There is no more SHIELD... Six Months Later

[simon_didnt_say]

It had all come down so quickly.  Just as they were about to roll out a new fleet of Helicarriers, HYDRA had revealed themselves.  They'd been nestling agents inside of SHIELD for years, through all kinds of ranks, sites, and positions.  The low end estimate had been something in the neighborhood of fifteen percent of the organization.  The higher end estimate had been closer to a third or higher.

Those agents who had remained loyal to the organization, Nick Fury, and their country had prevailed in the end, but the damage around the globe had been catastrophic, to say nothing of the damage to their reputation.  Hearings were called, accusations leveled.  Nick Fury had simply... disappeared.  SHIELD had been disbanded, the agents there of mostly found themselves without jobs.  A few, vouchsafed 100 % had remained in service, but most had been debriefed and released into the world.

Simon Fitz was one of those.  Like so many of the rest, no other security organization would touch him.  They all feared HYDRA corruption that they had somehow missed.

He had found well-paying work in the private sector.  His skills with robotics and computers were more than good enough for that.  But designing security for smartphones?  Building the better browser for people to surf the web while on the toilet?  Hardly compared to protecting global freedom.

The others probably had it just as bad...

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[symkarian_princess]

Nika had a problem. There was a giant hole in her team from HYDRA. And when SHIELD imploded, it only compounded her problem in trying to find Quinn. So she used the contact network her mother had garnered in her long career and came up with very little.

Though she did have some names and locations of former SHIELD agents who might be willing to help her. That was at least something. None of them were Sam Fury, but she would have to do with what she could find.

Though from the dossier she had, she wasn't sure Felicity would be pleased that Nika was picking up another tech genius to help. That didn't matter much when the dark-haired woman in not quite business wear showed up at the front desk saying she had an appointment with Simon Fitz about duotronic Hydration removal from a subsystem.

Nika wasn't sure how she said that technobabble with a straight face, but she did.