The Mercenary Grind

[weapons_mistress]

"Adri, I have a new list of prospective jobs," Millicent called to her best friend, who was currently in the kitchen. "Do you want me to read through them?"

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[ngm_foes]

"They exagerate things grossly, major! Strucker did what he could to resurrect the Empire! The whole of the world conspired to keep Germany down!"

"Then..we lost." The realization struck him just from the things they were saying.

"Yes, but-"

"Then..these things..killing civilians..."

"Enemies of the state, major! Those that crippled Germany-"

AGent Rossel yelled out. "Millions killed because of their religion and race! The Third Reich was a supremacist monstrosity!"

"No..that..that can't be true. We..we couldn't have fallen that far..."

[weapons_mistress]

"Major, let us take you to baron Strucker. He can explain how all this is cruel propaganda against him and to Germany," the Hydra solider countered.

"We can prove what we say is true. We can show you video footage-!" Rossel insisted.

"Just a bunch of Jews, Slavs, and other useless people, muttered one of the other Hydra soldiers.

"You son of a bitch!" One of the German agents lifted his gun, pointing it at the Hydra officer.

"Stop! Don't fire!" Millicent demanded.

[ze_leaper]

In one smooth motion, Adrienne disarmed the agent. With only minimal harm. She was nothing if not a delicate touch.

"The last thing we need is more violence right now," she said.

[ngm_foes]

"Try that again and-ugk!" The offending soldier was suddenly interrupted as the moisture in his mouth suddenly froze, creating a hard chunk of ice holding his mouth open in an uncomfortable manner.

"You have confirmed enough for me, boy," the major said in a menacing tone. He stared at the Hydra soldiers, the air around him growing colder by the second.

"The Empire's been dead for decades!" The leading Hydra officer said in a panic! Germany is a shell that kowtows to the rest of Europe! It's barely a nation, let alone a power!"

The major stopped. "How do I know you are not lying to me?"

[weapons_mistress]

"Shit," Millicent heard Agent Rossel mutter. The Holocaust was an easy means of slandering Hydra, but discussing Germany's modern state with an old-school German imperialist. This was taking a bad turn.

[ze_leaper]

Adrienne was worried now, more so than before. There was precious little she or Millicent could do against the arctic-powered German.

"Politics are complicated," she tried, cautiously. "But that does not change what Strucker has become. Or that under people like them," and she gestured to the HYDRA agents, "Germany would become just one more conquered land amongst many."

[ngm_foes]

"That's-" The officer began.

"Enough!" The major demanded.

Everyone fell silent as he eyed all of them.

"I will discover the truth for myself. You will all leave me be."

"We can't-!" The officer protested once more, that is until an icicle was flung into his neck, dropping him to the floor. That had the rest of the Hydra soldiers backing off.

[weapons_mistress]

"I apologize, Agent Rossel, but I do not think we are equipped to make him stay," Millicent said quietly to the agent beside her.

"I don't think anyone here is. My superiors won't be happy, but..this could have gone worse."

[ze_leaper]

The major was going out into a world that had advanced rapidly without him. Not the best of circumstances for a powerful individual like that. But something they could live with.

"At least you have some Hydra captives."