I'm aware that this was only a one shot for the characters Bennie and Claire, so I decided to write this little story as a spin off part for the two characters who were working for the Agents of Shield and thought that this would be a fun chance to explore the adventures they go on and how they get through the most dangerous missions in the future. Disclaimer: I don't own Bennie and Claire but there will be some characters that I own, so Enjoy the story and leave a comment.

One shot: when Shield Fell.

Chapter One

January 12th 2014. it was the day of the Triskelion battle.
It seemed to be quite a normal day at first since getting back to work after Christmas and new years, Claire Wise was just sitting at a desk in Agent Felix Blake's office stacking a set of papers into the folder and signing a couple which she had become her job. Since Felix Blake got himself wounded in action fighting against Deathlok on 1st April and then he was, deemed in critical condition.
She never found out anything else since then except that he is doing fine at the hospital.
Her boyfriend Benjamin Pollack was still working in a private office of the Triskelion, working with a couple of well, trusted technicians he made friends with whilst being assigned to the R&D 'think-tank' to reverse engineer the other Chitauri technologies when he and his friends learnt of HYDRA's plot.

Claire was just finishing off when Steve Rogers used the intercom to notify all of the agents and employees in the building of HYDRA's plot, urging them to stop the launching of the Helicarriers.

Deciding to take action to save Bennie and most of her SHIELD Agents, Claire started going through the draws of the desks in search for a gun or at least a sort of service pistol or weapon to defend herself against any agents who have sworn allegiance to HYDRA, and then she found one on the bottom draw. taking the gun out from the draw, she loaded it up with a magazine.

Once she had a fire arm, Claire took a breath in.
Breathing out, she turned on the chair before she made her way towards the door.
Checking the hallway before she went out through the door and slowly she cautiously walked across the hall, hiding when she needed to as a few dozen Hydra's troops were passing by.
The gunfight started down below after a tense Mexican Standoff, involving numerous HYDRA and loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. This action caused a shootout between the two factions, during which Rumlow was able to escape. When a HYDRA troop spotted her on the run, Claire turned and shot the troop down on instinct before she moved on and worked her way down the stairs.

Meanwhile when the shootout erupted, Bennie and a couple of technicians were on the move after each of them had taking out a few HYDRA agents who were holding them captive until Bennie attacked the first, taking his side arm and knocking out another.
As soon as they were coming up the steps to the control room, Bennie and the others bore witness to the shoot-out between the two factions, only HYDRA was looking to escape.

Therefore, Bennie and his technicians took up arms and taken out two of their guards.
They thensubdued their leader before a few remaining Agents loyal to Shield arrived from around the corner and they helped them secure the prisoner. Once the prisoner was in their control in the on-going chaos, Bennie left the other technician and the agents to go off up the stairway and to find Claire in the levels of the Triskelion.

Meanwhile, on one level beneath the communications room, Claire had managed to find a door to the stairs and then went up a few levels dodging a couple of STRIKE operatives coming down the steps before going up another floor of the Triskelion before reaching the communication room.
When a STRIKE soldier came at the entrance near the control room, Claire raised her gun and shot the soldier in the head before she came to the doorway.

Setting herself against the wall to take a breather, Claire calmed herself whilst she checked her gun for ammo before she loaded her gun again.
With her nerves fully calm, she went inside through the door, going up the levels of stairs to the top control room to hear a voice at the coms. "They're initiating launch." The woman said.
Seeing the chance to meet Agent Hill of SHIELD, Claire stepped up to see Agent Hill turn her head to see Claire armed. She pointed her gun at Claire when she raised her hands up in the air and she spoke.
"No wait, wait don't shoot. I'm not HYDRA, I'm loyal to SHIELD." Claire said to Maria, who kept her gun on her, placing her gun on the floor, Claire spoke again to get Maria to trust her.
"Listen to me; I'm just as loyal to Shield as you are and I'm here to help you.
You're Agent Hill, aren't you?"

"Who is asking about who I am?" asked Maria, starting to lower her gun.

"My name is Agent Claire Wise; I'm Agent Blake's assistant and I'm following the captain's orders, just like you are ma'am," said Claire.

"Ok Agents Wise, so what are you doing here?" asked Maria, putting her side arm away, she turned her head back to the computer to continue his coordination of Captain America and Nick Fury.

LEtting out a breath of relief, Claire bent over to pick up her side arm before she walked over to Maria, she stopped at a short distance from Maria. "I just heard Captain America's message about HYDRA taking over SHIELD, I decided to take this chance to resign my post so I can take out HYDRA's Agents wherever they may be and help the remaining agents loyal to Shield including you." Claire explained to Maria who continued to look at the screen.

"So do you need some help whilst I'm here?" Claire asked.
Maria turned to face Claire who took a step back from her, seeing that she is a trustworthy person Maria decided to take up her offer to help her.
"Alright, Just keep the stairway clear for me, are you up for it?" said Maria.

"Yes ma'am." Claire said, raising her right up she saluted Agent hill who gave a smirk before turning back to the computer, Claire turned away from Maria to the door.
She headed to the door, when a STRIKE Operative appeared from the other door, Maria and Claire drew guns at the same time before they both shot the man down, then Maria went back to work whilst Claire walked towards the STRIKE Operative's body and took up guard duty.

Seeing a STRIKE Operative's assault rifle on the body and inside the room, Claire sheathed her gun at her back. She moved in to retrieve the assault rifle.
Reaching down she picked up the rifle from the floor, holding it with both arms she stood up straight when another HYDRA agent suddenly appeared from around the corner. Raising her rifle, Claire squeezed the trigger, which packed a punch, but the shots took out the agent in front of her.
The agent then fell down the stairs leaving Claire astounded by her actions.

"Wow, being a SHIELD Agent is so exciting." Claire said before she turned around to the door.
Within a few minutes of standing by the door, she heard gunshots in the control room and then turned to head up stairs, holding her rifle like a soldier. When she heard Agent hill say aloud.
"Six minutes." She knew the situation was under control, when she turned to see two more HYDRA Agents coming through the doorway. On instinct, Claire open fired at the doorway, taking out the agents before moving up the stairs to hold her position at the top stairs at the control room.
"Control room secured, Agent Hill." Claire said to Agent Hill, who looked to her.
Agent Hill nodded to Claire before turning back to the control pad.

Claire listened to Agent Hill and Captain's conversation as she held her position, and she heard him order her to shoot down the Hellcarriers despite Agent Hill's protests.
Hearing something down at the stairs, Claire was about to take aim and shoot, when she heard her boyfriend Bennie's voice call out to her. Descending the stairway, she kept her rifle trained on the door until she saw Bennie's face as he turned his head to see her and smile.
As soon as the three Hellcarriers fell after shooting each other in the skies, thus preventing insight from causing total destruction, Bennie, Claire and Maria made their way down the stairway before the three evacuated the building immediately as one of the Hellcarriers moved into a collision course with the side of the Triskelion.
In the ensuing chaos with the Triskelion's destruction and the battle going on outside, Bennie had to follow Agent hill's lead as he and Claire went along from hallway to the stairway until they came down to the bottom stairwell and then came out of the next door leading across to the bottom control room.

As soon as they were out through the doorway, Agent hill separated from the two and then went off, leaving Bennie and Claire to stand outside and watch the whole Triskelion fall apart, having obtained massive structural failure, the Triskelion partially collapsed.

After a moment, Claire turned and looked up at Bennie and she spoke. "I guess we're out of the job now."

Bennie shrugged his shoulders before turning his head to her. "I guess you're right, though I'm going to miss being an agent of shield. I actually felt that I had a purpose in the job though."

"Yeah, I wish I could have done some field work instead of handling mountains of paper work. I would have been pretty handy with a gun," said Claire, looking at bennie
Bennie smiled to Claire, imagining her with a gun in the field of combat. He then wrapped his arm around her shoulder before he spoke. "Let's go home, and then we'll work out the next part of our plan."

Together Bennie and Claire turned and walked away from the wreckage of the Triskelion as police and army officials started turning up to secure the area and arrest any remaining HYDRA agents cowering in the depths of the area.

Forty Eight hours later

January 14th, 2014.
On the following day before yesterday right after the fall of the Triskelion, Bennie and Claire had managed to make a distance from Washington DC before the feds could find them and arrest them, looking to put SHIELD behind them and then make a new life for themselves.

Now having made their way to the district of Maryland since S.H.I.E.L.D is declared a terrorist organization by the United States government, they took a new refuge in a local hotel east of Maryland.
Having been working for seven to eight months at the Triskelion and at SHIELD, Bennie and Claire were looking to get a head start on a new life along with a couple of jobs in something different so they could start over.
But as they searched for any work at their inn, Bennie couldn't help but miss SHIELD and what it stood for and Claire only wished that she could have done more than be an assistant to Felix Blake.
They didn't know if there were any more SHIELD agents who are around in the states who are still loyal and are looking to rebuild shield from scratch or anything, most of them have went on the join the CIA and the NSA whilst others just went off the grid to go abroad to England or to work at Freelance.
Neither Bennie and Claire knew what had happened, then at the first day of the weekend on that Sunday morning on January 19th, things started to change for the better for the two of them.
Dressed in her pyjama trousers and a grey tank top, Claire was sitting on her couch, flipping through the pages of a magazine when she heard something come from under the doorway of their room.
Receiving an anonymous letter in the mail, Claire opened it to find that the letter was a coded message from the remnant agents of SHIELD who are looking to rebuild themselves in the shadows of the government.

Reading the coded letter, Claire realised that SHIELD would probably be around.
With that they might be in need her and Bennie's services soon enough.
Later that day when Bennie came home from a shopping trip for supplies, Claire sat him down at the table before she sat down herself and then told him about the message.
"Look Ben, I have found something which might relate to SHIELD, whilst I was looking through the mail I found a letter with no return address but it was addressed to you and me. So I opened it up and took the message out. Its from the director Nick Fury. He wants us to meet him tomorrow at a local café to discuss a job offer for the two of us."

"The two of us?" said Ben, standing up to come to her and look at the message.
Reading the coded message, Ben saw the same code as Claire did. He realised that it was from Director Fury himself, and that he was alive and well. Seeing the chance to get a new job in working with SHIELD again, Ben and Claire turned to look at one another for a moment, both were thinking the same thing for a moment before Claire went to the closet to look for something to wear for tomorrow's secret meeting.
After about half an hour of searching, Claire found an outfit for herself whilst Bennie was busy searching through his drawers and choosing a clean shirt and a good pair of trousers to wear so that he would dress smart for tomorrow afternoon when he meets Nick Fury in person.
Once he had chosen his shirt and trousers, Bennie laid them on the chair in his bedroom before he went into the lounge to relax for the afternoon and then he can take Claire out for dinner later on.
Spending an hour in the lounge, Bennie took up a book and read through the first few chapters whilst Claire was sitting down by the table reading something a news blog on her laptop which was sent to her by the Washington times. Some of the news blogs were e-mailed by the rising tide, as well as a few other tips about new jobs and adventure opportunities on the horizon of the new day.

After a while into the evening Bennie decided now to invite Claire to get take out, she agreed fancying a trip to a local restaurant down the road. Getting herself changed into some comfortable clothes for the night out, Claire grabbed a jacket and put on a pair of shoes whilst Bennie waited for her to get ready.
By the time that she stepped out of the room all ready to go, Bennie was about to go out and get the car started. Opening the door, he was about to step outside when he turned his head to see Claire come out the corner and present herself. "I'm ready Ben, so shall we go." Claire said, coming down the hall to the hangers, she grabbed her jacket.
Bennie nodded before he went out holding the door for Claire step out and then closed the door, locking it.
An hour later, they spent their night at a local Greek restaurant called The Olive Tree, which looked pretty nice for a date which would give them one night of entertainment before they'll have to go to work tomorrow morning.

Outside the Olive tree Later that evening.

Whilst Bennie and Claire were having dinner together at the restaurant, a figure standing outside in the distance was watching the two with a spy glass, the stranger was keeping an eye on them to make sure that they're not thinking of causing any trouble or looking to make an attempt at dissertation.
Seeing that the two were having a talk about their experience working in the Triskelion and the assignments that Claire have been doing in the office, she then spoke of how much she wished to have taken up in the field to prove herself as a potential agent of SHIELD whilst Bennie wished to work as a military consultant and a scientist.

Claire spoke in details of how she once read about the time that Thor had come down to Greenwich in England in the fight against the Dark Elf Malekith and his army of Dark elves who seek to unleash a weapon known as the Aether on the nine realms and destroy not only this world, but all worlds, which was in report from field agents in London.
After hearing as much information from the two sitting together at their table having dinner in the Restaurant and finding that there is not much to report to his superiors at the moment, the spy then decided to pack his bugging gear into his suitcases and take his stuff off to his van hiding around the corner of the street.

The figure looked at them for one last moment on packing his equipment in a couple of cases he brought with him, then he took his packed cases and brought them to the van. Putting them away in the back, he closed the doors and then went to the doors of the front seats where his partner in the driver's seat was sitting tight waiting for him to come back from his surveillance nest.

The driver turned out to be an associate and personal informer to Nick Fury himself.
Turning to the figure who was coming in to his seat in the van, the driver spoke.
"Were they considering working for Hydra?" The figure turned to look at the driver as he pulled his hood back and then he spoke to the driver.
"No, but they have been speaking about their hopes to become field Agents for the new SHIELD all night, I think Fury is considering taking them up on their wishes and having them both trained to become Field agents. The woman named Claire Wise seems to have as commitment to taking the oath to protect the secrets of Shield, I think she might have as much cause to aid director Coulson in Rebuilding the agency as a Liaison for the US government."

The driver turned his head to the front to look at the road ahead as he thought about the subject.
"I'll see if I can arrange a three month training programme for Claire Wise whilst Bennie Pollack takes up work as a technician at the Playground, hopefully that woman might show some potential to becoming a full fledged Agent of Shield and help to uphold the principals that SHIELD was built upon. Either way they'll make an addition to the group."

The figure thought of it for a moment and then he nodded his head, turning back to the driver he spoke.
"Very good then, we better make a discreet exit before anyone notices us here." The driver nodded in agreement before he started the ignition and then drove the van away from the streets whilst Bennie and Claire were still enjoying the rest of their night.

Well that's as much as I can write for Chapter one as both Bennie and Claire were now looking to make a new change for themselves in a different world.
Hopefully Chapter two will have some new characters and a few cameos from those from the Marvel Movies universe. So I hope that you'll comment on my chapter and keep an open mind for chapter two which is on the horizon.