Sunset will not happen for another two hours, given the time of year it is. The usual heat and mugginess of DC has started to cool down, and in a little under an hour, the roads will start to become jammed up as people head home from work for the day. So many people commute into the city and live outside of it, trying to leave DC by car won't be an option very much longer.
The police are still at the scene, with the CSI's finishing up their work. It won't be much longer until the bodies are removed by the medical examiners and taken away to be identified and examined more thoroughly. Police in this town tend to more or less support the Purifiers, but it seemed that the SHIELD agents have lucked out. The cops working the scene right now aren't crooked. And they don't seem to be coming anywhere near the entrance to the SHIELD base - it
is incredibly well hidden, after all.
Bonnie Chase
Location: The Playground - Holding Cells
Skills: N/A
Bonnie shook her head, brushing some hair out of her eyes.
"Nope, I had no idea either," she couldn't help but say. She liked animals, dogs and cats alike, but she was still a little bit shaken by the fact that Goose, Director Fury's cat, was doubling as some sort of tentacle monster. It put a lot of things into a new sort of perspective - like the fact that if they didn't feed Goose when he meowed at them, he could easily bring out the tentacles and throw them around. That was a fun thought.
"I guarantee you that Fury knew about it - his secrets have secrets," she chuckled slightly.
She then bit her lip slightly as she looked at Flynn, trying to keep the heat from rising in her cheeks as she blushed. He was hot - literally and figuratively. He still had the flame retardant lab coat on, giving him a sort of sexy scientist vibe that Bonnie was finding rather appealing at the moment. It helped that the coat was a touch too small for him as well, meaning that it showed off every inch of his muscles and then some. She was about to say something else when Goose came running into the room and flopped on the ground, looking up at her expectantly.
"...Okay, this is probably not the weirdest thing we'll see today," Bonnie said, shaking her head slightly as she bent down and picked Goose up, putting his front paws over her shoulder slightly. She was holding him a bit like a chubby baby. Sure, it was frightening what he had done with those tentacles but... He was cute and Bonnie decided she'd make the cute little demon cat happy, rather than annoyed with her.
"At least the HYDRA agents are out cold," she commented, looking in on the pair in the holding cells.
Dominika Novikova
Location: The Playground - Hallway Outside Tinley's Quarters
Skills: N/A
The events of the last several months all flew by in her mind. She had gone into Barton's office, looking through the filing cabinet for any hint of something that could save Sparky (and Raynor, but he wasn't Novikova's priority). There hadn't been any misconduct there. Novikova and the other agents at the Playground had the clearance to access those files. She had found only two files that had been promising.
And both of them had amounted to nothing but electrical burns on her hands and a crushed spirit.
The Ultron file had actually been empty when she found it. Like McCormick, Novikova had found it strange that the file was empty. She started doing research into it herself, making a trip to the nearby Triskelion in order to find the files there. It was the first time she had really broken protocol - she used her powers over earth to simulate an earthquake, causing enough commotion that she had been able to swipe their copy of the Ultron file.
It had been empty as well.
If it hadn't been for the records system that gave the date of project inception, she wouldn't have known who to turn to. She accessed some of the journals of Howard Stark, eventually finding an obscure reference to a Project Ultron that he had been collaborating with Hank Pym on (Hank's journal claimed that it was all his idea and Stark was just stealing it). Given that Hank Pym was also the creator of the infamous Pym Particle, Novikova followed her intuition further, getting in contact with the ex-SHIELD member.
They had met in a nearby town in Virginia at a coffee shop. It was there that Hank Pym told Novikova about his wife, Janet van Dyne, and how she had been trapped in the Quantum Realm decades ago. He still held out hope that she was still alive somewhere. He had attempted to modify the Ultron project into a device that could be used to retrieve her, but it never worked. It was missing one critical component:
the ability to perceive dimensional energy.
With Novikova's powers and Hank Pym's Ultron, they'd be able to retrieve Sparky, Raynor, and the Wasp from the Quantum Realm. The probability fields were due to be in alignment soon - tomorrow, to be precise. If Novikova wasn't in San Fransisco to combine her powers with Pym's technology, then Sparky, Raynor, and the Wasp would have to wait potentially decades for the probability fields to align again.
