SHIELDed From View ((Mustering SHIELD agents))

[ngm_shield]

Tracking HYDRA activity was a full-time job for some. While New York had been relatively quiet except for a few blips that had been chased after, more solid intel had come from Colombia. It seemed something big was happening there. Some of the faces identified were from the attempted assassination of Silver Sable a few years ago. While Sammy Fury's team had caught most of that nest in New York City, a few had slipped their grasp.

So, with names and a location, a mission was ordered. Summons were sent out to a small team of agents. A room in the Helicarrier awaited their arrivals.

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[simon_didnt_say]

Simon was also assigned to the team, though primarily in non-combat roles. He could stay with the vehicle and maintain assistance through his drones. Nice and safe and non-shooty, since he wasn't rated for combat scenarios.

He nodded politely to Joe as he took his seat. "Agent Rogers," he said. "How's the shield working out? I was thinking about it, and I might be able to put some controls in it so that you could operate it remotely..

[the_next_avenger]

Joe looked up to the other Agent Coulson. He didn't realize there were two.

"Agent Rogers or U.S. Agent. Nice to meet you." Joe said, offering a hand. "Good work the other day. I'm glad it didn't worse than it was."

He saw Simon and grinned.

"It's good so far, man. Thanks. I'm trying to learn how to use it the old-fashioned way but a remote control could really help in the meantime." Joe said.

[grandson_of_coul]

Steve may not have been the most physically active of agents, an agent he was and the summons he recieved. And when he went in, he saw his sister and promptly walked in as professionally as possible and found the place to be Comfortably Away While Not Directly Avoiding his sister and sat there.

"Hello," Steve said, his voice curt.

[agent_timeout]

"Not last today," Sammy said from behind Nikki. She breezed in and found a seat. "Hi everyone. Who made the coffee?"

[ngm_shield]

Not too long after Sammy entered the room, the door opened to admit the agent who was going to brief them. Agent Melinda May strode calmly into the room. She headed to the front of the room where a display was humming to life.

"Good morning, agents. Take a seat. This is a SECRET mission briefing." She paused to let them settle in.

[the_next_avenger]

"Agent Fury."

Joe gave a nod to Sammy, though he didn't call her by her nickname "Shrimp". This was a professional meeting and there were other agents available. He had time during the flight to tease her.

And check up on her.

"Yes, ma'am." Joe said, taking his seat. He wondered where they were going but Agent May, aka "The Cavalry", would let them know. She was one of the best in the business.

Yeah, this felt good.

[shieldbrat]

Secrets. That was ironic. Her family was getting *good* with secrets and she couldn't help give her brother a hard look before sitting.

[simon_didnt_say]

Well, that couldn't possibly be anything good.

"Understood, ma'am," Simon said.

[agent_timeout]

With the emphasis on SECRET, it sounded a lot like Agent May was issuing a specific warning to someone in the room.

She nodded in response and prepared to take notes.

[ngm_shield]

She glanced over the assembled agents, her face impassive. She gestured and maps and schematics floated in 3-D above the table in front of her. "We've gotten a report of HYDRA activity in Colombia. There is a hotel built in the 1920's outside of San Antonio del Tequendama. We've gotten some intel that the abandoned hotel has been taken over by HYDRA. While we'll have plenty of boots on the ground, most of them will be protecting your team from the guerrilla and paramilitary groups that make their bases in the surrounding jungles."

She stuck her finger in one of the maps and spread her hands out to enlarge it. Once it was the right size, she brought up profile pictures and grainy surveillance shots of a decrepit hotel with activity happening around it. "We suspect this is the core of a local nest, one focused on some sort of experiment. One of the people identified," she tapped on the portrait of a gaunt, bald man to bring up a large picture of him, "managed to somehow escape capture after we interrupted their attempt to blow Silver Sable's jet out of the air over New York."

She paused to let the note-takers catch up and to let them study one of their targets.

[shieldbrat]

She sung very quietly under her breath, "All I want for Christmas is to blow sh*t up..."

Really, it seemed like a good idea - and it would make the world a better place. Points all around.

[simon_didnt_say]

Simon entered a few notes on his datapad, putting down a few ideas for the best gear to bring for such a mission.

He nodded thoughtfully to himself. "Maybe some spider-drones?" he asked himself quietly. "Definitely some heavier ordinance for the team..."

[the_next_avenger]

Joe was paying attention before, but his focus sharpened the moment HYDRA was mentioned. His dad had been fighting them since the 1940's. Not only that, but they'd kidnapped his kid sister when she was a baby.

Joe considered it an obligation to crack HYDRA skulls twice a year, minimum.

Joe looked over the positions of the guerrilla and paramilitary fighters in the area.

"This guy tried to whack the Silver Sable? Can't imagine he'll live long if that's the case. What's her status?" he asked.

[agent_timeout]

Just the name Hydra made Sammy's skin crawl and her trigger finger itch.

"Are we wiping the nest out, or is this an extraction?"

[ngm_shield]

Agent May glanced at the female Coulson and her singing, but she did not comment on it.

"Silver Sable is alive and operating her team of mercenaries out of Europe. The team lead by Agent Fury assisted in keeping the HYDRA attack from being a larger international incident. Dr. Ubel managed to escape in the commotion of a rescue and the weapon firing at the incoming jet." She shrank the doctor's picture and expanded grainy pictures of two others.

"These two are prominent engineers within HYDRA. From what surveillance we have managed to get, they seem to be outfitting this abandoned hotel with technology. Which is why Fitz will be going into the field with extra coverage. We're mobilizing as many boots on the ground as we can, but this team will be on point. We're wiping out this nest and taking whatever technology we can in the process."

She shrank the profile images back down and put the 3-D topographical map of their destination up for the agents to look over. "We leave within the hour on the Bus."

[the_next_avenger]

Well, Silver Sable was alive and that was good. Joe wondered if she knew anything about this. He didn't care for mercenaries. Their codes of honor were defined by whoever paid them the most, no matter what was right.

Joe looked at the map of the destination and committed it to memory. His personal mission, as of now, was to make sure that everyone in this room came back in one piece.

"Extermination it is." he said, looking around the room at the other agents. He hoped they weren't squeamish about catching bodies. The situation with Alisa LeBeau (he'd learned her name afterward) showed him that they could work a plan. Fitz was the one he was most concerned about, but if they did their job, Fitz probably wouldn't have to kill anyone.

[simon_didnt_say]

Simon swallowed nervously. He really wasn't a big fan of field work, especially an insertion like this. He'd passed basic training for field work (barely), of course, but that didn't mean he had to like it.

"I think I've got some, ah, some goodies that would work well for this one," he said. "And give us a little more punch where we need it."

[agent_timeout]

Sammy gave the map a hard look, also committing it to memory and making preliminary plans for the extermination. She made a mental note to stock up on her favorite ammo.

[shieldbrat]

She stood up after it was clear Agent Ming was done - the woman, apparently, didn't appreciate her sense of humor.

"Simon, could I see you for a second? Give me 10 minutes, I'll meet you in your lab?"

[simon_didnt_say]

"Oh, um, certainly," Simon said. "Of course."