Say The Right Thing // PRIVATE

She quickly took a picture of Alex and sent it to the app she had used earlier. She bit her lip when she saw the results. Another one. . An idea popped into her head and she scanned the whole room with her phone. Seconds later, there was information about everyone in the room. There all criminals, crime lords, or creators of crime groups. Holy shit.
“Iris, where’s Channing and Linnaea? We can’t start without them.” Alex whispered.
Iris only shrugged and dragged Stephanie to somewhere. Stephanie sighed and cursed under her breath.

Iris dragged her to a room and then looked down at her. “Sorry, but not sorry. I can’t let you hear all the info we’re about to say, because I’m sure you’re going to run to your little super-hero friends and tell them all the information.” With that, she left the room, but not before locking it.
“Blythe, I just found a whole room filled with criminals, crime-lords, and creators of big crime groups. And apparently, they’re all waiting for Channing and Linnaea to start what I guess is a meeting.”
She crouched down and took out a metal insect from one of the hidden pockets on her dress. She put the insect on the ground and turned it on. The insect immediately went through the gap from the bottom of the door and into the other room. Whatever the metal insect heard, she would be able to hear it too by a earphone that was connected to the insect. Thank god for Wakanadian technology.

“At the moment, I’m not in the position to do anything dumb, so you don’t have to worry about nothing. Yeah, you go with Peter and I’ll stay here, don’t you worry your pretty little head.”

“I will, I wouldn’t put myself in danger when everyone is counting on me.” Stephanie smiled and cut the connection between them. She put on the earbud that would let her hear what they say on the other room.

“We have to start, we can’t continue waiting. The night will be over and we won’t be able to do anything.” A random man said.
Then Iris started talking, saying it was such a honor to be a part of them and that she was able to do this with them. Stephanie was confused in what she meant by “this”, but she continued listening.

“First of all, New York, and not only New York sees us as criminals. As people who can’t be else than Criminals. Which is pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. We’re more than criminals. We’re like villains, well, at least to some people. Our goal is to bring New York down to it’s knees with all this crime. It’ll come to a point that not even the Police will be able to arrest the many criminals out on the streets.”
Clapping was heard, and Stephanie didn’t even need the earphone to hear the clapping. The clapping was so loud, that even the people outside of the meeting room could hear. Stephanie sighed and fidgeted with her necklace. “Lords, Iris, you have the mind of a villain.” Stephanie mumbled.

Stephanie looked around in the room she was locked in and spotted a spider. She jumped to her feet and quickly went as far away from the spider. The spider just kept crawling toward her. She sighed, approached the spider, stretched her middle finger along with her index finger and thumb out and drew a circle in the air, big enough for the spider to go through it. The spider went through it and she quickly closed the portal.

She sighed and stood up, walked over to the door and just stared at her. The next room had gotten awfully quiet, something Stephanie didn’t like one bit. A whole lot of possibilities on why they had gotten quiet ran through her head, and none of them were good. “Come on, talk already. Spill the damn tea,” Stephanie mumbled under her breath.

Stephanie heard the voice of an older man telling the others to be quiet. It gave her the impression that he was the one in control of everything. She sighed and started hearing every single bit of information they were saying. Their plan? She had no idea what it was. Stephanie knew Iris’s true intentions. She wanted to take down the Avengers, which was a bit surprising to Stephanie when she first found out.

Stephanie heard what she had to hear. She whispered something through the bottom of the door, and immediately the metal bug came back to her without letting the others see it. Stephanie didn’t need to hear anymore. They had given her enough information. She took off the earphones that had let her hear everything in the other room and took a deep breath before contacting Blythe. “So, Blythe. You know how you and Peter left to take Ethan and Linnaea to S.H.I.E.L.D?”

Stephanie stayed quiet for a few moments, wondering how to answer Blythe. After another couple of moments, she sighed and looked up at the ceiling, a somewhat creepy smile slowly appearing. “Sure, go ahead and put me on loudspeaker.”

“Alright, just tell me when you got everything sorted out.” Stephanie said as she fumbled with the metal bug that she was holding in her outstretched hand. It seemed like it had a mind of it’s own and was avoiding being put away.

“So while you brought those two to S.H.I.E.LD I managed to find a whole room of definite suspects. All crime-lords, criminals, etc. It seemed like they were there for a meeting and they couldn’t start without Ethan and Linnaea. Probably because those two are the second in command. Then an older man came in, yelled at everyone in the room for not starting and all of that. They then started explaining their plan, which apparently is to do what they do best. Also, on a unrelated note, one of them wants to take down the Avengers.”

“Nope. Well as far as I know it’s only one of them. Quite powerful too. She’s someone who doesn’t play around and is always serious. Well, maybe not always serious, but mostly she’s serious. Not only is she powerful, she’s dangerous too.” Stephanie said with a sigh.

“Iris S-“ She stopped herself from saying the rest. “Iris. Just Iris. I doubt there’s any information about Iris, but go ahead and try. If you find none, I know someone who might know something.”

Stephanie bit her lip, trying to refrain herself from saying something insulting. She sighed and tried to calm herself down. “I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you the full name. I’d be in a heap of trouble if I do.”
She then added, “But of course, you won’t be able to understand.” Stephanie mumbled that part as low as possible.