Pawns in a Larger Game
Episode 4: Pawns in a Larger Game
September 12, 2018- Present Day
Daisy burst out into the hall furious after her confrontation with Robbie which had gotten her nowhere. The only thing she had now was his name so, at least she didn’t have to call him flaming skull guy, or Satan’s spawn in her head anymore. “Your pissed, I take it you got nothing out of the assassin from the future.” Elena said leaning against the wall with her arms crossed.
The woman always could read Daisy well not that she was trying to hide anything, “All I got was a name, Robbie Reyes, the ghost rider. I didn’t ask about Jemma anyways. I doubt he would know how to find her. He says he wants vengeance on the world, that he thinks humanity deserves to suffer for all the horrible things we’ve done.” After everything Daisy has seen some tiny part of her agreed with him, but she was never going to voice her thoughts out loud.
“Sounds Loco if you ask me, but you don’t have to worry about Jemma she tough and resilient, that marauder won’t know what hit him. Come on Fury asked me to come get you. I think he’s going to make us shield agents, as a cover of course while we’re here.” Not sparing daisy a glance the Latina sauntered off down the hall expecting the younger woman to follow.
Sighing, Daisy took out a bottle of pills that had been given to her and popped them in her mouth to help with the pain radiating from her arms. Following Elena, she walked into a large room where she could see her friends had all gathered around along with a few people that she didn’t recognize. “Time travelers! This is bloody brilliant, now I understand why you’ve never had pizza before. Oh, I am going to have so much fun with you! Your going to love hamburgers and chips oh and ice-cream! Your going to be my own Guinea pig!” A man exclaimed rattling his mouth off to Bobbi who looked like she wanted to punch him.
“Careful Hunter, I think she’s about two seconds away from clocking you in the mouth.” A voice said from above as a man poked his head out of an airshaft before jumping down to land on his feet expertly. Daisy could tell that this man had years of training just by his physique alone but still looking at all of these random faces, none of them held the look that haunted all the future visitors. They had never seen real misery or despair.
“Barton how many times have I told you not to sneak around in the air vents?” Fury said narrowing his eyes at said man before pausing when he noticed Daisy walking into the room. All of the occupants must have noticed the sudden change in the room because suddenly Daisy found all eyes on her.
“Wow, don’t I feel naked?” Daisy said looking around the room at the sea of faces. In her time all these people were dead and had been for along time. “So, what’s with the entourage I figured we were going to keep this whole thing on the down low.”
“So, you’re her huh? Quake from the future. Fury said you were the leader, but you seem kind of young and judging by the beating to your face, inexperienced.” Smiling at the man next to her she took a step towards him and without even speaking blasted him with vibrations that sent him flying backwards into the wall despite the pain now flaring up her arm she decided it was worth it if for nothing more than to see his surprised face. The man groaned and raised his head weakly, “Oh, so that’s why they call you Quake.” He muttered realization dawning across his face.
“Are you two done yet or would you like to play some more We have work to do so knock it off.” Fury growled looking between the pair. “Here, these are your new shield badges I took the liberty of making you all level 10 shield agents I trust you have the skills to back that up. These are your covers while you’re in the past.” He said handing Daisy her badge. She had always considered herself a shield agent but in the future, none of them had badges or levels. They were just a rebel group that called themselves shield or at least what was left of shield anyways.
“Are we even really sure these people are actually from the future.” The guy who she had sent flying suddenly piped up narrowing his eyes at her suspiciously. “Their story checks out” Fury said. “I got a call from the professor about an hour ago. He’s a telepath so its almost impossible to lie to him.” Of course, Fury was going to check their story out. Time travel was little hard to swallow even in the future.
“Daisy Johnson is the leader of the group, she’s an inhuman as well as a capable fighter, with her she has Elena Rodriguez also an inhuman that can move really fast but ends up being snapped back to where she started like a slingshot, hence her code name. Melinda May, an exceptional fighter, code name the cavalry, Bobbi Morse, skilled in hand to hand combat but likes to use batons, code name Mockingbird and finally Jemma Simmons the biochemist who is currently the only one not accounted for.” Fury said flipping through a file that he had in his hand. “Did I miss anything?” He asked looking up at Daisy for confirmation.
“No, wow you are really thorough.” Daisy said. This guy really wasn’t messing around and he also had that kind of scary intimidating look to him that told you he wasn’t messing around. “Did you find anything useful about the prisoner?’ Fury asked glancing Daisy’s way.
“Aside from him wanting vengeance on humanity, no, but I doubt he knows the actually reason for why the world ended up the way it did in the future. Truthfully no one does all we know is that there is a mole within shield and that November fifth is the beginning of judgement day. The day everything falls.” Her words causing a silence to fall over the room.
The door burst opened up expectedly as a man ran in slightly out of breath, “Sorry I’m late. Did I miss anything?” He asked still catching his breath. “Just the end of the world” May muttered.
“Oh, so nothing much then.” He smiled. Fury rolled his eyes and glared at the man. “Thank you for joining us agent Coulson, but your late.” He said narrowing his eyes at said man. Sighing, Fury turned back to the travelers and frowned, “Now that we’re all here there is the slight problem about what we’re all going to do about you lot not to mention that one of you walking disasters is still out there in the world.” He muttered deep in thought.
“Hey!” Daisy said clearly offended. “we aren’t that bad” crossing her arms to glare at the man.
“Are you kidding me? You lot don’t even know what a taco is. How the hell are you going to survive out there in the real world without accidently causing a natural disaster!” Fury said.
“What’s a taco?” Elena leaned over to whisper in Daisy’s ear. “I don’t know, maybe a plant?” Daisy said with a shrug.
“Jesus lord, you don’t have taco’s in the future! That means no taco Tuesdays. No wonder you came back from the future to save the world. God help us hall.” The tall dark-skinned man in the corner said shaking his head sadly. “I’m starting to think a taco isn’t a plant.” Elena murmured softly.
“Alright, enough about the tacos.” Fury said causing a silence to fall over the group. “You!” Fury said snapping his finger at Bobbi, “I’m putting you undercover at Hydra. You lot are sure there is a mole in shield? Well the best way to smoke out a mole is to go undercover as well and since I don’t trust you future people not to screw it up I’m sending Hunter as your partner.” He said to Bobbi. Groaning, Bobbi turned to glare at the British Strike agent clearly not happy with the arrangement.
“Elena Rodriguez, I’m pairing you with Mac. I think you two will be compatible together. I’m sending the both of you to meet up with a friend who may have some answers, hopefully.” Fury said before twisting around as his eyes fell on May. “Melinda May, I have a special assignment for you, well you and Coulson. You seem the most mature out of the group. Putting you with Coulson is a pretty safe bet. I’m sending you to retrieve Jemma Simmons. If the Biochemist is as smart as you all say, then she’ll most likely be leading her capture right towards the rendezvous where you will be waiting. We have the advantage because he’s not going to expect anyone from the past to know of your presence. Alright now that we have everything settled you lot need to get moving.” He said clapping his hands together.
“Wait!” Daisy said. “What about me?” There was no way she was going to be left behind. She had never been the type of person that could just sit on the side lines. She just wasn’t built that way.
“You’re staying here” Fury said.
“What the hell? Your benching me? I am not sitting this out and I’m not staying here!” Daisy said balling her hands into fists. “Do you think I’m an idiot Agent Johnson? I know about the damage inflicted on your arms and I know that you’ve been pushing yourself to the max. Even just a few more quakes and you could potentially end up killing yourself. Not to mention that you have no self-control as seen by the fact that you nearly destroyed half the city in your fight with the ghost rider So, yea until the damage to your arms is healed I’m going to bench you.” Fury said glaring at her.
Gritting her teeth, she stormed out in anger.
“It’s not her fault” Elena said softly breaking the silence. “In the world we came from pushing yourself to the Max was the only way to survive. We were never given the option or luxury of rest. I don’t even think we know what rest is.” She said chuckling to herself at the notion.
“Can I ask you something?” Jemma asked abruptly Glancing at the man beside her. They had been walking for hours without saying a word, but Jemma had finally reached her limit. “You seem like a chatter box I doubt tell you no would do anything anyways.” He muttered with a sigh rubbing his tired face.
“Why do you want to destroy the world so badly?” She asked blinking over at him with big innocent eyes. Smirking, he looked over at her amused. “The worlds already destroyed. I’m only ensuring that it stays that way.”
Glaring, she shoved him angrily. “That’s not what I meant. We have the chance to save the world, to make a better future and you just want to throw that all away, for what?”
“I happen to like the world just the way it is. No rules, no law. Survival of the fittest like nature always intended and in that world I’m on top, untouchable. No one is ever going to touch me again, I’m free.” Pausing in her steps something about what Fitz said caused her to freeze and she didn’t know why. Replaying the words in her head she ran through them over and over.
“What do you mean no one is ever going to touch you again?” She said her eyes swirling with confusion. His back went rigid and he stopped in his movement. Tightening his hand into a fist he glanced at her his eyes suddenly cold and hard. “Never you mind sweetheart” Turning away from her he continued on effectively dropping the conversation. The man before her was like a brick wall, stubborn and solid. But there was also something else about him that he was hiding as well, and she was going to do everything in her power to find out what that was.
Daisy was not expecting him to be here, no truthfully, she just didn’t want him here. Logan was a distraction and one that she didn’t need. “Logan? What are you doing here?” The question falling from her tongue. “The professor told me about where you come from. I’ll admit the future is alittle hard to swallow, but I came here to help. The professor thought it was a good idea.” Turning away from him she glared at the wall.
“Of course, he did” she muttered softly under her breath because apparently the professor was very nosy and didn’t know how to butt out and mind his own business. “Well,” She said turning back to face Logan. “It’s not like your presence is going to matter much. I’ve been benched and that means I’m stuck here until my arms heal.” She said holding up her bandaged arms.
“I don’t know how it’s possible, but you look more beat up than the last time I saw you which was this morning.” He said studying her face and all of the new bruises that were now littered across her face.
“There was a fight” She said wincing.
“Seriously? After you left, you got into a fight? Do you ever not get into trouble?” He asked holding back laughter that was waiting to explode.
“Not really, my dad always used to say…” Trailing off she fell silent. “Never mind. I’m going to go. It’s getting late and I should probably get some sleep. I’ve never actually slept on a real bed. Kind of looking forward to it.” She grinned hugging him tight before walking away abruptly two seconds away from bursting into tears again. God, she really hated the professor sometimes.
Luckily the others wouldn’t be leaving for a few days they all needed time to gather their strengths for what was to come ahead. Daisy needed to heal fast she wasn’t going to stay out of this fight not if she could help it. In the long run her life didn’t matter not when the world was at stake. Daisy’s thoughts drifted to Jemma again and she found herself hoping that the biochemist was alright and that she was still alive.
Stick to the missions Daisy, just forget about Logan and everyone else from the past they are just a distraction. The only thing that matters is saving the world. Pausing, she turned and glanced at the door that lead down to Robbie. Wanting to go down but knowing that a conversation with him would lead to know here. She was tired of running around in circles. The only thing Robbie was good at was telling Lies and confusing the hell out of her.
“So, fearless leader. You look like you could use some fun want to sneak out?” A voice asked startling her from her thoughts. Turning around she found herself face to face with the man from before the one she had thrown against the wall with her powers.
“Who are you again?” She asked, having not gotten a name earlier. “Tony, Tony stark” He said causing her to gasp.
“Your Neds grandfather” She said only having heard his name through story’s that Ned used to tell. “Grandfather?” he asked looking at her in confusion.
“Sorry? Spoilers” she said shaking her head and almost wanting to laugh at how she hadn’t even seen it before. Now looking at Tony she could see the resemblance.
“So,” Tony said weighing his hands up and down, “What’s it to be, you staying or going?” Thinking about it Daisy realized that maybe Tony was useful after all. He was a rule breaker and she found that maybe she could use that to her favor. He like everyone else was nothing more than a pawn, a chess piece to be moved and she could work with that.
Having to make each move count without revealing that this was all a game. It was her move and what followed next would have to made with precision and without error.
“Do you know how to get in contact with an Asgardian?” she asked. Looking at him while waiting for a response.
Your move Tony.