Chapter 26: Welcome Back to Russia
The Skies of Western Russia 1947
Coulson, Skye, Thor, and Jack awoke slowly. The last thing they remembered was drinking tea at Peggy Carter's apartment in New York City. She brought them there after promising that she'd help get them to Moscow so they could fight the Zygons. Once they destroyed the Zygon painting in the past, there would be no Zygon army trying to conquer the Earth in 2015. Now, as they gazed around it became clear that she was no longer in New York. They were sitting on a long bench. In fact they were strapped in with seat belts. They leaned back and found that there was a wall behind them. Agent Carter was sitting directly across from them. She was fully awake and also strapped to a bench with a black wall behind her. They then figured out where they were. They were on a military plane and were flying through the air. They could tell by the sudden bouncing of the plane and they could vaguely see clouds outside of the plane's few windows. It was apparently night. They must have been knocked out the entire day, or perhaps only a few hours, if they were in a different time zone.
"Sorry about knocking you all out." Peggy said. "The people flying this plane don't want anyone to know about them. We'll be flying over Moscow in a few minutes."
"You mean we'll be landing in Moscow in a few minutes." Skye said.
"No." Peggy said. "Once we're over the drop sight, they'll open the back door and we'll all jump out. There are parachutes on the floor that we'll be using."
"Who's flying the plane?" Coulson asked.
"I can't tell you that." Peggy said. "You meet a lot of people in my line of work. Not all of them want their names out there. Surely you can understand that."
"I do." He replied.
The plane's back door started to automatically open slightly.
"That's our cue." Peggy said.
Everyone then unbuckled their seat belts and carefully put on their parachutes. Thor was the only one who didn't need a parachute. When they finished, the door opened the rest of the way. Even though it was night and partially cloudy, they could see the city below them. It was the largest city in Russia and one of the largest in all of Europe. Now, Agent Carter, Agent Coulson, Jack Harkness, Skye, and Thor were about to jump into it in order to destroy the Zygons before they have a chance to destroy this city and the rest of the planet in the future. One by one, they jumped from the plane and descended into the outskirts of Moscow where no one would see them land.
Moscow, Soviet Union 1947
Peggy, Coulson, Jack, Skye, and Thor successfully landed outside Moscow unnoticed. They spent they next hour walking at night and sneaking around until they were in downtown Moscow. They were looking for The State Tretyakov Gallery, an esteemed art museum that had been reopened about a year ago. That was when Peggy was first here and fought the Zygons. The Doctor assured her that the Zygons were dead. This group from the future insisted that they weren't. In fact the two Zygons, Jim and Tim, survived long enough to unleash a Zygon army that was trapped in a painting using Time Lord technology. It was the team's mission to stop this from ever happening. No matter what happened to the timeline, it would still save millions of lives in the future.
After walking for about thirty minutes downtown, they finally found the art museum they were looking for. The building was not incredibly tall, but was still vast in size. The entrance was not particularly ornate with a simple red and white pattern on the walls and uniquely Russian architecture that made up the wooden doors, which were locked. Thor used his Asgardian strength to pull the door open without any issues. The team then walked around the halls of the dark museum for awhile until they found a door that said "basement" on it. The rest of the group could not read it, but Peggy had studied some Russian before and knew what it said. They opened the door and saw stairs leading downwards. The painting must have been kept in storage down there. Suddenly, two security guards appeared at the other end of the hall.
"Hey!" One of them yelled. This particular security guard recognized Peggy Carter.
"She's back." The other guard said. "She brought some new friends with her. What's the point in staying in these forms if she already knows we're here?"
The team only stared at the two guards, wondering if they were the two Zygons. Coulson, Skye, and Thor had never actually seen Zygons in person before. Unfortunately, they were about to. The two security guards suddenly began to morph and change. Within moments, they had transformed into tall, red aliens known as Zygons. Jack knew these Zygons as the infamous duo Jim and Tim.
"Kill them all." Jim said. "No one is getting away his time."