Couslon woke up to a light shake, he sat up, squinting because of the intensely bright white lights above him. ''Ward?'' Coulson said, confused at why he looked submerged in panic. It all came back to him a few seconds later. That dangerous voice that belonged to a woman threatened them...sedated them for unknown reasons, and now, they were here. The worst part, they didn't know why.
He turned to see the rest of his team scattered onto the uneven, cold concrete floor. ''They are all out cold.'' Ward said, having examined them all.
''No injuries?'' He questioned, and Ward shook his head. He let out a breath of relief before taking another look around him. Ward's voice guided him through as he had the time to take a look around the spacious room they were in.
Grey, hard stone walls surrounded them, metal doors were in the middle of one of the wall. The metal that it was made of seemed unbreakable, not a single dent could be seen on them because of the hard, solid texture. ''There are...tools on that table.'' Ward said and pointed behind Coulson, who immediately turned around to take a look.
His stomach turned because he was submerged in the unknown. Not knowing anything...that was what he feared. ''Why are they there?'' He asked nobody in particular.
''I don't know, but I have a feeling we are going to find out pretty soon.'' Ward replied dryly, he eyed Skye for a moment, seeing her at peace made him better, but he knew it would all change once she woke up. Cameras were in every corner of the room, Ward considered somehow using the different tools that were laid out on the long wooden table to take them out. But he didn't want to cause trouble...not until he fully knew where he was and what was going to happen to his team.
He turned to the big TV in front of him as it turned on, a red-haired woman appeared on the screen with a smile on her face, ''Do not panic.'' She simply said, ''I will give a simple explanation of why you are all here once the remained of your team members wake up, please do remain patient.'' She said and the feed cut off.
''Wait!'' Coulson yelled as he stood up from the cold floor. It was too late, the TV went black again but that didn't matter then because he saw May make a slight movement through the corner of his eye. ''May...'' He whispered, slowly approaching her in attempts not to startle her...because Coulson knew her ways of reacting.
She groaned and sat up quickly.
''Slowly...'' Ward warned, crouching beside her while Coulson helped her sit up.
''What's happening?'' May questioned, repeating Coulson's actions by squinting at the intimidating light.
''Oh, we wish we knew.'' Coulson said, ''We know as much as you do.''
May stood up carefully, trying to avoid moving her head too much because the intense headache was slowly getting to her. ''What's with the tools?''
Ward shrugged, ''I don't know. The woman appeared on that TV, telling us to wait until the rest have woken up. There's cameras everywhere.''
''For all we know, none of this can be good.'' Coulson added in. Simmons was the next to wake up, knowing the effects of being unconscious for a while, she gave her body time to readjust before sitting up slowly with Ward's help. ''Skye and Fitz?'' That was the first thought to come into her mind when she saw the two still on the floor, un-moving. After all, it was her duty to check on everyone, she was the doctor.
''They're okay. Should be up in a while.'' He explained and gave her the rest of the details on the room and the woman. Simmons took a seat between her two friends, watching them carefully and expecting them to wake up any second now. Once they were all up and their senses had returned, the TV flashed again and all the different colors slurred to form the image of the woman.
''Welcome to a place where my wonderful experiments happen.'' The redhead said proudly, a wide pearl grin spread across her face, she seemed more than happy to have them all here.
Experiments?
May's stomach dropped. They were going to take part in an experiment?
''I do owe you all an explanation, thank you for remaining calm. Now, I'm pretty sure you all want to know why you are here...''
Knowing that staying silent was the best way to get the information they desperately needed, they did not dare to interfere. ''You are here because I need subjects for my experiment, and the best way for it to work was to get people who are loyal to each other, who care more for each other than they care for themselves. You seemed like the perfect team, I admit, we have been indeed tracking you for a while.'' She let out a soft chuckle, as if the whole situation seemed amusing to her.
''What's the experiment?'' Just saying those words almost made Skye feel sick.
''Endurance.'' The redhead stated, ''Endurance of pain. Where pain is the only way out.''
Simmons felt her knees go wake and the rest of her body from head to toe was covered in sharp chills. Fitz froze in place, unable to move. Ward gritted his teeth strongly. And they were the subjects? May and Coulson looked at their team...they couldn't let them go through whatever it was that the redhead had planned...
''Let mt tell you more about this experiment.'' She said, and the guard behind her used a remote to make something else appear on the screen, it was an empty grey line that stretched out from the middle of the screen to the end. ''This line will begin to charge up and will fill up with green every time pain is inflicted on someone. Little pain means little or no charge at all, so you will participate and will be required to go through huge amounts of pain.''
''So you want us to hurt each other? That is sick!'' Ward exclaimed, but the redhead didn't seem fazed at all.
The woman nodded, ''Yes, that's basically it. I cannot wait to see the results. just to remind you, you have 24 hours to fill up the whole line before deadly gas will fill this room. To help you out, I left some tools for you that will help you out. Good luck. Pain is the only way out.'' She explained, almost in a hypnotizing kind of manner before she disappeared, and the only thing left on the TV was the long grey line.
A friendly reminder that this story is darkkkk, I know, I'm a horrible person. A review would really make my day and I will consider if I should write more chapters :) It's all up to you all, if you want to see more, then feel free to review and leave a comment :) Thank you in advance you all!
