A/N: I'm doing my best out here to get y'all the updated content! I've created a 'writing schedule' so hopefully that keeps me more on track haha. Anyways, enjoy the chapter and let me know what you think!
"Jarvis activate SkyNet!" Daisy shouted as soon as the lab was locked down. During her time on the floor of the Cyber Security Division, Daisy had hacked Jarvis and accessed his commands. She also input a few of her own. SkyNet is a protocol that overrides all of Jarvis' directives and puts all of the AI's attention on her. In otherwords, Jarvis would only listen to commands from Daisy and no one else.
Daisy was hoping to escape the tower before being discovered by the Avengers, but plans change. She didn't download the information onto the hard drive fast enough and now she was trapped in the lab. Fortunately Daisy had Jarvis under her control and she was secure for the moment while she tried to figure out a plan.
Looking around the lab, Daisy tried to find something that she could use to aide in her escape. For now, the Avengers were stalled, but Daisy wasn't oblivious to the fact that they knew their way around the tower better than she did.
Suddenly, one of the robots in the lab charged towards Daisy with a fire extinguisher spraying wildly. She rolled out of the way of the large bot, grabbing a tool from the floor, and throwing it towards the machine, but it kept rolling towards her. The extinguisher was now empty and a white fog covered the room causing Daisy to cough as she ran to the other side of the lab. She could easily quake the bot, but didn't want to risk injuring herself further.
A spare ironman leg was laying on one of the tables. Daisy picked up the object with a grunt and swung it as hard as she could when the robot rolled towards her. It crashed to the floor, unable to upright itself. Daisy dropped the metal leg and cradled her arm close to her chest. She had to get out of here. Now.
"Jarvis, how do I get out of here?" Daisy asked with a glance up at the ceiling.
No response.
Stark must have figured out a way to shut down the AI remotely. Daisy sprinted across the room to the holotable to try and pull up the building's schematics. Stark was a genius. He had to have created a backdoor out of this place.
Daisy was swiping her way through the buildings blueprints when she heard a metal clanging. Her eyes scoured the room—from the metal walls, to the downed robot, to the ceiling… The vent popped open and Hawkeye dropped down on top of the holotable. Daisy instinctually raised her arm and blasted him into a wall before he even had a chance to pull the trigger of his weapon.
"Ahhh!" Daisy screamed at the pain in her fractured arm. She crouched to the floor behind the holotable and heard a groan from the Avenger. If that blast didn't fully knock him out….. Daisy was running out of time. She took the hard drive with the newly downloaded files as her eyes darted around the lab looking for a place to hide it. If Stark got ahold of this hard drive, it would mean the end of her plan to take down Hydra.
Daisy noticed a small crack on the underside of the holotable. She carefully raised her good arm up to the table and quaked it just enough the widen the crack, but keep the electronic fully entact. Her face contorted with a grimace at the use of her powers again. Carefully holding the small electronic, Daisy placed it in the table.
An explosion rang out from the other side of the metal barriers that were keeping her in the lab and suddenly, the barriers were lifting. Daisy quickly thought through her options. The Avengers were needed if she was to fully accomplish her goal of taking down Hydra. Her hard drive was secure, but Daisy remained too injured to face the group of heroes.
Maybe I should have grabbed my gauntlets after all, she thought.
With the barriers lifted, the Avengers stormed into the room, weapons ready. Daisy raised her good arm as she sat on the ground leaning against the holotable. Now she just needed to gain the trust of the people who view her as an enemy.
Daisy didn't flinch when Black Widow pulled the trigger of the tranquilizer gun.
Everything would work out according to plan.
SHIELD HQ, aka The Playground...
The metal doors slid open as the agent walking by scanned their badge. They continued down the hallway, away from the landing bay and deeper into the base.
The agent froze as they came upon the labs. They saw a familiar Scottish engineer through the glass windows and their breath shook. It had been months since they'd talked.
They pushed open the door and walked into the lab with tears in their eyes, the engineer still not looking their way.
"Took you long enough to get me those reports," he said. "I've had to move on to other things because I couldn't continue without them."
"Sorry for the delay," the agent spoke softly, with tears streaming down their face.
The engineer turned around surprised.
"Jemma?" he questioned. "How? When?"
"Just now," Agent Simmons replied. "The jet landed 5 minutes ago and I had to come see—"
Leopold Fitz had run up to Jemma, slamming into her with a hug and cutting off her sentence.
"I'm so glad you're back," he smiled. "Where exactly were you sent? No one would tell me anything."
"It's great to be home!" They let go of each other and sat down on the lab chairs. "Oh Fitz, you'll never believe it!"
Jemma started to describe to him about her time in Hydra. She went into detail about the things she experienced while there. That was, until Agent Coulson showed up thirty minutes into her conversation.
"Agent Simmons. Welcome home," Coulson said. "You were supposed to meet me in my office."
"I was on my way there when Fitz saw me and pulled me into the lab to talk."
"Hey!" Fitz shouted at the accusation.
Coulson smirked, "I'm sure that's exactly what happened. Now, how about both of you follow me. We need to debrief on your time in Hydra."
The two agents followed the director into a room with a large meeting table in the middle of it. Sitting around the table was the other high level agents of SHIELD– May, Hunter, Trip, Mack, and Bobbi. They welcomed Jemma back as she, Coulson, and Fitz took their seats.
The group of agents discussed Jemma's time in Hydra and she explained things that she was unable to over the phone. Eventually they got to the topic of what happened on the Maribel Del Mar. The group bounced ideas off of each other about who the woman was and what her intentions were.
Fitz pointed out that the woman's powers seems to be based off of controlling vibrations of some sort, based off of what he had heard. He explained that everything in the world was constantly in motion, even the table they sat at, and that there was a slight possibility that she could control those vibrations.
After a couple hours of discussing, and lots of coffee being drank, Mack pointed out that Fitz had made a unique device while Jemma was gone.
Fitz had a look of realization and knew that if he modified this device, he would be able to track any vibrations that weren't coming directly from the earth. Then they would be able to narrow down which of those vibrations were most likely coming from a person.
"I'm positive it will work!" Fitz exclaimed. "But I'll start tomorrow. I feel like I haven't slept in ages."
And with that, the group dismissed to their rooms. They'd figure out who this mystery girl was... tomorrow.
A/N: Things don't seem to be going well for our beloved Daisy Johnson. SHIELD is trying to track her down. The Avengers have her in their custody. Hydra is still up and running. Everything is slowly coming together and I can't wait!