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"There's nothing" daisy grumbled after dropping an old magazine back onto the kitchen bench. The apartment Coulson had rented was empty, it looked slightly lived In but there were no signs of an abduction, no clues as to what he was looking into or any remains of whatever he had been doing here. The four had spent an hour searching the room before questioning the other residents of the building, which had taken significantly longer than expected, still, there was no new information. They returned to Coulson's room two hours ago, with Coulson's missing status approaching a week daisy didn't care to be careful, tearing through everything in the apartment to make sure they didn't miss anything.
"May said he was here for, What? four days, right?" Daisy asked glancing at the blonde across the room, she knew the answer but she needed to think out loud. Bobbie nodded.
"Our people have already raked the place for any evidence," she reminded her.
"We have to have missed something, Coulson doesn't just disappear without reason. " Daisy frowned, scanning the room. "He has way too much faith in the system to drop off the map without telling, someone"
The television was small, set up in front of a three-seat couch, a small bedroom was to her left, Kitchenette on her right, a quaint place to stay.
"He would have known if he was being followed or even targeted, he must have left something." Daisy thought aloud, walking towards the kitchen where hunter was searching.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again," Hunter commented, searching the fridge. "I don't see Coulson as a beer guy, he seems to classy for this." He remarked holding up a cold bottle before opening it and taking a swig. "Oh, this is good."
Daisy rolled her eyes at the agent drinking evidence. "You expect Coulson to buy cheap beer?" She questioned, her eyes falling back to the counter as she absently ran her hands over the magazines.
"No, that's my point," Hunter replied, Daisy turned back to him looking at the label on his bottle, she furrowed her brow.
"That's not his brand" she noted, taking the bottle and spinning it.
"People change?" Hunter suggested with a shrug, taking the bottle back gently, so as to not shake it.
"Can you stop that?" Bobbie asked her husband, smacking him upside the head. Hunter winced but held onto his drink.
"He isn't going to drink it, I'll get him another pack." He replied, defensively. Daisy shook her head, trying to think.
"Why would Coulson buy beer if he was on mission anyway, I doubt this is Fury's brand." Daisy thought out loud.
"You're onto something there tremors, I've never known Coulson to break a rule," Mack said, his tone laced with sarcasm, daisy ignored him. Instead, she moved to the nearest wall, scanning the surface for any sign of damage or inconsistency. For a relatively cheap apartment it was well looked after, the paint was clean and even, no off-color touch-ups, the furniture a higher class than what would be found in any other apparent this price, she knew from questioning other tenants earlier Plus had stayed at her fair share of cheap motels to know how they worked. But this room, while lived in, was well kept.
"This place is too nice." She decided. "It's not right." At this point she wished tony was here to have a look at the walls with x-ray or whatever Jarvis was capable of, it might reveal something they were missing.
Hunter gave her a look, "he's the director of shield, I think he can afford it" he said, misunderstanding her words. Daisy moved to the fridge, looking at the shelf holding the beer before scanning the remaining items, eggs, water a glass of orange juice. That's weird, who puts a glass of juice in the fridge, she grabbed it, scanning it for something. She stood up, grabbing another glass from the cupboard and pouring the juice in it, rinsing the other once out and flipping it over.
The label on the bottom read 'A.C and co' she nearly cheered at it. Looking for the next clue she placed the glass on the bench and turned back to the fridge, the spot the glass was sitting in had a fruit sticker from a local grocer, it looked worn but daisy peeled it up anyway flipping it over to find a tiny device stuck to the back. She quirked a brow in interest, the rest of the group moving her way to have a look.
"Fitzsimmons scanned the room for devices and tech and found nothing," Mack said in disbelief, squinting his eyes at the device. Daisy smirked, happy to have outsmarted the geniuses.
"Well we will have to send this their way for examination," Daisy said simply. "Hunter, congrats," She said, turning to him with a sarcastic smile.
"What, me " he sighed. "You, you never let me have any fun." He complained as Bobbie opened an evidence bag for daisy to drop the device into, she shrugged.
"As I recall, anytime you have fun someone gets hurt" She reminded him.
"Uh, nobody important." the former mercenary replied defensively.
"Dr garner?" Hunter paused.
"Okay in my defense the guy did turn out to be crazy" Daisy had a hard time disagreeing.
"well," she said instead, turning towards the door.
"wait where are we going?" Mack questioned her suspiciously, expecting them all to be delivering the evidence.
"Grocery shopping" daisy informed him, moving for the door. She was satisfied to have a lead, having found nothing else in the room she was confident to follow her hunch.
Mack rolled his eyes but followed her, leaving Bobbie and hunter behind. They were waiting for the blonde downstairs, eyes scanning the area outside for threats and clues, the streets were empty which was curious considering it was a relatively nice day out.
"You okay tremors," Mack asked, dropping a hand onto her shoulder, she had checked out she realized noticing his concerned look.
"Shouldn't there be more people out?" She asked, repeating her previous thought, checking the time on her watch, four o'clock, children would be out from school, parents and adults should be on the street but it was practically bare.
"I was just thinking that," Mack said, dropping his pack from his shoulder and pulling out a device from his bag. "I'll check the news for suspicious activity in the area."
Daisy's eyes returned to the window, noting how the sky had already started to darken, wondering just how long they had been here.
"Movement across the street," Bobbie said, gaining both their attention. She was slightly winded, having taken the stairs, and had her gun out. Daisy looked to the agents, planning out their next movements.
"Mack stay here and contact May, tell her what we're doing and then look into local news." She told the older man, gaining a nod before gesturing to the blonde. "Bobbie with me, we will head for the grocer, you take the back I'll make some noise up front." Bobbie nodded, they gave Mack another look before heading out the door.
"How'd hunter take off?" Daisy asked the blonde on their way down the street, they walked with casual purpose, weapons hidden.
"Just fine, he was just whining again," Bobbie said. "Any clue as to why it's so quiet out?"
"No, something is going on though, there were people out when we arrived" she replied, " I have a bad feeling" Bobbie agreed. They were close to the shop, one other person on the street across from them stood to browse a newsstand, besides her the blonde twitched before stopping altogether.
"Ah, Daisy?" Bobbie muttered. Daisy was scanning the rest of the street like a tourist looking at landmarks but turned at the blondes call. She turned to the blonde before following her line of sight, her jaw fell open.
"I can explain everything," Coulson said, hands held up cautiously.
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"Shuri, anything?" Bucky asked again, phone pressed to his ear as the call rang out once more.
"The line has gone dead, there's nobody picking up." She replied with an impatient growl, shaking her head as she moved to the next screen. The cameras were down too, showing nothing but hazy black screens. " I'm sorry"
Bucky swore to himself, telling the young genius she needn't apologize, she had hacked shields system when they didn't answer their calls. There had been only a glimpse of movement on-screen before the camera went dark.
"Barnes," Tchalla said from the doorway, drawing Buckys attention from the screens. "Your team is on the line" He Informed him, with one more look at the screens Bucky forced himself from the room, Shuri promised to continue trying to get through while he was gone, he thanked her with a grateful look on his way out.
The princess turned back to the screens, giving herself a moment to breathe before resuming her task of finding Daisy as soon as possible.
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"Auto- What" Daisy scowled, looking from fury to Coulson as they explained themselves. She had been back underground for an hour already yet she felt no closer to understanding what was going on.
"Why didn't anyone mention this to me?" Her fists were balled, containing her anger at the situation.
Coulson had managed to coax Daisy into the base, avoiding the choice words Daisy was ready to yell at him. He led her to the grocery store while Bobbie and another agent Coulson had summoned headed back for Mack. The backroom of the store hid an entrance to an old shield bunker hence the reason Coulson had favored the particular area and apartment for personal missions.
"Daisy, you need to sit down," Coulson said, "you were off base it's-"
"Its bullshit is what it is, I've spent the last two days looking for you and nobody thought it wise to say 'oh hey, Fitzsimmons pissed off another group of robots'?" Mack and Bobbie had the decency to look ashamed. "Hey, daisy" she continued, her tone taking on a higher mocking tone to suit her mood, she starts to pace the room. "why don't you tell us what you've been up to lately while we withhold important information on why Coulson might be missing."
"Agent Johnson you need to relax." Fury tried but Daisy continued, ignoring the older man completely.
"Nevermind the fact that we treat you like garbage and ribbed you away from a perfectly comfortable-"
"Agent Johnson!" Fury spoke again, cutting her short.
"Mr Fury" daisy replied tightly, pointing out his lack of title. "My name is Daisy, Quake or Miss Johnson, I am not, nor do I ever want to be again, an agent", her words were short and sharp, Coulson looked sad at that but fury gave her a slight nod.
"Okay then, Miss Johnson" fury replied. "If you want to know what's going on you will need to sit down and listen up" daisy breathed deep, staring at the older man before straightening, she moved to the closest chair and sat down hesitantly. "Thank you," fury said before directing his attention to Coulson. "Coulson"
"Thank you, as I was saying" Coulson started. "The robots as you say got inside Fitzsimmons's heads, in order to get in front of this I sought nicks help, I couldn't have anyone on base know in case it got back to either of them."
"That doesn't explain why nobody mentioned any of this to me." Daisy blurted out.
"No it doesn't, I'm sorry for that and I'll have to have words with everyone," Coulson said, eyes turning from her to Bobbie and Mack who looked as if they wanted to say something but remained silent. "when we have resolved this current threat, for now, I need everyone to be focussed on this mission"
"Now, we caught movement in the upper atmosphere a few weeks ago, May informed me as soon as the scanners went off, thankfully neither Fitz or Simmons saw, we wiped the board and adjusted the specifications of the radar to avoid picking it up again as well as putting Fitzsimmons on a new task to keep their focus targetted away from this. Meanwhile, May and I decided it best to outsource a way to determine the cause of the movement." Coulson explained. "Fury has his own situation running because, well,"
"Because he's nick fury?" Daisy guessed.
"Well, yes" Coulson agreed. "Finding him was the problem, which is why I went off base. Once he picked up the signals I was sending out he agreed to help considering he had picked up on something similar."
"And how did he find you so fast, what signals were you using?" daisy questioned, genuinely curious.
"this base is completely off shields system it and a few others are only recorded in Fury's toolbox." Coulson explained, "Along with that each one is equipped with a 'break in case of emergency' sort of button," He said, "A direct line to fury or someone who can get in contact with his asap." Daisy nodded in understanding, smart though she could think of a few situations where they could have used such a thing.
"So multiple disturbances?" Bobbie asked, leaning forward in her seat as she directed the conversation back to the matter at hand.
"Unfortunately," Fury answered " we've been working to solve the Chronicon problem from here, jamming their signals or, as Stark would say, 'screwing with their stuff,'" Fury said, glancing at Daisy who smiled softly at the mention of her friend. "But that backfired slightly," he got up from his spot at the table and walked over to the nearest computer, pulling up a series of images on the screen.
"They used what information they could find from our hack to trace us back to our base point.
"Coulson's apartment" Mack guessed, Coulson, nodded.
"We had this place set up as a backup so we could keep an eye on the place, these guys have Fitzsimmons knowledge so they knew what to look for when searching the apartment," Coulson told them. "But they were limited in their knowledge of how everyone else thinks, which is why I left that chip for daisy to find."
"Wait, how did you know we found it?" Bobby asked. Coulson and fury shared a look.
"We saw that you had arrived earlier today"
"And you let us search your place all day without popping in for a chat?" Daisy questioned, her brows drawing together in anger, feeling used.
"These robot freaks," fury started "are very advanced, they can change their appearances meaning secrets were to be kept between a select few." He informed the three of them, Daisy felt herself clench her jaw and forced herself to calm down. So what if she wasn't one of the 'select few' she didn't want to be apart of this in the first place.
"How did this even start?" She questioned.
"Enoch" Coulson said, Daisy's brows furrowed.
"Enoch, who's-" she glanced towards Mack and Bobbie but remembered she was mad at them and turned back to Coulson and fury for answers.
"He's a chronicom, he helped Fitz get to the future to help save us" Coulson started, taking a seat across from her. "when he discovered that Fitz had succeeded in his mission he charted a path back to earth, along the way he encountered some other, less friendly chronicoms who got their hands on fitz, they were looking for information to help them get their home planet back"
Back? Daisy wondered, keeping herself from interrupting.
"Past fitz didnt have the information they needed but they believed someone on earth did, they followed Enoch and captured Simmons, finding an older unauthorized version of Fitz as well; they now have all of their knowledge combined."
"Okay, several questions," Daisy said, Coulson folded his hands together and waited, "You're saying there are robots walking around with each and everything Fitzsimmons knows?"
Coulson nodded.
"aha, and there are currently two fitzs on earth?"
"No, when they were attacked Enoch sent the other Fitz in the opposite direction to protect him." Coulson corrected.
"right," Daisy muttered. "Enochs a good guy?"
"he is"
"kinda weird though" Fury mumbled.
"Alright then here's a kicker, why did i get dragged into this?" She asked, her tone changing from curious to one that's tired and slightly sarcastic. "Better yet, why didn't you contact me directly, intergalactic threats are right up my team's alley"
The team shared a look that made daisy want to scream and punch a wall.
"Are you kidding me?" She asked, frustrated by the secrets and the looks. She pushed her chair back and stood abruptly. "That's it, I'm out." She shook her head, hands raising in defeat before she turned to the exit.
"Daisy just wait a minute," Bobbie called reaching out for the girl. Daisy spun on the Blonde quickly with a look like daggers.
"I told may not to get you involved," Coulson started.
"you left that chip for me to find!" She reminded him, his eyes turned to a guilty look.
"That was only if this went sour, we had precations set up but, Simmons-"
"I know, I know," Daisy said, "Simmons Called me in behind everyone's back and I immediately came running to help and I've done nothing but get lied to and stabbed in the back since I stepped onto the base." She fumed.
It was Coulson's turn to look confused and it clicked to daisy that he had had no contact with shield, he didn't know anything, she swallowed, eyes trained on The man she saw as a father figure.
"May clearly doesn't know about this place or else She would have checked the area for evidence, but this is shield tech so you could have contacted someone, My team for instance, but instead you have your team running around like headless chooks," Daisy said, making her way back to the table. "Meanwhile my team is investigating the stones supposedly related to your disappearance" Again his brows furrowed. "Or was that another lie?"
"It wasn't," Mack spoke up defensively, "We thought they were related" his eyes caught Coulson's before turning to the table.
"What do you mean?" Coulson asked Daisy curiously, a hard edge to his voice as he suspected there was something he was missing.
"Oh, well I sent the weapons off to my team to be investigated and disposed of after your incredible trustworthy team tricked me into touching them." Coulson shot to his feet, eyes landing on the two agents in disbelief before turning back to daisy. "Bringing back the crippling nightmares I had finally rid myself of" She added, Her mind momentarily replaying the one from the night before, a shiver running down her spine at the feeling of dread that pooled in her stomach. She continued to speak before Coulson could, raising a hand to cut him off.
"Thor is off earth. So I sent my team the coordinates to Elliot Randolphs current residence to find a way to contact him so that we could get the stones off the planet as soon as possible."
"Daisy i-" Coulson started, he was cut off by Fury.
"That wasn't your call to make," he noted in a hard, matter of fact tone as he glanced up at her, she glared back.
"That's your opinion and to be completely honest Your opinion doesn't matter to me," She told him truthfully though her tone was bitter at best. "Now, since I'm not trustworthy enough to be given information upfront," She said, turning her glare to Mack and Bobbie. "I'm going to meet up with my team to get those weapons as far from human hands as I can."
She turned for the door again.
"You gave Tony Stark alien weapons," Fury asked in a tone that had her steps slowing. " you know what he is capable of right?" he asked, baiting her. Her feet froze in place and she reluctantly turned back, marching back to the table with balled fists.
"I know exactly what he is capable of," she replied through gritted teeth. Across from her Coulson wore a conflicted expression. "I trust him with dangerous weapons far more than I do anyone in shield because unlike my old teammates Tony actually learns from his mistakes and improves" Fury didn't look fazed, his hands folded in front of him as he watched her with a blank expression, she bit back any more words and backed away.
"sounds like your bitter" The man noted, throwing wood on her rage fire, her jaw dropped slightly.
"excuse me?" She asked. He shrugged.
"I said, it sounds like your baseing your opinions and choices on your bitter misfortunes." He said, standing from his seat, arms clasped behind his back. She took a few steps his way, Coulson did the same, as if to hold her back.
"I don't know how much you know-"
"I know everything" He informed her.
"Clearly not if you believe Tony Stark is a threat and not Leopold fitz" She retorted. He tilted his head back slightly.
"I am aware of Mr Fitzs history."
"Than you are aware that he too built a killer robot, one that succeeded in multiplying and murdering hundreds of innocent people" Fury tilted his head in acknowledgment.
"That's despite the point."
"Nick," Coulson said.
"No, no I am not bitter, I'm hurt, yes," Daisy told him. "but My opinion isn't based on a slight or accident it's based on clear knowledge" She took a step back. "My team is working to get rid of the dangerous weapons that could pose a threat, shield was experimenting with them."
"We weren't experimenting," Mack said, "what happened was-"
"unfortunate?" Daisy said coldly "My point is that Tony isn't even with the weapons, he's in new york working with Stark Industries, Banners off-planet with thor and I should be with my team right now but instead I've been tricked and manipulated. So no Nick" she said, putting more emphasis on his name. "I'm not bitter, I'm Done." She turned away, walking from the room before anyone could stop her.
She walked down the hall, not knowing where she was going but needing to get out of that room and away from that particular group of people. The base was underground, she was currently at least three floors below ground level. She passed two elevators but kept going, looking for a computer, cursing when she remembered that she had left her tablet on the quinjet that Hunter was flying back to base.
Her mind was racing, More robots, space robots this time, why did Fitz always get mixed up with killer robots it was ridiculous even Tony only made that mistake once. They were lying to her again, they had promised her on the plane all the while holding something back, she forced herself not to fold in on herself, feeling stupid and used, she ducked into the next room. She found the computer and sat down at the desk, leaning back in the creaky chair to clear her mind.
Coulson had access to shield tech and didn't even think to reach out, all this time he had been fine and safe. Meanwhile, she could be back home preparing for her team's return, relaxing with Bucky and joking with steve. she shook her hands out, a cramp creeping into her muscles from clenching too much. She leaned towards the computer, her fingers hovering over the keyboard, frozen.
What could she do, contact May, if Coulson was right then the cronicoms would trace the message. That rules out contacting her team, even sending a recall to Hunter could mess things up, her hands ran through her hair as she slumped back in her chair and stared at the ceiling. It might have been half an hour before anyone interrupted her.
A deep sigh in the doorway caught her attention.
"Well," Fury said, taking a step into the room and pulling the door closed behind him. "I get why Coulson's so fond of you" he noted, walking up to the desk and taking the seat opposite her, relaxing into it. Daisy replied after a moment.
"Can't say the same bout you, Sir" He laughed lightly but she remained sullen, eyes on the ceiling.
"Yeah, I am not exactly a people person." He told her, pulling a face that said 'oh well'. "But I know how to read people and you," he started, "Are exactly what Coulson said you were, I get why he wanted you to take over shield." That hung in the air for a moment, the fact that Coulson had talked to Nick fury about her drawing confusing feeling out.
"Yeah well, Thats not going to happen" she told him, eyes flicking his way. He gave her a look but didnt reply.
"Look," He said a few silent minutes later after sitting up in his seat. "you've had it rough and The Avengers are your family now, I get it, but"
"Whenever someone says but, following a sentence you can basically guarantee they are about to contradict whatever they just said," Daisy told him in a smug but tired voice, fingers scratching at the arms of the chair.
"But, we have a situation here that needs your attention," he said instead, earning a curious raise of the brow from daisy. "I understand that you have problems with shield, most of your team does, but like them, you need to put that aside to be able to fix this problem." Daisy stared at him, his tone was calmer, more human now.
"Mr Fury"
"Nick"
"I'm not calling you that" She replied honestly, waving him off flippantly, "I have been the bigger man, I spent the last two days pushing the past aside in order to find Coulson. Found him, my jobs done."
"You know thats not true"
"Why?"
"Because you have the talent we need that could solve our current problem"
"quakes won't solve this"
"That's not what I mean"
"you have world-class scientists on your payroll and you need me, you do realize I learned how to code in a van right?" daisy asked.
Fury sat forward in his seat. "You've been through a lot, I understand, but you don't have the luxury of sitting back while others deal with this sort of thing, like it or not you are part of the solution." Daisy stared back at him, trying to match his intense gaze but she blinked, looking away and chewing on the inside of her cheek.
So he's where Coulson got his smart speeches from, she thought as she tried to reason a way out. Her shoulders dropped slightly.
"Fury" She said, tone strong as she mulled her courage, she swallowed hard. "I don't mind being apart of the solution, it's what I signed up for when I joined shield and it's what I accepted when I got my powers" she explained, turning in her chair to face the man fully.
"What's pissed me off is the approach that has been taken, Coulson rebuilt shield and it was meant to be more open, fewer secrets and I was all for that but shield has done nothing but lie and use me since I left"
"Yet you still come back," fury said simply after a beat. Daisy swallowed.
"As you said, I don't have the luxury of turning a blind eye," Daisy responded.
"You've got a complicated history," he stopped himself, seeming to think better of the path he was going to take. "You've got a choice to make," he said instead, standing from his seat. "Follow me and help us or leave and go back to your life, I'll even show you the way out." He gave her choices and walked to the door, pulling it open and waiting. Daisy ground her teeth again, fists balling as she made her decision.
She pushed to her feet with an angry sigh and marched towards the door where fury waited, his expression didn't change as she passed him.
"Let's just get this over with"
"Any word?" Steve asked when Bucky was in the room. He shook his head, looking around the group on screen. Steve looked tired, his uniform worn and ripped. Wanda was bruised and bleeding, sitting beside sam who was tending to her wounds even as she assured him she was fine. a tall man stood besides steve, the man Bucky knew to be vision though they had never met while Natasha took the blond soldiers other side Natasha stood, her hair was pulled back into a low ponytail, a slight mark on her face the only sign that she had been in a fight. Meanwhile, Bruce stood near Vision wearing a look he had seen in the mirror, his eyes haunted by something.
"She said she was off base looking for Coulson, chances are she's just busy," Natasha said logically.
"Shield completely dark, somethings happened to shut all their systems down," Bucky told the group, they shared concerned looks so bucky continued. "Shuri's trying everything she can to get through the system and find her but if we don't hear anything."
"We'll look for her," Steve said confidently, Bucky nodded. He knew Daisy could handle herself but with what happened to Tony and the kid, he worried.
"if we have no word by noon tomorrow we'll go looking for her."
"Noon" wanda questioned, getting up from her seat to question Natashas motive.
"Yes, that's twenty-four hours and a fair amount of time"
"Morning" Sam argued with her, "If there's no word by six," Sam told the group eyes darting to bucky briefly. "Then we go after her."
"Natasha didn't even argue, nodding her agreeance, "But I maintain that she's fine if she knew what was happening she would have contacted us by now." the crew nodded if not only to reassure themselves.
"Whats happened on your end, any more trouble?" Bucky asked, feeling bad for waiting so long to ask about them even if his mind isn't completely focused.
"Not those aliens got beamed back up" Natasha noted. "We regrouped back at Professor Randolph's place but he was already gone,"
"We're on our way to you now," Steve said, "two hours out, we still have the stone and scepter but otherwise Randolph was pretty useless."
"I could have gotten him to talk if we hadn't been interrupted," Natasha said bitterly.
"In any case, all we know is that these Stones are important to this guy and they're willing to kill for them," Steve said before looking to his team, he sighed softly, running a hand down his face. "There's not much we can do from here, well talk battle plans when we arrive," Steve said, nodding to his brother in all but blood" Bucky nodded in return.
"Try to get some sleep" He advised, looking at the exhaustion they wore. There were slight nods and mumbled words of agreement but Bucky knew that the chances of anyone sleeping tonight were low, their thoughts on Tony and the kid alone causing despair, add the looming threat of- He cut himself short shaking his head. "It might be the only chance you get for a while" He insisted. The agreement was louder but laced with dread, they turned from the screen one by one to take a seat but Steve and Natasha lingered.
"I've alerted Jarvis to the situation" She nodded encouragingly, "He'll alert us if he hears anything, pepper too." She frowned at the mention of the possible widow, married or not.
"Clint?" Nat shook her head at Buckys question.
"Told him this was a routine mission, his sister needs the help and he needs the time off" Bucky nodded, understanding her reasoning, knowing he'd do the same if he were in her shoes. As much as he wanted Daisy safe and by his side part of him wanted her as far away from what was coming as she could get. For now, though he just wanted to know that she was okay.
"Hey buck," Steve said his tone soft, "take your own advice, try to get some sleep." Bucky sighed.
"Daisy will contact us as soon as she can" Natasha reminded him, "She's strong, smart and she knows where you are, get some rest and be ready for when she calls." Bucky reluctantly agreed and, when the screen was off and his family was gone from view, he returned to the lab.
Shuri was rubbing her temples, elbows resting on her desk, she jumped to her feet when bucky enter, startled by the sound of the door but quickly returned to her tired position.
"I managed to track the movement of several jets after pulling the logs for today, Daisy took off after lunch on course to the far side of new york." She explained, pulling up the map displaying several jets and their flight path.
"there's no word from that jet after it confirms a safe landing until after shield goes dark. I can track the movements of several jets before they go dark though I don't know whos on board." She pointed to each jet along their flight paths before each stop randomly. "But this one, the one daisy took, was recorded on a path back to shield recently though the signal is yet to be picked up, I'm trying to break through the encryptions to stop it but there's only one male passenger on board who mentioned something about bringing evidence back while the rest of the team continues their search." Buckys legs nearly went out from under him at the relief he felt from that, if they were still on mission then they were still fine which means Daisy was probably oblivious to the events of the Day, he was suddenly worried again but much less so than he had been.
Shuri turned to him curiously before noting the hint of a smile that ghosted across his face she let out her own relieved sigh and stood, holding out her arms for a reassuring hug, Something Daisy had gotten her used/ addicted to. Bucky embraced her carefully, relief washing over him, he let himself be thankful for a moment before pulling back.
"Thank you," He said to the princess, She waved him. "Now you need to sleep, the team will be here in a few hours'
"I will not argue with you on that" Shuri said, having listened in to his meeting while she searched for answers. "I have my system running to contact that jet, i will be alerted if it picks up the signal." She told him, steering him away from the computers. "But you too need sleep"
"Unfortunately, your right," He agreed as the both stepped int the hallway. "But I need you to swear you'll get me if you hear anything back from Daisy."
"Without hesitation" She agreed. With that, they turned and made their way to their rooms to get a few hours of restless sleep.
Daisy had marched into the room where Coulson and crew waited and grabbed a seat at the closest computer, bringing up any information she needed and looking into the files for herself. The three hadn't said a word, watching her and looking to fury for answers, said man had followed her in at a leisurely pace and retaken his seat at the table, silently picking up a device she hadn't noticed before and opening his own files.
After a while, when Daisy felt sufficently informed n chronicoms and shield recent missions leading up to and following the collision with said chronicoms, she turned to the group who had each taken up their own computers to ensure that they themselves were fully informed, and begun to plan. They started to form a plan based on the information they had on the chronicoms habits and history, deciding on a possible plan to lure them to the quinjet so that they could pull a hive and blow them up. The plan was nixed when Daisy pointed out that the only reason that that the plan had been successful was because lincoln was on board to fry the system. In this case without a way to fry the system from inside midflight, the chronicoms could likely take back control of the jet. Daisy felt odd about the way her heart didnt ache so much talking about Lincoln but forced her thoughts away from that, not wanting to invite the pain in.
Now they sat in a stumped silence, exhaustion pulling at Daisys mind as she absently wondered what time it was, eyes drifting to the clock on her computer screen, passed midnight already.
"Okay, so what was on that chip we sent back with hunter?" Bobbie asked suddenly, daisy turned to the older men in question.
"Records of the intel we got from the chronicoms ship, we figured that if all else fails Fitzsimmons would figure it out." Coulson answered, daisy scoffed.
"They didn't even know it was there" daisy muttered under her breath, turning back to the computer. If anyone heard her they didn't respond.
"Have you heard anything back from Hunter?" Coulson asked Bobbie curiously.
"No, I haven't checked yet,"
"Speaking Of did you get through to May earlier?" Daisy asked, spinning her chair to see Mack, he opened his mouth to respond. "More importantly did you find out why the area was bare?" She added, cutting off his response. Mack cleared his throat.
"No, I couldn't get through to May, before I could look any further Bobbie came back and told me bout Coulson." He explained simply, daisy frowned spinning back to her computer screen.
"Well we can't contact May from here " daisy whined, glancing over at Coulson, "but I'll have a look at the news in the area to see what's up, I don't suppose it has anything to do with the chronicoms so-" she paused, feeling eyes on her, she turned back to the group who wore guilty looks causing her stomach to sink slightly with dread, she took her hands off the keyboard and spun to them.
"What are you keeping from me this time?" Daisy asked the, her eyes cold and unwavering.
"Daisy" Coulson started. That was all she needed to spin back to the computer, her mind blanking on what to look for, was it her team, had something happened, where the chronicoms closer than they had told her. She ignored them all as she searched the news for new york, the first title causing her hand to shoot to her mouth, barely covering her gasp.
"Tony Stark missing" the reporter said, "this evening Mr. Stark was seen confronting a being of alien origin after an unidentifiable ship descended over New York. Iron man was seen fighting with multiple unidentified powered individuals as well as Spider-Man, both iron man and Spider-Man have not been seen since the ship retreated from view, sources say iron man was seen following the ship though we've had no word from his people Tony Stark is currently missing in action"
Her hand shook, emotions building within her as she listened to the reporter, shaky phone footage showed Tony with two unfamiliar men talking to two alien figures, she squinted at the forth figure by Tony's side, Bruce? Bruce was back?
She muted the story and stared at the screen blankly, a sick feeling pulling at her. Her tablet was on the quintet with hunter and she couldn't use these computers to contact anyone, her hands twitched, itching for something, though she couldn't pinpoint what as her mind blurred.
Authors Note: Thoughts? :feeings? :Predictions? Timelines? Timelines... Oh right so Obviously ya girls headed down a dark and depressing path known as INfinity war *loud crashes and dramatic music* I know im terrible. Dont think i not going to throw my own spin on it though. Ive had to change some things around to make this fit the way i want it to such as bringing the chronicoms in early, also as i was saying about timelines i was trying to think about when all of this took place but im terrible ate timecodes and such so lets just say in new york / daisy time this is how everything happens. 12:30 -1ish Daisy leaves the base 3:30 -4 Tony leaves earths atmosphere 4;30 - 5 Daisy Finds coulson 6;30 alien Vs witch... If that makes any sense
Anyway please leave questions and comments below for me to read and such. see you next time!