Gwen made a web hammock for herself then let go of the roof, falling into it. Daisy had clearly avoided her in the afternoon on Monday and she'd barely seen her on Tuesday.

"What's up Gwen?" Kamala asked.

"Hrmmm." she didn't really want to talk about it.

"You seem pretty down for someone attached to the roof," Doreen said.

"Can we talk about something else? Like how is it going between you and Dante, Kamala?"

"What? I really have no idea what you're talking about." Kamala, whose face had grown red, wasn't looking at her and she let out several nervous laughs which told Gwen that she was the worst liar in their circle of friends.

"Right. Sorry, I must have been thinking about someone else. How about you Doreen? Got any romance going on? Or some interesting computer geek stuff to talk about?"

"No romance right now, but plenty of computer science-ing. Nothing you're likely to find interesting though."

Gwen wanted to leave, wanted to go home to her bed. She also wanted to barge into the OPS room and confront Daisy.

She did neither.

"Hey," Doreen said, "I'm sure Dai-" Kamala hit her. "I' mean I'm sure your day will get better."

She was about to answer with something sarcastic when-

~Ready, set, time to be a fighter~

The alert for secret warrior backup requests blared from her phone.

Both she and her friends were checking their phones before her feet touched ground, which was about the same time Daisy came running from the OPS room.

"Exile just teleported, let's hurry."

Riri was at her university, Rayshaun was meeting up with some S.H.I.E.L.D. friends, and Lockjaw was in Attilan, the inhuman city, but other than that they were all somewhere in the base. The elevator came down and America flew in before it was all the way down, and Dante was coming from the training room. If they wanted to have any chance of capturing Exile they'd need to act fast .

Lockjaw teleported into the room.

They appeared in a white, clean hallway. There were doors on either side of them, with more down the hall, and nothing indicating where Exile had gone.

Shots were fired not too far away, so correction: almost nothing. They chased the sound of fighting.

Dante flew ahead of the others as he quickly made his way to the bad-guys. Flying indoors had the unfortunate effect of activating sprinklers, but it was worth it for the speed boost it gave him. When the sounds got close he slowed down, not wanting to catch any stray shots.

He looked around the corner and saw Furball advancing on armed men with Jack. The men were retreating slowly while spraying bullets.

"I only see Furball and Jack here." When Dante looked to see his team they were further behind him than he'd thought.

America was giving a lift to Daisy and Doreen, and Kamala and Gwen were riding Lockjaw, so they shouldn't have been that much slower than him.

Gwen looked off to the side "Someone's over there as well, and by the looks of things they're about to make a huge mess."

"That would be either Exile or Fume." Daisy said. "Inferno, Squirrel Girl, check it out. If it's Fume you stay on him. Try to burn the fumes before he gets a chance to spread them."

"On it." Doreen said then ran off. He followed her.

Fume's fumes were both noxious and explosive, which would be how he could cause massive destruction. He could also control them, and could move them to specific areas while avoiding any allies so Dante couldn't just ignite it carelessly when they got close the Fume.

They didn't get far down the hallway before they both heard and felt a huge explosion.

"Well at least we know it's Fume now," Doreen said.

"Sure, but that means we should hurry even more right? Before he releases more fumes."

"Fine, go for it, but you really should use your flying more sparingly indoors."

"Why?"

"Have you looked behind yourself? Not only are you scorching everything, you're also making it hard for us to follow close behind you."

The flames were pretty big, but that was still the case outdoors, the real problem was probably the smoke and hot air forcing people to stay a few paces behind.

"Let me pass?"

Doreen turned around when he stopped flying, and he started up again a moment after they had passed each other.

He turned a corner, saw the wreckage from the explosion, and flew through to see Furball fighting America. They'd gone in a circle.

When Squirrel Girl and Inferno left, Daisy turned to the rest of her team.

"America, you and Ms. Marvel are on Furball for now, if we find Exile you go after him."

They charged their enemy, not waiting to figure out who was going for Jack. Normally that would be poor tactics, giving away their presence before they have a completed assault plan, but Furball and Jack had reached the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and they weren't going easy on them.

"Ghost-Spider-" Daisy started before she was interrupted.

"Sheath is mine."

"I was going to suggest you taking Jack; your powers would be the most effective against him."

Around the corner Ms. Marvel was taking on Jack while America attacked Furball.

"You know why I have to go after her," Ghost-Spider said.

She sighed. "Fine. Go, and take Lockjaw with you. But if you find someone else, you either take them down or tell us."

"Thanks." Ghost-Spider grabbed onto the giant bulldog before being teleported away, probably at random before one of them caught Sheath's scent.

Before Daisy had rounded the corner, to either tag out Ms. Marvel or help America, the wall exploded.

Daisy staggered but managed to stay on her feet. The first thing she noticed, beside the collapsing roof and collapsed wall was Ms. Marvel who looked like she'd been hurt by the explosion, but from her movements it probably looked a lot worse than it was.

Both Furball and America seemed to have barely noticed the explosion. She knew Jack was more durable than most people so he'd probably be fine with the explosion; not that it mattered since Ms. Marvel had acted as a shock absorber, being wrapped around him.

She hadn't expected Ms. Marvel to be so effective against Jack, she hadn't been the last time they fought as his Darkforce chains managed to keep the young heroine at a distance, but somehow she'd gotten close enough to lock him down this time.

The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were the only people not in the fight, either from the blast or because Furball and Jack got to them first, and it didn't look like they'd be getting up any time soon.

The roof fell in on itself a bit and she hurried to try to stabilize it, only to realize that while she was occupied with trying to not get crushed under ruble Fume's noxious gas started spreading through the hole and risked to incapacitate all three of them.

Most of the time their game plan when fighting someone with an area effect power would have been to send in America, since her toughness rendered almost every attack, especially area ones, ineffective but even she wouldn't be able to stand the noxious fumes for long, and she was too occupied with Furball to try knocking Fume out before it became an issue.

She controlled the collapse with her powers slowly pushing the structure to a more stable position when Fume poked his head through the hole. If her powers were terrakinesis, that is: the ability to control rocks, or if the structure was even just slightly different she'd have dropped some of the collapsing structure on him, hoping it would knock him out.

Sadly the only way she could do that was with a rock big enough to kill him if it landed poorly so all she could do was to keep working as he spread his fumes towards them, while avoiding Furball and Jack.

She could feel her head starting to hurt and her vision blurred slightly, must have been worse for Ms. Marvel and America but it was already hampering her ability to stabilize the building.

"Get away from the fumes!" Dante called out to them.

America might be able to take it, but none of the other heroes, could. It also risked hurting the villains and any S.H.I.E.L.D. agents close by, like the collapsed ones.

She stopped trying to stabilize and instead made walls to protect herself and the agents while America pulled a stretched out Ms. Marvel back to her wall. Fume moved the gas further away from his teammates and when she judged it safe she called back to Inferno.

"Now, Inferno."

Fire shot through the hole and spread throughout the room along with a shock-wave that blew through even her wall. America did her best to shield them even as the fire burned her jacket.

Her ears were ringing for a bit but she could hear that someone was talking. Fume was calling out, but not to Jack and Furball who both were getting to their feet, he had his hand to his ear; he was calling out to the rest of his team.

Exile appeared.

With most of the floor above them collapsed he had enough room to activate his Darkforce form, growing to about half the size they fought when they first arrested him.

"Jack, go back up Sheath. The rest of us will hold them off."

Jack did as Exile had ordered, lumbering further along the way they had been going.

"Lockjaw, bring Ghost-Spider back to us, we know where Sheath is." She said into their communicators.