Chapter 29

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Two and a half minutes after they left the car Ward and Clint are at her position.

"Nat, you in place?" Clint ask through the coms.

"Yep." Natasha responds.

"Go." Clint says and he quickly fires two arrows hitting both the guards.

"You really didn't need my help did you?" Ward asks as they get out from their hiding place and head towards the door.

"I'll let you take down Quinn's body guard will that make you feel better?" Clint asks and Ward rolls his eyes as they walk in the house.

"Clear?" Ward asks seeing Natasha.

"Clear." Natasha responds and the three head towards the basement door.

"We're letting Ward go first." Clint tells Natasha.

"We are? Why?" Natasha asks surprised.

"Because he's feeling left out." Clint responds and Ward rolls his eyes and pushes the door open than as soon as he's got two clear shots he fires an ICER at Quinn and his body guard at the same time.

"Nicely done." Clint tells him, "Go get the car, it will take us a couple of minutes to get Mels and Phil up." He instructs and as Natasha and Clint head downstairs, Ward heads up.

In the basement both Melinda and Coulson are unconscious and tied to tables on the opposite sides of the lab. Unsurprisingly Natasha runs to Melinda while Clint goes to Coulson.

"Any ideas on how to get them up?" Clint asks as both he and Natasha begin to un do their respective restraints.

"The simple way." Natasha answers, "Melinda, come on." She says beginning to shake Melinda.

"I've got a better idea." Clint comments, "Phil, your captain America cards are on fire." He says loudly into Coulson's ear.

"Really?" Natasha asks amused when Coulson doesn't wake.

"I had to try." He comments.

"Linda, can you hear me?" Natasha asks when Melinda starts to stir.

"Tasha?" Melinda asks opening her eyes.

"Wow, take it easy Man." Clint tells Coulson as he attempts to sit up.

"What happened?" Coulson asks.

"Quinn got the drop on you." Natasha answers.

"How did you know where we were?" Melinda asks as she also sat up.

"Skye." Clint answers "She's got her memories back and thanks to her powers she was able to tell us some pretty handy information." Clint explains.

"Is she okay?" Melinda asks at the same time that Coulson asks, "What information."

"She's fine." Natasha tells Melinda, "She's in some discomfort because her brain is getting used to having to sets of memories and her, Fitz, and Simmons did receive a visit from Deathlok when we were on our way here." Natasha says not pausing so that Melinda and Coulson can't say anything, "But Skye was able to use her power to render him unconscious and disable the tec in him but how he will react when he does wake is too unpredictable that not even she can predict it." Natasha explains.

"And we know who the mole is, who shot Garrett." Clint tells them.

"Who?" Melinda and Coulson ask together.

"Victoria Hand." Natasha answers, "According to Skye she's Quinn's half Sister, the Clairvoyat's daughter."

"Where is she?" Coulson asks standing up.

"Locked in the interrogation room, but we got another problem too." Natasha says as she helps Melinda up.

"What?" Melinda asks concerned.

"Car's out front, guessing you want me to take Quinn." Ward says walking down the stairs.

"We'll explain everything on the way." Clint says and the five people leave the basement, Clint helping Coulson, Natasha helping Melinda and Ward carrying Quinn.


It has been almost an hour since Clint, Natasha and Ward left the plane and Skye, Fitz and Simons are doing their best to clean up the mess that Mike caused.

"What the hell happened here?" Maria's voice ask.

"Aunt Maria." Skye says happily and she walks over and gives her Aunt a hug.

"Hey Skye." Maria responds, "So what happened?"

"We had a Deathlok visit." Skye explains.

"Are you all alright?" Maria asks concerned looking over Skye, Fitz and Simmons for any sign of injury.

"We're fine, thanks to Skye." Simmons answers.

"You want to explain that one?" Maria asks curious.

"My powers, I was able to use them on Mike." Skye explains.

"Ah, that makes sense." Maria comments, "How you doing? With your memories coming back and everything?"

"I'm good, it's confusing and hurts a bit, but I'm fine." Skye answers.

"A huh, is that why you went from good to find in the space of a single sentence?" Maria asks.

"I really hate having a family full of spies." Skye comments sounding so much like the fifteen year old she is.

"No you don't." Simmons, Fitz and Maria say together.

"Guess you guys know me too well." Skye answers smiling at that thought, "I'm as okay as I can be considering everything, promise."

"Good, I'm going to go have a talk with Hand." Hill says and she heads to the way out of the command centre but Skye is quicker than her and she puts a force field up over the door with her powers.

"Skye, lower the force field." Maria says in a warning tone of voice as she turns to face her.

"Look, I'm all for Hand getting what she deserves for shooting Garrett, I am, but there are better ways than beating the crap out of her." Skye tells her, "And this isn't you Aunt Maria, so please don't go in their alone." Skye requests.

"I want to talk to her before Fury gets here." Maria informs Skye, "When the others get back I will go in there and talk to her with one of them with me, and there is nothing you can do to stop me." Maria tells her niece.

"There is actually, but I won't. I just don't want you to go and do something you'll regret." Skye tells her.

"I'm pretty sure I won't regret that." Maria says walking over and sitting down on one of the chairs as Skye draws the energy from the force field back into herself.

"I'm pretty sure you will." Skye responds and she walks over and sits next to her aunt.


Forty minutes later they are still sitting in the command centre when Clint informs Fitz and Simmons thought the coms that they are two minutes out.

"Your parents will be here in two minutes." Simmons informs Skye and as soon as she does Skye gets up and runs downstairs, Fitz, Simmons and Maria not far behind her.


Skye gets down to the Cargo Bay just as the car is pulling in. As soon as her parents get out she is by their side hugging them both.

"Are you alright?" Skye asks worried.

"We're fine Baby Girl." Coulson assures her, "How are you?" he asks

"Better, you're never allowed to go missing again." Skye informs her parents, "Even though I can find you, I can't go through it again." Skye informs them.

"We'll do our best." Melinda responds as Clint and Natasha walk over to say hello to Maria.

"We've got a problem." Ward says causing everyone to look at him, "Quinn's waking." He reveals.

"Let me handle that." Skye says walking over to the trunk of the car and placing her hand on Quinn's leg.

"What did you just do?" Ward asks when Quinn sleeps deeply once more instead of starting to wake like he was doing.

"Stunned him, unlike his sister I can use my power on him, he'll be out a few hours, probably longer than Mike." Skye explains.

"Are you okay?" Coulson asks concerned.

"Good, just don't worry if I sleep all day tomorrow." Skye tells her father, "Oh and my ageing my slow for a little while because my electrical energy level has to increase back to the level it was before I used a lot of my power today before it will affect my ageing again." She informs everyone.

"Speaking of his sister, where's Hand?" Melinda asks.

"Interrogation room." Fitz answers.

"She was just waking as we came down here." Maria informs them.

"That's because she was sedated with ICERS." Skye tells everyone, "I may be able to sedate a regular person for hours but thanks to the fact that Hand has my power I can only sedate her for minutes." Skye explains.

"I don't know about you guys but I want to have a chat with her." Coulson comments and Natasha, Clint, Melinda and Maria nod.

"Is that a good idea?" Fitz asks worried, "She has power after all." He comments.

"She's weakened." Skye answers, "Pushing out that energy earlier and what I did to her, not to mention the fact that she has so little power, weakened her. She's powerless at the moment, will be for another few hours." Skye tells everyone, "If you want to talk to her, now's the time." She tells her parents Aunts and Uncles.

"Well let's go have our chat then." Natasha comments and everyone heads upstairs.

"What do we do about Quinn?" Ward asks curious as they do.


Up in the interrogation room Victoria has just completely woken up and has forced herself to sit up something that was difficult to do considering the way she is cuffed when the door opens and Coulson, Melinda, Natasha, Clint and Maria walk in, basically the five people you want least to walk into an interrogation room which you are in, but worse than the mere fact that they walked in is the fact that Clint is dragging Ian and he puts him in the opposite corner before all five of them walk over and for a half circle around her.

"You found Quinn, good work. Now do one of you want to explain why I am in here?" Victoria asks.

"Stop lying." Coulson says, "We know everything."

"I don't know what you think you know…" Victoria begins to say but Clint cuts her off.

"The jigs up, we know exactly who you are and what you've done Vic." Clint tells her calling her Vic for the soul reason that he knows how much she hates it.

"Don't call me Vic." She says angrily.

"You were good." Natasha comments acting like she didn't hear her objection, "We're the best and you've had us fooled, but you made one mistake."

"I think she made a lot more than one." Melinda comments.

"True." Natasha admits, "But her biggest was using her power today, using it in front of Skye." Natasha says, "You only have yourself to blame." Natasha tells her, "If you didn't use your power then Skye wouldn't have gotten her memories back and she wouldn't know thanks to her power your real identity." Natasha reveals.

"We know everything Victoria." Hill tells her, "We know that you are Ian Quinn's sister, the Clairvoyant's daughter, a Mole and traitor to S.H.I.E.L.D, and the one who shot John." Maria tells her, "And I want to know why. You and John were friends I know you didn't always get along with the rest of us, but you did with John, he was a friend to you while the rest of us were allies. So why would you shoot, from what I know, the one living friend you had in S.H.I.E.L.D?" Maria asks.

"Because he found out." Victoria tells him, "He found out the truth so I shot him." Victoria says deciding to go all out so that she may have a chance at escape, "Do you want to know what he was like when he was first shot? How he was struggling to breathe and yet he still managed to utter your name?" Victoria asks and Maria starts to advance on her, clearly about to strike her but Melinda and Natasha, who are on either of her sides pull her back.

"Why?" Coulson asks, "Why would do all these horrible things, kidnap Skye, me, torture and turn Mike Peterson into a monster. I thought you were a good person, why would you do that?" Coulson asks.

"Because my family needed me to." Victoria answers simply, "But if I did have another reason I would look closely at yourselves and you will see it." Victoria tells them.

"Us?" Clint ask confused, "What do we have to do with you being a traitor?"

"Everything." Victoria answers, "When I first joined S.H.I.E.L.D I could have gone a different way just like all of you except I wasn't chosen." Victoria says, finally saying what she has wanted to say for years, "You were the dream team, the fab eight, and Fury's favourites. If anyone else in the agency were to do half of what you have done they would be in jail or worse but not you, because you're all so special." Victoria tells them bitterly, "You want to know why I did this? I did this because for once I wanted you to know what consequences were to know how it feels not to be on top, not to have everything handed to you without working, not to be the elite." She says.

"You've obviously not being payed attention if you think we don't work for what we've got." Maria says angrily.

"Oh is that why even though we were in the same class at the academy your now deputy director and I'm not?" Hand asks, "My father and brother wanted to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D, but it was personal for me, I wanted to destroy all of you." Hand reveals.

"Well you didn't do a great job, we're all still standing, and you're not." Melinda says, "Enjoy the fridge." Melinda says and she leaves the room, the others right behind her as they realises there is no point talking to Hand anymore.

As soon as the five walk out Skye walks over to them and pulls them all in for a big group hug, "You looked like you could use it." She comments when they end the hug.

"Thanks Kid, but what I could really use is a drink." Clint comments.

"Well in that case I guess it's a good thing that Mike didn't destroy the bar." Ward comments and everyone walks over to it.

"Can I have one?" Skye asks curious as Coulson starts to pour.

"No." Coulson, Melinda, Clint and Natasha respond.

"You may have your memories back but you're still only fifteen." Coulson tells her.

"I had to try." Skye comments with a shrug, "And because I'm such a good person I'm not even going to mention how much of a hypocrites you are all being considering what you all did as teenagers." Skye informs her parents, Uncle and Aunt, "Anyone else want water?" she asks.

"Me." Fitz and Simmons reply and Skye heads to the kitchen.

"You know considering one of us will have to fly this plane at some point we shouldn't drink too much." Maria comments.

"Lisbon." Clint says simply putting any further conversation on the topic to an end.


A couple of hours and a couple of hours later to everyone's shock Fury arrives, but it's not the fact that the director arrived that surprised everyone but rather it is the fact that he isn't alone

"Uncle Tony, Uncle Steve, Uncle Bruce, Aunt Pepper, John? What are you all doing here?" Skye asks surprised, as everyone stands up, every single person on the plane surprised by just who has showed up because they were only expecting Fury.

"Before you became a kid again I made you a promise and I thought you would want all of them here when I saw it through." Fury informs Skye.

"You don't mean…?" Skye asks surprised.

"I do." Fury says pulling something out of his pocket and opening it to reveal a S.H.I.E.L.D badge, with Skye's ID badge at the top, "If you still want it." He comments.

"Of course I do." Skye tells him then notices something that the ID has on it, "Level two?" Skye asks surprised.

"You know more classified information that most level six agents and have done more field work than the typical level four Coms agent. I wouldn't be comfortable with you being anything below level two." Fury informs Skye, "But you're going to have to work your way up yourself, are you ready for that?" He asks.

"Yes." Skye answers.

"But not until she is an adult again right?" Coulson asks, "You will not be sending my daughter on any missions until she is over eighteen again." He tells Fury.

"Dad." Skye says in a drawn out tone.

"I won't." Fury tells him and Melinda "Are you ready to be an official Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D Skye?" he asks.

"Yes." Skye tells her godfather.

"Good, raise your right hand and repeat after me." Fury requests and that's what Skye does, "I, May Skye Philippa Coulson."

"I, May Skye Philippa Coulson." Skye repeats.

"Swear to serve when everything else fails."

"Swear to serve when everything else fails." Skye repeats.

"To be humanity's last line of defence, to be the shield."

"To be humanity's last line of defence, to be the shield." Skye repeats resisting the urge to make a comment as she knows that it's not the time.

"I make this oath without reservations."

"I make this oath without reservations." Skye repeats looking around and seeing smiles on everyone's faces.

"And I vowel to uphold it to the best of my ability until such as time when I am unable to do so."

"And I vowel to uphold it to the best of my ability until such as time when I am unable to do so." Skye repeats.

"As the Director of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics division, it is my honour and privilege to welcome you, May Skye Philippa Coulson to S.H.I.E.L.D." Fury says handing Skye the badge and shaking her hand, "Congratulations, you're now an officially a member of SHIELD, Agent Coulson." Fury tells his goddaughter as Skye uses the handshake to pull her godfather into a hug and everyone else claps.

"I'm a child of S.H.I.E.L.D I've always been a part of it, but it's nice for it to be official." Skye comments looking down and the badge once her godfather ends the hug with her, "And I'm glad you were all here to see it." Skye says looking up at the people around her who are what she always wanted, her family, something she never thought she would have but now can't imagine her life without. One by one, starting with her parents, everyone comes up and congratulates her on officially becoming an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D as they do Skye realises that this is the start of a new chapter of her life.

The End

AN3: THERE IS AN EPILOGUE TO COME TOMORROW.

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