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DoorMan #35
SHIELD Ship[January 21, 2008]
–Colin Baxter–
"I understand where you're coming from, Agent Coulson, I really do but the fact is that I will not be able to provide you with any way of contacting me, not without compromising my identity anyway," He shook his head and replied to Coulson, both of them now very comfortable with the flow of the conversation.
"I understand. I will relay that to the Director. If at all possible, can you tell us more about your powers? You have to understand that I need something here, otherwise SHIELD might just label you as a hostile entity."
He shrugged, "Sure. I can do this," He snapped his fingers, manifesting a small door in between both of them. Coulson leaned further at an angle, likely positioning the camera he had on person to better capture the Air Door.
"Then, I can also do this," He snapped his fingers once more, and a small gust of wind came out of the Door in all directions, making Coulson blink his eyes.
Coulson then deadpanned at him, "I assume that this is all a really small explanation about your powers?"
He nodded his head, "Yup. I am sure you know from my recent debacle with an illegal military unit in Canada that the Door can become much larger than it is now, and the winds coming out of it can also increase exponentially."
"I see. One last question, are you a Super Soldier affiliated with any known country?"
He instantly shook his head, "Nope. You think a politician would have been able to keep me hidden if they had my level of power in their hands? No, you guys would have known about me and the greedy fuck who would have undoubtedly used me to gain even more power."
"I suppose I will have to take your word for it. Ah, this is the last one. This is a direct notice from the Director. He–"
"Ah, what does old one eyed want from me? Tell me, how deep is the stick in Fury's ass?"
It was so awesome watching Coulson get bamboozled and then resigned as Fury was no doubt watching this whole thing live.
He made a show of perking up as Jin'Ya informed him of the orders that Coulson just received. To stall the Orange Menace until an armed unit reached the place, which was just 5 minutes away, according to Jin'Ya.
He slowly stood up, "I'm afraid we will have to cut our talk short. It's a shame also since I was really enjoying it. Anyway, I'll see you around, Coulson." He waved off the man's opposition and then used an Air Door on both of his feet and a small Door in front of his body to punch out of the ship's hull with ease.
He could not see anything in the distance, owing to the rain but according to Jin'Ya, there were multiple parties. Jets, a submarine and even a small destroyer on the way, all just to apprehend him.
"Jin'Ya, chances of showing our power safely?" For some reason, he really wanted to put them in their place without having to worry about a larger manhunt being deployed for him, that might one day lead to his civilian identity.
"High. But you are not asking about getting out safely out of this. You are asking about their response and it will be bad. The more encounters you have with SHIELD, the more you are risking your real identity." Jin'Ya replied accurately, and he slumped mid air as he realised JIn'Ya was right.
Short Term gratification was just not worth it when he wanted to make sure that Colin Baxter became a big enough name. "Fine, destroying really expensive military equipment later."
With yet another blast of air, the ocean parted beneath him as he rocketed up in the air. Now, he could hear the roar of the engine of the Jet. Sounds expensive.
Receiving mental directions from Jin'Ya, he let the Dragon do his thing and angle his body and the Doors just at the right angle. Understanding what the Dragon had planned, he couldn't help but ask nervously, "Are you sure?"
He had never gone that fast on his own before. His body could handle it but he always ran out of control before he could ever reach his full speed. To begin with, he had just now managed to get a somewhat working flight for him.
"Oh, stop being a baby. Just let me do my job." Jin'Ya chided as his body was finally angled just right. He counted over twenty doors on his body, all Air Doors, piloted directly by Jin'Ya. He had never been able to control so many. He tensed as the roar of the Jet came really close and the intensity of the air shockwave being generated in his Doors was getting dangerously close to tornado levels as the Jet was now within his sight.
"Jin'Ya? Any time now." He chuckled nervously and yet his body was lit up with excitement as a giant shockwave was emitted from his feet, instantly propelling him past the Jet. He could barely see the dull grey object he passed as his entire mind was unable to process what his eyes were barely seeing.
Soon enough, the cloak's enchantments gave out as Air began buffeting his face, forcing him to open yet another Door on his face, completely blacking his vision and trusting Jin'ya to do the right thing.
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–Phil Coulson–
He stood up, dazed from the impact as the entire ship was thrown away from its spot by a tornado.
"Coulson! Coulson, do you hear me?"
"Copy." He slurred out as he shook his head. He hit his head really hard at that.
"Stay there! Help is on the way."
He could do nothing else as he sat in the chair and collapsed on the table.
And it was going so well. Why did the Orange man have to mention the stick in Director Fury's ass? Everyone knew it was there, they just had the self preservation skills to never mention it.
With those thoughts, his head felt really heavy as he passed out on the table.
That was how the SHIELD strike team found him, passed out on the conference table with blood coming out of his head wound.
[24 hours later]
"Sir!"
"Sit down, Coulson." Director Fury remarked in an exhausted manner.
The office was silent for a beat before the Director leaned down and then threw a file in front of him.
He gingerly opened it and his eyes widened as soon as he read the first line.
"Mach 8?" He choked out, barely believing his eyes.
"Yes, our Orange Menace there can reach speeds that have only been seen by Rockets before."
He read through the rest of the report as it depicted the flight path taken by the object before it went straight up into the atmosphere and disappeared.
"Disappeared, sir?"
"We have no idea, Coulson. It passed through a bunch of clouds and then never emerged from the other side. The eggheads believe he engaged his stealth at that moment and fled the area."
He nodded, that made sense. "But if he could do that, why not do it in the beginning? Why give us this…show?"
"What else, Coulson? A show of power. It was a message."
He nodded slowly and didn't say anything else, "You are dismissed from this case. For now, we are now pausing all active investigations, only keeping a passive eye on him, from our systems. The analysts have reason to believe that he has a positive impression of you, so our only lead right now would be him approaching you."
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Wakanda[January 22, 2008]
–Shuri Udaku–
"Got you!" She grinned as she found Colin, or rather, a lack of Colin on the entire planet. Her eyes roamed over thousands of lines of code as she overworked their deep space satellites, to scan the entire planet.
Wakandan satellites had already recognised that same energy burst and had just cataloged it automatically, waiting for someone like her to investigate it.
WIth her enhancements, she was now on a whole other level. Colin might have been a slightly less advanced peer before but now she was on a whole other level compared to him. The same energy burst was detected in the Canadian Wilderness, twice, where a mysterious Orange Person interrupted a Military operation, eventually getting away with the Hulk.
The same energy burst was detected in the Indian Ocean yesterday, leading to the most logical conclusion she could make, after compiling all the data and finding the same energy bursts all over Seattle, coinciding with Colin benign sighted in nearby areas.
Colin seemed to disappear from digital surveillance a beat before the energy burst and then reappear on the digital grid sometime after the energy burst.
"What secrets are you hiding, Colin Baxter?" She whispered to herself, grinning as she tasked the algorithm to record everything about Colin. Something about that guy was just so interesting to her.
With a slight twitch of her finger, all the data on the screen was masked and stored in an independent Vibranium lattice server that only she could access, as she turned around and waited 3 seconds for the door to start opening.
A member of the Dora Milaje bowed at her, "My Princess, the Council has called for you."
Her eyes twitched as she remembered that she had been the one to call the emergency meeting. She snorted at the powerplay. Well, they could cling on to such pathetic power plays while she obtained real power and made connections with people who had even greater power if the data she had on Colin was any indication.
"Tell them I'll be there soon."
The Dora Milaje visibly hesitated, "M-My Princess–"
She turned around in her seat, "Leave."
"Yes, My Princess."
As soon as the Doors were closed, she exploded into action. If things went right, today was the day she was finally going to start taking the first steps to make Wakanda Great Again.
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