This was a make up chapter for missing a day.
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After each episode of cinematics ended the crowd was roaring, enjoying the display immensely. The lights dimmed further, casting the entire crowd in darkness as the screens brightened immensely.
Gasps sprang out as the screen slowly started to show fan images of Fallout. Cities made that were still continuing to be made and sustained. Buildings customised to perfection, cities spanning an entire state of America, everything was sublimely managed.
Ghouls, Mutants and varying other dangers zoomed past in different environments before the video finally stopped and a single sign wash showing, slanted, with a robot hovering at the end; a Mr Handy.
~Mod Compatibility and Creation Update!~
People whistled and yelled their support from the roof tops, hundreds of people planning their own modding projects and cheat mods. The screen flashed to black and then there was a suspenseful orchestra that kicked in, Duel of the Fates. Two symbols emerged from the screen, leaving it and floating out in the open atmosphere of the arena. Before anyone could even react words also appeared in mid-air.
~What story will you make?~
Confusion radiated from everyone until he text changed once more, a singular sith figure stepping out from the screen, becoming real-looking in but a moment. The text forming a halo around her as orange eyes gleamed back at everyone on several floating screens.
~How will you decide to play, today?~
~What will you all play, I wonder...~
~Perhaps it is time to find out???~
The constant stream of words finally brought the entire stadium to a fever pitch as the sith stood there and raised her lightsaber, igniting it and pointing it directly up. *POP* . A countdown timer showed above her and hit 00:00:01 then slid into 00:00:00 ...
~SWTOR IS RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC!!!~
Every member of audience received a personal screen now with these words emblazoned upon them. Immediately they were all booted from the Demo, the program itself incorporating with SWTOR and bringing up a purchase menu for each and every player in attendance, as if goading them into buying the game.
'It's all in fates hands I guess.'
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An hour after the release of SWTOR...
*RING* *RING*
The front entrance of Yggdrasil Interactive echoed with the sound of doorbells as Susan Storm, personal secretary of the owner, rushed down the stairs. Her shoes reverberating off of the marble and stonework of the awesome building.
She quickly zoomed down the stairs at a running speed and finally came to an abrupt stop at the door. Catching her breath momentarily, she bent down and looked through the peephole. There stood a beautiful red-head woman with an astounding figure and rather refined business clothes, her attitude frustrated and strained.
Her hands went for the door bell again, thus Susan hastily opened the door and regarded the obviously hurried individual...
"Hello? How may I help you?" An Uchiha stepped just before the corner of nearby hallway, his ears trained on the front door. Meanwhile several other ninjas, dressed in formal black business suits, followed suit in their commander's actions.
"I am here to speak with the owner of Yggdrasil Interactive." Susan frowned slightly and straightened up, her posture becoming more rigid and defensive.
"Do you have an appointment?"
Now it was the redhead's turn to become more imperious, her chin heightening slightly as her eyes looked down upon the gorgeous form of Susan. The two glared at one another for several moments as the Uchiha's eyes began to slowly rotate in preparedness.
Susan gripped her hands tight, one of her clenched fingers turning invisible as the urge to punch this stuck up woman reached a breaking point... She was making every gesture to piss her off and she had experienced this so much with her ex-husband's replacement of her...
Natasha, in a similar way was getting pangs of threat from the women before her, even more so from behind her... It was as if she had walked into a viper's den without any clue as to the danger before her. This noxious undertone tickled the hackles of her neck furiously.
And, just as the situation was degrading, the pleasant voice of the owner of Yggdrasil Interactive spoke out.
"Susan, please let our guest, Natasha Romanov, in." Having been asked to let the arrogant bitch in, Susan reluctantly stepped to the side as she glared daggers at the side of this 'Natasha's' face. The feeling was mutual from Natasha's side, but she had larger fish to fry, the owner just spoke and was inside... A perfect opportunity to witness what this mysterious woman looked like.
Stepping in, all she could see was the same shadowy figure described by Stark. Same clothing, same shadows gathering around her face and body. It was as if she hadn't changed at all in a week.
"Natasha, please, let me invite you in for a chat."
The recipient gliding further in as all of the Uchiha used their Genjutsu to cloak themselves. Natasha saw nothing of them despite all of them watching her like a raven doth do to its prey.
The two met at the top of the stairs and gradually walked over to a side-room where discussions were organised to take place...
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And thus I sat here opposite to a very dangerous woman who was previously an assassin and now served as an agent for SHIELD. She was deadly, in two ways. Her skills were scary good as I could tell her confrontation with Susan was all a ploy to gain a read on her disposition and mental state. Secondly, her beauty could never be understated. She was glowing radiantly in the faint sunlight that parsed between the window and the inner wooden décor of the room. Her green eyes glowed with the verdant sunshine of nature itself and seemed as if untouched lilies laying upon a perfectly crystal clear pond.
I'd be smitten, if it wasn't for the intentions for which she most likely came here. Anything involved in Shield seemed to turn to shit, or at least that is what the dark web had informed me of.
"What should I call you...?" Her voice snapped through my observations and thoughts. Her tone was hard, slightly dark and a touch desperate... The emotions leaking from the recesses of her mind being those of wounded pride, deep sorrow and a longing for something deeply meaningful.
"You can call me, Freya, I suppose."
"Like the Norse Goddess? You're seriously giving me another alias?"
"Sure, why not." I simply smiled at her and watched; and felt, her frustration increase. It was obvious that this was not the way she would like to do things. As a woman, i knew when other women were like that, but only because of my psychic abilities could I even pick up the smallest of giveaways from her.
Now I could see how Xavier saw through me a touch on contact. I was akin to a lamb in the slaughter house, if he was malevolent in any way that day.
"Well, moving past that. I am here on behalf of Shield, to speak about working with you in regards to protecting your, company."
"I see."
She blinked and quickly moved on with her pitch.
"The incentive for you and your company would be automatic protection from any government interference with regards to your technology and future business movements."
A ping went off on my system as a fragment of my psychic ability grasped at an interesting live stream... From the senate of the USA where they were currently voting to see if they would coerce me to try and give my 'technology' away.
For the first time in my new life, i felt anger. True anger. Who the fuck were these bozos to tell me what I can and can't do? I am richer than most of them ever will be and I have more power at my command than they can ever comprehend. My mood was so soured that Natasha noticed, her posture showing shock, as if she was dubious about my mental state. I failed to care though.
"Natasha, it is an interesting proposal... But, you are a touch late. The senators of the USA have already started to attack my company. Please tell Fury that he can see me as a friend so long as he doesn't intervene... Now, I have some dirt to release to the public..."
I stood and ignored her, stepping out of the room and meeting directly with Itachi who was staring at me blankly, inquiringly.
"Quick Itachi, what is it?"
"Freya. There are people with weird symbols on their Jackets out the front of the Company..."
"They move quickly it seems. Completely confuse them, knock them out if you have to, just make sure they don't know what happened and there is no evidence of you or me doing it."
Itachi smirked a little before vanishing into smoke. The mental signatures of the entire security detail of Uchiha slipping out the sides of the house and flanking the front entrance. Meanwhile, Susan was running towards me.
"Freya! The FBI are here!"
"I know, they will be dealt with in short order... Now it is time to go air some of the USA's dirty laundry. The FBI now added to MY list."
"W-what!?"
'Heh, it's ironic that they are the ones usually keeping lists, and now I am making my own.'
"She's making a list
She's checking it twice
To see whether you're naughty...
Or nice..."
My little song spread shock over Susan's face as the grunts of several agents out the front of my company resounded. The government was a little too arrogant, time to teach them that they only have power sourced from the people inside the nation.
'Let's go search the internet and communication lines, shall we...?'
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