Chapter Fourteen (Went Dark on Me)
"Skye, don't!" Ward screamed again, reaching out to stop Skye from going forward. But she slipped out of his grasp, still headed towards the Diviner. "Don't touch it!"
"What do you know about this thing, Agent Ward?" Whitehall asked. "Is there something about it that I should know, because if you do I want you to tell me." He motioned towards the Hydra agent that didn't hold the briefcase. "And if you don't, I'll have you killed. And I'm surprised that you didn't die days ago. You're still hurt. Why are you here?"
"To protect her." Ward said simply. "I know what's going to happen here. I don't want her going through that. It's hell." Ward ran forward to stop Skye, but the agent stepped in front of him and dug a gun into his wound. He winced and froze.
"Now, don't interfere here." Whitehall said smalley. "Or I'll have you shot in the exact same place as a few days ago, but you won't live this time."
Ward tensed up as Skye stopped in front of the briefcase, but only stared at the Diviner inside of it.
"That's right, go ahead and pick it up." Whitehall urged. "Go ahead."
Skye's hand hovered over the metal construct and Ward held his breath as she picked it up. And the exact same thing that Ward had seen played on right here. The symbols on the metal started to glow a bright orange light.
She stared at it and looked up at Whitehall in fear, "What the hell does this mean?" she asked.
"That your father was right. You are special." Whitehall said with a slightly creepy smile. "Just what I hoped for."
Skye's face twitched and she turned around and suddenly dug the Diviner into the briefcase-holding Hydra agent. He screamed out as he turned to stone and crumbled away.
She turned around to do the same to the other agent, but that's when she noticed that he had a gun buried into Ward's stomach.
"I wouldn't do that again if I were you." Whitehall said coldly. "Drop it." He took out what seemed to be an ICER and pointed it towards her. "At least I got what I needed. I'll subdue the two of you for the time being until I'm ready for you. Hopefully Raina can find the temple."
Skye's face fell and she looked over to Ward and then back to Whitehall, "Wait, Raina?" she asked. But two high-pitched noises rang out and everything went black.
(Sometime Later)
Skye groaned and opened her eyes to find herself tied in a chair in what seemed to be a kitchen. She looked over to see Ward looking at her. "Grant? What happened?"
"You touched that damned thing and then Whitehall iced us." Ward explained. "You okay?"
Skye nodded slightly, "I guess." Her eyes trailed down, "The Diviner, what does it mean?" she asked.
"I don't remember what exactly from the other timeline, but it has something to do about you being not human and something about the temple in this place. Something about change." Ward explained. "I really don't know."
"I've got to go down there." Skye quickly said. "I've got to find that temple. It has to be below us."
Ward's face fell and he frantically shook his head, "No, Skye, don't do that!" he exclaimed. "That's what I've been trying to stop this whole entire time!"
"You don't have a say in what has anything to do with me!" Skye spat, trying to untie herself from the chair. "You don't!"
"Skye, I am your boyfriend and I care about you! This isn't the thing to do! Something really bad is going to happen if you go down there!"
"Grant, this will finally tell me who I am." Skye said. "Look, we're in here unguarded, I can get down there."
"And that's the weird thing about it! Whitehall wants you to go down there!" Ward exclaimed, freeing himself from the rope. "Skye, you don't understand what's going to happen if you go down there! Hell, Raina of all freaking people is here! That's got to at least tell you something about this whole damn mess!"
Ward watched as the rope fell from Skye's wrists and she stood up and approached him. He tensed up, remembering the other timeline. This was when she shot him four times. But she didn't have a gun now.
She looked him firmly in the eyes, "Grant, for my entire life I've been searching the answer to who am I." she said. "Now I can finally figure it out. I love you, but I'm not going to let you stop me from doing this."
Ward blinked, realizing that she was in some Diviner-fueled delusion, "Skye, you've got to snap out of it. This isn't what needs to happen." he said calmly. "Please."
Skye shook her head, "I'm not listening to you, Grant." she said, turning around and starting to run off. "I'm not."
Ward's stomach fell, it was happening. He started to chase her, knowing that this fate would be inevitable. "Skye, stop!" he screamed.
He chased after her, unaware of what hellstorm he was about to face. Their entire lives would be turned upside down and burned down as well.
(Sometime Ago)
"Sir, I don't see where she could be." Hunter complained. "We've searched the damn place and have only found Hydra agents."
"She's got to be around here somewhere." Coulson replied. "Just keep looking and see if you can find anything about this 'temple' Hydra is searching for here as well. It has something to do with alien tech, and that's something that we can't let fall into their hands."
"That's bloody grand." Hunter mumbled as they continued to walk.
It was him, Coulson, and Trip together. Bobbi and May had went a separate route.
They walked for a while before Simmons' voice in Coulson's ear made him stop and he made Trip and Hunter stop as well.
"Sir?"
"What is it, Simmons?" he asked.
"We have a, uh, little situation here."
"Like what?" he asked. "How bad is it?"
"It's Ward."
Coulson's face fell, "What about him? Did his condition relapse?"
Trip and Hunter looked over to Coulson with confused looks on their faces.
"Uh, no. He's gone. We can't find him anywhere on the Bus. We believe he snuck out to find Skye himself and he's somewhere out in the ruins as well."
"Damnit!" Coulson spat. "How long ago?"
"Maybe an hour or so. Fitz, Mack, and I were in the Holocom room for a while watching you guys. Fitz went to check on him and he was gone."
"Keep watching the Holocom, Simmons. We'll try to find him as well." Coulson said, disconnecting from the conversation.
"What was that about?" Trip asked.
"Ward's not on the Bus. They think he left to try and find Skye on his own." Coulson explained.
"Is he crazy?" Hunter asked. "He's hurt, he'll die out here!"
Coulson sighed, "I know that. Now we have to find him, Skye, and figure out what the hell Hydra is doing here." he said.
"Then let's get moving." Triplett said.
Coulson nodded and the three started deeper into the city, trying to figure out just where Skye and Ward could be. But they were unaware of the impending storm of hell fire and earth that would soon ensue.
Author's Note: I don''t own AoS, Marvel does. Sorry for a short chapter, but I'm sick and surprised that I was able to update. So, everything starts to go to hell already. It's about to get bad, really bad. So brace yourselves. Keep reading and PLEASE favorite, follow, and/or review! (Can we make it to 80?) ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.