I'm sorry. I had to say spangled array. You know I did. I just had to. My sister made fun of me but I don't care.


STEVE

"Agent Hill! What are you doing here?"

"Same as you. We're getting your girlfriend out of this mess." Steve's face heated up when she called Ella his girlfriend, but he nodded.

"Do you know who kidnapped her and Ameline?"

"Yes. We think it's a group of SHIELD haters so to speak. Terrorists, I guess you could call them."

"Who would hate SHIELD? SHIELD protects."

"Some people think SHIELD keeps too many secrets." Maria said.

"SHIELD does." Steve snorted.

"Well, for the good of the public, yes. We need to submerge them slowly into the facts that aliens exist and some want to kill us, and besides that other worlds exist. Asgard, for example. This group in particular was planning on kidnapping an agent and demanding some of our secrets for her."

"How did they know she and Ameline were sisters? How did they know she would come?"

"I don't know. My guess is espionage, of course. There's probably someone on the inside."

"Of SHIELD?"

"I would guess so. Elisabeth likes to talk about her sister, doesn't she?"

"She does." Steve nodded. Ameline was Elisabeth's pride and joy.

"So someone on the inside alerted a group in Paris, then made sure Elisabeth found out about Ameline's disappearance. We got the ransom call today. They want the ability to hack into SHIELD's files."

"Not going to happen." Steve swerved into a nearby public building to the bathroom, and when he came out he was in full spangled array.

"Alright, Captain. Follow me back to base, we're gonna trace that call."