Life and Times of Avery Ward: Daughter of The Shield
Disclaimer: I own Avery, Sonya and Jia but nothing else
Spoilers: Sequel to "The Shield is Born", read first or this won't make sense.
The sound of gunfire made Avery hit the deck, hiding under the living room activity table. She saw her Aunt Melinda run through the plane and towards the cockpit but the gunfire didn't stop despite Fitzsimmons running and over to Avery, bending down beside the table with her.
"What's going on?"
"Someone is shooting at us!" Fitz spoke the obvious and if it wasn't dire, the girl was sure to roll her eyes.
Avery crawled from under the table and ran to towards the cargo bay, she hit the railing of the balcony to see her father and Uncle Phil firing guns while her mother lay just a few feet away against the wall of the cargo bay. Men that Avery knew to be militia were firing at them and didn't stop despite being shot at.
"May get the damn ramp up!" Coulson's voice resonated and Avery knew he was talking into the coms.
The men kept firing and Avery knew they couldn't keep it up, they'd run out of rounds and the militia would board the plane. She ran down the stairs and noticed as she got down to the ground that her mother was passed out but not bleeding so she left her and snuck around the SUV till she was within sight of the men. One saw her and smirked to which she didn't like and backed up till a second grabbed her.
"Let me go!" Avery yelled as she stomped on his foot and elbowed him in the stomach but he pulled her hair back and pulled her over to the leader. Instantly Coulson and her father stopped firing, pausing at the sight of her.
"You bring your children with you into dangerous countries?" The man laughed and took ahold of Avery's neck to hold her in place. "You are either stupid or don't care about her. Is that what is it, they don't care about you?"
Avery spit at him and elbowed his stomach, "let me go or you'll regret it."
"Avery," her father's voice made her look up and she saw him lowering his gun. "Code 0-8-4, unleash it."
She nodded and screwed her eyes shut, thinking about the shooting at her school when she'd been six. The image of her mother lying unconscious made her even more scared and suddenly she felt like breaking into a million pieces. Opening her eyes she allowed that feeling to fill her up and it was if light erupted from her, spreading out as her father and Coulson ducked to the ground. All the men, including the one holding her, collapsed as the light faded.
Finally free, she ran to her father as he stood up and instantly he caught her. Holding her tightly against him, he kissed her head as she wrapped her arms and legs around him. "I'm sorry Daddy, I didn't mean to get seen."
"We'll talk about that later," he pulled back and looked at her face. Brushing her hair back he smiled. "I'm just happy you're not hurt, are you feeling okay after that?"
"Yeah, if they didn't stop I would have unleashed the 0-8-4 anyways. You would have run out of rounds and they would have gotten on the bus. I had to do something instead of hiding, a SHIELD agent doesn't hide when they can help."
Coulson chuckled, "that's right but you aren't a SHIELD agent, not yet anyways."
It took Fitzsimmons coming down to help with the ramp but they finally got up in the air and Avery sat beside her mother in the living room. Her mother had been knocked unconscious but was perfectly healthy without injury or so her Aunt Jemma told her.
A groan made Avery lean over her mother, "Mom?"
"Avery?" Her mother opened her eyes and smiled at her. "Hey there, where is everyone?"
Avery turned to see her father putting his book down and stood to walk over to them. "Dad is here and everyone else is doing their own thing. We got away from the militia and Aunt Melinda is flying us to the Helicarrier because Director Hill wants a straight debrief."
"Let your mom breathe." Ward put a hand on her head and smiled down at both ladies on the couch. "How you are feeling Babe?"
Skye sat up slowly, "like I got knocked unconscious by a big burly militia guy. How'd you guys get away, there were like twenty thousand of them?"
"I unleashed my 0-8-4 power." Avery smiled at her mother, "they were going to board the Bus so I unleashed it and they didn't."
The younger agent only stared at her father, "and you let her?"
"I told her to, she's fine and Simmons already said she's perfectly healthy."
"So Borgia's men know about our daughter now?" Skye stood up and looked at Avery, "pack your bags, I'm insisting you go back to SYA and I'll have Hill agreeing in no time."
As Avery slipped away she heard her mother lecturing her father about his stupid actions and even stupider parenting mistakes. Avery could only laugh at them as they had a tendency to argue when it came to various situations but always ended up happy at the end of the day. She just hoped her father didn't have another glass wound at the end of the day.
Arriving at the Helicarrier, Avery found Sonya and Jia waiting with Agents Romanoff and Barton. She instantly ran over and hugged them both, they hugged her and started telling her about the sleepover they would be having.
"Agent Bartlett in the kitchens said we could have grilled cheese and chips delivered to wherever we have our sleepover." Jia smiled and Avery was only stopped by her parents and Uncle Phil, her name was called and she turned back to see them.
"There will be no sleepovers, sorry girls." Coulson looked at them as he spoke and Avery sighed in realization her grounding still wasn't over with. "Come on Avery, we have some tasks you can do while your parents debrief. Why don't you help Fitzsimmons carry their gear down."
Avery smiled at her friends, "sorry, I'm grounded so I have been working for the last couple of weeks. No fun unless it's done as a family." She hugged Sonya and Jia before going over to grab a box from Fitz and helped them carry it inside.
Midway through the hallways, Coulson looked down at her. "Just two more weeks and you'll be back at school, you can do a sleepover there on a weekend."
"Can I have fun just this once?" She looked up at him with a single look of misery. "I did help save you yesterday, its one night then I'll come back to work I promise."
Before he could answer, it was her father who spoke. "Just tonight, who is supervising?"
"Agent Romanoff." Avery smiled at him and her father nodded as if agreeing it was a good idea.
Escaping from Fitzsimmons, with permission of course, Avery found Jia and Sonya by a vent cover. "Avery come here." Sonya waved her over and Jia opened the cover, "this leads straight to the vent by the Command Center's conference table, we can listen to what news they have."
Sonya crawled through and finally Jia but Avery paused, Jia turned back to look at her. "Come on Avery, they'll never know."
"I don't know, I'm already in so much trouble. Won't you get in trouble?"
Jia shrugged her shoulders, "Mom has never found out so I can't get in trouble."
"I can't, I'm sorry but I don't want to risk losing tonight." Avery smiled at them, "good luck and I promise not to tell."
Back in the quarters she shared with her parents, Avery sat down and read her school assigned passages from textbooks. The sound of the door made her look up to see her parents talking quietly. They paused at seeing her and instantly sat down across from her.
"I spoke with Director Hill," Skye smiled at Avery. "She got a call from Ripley this morning, the parents of the boy you started a fight with are meeting next week so you'll go back to school next week."
"Technically Jia started the fight, Sonya and I just made sure that his friends knew we weren't weak." Avery put down her book and shrugged, "Mom can I tell you something if you promise not to tell anyone?"
Skye moved over and sat beside her, "of course you can, is something wrong?"
"Not really, Jia and Sonya wanted me to crawl through the vents with them but I refused. I didn't want to risk getting into trouble so I didn't go with them." Avery bit her lip and looked up at her mother. "They won't hate me will they?"
"If they do then they aren't very understanding friends." Skye kissed her head. "I am proud of you for making the right decision though. You knew right from wrong even though you wanted to go with them. If they are really your friends, they will understand why you said no."
A/N: I thought I would put Avery in danger as well have her unleash her abilities - whatever they are, hers have yet to be defined.
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