AN: Hello! Yes I know, a chapter yesterday and a chapter today. My weekend is booked solid and there will be early chapters next week to since I'm flying to England on Wednesday. Well, lets just start this chapter of.

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Daisy/Skye POV

"The one on the left is Akela Amador's. Hayward's is on the right." Fitz started to say, pointing towards the screen where two photos were showing. "Now, his prosthetic was slightly damaged, but based on digital reconstruction, we can now confirm that the technology is virtually identical." Fitz continued, looking back at the rest of us.

"Hayward's prosthetic has the same internal power source, backscatter capabilities, and biomechanics as Amador." He then added. "So, Centipede also designed the eye implant?" Ward asked, and Fitz nodded his head. "These guys are serious multitaskers." I could not help but to mumble to myself, I could feel how May looked at me when she heard it.

"Who's Akela Amador?" Mike then asked, looking around himself. "Former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, the first person we encountered with this eye technology, a good agent who was forced to do some bad things. We helped her." Coulson explained, and Mike nodded his head.

"Kind of a pattern with you guys. So then..." Mike then started to say, only to groan a little when he tried to move. "Those soldiers at the warehouse were forced to attack us through that eye thing?" He then continued to ask, only to have Coulson nod his head once more.

"They were getting orders. When the tide turned in our favor, Centipede flipped Hayward's kill switch, told the other guys to run." He explained, turning his head to look at Fitz once more. "Can you track the eye feed like before, find their location?" He then asked.

"Nope ... they've upgraded since Amador. Their feed's untraceable now." Fitz explained with a shake of his head. "Their technology keeps advancing at a disturbingly rapid pace. They must have endless manpower, resources." Simmons pointed out. "And someone with a fat wallet." I could not help but to say.

"Po's the strategist. Raina's the recruiter. Perhaps this Clairvoyant's the money." May guessed, a few heads nodded in agreement to that. "Whoever's behind them may or may not be psychic, but they're one step ahead of us every time. I need to update HQ. This is bigger than we thought." Coulson pointed out with a deep sigh. "You are all dismissed for now." He then added before walking out from the command center.

The team slowly left the command center, all of them heading into different direction. Standing still for a few minutes I started to follow May to the cockpit. Seeing that the door was still open I could not help but to smile, walking inside I closed it behind me and deactivated the mask.

"How are you keeping up?" May asked without even looking towards me. "Still want to be out there to help, to protect." I answered as I walked over to the co-pilot seat. "Don't say that I'm helping out and protecting from the BUS because it doesn't feel that way. Mike got badly hurt and so could the rest of you, if I had been there the chances would have been even smaller." I then added before May had a chance to answer me.

Glancing to the side I could see how May was looking at me with an odd expression on her face. "What?" I asked her, fully turning my head towards her. "It's nothing." May answered as she turned her eyes towards the sky in front of them. "No, it's something. What is it?" I pressured, crossing my arms in the progress.

"You just sounded like Natasha when she was not allowed out in the field." May then told me and I could not help but to smile. "Well, what can I say? I love my crazy aunt." I answered, making May snort at that. "Don't let her hear that." May pointed out and I rolled my eyes. "Please, I'm not Stark. I actually value my life." I told her, smiling big.

May shook her head at that, a smile had managed to find its way to her lips. "Everyone is needed in the command center, now!" Coulson's voice then said over the intercom, making me and May look at one another once more. "This doesn't sound good." I commented as I activated the mask once more and May put the BUS on autopilot.

Heading to the command center, I could see that May and I were the first ones to get there. Coulson and Mike were behind us with just a few seconds and FitzSimmons and Ward a minute after that. "They want a trade ... Ace for his father. They've set a time and a place." Coulson told us, jumping directly to the point.

I could hear how someone one was mumbling bloody savages and I clenched my fist. I could hear how the others were talking around me. However, I couldn't really hear what they were saying at this moment. "We don't have a choice. The instructions they gave Mr. Peterson were very specific. I called HQ, told them to stand down." Coulson suddenly said, he had added more volume to his voice so that he could get Fitz, Simmons and Ward to stop talking.

"Stand down?" Ward asked, it was clear that he was not very happy over this. "So, we take them alone." Simmons pointed out, it being clear that she was worried. "We should at least have a hostage-rescue unit in support of this." Ward pointed out and both Fitz and Simmons nodded their heads. "We do." I said shortly before Coulson or Mike had a chance to say anything.

Looking towards Mike, my eyes were narrowed. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you or your son." I then told him. "Daisy!" I could hear May say behind me and I turned around to look at her. "No, it's either him or me and I won't let him be a lab rat!" I told her, crossing my arms as I do. "We both know it will be easier for me to get out of there then it is for him!" I then added, and I could see how May narrowed her eyes.

"I'm not letting you of this BUS! I have my orders and I will be sure that you keep them." May answered, now standing right in front of me. "I need to be out there!" I told her leaving no room for argument, turning around I started to walk towards the door. "Daisy Ming Johnson!" May called out, making me freeze up in my movement.

Slowly turning around, I looked at her with narrowed eyes once more. "Don't pull that one! You should know that the best chance we have to keep a small child and Mike alive and well is to send me! There is no other way out, either you are with me or I'll do it by myself." I told May in a low voice, suddenly speaking in Mandarin instead of English.

"There is always another way, you are to stay on the BUS even if I have to lock you into the investigation room. I don't want you anywhere near this kind of people." May answered, even she had switched to Mandarin and I could feel how the team was looking at the two of us. "There is no other way! I have to do this! My mind is made up and there is nothing you can do to change it." I explained to May once more and I could feel how I was shaking.

"Daisy is to come with us." Coulson suddenly said, making both me and May turn out heads towards him. Both of us were surprised by this. "Maria's orders." Coulson then added as he looked towards May and I could not help but to smile at that. "However, Daisy is to wait in the car during the whole thing. Maria was sure to point out that you are not allowed to do something stupid if it's a matter of life and death you are allowed to act." Coulson the said, looking towards me this time.

"No heroic acts or stupid sacrifices are allowed." He then pointed out, my smile was gone, and eyes narrowed. "No buts." Coulson quickly said when he had realized I was about to say just that. "Suit up and get ready, one wrong move would mean the end of a young boy's life and that's something we can't let happen." Coulson then said, looking at the whole team.

I could see how the others nodded their heads and I just turned around to head for my bunk. Reaching it, I locked the door behind me. Trying to take a few deep breaths, I hit the door hard with my hand, ignoring the pain. Closing my eyes, I tried to remember what Bruce and Natasha had told me about letting my emotion take the best of me and I somehow managed to calm down.

Opening my eyes once more I turned around, pulling out the box with my mission suit and changed into it.

-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-

Sitting beside May in the SUV I could not look away from Coulson and Mike. Seeing how they were walking towards Raina and the last two super soldiers she had left me to feel uncertain. "Am I the only one that can hear Admiral Ackbar say it's a trap in my head?" I asked in a low voice, feeling how May, Fitz and Simmons looked at me.

It had been the first thing I had said since I had left the command center, I did see the worried looks from both Fitz and May whenever they thought I wasn't looking. Neither of the three commented on my comment and I could see how they went back to do what they did earlier from the corner of my eye.

Suddenly seeing Mike take a grip around Raina's thought made me tense up in my seat. Leaning towards the car door I got ready to run if needed, there was no way I would let anything bad happen to either Mike or Ace. Not if I had anything to say about it. However, I relaxed once I saw Ace.

"I take it that is Ace." I commented, and I could hear how FitzSimmons let out a sigh of relief behind me. "On my mark, activate comms and tracker." May told them and I could see how the two nodded their heads. However, my eyes were locked in the scene in front of us once more. "Something isn't right here." I said in a low voice.

"What happened? They've taken Coulson." Ward commented through the com system, making my blood turn into ice. "All right, call it in. We need backup." May answered him and she quickly pulled out her phone. "I have a shot." Ward told her, and I could see and almost feel how May was getting angry. "Do not engage. They'll kill Coulson. Stand down. I'll contact HQ." She told him once more and a second later I had opened up the car door and was on my way out.

This was now or never. However, I didn't get far. Mike was suddenly in front of me with Ace, pushing the young boy towards me. "Ace, I've got to make something right. Daddy loves you so much, okay? Stay with Skye. You remember Skye, right?" Mike told his son, keeping a low voice so that it was just Ace and I that could hear him speak.

"Keep him safe. Take care of my boy!" Mike then added, looking up at me with narrowed eyes before he turns around and ran towards the spot where Coulson and Raina were. Halfway to the spot, an explosion suddenly goes off having Mike right in the middle of it. "No! Mike!" I could hear myself scream out, hugging Ace towards me to make sure the young boy didn't see anything.

Hearing the sound of a helicopter taking off, I looked up at the sky and I could almost feel how my legs were failing me. "Oh, my god." I whispered in a low voice. "Coulson!" I called out, the fear suddenly hitting me in full force. This wasn't supposed to happen, Coulson was not the one they should have taken, it should have been me.

Falling down to my knees, I kept holding on to Ace as a last resort. I had just sent a good man into his death, a young boy had now lost a father that loved him with all his heart and Coulson. Coulson had nothing to do with Centipede, it was me they wanted. It had always been me and now I had sent the man I once saw as a father into the belly of the beast with no way out.