onearmofhydra:

Things were going according to plan. Viper was quite please by the way things were progressing. Alliances had been made. Plans were laid and the attack against the RenTech factory had been a great decoy. The real attack had been on another RenTech factory where working Zero Point Energy Modules were being stored. Once she had her hands on an energy source powerful enough to power the weapon scientists had develop she could initiate the next part of her plan.

The weapon was almost powerful enough to blacken a large city, but Olivia had other plans. More important plans. The ZPEM was put into the weapon and the weapon was on a large cargo ship in the Atlantic a few miles off the coast of New York Habor. The weapon was powered up.

A blinding white light shot forth from the weapon and blazed a trail across the sky. The light slammed into the Helicarrier, SHIELD's flying fortress.

While the distraction of the impact of the ion pulse slammed into the Helicarrier, a small flying craft came in right behind the blinding white light. It landed on the deck while panic and chaos broke out on the flying fortress.

nextgen_parent:

The S.H.I.E.L.D. field team would receive an urgent summons to report to the main briefing room.

treadlightly:

They'd done their scouting. They've put up all the defenses they could, and put themselves in a position to attack. Buck has reviewed what they have on hand, and the situations exploding around them.

"Alright, folks, thank you for your patience. I know its been a tense situation waiting and doing patrol work... but I think we've identified some key points in the enemy strategy. We're still going to have to be careful. We're dealing with major influences here, but...

Alpha Flight... and their current guests, should be obvious. There's every sign that more of the Great Beasts will be awoken... that's a top priority situation.

X-Men... and the Genoshans - in following up the uprisings earlier, we've identified a 'Cult of Apocalypse', who took the whole massive fight before as a sign its time for En Sabbah Nur's awakening. We've located some of their likely strike points, your leadership has marked maps.


Champions and Thunderbolts, we've located a massive danger in the Red Lord. Its been determined that it will likely take both teams to deal with it.

Nightstalkers and Big Hero 6, we have a second target of the same type, Sakhmet. You two are on that.

SHIELD will be picking up on all of the general monitoring, crowd safety and control, and other work we've been doing in the lead up to this.

Finally, Avengers, Defenders and FF - you're with me. We're targeting the masterminds behind this.

Any questions?"

nextgen_misc:

Once the Champions returned to their headquarters and destroyed the Quantum Mirror returning all the heroes to normal. Once that was done they called a meeting of the superhero teams. Irina transported the Champions to the Avengers Mansion and volunteered to provide transportation for the other teams.

shield_legacy:

Tim tried not to forget birthdays, but occasionally one slipped by. Thankfully this time he was only a day late. He got his hands on a book of the history of aircraft for Brad and threw in a gift card to Amazon. Along with those two items, Tim put in a slip of paper promising Brad first dibs on the new experimental aircraft that would be ready soon.

nextgen_shield:

Agent Gamble noticed a power surge in one satellite and then it was gone. The connection to the satellite was broken and then another satellite had a power surge. A few moments later that one went offline. One by one the SHIELD satellites went offline and the world's big spy agency was blind in the sky.

Agent Gamble jumped up and hurried over to Commander Dugan.

Ten minutes later Col. Fury ordered his special ops team in for a briefing.

sammyfury:

At three am, traffic on the deck was sparse. It was the best time to find a quiet moment that wasn't inside four walls, and the view couldn't be topped anywhere else in the world.

For a sleepless Sammy, it was the only place to go. She had a covered mug of coffee and a mental puzzle to work out. The puzzle had only three corners and no straight edged pieces. As soon as she figured out the fourth corner, she'd know what was nagging at her brain.

girlspy:

This year, Alice decided that Sammy needed something "extra special" for her birthday. Yes, while guns were always the option, there were only so many years in a row that you could get your best friend a new gun for her birthday. It was repetitive. It was boring.

And Alice was not a fan of repetitive and boring.

So, at around ten o'clock, when she was working in her office, Sammy would receive a very special present.

A Happy Birthday stripper-gram. The guy was conveniently dressed as an average, everyday S.H.I.E.L.D agent so Sammy wouldn't suspect that something was up until after they were behind closed doors.

Alice didn't want the surprise to be ruined, after all.

nextgen_holiday:

The beginning of a New Year, a time for new hopes, new experiences to come. A time to reflect on times past, remembering fond memories happily and trying to put less pleasant thoughts and experiences in the past.

It is a time of renewal, a time of rebirth. And for much of the world, it is a time of celebration. This is no less true for the super hero set as anyone else. If anything, they just have that much bigger of things to look forward to.

nextgen_holiday:

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nextgen_holiday:

Christmas. Yule. Saturnalia. Dies Natalis Solis Invicti. Many cultures have celebrated and still celebrate a winter festival. There have been many names for it over the millennia. No matter the name it is a time to come together and celebrate with feasts and gifts with friends and loved ones.

Each culture has a legendary figure who would deliver gifts to children during this time. In Russia and some Slavic cultures he is known as Ded Moroz, Grandfather Frost, and comes not on Christmas but on New Year’s along with his granddaughter Snegurochka, or ‘”Snow Maiden”. In the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe he is known as Father Christmas. In the Netherlands and Belgium he is known as Saint Nicholas or “Sinterklaas” and in France he is known as Père Noël. In the United States we know him as Santa Claus.

No matter the name or who is delivering gifts, it is the season of peace, joy and togetherness. It is the season for thinking about loved ones, friends and those less fortunate. It is a time to witness the goodness and generosity the human race is capable of. It is a time for peace on Earth and goodwill toward man.

thisismyweapon:

Since his visit to Bon Temps a few months ago, Tech has done his best to keep busy and prove his worth to the higher-ups for keeping him on payroll. He awakens each morning, showers, has breakfast, and goes to training with Sammy. He spends a couple of hours getting his ass kicked (though he's been able to lay a hand on her a couple of times, a point of pride for him), then goes back to his room for another shower and a little rest before reporting to his lab.

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nextgen_parent:

Nick Fury stood in the three story high bridge of the Helicarrier. The massive flying ship was stationed just outside the border of Latveria. Metal Face was stirring up trouble, or so they were led to believe. Vernard was considerate enough to keep SHIELD in the loop to what was going on, but Nick had his own intelligence on the situation at hand.

He had to keep this from getting out of hand and from spreading.

He turned away from the large screens.

"Listen up ya yahoos," he said in a booming voice. "I want SHIELD forces all around Latveria, Wakanda, Genosha, and Atlantis. Stay outside the respective borders, but I don't want this spreadin' anywhere else. Get our forces movin'."

A chorus of 'Yes sir' echoed in the expansive bridge.

It would stretch SHIELD a little thin elsewhere, but containment was a priority.

electrified:

Del sifted through the mound of paperwork on her desk. As the S.H.I.E.L.D. liaison to Scotland Yard it meant she kept her eyes out for stuff that the agency couldn't handle or didn't want to and relaying the stuff that SHIELD was handing off. It also meant a mountain of paperwork that kept her at her desk more than in the field. She missed being out in the field and dealing with bad guys. It was one part of her job that she had loved. When did she get to be a paper pusher?

She found the folder she was looking for and opened it. The reports were ordinary enough, but something else in another file had made her wonder and she had to come back to this one to check. There was unusual activity out near Chearsley. Lorries rolling in and out at odd hours of the night and strangers in the small town speaking a few different languages. There was a report of a weird snake symbol seen briefly under the coat of one of the strangers.

She could kick this to M-I5, but she had a feeling they wouldn't get to it anytime in the current year. Del knew who she could call to do some recon under the radar. She picked up the phone and made arrangements for a meeting.

sammyfury:

Licking wounds and feeling good about ass kicking on a mission was one thing. The team needed something else besides combat to draw them in together. Sammy's calendar provided an excuse to cut loose a little.

Meet at the Slaughtered Lamb to celebrate Walker's and Tech's birthdays before the month is over. Food and drinks on me. ALL the drinks. C'mon guys, we need the downtime off the boat.

Sam

PS - ALL THE DRINKS

PPS - Yes, I'll bail us out if we get into trouble.

nextgen_parent:

Commander Fontaine, Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., made the rounds when the special ops team came back in. After their last disastrous outing, she wanted to make sure they were still in one cohesive piece. The reports had been favorable.

She hadn't met the newest member yet, though she knew the contents of his file. She'd been the one to have it sent to Sammy for consideration. Her little gun nut, and Walker and Dugan, could always use someone with the ability to build a better gun.

Sammy's report had been terse but informative. The others' a little more informative. Landon was next on her list.

sammyfury:

A file was delivered to Sammy and included handwritten instructions from the head office. She read it over the day's unnumbered cup of coffee, then put out call for a meeting with the remaining team members. Each was requested to be ready to leave immediately. Tech, the newest member, was also included in the meeting call. Whether or not he would be useful on this particular mission was to be seen. He could end up staying on the helicarrier. The rest would go.

Hydra had been a very naughty villain group and they were going to get a closer look.

sammyfury:

While it was hard not to dwell on exactly why she was looking for a new team member, Sammy wasn't about to push it off onto anybody else. The selection would be hers. She took a long look at the team left and considered what advantage they could use the next time a mission blew up in their faces. Then she reviewed available personnel files of agents and conditional agents with the skills or abilities that fell into her particular expectations, and requested that Jason Landon's handler bring him to the directorate for a meeting.

She arrived early. When Jason arrived he would see a pale faced woman with an inhumanly large mug of coffee in front of her, tapping on a PDA. Her sidearm was non-standard issue. A large bulging manila envelope sat in the middle of the conference table.

nextgen_shield:

Valentina Fontaine, deputy director of S.H.I.E.L.D., frowned as she read the report that recently crossed her desk.

It seemed Project Awakening’s first success was progressing in as normal a life as possible for a reawakened cryogenic subject. The monitoring agent, Robert Woolverton, expressed some concerns with Jenny’s new situation that needed to be addressed and possibly evaluated by Dr. Samson. A telepath on the new Excalibur team could ruin all the work they had done to create the Jenny Woolverton persona. She requested her assistant to bring in the files on the names that Agent Woolverton provided along with his impressions of each one. Joe Marko. Quinn Braddock. Tamara Blaire. Leech Maddicks. Casey Flynn.

Some very familiar names. She also asked for any available parents' files.

It brought up another issue that needed to be considered. With the second generation coming into their own and forming teams, including her own daughter, S.H.I.E.L.D. had to get a handle on it now. Liasions had worked well for the most part with the Avengers and the Fantastic Four in the past. It was time to officially recognize each new team, set up liaisons and form working relationships.

She drafted a memo to Nick and Dum Dum, along with a list of agents to consider for liaisons. The list would probably change once they had rosters and files, but it was a start.

nextgen_parent:

Nick Fury walked out of his office and stopped near his assistant's desk. "Get the team in the ready room in ten minutes." Then he kept walking out of the office.

electrified:

BAM. BAM. BAM. BAM.

Four shots and Del pressed the button to bring the target close so she could inspect her work. Every day she took time to come down to the shooting range to practice. Daddy said you could never practice too much when it came to shooting weapons. Del had learned from him and had picked up firearms rather easily. It was in the blood.

She looked at the target. Four perfect shots. Two in the head and two in the heart. The grouping was excellent as the holes were almost on top of each other.

She smiled and put up a new target.

nightingalesong:

It doesn't take long Qamar long to unpack his things into his quarters. It's not like he's got a lot of things in the first place. Clothing, a couple school books, his laptop, and his costume. At least the... accessories for the costume won't get strange looks if people find them in his closet.

With everything packed away, he grabs his laptop, sits at his desk, and begins to work on his school work. It's not due for a few weeks yet, but when you're a superhero, you never know when your time will suddenly vanish due to alien kidnapping or what have you.

sammyfury:

Sammy was no stranger to the helicarrier. She'd had the run of S.H.I.E.L.D. directorate and the helicarriers all her life. She loved to stand on the flight deck in the dark. Dad would pace the deck when he was thinking about things. It was a habit she'd picked up early.

She had a lot to think over and some plotting to do.

sammyfury:

Sammy finished up the details for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s newest special ops team and called the first meeting aboard the helicarrier. This time Dad's office wasn't available or requested so there was no mistaking which Fury was in charge. Col. Fury would hear about the meeting soon enough. He might even show up to give his view on why he created the team.

For this meeting, all she wanted was to get the quarters assigned, equipment procured, questions answered and let everyone meet each other and find out why each of them were chosen for this team. Forget that she was a little anxious about it. Being a Fury in S.H.I.E.L.D. meant people watched to see you fail to live up to the Colonel's example. She had to be better just to be considered satisfactory, and temper it with patience and humor so she didn't drive everyone around her insane.

If this worked, she would definitely owe Uncle Steve a thank you for showing her how a powered team could be led without climbing a bell tower.

nextgen_parent:

Nick had been tossing the idea around in his brain for some time now and the recent events in New York had brought it back to the front of his mind. It was about time S.H.I.E.L.D. started taking a more active role in dealing with the powered set out there.

Nick had gone through some files and had selected a few candidates. Luckily some were already agents. Others he would have to go have a chat with.

"Get Sammy in here," he said over the intercom. "And round up agents Childress, Alice Dugan and Walker. I want to see them as well."

sammyfury:

When the summons came, there was no mistaking the tone. Sammy would either answer it under her own steam, or she would be escorted in. Carried in if necessary. Col. Fury was just that persuasive.

She hadn't spoken to him since her debriefing after Mikel's capture. Hadn't wanted to speak to him. Mom was letting them work it out, no matter how long it took. It wasn't going to take long if Col. Fury was going to throw his weight around.

Sammy presented herself at Dad's office door and waited for her turn in his daily schedule.

nextgen_media:

“We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to bring you breaking news from Times Square. An apparent bank robbery gone wrong has resulted in the deaths of at least eleven people at the 1515 Broadway branch of Bank of America. Witnesses report that a masked man entered the bank and held the patrons at gunpoint. The details of what happened next aren’t clear, but it appears the robbery was stopped when a mutant teenage boy lost control of his powers and killed everyone in the bank. The boy fled the scene and remains at large. If you see this boy please contact your local authorities immediately and do not approach him. He is considered extremely dangerous. “

“As you can see behind me, crews are still cleaning up the site and authorities have the area cordoned off and are prohibiting anyone from approaching the bank. Traffic is at a crawl through Times Square and police are suggesting that commuters seek alternate routes.”

“Anti-mutant demonstrators and pro-mutant demonstrators are already on the scene. Police are trying to keep the demonstrations peaceful, but tension is running high.”

nextgen_misc:

Night was settling over the city and in S.H.I.E.L.D. Central the night shift was just coming on duty and settling in for the night. It looked like it was going to be a rather quiet night. Just like last night, the one before that, the one before that and so on.

sammyfury:

S.H.I.E.L.D. was exciting these days. Sammy had always loved it, but with Mikel here it had become a real family endeavor. Dad and Dum Dum were keeping her busy in between the classes that Mikel insisted she keep up on. What free time she had, she spent with some of Mikel's team training.

So busy, she hardly had time to go back to the Avengers or remember she had a boyfriend. Though she did recall leaving Qamar a message or two. Maybe three. There weren't any messages in return, even if she could seem to remember where she put her cell phone. The damned thing was apparently walking around on its own; it was never in the same place she left it. Being separated from her team didn't seem to matter so much. She wasn't a powerhouse or a team mainstay, so they could do without her until things settled down. As Mikel pointed out, she was destined to head S.H.I.E.L.D. so she had to keep a buffer between them and herself. There might come a time that as director, she would have to stand against them.

It was just easier to crash at Mom and Dad's place. Not that it was any closer to S.H.I.E.L.D. than the Avengers mansion. She did leave a message at the Avengers' so they wouldn't wonder if she'd fallen off the Earth.

ng_zodiac:

Mikel Fury had held his breath when they passed through the main security checkpoint to S.H.I.E.L.D. Central. He knew Sammy would get through with no problems since she was Daddy’s Little Girl and Golden Child, but he the rest of his team could have been a huge problem. He didn't need the mission failing before they got a foot in the door. Thankfully Aquarius and Sagittarius made getting in a lot easier with the use of their powers.

Mikel had selected well when he put his team together.

The team entered the elevator and Mikel pushed the button for the top floor. The Old Man was waiting and Mikel was sure that by now he knew Mikel was in the building.