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Lesson 1: Don't get captured by your enemy

"What's going on?" asked Skye as a large number of armed men ran towards the airplane hangar.

"A quinjet is landing." responded Hunter

"So why all the fuss?"

"We're not expecting anyone today." said Bobbi walking up to the pair

"So we're being infiltrated?" asked Skye as the three of them walk to the hangar.

"Very poorly." said Mack now joining them.

The four of them watched the hangar opened and soon after a quinjet slowly landed in front of them.

Coulson walked towards the jet and held up a megaphone and spoke:

"Whoever is in there, give up now. I don't know who you are but if you want to live drop your weapons and come out with you hands up."

As soon as he finished, the ramp was lowered and the armed men immediately pointed their guns towards the jet when they noticed that it was covered in blood. When no one exited the jet, Coulson sent three of the armed men into the plane.

"Director, its Agent May. She barely breathing." yelled one of the men from inside the plane

At this Coulson dropped the megaphone and ran towards the jet.

"Someone get a gurney and tell Simmons that we have incoming." yelled Bobbi as Coulson exited the jet carrying a bloody and bruised May.

"Wasn't she supposed to be on vacation? Where'd she get the jet from?" asked Mack to Hunter as they were the only two left in the hangar.

"May lives mysteriously, so of course she has to vacation mysteriously. Come on let's see if we can find out where the jet came from."

"She's lost a lot of blood, has a slight concussion, a couple of broken ribs, and some internal bleeding. She stopped breathing during the initial examination so we had to put her on a ventilator." said Simmons to the team

"Any idea on how this happened? Who did this?" asked Skye

"Hard to say. She has some defensive wounds but her hands look like she was tied up. Fitz is going through her personal effects."

"Anything from the jet?" asked Coulson

"Nothing. The jet is programmed to wipe its previous locations after each takeoff." answered Mack

Soon after this Fitz came running to them carrying a note and a USB.

"These were the only things on her. The USB contains a bunch of files that I can't make heads of tails of."

"This is only the beginning. Here's hoping she's alive by the time she gets to you, Ward." said Hunter reading the note out loud after taking it from Fitz

"There's no way he should have been able to do what he did to May by himself. Someone better tell me how he was able to get his hands on her." said Coulson in anger

"Well she was on vacation, her guard was down. It could happen to anyone." said Bobbi

"Not May, never May. Even on vacation she knows how to be careful. Okay I need to know what's on the USB, see if you can find May's last whereabouts, and how Ward was able to find her." said Coulson before walking into the May's room.

It has almost been a week since May came back from her vacation. She started breathing on her own three days since returning but has yet to wake up. Coulson and Skye have been regular visitors of May, the former always sitting there watching May heal and the latter constantly working on her laptop.

"This is getting me nowhere. I've tried everything and nothing is working!" yelled Skye in frustration

"Encryption?" asked Coulson lifting his eyes from May's body for the first time in days.

"Yep and its something I've never seen before. Every file I open is written in some weird language. Its like a combination of Chinese and English but when translated it doesn't make any sense. For all I know this is could be May's secret diary. What's so funny? Does May actually have a secret diary?"

"Just print off all the pages and gather everyone in the kitchen. Oh and bring extra papers and pencils. We're going to need them."

Its been an hour since Coulson explained how to understand the files and the team has managed to get through most of them.

"This has got to be the most complicated word decryption I've ever done. I can't believe you guys made this up while in the Academy." said Bobbi to Coulson

"We were bored and thought it would be funny. Obviously its not that funny when the encryption is over a hundred pages."

"You don't say. Anyone have any idea what this is about any way." said Hunter while sipping a beer

"You would know if you've done something other than drink. Have you done anything this whole time?" asked Mack

"I've entertained you guys with my witty commentary."

"This is not good. This is not good at all." said Fitz holding up the page that he was translating and handing it over to Coulson who read the page and walked out of the room.

"What's not good Fitz?" asked Simmons

"Ward, I think he took control of Hydra. May must have stumbled onto it and was gathering information before she was caught."

"With the amount of information gathered, she must have been watching them for days. No wonder Ward was angry." said Mack

"He was more than angry. Where's Coulson?" said May who was obviously having trouble standing.

"How long have you been awake? You shouldn't be out of bed." said Simmons running over to May and easing her into the chair that Coulson just vacated.

"I just woke up. How long was I out?"

"Almost a week. So, how was your Maycation?" asked Skye

Two weeks ago

She's been traveling for months, visiting beaches, jungles, and your classic tourist destinations before something exciting happened. Well something exciting according to her but most likely dangerous according to anyone who was sane and supposed to be on vacation.

She was in an underground casino in Italy when she heard the word from a pair of men. Hydra. She understood enough Italian to know that something bad was happening with Hydra. Again. Her night just got worse and there was only one way to make it better.

Question the two men who gave her the answers that she required after a little persuasion...from her fists. Hey its been awhile since she got to hit someone.

She was back in the States a day later and soon found the location of the new Hydra camp.

She's been watching them for a couple of days when a quinjet lands. Which most likely means that someone of importance was arriving. If she could get eyes on the head she could possibly take them out or even get a photo or name of the person to take back to SHIELD.

So she hardcore parkoured it (as Skye would say) up to an open window, snuck in, and found a hiding place behind some crates. Down below there was some sort of meeting happening.

All she can hear is what sounds like a familiar Italian accent. Great one of the punks she had a persuasive conversation with was here. Which means that its only a matter of time before...Why is everything going dark?

"Wakey Wakey."

Ugh Ward. What's he doing here?

"Hello May."

Both her legs and hands were bound. Guess she wasn't running out of here.

"Ward."

"Its great to see you."

"I wish I could say the same."

He laughs at this. "We're going to have some fun today. Boys some of you are already familiar with her but this is Agent May aka The Cavalry. She is a very important person in the SHIELD organization but she is now a guest, well an uninvited guest in our house. Let's show her how we treat our uninvited guests."

She was now hanging from the ceiling and Ward's "boys" were lining up in front of her.

"You can't kill me Ward."

"After we're done with you. You're going to wish you were dead."

"Highly unlikely but okay."

A rather tall man with bruises appeared in front of her.

"I believe you're familiar with Tony. You beat up him and his brother in Italy the other night. So Tony, anything you want to say to May here."

Tony responds with his fists.

By the end of the line there's a lot of blood, mostly hers. She's also pretty sure some of her ribs are broken. When she opened her eyes there was only one person left in the room.

Ward. Of course he was last. He holds up a piece of paper and puts it in her pocket.

"Give this to Coulson. It was a pleasure seeing you May."

"You're letting me go?"

"In a way. She's dead because of you. I thought she was you so I killed her. I'm going to kill you one day, just not today. You need to suffer and this is a good start."

He's really lost it. Especially since he's pointing a gun at her now. Time to go.

"I think I may have overstayed my welcome."

When Ward was close enough, she kicked him in the stomach which sent him flying back as his gun went off. The bullet ripped threw the rope above her hands and she was on the ground. She quickly undid the rope around her feet and began to escape as fast as she could considering she's having trouble breathing. She definitely has broken ribs.

She didn't run into anyone on her way out. They probably went out to lunch after working up an appetite after beating her up. What gentlemen. She can't out run Ward in her condition so she either needs to hide or find the…

Quinjet! And what looks like to be their only one. This day is slowly getting better.

"Here's hoping I can make it to the cockpit."

She stumbles up the ramp and barely makes it to the pilot's chair. She types in the Playgrounds coordinates, cloaks the jet, and puts it on autopilot.

"I just need to stay alive until I reach the base."

"It was a-May-zing. Get it. You said Maycation and I said a-May-zing. Oh no, how much morphine and other drugs am I on?"

Thanks for reading. What trouble should May get into during her vacation? I'll take suggestions if you got any. They don't have to be related to this.