Super Quake

Up In The Sky!

Metropolis, Daisy's New Apartment, Three hours later.

Daisy scrolled through the video footage on her laptop in her apartment idly munching on her fifth bag of popcorn. Ever since her powers emerged, her metabolism reached an inhuman level turning her into some kind of snack monster.

She hit pause when she caught sight of her and her team.

Her hand retracted from the keyboard, a pit of unease permeating her stomach. It was hard to look at her old teammates like this. By no means was Daisy a stranger to death. But this team... her team... it was different. They weren't just A.R.G.U.S. agents, they were a family. She didn't know who she was without them.

She hit play and fast forwarded until an evac team arrived. She watched Ward and herself get carried out onto a stretcher. It hurt to see Ward like that. So lifeless and still. She wish they could've been together longer... had time to grow together. But it didn't seem to be in the cards for Daisy to be happy for too long.

Switching to an outside camera's view, she watched as she was loaded onto a helo, barely conscious while Bobby and Hunter were running toward her... screaming and demanding answers from the evac team.

Fitz was lucky enough to be shielded by the van. But he was still carted off to the nearest hospital anyway.

Daisy then clicked through different camera angles all over the building until she saw person shaped burn marks just outside the side entrance. She rewound the footage to just before the explosion. There was an older man, apparently vaporized by the blast. He was holding a strange orange orb in a box just before he was by a surge of dark matt— wait, what?

Is that a face?

Zooming in on the burst of orange energy, she could just make out the details of face, enough to put a name to it.

Days before the mission was even green lit, she had memorized most of the STAR Labs staff. This was undoubtedly Ronnie Raymond, the structural engineer.

With an inkling suspicion, Daisy sifted through the footage before the blast and found Ronnie in the Cortex with the rest of the staff and hit play.

When the lab shook from the initial tremor of the soon-to-be exploding Accelerator, it was Ronnie who rushed down into the pipeline followed by another engineer, Cisco Ramon.

Daisy scoffed in surprise, she didn't know anyone else was down there.

So, Mr. Raymond ran down there trying to repair the damage before everything went topside and... what? Turned into a ghost? Buy why didn't he try to prevent the blast by repairing the computer terminal that regulated the Particle Accelerator's main generator. Did he just not know? Or was Harrison Wells keeping things from even his own team?

Rewinding the footage, she closed in on a clear shot of the older man and ran his face through her facial recognition software.

Professor Martin Stein. What were you doing at STAR Labs with a weird glowing orb in a box? Did he sabotage the Accelerator? Unlikely, considering, he too, was caught in the blast.

Sighing to herself and picking up an un-popped popcorn kernel, using a minimal amount heat vision, forcing it to pop before tossing it into her mouth, she mumbled, "Backburner."

At least until she could gather more data.

Now she began the long and arduous process of decoding all the encrypted data. She'd crack into every file and folder that contained information on the Particle Accelerator and its resulting explosion before forwarding it all to Fitz. But it was slow going with her limiting computer setup.