New chapter.

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The team and Teresa were now standing in the new 'sun light's' shadow. They could see a little of what was happening.

A female agent was helping Artie up from under his desk. They asked if each other was alright. The reply was usually a 'yes but a little stiff' or 'I've been better.'

Scenes similar to this were not a rarity.

"What do we do now Clutch?" asked Peg.

The agents who were still able to walk came into the light to see better.

Clutch was the hero, the leader; he was the first person you would ask for orders when the boss wasn't there and he was use to this everyone was looking at him, but Teresa was looking opposite him into the dark as if trying to see something better.

"What do we do now?" echoed Clutch.

Brick nodded. "Yeah that's what she said."

Clutch turned to look at Teresa. The only one not asking for his help. "What do we do now?" he asked again but directed more to her.

The others turned their gaze to her. Clutch was the leader like figure and if he turned to someone else for orders then you should too.

Realizing the question was now directed at her Teresa turned. She looked at all the agents, Artie and the team.

Her eyes landed on Clutch.

"What we do now is…" she turned a full circle finally landing on the huge hole in the high wall. Squinting at the sun.

Suddenly she turned to Artie. "Artie!"

Startled he jumped then stood to attention. "Yes ma'am!"

"Check the base's power box, fusion cable, transformer or anything else that could have caused the black out. Report back when you know the source and how long it'll take to fix."

"Yes ma'am!" then he scurried away mumbling to himself. "Alrighty tighty power box maybe eight to ten? No six to eleven? No twelve to fourteen? No…"

"Brick damage report!"

"Right!" Brick said smiling. Damage report sounded fun. "Alright counting that hole that would be…"

He wondered way looking for more things that had been broken.

"Bernie, check all the rockets, jets, and other vehicles if any are damaged report back with the estimated time of repair!"

"Sure." And he too wondered off.

"Peg, look for any wounded or otherwise hurt agents."

"Got it." Peg said though she didn't go just yet. She needed more information.

"The infirmary will be here close to the only source of light until Artie get the systems back on line so try and go as far as you can to look for anyone who needs help. Try and find some flash lights too." The order was more to everyone else as well as Peg.

"Move people! Move!" Teresa said more forcefully to get everyone moving.

Clutch also began to move away when Teresa caught his arm. "Hey?"

Clutch turned. "Yeah?"

Teresa let go of his arm and ran her arm across her eyes wiping away tears.

Clutch realized that she'd been holding them back as she'd been giving orders.

"Why'd you do that?" she asked.

"Do what?" he stepped towards her not really sure why.

"Let me take charge? Just because I'm Kjeld's daughter doesn't me I can do it."

"Yeah but you were able to do it."

"You knew what to do why didn't you take charge everyone was looking at you I know they were."

Clutch rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "well I'm more of a solo team myself and your father said I was to help you prepare for missions and stuff so sometimes you need to be ready to take charge of a situation."

"My dad's gone you don't need to follow his orders."

Clutch took another step closer and touched her arm. "We're going to find him and get him back."

Teresa looked away as tears wield in her eyes. She had no idea how she ended up in Clutch's arms but suddenly she was clutching him as if he was her life line. She tried to not think about everyone watching them. Looking back on it, it was like hugging a good friend whom she could trust to hold her till she backed way.

Suddenly she was hugging him. He didn't know her very well and only his parents had hugged him. It was a strange feeling. He cautiously put his arms around her and leaned in to hug her to.

Was anyone watching them? Mm hm. Peg was on the cat walk above them. She caught a glimpse and turned she saw and leaned forward on the railing cupping her cheek with her hand she muttered "adorable." Then turned way and when back to her search.

Bernie was inspecting the jet Brick had crashed into the wall to make the hole. He glanced over to see them embracing. He rolled his eyes and murmured "oh brothzer." Then a dreamy smile came across his face as he remembered when Peg had kissed him. He shook his head and looked back at the jet. Brick did a number on the carbonator…

Brick was on the other side of the lighted area looking at the tenth damaged table. He turned and looked over to see his boss and his boss's boss's daughter hugging. "Huh?" he scowled. "Emotions are for saps not strong men like Me." he began to grunt and flex turning away from them.

Artie was a little ways from Brick in a shaded hallway that led to a blocked exit. He was at the right wall inspecting a power box. He looked over at them and smiled and shook his head. "Lou and Rock were right." He turned back to the power box. Maybe a flipped switch or cut wire?

Everyone else was too busy to pay any attention or care. But the four who saw secretly vowed not to mention it.

Teresa backed away and wiped her eyes again. A small blush appeared on her cheeks. "Uh thanks." She gave him a small smile.

"Um, not a problem." He was blushing as well.

Teresa chuckled then became serious again. "Could you look after everything till I get back?"

"Sure, where you going?" Clutch asked.

"To my dad's office to see if anything was taken." She didn't wait for his response she turned and ran into the darkness.

It might have been impossible to see anything but she'd been here before and she knew her father kept a flash light in a drawer.

She looked around. A beam of light coming out of the cylinder shining on stacks of paper and random pieces of clutter.

"Dad!" she muttered. Ever since her mother disappeared her father had never been the same. And this mess was only more proof that he had changed.

She went over to the main desk and looked over the many pieces of paper. Slowly she ran her hand over a stack dated three years ago the very day in which her mother had disappeared. The documents were blank except for the bottom of the last page which had her father's hand writing but it was sloppy nearly impossible to make out the sentence. "This is all my fault."

"Oh dad." Teresa sighed. She kept looking over paper after packet and found that nothing that she knew of was missing.

She let out a heavy sigh. She turned to look through a new stack when she heard a knock. She turned towards the door and shined the light on the figure.

"Dude, get the light out of my eyes." Said the voice of Brick.

"Sorry." Teresa said as she lowered the beam. "Is something wrong?"

"Nah other than the fact that you've been in here for over two hours."

"Oh!" Teresa yelped. "It's been that long." She looked back at the dark office and walked out as Brick followed.

They didn't say much however Brick did enjoy putting in his snide comments. "Clutch got hysterical." He said with a chuckle.

Teresa just rolled her eyes though the thought of Clutch worried about her was comforting but from Brick's mouth, anything could be a total lie or exasperation.

They came back to the hole where everyone was gathered.

Clutch was talking to an agent when they arrived.

He turned and saw them and smiled. "The damage report is in." he said looking at Brick.

Brick saluted and went to talk to another agent.

"Alright, what's the damage?"

"Nothing that can't be repaired in time."

"Good what about the power is Artie still working on it?"

"Yeah he says he knows the cause now he's trying to fix it."

As if on cue there was an explosion and Artie came flying across the room and crashed into a pile of boxes. He quickly got up with a huge smile on his face and his hair smoking. "Oh ho those jumper cables have some kick." He then wobbled up to Teresa and saluted.

Suddenly the lights flickered back on. Everyone looked up in awe then a cheer went up.

Teresa looked back at him and smiled. "You're a genius Artie!" she looked back at everyone. "All right resume full duties and still look for wounded agents. Break into small groups some to fix the damage and others to reestablish normal routine!"

There were a lot of 'yes ma'ams' and 'aye-ayes' as the agents scurried back to their duties.

Last note before I continue I don't own any characters but Teresa.