Second Romanoff (An Aos story)

The Devil Complex

~Winter's pov~

"I want Hobnobs" Hunter muttered.

"I can search the stock for biscuits" I replied.

"No, no, no. I want the real thing" Hunter told us "I want proper British junk food. I want Maltersers, and I want Twiglets! Why'd it have to be a fear dimension coming to life? Why couldn't it be dreams or wishes?"

"What would your wish be?" I asked.

"An extra day between Saturday and Sunday. You?"

"A honeymoon" I answered, I smiled.

"Uh, uh, can you grab me the crimpers?"

"Yeah" And I stood up from my laptop "Now, if we had more than one wish, flying wouldn't be bad" Grabbing the crimper "Or a coffee, I just want cof-" I looked to my side thinking it was Hunter, a hand grabbed my neck.

"Winter!" one of the other agents in the room started shooting at it, the astronaut, threw me backwards, I scrambled up and grabbed my gun from the desk and shot the astronaut and it disappeared.

~Time Skip~

"The Gravitonium from Deke's gravity gizmo, was intensely compressed, refind in a way that I cannot duplicate with the raw element we got from the Principia" Hunter started.

"Let alone inserting it into this new device" I finished.

"So I was hoping that- that Deke might be able to have some more insight into exactly how it works" Hunter continued, but Deke didn't answer "Deke?" Still no answer, I slammed my hand on the desk making him jump "Deke!"

"Oh, ok, well, I don't know much about the stuff inside, I just know that it's saved- saved my ass, like, a thousand times" Deke said, and then zoned out again.

"...ok, well, the short amount of time that we bought ourselves is up, so what's the plan?" Daisy asked us.

"Well, we've temporarily plugged the dam, but it could burst at any minute, releasing more of these...anomalies into the base, or worse, out into the world" I told her.

"Are you ok, by the way?" She asked.

"Yeah" I answered "Just...trust me, I can figure this out. I just- I need...I'll experiment all night if I have to"

"Ok, so, what do we do?" Daisy asked.

"Maybe I can find some of Dr. Franklin Hall's original notes" Hunter told me.

"Yeah, that could give us some insight into the nature of the element"

"I'll see what I can find on the database" Daisy said and me and Hunter were about to walk away.

"And please be careful!" Deke spoke up "Just because we keep putting ourselves in danger, which is worrisome, and I just don't want anything to happen to you- your- to your brains, 'cause they're so smart that, if- we- we need those to survive"

"Hunter doesn't have any brains" I joked.

"Thanks, Winter" Hunter replied sarcastically, I chuckled and we walked away.

...

"I need to access the main terminal" I said walking into command center.

"Ok" Daisy answered.

"Here" I said and pushed her out the way "I couldn't find any physical notes from Dr. Hall, tell me someone scanned them into the system"

"Rude" She replied. "I-I already did, and I couldn't find anything"

"Nothing?" I asked her. "We have zero records of his actual research?"

"Nothing" She said again, I slammed my hand on the desk "Winter! Oh, my..."