Chapter 8
The plane lands in China, Skye still had a slight headache, but she didn't think informing the team was the best idea. "Fitz and Skye I want you to stay on the plane, while we check the place where we got the phone call from." Skye knew the reason why she was staying behind, but looking at Fitz she could tell he didn't like the idea of staying on the bus.
"Sir." Fitz says. "I want to help to; you can't just keep me on the plane all the time. How am I to get my memories back if I don't go out in the field?" Coulson scratches his chin.
"You're right, but for now why don't you and Skye work on making sure no one's in the area when we storm the building." Fitz bites his tongue; obviously he was tired of being on the bus. Skye heads back upstairs, probably to get some more rest. Simmons walks up to Fitz.
"I know you want to be out on the field, but Fitz with your memory and all…." She doesn't finish. "Anyway, if you're bored you can go over the Monkey's dna." Monkey was the code-word that Simmons had come up with for the GH-325 research.
"I do love monkeys." Fitz jokes. Simmons heads over to the car where Coulson, Triplett and May are preparing to head out, somehow she had an uneasy feeling left though, from the fact she was leaving Fitz and Skye alone. Simmons tries her best to ignore it though.
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"So you know your mission." Dragon confirms with Ward. Grant nods.
"I'm to head to the bus and capture Skye, bringing her to this address." Ward holds up the address, it was written in Chinese but Ward knew what it said. He stuffs the paper in his pocket next to his gun.
"Are you excited for the reunion?" Ward doesn't move a face muscle.
"What am I supposed to do after this, after you have Skye or this lordship or whatever does, what am I going to be doing?" Dragon smiles.
"You work for thy lordship now, so he'll be the one deciding what to do." Ward didn't like that answer. "The supplies are in the backpack, everything you need." Ward throws the thing over his shoulder. "Now Raina has trust in you, you know this plane like the back of your hand. The ins and outs of it, get on the plane and find the girl undetected."
"I still don't see the point of having lured the team to this exact location. We could have diverted them."
"But Agent Ward, where's the fun in that." Dragon laughs. "I'm erasing all the data now, so it can't be found, not that they'll be able to hack it without their hacktivist."
"You've been keeping an eye on her?" Ward questions, remembering the title Skye refers to herself as. Dragon shakes his head.
"No we hadn't been able to locate her since Raina helped, but now that we have; I've dug up all the information I can possibly gather on her."
"So you've been working for this man for a long time" Dragon doesn't reply. "I never asked. What's capturing Skye going to do for you? What's in it for you?"
"I could ask you the same thing?" He replies.
"You already know my reason." Ward responds.
"Well let's just say Skye will be helping a lot of people, not just her father. I'm one of those people included." Ward was confused.
"What do you mean?"
"Let's just call it classified for now, but pretty soon you'll find out the reason why." Ward didn't understand what Dragon was talking about, but he took this as a cue to leave. Pulling the other string of the backpack over his shoulder, Ward heads toward his old and unwelcome home.
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Coulson arrives with the team at the compound; May was the first to leave the car because she looked the less suspicious in Asia, out of all of them. Scanning the premises she got Skye on the other end of the line. "You see anything?" She asks.
"No, the buildings seem pretty empty. Oh wait, there's a building four blocks over from you with a pretty wack computer program."
"On it, Coulson." She call to the other end of the com. Coulson pulls the car to the building Skye had directed them to. Coulson gets out of the car.
"Simmons and Triplett you stay out here. Will call you once we've checked out the place." Simmons gives them the go ahead, as May and Coulson enter the building. "Which floor Skye?"
"3rd floor, to your left." She tells Coulson over the com. Coulson and May head up the stairs. Coulson and May head to the third floor, following Skye's instructions to go to the left, they make their way to the end of the hall. May kicks down the door, holding her gun ready.
"Skye you see anything?" May asks? "Skye?" May waits a few seconds. "I've lost her sir."
"There might be some communication jam, will have to be careful." Coulson and May check out the room.
"Hey Coulson check this out." Coulson makes his way over to May. "Diagrams of the bus, and look," May points to a very familiar picture. "This is a picture of Skye."
"Well seems you had no trouble finding this place." A voice swoops in from above. Coulson and May move forward, following the sound of the voice. "Though it did take you longer to get here than I expected." A man with dark hair, and dark blue eyes steps out of the shadows behind them. May points her gun at the man. He smirks, as if the gun she pointed didn't scare him.
"Who are you!?" Coulson yells. The man didn't seem surprised by the question.
"I'm Dragon, and I've led you here to thank you for your service." May and Coulson look at each other confused.
"Our service?"
"You see it's taken us a long time to find this girl." Dragon picks up the picture of Skye. "If you hadn't brought her along into Shield we may have never found her." Dragon reminded Coulson of Garret in an awful kind of way. His presence left too much of an evil feeling.
"What do you want with Skye?" Coulson demands.
"Just to bring her to a proper home, that's all the man I work for really ever wanted." Man he worked for? So this Dragon guy wasn't the person who really wanted Skye, he was just a puppet in the whole thing. "You see my employer doesn't like to offer chances to people, but I do considering its saves time." Dragon bends down, taking out a suit case from underneath the desk Coulson and May had been snooping around a few seconds earlier. The guns that Coulson and May were pointing at him didn't seem to faze him.
"What's in the suit case?" May questions.
"Why you're reward of course." The man opens up the suit case; a ton of cash was present in American dollar bills. "12.3 million dollars." Coulson lowers his gun.
"You want to pay us?" he asks puzzled.
"Yes for the help you had in finding the girl, and the opportunity to sell us to her." Coulson stomach tightened, and Coulson saw May was getting ready to go in for a punch.
"Sell her?" Coulson repeats. Dragon smiles evilly. "Don't worry she'll be in good hands, and you can even come to visit her. This is my offer to you, what do you say?"
"How dare you!" May grumbles, Coulson holds his hand up lowering his gun and walking closer to the man. Dragon smirks, thinking Coulson is coming to look at the cash. Instead he punches the guy in the face, the suit case dropping to the ground and the bills flying out.
"I would never! Ever! Do something like that to a member of my team! No I would never do that to anyone! How dare you think that we'd sell Skye to you like that, as if she were a possession. She's a human being!" Coulson punches the man again, this time Dragon falls flat on his butt. He pulls out a handkerchief to wipe the blood off his nose; from the punch he'd just been given.
"Well that's too bad." He mumbles. "This really was your last offer." Dragon stands up and backs out of the way. Coulson and May run after him, but a burst of light hits them before they get a chance.
"Coulson get down!" May yells as the explosion goes off. A big blast of light hits Coulson and May, and they go flying not knowing whether they'll survive or not.
My attempt at an intense ending! I try okay… Review please!
