Nyana's First Assignment (for Phil Coulson)

It was important that I not be late.

It still felt odd that I should have joined the Island Task Force. I had a job to do, and I did not intend to stay on this Island any longer than I absolutely had to. Moreover, I had hated my time in basic training at the goddessforsaken barracks that I'd been assigned to (wherein Mother "Buck" Fyrdraaca proved she showed no favoritism to her youngest daughter whatsoever -- I could have done with maybe a little favoratism).

But here I was, having passed basic training for the ITF, and now on my first assignment: guard duty. Why? Was it some reminder of home I could not let go of? Or was it some need to prove myself?

I suspected I was going to have to prove myself. When I saw my partner, who was old enough to be my father, I could sense that he saw our partnership was as mismatched as I saw it. But I had volunteered to the ITF. I had finished basic training. I had done much worse things at home. I could do this.

So, I was on time when I reported for duty at the gates of Rapture. There, I waited for my partner, Phil Coulson.