[hr][hr][center][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/scd426lnl/Ao_S_1_82.png[/img][hr][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/icp2eb6dt/coulson.gif[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Kirah][@Nallore][@FantasyChic][@17th Day][@Peridot][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]Present Day - The Bus - Somewhere Over the Atlantic Ocean: August 30th, 2020 - 12:00 P.M. [/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][center][h3][color=84B4E2][b][i]Rewards[/i][/b][/color][/h3][/center] If you received a skill reward, please edit it into your CS [u][i][b]within 48 hours[/b][/i][/u] or it will be considered lost in a drunken haze. Skills indicate where they should be placed as well. [hider=Rewards]Griffin Lee:[list][*]Perception (General World Skill) [*]Power Control: Level 2[/list] Maria Smith:[list][*]Pistols (Specialty Skill) [*]Power Control: Level 2[/list] Niah Bautista:[list][*]Agility (General World Skill) [*]Power Control: Level 2[/list] Sami Rhodes:[list][*]Combat First Aide (General World Skill) [*]Power Control: Level 2[/list] Sparky:[list][*]Stunt Driving (General World Skill) [*]Power Control: Level 2[/list] Dominika Novikova:[list][*]Shield Combat (General World Skill) [*]Power Control: Level 2[/list] Tinley Abercrombie:[list][*]Mentorship (General World Skill) [*]Power Control: Level 2[/list] Cassandra Reed: [list][*]Stamina (Specialty Skill) [*]Power Control: Level 2[/list][/hider][hr][hr][center][h1][b][i][color=add3ff]Dominika Novikova[/color][/i][/b][/h1][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/nchx8lext/tumblr_nwr7ad8_V011si3tc1o1_500.gif[/img][hr][hr][b][color=add3ff]Location:[/color][/b] the Lounge (Level Two) [b][color=add3ff]Skills:[/color][/b] Dimensional Energy Perception (Passive)[/center][hr][hider=Bus Blueprints][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/72rr59wfl/Bus_Blueprints.jpg[/img] Please specify what level and what area your character is on [/hider] Novikova was sitting in the lounge, having found a pair of headphones and plugged them into her phone, listening to one of her favorite songs - [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v24ljjtqb-U]Paranoid by Black Sabbath[/url]. The remastered version, of course. She tapped her foot quietly, thinking about the events of the last week. Captain America had been more interested in giving her and Abercrombie traditionally combat training, with Tinley offering to mentor her some as well. She had gotten better by the end of the week, yet she couldn't help but despise the image those two had in their mind that she was some weak and delicate thing. She clenched her hand. There wasn't a lot of earth on this plane - mostly just tracks of dust that people had tracked in with their feet - yet she could feel them. They were too distant to do much of anything with and she let it go. Five different people had left the program in one way or another - Hale had gone with a team to Canada to look in on an old facility as a favor to Dr. Jiang, as rumors of activity had popped up on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s radar. Kelley had returned from his mission to Eastern Europe, just in time to be sent along with Hale on the Canadian mission. Val had gone home due to a family emergency and both Nikolova and Rivera were, tragically perhaps, deceased. It had been enough of a loss in numbers for Fury to reabsorb Team Beta into Team Alpha - something Novikova privately realized had been his intention all along. A few different names had been thrown around S.H.I.E.L.D. command as to what to call them - Phase Three didn't seem to do them justice. Of all of them, Novikova found [i]the Secret Warriors[/i] to be the absolute worst - yet it seemed to be what Fury had decided fit them best. They had received some new members, of course - ones experienced in the field and with their powers. Agents Blake, Vasyutin, and Renroir had all joined. The command structure remained largely the same. Agent Kennedy was in charge of them all, assisted by Agent Reed. Agent Abercrombie would lead the team in the field. And the rest would follow her command. [hr][hr][center][h1][b][i][color=gray]Director Fury[/color][/i][/b][/h1][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/nj07pcdfl/source.gif[/img][hr][hr][b][color=gray]Location:[/color][/b] C.O.'s Office (Level Three)[/center][hr] Fury wasn't actually on the Bus. No, in reality he was back at the Triskleion, sorting out the latest crisis. Yet the C.O.'s office had a private television, making it ideal for a live conversation between him and the upper command agents. Of course, its privacy had also caused two others on the Bus to choose to use it for some...less than respectable purposes, causing Fury to sigh and inform them that he could [i]damn well see them fucking over there.[/i] That was a mess he'd have to deal with later. It was against S.H.I.E.L.D. policies but he had bigger fish to fry at the moment than worry about who Agent Raynor chose to have sex with. [color=gray]"Let's cut to the chase,"[/color] Fury said, as soon as Agents Kennedy, Reed, and Abercrombie were in the room. [color=gray]"As I hope you all know, since otherwise I clearly need to hit you over the head with briefing reports instead of just sending them along, Lucia von Bardas was elected as Serbia's prime minister. She's from the Latveria region - a fucked up place that we believe is now exporting tech based weapons to some of the greatest pains in our asses. And the Cheeto in charge won't do shit about it. Intel says that we are just weeks away from Von Bardas sending advanced tech to the Ghost, the Vulture, the Brotherhood...You name it, she supplies them. Your mission is to shut down the weapon trade covertly, since I don't have to remind you that one fucking tweet and we could all be out of work, even if it is to save the world."[/color] [color=773FE3]"At least Jakobsen wouldn't fuck around with stuff like this..."[/color] Kennedy muttered. The man had his flaws, that was for certain, but he was the best one currently running for office. And he doubted that Jakobsen would just sit around and do nothing while von Bardas was arming the criminals of the world with high powered weapons. He rubbed his hand for a moment. It had been a while since he had been to Serbia. Last time he was there, he was human - he had a normal life. And then, thanks to Isotope E, that all had changed... [color=gray]"Well he hasn't been elected yet, unless I need to remind you how to use a calendar, Kennedy,"[/color] Fury pointed out without a trace of humor in his voice or face - but on the inside he was cracking up. [color=gray]"Shut it down. Lethal force is authorized if necessary, but I'd like to avoid a nuclear war. I don't have enough Advil to make that headache go away."[/color]