Encircling her mind was the muffled shouts of her friends and the slight ringing in her ears. She wasn't dead, how was that possible? The computer exploded underneath her and she was still alive. How? Her chest, head and hands hurt but they were the only ill effects from what happened. How on Earth was she alive? Her eyes were squeezed shut. She thought she was going to die but didn't. Slowly, she opened one eye first and found herself staring down at the ground. She opened the other. Her hands... they were glowing! What the hell?! Jolting upright, she expected the exploded computer parts to falls to the floor from her hands, but they didn't. They just stayed there.

A hand roughly grabbed her by the shoulder and jerked her around to face them. Coulson, May, Skye, and Trip stared at her in complete and utter shock. She looked up to the owner of the hand and Teagan's astounded face stared down at her. She shifted her gaze down to her hands, and the broken computer was encased in a transparent blue ball floating between them. Her jaw dropped. Was... was this a force field? It was, wasn't it! She created a force field to centralise the blast and keep it from destroying everything.

I... Wh... Speechless was the word to describe her.

The humans stood motionless at the end of the hall but Orion was the first of their group to move. He slowly edged towards his owner, keeping himself low to the ground. She watched him approach with the upmost caution and once he reached her, he nudged her left forearm and sat. The shock of the event slowly wore off in those present but it still remained in the air. Coulson gingerly moved to her, eyes fixated on the force field between her hands.

"Whoa." Teagan breathed, finally removing her hand from the doctor's shoulder. "That's... I... Wow."

Staring down at her hands incredulous, she said, "I've... I've only done this once before and that was during New York when I was bombarded by Chitauri. I tried to recreate it since but I haven't been able to..." she looked up, "Now I have."

"That's awesome." Skye commented, still having not moved from her spot beside May. "And creepy."

"It's still active." Teagan said, eyeing the force field. "Are you doing anything?"

She shook her head, "I'm not. It's just happening." Electricity shot through her arms, causing her to leap to her feet and drop the computer parts. They clattered to the floor. "Ah, ow! Flippin' heck!"

"Are you alright?!" Teagan and Coulson asked, rushing forward.

"Yeah," she looked to the bomb, feeling a little down on the disappeared force field, "damn, there that goes." She wondered if she could do it again but that she to wait, she still had to deal with Haugen. She spun to the face the crowd that had suddenly gathered behind May and the others. The amount of people there put her off a little. She glanced at Coulson, "I'm going to see Haugen."

"Do you think that's a good idea?!" He questioned.

"Absolutely not but he nearly killed us all." She quickly left them before they could protest. Ackerly thundered down the corridors to get to the Vault.

She hastily entered and Haugen jumped to his feet in shock. "I heard the explosion but you're not dead? What the hell are you?! Why aren't you and everyone else dead? That bomb was specifically made to destroy this entire base and you're alive!" She slammed her hand down on the control panel for the force field and it deactivated. "What are you doing?" She dashed forward and grabbed his collar.

"Thank you for unlocking another ability, drittsekk."

"What?!" He shouted, both confused and shocked.

Shoving him against the back wall, she snarled, "You heard me."

"And now you're gonna kill me."

"I am."

"You won't do it." He taunted.

She raised an eyebrow, "Oh yeah?"

"Yeah. It's not like you to kill an unarmed man, now is it?"

"You're not unarmed and you obviously don't know me very well."

His eyes widened and wore an impressed expression. "How'd you find out?"

"I know a knife in a boot when I see one."

"Of course you do..."

They held each others gaze for a moment, adrenaline rushing through their bodies. The air thick was silent tension that could be cut by a knife. She flashed him a smile before sending a fatal burst of energy into his chest. He let out a pained whine and went limp under her grasp. She breathed a sigh of relief and slowly lowered Haugen's body onto the bed. She put her hands on her hips and looked down at him, "I've killed many unarmed people." She rubbed her forehead and swiftly left the vault.

Ackerly quickly found her way to Coulson's office where he, May, Teagan, Skye and Trip had watched the proceedings on the large screen. They talked, clearly not having spotted her arrival, about what had happened. "She just killed him and that doesn't bother you?" Trip asked.

"It bothers you?" Teagan questioned, eyebrow raised. "What would we have done if we let him walk? He would've told HYDRA where we are and we'd all be dead within a week."

Trip looked at her for a moment, considering her words. "I guess you're right, but it doesn't mean I have to like it."

"I didn't like it either." The group turned to her in an instant and Trip shifted on his feet. She entered the office, "But I wasn't going to have him crawl his arse back to HYDRA and tell them where you are, so I had to kill him."

"We can let Day go?" May asked.

"Yeah, she's no threat." The doctor turned to Skye and Trip, "How's the computer?"

Skye sighed, "We could only salvage his orders and where and who they came from."

She took a step towards the hacktivist and said a little too forcefully, "Go on."

"A woman called Erin Hook and it came from Copenhagen."

Her mouth opened to form words but nothing came out. How could Erin give her orders from beyond the grave? She was dead and she killed her. How? Were they sent by a third party after she died or, knowing she was going to die, pre-emptively set a timer on her orders to be given to him to execute once she arrived in the Playground? The latter seemed the most likely. She may have been her enemy but Erin thought things through well. And she thought she destroyed the Copenhagen base, no, only the floor leading the way out. Didn't she try to destroy some computers? No, she didn't, she wanted to get herself and Shiori out of there was quickly as possible, the computers could wait. So maybe a third party did send Haugen those orders after all and the thing used to attempt to detonate her. She should've paid more attention to taking out the computers and hard drives during her escape.

"Gabe, are you alright?" Teagan's concerned voice and the hand on her shoulder snapped her from her thoughts. They had all moved and stood by her with varying degrees of worry written on their faces.

She blinked a couple times and nodded, "Oh, yeah, I am, sorry. I was just thinking."

"About?" Phil asked.

"How I should've wrecked as many computers as I could." She glanced at Teagan to remove her hand, which she did, and looked at Skye, "Was that everything?"

She nodded with an apologetic look, "Yeah, sorry."

"It's fine. You did all you could."