Impact (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Meanwhile.

Fitz and Simmons laid out their equipment in the minibus, preparing to begin tracking.

Simmons said, "This little town barely has any electricity. Finding this girl or whatever shouldn't be too hard."

Skye worked the computer as she said, "Unless she already knows we're here."

Simmons looked at Skye and said, "No, you're not suggesting precognition or telepathy, are you? Because..."

Skye said with a smile, "I know. Because they don't exist."

"Not long ago, I would've put extrasensory perception in the same category as things only lunatics believed in, like aliens and portals and all that."

"But now, I've found a server."

Coulson took Grant Ward and Killer B around the streets, asking the cleaners they passed whether they had seen the woman in the photo.

Just then, Grant Ward's phone rang. Seeing the caller ID, he picked up and asked, "Did you find Amador?"

Skye said in surprise, "What?"

"No, not yet."

"But we found a broadcast with a strange signal encrypted inside it."

Grant Ward asked, "You think Amador might be communicating through that signal?"

Skye replied, "Maybe, but I called because there's an equally urgent question for you, my supervising officer."

"What do we do if we need to pee?"

Hearing that, Grant Ward said a little helplessly, "You're breaking protocol just because you need to take a leak?"

Skye explained, "The drive is really, really long, and everyone's tense."

Watching the pedestrians on the street, Grant Ward said, "There's a container at the bottom of the blue case."

Skye quickly said to Simmons, "Bottom of the blue case."

Simmons immediately took out the blue case, opened it, and flipped straight to the bottom. Under both their expectant gazes, she took out an empty mineral water bottle.

Skye's eyes widened as she asked, "Please