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THE TRISKELION

UPPER BAY

MANHATTAN…do it myself. Fury turned those words over in his head for the twelfth time since the clock hit the last hour mark. Honestly, it had yet to leave his thoughts since the moment he heard it. Even right now, standing in a lab on Level Four with his hands behind his back, he couldn’t help going back to it again even as a white-coat worked his way toward a point.The hell did he mean by that?Because after his people had come back out of that basement in Queens dragging an unconscious mutant with broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder, a jaw out of place and at most one clean sentence between all, there was nothing else but that taking Fury’s attention.Especially after Jade launched straight up into the sky and nobody had eyes on him since.Twelve hours."—the primary issue I want to stress, Director Fury, is that Doctor Banner truly got the team here at Jade most of the way before… well...” Bramkin had his sleeves pushed up, a pointer in hand that the man was doing absolutely nothing with. “That in mind, that’s largely on the delivery side and, with all honesty, that was never the obstacle. Regardless, that was uh… before.”Before. The man did seem to like the euphemism and Fury didn’t care much about which words he preferred. An omni-scientist was rare enough that there was no point dwelling on any particular oddities. At least, not when they didn’t cost him.Like the man he actually needed in this room, the one six levels down surrounded by an entire platoon of soldiers changing every hour on the hour. On top of that, the other man he wanted was currently sitting in traction — both jaw and arm broken, while his pelvis was in three different pieces — courtesy of the Star-Spangled Super Soldier.So, he had Bramkin.The man wasn’t even fourth on a list of four, and the way he kept looking right at Fury’s eyepatch like the Director was hiding gold under there was already an irritation. Where the hell are you, Wilson?

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