ng_weaponx:

"Status?" Kane asked an underling as he watched Tessa and Spectre in the gym.

"The reprogramming of Nicholas is almost done, sir. It's been slow going with the...uh recent happenings," the underling said.

Kane nodded. "I expected as much. Do you have an ETA?" Kane wanted his little family back together. He had plans and he needed all of his children for these plans. Tessa and Nicholas had been returned to the fold. There was one more left. One Kane needed to lead the team.

"A few days," the underling replied.

"Good. What about the other project?" Kane asked.

"Spectre has finished collecting all of the requested samples," he said. "Generation One will be ready to start training within the week. In a year they will be fully grown, trained and ready for use."

Kane nodded. "Good. Alexi says our potential investors are quite interested in the final product." He turned and looked at the man. "Is that all?"

"Yes, sir."

Kane nodded and turned away from the man. He returned to watching two of his "children".

redheadspy:

Natasha was officially worried. Her husband had left a note saying he was going to Boston to have lunch with Anya and that was a few days ago. Father and daughter disappearances were normal, Tony deciding on a whim to go somewhere with Anya, but Natasha hadn't heard from either of them in that time. Then Steve called an informed her of the phone call from Tony.

Natasha told James she was going and was on the next flight to Boston to find any sign of her husband and daughter.

She stood in the bistro where Tony and Anya were to meet and looked around.

ng_weaponx:

Ezra Kane had been pleased with the results from the first field test. The slight malfunction hadn’t cost them a team member, even if it was Tessa, and except for that little glitch things went well. The mutants in the machine were doing well and his team was able to access their powers and use them efficiently. Things were going according to plan.

Now it was time to move on to the next part. The two mutants in the machine had been most helpful in testing the machine, but it was time to retrieve better specimens for the machine. He wanted to have his team at their best. Their natural powers and powers of other powerful mutants would make them very formidable, almost unstoppable.

“Begin the next step,” he told his team through the comms.

ng_weaponx:

Ezra Kane had been most pleased with the tech provided by Senator Sloane. So far the results were encouraging, but he needed his team to do a real field test. He knew the perfect test to do with the two mutants that Crosshairs and Bloodlust had brought in.

He looked at Phobia and Crosshairs. "You know what to do. Get in, take a look around, get any information you can and then get out. Spectre will be waiting for you call for extraction."

nextgen_adult:

Margaret Donovan Stark sipped her glass of wine as she listened to the man, Senator Sloane, sitting across from her. “I trust the package was delivered and everything is in order?” she asked when she had enough of him babbling on.

“Yes it did. It arrived all intact and we had it set up in no time. You should come and see it. We’re just in….”

“I don’t want to know,” Maggie said. “Plausible deniability and all of that.”

Sloane nodded. “I understand. We do have two subjects ready for the field tests, but we will soon be acquiring more.”
Margaret nodded. “Please keep me informed how the tests go.”

Sloane smiled. “Of course. I understand wanting to see the fruits of….”

Margaret held up a hand to stop him. “It was the company not me.” She didn’t want her name associated with the project. The company being associated was fine. If information about the project ever got out, she could always say it had been developed before she took over Stark Inc. The blame and the fallout would be placed on her predecessor, not her.

Sloane smiled. “I understand.”

“Do you have reliable people running this project of yours?”

“Of course,” he assured her. “I have complete faith in the director. He’s most efficient and productive.” Despite a small setback, Ezra Kane has been a competent project director. Sloane hoped he continued to be so.

Margaret finished off the last of her glass of wine. “Good. It can be so hard to find reliable people.” Not to mention hard to get rid of others. She had been trying to get rid of Potts since day one and had been unsuccessful so far. The board loved the woman and would not let Margaret make a move against her. Maggie suspected the woman was leaking company information to Tony, which would come as no surprise. Loyalty such as Potts had for Maggie’s brother was hard to come by and buy.

“Thank you for lunch, Senator. I must get back. I have a company to run.”

“Maggie, it was my pleasure as always,” he said as he stood up.

“As mine,” Maggie said as she stood up. She shook Sloane’s hand. “Until next time.”

“Of course,” he said and watched her leave. He pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number. “Start the field test.”

nextgen_adult:

As the head of a billion dollar international company, Margaret Donovan-Stark was a very busy woman. Her days consisted of meeting after meeting and dinner usually ended up being a dinner meeting. It took a lot of effort and energy to run Stark Inc., but Margaret was enjoying every second of it.

The weapons development and research was now running at full steam and had taken all of her focus and energy. Stark Inc was once again a major player in the weapons industry and the government contracts were coming in. Not to mention contracts from private security companies, many of which used to be competitors but were now customers. The contracts and money were coming in and the stock price was starting to rise again after the hit it took during the transition.

Despite her very busy schedule, she took time out when her scientists in research and development called her. She stepped out of the elevator and into the lab.

"Ah Ms. Stark, so glad you could come down here. We have made significant progress with our recent project," the chief scientist said as he fell into step along side of her. "If you would allow me to show you?”

“Excellent. Proceed.” she said. If this project panned out, the company would make billions in government contracts not only from the United States government, but from others like Great Britain and other friendly governments.

“The prototype for the unit is finished, however….”

“Is there a problem?” she asked.

“Oh no, ma’am. Just the opposite. There was an unexpected possibility and my team is currently researching ways to make it work. If this proves to be feasible, not only will we be able to do containment, we should be able to use the subject’s abilities to our own benefit.”

“Interesting,” she carefully said, not allowing him to see any reaction either way. “Keep me informed.” She started to walk toward the door.

“There is the matter of our research budget, ma’am,” he said as he walked after her.

Margaret paused. “You will have what you need.” The development money would be mere pennies compared to what this would bring in if the idea worked. She left the lab.