00022. A plan is forming.

00022. A plan is forming.

Fury was the first to respond and said, "How the hell are you only two years old?"

Ezekiel smiled as he responded and said, "I am about an hour old, it's the boss who is two years old."

Everyone paused at that comment and looked from Ezekiel to The Ancient One. She just nodded her head and said, "I am not sure how it actually works, but this is a clone of some kind. It is slowly using up its life force and will only last about a week."

Ezekiel smiled and said, "That is about right. As long as I don't use any of my skills, I should last for about seven more days."

Steve looked a little off and asked, "You are fine with only living for a week? Is there something we can do to help you?"

Ezekiel laughed before he said, "I thank you for your concern Cap, but I am not really alive in the normal sense. All of my memories are a copy from the boss and when I disappear, he will receive all of my memories."

Fury spoke up next and asked, "Since you are a clone, is this what you will look like when you are older?"

Ezekiel smiled and said, "No. I have no idea what I will look like when I am older. This is just a transformation to hide my true appearance, so you don't know what I really look like."

Fury looked like he was about to speak again, when Steve cut him off and said, "Well it's good to meet you Ezekiel. Would you like to join us for lunch?"

"I appreciate the offer but I don't need to eat. But The Ancient One might take you up on that."

The Ancient One shook her head and said, "I am fine, thank you."

Ezekiel looked around the room for a moment and took in the small mess hall. It had a kitchen area at the far end and spread out around the main area were round tables with chairs. Only two tables were currently being used, Peggy, Steve and Hank were at one table. While Fury and his agents were at another table eating. Ezekiel walked over and sat down at the table with Fury. He looked at Coulson, then Maria and asked, "You two are only sitting at this table because he is your boss, right?"

Fury stopped eating and glared at Ezekiel as everyone could hear Peggy chuckle slightly from the other table. Coulson just did his patented smile, while Maria just continued to eat like she didn’t hear anything. Ezekiel smiled and sat back in his chair and said, "Don't worry, Fury. I can keep you company."

"Good, maybe you will answer a few questions while you are here."

Ezekiel nodded his head and responded, "I don't mind, but I won't answer everything or anything at all, depending on what you ask about."

Fury pushed his plate aside and asked, "How much do you know about S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

"Probably the same amount as you do. But possibly more, since I know about things that will happen in the future."

Fury frowned a little and asked, "I know you said you wanna help people, but what is your true endgame?"

"To help protect the world and make it an overall better place to live for all of humanity."

Fury smirked and said, "Lofty goals for a kid. How exactly do you plan to pull that off?"

Ezekiel smiled and said, "Protecting the world I am already working on. It's why I had you find Steve first. As for making the world a better place, I have a lot of idea's. but first I need to start purging all the corruption in the governments throughout the world."

Fury scuffed at that and asked, "You think you can clean up the governments of the world? What are your plans? Kill everyone who is corrupt? Make yourself ruler of the world somehow?"

Ezekiel smiled and said, "Exactly, who wouldn't want those things? It's something so simple, but yet so many people are missing one or more of those things in this country alone. The country that everyone looks to as a leading example of the free world."

Fury smirked and said, "The U.S.S.R. fell in 91, that term is dated now."

"That's not the point Fury and you know it. If you don't wanna help with my other plans, that is fine. I honestly didn't expect help with everything I wanted to do."

Steve spoke up next and said, "We can discuss those plans later, I wanna know about Bucky. What is the plan for rescuing him."

"I still need to locate the facility he is located in, but I do have a few ideas on how to get him out. The first one depends on how much The Ancient One wants to help us."

Ezekiel and everyone else looked at The Ancient One, she smiled back and asked, "Tell me your idea and I will let you know."

"Once I find the location you port a small group close by the facility, then you pull everyone from inside the facility into the mirror dimension. Bucky and the other super soldiers will be frozen, so they shouldn't be pulled in. We walk in and take Bucky, then set the facility to explode and set the super soldiers free. Toss everyone back into the facility and it will look like the super soldiers got loose and caused the destruction of the facility."

The Ancient One nodded her head and said, "It's not a bad idea, but I don't think I could pull that many people into the mirror dimension at once. Small groups would be easy enough, but even my power has limits."

"Good to know. After I have found the location we could scout it for a few days from the mirror dimension and figure out the best time to attack. Then we could pull everyone from say the communication and security rooms. I could disable their systems so no one would know what is going on and we could slowly sweep the base clean by pulling them into the mirror dimension. Afterwards we set it up like I said."

Fury spoke up and said, "You think it will be so easy? Just take out a bunch of trained soldiers, rig a place up to explode, and Hydra are going to think their super soldiers were the cause?"

Ezekiel smiled and said, "Super soldiers that they have frozen because they can't control them? Yes, I think they will believe it just fine."

Ezekiel did a few hand signs and a small cloud of smoke appeared before a copy of Fury but with an exaggerated giant afro appeared in the chair Ezekiel was seated in. He looked at everyone in the room for a second before he looked back at Fury and said in Fury's voice, "But if I pretend to be the base commander and send out a call for help before we blow the base?"

Fury looked like he was about to explode, while everyone else was trying not to laugh. Even The Ancient One had a slight smirk on her face. Steve actually held it in the best and said, "I think that plan would work well, but you also said you had a few ideas on how to get him out. Would you like to explain those and we can figure out which one will work best, or maybe a combination of your plans?"

Fury spoke right after and said in a calm voice as he slowly reached into his coat, "I will give you ten seconds to change back, before you get hurt. One. Two."

The Fury with the ridiculous afro laughed and said to Fury, "You know if I change back, it will shorten my life expectancy."

"Eight."

Fury made some hand signs and changed back into Ezekiel and said, "You have no sense of humor, Fury."

Fury glared back at Ezekiel and said, "You would need to be funny, first."

Ezekiel placed both hands over his heart and said, "You know words hurt the most, right?"

"You don't look hurt at all."

The Ancient One spoke and said, "Children can we get back on track please?"

Fury frowned at The Ancient One as Ezekiel laughed, then looked over at Steve and said, "The first part of my other plan is to see if I can convince two old friends to work together again."