Coulson looked at the computer monitor watching as the masked man merely sat in his cell Daisy sitting in a chair interrogation him. "May what do we know about him?"
"Nothing we've tried removing the mask or helmet but it's alien in origin and seems designed to only be removed if the wearer wants it removed. Also the holding cells we use for the Inhumans don't seem to affect his powers if he's here it's because he wants to be here."
"But why May?"
"I don't know Phil why send Daisy to interrogate him?"
"He seems uncomfortable around her. Like he can't bear being near her yet he went all out to protect her. Why? Could he have some sort of history with her?"
"She doesn't seem to know him but he clearly knows us."
The Holding Room…
Daisy looked across the room she had been back down at this level since her talks with Ward ended. Which was odd since she tried not thinking about Ward and yet this man kept making her think of her old flame. "Let's start off with something simple. Who are you?"
He chucled when he heard her question "A ghost, shadow, a remnant of the past. How are you? I understand some years ago a man shot you and nearly ended your life."
A chill ran down Daisy's spine "How do you know about that? Nobody outside of my original team would know that."
"Do you believe in hell?" He asked his tone growing more sad "I lied and deceived people I cared about. There was a girl like you who got hurt and when she did I made up my mind to confess my sins to my then superior. However nothing went as planned. These things, aliens calling themselves the Skrull they've been slowly infiltrating human society with human clones and their own with a type of concealment technology. They replaced me with a clone it was perfect in every detail and literally believed it was me. However not all their clones are perfect because mine was from bad stock I guess you could say. Though given he was based on my personality and had my memories I often find myself wondering if…" He paused for a second hesitating to speak "I didn't believe in hell before what happened, happened but I believe in it now. They were trying to create their own super soldiers, they attempted to reenact the Kree experiments that resulted in the species called the Inhumans. I… was the first success. They put me in this thing called the Labyrinth but if you ask me it's a fancy word for planet sized rat maze. Literally a planet sized prison designed to torture a person mentally, physically, and emotionally and it was in a pocket dimension where time is different."
Daisy started to get a strange feeling that was akin to fear and dread she started to realize who this man was but didn't want to admit it so she asked "How long were you there? How did you get out."
The masked man closed his hands into fists almost like he didn't want to answer "I suspect my stay was somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion years but… you should know. I had a chance earlier on to escape and didn't take it because I felt I dissevered to be in that place I felt I deserved to starve and die of thirst over and over. Yet my own power the thing that makes me immortal got me out granted I landed in the Jurassic area and was able to save a small portion of my home area using my power. To preserve time and history I've hidden it but have used it as a base in my fight against the Skrull. Those who have found it have come to call it the Savage Land." He let out a light chuckle "It's funny countless eons have passed since I last saw you, enough time to think of what to say, and how to say it but I can't find the words. Which sucks because I had this whole speech planned about how I've changed and how showing you I'm different now is what kept me sane. I even forgot some key things like how I had siblings I even forgot about Hydra for a bit but I never forgot you or him."
"Who are you talking about?" Daisy asked both confused and frightened.
"The skrull who made me this. He's someone you are very close with and he's betrayed you in the most horrific way. Your pregnant right?"
Daisy stood up backing toward the door there was no way he could know that only three people knew Lincoln her now current husband, Fitz the man who helped them get pregnant by performing sperm retrieval on Lincoln and artificially inseminating Daisy with his sperm "How did you know that?"
The Masked Man lowered his head possibly out of shame and sadness "He wants the perfect Inhuman soldiers for his people and our genes are a big part in creating those Inhumans he so maliciously craves." He couldn't do it before I was experimented on but he could harvest, my shall we say genetic material and use it to impregnate you Daisy afterword. It's funny he's doing this because I slaughtered his family in an attempt to kill him millions of years ago and I did it because he condemned me to suffer. I guess it would be accurate to say we created each other."
The Masked Man vanished in a puff of smoke and then reappeared in front of her. "What the- that cell was modified to hold any Inhuman with any power. How can you?"
"My power isn't like anything humans can currently understand certainly not Simmons I bend space and time and while it makes me very powerful in some regards it also makes me very powerless. I get what I call sneak peeks and then I have to see if changing history is the right course. I've found it's best to make tiny ripples part of why I've been living in the Savage Land and for that reason I'm going to do something very selfish and I know you're going to hate me for it. So I'm sorry but I hope you like jungles." The Masked Man explained clearly full of regret.
Before Daisy could say anything he grabbed her and they both vanished Coulson and May reacted almost immediately trying to rush to the scene but before they could really do anything an explosion blew everyone back, followed by alien soldier aided by some of Coulson's fellow Shield agents.
They were all being slaughtered it didn't seem real and all Coulson could ask was how was this and what was this happening?
