The elimination of Billy Russo was actually very easy with everything prepped, Nick waited in his car until Russo left the Anvil building
Hed already eaten a piece of hair from a hair salon in New Mexico, allowing Nick to transform into him Via the Ghouls ability. He didnt plan on being spotted on camera but he did this just in case.
Watching as Russo talked to the gaurds for a second before driving out of the parking lot, Nick striked! The nail that was in his back seat flew upward and in one quick motion, stabbed through Russo's skull and into his brain!
Russo's car jerked for a second until Nick regained control over it with his telekinesis, and just like that the incredibly season mercenary was killed! Driving behind Russo's car Nick controlled both vehicles until he drove Russos into an allyway and got out.
Nick walked over to Russo's car that opened on its own via telekinesis, Nick looked at the dead body of Russo who's head was hanging limply. Nick didnt feel bad for killing this man, he was evil after all.
If anything, he felt more for the cannibal mutants back in the New Mexico desert, they had no choice in how they were born or raised and killed to survive. This man, Russo, killed the innocent out of greed and want for power.
Using his gloved hand, Nick searched the pockets of Russo until he found the phone. Once back in his own car, Nick opened up a roll of aluminum foil and wrapped the phone until the roll of foil ran out.
The aluminum would act as a Faraday cage that blocked out signals, more specifically GPS signal that someone could use to track the phone. Once done, Nick had to stage Russo's death.
Exiting the ally, Nick followed Russo's car controlling it from a distance until he found something he could use. As Russos car drove on the Manhatten bridge, Nick controlled the car to push the accelerator to the floor and its slammed into the gaurd railing, flipped over it, hit the large steel post before crashing into the water below and sinking!
Nick was sure that an indepth autopsy would report that Russo was dead prior to the crash but he didnt care, the only person who'd be interested in Russo's death would be joining him soon!
With the phone in hand and Russo dead, Nick went back to Velentine Industries. There he picked up Micro who brought along a disposable laptop and they parked near a distant starbucks for their wifi, Nick wasnt chancing this whatsoever.
After extracting all of the data from the phone onto the laptop, micro transfered the data into a thumbdrive. Afterwords Nick dumped both laptop and phone into a container of bleach, frying everything, before throwing the entire container in the large Starbucks dumpster in the back.
"Looks like Rawlins is currently living at an NIA safehouse in Manhatten, he has a detail of a dozen armed gaurds from Anvil. Can you handle them?" Micro sounded both worried and hopefully.
Seeing his family again relied solely on Nick taking Rowlins out, Nick only smirk at question.
"Rawlin is no problem, can we gleam anything from him?" Nick didnt want to let an opportunity slip by.
"Im sure he has a lot of money in offshore accounts and secrets that might shatter our world view, but id rather not risk getting caught or my families safety on it."
Nick nodded, he was doing this in exchange for Micro working for him. Going against Micros wishes would be counterintuitive to gaining his trust.
With Nick knowing when and where Rawlins would be, he chose to wait until it was night to attack. Eating a piece of hair and transforming into a white man from idaho, Nick equiped his Antigravity harness and Exosuit before he took flight to Rawlins house.
With the harness working in conjuncture with his wings, Nick was travling over 100mph! He had to circulate his Chi throughout his body to withstand the cold, but it was thanks to this speed that Nick arrived at the safe house in just 20 minutes from queens.
What transpired was a mixture between what Nick did to Micro and Russo. He used acid to create a tiny hole in the roof and dropped a telekinetically charged needle into the house.
Using his Echolocation, he guided the needle into the bedroom of the sleeping Rawlin next to his wife. Micro confirmed that Rawlin had entered this house, so while Nick didnt physically see Rawlins he knew a great certainty that the only man that is sleeping in the master bedroom was him.
So without any dramatic flare, he stuck the nail straight through the eyelid of Rawlins to stab his brain! This time, he took the effort to drag out the nail and fly back to him, placing it into a plastic bag.
With the deed done, Nick sprouted wings and took off once again, his wings flapped through the air like an Angel of death until he arrived back at the company to Micros surprise.
"You're back? Its only been an hour and fifteen minutes, did you get cold feet and turned back?" To Micro's question, Nick tossed him the bag with a bloody nail and grabbed a Dr. Pepper from the fridge he set up in the lab.
"I already did it Micro, i dont know how long until they disclose his death but William Rawlins is no more! That nail is the murder weapon, it contains his blood" Nick cracked open the soda and drank.
Micros wanted to smile and jump for joy but he couldnt, he wanted hard proof that Rawlins was infact dead. The proof would come the next day as he hacked into the street cams near Rawlins house and saw an ambulance speed by.
Hacking into the hospital camera's that the ambulance arrived at, Micro saw it, William J. Rawlins official date of death was 7:28 am!
Looking at the shocked and in disbelief Micro, Nick patted him on his shoulders.
"You can start work next week, for now you should go and meet your family again. Also...never ask questions about how I do or know things, and never tell anyone about what we do in secret." Nick voice was deep and his hand was slightly firm on Micro's shoulder.
This wasnt a threat but a warning, Nick and Micro would be doing shady business together for years and he wanted to set some ground rules. Micro nodded his head quickly at Nicks statement, a single thought was going through his head.
'If he could take out Rawlins and Russo within 24 hours easily, it wouldnt even be a problem to deal with me!' Micro just wanted to live a wonderful life with his wife and kids, and for that he'd stomach anything.
Micro wouldn't realize until later that working for Nick wasn't just pleasant, but also quite lucrative! As the man grabbed his keys and left for his family, Nick knew he'd have to put effort into earning Micros loyalty.
A lot of Nicks future schemes required Micro's skills, if he wanted his secrets to remain secret then aquiring the mans trust was a must.
'The company is gonna soar much higher and much faster with Micro's help.'
Valentine Industries main bottleneck in creating tech appliances was the software, Valentines Doorbells cameras was selling quickly because it was the only thing like it on the market right now. Nick had no doubt that a knockoff with better programming will soon come out thats even cheaper than his, it would completely destroy Nick's sales.
With Micro now an employee, such a thing wouldn't happen, knockoffs will come out and draw some of Nicks customers away, but his would still be better.
With Micro secured, Nick was about to work on his cutting edge wireless earbuds design but decided to check the news first for anything important, after leaving the Agency Nick had lost access to a lot of information. Micro would soon make up for it but Nick had to rely on the News until he returned in a week.
He'd been scrolling the Worldy news and saw nothing, he switched to american news but stopped in his tracks as he saw that just an hour ago was a news piece from Puente Antiguo, New Mexico.
"Mysterious object falls from the sky and stumps locals" Seeing this newspiece Nick immediately booked a flight to New Mexico, he was going to meet Thor!