part two of the prologue
Grant was the first to wake only to find that he wasn't alone in the laboratory. He found his sister hanging from the large pipe above and his girlfriend tied to a chair. He tried to yell out but nothing came. The agent also tried to move but realized he had no room due to being so close to the open window.
"Grant Ward, you're are awake." He hears from a distance.
Above walking around on the balcony was Daniel Whitehall. He carried a cane with him supporting himself up from the last time they saw him. The scientist had been in a battle with Grant and Coulson during the March Madness scare. Before he was locked up, Grant had pushed him off of a ledge trying to get his revenge for him hurting Skye.
Whitehall began to descend down the staircase slowly taking his time so he doesn't somehow trip. His other helpers that are there stand up straight once he passes them. Over where Jemma was sitting handcuffed, was Whitehall's main man, his right hand, Ian Quinn.
"Mr. Quinn, can you grab our patient." The scientist says.
"And that would be again?" Quinn questioned.
Grant hears Whitehall groan. He's still trying to figure out how to get away from the window. The glass is fragile, pieces of it already broken off.
"Ward. It's Mr. Ward I want, Quinn."
His right hand man just nods trying not to get in trouble once again. Quinn walks over to Grant and picks him up by the collar of his shirt.
The agent when he is back up to his feet goes along with it. He hopes he can make a plan on the spot. His coms have been out for a while so getting the rest of the team to come wouldn't work. They had trouble getting them up and going before Grant left the truck.
Grant looks over at his sister who looked helpless. The tape covering her mouth prevented her from saying anything. The blood rushing down her cheek. She was helpless and he couldn't do anything. Not just yet.
He's pulled over to where Jemma is handcuffed to the chair. She too has tape covering her mouth making her unable to do anything also. The agent looks at his girlfriend for only a brief moment just as she looks at him. The two could always seem to know what the other one was thinking. It was something that would drive Skye mad when they started doing it.
Quinn removed his hand from Grant's collar and went to work on the machine. What the machine was to be exact was unsure. Whitehall was a scientist, whatever he had thought of was for a reason.
"You're probably wondering why you're here, Mr. Ward." Whitehall starts to explain. "Why your girlfriend and sister are here."
Grant tries to answer but before he can, the agent starts to hack up blood. It was what was plugging his throat before.
"No, but you can explain." He replies looking at Jemma after.
Grant gives her a nod to wait just as Whitehall starts to explain why he's doing what he is doing.
"Your father was my partner before he left the agency."
Grant looks at his sister who is trying to yell through the tape covering her mouth. There wasn't any way that their father could be linked to the mad man in front of them. Skye had told him that he used to be a traveling doctor before opening up an animal clinic in Milwaukee where she grew up at. Cal Johnson had met Skye's mother shortly before he opened the animal clinic. That was about three to four years after Cal had given up on Grant and made sure he had a better family.
"This was his plan before."
Whitehall starts to pace back and forth in front of them explaining what was going to happen. To Grant it didn't sound like something that his father would have come up but then again he was still unsure. He had only been able to meet Cal for the first time two years ago shortly after Whitehall was put behind bars the first time. Right after Skye had been released from the hospital in Indianapolis. Cal had embraced Grant before he even said who he was when they returned to Milwaukee.
"It was scraped a long time ago. He told me that it wouldn't work with the technology we had back then."
The agent looked at his girlfriend again finally and gave her the nod. Grant started to pick the handcuffs with a piece of metal he had found when he was over near the open window. He was hoping it was going to be sharp enough to do what it was going to be intended for.
Minutes had past as Whitehall still continued to talk about how Grant and Skye's father had come up with the blueprint for the machine Quinn was still trying to set up. Within those minutes Grant had been able to get Jemma free from the chair. His strength had been brought back up a little bit. Enough for him to stand up with help of Jemma and the chair.
The first thing Grant did when he got up was go after Whitehall. He had instructed Jemma to try and go after Quinn, to stop the machine.
When the agent got to Whitehall, he was immediately hit by the cane that was in the scientist's hand. The sharp electric burst from the end sent Grant flying through the air, hitting the machine with his back.
"Grant!" he hears Jemma yell.
She is still trying to fight off Quinn from tinkering with the machine. Her fighting skills weren't as great as what his were. It also didn't help that Jemma Simmons was an actress so most of the time if she was in a fighting scene during her new show they were taping, she was taken out for the stunt double. Both her and Fitz, her co-star were not experts in fighting.
The tactic that Jemma decided to take was jumping on Quinn's back hoping that would prevent him from doing anything further.
Whitehall walks closer to Grant picking him up from the floor and aggressively places him on the bed attached to the machine.
"Let's see what kind of memories you have in your head, Grant Ward."
They all hear the machine get turned on. It's too late for Jemma to stop Quinn from turning on the machine as he somehow manages to do it anyway. Its Quinn that is now holding her from escaping.
"You can have your father thank our former lab assistant for digging this blueprint up. Raina ended up being a great test subject."
"No!" Grant yells as he tries to fight the machine.
The agent doesn't want to see what memories he stored up in his brain. He knows they are ones that are not pleasant. The memories that he had from his adoptive parents were not ones he would want seen again. He didn't want to be abused once again.
As the machine gets going with a loud roar, Whitehall steps away from it with a laugh. He takes pride in destruction. The scientist walks over to Skye who is still hanging from the pipe unable to do much of anything.
"I have taken a lot from you, haven't I?" Whitehall questions her running his cane along the side of her stomach.
The shirt Skye is wearing pushed up just ever so slightly to reveal the long scar that had formed after being in surgery to recover from when Whitehall cut her open two years before. The scientist brings the cane back down from her shirt and picks up the crowbar that was lying on the floor near the staircase.
When Jemma sees what Whitehall picks up, she tries to break out of Quinn's grip but it's too strong for her.
"No, please don't do this." She cries out. "Grant, fight the machine. Skye and I need you."
Whitehall begins to laugh once more. He takes the crowbar over to where Skye is hanging from and raises it above his head. Skye tries to yell out but it comes muffled right as the scientist hits her right arm with the crowbar repeatedly.
As Whitehall repeats his process, Grant is still trying to fight the machine. He just has just about found a way out of the memory he had back from when he was in college. The death of his two best friends brought up too many bad memories.
It takes a few moments after to get himself released from the grip of the machine. When he gets out of it, Grant finds himself running full force at Whitehall towards the large wall of windows. They only stop for a brief second to stop themselves from flying out the window. It's Grant that is winning the battle so far after Whitehall loses his cane. The scientist becomes a helpless old man down on the ground taking punch after punch from the agent.
Grant's anger seems to dominate his mind until he eventually gets his mind cleared and is climbing off of Whitehall. He tries to take a deep breath and get himself calm again but that is all too late. The agent doesn't realize that Whitehall had crawled away a bit in reach for his cane.
The scientist sends a spark to the machine from the cane eventually starting a fire before pointing the cane at Grant.
"Any last words, Grant Ward?" Whitehall asks.
Before the agent doesn't get to say anything else before the cane shocks him enough to be sent out the fragile windows behind him. The last thing he hears is Jemma screaming for it all to be stopped.
"Is he okay?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe intermural dodgeball was a bad idea."
"Our football coach is going to kill us."
"That's if he doesn't wake up, Trip."
"Then try to wake him up before Garrett finds out, Kara."
Here is the second chapter. The first part of this story will be from Grant's perspective. Let me know what you think of this by leaving a review.
