16768/Divided Duty

Divided Duty
Date of Scene:	14 January 2024
Location:	Multiple Location: First Stop at All Night Diner in Brooklynn
Synopsis:	SHIELD Agents caught some traitors, and their contact person. There are clues that they can use to interrogate the traitors, or pursue.
Cast of Characters:	Cinque Evers, Natasha Romanoff, Cole Cash, Aldrif Odinsdottir

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Cinque Evers has posed:
Since Cinque?s encounter with the Brood, he has trouble sleeping. His sleeps are filled with the nightmares of Brood?s conquest throughout the eons. It has only been a few months since he stopped having odd urges and hallucinations, and has been able to resume his training to be a Shield Agent. So it is only this reason, he finds himself at the same diner and remembers one of the other Shield Agents. chance that

Three rogue Research and Development agents of S.H.I.E.L.D found themselves ensnared in a web of treachery. Huddled in a dimly-lit booth of, their faces obscured by the gravity of their situation, the trio conversed in hushed tones, each bearing the weight of an ominous ultimatum.

(DEPENDING ON YOUR SKILLS, RESOURCES, ETC, (YOU CAN HEAR THIS IS CONVERSATION AT THE BOOTH).

A middle-aged woman with auburn hair states "I..I..I.. am not like you two. I am not doing this because I got ensnared in some lame honey pot and I'm afraid of my wife, or they found that you did something at DARPA ...they threatened my family."

A gray-haired man whose face seemed like he had too much Botox, "Please, you still took the money like the rest of us. For the record, these people were a lot nicer than the ones that approached me at DARPA." The other man speaks, "It is almost time for them to contact us.

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
And on that group Natasha is sitting within the diner, hunched over and staring at her cold coffee. She seems just another miserable person in things caught up in life. Her outfit is threadbare, she has on an Oakland A's baseball cap (which explains the misery), and is mostly just leaning over while nibbling at her food slowly. There's a radio to the side from which occasionally plays snippets of football playoffs, but she's letting out some sighs - apparently whomever her team si isn't doing well. She's listening quietly.. While trusting the rest of the team to spread out and do thier jobs without issue.

Cole Cash has posed:
A few hours ago Cole was enjoying his idle time at the Trikelion, watching instruction videos while tinkering with one of SHIELD's famous ICER guns. He had been trying to get hold of one of them for years. Amusing he can now do it legally.

Also, the free coffee. Spiked with whiskey (sadly, not free) of course.

And then a certain redhead grabbed him for a task. Pulling rank and all that. 'Evaluation' she said. 'Bullshit' he said. It is petty revenge for the Oslo trainwreck in the 97 for sure. Wait... was that one Black Widow or Mystique? Redheads, they are all evil!

But Cole didn't protest too much, he was bored.

Now he is bored and cold, and playing with his cellphone while listening to the music. Well, it looks like a cellphone, it was a cellphone a few weeks ago, and now it is a directional micro. He is trying to listen.

Aldrif Odinsdottir has posed:
Angela is sitting at a booth by herself across the way from Natasha, having joined the SHIELD team on short notice as the enforcer, a kind of angry muscle. She sits there quietly with her arms crossed.

A cup of coffee sits in front of her untouched, as if someone decided to give her some but it looks cold.

She is ever observant, though probably doesn't know any of the other team nearby, and they probably don't know her either, except maybe through a set of files or a computer screen. A very tall woman with a big honkin sword sticks out at a small little diner like this but she doesn't do anything to conceal her identity. She seems only concerened with watching the door and the others in the room.

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
Going to listen, Natasha goe sto speak in the comm to COle and Angela <<They're deserters that stole artifacts. We don't know where they've hidden them, or who their buyer is. But likely since they took things specifically in advance, they planned it ahead of time>> The group had stolen five artifacts from research and development at SHIELD without seeming any connection amongst them.
    So the job was to try and catch the group and their buyers to track things down. Just black bagging the deserters would have the buyers vanish into thin air after all.
    <<Any signs?>> Of any sort of followup or anyone approaching them.

Cinque Evers has posed:
One of the few benefits of remembering everthing that you come in contact with is that when you can instantly recall when something is not quite right. There are several things that are not right here. One of Cinque's failures that refuses to go to his shelter is always asleep at the right side of the counter. There is a mixture of cigarettes and Ripple that can be detected from where Cinque is standing right now. Cinque notices that there is a new dishwasher tonight that seems to be the friendly or the laziest dishwasher in the world. The six foot burly man escapes his dishwasher goes around greeting different guests until he reaches the trio of traitors. "Hope you are enjoying yourself tonight?" The man places discretely places something on the table.

The elderly man looks down at the device and begins to type something into it.

As Cinque approaches the table, he glances a bit too long at the inhabitants at the table and spooks the burly man.

The burly hands began to turn glow. As two other customers began to pull out guns firing laser round.

Cinque mumbles, "Great

Aldrif Odinsdottir has posed:
Angela has a little earpiece SHIELD has given her, and she listens to what Natasha says quietly then looks across at the door and those in the room again. Being tall, she's actually at a good vantage point to observe those sitting in the diner, "Group of three at the back by the kitchen and a man at the side with a sandwich," she explains to the team.

She leans forward a bit as the group at the back talks amongst themselves and frowns as the room suddenly burst into activity. Her helpful report was a little late. She grumbles at how this whole thing is going down and gets up from her booth. A man with a sandwich runs past her to get the heck out of there.

Cole Cash has posed:
Cole knows nothing of Angela or Cinque, really. He is the new guy. But this seems a simple surveillance operation, so that was okay.

Apparently it also involves guys with laser guns that shoot at people that look at them in a diner full of regular people. Oh, it must be New York. This wouldn't happen in Gotha... yes it would.

Except for the laser guns.

"The hell... is this random or a coverup for running? Someone catches the traitors, I deal with those idiots," he draws his own handgun, a regular ballistic one, and shoots at the laser-wielding thugs.

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
Natasha Romanova would keep her observation point over then and go to muse <<Keep him monitored. He might be the weak link in the group. He's nervous. He's the one we can lean on>> Then his hands go to glow over and she lets out a sigh over as they have to escalate. So much for keeping a low profile and tracking things to where they go.

<Clearance to engage given. Take them down with minimum amount of injury. We want them intact for a field interrogation>> Her hand quickly gesturing to the others to maneuver to take the group down.

Aldrif Odinsdottir has posed:
Angela reaches for her big honkin sword but sighs as Natasha advises that she wants them intact, "We're not making them pay for their crimes?" she wonders.

"Surrender!" Angela shouts at the group of criminals, "Or I wilt make you surrender!" she adds. She watches the shooting for a moment before moving straight toward the group at the back, reaching toward whoever looks the most threatening so she can throw them across the room. She isn't effected by Earth guns if anyone decides to shoot at her, the bullets having no decided impact, kinda like Superman. She's very direct.

Cinque Evers has posed:
The traitors are not fleeing from their booth; in fact, after the gray haired man finishing typing into the device, he passes it to another traitor. Cinque realizes that he has stepped into operation, and backs off quickly from the big man with the burning hands. As he is backing off, he peers down what they are entering in the device, while trying to figure out what happenned to his friend that normally at the end of the counter that has an aroma of liquer and cigarettes. He realizes that if he is not at the counter than he should be in the cardbox that is across the street that looks directly into the booth with the traitors. Cinque shouts and points, "Across the street.."

The man with the burning hands looks at Angela, "Nah, I don't think we will, but I will tell everyone how I roasted next time I am drunk." Flames shoot from his hands towards Angela and Cole. The men with the laser guns wer really just providing supressive fire as if they are waiting for something, so they were caught by surprise by Cole's bullets. The other goes to check on his fallen comrade, but is lifted up and thrown across the room by Angela.

Cole Cash has posed:
"Minimum injury? Now she tells me?" Cole carries twin cal .45ACP autoguns. They are customized, but they are loud, and they are deadly. Against guys that shoot laser guns in a public place he usually goes for the head.

"I am not comfortable with the ICER yet," he explains. Then he ducks under the fire, quick like a snake, and shots -both- guns at the flame-throwing metahuman knees. That counts as a minor injury, right? It is less than an innocent civilian will go through if hit by those flames.

Aldrif Odinsdottir has posed:
Angela is not really effected by fire although it does annoy her and sets her cloak on fire. She has the speed probably better than any Asgardian and she moves quickly, trying to grab the man's arms and twist them to break them. "I said surrender!" she shouts. She then tries to kick the man with the fire over toward Cole. She then looks down at the men at the booth, grabbing at the two of them, "Stop moving! You can't escape!" she says.

Cinque Evers has posed:
The burly man finds his arms broken by Angela, then kicked towards Cole. Before the burly man can fully regain his composure, his knees are blasted by Cole's twin cal .45 ACP autoguns. The traitors just finish putting in the final coordinates into the device as Angela grabs them. One of them responds remorsefully, "We are not trying to escape. It is already over."

As the last input it put into the device, the symbol of Hydra flashes over the device and the device begins to smoke and melt.

Aldrif Odinsdottir has posed:
Angela tries to toss the two men over to Natasha and ends the escalation, "Good," she mutters, looking down at the device on the table. She shrugs off her cloak which is still smoldering and stamps out what's left of it. She picks it up and looks at the hole in it and sighs, "Someone owes me a new cloak," she mutters.

Cinque Evers has posed:
Within ten minutes, Shield Operatives will find that a repeater was placed inside the cardbox on the missing homeless man. Withing 30 minutes, Shield Operatives will find out that one of drop box locations one was a zoo. The people sent to retrieve the items must have been surprised by the security, because they drop their device witht the location on it. It is some ancient language. In 1 hour, Shied learns that the thug with the broken arm and kneecap's known associates is Don Fortunato. In 3 hours, Shield learn that the thugs with the laser wielding weapons arrived 4 days ago from Italy.