Rated T? Dark Themes and Violence might change at a later date.

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Sorry about the long wait, I was having a really bad writers block for some of my stories and it doesn't help that I have had barely any free time to write. I try to get at least 1 chapter out per month but things happen, just know that I don't plan on quitting my stories. Now then... Thank you guys again for the overwhelming support and I hope you guys enjoy!

Previously

The Avengers jet slowly landed on top of their HQ but as the loading dock slowly opened they were quickly stunned as Maria Hill was standing along side Phil Coulson and a few other unfamiliar people all holding different facial expressions.

It was silence until Coulson called with worry in his tone, "Did you find her?"

Steve, Tony, Thor and Bruce just stood there flabbergasted, blinking a few times wondering if their eyes were playing tricks on them but no luck. The man that died during Loki's invasion, the motivation Fury used to make the avengers act as a team... was actually alive.

Tony slowly raised his hand and softly tapped on Steve's shoulder getting his attention before whispering, "Please tell me what I am seeing is not real? Please tell me this is just some sort of prank and I am not looking at Phil Coulson?"

Steve just shrugged his shoulders, "I wish it was. I b-" but getting cut off by Natasha who was yelling from inside the jet with the sound of Clint growling in pain echoing along, "Can you boys hurry up and clear the runaway already? Clint isn't looking to good so whatever is going out their can wait."

They sighed slowly walking down the runway with Tony whispering to Steve, "Is this all just screaming Fury or I am just crazy?"

Steve slowly shook his head, "No this has Fury's name all over it..." making their way closer to Coulson and the unknown people behind him. Thor looked towards Coulson in confusion bluntly asking, "What dark magic is this? I saw you die, my brother's scepter piercing your chest... How are you alive?!"

He smirked, "I know I got a lot of explaining to do but I want to know if you found her?"

All 4 avengers slightly raised their head in recognition with Steve crossing his arms muttering, "You were the one that called in the tip for Hill regarding Agent Skye..."

Coulson raised his hands up proclaiming, "Guilty. S-" getting interrupted by Bruce who growled through his clenched teeth and throats vein briefly shifted green, "After all this time you never once made contact or even to let us know you were alive!" stepping back realizing that he almost went green, closing his eyes and doing some quick breathing exercises to calm himself down.

Coulson lowered his head in shame mumbling, "Yes I know, I tried to contact you but-" Steve and Tony rolled their eyes already knowing the answer but before they could say, Natasha jumped next to the others as Cho and the doctors quickly moved Barton to the lab to fix him up. She was smirking looking at their faces asking, "Jeez what happened to make yo-" stopping mid sentence following their line of sight to see Phil Coulson weakly smirking at her. Thoughts fly rapidly in her head, mostly questions as to how the man that she had once considered family was not truly dead standing in front of them perfectly healthy. Her eyes bolted around hastily looking towards the other avengers trying to gain an explanation but stopped at Steve's face as the answer was written all over his face, anger quickly filled her veins spitting out in disgust, "Fury... He is dead..."

Then silence not a word but the air was filled with tension, Hill sighed before clearing her throat quickly grabbing their attention as she declared, "I know there is a lot of catching up to do but I imagine Clint would be pretty upset if we started debrief without him. So while we wait for him to get fixed up, I will give the agents here a tour of the tower and you guys go over any information obtained from the base."

They all briefly traded glances with one another before reluctantly nodding, Hill gestured towards the agents to follow her but stopped and pointed to Thor, "Go grab the Hyperbaric chamber containing Skye and bring her down to the lab to run diagnostics." she tried making it as brief as possible, as they were unsure of what Hydra exactly did to Skye and they needed to not give any false hope to them.

Thor weakly nodded clearly still shocked about Coulson muttering, "Uhh sure..." slightly turning to get a long glance at Coulson before slowly walking towards the Quinjet. It took a second for the agents to realize Hill was already walking ahead, quickly joining her as they all went into the elevator leaving the avengers frozen in thought. It took a few minutes but their attention was pulled to Thor behind them, now holding the chamber over his shoulder asking, "I am heading down to the labs, aren't you guys coming?"

Still unable to form words they just nodded, slowly following behind Thor as they headed towards the labs.

A little while later

The avengers were all gathered up inside recovery room where Clint was laying on his side drinking a smoothie and Skye was laying in the next bed over with Dr. Cho ran some tests. Banner was reading a file while everyone else was clearly deep in thought, Clint having finished his smoothie look around at the others and chuckled, "Wow why are you guys in the dumps?"

Natasha who was biting down on her finger before accidentally muttering out, "Coulson..." Natasha slightly flinched realizing what she said causing Clint to slightly tilted his head in confusion wondering what caused Natasha to start thinking about him now asking, "Nat... What happened? You haven't done that in a long time."

Natasha sighed opening her mouth to answer but Tony talked over her clearly still mad about it, "Oh nothing much, just that when we landed Coulson and a bunch of other agents were waiting for us."

The avengers waited for his reaction knowing how much the Coulson situation hurt him but instead he chuckled, "Ohh that's a good one, nice try To-." but he stopped, after looking around to see the other avengers faces telling him the same thing. He head started to pound as the memory of Coulson quickly flashing by in his head before stopping at the image of where he died, growling out in anger he slowly began to push him self up to get up but Cho quickly came over slightly pushing him back down stating, "Absolutely not, you need to stay put to allow the tissue to form correctly."

He waits a second and is about to try again but Natasha holds him down, "You better listen to her..." Clint briefly thinks it over before sighing in defeat falling flat on the bed.

He tilts his head slightly so Natasha is in his line of sight before asking, "Did you find out anything?"

Natasha slowly nods replying, "He was the one that called in the tip to Hill."

He scuffs, "Oh so he called us in to help with the rescue... Do you think Hill knew?"

She doesn't have to think it over answering, "Of course she did... I just have no idea how or when it happened..."

Steve looked over to Cho who was reading over the Quake Destroyer of Worlds binder asking, "Have you learned anything useful Dr. Cho?"

She shrugs her shoulders, "I haven't finished going through it."

Banner walks over to where Skye and Cho were asking, "Well right now I think anything is better than nothing. What have you learned so far?"

Cho sighs before explaining, "The scientist wrote down a few things relating to her powers. She has the ability to manipulate vibrations and the silver gauntlets are designed to harness her power and multiplies it... That is about all I have been able to gather so far but some of this stuff I have never heard before."

Bruce raised an eyebrow gesturing that he would like to see asking, "Anything specific?"

Cho nods handing him the binder pointing to it, "They keep referring to something called the Burstein Process and I have never heard of it before."

Tony who was leaning against the wall quickly jumped in shock walking over to the doctors asking, "May I see the binder?" Bruce and Cho looked at each other in confusion before handing him the binder.

Tony started to read the binder with Steve joining in on the conversation, "Does that mean something Tony?"

Tony quickly finish reading before handing the binder back to Cho, turning to face Steve answering, "Maybe, just a hunch though."

Steve opened his mouth to continue questioning but their attention was pulled towards the door as someone knocked before opening the door. It was Hill and the other agents as they each entered the room, a few of their faces were washed over with relief being able to see Skye with Phil jumping out in front of hill before slowly walking towards Skye's bed.

However he didn't get really far as the Avengers minus Clint quickly blocked the pathway with Tony shacking his head stating, "We would like some answers first."

Coulson got one long glance at Skye before lowering his head and sighing in defeat, "Alright... what do you want to know?"

Meanwhile

(Skye POV)

There was nothing, no matter how much I try to find something else its only darkness. I have no idea where I am or how I even got here or better yet who I even am... I continue to think for what feels like an eternity but I am still getting nothing.

But as I try to remember my name, I begin to hear voices,

"You survived the destruction because you caused it."

"There's something wrong with you."

"You were designed to destroy..."

No... no that isn't true...

"Haha but it is... Don't you see everyone thinks your monster... A freak that needs to be destroyed."

Nooooooo stop it, your wrong!

"No I am not and deep down you know its true. You need to fight against them as they will never leave you alone, not until your dead."

But... what can I do about it?

The voice laughed, "Don't worry, it will all come in due time... Quake."

Sooooo what you guys think? Next chapter will be mostly confrontations and maybe some other plot developments. Just wanted to apologize again for not updating my stories as often as I should. It's just that time of year with one thing after another especially with College and all my other stuff.

Happy holidays to everyone!

Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart, the amount of support you guys have been giving my stories is absolutely insane and I can not say enough how grateful I am for it. If you guys have any tips or suggestions feel free to suggest them. I hope you guys enjoyed, stay safe and hope to "see" you guys next time!