Chapter 4 Skye and Jo

Mike's house

"Yes I get it but, you see doctor people saw me, they saw what I can do. If I went public that might be good I mean your product works, it works amazingly and-" Mike was cut off abruptly.

He knew they were dangerous people and that crossing them was a bad idea; but he was desperate. Mike didn't know what would happen to him and Ace if he couldn't get a job

"Ya, Ya I know what I signed but if I got out in front of this maybe I-" he was cut off again.

"Then what? I go crawling back to the factory; I couldn't even get work from those crooks I don't think-" For the third time he was cut off

"Ya, I just thought- okay" he growled and hung up.

He stared down the old picture of him and his wife: 'It's her fault! She left us!' He thought, launching his phone at the picture.

Secret Lab: Downtown New York

"This was a lab" Simmons said in astonishment.

"Self-powered centre, top of the line motion sensor security system" May observed casually.

"Hmm, so a secret lab" Simmons replied, in the same excited tone she'd been using for the past hour.

"And a super hero. Not a coincidence; was the explosion meant for him or were they just in way over their heads"

"Yap working the problem, ladies If you'll just- sorry" Fitz said as he made his way past May through a pile of rubble.

May smirked at his continued efforts not to touch any of the debris.

The DWARFS worked around the wreckage, scanning things and taking samples as Fitz controlled some by remote.

BUS

Coulson's POV

"Centipede, there was chatter on the web and then gone, I traced the axis point back to that building" Skye explained while Jo had a glaring contest with Ward, and the funny thing is that he was losing.

"What are you after?" Agent Ward pried; taking this is an excuse to look away from Jo. She gave a triumphant smirk in response.

"The truth, what are you after?" Skye snapped.

"World peace"

"Really? You're-" Skye started.

"You anarchist hacker types love to stir things up, but you're never around for the fall. People keep secrets for a reason Skye and Jo" He said; emphasizing their names, still sure they weren't real. I wasn't sure where I stood, but Ward was certainly pushing things for no apparent reason, other than the fact that he was pissed they got the jump on him.

"Well just because you're reasonable and... Firm doesn't mean that you're not an evil faceless government tool bag" Skye shot back; feeling up his muscles while she feebly attempted to push him back.

"Just give us your guy's name" Ward desperately attempted and I became 100% certain he was purposefully blowing the interrogation.

"He's not my guy!" Skye protested. I remembered Jo and saw her sitting away from them, silently observing with a blank face; the second I looked her way she noticed, and looked my way with one eyebrow raised.

"You have to remember he's in danger" I focused back to them and intervened their little fight.

"Then let us go, let me talk to him not the T1000 here" Skye argued.

"You guys want to be alone with him, of course" Ward accused.

"She's a groupie, all this hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D tracking powers. She might as well be one of those sweaty cosplay girls crowding around Stark Tower, and the kid, was probably just picked up from Toy's Are Us" Ward jabbed at them.

"What I would never- okay one time" Skye admitted while Jo huffed "I'm 16 years old".

'Now's the time to exit gracefully before Ward finds another way to mess this up' I thought.

"Ward" I called as I opened the interrogation room door and gestured for him to follow. I couldn't help but think for a second how funny it would be to keep him in there with them.

"Is it the girls, are they getting under your skin?" I asked him.

"Sir-" he tried but I cut him off.

"Or is it the assignment. Are you so anxious to get off this plane that you deliberately blow an interrogation?"

"Give me a minute alone with them and you'll have your answers" Ward offered as I undid the lock on the door that hid the "truth serum" behind it.

"They're both assets" I told him. As much as I didn't want to admit it, when we swiped through everything, and I mean everything (S.H.I.E.L.D is very thorough), we found not a single trace of either of them existing.

"They're so assets- wait assets?" Ward asked; completely baffled.

"We don't know anything about them, either of them" I told him while grabbing the briefcase and hoisting it up to the table.

"Do you appreciate how often that happens? That never happens, and now it's happened with two people in a row. We need what they know"

Secret lab: downtown New York

"See we designed each with their own capabilities some recording the dimensions and textures of the site, and some testing the radiation, I mean one is basically just smelling" Simmons rambled about the D.W.A.R.F's: one of their latest successes.

"Hold on, I think we got something in something" Fitz announced loudly.

"Who's got it?" Simmons eagerly asked.

"Uh... Bashful" Fitz answered as May made her way over to wear they found it.

"Away" Simmons said.

May moved a couple of charred things out the way to find, "Surveillance camera, deep fried".

"Yes, but that model has a flash memory, now I could cinq that with the motion detectors and with a little bit of luck we can get some images from before the blast". May gives him a look that said, 'you're leaving this to luck?' And he added in a slightly sarcastic tone, "and by luck I mean completely unappreciated genius".

"And we'll need it, one of them is reading some compounds some sort of- Oh My God" Simmons said as she went over to were one of them picked something up. May handed Fitz the deep fried security camera and guessed, "Explosive?"

"Not of this earth"