Sister's Keeper.
“Everyone, new plan.” Daisy said over the comms while still typing furiously “Someone has taken the Zephyr. We have to assume they have Jemma and Jas as well. Our exit strategy is gone. We’re going to have to find how Hydra Bobbi got to and from Barry’s Earth and use that to escape. Fitz and Jessie, when you get to the power core, plant the charge and head back up immediately.
“The timer on the detonator only goes up to half an hour.” Fitz called back
“We know.” Scott said “Barry and Jay, you’re gonna have to double time it, but I would still recommend not using the disks yet.”
“We’re still a few floors above the core control room.” Fitz said after Barry and Jay had acknowledge what Scott had told them.
“I’m in!” Daisy said before looking at the screen and having her jaw drop “Fitz, you’re going to want to wait on setting that charge.”
“Why?”
“It’s not going to work. The core…”
Scott looked over her shoulder.
“Please tell me that’s not what I think it is…” he said, facepalming
“WHAT?” Fitz demanded
“The monoliths… all four of them…” Daisy told him.
“The Monoliths are in the core?”
“The Monoliths ARE the core.”
The screen showed the four alien stones arranged in a circle. Somehow, the base was drawing it’s power from them.
“Isn’t that the rock that ate Simmons?”
Daisy nodded quietly. Scott, on the other hand…
“God DAMN IT!” he yelled, kicking a chair and sending it flying before flipping a nearby table on it’s side, “We blow this place we could cause another dimensional rip.”
“So, that’s good, we can escape through it.” Lincoln said
“Sure, if you enjoy ripping open a dimension with the power to make our fears manifest or worse. I don’t want to know what four of them together would do. We don’t even know if this earth has enough gravitonium to close it.”
“Grava-what now? What are we trying to close? That sounds like a way out.”
Scott took a deep breath
“When we found you, you said that you’d found your Stark device just after you returned from the future, correct?”
Lincoln nodded.
Daisy picked up the story “After we returned we found the three other monoliths, one thing leads to another and they get blown to bits. This left a hole in the fabric of the universe into… literally fear.
“It could take what you were afraid of and make it real.” Scott continued.
Lincoln looked at the pair in confusion.
“You know Coulson’s story right?” Scott asked, “Got stabbed in chest. Died. Got pumped full of alien blood, alive again.”
“That part I’m aware.” Lincoln said, wondering where this was going.
“Part two, then. Gets possessed by a ‘spirit of vengeance’; which somehow destroys said alien blood, leaving him dying again. He runs in to try to close portal and meets a Mike Peterson who looks just like he did when they first met, and not a Deathlok. This Mr. Peterson tells him this was a dream, it’s still 2012, and he’s in the med bay of the Helicarrier dying from his original stab wound. The other dimension took our fears and made them into physical objects, physical threats. Coulson, his fear was that none of this was real, that nothing he’d done had mattered. Jemma was attacked by Hive’s astronaut body from Maveth, the thing that hunted her for months. I saw Daisy lying dead on the ground while her ghost taunted me for never telling her I loved her. Yo-yo was attacked by a robotic copy of Jemma who tried to suffocate her. You can see why we don’t want to go through that again. We can’t let anything happen to those rocks.”
“Coulson was dying?”
“Yeah. Turns out GH-325 isn’t the end all, be all of medical treatments.”
“Didn’t you say he was fine?”
“We left him with May in Tahiti to enjoy what time he had left.” Daisy said, “Three weeks later, just walks in the front door, like nothing had happened.”
“What had happened?”
“Wouldn’t tell us. He’s hardly left the office since he’s gotten back. The trip to New York to inspect the Stark Device was the first time he’d left the base since.”
“I’m almost afraid to find out what happened on my Earth.”
“Jessie and I are at the power control room.” Fitz called over the radio.
“We’re going to have to stick with you disconnecting the power.” Daisy told him “we can’t run the risk of destroying the core.”
The door to the room flew off the hinges as the black suited foot soldiers stormed in.
“Hello everyone…” Morse said, stepping in front of her black clad troops, “nice of you to drop by…”
“Nice of you to have us, love what you did with the place. So much green.” Scott said sarcastically.
“Kill that one so I don’t have to listen to him talk any more.”
Scott quickly ducked behind the table he’d upturned before as the soldiers opened fire.
Daisy tried to quake them down, but they stood still pointing their guns at her instead.
“Oh crap.”
Lincoln jumped to Daisy’s defense, only to get shot in the shoulder. Daisy screamed for him as the soldiers advanced on them. Thinking quickly, Scott used his powers to push the table forward, knocking into the soldiers. They didn’t budge. If he could see their faces, they’d probably be more annoyed than anything.
“OK… Didn’t think that through.” He quipped before rolling behind a console.
“Finish him now, so I don’t have to listen to his stupid banter, secure the other two. I have use for the boy and as for her… She’ll make an excellent play thing.”
“Go. Just go.” Daisy mouthed to Scott, nodding toward an air vent nearby
“Not happening” he hissed back.
“I surrender.” Daisy said, standing, her hands in the air.
“NO!” Scott yelled, trying to reach for her, but only to be sent back into hiding by more gunfire.
He realized he had little choice, and used his powers to pull the grate off the vent, and sent it flying right at Morse, who ducked out of the way
“Mark my words, Morse, this isn’t over.” Scott yelled over the guns as he dove into the vent.
“Damn it. You idiots couldn’t hit the broad side of a mountain…” Morse raged, “Grab her, put this on them.”
She handed them a pair of inhibitor bracelets.
“Smart choice, dear sister.” Agent Seven said as she entered. Her uniform was almost identical to the Hydra soldiers, only with an SSR eagle on her belt buckle.
“Seven? What are you doing?” Daisy asked as the soldiers grabbed her.
“Why, I came to get you” She said before turning to Morse, “My superiors have need for her first, then she’s all yours.”