"Skye what happened? I can´t reach Coulson." May sounded serious as she called Daisy on her spare phone. The first number she had tried went straight to voicemail. After that she had checked several hacker forums and got together this number.
"The A.T.C.U. got him and the others. I´m working on a plan to get them out." answered Daisy and continued her hacking while talking.
"How?"
"He let the A.T.C.U. walk straight through the front door. Coulson has a crush or something like that on the director of the A.T.C.U., Rosalind Price. She turned on him. I tried to tell him not to trust her but he didn´t listen. I left before she came to the base. Got Joey, Alisha and Ray out before they took over ´the cocoon´."
"Shit, where are you?"
"In a safe house from before my time with S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Stay there. Can you give me access to the camera systems of the bases?"
"Sure, but the only people there are from the A.T.C.U. They are checking out everything they find. I bugged and encrypted the system. The doors won´t open if they try to take anything of the base. I thought Fitz was crazy for insisting for those scanners but now they come in rather handy."
"So, all we need to do is take back our base and get our things out." surmised May and began to think about a plan. Shouldn´t be too hard if they did it the right way.
"For the beginning it should suffice to get them out of the playground and then seal it or something. Later we can take everything and move it to a safe place. Only I can access the system from the outside."
"Good, is there any way for them to change that?"
"Not at the moment. It´s my own encryption. A few Rising Tide members tried to hack the encryption but couldn´t and believe me when I say that they won´t find a way into it in the near future."
"How about we meet up and then take back the base?" May had changed her mind about Daisy staying where she was.
"Sure, when and where?" They agreed on a place and time and then cut the phone call to pack what they needed. In Daisy´s case her laptop and a few weapons. After that she stepped out of her room and right into the youngest inhuman in the underground place.
"Where are you going?"
"I´m going to take back our base, Ray." answered Daisy the question of the young boy. She wore her old mission gear from before the whole inhuman incident. People wouldn't notice her that much in them.
"I want to help!" Ray turned to get his jacket but Daisy stopped him.
"You can´t come, Ray. It´s too dangerous."
"But I wanna help." he stubbornly told her and stomped his foot on the ground.
"I know but if I take you with me I can´t concentrate completely on the mission. I would worry about you." she calmly explained and got down to her knees to be on the same height as him. "How about you have an eye on this base? I can´t protect it while I´m away. The video feed of the cameras are all running to my computer. You could keep an eye on them and if something is strange you go and check it out with Lincoln, Joey or Alisha."
It was clear as day that Ray wasn´t happy about her going alone but protecting their temporarily home? That wasn´t bad either.
"Who will help you?" he couldn´t stop to ask her.
"You remember the woman I told you about? My SO?"
"Yeah."
"She´s going to come with me. We´re going to take back what is ours."
"Okay but be sure to kick some ass!" Ray told her and got something out of his pocket. It was a metal chain with a chinese sign on it. "My cousin told me it would always protect me. If you take it with you it will protect you. You can give it back to me if you come back to us later." he gave it to her and Daisy placed it carefully in one of her pockets.
"Thanks buddy. I´ll promise to give it back to you later." She told him and then left to get herself a car. She knew that she couldn´t use her van for this mission because she would have to leave it a few hours away from the base. Also she was pretty sure that they wouldn´t return to the car to drive it back. They would take the Zephyr1 and get on their way.
She picked up May five hours away from the base and three hours later they lost the car to make the rest of the way by foot. Both of them knew the terrain around the base by heart because they spent a few days outside of the base for survival training.
