Avengers and Inhumans

Daisy didn’t think it through. She knew she shouldn’t interfere. They told her not to. But there was no way she could stand by and watch them fight alone.
She shouldn’t have been in New York in the first place. She was only here because she was following a lead, she was trying to track down a rogue inhuman. But the lead she was investigating turned out to be as false as it gets, so now she had instructions to come back to the base.
But right now she was standing on the top of the building, looking down, viewing the fight from a first seat.
„Quake, do not interfere, I repeat, do not interfere.” Coulson told her through the comms, for the sixth time in the last five minutes, while she was standing there.
“Get away from there. Don’t let your presence known, this is an order, can you hear me? Come back to the base.”
“I’m sorry Coulson. When I do, I’ll take full responsibility for my actions.” She answered in the end, with a slight hesitation.
“Skye… Daisy, don’t you dare go down there! Let the avengers handle it, they did it before. As the director of SHIELD, this is an order. Do not interfere with the fight against the Hulk, I repeat, stay out of the fight! I know you are strong, but this is out of your league!”
Daisy waited for a moment, trying to decide what to do. She had a responsibility to her team, but also, she had a responsibility to the civilians as an agent of SHIELD. And that is why she stayed, going against a direct order. Slowly she lifted her hand and touched her comm.
“Sorry… Sir… Can’t quite… hear you…. there must be something interfering…. with the signals…. maybe it’s the screams of all the civilians down there. Gotta… go. See ya!
And with that, she disabled her comms.
From the ground things seemed even more dire. She was barely able to climb on top of the ruins to get a good look at the fight. The Hulkbuster, or Veronica, as the files called it, was in pieces, trying to keep the fight at the square where it broke out, so they can keep the property damage to the minimum. All the other team members who were present – that meant Hawkeye, Captain America, and Thor - were trying to get to the Hulk, calm him down, but he obviously had other ideas. Daisy was just in time to see him hit Captain America with so much force that he slammed to the building close by, right through the wall, his shield flying through the air, landing at her legs. With a little hesitation, she picked it up, unsure what to do with it.
“What are you doing here?” Someone asked, catching her off-guard. She turned around to see Hawkeye standing next to him, with worn down face. “Civilians shouldn’t be here. You need to get out of here, before you end up like…” He didn’t finish his sentence, but Daisy had a pretty good idea how he wanted to.
She was angry at herself for not wearing her uniform. She wanted to blend in, so, obviously, she wasn’t going to wear it in the middle of New York. How was she supposed to know she will stumble into the Hulk?
“I’m not as much a civilian, as I look.” She said, holding Captain America’s shield in both of her hands. “I can help.”
“No offense, but I don’t see how you could, unless you somehow hit harder than Thor.” He said sarcastically.
“Depends on what we are hitting.” Daisy said with a smile. “I have something much better though.”
“Well, okay, look kid I don’t have time for this. Need to help my friends. Get out of here, before you get hurt.” Hawkeye said, and turned his back to her, running towards the Hulk, shooting an arrow at him that exploded in his face. Unfortunately, instead of subduing him, Hawkeye just managed to piss him off more. Not a great plan.
Daisy stood still for a moment, assessing the situation, thinking of possible ways to help. Then she looked at the shield in her hands, and got an idea that was probably even worse than running after Raina into a temple that’s about to get blown up.
She saw the Hulkbuster get a hit in the chest. It flew backwards a pretty long distance, slamming into a building, leaving its parts all over the place. It was out of commission for at least five minutes, until it reassembled itself from that. With Captain America out of the picture too, this left only Thor and Hawkeye, but both of them looked exhausted and Hawkeye was human, he couldn’t possibly hope to last long if it came down to a real fight between him and the Hulk. And it look like it will because Thor just got slammed into the ground by HulK’s enormous fist three times in a row.
The Avengers were losing to the Hulk in the middle of New York city.
Coulson is so going to kill me for this. She thought, as she threw the shield in her hands towards the Hulk, giving it a pretty decent boost with her powers, slamming it in the chest of the Hulk. He fell back, taken by surprise by the attack that seemingly came out of nowhere. He sat up, and looked at Daisy with a stare so horrifying, she could feel the fear rushing through her, the cold spreading through her body. The green monster stood up, his eyes furious and fixed on Daisy, as he casually hit Thor like he was trying to shoo away a fly.
This was nothing like anything Daisy has ever come across before. She held a gun against a Kree, went against an Asgardian, was abducted two times and held at gunoint more times she could count, but all those felt like vacations now, looking at the Hulk, as he started to run towards her, then jumping up, with the clear intention to crush her with his fist from above. The whole word seemed to stop for a minute.
She was certain she was going to die. Even though she had a plan.
She watched as the Hulk jumped into the air, bringing his fist down, aiming at her head. She heard someone screaming no in the background, but she locked it all out. She concentrated.
And at the very last moment, just before his fist touched her face, just before she was crushed like a grape, moments before her imminent death, she let it out. A shockwave so strong, fueled by her fear and anger and wish to survive, that it sent the Hulk flying. He was basically above Daisy when it happened, so he went up flying almost vertically, reaching a ridiculous height before falling back down with a devastating roar, slamming into the ground. But before he could get up and regain his strength, Daisy, as fast as she could, ran to him, jumping on his chest, and started vibrating his heart. Not hard enough to do damage, just enough to keep him down for a few moments. When she felt a twitch, she turned off her powers and jumped off the monster, watching as he shrinked into a human being. He was Dr. Banner now, and out cold.
She tiredly sat down on the rubble, aware that she had to go. She has already made a mess big enough with drawing the Avengers’ attention to herself, she didn’t need to make it even worse by introducing herself. But she was so very tired. She could feel the fear shaking her body.
“You really wasn’t kidding.” Hawkeye said, panting from exhaustion. “You just took down the Hulk. How the hell did you do that?”
“I didn’t do it for free.” She said after a little hesitation.
“What do you want? Money? Tony has loads of it. That should be no problem.” The Avenger said, still trembling so much that he had to sit down. “Be part of the Avengers? Done.”
“The exact opposite. I don’t want my presence known. I helped to save people, and I want to keep doing that, but my way is from the shadows and not” she turned around, with her hands outstretched “like this. Can you do this for me? Keep it quiet? It will be better for you too, if the publicity doesn’t know that an outsider put down the Hulk.”
“But you saved us. You deserve credit for that. And it was awesome.”
“Do we have a deal or not?” Daisy asked, impatiently.
“We do. Thank you. But how the hell did you do that? It was…”
“Inhuman.” She nodded, with a faint smile. “Who knows, we might just run into each other again. I look forward to it.”
“You can’t just leave like this.”
“Watch me.”
And with that she walked off, trembling too much to try to run. But before she left, she grabbed the shield that was lying in the rubble, and went into the building that Captain America was slammed into. He was lying on his back in the middle of the rubble, seemingly out cold. Daisy wasn’t worried: she read the files, she knew that it would take a lot more than this to take out Captain America.
She walked to him, and put his shield in his hand. “Thanks for the shield, Cap. I never thought I would ever play Frisbee with the Hulk. It was awesome.”
The man groaned, and opened his eyes, but he was too much out of it to be able to see anything but a blurred vision of a woman, with brown hair and a warm smile as she waved goodbye to him.

“As I said, I take full responsibility for my actions.” Daisy repeated. “I am well aware that I disobeyed orders, sir, and I don’t expect you to go easy on me just because I was successful in stopping the Hulk.”
She said, and she meant it. She wrote down everything as it was in her report.
“I know you don’t. That’s the problem.” Coulson sat down on his desk, holding his head in his good hand. “But this doesn’t change the fact that the way you did it” he lifted the report “was stupid and irresponsible. You could have died. You were damn close. Don’t do that ever again, or I’ll have to take the team from you.”
“I understand, sir, but I hope you are aware that I would never do anything to endanger my team.”
“I know. Which makes it even harder to understand why you endangered yourself that much in the first place. Dismissed.