24 Chapter 24

after the ant sized soldier completed his mission, he handed the box over to me immediately. the box was the same one handed to me by the Overseer a week ago except that now the lid was closed.

I quickly handed it off to the Overseer. "Get this to the new site, I want it installed on the first one launched." I said

with a simple nod, he finished his final preparations and headed out to the new facility, taking about half the researchers with him.

I quickly received more reports, including

--The capture of several Hydra personnel that were undergoing processing to become D-Class

-- the containment of SCP-999 under non-expiramental containment

-- the containment of SCP-049 The Plauge Doctor, Containment procedures and parameters unspecified

-- The Containment of SCP-173 The Sculpture. Permanent containment procedure were not set, but it was currently housed in a standard containment cell with four D-Class watching over it

-- The successful completion of the assault with all objectives complete and only two casualties

overall, the attack had gone exactly as planned, a large assault in the central courtyard to draw the defenders in. once they were distracted, teams would recover all data stored on their servers and plant a virus and some bombs in the compound. the virus would eventually give us full access to the entirety of Hydras files and knowledge. The two casualties were from a deployment capsule failure that caused its remaining occupants to be... violently ejected into the nearest wall.

and finally, the true mission of the attack was also completed successfully. the metal box I had just shipped off to the new site contained the dagger I had been charging with Shadow Tether. the box was designed to be remotely opened to expose the dagger to light. This would cause the tethered victim to forcibly go wherever we wanted. we just created automatic kidnapping, assuming the dagger had charge, of course.

the move was to prevent information leaks. while I didn't think that Fury would betray us, there were too many mind readers in play, especially since Bartons current fate was to be brainwashed and interrogated by Loki with the mind stone. perhaps intervention was needed? however, it was because of Loki that the Tesseract and, therefore, the space stone, made it back to earth after it was claimed by Thor, so stopping Loki to soon means it stays in Asgard during Ragnorok and can be claimed by Thanos that much easier, or claimed by Surtr, but I'd rather not give Surtr the ability of teleportation.

I sat down in my office, a thousand thoughts in my head as to how it could go wrong if I did this or what would happen with that. I sat there with my head on my desk, mulling it all over when the system interrupted my thoughts, mostly informing me of the new SCPs but one new thing.

[You have hit back against those that have wronged the foundation. You have unlocked an achievement

--- 'not the first blow, but the last'

this achievement grandt the ability to store 15% of force received as potential energy. energy can be released through the limbs in a single sudden action, can also be channeled through a weapon or object so long as it can withstand the stored force.

WARNING- it is not recommended to store too much energy as it will put strain on the body and could cause fractures upon the wielder

A new mission has been issued

Chain Mission 1- 'A Lesson in Defense'

- you have unlocked an offensive ability, but you lack the ability to use it safely and effectively.

--Objective 1- Learn to move efficiently

--Objective 2- Learn to wield Stored Strike Effectively either with or without a weapon

--Reward- Depends on completion circumstances]

okay, that might be useful, I think. it really depends on what I'm fighting, if anything. throwing my new ability to the back of my mind, I appointed a new Overseer for this site, while it would mostly be rest site and debreif area for mobile task forces moving through. the old Overseer would be moved to the new site to run that area along with most of the SCPs, only leaving the Safe class items here.

the new site was on a small plot of land with a house on it. the land was funded by the various front businesses that the Overseer had set in place. while we weren't earning Tony Stark levels of income, it was enough to fund most projects that I was planning on doing manually to save some points for other necessary purchases from the shop.

I took one last look around, I was going to miss this place, but it was time.

I called Jones, who was fresh out of the medbay,"find where Pierce went, it's time to cut off one of the heads of Hydra."

---Authors Note

sorry for the vanishing act, some RL stuff reared it's head, and while it still is happening it has slowed a bit so I can finally write some more. sorry to disappear for almost a month