Like a Bolt out of the Blue...
“That wasn’t there before.” Lincoln said nervously.
Scott called back to the Zephyr. “Anyone wander outside before the storm hit?”
“No.” Came back the reply from Fitz, “We’re all here. What’s the matter?
Scott took out the sunglasses he’d used a few days prior and turned them on. “Take a look.
“That’s a light on the capitol building?”
“Yeah. The thing is, Daisy and I believe this Earth was attached by Thanos early. And he killed everyone, not just half the population.”
“So…”
“So the nine of us are the only humans on this entire planet.” He said “and that light was not there before.”
“And someone had to have turned it on.”Daisy added
“So, do we investigate it?” Scott asked
“Why?” Lincoln asked
“If someone turned it on, it had to have been for a reason.” Scott replied “even if just for light, there has to be someone else out there. You want to leave them here, alone forever?”
“We’ll wait for the storm to pass and check it out.” Daisy said
The light then suddenly began to flash.
“Ok… now that’s interesting.” Daisy said.
“It’s flashing SOS.” Scott noted. “Do we wait, someone could be hurt?”
“I know you’re not used to field work, but you don’t have to try to save everyone.” Lincoln said
“No where’s the fun in that?” He said with a smirk
“How would you even get to them?”
“I could try to get one of those APCs downstairs started.”
“I thought you were a computer technician?” Lincoln asked, following Scott round the garage. “What do you know about vehicles?”
“There’s a lot you don’t know about me.” Scott said, kicking the tires on one of the heavy assault trucks.
“The bad boys came with 7L 12 cylinder diesel engines. Getting them started should be easy.”
Scott opened the engine compartment and shoved Lincoln’s hand inside.
“Come on Nikola Tesla…”
“Why do you two keeping using me as a battery?” he asked as the engine growled to life.
“You’re the one who keeps saying ‘every Inhuman has a purpose.”
“That’s not what I meant.” Lincoln said as they joined Daisy inside before asking “Are you sure you know how to drive this?”
“I can fly planes, this shouldn’t be so hard.” Scott told him “Why the hell are there six pedals?”
Once he was able to figure out the driving controls, Scott drove the heavy assult vehicle right through the garage door out onto the highway bridge that ran under the building, plowing into and over the crashed cars.
“Do you have to drive on top of the cars?” Lincoln asked as the truck bounced again.
“Seriously, you are no fun.” Scott said.
“I’m a doctor” Lincoln reminded him. “I like to avoid methods of causing injury. Like your driving”
“Everyone’s a critic.”
“Both of you stop it” Daisy.
“We’re trying to get across a river in an abandoned city. Over a bridge loaded with empty cars. How am I supposed to drive?”
They eventually made it to the front steps of the Capitol, mostly by driving on the grass of the National Mall and avoiding more cars.
“Hello?” Scott yelled as they entered the building.
“You seriously think someone is going to hear you?” Lincoln asked.
“You did…” Daisy said
“Well… this place is bigger.”
The trio explored the empty halls, attempting to find their way to the room with the light.
After about an hour, they found a single door with a crack of light coming out from under it.
“Here we are.” Daisy said, taking position on one side of the door and Scott moved to the other.
“three… two… one…” Scott kicked the door in.
“It’s a spot lamp…” Scott said.
The lamp looked weird, almost organic in design. It was hooked up to a round, transparent contained with a light blue liquid inside.
“So… not a ghost.” Lincoln said
“Thankfully, no.” Daisy said with a slight grimace, remembering the so called ghosts she’d dealt with.
“By the way,” Scott asked “have you heard from Robbie since you guys got back?”
“He’s been off the grid the last few…”
Diasy’s sentence was cut off by a flash of lighting striking one of the construction cranes surrounding the distant Triskelion. Never meant to have been left out the elements for three decades, the jolt caused the old tower to buckle, its arm toppling over and crashing into the top levels of the tower.
“What just happened..?” Daisy asked
“You mean aside from three grown secret agents pissing their pants and having the fear of God thrust into them?” Scott asked “Not much.”
“That thing crushed the director’s office.” Lincoln said in shock…
“Yes, yes it did.”
“You know what this means?”
“Someone was in this room. Someone knew that would happen. Someone knew we would have died. Someone put this light here to get us to come here, to save our lives.”