Chapter 7
Maddison was standing with the rest of the team in the cargo bay, waiting as the door lowered. Outside was covered in snow. They had landed in the middle of a forest. Coulson started to walk outside promptly followed by the others. Maddison just watched for a moment, taking in the glisening snow under the sun's light. Birds were tweeting somewhere in the distance. To Maddison this did not look like a place for a spy mission, well it didn't look like a scene from any of the spy movies she'd seen, but then again this wasn't a movie. This was reality.
Suddenly May appeared at Maddison's side.
"We should follow them" and with that Maddison found herself trundleing off into the snow trying not to trip over. The snow was about ankle deep and was really compact, making it difficult to move in. After about an hour or so of walking Coulson stopped. He turned slowly, looking in every direction. Then a rumble came from the cliff face in front of them, causing some of the snow lieing ontop to come tumbling down to the ground a few feet infront of us. Part of the cliff face had moved. Maddison blinked in misbelief, making sure that she wasn't dreaming. Coulson took a step forward, then another and another, each one as slowly as the first, as if to test that there were no hidden traps. Then he signaled to the rest of the team to move forward and join him. So they did one at a time, Hunter first and May last. When Maddison got closer to where the cliff face had been, she saw another wall this time made of some sort of metal with a singal panel in the middle. Coulson was already at it typing a string of numbers into the keypad below a small screen. The screen changed from the red colour it had been previously to a very bright green, probably meant they had unlocked something Maddison thought. This wall now slid upwards into the remaining cliff face, reveiling a rather wide room which was dimbly lit. Inside it housed several jeeps of various models and colours. Coulson took out two sets of keys from his jacket pocket and handed one to Moorse.
"Right, this was another one of Furry's 'hidden' bases, so the jeeps already have the coordinates in the Satnav to where we'll be picking up the 0-8-4. However, we were given two locations, meaning we'll be spliting up into two groups. Bobbi you'll be taking one group with Hunter, Mack and Fitz. May, Simmons and Maddison you'll be with me. Is that clear?" Everyone nodded and headed over to their leader.
"So when we get there Simmons and myself will go in first and hopefully collect the 0-8-4, then Maddison you'll follow May into the back when I give you the all clear" Coulson said and was about to get into the jeep when Maddison asked "What's an 0-8-4?"
"It's an object of unknown origin" Coulson explained.
Maddison sat in the back of the jeep next to Simmons. After about the first ten minutes Coulson and Simmons had run out of small talk and scilence had slowly emerged. Maddison didn't mind it though, as she just enjoyed watching the scenary go past, tree after bush after tree after bush. Repition felt nice compared to the last six hours of random changes to Maddison's life. She still hadn't had chance to ring her best friend and thought about doing it now, but as she looked at her phone the signal bars at the top of the screen were empty sighing she placed it back into her pocket.
"Dead battery? You can use mine if you want" Simmons offered.
"No, I've got no signal and I don't expect that yours will either" Maddison said now starting to get bored.
"Well then you'll be glad of the modification that Skye put onto it, to stop that from happening" Simmons said handing the mobile to her.
"No it's ok, it can wait" Maddison said and returned to staring out of the window.
"Right we're here, everyone out" Coulson said. They all got out of the vehical and Simmons followed Coulson round to the front door. The building was old and tall, it had a sign on the front which read Rocky Disco. May and Maddison walked around the back of the building as Coulson had instructed us to earlier in the mission breif. They waited about ten minutes before May said "This is taking too long Coulson should of communicated to us by now."
The second after she had finished speaking the sound of bullets could be heard for miles around. Maddison went to get up, but May grabbed her wrist and pulled her down again.
"What did you do that for!" Maddison asked slightly annoyed at the thought that her new found friends could be in there seriously hurt.
"We wait as COulson instructed, us going in there could make it worse as whoever else is in there most likely doesn't know we're out here" May said remaining calm. Then came the beep that May had been waiting for.
"Follow me" May said slowly creeping closer to the corner of the building, then she held up her hand to say wait here. Maddison stayed put whilst May jumped out and more guns were fired. May was dodging bullets from all angles and displaying such great acrobactic skills that Maddison didn't know they existed. Wait what was that Maddison thought, as she saw a movement of black from the corner of her eye. Turning slowly reveiled two fully armed men in combatt uniform, with some sort of skull with tenticals logo sown on. Maddison's instintcs told her to run but her brain told her to fight, so that's what she did. As the two men approached with guns pointing straight at her Maddison jumped up as they ran at her, then she kicked her legs out knocking their guns onto the floor far from their reach on the concrete floor. The men stood back for a second looking shocked at Maddison, but it wasn't long before they were fighting against Maddison. All the while Maddison was learning their tactics and blocked every singal one of their hits. They finally began to tire and Maddison took this opportunity to bang their heads together knocking them out. When Maddison stopped she turned to the direction where May had been fighting, to see her leaning against the building's wall watching her preformance.
"Not bad. You had any training?" She asked.
"No, I just learnt how to defend myself from brutes back at school" Maddison answered.
"Right that's all of them out here, let's go inside before more come" May said opening the back enterence of the building.
May went in first with Maddison hot in presuit. Lights hanging from the ceiling flickered, the smell of damp hit them straight in the face. Then they spotted Simmons tied up in one corner of the room guarded by someone, Coulson was tied up to a wooden chair with a wooden table infront. Another man in the same uniform that Maddison had seen earlier was circling around talking in a deep voice. Maddison and May had hidden behind a large crate and Maddison was listening in to what the man circling Coulson was saying.
"You tell me where she is and I'll let her live" the man said pointing towards Simmons, so much for a simple retreival misson Maddison thought.
"Never"
"Fine, убить ее (kill her) " He said to the man near Simmons.
"No wait!" Coulson said in desperation, "I'll tell you"
"Very good"
"This is the honest truth, I have no idea where she is, after S.H.I.E.L.D was discovered as corrupted, she destoried all links she had with us. So go look somewhere else"
The man was about to say something when May jumped up high in the air, flipped and landed right next to the man and without warning she knocked him out on the table. May then nodded towards Maddison as someone else had crept up behind. Maddison then flicked her foot which such power that it hit him directly in the stomach causing him to bail over in pain. May was fighting off the person who had been guarding Simmons. Maddison ran over to Coulson and stared untieing his binds from the chair but she couldn't.
"May, can you untie Coulson?"
"Sure" She said whilst kicking the guy in the head.
A few moments later once everyone had been untied, they headed back to the jeep.
"Well then that was interesting" Simmons said, gaining some very strange looks from May and Coulson.
"Lets hope the other team did better than us, in retreiving this object" Coulson said starting the jeep's engine.
When we got back to the 'hidden' base as Coulson had called it, we found the other team already there. Fitz and Skye were fiddling with some techy stuff and Moorse and Hunter were sitting on the floor talking about something with a black containment box infront of them. They all imedeately got up and looked at the other team, who had seen better days.
"What happened?" Skye asked almost to kneely, rushing over to Simmons to check that she was alright.
"Ambush" May said.
"You're kidding, well that's a great way to start your first mission" Fitz said to Maddison in a jokey tone.
"Yeah" Maddison answered in a not quite convinced by Fitz.
"I see you got the 0-8-4 then" Coulsonn said to Moorse.
"Yes, it seemed too easy" she replied and then continued with " but it did have this logo on it, I don't know what it is and it's not in the databank"
Coulson walked over to the box and opened it, inside was another box but this time it was silver. Picking it up he saw the symbol that Moorse had been talking about.
"What is it?" Maddison asked.
"It's the SSR."