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This chapter is based off of agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1 episode 21. If you haven't watched, you should.


Chapter 17 Ragtag

I walk into the hotel. I see Fitz and Simmons sitting their feet dipping into the pool. I see Trip eating a bag of snacks. Skye sees me. "Declan," Skye says.

"Hey, Coulson called. Figured that you guys could use all the help you can get," I say.

"Ward's…," Skye says.

"HYDRA," I say, completing her sentence. "Coulson told me,"

"How come you didn't know before? That Ward was HYDRA?" Skye asks.

"Can we have this talk in private," I say, my eyes pointing at Trip on the word "private".

"No. How come you didn't know?" Skye asks.

I sigh, turning my head away. "I knew," I whisper.

"What?" she asks.

"I knew that Ward, Garrett and a few others were HYDRA for months," I say.

Jemma and Fitz get out of the pool and walk over. "And you didn't tell us we had a psychopath on our plane," Jemma says.

"What's going on out here," Coulson asks, coming out of a hotel room

"He knew Ward was HYDRA for months," Skye says.

"Look guys I can explain. But not here. Not in front of him," I say, my eyes pointed at Trip again.

"You can say whatever you're going to say to him as well," Jemma says.

"Fine," I mutter. "If I told you that Ward, Garrett and the others were HYDRA, there would be ramifications. I was only trying to protect you...," I say.

"Protect us, by what? Not telling us about a psychopath in our lives?" Skye asks.

"Look, listen to whatever I've got to say, and if your still angry afterwards you can shout at me all you want, okay?" I ask. Coulson nods. "If I had told you, then you would've kicked Ward off of the team, and then he wouldn't be there to save you guys. And I couldn't be there with you because I have to stop the apocalyptic future," I explain.

"Apocalyptic future?" Trip asks, Jemma.

"He's from the future," Jemma explains.

"Look, all I was trying to do was protect you guys. That's all," I say.

"I'm sorry for shouting at you," Skye says.

"Don't worry, I can understand why you were mad," I say.


Time skip.

Fitz, Jemma, Skye, who's on her laptop and me watch the news. "Eye witnesses claim the assailant smashed through several walls before killing Colombia's most notorious drug lord. Alejandro Castillo, AKA El Dogo. Speculation continues as to whether this superhuman assassination was carried out by a man, monster or machine," The news reporter says.

Fitz turns off the TV. "The correct answer is "D." all of the above," Fitz says. Fitz then turns to us. "What the hell is Deathlok doing in Bogota?"

"And why would he kill a drug lord with known ties to HYDRA?" Jemma asks.

"Well if they really are in Colombia, then Garrett and our hijacked plane might not be in American airspace. I have to expand the search," Skye says.

Coulson knocks on the door gaining our attention. "Guys, you wanna come in here for a minute?" Coulson asks. We walk into the room with Coulson and May, and see a chart. "This is just about everything we've been dealing with," Coulson says, referring to the chart. "And this," he says, writing in the circle in the middle of the chart, the word "Cybertek." "And this connects them all," he adds. "Cybertek built Deathlok," he says, drawing a line connecting the Cybertek and Deathlok bubbles. "Shipped items to Quinn," he says, drawing another line connecting Cybertek and Quinn bubbles. "who was working with the clairvoyant," he says, drawing a line connecting the Quinn and Clairvoyant bubbles. "Who turned out to be Garrett," he says, connecting that bubble to the Garrett and Ward bubble. "Who planted Ward on our bus," he says, drawing a line connecting the Garrett and Ward bubble to the bus bubble. "Because he wanted to know why I didn't stay dead," he adds, connecting the bus circle and the GH.325. "I should've drawn another chart for this part," Coulson says.

"No, I get it. Garrett's been developing the Centipede serum all this time," Fitz says.

"Yes," Coulson says.

"And he must want the GH.325 as a final ingredient," I say. "So he can stabilize and regenerate his Centipede soldiers," I say.

"And it's why Ward came back for the hard drive. It had all the research about Coulson and Skye. It's all on there," May says.

"And it's not the only thing on there. Skye left them a little surprise," Coulson says.

"A Trojan horse. It's been slowly mapping every system they've uploaded it to," Skye says.

Both Fitz and Simmons congratulate Skye, and I couldn't quite make out what they were saying.

"Yeah, thanks. Except it doesn't work that way because I didn't have enough time to build it, so we need to plug this into one of their computers to activate it," Skye says, pulling out a USB. "Spoiler alert, we can't seem to find one," Skye says.

"I think we have," May says. We all turn to her. "Garrett and Cybertek have been working together for years. If it's on Garrett's system…," May starts.

"It's on Cybertek's," Skye finishes.

"Which is why where going into one of their offices," May says.

"We have no authority to do this. We are no longer S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, we're…," Coulson starts.

"We're vigilantes," Fitz finishes.

"I was gonna say, "We're doing this because it's the right thing to do," but, yeah," Coulson corrects. "So if you're with me, I'm gonna finish what I started. I'll be damned if I'm gonna let Garrett and Ward get away with murder. And I want my plane back," he says.

"Great speech," I say.


Time skip.

Fitz, Skye, and me are lying on benches, and Coulson's walking over, talking to someone on the phone. "Okay. We'll see you this afternoon," Coulson tells the person on the other side of the phone. "We're on with the R&D department up at Cybertek's Palo Alto offices," he says to us. Fitz makes a sad nose banging his head up against the bench.

"It'll be okay, Fitz. No matter how deep they dig, they'll only find the new identities I've created," Skye says.

"It's not that. It's the idea of giving them access to all of our designs," Fitz says.

"We're not actually giving them anything. We just need to get inside so we can plug Skye's flash drive into one of their computers. You don't have to go," Coulson says.

"It's not that either. It's Ward," Fitz says. I groan. "What if Garrett put an exploding eye into him to control him? Maybe that's why he betrayed us," Fitz says.

"I'm pretty sure there's a much simpler reason. He's evil," Skye says.

"Well don't believe people are born evil," Fitz says.

"They aren't," I say, gaining their attention. "The people, influences around them, the choices they make, they determine whether someone's good or evil," I say. "And Garrett, well let me just say, he isn't that good of an influence," I explain.

Trip then gets here. "Sorry it took so long. My mom's real sentimental about granddad's Howling Commando stuff," Trip says, holding a yellow brief case.


Time skip.

"Now Trip was generous enough to offer up some of his granddad's spy tech to help us out," Coulson says, as Trip opens the case to reveal a lot of stuff that looks like normal junk. I raise an eyebrow. "We should systematically take a full inventory of… Oh my god! Is that a handheld hypno-beam?" Coulson then picks up something that looks like a hair drier.

"One of the original betas. See how it has the switch on the bottom?" Trip says.

"The production model moved it to the side. This is amazing. Almost as cool as a…," Coulson says.

"Transistorized blast gun," Trip and Coulson say at the same time. They both chuckle.

"Nerds," I say. We all start looking through the gear.

"Okay, the two of you can get a room later, but we have a plane to catch," Skye says.

"Where did they find this stuff," Skye says, as she finds a joy buzzer. "From the back of a comic book," she says.

"Come on, girl, that's not really a joy buzzer. That's a…," Trip starts. Skye presses the joy buzzer. Then spark fly and I shout in pain. "EMP. Knocks power out in a ten-foot radius," he says.

"You all right?" Skye asks.

"Yeah, just EMP's for me, well they create a migraine," I say.

"Yeah. A lot of vintage S.H.I.E.L.D. spy craft was deigned to look innocent in case the spy was caught," Fitz says. "Like these smokes," Fitz says, pulling out a box of smokes and grabbing on out. He spins the smoke and out of the end a laser comes out.

"Thanks, Trip. This is a huge help. Gives us a fighting chance against these bad guys," Coulson says.

The smoke alarm goes off. Jemma sighs, saying, "Oh, Fitz." Fitz turn around to see he accidently light the curtains on fire with the smoke. I chuckle. Fitz turns it off.

"Watch out, HYRDA, here we come," May says.

"Garrett started project Deathlok way back in 1990. Look at this. He was patient Zero," Coulson says.

"We've been looking at all this backward. He doesn't just want GH.325 for his centipede soldiers, he wants it for himself. So he can become a real live boy again. And if he happens to create an army of programmed super-soldier for HYDRA along the way, triple bonus points," Skye explains

"How do we know that Garrett didn't do that to Ward, too? Maybe he's been programmed," Fitz says.

"Fitz, when are you gonna stop clinging to the idea that Ward's the victim and not the perpetrator," Jemma says.

"When I see something that tells me I shouldn't with my own two eyes. We don't know all the facts," Fitz says.

"You want a fact, Fitz. Ward murders people. I should've let Mike finish him when I had the chance," Skye says. "I'm stupid and weak."

"You weren't weak. You had compassion. That's harder," Coulson says.


Time skip.

We turn on the lights as we enter the room. Everyone except me and Skye are holding guns. "Skye, where are the computers?"

"I'm working on it," Skye says.

"Trip, anything in your granddad's kit that might help us out here?" Coulson asks.

"Always, let me take a look," Trip says, as he takes off his backpack.


Time skip.

"Come on," he says, using a scanner thing. "Over here," Trip says, we follow him to a wall. "There' something behind this wall. Okay I got something," he says.

"A secret door?" Coulson asks. Coulson and Trip share a glance. "I got this. They're like my thing," Coulson says, he walks over and his hand searches the wall until I hear something click. A door opens with computers inside. "Here we go," Coulson says.

"Finally," Skye says, seeing a HYDRA computer inside the room. The lights turn out and we turn around to see a man with the berserker staff in his hands. We then see a dot.

"It's a centipede soldier," Coulson says. More glows appear revealing that there isn't just one centipede soldier.


I hope this is great. Sorry I haven't updated, I've been busy with another story and trying to piece together what I'm going to do after season 1 of agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Also, I decided to skip some certain scenes which wouldn't change much if at all. Please, review, favorite or follow and until next time, Ant-boy out.