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"I'm not hungry," she said, shaking her head. There was no way that she would forget that she was actually eating a spider. No way in hell was that going to happen at all. Her mind was basically racing, and she was freaking out even though the spiders were very very dead. She would honestly rather die than eat those things, no matter what the other two said. Those things were disgusting, and there was no way that her mind would try to trick her and make her think that she was eating something else.

Sparky closed her eyes when the Wasp set a piece of the spider thing in front of her, and it was making her sick to her stomach just thinking about what that thing was. Yeah, there definitely was no way she was going to eat that thing, no matter what Raynor and the Wasp said, she was perfectly fine with the idea of potentially going hungry. "I'd rather eat nothing at all as opposed to those things or whatever the hell they are... A spider is a spider..." she muttered.

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"Sounds fun, though I am a bit curious as to why you are messing with those things..." he said with a smile. Though there was something else on his mind, and it had been for a little while now, all things considering. It had been in the back of his head for a little while, and so maybe now since there wasn't any sort of chaos going on at the moment, so maybe he should bring it up. Though he was wondering if she'd even respond well to him bringing it up now. Well, there was no time like the present.

"Actually, there is something I want to talk to you about..." he started to say, walking a little closer to her with a smile. "Been meaning to bring it up for a little while now, and you can say no if you want to, your choice entirely... Anyway, I was wondering if you'd want to go out sometime with me, as in out on a date. Not sure yet what we'd do, but I'm sure we can come up with something."

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Tinley could understand that. She, herself, came from a similar situation. "Sounds rough. Cannot say that I blame you and SHIELD is glad to have you, I am sure. Well, I imagine you are familiar with SHIELD protocol and all that so I don't think we need to bother going over it, unless you wish to of course. Instead, I figured we would take a tour of the place and I can show you to your bunk."

Tinley piled up the folders in front of her, satisfied with what she saw and heard. Agent Wu would be a valuable asset to the team. They could always use more operations agents. And she knew he would be handy in the future, especially given her plan to tackle the Quantum Realm and hit HYDRA while they were down. But that was a matter for another time.

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Tempest had her fun, it seemed as Cass barged in on her space. She gave the woman a one-shoulder shrug. "Other than his name, not much. I don't take him as HYDRA unless they started hiring amazing actors. I think we just have a junkie who stumbled into the wrong place. I can send him on his way." She clicked on the voice again. "By all means, what's mine is yours. I will leave you alone mortal. I have other matters to attend to. You know how it goes."

She turned it off, but still had the camera on him, just in case. "He's weird, but like, in a good way. I like him. I think he's just too deep into the nose stuff to be salient. And he really had to pee, so can't blame him there. Anyway, what brings you to my humble home?"

Niah nodded. "I appreciate it anyway." She said and was about to go find Tempest. The one out of the three that Maria said could probably help the most that Niah trusted the most. She paused though when Maria asked what was up. "It sounds crazy." She looked at the postcard in her gloved hand. "But the basic is this ended up in my room, I want to see who put it there. If it is who I think," Fear was more like it but Niah wasn't ready to talk about her wild theory yet. "It is, well then we've got some work ahead of us. Thank you though. I'll let you know."

She gave Maria a small smile and then nodded at Novikova, their relationship hadn't improved and Niah had given up. Niah didn't want to get close to any more people. She left Technology and went to Tempest's room hoping she would be there. Niah knocked and said "It is me, Niah, I need help with something." Then waited for permission to enter.

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@FantasyChic@BrutalBx: During this lovely little chitchat, Tinley will get a text from Barton: How are things going with the new guy? Nothing else too crazy is going on, except for Director Fury's cat, Goose, comes running into the room and jumps into Tinley's lap, purring and rubbing up on her like crazy. The cat is on base temporarily, as Fury's current whereabouts aren't the ideal living situation for Goose. Barton made it very clear to the agents there that if anything happened to Goose, they were all dead.

@Nallore: As Harry went through the files in Barton's office, he lucked out. It seemed that Clint preferred paper, physical copies to electronic ones and just about everything he could want to find were there. One of the files included the contact information for the Fantastic Four, as well as a security threat analysis written by Colonel Rhodes. It seemed SHIELD had deemed them dangerous enough to have under constant surveillance.

However, Harry will notice that one of the drawers - containing files T-V - is slightly open, as if someone had been there recently looking for something.

@FantasyChic@Nallore@Kirah: Casper did a bit of a curtsey to the cameras. "Thank you!" he shouted, before he went off on his merry way at a bit of a skip. If he was HYDRA, then their standards had certainly gone down for their agents.

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Novikova nodded slightly - while she knew the rest of the Sci-Tech team could have figured it out in a pinch, those trained in Communications were better at this stuff. Tempest, Harry, and Cass would definitely be the people to ask. "I think Cass went to go talk to Tempest - so you might find one or both of them if you're quick," she told Niah. It was the truth, after all.

And it just so happened that Niah left Technology, meaning that she and Maria could grab what they needed and leave. They weren't technically doing anything wrong - they were just taking out equipment without asking, going off to meet with one of the founders of SHIELD, and hopefully were going to undergo a dangerous and complicated mission in order to save their own.

Abercrombie and Reed didn't need to know that, right? And Barton didn't either. What they didn't know wouldn't hurt them. However, Niah's words that someone had been in her room and left that vintage postcard alarmed her. It was more the location of the postcard that caught Novikova's attention - it was from California. That was where she had been sneaking off to and meeting up with Hank Pym. And here they were, in the classified underground bunker that was the Playground, right out of Washington D.C.

"I've got a bad feeling about this," Novikova admitted to Maria. The postcard had something to do with the Quantum Realm, she was certain of it.

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"Because we don't understand very much about them, that's why," Bonnie explained. Her specialty was anatomy and physiology - and since becoming a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, that had more or less branched out into studying how different power manifestations impacted an individual's biology. Terrigen crystals were deadly to the touch for those who weren't inhuman - and for those who were, it unlocked their abilities. From a scientific standpoint, that was fascinating. "Dr. Jiang used a liquified and diluted form of this in the Phase Three experiments - mostly harmless."

She grimaced slightly. Bonnie hadn't been a huge fan of Phase Three. She understood that they wanted to have agents with powers, but it was reckless. People died in those experiments. Good people. And even though there had been successful outcomes, there was still so much about those experiments that were unknown. There could be lasting, long term damage from it that they still weren't aware of. It was something she kept on meaning to speak with Abercrombie about, but with HYDRA there had never been a good time to do it.

As Flynn walked closer towards her, Bonnie's thoughts shifted back to the present and the blush in her cheeks deepened. She knew that ideally, she should play this off smoothly. She could see his muscles underneath the lab coat, the buttons straining to hold it all back. "I uh, I, um," Bonnie stammered. "I am clearly rusty at this... But I would like that, Flynn," she said, smiling a bit at him.

"Um... Would it be weird if we made out?"

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Raynor couldn't help but sigh. This wasn't a situation where they could afford to be picky about their food. He knew that Sparky had a deathly fear of spiders, but it wasn't even technically a spider and it was dead. It couldn't hurt her. However, if she didn't eat the food, then she would eventually starve. Sure, it may take longer here in the Quantum Realm but they still needed to eat. Their bodies needed energy. "...Alright, I'll find you something else to eat," Raynor said, getting to his feet.

The Wasp, however, shot him a look. She was a mother and right now, Sparks needed some tough love in her opinion. "If you aren't interested in surviving, then leave. We don't need dead weight if we are going to make it out of here," she said bluntly. "So you can choose - survive or die," Janet finished. Her eyes were dark and ruthless as she looked at Sparky.

"Janet, stop it!" Raynor snapped. "I said I would find her something else, okay?"

"Let's face it, Raynor, your physiology isn't adapting to this place. You'll be risking your life to reward this behavior. You don't have much time left."

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Cassandra watched Casper through the camera as he curtsied and then skipped off, letting out a slight sigh as she turned her attention back towards Tempest. "I was in Technology, and couldn't really get much information on him so I was suspicious on who he was and figured you had more information. Since the whole thing with HYDRA went down I wanted to be on the safe side so we didn't have another Kennedy or anything around." Cassandra said, as she leaned herself up against the wall she just hoped that he was a druggie and just stumbled into the area.

Then she heard a knock on the door and then turned to see that it was Niah and gave her a friendly smile. "Sure whats up Niah?" Cassandra asked, and then took a step out of Tempest's room. "Just keep an eye out, if he does return bring him in for questioning let me know as well." Cassandra said, she didn't trust druggies to much, sure her cousin Chloe was at one point in her life but she joined up with SHIELD and they helped her get clean rather quickly.

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Harry walked over and sat down in Barton's chair, as he spotted the file that he needed and started to open it up as his eyes scanned over the file, seeing the 'Threat' assessment written by Rhodes himself on the Fantastic Four, he raised an eyebrow at it but he didn't really care to much. He got what he really needed which was the contact information, Harry also did wonder if they knew that SHIELD has been keeping tabs on them for awhile now. Harry then took a moment and stopped as he noticed files T-V drawer was opened and proceeded to open it up.

Harry skimmed through it and found out that the Ultron file was completely empty now, which set up a bit of a red flag since not to many people were in Barton's office for anything. Harry took out his phone and started to type in the Fantastic Four's number into his phone, he'd make a call to them once he told Tinley or Cass about the missing file. Harry did wonder why Batron kept just the paper files, they weren't even locked down which was a bad thing. Harry then got up and started to leave Barton's office, before putting the Fantastic Four's file back where it should have been in the first place.

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"Of course anytime you need anything." Maria said to Niah and smiled towards her friend, as she listened to her as she mentioned the card that she was holding. As far as she knew there weren't any kind of mailing system in the base Maria looked towards Novikova for a moment as Niah turned and try to find Cass, Tempest or Harry about the cameras. They didn't have to much time, and they needed to get the suits and leave as well. "Do you think, whatever that was about is connected somehow?" Maria asked as she found the Stealth suits and pulled out two of them.

"Here you go." Maria said to her girlfriend and smiled towards her, as she started to put it over the clothes that she had been wearing over, and made sure that it was tightly on and secure. She had worn the suit only once when they were going through Creed Financial but she didn't really get the chance to use the stealth feature of her suit. "We should be all set, just press the button on the left side of the glove and you should be able to blend in." Maria instructed her as she pressed the button.

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"It's fine Ray, I'm not hungry..." she said, before she heard the Wasp's words. That was not something she had expected, sure, she knew that maybe Janet was right about all of that, but she hated that she was pointing it out. And what was she talking about with Raynor? That wasn't something she wanted to hear, and she'd ask Raynor about that later, but right now, she was pissed off. She'd never been known to have a temper, but hearing all of this just made her want to lash out at something, or more specifically someone.

Sparky went right over to Janet and punched her in the face, glaring. "Shut your mouth! It is my choice and you can honestly go to hell, and watch what you say damn it!" she snapped at her, practically feeling electricity crackling along her skin. Taking a few deep breaths, she calmed down slightly, but she was really really pissed off at Janet, who in their right mind would sit there making comments like that? Just deal with it, and respect some people's choices, it isn't that hard!

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"Guess that's true..." he said in response to what she had said about the crystals. "Honestly the stuff seems dangerous and like you shouldn't be messing with them if you ask me... But that's just my opinion, if they can be dangerous, they shouldn't be messed with..." It was true in his mind, that you shouldn't mess with something that you don't know too much about, or if you knew just how dangerous it could be. Something like that could be bad.

Hearing her reaction to him asking her out, he couldn't help but chuckle slightly. That was definitely an interesting reaction, but hey, she had said yes, so that was something. Her other suggestion just made him smile at her, "Well I don't know Bonnie, maybe, maybe not, who knows?" he said with a bit of a laugh, before he took another step towards her, pulled her into his arms and gave her a kiss. "Does that answer your question?"

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Ah humans, having nothing to do except sit around and do nothing. Why there were several other things that they could be doing, I know something that they could be doing. Petting me! Giving me attention! Trying to pay attention to anything else when I'm around will result in a report to Fury from me! The pesky humans need to learn their place in the pecking order, there is a reason there is the saying that dog's have people while cat's have a staff of servants! They need to learn who is the true person who rules this place!

Now, here I am, in the lap of someone, who doesn't seem to be paying attention to me! I'm sitting here purring, trying to get the human to pet me, but no! She's ignoring me! "Meow!" I yelled out at her, starting to paw gently at her face. Well, it was gently by my standards anyway, not sure how she'd react to that, she needs to pet me! And so does the other guy here with her! Honestly, it takes forever to train these humans!

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Before Tinley could stand up, she felt something jump on her lap. She gazed down and saw familiar orange fur. Fury's cat and one he held to a high degree. She was never a fan of cats, but she didn't dislike them. And Goose was entertaining somewhat. The orange cat pawed her face, obviously asking for attention. So she obliged because she knew she'd hear about it otherwise. She stroked the cat's face and scratch its back.

"Not a fan of cats, Agent Wu? Well you may want to get familiar with this little guy here. He's Fury's pride and joy and the man has a huge soft spot for him that he does not share with many other living things. We all learn to live with him and he has his moments. Seems we have another member of our tour." She held on to Goose and stood up. "Well, where do you want to start? Your room or the general area?"

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With the weird man gone, she had nothing else to do. She opted to play some games or investigate some more. "You got it boss lady." She had more guests it seemed though as Niah entered. She was curious why people were all coming to her area now all of a sudden. "You need me or her Niah? I got time."

She took a glance at the computer again. She could put it off for a bit as it seemed Niah really needed something and she had to admit, she was curious. Her expertise wasn't often sought after unless people needed healing and since Niah seemed as fit as can be, she figured the girl needed tech help, which she could do easily.

"Either of you I suppose." Niah started. "It is a very weird request though. First I need to see if anyone has been in my room." She paused, this next part would sound absolutely crazy and she knew it. "Specifically me." She looked at both of their faces to assess how much they believed her.

"I found this in my room, on my desk. She held up the postcard. "I don't think anyone but me could do that without you guys knowing. What is extra strange is the date is from before I was born, but when I touched the card with my bare hand I saw myself writing the date. I have no memory of doing that. And there was a newspaper in view that confirms the date. The clothes I could see matched the era too." It was the most Niah had said in one sitting in weeks, and her voice cracked a little. She shifted uncertainly. Hoping that she didn't sound quite as crazy as she felt she did.

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@FantasyChic@Nallore@Kirah: Tempest will notice on her computer that Maria and Novikova are in Technology. They seem to have taken out two of the stealth suits, which is odd since Barton told everyone to stay on base until he returned. It definitely warrants looking into or at least a mention to Abercrombie.

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"Honestly... I have no idea," Novikova admitted. "The Quantum Realm is incredibly hard to understand. Even Einstein rejected a lot of the conclusions regarding Quantum Mechanics, deriding it as ghostly action at a distance, even the famous quote that God doesn't play dice with the universe..." she was rambling a little bit. Behind her ruby tinted shades, her eyes were darting around the room.

She knew that the science indicated that most likely, Sparks and Blake were long gone. It was going to be incredibly difficult for them to manipulate the probability fields and find them before they collapsed - in fact, it was technically speaking impossible. All she had was a thought experiment, but hopefully it was one that would come to fruition shortly. Maria might even be able to help her with it, since she could absorb and use other people's powers.

Taking the stealth suit from her, Novikova put it on and tested it out, pressing the button as Maria indicated and she seemed to blend into her surroundings. "Come on, I'll see if Pym is in town and can meet us - he said he had a conference happening here, so we might just be lucky..." Novikova said in a whisper.

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"Everything is dangerous if we don't understand it," Bonnie pointed out to him. There were several scientific advancements that were argued they shouldn't have been messing around with. And true, some of them were tragedies - the atomic bomb, for one. But without anything being ventured, then there would be nothing gained. Of course, a philosophical discussion on the dangers of scientific advancement wasn't really what she was in the mood for.

It had been two months since she had been kissed, by her estimation. And almost eight years since she had been with anyone. To put it bluntly - Bonnie was very easily distracted by Flynn's lips and his muscles. They were HUGE. His pecks seemed to be the size of her face and Bonnie felt them pressing up against her. She let out a slight moan as he started making out with her, feeling his strong arms around her.

"Y-yes, it does agent," Bonnie answered, sounding a bit out of breath. Her face was bright red and her heart was beating so fast that if she had been Bruce Banner, it would have been time for the Hulk to come out.

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Sparky's blow smarted and the Wasp stared at the naive little girl who struck her - the very same girl who refused to eat, even if it meant death. "I'm already in hell," the Wasp said bluntly. She considered for a moment abandoning them, but she knew that there was strength in numbers. Rescue was likely never going to happen, it wouldn't be a possibility, and she would go insane without someone to talk to.

"Guys, let's not fight!" Raynor protested. He coughed a bit, feeling weaker every second he was in this place. It was sapping his strength. The longer he stayed here, the more quickly he became tired and fatigued. The air felt like poison with each breath and he rubbed his face, trying to focus on the fight between Sparks and the Wasp. They needed each other to survive. And if he didn't make it, he needed someone to make sure that Sparky was okay - someone to watch her back.

"...Run!" the Wasp shouted suddenly. While they had been distracted and bickering, a giant ARMY OF SPIDER CREATURES had appeared behind them. There were easily thousands of the giant things there, enough to scare even the Wasp.

"For fuck's sake..." Raynor then grabbed Sparky and started to run as fast as he could, each step feeling like it was killing him.

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Cassandra turned her attention over towards Tempest and gave her a smile. "Thank you." She said, she was half expecting some sassy comment, but didn't which was good then. Her attention turned over towards Niah as she gave her request as to what she needed to be looked at with the cameras near her room. She then raised a bit of an eyebrow when Niah started to give a little bit more information and took the card and started to look it over rather closely. She certainly did believe in time traveling and alternate timelines as well, her last mission with the X-Men was proof of that.

"Well, time travel could be a big theory though not my area of expertise. My previous mission with the X-Men, some members of their team had came from the future. Are part of the reason why OMEN was taken down in the first place to prevent that future from happening." Cass said, and turned her attention over towards Tempest, since they were close to Tempest's setup and it would save a trip from going back to Technology and pulling the feeds up. "Can you pull up the camera feed from the last few minutes to an hour outside of Niah's room if possible?" She asked her, then Tempest spoke. "Umm, I dunno if I should be the one to bring this up, but Novikova and Maria are acting odd. They are in Technology and just took out stealth suits. I thought we weren't on a mission?" Cassandra looked at her then with a worried look. "As far as I know and aware of, no one is permitted to leave right now."

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Harry turned around and grabbed the empty file, figuring that maybe if he brought it to technology and run some finger prints over the empty file he could find out who had touched it recently. But first her wanted to inform Tinley about it, and see what she wanted to do with the bit of information first. He then turned around and left the room and started to make his way down the flight of stairs and back onto the bottom floor. Harry tucked the empty folder under his arm and remembered that they were having someone new added to the team as well.

As Harry walked over he stopped outside of the office and started to knock on the door looking over at the cat that she was holding and remembered that it was Goose. He didn't like nor dislike cats, he had a friend who really loved cats but other than that he never actually owned one before. "Hey, boss we may have a bit of a problem." Harry said as he held up the empty file to her and gave Goose another quick look over towards him..

"Was in Barton's office, you know looking for other contacts about Flynn's shirtless problem. I saw one of the filing cabinets opened and looked through them but found that this one was empty. Its labeled as Ultron, I can take it to Technology and try to find prints off of it if you'd like." Harry said, and then looked over towards Agent Wu and gave him a smile and extended his hand over towards Conrad. "Agent McCormick nice to meet you by the way." Harry said giving the fellow agent a smile.

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Maria looked towards Novikova as she spoke a bit more about the Quantum Realm a little bit more, it really wasn't her area of expertise at all, she kind of flunked her physics classes back in high school and her bit of time in college as well. "I'm sure we will be able to find them in there and get them back as well." She said, as she walked over to Novikova and gently held her hand as she pressed the same button as well on her own suit. "Lead the way, and stick close to each other as possible, i'm not sure how long these will last either." Maria said quietly back, and then was a bit surprised when she mentioned Pym.

"Like Hank Pym, one of the founders of SHIELD?" Maria asked, remembering taking some lessons back in her academy days which wasn't that long ago but felt like ages ago. Maria then moved towards the door and stuck her head out a bit, so far things seemed to be pretty clear for the time being right now. "We are clear for right now, we should get out as quickly as possible." Maria whispered to her.

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"She started it, not to mention she was just being a bit of a bitch," Sparky muttered, her anger still rising somewhat, however it dissipated somewhat when Raynor coughed. If what the Wasp said was true, then was he really dying just by being there? "Ray, are you okay?" she asked him softly, going back to completely ignoring the Wasp's existence there, she was really concerned about his well being, and didn't even care that odds were that they were never leaving the Quantum Realm.

Hearing Janet suddenly yell out to run made Sparky turn to look and see what it was that she was yelling about. Now she was definitely wishing that she hadn't, as there were a whole bunch of those spider things! "And you people probably think my fear of spiders is unfounded..." she said, staring at the things. Suddenly she was running with Raynor, since he had grabbed her and took off, but that still didn't make her worry, as he didn't seem to be doing the best while they had been standing there. She tried not to think too much about the large spiders.

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Flynn smiled at Bonnie, having to suppress the urge to chuckle slightly at her words. He hadn't actually had a serious girlfriend really in his life, he had one or two that could be considered serious, but that was it. Usually he had a relationship that lasted for a year tops, more like 6 months, so it would be interesting to say the least. Though there was something about Bonnie, and he actually wanted to make a relationship potentially last with her, try to make it work out no matter what it took, though he didn't know how well it was going to go yet.

"Figured that would answer your question. My brain basically said it was probably easier to act as opposed to just say sure, but that's just how things seemed to me. Though I will say this, should we really be in here? Honestly, wonder how Harry would react if he walked in on us, but honestly, I don't really care what he thinks if he did show up," he said with a grin, before kissing her again.

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Yay! People are petting me! Who says that people can't be trained to pet me on command? Oh, wait, pretty sure I thought that at one point, doesn't really matter though. These people are paying attention to me! That one guy sitting there, whoever the hell he is, he isn't petting me and is ignoring me! Now why the hell would he do that? I am adorable and everyone should pet me! Screw that guy, hes an evil thing and I'm going to tell Fury about him ignoring me! "Meow!" I yelled, directly at him.

Now what is this? Why did this person think that she had permission, the privilege to pick me up? Humans are harder to train than I thought! The nerve of some people! So of course, not being too thrilled at her holding me, I started twisting to try to get put down. Only a select few people can hold me! And this woman is not quite one of them! I declare when I go on people's laps, I declare when I am fine with someone holding me! She is NOT one of those people!

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Tinley felt the cat struggle in her arms and let it leap out of them. She knew better than to go against it, finicky beast that it was. She waved it off. Only Fury could love that thing. "Your room it is then." Before she could go, Harry entered the room. Flynn's shirtless problem (of which Tinley considered it less of a problem. She may be a leader, but she was a woman too), than that of Ultron and someone sneaking a look at files.

"This is just what we need right now. Sure, let's see if we can get prints. Maybe pop by and see Tempest or Cassandra and see if they were caught on camera. Sorry Agent Wu, seems we have an issue arising. The tour of your room will have to wait a bit if you'd like to come with me and see our resident hacker." She had a feeling she knew what was going on, a gut instinct, but she would need evidence before launching an inquisition.

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Tempest looked at the camera feed again, "Well it seems to me that they are gearing up for one. And looking very guilty and cautious about it, but far be it from me to get involved. That sounds more like an Agent Abercrombie or a you problem. Now, Niah." Upon hearing the girl's problem, Tempest considered it.

"Well, I do not actively look at security feeds of others in their room, not sure if there are any really, but I suppose if you have a computer I can hack into it if it has a camera. If you are sure it was you but not you, could it be time travel? You from the future snuck on board?" Tempest turned to the camera feed again, this time seeing Bio-Engineering and Research and seeing Flynn and Bonnie playing some tonsil hockey.

Tempest felt a jolt inside of her. "You have got to be kidding me." She opened communication and put on her goddess voice again. "Hey, you lot! This is god speaking! Are you two married? Don't think so! Quit making out and get back to work!" She closed communication down before turning back to Cass and Niah. "Sorry, couldn't resist."

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Novikova nodded confirmation. She wanted to explain to Maria everything, but she was worried they had already said too much on base. Both of their suits were causing them to blend into the background, making it hard but not impossible to see their movements. "Come on," she said quietly. Maria would be able to see the vague outline of Novikova in front of her, allowing her to follow her fellow agent as long as she kept her eyes focused.

Fortunately, Technology was right next to one of the quick exits out of the Playground. Its classified location? Downtown Washington D.C. To be explicit, Novikova and Maria would find themselves near Farragut Square. The homeless druggie that they had seen on the cameras had happened to go a bit too close to the secret entrance to the Playground here, disguised in a nearby alleyway. Scanning the way, Novikova glanced around before motioning for Maria to continue to follow her, as slight flicker of her hand being visible despite the camouflage. "Once we're a few blocks away, I can get a burner and we can use it to contact Pym," Novikova explained. They'd also want to find somewhere away from base with a bit of privacy to change out of these suits.

In the park, however, there was a bit of a disturbance. There were a handful of men, wearing black t-shirts with a large white cross on them. Novikova hesitated for a moment. These were the Purifiers. They had become a problem lately, enough that S.H.I.E.L.D. was trying to assemble an adequate response team. A lot of ex-O.M.E.N. agents had joined their ranks. The main problem was that the Purifiers were already busy engaging with a handful of groups - one of which was only known as the Hellfire Club. Von Bardas had been supplying weapons to the Hellfire Club and there was worry that the warfare would turn deadly.

"Shit, Purifiers," Novikova whispered.

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Bonnie bit her lip slightly, but the slight hesitation at the idea of Flynn wanting to take her back to his bedroom already was gone as he kissed her again. She preferred making out with him here in the lab, at least for the moment. It helped to give her the sense that things wouldn't go too far too soon. She felt so warm and happy, until she heard Tempest's voice over the intercom. It shattered the fantasy, but also reminded her that James was supposed to have been the last person she kissed.

She had been married. Bonnie pulled away from Flynn, a bit of stray hair falling in her face as she took a deep breath. After her husband died, she had hit rock bottom and then some. S.H.I.E.L.D. had gotten her the psychiatric help she needed, spending a few months in the hospital before she was able to return to work. And even though it had been years since she lost her husband, it didn't make it any easier. Tempest's question had brought that all to the surface and she had to take a few more deep breaths, trying not to look at Flynn's chest. The lab coat's buttons were straining a bit to contain his muscles.

"I...I'm sorry, I can't do this," Bonnie told Flynn, tearing up a bit. "It's uh, it's not you it's just that... Well I was married a-and he was an agent too and he died," she explained, not knowing how much Flynn knew about James. "I'll um... I'll get back to finding a material for a shirt for you."

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"I'm good enough to protect your ass," Raynor muttered, coughing a bit again as he continued to run as fast as he could, dragging Sparky along with him. There was a huge danger when it came to getting separated in the Quantum Realm - the odds of finding one another again were almost incalculable. He didn't care too much if they were separated from the Wasp during this attempt to survive the spider swarm. He just needed to make sure that Sparky was okay. And if he died... Well, then at least she would still be alive.

"We can't keep this up much longer," the Wasp gasped. The spiders were rapidly gaining on them. They'd have a choice to make - split up in an attempt to draw them off of two of them, meaning one of them would die, or stand and fight and potentially all die together. "You two go ahead, I'll keep them on me," the Wasp said sternly, sounding like a mother ordering her children.

"Damn it... Janet, no, you have your daughter to think of!" Raynor pointed out. "We'll stand together," he decided, but he was going to have Sparky more or less hide behind him. He knew that she would be useless when it came to fighting off spiders anyways. He took a moment's breath and glanced up, wondering if his family could hear him. "Thor, Odin's Son... My uncle... Lend me your strength," Raynor prayed under his breath.

Niah was relieved they didn't think she was nuts. "Yeah I think it is time travel related." She looked to Cass, "If you want to deal with them you can." Then she turned to Tempest. "Yeah, I have a laptop in my room. I don't know if it was open and on though." Niah frowned. She looked down at the postcard looking at her writing. "It is also important to note that the writing seems aged as if it traveled the long way through time."

Anything else Niah would have said was cut off when the alarm started warning of the Purifiers. She groaned. "Guess we'll deal with this first."

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Cassandra looked towards Tempest when she decided to troll Bonnie and Flynn in Bio-Engineering & Research, made her shake her head slightly. "Remind me to take away your radio privileges away from you later." Cassandra said jokingly, though she was happy to see Bonnie doing that, her attention then turned towards Niah when the alarm started to go off. It was the alarm that she knew that alerted them to the Purifiers in the area. Which was a bit problematic as well, after having to deal with the druggie who was here not to long ago, she ran a hand through her hair a bit.

"We will look into it once we deal with the Purifier issue, and whatever Agents Smith and Novikova are doing off base, i'm sure Tempest can help you." She said, before turning around and started to make her way over towards the conference room, where she knew that Tinley was vetting the new guy. She saw that Harry was there as well, and gave him a nod, before turning her attention towards Tinley and then Conrad as well.

"Tinley, we have two issues right now. Tempest noticed Agents Smith and Novikova both grabbing a pair of stealth suits and leaving the base. We also have a group of Purifiers just outside as well, which was what the alert is for, did you want to engage them, or monitor them for now?" Cassandra said, knowing that the Purifiers were a bigger threat now, and SHIELD labeled them as a terrorist group and having them near The Playground was a red flag for her.

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Harry watched as Tinley released Goose from being held, he didn't really want to get clawed by a cat either which wasn't really fun and didn't want to get any stitches either as well. "Yeah I wouldn't want to get stitches by the cat either." Harry said looking at Goose for a moment, before turning his attention back towards Tinley and gave her a nod. "Sure thing, i'll get right on that then." Harry said, as he was about to leave, Agent Reed came into the room with some more bad news as well. Two agents leaving without much of a word and some Purifiers outside as well.

"Well the day seems to be getting more, and more interesting." Harry said jokingly and looked over at Tinley. "I'll run the scans see who touched the file now. If you need me, you know where i'll be." He said, before turning and making his way over towards Technology and then pulled up a chair as he took a look at the cameras very closely as he started to go and search for a scanner of some kind.

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"Alright." Maria said, as she quickly followed behind Novikova, and were out rather quickly which was surpisingly as she took a moment to look around before continuing and following closely to the shimmering bit that was her fellow agent through the suit. "Make sure you use cash when we get the burner." Maria whispered back towards her, since using a credit card then Tempest, or Cass could easily find them through the transactions. Maria continued to walk alongside Novikova when she noticed the Purifiers as well, which was going to be a very big problem if they were caught.

"Just stay quiet and continue, try and not engage them." Maria said, as much as she hated this group, they had other priorities right now. And since they are still really close to the Playground the others may get distracted by them as well. Which was a good thing then they could cover more distance then. "Lets just hope they don't find The Playground there." Maria said softly.

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Tinley pinched the bridge of her nose. She really did not need all of this to happen at once, especially not when they had a new member to introduce into their system. "Yes, please scan and find out who took them though I have a sneaking suspicion I may know who it was. As for Novikova and Smith, they may be in danger with Purifiers nearby so I want to have a small group sneak past the Purifiers and get them back. I'd like you to stay behind Cass and monitor them. Have Tempest keep tabs on them. If they move along, great, but if they cause trouble, even the slightest hint, we take them down. But do not kill. We want to show them we aren't monsters, after all."

"As for the team, I will go. And I'd like one more to come with. Agent Wu?" she said turning to the new agent on board. "Circumstances have changed. While this is not how I wanted to get you associated with our way of life here, it seems my hands are tied. I need to go get my team back. Want to come with?" She knew the man was a good field agent. And she couldn't help but feel this would be a good test of his abilities.

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Tempest listened to Niah as she spoke, making the connection. "Yep. Sounds like time travel. If you want to check and see if your laptop was open, I can see if I can hack into it and catch whoever would have been on camera. Otherwise, you may want to set up a security camera in your quarters in case they return." Cass left to go deal with the missing people as well as the new alert that sounded.

"Purifiers, great. They haven't found us yet, but I'm willing to bed they aren't just out for a stroll in the woods. Wonder if my friend from before tipped them off." She pulled up the camera to watch the Purifiers. "Let's see what our leaders have to say. I'm not about to start a tussle with a hate group if I can help it."