<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/75/a8/cd75a83054ed718f94fe8a8070eab748.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Combat Trainer; Perfect 10 PL 10 (150 PP)</span></span><br/><br/><strong>Real Name:</strong>Unknown<strong>Identity:</strong>Secret<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Agent X<strong>Occupation:</strong>SpecOps<br/><strong>Bases of Operations:</strong>Washington, D.C.<strong>Affiliation:</strong>U.S. Army<br/><br/><hr/><br/>As Paragon spoke to him, X could only smirk.  He did it inwardly, without facing her, so as to not disrespect her or demean her.  In a lot of ways, he thought he understood her.  She hated being controlled, he thought, by a faceless organization of drones and number pushers.  They told her what to wear, what to say, who to love.  Athena was a slave to the corporation and she chaffed at the yoke of submission.<br/><br/>"You think you're so charming, don't you?" she had asked.  It was obviously a rhetorical question, but it wasn't one that would cause the supremely self-confident Perfect 10 to self-analyze himself.  Did he think he was charming?  He hadn't considered it before.  He wasn't going to consider it now.  He simply was.<br/><br/>"That shit doesn't work on me. I bet you've never even had a woman tell you 'no before."  Athena was wrong, X thought.  Whatever X possessed, it<em>did</em>work on her.  Athena was not indifferent or apathetic to him.  She was actively<em>resisting</em>him.  What's more, X believed that she was resisting<em>herself.</em>He felt it when he kissed her.  He felt the acceptance, the lingering submission to the emotion, and then the realization, a panicked rush of energy, then the pullback.  That was his gift.  The ability to read others body movements.  It made him one of the greatest hand-to-hand fighters on earth.<br/><br/>Why, X wondered.  Why did she resist him?  Was it personal?  No.  Athena resented LIGA and the artificial relationship.  It was just another way that LIGA controlled her.<br/><br/>But why couldn't she see that LIGA controlled him, too?  Why couldn't their relationship, as fake as it was, be a little oasis for two people with such similar backgrounds?<br/><br/>"We're going to talk about this with corporate when we're finished with the mission."  she said.  She had come around to the finality of the situation.  She knew she had no choice.  She knew that she had no say.  She knew that this thing they had pushed merchandise and sold stories.<br/><br/>"Great," X said, smiling warmly at the gorgeous blonde.   "We'll call it a date."<br/><br/>Thankfully, Athena's attention was diverted by the arrival of the Midnight Angel.  He looked over at the woman over his melon-sized shoulder to quickly gauge her demeanor, and whatever he saw, he was satisfied.<br/><br/>“Do we have any information yet or will this be a blind mission?” Cat asked.<br/><br/>"We're receiving our briefing in-flight," X answered cordially.  The pitch of the jet lifted along a radial point so that the jet was now pointing to the sky, almost like a rocket.  The occupants inside of the jet didn't feel the change due to an artificial onboard gravity well.  The jet could be upside down, but the passengers would not "feel" that they were upside down.<br/><br/>"All right, Tower, we are go for launch," X said.  The tower responded.   "All right, Force-One, you are clear for take off."