Saying Farewells

On the 17th day of February, 1945, Alfie infiltrated his own country's base in Italy just to rescue a group of agents from the future.

He wore all black with some paddings here and there like a ninja of some kind.

Two sai's on his lower back hanging ready for use, along with a few pouches of projectile weapons like shurikens and kunais.

A big difference from his usual plated Deathstroke armor.

He went through every guard on patrol without causing any suspicions, as he had already known about this area with one of his visits.

He soon entered a metal door covered by a concrete building and headed downwards.

He has been lucky so far, using his enhanced senses to the best of his abilities dodging and avoiding people.

He then paused, as in front of him would be a heavy checkpoint of guards ready to fire off on anything going in or out unauthorized.

Things would have been easy if he had his sling ring, but he has lost it some time ago and would probably never admit it.

Even simple mistakes can catch up to a man of great power or strength.

As Alfie moves in as quickly and quietly as he can, he has no idea that the base was already compromised from the inside and a group was running around blindly.

••••••••

In another concrete building, 5 people were making their way deeper into the building to the storage room.

The five were Coulson, Yo-Yo, Deke, Mack, following Daisy's lead.

They were wearing disguises whether it was military soldier uniforms for the three guys or office suits for Yo-Yo and Daisy.

The group was heading to the storage room since they have heard new things going there, like unknown future tech.

When they first tried to enter the base they thought it would be an easy in and out but they underestimated the security during this time and got caught.

Only because no one has seen them before.

And when they were being detained and snatched off every possession, Daisy told the others to play along and get captured.

Fitz who was on the other side of their comms wasn't informed as their earpiece had been taken as well.

And as they were taken and put in cages, Daisy with her many skills got out along with the others and made their way out knocking guards and using their uniforms.

Now they were here, and they finally reached the room before the storage area.

But there were people around, from workers carrying things to scientists looking into devices, so they slowed down.

Even then they made their way into the storage room and looked through the gears and weapons Michael was seen using multiple times.

They went through checkpoints like experts, and with years of experience doing spy work and disguises it was understandable how easy they got through.

And for a while they haven't found anything even when they split up to cover more grounds, sure they have seen some weird and dangerous looking things but none of them were anything they were looking for.

After another round of looking, the group didn't find anything and they beelined to another empty room for a conversation.

"Where the hell could it be?!" Mack said frustratingly.

"It could be that it's not even here yet." Yo-Yo said with some hope.

"Or we are too late and they've already moved it elsewhere." Deke said unsure.

"Damn it!! You sure y'all didn't find anything?" Mack looked back and forth at Daisy and Deke asking.

"We've tried looking for it but there was no signal, the power source of Michael's gear is off, which means it's not being worn so it has to be here somewhere." Deke said.

"What about Fitz, is he still off comms?" Coulson asked.

"Still not answering, probably going off to get help." Daisy replied.

"We have to hurry, or else things won't end well.

Deke try to get a hold of Fitz before informing him of the recent events, if he can, tell him to try and look for the gears one more time.

Daisy, you and Yo-Yo will go to the records room and see if you can find anything new coming these couple of days.

See if they go anywhere else other than storage.

Coulson, you're with me, you know a bit about the old Strategic Scientific Reserve so we will scour the R&R departments looking for anything related to the gear." Mack said as he looked at everyone as they were making a plan.

"And try not to blow the place or cause an alarm." He said again looking at the two enhanced women.

"We should be the one telling you-..." Yo-Yo spoke, but she froze.

Her eyes widened in panic, but her whole body wasn't able to function normally, luckily she could breathe or else she would have ended up much worse.

"Elena?..." Mack called out to her seeing her sudden panicked pause.

It also brought the attention of the others, yet Yo-Yo didn't answer, but her eyes zigzagging looking at everyone's eyes showed how scared she seemed.

"Elena what's wrong?" Mack moved closer deeply worried, but a voice that was not hers chimed in.

"She can't talk."

That was when everyone looked behind Yo-Yo in the dimly lit room, where a large shadow seemed to have come alive from the ground, two beaming golden eyes glaring at the group as their eyes widened aiming their non-lethal pistols at the shadow shiveringly.

Daisy raised her hands up to blast at the shadow only for the shadow to flick it's hand sending two small needles to her shoulders making her arms go limp.

Just like the needle behind Yo-Yo's back neck sticking into her spine.

The team was about to start shooting when the shadow flicked his arm again sending three needles to the middle forehead of Coulson, Daisy and Deke dropping them to the floor unmoving.

Angry, Mack pulled the trigger on his pistol only to find out his hand was empty.

In front of him, the man wearing dark clothes like a shadow held his pistol before bending the chambers, breaking it before dropping it.

"Please tell me there were other candidates for the position of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director." The shadow said.

As the dark clothed man spoke casually, Mack recognized the tone behind the cloth.

"Alfie?!-"

"Say that name again and I'll cut your tongue, I don't remember ever letting you call me that." Alfie said as he stood there glaring at Mack with his Chi filled eyes.

Everyone else was either able to hear or see the two, shocked that it was Alfie who appeared, and effortlessly took them out as well.

This was how dangerous the man who holds the name Deathstroke is.

They couldn't imagine how it would be if Alfie actually went for the kill instead of just paralyzing them.

Mack stood there staring at Alfie while also side glancing at his team.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Mack asked.

"I should be asking you that, I'm a Captain and this is a base I'm authorized to be in, unlike you and your little band of idiots." Alfie said without much emotion in his tone.

"Not only did you fuck up catching a man you were chasing, but you infiltrated the very base that these men fought to secure, for the future you live in, and you even have the gull to even KNOCK THESE YOUNG SOLDIERS DOWN!!" Alfie said with disgust.

"For what?! Something you're not even sure is here?! In all my life I have never seen such incompetent agents who have many resources run around blindly with idiotic plans.

Even the agents I've seen work around here have been more competent than you with less resources." Alfie was getting agitated but stopped.

Doing it in that place wasn't smart, so he told Mack.

"You take your team and head back to the suite, I won't say it again." Alfie said.

"If you know how risky leaving future tech or even an ounce of evidence for anyone to find out that there is such thing as time-traveling, you would know how important it is for us to get those gear-"

Mack couldn't finish as Alfie interrupted him.

"The gear you are looking for is not here." Was all he said before he proceeded to make his exit.

"What do you mean?!" Mack asked.

"Head back to the suite if you want to know, otherwise you are just wasting your breath here." Alfie walked out and disappeared.

Leaving Mack to un-needle his angry team.

•••••••••

Half an hour later the base was on high alert, a few guards were knocked out and a few "enemy spies" escaped.

Nothing seemed out of place to the higher ups other than their theory of having some intel stolen.

And as the team of 5 agents made their way back to Howard's suite, Alfie went to have a few drinks with his close friends in the company meeting up with James who was with Luna.

The agent's were waiting for Alfie anxiously but he didn't even have their priorities in mind, and at most already forgot about them.

After some drinks, Alfie met up with Steve, Bucky and a few Commandos and spent some time with them.

Alfie did some teasing and asked questions about Steve and Peggy but the guy was tight-lipped, but all smiles.

Alfie was happy for the guy but also wanted to strangle him for not telling him anything which wasn't his business.

Both Steve and Peggy knew how annoying Alfie can get, so knowing he would be frustrated from them not talking they kept quiet.

Alfie changed the subject and directed it to a new friend he made, a warrior, an amazon, and a goddess.

Though he didn't say those exact words he did say he will introduce Steve to her soon, if she makes it on time.

After that, Alfie checked up with the Colonel seeing how the "interrogation" was going, which was still going.

Alfie offered to do the "interrogation" but Colonel Phillips knew it wasn't a good idea, last time Alfie spoke to the doctor, he almost crippled him for life, or even worse.

Colonel Phillips mentioned something about spies but Alfie just walked out of the office after some ignorant nods and all.

It was close to midnight when Alfie reached Howard's suite and entered into another unnecessary conflict.

On the couch was Howard sitting looking frustrated while standing in front of him was 4 of the agents.

Mack and Fitz were trying to make Howard talk about what he knows of a man named Michael and some new tech Gears.

It's understandable since Howard is one of the leaders in SSR and would know anything new and cutting edge.

Daisy and Coulson was in front of the two trying to stop both Mack and Fitz from making Howard talk.

Deke and Yo-Yo were on the side not taking part in this matter.

All in all it didn't look good to Alfie since it seemed like they were ganging up on Howard one way or another.

Seeing Alfie walk in, everyone turned to him.

Daisy and Coulson looked worried, Mack seemed angry and Fitz looked panicked.

Howard on the other hand was sighing in relief, because he was in his own home being strong armed by some of the agents.

Alfie stopped by the hallway looking at this scene, but then started to walk forward.

The kind of walk where no one can stop, the kind of walk where it's fueled by anger, one where people knew shitt was about to happen.

Daisy walked forward to Alfie with her hand out in a 'calm down' position.

"Alfie, wait let me explain, they weren't-" But Mack spoke cutting Daisy off.

"You took too long, so I turned to Stark for some questions instead." Mack started to turn his body fully to Alfie trying to challenge him with his big figure.

"Mack, shut up- whaai!!" Daisy looked back to shut Mack up only for Alfie to gently but firmly move her out of the way.

Seeing how hard Alfie came in, Mack prepared himself if Alfie was about to attack, but he couldn't prepare enough.

With a light push on Alfie's right leg, he seemed to have rushed forward and with his right hand grabbed onto Mack's neck raising him up.

"ALFIE NO!!" Daisy stabled herself up as she went up to hold Alfie's left arm to pull him off of Mack.

Unfazed, Alfie raised his right leg and did a sidekick to Fitz's stomach as the young man actually flipped before landing behind the back of one of the couches, losing all the air in his lungs.

Alfie literally knocked the air out of him.

Alfie clenched his hand around Mack's neck hard making Mack lose visible color on his head, but before Alfie can go anymore and relieve his anger on Mack a sound of whooshing came in.

*Whoosh*

*BANG*

Daisy fell backwards, she looked up to see Mack on his knees finally catching a breather, Alfie was gone from his spot but in his place was Yo-Yo.

Daisy looked back to see Alfie crashing onto the wall making a caved in dent as he slid down on the ground with blood on his chest.

Alfie got up unfazed, cracking his neck, it was then that Daisy realized the blood wasn't his.

She looked back to see Yo-Yo's hand covered in blood.

Yo-Yo looked confused as all she did was push Alfie away, but her hands felt numb and shaking.

"I would explain the science of why your hand is bleeding, but I'd rather have a showdown then talk unnecessarily." Alfie said.

"No, Alfie no, we don't wanna fight, this is just a misunderstanding Mr.Stark isn't even hurt." Daisy said trying to defuse the ticking bomb.

"Hurt or not, but you punks even had the audacity to yell under this man's house?! You wanna yell at my friend?! I'll show you how to respect your elders, and knock your asses back into the future." Alfie started to slowly take the hat and coat he was using.

Mack got up coughing as his throat was screaming in stinging pain, Yo-Yo winced from the fact that her skin was peeled off.

It felt like she wasn't pushing a man but a statue made of iron.

"We don't have to do this!! Please don't make me do this, we are on the same side." Daisy said as she pulled one of her hands up.

"There were no sides here the moment Michael was defeated, but you and the others decided to infiltrate your own country's base and interrogated my friend, now I can't help but feel you people don't know what you're doing." Alfie said.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure there is a future where you people are either up for the job or not at all." Alfie said.

Alfie started walking towards them despite Daisy's yell for him to stop, he didn't have any weapons on hand but they knew better.

Daisy having no choice finally let out her vibe blasts at Alfie.

Alfie was blasted back to the wall making another dent as Daisy slowly walked up putting more pressure on Alfie.

Alfie was forced into the wall by her making a bigger crack, and with effort Alfie grabbed a small part of the wall that broke into a small part and threw it at Daisy only for the blast to send it back to the wall.

"We need to knock him ou- Kugggh!!" Daisy spoke but seconds later grind her teeth together to endure the unbearable sting on her back before falling down unconscious.

Alfie smiled as he slowly got up, everyone looked to the side staring at the one man they didn't pay any attention on.

Stark stood there with one of the agents' pistols, a Sleeper they called it.

Howard didn't get nervous from the stares, rather he was looking at the pistol in his hand in awe, being new to the term "non-lethal" and "weapon" together.

And was even able to knock an enhanced unconscious.

And as they glared at the genius engineer, Alfie appeared on the side of Yo-Yo and stuck a needle behind her neck as she was once again rendered useless and unmoving.

Mack screamed in anger before running at Alfie in hopes of tacking before doing anything else.

But the moment both Daisy and Yo-Yo were incapacitated, there was no fight anymore unless they had a secret weapon or another enhanced with them.

With a front no held back kick, Mack was sent back to the wall next to Stark, and as the man was looking into the pistol, Alfie snatched it and without looking made two shots at Deke and Coulson who were already aiming but didn't shoot.

There might have been hesitation, considering they didn't shoot, but there wasn't any hesitation with Alfie.

He had complete control of his mind and body.

Alfie then tossed the pistol back to Stark who clumsily caught it and went back to studying it.

Alfie walked up to Fitz who was behind one of the couches and holding his stomach trying to catch some breather.