After mingling with the crowd all day and listening to more idle chit chat and town gossip than Ace knew could possibly exist she was finally relieved to hit upon a couple of scientists who were talking about going out tonight to investigate what was going on. She met up with Clint in their black car and gave him the location of there next focal point.

"You're a little sunburnt." He pointed out.

"These anomalies are apparently always proceeded by geometric storms and the last seventeen have been predictable to the minute." She circled the map in her hands and showed her friend where they were going next. By the time they made it to their location the wind was stirring and they got out looking at the sky.

"Any idea what we're looking for?"

"Not a clue." Ace admitted. Over in the northeast they noticed some odd glowing clouds and looked up at it then each other curiously. Massive clouds of rainbow lights could be seen, and her scanner started going nuts. "I believe that's it." She said.

"What should we do?"

"We can't really go into the sky to investigate, so lets just watch and see what happens." The wind started to howl and a tornado came down out of the cloud, suffused with the strange rainbow light, roaring loudly as it touched down. "Uh-oh." Her scanner started flashing brightly on her wrist, the readings off the charts in reaction to the phenomenon. A huge bolt of lightning struck down through the funnel of the tornado, with a terrifying intensity. And then it started to evaporate.

"That was intensely entertaining, but uh, is there anything we should be worried about with it?" Ace was checking the readings on her scanner when something crashed down behind her sending her flying forward as it opened a crater. "Ace!"

"Ok, that hurt." She groaned, slowly rising to her hands and knees, trying to get air back in her lungs. Clint helped her up and the two made their way to the edge of the crater and spotted something inside. "Please tell me it's not a spaceship with a little boy in it." Clint winced at her bad joke and climbed down into the crater and stared at the object.

"It's a hammer." He called, and tried to pull it out. "And it's not coming out." Coughing as she joined him she ran her scanner over it and stared.

"I don't think it's from around here." She commented. "Call it in." Ace climbed out of the hole and stared up at the sky. Whatever happened just now was mind blowing and she couldn't wrap her head around it. A rainbow colored tornado? Her equipment reacting like it was having it's own personal fiesta? A hammer falling out of the sky?

"They're sending a team tomorrow, for now we are to check into a hotel and get some rest." Clint informed.

They made it to the hotel and Ace climbed on her bed and sighed. She was fine with pulling all nighters, she usually did them unintentionally all the time but the past twenty-four hours had possibly been the longest of her life. Clint smiled and flopped onto his own bed. Both passing out almost instantly.

The next morning they got up and made their way to Isabela's Diner, barely noting the other patrons inside. Ace was completely useless without her breakfast. Ordering steak and eggs, and orange juice she waited, mind on stand-by mode until she got proper nourishment. Finally their food arrived and she started scarfing down as though it was her last meal.

"You and meat, I'm not so sure you're not completely feral." Clint said, referring to her mother's mutation. Something smashed behind them and they looked over their shoulders to see a group sitting in the middle of the diner.

"Another!" The blonde man called.

"Sorry, Izzy." One of the women called. "It was an accident." The two S.H.I.E.L.D. members turned back to their food and their conversation.

"No, trust me, I've undergone extensive testing no sign of the x-gene in me." She told him.

"You missed all the fun at the crater." Said a townie walking in and the two agents looked at each other, Ace checking her cuff for the time.

"What crater?" The owner asked.

"They're saying some kind of satellite crashed in the desert." The townie told her.

"We were having a good time with it till the feds showed up and chased us out." Clint and Ace looked at each other laying money on the counter for their bill taking off out of the restaurant, Ace holding her steak between her teeth as they rushed to the car.