The Right Direction
“That wasn’t so bad” Jay said as the plane finished its jump between worlds.
“Wait for it…” Thawne said, gripping what was left of the couch.
The plane started to buck again, but only for a few minutes.
“I got it… I got it…” Scott said, adjusting the controls and getting the plane back into line. “Big baby…”
“I heard that!”
“Would you look at that…” Daisy said as she looked out the windshield of the plane.
They were flying high above a city, whose buildings shot miles into the sky and were criss-crossed by bridges between them.
“Scott… I can’t get any internet access.” Daisy said “I think our gear is a few generations behind…”
“Any idea where we are?” Barry asked, stepping into the cockpit.
“Right back where this all started…” Scott said with a chuckle as the buildings gave way to a recognizable patch of green…
Central Park.
“Home sweet home…”
They found a secluded spot to touch down in.
“OK, we know nothing of this earth.” Scott said “Everyone pair up, look around, be back here within an hour. This is recon ONLY. Stay in contact. Don’t touch anything, don’t talk to anyone and for the love of God don’t draw attention to yourselves…”
Lincoln stayed behind to keep an eye on Jas while the others went off to look around.
“Something must have sent this earth’s tech levels into the stratosphere compared to ours.” Scott said as he and Daisy walked through the park.
Scott saw a couple walking towards them with a stroller. They looked up for a split second and he got a good look at their faces.
“Um…Daisy?” Scott asked “Is that… Us, coming this way? Pushing a baby carriage?”
“Oh crap.. How should we…? I mean do we even?” Daisy said as their doppelgangers came closer.
“I don’t know.”
The couple in the distance noticed the pair standing there and walked right up to them.
“Hi there.” The other Daisy said “So, time travel or what?”
“Um… Interdimensional actually…” Daisy replied “You guys aren’t freaked out by this at all?”
“Nah, I’m sure you two have seen your fair share of crazy…” The other Scott said. “You’re unarmed, you’re not attacking us and you look like deer in headlights.”
Daisy let out a small snort of a laugh “You wouldn’t believe what we’ve been going through if you were along for the ride…”
“Who’s this little cuttie pie?” Scott asked, kneeling in front of the stroller.
“It’s Alisha” The local Scott said confused “Don’t you two..?”
“Um… no.” Scott said with a slight tone of awkwardness…
“wow…”The other Daisy said.
“Let me guess.” The other Scott said “On your Earth, you two can’t stand each other.”
“No.” Scott told him, taking Daisy’s hand “No, we’re together. It’s just; it’s a more recent development for us, that’s all.”
“This is weird.” The local Scott said “So you’re not married?”
The pair of dimension jumpers shook their heads.
“So, what brings you here?” Local Daisy asked
“The short version would seem like War & Peace.” Scott told them
“Christ. What’s the long version like?”
“Probably the entire Harry Potter series. And it’s only been about....” Scott turned to his Daisy “What? Eight? Nine days?”
“Cool.” The other Scott said with a grin on his face.
“Shorting in as much as I can, we’re looking for three people who have been kidnapped. We’ve been tracking them, back tracking through a list of worlds.”
Daisy took out her phone and showed them Bobbi’s picture
“They were taken by this woman and her associate. Do you know her?”
Their local counterparts gave each other a quick look.
“Morse got them?” The other Scott asked.
“Yeah” Scott replied.
“That explains everything” The other Daisy told her husband “Those weren’t clones.”
“They were other versions of herself.” He said back. “We’ve got to get Ally home, then report in. S.H.I.E.L.D is gonna what to hear this. You two should come with us.”
“We might just have to take her with us. This is big…”
Daisy turned to her Scott “I think we just hit the jackpot”
A few mintues later
“So what you two, or four, are saying is that Barbara Morse has been kidnapping people from other dimensions to use as solders?” Phil Coulson asked.
“Pretty much” Scott said.
“You have any idea how ridiculous this sounds?”
“Any more or less than the fact there’s two of each of us?” The local Daisy answered, her daughter squirming in her arms.
“Fury is going to think I need a vacation…” Coulson said.
“Well, maybe if you took one once in a while.” The local Scott said.
“Not now Scott…”
“Come on Dad…” Local Daisy said.
“Dad?” Daisy said with her eyes wide…
“We’ll share life stories later.” Coulson told them “Right now, I need to make a call.”
“You’re telling me that crazy Hydra diva is still running around?” Fury said on the screen.
“It would seem so, sir.” Coulson said “Agents Johnson and Riley found out she’s been using some sort of interdimensional portal technology or something to cross between realities. She’s been kidnapping people, often her own counterparts, to serve her.”
“While that would sound like something that maniac would do, how can you two be so sure?” Fury asked.
“Because…” Daisy said as she and Scott stepped into view “That’s how we got here.”
Fury did a one eyed double take.
“I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
Meanwhile…
Seven tried to break out of the bonds that kept her in the chair, but struggle as she did, nothing happened.
The door to the room she was tied up in opened and a familiar faced stepped in.
“You’ve really derailed the project number seven.” President Rogers said. “And don’t try, those chains are vibranium, they’ll absorb your vibrational powers easily.”
“Forgive me, Sir. It was an accident” She said, still trying to break out of her restraints. “I did what had to be done. Leopold Fitz was going to kill Dr. Simmons. I couldn’t let that happen.”
“Why is she…” The man began to say. He looked at the young woman, saw the expression on her face, before turning to the soldiers by the door “pass the order along, Dr Jemma Simmons is not to be harmed.”
“Thank you, Sir. I’m ready to accept whatever punishment you see fit.”
“I think we can still make it work from here. It’s just a minor setback.” A voice said from behind Rogers. A figure in a cloak stepped through the door and came around from behind Rodgers.
“Mom?” Seven asked.
“Not exactly” the woman said, lowering her hood. “You can call me Alveus… I believe that translates into English as ‘Hive”.