Ghosts

[Mac Calhoun]

"I'm not a food." Mac said with a roll of her eyes as she downed the aspirin JT gave her. "Clint and Selene can take it."

“Sounds fun.” Selene said with a shrug. “I’ll take whatever mission you give me.”

[Clint Cross]

"I dunno you're pretty tasty to me." JT teased.

"Kirk... time and a place dude." Clint chided.

"Oh some things never change." Olivia said with a smirk. "I think you'll enjoy it, lots of big dumb brutes. Honestly a part of me wants to join in, but I promised my wife, my daughter and my son... sons that I wouldn't go in the field anymore. That and I have an album launching next week and a few magazine and shoots. I don't think the editors want to have to photo edit out a lot of scars and bruises and cuts when I'm posing nude with a guitar..."

"So you went from in the shadows to exposed to the masses." Clint chuckled.

"Like mother always taught me, best place to hide is in plain sight." Olivia shrugged her shoulders. "And I am trying to define 'Olivia Ryder' as completely different from former Director Olivia Riddic-Ryder... " she looked at Selene. "Be yourself Selene, don't be her. Don't be what they want you to be, just... be you. Own your quirks and have fun in this job. Welcome to this reality Agent Lanara."

"That's another endorsement... " Clint mused. "I am so hoping you're as good as we hope you are."

"She'll be better I'm sure of that." Olivia said and crossed her arms. "Oh and this 'brother', his name is Yoshi. Yoshi Tanaka. At least that's what my contacts have been able to gather. He's been here on Terra Alpha for years now, so I dunno if he really knows who he is."

"In other words, don't say 'hey you're Julie Lei's kid... sorry she's dead.'" Clint warned. "We slowly bring him into the loop... providing we don't lose him."

[Liara]

“We won’t.” Selene replied matter of fact. “I have a high success rate. Though usually I’m killing people not saving them but it can’t be that different right?”

[Clint Cross]

"Well you're mainly protecting a high value target, Scions and Ajem are pretty much entirely legal to wipe out when we see them. Unless they appear to have some decent intel, then we tag 'em and beam them to the Mount's secure lock up and SHIELD can interrogate them." Clint said as he looked at the other ops. "Y'know this might be a good one for us. We'll have Davis and Jones as our comm and exfil back ups in the shuttle. JT, Mac... handle that weapons theft from the Naval base, I have a feeling its part of that ring we've been dealing with for the past year. Val, handle that drug smuggling lead we've got. Naval Security keeps finding hidey holes and traces of drugs, but no runners I'm sure they're not THAT smart."

"So usual cover as Captain and Yeoman?" JT inquired.

"I was thinking Mac could be the Captain this time and you her yeoman... " Clint said with a wink. "Upside, since few really know your mother is gone, besides those that thought she was dead but we kept that sort of to family and agents only, you should be able to use her credentials. Plus you're the only one who can make her voice sound like her's."

"Hey I used to have to be my mother for years." Olivia said with a chuckle. "We do need to find out what's going on with those weapons, who they're going to, and I know the last time we had a problem, it was from the officers inside the depot itself that were in on it. Just casually 'losing' crates of phaser rifles, gravity mines and plasma cannons. We don't need the Alliance to be framed for another attack, those are always hard to smooth over or cover up."

"Right, and if things get hairy, call for back up." Clint said with a nod of his head. "Selene and I 'SHOULD' have our Op done about an hour from the time we deploy, I don't see these Scion goons as taking much time to take out."

[Liara]

“Scions were never that much work.” Selene said dismissively. “Jackson liked to watch me fight a few ever once in awhile when he was bored. It wasn’t very stimulating.”

[Clint Cross]

"Yeah they aren't very much of a threat just their numbers and they're dumb as shit and well armed. Bad combo." Clint said as he brought up the sat scans in the area that Tanaka was being held. "Not very bright, but they picked a good location very few ways in or out, natural shielding from deep scans thanks to the way those old first gen buildings were made." he smirked. "But nothing we haven't handled, means we can keep our presence secret until the last second when we blow shit up."

"Probably drop you in around here." Jones, a black masked agent said as he looked at the screen and pointed to a spot. "We'll meet back here." he pointed to another spot.

"I'll set up comm blocks so they can't call in their buddies or if we need to call in bigger guns." Davis said as he joined them, he was wearing a grey mask with a visor display. "Not really after a repeat of what happened to the last Davis."

Clint whispered to Selene. "We have some agents that we keep their true identities hidden, they get code names, Jones, Davis... they rotate in and out, makes it seem like we have a much smaller task force than we really do and they may or may not be people with other jobs and families that work with us."

[Liara]

Selene nodded and glanced at Mac, "What do you keep thinking about that's giving her a headache?"

[Clint Cross]

"Her mother maybe." Clint shrugged his shoulders. "Am I right Mac? Or is there something else? We're all kinda family here."

[Mac Calhoun]

"I don't know Clint do you really want to share that." Mac said as she scowled at him a little her eyes drifting slowly back and forth between him and Selene.

[Clint Cross]

"Maybe I do." Clint replied. "If it's about Selene... not our first rodeo with duplicates."