Fancy seeing you here xD. This story is set during Agents of SHIELD season 2 but after Underworld and both of the Avengers film. Please review and tell me what you think of it and feel free to point out any grammar or spelling issues.

If you have read this before it has now had some tweaks I.E Jarvis is now Friday.

I own nothing, if I did I'd have a pool full of smarties!


Another Typical Day.

The afternoon sun was filtering through the thin stone cracks in the ceiling, lighting the faded jade statues beneath. The ancient Mayan hall was decorated with worn golden chains that hung from the ceiling, carrying intricate chandeliers with well-used candles that appeared not to have been lit for centuries. In each of the corners of the hall there were shallow pools of crystal clear water adorned with teal mosaic tilling.

The pool of water in the far left corner of the massive Mayan hall began to ripple, then to circle as it was drained away showing a hidden path and making way for a young woman to emerge.

She was wearing a tight dark green tank top, that stopped just above her belly button, and short deep grey shorts. Her chocolate hair was tied neatly in a long plait, dripping with water, whilst resting on her black leather backpack. As she climbed out of hole left by the water, she shook her hands dry and reached into her bag pulling out a deep red journal that looked like it had seen better days.

"Hmm, the Mayan's always did like to make it difficult."

Lara Croft put the journal back in her backpack and continued to tentatively walk further into the hall, smiling to herself as she took in her surroundings. She kept glancing at the statues in both intrigue and cautiousness as she was far too experienced to be caught in a simple dart trap.

As she approached the elaborately carved centre pedestal some of the ceiling behind her began to crumble making Lara even more cautious. The underground temple was evidently unstable.

Better do this quick then. She thought as small stones splintered when they hit the floor.

Her caution soon turned to anger and annoyance when she saw her illustrious prize missing, in it's place instead was a note written in a all too familiar hand.

"Pipped you to the post again Sweetie, H." With a small annoyed smile she slightly shook her head, scrunched up the note and threw it to the side. "Damn you."

The ceiling began to decay again but this time it was different. Lara could hear the unmistakable sound of a helicopter above ground. Given her previous experience, Lara knew very well that the chopper probably wasn't full of girl scouts who were there to sell her cookies as she was busy raiding a tomb.

She only just got into the shadows when the ceiling exploded letting mass amounts of light and dust in. Men clad in black repelled in the hole that had just caved in. The unidentified men took up positions surrounding the pedestal, scanning the area through their weapons sights, as another person repelled in.

Judging by the outfit alone Lara figured that this final man must be the leader of the group. She silently climbed the statue she was hiding behind to get a better look at the leader whilst remaining in the shadows.

He was dressed entirely in black just like the others. However his hat was that of an officer with his medals tacked to the side. Upon seeing the logo on the back of the leaders black trench coat Lara took a sharp intake of breath. Unfortunately for her that drew the groups attention.

"Why Hydra?" she whispered in a mixture of irritation and surprise as she slid back behind the statue.

"In a place like this I'm probably safe to guess that the person slinking in the shadows is none other than the remarkable Ms Croft."

He swivelled around to face the source of the noise. His jet black hair was gelled back but came to a flick at the back of his head. He stood perfectly still as his auburn eyes surveyed the western wall where she was hiding.

There wasn't much Lara could do from behind the statue. She had to come up with a plan to get out of there since there was no point staying around any more and she had to make that plan fast.

So with nowhere to run she exited the shadows with her hands held up, preying they wouldn't shoot her on the spot. The leader of the Hydra group smiled.

"I bet that was second nature to you Ms Croft." Lara didn't say anything but stayed vigilant, "Hm...My name is Scott Gellis. Now if you could hand over the artefact, it is of great importance to Hydra and it would not be wise to make an enemy of us. Not being a woman of your talents."

"Oh I bet it." Lara scoffed "And besides, I couldn't give you it if I wanted to." Seeing the slight mistrusting twitch in Gellis's eyebrow Lara explained "It wasn't here when I arrived. Someone has already been here. You know I don't get first pick of everything."

As Gellis turned to examine the empty pedestal, Lara seized the opportunity to quickly clamber up the wall into the darkness above, caused by the ceiling collapsing, hiding behind the rocks that had pilled at the side. The soldiers immediately began to fire at the spot where she used to be.

"Hold your fire!" Shrieked Gellis holding his arms above his head but still managing to look as calm as before. This man was no stranger to the rules of war.

Unlucky for Gellis one of them had already fired a grenade at the base of the statue causing it to start collapsing with Lara still on top. As soon as she felt the statue quiver her heart dropped into her stomach. With little time that she had, Lara ran for the ropes still hanging from the hole.

Realising that she was far better than her reputation gave her credit for, and that she had nearly escaped, Gellis issued a new order, his face redder than before. "Shoot but only wound her!"

The agents complied and began shoot at her long exposed legs as they threw her up the swaying rope. Lara was used to climbing ropes with speed so she escaped with ease but one of the agents below, the same one who shot the statue in the first place (he had swapped the grenade launcher for a pistol), managed to clip Lara's thigh as she swung it over the top of the hole. Apparently Gellis had thought he would only needed basic agents and not his best.

Ignoring the pain throbbing in her leg, Lara ran as fast as she could into the forest that surrounded the newly made hole. She fled as fast as she could ducking and weaving in an attempt to avoid the Hydra agents defending the helicopter. She didn't look back once. When she deemed herself safe, she glanced back noticing that the gunfire had caused a bigger cave in, rendering the Hydra agents inside trapped.

Shebreathed a sigh of relief, "Oh what a shame." Lara slumped down on the tree she was leaning on, took a medipack out of her bag and started to patch herself up. "I do hope there isn't any unactivated traps in there to hurt any of those nice men."

A cheeky yet annoyed smile spread across her face when a beeping noise came from her bag. She, once again, reached in and pulled out her PDA.

"Ah hello Winston. Checking up on me?" the signal wasn't that good, it kept fading in an out.

"Just wondering *crackle* how your journey is fairing." Lara had known Winston long enough to know he would be smiling when he said this. Whenever he had asked this before she had always been knee deep in trouble. She got to her feet, looked at the map from her bag and began walking to a small town not too far away.

"It appears that an old friend is back...and he's still intent on annoying me."

"It's good to hear you in better *crackle* spirits." Lara's smiled faded as she continued.

"Hm...however that it's not just us after the Suum Aantah. Apparently so is Hydra."

There was a short pause as Winston processed the rather unsettling information.

"You have a habit of attracting the wrong set of people. So what do we do now?"

Lara could hear the worry in his voice. She had just reached the top of a hill and could see the town and air strip just a few klicks away. She spent a few moments admiring the view. The sun was turning into a warming orange colour as it began to set.

"We get help from those who know more."

Winston knew exactly who she meant and sighed making Lara laugh."The joy."