"Everyone ready?" Daisy checked through the com in her ear. "Ready when you are, Tremors." Mack answered and she gave herself a small nod of reassurance before stepping out of the music store, she was glad the streets were mostly empty, there were less chances an accident could happen and someone would get hurt.
"Showtime." Daisy whispered, closing her eyes and focusing on the ground beneath her feet. She could feel its very pulsations, so weak...hardly moving, until she tapped into them making them stronger with every pulsation and soon the ground was shaking, breaking under the pressure as car alarms and screams of terror filled the air. She allowed herself to open her eyes and take a look around her, people were running away scared -scared of her- even if she was only doing this to protect them.
"Daisy they're here!" Joey's distressed voice sounded through her com and she quickly moved her head to the sides, it didn't take her long to spot a young Latina girl making their way towards her through all the havoc.
"Relax, everything's gonna be alright." She said in a reassuring tone, the next thing she felt was as if someone picked her up before watching the world spin around her until everything turned black.
"Daisy!" Mack yelled from the quinjet as soon as he saw the young inhuman disappear, as if vanished in thin air. "Where the hell did they go? Did they-? They teletported! That's so-" Joey exclaimed excitedly when everyone shot him a look "-terrible. That's so terrible." He finished in a faux serious tone. "She had the GPS tracker with her right?" Mack asked as Ammy opened his laptop and tried to track Daisy down "There's nothing." He said staring at the monitor, his eyes fixated in the 'No results' red letters.
"What do you mean there's nothing?" Lincoln asked turning towards him with a new-found intense worry. "I mean we can't track her! Wherever they took her it must be remote enough there's no signal." Ammy explained, trying to catch Daisy's signal a few more times before giving up. "We should get back and inform Coulson, he's not gonna be happy." Mack said, turning the quinjet around while Lincoln informed the tail team and ordered them to return as well.
"What the bloody hell was that?" Hunter -who had been leading the tail team- exclaimed as soon as everyone was back in the hellicarrier. "A recent recruit, apparently. This is the first we hear of a teleporter between their lines, luckily for us, it's not the first teleporter we've come across, Fitz managed to create a device that could confine a teleporter to a room, I'm sure he still has them." Mack explained and made his way towards the scientist's lab as Lincoln, who remembered said teleporter quite fondly despite everything, separated from the group and made his way to Coulson's office, respectfully knocking in the door when he arrived.
"Come in!" The director called. "I have a meeting with the director of the ACTU in an hour, which one says 'We're not shady' the most?" He asked, turning around with a blue and red tie in each hand. "You're not Daisy." He stated, sobering up as soon as he saw Lincoln by the door "No, I'm not. And I'd go with blue, gives the impression of honesty." The inhuman said, trying to dissipate the awkwardness that was setting in.
"Thank you. Now, what can I help you with?" Coulson asked, turning back towards the mirror and putting on the blue tie. "The inhuman group took Daisy as planned, but we're having some trouble tracking her down. We couldn't tail them, sir. They teleported." Lincoln explained, waiting for the director to explode but he only turned around with a look of mild surprise. "Well, that's new. Sort of." He commented, putting on his jacket.
"You're not...worried?" Lincoln asked with a furrowed eyebrow as they both made their way out of the office. "If there's something I've learnt this past few years, is that Sky- Daisy can handle herself." He said with confidence in his tone. "Although, keep me updated in this matter and make a list of nearby underground or remote places. Another thing I've learnt is that all of these powers you have always come with limitations, I doubt they would be able to teleport that far away."
The two mercenaries holding Rose let go as soon as they heard the word 'sister' coming out off their new boss' lips, she didn't waste anymore time staring at her long-lost brother when she realized she was free. She elbowed the two mercenaries in their noses and took the hands of one of her friends "Now!" She yelled and instantly the surrounding mercenaries stopped, moving so slow they might as well be frozen in time. "Did it work?" Rina asked, still blindfolded. "Yeah, you did it." Rose answered letting go of her hands and moving to retrieve the keys of their handcuffs from Sting. "Let's go home." Rose said, once they were all free, with a last look towards Ward.
By the time the director and his new agents unfroze the inhuman team was long gone, and they all looked around confused like they had disappeared in the blink on an eye. "What the hell just happened?" Sting exclaimed.
"Damn it!" Ward yelled throwing the chains to the floor. His sister was gone, once again she had left without even saying goodbye, even if he hadn't spared her a thought in the last ten years he had wondered before, especially in those 5 years in the forest, what would he say if he ever saw her again, how would it be... before accepting it would never happen and realizing how much Garrett needed him, prompting him to discard all possible scenarios, throwing them and the idea of reuniting with Rose to the back of his mind.
Until now, knowing that she was alive had opened that door he closed so long ago and if he could, he would make sure this wasn't the last he saw of her, unbeknownst to him, that moment would come sooner than he thought.
He sent his new agents to the base and opted to dedicate some time to his new hobby instead of going back to his office, retrieving his now favorite hood from his car and picking up the chains he had discarded earlier he made his way towards what he knew to be a bad neighborhood, hoping he would witness some crime to stop.
He was a vigilante now.
Honestly he had never thought of himself as anything not even relatively close to a hero before. He was a soldier, he was an agent, he was a spy...but he was never a hero. And he never intended to be one. In fact, his reasons behind his vigilante activities were pretty selfish, he needed to train his powers and express a little anger, and beating the crap out of criminals proved to be a perfect way, hell, he was even thanked for it.
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When Daisy woke up, the first thing she felt was a strong nausea coming up to her. Instantly she rolled into her side trying hard to keep the contents of her stomach inside. "Take it easy, the first time is rough on everyone." A female voice said and she felt her hair being pulled away from her face "Where am I?" Daisy asked, still dizzy but at least her vision was clearing. "You're safe now. This is a safe place." The same female voice said, and when her vision cleared enough she was met with green hair and green eyes in front of her. "What's your name?" The girl asked softly, the same tone Daisy used when first talking with new inhumans. "Daisy." She answered, feeling a little better.
"I'm Abby." The girl introduced herself "There's clean clothes in that closet and a bathroom right there, come out whenever you're ready." She finished, and proceed to leave the room. Daisy sat up in the bed and took a good look at her surroundings, the walls were gray and most likely made of concrete, the only items in the room were the bed she saw currently in, a nightstand and the already mentioned closet.
After a quick shower she went to what seemed to be an unusually large dinning room, filled with tables and people animatedly talking with each other, none of them paid her no mind. "What the hell is this place?" She asked to herself in a whisper, still bewildered at her surroundings.
She noticed the girl that had welcomed her -Abby- she reminded herself, talking with a small group, all of them wearing worried expressions and decided to approach them and if possible pry on what had them alarmed.
"Daisy." Abby acknowledged her with a smile as soon as she approached, the only thing Daisy had managed to hear what something about a 'complication' but no information regarding what that complication was or some context to it.
"How are you feeling?" The green eyed girl asked with concern in her tone "A lot better, thanks." Daisy answered truthfully with a smile and looked towards the other 3 members of the conversation "Right! Daisy this is Rose, Rina and Yo-Yo. Guys this is Daisy, she was brought in today." She introduced them to each other.
"Do you like it here?" Rose asked, with genuine interest as Daisy took another look around "I don't know yet, just woke up. Who's all these people?" she asked, turning back to the little group "Everyone here is like you, with powers. We bring everyone we can find here before some groups like the ACTU, SHIELD, Hydra or an angry mob can get to them, we teach them how to control their powers and they're free to go or come back whenever they want." Rose explained, walking her around the place while the rest stayed behind.
Daisy could feel her pulse quicken hearing Rose put SHIELD on the same group as the ACTU and Hydra, when all they wanted to do was help the inhumans. "Maybe not all those groups want to hurt us." she protested, less casually than she intended to. "They fear us, all of them. They will either want to lock us up, kill us or control us. It's just the way it is." Rose answered with obvious sadness in her tone.
"But what if we were part of those groups? The government and inhumans working together?" Daisy insisted, refusing to think inhumans would never be accepted, and she noticed a shift in Rose's expression "Been there. Done that. Didn't change a thing." She answered, locking eyes with the ground "Now if you excuse me I have some matters to attend." Rose excused herself before walking away, leaving a very confused and slightly pissed off Daisy behind.
"Forgive her, inhumans and government is a sore spot for her." Abby commented, appearing from behind "How's that?" Daisy inquired, crossing her arms over her chest. "Rose was an ACTU agent before we funded this place, she believed in the whole changing the system from inside thing." She answered and they both sat down.
"What changed?" Daisy asked, with a curiosity that wasn't born out of her orders "Her first mission was to get a rogue green superhuman with fire powers aka me." Abby recalled the event in her mind. It had been a few months back, and unluckily for her, Abby had been one of the first cases.
The ACTU had recently become functional, composed mostly of ex-military, and sadly no SHIELD agents who were familiar with a special kind of weird in their ranks. Although, unbeknownst by them, they did have someone who had a slight better idea than the rest of what was happening, or at least, how it felt like; a superhuman agent known as Rose Marie Ward.
Unlike most powers, Rose's wasn't visible, she was a telepath and while she had to deal with unwillingly reading minds for a while she learnt how to control it fairly easily. She was excited by her job on the ACTU, she would be able to know and help others like herself or so had she thought at first.
She had been assigned leader of a task force, they would go down to track a possible superhuman named Abigail Brand, who was suspected to have fire-related powers. And so they did, but when they got there Rose couldn't feel anything other than a paralyzing fear from the girl, believing things would be better once she was brought into custody she continued her mission and subdued the superhuman anyway.
"What's gonna happen to her?" Rose asked to her superior once the mission was over "She'll be in solitary until we find a way to contain her powers." Her superior explained, not taking her eyes off from the monitor, and they both watched a still unconscious Abigail slept for a few seconds before Rose interjected again.
"Wouldn't it be better if she could learn how to control it? We could use someone with powers on our side." She suggested and Rosalind looked at her inquiringly before answering "No. This powers, these people... they're unpredictable, dangerous, untrained. They would only suppose a risk. What if one of them were to hurt someone -I'm not saying they would mean to do it- but what if it happened anyway? There're no laws, no rules, no one they would have to answer to if that happened." Director Price said, fully turning towards Rose.
"So we're just gonna put them away? Locked in a cage for the rest of their lives because of some powers they didn't even ask for?" Rose said angrily, crossing her arms over her chest as she turned towards Director Price as well. She learnt to control her powers, she could use them for good and other could do the same if only they were given the chance.
"If that's what it takes to keep the population safe, then yes!" Director Price said harshly in a tone than to any other agent would have meant the discussion was over and while Rose did shut up for a few seconds, she only did so in order to concentrate enough to get into her superior's mind.
Rose stared wordlessly at her superior as soon as she sensed all the fear inside of her, and left without muttering a word but Rosalind paid her no mind, setting for checking out sketches of possible technology that would allow them, albeit only temporally, to contain the superhuman's powers. However, a few minutes later, when the monitor flicked to their latest prisoner's cell feedback they found it empty.
"What the-? I want this place in lockdown now!" she instantly yelled and not even three seconds later the loud alarms had taken over the building as a very agitated Rose dragged a still half out Abigail or Abby, how she would come to start calling the girl later, through the corridors.
"Why are you doing this?" Abby asked in a sleepy tone, but surprisingly that moment would be one of the things she would be able to recall much later "You put me there, why get me out now? I don't wanna be probed, please, don't let them probe me." Abby babbled as the agent let go a huffed breath "No one is gonna probe you. And to answer your questions; I'm doing this because I wanna help you, I put you here because I thought you would be safe and I'm getting you out because I was wrong. And honestly, after having their asses saved by superheroes god knows how many times you'd think they would start looking at superhumans a different way." Rose explained, the last part more as an afterthought to herself than to her companion.
They heard some other agents around the upcoming corner and Rose let Abby fell ungracefully on the floor, focusing all her energies and powers onto the agents who promptly passed next to them completely unaware of the presence of the two girls "Wasn't sure that would work." Rose muttered to herself, she really didn't have that much time or subject to practice the projection part of her powers.
Abby -who by now wasn't feeling like she was floating anymore- stood up on her own, far more aware of the situation they were currently in "Let's get the hell out." She said, walking round the corner without even waiting for Rose.