00035. Setting up the plan of attack.

00035. Setting up the plan of attack. AnnouncementChapter for the week, it's a little late but I was busy reading... Sorry. Hope you all enjoy it. Like always, let me know what you think.

"And why do we need to rescue the little murder machine?"

Ezekiel looked at Hill and said, "Because that isn't her choice. The group who made her are trying to make the perfect weapon. Plus she is technically Logan's daughter, that reason is good enough to help her out."

Logan spoke up finally and growled out, "How were they able to clone me?"

"Leftover material from when you were part of the Weapon-x program. Even though the government shut down the program, the main scientist and Stryker decided to start again with a new project. I still haven't figured out who is backing them, but hopefully when we raid the facility we will find out."

Coulson spoke next and asked, "It seems like you already have some info on them. How come you haven't gained access to their servers yet? Is their security that good?"

"The facility is not connected to any outside network as far as I could tell. The only reason I have any info at all, is because of this attack. I was able to dig a few things up, including where the facility is located."

Steve spoke up next and asked, "So what is your plan?"

Ezekiel laughed before he said, "I don't really have one. I have some ideas but I have never attempted to raid a heavily guarded facility before. So I was hoping someone with more experience could help out."

Fury looked at Peggy and Steve for a moment, Peggy glanced back at Fury before she nodded slightly. Fury turned to look at Ezekiel and said, "We first need any intelligence you have on the base."

The screen changed to a satellite picture of the outside of the base, it only showed the small portion that was not underground. Ezekiel pointed at it and said, "That is all I have, besides the location. I have searched through everything I could, that base does not exist anywhere digitally. I was only able to find the base because I followed the vehicles they used with my satellite network."

Fury let out a sigh as he said, "That is very little to go on. We really need to get some intel on the inside of that base, layout, number of hostiles, hostages, if there are any special targets we need to be aware of."

"I had an idea on how to get all of that, but Tao or one of the other sorcerer's will have to help us."

Tao looked at Ezekiel and asked, "You want to scout the place from the mirror dimension?"

Ezekiel smiled, as Fury looked at Tao in surprise as he asked, "Would that work?"

Tao nodded her head as she said, "Scouting the whole base from the mirror dimension would be easy. We could even pull people into the mirror dimension and neutralize them there when we attack. I would suggest asking Master Kaecilius and Mordo to help you."

Fury nodded his head as he looked back at Ezekiel and asked, "What other ideas do you have?"

"I would suggest that we connect one of my compact flash drives to their internal network as soon as possible. I can take over their whole system from there and we will have all the info we need. Amount of personnel, shifts, guard patrols and anything else we would need to form a plan of attack."

Hank spoke up next and asked, "Wouldn't that alert them? I am sure they have to have pretty complex cyber security in place."

Ezekiel smiled as he said, "I doubt that will be an issue, once the compact flash drive is inserted into the computer. The computer detecting what the drive is will run the program and not notice anything wrong. Even if they have all the computer's external ports disconnected, it will still work. Since no one disables the physical connection, only the software driver for them."

Fury thought about it for a little while before he said, "Fine, let's get your drive connected and scout the base out." He turned to Steve and asked, "Feel like stretching your legs and putting your skills to work Captain?"

Steve smiled as he said, "I could use the exercise."

Fury turned to Ezekiel and asked, "How long will it take you to make the device?"

Logan didn’t respond but Magneto asked, “What did you find there?”

The screen changed and it showed a video feed of the morgue, it was kinda hard to make out but the camera zoomed in to show some of the bodies on one of the racks. Ezekiel spoke after a few moments and said, “We found a den of monsters. Almost twenty three thousand people dissected and saved in a morgue to be used for tissue samples for cloning or experiments.”

“They killed almost twenty three thousand people?”

Ezekiel looked at Peggy and shook his head as he said, “They only kept the people with mutations. The other people they incinerated.”

Steve’s voice was low as he asked, “How many more people did they kill?”

The screen changed and showed a database of names, the list scrolled to the bottom quickly and the last entry was coded, ‘’. Above that name were two other entries, ‘Case File: #134,562 Jill Kincaid’ and ‘Case File: #134,561 Mark Kincaid’. As everyone looked at the list they noticed a pattern, it would almost always have more than one entry with the same last name.

Ezekiel let out a sigh as he said, “When they found a target, they would also grab any close family to the target. Any they found without the x-gene were killed outright. The others were injected with a special drug to force the gene to activate, then they were killed and dissected. Those were the lucky ones, the people who had powers that weren’t considered dangerous were dissected while they were still alive. Over one hundred and thirty thousand people were killed by them.”

Magneto spoke up, his voice barely held in check as he asked, “When do we attack them?”

Ezekiel glanced at Magneto before he looked to Fury and said, “Stryker is currently out with a capture team bringing back a new specimen, the lead is currently meeting with the project's backers and should be back in a few days. I would suggest that we wait for both of them to come back and then attack.”

Fury thought for a few moments before he asked, “Who are the project backers?”

“People we are already targeting.”

Steve clenched his fist as he let out, “Hydra.”

Xavier and the others didn’t hear Steve, but did hear Ezekiel as he replied, “Exactly.”

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Jacob laughed as he asked, “You can’t be serious?”

Richard shook his head and said, “No we both quit. We are going to move in with Ben and May after we sell our condo in the city, while we look for a house in this neighborhood.”

“But you had the perfect jobs?! You said it was your dream job, working on cutting edge science with your wife.”

Richard put his arm around Jacob’s shoulder as he said, “It was, but we pretty much missed the first three years of Peter’s life. Me and Mary talked over our vacation and decided we didn’t want to miss anymore of Peter's life. Once we sell our condo, we will have more than enough money to buy a house around here and set up a decent lab for us in the basement. We could then work from home on projects while we also spend a lot more time with Peter.”

Jacob shook his head but then smiled and said, “I used to think you were the smartest guy I ever met. Then you go and do something like this and prove it.”

They both laughed before Jacob said, “You know, if you want a place to work from. Ben and I have the lower basement of the garage. We could clear out half of it and have it remodeled for you to use as your new lab. It would be a lot more space then a house basement and you would save money for more equipment for your lab.”

Richard was a little shocked as he looked at Jacob, before he asked, “You would do that for us?”

“Of course I would, you are family.”