Garnet saw Hyper enter the briefing room next, which made sense as he was the fastest of the initiates, “I was already in the building, down in the arcade.”

Astra entered next, followed shortly by Viking. Garnet decided to not ask about the little bit of blood on his lips. Garnet was aware that he had powers similar to the Hulk, but wasn’t sure if had his rage. In fact, Garnet felt a little insignificant in regards to his powers compared to the other initiates. Shooting gems seemed to suck compared to supersonic flight, super strength, or a bad ass power armour.

Garnet was snapped out of his mental ruminations when the holo-projector in the centre of the briefing room powered on. A second later the holographic image of Captain America appeared. The impressive looking hero took a few seconds to allow everyone to stop talking and focus on him.

“Greetings initiates,” the star spangled hero said, “I trust that your time at the mansion has been pleasant. Now onto business. It is time for your first mission. Don’t expect it to be an easy one either.”

The Captain’s friendly face then turned a little grim, “As you know, the Avengers have dismantled most of the infrastructure of the terrorist group known as HYDRA. While we have captured most of HYDRA’s leadership, some of their elite agents are still at large.”

“That leads us to your target,” Cap said as a picture of a black haired woman wearing green appeared next to him, “This is Ophelia Sarkissian, formerly known as Madame Hydra. She was one of their top agents for many years. But during the fall of HYDRA, she managed to escape without a trace. But a few days ago she popped back up when footage caught her working with the Serpent Society, a team of augmented super-villains. Apparently she has joined up with them, now going by Viper.”

The image of Viper disappeared as Captain America turned back to the initiates, “Your mission is to capture Viper, as well as the Serpent Society if possible. We have intel that they have just recently entered Sokovia. You will take a Quinjet to Sokovia, where you will receive further instructions. Any questions?”

Garnet held his tongue. While he was excited to finally go on a mission as an Avenger, or almost Avenger, he was worried about going after one of HYDRA’s top agents. After all he had seen the destruction caused by the battle between HYDRA and the Avengers. But, he now had a team to rely on, as before it was just him and Opal, so he would have some back up.