chapter - 009

- Unknown location -

[Gideon POV]

I sit in my seat as I watch Alexander raise his hand in favor. I knew he would raise it as it would be detrimental for HYDRA otherwise.

With that, we have three in favor, one in abstain, and two who disagree in the world council. Fury's vote can be cast aside as he will have to do what we say. He just wants to bring that bastard into his Avengers' Initiative even after I had shut it down.

"With the majority voting in favor, Moon Knight will be labeled as extremely dangerous and S.H.I.E.L.D. will deploy its forces to help in bringing him to justice." I say as I turn towards Fury who nods.

Swiftly after I cut the call. Thinking about Moon Knight, my fists tighten. The only method to complete our mission has been destroyed. Hopes of generations of our people destroyed by one single person.

I don't know if the pieces of the Monolith in our hands can still be used.

'Ring...Ring...'

I pick up the call and see Alexander on the other side.

"Do we have to close Project Distant Star Return?" He asked to which I nod.

"Yes. Without the stone, I don't think it can still operate."

"What was the stone anyway?" He asks. I am hesitant to tell him everything. Not many people in HYDRA know our true goal is to bring back Hive. They still think we are going for world conquest and Alexander is one of them.

"All I know is that the stone allowed us to travel to another planet." Telling some things is fine if not all.

Alexander's face changes as he too starts to get angry.

"I think the earlier we take care of him, the better it will be. He was involved in the attack on that company too. I thought it was just bad timing for the attack. But he is meddling too much now." Alexander said sternly.

Ah! The company too. It was his orders to attack it. The app is good and the information we could gather from it is excellent. It would have been beneficial for Project Insight. Even I use the app and the information required by it is enough to complete a small but essential part of the project.

After the attack, even governments around the world are focusing on more protection for the company behind the lines when they could not acquire it but could not sit back seeing all the information it is gathering.

Attacking it now will only be exposing ourselves but we can always take other methods like kidnapping the CEO and controlling him. But for now, he can live freely. We have to take care of this white bug first.

"Stop any designs against the company for now. We will focus on Moon Knight first. We will have all the time to take over the company after that. Mix our agents with S.H.I.E.L.D. so it progresses faster. I will deal with the aftermath of closing the Distant Star Project." I say as stand up and get close to the phone to disconnect it.

Looking at Alexander, I see him nodding towards me.

"Hail HYDRA."

"Hail HYDRA."

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- New York -

[Ethan POV]

I sit and relax at the bar while listening to Johnny tell me about how he is never injured no matter how many times he gets into bike accidents.

I wonder if I should just tell him.

Listening to him brag, I too get an urge to show him my cool healing powers but hold it at the last minute. It's not the time yet. Though we have become best friends now, he is still not ready to take on the supernatural world.

But I have already started making plans for him. The first thing to do was find the church where Cater Slade lived. Second, well there was nothing after that. I just have to wait when till he starts to be more and more restless toward criminals.

I do think Khonshu's vengeful nature and my bearing his powers earned some brownie points from the Ghost Rider inside Johnny because of his over-friendly nature when he met me. And I do think, because he met with me, the ghost rider is already starting to awake without the need for the Devil.

It can be seen now too as he gets mildly irritated whenever we pass the police station. So it's only a matter of time for him.

"Ok. Enough." I stop his bragging. "When is your next stunt? I want to see it and it will also be my first for it."

Johnny goes silent for a minute as he thinks about it.

"Don't know. My team does these things. But I will let you know before it." He takes a swig from his bottle and gets up. I too get up after paying our bills and we move out of the bar.

"Remember to tell me. Then I'll get going and you, drive slowly." I say to Johnny as he gets on his bike making him smile.

"Yeah, yeah. I will. You take care too." And he drives away.

Returning home, I take a shower and fix myself some dinner. After eating, I switch on the TV and the first news being broadcasted catches my eye.

It talked about Harold Meachum's take over Rand Enterprises after the death of the Rand Family had been confirmed. Well, Danny should still be alive and be in K'un-Lun. But I do think I should help him a little when he comes back because otherwise, that fool will still keep on believing whoever finds it is easy to fool him.

Switching to another channel, I see news about Stark Industries announcing their plans to go into making better phones, and their reason for it was to better accommodate the features of the app and games my company released.

I was surprised at first as this did not happen in the movies but I ignored it for now as it was free publicization for my apps.

On the next news channel, the appearance of a bald man in white talking about opening a branch in Hell's Kitchen lets me know what's going to happen this year.

The situation of Hell's Kitchen which was settling will be stirred again as Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin is going to go for reformation of it.

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Hey dear readers, how is it going? I have tried to format these last few chapters in the best possible way I can. I have started writing locations and POVs to avoid confusion as some readers said. I have also tried to limit the number of words in one paragraph so it becomes easier to read. Do tell me if your reading experience has improved.

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