(General POV)
Location the New Earth; HYDRA Submarine, Main Deck
Red Skull stood straight, tall, and menacing, on the upper platform overseeing the entire main deck, filled with HYDRA grunts operating the Submarine.
As he is accompanied by Attuma, Electro, Rhino, and Sin as the mission he choice them to go to the North Pole, leading a "small" force of HYDRA and Atlantian soldiers to fully take control of the area, before the Avengers or SHIELD interfere.
Obviously those in command shall be Attuma and Sin for plain reasons, as Rhino and Electro shall act as the muscles for the advancing force, MODOK, Octavius, and Viper they are busy maintaining most of the Avengers occupied with attacks across America, plus with MODOK assured Skull that at least Hulk, Spiderman, and the X-men won't interfere since they'd all have been too preoccupied with the abducted people.
Octavius, suspects that among those taken, people close to them were taken, it was a sound hypothesis that many agreed, since Octavius is needed to make some improvement to the control nanites within the Lizard, plus Justine Hammer has promised a special machine for cooperation.
While a complete imbecile, HYDRA take all resources including possible useful weapons, so MODOK must remain while this small group goes to North Pole, and find their prize.
As well as destroying all evidence of the next marker leading to the Nature's Heart, for the Cores of Reality shall belong to HYDRA, with them not only the world, but the multi-multiverse will bow to their one only masters, even the Forsaken shall not a threat anymore.
With that Red Skull, he'd wished Sin and the others well, as they all left the main deck, heading to a warehouse filled with weapons, and vehicles, all useful on the upcoming excursion.
Regardless Red Skull, he never leaves anything to chance is most likely, some of the more weaker members of the Avengers are gonna go the North Pole, so a battle will happen, but with the improvement done to Electro and Rhino, along with all combat mechs, enhanced weapons, and improved vehicles, HYDRA shall come out victorious at the end...
Location Metropolis; Lex Corp, Luthor's Underground Facility; Meeting Room
Luthor in his secret and very expansive looking meeting room, sitting down the dark wooden table surrounded by chairs, all occupied by Luthor's associates, Joker, Scarecrow, Cheetah, Capt. Cold, Black Archer, Lady Shiva, and on the screen the silhouette of a some man...with a peculiar hairstyle, as female assassins of the League of Assassins were standing guard around the room, Luthor as much as he'll hate to admit it, having...capable...people at his side felt good.
As Luthor straightened his extensive tie, then tapped some keys on the sleek laptop in front of his seat, one of the screens around the room, turn on and showed images, and data on North Pole, showing that the temperatures were dropping in a consistent manner, ice and frost is spreading throughout the frozen tundra, it's actually snowing, and subtlety the pole is expanding in size.
This is clear that the next marker to the Core is on the North Pole, and that's even not regarding the Hawaii marker, pointing the north, so the next course of action is to go to the North Pole, find where the marker is, record it and then destroy it so none of their...competition...can use against them.
Merlyn, Snart, and the silhouetted man all agreed with Luthor's idea, Joker started laughing and clapping his hands in clear excitement, stating that a "snow trip" would be fun, but some one has kill people, so the goody two-shoes of the League don't ruin the fun...
As much as the Joker annoys his...allies...at time, the clown has a point, they can't mobilize the entire group, risking exposure or worse the Forsaken notice, when their still expanding and securing resources.
And it was clear that Joker, just offered to remain behind to cause his usual brand of chaos, for the Legion's benefit, that still leaves the question, "who are going on the mission?"
Black Archer offered his service in the mission, Snart laughed lightly and also offered himself to the mission, since he is the master of cold.
Cheetah as much as she wants to hunt, she'll admit she isn't a big fan of tundra expeditions, Shiva offered to participate, along with her assassin subordinates, Crane he flat out refused, since cause he didn't see it as benefit for him or his fear research.
Luthor sighed as this meant he'll have to personally participate, he'll have to call Mercy to prepare bribes and scub evidence away, also get the Warsuit ready for upcoming combat, with that done it'll be himself, Black Archer, and Capt. Cold that will go to the North Pole, with that settled, they discuss the upcoming mission.
Location ARGUS, Control Room
Amanda Waller, was sitting on a wheelchair, behind a sleek silver desk, looking over a vast and advance control room, filled with computers, monitors, and ARGUS agents operating these computers, after some discussions, she gained the green light to dispatch Task Force X to investigate the North Pole, and look for the next marker.
So the squad can gain the coordinates to the next marker, and collect the Core before the enemies of the state, can collect them instead, plus even with the new...restructuring of the Task Force X, that instead of explosives, a special device that will render the barer unconscious was implanted, as the Task Force X no longer a expendable asset, instead officially sanctioned government task force, as SHIELD has also place great restrictions on her...usual management style...
Right now, she can't sent the full bracket of the squad to North Pole, she picked Deadshot, Peacemaker, Harley Quinn, Diablo, and Capt. Boomerang to go under Col. Flag and Katana to watch over those idiots...sighing, Waller rested her arms on the desk, and then her own head on them.
Just then coming through the silver, electronic doors came two individuals, first is Colonel Rick Flag, a well trained and muscular man with light brown short hair, has a tatoo in display on his right shoulder, wearing a yellow short-sleeved shirt that is covered by flack armor vest, a pair of patted military gloves, a cameo style pants with brown military grade boots, he is the only man, that can partially keep the squad in order.
Beside Flag, is a Japanese woman with black short hair, with a white mask over the upper half of her face, wearing a open black long-sleeved, short jacket with red accents on the jacket.
Having white bandages over her chest and covering her breasts, a deep red sash tied around her waist, with black pant with gold kanji on one of the pant legs, and lastly a pair of black boots, she is Yamashiro Tatsu, the wielder of a magical soul stealing katana, a vigilante that has joined the American government as a agent, so she can keep track of criminals, and she can kill and punish.
They were the one that will this mission, and keep the squad focus on the mission, and...eliminate all threats.
Katana nodded, and Flag saluted, Wallet let out a small, deep sigh, as she ordered the assets to be present, as debriefing is about to start.
Soon one by one the chosen members of the Task Force or as many call it the Suicide Squad, started coming into the Control Room, the first to come...or skip into the room, is Harley Quinn, her realname Harleen Quinzel, a pale white skinned, with a incredible body, she is blonde woman which she styles in a pair of large pigtails, the left pigtail is accented blue, while the other pigtail is pink.
Has some makeup on her eyes of blue and pink, while her lips have blackish red, she is wearing a half vertical short top, one red the other half black, her different length gloves are the same color, the red being shorter the black one longer, a inverted black and red form fitting pant with a black belt, and red checker pattern on the black pant leg, while her black knee pad has a red diamond.
Harley skip further ahead, with her iconic mallet on her hand and resting over her shoulder, saying hi to Katana, telling the rest of the team that she'd missed them, eager to have some fun, as she stretched out in a great flexibility.
Usual Harley, the next to come into the room is Chato Santana aka Diablo, a shaved headed, Latino male gang-banger with a multitude of tattoos all over his body, most noticeable are the head tattoos of a scythe on the forehead, skull like tattoos of eye-holes, nose-hole, and jaw, plus the word "DIABLO" around the chin-neck area.
He is a fire wielding meta-human, coming into the room with only a white t, some blue jeans, and the power-dampening collar still on him, just a added precaution, as he is still a convict.
Harley saw him, and let out a "ooohhh", walking over and hugging him, saying "Diablo my guy!! How you been, enjoyed the upgrades to our cells!!? I got a..." as she rambled on.
Soon another member of the Task Force came into the room as well, it the Man that Never Misses, Floyd Lawton, also known as Deadshot, having clear aggression and discomfort on his posture, as he a opposing black man, wearing a white mask with a laser grid scope on one eye, a red and black full-body suit, a chestplate strapped onto his chest with half of a white target mark on the upper part of the chestplate, a pair of fully black and red accented gloves, a black clipping belt on his waist, knee guards, and a pair of patted black boots.
Lawton, he learned that his daughter is danger, he demanded that his daughter Zoey to be brought into protective custody, Waller, she sighed and told someone to locate Zoey Lawton, and bring her to ARGUS.
This calmed Deadshot a bit, soon agents came giving him various guns, a red semiautomatic riffle, a pair of handguns, as well as a pair of gun-strapped wrist gauntlets.
As he strapped himself with his weapons, soon another person came into the Control Room, its Christopher Smith, also known as the Peacemaker, incredible fit and muscular man, with short dark hair, with a sharp jaw and strong face, wearing a red short-sleeved shirt with black edges on the sleeves, the chest logo is crest of a bird with a yellow background, a pair of blue gloves, a utility belt with various sized packs, white pants with blue accents, and pair of boots.
He saw Quinn, and said "Harley!! Long time no see, still with Joker?" the room mood immediately dropped, Harley usual cheery self, became serious and annoyed, even Rick couldn't help but say, "Woah what a asshole, as usual." Peacemaker didn't understand what he'd did, as Harley was test swinging her mallet a few times, and started going over to Peacemaker.
Even a guy like him, knows that he'd fucked up, backing away as he tried to appease Harley and get her to show mercy.
As this happened, the last member of this mission came into the Control Room, it Captain Boomerang, realname George "Digger" Harkness, a Australian man with red unlury hair and side burns, that he covers with a blue bennie, he is wearing a red scarf, a blue zipper shirt with mid-lenght sleeves, a brown long open coat, with rolled up sleeves, a brown leather gloves on his arms, while on his right wrist a blue and yellow gauntlet strapped on his arm, faded beige long pants, with a pair of long leather brown boots.
Strapped around of his body, various types of boomerangs, he came in with his usual obnoxious self, with his Aussie accent, glad to see Harls, Lawton, and Flag, too bad that Sharko wasn't there with them, Waller smashed her hand on the desk, gaining control of the room, and began the briefing.
Location the Sky, Border into the North Pole
Inside Miss Martian's bioship, all of the team and their companions sitting on the sleek red chairs, Aqualad, Superboy, Red Arrow, Cheshire, Blue Beetle, Invincible, Batgirl, Rocket, Robot, Atom Eve, Wonder Girl, Static, Gear, Spoiler, Dupli-kate, and Arsenal waiting to arrive in the frozen grounds of the North Pole.
All was silent, especially with the standing Miss Martian, busy piloting her ship, they were focus on the mission to come, since they can't remain on the Bioship to inspect the entire tundra, they had to go on foot.
With special thermal gear, for those that needed they were safe from the extreme cold temperatures, that their about to face.
Invincible, Kate, and Eve they were in complete awe of the ship that their flying in, it completely shatter their view on alien aircraft, as mostly all spaceship and crap of the like, are mechanical and highly advanced technology, this is a living ship, and has sleek, and almost modern interior.
Even the ever curious Robot, he was sterolly impressed, as he talked to his new friend, Richie or Gear.
Gear told him about some experiences, and events that the big name heroes, including himself and Static had to deal with, mainly things Robot hasn't uncovered in his web surfing.
To say that in some aspects the world of Gear and these other heroes, have to face on a daily basic, could sometimes surpass their own, especially since even street level criminal, could cause a great apocalyptic event, just by stumbling on some stone, book, or more, at least when Mao merged the worlds, most of the intergalactic and above level threats have been excluded.
Invincible spoke to Superboy, sitting near by him, learning more about their new temporary Earth home, eventually the conversation turn to them talking about Kryptonians and Viltramites.
The similarities between part of their races, was surprising but at the same time Mark was glad that all Viltramites are is superpowerful, he'd shivered at the thought of someone like Conquest with solar absorption, super invulnerability, heat vision, and super along with ice breathes.
Mark was thinking twice on following Rudy's suggestion of them arming themselves, with weapons and devices that are designed to deal with Kryptonians.
Just then Megan spoke telepathically to everyone, "Guys were almost there, just a moment and we can land." with that the mission is about to start.