<div class="floatleft">(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01910/james-purefoy2_1910913b.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Daniel Stane<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Shield<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>0115, 6 Apr 2102<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Stane Industries Platform Foxtrot Zero Nine Six<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Helios, Rebecca<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>Athena<br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong>None<br/><hr/><br/>Daniel did not have time to deal with idiots he rally did not.  So he punched up the audio output of his armor and then did his best not to light into the SHIELD agents and their sheer idiocy at the moment.<strong><em>"You sent out a distress signal.  I am here to help if you want me too or not!"</em></strong>Then Athena tagged a conversation and pointed his heads up display to something else to catch his attention.  A mutant, and one with an aquatic form.  Well well, things might be looking up here.   Daniel too aim to where the woman was, then launched three of them over towards her.   The rounded units deployed their flotation contingency as soon as they hit the water.  Daniel made the adjustments and focused his audio output towards her.<br/><br/><strong><em>"Selkie you say?  I'm Ebony Shield.  Those units floating about you are portable shields with about a four meter diameter coverage.  It will be an airtight seal and act as a brace.  Put  them where the worst of the damage is and we can keep this thing afloat for another fifteen, twenty minutes.   Not sure if it will be enough time to salvage the ship, I think she is a loss, but that is more time for rescue operations to get here and save more people.   All you got to do is slap them on the hull, it will do the rest."</em></strong><br/><br/>Daniel then turned his attention back to Athena, cutting the output for the moment as there was no reason for SHIELD to know there might be an AI in play, AI's themselves being very tricky subjects in the aftermath of the Sentinel War.<strong>"Okay Athena, she will have the starboard side of the ship covered, and from her talk knows her way about a ship.  I don't so put up on the HUD the three locations I need to place these units, and get me as close as you can."</strong>Daniel reached for an anchor line, and synced its controls to his HUD as well.  In his armor he would sink like a lead weight in the water, and he had not designed it for oceanic environments.  It would last perhaps half an hour tops, and the line was to make sure he did not sink, or he would have to abandon the armor, something he was not too keen on.   With preparations made to be certain Daniel would not end up in Davey Jone's locker, he moved to put in place the first of the portable shields.