House divided part 3 of 4
" I can't believe I got taken off the squad!" Noriko growled. She walked out of the room and smashed her fist against the wall, when she caught a glimpse of what was going on in one of their secret interview rooms.
" Allow me to explain your situation." Josh spoke. " Agent Ford here, the gentleman in the containment suit, has a special gift. Anything he touches withers and dies. I'm Agent Foley. My mutant gift speeds up the body's biological functions. In short, I'm a healer. I keep you from dying when Agent Ford touches you." Josh explained to Cameron Hodge. " The next effect is negligible. They cancel each other out. But not before Agent Ford causes a piece of you to die and I force it back to life. I understand it's quite painful."
" Since you have telepathic resistance and refuse to tell us where your terrorist cell is located in Tokyo, we have to opt for more persuasive methods." Kevin told the man. " But you could spare yourself all of this..... Nothing to say? Good. I was hoping for that. My power's hungry." Kevin told the man. He reached out and grabbed the man's arm. " And you're my lunch."
" AHHHHHHHH!" Hodge screamed in pain.
Noriko watched this in horror. She burst into the room and Kevin and Josh both turned towards her.
" Stop it! Are you crazy?" Noriko asked the two men. " We're supposed to be the good guys!"
" Agent Ashida.... I understand you have been relieved of your duties as a member of the Hellions for this assignment. So, stand down" Josh told the woman.
" We have work to do." Kevin spoke up.
" Your work is finished!" Noriko exclaimed. She blasted Kevin and Josh both with a wide stream of electricity, which forced the two men to back away from Hodge. " You're not touching this man again!"
" Well, we either touch him or touch you." Josh told the woman.
Kevin, lunged at Noriko, but the girl dodged him easily.
" You're not touching me, Ford. And you Josh? What are you gonna do? Heal me to death?" Noriko asked the two men.
" My power isn't limited to healing!" Josh exclaimed as he grabbed Noriko's arm. " I've just made the blood rush to your lungs. Your vessels are rupturing, and blood is filling your lungs! Makes it hard to breathe, doesn't it? You'll be dead soon." Josh told the woman.
Noriko toppled over clutching her chest in pain.
" But you won't live long enough for him to kill." Kevin told the woman as he reached for her face.
Noriko's hand shot up and grabbed Kevin's sleeve.
" No! I'll live longer!" Noriko told the man. She sent a large current of electricity through Kevin's suit, which shot out of his helmet. " You guys think you can take me? I'm SHIELD Trained, for combat. Not Interrogation." Noriko told the two.
Josh grabbed Noriko's arm and smirked.
" You're running low on power. I can feel it ebb in you. And your lungs are still filling full of blood." Josh told the woman.
" Don't need my power to handle you!" Noriko told the man as she uppercutted him right in the chin, dropping him with ease.
" So, what happens now?" Hodge asked the girl.
" You give me answers. And you're welcome by the way." Noriko told the man.
" You look familiar." Hodge told the girl.
" I helped stop your terrorist attack today." Noriko told the man.
" That's not it? You're Seiji Ashida's girl, aren't you? Noriko right?" Hodge asked. " I'm Cameron Hodge, and one day I will destroy your kind." He stated.
" My kind...? But not me?" Noriko asked.
" No. You have saved my life. Besides, Seiji wants you saved. Returned to his home. What can I say? He's sentimental. Even in the face of the atrocities your kind has visited upon Humanity." Cameron told the girl.
" What atrocities? Under Magneto's rule we have peace!" Noriko told the man. We have prosperity for everyone!"
" Yes, and SHIELD never tortures prisoners." Cameron said sarcastically. " Don't be naive. I have little time in this world, Noriko. I cannot begin to educate you on the atrocities committed against us so-called Sapiens. Beginning with project Genesis." Cameron told the girl.
" Tell me where I can find my father! SHIELDS after him, and they'll kill him if I don't find him first!" Noriko exclaimed.
" I will tell you... On one condition." Cameron told the girl.
" What?" Noriko asked.
" Kill me." Hodge spoke.
" I- I can't do that." Noriko told the man.
" I am being tortured. Even if I betray my kind, SHIELD will still kill me. You must do it first." Hodge told the girl.
" I can free you." Noriko told the man. She walked behind him and started trying to untie him.
" Your battle here has already been noticed. You don't have time and you cannot carry me with your increased speed. And certainly not with blood filling your lungs." Hodge explained to the girl. " It's the only way."
Noriko sighed and closed her eyes, she wasn't the kind of person who took lives, even though she was an Agent. Noriko raised her hand to Hodge's chest and sent a current of electricity into his heart and exploded it, killing him instantly.
Noriko then fled from SHIELD headquarters and made her way to the only person she could trust to have her back.
Later that night at the New Mutant Leadership Institute.
" Couldn't we have done this at the Hellicarrier?" Noriko asked David.
" You attacked your fellow Agents and killed a man, Noriko. They're going to be looking for you." David explained to the girl. " We need to get this information, quick." David explained.
" Aren't you worried about him, being here?" Noriko asked. Referring to Douglas Ramsey, A.K.A Cypher, a man who can decipher any language, including computer language.
" Mr. Ramsey is an expert in all languages. Including computer languages. I need to be near him so I can telepathically tap into that and crack these files." David told the girl. " Just keep an eye on him and let me know if he starts watching us." David whispered. " This is serious. Even SHIELD'S main offices don't know about project genesis. But I've used their systems to connect directly to SHIELD, Japan." David explained.
" What do you think it is?" Noriko asked.
" Oh no... This is bad." David exclaimed.
" What is it, David?" Noriko asked.
" We need to get the others. Come on." David told the girl. He quickly closed all the programs he was running and left with Noriko to get the others.
" Can you tell me what's going on?" Noriko asked.
" No. Not here." David replied. David ignored Noriko and walked into Doctor Garrison's lab.
" Excuse me doctor garrison have you seen- Oh, Laurie, I was just looking for you." David spoke.
" Hey, David. What's up?" Laurie asked.
" I was hoping I could talk to you. Somethings come up and." David was speaking when Garrison cut him off.
" Go, Laurie. We can talk later." Garrison told his daughter. He hurried her and David out of the room and locked the door behind them to continue his own plot.
" David, what's going on?" Laurie asked the man.
" We need to talk, but not here. Where's Cessily?" David asked the girl.
A few minutes later, after having grabbed Cessily and finding a secure spot to talk, David began explaining what was going on to the girls.
" That can't be true!" Cessily exclaimed.
" If this is going on in Japan, shouldn't we tell Shield?" Laurie asked.
" All I know is that project Genesis wasn't in the main Shield computers. But that doesn't mean SHIELD doesn't know. It could have been shunted to those systems to keep it a secret or give them plausible deniability." David explained.
" SHIELD wouldn't be part of something like this." Cessily told the man.
Noriko coughed into her hand hard, still feeling the effects from her fight with Josh and Kevin.
" SHIELD'S involved in a lot of things I didn't think they'd do. This is for real." Noriko told the group.
" Nori.... Are you okay? Maybe we should take you to a doctor." David spoke.
" SHIELDS after me, David. If I go to a doctor, they'll find me. Besides, my metabolism is faster than yours." Noriko told the boy. She then started coughing again just as hard as before. " I'll heal."
" If this is going on, then we have to stop it." Laurie stated. " I'm with you all the way."
" Yeah... We have to at least find out what's going on." Cessily stated.
" Hold up, I hear voices." David spoke. He told everyone to be quiet and they heard a jumble of voices approaching their location. David, leaned out to the street and saw the Stepford sisters walking towards them. " There's nothing going on here. We're just discussing our summer plans." David told the girls.
" David, that is not true, and you know that I know it." Sophie told the man, until now Sophie died last year in Quentin Quire's attack on the mansion but has been revived in this world. " I want to help." Sophie stated. " I could feel your distress when you learned what was going on. I am sorry, I pried. But I know what you know. And I know Genesis has to be stopped."
" You're making a mistake." The other four stepford sisters told Sophie.
" No, I'm doing what's right. We all should. That's what they're teaching us here. But if I have to go without you, then please." Sophie spoke.
" You are our sister. We'll keep your secret." The girls all told Sophie.
History is tragic ain't it. Sophie originally dies making a sacrifice to do the right thing to stop Quentin, and now here she is again, doing the right thing to stop a mad organization.
" Okay, come on." David told the girl. " Girl's, we've got one more coming with us." David told the group as he walked with Sophie to the back.
" I'm afraid you have more than that." Sophie spoke up.
" Oh no." David spoke.
" What's the matter?" Cessily asked.
" I'm suddenly picking up the ability to speak Chinese." David explained. " Come on out, we know you're there." David spoke.
Coming out from behind the corner, were Jubilee and Sooraya.
" Japan? We're so in, right Sooraya?" Jubilee asked the girl.
" Totally, Jubes. They have the best boot legs." Sooraya replied.
" We are not bringing the shallow twins." Laurie exclaimed.
" If Jubilee and Sooraya know what we're up to, we're better off taking them with us than leaving them behind." David told the girl.
" YES! Road trip!" Jubilee and Sooraya both shouted as they high fived each other.
" Alright, girls. Let's go." David spoke.