Codename: Battleship
Spoilers: AU but can consider all Season One episodes. Read Battleship: SHIELD to understand or you WILL BE LOST.
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Maria Hill walked through the Helicarrier as if there was a fire, she ignored the requests of agents to speak with her. Coulson's team had returned to the Helicarrier with a mess of all messes, while they had managed to take control of the Cube it had come at a cost to SHIELD. She entered the Critical Infirmary to see not one or two agents being checked on but almost all of those who had attended the mission sat being checked over by medics. Across the room in a medical quarantine pod lay their key team member being worked on by surgeons, the bed and equipment covered in blood as they worked on the injury.
She located Coulson, finding him assisting a medic into wrestling a violent Grant Ward onto a bed. It took a second medic to help hold the specialist down and a third to inject him with a sedative. May was speaking with Strike Team Delta while Strike Team Alpha were being assessed in the corner. The other agents sat being assessed as well, clearly not phased in the slightest at what was going on.
"What happened?" The Director of SHIELD made her way over to Coulson and the agent just shook his head. "Well…"
May stepped over and looked at her, "Garrett anticipated us and knew exactly what Skye was, he surrounded us and took out Skye's protection detail. They overwhelmed most of us and almost all of our men were dead. Skye took out HYDRA agents but Garrett's gun went off when he fell, hitting her in the side. She used all her energy to bring back the entirety of the teams. Fitzsimmons managed to keep her stable in the cryo-tube once again until we could get her here."
"It was the security cameras," Coulson spoke. "He saw us, usually we have Skye disable them but we were cut off from them so we were unable to disable them. He saw her and connected the dots of who she was and what she did. Unfortunately for him, he activated her by shooting Ward and thought she was just capable of resurrecting someone, not killing them."
Hill walked over to the glass wall that lead into the surgical room, she shook her head. "Some of the GH-325 was recovered from the HYDRA compound months ago, I'll tell them to use it. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't exist and Skye recovered from the surgery." She moved away to where Ward was. "How is he?"
"Violent." That comment came from the medic, she looked up from where she was tending her chart. "He tried to get to Agent Zale twice, nearly opening the quarantine door and so he's been sedated."
"Symbiotic…" Hill turned to Coulson and nodded. "Keep him sedated until she recovers, I don't need another Helicarrier destroyed because of a lunatic agent. Barton did enough on the last one, I can't have Ward destroying this one…"
With that the Director of SHIELD walked out of the Infirmary and Clint stood from his seat shaking his head. He shouted after her, "I was under the influence of a demented God, I think you know I would never dare to destroy anything of yours and risk your wrath if I was conscious."
The team sat in the small waiting area off of the Infirmary waiting for news, Ward was the only one absent but everyone else was somber. The door opened and one of the surgeons walked in, she looked like the world had fallen apart once again. Coulson stood up and walked over to her to receive the news.
"How is she?"
"The damage was extensive and while we were able to administer the drug that Director Hill gave us, she's still in critical condition. As of right now she's in a coma and until Agent Zale wakes up we won't know the full story." The surgeon sighed and shook her head, "is Agent Zale married or have a significant other I could speak to about a situation we encountered?"
Coulson sighed, "Agent Ward is currently under sedation, I know Skye would trust any of us with any information you have."
The surgeon shifted the files in her hands, "Agent Zale was about four weeks pregnant but she miscarried due to the loss of blood and shock to her system. We understand she was under a contraceptive regiment…"
Simmons stood up, "it was just administered a few days ago, I didn't detect any levels of hormones or hCG associated with pregnancy or I wouldn't have administered it."
"The contraceptive rod is designed to shut off if administered during a pregnancy, it wouldn't have harmed the embryo." The surgeon reassured Simmons before returning to Coulson, "once she's settled I'll let you in one at a time to see her."
"Thank you."
Ward opened his eyes to see Coulson standing over him, he groaned and raised his hand to his head in response. He thought back to what happened and instantly Skye came to mind, Ward sat up quickly and saw only Simmons and Coulson beside him.
"Where's Skye?"
Simmons smiled, "she's currently in one of the recovery pods but in a coma. We won't know much until she wakes up unfortunately. We thought it best to sedate you while she was undergoing surgery because you attempted to break the quarantine lock twice and that would have endangered the surgical field."
"Good call." Ward sighed and looked at Coulson, "but she's alive…"
"Hill personally ordered the surgeons to administer the GH-325 confiscated from the HYDRA Compound a few months ago. It rapidly helped her with healing but May thinks that by using most of her energy to save the team, it had a double effect on Skye and sent her into a coma."
A knock on the door to the room Ward resided in and they found the surgeon from earlier, she walked in and nodded to them all. "Agent Ward, welcome back. I'm Dr. Pavi and I oversaw Agent Zale's surgery and her current recovery." She turned to Coulson, "Director Hill filled me in on Agent Zale's condition but I don't know how to treat her episodes."
"Episodes? What are you referring to may I ask?" Simmons to Pavi and waited for her to reply.
Pavi shook her head, "we had to move her to a secure quarantine room because she has had two outbursts, causing danger to the surrounding equipment and personnel." She turned a tablet around and showed them a video of Skye's blue tsunami wave washing out of her and knocking over equipment and personnel. "Agent Miller and Taylor had be resuscitated because their hearts stopped beating."
"Skye's not conscious so she can't control what actions it has." Ward spoke and the doctor listened carefully. "Usually Skye can control it using key words, those key words dictate what three actions the wave does when she releases it. You can't do anything until she wakes up because no outside force can control her."
Simmons paused for a moment before speaking. "Perhaps placing Agent Ward in the containment field with Skye could help. You know Skye better than any of us and perhaps you could be a barrier for the release of her energy. Her energy has never harmed you as she knows your importance, it stands to reason that as an extension of Skye the energy knows you apart from the rest of us."
"I wouldn't recommend it," Pavi looked between them all. "Two agents have met death in a matter of hours, you'd be risking one your own."
"I'll do it." Ward spoke and looked at Coulson, "Simmons is usually right when it comes to the theories so I'll test it."
The room was almost identical to the containment room on the Bus, Ward shut the door behind himself and stared at Skye as she lay in the bed that sat in the middle of the room. Her palms glowed blue and seemed to pulse as if preparing to expel energy. Walking over, he neared the bed and grasped one of her hands. The energy quickly dissipated as soon as his palm touched hers.
"Skye, I'm here my angel." He leaned down and kissed her head, happy that she was able to breathe on her own without a respirator to help. He sat beside her and watched as she lay exposed like Sleeping Beauty ready for true love's kiss. "We'll figure this out together and get you back to your normal self again. No oranges this time I promise, just shots from Simmons every day."
He sat there gazing at an angel that had fallen from the universe into his life. He was so glad that Hill ordered the Cube to be brought down with all bodies inside so there was no escaping the death that all HYDRA members had gained. Skye had killed all HYDRA that had been in the building according to the report and that lead to the last of Garrett's cell permanently.
The door opened and he turned to see Pavi enter, "we've been watching, she's stabilized like Dr. Simmons predicted."
"Yeah," Ward touched Skye's cheek. "Now she just needs to wake up."
A/N: Next we see Ward coping with Skye's coma and the effects of the miscarriage...
Will she wake up? What effects does this have on the team? Can they function without Skye? Please give me your theories...
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