BIOHAZARD,
chapter zero: the mission!

          COLD. A feeling so bitter that it didn't abandon the bones of the dark-skinned man. It radiated into the room and he didn't know how that could be called torture. However, Avery Muller decided not unfazed in feeling pain, or some kind of human emotion that tried to break him completely. What it most sought to frighten him was the mere fact of not knowing where he was and how he had ended in a chair, with his limbs tied by what appeared to be metal handcuffs. A white light produced Avery pupils to close, displaying the green of his eyes before the amount of light that almost left him blind. A green intense but slightly bluish, trying to determine the environment surrounding him.

          For a moment he feared the worst, but he knew then that he wasn't in a bar near the Red Square talking to his partner in crime: Violet Quinn. It was...it was on other side and Violet wasn't there. The uncertainty was larger and Muller tried to grapple with the handcuffs who were holding him in the wooden chair. Of course, hold him in a conscious way couldn't be a good idea. He could have fought or even killing someone who tried to get their hands on him. Correct, everything has been done in furtive manner and with it without control of his body.

          Avery remembered running between the streets of Moscow, close to Red Square, where it would be an easy target for any sniper. A bullet and any head could explode into a thousand pieces, leaving a stain of blood that is not easily to erase from people's panic. However, the bullet wasn't an ordinary. This bullet was responsible for sleep each end of his body and his mind. Falling on dry asphalt of the Red Square with his gun in hand. He remembered leaving his partner hidden, remembered see several trucks and helicopters pursued him. He remembered seeing a man of much more skinned, with a patch on the eye and standing in the square until the bullet reached his shoulder.

          A hole with a host of memories. But for his own misfortune, he was still alive, and the worst thing is that he didn't know why he ended there.

          "Avery Muller, it's a pleasure to have you here."

          The green eyes of Avery looked slowly into the darkness, trying to decipher who was that voice. He shouldn't allow human emotions to try to break him, but the fear he felt had never been so intense. The dark-skinned man pressed his lips into a thin line, not engaging in a conversation with his captor as possible. He heard a sound closer, a chair moving. Something unforeseen, he thought. But no one returned to respond. Avery struggled again, releasing a grunt to see that he couldn't rid his trap, he heard that the person who had spoken to him before let go a laugh.

          "I think that we already have fun, Hill" Announced that voice. "You can turn on the light."

          All light lit, showing Avery as a woman with a black suit approached a man much more skinned to Muller and had an eye patch. Such as the man who saw before falling unconscious. The blue lights penetrated in field of vision of the mercenary, making clear his view. The woman was placed next to the man with the patch and glared at Avery.

          "It's really a surprise to have you here, Muller" He announced, smiling side. "Very few customers know about your work and, I must admit, it's impressive."

          Avery stared the man of the patch and talked "Yes, very few people know. But I want to know who the fuck are you and how you found me."

          There was something in the man who produced some curiosity in Avery, something that had to do with a mission, something that he would ask for money. But he knew that the dangerous ground had begun as soon as he began to speak.

          "My name is Nick Fury, she is agent Hill" The patch man showed up and then pointed to his partner. "We come from an organization called SHIELD. Finding you was very simple, since you are on the most wanted list."

          Avery closed his eyes in exasperation, knowing that this organization had always been on his radar for many months. The hiding places weren't effective enough to hide him.

          "Soldier and mercenary, committing missions with homicides, theft of different components" Nick Fury continued, trying not to laugh when he saw the mercenary's reaction. "Not to mention, conspirator and traitor of your country."

          Avery smiled bitterly. "Is that what they say about me now? Well, you can all go to hell."

          Fury clicked his tongue. "Muller, there's a reason why I captured you alive."

          "Really?" Muller asked sarcastically. "To torture me or send me to jail?" He grimaced. "I'm sorry, I have better things to do."

          "I have a mission that might interest you," Fury said, silencing Avery at the same time. "It could also interest your partner in crime: Miss Quinn" The dark-skinned man didn't speak in all the sentence said by Fury and that was a kind of key for the director of SHIELD to continue. "We need you to search and find something for us. Something that many people don't dare to look at."

          "And you want me to do the dirty work" Avery said looking seriously to Fury. "Do you think that the word 'dangerous' is my middle name."

          "All that the one who enters must lose hope," Nick announced, leaning back in his chair. "I need you to infiltrate a base located in Siberia. There you will find something that we need and that only you can do it."

          "And what is that?" Muller asked, trying not to laugh. "Information, ultra-secret files, weapons..."

          "Oh my god, you are all a secret spy" María Hill murmured and Avery looked at her in a murderous way.

          Nick clicked his tongue and went on. "We need the Soldier's book."

          Avery Muller remained speechless for a couple of minutes. He tried, somehow, to process the order that the director of SHIELD had asked for. What was 'The Soldier's Book'? He had never heard about that book before. Describing what Fury was trying to tell him was complicated, what the heck, he had just met the man five minutes ago and was already trying to read it like a book. However, that request had attracted Muller's curiosity and that caused a slight forward lean - thus showing interest in the words that Fury mentioned previously.

          "What is this book, exactly?" He decided to ask.

          "That book has secrets that very few people know how to use and that, at the moment, is producing crimes that must stop" Fury responded crossing one leg on top of the other.

          "Who does it, Fury?" He asked again. "The Russian government? Extremist groups? The communists? Terrorists?"

          "HYDRA."

          Avery returned to his position and licked his lips, searching for some other question or even some clue. He knew of the existence of that organization during his childhood and that didn't doubt. However, he knew that Steve Rogers ended up collapsing HYDRA along with the Red Skull. But, in spite of everything, HYDRA still existed. Muller noted that Hill whispered something in the ear of the man on the patch and suddenly found himself analyzing his options: he must accept or else something bad could happen to him and to Violet Quinn. Besides, he hadn't had much fun with these missions for a long time.

          Muller looked at Nick Fury. "What's the reward?"

          Nick decided to look at Avery with a crooked smile. "Huh, I knew he would say that."

          "I'm a mercenary," Avery replied, trying to make obvious his job. "Let's say that my services are not free, идиот (idiot)."

          "I like knowing you have a sense of humor," Fury spat ironically. "Do you want to know what the reward is? A new life, far from here. Or money."

          Muller narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean by this?"

          "I can assure you that you won't like the consequences as soon as the mission is over."

          The green-eyed man was speechless, not without breath. He knew that was a warning, but that didn't mean a risk. However, he did it for the money. He would do it, one way or another.

          "Then, infiltrate HYDRA with a fake name and get a book that can create the global catastrophe would be all? " Avery smiled. "OK, I accept. Only on one condition."

          "Here we go" Hill said rolling her eyes.

          "Speak now or shut up forever, Muller," Nick Fury warned, looking at the dark-skinned man intently.

          "I want my partner Violet with me."

          Fury looked satisfied and that somehow encouraged Avery more. The man with the patch nodded and Avery watched as Hill rolled her eyes again. Fury looked at Avery before grinning openly. "Okay. I also have one: we'll send the Birkin brothers with you" Avery was going to protest, but Maria Hill pulled out a gun - so pointed at his head - and she smiled. Muller knew better than to screw up, so Fury went on. "We'll be in touch, Muller. Good luck."

          And the sound of the bullet resounded in his ears until he saw black around him. Give up all hope when entering, they said. It would take Avery long to lose it. And more if hell was behind him.

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