Rhodey had to admit that the world was a whole lot simpler before aliens. Maybe it was more exciting, it was definitely fun to watch Tony struggle with the whole aliens cannot be explained thing.
Natasha had found that nine out of the nineteen prisoners had been low-level S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, seven had been military, and two had been both. Jamie was one of the ones who had been both. Lieutenant in the army, then low ranking S.H.I.E.L.D agent. Rhodey had definitely seen a more impressive resume on that list, his own. Then again he could usually impress anyone by telling them he was an Avenger.
All the prisoners had had their blood tested and all the tests had come back normal, whatever Inhumans were they weren't here. That gave Rhodey some peace of mind, though that could easily change.
All the news the team had received today was not exactly what they wanted to hear. Steve had them all busy. Tony was working on a way to identify Inhumans and the rest of them were trying to find out more about them via the internet. What they found was rather alarming. Buried under the normal news was a few stories about freak accidents that couldn't be explained, metal melting, random fire, and quite a few unpredicted earthquakes.
Rhodey felt that the earthquakes were just freak weather, but Natasha seemed sold. They went on typing away, muttering when they found something, until Natasha said, "Got it," and turned her computer around. She had hacked something and found an archive of news that had been held back from the public.
"What's the ATCU?' Sam asked.
"The Advanced Threat Containment Unit, they're in on this." Natasha answered.
"They're a government agency," Rhodey said, wondering why all the government agencies seemed to be falling apart. S.H.I.E.L.D., the ATCU, they were supposed to be there to protect people.
"They've got a list of names," said Natasha. "Inhumans that they are keeping an eye on. I say we track one down and ask a few questions."
"More than a few," Sam agreed.
"Anyone we should know about on the list?" Steve asked.
"No government officials, but there is one person who used to be S.H.I.E.L.D., and she's high on the list." Natasha clicked on a name, and a picture of a pretty young girl with short dark hair and dark eyes appeared on the screen, "Her name is Daisy Johnson."
"What's her thing?" Sam asked.
"They don't have it listed," Natasha said, leaning away from the computer.
Wanda typed on her computer and frowned. She handed her computer to Natasha who typed away until she smiled her success. The phone recording played loud in the room, a man sounding panicked, calling the police for one person, Daisy Johnson with the ATCU.
The Avengers glanced around at each other. Tony walked in. He showed off a item that looked like something a police officer would have used to see how fast a person was driving and took a bow.
"Your genius has come through again," he said, then took a look around the room. "Of course, you're going to tell me I missed all the hard work." He sighed. "What'd we find?"
"Do you know a Daisy Johnson?" Natasha asked.
"Possibly," Tony frowned. "I mean I don't remember every girl I meet so I don't know. Why? I mean, if she's that important I can think harder."
"Don't pull a brain muscle." Rhodey stood up "She's just our only lead."
"I'll get into it." Tony left.
An hour later Rhodey had come to hate Daisy. There was nothing about her, anywhere. Natasha found a file that she had been in an orphanage and multiple foster homes. Wanda had found a memory of the girl in Jamie's head but it was nothing new. Steve had called a few old S.H.I.E.L.D. friends and someone named Sharon Carter that made Sam grin, to try and confirm her status as an agent.
Sharon found someone with the same picture named Skye who had been an agent for a total of forty-two hours before it fell. The breakthrough happened when Natasha was able to hack an old S.H.I.E.L.D. file to find that previous to being an agent she had been under the supervision of her S.O. Grant Ward. They were able to find that Grant Ward had passed the S.H.I.E.L.D. testing with flying colors. His S.O. was John Garrett, who upon further investigation had been Hydra, more specifically something called the Clairvoyant. The problem was they couldn't find where Ward had been assigned to, there was a fire wall protecting any additional information. No one on the team could break it. It made them all edgy, and worried about why.
"Based on the information we were able to discover, she's probably Hydra," Natasha said finally. "I don't think we're going to get anything else, the person who developed this fire wall is slightly smarter than me," she glared at Sam. "Slightly."
"What's the plan, Cap?" Sam asked.
They all looked up at him.
"Let's go take a visit to that S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, see if they can give us anything."