"Where is my car?" Nick Fury demanded as he stared at the space where he was sure he had parked his car, at the Watergate where he had been called with his senior agents for meetings.

"I knew carpooling was a bad idea." Maria Hill muttered as she pulled out her phone and activated the tracking device for the director's car. It had been been bad enough sharing the front seat with the director, with Phil stuffed between them, and Victoria and John in back with Felix and Jasper crammed between them like sardines, and now this. She had warned the director this might happen, after the last time he drove his car to the Watergate. And yes, there it was. "There's your car. In the impound lot. In the crusher. Should I arrange for someone to pick up your new cube?"

"You know, normally, if someone's going to harass me about my car, it's when I'm in my car." Fury grumbled.

"To be honest, if the officer who keeps towing your car saw you in your car, he would probably know that you aren't the man with 135 unpaid traffic citations that he's looking for." Maria said. "He's 4'9", white, weighs about 80 pounds and is a dentist. Not hard to figure out you're not him."

"Excuse me, but how are we going to get back to the Triskelion?" Felix asked. "I really need to get back to the Sandbox." As he talked, the group moved out to the street, to try to figure out what to do. "Should I call us a cab?"

"The cabs aren't moving, though." Jasper said as he looked at the street. Vehicles were everywhere, not moving an inch, and the cabs he could see were packed full of politicians.

"My team's at the Museum of Science and Industry. I could call them and ask them to come pick us up." Phil offered.

"Aren't there five other people on your team?" Maria said. Five plus the seven of them, there wouldn't even be room to breathe in the Shield Issue vehicle.

"We're taking the Metro." Seven people, how much was the fare for that going to be?

"We're taking the what?" Victoria demanded. Not that she didn't know what the Metro was, but surely Fury was joking about expecting them to travel on it. Her last trip via public transportation had been in Lisbon during her assignment with John Garrett, and she cringed inwardly, recalling how that trip had ended. "Why don't we go back inside and have drinks? The traffic should clear soon."

"We're taking the Metro." Fury said, waving for them to follow him as he headed for the nearest station.

"What about walking?" Victoria suggested as Fury worked the machine to purchase seven fare cards. "Some of us could stand to walk off a few pounds." she said with a pointed look at John.

"I'm not sure how you can even walk around the Hub in shoes like that." Maria said with a pointed look at Victoria's feet.

"We are taking the Metro." Fury repeated. And he was halfway tempted to demand they all hold hands.

"Vic, it won't be so bad. Remember Lisbon? That was fun." John said as Fury herded his agents towards the platform.

"We will not be repeating Lisbon. There will be no pushing or shoving, people." Fury ordered. "There's a third rail down there I DO NOT want anyone falling on. Everyone stay together. Phil, you stick with Felix and Jasper, Hill you're with me and…." Before he could consider the potential disaster that assigning Victoria and John to be paired off could lead to, the Metro train was pulling into the station, and the rush hour crowd was surging forward.

"Tell me everyone got on." Fury pushed Maria into the last vacant seat and grabbed the handrail as the train jerked into motion. He could see Phil with Felix and Blake towards the front, but where were Victoria and John?

"In the back." Maria said as she turned around to look for the other two agents. "Looks like Victoria might be changing her mind about the Metro. She's talking to a girl who looks like she gets her hair done at the same place. Do you think those streaks are some symbol of… Wait, why am I asking someone without hair, hair related questions?"

Perfect. All of his agents were on the train where they belonged. This was going to work out fine. Take the Metro and then it was just a short walk from the nearest stop to the Triskelion.

"Sir?" His plans for an easy trip were disrupted ten minutes later when Phil eased his way back to join them. "I don't really know the Metro system, but isn't the Triskelion on the other side of the Potomac? Are we going the wrong way?"

Fury closed his eyes. A transfer. They had somehow missed a transfer. They would have to turn around and go back, and they would be lucky not to loose Victoria and John to a bar in Crystal City, Victoria for drinks with her new friend, and John just for drinks. And as for Felix and Jasper….

Before he could finish that thought, the train suddenly jerked to a stop as they were plunged into darkness.

"Coulson, your team did this!" Victoria called from the back of the car. "They touched something at that museum, and they've caused a blackout!"

"They…" Coulson stopped as his phone beeped, and he pulled it out to see multiple messages coming in from Skye.

We didn't do it no matter what Agent Hand is trying to say! We didn't touch anything! We were just looking at the exhibits when all of the power went out!

Fitz thinks something might have exploded at a power station, or there might have been some sort of power cascade somewhere along the lines that took down the grid.

The museum's dark, the street's dark, the traffic lights are going nuts, not that traffic was moving anyway.

But we're fine.

Except for Ward, who was knocked down by a two year old when the power first went out.

Jemma thinks he doesn't need to go to the emergency room, though. She says that she can fix the fracture to his collarbone when we get back to the BUS.

But we've managed to lose May and she had the keys, so we're not sure of how to get back to the BUS.

Where are you?

"It isn't just the train. It looks like the power failure goes at least as far as the museum." Coulson said. And with a power failure that extensive, he had a feeling they were going to be there for awhile.