Playing with the culprit.

I look up at the man that my team and I came here to take down, his hand rubbing smooth circles on my thigh. He is thinking right now that his action is making me comfortable, but only thing I am feeling right now is dread, relief that I found him, anxiousness, and I am really uncomfortable and tense right now. I have to be calm and collect and not blow this cover and mission. So I took a deep breath and put on my most charming and sexy smile. You can do this. I give myself a small pep talk.

"Hi, I am Nancy Grey. It is a real pleasure to meet you Mr. Yougetti." I said in a fake French accent. It is a good thing that I master French in high school and now in uni.

"Oh, you are French. I like a woman with an accent." He said, his eyes darken with desire.

Eww much, come on dude. You and my father and my best friend's doctor are the same age. I could be your daughter for crying out loud.

"Yes, I am a guest of the Hesketh and I am here to represent D.H. He has this conference thing to attend." I babbled on, but stop when I saw the annoying look creeping up on his face.

"I don't want to here about why you are here, I want to know more about you." His hand move a bit higher and I discreetly push his hand off of my thigh.

"Ms, your rose water is ready." The bartender push my drink towards me.

"Thank you." I said to him, and he gave me a polite smile before walking over to another customer at the other side of the bar. "Well, I am a executive assistant at Mr. Hesketh's company, I was born in Paris and I am the only one in my family to ever go wine brewing." The lie just flow right off of my tongue. And he suck it up like sponge in a puddle of water. "What about you sir, who are you?"

"Who me, well I am just a simple businessman who like to see the bright smiles on children's faces." I raise an eyebrow at him. "I mean that in a good way, I own a candy company. So what I meant to say was that I like to see the young and young at heart with a bright smile on their faces, at the joy my company's candy brings to them." I nod my head at him and took a sip of my rose water through the tiny black straw in the glass.

I turn back to look at him, and sure enough his dark mysterious eyes has me lock in an interesting gaze. I tried to get a read on his mind, but his mind is a blank slate. He isn't thinking of anything. His eyes are just searching and his intense gaze is starting to make me feel extremely uncomfortable. Should I make an excuse to leave and go find my team, or should I just continue to wing it? I will stick to the latter, if I start to pick up on anymore bad vibe I will alert Robyn and Dai.

"So Nancy." He said, after what felt like an eternity of silence. "What are your hobbies?"

Hmm, what are my hobbies? Well they are patrolling the city and another one which is my favourite is kicking you and your goons butts and turning you into the proper authorities. That is what I wanted to say so badly, but I don't want my cover to be blown, so I just politely smile at him.

"Oh, I am just a simple girl. I like to do everything a man expect a woman to not be able to be good at, like for instance; I am good with a crossbow and a toolbox." I lean forward and mumbled in his ear. "And a very good hobby of mine is torturing, I can make a grown man cry for his mommy." I pull back with a satisfied smirk after I hear him take a sharp intake of breath. I turn back to my drink and use the straw to stir the ice around in the liquid, a smug smile creep up on my lips when I see him from the corner of my eyes adjust the front of his pants.

"Those are some interesting hobbies, maybe I can explore some of them with you sometime." His hand back on my thigh and grip it firmly.

"I don't think that your wife will appreciate that, so I am going to pass up that offer." I grip his hand and take it of my thigh and place it in his lap, while flashing him my pearly whites. I see the game that you are playing, but I won't let you win.

He open his mouth to say something but a man in a black suit came up to him and whisper something in his ear, he nods and his eyes flash to mine. "Ms Grey, it was an absolute delight chatting with you. But I have some important business to attend to so i must bid you good bye. Oh, I almost forgot. Here is my card, call me sometimes so we can continue our little chat." He handed me a black and gold business card and I take it from him while discreetly put a tracker bug on the waist of his pants under his belt.

"Thank you for the kind offer, but I think that i am going to reject that offer- again." I said to him.

"Suit yourself, but still hang on to it, you might change your mind." An amuse smile glaze his lips.

"Don't get your hopes up just yet." I take a smile.

He patted my hand before getting up of his stool and walk away with the guy following him.

I wait for a couple minutes to make sure I am not been over heard, then I tap my earpiece to inform my team about my sudden encounter with Maximaff.

"I think the deal is about to go down, I have place a tracker on him. I am sending you guys the coordinates now." I said to my dad and Hase. "Please trace them and direct me and the others to the right location." At that moment Robyn and Dai come up to me.

"Should we get suited up?" Robyn ask, and I think about it for a minute.

"No, I think we should wait first. We don't want to startle them now, do we." Dad gave us the location of the coordinates and we followed them to the boiler room of the hotel.

I tap on one of the rubies on my braclet to activate the micphone on the tracker bug on Maximaff's waist and connect it to multi party listening so the whole enter team can hear.

"It is all in here, fifty dosage of liquefied bromtonium." Maximaff said to a guy. He is hidden in the shadows but from the silhouette of his body I know that it is a guy.

"Good, the money is right here. Two point five mil as requested." The mysterious man patted the shiny briefcase that he has in his hand.

"I know that we agreed on two point five million dollars, but this thing is really hard to find. So the price has doubled to-"

"Not a dollar more." The man step out from the shadows and I hear both dad and Dai gasp in terror. I pick up a read on the guy's thoughts and sure enough, he works for the League. "We agreed- no, you requested two point five million dollars. So that is what you will get and not a penny more, now be a good little business man and hand over the goods."

"I think not." Maximaff's men pull out their weapons and aim it at the man. "Looks like you are out numbered, so either you double the money or go on your way empty handed." The man smile sinisterly at Maximaff, his hands with the briefcase in the air, a sign of surrendering.

"Miayana, you can't let the League get their hands on that bromtonium. You have to stop the exchange right now." Dad said frantically over the communicator.

I silently crawl on my knees to get close in range to the men, I signal for Robyn and Dai to follow may lead.

"Ok, on my mark we are going to break up the deal." They nodded and I listen closely to the thoughts of the two men in question. I want to know exactly what they are thinking before I make my move.

'Haha, I have got him right where I want him. I have to go through great length and good connection to get this bromtonium, and also to get it Melton down and not get the attention of the cops.' Maximaff thought, his hand gripping his briefcase with the bromtonium.

'Navie man, I am much smarter than you think. I am not leaving here without that bromtonium.....or this money.' That little snake. I watch him closely, his fingers inching to just snatch the case from Maximaff and make a run for it. A fake and deceitful smile makes its way on to his lips as he held out his hand with the briefcase of money towards Maximaff. And Maximaff did the same with the bromtonium.

"Ok, on three we will both make the exchange at the same time." Maximaff said, and then he starts to count. "1.." I silently remove the heel from my right shoe. "2.." I spot my target and open up the heel blade. "3." I throw the heel blade and it hit the briefcase with the bromtonium and it fell from Maximaff's hand.

'There is my signal!" I said to Robyn and Dai as I run out of hiding and around Maximaff's men and under his feet to kick away the briefcase just as the man from the League is about to take it up.

"Not today buddy." I said, still using my fake French accent. He snarl at me and swing his own briefcase at me, I dodge it and did a front flip getting up off the floor before kicking him off of his feet.

"Nancy?" I hear Maximaff say in surprise. I turn to him with a bashful grin on my face.

"Monsieur Yougetti, not such a surprise to see you here as it is for you to see me."

"Look out!" Robyn yell from where she has a guy pin to the ground. I did a backflip letting the man, I really should learn that guy's name, run straight into Maximaff.

"Did you plan this?" He snarled in Maximaff's face.

"No, and at first I thought you did. But by her actions towards you, I now know you have nothing to do with it."

"Get the briefcase!" Dai shouted as he discreetly uses his telekinesis to push two of Maximaff men under one of the big steel pipes and Robyn sneak up behind them, handcuffing them to it.

I look over to where the briefcase had landed after I kicked it away, I made a run for it but two different hands grab my ankles and I fell flat on the ground. I spin my tap half to the side to look at my captors.

"Who are You?" They both bark at me angrily. I try wiggling my feet out of their grips but fail.

I spin back around and try crawling on my belly and elbows to get the case, but they kept pulling me back.Elbowing each other in the process.

I need to get that case before either Maximaff or no name gets it. I look around for help from Robyn or Dai, but they are busy taking down Maximaff's men, who just kept on coming one after the other. I guess I an on my own, I wiggle harder as I crawl a little faster. But still ending up failing again. I remember that my other shoe still has it heel on and I use it to kick no name in his left shoulder and the sharp tip puncture him hard but not too deep. He cried out in pain and he let go of my ankle, as he involuntary grab his wound. I froze time and pull my other foot from Maximaff's grip, and I quickly slither my way to the briefcase and grab it. I got up and smile triumphantly, turning to see if Dai needed away help with the remaining men he and Robyn was fighting. But when I look in his direction, I saw him punching the last man with his fist frozen in mid air, then Dai handcuff the man's fisted hand to a metal rod on the wall.

"Good job." I smile at him. "They are going to be so shock when I unfreeze time and they are all defeated.

"Mia no, Vincent and Max-" But it was too late for his warning, and Vincent- is what I hear Dai calls him, as he told me to watch out. He slap me in the face with the briefcase with the money. The hit was not at full force, maybe because of the pain from his wound. But the hit still hurts, causing me to stagger and the case with the bromtonium fell from my grip. He laugh at me as he come and take it up.

"Stupid girl." He spat at me, turning to leave.

"Not so fast, Vincent." Maximaff said, pointing a shiny revolver at Vincent back.

Vincent hold his two hands up in the air with the two briefcases dangling from each one of them, he slowly turn around to face Maximaff before he swing one of the cases to clab Maximaff in his face. But he is a bit too slow. Vincent and Maximaff started to fight and the two cases fell from Vincent's hands.

"Grab the one with the bromtonium!" Robyn shouted and I hurried over to the cases on the ground, but stop as I got confused. The two briefcases are identical, they are both silver and made of metal. The one with the bromtonium must be the heavier one right? So that is the one I choose and take up.

I whistle. "Hey boys, no need to fight. I have got what you are fighting for right here." I held up the case with the bromtonium in my hand and my left foot prop up on top of the case with the money on the floor.

Vincent growl and came at me, but I am quicker this time and I take my foot up off of the case and kick him hard in the abdomen, knocking him back a foot. Maximaff advance at me but Robyn did a succubus trick on him. She tap him on the shoulder and he spin around ready to fight, but she kiss him on the lips and he got knock of guard, giving her the chance to place a handcuff on him and the other part around a steel pipe. He struggle against the restraint and curse at her.

I smile at his helplessness but in the corner of my eyes, I see Vincent coming at me again. But before he could even make it a foot further to me, Dai wrap his hand around his neck and said in his ear.

"This is for that jab you gave me that night in the woods."

"Daison's little brats-" But I didn't give him time to finish what he is saying, as I did a roundhouse and then swing the case in my hand hitting him on his injured shoulder. Which is now soak in his own blood.

Dai handcuff him next to Maximaff and then came back and stand in between me and Rob.

"We did it partners, our first undercover mission is a success. " Robyn squeal with a southern drawl.

I laugh as I open the case, but my smile vanishes as I saw that I took up the,

"Wrong case girly." Vincent laugh, I look back around but don't see the case anywhere, we only hear footsteps fading in the distance. Dai run in the direction where the footsteps echoes from, but a few minutes later he came back saying that he didn't see anyone. The police started to pile into the boiler room after Robyn call them, I stare at Vincent laughing face as the officers uncuff him off of the pipe and took him away.

"It is a shame that we are enemies now, but I can never hold a grudge against a beautiful woman. So give me a call in the next three days, after all that is how long it is going to take my lawyers to get me out of jail." Maximaff wink at me.

I scoff at him. "I told you not to get your hopes up, and further more, you kissed my best friend." I didn't wait to see his reaction. As I turn to leave I came face to face with Nathan. "Oh, um excuse me officer." I said, quickly holding down my head, so he doesn't recognise me.

"You are one of the witnesses right?"He ask.

"Yes, my friends and I got a bit lost after we started to follow Mr. Yougetti over here. He was hitting on me at the bar, and then a guy came to him, so I got suspicious. When we got here we saw Insight and her team giving these guys what they deserves, Insight told us to call the authorities and that is what my friend did." I pointed over to Robyn who is discreetingly taking up the heels of my shoes.

"Insight and her team didn't come here, she is ly-"

"So what are you saying, my friends and I took down a mafia gang the police had on their radar for a long time now? He is crazy, I am from France, never in my life I had been in a fight, ever." I turn to Nathan and said.

"Its alright, just get back upstairs and keep safe." I nodded to him and got ready to leave but not without out turning behind me to glare at Maximaff, who also has a death glare in his eyes.

I smile back at Nathan and trun to leave, but he pull me back and look at me.

"Is there something wrong officer?"

I ask, confusion on my face.

"You look like someone I know, a girl I met a today." My heart beat faster in my chest, what if he figure out it is me, what if he put two and two together and find out that I am Insight.

"I am sorry, i am not her." I gulp as my palms got sweaty.

"I know, I am just saying that you slightly look like her. She has black hair and a lot prettier." I raise my eyebrows at him, and he realise what he said. And aww, he said that I am pretty. I know that Nancy and Miayana are both me, but he doesn't. So when he said that I am prettier than the French girl in the beautiful gown he is taking to right now, really means a lot. "I-i am not saying that you aren't pretty, I just mean-"

"It is ok officer, no need to explain." I stop his cute ranting. He nods at me and i bid him good Bye.

"Well that was awkward." I said as Robyn, Dai and I stand outside the hotel waiting for Hase to come and pick us up.

"What is?" Robyn ask.

"Nathan saying that I am prettier than me, and then when I gave him an offensive look he started to babble on. I know that he doesn't know it is me, but it felt awkward when he was trying to explain himself. I can't wait to go on our date on Saturday." I sigh dreamy and Robyn laugh.

"Guys focus." Dai said. "The briefcase with the bromtonium is gone, and we have no idea who stole it. I bet it is someone from the League."

"It is definetly someone from the League, didn't you see how Vincent was laughing at me when he saw that I had took up the wrong case. And further more, he wouldn't come alone to retrieve something so important by himself. He had to have back up." I said just as Hase pull up in front of us.

They drive is filled with silence as we travel back to our base.

"I can't believe that you let the League take the bromtonium." Dad rant as he pase in front of us.

" I am sorry Dad, I thought that I took up the right case." I hang my head in shame.

"It is Ok, we just have to be on higher alert now. The League just move a step a head of us now."

"Dad, what does the League want with the bromtonium. Better yet, what is it?" Dai ask, and we all perk up with interest.

"Bromtonium is a rare metal that only the League and a few other people know about, when molten it is used to mutate body cells. And it can be highly dangerous if it is not administered well and it can be highly toxic to humans also. It is what the League use to experiment on me and all those others that came before and after me, but those test subjects failed. They had ran out of Bromtonium, but now they have got it again which make them two step closer to what they desire most."

Power.

Meanwhile at the League's underground lab.

"We have got it, this bromtonium is the key to our latest project." The oldest man in the room said, taking a dosage of the bromtonium out of the case and use a syringe to suck up the light purple liquid. He walk over to a chamber and inject the liquid into a IV connected to the chamber. "My brilliant project will be the one that bring down Daison and his brats to their knees and I will have total control of their powers." He laugh darkly as he step away from the chamber reveling a guy no more than twenty two, laying unconscious in it.

After leaving the headquarters, I decided to go to my mother's house. I knock on the door and she invited me in with open arms.

"What are you doing here so late sweetheart?" She ask as we walk to the kitchen.

"I just want- I just want to spend sometime with you guys. I want to know that you are going to be ok." I started to sob out of nowhere.

Mom look at me for a bit, before she came over and hug me. "It is alright honey, we are ok, it is all going to be ok." She stroke my hair calmly.

I shake my head. "You don't know that, what if....what if I can't save you all. What if-"

"Honey, look at me." My mother pull away from me and held my face in her hands. "It is ok to be scared, I would really appreciate it if you told me what you are afraid of, but it is all going to be ok. And if my words doesn't calm you, just remember that I am always going to be here to protect you no matter what." She hug me again and I hold her tight. I only hope that her words were true, with the threat that is coming after me, I will be the one protecting her. I will be the one to keep my family and love one safe. And standing here right now, tears streaming down my face. I am making this vow right now, I will fight until my death just to make this city remain safe and I will not rest until I know that the League is no more.