" He screamed before he was swallowed as well. Goose happily meowed before crawling over to the bag of C4 and sat himself down, waiting for Will to come home.

Will eventually drove back home and saw two cars parked by his house. His home alert system had informed him of the break-in but they were taken care of. He parked his bike and walked into his home to see guns and weapons on the floor, a small duffle bag of C4 and Goose laying there like nothing was wrong.

"Good boy, Goose. Good boy." Will scratched him on the head and collected the guns. "Do you mind spitting them out?"

Goose began to hack and cough like he had a hairball and spat out 7 bad guys onto the floor. All of whom were unconscious, looked like they went through the hell and were covered in goop/spit. "Thanks buddy." Will's eyes glowed blue and he quickly wiped their memories and downloaded valuable Intel from them. Will then took out his phone and dialed 911. "Hello, Atlantic City PD, this is SHIELD agent William Detmer, Authorization November-Echo-Six-One-Six-India-November requesting police units at my home for arrest of 7 individuals with breaking and entering, attempted murder, and drug trafficking."

The police soon arrived and took the men into custody and to jail. Will got himself comfortable with a glass of whiskey and sat himself at the kitchen counter. He had his laptop out and was doing some research while Goose happily ate his dinner. Will was using his SHIELD clearance to access the archive files, FBI and DEA shared records, along with the Atlantic PD database to compile an information packet on the group that greenlit him for killing.

"Edi, do you have the data file all set up?" Will asked, sipping some of his whiskey.

"I'm combed through all SHIELD, FBI, and Atlantic City Police files and have completed the data file on your attackers." Edi replied and began bringing up all the data files on the group he was dealing with. "The organization you are dealing with is known as the Southern Front. According to FBI and DEA records, the Southern Front originated as a White Supremacist prison gang 15 years ago and has since expanded their operations to drug trafficking, prostitution and extortion. But the factor that makes them unique is their access to heavy weaponry. Their leader Leonard King Midas is currently serving three consecutive life sentences at Ryker's island penitentiary with his son Cole Midas controlling the gang in his absence. While King Midas remains in prison, Atlantic City PD CI's believe he is still controlling the gang from inside the prison. Captain Menendez suspects you were greenlit after your altercation with Astrid Heicer."

Edi showed her picture and she was the woman who was with the group of four he stopped from assaulting the family yesterday. "She is Cole Midas's girlfriend and after her arrest, he greenlit the attack on you." Edi informed him.

"Well, too bad for Cole and his father that they went after the wrong person. Edi, bring up a map of all suspected Southern Front hideout and fronts." Will said and Edi compiled up a map of the suspected areas in and around Atlantic City. "Now overlay them with the information I got from the idiots who attacked my house."

Edi did and it highlighted 12 areas throughout the city that the Southern Front operated out of. "This is gonna be fun." Will walked over to his closet and removed the false back. He grabbed his weapons belt and holster and strapped it around his waist before grabbing his HK pistol and checking it over. He loaded it and put it in the holster before he grabbed his flechette bands and put them around his ankles and then grabbed his shoulder pellet holsters. He grabbed his combat gloves and forearm guards and made sure they were set in place. He synched up his touchpad and downloaded all the information from his laptop to it.

He grabbed his TDI/KRISS Vector submachine gun and tactical ammo vest. This situation didn't need Aegis, he could handle it as Will Detmer. Today, Southern Front was going extinct. "Edi, keep a communication channel open with the Atlantic PD and Captain Menendez. They are going to be very busy today." Will said.

"Of course, Will. Happy Hunting." She replied as Will scratched Goose on the head.

"Don't wait up for me, buddy." He told him and left the house. He got on his motorcycle, put on his helmet and drove out into the city to wreak some havoc.

His first target was a warehouse by the water which Southern Front used as the main point for their coke and meth distribution and it was one of their biggest income avenues with millions in drugs being pushed out daily. Because of its importance, it was guarded by 50 gang members all armed with heavy weapons, but they were nothing to Will. Outside the warehouse, 10 gang members were standing guard with another 5 on over watch position. One of the snipers thought he saw something move by the street and took a closer look with his sniper only for someone to grab him from behind and put him in a chokehold. He quickly passed out and was zip cuffed. One of the other over watch sentries came over and saw his friend passed out but he was quickly knocked out with a blow to the back of the head. The other three on over watch raised their guns but they heard a metal clink and saw a small pellet on the ground. It then released a green mist and after a few seconds, they all collapsed to the ground unconscious.

Inside the warehouse the other 35 gang members were lounging about and guarding over the drugs and the cooks. Some were relaxing on couches while others were playing cards or watching TV. One of the guards by the cargo door heard movement and loud thuds which was followed by gunfire and then screaming. "WATCH OUT! HELP ME! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?! RUN!"

The men in the warehouse grabbed their guns and aimed them at the door while all the drug cooks moved to the side to avoid any gunfire. There were 20 men on the ground floor with the remaining 15 all set up on the second floor rails and walkways. They kept their guns set and were waiting for something to happen when the fighting outside stopped.

"Jones?!" One of them called out to his friend. "Anyone out there?!"

There wasn't any answer so one of the men slowly moved to the door and grabbed the handle. He looked at the others and signaled them to be ready…then yanked the door open to see nothing outside except for all the men knocked out and tied up together.

"Who the hell did this?" One of them asked.

"He's over here." Will answered, appearing behind one of the people on the second floor and knocked him out with a rifle-butt to the back of the head. Will shot five of them in the leg and ran across the second floor railing, shooting more of the Southern Front Gangsters in the legs, arms, or just taking them down with good old-fashion ass kicking. The members on the first floor opened fire at him but they missed and killed their own. Once Will finished up on the second floor, he threw down a UV flashbang and smoke pellets that concussed them and obscured their vision. Will jumped down from the second floor with gunfire before he vanished into the smoke and the only thing that could be heard was more gunfire, the sound of punching, kicking, and screaming. When the smoke settled, Will stood there in the middle of the drug lab like nothing was wrong surrounded by unconscious bodies of 35 Southern Front gang members.

"Well, that was fun." Will wiped his hands and began zip cuffing all the gang members and the drug cookers before dragging them all outside and putting them all together. At the end, all 50 members were cuffed together outside and Will called the police to come arrest them. "Well, one down eleven more to go."

He got to work and within about two hours, took down the other 11 Southern Front operations and took down every single gang member he came across. The Atlantic City police force was busy arresting and seizing everything in Will's aftermath which amounted to arresting all 500 Southern Front members and seizing over 35 million in revenue. Will finished blowing up their last weapons cache when he heard a radio call come in about suspected Southern Front members organizing at a warehouse. He arrived at the warehouse to check it out when a gas grenade landed next to him. He began coughing up a storm before he passed out and saw people walk up to him before he completely lost consciousness.

Will woke up, feeling groggy and found that he was tied up to a chair with his hands handcuffed behind his back. Will shook his head and found himself outside somewhere and judging by how dark it was and the sound of cicadas, he was outside. He was punched across the face and although it felt like a flea bite, he acted like it hurt. He looked around and saw 8 Southern Front gang members armed with guns and all his weapons and gear were on a table by the side. He looked and saw the trees and sand bars and knew he was in the small inland island/marshes.

"I don't suppose any of you gentlemen have a granola bar or anything? I'm kind of hungry." Will said only for another guy to punch him in the face. Will pulled back and just looked at him unamused. "And for that punch, I'll break your neck."

"Well, well. Look who's awake." Cole Midas walked out with a stun stick in his hand. "Glad you liked the knock-out gas grenade. New military issue. Should leave you feeling groggy for a few more hours. And you like this?" He held up the stun stick. "Twice the normal voltage police uses. It could probably cook the eyeball right in your skull."

"Do you plan on doing that anytime soon or are you just going to talk me to death? The fact that I'm even still breathing means that you want to drag this out." Will said and Cole had his guy punch him again. "For that punch, I'll break your arm and then your neck."

"You've got a mouth on you. But there's no talking your way out of this. The only way this ends is with you dead." Cole told him causing Will to laugh.

"Wow, I heard you Southern Front Racist hicks were dumb, but you are a special type of dumb. It really is shocking to see in person. That says something about the current education system but seeing as how you and your friends are natural born idiots, that can be excused." Will joked.

"What did you just say?" Cole grabbed him by the shirt and held the stun stick to his face.

"I'm sorry, were those words too complicated for you?" Will joked. "How about this? You…are…an…idiot."

"I'm the idiot?" Cole scoffed and chuckled. "Who's the one who lured you into an ambush? Huh? Me, and now I have you right where I want you."

"Oh my god. You really are an idiot." Will laughed his butt off. "You actually think you got me in that ambush?"

Cole and his friends looked at him like he was crazy, and Will saw they didn't get it, so he decided to spell it out for them. "Oh my god, all right. It seems I'm gonna have to spell this out for you. You see you put out the greenlight on the wrong person Cole and unfortunately, it'll be the last mistake of your life. I'm not a civilian, ex-cop, veteran or whatever your mole in the police department told you." Will said as Cole was shocked, he knew that. "Oh yeah, I know about your mole in the police department and he's probably in jail as we speak. I took down all of your fronts and men but to get to you, I needed some help, so I radioed Captain Menendez and told her about the mole. Then I had her tell him to call you and give you a way to catch me. All he had to do was radio in a Southern Front call over at a place of your choosing and when I arrived, you just had to drop in a knock-out gas grenade and you'd have me. I'm right so far, aren't I?"

Cole hid it as best he could, but Will could see that he was right, and Cole was getting a little nervous. "You didn't ambush and capture me. I let you." Will told him. "I've dealt with horrible things and people that you couldn't even imagine in your worst nightmare that would cause you to run screaming to your daddy if you ever came across them. You and your little neo-Nazi white supremacist gang is like a kiddy zoo compared to the crap I've dealt with. And now, I have you right where I want you to end this. And that ends with me…putting a bullet through your skull."

"You're joking." Cole rebuffed his statement. "We have you surrounded and your handcuffed to that chair."

Will moved his hands forward to show they weren't handcuffed anymore. "Really?" Will asked. Cole freaked out so Will kicked him in the groin before ducking under a bullet and smashed the chair onto one of Cole's men. He grabbed one of the chair's broken legs and stabbed it in the leg of another gang member before snapping his neck. He grabbed another gang member and used him as a shield against a hail of bullets. Will took the dead gang members gun and killed the rest of the group with precise head shots. Will shot the gang member he smashed with the chair in the head before turning his attention to Cole who he saw crawling away. Will walked over and stopped him, kicking him onto his back so he could see the fear in Cole's face.

"Please, don't kill me." Cole told him, scared out of his mind.

"Why not? You've killed more and ruins thousands of lives. Seems like fitting ending to me." Will said, as he cocked the hammer back and aimed at his head. "Then again…"

Will lowered the gun and shot one bullet into each of Cole's legs causing him to scream in pain. "You don't deserve an easy ending. Besides, I have a feeling that a lot of people in prison will want their own personal time with you." Will said before dragging him to the police station. And in that one single day, Will dismantle a criminal organization.

The next morning at Ryker's island, Leonard King Midas was casually and comfortably sitting in his cell. The leader of the Southern Front was happily unaware of what had transpired hours ago and sat in his cell with all the comforts of home when his cell door open and fours guard came in.

"Prisoner, up against the wall!" One of the guards shouted. The King looked at them odd glances and stood up when the guards began tearing down all his amenities like his Television, his posters, and his refrigerator.

"Hey, what the hell are you doing? Where's Officer Jones?" Midas asked.

"Jones is gone. And you have a visitor." The guard said. He grabbed Midas and pulled him out of his cell. Midas was escorted to the visiting area expecting to see his son or one of his lieutenants but instead saw someone he didn't recognize. Midas sat down in the chair and looked at his visitor who was smiling at him. He picked up the phone and his visitor did the same.

"Who the hell are you?" Midas asked and Will just smiled.

"I'm just a law abiding citizen who happens to work for a certain agency." Will told him. "You're probably wondering why the guard you pay off is not here and why they tore apart your prison suite. Well, I had something to do with that."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Midas asked.

"The Southern Front is done." Will told him. "Every single member of your gang is in jail or dead and all your fronts were taken by the police. Your mole in the department is on his way here after his trial and all your offshore accounts have been erased so you have no money to extort people with."

"You're lying." Midas told him.

"Call your lawyer if you want to confirm but it'll be a different one as your old one is currently being investigated by the SEC for the mysterious sums of money in his account." Will said with a smirk. He was enjoying this. "Your son is on his way to join you. Both of you are never getting out of here to terrorize people or ruin lives ever again. I'll make sure of that."

"Who are you?" Midas asked in anger while Will just gave him a playful smirk.

"Someone your son should never have put the greenlight on." Will told him before he hung up the phone and left. Midas shouted every single kind of obscenity at him that the guards had to restrain him with handcuffs and drag him away. Will walked out of the visitor area and shook hands with the warden. "Thank you for your cooperation, Warden. The Southern Front won't be causing you any more problems."

"Thank you, Agent Detmer." The Warden replied. Will left Ryker's island with a smile on his face as he had just taken down an entire criminal organization in twenty-four hours and made his city a little safer. He made a pit stop in the city for a pizza pie from Joe's before heading back home.

He arrived safely back at home with his pizza pie for dinner. He walked in and saw Goose lying down on the kitchen counter asleep. Guess he found a new place he likes to sleep. Will put the pizza down and grabbed a beer from the refrigerator when his home security system went off again and he heard a familiar whooshing sound outside. He opened the backyard door and saw Crystal and Lockjaw again.

"I'm guessing you have good news?" Will asked. Crystal walked up and kissed him and he kissed back. "Very good news?"

"Very good. Medusa was beyond angry at what I did as what Black Bolt…but they calmed down a bit after. I told them why I did it and how I was safe with you the entire time and that nothing bad happened." Crystal told him.

"I take it Medusa still wasn't that happy you came down here to see me." Will said and she nodded.

"That's an understatement but she won't be coming down to kill you, I can kind of promise you that." Crystal assured him.

"Great, I feel so much better." Will joked. "But if it means that you can come visit and we can give us a try, I'm ready for whatever Medusa sends my way."

"I managed to convince Black Bolt and Medusa that me coming down to Earth was a good thing. It would allow me to learn more about earth and humans and I could inform you on your Inhuman heritage." Crystal explained. "Primagen is a crucial part of our history and even though you chose to remain on Earth, Black Bolt thinks it's important that you understand your Inhuman history."

"And having an excuse to come down and see me is just a fringe benefit." Will joked and Crystal blushed a bit.

"I'm serious. The First Inhuman King was transformed with Primagen and ever since it has been a vital part of our history. We though the last of Primagen was used thousands of years ago until you showed up." Crystal told him. "Any other Inhuman would kill to be in your position."

"Maybe, but then again, not all Inhumans can relax here on Earth like you." Will joked. "Come on. I got dinner that you're gonna love and a week of vacation from SHIELD to spend with an amazing girl."

[Bark] Lockjaw barked at him and wagged his tail.

"And Lockjaw." Will added. Crystal chuckled and kissed him as the three went inside for dinner. For a whole week, Will introduced Crystal to more of Earth and got her adjusted to how things worked. He got her an earth wardrobe, which included swimsuits that they used at the beach and he introduced her to Tony, Pepper, and Rhodey. The expression on their faces when he told them that she was like him was priceless, but he swore them to secrecy. He also introduced her to his cousin Kim and aunt and uncle.

All in all…it was a nice break.

Line Break xxxxx

Will had one more day of vacation to himself before he had to report back to duty with SHIELD and he was savoring every minute of it. Spending the last week with Crystal was amazing and it was nice to be in a relationship again. She left back to Attilan but since she gave him a communication band, they could talk all the time. He made long distance relationships work before…granted this long distance was very, very long but they would make it work. And the more time Crystal spent on earth, the more she could inform the others and hopefully help bridge the gap with the Inhumans of Attilan. Granted, Will wasn't expecting them to all immigrate here but the more they learned the easier things would get. It was a hope. Not to mention the earth food she could bring back was a bonus.

Will was sitting on the couch, watching some TV while he was doing some maintenance on the guns he kept at home. He had taken apart his HK pistol and was just about done cleaning it when the news came on with a breaking story. It was about a serial killer that had been racking up 50 bodies beginning a month ago all over New York City, New York State, Connecticut and Rhode Island. People were trapped in their homes and killed with one person from each of his killings being taken alive and has gone missing. There was no foreseeable pattern and he was all over the place with men, women, children, young, and old being killed. Whoever this killer was…he was pure evil. Will would have been more than happy to go after this guy but the past month he's been busy. Will raised the volume and the news report was of the killer's latest strike which was of over 100 people at some kind of warehouse/nightclub in Brooklyn.

"With what little information we have at this moment it would appear that the predatorily serial killer who has been plaguing the New York, New England area has struck again but this latest attack is on a whole new level. Over 100 people have been confirmed killed in a warehouse that the killer has retrofitted with traps and deadly devices leaving the city in a state of terror and local law enforcement and the FBI on the hunt for the killer before he strikes again. One man did manage to escape the carnage. One Arkin O'Brien, a former criminal who himself was captured by the serial killer but managed to escape. With no possible leads or trail, people are left wondering how the police can catch this killer before he strikes again." The news reporter said before Will shut the TV off.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. I'm doing something." Will told himself. He put his pistol back together put on his hip holster. He grabbed a duffel bag from his closet before putting an assortment of guns and gadgets inside. He then took his dad's truck and drove to Brooklyn to the scene of the crime. He parked his truck on the street and got out to see a massive line of red tape around the entire block of the warehouse where the massacre took place with the police keeping everyone back while detectives and the FBI took lead on the case. Will walked forward, past the group of reporters, bystanders, and grieving family members, friends, and loved ones who wanted information on what happened. Will walked under the yellow tape when a police officer stopped him.

"Sir, I'm gonna need you to go back behind the tape." He informed him when Will took out his SHIELD badge.

"Agent Will Detmer of SHIELD. Take me to whoever's in charge." Will ordered. The officer took his badge for a moment and looked it over before nodding.

"Come with me." The officer escorted Will over to the command truck where the lead FBI agent was talking with his team. "Sir."

Will looked at the lead agent and his team. "Who is this?" the agent asked.

"He's with SHIELD." The officer replied and Will showed his badge.

"Agent William Alexander Detmer. Here to help." Will told him.

"Special Agent Tomas Gibson, FBI and senior supervisory in charge. This is my team." Agent Gibson pointed to his team and shook Will's hand. "You look a little young to be an agent."

"You're not the first person to tell me that. Pleasure to meet you, Agent Gibson. Want to fill me in?" He asked and Gibson nodded. They walked over to the warehouse but Gibson stopped at the door.

"Brace yourself. It's not for the faint of heart." He told him as they entered. He was right. The warehouse/nightclub was more of a slaughterhouse now with blood and gore decorating the ceiling, floors, and walls. CSI teams and coroners were going all over the place to find evidence and collect the dead…or what was left of them. Will covered his nose as the smell got to him. "Believe me, you wouldn't be the first one."

Will looked over at the side and saw some of the ME's vomiting into trashcans. "My people have seen a lot of things but not like this. What about you?" Gibson asked.

Will walked over and knelt by a pile of bodies. "I've seen some horrible things but this is a first." He looked up and noticed the large mowing blade was set up on the ceiling.

"That's how the killer took care of everyone here on the dance floor. Mowed them down like animals." One of the agents said.

"Who owns the building?" Will asked, moving over some bodies.

"Dummy corporation that's owned by a man who's been dead for 10 years. No possible trace." Another agent responded.

"Killer covered his tracks. He set this place up in advance." Will said, looking at the large mowing blade. "Reports said this was a nightclub?"

"Yeah, an underground one. It's been used before a few times according to a few CI's but this is the first time this has happened." An agent told him, reading the information from his notepad.

"Which means the killer planned this out. He wanted the reputation of this place to spread so more people would show up." Will said. "Any other traps set up in this place?"

"One of the corridors was set up with a steel cage and a hydraulic ceiling that came down on anyone who was trapped. And there was a hallway rigged with steel blades. We have our techs going through the rest of the place to make sure there aren't any more traps." The agents said. "We've gone over every single spot we could but there are dozens of prints so it'll take some time to narrow down the killers, but we did manage to get street camera footage of a white van leaving the area."

"He'll likely have dumped it but that might be our best lead." Will said when he remembered the news report. "There was report that someone managed to escape."

"Yeah, Arkin O'Brien, twice convicted thief was found by patrol officers. Dude was in bad shape so he was taken to Woodhull for emergency care. I don't want to even know what kind of things he's gone through." An agent said.

"He's alive. And he'll be the key to finding this guy." Will said, leaving to talk to Arkin O'Brien at the hospital.

He arrived at the hospital and the nurse at the reception desk told him which room he was in. He walked through the hallway and called his Uncle Stuart on the way to Arkin's room.

"Hey, Will. How's it going?" He asked.

"I'm fine. Are Lenore and Kim there?" Will asked.

"Yeah, they're watching TV. We're about to head out to dinner." He said.

"You're gonna need to take a rain check on that. I need you to do something for me and I want you to listen to everything I say exactly." Will told him.

"Will, what's wrong?" Stuart asked.

"Brooklyn isn't safe at the moment. I want to you pack an overnight bag and head to my home in Atlantic City. The spare key is under the doormat. I want you, Lenore and Kim to stay there for a while." He told him.

"Will, does this have anything to do with the serial killer that's been running rampant." Stuart asked.

"Yeah, I'm right on his tail but until I find him, Brooklyn isn't safe. Pack a bag and stay there. The security system is state of the art and I'll have a work colleague come over and look after you until I'm back." Will told him.

"All right." Stuart said, knowing after Kim's European rescue that when Will suggested doing something you do it. "How dangerous is this guy, Will?"

"Very." Will said, taking a deep breath. "I've faced plenty of evil things in my life but this guy deserves his own personal spot in hell and I'm gonna send him there. Take Kim and Lenore. Don't tell anyone where you're going and go now. I'll call you on this number when it's over. Stay safe."

Will ended the call and continued his trek over to Arkin's room when he saw a man in a black and white suit talking on the phone. "He's going to lead us to where Elena's being held." Lucello said.

"What about the police?" Mr. Peters asked over the phone.

"They had their chance. What this man deserves is beyond the law." Lucello said, looking at a photo of Elena.

"She's all I have. Find her." Mr. Peters told him.

"Sir, I've always been good to you. You'll see her tonight." Lucello said but before he could hang up, Will walked in front of him with his badge.

"Interesting conversation, Lucello?" He asked and took the phone. "Mr. Peters."

"Who is this? Where is Lucello?" Mr. Peters asked.

"Calm down, Mr. Peters, he's right here with me. My name is Will Detmer and I work with SHIELD. I'm currently tackling the serial killer case, the man who kidnapped your daughter." Will said as Lucello looked at him funny. "I personally know the hell a person goes through when someone they love is taken. I'll be accompanying your men on the mission to find her. It's officially my mission and it'll prevent your men from getting into legal trouble but I promise you that you will see your daughter again."

Will hung up the phone and handed it to Lucello. "Your mission is mine now. No complaining or weaseling me out." He told him, heading inside to talk to Arkin before they left.

Line Break xxxxx

Arkin's group of mercenaries plus Will Detmer and Arkin O'Brien were in a black van following Arkin's precise instructions to find Elena. They started from where Arkin was taken by the Collector and went from there. Arkin painted this guy as the boogeyman and from what Will saw at the nightclub massacre, he wasn't far off. Arkin had cut his arm to signify where he was going when he was first taken so it was leading them. Lucello had four other mercenaries with him. They had been driving for what seemed like two hours until they eventually stopped somewhere in the outskirts of Queens at the old Hotel Argento and from the shape of it, it had been abandoned for years. Perfect place for the killer, an old abandoned hotel was big enough for him and it was in an area where no one lingered.

"We're here." Arkin said as Lucello's mercenary stopped the van. Will got out and saw the old hotel and based on the high-tech security cameras set up around the perimeter, this was it. Lucello has them go down two blocks just to be safe.

Will took his stuff out of his duffle bag and got suited up, strapping on his belt and thigh holster while Lucello and his mercenaries got out and got ready. "This is the place." Arkin said, feeling a great sense of dread being in the place he's been tortured for so long again.

"You're the expert. Think you can get us in there?" Lucello asked, holding out some lock picks.

"I'll get you in them I'm out of here." Arkin said when Will grabbed the lock picks.

"He's not going in." Will said, dressed in his SHIELD tactical vest and carrying his KRISS Vector submachine gun with his modified Remington 879 MSC Masterkey-12 gauge compact shotgun holstered over his right shoulder for easy access. "He's too much of a liability if he's in there but he will be our eyes and ears."

He handed Arkin an earpiece and set up a laptop inside the van that received a specialized encrypted camera feed. Will took out a pair of high-tech glasses and turned them on so the camera feed went to the laptop. "You'll be my eyes and ears inside. You'll stay inside the van and give me valuable intel to find her." Will told him and Arkin was a little apprehensive about lingering around. "You'll be fine here. Help us find her and you get your freedom and the pardon."

"All right." Arkin got in the van and took the laptop.

"Arkin." Will took out a spare Glock 17 and handed it to him. "If he comes after you, shoot for the head." Arkin nodded, taking the gun and was ready to use it if the Collector came for him. "Let's move."

Will took point and moved towards the hotel while the mercenaries gave Lucello an odd look before he motioned them to follow. They moved towards the old employee entrance but Will stopped them, motioning to the door frame where a small hidden camera was placed. He pressed a few buttons on his touchpad computer and released a high-frequency disruption signal that interfered with cameras and Lucello's radios, rendering them useless.

"What was that?" Paz asked.

"Disruption frequency. He has this whole placed lined with cameras, now he can't see anything." Will told them.

"Yeah, and we can't hear anything." Dre told him, throwing away his earpiece. Will took out earpieces for all of them to use.

"There. Happy?" Will asked, kneeling down to unlock the door. He took out a lock pick and opened the door in a few seconds. "Arkin, do you read me?"

"Yeah, I read you." Arkin replied.

"We're heading in now. Keep watch over the feed and let us know where to go." He said.

"All right. Watch your backs in there. It's a fucking maze with traps everywhere." Arkin said.

"Roger that." Will moved in first, followed by Paz, Dre, and Wally.

Lucello stopped his man Lin by the door. "Guard the door, stay on the radio." Lucello told him, moving inside the hotel with the others.

Will moved them inside the old hotel through what looked like an old service entrance for employees. Will activated the flashlight and laser sight on his submachine gun so they had some light. The hallway was narrow so they took it slow and kept an eye out for any traps along the way. Will turned a corner to see a whole bunch of bug zappers strung up along the ceiling for the insects and the sound of chains rattling.

"There's something moving in there." Paz said as everyone had their weapons aimed in front. Will slung his rifle over his shoulder and took out his compact shotgun. He moved forward and down the hallway to see more bug zappers set up and used needles on the ground. He kept moving and saw more needles on the ground along with a sign that said Beware of Dogs and a whole bunch of metal cages.

"AH!" They heard over the comms.

"Lin?" Lucello called him over the comms but got no answer.

"Arkin, keep an eye out." Will told him.

"RAH!" Something bashed against the steel cage next to Will causing him to jump back in shock. Something then tried to blindside him from behind but her turned and fired his shotgun at the chest of whatever was trying to attacking him, sending it splat onto the ground dead.

"What the fuck was that?" Dre asked as Will and Paz knelt down to see what attacked them and it was a person. Will took off the porcelain mask to reveal his attacker was male, maybe around mid-20s with bloodshot eyes and a bloody mouth. He was dressed in rags and looked more like a feral animal.

"His tongue's been chewed off. His pupils are completely blown out." Paz said, looking him over. "This guy's been cooked out of his mind."

"That's what he does with some of them. He messes with them, jacks them up. They don't do what he says, he turns them into his dogs." Arkin told Will, seeing everything over the camera feed.

"He's like a Zombie." Wally said.

"He's not a zombie." Will said, holding up one of the empty syringes on the floor. "You put enough drugs inside anyone and you turn them into an animal. I doubt there's any treatment that can help someone come back from this."

"Holy shit." Dre said, seeing a pool of blood and shining a light on a massive pile of dead bodies at the far end of the room.

"What is this place?" Paz asked. Will heard some movement above them and quickly fired his shotgun, missing the Collector by a few inches and causing him to run away.

"What the hell was that?" Dre asked as Will put his shotgun away and readied his submachine gun.

"He was watching us." Will said, hearing more chain rattling before turning and firing a bullet into the head of another one of the mad dog people, killing it instantly.

The group heard more chains rattling and shrieking and knew they were gonna have company. "Oh shit." Lucello said and soon more of those rabid people charged at them, forcing the group to shoot them. Will fired his entire magazine, killing about six of them when he needed to reload so Dre covered him with his AR-15 assault rifle. Will reloaded with another mag when another rabid person tried to attack him so he shot her dead with a headshot from his pistol.

"Arkin, we need a way out!" Will shouted over the comms. Arkin looked over the feed and saw a set of double doors.

"Through the double doors! Go!" Arkin shouted. Will turned and saw the double doors.

"Let's go! Move!" Will shouting, covering the group with suppressive fire so they could make for the door. Will and Lucello covered the others, killing more of the rabid people before making it through the doors and locking it shut.

"WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT WAS THAT?!" Wally shouted before looking at Will. "You! You led us right into that!"

"Calm down, that's enough!" Lucello stopped him while Will just reloaded his gun.

"I've got no signal. We're being jammed." Dre said, holding up his cellphone. "All right, the police will be all over this place in seconds."

"We're in a concrete tomb 10 feet underground in a part of the city even the rats won't shit on. Nobody's gonna hear us because there's no one around to listen." Lucello told him.

Will pressed a few buttons on his wrist computer, dialing in to the FBI. "Special Agent Gibson, this is Agent Detmer. I need a barricade and perimeter set up around the abandoned Hotel Argento in Queens set up 5 blocks away, stretching out 10 miles in all directions. I've found the killers hiding spot but be advised, the suspect has the place under heavy surveillance. Minimize movement and zero police radio chatter, I repeat, zero police radio chatter. Suspect might have police radio." Will reported.

"Roger that." Gibson replied.

"What the hell was that?" Lucello asked.

"Covering our ass. He has this whole place rigged up to keep people from getting out but if he feels that we're too close to him then he'll try to escape. That perimeter is going to keep him from leaving and we'll have backup if we need it." Will told him. "Now, let's move."

Will took point up the stairs to the second floor and began moving through the corridors of the old rooms. They kept moving when they saw three large cases that were empty but covered in blood. Lucello noticed some bloody footprints on the ground that seemed to be heading in the same direction they were.

"Check out the spacing." Lucello said, noting the foot prints pattern that suggests they weren't like the rabid people downstairs. They heard movement and set their guns on a person who appeared at the end of the hallway.

"Freeze! Don't move!" Will shouted, shining his flashlight on the person to see it was a male, maybe around mid-20s only in his underwear and looked like he had been tortured.

"Please…please, help me." He begged.

"Stay back!" Paz shouted.

"What the fuck is that?!" Wally shouted when Will noticed the scars around the person's neck and chest like he had been dissected.

"Please…please, help me." He begged them again, tears coming down his eyes as he slowly made his way towards them. As he got closer, Will's danger sense went off so he stopped moving.

"Hold!" Will told them and they stopped moving.

"Stay back or we will shoot!" Lucello warned him.

"I didn't make it. This…I didn't make it." The man collapsed onto his knees and began crying when Will noticed the blood around his neck was fresh.

"What didn't you make?" Lucello asked.

"The collection." He said, looking at them no longer crying. "And neither will you!"

Will and Lucello heard a rapid beeping sound that got louder and knew it was a bomb. "GET DOWN!" Will shouted as the bomb went off, killing the man it was attached to in a shower of blood, hitting Paz, Dre and Wally.

Will looked up and saw three spikes open up on the ceiling above Wally so he quickly pushed kicked him into the wall just in time to avoid being impaled.

"Jesus!" Wally saw the spikes come down where he was standing and nearly kill him but he was lucky enough to live because the Agent saved his life. "Thanks."

"Don't mention it." Will replied, helping Wally back onto his feet. "Arkin, where should we go from here?"

"Don't go down that hallway. It likely has more traps and he'll be expecting that." Arkin said. "Move back to the entrance way." Will did so Arkin could see everything and saw a narrower passageway to the right. "Take that passageway to the right."

"This way." Will said, moving forward and they followed him. They moved down the narrow hall but stopped when they came to a very narrow alcove that had nails protruding from the walls. "Take it slow."

Will moved first, moving slowly and watching his step so he didn't accidently trip a trap or hit something and the others followed him. He saw some tarps set up at the end of a hallway and saw flickering lights so he slowly walked forward and ripped the tarp down to reveal some kind of entomology office. There were plaques, pictures and display boards set up with bugs and a bunch of other different insects. The flickering lights were beginning to get annoying so Will hit the light switch off and popped a flare so they could see.

"What the fuck is this place?" Lucello asked, seeing the office set up.

"Probably an idea of who this guy is." Will said. He reached into one of his pouches to reveal and small circular device. He attached it to the wall and pressed a few buttons, locking it into position and emitting a small hum. "Explosive charge. Just in case."

"All right. Let's keep moving." Lucello said. They moved from the office to one of the hallways of the hotel and they began checking the doors but they were all locked. Paz walked forward and nearly turned the corner when Will pulled her back and stopped her. He motioned her to be quiet and pointed down so she could see the trip wire and then pointed up to show a row of hooks on a lever.

"Thanks." She said and he nodded back. He stepped over the wires and the others did the same. Will turned the corner and saw one door at the far end with a red doorknob. It was locked so he quickly unlocked and they stepped in to see what looked like an entomologist lab out of hell. There were display cases of bugs like cicadae and beetles, but then there were jars of frogs and dissected animals and then things just got horrifying. They saw massive display tubes with human skeletons and body parts, like they were trophies. The skeletons were stitched and put together like bugs and same with the body parts.

"Jesus Christ." Lucello said as Paz nearly threw up in disgust.

"There is true evil in the world…and this is one of them." Will said, taking out five more explosive charges and handed them to Lucello and the others. "Place them all around the room. I'm not letting this sick fuck's trophies see the light of day."

"Amen to that." Dre said as each of them placed a charge around the room. Wally placed one along the right side when he heard whimpering. He took his shotgun and slowly moved forward to see a woman pinned to the wall with large nails. She looked at him and gasped in shock.

"Please, help me." She said.

"Guys!" Wally shouted and they rushed over to see the woman on the wall.

"Please, please help me." She begged as Will rushed over.

"It's ok, we're gonna get you down. Paz, do you have any kind of morphine?" Will asked. Paz opened her bag and took out a syringe of morphine and handed it to him. He took off the needle cover and held it to her arm. "It's ok. This is for pain."

She nodded and he inserted the needle into her arm and gave her the morphine. "What's your name?" Will asked.

"Elizabeth." She said.

"Elizabeth, my name is Will and we're gonna get you out of here, ok? Don't worry." Will assured her and she managed a smile. Lucello was less optimistic once he saw the nails in her legs that would impede her from walking.

"She'll never make it." Lucello told him.

"We're not leaving her so either help me or shut up." Will told him. "Ok, Elizabeth. I'm gonna take out the nails, now."

He grabbed one of the nails that impaled her legs and pulled, causing her to scream. "AAGHHHH!" She screamed in pain so Will stopped. He grabbed a clean rag from a table and put it in her mouth.

"Here. Bite down on this." He told her and she nodded. He grabbed the nail and pulled it out quickly, causing her scream into the rag. He pulled out the other one in her leg and then the ones in her arms and hands. Dre helped Will put her down on the ground so Paz could wrap up her wounds.

"We need to keep moving. She'll just slow her down." Lucello told Will.

"We're not leaving her behind. She's someone we can save. If it was Elena like this, then you'd do the same." Will told him. "Paz, patch her up as best you can."

"Right." Paz took out another roll of bandages and wrapped up her legs as best she could and comforting Elizabeth. Will heard some footsteps by the door, too heavy to be Elena so it had to be the Collector. He motioned Lucello, Dre, and Wally towards the door and told them to be quiet. They aimed their guns at the door while Will took out his shotgun and slowly moved forward, doing his best to not make a sound. He made it to the door and nodded to Lucello who nodded back. Will counted down from three and then flung open the door to reveal there was nothing there but heard footsteps rushing away.

"We need to move." Lucello told him and Will nodded.

"How is she?" Will asked.

"I patched her up as best I can." Paz told him.

"All right, I'll take her." He told her, handing Paz his gun. She took it while he bent down and put Elizabeth on his back, carrying her. Now while this would be cumbersome to anyone else, Will's super soldier strength made it so it was nothing. "Elizabeth, we're looking for someone. She was taken by the Collector. Do you know where she might be?"

"He takes new people to the third floor…it's where I was." She told him and he nodded.

"Let's go." Will said. Lucello took point and moved down the hallway and the rest followed. The morphine soon kicked in which was helping Elizabeth with her wounds but she would need to get to the hospital soon.

They made it some kind of open foyer like you would see at a gallery but there were three different hallways to take and they didn't know which one to take. "Where do we go?" Lucello asked when something rushed behind them so they set their guns on it to reveal it was another woman dressed like a child. She didn't have any physical cuts or torture marks but her facial expressions showed she had been here a while. "Don't move."

"Please, don't shoot me." She begged them, holding her hands up. "Are you looking for the new girl?"

Will and Lucello shared a brief look. "Where is she?" He asked.

"I know where she is but you've got to get me out of here." She told them. Lucello nodded and she led them down the left hallway. She took them up a set of stairs and then pointed them down another hallway. "That way."

"Are you sure?" Lucello asked and she nodded. They followed her directions down a hallway to see more doors. They began trying everyone but most of them were locked until they got to the last one. Dre slowly opened up and walked into the room with his rifle ready only to see Elena.

"In here!" Dre told him as Lucello walked in.

"Lucello?" Elena couldn't believe it was him and he smiled. "Oh god."

She hugged him and cried tears of joy. "Oh my god." Lucello breathed a huge sigh of relief as he hugged her. "It's ok. We're gonna get you out of here, ok? It's ok, I'm here."

The rest of the group walked in and once Elena saw the girl that was helping them, she began to freak out. "No. No, don't trust her. No, she's crazy."

"Elena, it's ok. Look at me." Lucello told her. "You're safe. You're safe."

"We need to go, now." Will told him.

"Yeah." Lucello replied.

"We barely made it up here. We'll never make it back down stairs to the exit." Dre told them.

"He's right. He could have more traps set up for us and more of those things." Paz said.

"Wally, take her." Will said as Wally took Elizabeth while he moved over to the old air conditioning unit to see outside the hotel. "I got an idea, Paz, you have any rope in that bag?"

Paz opened her bag and took out a bundle of rope. "Yeah." She replied.

"All right, that's should be enough." Will took out another explosive charge and placed it on the wall. "We take out the wall and you guys go down on the rope. Use the radio in the van and contact the FBI to move in."

They all heard a lock click and saw the woman had locked them in the room. "What the fuck did you just do?" Lucello asked and they saw the crazy look she had in her eye.

"He likes me you know." She said.

"Oh god, I told you." Elena said as the woman began to giggle like a maniac.

"THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE!" She shouted into the camera in the ceiling, not knowing it was being jammed because of Will's disruption signal but her yelling would get his attention. "YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"

"Shut the fuck up!" Paz punched her in the face and knocked her into a trap. She stepped onto a spike which then activated a large metal spiked coffin that wrapped around her, impaling her to death.

The light in the room then went out followed by animal growling. "Oh, man that's not good." Dre said and the door on the far side of the room opened up to reveal dogs. They charged at the group but Will quickly shot them dead with precise headshots.

"All right, everyone get back." Will told them and they moved to the far wall. He pressed the detonator and the charge blew up part of the wall, making a hole large enough for them to get out. He took the rope and tied it off to a sturdy pipe in the ceiling. "All right, go now! That will have attracted his attention."

Dre went first down the rope and made it to the ground. Wally and Elizabeth went down second while Will broke the lock off the door. "What are you doing?" Elena asked.

"I'm finding this son of a bitch and killing him." He said, tossing the detonator to the other bombs to Lucello. "If I don't make it out in 20 minutes, blow the building."

Will went down the hallway and with the others finally gone, he could use his powers. He closed his eyes and stretched out his telekinetic sense and detected one person two floors down in the entomology lab they found Elizabeth in. He walked down the hallway, setting off a dozen of traps like falling spikes, bear traps, and dropping hooks but they all shattered against his force field. He made it down the stairs and to the lab, having set off probably 20 traps by himself and kicked the door to the Entomology lab off its hinges. He walked in and didn't see anyone around when his danger sense went off and rolled forward to avoid two knives to the back from the Collector. He spun to his feet and kicked the Collector in the face, knocking him on his back.

The Collector got back to his feet as he and Will had a stare off, circling around each other like predators waiting for the other to make the wrong move. "Not so easy when the person isn't stuffed into a crate or tied down." Will told him, taking off his vest and throwing away his gun. "Let's see how you do in a real fight."

The Collector spun the knives in his hands and lunged forward but Will sidestepped him. The Collector swiped and tried to stab him but either blocked or evaded him, he was just too fast. He tried to stab him with his left knife only for Will to grab his arm and knocked the knife out of his hand. He kicked it away and tossed him over his hip before punching him across the face. The Collector swiped with his knife so Will backed up and kicked the Collector in the face again, knocking him to the ground. The Collector crawled away and slammed his fist into a tile, causing it to sink into the floor and setting off a trap. The ceiling above Will opened up to reveal a massive metal spike that dropped down but he back flipped out of the way and quickly raised his hand to stop the Collector from stabbing him in the neck. The Collector used both hands and tried to force the knife forward but his strength was nothing compared to Will's.

Will pushed back and overpowered the Collector, inching the blade away from his neck and towards him. The Collector struggled to push back and gave it all he had but he was out of his league. Will smirked at the killer and shoved the knife into his left collar bone, causing him shout and grunt in pain. Will then head butted him in the face and broke his nose before grabbing his arm and breaking it at the elbow. Will did a leg sweep and knocked the Collector onto his back before throwing out a harsh kick and breaking his left knee cap. Will grabbed the discarded knife off the ground and stabbed the Collector's right hand, pinning it to the floor. He pulled out the knife from the Collector's collar bone and stabbed it into his left hand, pinning him to the floor. Will yanked off the Collector's mask to reveal a seemingly normal looking white male, just like all serial killers.

"So you're the man who has ruined all these lives." Will said.

"They served their purpose." The Collector told him, and once Will looked into his eyes, all he saw was madness and insanity…the eyes of evil.

"And now they'll get their justice." Will told him, walking over to get his grabbed his vest and holster.

"Go ahead, arrest me. Do it. My legacy will live on. My reign of terror will be etched into the memory of everyone for years. My deeds will be pondered on and everyone will fear me. Lock me in a cell and throw away the key, but that won't stop me." The Collector told him.

"Who said anything about throwing you in jail?" Will asked. He took out his final explosive charge and placed it on the ground next to him. "No one will ever find you or see what you've done."

Will walked to the exit and could hear the Collector struggling to get free, yelling every kind of obscenity and shouting in pain as he tried to rip himself free from the ground. Will walked to the end of the hall and pressed the override detonation button on his wrist computer and completely destroyed the entire floor. The explosion sent out a shockwave outside the hotel that made the FBI, the police, and Lucello and the others hit the floor.

They watched in horror at the explosion and the fire that began to spread over the hotel. Elena looked at Lucello who had the detonator in his hand. "I didn't press it." He told her.

"Look!" Special Agent Gibson shouted and everyone looked at the entrance to see Will walked out of the hotel completely fine. Police and News helicopters shined down on him as he walked out and FBI teams and fire department went inside to control the fire and secure the area. Will over to the group and dropped the Collector's mask onto the ground.

"He won't be hurting anyone anymore." Will told them and they all breathed a sigh of relief. Elena rushed over and hugged him and he hugged back.

"Thank you." She said and he smiled.

"Thank you, Agent Detmer." Lucello said, shaking his hand. "We wouldn't have been able to find her without you. If there is anything we can ever do for you, just let us know."

"I'll keep that in mind." Will replied. He walked over to the paramedics who were looking over Elizabeth and put her in the back of the ambulance. "Don't worry, Elizabeth. It's over."

"Thank you." She said before the paramedics put her away and drove to the hospital. Will sat down on the curb and took a breather, watching the FBI and fire department do their job and carefully do what they could with the situation. He saw Mr. Peters arrive in a black sedan and Elena rushed over to her father. He looked over at Will and smiled and Will nodded back. All the aliens and Avenging aside…this is what's important, stopping evil people.

Will heard his phone go off and saw it was Hill. "Agent Detmer." Will answered.

"Well, I see that your vacation hasn't gone on exactly like you wanted it to." She said as Will looked around.

"It wasn't all that bad." He told her. "But there were some evil people that needed to be stopped."

"Well, are you ready to get back to work or do you want another week off? I figured I owe you that much." Hill said. Will took a breath before looking back at the burning hotel. Vacation time was over, time to get back to work.

"Agent Will Detmer, reporting for duty." Will told her and he could tell that she was smiling.

"Good, because I got something in your area and it screams odd. Burning victim and killing at a meat packing factory in the Bronx." Hill told him, which confused him.

"I'm on my way." Will said, grabbed his duffle bag and leaving. Vacation time was over, the world needed saving.

End of Chapter 6

I hoped you guys liked the chapter. It was just a little filler to show what Will was doing during his vacation. Even a vacation isn't very relaxing for him. But he's gotten some worked done and is ready to get back to work. We're close to the Agents of SHIELD arc but it's still a little whiles away since it comes after Iron Man 3. According to the MCU timeline, the agents of shield arc doesn't start until around September of 2013 but I'll start it earlier so they'll undertake more missions. Also, we have Goose in the house. Will finally met Goose and he's looking after him for the time being.

For those that didn't recognize the latter part of the chapter, it was the movie the Collection, a horror film and I got the idea to use horror films for mission for Will from War Sage who has been a big help in giving me ideas for my stories so, THANK YOU WAR SAGE. There will be other horror films inspired missions so if any of you have any ideas, leave it in a review or send me a message.

Next chapter, Will's next mission sends him into the path of an entire evil world he had no idea existed. It has been secretly hidden in society for thousands of years and he gets tossed in the middle but makes a new ally with the Daywalker. Until next time!

William Alexander Detmer/Birthname: William Alexander Danvers

Moniker= Aegis (means something under protection from a benevolent source/Shield of Zeus and Athena)

SHIELD Status: Level 7 Agent / Special Operations, Tactics and Defense Specialist (SOTD) Serial number: NE616IN

Member of the Avengers

Appearance: Stephen Amell from Arrow, Season 1 build.

Aegis Combat gear: Earth X's Dark Arrow Vibranium jacket and pants with retractable full-face mask colored Black and Blue. Eye covers in mask are colored blue as well. Shoulder strap pellet holders. Combat gloves and forearm guards with weapons and equipment.

SHIELD gear: Combat boots, black combat pants, with form fitting dark blue long sleeve athletic shirt. Shoulder strap pellet holders. SHIELD Tactical combat vest. Combat gloves and forearm guards with weapons and equipment.

Casual Outfit: dark blue or black sneakers, jeans, blue or black t-shirt and either a zip-up hoodie, jacket, or button up over.

Weapons:

Signature Guns:

Modified Heckler & Koch P30L handgun with custom grip and compensator. Spare firearm Glock 17.

Modified Knight's Armament SR-25 Sniper rifle with modified scope, bipod, and suppressor.

Modified M249 Mk46 Light Machine gun with a modified barrel, magazine insertion well. Equipped with adjustable buttstock, 100-round magazine drum, deployable bipod, red dot sight, flashlight, and laser sight attachment.

Modified TDI/KRISS Vector-.45 ACP with modified barrel, stock, grip, extended magazine, red-dot sight, flashlight, laser sight, and silencer attachment.

Modified Remington 879 MSC Masterkey-12 gauge compact shotgun.

Others:

Right forearm guard wrist mounted retractable Vibranium/alloy blades.

Left forearm guard wrist mounted small retractable Vibranium Shield & touchpad computer.

10 dark blue flechettes/throwing arrows wrapped around his ankles.

2 Vibranium orbs that Will is able to manipulate.

Natural Language Modified Artificial Intelligence program EDI.

Predator Combi stick/spear

2 Predator Shuriken

4 Laser net devices

Predator knife

Born: September 8th, 1988-Currently 23

Notable talents: Genius level intellect potential, self-defense military training from Harold Detmer, knowledge, and training in 15 types of martial arts, gun knowledge and expert marksman trained by Clint Barton, espionage and spy skills trained by Natasha Romanoff, SHIELD tactics and medical training from Coulson and SHIELD trainers, well-crafted knowledge and understanding of psychology, knowledge, and experience with engineering both mechanical and electrical.

Personality: Kind, caring, composed, attentive, intelligent, and driven. Can be a bit of a smartass.

When insulted, angered, or in a serious situation, focused and relentless. Considered dangerous and unforgiving in these types of situations.

Uses powers sparingly in the field unless absolutely needs to.

Pairing: Will x Skye/Daisy Johnson x Crystal

Powers: (If in bold, capable of doing now)

Rakyat Tatau: Mystical tattoo that enhances speed, strength, stamina, intelligence, instincts, healing speed ad metabolic function to absolute human peak potential. (Captain America Level Super Soldier)

Telekinesis, the ability to impact objects through the direct influence of mental power or other non-physical means

Power Level=Advanced: level 4 out of 5

Binding-to keep an object/being from moving

Levitation-to lift an object

Orbital Field-to makes objects and energy orbit around user

Telekinetic Shield-to create a shield of telekinetic energy around user or others/strength of shield depends on mental strength and focus of user

Psionic Speed-to augment user's physical speed

Psionic Strength-to augment user's physical strength

Telekinetic Bullet Projection-projecting telekinetic energy as bullets

Telekinetic Choking-to strangle someone with telekinesis

Telekinetic Grip-To grasp an object firmly in place

Telekinetic Maneuver-to alter an object's directional course

Telekinetic Pull & Push-to pull or push objects away from user

Molecular Manipulation-to manipulate matter at molecular level. Can accelerate, slow down and adjust spacing of molecules. (limited in use. ie. manipulating Vibranium orbs and reshaping them)

Telekinetic Aura/Sense-To sense one's surroundings with telekinesis

Telekinetic Compression-to crush or compact an object

Telekinetic Blast-to emit telekinetic energy as a blast of blue energy

Telekinetic Destruction-to make an object explode into dust

Telekinetic Flight-using telekinesis to fly

Psionic Explosion-to create/discharge psychic energy across a wide range

Telepathy, mentally receive or transmit information

Power Level=Advanced: level 4 out of 5

Mind Reading-ability to read the thoughts of others

Memory Reading-the ability to read the target's memories

Psychic Communication-the ability to secretly converse with others

Telepathic Speaking-to speak aloud using the mind

Telepathic Projection-to project images or memories into the physical plane

Download-the ability to process/download information of another person (If used in a violent or angry mood, can harm the victim)

Knowledge Replication-the ability to replicate learned knowledge and skills

Knowledge Projection-the ability to project knowledge to another

Rapid brain activity-the ability to process and understand information at incredible rates

Mental Inducement-The ability to put the targets mind into the wanted state

Mental Hallucination-the ability to cause mental hallucinations

Mind Link-the ability to develop a permanent mental bond with any person

Mind Walking/Melding-to enter another's consciousness

Precognition awareness-six sense awareness of imminent danger

Telepathic Prediction-the ability to know a person's moves by reading their brain waves

Astral Projection-to separate one's mind from their body and explore physical plane (Cannot use telekinesis in this state. If separated from body too long, very dangerous.)

Telepathic Surgery-the ability to perform neuropsychic surgery, healing and/or damaging the mind

Memory/Mental Manipulation-the ability to manipulate a target's memories and mind

Clairvoyance-the ability to gain direct visual information through non-physical means (Triggered only by serious events)

Foresight-the ability to foresee possible future events and observe what may happen (Needs certain triggers to activate)

Disclaimer: I don't own Agents of SHIELD or any Marvel Properties, they belong to their respective owners, I'm just a fan.