Alexander Pierce glared at the screen, his eyes burning with frustration as he faced Daniel Whitehall, another Hydra leader.
His voice was filled with anger. "Garett told me that one of his agents, Grant Ward, encountered the man while they were transferring the Tesseract. This man could absorb metal and had metal skin. Impregnable to most bullets, super strength, and durability."
Whitehall's expression remained calm, his face neutral.
Pierce continued, "Fury is searching for leads on some project called Destroyer of Worlds immediately after meeting this man and Hound's report. I am pretty sure that he got the information from this enhanced."
Pierce's voice was dripping with disdain, "Colour me surprised when I searched in our Hydra database about this. You were doing such a project, and you appointed Strucker as the head of this."
Whitehall's face remained neutral.
Pierce's voice grew sharper. "So would you please enlighten me to tell me why such a man with powers greater than Captain America is walking free and is now in Fury's hands? Such an individual, such as asset should be under the command of Hydra!"
Whitehall's voice was cold as he replied,"You should watch your tone against me, Pierce. I have been in Hydra before you were born. I worked directly under its greatest leader, Johann Schmidt, otherwise known as Red Skull."
Pierce laughed sarcastically, "Oh, you did not seem so great when I had to get you out of the SHIELD prison. You were just a dying old man."
Whitehall's glare intensified but his expression became neutral. He was no longer a dying old man after all. Thanks to his experiments, he looked a middle aged man.
"Carl Creel escaped the research facility while we were distracted by something else. We did not pursue him because his vital signs were saying that he would die in a few days due to his body rejecting the experiment, but it seems like we were wrong."
Pierce nodded, his thoughts shifting to strategy. 'A mistake, but recoverable.' His voice turned eager, almost excited. "How did you manage to create him?"
Whitehall answered proudly,"He was injected with a substance during an experiment that allowed him to absorb the properties of anything he touched. This experiment was part of an effort to recreate the super soldier serum, with the added ability of material absorption."
Pierce's thoughts raced. "And it seems you succeeded. He was able to jump off a helicopter without any injuries and shrug off hundreds of bullets. Can you create more?"
Whitehall's expression darkened, his face filled with frustration. "Most of our other experiments ended in failures. My biggest hopes were with Hale. I had asked her to birth someone who could become the Destroyer of Worlds, hence the name. But it seems the child she gave birth to is also a failure. She goes by the name Ruby Hale and is currently in the Hydra academy."
Pierce's thoughts churned. "But Creel survived. That's something."
Whitehall nodded, "But considering that one of our experiments managed to not only survive but become a true specimen, then I would have to restart the project. Can you recruit Carl Creel to Hydra somehow or just bring him to me?"
Pierce thought, 'Creel in Fury's hands is a problem. But we can fix that.'
"Ward did not get a chance to talk to this man and recruit him to Hydra. That Agent Hound kept Creel close to him."
Pierce continued, his voice firm. "I will contact Fury about him and try to have him transferred to another person. Let's have the Winter Soldier attack the transport and take him away."
Whitehall nodded. "Very well. Once he is in Hydra, I would make sure he would never think of running again. Once he is there, he would be subjected to our methods, he would then be a loyal servant of Hydra. I can then find out why he survived and why he was a successful experiment."
Pierce understood the meaning of Whitehall words which meant Creel would be subjected to their brainwashing and mind control methods which would make sure that Creel doesn't escape again.
Pierce said, "With him, we would have someone who would be able to match or even better the Winter Soldier."
Whitehall nodded, his thoughts aligned. 'A new weapon, loyal to Hydra.'
Pierce's voice shifted, his curiosity piqued. "Anyways, what about the blood of Agent Hound I had sent you? He was the one that took out Carl after all and from what I heard without any injuries."
Whitehall's expression turned intrigued as he heard about Agent Hound. "I had heard and seen a lot about this Agent Hound. After you gave me a few of his blood samples that SHIELD had extracted from him, I have been researching on it for a month. And what I found boggles me."
Pierce leaned forward, his thoughts eager. "How so?"
Whitehall's voice was excited, his thoughts racing with possibilities. "His blood is just like ours, human. It's just more healthy, well, a lot more healthy, but the rest is the same. He is just as human as us. And you know what that means for us? We humans can reach better heights if we manage to find how he got so stronger."
"When we get the secrets of Hounds powers, we would have nothing to fear. After all, Hound himself told Fury that his powers could be taught to others. We just have to find how."
Pierce's eyes widened, his grin spreading. "HAIL HYDRA!"
Whitehall repeated, his voice firm. "Hail Hydra!"
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