Aaaand it's up! Sorry for taking so long. Enjoy!
Sometimes exactly what I want to hear is exactly what I don't want to hear.
Skye jumped back. "What the-"
Simmons breathed in relief. "Oh, it's just you. I was worried it was some alien or some kind of thing like that!" Simmons laughed nervously.
Fitz came up behind Simmons, rubbing his back. "Next time we do that, I get the fire extinguisher, you get the stick." He rolled his neck, joints popping.
"Sorry" was all that May said. Then she got to buisness.
"Have you found anything on the power outage?" Simmons sighed.
"No, unfortunatly we're as oblivious as you are. We were on our way to the controls to see if eveything is alright. Speaking of which, why are you out here? Aren't you supposed to be flying the plane?"
"Plane grew dark before I came out of the cockpit area."
"We landed, by the way," said Skye. "Just in case you wanted to know." She pulled out a notepad. "Computer's off, wifi's out, so I'm using this guy for all my stuff. Anyways, the time of the blackout was almost identical to the time of the landing, so there must be something related."
"Um...if the power's off, then why are you still glowing? In fact, why are you glowing at all?"
"Strontium crystal. They're phospherescent." May brought out a small glowing lump and cocked her head slightly to the left. "Didn't Simmons tell you? She's the one who made them."
"I meant to tell you I was working on them with this type of soft crystal mixed with strontium but I didn't have enough to make more than the prototypes so we were going to stop off at a joint and then the plane crashed and-"
"Tehcnically," Skye butted in, "we landed before the power went out."
"Don't you find that odd? That it happened after, not before? It was like someone didn't want to harm it's contents." Fitz's eyes flashed. "Where are we, really?"
"That's classified." May swung Fitz's stick around.
"We're in Aberdeen." May glared at Skye.
"What? It's not like they wouldn't figure it out in five minutes when they stepped out of the plane. That is, before it crashed. Well, technically landed. Crashed gracefully."
Fitz' eyes widened. "My homeland?! What are we doing in Scotland?!"
May groaned. "And now comes the long and mostly boring story that you're going to pester me about for the remaining of our time on here because Skye couldn't wait and tust the system."
"Here's an easy way to avoid it. Just tell them. And me."
"No." May stalked off vaguely to the area that held all of the controls. Wanting answers (and not really knowing what else to do) Skye, Fitz, and Simmons followed.
"Alright, Fitz. You wanted answers? Fix the plane. Maybe enough light will come on this that I can tell you what and why we're here."
Fitz immediately went to work, feeling the cords and their knobbed bunches, working through the system until he found what was wrong.
"Well, that's simple," he said. "We simply ran out of energy. The last person using it forgot to rev it up, and it depleted over the last few hours."
Simmons knit her eyebrows. "But wouldn't it show up in the pilot seat?"
They turned to May, who begrudgingly answered, "Maybe."
Ftiz threw his hands up in the air. "So that's what it was! You ran out of gas and just didn't want to tell us!"
May paused. "I tried to land near an abandoned airport where we could fix the bus, but I didn't know what the problem was. Mostly. I thought there might be something else."
Skye was about to say something when Fitz stopped her. "There's something else."
"What else?"
"Don't you feel that? The vibration? There shouldn't be a vibration when the power's off."
"Stop it, Fitz. This isn't funny."
"I'm being serious!"
May swung Fitz's stick and stepped close enough that everyone else could see each other. "Alright, kids, I lied to Skye. Now hop into the van and saddle in with Aunt May because we're about to be hit harder than you'd ever believe."
"What?" Skye looked offended.
"I ran out of gas, but I still landed correctly. I'll tell you everything if you come with me. Through the door." She led them all through the girls bathroom.
"Are we sure we should be in here?" asked Fitz.
"I don't know. You're the boy." said Skye.
"It's alright. now quiet." Everyone silenced as May began to speak.
"We're on the southwest border of Aberdeen. We aren't here by accident. There's a rebel force that's been aligned with an 0-8-4 and we've been sent to stop it, and somehow, they got word of that. So now they're trying to break in. The vibration you felt? You can only guess to what that might be. We have time. We need to stockpile."
"In the women's bathroom?" Simmons asked increndulously.
May shrugged. "There've been worse places to hide. You and Fitz should go back to the lab and see if you can get anything. I'll go with Skye to somewhere else. Skye, give them your crystal."
"Why don't you give them yours?"
"Because I'm more experienced. Don't argue."
Skye sighed and gave Simmons her Strontium-Prism-Crystallite clumps.
"Ready?"
The scientists nodded.
"I'll meet you back in five."
I think that the next part is probably going to be the last one.
The quote was from Age of Ultron, by Bruce Banner (Hulk). That movie...
*flails limbs*
*sporiodically*