"Skye!" Everyone screamed. Natasha, Clint, and Ward instantly rushed to the building while everyone else tried to keep the civilians back. Simmons had her head buried in Fitz's shoulder and all he could do was stand there in shock.
"Skye! Skye! Where are you?!" Ward screamed, pulling back the ruble. He had finally made it inside the building, and to what was left of the stairs. Natasha and Clint were not far behind Ward. They had heard Woods say that the bomb was deep underground and therefore was in the basement. They were one the second level when they saw Skye. She was unconscious, and her legs were pinned under a large metal beam.
"Skye!" Clint said running over. Ward and Clint began to remove the beam, as Natasha informed Coulson and May.
Suddenly Natasha's phone began to ring.
"Stark, this really isn't the time," Natasha growled.
"But I need you to go over these blueprints and identify the weak spots."
"Tony, this is not the time," she said again. Then suddenly an idea came to her, "Stark how far are you from Santa Monica?"
"I can be there in 5 minutes why?"
"I need you to get here in 2, I'll send you the address. Stark, I'll explain everything just get here fast."
"Nat, we can't move it!" Clint said in despair.
"I called Stark, he should be here just about now," Natasha said, as a familiar red suit was seen blasting a hole through the ceiling.
"Stark! Down here," Clint yelled.
Carefully, Tony was able to lift the beam off of Skye's legs and fly her out to the Bus. Once all the civilians were insured safety, the team (plus Tony) had a meeting.
While Fitz and Simmons watched Tony Stark, the most brilliant engineer of all time. The man who invented a new element, Clint, Natasha, Coulson and Stark were having an argument.
"I'm telling you, we have everything we need to care for her," Clint said.
"That may be, but I'm just saying she would be safer in New York in the tower. Plus you and Red still have a room," Tony pleaded.
"Why would we go with you instead of to Shield?" Coulson asked.
"Because you need help, and fast. I can get that, no questions asked," Tony argued.
"And with what doctor?"
"We have Banner."
"Banner! He is not a medical doctor!" Clint roared.
"True, but he has enough experience combined with Simmons, it will be enough," Tony argued.
"Nat, you have been awfully quiet," Clint said, "what do you think?"
"I think, we should go to New York, to the Avengers Tower. Plus," she said turning to Phil, "It's time that the rest of the team sees you."
Giving up in defeat Clint says, "Fine." While Coulson told May to get them the New York as soon as possible.
May had somehow managed to land the plane in such a small space, and getting them to New York in record time. FitzSimmons who had been doing their best efforts to stabilize Skye wheeled the table Skye was on and into the medical lab that Bruce Banner had prepared.
"This is Skye, she sustained a head injury approximately three hours ago, in addition, a large metal beam crushed her left femur, and then cut across diagonally hitting her right patella and tibia," Simmons said, in full doctor mode, as Fitz handed Dr. Banner the x-rays that he and Simmons had taken.
"She'll need a blood transfusion," Bruce noted, looking at a gash across Skye's head.
"Got it," Natasha said walking in, while Clint got the stuff to hook her up.
"Due to the trace amounts of serum, many of the cuts have healed. Her bones may have started to heal already," Simmons said quickly.
"Okay, Fitz can you begin the IV. Simmons, begin cleaning and stitching her cuts," Bruce said, also in full doctor mode… And that was the last thing that Coulson saw before they Clint closed the doors.
"And now all we can do is wait…" Coulson said sighing. Tony gave him a look that said, upstairs, now. Stark, while he had his reputation knew that earlier was not the time to have this conversation, now was. So he, Coulson, and May made their way up to the common floor.
"What the actual hell Agent!" Stark screamed, "You were dead. We saw the blood."
"Let me explain," Coulson started.
"No, you were dead. The staff went right through your heart, no one comes back from that!" And then they heard a glass break, standing with shock in his eyes was Captain Steve Rodgers.
"What?" Steve said confused, "This isn't real."
"Yeah, it sure as fucking hell is not real. I don't care what your story is, but you are not Phil Coulson!" Tony said, punctuating every word.
It was that moment that Thor decided to walk into the heated argument. At first, the demi-god didn't notice Coulson, but when he did he said," What is this dark magic Son of Coul?" His voice boomed.
"Not magic, alien biology," Coulson said, once again trying to explain.
Suddenly a knife came flying in, millimeters from hitting Stark's hand, "Enough," Natasha said, with a deadly calm. The room went quiet.
"Jarvis," she said suddenly, "please run a DNA test between the man next to me, and Phil Coulson." The room waited for the longest second. "Match confirmed," Jarvis's voice said.
"Explain, now," Tony demanded. And then Coulson explained Tahiti, and the parts he didn't know the answers, May stepped in and explained.
"Why now? Why tell us now?" Steve said.
"Fury didn't even tell me until recently, I thought I was dead for 40 seconds."
Skye was unfortunately well versed in waking up in a hospital setting. Slowly waking up, she looked around her. On her right was Coulson, May, Nat, and Clint, but then she looked and saw Fitz and Simmons and Bruce Banner?
Noticing that her daughter was awake, Natasha said, "You know, you really need to stop getting hurt."
Looking back over to her team, she saw them nodding in agreement. Suddenly she realized her throat had the familiar scratchy feeling, and pointed to the glass of water. Gulping it down, she nodded gratefully.
"Your Bruce Banner," Skye said looking over.
Smiling weakly he said, "Guilty as charged, but don't worry you have nothing to worry about."
Nodding, Skye suddenly realized that she was not on the Bus, "Where are we?"
"Welcome to Avengers Tower," Tony Stark said, smirking slightly, as he walked into the med bay.
A/N: Thanks so much for all the support you guys have shown.
