Walking and talking.
Daisy screaming made Scott and Barry jump.
“They haven’t made it public, but the police are going nuts looking for you.” Jemma explained “The local Daisy has been missing for a few days.”
“Why do they think Scott and Barry kidnapped me?”
“It’s all they’ve got to work on.”
“Right… Look, we saw Evil Bobbi again, she zapped Scott’s phone. He can’t control the car or the Zephyr.”
“Hang tight, we’ll get it then come get you.”
“So… what’s the matter?” Barry asked
“The cops think you two kidnapped me.”
“Oh sweet Jesus…” Scott complained, hitting his head against the wall. “Could this… no.. I’m not gonna say it.”
A police siren soon echoed down from the street.
“I should just keep my mouth shut.” Scott said. “Come on, into the underpass.”
“So we’re just going to stand around in ankle deep lord knows what with the LAPD hot on our tails.” Barry said “Fun times.”
“We’ll get her back.” Scott said to him. “And this is just rain water… mostly” as a burger wrapper floated past.
They kept moving south, back towards the Los Angeles River. The long trek made time feel like it was moving at a snail’s pace.
“So…” Barry began “How did you two meet?”
“We’re really doing this?” Scott asked
“Well, better than what I was about to suggest," Daisy said "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon.”
“Fine.” He huffed
“It was five years ago.” Scott began “Daisy, who was calling herself Skye at that point, had recently been picked up by SHIELD. I was working at a SHIELD central complex called ‘The Hub’ as a technician. The team was visiting because upper management wanted to borrow two members, Fitz and guy named Grant Ward, who we later found out was a sociopath, but that’s not relevant.
“I was coming off my lunch break with some of my co-workers when I saw her. She was pinned to the wall by a bracelet Coulson had put on her to keep her in line.”
“In line?”
“I wasn’t that on board with SHIELD at that point” Diasy explained. “I was constantly hacking into things I shouldn’t have. I was looking for who I was.
“Coulson took pity on me when the truth came out, and kept me on so long as I wore the braclet, which shut down any tech I wasn’t supposed to be using. I tried to enter a door I shouldn’t have and I got stuck.”
“I was gonna go over to help” Scott continued “The others were encouraging me to go talk to her. She was yelling and screaming. But then one of the senior agents called us to fix something and I never got the chance to say hi.
“A few months later, SHIELD nearly collapsed. What few of us remained were scattered to the four winds. We went dark. Many retired or surrendered to the government. I was lucky enough to get picked up by a few guys. We eventually met up with the former director of SHIELD, Nick Fury. He was bringing us to one of his bases when we got a distress call, Fitz and Simmons, stuck at the bottom of the ocean.
“Once everything was settled, Fury turned SHIELD over to Coulson. And we finally got to meet face to face. I was trying to eat and she sat down next to me. I nearly choked on my Frosted Flakes. Time went by, we became friendly, I got to know her and the others. But I kept my distance. I thought I was a freak. I didn’t know about what I was and the fact I could move objects with my mind made me scared. Then she got her powers and I realized how much of an asset I could be. But then things went up and down faster than a roller coaster. One second everything is working fine, the next, the agency is holding on by a thread.
“Then came my big break. I worked up the confidence to tell Coulson the truth in confidence about my powers and my history. When MI6 called and said my cousin was missing, I got sent to find him. Wind up having to be saved by Daisy, only for me to have to save her. That’s when I showed her what I could do.
“We get back to the US, go to a bar for drinks, when we hear a commotion outside… Next thing ether of us knows, its three days later and we’re having sex.”
“Wow…” Barry said, slightly amazed.
“And that was the short version….” Daisy said.
A little while later, Daisy’s com came on with a call from Jemma
“We’ve got the car, we’ll meet you guys in a few minutes.”
“Great…” Daisy said as they reached a slight obstacle. The point where the channel they were walking in met the river was a sheer wall.
“How far is that drop?” Barry asked.
“Doesn’t look too bad” Daisy said, stepping off the ledge and firing off her powers to lower herself to the ground.
“Cheater…” Scott huffed
“There’s a few exits over here.” Daisy said pointing.
“Barry, hold still.” Scott said, holding his hand out.
Barry’s feet left the ground and Scott gently lowered him down.
“How are you gonna get down?” Daisy asked
Scott suddenly leapt off the edge right at her. She instinctively raised her hands and used her powers to slow his fall.
“You could have asked…” She said.
They climbed up the exit ramp, breaking open a gate.
“We should be right by… Universal Studios.” Scott said as he heard screaming.
“Great… right back where we started.”
Suddenly, Scott’s car rolled up in front of them
Fit opened the door and climbed out “Come with me if you want to live” he said as they jumped in.
“They closed that ride six years ago...” Scott said as he slammed the door closed.