Freaks
Some call them freaks
Alora was walking into the lab as Fitz was showing off the latest version of the night-night pistol. That design came around on a very late night not too long ago when she and Fitz were going over some of their older designs.
“What if we made the night-night gun into a pistol?” Alora said randomly as Fitz was showing her the earliest design for the gun.
“I was just thinking about that actually” Fitz told her.
“Just think about the possibilities with it, we could just shoot people with that and be able to interrogate them.” Alora said
“Or we don’t have to live with the guilty conscience of killing somebody” Fitz said back
“That too” Alora said, getting up, Fitz looking at her confused.” Well come on then” Alora said, starting toward the lab.
Walking into the lab they were making side comments about the name.
“I like the name, and we designed the gun therefore we name it, Simmons can name the bullets” Alora said motioning between her and Fitz.
“Thank you !” Fitz exclaimed, turning to put the gun in the case. Coulson had called May and Skye out on a mission so that left Fitzsimmons and Ward on the bus. When they had gotten back she was still in the lab
“Robin, when you’re done, my office,” Coulson said, poking his head into the lab. Alora nodded. Their conversation from the last mission went quite smoothly but she knew he knew she was hiding something else. If Coulson knew something was up May knew something was up, and Alora was not going to lie May scared her. Especially because it seemed like May was always watching her. Especially now that her name change was on record.
Alora walked out of the lab, her heels clanking against the floor. She was wearing a dark teal dress with white dots on it, that fell just at the lower half of her calf. Her hair was thrown back in a low ponytail and she was wearing a nude pair of heels.
When she made it up to Coulson's office she knocked on the door. When she got the go ahead to come in.
“Agent Robin, there is an aspect of this case I would like you to work on” Coulson said as she walked in.
“What aspect would that be, sir?” Alora asked
“Do you know of any way that someone can steal diamonds without being able to see?” Coulson asked.
“Well if you get an enhancement for an eye. Such as having someone put a cybernetic eye with night vision, or x-ray vision inplace of an eye” Alora told him
“Do you know of anyone who makes those kinds of implants?” Coulson asked her
“I made one but I never tested it, I’m not even sure anyone knew I worked on it. Or if it works at all for that matter, but as far as I know I am the only one”
“Search through the backdoors, see if you can find anything. Also find a way to remove it.”
“On it” Alora said, and she was dismissed. Honestly the work she did with a cybernetic eye was just a project based on a theory. She never knew if it worked because she was never willing to test it on a human. She unlike her mother has morals and decency to not test things on unwilling or even willing human participants. Alora had personal experience with that so she was not ever going to test on people.
She had specialized in making different prosthetics and implants. Especially for those with alternate biology. Her prosthetics were made custom for each person, it was specialized to their nerve pattern, so that when they put on the prosthetic it felt like their real limb. They also were controlled by the brain so that was good for the recipient's mental health.
People she was in competition with had tried to recreate her prosthetics but never could get it quite right. Alora also can not go through the medical backdoor because she could ruin her credibility and reputation, but she did have a person who could. Her phone was still in her bunk though so she had to walk all the way there.
When she started to walk back from her bunk phone in hand she came across Skye and Ward arguing.
“Well sorry Mr.Iknoweverythingaboutguns the safety and the release are really similar” Skye said
“You poor poor girl” Alora said going through her contacts
“I’ve never done this before so give me a break”
“Alright, you guys have fun arguing, I have things to do for this case” Alora said clicking on the contact and hitting the call button
“Who are you calling?” Skye asked
“Someone who can help me, and be annoying while doing it” Alora said while the phone rang
“Oh resentment, is it a boyfriend, do you have a boyfriend?”
“No I don’t- well it's complicated and I don’t want to talk about it” Alora said as he finally picked up the phone he really was a thorn in her side. Alora started to walk down the hallway
“Hey glow stick ” The voice said
“Don’t call me that Colin” Alora said
“Why have you called me on this very fine day” Colin said, he was always one for dramatics
“I need your assistance”
“You still can’t admit you need my help I see” Alora rolled her eyes
“ You are good at being in the shadows so to speak, and I need you to poke around on the prosthetic dark web” Alora told him.
“Fine, What do you need me to look for?” Colin asked
“A cybernetic eye implant, more specifically one that has x-ray capabilities. And no not the one I made” Alora said
“Alright done. While I search the net, Techno and Steel have asked how you are”
“I am fine, tell them to stop worrying about me”
“They aren’t the only ones worried about you Lor” Colin said softly
“I don’t need a therapy session from you Colin”
“We just want to know how you are, have you-” Alora cut him off
“That is none of your concern”
“So you have” Colin said
“Maybe, She was my best friend and they just killed her out of spite” Alora sighed
“She was my sister”
“I know, Its hard and I miss her everyday” Alora said
“Me too, It feels like I have lost a piece of me” Colin sighed
“You two were mentally linked remember”
“Don’t remind me, It was awful growing up. By the way Steel wants a in person check in by the end of the month” Colin said
“Alright, I have to go. Bye” Alora said
“Bye” Colin said and Alora hung up. During that whole conversation Alora had made sure no one was around. There was always more than one reason she joined this specific intelligence agency. Though now is not the time for everyone to know her ulterior motives.
Alora had met Colin when she came to America. He was from New Zealand, should have been a dead give away not to date him. Just kidding, Alora never understood the rivalry between them. He was funny and caring. They had started dating while she was at the academy. They bicker like an old married couple. From a relationship standpoint it was very complicated. Though they still love each other, they always would.
Though she had to admit he was the best at getting into places he shouldn’t be in. So if anyone could find anything on this eye it would be him. He had some special abilities when it came to the shadows, figuratively and literally.
So now all she had to do was wait for Colin to find something. Alora also had to figure out how to remove it. Knowing how people were there was probably a dark and twisty element to keep the user in line. So if she could figure out what that thing would be they most likely would be able to remove it.
Alora headed over to her stock of books on eye surgery how to, and also the papers she had printed out on eye prosthetics. Since she was being brought out in the field again she was going to bring them with her. All her work with the eye was theoretical, so if someone had made something even close to what she had it was bad for everyone.
When they landed Alora was the last one to enter the van, She was in front of Fitz and next to Skye. She was still reading through the papers while she was in the van. It was really interesting actually. Having not read it in a while she forgot what drew her to this in the first place. Alora always loved being able to make something out of nothing. She also loved seeing her clients faces when she would place the prosthetic on them and have it be like it was their normal limb again.
Surprisingly she had a few spouses who blamed the other for their amputation. It was all “You weren’t on the plane Callie” in her office. Alora had to admit it was quite funny watching it go down especially with the Australian accents. Now those accents are normal to her seeing has she had one but watching those clients have it out in the middle of the hallway was hilarious.
“What are you reading?” Skye asked looking up from her phone.
“Article on hypothetical cybernetic eyes with x-ray vision” Alora replied not looking up
“Do you think our person as one?” Skye asked Alora
“It’s a possibility at best. No one has that kind of technology, or I should say has been tested” Alora told her
“Oh. . . why is it only a possibility?”
“I don’t know mate, maybe because it is years beyond us” Alora said, she was okay with people asking questions but sometimes it was annoying especially when she is trying to do something.
“I thought you were suppose to be the almighty god of prothstetics” Skye said
“I don’t make things to turn people into bloody cyborgs, who do you think I am? That is a messed up thing to do to someone” Alora told her sort of taking offence of what she said.
“I didn’t mean it like that and you know it”
“Then how did you mean it?”
“I just meant that since you were government wouldn’t they want the engineers to make things like that” Skye tried to explain
“No, they wouldn’t because if it falls into the wrong hands it could be detrimental to society” Coulson interrupted
“They’d do it anyway” Alora thought to herself. She had seen horrific things while being in the US. Especially what they do to those they view as non-human. It was down right depressing, and nobody seemed to care.
Alora decided in the meantime just to read what she had, she also might have to do a dive into her papers to find the one she wrote but never published. When they had gotten to their destination Alora had read all that she had and was going to be able to remove the eye if that is what they were looking at.
They were supposed to maintain radio silence unless they really needed help. In the van they had one gun which Alora was supposed to use if needed. In the meantime she was looking for sellers off the list Colin had texted her.
She had quite the list but from what she could tell none of them had the capabilities they were said to have. Alora still had some digging to do though because Colin said there were some weird things going on in some of them. So it was going to take awhile to figure that one out.
So in the meantime she was sitting in the passenger's seat trying to find something in the broadcast stream. While Skye broke protocol, Alora was watching the feed. It looked like some of the feed was coming from the area they were in.
“One last thing, Ta-da, and your welcome” Skye said as the feed went to one single video. Alora looked at the video that was on her screen. She could tell by the way it was moving it was definitely something on the person.
“That looks a bit like our van” Fitz said and Alora went back to the feed. It then switched to x-ray, showing them in the van.
“What are we looking at?” Fitz stands up and waves his hands slightly
“Us” Fitz determines. Then they get hit by the other van. Alora gets thrown into the door of the Van.
“Let's get out of here!” Skye exclaims, Rushing to the Driver's seat, cutting Alora off.
“Call Coulson, get the gun” Skye said and Simmons handed Skye the gun
“Skye give me the gun” Alora exclaims reaching over to Skye who just released the magazine.
“Bang?” Skye asks and then the van rams into them again, making them flip onto the side. Alora quickly covers her head as her side makes contact with the ground making the window shatter.
Shards and pieces of glass lodging itself into Alora’s arms. Alora took a second before carefully instructing everyone on how to get out of the van. Surprisingly not the first time she had been in a situation like this.
When they all were safely out of the van, Ward and Coulson were there. “Is everyone okay?” Ward asked as Coulson started to run around the area to see if the area was clear.
“I think so, just i don’t want to do that again” Skye said looking around
“Robin, why didn’t you shoot?” Ward asked
“Yeah Skye why didn’t I shoot” Alora said looking at Skye all the nice girl energy was gone. Though before anyone could say anything Alora continued. “You know what, I'll answer my own question. So instead of handing the gun to the person who actually knows how to use it, they hand it to Skye. Then I ask for the gun, but instead of giving it to me she realeses the fucking magazine and says bang. We then get rammed into it. You want to know the best part about all of this. It could have been avoided if we all did what we were bloody supposed to. We would have had Amador and we would have been done with the mission and on to the next one.”
“Robin, calm down, and stop moving your arms.” Ward said, grabbing her arms. “Does anyone have a first aid kit?” Ward asked, there were two larger pieces of glass lodged in her arm. They didn’t have one in the van.
“Oh, I didn’t notice” Alora said, okay she did notice but it wasn’t the first time something like that had happened.
“Robin let me-” Simmons started
“No we can’t do anything until we get back to the bus anyway” Alora said, pulling her arms out of Ward's hands.
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As they walked back onto the bus Alora walked past everyone and started toward her bunk. She couldn’t use the stitches they had her blood would burn through them. So she had a special kind of thread that she made and manufactures for everyone who has powers like hers.
So she keeps a very large stock in her bunk. Alora decided just to stay in her bunk and stitch herself up. She put a towel down and decided to numb the area around the glass. At least it missed her tattoos.While she was waiting for that to start to work she took the tweezers and started to pull the shards of glass out of her arm with the big pieces in it. When she was about to take the pieces out of her arm someone knocked on the divider and opened it.
“Robin Skye is working on getting the broadcast-” Ward started before looking from her to the glass about to be pulled from her arm. “Please tell me you are not stitching yourself up”
“Do I have to mean it?” Alora asked
“Seriously, Robin” Ward said rolling his eyes
“I know what I’m doing” Alora said starting to pull the glass out
“Stop it, that's an order” Ward said as she pulled the whole piece of glass out
“Too late you said it too slow” Alora said, pulling the other piece out that was right next to it before applying pressure with a towel. “Are you going to stand there with your arms crossed or would you like to sit down?”
“I am sitting down because I am going to stitch you up” Ward said closing the divider and sitting on her bed and grabbing the equipment
“Do you know how to do that?” Alora asked as he had started to unwrap the towel from her arm.
“Yes” There was an awkward silence as he started to stitch her up
“You know I went to Medschool and never told shield” Alora said breaking the silence
“Really? Why didn’t you tell shield?”
“Shield wants to know every detail about your life and I felt like I had that one thing to myself” Alora confessed
“You had a whole other life to yourself” Ward said
“Not really, they knew me as Alora Robin but they followed all my work. I always went by Alora especially when I joined university. They wanted me on their team rather than against them.”
“They were scared you’d join another organization?” Ward asked
“Lets just say I don’t have the same views as most american government agencies” Alora said It was very true she definitely did not.
“Let’s leave that where it is then” Ward said, as anything she said would probably have to go on record.
“But yeah Shield does really want to know everything about you Agent Ward. Like that your middle name is Douglas.” Alora said said slightly laughing
“Unlike you I didn’t pick my middle name” Ward said slightly smiling
“Phoenix” Alora said
“What?” Ward asked
“That's my real middle name” Alora told him
“Wait seriously”
“Yeah my dad wanted to name me Phoenix but my mother said no. So they put it as my middle name and my Dad named his hospitals after me.” Alora explained
“Your dad was Felix Calum right? All of Shield heard how he died must have been terrible to hear about” Ward said
“Yeah I watched him die. I was in the backseat, they never saw me. That shit is traumatic to an 11 year old mate ” Alora said trying to take the some of the depth off the situation
“I am assuming you hear sorry enough” Ward said
“Yeah I do” Alora said, a bit of pain from the stitches make her flinch and gasp
“Sorry” Ward said
“No I’m fine, just didn’t expect the pain. I thought you weren’t going to say sorry”
“I didn’t know you meant about you being hurt”
“Don’t say sorry to me about anything” Alora says
“Alright, I won't” Ward said
“Let's go see if Skye has found anything,” Alora said, getting off the bed and grabbing the towel and pieces of glass to dispose of them. After doing so Alora walks down to the lab where Fitz, Simmons, and Skye were. She walks into the lab and goes to the cabinet where all her equipment was.
“Somethings wrong. It's the same feed that was watching us in the van. Uh put it on the big monitor ” Skye said as everyone else walked into the lab. All of Alora’s designs were stored away in binders that were alphabetically ordered.
“Maybe the lens broke when the van rammed us.” Simmons suggested
“I hope she broke more than that,” Skye said. Alora found the binder she was looking for and pulled it off the shelf. She then started to go through the designs while she watched the monitor.
“It's a mirror, are we recording this?” Coulson asked “How are we seeing this? Where's the camera”
“It's her eye. She’s the camera” May said. Akela blinked and the camera went to backscatter. Alora sighed, she knew exactly what she was looking at.
“It switched to backscatter when she closed her eyes.” Fitz explained after Skye comment Ward asked
“Who has tech like this?”
“We don’t not like this. Not this small and internal. That's at least a decade ahead of anything I've seen. Though now that I’ve seen it, I could maybe approximate it-- The backscatter x-ray, A micro- transceiver that somehow doesn’t fry her brain, an internal power source. . .” Fitz started so she just let him continue while she went over to the computer to go back to control the eye.
“ All miniaturized honestly, its genius” Simmons and Fitz said in sync
“Robin, what are you doing?” May asked looking over to her
“Well Coulson suspected it might be some sort of cybernetic eye so I did my research. No one possesses that kind of tech. . . except me.” Alora stated
“You possess this type of tech? Who gave it to you” May asked digging for more information
“No one, I created it” , Alora said, turning the chair and getting off of it, grabbing the binder. “Quinn asked me to make it when I was really young.” She threw the binder down on the table
“So you are saying, Quinn was involved.” Coulson said
“Not just Quinn, my mom and step-father too”Alora said blankly
“Why are you so calm about this? Why are you acting like you don’t care?” Skye asked, using much more emotion than needed. Alora’s eyes flickered over to Skye.
“Because I think I can guess what our next mission is.” Alora said not wanting any part in it.
“Making a trip to Australia” May said
“And I’ll have to go because I know the layout of the labs and house” Alora told her
“exactly” May asked
“When did you make this eye?” Ward asked
“Seven years ago but I heard Quinn telling them the rest of the project would take years”
“Well can you remove it?” May asked
“I will be able to take the main part of the eye out” Alora answered
“We will take turns watching the feed, until we are able to find her location. Is there anyway for you to transfer the messages and the coding to a different piece of equipment” Coulson said and Alora nodded
“Then get to work”
May was taking the first shift to watch Amador. Alora and Fitz were in the lab as well, Fitz was making backscatter glasses while she was getting ready to transfer everything to them. Skye and Alora were also able to get all of the messages to transfer to the glasses as well. So now the only thing they needed was Amador so they could switch the feed over to the glasses.
She also needed to figure out a way to ask for time off without being suspicious. Alora needed to go check in with Steel but she can’t be followed. May was already keeping an eye on her and Coulson knew she was hiding something. So if she were to ask for a random one day off she was sure he would send May or Ward to follow her. Alora could always just go invisible but they both were too good of spies to just lose her around a corner. That would just raise their suspicions and make them keep a closer eye on her.
This was a whole lot of stress rolled into one cause and effect problem. Wait, it wasn’t like she was confined to this plane. She was allowed to leave and have a personal life, maybe she could say she was going on a date? No that wouldn’t work Skye would not stop asking questions. Alora could ask Shift to turn into her and then make sure that they told her a detailed list of what they had done that day.
It would definitely work, she was going to grab a burner phone and call Steel to set it up. Hopefully she would be able to get the day she needed off. Alora had to be careful though. One wrong move and she would blow everything they had been working on for years. It was a huge responsibility for anyone but having all of the key players being in their 20’s that is something that weighs on all their minds.
Especially with Alora being in one area of the government. Shield was not the organization that they wanted to take down. It was an organization that worked with Shield on some cases. Shield is an intelligence agency; they know everything. They have all the lists on everyone, the gifted especially. She had seen first hand how they deal with people they deem threats. It was usually not great and Alora was in the choke hold. Waiting to make her move, for some heat to be shifted on to something else.
What they were doing would change the world as they knew it.
Alora was in her bunk thinking about it after May had sent her and Skye out of the lab to get some sleep. She made sure her bunk divider was locked before letting off the glamors that covered her. Now she is going to let you in on a little- well no big secret, She is a Mutant.
As in she as the X-gene. That was problem number 1, Problem number 2 was it's not illegal to be a mutant but it is to hide it from the government. Alora had done the statement above, but it was for a good reason she would be locked up for sure.
She was a level 5 Mutant, at least that was the Australian scale in America she was a Omega level Mutant. Either way that was the highest level you could get. Which meant that she was in danger with sentinel services no matter if she did anything. Alora was also a leader for the Mutant Underground. Somehow the X-men choose them, tattoos of the X men logo somewhere on their bodies. Then a piercing headache and a voice telling them to meet in a certain place. That was not fun, but it's where they all met. Alora, Colin, Blair, Finn, and Landon. Or better known as Blaze, Shadow, Flame, Steel, And Techno. They all were around the same age and were really quick friends.
Blair and Colin were twins but surprisingly didn’t have even close to the same powers. Which Alora thought was interesting. They were both a year older than her and were not from America which she thought was nice because neither was she. They had both decided to not register as Mutants. They even had jobs, Colin was a psychiatrist and Blair was a geneticist. Finn and Landon were both ex-military. Finn was in the army and Landon was in the air force.
They all had decided to start calling each other by code names though. This was because when they had started to help other mutants they were almost always police so instead of using real names they all just got nicknames. They also found a base for themselves. It was an abandoned hotel, 5 floors the top being suites. It was also out of sight from people. It was close enough to the academy for Alora to be able to switch between the two.
Alora thought about what she would do up until she fell asleep, With her Glamours off she had lines of iridescent shine going through her veins, skin, and hair. She literally sparkled, Her eyes were also bright blue. By bright she means literally bright. They glowed and would blind a regular human if she looked at them for too long. So she usually had to wear sunglasses.
Colin would call her glow stick because of it, it was one of those things you complained about but actually liked. She had fallen asleep forgetting to put the glamors back on. So when someone came knocking on her bunk she quickly sat up. Right as her door was being opened her glamorous were back on.
“Usually people wait for an answer” Alora said
“Right erm sorry, Coulson said to wake everyone up and for you to get ready the remove the eye and transfer the feed with Skye” Fitz said
“They found her? Wait nevermind that's obvious I'll go get Skye” Alora said and Fitz left her bunk. She quickly threw on a pair of dark wash jeans and a white button up. Sliding on a pair of shoes on her way out the door and right to Skye’s bunk. She knocked on the door and waited for an answer.
“Skye, they got Amador, we need to go now” Alora said before fastly walking down the hallway to the lab.
Alora was the first one in the lab, followed by Simmons, Fitz, Ward, and finally Skye. Ward had apparently been given orders by Coulson to wear the glasses. Skye would go with him to finish the coding. Then the last three of them would stay back to remove the eye.
“Alright on my count” Alora said into her ear piece as she watched the feed of May and Akela fighting “Three, two, one, Now” Alora counted and both her and Skye pressed a key on the keyboard successfully disabling the feed and switching it to the glasses Ward was wearing.
“Good work, Robin, FItz-Simmons get your work space ready” Coulson said through the ea pieces.
“Alright then, Robin if you could grab the-” Simmons started
“Simmons no offence but you are not leading this operation.” Alora said before Simmons could finish bossing them around
“Oh I just thought that since I had the basic medical knowledge I would be removing the eye and you and Fitz would be disabling the fail safe”
“I created the eye I know the functions better than both of you” Alora said kindly
“Sure but I have a degree in biochemistry which requires a course for medical things such as this. From my understanding you don’t? Just that you have a Phd in Bioengineering and the rest being masters” Simmons said to her
“You're right, I do have a Phd in bioengineering. I also have 3 others and am starting my work for a 5th. Don’t take this as me saying that you are not qualified because you most certainly are but I am in this case more experienced and qualified to do this correctly. This is my procedure so please do not boss me around in my field of expertise.” Alora told her, trying to explain why she was more qualified to do this.
“Look, that is impressive but I have medical experience, not just making tools for medical doctors to use. I know that you feel like you need to prove that you are worthy to be on this team-” Simmons started
“Excuse me? What the bloody hell is that supposed to mean Simmons? You think that I want to prove my self worth to this team. Guess what I don’t, I already am the best in my field. I take pride in that, so don’t ever insinuate I have anything to prove to you or anyone on this plane. So I suggest you turn your ego down a notch and listen to the person who was told to remove the eye” Alora said, keeping her eyes directly on Simmons. Fitz awkwardly watches this go down.
“FItz can you please go grab the equipment to disable the failsafe, please put them in an unsterilized box so we don’t contaminate the work space before I sterilize them. Simmons can you go get the medical equipment that is in my black case with my initials on it and put them in a box next to where Fitz puts the equipment please. I’ll go prep the room” Alora said walking out of the lab and to the makeshift med room. She made sure that all of the monitoring equipment was working and everything was ready to be prepped.
After Fitz and Simmons had got the equipment she sterilized them and brought them into the room. Coulson was sitting with Amador when she told him they were ready.
“Alright, your vitals seem to be in perfect condition to continue with this procedure. As Agent Simmons explained, we will need you to remain awake. Other than that you should not feel a thing. So let's get started, Simmons, can you inject the anesthetic?” Alora said, turning the light on her head to nearly full brightness.
“Of course,” Simmons said, picking up the needle in her shaky hands.
“On second thought let me” Alora said, taking the needle from Simmons and stepping in front of her. She plunged the needle into Akela's eye and injected the anesthetic.
“You’ve done this before?” Akela asked
“Yes a few times.” Alora said placing the needle on the table
“What's your name? Coulson mentioned that you specializes with prosthetics”
“Alora Robin, but most of my work with prosthetic is under the name Maxine Calum” Alora told her. There was a small flicker of surprise in Akela's eyes before it was overtaken by what looked like realization. “Simmons if you could shine your light over on the other side of the eye that would be great” She said starting to maneuver her tools around the wiring.
Alora started to clip the unneeded parts of the eye so it would come out easier. After doing that she started to move the eye out of its place disconnecting the areas needed making sure that she did not hit the kill switch or the power source. After a while ALora was ready to pull the eye out with the two parts still attached.
“Whats wrong” Akela asked after Simmons told Fitz it is mostly out
“Nothing but Fitz needs to come over here and remove the last part. So Fitz anytime now” Alora said, handing the tool she was holding to him. It was definitely something they would need to call Ward for, And they did. Fitz cut the wires and placed it into the container which was quickly closed.
“Alright I'm just going to finish up and put on a protective cover, Fitz-simmons you can take that out of here” Alora said, stepping back over to Akela and doing what she said. After FitzSimmons left Akela started to walk.
“The people who did that to me were talking about you. They know who and what you are, they will reveal it to Shield by next year as well as the rest of your people. So stay vigilant.” Akela said As Alora helped her off the table
“I understand thanks for the warning”Alora said before walking out of that lab. Skye and Ward were on their way back to the plane as well as Coulson.
She appreciated Akela's warning because she needed to warn the others. By the sound of it She would not tell anyone so she just needed to talk to Coulson when he got back. After Akela was handed off Alora walked up to Coulson's office and she knocked on the door.
“Come in” Coulson said and Alora entered “Agent Robin what can I do for you”
“Why am I here? I mean you already have the two smartest people to go through the academy and two of the best Specialists shield has. Then a really good hacker. Why do you need me” Coulson put the file he was reading down on his desk
“Sit down, will you?” Coulson said, gesturing to the chair in front of his desk. Alora sat down and fiddled with the ring on her finger. “Promise ring?” Coulson asked
“Something like that”
“You are right, this team is formed from the best Shield has to offer. I created this team so that we could do some good in the world. I also know that your recruitment was different than everyone else's. Robin I know that you do not agree with any of the enhanced regulations that are being enforced. Yet you are here, Hill pushed you into this team. I have no idea why but she did. You are the smartest person on this plane, you made a piece of technology at 15 that people thought were decades away. I originally put you on this plane as a liaison but now you are training as a specialist. So I will give you another offer, you will still be a liaison but also our on scene doctor.”
“I accept your offer but I can’t help but think it's because of the mission you just sent out for approval.”
“That may be true I hoped it would sweeten the deal of you staying on the plane” Coulson said
“Alright but I need one more thing” Alora said
“Please don’t say its a raise Fury would say no”
“No it's not a raise, I don’t need one. I do however need the rest of the day and the two days following off, I need to talk to my therapist before I go on the mission”
“Yeah of course” Coulson said and Alora gave a weak smile before exiting the office. She started walking down the steps and down the hallway. Her phone started to ring, she picked up as soon as she saw who it was.
“Hey Colin, what do you have for me?” Alora asked
“I was looking into what you were telling me about, your implant is being used at places called cybertech and the centipede project.”
“Alright I’ll look into it, I have the next two days off I’ll be there”
‘What about we grab drinks tonight, it's about time we enter the on again closed relationship phase” Colin said
“You know what fine I have the rest of the day off anyway I’ll meet you at X star” Alora told him
“Alright text me when you get to the borders” Colin said
“Of course, see you later”
“See you later” With that the call ended. Did she just agree to close their open relationship yeah it was a thing they did every so often. Alora was figuratively glowing, not literally because that's a dead give away but she liked glowing.
Alora walked through the lounge and to her bunk to grab a few things that she didn’t have in her room in X star. She grabbed her purse and put her gun into it, she also grabbed her batons and put them in as well.
Alora grabbed a pair of black skinny jeans and a black long sleeved wrap top. She quickly put them on and put on a pair of black heeled boots. Alora darkened up her makeup slightly and put on dark red lipstick. She put on a few more of her rings and pearl earrings that belonged to each girl in the Calum family. As well as a necklace with a single pearl on it. Colin and Blair's mom had given it to her when Alora had met her. Both of their parents were mutants. Their mom is an empath and had given it to her after seeing the love that was shared between them.
Alora then grabbed her black circle sunglasses and leather jacket which she put over her arm as she grabbed her purse and designs she had been working on. She also quickly grabbed the small black bag and shoved that into her purse.
She walked out of her bunk and into the lounge again where Ward, Fitz,and Skye were. Alora was rummaging through her bag looking for her car keys. Since they were parked at base for the next few days she was able to get her car.
“Have any of you seen car keys, they have a black key chain on them” Alora asked still looking through her purse
“Where are you going we have debrief” Ward asked
“I’m off the rest of the day and the next two” Alora told them
“I didn’t clear that”
“Yeah I didn’t ask you, I asked Coulson. Still doesn’t answer my question
“Hold on wait, are you going on a date?” Skye asked
“Maybe but I have a few things to do before our next mission. So car keys has anyone seen them” Alora said and Skye threw the keys over to her
“Have fun” Skye said smirking
“Don’t do that” Alora said walking down the hallway and out of the plane. She walked down to the area her car was in and got in. She buckled in and started the car. Alora waited until she was out of the facility to take off her glamour and put on her sunglasses. Alora saw a car behind her and May in the driver's seat. Her phone couldn’t be tracked so she picked it up and dialed a number before putting it on the seat.
“Hey, shift you ready?” Alora asked
“Yeah blaze, you ready to disappear”
“Yep I have someone tailing me. 3,2,1 now” Alora said as she focused all of her energy into making her car invisible and taking the side road to the x star.
“Alright good luck Blaze I’ll give you a list of what happens” Shift said and they hung up. Alora quickly texted Colin telling him she was pulling in. She drove through the gates and got out of her car covering her car with a tarp.
She looked up at the abandoned hotel and smiled. Alora walked up the steps and into the hotel. She walked into the lobby which was filled with mutants doing their jobs. As she walked in, people's faces had lightened up.
“Blaze your back!” One of the younger boys said who was sitting with his training group making everyone else look up and smile
“My destructive spirit children!” Alora exclaimed to the group she was training since they arrived at X star.
“Are you staying this time?” One of them asked
“Sadly only for a few days, has anyone seen Shadow?” Alora asked giving each of her children a hug
“He's up in his room” Techno said from behind her
“Techno,” Alora said, smiling. She made sure none of the kids were around before continuing . “I am calling a leaders meeting. Be in the conference room on our floor at 5” Alora whispered and Techno nodded, running to get Steel.
Alora walked over to the elevator pressing the button she needed and waited until she got to her floor. She got out of the elevator and walked over to Shadows' door. She knocked on it once then twice in a pattern.
“Lors welcome back” Colin said opening his door
“Hey Colin, leaders meeting in 5” Alora told him
“Did something happen?”
“Yeah and it could ruin everything we have been working on”
“Shit, alright do we have to postpone drinks?” Colin asked
“No, we still can but we have to deal with this first”
“What else is bothering you?”
“My teams next mission in in Australia” Alora said
“Okay, its not like your parents would know . . . The mission is about your parents” Colin said after seeing her face
“Yeah its the only reason I got off” Alora told him
“Is there anything you need me to do?” Colin asked
“Have techno find everything about the organizations you found, come on we have a meeting” Alora said walking out of the room and down the hall to the spare room they had made into a conference room.
“Blaze here's the mutant check in check list you know the drill” Steel said, throwing the clipboard at her.
“What happened to hey how are you? Or have greetings turned to throwing clipboards at peoples heads” Alora said slightly laughing as she hugged Steel
“Yeah, haven't you heard? changed it last night. Anyway why did you call a meeting”
“My team was on a mission today, where we found a girl with a cybernetic eye implant. The thing is it had backscatter x-ray vision. I was the one to create the device when I was 15. After I removed it, the girl told me they knew who I was and knew who all of you are. They plan to reveal it to the world in about a year. So our timeline has been accelerated.” Alora explained to them
“That isn’t good, we would have warrants out for our arrest probably on shoot first orders. Have you found anything on sentinel services while on the team?” Steel asked her
“Just that we are on the list of wanted mutants. No one has our faces just our suspected powers a status” Alora said
“Alright we grab the mutants we need from the prison tonight. Alora, did you finish the reversal serum?” Steel asked
“I just need to charge it up with my powers”
“All right, round up everyone in the lobby so we can explain” Steel said walking out of the room. Alora walked over to the phone in the room that connected to speakers throughout the hotel.
“Hello, please make your way to the lobby for new information, again please make your way to the lobby for new information”
The three left in the room started to walk down to the elevator. They all stood on the top of the stairs at the entrance. They waited a few minutes for the last few people to walk into the lobby. The three guys all looked at her to tell her to begin
“All right, thank you all for coming here very quickly. In light of new information we have to accelerate our time line. An outside force threatens our identities, our safety. We have one year so we are now stepping out of the planning phase and entering the first steps in our plan to bring equality. Our uprising will take place within the month. If you have already been talked to about Step one please remain in the lobby and everyone else may return to what they were doing. Thank you” Alora said
People who were not needed at the moment left the lobby going back to their scheduled activities. Especially since there were a lot of mutant kids there, everyone had a schedule. Like the kids had to do school still, they also had to train. Alora looked over who was left, including the people who were standing on the top of the steps. There were 7 people.
The three on the lobby floor were chosen specifically for the prison break because of their abilities. There were two teenagers and one in their mid-twenties. One of the teenagers was from her training group, The other was from techno’s .
“Alright this is going to be a big moment for all of us. Remember we don’t kill people, but you may knock them out if necessary. That is what we are planning on, Sleep we need you to knock out the guards at the gates. Zap you need to stay with Techno so that you can disable the collars. Melt you need to stay with Blaze and laser the doors shut. Everyone else you know what to do” Steel said, turning to walk up the stairs to get the necessary equipment.
Alora walked to the elevator to go grab a jacket from her room. Knowing that she could be identified by the jacket she had brought. She grabbed a black hoodie from her closet and zipped it up, She also grabbed the small silver case that contained the reversal serum. Alora left her room and went back down to the lobby where everyone else was starting to enter.
“Blaze, how long will it take to charge the serum?” Melt asked her. He was one of the teenagers she had trained. He had laser eyes that would melt everything she looked at hence why he was also wearing sunglasses. It was kind of funny because Alora and Blair (Flame) had been fighting over the kid. Every leader had a group of mutant kids to train and most of the time it would relate to one of their own powers. So usually Alora got all the destructive powers while Blair got the heat related ones.
Though Melt had laser eyes, the beams he projected manipulated the heat of an object so Blair wanted him in her group. But Alora wanted him in her group because she can also shoot lasers out of her eyes. So after a long argument they had flipped a coin and she won.
“About 2 minutes with my energy on them” Alora answered as they started walking out to the van they would be taking.
“How are we not going to be caught?”
“Well Techno is going to be keeping the security measures down, Shadow is going to be projecting fear from the area we are in. You are going to melt the doors shut, I will be blasting the doors off and throwing the serum at the prisoners we need. Steel will be holding off the guards with Sleep. Zap will be taking down the collars and then I will lower all of our densities and make us invisible so we can walk through the walls and back to the van where techno and zap are.” Alora explained to him
“Do we have a time limit” He asked
“We have 5 minutes before sentinel services arrive and 10 until they deploy the sentinel spiders”
“Is that enough time?”
“In theory, yes” Alora said as the van started driving. Steel went over the plan with everyone in more detail. They started to pull up to the gate and Sleep got out just out of a few of the cameras. She went up to the guards and touched them both, making them fall to the ground in a deep sleep.
The rest of them got out and Alora held up her hand shooting a beam of light into the camera. With the other hand she bent her fingers and pulled down making the bars of the gate bend and fall out. Once she saw the light flicker out on the camera she stopped her light beam.
Once they got to the first door, Sleep put him down before he could call for backup. Alora went in front of them and let her hands light up with a bright blue surrounding them. She balled her hands up slowly then released them causing the door to fly off the hinges. When she did, a bunch of guards came out with guns firing.
Alora quickly pushed out her hands causing a force field to surround her and the rest of the team she had with her. Alora roughly pushed out one of her hands causing a blast of light to knock everyone outside of the force field of their feet. She swiped her hand through the air making all the guns fly out of the way and outside.
“Freaks! Stop where you are and put your hands in the air” One of the officers who had came around the corner said
“You guys got this? “ Alora asked the people in her force field
“Yeah I think we do” Colin said
“Alright have fun” Alora said, grabbing Melt’s arm and lowering both their densities so they would fall through the floor. They could hear the fighting upstairs but then continued down the hallway.
“Which way do we go?” Melt asked
“Left,” Alora said as they started to run down the left hallway. When they made it down the hallway they turned the corner to the mutant wing.
“Melt the locks!” Alora said to Melt as she stood in the middle of the hallway. She needed to blast off cell doors 5D, 8D, and 15D. Her reversal serum was already charged up and she needed to smash the vials right after the collars came off. The mutants in this wing had been experimented on so they could be used as weapons. At the moment there were only 3 who were still alive so those were the three they were breaking out.
Alora held her hands out to the side and clenched her fingers mentally grabbing onto the doors she needed. She pulled her hands in causing all the doors to fly a few inches on the floor. Alora took out the three vials and watched as the collars deactivated. That's when she threw the vials down letting them break on the floor. Each of the three mutants looked dazed for a few seconds before regaining their senses.
“The collars are deactivated you can take them off” Alora told them
“Thank you so much” One of the girls said she couldn’t be older than 17
“Don’t tank me yet we still need to get out of here” Alora said
“Blaze sentinel services are here!” Melt shouted
“Okay everyone get behind me, I’ll make a force field around us then send a light beam out so everyone keep your eyes on the floor” Alora told them flicking her wrists creating a force field. She pushed her sunglasses onto the top of her head and let the white/yellow light shine on her hands. Alora flung her head up making the door fall down. She was met with multiple agents who looked into her eyes. Immediately when looking at her eyes they fell down in pain. She pushed out her hands slightly sending out a light force knocking everyone off their feet and ino different hallways. They all quickly ran up the steps to see the rest of the team waiting for them.
“You ready” Steel shouted
“Yeah” Alora said as her hands were surrounded by blue again. She lowered everyone's density and made them invisible. They ran through the walls and out of the prison. They were met with the car which all of them piled into before driving off. Alora held the car invisible until they were out of sight from anyone.
“I think that's a record time” Techno said pulling into the X-star
“ Yeah except I’m pretty sure I blinded a lot of them” Alora said helping everyone out of the car
“They probably deserved it” Colin said as they started walking into the hotel
“Yeah, anyway if you three could follow Techno to his office so he can make sure you are good to stay that would be great” Alora said has they entered the lobby “You kids did amazing today” Alora added before her and shadow started to walk over to the elevator
“So how about drinks now?” Colin asked
“Fine I’ll text shift to go to our favorite bar so I can switch back with her '' Alora said, throwing her sweat shirt into her room and grabbing her leather jacket and purse.
The rest of the night went very well, they went out for drinks and came back laughing. The next two days went by very quickly. She had mostly stayed at X star doing different things to help their plan move along. Her and Colin had also talked about their relationship more. They had been in an open relationship but they decided to close it off again after talking. They had been in this cycle for about 5 years.
On the news they said that there was a prison break and that they would be hunting for the mutants responsible. Sentinel services was making a statement the day she had gotten back on the plane. Alora had walked back onto the plane to see everyone in the lounge watching the news.
“Hey Robin” Skye said before turning her attention back to the TV.
“Please welcome one of our very own Sentinel service agents to our show today” The new lady Barb said
“Thank you, As a representative of Sentinel Services I would like to assure you that we are using all of our resources to find the mutant threats who attacked the prison days ago. The Mutants who did this are from a terrorist organization known as the underground. If you see any suspicious behavior from any mutant you may see please call the hotline number appearing on your screens now”The agent said
“How do we know if they are the mutants from these attacks?” Barb asked
“We know that all of the leaders in this group have tattoos in the shape of an X.”
“How do you know this?”
“A few months ago one of the threats was seen using her powers outside to terrorize innocent bystanders. She had resisted arrest and we were forced to use deadly force. While performing an examination we saw this tattoo, while reviewing footage of the group we saw that all of them had one.” The agent said a photo of the tattoo being shown
“Who are these leaders? What can they do?” Barb asked
“We have yet to identify these threats but here are the photos from right before the attack. From what the guards said and our previous information the leaders and group followers use code names. The leaders are called Steel who has superhuman strength and trajectory manipulation. Techno who is a cyber and technopath. Shadow who can manipulate shadows and fear. Then Blaze, who is the highest level threat in the group, she has the ability to manipulate photons, energy, and density of herself and others. She can also turn herself and others invisible as well as project force fields. She has also shown some level of telekinetic ability. If you see her do not approach she can blind you if you look into her eyes.” The agent explained
“How do we ensure the safety of our people”
“Make a watch group in your neighborhood, report any suspicious activity, and stay away from the mutants”
“That is all the time we have for today folks-” The Tv shut off