Jessica Sleuths...

Crossing her arms, Jessica nodded “I’ll do what I can director. I can’t promise anything, but I’ll do whatever’s in my power.” She said before turning away to start her hunt.

The trail was cold. Dead cold. The warehouse that both Hill and Widow had been sent to investigate was completely empty. Not a trace of the women, or the former contents of the storage facility remained. Jessica combed the building with practiced patience from years of detective work. She couldn't find a thread of evidence. Whoever had been there covered their tracks extremely well.

Searching through the records for the warehouse only yielded more disappointing results. The building was leased to a dummy shipping corporation. Drew was able to use her connections to trace that to another front company. After several more cover-ups, she found a false company that she recognized. One that she knew was used by Hydra.

It had taken over a week to track down the lead, and another week for her to discover the locations of inactive or abandoned Hydra locations with the surrounding areas. From there however, it was fairly easy to discern which base was no longer abandoned. The amount of activity and traffic told Jessica immediately where she should concentrate her search.

Jessica knew the longer this search took the less likely it was to find the others alive, but she had to hope that she could at least find out what happened to them and bring whoever was behind it to justice. This base seemed to be her best bet, so she prepared herself as much as possible.

Jessica knew that she couldn't handle an entire Hydra base alone and that she should probably alert S.H.I.E.L.D., but time was of the essence if her friends were still alive. She decided that stealth was her best option. Making her way to the base, Jessica easily sneaked past the numerous sentries and patrols, heading deeper and deeper to the lower levels where she hoped to find answers.

She was moving slow, but she wanted to make sure that she was being quiet and alert for any sign of her missing friends.

There were hardly any guards by the time she reached Level 5, apparently, they hadn't reactivated these levels yet, so Jessica risked trying to access a computer terminal. She wasn't a wiz like Tony Stark, but she managed to bypass the security protocols and gain access. From the schematics, the detention area was one more level down. Tapping into a security camera, she scanned the cells. Instantly, she found what she was hoping for. Both women were being held inside a ****-field enclosed room. Black Widow paced nervously in her cell, like a caged lion ready to strike. Agent Hill lay sleeping on a solid metallic cot jutting out from the wall. As far as Jessica could tell, both women looked perfectly healthy and normal, apart from minor cuts and scrapes that were probably associated with their capture.

Jessica breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of seeing her friends seemingly okay. All she had to do now was free them. Then she'd have plenty of help for them all to get out safely. She checked the computer for where she needed to go and hurried off in that direction.

Jessica found the route down to the next level without incident. There were no guards as she made her way down the halls, hurrying toward her friends. Rounding the last corner, she slid to a halt as she spotted a lone guard sleeping in his chair next to the prisoner's cell. His rifle was leaning on the wall next to an alarm.

Jessica thought of just taking his gun and leaving him be... but she couldn’t risk him waking up before she let the others out and setting off the alarm. She walked up slowly before letting loose a stunning venom blast of electricity.

The guard slumped to the floor, twitching and collapsing. Jessica hurried to the front of the cell. Widow's eyes went wide with excitement. She tried to say something, but Drew couldn't hear through the ****-field. Jessica could see a small access panel alongside the cell wall.