---

---

---

---

Niah didn't know what to think of the revelation that Oliver was Thane. She considered his feelings and wanted to comfort him. He looked really upset, and was saying they're dead. She didn't know who they were, but she got the feeling. Boy did she. Bonnie was trying to get him to go with her to Fury's panic room. She hadn't even known there was one, but it seemed like if Fury had a panic room was probably built to survive a nuclear attack.

She nodded and started grabbing stuff that they would need to take care of Sparky. With Tempest in the room they'd have a better chance of keeping her alive so that was good. And they did not have time to synthesis a cure yet. Maghindot. She mentally cursed. Then she looked at Goose. She was gonna have to buy him a big bag of treats after this.

---

---

---

---

Matt pushed Cass on the wheelchair to the Hanger. The source of the explosions. Novi was doing a fantastic job of getting rid of the blown-up ships. This wasn't an external attack. "Cass, whoever did this, they are inside." Matt pulled his gun. "Think you can walk? Stay near me just in case you stumble okay. I'll catch you." He told her, his voice gentle. He would carry her if needed. He looked around the room trying to find who set the bombs. It was possible they had set the charges and left, and Matt came to believe that when he didn't see anyone who didn't look like they belonged.

"Okay, I don't see anyone. Other than Strange. But he belongs here. I'm going to try to put the fire out. Shout if you need me." He told Cass, then looked around for a fire extinguisher. There should be at least one, right? He didn't see it at first then noticed one near the door. That made sense he guessed. He knew there had to be one on the Quinjet, but that would be dumb to get. Matt grabbed the extinguisher and seeing that Tinley surrounded by a fire he ran over to her and put the fire out around her.

The extinguisher gas probably wasn't pleasant, but it was better than the fire. And she had the suit on so she should be able to breathe fine. If that messed with her breathing then what was the point of the suits?

---

---

---

---

Tae. Dalisy mumbled to herself. Her sister wasn't there. There was some dude flying around. She didn't think that was weird. Her time on the other planet she had seen some wild powers being used. Like that kid with the puppets. Now wasn't the time to think of that place though. She grimaced. Doing this alone had been a bad idea. Not that she had anyone she could have asked for help. None of her would have.

The agents were doing a good job of containing her damage. The better they were at it the less likely Niah would be joining them. Did Niah trust this team to handle anything Dalisy had thrown at them? Was that why she wasn't here yet? Did Niah know that it was Dalisy there? Was she ignoring her on purpose? Dalisy knew her sister was in the building.

Dalisy was annoyed and angry. This should have worked. She came out of hiding. Seriously there was a woman in a wheelchair? Niah had let a woman in a wheelchair come and not her. "Where is she?" She shouted at whoever would listen. Whichever person reacted to her first would incur her wrath. That was so much a decision on Dalisy's part as her natural state of being. She pointed her gun at the woman in the wheelchair.

---

---

---

---

Cassandra looked towards Matt and nodded towards him, and smiled a little bit towards him grateful for the help she started to gain the feeling in her feet again, and moved her toes some. Still a little bit out of it due to the drugs that she had taken. "I'll let you know if I need help, thank you Matt." Cassandra said giving him a nod, as they got to the Hangar now, and saw the destruction of the Quinjets there were three of them on fire. Strange was flying about looking for probably the injured she wasn't super sure, and she noticed Tinley was surrounded by fire, and Matt going to help her out.

She moved her feet a little bit when Cass heard a woman's voice demanding someone, and turned to stare at the crazed woman pointing a gun at her. If she was still a regular agent before Phase Three, she would have been scared of getting shot, she was actually happy to have impregnatable skin. Cassandra gave her a little bit of an annoyed look before quickly getting up from the wheelchair and easily yanked the gun out of Dalisy's hands and threw it to the side. "First off, don't underestimate anyone at all, second I don't know who you are, and third whoever you are looking for you could have killed them if you are the one who set off the bombs down here. And i'm pretty sure you are the one to set them off." Cassandra said staring down the girl while the others were focused on fighting the fires.

---

---

---

---

Maria held onto her wife's hand as they entered the Hangar together she noticed the three Quinjets were all on fire and everything else was in pure chaos as other agents tried to fight off the fire. She watched Matt rushing off to help Tinley, while Strange was buzzing through the air. "I'll help you love. It'll be kind of like a nice date or something." Maria said as she watched Novikova using her metal bending and moved the quinjet through the nearby wall and heard an explosion once it was through the wall of the hangar.

Maria took off her helmet and went to go and kiss her wife, trying to make sure that her powers wouldn't hurt her to much, and tried to take Novi's metal bending power. Instead Maria stumbled back staring at Novi as she got a vision of an alternate version of her wife leading an attack on a group of civilians. With a large statue of Ironman in the background, with a lot of cameras as well, but she focused more on Novi seeing her without her glasses.

---

---

---

---

---

Tinley's thoughts raced. She wanted to contest. She wanted to lash out. She had done all she could, led the team to the best of her ability. But it went south and that was on her. She knew it. Every instinct inside of her told her she should have sent a message out. She thought better than to do it, thinking she could handle it. She would defend her actions, sure. She knew she was a good leader, even if it didn't seem like it to the others.

Explosions rocked the room, sending everything into a tizzy. Perhaps it was her injury, perhaps it was the blast, but Tinley blacked out a bit. Striving for consciousness, she opened her eyes and felt the heat, seeing herself surrounded by fire. She began to get up, feeling her leg ache in pain. She was in no position to go anywhere. Was this how she died?

Apparently not as Matt came to her rescue. "Agent Moss. Remind me to hug you when we get through all this." She began to shift herself off her makeshift bed when she heard a voice. Cass, wheelchair-bound, was facing off against some woman she didn't recognize, speaking about some woman. Tinley felt some energy kick in, but Cass had already beaten her to the punch. With the woman now disarmed, Tinley tried to enter her mind to get her to spill if she was the bomber. Tinley, however, could not get through, chalking it up to her injury. Still. "Even injured, we could kick your ass around this room all day, but let's start with introductions. Who are you, why are you here, and did you just try to blow us all up?"

Tinley had checked the room, with no sign of Hill. She'd worry about her later. Tinley glanced at Cass. "Agent Reed, Hill was about to promote you to team lead, so what better start than now? How do you want to go about this?"

---

---

---

---

---

Tempest was not a nurse or a doctor, she just could heal. She had been able to since a young age though that was not where her interests were. However, she had been called, on occasion, to heal others and provide treatment so she had expected push back from Sparky. No one liked sitting still, especially when they knew that others were in trouble. But even then, Sparky would end up killing herself to get Raynor back and what good would that do either of them? She was a bit jealous of their love, considering her own efforts weren't recognized. And then Novikova came in to remind her of her and Maria's relationship and how fucking cute that was. And then Novi dropped the bombshell.

And then all hell broke loose as the building rocked from literal bombshells. Explosions. They were under attack. "That just figures." Really, she couldn't remember a time they weren't under attack by something. Cass, having been placed in a wheelchair, zoomed off with Matt to go see about Hill and Tinley and all them. Flynn went to go check out the explosions, leaving her, Niah, Bonnie, and Sparky. And Goose. Couldn't forget Goose. Sparky was looking worse, so Tempest ran over to check on her. Tempest used her healing to fill Sparky back up. Color returned to the girl's face and she would feel better. Not for long though. "There, that'll get you moving, at least."

Tempest really didn't address the elephant in the room, but she knew she would have to. Oliver was the son they were looking for. That was a gut punch if she ever heard it. She didn't know what Oliver was going through, but there would be time to process that later. Tempest ran over to Oliver, taking him by the shoulders and looking him in the face. "Oliver, I need you to focus. We don't know what happened and we have a bunch of kick-ass people working here. It would take more than an explosion to kill them all. But we need to get to the panic room now if we have any hope of ensuring we all survive." She then gripped his hand, prepared to drag him if needed. She glanced at Bonnie, "Let's get going."

---

---

---

---

---

Sparky was not feeling the best at all, and didn't really say anything as people started racing off after the explosions. She wished that she would be able to help, but right now she definitely wouldn't be able to. Her whole body was hurting and she felt like she got thrown through a blender or something at this rate. She just wanted to be able to get up and race off to help, to do her job, but that wasn't really possible considering everything that was going on. M-Pox was a horrible thing to have, and right now she really wished it was definitely not a thing.

Goose jumped down from the stretcher and looked around at the hoomans in the room. He knew that one of the hoomans was seemingly in danger and needed to get to the panic room (that being Oliver) so he decided since the guy seemed to be in shock or something (and ignoring other people) he shot a tentacle out and wrap it around Oliver, before lifting him off the ground and marching out of the room, dragging Oliver along entirely and he lead the way to the underground bunker that Fury had set up.

The room had 2 beds in it, and one of them was clearly meant for the cat, as there was a bunch of cat food, treats and toys around it. Goose simply set Oliver down once they were inside before he walked over to the toys and started pouncing on a toy mouse, sending it flying through the air and pouncing on it again, clearly being a happy little kitty as he rolled around on the ground. On the side that had some stuff for humans, there was medical supplies of sorts, and then there was what looked like whiskey, dried fruit and jerky. Clearly the cat was a bit spoiled.

Sparky wasn't too sure what to think, but her health once again seemed to take a nose dive, as she partially fell over and puked up blood onto the ground, and luckily for her she had managed to avoid puking on anyone. She was coughing a bit, and she just felt awful. "Ow..." she mumbled, not really able to say anything else.

---

---

---

---

---

Flynn raced into the hangar just seeing the chaos that was ensuing in the area. Someone had decided to start blowing things up randomly, and now there was fire everywhere! Well at least he was right at home in this sort of situation, and he instantly burst into flames and headed straight for one of the other jets that had caught on fire. It was nice that Novikova had been able to deal with one and Matt had seemingly stopped Tinley from being burned to a crisp, but that still left two other jets that likely could blow up and cause a chain reaction at any point.

"We never will get a break will we?" he managed to say, before he started using his own abilities to siphon off the flames of one of the last remaining jets in order to try and stop the fire. Luckily for him, he somehow managed to do it, but that still left one on fire, and he turned to glance at the group surrounding Dalisy. "Is she the one who caused the explosion? Since going to be blunt, now is really not the time and no one is in a good mood at the moment, since you know, if it wasn't obvious to her all hell has been breaking loose and all everywhere and we really could use her not causing more problems."

Oliver felt dazed, confused, and unable to make sense of the world around him in any capacity. It was like the floor was ripped out from under him, and he was falling down a dark abyss, from which the only escape would be the ground at the end of it. Out of nowhere though, somebody had grabbed his hand, and he looked up, meeting her eyes and his face breaking from the shock, turning into a look of pure despair, tears rolling down his face with reckless abandon. "Thanos... he-" He started to choke out, as out of nowhere, the cat shot a tentacle out of it's mouth, and wrapped around him. A look of horror and surprise crossed his face, as he was once again shocked by the events that had come to pass, and was dragged into the panic room.

Once he was released, it was as if the new shock had rocked him loose of his stupor. He felt like he could at least speak, and finished his sentence, his face still red and voice horse. "He destroyed Cardiff. I saw.. I saw-" As he tried to spit it out, he just broke into tears again, full on sobbing at the thought, words making it real. he desperately wanted to go back to the world of five minutes ago, but that was lost forever. Unable to get up, he brought his knees close to his chest, and assumed a kind of upright fetal position. His head started to ache, and he looked between his teammates, the only family he really had left. A much more durable, rough family, but a family none the less.

---

---

---

---

---

---

Bonnie had hurried after Goose, wondering if Oliver being carried in his tentacles would improve or worsen his shellshocked state. Niah was doing her best to assist Sparky in the move. They went down staircase after staircase, through doorway after doorway, and even a few hallways that were obscured by bookcases and the like that Goose opened by pressing a discrete button with his tongue. By the time they reached Fury's panic room, it felt like they had gone through a labyrinth of twists and turns.

The walls were thick and reinforced with virbanium. Security systems were all over the place, allowing them to monitor everything that was going on. One of them showed the fight going down in the hangar. Bonnie was grateful to see that there was an abundance of medical supplies - which made sense. This room was designed to keep Fury alive if he were in a hostile situation, he needed to be prepared for anything. "Sparky, let's get you onto the bed," Bonnie said, going into high alert as Sparky toppled off of the stretcher and vomited blood onto the ground. She helped the agent up to her feet and got Sparky onto what must have been Fury's bed, since the other was covered in cat toys.

Her heart went out to Oliver. She wanted to reassure him that Cardiff was probably fine, that there were superheroes all over the world and she didn't doubt the people there would be okay... but Oliver had seen it. Cardiff was apparently gone, destroyed. All she could do was move forward with helping Sparky.

Strange wasn't here to repeat the magical blood transfusion. Cass' blood hadn't been made into an antidote yet. Bonnie refused to let Sparky die. A few ideas came to her as to what they could do. They could give Sparky another hit of some Wolverine blood, she bet that Fury would have some on hand in here. The other idea was a bit more unorthodox. Since M-Pox was caused by terrigen poisoning, maybe activated charcoal - what hospitals used for poisoning victims - might help to stabilize Sparky some more. The charcoal in practice would bind to toxins and then excrete the poisonous terrigen crystals.

Bonnie looked through the medical supplies, finding both a few vials of Wolverine's blood and some activated charcoal powder. She went over to Sparky. "I'm going to give you some more of Wolverine's blood so the temporary boost to your healing will help. The activated charcoal powder you digest will help to remove toxins from your system in theory," she explained. Bonnie poured out a bit of the charcoal into a paper cup and gave it to Sparky to swallow. She then carefully opened up the arm of Sparky's suit and injected the full dosage of Wolverine blood.

On the security monitors, Dalisy Bautista would be clear as day.

---

---

---

Out of nowhere, the feisty bomber responsible for the explosions revealed herself. Novikova was instantly taken back by the striking resemblance the bomber had to Niah Bautista. The terrorist was aiming a gun at Cass, demanding to know where she was and Novikova put two and two together. She had seen visions of Niah's sister before, back when she first woke up from the Phase Three Experiments. In the vision, Niah's sister had had dozens of copies of herself. Maybe the bomber was able to clone herself at will. "She's Niah's sister - Dalisy," Novikova said coolly, as Cass disarmed their foe.

Her wife had tried to absorb her metal or earth powers from what Novikova figured, though Maria clearly had gotten the dimensional sight instead. Novikova shut her eyes and removed her shades, placing them blindly onto Maria's face. The ruby tinted glasses were the only thing that could stop Novikova's power from running rampant and she wasn't going to let her wife be defenseless. Besides, Novikova had watched Avatar. Maybe she could use her earth manipulation to see. Matt was doing his best to help Tinley off of the stretcher, putting an arm around her so that way she could lean on him for support.

"I wouldn't have detonated the bombs if she were in this room. Bring me my sister Niah!" Dalisy demanded. She then eyed Flynn. "Do I look like I care what you're dealing with? I've been through hell to get here. The only thing that matters is her."

Novikova's eyes were still shut tightly. She remembered where the last flaming vehicle was and even though she couldn't see it, she could still feel the metal. She lifted it up into the air and flung it out through the gaping hole in the hangar she had made. The vehicle crashed into the remnants of the other one, though rather than exploding the fire continued to burn. At least now there wasn't any risk of the hangar exploding, with all of the fuel it contained.

"I'm afraid you aren't in the position to make threats, Dalisy - whichever one you are," Strange said cryptically. He had abandoned the search for Hill. He was floating in the air above the agents, staring down the bomber.

Dalisy gave Strange the middle finger, before she flickered. Suddenly, she was right behind Cass and she punched her in the back. Unfortunately, Cass was both 1) wearing armor and 2) had unbreakable skin. This ended up bruising Dalisy's fist far more than it actually hurt Cass.

---

---

---

---

Cassandra turned to look at Tinley and Matt, she was glad to see that Tinley was alright but then she dropped a little bombshell of her and said that Hill was promoting her as the new team lead. She blinked a little bit, as Flynn and Novikova managed to get the two remaining quinjets from exploding. She was still a little quiet processing it all, Cass was initially a little bit jealous when she was overlooked and Tinley got the promotion but it wasn't her place to actually say who got promoted and who didn't. She shook her head slightly and looked over towards the others. "Right.." Cass said when Dalisy flickered and then reappeared behind her, feeling Dalisy harmlessly punch her back and Novi pointing out that she was Niah's sister.

Cass turned around and gave Dalisy a little bit of an annoyed look, and punched Dalisy in the face hoping to knock her out, but instead she just managed to knock out one of Dalisy's front teeth. "Okay you have one of two options, option one you stand down and we take you down to a holding cell, and i'll guarantee you a meeting with Niah, on that you have my word. Or you keep fighting or assault any of my other agents and i'll make sure that Niah wont be allowed to see you." Cass said as she looked over at Strange, she wasn't sure what he meant by what he said when he addressed Dalisy.

"Strange if you could take Tinley to Virology so that way Bonnie or Tempest can treat her we will need her up and running as soon as possible, and start working on that cure right away. Also double check the warding to, we will look for Hill don't worry." Cassandra said looking at Matt. "I believe there are some inhibitor collars in our Quinjet, could you get one for Dalisy and take her to a holding cell, and if she gives you trouble paralyze her." Cassandra said, as much as she hated having Matt use it she wasn't sure what else Dalisy was capable of doing. "Flynn, Maria, Novi and I will try and find Hill."

---

---

---

---

Maria was still dazed when Novi took off her ruby shades and put them over her eyes, shaking her head slightly as the vision suddenly stopped. She bit her bottom lip seeing that her wife had her eyes closed, she was grateful for her lending them over to her. "Thank you love, i'll give them back to you as soon as possible, unless you have a spare set in the car?" Maria said as she watched Novi moved the remaining quinjet out of the hangar and Novi pointing out that the bomber chick was Niah's sister. Maria gently wrapped an arm over Novi's shoulder just so that way she could guide her if she needed it as well, she wished that she had her own set now as well in case something like this happened again.

Maria then heard what Tinley said and Cass was now the new team lead which was pretty surprising as well since she was overlooked in the first place. Maria winced slightly as Cass socked Dalisy in the face seeing a tooth flying out of her mouth as well, knowing that Cass' skin was really hard it packed a pretty heavy punch. Cass started to give out orders to everyone Maria nodded towards her while still holding Novi's hand and started to search for Hill, but hadn't found her yet. "Director Hill where are you?" Maria yelled out hoping that there would be some kind of response.

---

---

---

---

---

Tinley felt an odd comfort at seeing Cass take the reigns of leadership. If she was being honest with herself, she had felt pride at having been given the position over her. Being as young and inexperienced as she was, she wanted the chance to prove herself. She felt she was a good leader, even if the others didn't see that. Leaders had to make tough calls and she did so. She wasn't perfect by any stretch and she made mistakes. Perhaps this would give her the chance to show she really wanted it.

For now, she was injured. Dallsey was taken care of, more or less, and Hill still needed to be found. "Appreciate the concern Agent Reed. Nice work." She waited for Strange to help her to get to the lab. She looked at Dallsey, wondering what had driven her apart from needing to see Agent Bautista. That was a question for later, though. For now, things were more or less under control, though that wouldn't last for very long.

---

---

---

---

---

Tempest had eyed the woman on the security screen. She didn't know who she was, but that hadn't mattered that much as it looked like the others took care of her. Their attention was on Sparky, who was now being injected with Wolverine's blood, and Oliver, who had his world ruptured. Hearing Oliver speak about Cardiff, how Thanos destroyed it, pained her too. She couldn't imagine how Oliver was handling it all.

Tempest watched Bonnie work, there if she needed her. Without Strange, there was precious little they could do. Tempest couldn't heal Sparky of the M-Pox, but she could make the process more comfortable. As Sparky lay on the bed, Tempest imbued her healing magic on her. Sparky would feel a lot better. Not cured, not completely, but her symptoms would feel better than they had in the past. Tempest felt a surge of pride as she did so.

"We'll have more to help in a minute, but hopefully that will make you feel better Sparky." She gave the woman a compassionate smile before she checked to see how Oliver was doing.

---

---

---

---

---

Sparky was starting to feel better thanks to the combination of the transfusion and Tempest's healing. "Thank you," she said softly to her friend as Bonnie handed her charcoal to swallow and she made a bit of a face at it, before she took it from her and swallowed it. She coughed slightly at it, as the charcoal tasted like ash and she wished that she didn't have to actually swallow the stuff. It was horrid and not at all an experience that she wanted to repeat. Next time Bonnie offered it to her, she wouldn't care and just flat out say no to it! Since that was disgusting!

She was feeling a whole lot better though, just having a major headache at this point and she sat up again, glancing around at everyone else. "Okay, I really don't want to be stuck here, at all, can we please just not stay in here holed up as if there isn't something around that could destroy the world? I really can't stand to just sit around here doing nothing. I just... I need to do something..." she said instantly to everyone else.

Goose meanwhile was pouncing happily on a mouse toy, before he glanced over at Oliver, the hooman who was clearly sad and needed some help! The cat picked the toy mouse up and walked over towards Oliver, before setting the toy down by him and sort of pushing it towards him with his nose, purring. It was clear that the cat was trying to make him feel better.

---

---

---

---

---

Okay, Flynn was now annoyed with this girl more then he already was. "Wow you much be some sort of idiot if you think anyone would want to be anywhere near you. Like seriously, there is this epidemic of sorts going on, you know, end of the world thing. If Niah is your sister, she is last I checked going to try and help save the world, but you seem to think that nothing else matters or whatever, I mean I get that feeling hell I've been there, but you picked the fucking wrong time to suddenly pop up deciding to care! Niah is currently trying to help save the world, so why don't you let her do that! Since she at least is a good person and is willing to help others. You can probably see her, but who would want to talk to you after you just tried to blow everything up and not give a damn about anyone else!" he snapped at her, and he was more then a little bit annoyed.

He instantly sent a blast of fire at Dalisy, missing her though, "That was just a warning shot, and unlike everyone else in the damn room I'm probably the only person who actually understands what probably is going through your head, but considering the fact that you are acting like this right now, is definitely not a good thing. So why don't you just shut up about it, since you can't make demands, got it?" he said, before he sent a massive fireball at Dalisy, and suddenly her hair caught on fire. He sent another fireball at her out of pure rage, but that one missed as well. He probably was the only person in the room who actually understood the thoughts going through her head, and it was annoying him to no end.

Oliver drew breath and peered at the Not A Cat, forcing himself to smile, he scratched him on the head and slid the mouse toy along the ground. He realized something in that moment, that, as painful as it was, an unendurable as it was, the past was set. The future was all that was ahead of him, and he had to choose to survive, if he wanted to. The road ahead wasn't going to be easy, if possible at all, but if he were to have any chance to make it out of this alive, he'd need to fight for it, harder than he'd fought for anything else before. The monster had razed a city in an attempt to get him, and because of that, survival was no longer a choice, it was an imperative, for giving up would be an insult to the countless lost.

Oliver forced himself to stand up, "R-right." He said, nodding at Sparky, before continuing, "You have to set your broken leg before you escape the house fire. Thanos is a problem, but we need to secure the base." Taking a shaky step towards the security terminal, he sat down, and got to work. The thing wanted a password, seven characters, and at first he though maybe "Avenger" would be the solution, but the system didn't take kindly to that. Instead, he knew Fury used to go by Foxtrot, and it fit, so he tried that, and luckily, he got in. Watching the vast array of defensive options scroll by him, he was awestruck at the man's preparedness. Not wanting to become a murderer, he saw an option for sleep darts existed, and he opted to fire off one of them, striking Novikova in the neck. "Fuck fuck fuck" he said, under his breath, firing off another, and hitting Strange. Trying one more time, he missed, and threw his head into his hands. His luck couldn't change, it seemed, and he just fucked up, big time.

---

---

---

---

---

---

Bonnie dared to smile, seeing that Sparky's symptoms had drastically decreased. The combination of Wolverine's blood, Tempest's healing, and the activated charcoal powder had all done wonders on her. She was by no means cured, but Bonnie wasn't worried about Sparky breathing her last breath within the next few minutes. "You need to stay still," she told Sparky gently, putting a hand on her shoulder. "There's a state of the art security system in here. I bet you could use it to see what happened to Raynor, get an idea of when the skrulls took him and where he last was," she suggested. Maybe it would give Sparky some information on what had happened - but at least she could sit down while doing it.

She glanced up as Oliver began rapidly cursing as he used the security system. "What's going on?" she asked him, before she turned her head and saw both Novikova and Strange unconscious in the hangar. She made a split second decision. "The security system malfunctioned," she told everyone, clearly instructing them that they were going to lie if anyone asked them. "Oliver though, I don't think this is the Black Order... So if you're comfortable with it, we can probably leave the panic room. Or at least, you can. I'm not sure Sparky should be moving around too much until Strange can, erm, make the cure."

---

---

---

Novikova had watched a lot of Netflix in college and at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Sci-Tech Academy. One of her favorite shows to view while working on homework sets, Avatar: the Last Airbender, had a blind character who could see through earthbending. With her wife wearing her shades, Novikova had her eyes shut tight. She could hear what was going on, but she really wanted to be able to see. She figured that if it worked for Toph, maybe it would work for her. Unfortunately, Novikova couldn't feel the vibrations of everyone through the earth. Her attempt at seeing through her feet was a complete failure. Sight was overrated anyways though. She'd just listen as best as she could and hopefully Flynn wouldn't throw a fireball her direction. "I really ought to have a spare, that'd be a good idea... I'm still using the hand-me-down ones from Cyclops," Novikova admitted to Maria.

"I can't let Dalisy out of my sight, I'm afraid," Strange told Cassandra. "She's the spiritual daughter of Loki in many ways." And of course, Cass wasn't his boss. He was here on a volunteer basis for the sake of the wellbeing of the planet and the universe at large.

There was also no sign of Director Hill. At this point, odds were that Hill was trapped underneath a pile of rubble, unconscious or dead. Novikova tried to reach out to feel the vibrations through the earth of every person in the room, but she again came up with nothing. Maybe Avatar had been lying - maybe it wasn't a possible technique of earth manipulation. "Did Flynn just set her on fire?" Novikova asked dryly, hearing Flynn go off about warning shots. Yet before she could hear an answer, a sleeping dart came out of nowhere and knocked her out, another one shortly following and hitting Strange, sending him into unconsciousness.

---

---

---

---

Niah's jaw had dropped and her attention was completely and utterly on the screen showing the hanger. There was no denying it. Maybe, just maybe if she didn't remember the world that Wanda built she could blow it off as coincidence. But she had been staring at the photo of her sister on her phone She knew exactly what an adult Dalisy would look like. She reached forward her fingers brushing the screen. "That's Dalisy." She looked at Bonnie tears in her eyes. "She's alive" The tears fell streaming down her cheeks, and with the suit on there was no way to wipe away the tears. She had succeeded, but at what cost? God at what cost? Her heart wrenched.

Flynn was talking, yelling at Dalisy, and somehow complimenting her? But then he literally lit Dalisy on fire. "Hahabulin kita." It wasn't clear if she meant Flynn or her sister. She glared at Oliver but was thankful he didn't hit her sister. She opened the exit and bolted from the room. The place was a maze, but Niah followed signs and soon was in the hanger.

---

---

---

---

"I'm gonna set you down on the stretcher again, so I can get the inhibitor." Matt said, setting Tinley down. He searched the quinjet for an inhibitor. He found it and hurried over to Dalisy, who was literally on fire from Flynn, not that he blamed her. He noticed as he approached her that Strange and Novi were unconscious. What had happened there?

"I'm gonna put the fire out." He told her as he approached. Hoping she wouldn't try to punch him too. She let him, which was good, and he slipped the inhibitor on for good measure. Then let some of his power flow through his fingers as he did it. She dropped to the ground.

As she did Niah entered the room and ran to her sister's side. Matt looked to Cass he wasn't certain what Niah was going to do. And she looked pissed. He didn't have a clue who she was mad at, he just hoped it wasn't him. It was equally as likely it would be Flynn and Dalisy.

---

---

---

---

"Kung ano ang tunay na impiyerno!" Niah yelled as she entered the room. She went to her sister's side. Looking more furious than anyone in the room had ever seen her.

"Okay ka lang?" Dalisy said, swallowing hard to talk past the paralytic. Her face relaxed a little more though as she saw her sister. Even angry it was obvious to Dalisy that her sister only cared.

"Oo tulala. What are you doing here?" It was clear there was a lot more Niah wanted to ask her sister. A lot unsaid in the look she gave her.

"Rescuing you?" Dalisy said, trying to smile, but failing thanks to Matt's power.

"From what? I'm fine. You have a whole fucking lot to explain. You blew up my work! I cannot protect you from the repercussions from this." Niah said sitting back on her heels, still next to her sister. "Tulala" She muttered under her breath. "How are you..." Niah trailed off, but Dalisy knew what her sister was asking.

"Ginawa mo ito, hindi ko alam kung paano." Niah blinked at her sister's response.

"I shouldn't judge." Niah said looking at the fire slinger. Dalisy didn't understand that, but she had a weird feeling it had something to do with what the man had been yelling at her before he had lit her on fire.

---

---

---

---

Cassandra looked at Tinley and nodded towards her, as she watched Matt going over to their quinjet to grab an inhibitor collar for Dalisy, when Flynn started to argue at the girl, and proceeded to set her hair on fire. It was in her opinion a little bit excessive since Dalisy was outnumbered by all of the others. She wasn't sure how Dalisy was an actual threat, even though she did bomb the hangar of the HUB and the girl could teleport apparently as well. "Alright then we take her with us while you work on the cure, and keep her in your line of sight." Cass said, when Niah came in and started to talk to her sister, it was nice that she got to be reunited with her sister, but Dalisy did attack them in the first place and she needed to deal with the consequences. She let her speak to Dalisy as she started to look around the rubble Hill must have been under it.

"Niah, I know she's your sister and all i'm going to trust you to watch over her and make sure she doesn't do anything else though." Cassandra told her, she trusted her enough to make sure that Dalisy wouldn't attack them she made her way over towards the pile of rubble and started to lift up some of the rubble using her strength to pick it up and tossed it to the side. She didn't see Hill as she searched around, and by the fourth pile she noticed someone was buried under it. Hill was bloodied and a lot of bruising as well, letting out a slight sigh of relief that she was alright. "This is Agent Reed, I need a medical team in the hangar as soon as possible, Director Hill needs immediate medical attention." Cassandra said over the radio, when she turned around Cass watched both Strange and Novikova both getting hit with darts of some kind, and then they both went down rather quickly.

---

---

---

---

"Yeah I think he was doing a warning shot on her." Maria whispered to Novi while gently holding her hand, she really did miss working with her, even though they had their own place together it wasn't really the same since she was away from home on missions a lot of the time. She watched as Niah suddenly came into the hangar seeing Niah talking to her sister started to remind her of her own sister Kristina living out in DC and she hoped that she was alright with M-Pox going around as well. Maria made a note to call her as soon as this was all over and done with.

Maria heard a thud when she turned around Maria's eyes went wide seeing Novi down on the ground and quickly knelt down next to her, and looked at her. She closed her eyes and sighed slightly seeing that she was still breathing and pulled away the dart that was in her neck Maria was going to really have to make it up to her wife later. Maria watched as Cass started to search around the rubble before hearing her calling in for medical assistance for Director Hill.

---

---

---

---

---

The fire surrounding him dimmed down as he let a bit of an annoyed breath that the person who had decided to blow stuff up wasn't knocked out yet, not to mention everyone seemed perfectly fine with letting her more or less still talk. It was somewhat annoying to him that Dalisy was still awake even though Strange clearly didn't trust her, as he more or less said that she was dangerous. So why did everyone just take Niah's word or whatever that she wasn't going to cause anymore trouble when she had just quite literally nearly blown up the hanger bay? Nothing was making any sense, but then again, sometimes these people in his mind were crazy.

Of course, there suddenly was the issue of for some reason Dr. Strange and Novikova deciding to take a cat nap. He first went over to Strange, and nudged him somewhat with his foot enough to stir him awake somewhat. Flynn then wandered over to Maria and Novikova and looked at Maria for a moment, "You do realize you should probably wake her up right?" Flynn said to her, before he gave Novikova a swift kick in the leg, "No time for sleeping on the job Novikova." he said simply, before walking away from her.

---

---

---

---

---

"Fine, whatever you say," Sparky grumbled, before she went over to a computer and did exactly that, starting to look through the security footage for something that could potentially point to what happened to Raynor. She was flipping through the footage rather quickly, and almost missed it. The date was literally the day before, on February 13, and it showed Raynor heading onto a Quinjet in the hanger, and a few other SHIELD agents followed onto the jet. There appeared to be some sort of scuffle, and she could just make out Lyting go flying, before the agents got off the jet and the plane shot off. After that she saw one of the agents shift into looking like Raynor.

"...I need to find that dagger," she muttered, before she instantly took off out the door of the panic room, despite what Bonnie had been telling her to do. She knew that running was slower, so she decided to try taking off into the air and fly there instead. Her first attempts to get off the ground failed, however her next one had her zipping through the air straight towards the hanger which she shot out into, ignoring everyone else and the destruction around her as she started hunting for something among the rubble.

It took her a while, she had to dig through some of the destruction that Dalisy had caused, but eventually, she saw a glint of metal underneath the rubble and began to move things a bit quicker. Until finally, she reached down and picked up Lyting, the dagger began to glow faintly when she touched it, and she began to somewhat move back towards where everyone else was. For some reason, she was starting to feel physically better then she had before. Electricity started crackling along the dagger, and her hair sort of raised slightly from the electric charge, but she didn't really care at this point anymore. "So, what exactly is going on here?" she couldn't help but ask the others in the hanger, since for the most part she hadn't been really able to pay attention to what had been going on since she had been keeling over and puking up blood and all.

---

---

Oliver Sullivan

---

---

Location: Panic Room -> Hangar
Skills: Hacking

---

Bonnie was a goddess among women, saving him from a veritable murder that could of happened to him of they knew about how he just assaulted two of their teammates. He owed her one, big time. Taking a moment, he checked in on Cardiff, seeing it was still under fire, but evacuation was underway, and Captain Britain bad made his way there. That didn't totally put him at ease by any means, knowing that there was a nonzero chance that Captain Britain was, in fact, a Skrull. Hopefully, though, if he were one, he'd be able to put it together than there was a pretty big threat at hand. Switching his focus back on the events at hand, he glanced at the terminal, and had something else he had to satisfy his curiosity about.

Digging through it, his face lit up in surprise and excitement. The raptors were real, living raptors, and he had access to them on command. Thinking almost on impulse, with a few keystrokes, he set it up so he could get back to this screen right from his phone, essentially equipping him with total control over the facilities defenses, and he made sure to make a hot button for releasing the raptors, because why the hell not? Slipping his phone into his picket, and stepping away, he nodded at Bonnie, saying. "I should be able to get back here if things get bad, so yeah, I don't mind leaving." Before he did though, he grabbed the rest of the vials of Wolverine blood. If people got hurt, he might be able to use them to keep them in the fight, and that was deeply important to him. After that, he walked off, making his way towards the Hangar.

---

---

---

---

---

---

"Wait, Niah!" Bonnie called out, but her friend had already dashed out of Fury's panic room. As much as she was overjoyed for Niah, having her sister back from the dead, Bonnie couldn't trust it. They had already discovered one of their teammates was a skrull that day. It seemed more likely to her that Dalisy was a skrull imposter rather than Niah's sister returned from the grave. "That might not actually be Dalisy..." Of course, Niah didn't hear Bonnie.

Niah wasn't the only one taking off from the panic room. Sparky had evidently found something as she looked through the security archives and she flew out of the room. In Bonnie's medical opinion, flying was a horrible idea for Sparky at the moment. Oliver took the vials of Wolverine's blood - Bonnie made a mental note to restock the panic room with some more of it, if they had more on hand in medical. She didn't want Nick Fury to kill her for taking all of his supplies.

"Come on, Goose," Bonnie told the cat, scooping him up into her arms. She then hurried after Oliver, heading to the hangar and trusting that Tempest would come as well. Whatever had happened, someone was bound to need medical attention. "Why do people never listen to me?" she then murmured to the cat.

---

---

---

Hill climbed out of the rubble, freed by Agent Reed. It seemed the universe was approving her choice for a new leader of the Secret Warriors, at least for now. "Cancel that order, Reed. Keep the medical team working on M-Pox," Hill said, smiling slightly. She was a bit unsteady on her feet, but her eyes showed a fierce determination and stubbornness. "Effective immediately, you are the lead of the team codenamed the Secret Warriors. I expect your appointment of a second by the end of the week. You now have level seven security clearance." Security clearances ranged from one to ten, with ten being the highest. Only the directors had level ten clearance. Level nine clearance was for the deputy director - Natasha Romanoff. Level eight clearance included individuals such as Phil Coulson, Victoria Hand, and Steve Rogers. Level seven clearance was for people like Clint Barton, Melinda May, and Bobbi Morse.

Novikova woke up with a jolt as Flynn kicked her in the shin. She opened her eyes and looked right up at her wife, Maria. Instantly, her mind was flooded with dozens of images and pictures - Maria in a flaming dress, Maria battling to the death in an arena, Maria running from zombies, Maria being claimed by the god Apollo. The images were blurring together now, only letting her see bits and pieces - a child's hand, a broken bow, Maria's corpse underneath the feet of a gigantic purple titan, Oliver running a spear through Maria's heart, Maria putting an arrow through Sparky's chest, Maria and her sister Kristina watching a movie.

Unless someone were to avert Novikova's gaze, she was essentially powerless and paralyzed by the nonstop flow of information about other realities.

Doctor Strange picked himself up from the ground, his cape tugging him to his feet. "Once again, I must strongly ask that Dalisy is kept securely imprisoned. The threat she poses to the universe is incalculable. I do not need to tell you what sort of damage she could do, especially with the aid of our, erm, other problem."

The Sorcerer Supreme was then left a little bit gobsmacked as Sparky flew into the hangar, fished an Asgardian weapon out of the dagger, and caused a miniature storm before casually asking what's up? He recognized the weapon - Lyting. The weapon had been crafted by the dwarves for Frigga, Queen of Asgard. He doubted that anyone here knew its true power - that it could be used to scry and see the immediate future. "Agent Sparks - might I suggest you be careful with that blade? It's antique and sacred to the goddess Frigga."

Bonnie then appeared in the hangar, arriving a bit after Oliver. "Niah, be careful with her - that could be a skrull pretending to be your lost sister," she pleaded, unaware of the other conversations that had been occurring. She was just worried for her friend's safety. Everyone there seemed to be fine for the moment, although Tinley was in pretty bad shape still from the earlier fight.

Director Hill was staring at Dalisy, as if she could identify whether or not she was a skrull by just looking at her. "Put Dalisy in a high security cell. Agent Bautista, you are relieved of your duties researching for now. You may visit with your sister. Agent Chase, I want you to devise a method of definitively determining whether or not someone is a skrull and test it on Dalisy. She'll be charged per the Espionage Act and sent to the Raft once Agent Chase gives her conclusions."

---

---

---

---

Niah looked at Strange confused. She didn't understand why her sister would be considered dangerous. Well other than the obvious reason, she had just blown up most of the Hub's Hanger. Niah trusted him though. She knew what he could do. So she only nodded and didn't dare argue.

"Cooperate okay." Niah said to her sister. Her voice was quiet and soft. Niah nodded at Bonnie, worry etched into her features for a moment. She knew that Novi could maybe look at Dalisy and see what her other lives were and that might show that Dalisy wasn't a Skrull. "Magsabi ng isang bagay lamang ang malalaman ko." Niah whispered. She had been holding a conversation with Dalisy in Tagalog could Skrulls learn languages that easily? Had this Skrull learned it specifically knowing Niah knew it? This was quite a set-up if Dalisy was a Skrull.

"When you were five we ran away from home for a night because our brother had been born and you were mad you weren't the baby anymore." It wasn't a definitive test. Maybe Skrulls could read minds, but Niah was at least partially satisfied for now.

She hated knowing that Dalisy would be sent to the Raft, but she had known there was no way she could keep Dalisy safe from the consequences of blowing up the hanger. "Thank you, Director." Niah said and picked Dalisy up and put her in the wheelchair that had been abandoned by Cass.

---

---

---

---

Matt spoke up answering Sparky, "Well it seems that Dalisy here is Niah's sister. She apparently believed Niah was in trouble and was trying to rescue her. I think? Honestly, not entirely certain what language the pair of them were even speaking in." Matt gave a shrug.

"I'll escort them to the brig. I want to check on our guest. Congrats on your promotion Cass." Matt shrugged and followed after Niah as she pushed the wheelchair. He was a little frustrated they had a civilian being held in the brig. It was one thing when they thought he was the Thane they needed. What were the odds he had the right name? How had Oliver's name come to be changed? As far as Matt knew Oliver had been raised by his parents in Cardiff. This must-have meant Oliver had been adopted and didn't even know about it.

"Thanks Matt." Niah said, her voice sounded tired. Matt could understand, she was under a lot of stress. As they made their way toward the brig Niah spoke to her sister some more. "Where have you been? You went missing when I was fifteen."

"It is a long story." Dalisy said. To Matt's ears, she sounded defeated, which she was, but also pleased. Was it cause the sisters had been reunited?

---

---

---

---

Cassandra looked at Hill for a moment she was up and awake now which was a good thing and nodded towards her. "Never mind on the medical teams to the hangar." She said into the radio, turning to look at Hill as she officially have her the promotion and nodded towards her, she was more than ready to start proving herself as a leader for the team. "Thank you ma'am, I wont let you down, and i'll let you know when I make the choice for my second." Cass said as she heard Sparky flying into the room, and started to search for something before seeing her holding Raynor's knife. Flynn of course went to wake up Novi and Strange up from their little powernaps, a few seconds later Bonnie came into the room. She knew right away who she wanted as her second right then and there.

"We'll also have to release Thane di Angelo back to the Wales government." Cass said looking over at Tinley for a moment, knowing that she didn't know that information since she had been in the hangar the entire time. "We didn't know this until just now that Oliver is the one that Thanos is after, Novikova was the one to confirm this with her dimensional sight as well." Cassandra informed Hill while Niah and Dalisy had their little reunion. She looked at Matt and gave him a friendly smile and nodded towards him.

Cassandra looked at Dr. Strange and nodded towards him, they would need to make sure Dalisy is secured then. "The bigger threat right now is Thanos though, it might not take to long for him to realize that Oliver is here. We need to prepare for that as soon as possible, and make sure the M-Pox cure is ready quickly. Dalisy will be fully secured and will have triple the security around her in the meantime until we can take her to the Raft though." Cassandra said, she just blew up a hangar, while Thanos raised Atailan to the ground.

---

---

---

---

Maria looked at Flynn for a moment she really didn't like the fact that he had kicked her wife in the leg, but she didn't say anything and it didn't take to long for Novi to wake up. Maria quickly knelt down and removed her wife's glasses closing her eyes quickly as she did so since she wasn't sure how long it would take for the power to leave her system. "Here love, you may want these back." Maria said as she kept her eyes closed shut while listening to everyone as they talked around her.

Maria helped Novi back up to a seating position, as she heard Sparky come flying into the room and asking her what happened here, she was about to answer that when Matt beat her to it. She turned her attention fully back to her wife gently holding onto her hand and smiled towards her. "Are you alright Novi?" Maria asked as she listened to Cass informing Hill fully on what has been going on right now.

---

---

---

---

---

Sparky glanced over at the few people in the room decided to help her figure out really what was going on and just shrugged somewhat at what they were all saying. So it sounded like somehow Niah's sister had shown up and decided to start blowing everything up or whatever, and so that made for an interesting story of sorts. She might need to see about talking to Niah about that sort of thing later after they are done with the whole Thanos and the Black Order thing, and the M-Pox thing... And finding Raynor. When Sparky thought about it, she had a really long list of things that she needed to do.

She actually was feeling pretty good despite everything that was going on, and part of her wondered if it had something to do with the dagger that she had found among the rubble. Hearing Strange's words she turned to look over at him, before glancing at the dagger in her hands. "Why do you think I wouldn't be careful with the dagger? Not to mention I know it's Asgardian, how dumb do you think I am? I know what I'm doing whether you think I do or not, I'm not an idiot, so how about you stop it, I am not in the mood for someone to start questioning every damn thing I do!"

---

---

---

---

---

"Finally someone actually starts talking some normal common sense!" Flynn muttered under his breath as Strange once again reiterated that letting Dalisy walk around freely was a bad idea. At least someone seemed to understand just how bad things were considering that Dalisy just attacked them, and people had been acting like she was fine and not somewhat mental or whatever. He didn't trust Niah's judgement regarding the entire thing at all, considering that Dalisy was supposedly her sister and whatever, meaning her thoughts were probably biased.

Of course, Hill seemed to be fine and doing alright now, which was a good thing, and she seemed to agree that Dalisy needed to be locked up, and shipped off to the Raft. Flynn did not envy her at all, and he looked over when Bonnie entered the area with Goose. The cat had tilted his head to the side when Bonnie had asked about people not listening to her, almost like he was shrugging his shoulders, and he was now purring in her arms. "So now that the mad bomber is dealt with what's next on the agenda of crap we have to deal with? Since the list is kind of long at this point," Flynn commented before he looked over at Cass as she said that the Thanos problem was something they needed to deal with now and it couldn't wait. "Alright fine with me, but if you don't mind me asking, whose to say that Thanos doesn't already know that Oliver is here? I mean sure, he hasn't attacked us yet, but he could just be waiting for a good time to attack, just saying."

---

---

---

---

---

Tinley watched the scene unfold, aware that her position had been altered. She would have handled it much the same way so it provided some comfort that Agent Reed was able to handle the situation. She felt a bit of shame as Hill informed her of her clearance level, but she let it pass. There were more important matters to attend to. Like the fact, with everyone entering the room, she became aware that Oliver was, in fact, Thanos' son and not Thane. She glanced at the man, aware that he was most likely processing all of this.

As Matt set her back down, she cursed under her breath that she needed as much help as she did. "We'll need to be prepared for another attack then." She didn't say anything about her own injury. She would fight to her last breath if they dared attack the base. But she was in no position to do much else other than offer an opinion.

She was also curious about Niah and her sister, if that really was her sister. With the Skrull threat now more evident, with Raynor being one, it served to reason that there were, most likely, others and that they could be around them now. Was anyone acting funny or, at the very least, too much like themselves.

---

---

---

---

---

With the current threat managed, it was safe to leave the panic room. Oliver grabbed the remaining blood samples from Wolverine and ran off. He was trying, bless him, though she wished he talked to her. At least somewhat. What was going through his mind was surely more than one person could handle. Tempest followed Bonnie and Goose out of the room and made her way to the Hanger where everyone else was.

Tempest quickly got to work on Tinley, using her healing. Tinley wasn't 100% but she was better, at least. Tinley still felt sore and in some pain, but it was manageable. "Thanks Agent Renroir." Tempest then made her way over to Hill, who looked like she took some hits, but Hill brushed her off. “No need, agent. I want you focused on the others." Tempest glanced around her, seeing that everyone else was, more or less, fine at the moment. Tempest chalked it up to bravado, but there was something...

It didn't matter. She shook her head but stepped away. She took out her pocket computer and began to scan nearby security systems and media outlets to see if Thanos was nearby them. She managed to track a nearby satellite image of Thanos and his crew. "I see Thanos. They are over Cardiff at the moment." Tempest held it out for everyone to see. They had some time, but it appeared like the fight was far from over for today.