Rori woke up later that night. After her little breakdown earlier she had ended up falling asleep. Rori swore that the Peterson's had the guest room specifically set up for her, even though she hadn't been here in a long time, though she's called and emailed the Peterson's more than her own family.

Rori went opened up her suitcase and pulled out a jacket since it was a lot colder now. She walked back out into the main room and found Vanessa cooking up something. Rori didn't know what time it was, though it was dark, but honestly that could have been anytime between 4:00 pm and 6:00 am in New York. "Aurora?" Asks Vanessa when she found the younger girl was standing there oddly without saying a word.

"Hm?"

"Are you okay?" Questions Vanessa, walking away from what she was doing.

"Yeah," she answers curtly, but doesn't speak more than that. Vanessa walks over with a concerned look on her face. She runs her fingers through the knots of Rori's strawberry blonde hair.

"Ace and I were pretty surprised when you showed up. I mean, of course we're happy to see you, but you maybe should have called first. You usually do." Rori still wasn't acting like herself. She hardly even looked like herself. Vanessa and Ace both feared that she was too young for all of this and they were both positive now that they were right.

"I had a reason for coming here. Somethings... happened and I thought Ace might know more than most." Vanessa's dark eyebrows knit in confusion and worry.

"Know more about what, sweetheart?"

"People... turned cold and hard like stone." Vanessa looked very tense.

"Ace!"

"Adam's been... what?" Breathed Adeline. She couldn't even believe it. Her, James, Canary, JP and Alice had all sprung up and quickly rushed to the medical building in the compound as soon as they gotten a call about what happened. It was almost midnight, but not one of them had refused to come.

"He's Asgardian how in the world was he shot?" Questioned James. From the old files he'd snuck from his father out of sheer curiosity, it seemed to him like Asgardian's own flesh was tough like steel. Was Adam any different somehow?

"He's not a god, he's a human and therefore he bleeds," Serena answers lowly. She'd rushed to intercept the kids as soon as they had came in. She didn't want another doctor to start harping on them or letting on exactly how much trouble Adam was in right now.

"A lot," stressed JP. He'd been able to sense the distress of the situation, even if it was more of Adeline's thing. It didn't take a mind reader or a genius to deter the seriousness of the events that had transpired.

"What about the H-364?" Inquired Alice and Serena instantly whipped her hand and head to the side. Using her powers to clamp Alice's lips shut in an instant. All of the other kids looked confused, Serena looked like Alice had just sprouted a second head or something.

"How do you know about that?" The older woman asked, the sounds coming out roughly through her teeth. None of the kids had ever seen Serena act like this in her since they've met her.

"Adam told me," Alice answers as soon as Serena's influence had left her "he told me he was going to use it to save Matthew's life."

"Save his life?" James quotes with obvious astonishment in his voice. No one had ever let on that Matthew's condition was that bad. Nobody had said... James felt terrible now. Sure, he and Matthew weren't particularly friends, the raven haired boy was very distant, but that didn't mean James should have ignored him. James was there when Adam had first found Matthew. James knew that Matthew hadn't had a clue about his powers and he knew that Matthew was have a hell of a transition process. The second generation super soldier kicked himself harder than he ever had then.

"He'll be fine without it," Serena says sternly, leaving no room for argument "now go back to the house. I'll send someone over soon." The kids all looked at each other, then Serena. It was clear that she wasn't going to let them in on anything else, so they all started to saunter along. Once they were outside Alice took front, ahead of the rest of the kids.

"She's lying," the ginger speaks up. Canary quirks an eyebrow.

"How can you tell?" She asks. Alice makes no snide side comment tonight. Two of the only people worth even considering caring about had almost died. Matthew was still dying. This was personal now. Alice hadn't ever really taken anything this way before, but with the angry feelings that swelled up inside her, all of their enemies better beware.

"Inbred skill. Even when I was little I could always tell when someone was lying to me," she answers.

"We can't let Matthew die because of this," Adeline says, twirling her silver waves nervously.

"No really, cupcake?" Alice snaps obviously. James get's between them instantly. They didn't have time for things to come to blows.

"Enough. How is this going to help Adam or Matthew?" James growls and that wasn't usual for him.

"Help Adam?" JP inquires. He knew Adam was psychically injured, but not fatally. "What about Adam?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Starts Alice "Adam's going to be implicated in stealing the H-364."

"But he did go to steal it," Adeline points out only earning a glare from Alice who was to her forward and to her left.

"Yes, but he was stealing it for Matthew. As crazy as it was, he may have gotten some kind of partial pardon for that," Alice comments "but since it was stolen by someone with malicious intent and since Calderon was murdered and that one could say that Adam enabled that, do you really think Agent Weaver, Johnson and Hill are going to take it easy on him?"

"Oh no," breathes JP"you're right! They could peg all the blame on Adam for this one."

"We have to do something!" Adeline cries. Alice crosses her arms. Half for the aesthetic and half because it's freezing outside.

"Queen of the obvious tonight, aren't we?" The Russian teenager hisses.

"Come on, both of you," Canary snaps harshly "we all know what we have to do and I don't think any of us can do it alone."

"No shit, Sherlock," says JP almost wryly. Maybe they could use a bit of that right now. The situation was so tense that the air even seemed to be constricting from their lungs.

"You want to steal the H-364 back," says James. It isn't a question. He knows. In fact, he had the same exact thought.

"Yes," affirms the oldest of the current group.

"How are we going to do that?" Asks Adeline "I want to help Adam and Matthew as much as any of you, but we don't have anything to go off of."

"I know, but there's got to be some clue somewhere, nobody is good enough to be trackless," Alice points out. She knew some people who were incredibly good then some who were impossible good, but not one of them was perfect. Every one of them had a blind spot.

"This is true," adds James.

"But we're still going in blind," counters Adeline. She hated being the voice of reason sometimes. She wished that things would just work for once.

"Hold up," said Canary, holding up her cellphone "not necessarily."

"What's that?" Asks JP, squinting to try and see the small text. Eventually he finally see's "it's from Rori!"

"What is she doing? What did she say?" Asks James.

"She says," Canary starts, skimming the long text and reading parts out loud to them all "she says she's figured out who they are. They had quotation marks around it and, um, she says that she met with someone who might be able to help."

"All with in two days?" Says Alice, even she's a little impressed and that was not an easy thing to do.

"I'm asking her where to rendezvous," says Canary whilst furiously typing and swiping on her see-through, plexi-glass phone.

"Who did she meet up with before?" Asks James. Canary, after she's sent her own message, scrolls back and skims Rori's message.

"She didn't say. Only that she could help," answered the blonde girl. She then set her phone to vibrate and slid it in her back pocket. "Everybody grab your cases and let's blow this joint."

"Couldn't you have just stuck with a simple let's go?" Question James, wryly. Canary waved him off.

"I liked my way better."

Adam waited impatiently in his room at the S.H.I.E.L.D hospital. He had been sectioned off to this room solely and others had been given order to not let him leave, thus the two giant guys standing on either side of the only door in or out of the room. Maria had finally come to visit three afters after Adam's initial conscious awakening.

"I see you've met you're new babysitters," Maria says with held back aggression. She implying this to the fact that Adam had left yet, even though he probably could of even he really wanted to, despite being injured. Bloody. Very bloody, but not fatal, at least not to a half Asgardian.

"I know you're angry... and that's probably an understatement."

"Probably?" Maria shot back.

"Well, I'm just going out on a limb here," he replies with his usual bout of snark. Maria isn't amused.

"Damn it, Adam!" She hisses angrily "do you know how many times I've stuck my neck out for you? I've lost count. You know Director Coulson and I took a chance on you and you have no idea how much I hate that I was proven wrong."

"I'm not some kind of pretty thief, I was saving a life!-"

"And loosing one," Maria cuts him off bitterly. He tone is low and dangerous. It's way more menacing than yelling. Adam moved closer to the agent, trying to match her tone of voice.

"I wasn't the one who killed agent Calderon, even after he put a bullet in me. Now instead of throwing me under the bus so soon, you might want to try and figure out who did, because whatever he is he's bad news and he's played us all up to this point."

"You don't know that," Maria challenges. She moves back away from where Adam is standing. Adam sighs, frustrated and moves towards the open window, looking out into the night sky and the stars.

"The stone sightings began a few days before Matthew went critical, distracting S.H.I.E.L.D's resources," Adam starts and there's no venom anymore, just pain "someone must have known I was getting desperate and even more they know that I'd go for the H-364."

"This is ludicrous. You're implying that someone actually knew who Ross is. I'm even surprised you found out." Adam could tell that he'd lost all his credibility with Maria, but his next accusation sounded even crazier.

"What? That's he's actually Matthew Ross-Banner." Maria doesn't answer. She just scoffs and starts to walk away. "There's more," Adam starts "nobody was supposed to know other than the S.H.I.E.L.D council. Calderon was the one who showed up at the vault that night." Maria whipped around and stared dangerously and incredulously at Adam.

"You are seriously implying that Calderon was a spy? Are you out of your goddamn mind? People have made better excuses than that to save their own skin; you're disrespecting a dead man."

"I don't think he was.. under his own free will. The enhanced with him, whatever he said Calderon repeated." Maria didn't seem convinced or phased. Adam was desperate. "Come on, Maria! You and I both know that there are meta-humans that have influence over the mind! There's one in this building right now!"

"There's only one thing I do know right now, agent Foster," Maria spoke sternly and dutifully, even if she didn't want to "you are to appear in D.C with in four day so that the S.H.I.E.L.D council can preside over your trial. This is not up for discussion." Maria starts to walk away. She touches a spot of the door and it slides open.

"Please, Maria," Adam begs painfully "don't let the kid die because I messed up. He's only got one shot.." Maria doesn't say anything. She swallows hard, straitens her posture a bit more before walking briskly out of the room. Adam watches the metal door close. He yells angrily and crushes the glass monitor off to the side of the room. He leans against the wall after, letting some of it smear with blood from his now re-opened wound.

"Guys," Rori says relieved. She runs over to her friends and hugs Adeline. They met up in the city NYC, half way between where they were and where Rori was. Canary, James, Adeline, JP and Alice had all somehow managed to sneak off base, with a little mix of all of their various skill and abilities of course. Without them they might all still be stuck at the compound. "I got your message a few hours ago about Adam and Matthew, how are they?"

"So far? Not good," answers James sadly. He knows the scores and he's pretty sure Rori does too, even before she asked.

"You better have some bad ass back up, Stark," Alice deadpans. Rori separate's from Adeline's embrace and looks over to the in-training spy of the gang.

"Hopefully," she mutters.

"Hopefully?" Alice repeats, eyebrows raised "please tell me you actually know who you're with." In the moment Alice considers whether or not they should have ever let the young girl get away in the first place. Too naive, pretentious, vulnerable.

"She knows more about what we're up against," Rori says instead, hoping to allay her friends even a little. From a day with Ace and Vanessa and then meeting her anonymous ally, she'd compiled quite a bit of information.

"And what exactly are we up against?" Questions Canary.

"Inhumans," says a brand new voice, one familiar to both Adeline and Alice. She takes this moment to step out of the shadows, her eyes blazing gold instead of blue like they previously were when the two girls had met her before on a mission.

"Luna?!" Says Adeline, shocked "what are you doing here?!"

"It's a long story." Alice, arms no longer crosses, but ready at her sides just in case, looms a little closer to the new-comer.

"You're one of them, aren't you?" She accuses, staring at the girls brilliant gold eyes.

"You knew?" Inquires Luna, more almost amused than curious or even cautious.

"I had my suspicions," the ginger added "you did have to get passed a bunch of deadly serpent-like murderers to get to me, Matthew and back." The other members of the party just watch the two's exchange, not sure what to make of it. Luna flashes a lop-sided smirk.

"You're smarter than you look," she admonishes. Alice quirks an eyebrow.

"Yes, well, you've only even really seen me barely conscious."

"Fair enough."