"No, no, no!" came Trip's frantic shouts from inside the lab. The trio hurriedly entered and they found him standing by a computer with lines of code onscreen rapidly disappearing. Orion lay asleep on the floor, ignoring the whole thing.

"What is it?!" Skye quickly asked, dashing over to the console.

"Everything on the computer's being deleted!"

"What?!" The three women practically shouted.

"I was gone for minute!" Skye huffed, sitting down in her chair. She typed at the keyboard with haste then, after a moment, stamped her foot. "Damn! I must've activated a hidden virus when I decrypted that data file!"

"Can you get it back?" asked Ackerly eagerly.

Skye slowly nodded her head, "Uh, yeah, yeah, I think I can if I'm fast enough."

"Do it!" Skye nodded her head again and quickly went to work.

"Gabriella!" shouted Coulson from behind her. That caused Orion to jolt awake from his sleep and swiftly stand.

She rounded on him and snapped, "Yes?"

Phil was taken back by her sudden outburst but continued with what he came to tell her. "Haugen's asking for you."

"He'll have to wait." She replied turning back to Skye and the computer. After a pause, she turned back to Coulson, feeling bad about snapping at him. She ran a hand through her fringe, "Sorry, Phil, things are a..." she sighed, "are not going well. I'll, uh, I'll came see Haugen while Skye's dealing with that bloody computer." He nodded and gestured for her to follow. She glanced back to Teagan, Skye, Trip and Orion, "I'll be back," and followed Phil out of the lab.

"What do you plan on asking him?" He asked as they walked back towards the basement.

"What he did to me and why he did it." She replied. "Though I have a feeling I know the answer to the both of those questions."

"What will you do if your suspicions are true?" She glanced at him with a knowing look. "You're going to kill him?"

"Well we can't have him knowing where we are and I can't risk him going back to HYDRA and telling them that it worked."

"He didn't see it work."

"I know," she said, meeting his gaze, "but I'm not willing to take that chance."

Phil let out a slow, acknowledging sigh and nodded his head. "If you feel the need that you have to do it then I won't stop you."

"Thank you." She said simply. They descended the stairs to the basement, she muttered, "I'll make it quick." Ackerly and Coulson now stood outside the Vault Haugen was being kept in, his pissed off shouts muffled and quiet through both the force field and thick door between them. "He's not happy alright." She commented.

"When... get out... here, I'm killing... all! Hail HYDRA!" She focused her ears to hear what he was yelling about. "Gabriella, you're a time bomb and we have our finger in the big, red button!" The next noise was his obnoxious cackling.

She rolled her eyes with a huff, "Wish me luck."

"Good luck and try not to let him get to you," he said, "we'll be watching."

"Great," she said sarcastically, "an audience."

Coulson chuckled and softly patted her on the back. "It's just me and May." She nodded with a slight smile. "And maybe Skye and Teagan." He added thoughtfully. She stared at him with a mock horrified look before rolling her eyes once again and taking a step towards. "Come to my office once you've finished." He told her, and then he left.

She stared at the door in front of her and Haugen still yelled behind it, throwing in some Norwegian insults for good measure. Taking a deep breath, she muttered, "Well, time to get those answers." Ackerly pushed open the door and Haugen's shouts stopped almost instantly. He watched her with piercing eyes as she descended the small steps and moved to stand beside the console panel.

After an agonisingly long pause, his harsh voice broke the silence, "Doctor." She watched him study her body closely. "So, did our little concoction work?" The only response she gave him was silence. He stepped closer to the barrier separating them. "Hmm, if it did work, did it cause you to loose your tongue?"

She ignored his question and gave him the first of her three questions to answer. "Why do it?"

"Why not?" He replied with a nonchalant shrug. "With Coulson and the others dead, permanently, then HYDRA can reign supreme. You're the best bet to taking out as many of you as we can." He was correct in that assumption and thankfully he was complying so far, but that could change when he saw fit.

She narrowed her eyes at him and analysed his posture. Dominant. Confident. And restless? His left index and middle finger drummed against his thigh and his gaze was unwavering from hers. His right hand was on his hip, his shoulders square and chest puffed out, making him look a few inches taller than he was. Why? Onto her last two question, she still watched him. "What was in that and what was it?"

"I don't know what was in that, I just administered it. What it was, though, you know that. A kick-starter to the destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D. and it didn't just start with you." His eyes left her gaze for a moment, flickering back to the door and returning with a mischievous and malicious glint about them. "Du er ikke den eneste som leser til å blåse."

Her eyes widened in realisation.

His computer.

Pivoting on the balls of her feet, she sprinted from the Vault; Haugen laughing behind her. She teared up the set of stairs and raced down the corridor to the lab. Skye, Teagan, Orion and Trip were in danger. She skidded onto the lab and the three turned to stare at her with confused faces. Before anyone could say a thing, she grabbed the laptop, yanked it from Skye's hands, and took off again, towards the surface way out. She heard them and a few others pursuing. "It's a bomb!" She yelled to get them to back off. But only a few did.

The increasing temperature of the computer warned her that detonation was near and there was no way that she would make it outside in time. No more needed to die because of her. She deviated from her path, dashing down a clear corridor.

Moments.

The computer, no, bomb began to burn her hands. She cast a quick glance over her shoulder. Teagan, Coulson, May, Skye, Trip, and Orion. No one was dying today. It let out a high pitched whine.

Seconds.

Ackerly threw herself onto the floor, shielding everyone from the foundation shaking explosion.