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.

onearmofhydra:

Olivia was slowly building her forces and planning her next few moves. Jushiro and Shaw were already on board, but there were a few more key players to gather. Olivia wasn't in a rush, but it wouldn't take long for someone to figure out what she was doing. She'd like to have her forces in place before someone made a move against her, not after.

One such person she needed on her side was her own half-brother. She hadn't seen Nicholas in around ten years and it was time for a little family reunion. Their mother had a failure that led to Nicholas' capture by the US government and subsequent "volunteering" into the Weapon X program. Olivia didn't know why her mother didn't go to get her son back, but Olivia's mother wasn't exactly the one to do it out of motherly love for a child. Olivia was there to step up into Nicholas' spot so why taking the risk of getting captured to get one person back? Not that Olivia really missed her brother. Emotions were a liability and Olivia had none what so ever for her brother.

Now it was time to bring Nicholas back into the family fold. Under Olivia's control of course. She knew the perfect way to do it too.

She headed for New York to reunite with her brother.

onearmofhydra:

"He has regained consciousness," the small weaselly messenger said to Viper as she stood at the large window looking down at the lights of Hightown. Viper, her mother would hate her using that name, stood at the window when she needed time to think. The lights of the city helped her focus her mind.

"Excellent," Olivia said as she turned away from the window. "Take me to him."

The man turned and started to walk toward the door. Olivia followed. "Your mother wanted me to tell you that she wants him removed from the premises."

Olivia frowned at the man's back. Her mother was becoming more of a problem with each passing day and Olivia was going to have to deal with her mother soon. She had no qualms about killing her mother, the woman served some purpose, but now she was becoming a liability.

One thing at a time. Otherwise she would make a mistake and that would be the ruination of her plans.

They took the elevator down a few floors to a small medical facility. The best doctors money could buy and some help from other sources had made the man's rehabilitation possible. It would put him in her debt and just where she wanted him.

She walked over to the bed and looked down at him. "Welcome back to the world of the mentally functioning, Mr. Shaw. I have an offer for you that you'll find very interesting."

onearmofhydra:

Olivia Sarkissian walked confidently through the hallways of the prison. Bodies of the warden and the guards lay in her wake. The right poison was a wonderful thing. This one was derived from spider venom and had been engineered to be absorbed through the skin. It wasn't much to put a drop on the warden and the guards as she made her way through the prison.

She came to a stop before a specific cell.

"My, how you have fallen."