Twin Brothers

Twin Brothers

Hawkeye on the other end of the phone was stunned for a few seconds before saying uncertainly, "What's wrong? What happened?

"I do have a twin brother, but I haven't seen him since our parents divorced when I was eight!"

Alvin frowned at "Hawkeye" on the screen. "Then you'd better get over here. You might be able to see him before Stark's missiles find him."

Hawkeye sounded incredulous. "That's impossible. Aaron died in a conflict in Afghanistan in 2004. He was in the Marine Corps at the time!

"I even 'punished' the people who recruited him for it..."

Alvin watched "Hawkeye" on the screen toss a little spherical device into the water. "Why? Your brother died on the battlefield, so you went after the people who recruited him for revenge?"

Hawkeye fell silent for a few seconds, then said in a low voice, "No. I did it because Aaron never should've been sent to war. He wasn't intelligent enough. They falsified his IQ test results to get him into the military.

"They simply couldn't find enough people..."

Alvin narrowed his eyes at the "Hawkeye" on the screen. After hesitating, he said, "This guy doesn't look like someone with 'low intelligence,' as you put it. If you're sure you're in Kansas, then..."

Hawkeye heard the hostility in Alvin's voice and quickly said, "No, no! Could you give me a chance to see him? I don't know, maybe...

"I never saw Aaron's body. I only saw the casualty report. Maybe..."

Alvin held the phone in silence for a few seconds. Thinking of the information Church had passed along, he sighed. "Maybe some secret organization recruited him and trained him to be a super agent...

"CIA, Reaper, super agent—does that make you think of anything?"

Alvin swore under his breath, then