Chapter 27
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AN2: So I was trying to come up with a ship name for Skye and Bucky in this story and I came up with Electro Solider and I was wondering what you think? Or do you have something better in mind, let me know
After leaving The War Room Skye made her way back to the main lounge room as due to the fact that she wheeled past there on her way to The War room she knows that that is where everyone is.
When she wheels her way into the War room she finds Clint, Sam, Tripp and John playing what looks like volleyball with a balloon, Clint and Sam against Tripp and John.
"Who's winning?" Skye asks curious as she wheels up to Bruce.
"I honestly don't know." Bruce answers.
"They're not playing by any rules that I recognize." Fitz answers.
"There playing with bedroom rules." Skye realises and Bruce, Fitz, Simmons, Bucky and Sharon look at her surprised, "We played it like that back at the orphanage, the balloon can't touch the ground." Skye explains as John tries and saves the balloon from touching the ground and falls of the couch, and lands on flat on his face, causing everyone to laugh.
"Nice, Uncle John." Skye says amused.
"How long we got until they finish planning?" Sam asks.
"At least half an hour." Skye answers, "Ultimate balloon volleyball anyone?" Skye asks the others curious.
"How do you play that?" Jemma asks.
"The same way except there will be five teams of two all of whom will be on different furniture." Skye explains.
"Sounds good." Clint answer and the other nods, "Teams?" He asks.
"Well you guys are already in teams so it's just the rest of us." Skye says.
"I call you because you actually know what you are doing." Sharon says and Skye has to smile at that.
"Bucky?" Bruce asks and he nods, leaving Fitz and Simmons to be a team.
Once the teams have been decide each of the teams claim furniture, Skye and Sharon take the remaining couch left as Tripp and John and Sam and Clint have each claimed one, Fitz and Simmons sit on the table and Bucky and Bruce push two of the armchairs together.
"Serve when ready Uncle Clint." Skye requests and that's what he does.
For the next forty minutes Skye, Sharon, Bucky, Clint, Bruce, Sam, John, Tripp, Fitz and Simmons play Ultimate balloon volleyball while Tony, Coulson, Melinda, Pepper, Steve, Natasha and Maria plan for the mission.
"What are you doing?" Tony's voice asks as Sharon and Skye knock each other over as they both try to get the balloon.
"Ultimate Balloon volleyball." Sam answers.
"Without me?" Tony asks pretending to be insulted.
"You were busy." Bruce says.
"Well now the rest of you are too, you're needed in the War Room." Tony informs them.
"Be right there." Clint answers, "Tripp as our official score keeper would you like to announce our winners?" Clint asks.
"The official winners of the first round of Stark Towers Ultimate Balloon Volleyball are, drum roll please." Tripp requests and the others indulge him, "Bruce Banner and Bucky Barnes, congratulations." Tripp announces, "Now over to you Mr Barton, would you like to inform our winners what they have won?" He asks as several eye rolls at the pair can be seen and the group head towards the War Room.
"As our winners today Mr's Banner and Barnes win the rights of bragging until the next competition." Clint reveals, "Use it well." He tells the pair putting a completely serious look on his face.
"It's bragging rights." Bucky comments, "Is there any way not to use them well?" He asks.
"Yes." Everyone else responds as they enter The War Room.
"Take your seats." Maria tells them as they enter the room.
"This seems very formal." John comments.
"This is our first official mission as New SHIELD, it deserves to be formal." Coulson comments.
"Steve why don't you start us off." Melinda says.
"Right, we will take the bus from here and fly it to an airfield near the academy then switch to other forms of transportation." Steve explains, "Skye, Fitz and Pepper will remain here to monitor things and deal with any potential problems with agencies or the government." Steve explains.
"What about me?" Simmons asks interested as she knows that that is the group that she will usually be apart off.
"According to Skye there are a large number of cadets who are injured, some quite seriously so you and Bruce will be on sight, but until we secure the sight you will be in one of the vehicles." Maria explains, "We need your medical knowledge, not the other guy." She tells Bruce who nods.
"Sam you and I will be providing areal support." Tony says and Sam nods.
"Clint, Bucky you will be our snippers." Steve says putting a map on the table, "You'll be set up, here and here." Steve says pointing out the two spots, "That work for you?" He asks and Clint and Bucky, both of whom nod.
"The rest of us will separate into two groups." Coulson says, "Steve, Melinda, and Natasha will enter through the front and draw the force of the attack onto them while Maria, Tripp, John, Sharon and I will entre via the back and surprise them." Coulson explains.
"Draw the force of the attack onto you?" Bucky asks, "Is that a good idea?" He asks concerned.
"We can handle it, don't worry." Natasha tells trying to get him to stop worrying which is something that didn't work.
"We'll be using ICERS only." Maria says, "According to Skye's Intel it's going to be difficult to tell who is Hydra and who's not so we go in non-lethal." She tells everyone.
"What about me? I don't have ICER arrows." Clint comments
"I'll put some of my power into your arrows, they'll stun on impact." Skye explains to her Uncle who nods.
"Once we secure the facilities we've got to de brief every single person there and using Skye's information we decide what to do with them." Pepper explains, "Skye you and I will get in touch with the FBI once the facility is secure and arrange their help with prisoners." She explains and Skye nods.
"I'm almost finished working on new Tac gear for everyone, Fitz you want to give me a hand?" Tony asks curious.
"Of course." Fitz responds.
"We'll be down in the lab if you need us." Tony says and he and Fitz get up and leave while the others go over everything they need to do the following day in great detail.
For the next several hours everyone except Tony and Fitz go over and over mission plans while Tony and Fitz continue to work on tactical gear for everyone. They are starting with bases of what they know their friends like to fight in and making them just a bit more resistant.
"Coulson always wear's suits, what are we going to do about him?" Fitz asks Tony curious.
"Give him a new suit." Tony explains, "Come have a look at what I am thinking." Tony says and Fitz walks over and has a look at the computer that Tony is working on.
"That would work." Fitz says, "Think we're going to get all this done in time?"
"Yeah, I do." Tony answers.
"In that case I guess I should get back to work." Fitz comments and he heads back to his computer.
Several hours later once they have done as much planning for the mission as they could possibility do everyone has gone off on their one once more to do different things.
After leaving the War Room Skye got her computer and is now sitting in one of the lounge room just surfing the web.
"Hey." A voice says and Skye sees Bucky walking towards her.
"Hey." Skye responds closing moving the laptop off her lap and putting it next to her, "You okay?" Skye asks curious.
"Yeah, I'm just worried about tomorrow." James admits
"You mean you're worried about Uncle Steve." Skye comments and Bucky nods.
"I've always looked out for him, done whatever I had to help him, I know he doesn't need me to but he's my little brother, ever instinct of mine is telling me to protect him." Bucky admits.
"That's exactly what you're going to be doing." Skye tells him, "You and Uncle Clint are the snipers you see and deal with threats before the others can see them, you're protecting him James, you're protecting them all." Skye tells him and they drift into silence.
"You're annoyed that you can't come on this mission, aren't you?" James asks recognizing the look on Skye's face.
"Yeah, I am." Skye answers, "I would preferring being able to help you guys." Skye comments
"You will, just not in the way you might want to." Bucky tells her and they once more drift into silence.
"Skye, I know we haven't even talked about when we are going to go out but when we do I don't want to hide anything from your parents." Bucky reveals, "I don't want their permission, that's not what this is about." He adds remembering what Steve said, "It's about doing the right thing, and I don't want to get off on the wrong foot with your parents. I know how much your parents mean to you and I never want anything I do to affect your relationship with them so I think that not keeping, this, us, a secret from them is important." Bucky explains, nerves clear in his voice because he's worried about screwing up things with Skye before they have begun.
"First we all live together, I don't think we could keep it a secret if we wanted to." Skye admits, "Second, I think it would be a good idea." Skye admits, remembering how even if they didn't admit it that her parents were hurt when she didn't tell them about her and Ward, "You know that this isn't going to be a pleasant conversation for you, right?" Skye asks curious.
"I know." Bucky responds as he's seen how protective Skye's parents are, "But I want to be with you and if that means having a few unpleasant conversations and being threatened by everyone here, than I'm more than willing to endure that." Bucky admits.
"Wow, you're kind of amazing you know that." Skye comments, "What do you think, do I have a similar conversation with Uncle Steve in my future?" Skye asks curious.
"Probably, he is protective." Bucky answers.
"Everyone is, but it's nice to have people who care." Skye says.
"Yeah, it is." Bucky responds.
"You know I hid the last of the chocolate addiction ice cream in the back of the freezer, and I could be persuaded to share, you interested?" Skye asks curious.
"Very." Bucky responds.
"Then to the kitchen." Skye says as she transfers herself from the couch to the wheelchair.
Five minutes later Skye and Bucky are sitting in the kitchen passing the spoon and the ice cream between each other.
"I'm impressed that you managed to hide this." Bucky comments, "Chocolate ice cream disappears in a flash around here." He comments as takes a bite and passes it to Skye.
"I hid it behind the frozen pumpkin, no one looks behind there." Skye explains as she takes a spoonful of the ice cream and passes it back to Bucky, "You better not tell anyone that." She says giving Bucky a 'you better not' look.
"You're secrets safe with me." Bucky says before taking a spoonful of the ice cream.
"There you are." Jemma says walking into the kitchen.
"Here I am, have you been looking for me?" Skye asks her sister.
"Yes." Jemma responds, "Can we talk?" she asks curious.
"Sure." Skye says realising that Jemma looks worried about something, "You better leave me some." Skye says to Bucky referring to the ice cream.
"Oh, sorry am I interrupting something? It can wait." Simmons says feeling bad about whatever it is that she just interrupted.
"It's fine, you look like you need to talk." Bucky tells Simmons, "I'll hide the ice cream again, don't worry." He tells Skye.
"Thanks, see you later." Skye says and she wheels out of the room.
"I'm sorry I didn't meant to interrupt." Simmons tells Skye as they walk and wheel down the hallway.
"It's okay, do you want to tell me what's wrong?" Skye asks curious.
"Your room." Simmons request and that's where the pair head.
A few minutes later both Skye and Simmons are in Skye's room sitting on Skye's bed.
"Now do you want to tell me what happened?" Skye asks.
"Fitz and I had a fight." Jemma reveals, "We never fight, not seriously anyway, and this was bad and I don't know what to do, I need you advice." Simmons explains to her sister rather quickly.
"Okay, start at the beginning, tell me what happened." Skye requests.
"So he's down in the lab working on the new tack gear with Tony and he started to say how he should be with Bruce and I tomorrow and I said that we don't need to be together all the times and then next thing I know we were yelling at each other about who cares more and Tony was sneaking out of the room, I don't even know what happened" Simmons explains, "So not only did we fight but we fought in front of Tony." Simmons explains.
"First don't worry about Uncle Tony, he can handle watching a fight." Skye comments, "And second you need to talk to Fitzy, it's the only way to fix anything." Skye tells Simmons, "Do you know where the fight came from?" Skye asks curious, "You said that next thing you knew you were yelling at each other but what started it?" Skye asks, "Why did you start yelling?" Skye asks
"Because he was worried about me being on the ground tomorrow, he was worried that I would get hurt and I was annoyed because I though he thought that I couldn't look after myself." Simmons explains.
"That's just not true, you're Jemma Simmons master of the make shift weapon, and Fitzy knows that." Skye tells her sister but before she can say anymore there is a knock at the door.
"Skye, is Jemma in there with you?" Fitz's voice asks, "Jemma I'm sorry, I was an idiot, can I come in?" He asks
"You're choice." Skye says to her sister.
"Come in Fitz." Simmons says and the door opens and Fitz walks in,
"I'm sorry, I was an idiot, I know you can look after yourself." Fitz tells Simmons.
"I'm sorry too, I worry about you just as much so I shouldn't be mad at you for worrying." Simmons responds.
"I'm still sorry, I shouldn't have yelled." Fitz tells her.
"I shouldn't have either." Simmons responds and the pair kiss, Skye watches on with a smile on her face.
"You guys are soo cute." Skye says with a smile on her face and both Fitz and Simmons turns and glares at her.
"I should get back to Tony, we've still got work to do." Fitz reveals, "I'll see you later." He says and after kissing Simmons once more he leaves the room.
"Wow, you two make up quick." Skye comments and Simmons walks over and sits back over.
"Yeah, I guess we do." Simmons responds, sitting back down, "So what is going on between you and Bucky?" Simmons asks curious.
"You've noticed that huh?" Skye asks.
"Everyone has, plus I just walked in on you two sharing ice cream." Simmons points out.
"True." Skye admits, "We are starting something, he asked me out earlier today and I said yes." Skye reveals to her sister.
"That's great." Simmons tells her, "That is great right?" Simmons asks wanting to make sure that her reaction is right.
"Yeah, it is." Skye answers, "But…" Skye begins to say and Simmons cuts her off.
"You're scared." Simmons realises.
"Terrified." Skye corrects, "But I also really want this." Skye admits.
"I'm glad." Simmons responds, "Now I feel like we haven't talked in a really long time so tell me everything." Simmons requests
"Better make yourself comfortable." Skye says and that's what they both do and Skye begins to tell Simmons everything that has been going on with her, and her and Bucky in the last few weeks.
For over an hour and a half both Skye and Simmons talk about all the things that they haven't talked about lately until they both realise that they have a big day tomorrow and need sleep, so Simmons's leaves her little sister's room promising that they will talk more.
The next morning everyone arrives at breakfast at the usual time and then once it is done they all head to the labs so that Fitz and Tony can give everyone the tac gear they made for them.
"Basically I went with what you all like to wear on missions and just upgraded the material and added a bit more protection." Tony explains to the group, "Phil, Tripp, John because you three like to were just regular clothes Fitz and I designed body armour that is very thin and goes under your clothes as well as a thinner, but stronger vest to wear on top." Tony explains, "Does that work for you?" He asks and the three nod, "Sam I designed you something similar but which is lighter weight and more of a flight suit." He explains and Sam nods.
"Everything is over there it's all labelled so go try it all on." Fitz says pointing over to the able. Everyone except for Skye, Pepper and Simmons nods and heads over to the table.
"We designed you something to." Fitz tells his girlfriend.
"You did?" Simmons says surprised.
"Of course." Tony answers, "Full tac gear for all that was the job." Tony tells her, "Go have a look, all three of you." Tony says and Pepper and Skye exchange a look and they head over to the table.
Forty minutes later everyone with the exceptions of Skye, Fitz, Pepper, and Tony are in their new tac gear and everyone is down in the garage getting ready for everyone except for Skye, Pepper and Fitz to leave.
"Here." Skye says handing her Uncle his quiver which is full of arrows, "Every one of these will stun on impact." She tells him.
"Thanks." Clint responds.
"You're welcome, be careful." Skye requests.
"Always." Clint responds and he goes and loads his things into the car.
While everyone is packing and making last minute plans Skye walks over to Bucky who is clearly trying to stay out of everyone's way.
"Hey." Skye says to him
"Hey." Bucky responds.
"While that ice cream last night was amazing, you still owe me dinner Mister, so you better come back okay." Skye tells Bucky.
"That's the best motivation I've ever had not to get hurt." Bucky responds with a small grin, one that Skye returns.
"I'm serious James." Skye tells him.
"So am I." Bucky responds and before either of them can say anymore they are interrupted by Steve's voice,
"Everyone full in." he says and everyone walks over so that they are standing in more of a group.
"Okay, from here we will travel to the airfield where the Bus is which Mel and Clint will fly us to near the academy." Coulson says, "Using both the two SUV's that are in the car as well as the van waiting on us we will travel to the academy." Coulson tells the group, "Simmons, Bruce you'll wait in the van monitoring our coms until the sight is secure." Coulson says and they nod.
"Tony and Sam, you'll fly Clint and Bucky into position, as we breach the perimeter." Steve says, "Everyone clear?" he asks and everyone nods.
"Good, let's go to work." Maria tells the group and everyone nods. Once everyone has said goodbye to each other, Skye, Pepper and Fitz head upstairs while everyone else gets in the car and drives away, everyone preparing for the first official mission of New SHIELD.
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