"Taskmaster" Mason had exchanged two long-range volleys with Fox before turning tail and running.
From the moment Angel boarded the airship, she had locked onto all of its electronic signals.
After losing the surveillance feed and suffering unusually heavy casualties, Mason had no choice but to send out all his elite troops, then set out himself to hunt down every last intruder.
In fact, the unlucky bastard who'd met Alvin at a party and gotten sent to prison had never been able to figure out...
Why Alvin had gone all the way to Russia to ruin his plans.
It had taken Mason two days of pursuit in Moscow before he finally made it back to Headquarters.
He genuinely hadn't known that Alvin was among the people who'd boarded the airship...
If he had, he'd have been jumping out right now with a parachute on his back.
Mason really hadn't thought Alvin and his people could find him this quickly!
The airship's stealth capabilities weren't particularly impressive, but anyone who didn't know its features would never be able to locate it.
Mason had just been about to contact his Hydra superiors and revise his plans, taking the airship into Europe.
But he'd never imagined that the enemy would come knocking just after he'd taken a shower.
He couldn't see what the enemy looked like...
Over the Communicator, he learned that several "Black Widows" who'd gone rogue were attacking the airship.
Furious beyond measure, Mason had wanted to finish off those "traitors" himself. Instead, he ran straight into a brick wall.
Several elite Mutants Hydra had assigned to him were taken out in a single exchange!
The "Twin-Blade Widows" trained by the "Red Room" had also been wiped out...
Mason could mimic any human movement. Fox's trick of flicking her wrist to