X marks the spot

The Sign

"Hey," Deke said softly, finding Lisa playing with the pods that saved Fitz and Aaron. She was pulling out some electrics of the thing, playing with wires. Deke crouched down next to her, watching her fiddle with those wires. They sparked, before the lights inside the pod turned on. She then moved onto a different panel. She pulled on it, but it didn't budge. She pulled again, but her fingers slipped off. She waved her hand, them being a bit bloody with some cuts.

Deke silently moved to the panel, grabbing the other end. It was then that Lisa saw he was there. He smiled at her, gesturing for her to grab her end of the panel. She grabbed it, and they both pulled. It took some effort, but it finally came off.

There it was, the answer to all Lisa's questions. A small container that made the whole thing freeze.

"I think that's a cooling thing. Pipe, I think," Deke explained. Lisa was gentle with her movements. Precise. She removed the agent. Some of the frost inside the pod went away, though not all of it. She passed it to him.

"I don't know all the details. But, I did a bunch of research into this sort of thing too when I left SHIELD for my own pursuits. Turns out, freezers already existed, so," Lisa silently chuckled a bit.

"But, this little thing, got our friends to us. Little things can do big things, huh?" he looked to Lisa, but she was focusing in on a circuit. She put her hand just over it, and felt the vibrations coming from it."

She pulled away, and went to her pad, "Daisy doesn't have faith in me," she wrote.

"I don't think that's true," Deke denied. Sure, he had a crush on said girl, but she was never unkind to people she cared about. She always believed in them, even to her own detriment. Unless if they crossed a line, of course, "I think she just wants you to fit in here is all. Aaron was trusted to look out for you. He trusts her, so I guess you've got either an Aunt watching over you too, or another older sibling."

She cocked her head, "family," he clarified, "you've got more watching out for you here."

She smiled a bit, but there was pain to it as well, "hey," he said, putting a hand on her shoulder, "your mother loves you. This whole power thing, and time as a whole, it's new. If she doesn't look at you now and want you back, that's on her. We're all a bit screwed up, no one's perfect. Just like how that," he pointed to the circuit board, "isn't. But, it can still find its place."

She looked back to the board. She then looked to Deke, and wrote in her pad, "I think we can help Aaron's friends."

Still distant, but Deke accepted that and nodded.

"Rage," Sarge said.

"That's all you feel?" May asked as she and Aaron stood in the same room as the man; the man who was currently sharpening his sword. The man who could, maybe, maybe just, have a shot at becoming Phil Coulson once again.

"It is useful," Aaron admitted, Sarge gestured to him with a nod, showing that he was right.

"That's the best way to describe it. And you don't wanna be anywhere near it when it comes out." Sarge warned the pair.

"Once we land in the jungle, we'll secure Z1 and use it as a base of operations; we'll go in stealth." Daisy said to everyone in the main room, looking at each and every one of them.

"How do we get Mack and Yoyo out if we can't even get close to her?" Piper asked.

"Now we can," Fitz revealed. Daisy looked to Lisa, who looked back with a small, giddy smile. Daisy raised an eyebrow but had a small one for a moment.

"You think we haven't seen something like this before? I'm standing next to one of them." May pointed at Aaron, and the boy rolled his eyes.

"Thanks, May." He said, sarcastically.