Chapter 4: The Monolith Opens

It was dark by the time they had arrived at the museum. Walking up the steps Daisy grabbed the door, and pulled trying to open it. "Daisy what the hell are you doing?" Ward asked standing behind her, with raised eyebrows. Blushing she looked away from him in embarrassment.

"You're a special kind of person aren't you?" he said mockingly, turning to glare at him heatedly, she held out her hand towards the door, releasing a string of vibrations and effectively ripping the door from its hinges. Looking over at him smugly, she smirked "who's special now?" she said, mockingly "Not hellboy, that's for sure" she said, throwing her head back, and laughing.

"It's Hellfire, and big whoop, you destroyed a door, congratulations, you want a metal sweetheart?" he sneered, making her blood boil with rage. Shoving past him she walked into the museum, the sound of her shoes echoing on the cold marble floor.

"Hurry up, ward we still need to find that damn grey rock" she said, as he trailed behind her a slight look of annoyance written all over his face. Glancing around at the different artifacts, she frowned not spotting the monolith.

"Might need to split up, it will be faster and we better hurry before Garrett comes" he said looking over at her. He was right of course, but that didn't necessarily mean that she trusted him, in her eyes he was still the bad guy, and that might not ever change.

Heading in the left direction, her eyes surveyed the area looking for any signs of the monolith, maybe Garrett was wrong and it wasn't here, or maybe Ward was just an idiot and He's been played by the mentor that he loved so much.

Honestly she didn't get his obsession with that man, why did he care so much about one person? And why the hell does she even care? Snap out of it Daisy, she thought.

A weird feeling twisted in her gut, causing her to freeze up, turning slowly to the right, a shiver went up her spine, as she stared right at a large glass casing, the glass casing itself wasn't important, no what mattered was the very thing inside.

The monolith stood, caged behind the glass, slowly walking towards it, she touched the glass. A strange feeling washing over her, almost fear really, and she couldn't really describe it.

Footsteps echoed behind her, glancing over her shoulder. Ward was walking towards her, his eyes locked on the monolith. "So this is it? The giant grey rock?" he asked looking it up and down, clearly not impressed.

"So how do we destroy this god damn rock?" she asked glancing over at him, curiosity in her gaze. "Your quake aren't you, it shouldn't be too hard for you just use your powers, this is just a rock after all" he said letting out a snort, like it was obvious.

Yea easy right, the stupid rock is only a few centuries old, how hard could it be? Lifting her hand up towards the glasses. She had been about to shatter it, when nails roughly dug into her shoulder causing her to wince. "Ow what the hell Ward?" she asked jerking away from him.

Pulling her roughly away, he began dragging her towards one of the columns, hiding them from view. "Hey what the hell do you think your…." A hand slapped over her mouth, cutting off her words, as Ward slowly lifted his finger to his lips, silencing her, before pointing out past the column.

Garrett was here, that's why Ward had pulled her away, he had been afraid of being seen by his mentor. Looking over at him she whispered "Hey we can't just let Garrett do this we should have destroyed it before, why did you pull me away, were you afraid of getting caught by your mentor" she hissed, glaring harshly at her.

Wrapping his arm around her waist, preventing her from exposing them. He leaned in his lips brushing her ear "Garrett isn't someone you can just mess with little tremors, he is dangerous, and yes I was hoping to stop him without getting noticed ok" he breathed out softly in her ear, sending shivers down her spine.

Garrett stepped up to the monolith, a huge grin on his face, as he touched to glass "this is it after all these years, I have finally found it" he whispered caressing the glass. "Is he going to make out with the glass now?" Ward asked leaning over her, his chest pressed against her back, and his head resting right over her left shoulder, with his arm still around her waist, and his hand covering her mouth.

"No Ward I don't think that's what he is about to do" she hissed removing his hand from her mouth. A gun shot rang out shattering the glass, Garrett moved with ease placing four polls around the sides of the monolith. "What's he doing" she whispered her brows furrowing.

"Maybe he's taking the monolith hostage" Ward said, teasingly with a slight smirk on his face. "You must have gotten slapped a lot as a kid, didn't you?" she asked raising one eyebrow.

A dark look flickered over his face, his face hardening, and all manner of play gone. "Let's just focus on stopping him without actually getting scene" he hissed, his voice laced with venom.

"Why do you care so much about what he thinks of you? He is a monster and you don't owe him anything" she said, glancing at him. White hot pain washed over her suddenly, confused she looked down and realized that he was gripping her arm tightly in a death grip. His hands beginning to smoke.

Holding back a scream of pain, due to the third degree burns that he was giving her on her left arm. "Ward…" she gasped trying to get through to him, his eyes burning with rage. "Please… stop" she choked, the pain so hot that it felt like her skin was peeling away.

Blinking abruptly, he released her almost startled as if he hadn't even realized what he had done. Before he could even begin to open his mouth and explain, a loud hum vibrated through the air, drawing their attention back towards Garrett.

The four devices that Garrett had stuck in the ground were vibrating now, and the portal, which had once been solid began to liquefy into a large puddle swirling around the four polls in the ground.

"Daisy for once be useful, and use your powers to destroy those polls they seem to be the key to opening the portal" he whispered lowly, in her ear.

Daisy nodded, already having planned to do that. When Garrett nodded and turned "Raise the frequency, you will need to keep that portal open for a while" he said turning as he gathered a large tether around him.

Raising her hand to destroy the poll, she had lifted her hand, when suddenly a harsh ringing sounded in her ear. Grabbing her head in agony, she felt pain flash through her skull, causing her to lose focus.

Squeezing her eyes tight shut, her head screamed in agony, blood dripping from her nose in a stream, as she felt hands grabbing her and a voice saying something in her ear. "Damn it Daisy, whatever this is snap out of it we need your power, before Garrett decides to jump in…. Daisy" he said shaking her shoulders violently.

She couldn't focus, there were too many vibrations slamming into her at once, and her head felt like it was being split open, like she was being torn in half.

Garrett had typed the rope around his waist, as well as tying it to one of the columns. Walking towards the now open monolith. He turned saying something to the men and then he walked until he was standing right in front of it, and then he jumped.