Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sheraton Barra hotel
Daisy (skye) Johnson was with her new boyfriend Lincoln on a vacation prescribed by Coulson himself so she could take her mind away from the troubles of the world for at least a while but it was impossible for her to shake off her feeling of guilt no matter how unwarranted. She remembered vividly when her mother and psychotic former leader of the inhumans living at the refuge in the Himalayas tried to kill her and how she had no choice but to knock off the quinjet into the ocean to stop it from carrying the terrigen crystals destined to kill tens of thousands if not more of people whose sin was not to carry the inhuman gene an artificially implanted gene by the Kree empire ages ago.
Little she knew that in doing so the crystals dissolved releasing the terrigen mist into the ocean's food chain. And months latter people began showing symptoms of slowly and painfully turning to stone. Her mother had the last laugh after all. She found herself in a shopping center surrounded by people turned to stone the agony etched forever in their faces as she heard her mother's voice "Well done my dear and to think that I thought of you as a disappointment to be rid off yet you have performed beyond my wildest expectation, placing the terrigen mist in the food chain is something I would have never come up and yet you did" Jianying said
"What I did, I did to stop you and you are dead!" Daisy said in annoyed defiance. "Oh no my dear, I still live through you and no matter how much you deny it and try to convince yourself to the contrary you are just like me; a mass murderer!" Jianying replied. Skye screamed NOO at the top her lungs as she woke up from the nightmare in a cold sweat and discharging a pulse from her outreached hands which smash the sliding doors to the balcony. Lincoln woke up beside her as she knelt looking at the destruction she had unwittingly wrought.
"Ssh it's OK Daisy, it was just a nightmare" he said kissing her lovingly in the forehead. "Is not OK at all Lincoln I'm a mess and I'm losing it and people are dying and is all my fault" she said sobbing in a mixture of rage and despair. "No it is not your fault, it's your mother's you did all you could to stop it" Lincoln said.
"I think is best if we move to a safehouse" Daisy said once recovered looking at the damage as the hotel personnel frantically knocked at the door "Hey what the hell are you 2 up too in there, open up or we will call the police!" they yelled. "I think that would be a good idea!" Lincoln affirmed. "I'll call Coulson you go deal with the mob." Daisy said as she picked her cell and sped dialed S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters "What I'm I supposed to tell them?" Lincoln asked. "I don't know tell them we were celebrating our honeymoon with fireworks and they blew up." Daisy replied as she talked to Coulson over the phone appraising him of the situation.
"Oh yeah they are going to love that! We are going to spend 10 or 20 years in Brazilian prisons." Lincoln said as he went to open the door before it was knocked off its hinges by the hotel personnel outside. "No we won't S.H.I.E.L.D will fix this they need us for their Secret Warriors program, remember? Now git!" she said gesturing to him to finally open the door before they broke it down.
S.H.I.E.L.D Headquarters secret base 10 minutes latter.
"It's OK Skye we'll take of everything you just get both your butts to the safehouse" Coulson said over the phone "Maybe it wasn't such a good idea this vacation when people are dying and you feel so powerless, so if something comes up I'll give you a call" he added.
"I'd appreciate that don't get me wrong Rio is beautiful and under different circumstances I would probably be having the time of my life with Lincoln around here, but all I feel is powerless even with all this powers I got" Skye said on the other side of the line back on Rio with that she turned off her cell phone.
"So let me get this straight she just blew half an apartment after having a nightmare and you want her in charge of the Secret Warriors Initiative?" Nick Fury asked plaintively "I trust Agent Daisy Skye Johnson implicitly and the damage was not that extensive she blew out the sliding doors." Coulson replied. "And what about Simmons now that that Kree gizmo turned her into the only weapon we might have against the inhumans if it all goes south?" Fury asked again.
"Agent Simmons is still in recovery from her ordeal once she fully recovers she will be back on the active roster and not a moment earlier and it won't go south and the inhumans as a whole are not our enemy" Coulson replied visibly annoyed by the question by his boss. "Maybe so Agent Coulson but fear is a powerful motivator. We won't be able to keep the cover story of the flesh eating virus turning people to stone for much longer as more people become inhumans thanks to those crystals getting into the food chain."
"I'm fully aware of the situation Fury and I stand by my decisions so unless you intend to replace me, let me get on with my job." Coulson said "Your job is safe as for the rest I'll hold you to them" Fury replied as he left Coulson's office..
At that moment Coulson got another call from Operations. "Sir we found Ward and just as we suspected he is not just recruiting former Hydra agents but gifted individuals as well he has springed out a few including David Angar, Francis Noche and Alisha the Inhuman girl that could replicate herself so far, we have not been able to locate his current whereabouts" they informed him "OK keep me informed it seems we will have to activate the Secret Warriors initiative sooner than expected." He replied then he looked plaintively at the map on his computer screen. "Where are you?" he mused to himself. Coulson knew that whatever Ward was planning was probably going to happen soon.
