@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.
Dominika Novikova
Location: The Playground - Technology
Skills: N/A
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.
Bonnie Chase
Location: The Playground - Bio-Engineering and Research
Skills: N/A
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?"
Raynor Blake
Location: the Quantum Realm
Skills: N/A
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."
