Chapter 15
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AN2: I AM SO SORRY. I never intended to stop writing this story. Over the next few weeks/month or so I am going to try to go back and write more of all the stories I haven't written in a while. (which if by the way there is a particular story you would love me to try to continue first let me know) I am starting with this one and hope you like what is to come. Some of these chapters I wrote months ago but have edited in the last day or so.
At the Hub, thanks to the control Hand has, the Quinjet carrying Sharon, Hope, Hand, Tony, and Trip lands just as Steve is making his speech. Seeing the Captain on every screen the group of five de-plane.
"I'll do a check of the entire Hub, give us an idea of what we're facing, where everyone is, and meet you in operations," Hope reveals, looking between the others, having had an idea of the basic layout of the Hub as Hand showed her blueprints.
"How are you going to do that?" Tony asks curious
"Like this," Hope says, before putting her helmet on and making herself tiny.
"Oh we are so going to talk about that," Tony mutters as Hope flies away, feeling very interested in the technology.
"Let's go," Sharon says, pulling her weapon, as Hand does the same and they start to walk, Tony in his iron man suit.
At the Triskelion Carol and Steve are fighting the insight crew, also known as Hydra agents, hand to hand, both of them easily winning.
"Nat, I need your knowledge for a second," Carol reveals.
"Sure, what do you need?" Natasha asks curious, as she starts to type on the computer.
"I'm going to use my powers to blow up the Helicairrers, will that damage the building?" Carol asks curious.
"Potentially, but most likely it will flood the insight bay first. You and Rogers will have to get out fast," Natasha explains.
"Not a problem," Carol responds. "I'll give you a chance to do your thing then let them blow," Carol responds.
"Okay," Natasha says, as she continues to type, carefully checking the type of files she is going to release and making and having already sent a warning to every undercover agent. Due to the fact that she comes from sixteen years in the future she can do a lo of things in the system in a very short amount of time, even if it does seem ridiculously slow to her.
"You know if you do this none of your past will stay hidden…" Pierce starts to say, trying anything he can think of to get Natasha to stop what she is doing.
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard it before. You don't have to repeat yourself," Natasha says, sounding board as she ignores pierce and continues what she is doing, as Maria and Fury keep their guns pointed at Pierce.
At the Academy the team have just landed and are all in the cargo bay together; as they are waiting for the ramp to be lowered Simmons is double checking Fitz vest, while she also makes sure Daisy is comfortable in her new suit.
"So, what's the plan?" Daisy asks, and Coulson goes to answers, but then he realises that Daisy isn't looking at him, he's looking at May and her question was clearly directed to her.
"Jemma, do you know where Weaver took the cadets she was trying to protect?" Melinda asks curious.
"Yes," Simmons says, with a nod.
"Okay, then I want you and Fitz to go there. Tell Weaver what's going on, that we're here, she trusts you so she'll listen" Melinda requests.
"Okay," Simmons says, with a nod.
"We're going alone?" Fitz asks surprised, as he is used to only doing things like this with someone who can protect him.
"Don't worry, Fitz. I'll protect us," Simmons assures him, knowing that that is what Fitz is worried about.
"Damn right you will," Melinda says, smiling proudly at her. "Daisy, Phil, we'll take the perimeter, spread out, fight when we have to," Melinda explains and as she does both Daisy and Phil nod.
Even though it is a new experience having Melinda be the one who is giving the orders, the instructions, as he has always formally outranked her, Phil can't deny the fact that the leadership roll suits his best friend.
"Let's move out," Phil says, and that's exactly what they do, though he can't help but notice the looks Daisy, Melinda, and Simmons exchange, and while he can't be sure he thinks it almost looks like they are remembering what each other looks like.
Near the Iliad Bobbi, Hunter, Clint, Valkyrie and Izzy are making their final approach so that they can land on the deck of the ship.
"So, what exactly are we going to do?" Izzy asks curious.
"We're going to take control of the ship from the Hydra agents then we're going to get every SHIELD agent off and then sink the ship," Bobbi explains. "Mack's on the ship, he was okay last time," Bobbi says, looking between Hunter and Izzy.
"Then he will be this time," Izzy says, as she firmly believes that.
"Just a question, why are we sinking the ship?" Hunter asks curious as that doesn't make sense to him.
"Because there is something that needs to be destroyed," Bobbi says, hoping that explains enough, as she doesn't have the time to explain the real issues. "When we get people of the ship we tell them to go to the Hub or …. Hang on," Bobbi says, as she gets an idea. "Fury, you there?" Bobbi asks, though the coms.
"Yeah," Fury says, without moving his gun away from Pierce.
"The Playground, is it suitable for people? Is Billy there?" Bobbi asks curious.
"Yes, to both," Fury answers, not letting his surprise that Bobbi knows about those two things show, plus when he thinks about it he realises that it makes sense.
"Then I'm going to send people there, Billy can clear them, and they can decide what to do next," Bobbi explains, knowing it will be handy to have Quinjets at the Playground, even if they will likely use The Base as their HQ.
"Okay," Fury says, puling his phone and sending a message to Billy, as well as Sam and Eric, all without lowering his gun.
"Great," Bobbi says. "May, Daisy, Simmons, Sharon, you hear that? We're sending SHIELD agents to the Playground," Bobbi says, knowing that only them will know what the place is.
"Yes,"
"Yep.
"Of course."
"Make sense," Melinda, Daisy, Simmons, and Sharon respectively respond.
"We'll meet there when this is done, all of us," Natasha instructs, knowing that it would be best as like the others from the future she isn't prepared to give up the Base just yet.
"Okay, so we'll send people to a secret base of Fury's," Bobbi explains, talking to Izzy, Clint, and Hunter.
"That you just happen to know about?" Clint asks curious.
"It was home for a while," Bobbi explains, with a shrug, like it's no big deal, and the others realise they don't have time to question that.
"We should move in. We've got a lot of work to do," Valkyrie says, as she walks out from the cockpit as she has landed them on the deck, away from the other Quinjets so that it is clear which one is theirs.
"You're right, let's go," Bobbi comments.
"I never get tired of hearing that,"' Valkyrie responds, with a smirk, as she heads out the plane with the others right behind her.
As Fury gave them codes to give to the guards at the Fridge Thor, Bruce, Hank, and Rhodey were able to get inside, and the four of them are waiting just inside the doors of the only entrance, waiting prepared to act against Hydra or whoever else may come.
A few minutes after they left the others Melinda, Daisy and Phil are checking the perimeter, and as they do Melinda and Daisy can't help but think the same thing.
"It's too quiet," Daisy tells Melinda, who just nods.
"Maybe that means things are different this time," Phil comments, though he isn't sure if he believes that.
"That would be nice," Melinda comments, and as Daisy does she sees movement and so she fires her gun towards where the movement came from, knowing it will miss anyone if they were there.
Seconds after Daisy fires a tree flies into the air, ripped out of the ground, revealing a person, a man, who clearly is the one who moved the tree. Before Coulson even realises what is going on Melinda and Daisy are moving and by working by a team, and before the man has a chance to react, and before Phil can make sense of what he is seeing, the man is lying unconscious on the ground with Melinda and Daisy standing before him.
"Wow," Coulson says, as he looks at Daisy and Melinda in amazement.
"We should split up, we've lost the element of surprise," Melinda tells Daisy.
"Yep," Daisy says, and after looking between Melinda and Coulson, two people she really doesn't want to lose, she heads off on her own.
"May…" Coulson says, and as he does Melinda knows exactly what he is going to say.
"She can handle herself, we taught her well," Melinda assures Coulson before walking in another direction.
At the Triskelion Natasha is almost finished getting all the files she wants to release to the public. As she is being more careful than last time, for very good reasons, it is a process that has taken longer than it did the first time.
"How much longer?" Fury asks Natasha curious, as considering she has done this before he would have expected it to be a shorter process.
"Almost done," Natasha reveals as while she knows she is risking Pierce being able to get the advantage by being more cautious about the files she is releasing she also knows that it is necessary. "Okay, time for the rental scans," Natasha says, and once she speaks Fury drags Pierce to the scanner, and both of their renal scans occur. "And it's trending," Natasha says, just as the door opens and Rumlow and members of the strike team burst in. "Oh, this is going to be fun," Natasha says, with a smirk, as she has been wanting a re-match with Rumlow ever since Lagos.
"Take them, take them all," Pierce says, and in response Natasha just shoots him in the chest.
"Bring it on, boys," Natasha says, as she comes out from behind the computer, and she, Maria, and Fury all start to fight the group, Natasha going straight to Rumlow as she really wants to be the one to take him down.
At the Hub Hand, Tony, Trip, and Sharon have fought their way through the building, and they have finally made it to the operations centre. Just as they enter the operations centre, all four of them prepared for a fight, they see Hope fighting Sitwell, and with a seamless transition from being tiny to being big Hope shoots Sitwell with her blaster, killing him.
"About time you guys got here," Hope comments, though she does look glad.
"Well you know what Hydra is like, they don't make things easy," Sharon comments.
"Yeah, about that, I found no sign of that Garrett guy," Hope explains. "I had to look at flight logs and no plane registered to him landed," Hope explains.
"Great, that's going to be a problem," Trip says the sarcasm in his voice being easy to detect.
"Yeah, we've got more of those," Hope reveals. "This guy, Sitwell, sent Hydra agents to the Fridge, and there's a couple of teams on their way to this room right now," Hope explains.
"Stark, you got to get to the Fridge, give them backup," Hand says, looking at Tony, knowing he will be able to get there in time to actually help.
"No way, I'm not leaving," Tony comments.
"Tony, we can handle this," Sharon says, looking at him, and feeling pretty sure that she is the one person in the current group who have a chance to get through to him right now. "This is Hydra, but no powered people, it's not the same at the Fridge," Sharon explains.
"Sharon's right, Tony. If Hydra lets those prisoners free, if they get those weapons and tech, it will be catastrophic. They need you more than us," Hope explains.
Hearing the words Tony looks between Hope and Sharon, the ladder of whom he has known since she was six days old, he knows, as much as he doesn't like it, that they are right.
"Okay," Tony says, before putting a mask down and after giving one last look at the people he is leaving behind, an action he feels incredibly guilty for, her flies out of the Hub.
On the Iliad Bobbi, Hunter, Valkyrie, Izzy and Clint have fought there way to where Mack and others are being held. As they have an Asgardian on their side it is a lot easier than the last time Bobbi lived through this.
"Damn Barbra, it's good to see you," Mack says, as he gets to his feet.
"You have no idea," Bobbi says, confusing Mack by hugging him.
"And you brought an Avenger with you?" Mack says, as he and Bobbi break apart. "And…. You are?" Mack asks, looking at Valkyrie.
"Mack, there is a lot going on that you don't know, and I will fill you in later," Bobbi assures him, as she knows now is not the time to do that. "But for now, what you need to know is this is Brunnhilde, an Asgardian Valkyrie, and someone I completely trust," Bobbi explains, hoping that her trust in Valkyrie will help Mack get over the issues with Alien's that he still has in this time.
"Okay," Mack says, feeling extremely confused, as Bobbi picks up a piece of paper, and quickly starts to right.
"Here Agent. This is the coordinate to a safe place," Bobbi says, passing the piece of paper to one of the agents she knows can be trusted. "We're going to send people to the deck, pass it around to people once you're sure they're not Hydra. If I'm not on the deck in an hour leave, with as many people as possible," Bobbi requests.
"Yes Ma'am," The Agent responds.
"Any Quinjets that aren't full send to the academy. They're going to need help evacuating," Bobbi orders.
"Yes Ma'am," The Agents responds.
"Good plan, we'll need the help," Simmons says, through the coms, having heard what Bobbi said as she opened the coms connection.
"Go," Izzy responds, looking between all the agents in the room other than Mack.
"Okay, what are we going to do?" Mack asks curious, there being no question about him staying with them rather than going with the agents.
"We're getting all the SHIELD agents of this boat and then sinking it," Hunter explains, as while he still doesn't completely understand Bobbi's reasons for doing that he knows that she must have pretty good ones, and despite what he may have said in the past he trusts her.
"Which is gonna be easier said than done," Clint comments.
After leaving Phil, having gone in a different direction than the one Daisy went in, Melinda has continued to patrol the perimeter, having fought more than a few Hydra agents while doing her check. After taking down two Hydra agents, who have clearly only just been recruited, Melinda is about to head to the boiler room, where she assumes Simmons and Weaver are, when her phone goes off with an alert that tells her the Cage door has been opened.
"Garrett," Melinda grows, and knowing exactly what she has to do Melinda runs back towards the bus, which is a fair distance away.
After pushing herself as far as possible Melinda gets to the Bus in time to see Ward and Garrett running down an alley near the jet. As she knows that she cannot let them escape Melinda chases after the pair.
Once she is close enough Melinda moves quickly and pushes off the wall to jump onto Ward, and in a single motion, before he has a chance to push her off, or fight her, Melinda stabs a knife into Ward's chest, killing him.
"NO!" Garrett yells, as Melinda pushes Ward's body to the ground and lands on her feet.
"Yes," Melinda says back, and she starts to fight Garrett.
Due to knowing what Garrett is dealing with Melinda is purposely aiming all her blows to his weak spots, which causes her to easily get the advantage.
"It's gonna be great to finally kill you," Garrett tells Melinda. "I've been wanting to do this for years," Garrett reveals.
"Don't get ahead of yourself," Melinda says as she as ducks and purposely pulls on the plate that is protecting Garrett's insides, because she has already damaged that with previous blows she is able to get it free.
"How do you keep doing that?" Garrett asks as he pushes Melinda away.
"You're not the only clairvoyant," Melinda responds, as she pulls her gun at Garrett and fires at him, hitting the exposed components and causing the pouch that is holding the centipede serum to explode; spraying Melinda. Before she can react to that, or check to make sure that Garrett has been killed the building next to Melinda is hit with a missile and part of the wall falls onto both Melinda and Garett's body, pinning them.
Even though it is not as fast of a suit as the ones the visitors from the future knew Tony speeds to the Fridge from the Hub. As he gets closer he sees a Quinjet approaching, with it's guns out.
"J, can you confirm that the plane was launched from the Hub?" Tony asks curious.
"I can Sir," JARVIS responds. "I can also confirm that it is the jet that Miss Van Dyne discovered had Hydra members inside," JARVIS explains.
"Good enough for me," Tony says, as he uses his weapons to blow the plane out of the air before landing on the roof of the Fridge.
On the Iliad Bobbi was sad to find, despite everything he did in their timeline, that Gonzales was killed in this version of events. As they worked to clear and take control of every one of the decks, something that Valkyrie helped with immensely Bobbi, Valkyrie, Mack, Hunter, Clint and Izzy have finally made it to the room where the monolith is being held, the place they have left to last.
"So this is the thing you're so hot and bothered about," Hunter comments. "What's the big deal? It's just a rock?" He asks, then the Monolith turns to liquid before their very eyes.
"I'd say that's more than a rock," Clint comments, looking surprised, as even though he has been talking to people from the future this seems like something even stranger.
"It's a portal," Bobbi explains. "To a hell world where a devil lives," Bobbi explains, feeling like explaining things in the most simple way is best.
"How do you know that?" Mack asks, feeling confused, not being able to help but be pretty uncomfortable about the devil comment.
"She's from the future, Valkyrie, and like seven other people, too," Hunter explains, and Mack looks shocked, like he can't believe what he is hearing.
"Thanks Hunter," Bobbi says sarcastically. "Look Mack, I'll fill you in later, but now you all have to get upstairs," Bobbi explains, as they have cleared all the decks, and gotten as many people as they are going to get out.
"We're not leaving you, Bobbi," Clint argues.
"Barton's right, there is no way," Izzy says, as while she is still tyring to understand everything that is going on what she doesn't have to understand is that she will not leave her friend.
"Look, I need to do this. This…. damn rock caused horror and heartache, I need it to be destroyed," Bobbi explains, her voice showing how passionately she means that, as she pulls out a bit of explosive she collected.
"Bobbi, let me," Valkyrie says, walking over to her.
"Brunn…" Bobbi starts to say, looking at her friend.
"I'm faster than you, and you know it," Valkyrie reminds her. "I can get out, and even if I can't I can survive the explosion. Let me do this," Valkyrie says, staking out her hand to take the explosive. "You know I'm right, Barbra" Valkyrie tells her.
"Yeah, and I hate that, just as much as I hate it when you call me Barbra," Bobbi says, reluctantly handing the explosives over. "But you're going to get out, not get caught up," Bobbi tells her. "I don't want to lose someone else I care about," Bobbi explains, surprising Mack, Hunter, and Izzy with the vulnerability she is showing.
"I know," Valkyrie says, giving her a comforting smile. "Go. I'll wait fifteen minutes and then set the explosion, and run like hell," Valkyrie explains as Izzy, Hunter, Clint, and Mack head to the door.
"You better run fast," Bobbi tells Valkyrie, not making an effort to move.
"You know I will," Valkyrie says and the two of them exchange smiles.
"Bob, come on," Hunter says, and Bobbi, quite reluctantly, heads out of the room with the others, leaving Valkyrie behind and desperately hoping that Valkyrie sticks to her word and runs fast.
After the wall falls on her Melinda feels pain, and a lot of it. Looking over Melinda sees that Garrett, who is lying very close to her, is dead, and because she knows he hasn't had the GH325 in this time Melinda knows that he is actual dead.
As she doesn't want the people she cares about to worry Melinda turns off her coms and starts to work on moving the pieces of the wall off her. Without too much trouble Melinda is able to move off the pieces that landed on her side, and she is pretty sure that it didn't cause too much damage, but as she tires to move Melinda realises that her right leg is pinned, but a huge piece of wall, and that her right leg is one places she isn't feeling pain from; which Melinda knows doesn't mean anything good.
Looking around for something to help Melinda sees a figure walking towards her, a figure she recognizes,
"Mike,"
Back at the Triskelion Carol and Steve have basically defeated all the members of the Insight crew, and other Hydra members who have been converging on the hanger. Due to the strength and power that both Steve and Carol posses they have been able to defeat both the Insight crew and other Hydra members, without much trouble.
"Nat? You ready for me to destroy these things?" Carol asks through the coms curious.
"Definitely," Natasha responds, as she sets of an evacuation alarm. While she knows it is probably not going to do much she still figured it was worth a try.
"Rogers, get up to the top floor, with the others, now," Carol instructs, as while she can fly she knows Steve can't.
"What are you going to do?" Steve asks curious.
"Blow up the Helicarriers, you're not going want to be around when I do that," Carol explains.
"Okay," Steve says, before jogging to the elevator.
Once Carol is sure that the elevator would have travelled up to the top floor Carol says photon blasts at each of the three helicarriers, causing a pretty big explosion which floods the hanger, and causes some pretty significant damage to the building. Acting quickly Carol flies out of the hanger and straight to the top floor where Natasha, Maria, Fury and Steve are, all four of them looking unharmed.
"We should get out of here," Carol reveals.
"No need to tell us twice," Natasha responds, and they head out to where the Jet is parked, and head straight for the Playground, not knowing that they are going to be the first of the five teams to get there.
