Evaluating The Future

Dutch stood in front of all the girls. She listened to the topic changed a few times before she intervened.

"Bri, Lola, I need you two to run an errand for me…" Dutch locked eyes with a shocked Sapphire.

She hugged Bri, "she's mine and I won't let you take her!"

Bri rolled her eyes before waving her hands in the air. "Oh, ok." Sapphire nodded.

Grace eyes narrowed, "she didn't even sign anything." She had noticed a while ago Bri doesn't actually sign anything. She only waves her hands in the air wildly.

"It's a secret language." Sapphire looked at her like she was dumb.

Dutch sighed as the girls started to bicker again.

"Sapphire, you and Grace will also work together on an assignment." Dutch spoke blandly, while rolling her eyes.

"What could you possibly want me to do with this pathetic excuse of a…"

Bang

A large fireball shot towards Grace. Dutch moved between them taking the fireball head on.

The room fell silent as Dutch clothes burned. Her face held no emotion. Her body was unscathed but her clothes were gone.

"Lola, you will be delivering the rocks we found to this address." Dutch pulled out a paper and handed over.

The girls listened intently, no one said a word.

"Don't talk to them, don't look at them, don't even make faces at them." Dutch turned towards Bri on the last remark.

"After that you will find me at this location." Dutch handed her another piece of paper to Lola.

"Now you two, I want you to visit these locations. I need you both to do evaluations." She handed Grace a paper.

"Tell me everything you can about them. Their weak points and their advantages. Don't spare me the details." Grace frowned but didn't say anything.

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"Did Howard make any progress with the serum?" A brought Dutch to the lab they first talked in. Dutch leaned back on the chair.

She tilted her head confused as to what A was talking about. A rolled her eyes.

"The funds and resources that was promised has already been transferred to Lucy B, like you instructed." A changed the subject knowing Dutch wasn't going to comment on Howard.

Dutch thought it was a good idea to have several aliases. The locations Grace and Sapphire were looking at were several locations Dutch owned under different names.

"Also Lady bell sent this a few minutes before you got here." A handed Dutch a piece of paper with coordinates on it.

Dutch nodded. She was thinking about everything she needed to do before taking over the red room. She had realized she was to be doing things that she didn't actually have time to plan.

At this moment, Dutch evaluated her relationship with the letters. She knew A had plans for her in the future, but she didn't know if she had plans for A or the letters.

"I want to take in the new recruits for the letters." Dutch spoke after not listening to a single word A said.

A paused, she wasn't expecting this.

"If you really want me to take over the letters in the future than it shouldn't be a problem to entrust your new recruits to me." Dutch smiled.

She didn't actually want A's recruits. She wanted to see how A would react to such a request. This would give her an idea of where her and A was at the moment.

"Ok, we were only able to get new a few new recruits, most around eight." Dutch shrugged uncaringly.

She was actually surprised by this development. Now she had to think of a plan for these kids.

"What about Bucky?" Dutch changed the subject.

"He should be done in about three months. A few months after that and he'll be stable enough to live in the real world." Dutch nodded.

The timeline with everything added up perfectly. "Ok give me a year from now to get everything taken care of then I'll come get the kids." A nodded.

"In the meantime, I have a few more contracts if your interested." A smiled widedly.

"No thank you, I still have two retrievals underway." Dutch shook her head.

They both talked for a while more. A tried to get information from Dutch.

She opened her mouth to speak, but stopped hearing a knock at the door.

A turned with a frown, "come in." Her voice laced with annoyance.

"Sorry for the interruption, Bri and Lola are here for Dutch." C walked in with a apologetic look on his face.

Bri popped her head in the door. She smiled at Dutch.

"Go spar with the letters or something, we're not done here." Bri smiled brightly putting a thumbs up.

"The letters aren't used for babysitting." C frowned

"Oh trust me, I would never allow you to babysit that demon." Bri chuckled lowly, moving her head out of view.

"So, when can I get Bucky?" A sighed as she looked at Dutch.

"Can't really get anything passed you can I." A tapped the table. A few tables in the back jerked. The slowly moved downward being replaced with Bucky's capsule.

She looked at it, exhaling a deep breath. A side glanced at Dutch. She waited for her to speak.

Dutch nodded, "I don't want him right now, I just wanted to make sure he's fine."

Dutch smiled she planned to come back for after getting the kid from the Ozunu Clan. She need to get some things in order before everything was to be ready.

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Dutch and an opponent engage in a fast-paced fight on a rooftop. She expertly uses her surroundings, leaping off walls and using nearby objects as leverage to disarm her opponent and attempted to gain the advantage.

Sweat drenched her body. Her body trembled with exhaustion. Soon she collapsed on the ground.

The rooftop shattered, a white room appeared in Dutch's blurry vision. A door opened, A walked in with a tablet.

"Who was that guy?" A looked towards the fading figure that Dutch fought.

They were currently in a simulation room. It allowed you to fight against past opponents. Dutch was the one of the first to have tried it out.

She fought against Lui Kang, the man she fought in the alleyway. She huffed, attempting to stabilize her breathing.

"A monster." Dutch huffed out after a while.

A looked at the figure. She looked with curiosity.

"A curious cat gets killed." Dutch stood up, after replenishing enough strength. She moved slowly towards the exit.

A eyes lingered for a moment before following.

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Dutch came out the shower and into A's bedroom. She saw A laying comfortably on her bed, wearing a penguin onesie.

Dutch flopped on the bed in a lion's onesie. She laid not far from A. She felt herself sink into the bed. The bed shaping to her body.

"Ohh." She stretched out. Getting into the bed was purely to make A mad, but seeing how comfortable it was Dutch couldn't resist.

"Those who touch my bed usually doesn't live to see tomorrow." A spoke calmly. Her voice slowly soft like a gentle breeze.

"That sounds very depressing." Dutch spoke calmly, her eyes closed and her breathing even.

"You lied, the regression of your powers might start off slow but over time, left untreated, it gets worse. You should at least be below an average person in strength." A opened her mouth to speak but couldn't find any fault in Dutch's words.

Before getting into the shower Dutch got a call from Howard. He had found out the effects of the serum on the human body. Using this information and the information A gave her, it wasn't hard to figure out that A was so weak.

A sighed, "yes if we don't act soon, I won't have time for what I planned."

"I give you a year max. How exactly do you plan on pulling it off in that's short time frame." Dutch looked at A.

"You've already done most of the work. You took out his head advisors. Soon Ort-Meyer, will be out of the picture leaving him vulnerable." A laid on her back with a satisfied expression.

"Who?" Dutch tilted her head. She admitted she wasn't really interested, until now.

"Hitman 47…." Dutch sat up. She was now very interested.

"47, was a simple clone like the rest of them, until he received the upgraded version of the serum.

Then he turned on them. Forced the fathers to be his subordinates and took over the ICA." Dutch eyes widened, this wasn't like the original timeline.

She sucked in a cold breathe, if these from those universes could change, then what else could happen.

Dutch shrugged, if she couldn't use the future she knew it would be a thorn in the behind. She had already planned to change a lot in her favor anyway. This only made her want to speed up her plans.

"Do you know how to own a planet. Particularly one like earth but you uninhabited, but livable." A frowned

"Why?" She asked cautiously.

"What's it to you? Your going to be dead soon anyway." Dutch furrowed her brows.

"I have one, I'll give it to you on the condition, you finish the contracts I have. Along with Killing Ort-Meyer. He's the last defense 47 has." Dutch rolled her eyes.

"You plan on killing 47 yourself. How exactly do you plan on doing that if your so weak?"

"I have my ways."