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Sterling had gathered a small team for the mission. Javi was flying the plane. Akela had been his field agent for his department so he knew she would be in. Germaine was on comms and recording what they were seeing and hearing should the mission go wrong and the footage was needed. He was also in their ear for advice, calling backup, or looking things up for them from the safety of base. Barton, well... After Sterling’s car wreck he had volunteered to help hunt down the ones responsible.
And this was exactly that.
The plane had touched down smoothly in a clearing of snow in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. Sterling had honestly never seen this much snow in his life. He’d made sure they all bundled up for the trek through the snow, checked weapons and supplies, had Javi put cloaking on the plane as he waited in it for their return, and took up the middle of the three man team as they began the journey to the exact point of the coordinates he was given. He wasn’t the leader of the mission, he had made sure they knew they all had equal say in what was to happen on the flight over. The other two had far more field experience and if this wasn’t personal for Sterling he probably wouldn’t even be there. He couldn’t help but feel like this was somehow meant for him though. He wanted to see this through. One last field op. He had promised Chen.
As they walked he trusted the more experienced agents to check for enemies or traps so he could concentrate on navigating to the right spot. They had been walking in the ankle deep snow for about an hour before Sterling suddenly stopped and checked the device in his hand.
“This should be it. Akela.”
As Sterling looked over at her she pulled a pair of glasses from her bag and put them on. She tapped the side of it to activate the backscatter imaging on the glasses that had been made to mimic her old eye implant. Sterling had borrowed them to search for whatever they were looking for and give them a slight advantage and while he had said he would use them Akela had volunteered. She had 3 years of experience with them and while it had been a rather dark time in her life, she wasn’t against taking those reigns again. She was stronger than anything Hydra had done to her.
“A secret underground base. How cliché.” She pointed toward a rock face. “There’s a door there.”
“Testing comms. You there, Shepherd?”
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