[b]The Baiji Oil Refinery, North of Baghdad[/b]
Arriving in an armored truck, two armor and helmet wearing government agents got out and walked up to the Iraqi soldier. They were both named Fowler and neither were related or married to each other.
The first Fowler was male African American and in his forties. He'd been with the agency since the early 2000's. He served as the primary agent in the Middle East. Daniel Fowler had a shaved head and wore body armor on his body to protect from shrapnel.
Behind him came Second Agent Fowler. This Agent Fowler was a blonde female. She also wore the Kevlar armor and she also wore a helmet. The soldier let them through.

"So the director wants to investigate the death of a hero? It's not like him to be invested in this." replied female agent Fowler.
"Well the boss is more concerned as it was a double S. They don't killed too often." the older Agent Fowler replied. 
They walked towards the wreckage of the destroyed Refinery.  The OPEC nations were probably going to drive oil prices up due to the destruction of the this facility. In the US gas was now going to be close to five bucks a gallon. Texas Governor Reese was using this as a failure of the administration's policies.

"So what it look to you?" the feale agent asked her superior.
"A mess." he said reviewing the damage. The facility was destoyed fairly throughly. Mangled towers, broken pipes, busted tanks, and fire foam all over the facility. There were still fires going on, they weren't as big as the one from the day before. Senior Agent Fowler was not happy someone had wiped the security camera footage.
The two agents walked towards the location of the body.  It was burnt to a crisp. "I hate burnt bodies." replied the female Fowler."Smells like burnt popcorn and meat."
"Yes thank you Rachel." the older agent told  his junior. 
"I hate going off of media footage. It looked like something hit him." Rachel looked through wreckage.
Fowler sighed, "Put on some gloves you needn't get tetnus." Rachel pulled out some thick gloves. 
As they went through the area where at least a dozen Iraqi Army soldiers  They stepped in a puddle of liquid. They noticed it was a metallic in color. 

"The hell?", The African American agent bent down and touched the substance. It slid off his hand like mercury. "Why is this here?"
"What?" Rachel moved towards Fowler. "What you find Des?"
"Mercury, but what is it doing here?" he asked, 
"Well put on the chemical gloves!" Rachel told Desmond,
"I will then we will get samples." Desmond pulled some purple gloves from his bag and began to use a scoop to get samples of the Mercury like substance with a measuring cup.
"What is it?"Rachel asked.
"Not sure why it is here but it is suspcious."

The two NID agents proceeded to take pictures of the refinery damage and the area around the body, wounds and other matters. They had no idea how to kill a Double S but somebody did. That was information that governments would kill for. Governments like Russia and China. They'd want to kill the heroes meddling in the affairs of their state security. 
Unseen by the agents as they left some of the mercury rose a few centimeters slowly, it stayed higher for seveal minutes.
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In the states with the Presidential elections in full swing the ads for the candidates were going strong. David Abernathy hated dealing with political matters like this but it helped to prevent others from impeeding his operations.
Right now he was reading information in the Reformists. He disliked the group mostly due to the fact that they were idealistic fools. The affairs of that groups annoyed him but in his opinion they were small potatoes, a minor threat. He was more worried about the Russians moving into Kiev. 

He was curious what killed Velocity Max that Double S meta. He assigned the two Fowlers from Qatar to it, hopefully there was something probably the Russians. He doubted it was another meta or...well the third party.
Hopefully that third party will never come.