Chapter One (Revelation)

"Bring them to me, no matter what it takes. Hell, I don't care if you have to beat them to bring them here, just don't kill them. You know that I need them alive."

"But sir,"

"No buts, son. You heard what I said. You better do it, because you know the consequences. I'll have your head in a heartbeat, and you know that yours doesn't grow back."


"We are completely on our own now." Coulson sighed. "There's no back-up to call. The Bus is gone. We're all by our damn selves here at Providence, or whatever the hell it's really called. Koenig's gone. Ward's disappeared. Skye's gone somewhere too, probably with Ward knowing her." He looked at Fitzsimmons and Triplett, "We don't even know where May went, we're the last four here."

"And all of our stuff is gone too." Fitz mumbled.

"Yeah, it was all on the Bus." Simmons added in.

"Don't say anything else." Coulson almost snapped, anger in his voice. He had seen enough crap the past couple of day and this was pushing him way past his breaking point.

"Sir," Triplett began, trying to figure out how not to anger Coulson even more. "I have one question. What do we do from here?" he asked.

Coulson took a deep breath, trying to calm down, "Continue gathering up the Fridge escapees, I guess. There is really nothing else that we can do. We'll have to use that small transport plane to get around, that's the only thing we have left."

"Great." Fitz muttered.

"But who do we go after next?" Triplett asked. "Where do we go?"

"I don't know." Coulson replied. "We'll have to,"

He was cut off by the pounding of echoing, frantic footsteps heading fast towards them. The four agents turned to see Skye running towards them, her face bruised and bloodied.

"Skye?" they all asked as she stopped in front of them.

"Skye, what the hell happened to you?" Coulson asked, panic rising in his voice.

"We can't trust anyone." Skye huffed, trying to catch her breath. "We can't"

"What do you mean?" Simmons asked. "Who can't we trust now?"

"Skye, who is it?" Coulson asked.

"It's Ward." Skye said, eyes wide with fear. "He's working with them. He's Hydra. He's working for Hydra."

Coulson's stomach turned to ice-cold stone at Skye's words, "S-Skye, are you completely sure?" he stammered. "Think about what you are saying now."

"Yes! He killed Koenig! He took the hard drive from the Bus and wanted me to unlock it! Claimed that it was for the 084 specs and that you needed it for help with capturing Daniels. He took me somewhere in the Bus and when we got there, there was Hydra goons everywhere. I managed to escape and drive off in a car I, um, 'borrowed'. But I still got hurt." Skye explained.

"What did they need the drive for?" Triplett asked. "Why did Hydra need the hard drive?"

"I-I don't know." Skye stammered. "I didn't get a chance to find out anything. But the look in Ward's eyes." She shivered, "He looked completely crazy. He's definitely not sane."

Coulson cussed. "We're down another person. May's gone. Koenig's dead. And Ward is Hydra. This is just great!"

"Coulson?"

"This is just damn great!" he screamed.

"Coulson, you need to calm down!" Skye exclaimed. "Screaming about it won't help anything."

"And how can I?!" he exclaimed. "Don't you see? Koenig is dead. May is gone hell knows where. And Ward is damn Hydra. Skye, you don't see how bad this situation really is."

"Yeah, and you're overreacting about all of it." Skye replied.

"Don't you see that we can't trust a single damn person?!" Coulson yelled. "Every time that we think that we've gained someone's trust, they end up being evil or end up getting killed. One of the people that we thought that we could perfectly trust is a member of a terrorist organization set out to destroy what remains of SHIELD. How am I overreacting? We can't trust anyone, because there is no one that we can trust! How do I even know that I can trust any of you?"

Skye, Fitzsimmons, and Triplett all blinked at Coulson.

"Coulson," Fitz began.

"I don't want to hear it!" Coulson snapped at the young engineer. "We are in the damn dark and there is nothing, nothing at all, that we can do about it."

"We're in the dark!" he screamed as a massive explosion cut them off from the world and literally threw them into the pitch-black darkness.


Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. New story! Again this is based off of one idea I have about Ward and Hydra. And this is the pilot chapter since I have no clue how this will go. This will get darker as it goes along tying into torture and possibly death, so you have been warned. I hope you enjoy! Keep reading and please review! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.