Runaway Home - part 1 ~ Chapter 1
Running through the underground city all Skye knew was that she had to stop Raina from opening the obelisk. If it did bestow the opener with supernatural gifts then Raina was the last person she wanted with that sort of powers.
"Oh shit, you made me jump, Mack... Mack?"
He gave no response, even when she waved a hand in front of his face making her confused. He didn't even move when she prodded him, 'what was wrong with him?'
"I have been turned to defending the temple from infiltrators."
Skye must have spoken that out loud. "Where is the temple, better yet where is Raina?"
"She is at the temple..."
"...Take me there, quickly."
She then had to sprint to keep up with Mack's lengthy strides, round corner after corner. As soon as she reached the temple, she turned to Mack, "keep everyone away from here, don't let anyone come in here."
"Yes."
Walking into the circular room Skye raised he gun at Raina, stood across the room holding the obelisk.
"I knew you'd come," said Raina.
"Somebody has to stop you."
Triplett rushes through the labyrinth, his flaming torch held high. Reaching the package on the floor he yanks the primer out of the C4 stopping the detonation before it can start.
"Come on Trip, one more, you can do this," he said turning and sprinting in the direction of the last bomb he had to defuse.
"Your whole life, our whole lives..."
"Sorry I don't buy into the whole, this is your destiny thing, we're taking the obelisk and we're leaving here, there are too many lives at stake."
"You've got it all wrong, Whitehall, everyone has got it all wrong. This doesn't destroy, it gives life. New life, we finally get to find out what we become."
The obelisk then began to glow and float out of Raina's hand coming to rest on the pedestal in the centre of the room.
Outside the room Trip slid to a stop and as the counter on the bomb reached zero he wrenched it out of the C4. "Thank you, god," was all he could say. Before he could do anything else he was hit by a large body. It turned out that the large body was actually Coulson who had been thrown by Mack.
"Shit that's gonna hurt tomorrow," said Coulson groaning.
"Your telling me I think my legs broken."
"Oh shit, we need to get to Skye to help her."
"Yeah but I can barely walk," to prove it he got haltingly to his feet balancing on one foot.
"You shall not pass," said Mack in his deep authoritative voice.
"He didn't..."
"Yes, I think he did," said Coulson.
"I'll go low you go high," said Trip. Both recognised they'd have to take Mack out before they could get to Skye and both knew they couldn't take Mack on alone especially with Trip's injury.
As the obelisk began to open Skye made a split second decision one she'd look back and thank her impulsiveness for, in years to come. She shot the obelisk, shattering it into a thousand pieces causing the doors to the temple to slam shut. Her bullet then carried on going embedding itself in Raina's heart killing her instantly. Skye was given no time to come to terms with her killing of Raina as the shards began to transmute into a silvery gas which worked its way up her body till it encased her body in a cocoon.
BANG! Coulson and Trip looked up from their attack of Mack to see the doors of the temple slam to the ground.
"Skye!" They shouted together.
Seconds after the doors had closed Mack went limp in their arms, looking at him they saw he looked to be coming out of a trance like state.
"What the hell happened?" He said before collapsing of exhaustion.
"Thank god that's over," said Coulson.
"Yeah," said Trip, finally giving into the pain in his leg and collapsing unconscious.
Inside the temple the cocoon cracked revealing Skye's terrified eyes, her eyes strained in concentration then the cocoon shattered splintering into thousands of pieces. The temple began to shake the shaking then propagated to the floor and out to the city around.
The trio outside the temple all came around to the shaking.
"Come on we need to get out of here," said Coulson as he tried to lift Trip.
Mack too had woken up and seeing Coulson helping Trip hop towards the exit he said, "here let me," and lifted Trip onto his shoulders fireman style.
"Let's go," he said starting to make his way towards the exit.
"But Skye..." Said Coulson.
"There's nothing we can do to help her now."
Reluctantly Coulson followed Mack to the exit at a run. With the occasional directions from Coulson they made it to HYDRA's entrance to the city. Unfortunately before they could he out the city collapsed around their ears. Rocks that had stood for millennia decided this was the moment to fall to the ground. By all the luck in the world none of the larger stones managed to hit any of the three men.
In the temple Skye lay unconscious amidst the rubble and stones oblivious to the lives she'd affected by her change.