Because we care...
Nothing happened.
She tried again and again, but the gun wouldn’t fire.
“Stupid alien piece of crap” she yelled, throwing it to the floor. The moment it stuck the deck, it went off, blasting a hole in the couch.
Barry dived on it before Romanoff could reach for it. Scott flicked his wrist and she found herself flung against the wall.
“Right… Forgot you could do that.” She said “But it doesn’t matter. I’ve always been ready to die to complete my mission.”
“Oh will you shut up.” Jemma said, pulling out a hidden ICER and shooting her with it.
“Did not expect that from you?” Daisy said
“Well, I wanted to be the hero for a change.”
“She’s probably got reinforcements right behind her.” Daisy said.
“Then let’s get the fuck out of here.” Scott said, running to the controls
Daisy joined him once they were airborne
“Are we going to bring her with us?” She asked
“No, we’ll dump her off somewhere.”
“Got anything in particular in mind?”
“Do some digging. Let’s find someplace she wouldn’t like at all.”
“Oooh… That sound devious.” She said, sitting down and flipping open a laptop
“Ex-husband’s backyard?”
“Nah, she’ll just pin the blame on him. And that assumes he has a back yard we could dump her on.”
Daisy’s fingers did there digital magic “I think I’ve got something…” she said, pointing to the screen. “perfect.” Scott said. He set the autopilot.
Romanoff awoke from the ICER shot to find Scott sitting across from her on a chair, the others scattered around the room watching.
“I’m not dead?”
“Stun gun” Scott explained “Speaking of, I’m keeping your little toy.”
Scott handed her a glass
“Don’t worry it’s just water.”
“Why are you being so kind to me?” she asked after taking a sip “You’ve had every chance to kill me but…”
“Well, as the good book doeth say… ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you…’ Maybe you will realize that not everyone who can leap a wall the way a track star leaps hurdles is out to get you and maybe, just maybe, you’d reconsider automatically hunting folks like me.”
“I guess I owe Agent Paul an apology.”
“I think he owes you one. He sang like a canary the moment I asked where you were.”
“No, not Paul Carter. Logan Paul.”
“He was one of your agents as well as Daisy’s boyfriend?”
She nodded
“Daisy and Logan were a crack team together, the best agents I’ve ever had. They grew from partners to friends to lovers… But all that changed two months ago.
“We discovered a means to detect the aberrant genes… Sorry.” She said, realizing insulting more than a half dozen powered people standing around her wouldn’t end well, no matter how much she felt she was right about them.
“…to detect the genes before they activated. I ordered the entire organization be screened. Any positive hits would have been… dealt with. Logan objected to that decision, he said that there was no justification to do so and asked what I would do if it was me or someone I cared about, which is why Daisy dumped him and I reassigned him to menial duties, but eventually I kicked him out. Then the tests came back.
“Out of all the agents and staff members, we had just one positive test. Just one… Daisy. We’d just hooked up for the first time about two weeks prior. I was devastated. I’d fallen in love with her and yet, there I was… I was in my office; I had my pen in my hand to sign the order to have her killed. A strange woman suddenly, just, appeared in the room and offered me an out. She said had the technology to perform genetic surgery to remove the gene. She showed me her eyes as proof she could do that. But she warned me that a group of travelers from another world would appear, and if I wanted my Daisy….”
She stopped to choose her words again “…to have this procedure, I would need to kill at least the leaders of this group and give the one you called Seven to her.”
“Everything was a ruse to keep the truth from your staff.” Scott said.
Romanoff nodded.
“My Daisy thought that blond was a prostitute I’d hired for her. She likes…”
“Let’s leave it at that” Daisy said, leaning against the kitchen table “I’m really not interested in the details of my other selves’ sex lives.”
“Sorry.”
“Did they tell you anything else?”
“No. They simply came and went as they wanted.”
The plane set down after a few minutes and Scott lead Romanoff down the stairs
“Where are we?”
“Just outside of a little town called Primm, Nevada.”
“You’re dumping me off in the desert?”
“No, I-15 passes through and there’s a casino you can sit in and wait, play some slots.”
“I’m a recovering gambling addict…”
“I know…”He said with his patented smart ass smile.
“How?”
“Your girlfriend can sing and dance. Mine is the best damn hacker in the world.” He said smugly.
“I just have one question left.” Scott said as he started up the stairs agin. “The lady with the weird eyes. Did she ever give you her name?”
“Yeah, it was… strange.” Romanoff said “She said her name was Mysiri. I know I have no right to ask this, but please bring my Daisy back to me.”
“I’ll do my damnedest…”
She watched as the plane took to the air again and vanished in a bright blue flash before starting her trek across the valley to the one little speck of civilization.