I'm aware that this was only a one shot for the characters Bennie Pollack and Claire Wise.
So I decided to write this little story as a spin off part for the two characters who were working for the Agents of Shield and thought that this would be a fun chance to explore the adventures they go on and how they get through the most dangerous missions in the future. Disclaimer: I don't own Bennie and Claire but there will be some characters that I own.
This a new update on the chapter so Enjoy the first chapter and leave a comment.
One shot: when Shield Fell.
Chapter One
Tuesday, January 12th 2014. it was the day of the Triskelion battle.
It seemed to be quite a normal day at first since getting back to work after Christmas and new years.
Having heard of Director Fury's death two days ago, Claire Wise had felt so sorry for the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. himself, especially since she never got to meet him in person and now she might never will. But now she was just sitting at a desk in Agent Felix Blake's office on the 18th floor, Claire was stacking a set of papers into the folder and signing a couple which she had become her job.
Since Felix Blake got himself wounded in action fighting against Deathlok on January 9th which was the day of Nick Fury's death and then he was, deemed in critical condition. She never found out anything else since then except that he is doing fine at the hospital.
Her boyfriend and former bank robber partner Benjamin Pollack was still working in a private office of the Triskelion, working with a couple of well, trusted technicians he made friends with whilst being assigned to the R&D 'think-tank' to reverse engineer the other Chitauri technologies when he and his friends learnt of HYDRA's plot.
Claire was just finishing off when Steve Rogers used the intercom to notify all of the agents and employees in the building of HYDRA's plot, urging them to stop the launching of the Helicarriers. Steve Rogers; "Attention all S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, this is Steve Rogers. You've heard a lot about me over the last few days. Some of you were even ordered to hunt me down. But I think it's time to tell the truth. S.H.I.E.L.D. is not what we thought it was. It's been taken over by HYDRA. Alexander Pierce is their leader. The S.T.R.I.K.E. and Insight crew are HYDRA as well. I don't know how many more, but I know they're in the building. They could be standing right next to you. They almost have what they want. Absolute control.
They shot Nick Fury. And it won't end there. If you launch those helicarriers today, HYDRA will be able to kill anyone that stands in their way.
Unless we stop them. I know I'm asking a lot. But the price of freedom is high. It always has been. And it's a price I'm willing to pay.
And if I'm the only one, then so be it. But I'm willing to bet I'm not."
Deciding to take action to save Bennie and most of her SHIELD Agents in the Triskelion, Claire started going through the draws of the desks in search for a gun or at least a sort of service pistol or weapon to defend herself against any agents who have sworn allegiance to HYDRA.
It took her a minute or two at the most when she found one on the bottom draw.
Taking the gun out, she loaded it up with a magazine that was in the bottom draw as well.
Once she had a fire arm, Claire took a breath in.
Breathing out, she turned on the chair before she made her way towards the door.
Checking the hallway before she went out through the door and slowly she cautiously walked across the hall.
Claire went into hiding when she needed to as a few dozen Hydra's troops were passing by.
The gunfight started down below after a tense Mexican Standoff, involving numerous HYDRA and loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. This action caused a shootout between the two factions, during which Rumlow was able to escape. When a HYDRA troop spotted her on the run, Claire turned and shot the troop down on instinct before she moved on and worked her way down the stairs.
Meanwhile when the shootout erupted, Bennie and a couple of technicians were on the move after each of them had taking out a few HYDRA agents who were holding them captive until Bennie attacked the first, taking his side arm and knocking out another.
As soon as they were coming up the steps to the control room, Bennie and the others bore witness to the shoot-out between the two factions, only HYDRA was looking to escape.
Therefore, Bennie and his technicians took up arms and taken out two of their guards.
They then subdued their leader before a few remaining Agents who were loyal to SHIELD had arrived from around the corner.
Each of the agents helped them secure the prisoner. Once the prisoner was in their control in the on-going chaos, Bennie left the other technician and the agents to go off up the stairway and to find Claire in the levels of the Triskelion.
Meanwhile, on one level beneath the communications room, Claire had managed to find a door to the stairs and then went up a few levels dodging a couple of STRIKE operatives coming down the steps before going up another floor of the Triskelion before reaching the communication room.
When a STRIKE soldier came at the entrance near the control room, Claire raised her gun up and she shot the soldier in the head instantly before she turned away without thinking and then came to the doorway.
Setting herself against the wall to take a breather, Claire calmed herself whilst she checked her gun for ammo before she loaded her gun again.
With her nerves fully calm, she went inside through the door, going up the levels of stairs to the top control room to hear a voice at the coms.
"They're initiating launch." The woman said. Seeing the chance to meet Fury's second in command Agent Maria Hill of SHIELD, Claire stepped up to see Agent Hill turn her head to see Claire armed. She pointed her gun at Claire when she raised her hands up in the air and she spoke.
"No wait, wait don't shoot. I'm not HYDRA, I'm loyal to SHIELD." Claire said to Maria, who kept her gun on her, placing her gun on the floor, Claire spoke again to get Maria to trust her. "Listen to me; I'm just as loyal to Shield as you are and I'm here to help you. You're Agent Hill, aren't you?"
"Who are you to ask about who I am?" asked Maria, starting to lower her gun.
"My name is Agent Claire Wise; I'm Agent Blake's personal assistant and I'm following the captain's orders, just like you are ma'am," said Claire.
Letting out a breath of relief, Claire bent over to pick up her side arm before she walked over to Maria, she stopped at a short distance from Maria. "I just heard Captain America's message about SHIELD being taken over by HYDRA, I decided to take this chance to resign my post so I can take out HYDRA's sleeper Agents wherever they may be and help the remaining agents loyal to Shield including you." Claire explained to Maria who then put her side arm away before she turned her head back to the computer to continue her coordination of Captain America and Nick Fury.
"Ok Agents Wise, do you still want to help me?" asked Maria, who continued to look at the screen.
"Of course Agent Hill, what do you need from me whilst we're still here?" Claire asked.
Maria turned to face Claire who took a step back from her.
Seeing that she is a trustworthy person Maria decided to take up her offer to help her.
"Alright, Just keep the stairway clear for me, are you up for it?" said Maria.
"Yes ma'am." Claire said, raising her right up she saluted Agent hill who gave a smirk before turning back to the computer, Claire turned away from Maria to the door.
She headed to the door, when a STRIKE Operative appeared from the other door, Maria and Claire drew guns at the same time before they both shot the man down, then Maria went back to work whilst Claire walked towards the STRIKE Operative's body.
Seeing a STRIKE Operative's assault rifle on the body and inside the room, Claire sheathed her gun at her back. She moved in to retrieve the assault rifle.
Reaching down she picked up the rifle from the floor, holding it with both arms she stood up straight when another HYDRA agent suddenly appeared from around the corner. Raising her rifle, Claire squeezed the trigger, which packed a punch, but the shots took out the agent in front of her.
The agent then fell down the stairs leaving Claire astounded by her actions.
"Wow, being a SHIELD Agent is so exciting." Claire said before she turned around to the door.
Within a few minutes of standing by the door, she heard gunshots in the control room and then turned to head up stairs, holding her rifle like a soldier.
When she heard Agent hill say aloud.
"Six minutes." She knew the situation was under control, when she turned to see two more HYDRA Agents coming through the doorway. On instinct, Claire open fired at the doorway, taking out the agents before moving up the stairs to hold her position at the top stairs at the control room.
"Control room secured, Agent Hill." Claire said to Agent Hill, who looked to her.
Agent Hill nodded to Claire before turning back to the control pad.
Claire listened to Agent Hill and Captain's conversation as she held her position, and she heard him order her to shoot down the Helicarriers despite Agent Hill's protests.
Hearing something down at the stairs, Claire was about to take aim and shoot, when she heard her boyfriend Bennie's voice call out to her.
Realizing that she was going to desert her post, Claire knew that she had to go anyways.
Descending the stairway, she kept her rifle trained on the door until she saw Bennie's face as he turned his head to see her and smile.
As soon as the three Helicarriers fell after shooting each other in the skies, thus preventing insight from causing total destruction, Bennie, Claire and Maria made their way down the stairway before the three evacuated the building immediately as one of the Helicarriers moved into a collision course with the side of the Triskelion.
In the ensuing chaos with the Triskelion's destruction and the battle going on outside, Bennie had to follow Agent hill's lead as he and Claire went along from hallway to the stairway until they came down to the bottom stairwell and then came out of the next door leading across to the bottom control room.
That was when they came across an agent named Declan Reilly who then led the three to an emergency exit.
As soon as they were out through the doorway, Agent hill and Agent Declan Reilly separated from the two and the next moment Agent Hill and Reilly were gone, leaving Bennie and Claire to stand outside and watch the whole Triskelion fall apart, having obtained massive structural failure, the Triskelion partially collapsed.
After a moment, Claire turned and looked up at Bennie and she spoke. "I guess we're out of the job now."
Bennie shrugged his shoulders before turning his head to her. "I guess you're right, though I'm going to miss being an agent of shield. I actually felt that I had a purpose in the job though but I can't believe that I was working for HYDRA, SHIELD's foremost enemy."
"Yeah, I mean we were literally working alongside a terrorist organisation with our own lives in the hands of Sleeper Agents. I still wish I could have done some field work instead of handling mountains of paper work though. I would have been pretty handy with a gun," said Claire, looking at Bennie who drew a small grin at Claire, imagining her with a gun in the field of combat.
He then wrapped his arm around her shoulder before he spoke.
"Let's go home, and then we'll work out the next part of our plan."
Together Bennie and Claire turned and walked away from the wreckage of the Triskelion as police and army officials started turning up to secure the area and arrest any remaining HYDRA agents cowering in the depths of the area or seeking out any other SHIELD Agents they could capture for brainwash procedures.
Thursday 14 January, Forty Eight hours later.
After being exposed and defeated by Captain America and his allies in the Battle at the Triskelion, the high command of HYDRA ordered all of their sleeper agents to purge all S.H.I.E.L.D. loyalists or non-HYDRA agents and capture all S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities for assuring their survival. On the following day before yesterday right after the fall of the Triskelion, Bennie and Claire had managed to make a distance from Washington DC before the feds could find them and arrest them.
As the battles between SHIELD and HYDRA were happening at the Hub, the SHIELD Academy and the Sandbox, Bennie Pollack and Claire Wise were now looking to put SHIELD behind them and then make a new life for themselves. Having made their way to the district of Maryland since S.H.I.E.L.D is declared a terrorist organization by the United States government, they took a new refuge in a local hotel east of Maryland.
Having been working for seven to eight months at the Triskelion and at SHIELD, Bennie and Claire were looking to get a head start on building a new life along with a couple of jobs in something different so they could erase their involvement with the agency and start over.
But as they searched for any work at their inn, Bennie couldn't do help but feel guilty for what he had done in the Think-tank.
Although he misses his job at SHIELD and what it stood for, Claire only wished that she could have done more than be an assistant to Felix Blake.
They didn't know if there were any more SHIELD agents who are around in the states who are still loyal and were willing to vouch for their innocence in the case.
If there were others looking to rebuild the entire Agency from scratch or anything, most of them have went on the join the CIA and the NSA whilst others just went off the grid to go abroad to England or to work at Freelance.
Neither Bennie and Claire knew what had happened, then at the first day of the weekend on that Sunday morning on January 19th, things started to change for the better for the two of them. Dressed in her pajama trousers and a grey tank top, Claire was sitting on her couch, flipping through the pages of a magazine when she heard something come from under the doorway of their room.
Receiving an anonymous letter in the mail, Claire opened it to find that the letter was a coded message from the remnant agents of SHIELD who are looking to rebuild themselves in the shadows of the government.
Reading the coded letter, Claire realized that SHIELD or someone from the agency would probably be around.
With that they might be in need her and Bennie's services soon enough.
Later that day when Bennie came home from a shopping trip for supplies, Claire sat him down at the table before she sat down herself and then told him about the message.
"Look Ben, I have found something which might relate to SHIELD whilst I was looking through the mail.
I just found this letter with no return address but it was addressed to you and me Bennie. So I opened it up and took the message out. Its from someone who was apart of SHIELD. He wants us to meet him tomorrow at a local café to discuss a job offer for the two of us."
"The two of us?" said Ben, standing up to come to her.
"Yeah, apparently that's what it says." Claire answered.
"Claire don't you think that its that Terrorist organisation that took over SHIELD in the first place, what if this is a trap or something?" asked Bennie.
"Bennie I wouldn't be sure if it was cos I'm not sure if HYDRA or whatever it was that took over SHIELD, had any codes like this really. here take a look." Claire said to Bennie who took the letter. Reading the coded message, Ben saw the same code as Claire did.
He realized that it was from someone who was associated with Director Fury himself or Agent Hill or someone else.
Seeing the chance to redeem themselves of their mistakes or at least to prove their innocence at court Ben and Claire turned to look at one another for a moment, both were thinking the same thing for a moment before Claire went to the closet to look for something to wear for tomorrow's secret meeting. Bennie stood on the spot with the message in his hand for a moment as he thought on it and then he went into the bedroom to get changed.
After about half an hour of searching, Claire found an outfit for herself whilst Bennie was busy searching through his drawers and choosing a clean shirt and a good pair of trousers to wear so that he would dress smart for tomorrow afternoon when he meets whoever sent that message in person.
Once he had chosen his shirt and trousers, Bennie laid them on the chair in his bedroom before he went into the lounge to relax for the afternoon.
Hopefully when the hour comes he can take Claire out for dinner.
Spending an hour in the lounge, Bennie took up a book and read through the first few chapters whilst Claire was sitting down by the table reading something a news blog on her laptop which was sent to her by the Washington times. Some of the news blogs were e-mailed by the rising tide, as well as a few other tips about new jobs and adventure opportunities on the horizon of the new day but she knew that it might be hard as she and Bennie were listed as part of an agency labelled as a Terrorist organisation.
After a while into the evening Bennie decided now to invite Claire to get take out, she agreed fancying a trip to a local restaurant down the road. Getting herself changed into some comfortable clothes for the night out, Claire grabbed a jacket and put on a pair of shoes whilst Bennie went to the next room to grab a gun he had carried with him to pack it into his trousers whilst he waited for her to get ready.
By the time that she stepped out of the room all ready to go, Bennie was about to go out and get the car started.
Opening the door, he was about to step outside when he turned his head to see Claire come out the corner and present herself.
"I'm ready Ben, so shall we go." Claire said, coming down the hall to the hangers, she grabbed her jacket and a gun encase they run into some trouble in the form of police officers or someone associated with HYDRA. Bennie nodded before he went out holding the door for Claire step out and then closed the door, locking it.
An hour later, they spent their night at a local Greek restaurant called The Olive Tree, which looked pretty nice for a date which would give them one night of entertainment before they'll have to go to work tomorrow morning.
Outside the Olive tree restaurant. Later that evening.
Whilst Bennie and Claire were having dinner together at the restaurant, a figure standing outside in the distance was watching the two with a spy glass, the stranger was keeping an eye on them to make sure that they're not thinking of causing any trouble or looking to make an attempt at dissertation.
Seeing that the two were having a talk about their experience working in the Triskelion and the assignments that Claire have been doing in the office.
She then spoke of how much she wished to have taken up in the field to prove herself for her resourcefulness as a potential agent of SHIELD whilst Bennie wished to work as a military consultant and a scientist.
Claire spoke in details of how she once read about the time that Thor had come down to Greenwich in England in the fight against the Dark Elf Malekith and his army of Dark elves who seek to unleash a weapon known as the Aether on the nine realms and destroy not only this world, but all worlds, which was in report from field agents in London.
After hearing as much information from the two sitting together at their table having dinner in the Restaurant, it was evident that there is not much to report to his superiors at the moment, the spy then decided to pack his bugging gear into his suitcases and take his stuff off to his van hiding around the corner of the street.
The figure looked at them for one last moment on packing his equipment in a couple of cases he brought with him.
Checking the streets around him for any potential threats on the subjects he took his packed cases and brought them to the van.
Putting them away in the back, he closed the doors and then went to the doors of the front seats where his partner in the driver's seat was sitting tight waiting for him to come back from his surveillance nest.
The driver turned out to be an associate and personal informer to Nick Fury himself.
Turning to the figure who was coming in to his seat in the van, the driver spoke.
"Were they considering working for Hydra?" The figure turned to look at the driver as he pulled his hood back and then he spoke to the driver.
"No sir, they have been speaking about their hopes to have their Identifications erased so that they can start over. But the young woman had expressed some interest in becoming a field Agents for the new SHIELD all night, I think Fury is considering taking them up on their wishes and having them both trained to become Field agents. The woman named Claire Wise seems to have as commitment to taking the oath to protect the secrets of SHIELD.
I think she might have as much cause to aid director Coulson in Rebuilding the agency as a Liaison for the US government."
The driver turned his head to the front to look at the road ahead as he thought about the subject.
"I'll see if I can arrange to erase their detailed identifications and their involvements in HYDRA's work then I can set up a three month training programme for Claire Wise whilst Bennie Pollack takes up work as a technician at the Playground, hopefully that woman might show some potential to becoming a full fledged Agent of SHIELD and help to uphold the principals that SHIELD was built upon. Either way they'll be cleared of all charges to start over, even make an addition to the group if they want to join up."
The figure thought of it for a moment and then he nodded his head, turning back to the driver he spoke.
"Very good then, we better make a discreet exit before anyone notices us here." The driver nodded in agreement before he started the ignition and then drove the van away from the streets whilst Bennie and Claire were still enjoying the rest of their night.
Well that's as much as I can write for Chapter one as both Bennie and Claire were now looking to make a new change for themselves in a different world. Hopefully Chapter two will have some new characters and a few cameos from those from the Marvel Movies universe.
So I hope that you'll comment on my chapter and keep an open mind for chapter two which is on the horizon.