00109. The real reason for Vibe.


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    <strong>Just a preface before the start of this chapter and the next few. I debated adding this in since it''s based on something that actually happened. But this also happened in theics, so I decided to include it. Hopefully I did a decent job. Let me know what you think.</strong>


    Theo was busy working on his personal mind defense spell as some of his clones study or worked on different projects. The spell matrix he was busy creating was special. It was made from one of the programmingnguages he created in his past life.


    Normally you would want to be a more advanced spell caster before doing something like this. But Theo was making tremendous progress under Tao''s ‘aggressive’ teaching methods.


    Tao also taught him the underlying fundamentals to creating your own magic system. Tao herself used a unique spell casting form which she has spent thest few hundred years perfecting.


    Agatha also created her own magic system for casting. Neither woman showed him the inner workings of their magic system. But they at least showed him the same spell numerous times, using different magic systems each time.


    Theo could easily see the difference in them, since each one left a different signature with thepleted spell. While it didn’t help him with his own creation, it did give him some ideas on what he was doing.


    As Theo was working one his clones used for spying and information gathering dispelled itself to send him information.


    Theo immediately canceled his spell and stood up which drew Tao and Agatha''s attention. Theo moved over to his tablet and typed quickly on it as he said, “We have a situation.”


    Tao and Agatha''s phone pinged with a message as Theo henged into his Ezekiel persona. He nced over and said, “Let''s head to the base, we''ll need some help dealing with this.”


    Tao''s eyes were narrowed slightly as she asked, “You''re going personally? What''s the issue?”


    As Ezekiel made a portal he said, “A major terrorist attack on US soil.”


    “Well that isn''t too bad, I was expecting a world ending threat or something. Where did the attack happen and how bad is it?” Agatha curiously asked.


    After Ezekiel and the others stepped through the portal he said, “Nowhere yet and no matter what, we need to make sure it doesn’t happen in the first ce. I''ll exin more once everyone arrives.”


    It took about half an hour before the main members arrived and the meeting started. Ezekiel, working on hisputer, pointed everyone towards the main screen and said, “I was able to find intelligence about an uing terrorist attack against the U.S.”


    A picture on the screen popped up of a Middle Eastern man in a white turbine with a salt and peppered beard. As the info popped up on the screen Ezekiel said, “This man here was trained by the CIA to help fight Russians during the Afghan war. But over the past ten years he’s been responsible for multiple terror attacks around the world. Most of them were made against the US.”


    “He’s on the FBI''s most wanted list. I’ve also had a counter terrorism team trying to locate him, without much luck the past few years. Did you find him?” Fury asked with interest.


    “Unfortunately, no.”


    Alexei let out a littleugh before he said, “That man is worse than a cockroach. We tried to kill him many times in the eighties, yet he always lived or wasn’t where intel said he would be.”


    Some more files pulled up on the screen as Ezekiel said, “I’m not surprised, he is part of Hydra.”


    Everyone read over the data on the screen before Fury asked in a slightly raised tone of voice, “So Hydra has been backing him all this time?”


    “Yes. For almost three decades.”


    Fury narrowed his eyes as he asked, “Where did you get this info from?”


    Ezekiel typed on hisputer a little bit, before making more info pop up on the screen, along with a picture of someone else. Ezekiel nced at Fury and said, “I got it from this man who is some kind of Hydra handler.”


    Steve spoke up as he said, “How did you get info from him? From my experience all Hydra agentsmit suicide before they’d ever talk.”


    Ezekiel smirked as he pulled up a profile page for his Vibe social media tform. It was the profile for the man in question.


    “For some reason he decided to use his encrypted Hydraputer to check out his profile on Vibe. After he connected to my servers I had ess to his wholeputer system.”


    Ezekiel typed on hisputer to bring up more data on the screen as he said, “I have a program that scans people''sputers for certain things. If it finds any of those things, me or my clones personally look into it.”


    “That’s a major breach of privacy and people''s personal rights. Why are you even spying on people who use your services in the first ce?” Coulson asked as he read over the intelligence Ezekiel shared with them.


    Ezekiel let out a chuckle before he said, “That''s riching from someone who works for one of the world''s foremost spy agencies.”


    Ezekiel shook his head before he said, “As for why? It''s because I''m not stupid. The main reason I made the whole tform in the first ce was to spy on people.”


    Everyone around the table had different reactions to that little bit of information. And for once Fury seemed a little impressed with Ezekiel and even nodded his head slightly in approval.


    As Steve was about to speak up Ezekiel cut him off and said, “Before you go into some speech about respecting people''s freedoms and our responsibilities to be good guys. Just hear me out first.”


    Ezekiel looked at everyone in the room and said, “Almost all of the spying ispletely passive and I only ever look into people if the passive scan gs my system. Otherwise I have no idea what people are doing and the information from the scan isn’t saved.”


    “It still doesn''t make it right. You’re breaking people''s trust by doing that.” Steve said as he crossed his arms over his chest.


    Alexeiughed out loud for a moment before he said, “This is the real world America’s Boy Scout, not some 1950’s dream world. If Ezekiel wasn''t spying on people, we wouldn''t have found this information.”


    Steve was going to respond when Peggy ced a calming hand on his shoulder. Alexei looked like he was going to say something else when Melina pped the back of his head and said, “Be a good boy and don’t start fights, you oaf.”


    Melina nced at Peggy as she said, “Sorry about Alexei, he can’t help being an idiot.”


    Peggy nodded in reply as Ezekiel typed on hisputer before he spoke up and said, “This is why I spy on people.”


    A list pulled up on the screen, all of them recent arrests. Pedophiles, rapists, murders, extortion, along with a number of other crimes were listed. The list was in the hundreds and they were from all over the world.


    Ezekiel pointed at the screen as he said, “All of those are people I found from spying on them. Every single one of them wouldn’t have been caught without the incriminating evidence I found on theirputers.”


    Ezekiel looked back over to Steve as he said, “I know how you feel and I respect your opinion on things. It’s one of the reasons I wanted to make this council in the first ce.”


    Ezekiel’s mouth set into a thin line and his voice took on an edge as he said, “But I n to change the world for the better, one way or another. And if that means I need to take off the kid gloves and get my hands dirty. I will without a second thought.”


    “If you still wanna have a conversation about my spying habits after this, I am all ears.” Ezekiel pointed back to the screen and said, “But for now we have work to do. We need to take care of this before the attack ever happens and we can’t use Shield to do it.”


    Fury let out a sigh as he said, “And we can’t make them disappear, it would put Hydra on edge. Maybe tip off the FBI?”


    “I’m not sure who Hydra has in their pockets. I was thinking we would do it locally and nt evidence.” Ezekiel said as he pulled up info on the twenty people who were going to participate in the attack.


    “Why would we have to nt evidence? Don''t we already have it?” Jarvis asked as he studied the information on the main monitor.


    Fury was busy as he worked on hisputer and said, “They most likely won''t have anything incriminating on themselves or at their residence. Most terrorist cells keep information to a bare minimum.”


    Ezekiel pulled up more information as he said, “Fury''s right. They only know the other men they''ll be working with. Each group is unaware of the others and thinks they will be acting alone.”


    Peggy finished going through the documents and finally said, “I agree, local will be our best bet. Maybe a drug raid on the wrong house?”


    “That''ll only work for one of them though. If we do it for more, it could raise gs with Hydra.” Fury said after thinking about it for a few moments.


    “What about a gas leak in one of the houses?”


    Everyone turned to look at Bucky as he continued, “Kill them while making it look like a gas leak explosion.”


    Ezekiel started to type as he pulled up info on each terrorist cell and said, “As long as we can confine it to them alone, I don’t mind.”


    One of the groups was pulled up on the screen. They currently lived slightly isted from their closest neighbors. Ezekiel pulled up some more info before he said, “This would be the best target. The house is a quarter mile away from the road and they use an off grid propane tank. Alright, so that takes care of two cells. What else can we do?”


    “Why don’t we cause a fire and use magic to nt evidence in the aftermath.”


    Ezekiel looked towards Fury as he said, “I like it. Even if they get out of the fire, they’ll be caught.”


    Hill nced at Ezekiel as she asked, “Why don’t we just ce an Air Marshal on each flight? Wouldn’t that solve the issue?”


    “No, Hydra wouldn’t be stupid enough to let Air Marshals on those flights. We have to assume that some people in the FFA are part of Hydra. We have to stop them before they even get close to those nes.”


    Melina smiled as she said, “How about we poison thest group.”


    “No, that would definitely make Hydra suspicious.” Ezekiel said with a shake of his head.


    Melina''s smile turned into a wicked looking grin as she said, “We’ll use something that takes a week or so to work. Something we can spike into their food and make it look like they ate it idently. A dyed poisoning from food shouldn’t raise any issues. I’ve used the same technique plenty of times before and was never caught.”


    “If all the cells are taken out won’t that raise gs in the first ce?” Jarvis asked.


    “Probably, but if we do it correctly it might just seem like bad luck. At least that’s what I hope will happen. It would be best if they were all taken out within a few days before their operation takes ce.” Ezekiel said as he pulled up some more information on the main screen.


    “Why are you so determined to stop this anyways? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want innocent people to be hurt. But you said we need to make sure these attacks don’t happen.” Tao asked as she looked at Ezekiel.


    “Because I’m pretty sure this will lead to a protracted war on terror that takes decades to finish. Something Hydra would love.”


    The rest of the meeting turned into Ezekiel exining what could possibly happen if the attacks were sessful. When everything was said and done, a n was in ce and everyone voted for it.


    The next couple weeks passed quickly as the n was put into action and each cell was taken out a few days before the nned attack. Ezekiel used his spyware on the few people of Hydra he knew about to see how they reacted. Apparently there wasn’t much chatter about it at all. It seemed like it was mostly attributed to bad luck and nothing else.


    vvvvv


    September 11th 2001


    Theo was eating breakfast with his family when one of his clones dispelled itself. His eyes almost bulged out when he looked over the memory packet. He finished hisst fork of bacon and eggs before he quickly moved to put his te in the sink. As he turned to go down stairs, Jacob asked, “Where are you going? It’s almost time to leave.”


    He turned to his parents and said, “I’ll be back in a minute, I was gonna grab a book from downstairs.”


    Jacob let out a little chuckle as he said, “You and your books.”


    Theo didn’t wait and quickly moved downstairs before he made a clone in his room who nodded at him. As the clone grabbed a book and went back upstairs, Theo changed into Ezekiel and made a portal. As he appeared in the base he was greeted by Fury and Coulson as they also portaled into the base.


    “What’s the situation?”


    Ezekiel let out a sigh as he started to move out of the room and said, “Someone hijacked four nes.”


    “What?” Coulson said.