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Chapter 2: 084
Objects are thrown out of a blue van. Skye walks out holding a cardboard box and two bags on her shoulders a man in an orange uniform walks over to the van. "Hey, no joyrides, okay? That's my house," Skye says.
"No worries," The man in orange says. He places a small tetrahedron shaped device on the hood of her van. The engine of the van then starts up.
"Where do they think of this stuff?" Skye asks.
Skye walks into the Bus. "Hey," I say. "Need a hand?"
"I'm good," Skye says. Skye starts to walk to her room. I follow her.
"So what do you think of S.H.I. . so far?" I ask.
"I'm not actually sure," Skye says.
"If you need any help or a friend, you can come to me," I say.
"Thanks, agent Queen," Skye says.
"You can call me Ollie," I say. Skye breaks into laughter.
"Seriously? That's your name?" Skye says. I smile.
"As my sister says, 'Worst nick name ever'," I say. My smile bends into a frown.
"Is everything alright?" Skye asks.
"Yeah, it's fine," I reply. As we walk we see Fitz and Jemma.
"Agent Coulson told us the news. What a wonderful surprise. Isn't it Fitz," Jemma says.
"Yeah. Yeah, it's a surprise," Fitz says.
"No. It's wonderful. You must be very excited," Jemma says.
"Yep. First day of school," Skye says. Skye hands Fitz her box of belongings.
"Okay, so, it's just… Sorry. Yeah," Jemma says as she walks up the stairs. Fitz follows her. Skye and me follow them.
"Officially it's an Airborne Mobile Command Station, but we call it the Bus," Fitz says. We walk into a room where we see May, Phil and Ward arguing. "We find it best to use shorthand when in the field. But everything has to be just so, you know? Because of the danger," Fitz explains.
"Yeah, I've been up here before but I didn't see much, because of the bag that Agent Ward put over my head," Skye says.
"Yes, so sorry about that. Water?" Jemma says. Jemma hands Skye a bottle of water.
"Wheels up in two. Lock it or lose it," May says over the speakers.
"What's that mean?" Skye and me ask.
"No backing out now. Let's find a bunk for our guests," Jemma says.
"Yeah, and there's only one left and it's right next to mine," Fitz says.
"I guess I'll have to share with someone then," I say.
"There's only one bed per room," Fitz says.
"I'll sleep on the floor," I say.
"Won't that be uncomfortable," Skye asks. We walk over to a room with only a TV with the S. .L.D. symbol on it and a bed.
"No, I don't get uncomfortable," I say. Fitz walks in and places the box on the bed.
"So… Sorry. You can…..," Fitz says before running off. Skye places her bags on the floor of her new room. Ward walks over and knocks on the wall.
"Hey. I know we didn't really…..," Skye says.
"Might want to read that," Ward says. Ward hands her the schematics of the plane. "This isn't like other planes." Ward walks off. Skye unfolds the schematics.
"You can say that again," Skye says.
"Say what again?" Phil asks as he walks over.
"Sweet ride," Skye says.
"I got a little goodwill from Director Fury when I got hit right before the battle of New York," Phil says.
"You took a bullet?" Skye asks.
"Ish. An Asgardian stabbed me in the heart with a Chitauri scepter. The effect was similar. Got a few weeks R&R in this plane. Had it completely refurbished. Studs up. Spared no expense," Phil explains.
"Yeah. Agent Ward told me they sent you to Tahiti," Skye says.
"It's a magical place," Phil says.
"You mentioned that," Skye says.
"Here. Use a coaster," Phil says. Phil passes her a coaster. "I'd buckle up." Skye and me sit down at a table.
"I don't even know where we're going," Skye says.
"Peru. That's were the 084 was reported," Phil says.
"What's an 084?" I ask.
"An object of unknown origin. Kind of like you two," Phil says.
"Team goes in. Determines if it's useful or possess a threat. The last one turned out to be pretty interesting," Phil says.
"And what was the last one?" Skye asks. Skye takes a drink from her bottle.
"A hammer," Phil says.
Scene change.
I get out of a S.H.I.E.L.D. truck. "Tyre tracks 40 minutes back. I'll check them against the site's trucks. Make sure we're alone," Ward says.
"Too much exposure here. I'm gonna find a place to park," May says. May closes the door to the truck.
"I would love to see a capuchin in the wild. Maybe even a yellow-tailed woolly monkey. You know Peru has twenty-three different species of monkey," Fitz says.
"Yeah, and close to two-hundred species of snakes. The shushupe has a fascinating venom. It's neurotoxin and hemolytic," Jemma says.
"Trust me, snakes are horrible. My last time I got bit I would have died if Slade hadn't found that antidote," I say. Jemma raises an eyebrow.
"Whose Slade?" Jemma asks.
"He's a friend," I say. "When he's not under super solider serums that make him and crazy and want to kill me," I add. S***, I wasn't supposed to tell anyone, I think. "Ops, forget I said anything," I say. We walk through some leaves and we see a temple gaining everyone's attention, including Jemma and Fitz. Saved by the temple of doom. Great, I think.
"Look at this," Jemma says.
"We should warn the people who live around here if the 084 is dangerous. They're already dealing with anti-mining rebels and the Shining Path guerrillas. I could post something," Skye says.
"Do you remember the panic when the anti-matter meteor splashed down just off the coast of Miami nearly devour the city?" Phil says.
"No," Skye says.
"Precisely," Phil says. "Because we kept it quiet and contained."
"So what am I doing?" Skye asks.
"Well, if it gets out I might need you to create some kind of diversion. Put the public on the wrong sense," Phil says.
"So everything that I'm against," Skye says.
"Yep," Phil says. Phil walks up a stairway and to a man at half way to the top of the staircase. "Good morning professor. I'm agent Coulson, with S.H.I.E.L.D. I understand you made an interesting discovery."
"I'm not sure how to explain it. This temple dates back to at least five-hundred years. It's filled with pre-Incan artifacts. One of them is impossible. And looks like it might be dangerous," the Professor says.
"We'll that why we're here," Phil says. We enter the temple. We look to see some advanced device implanted into a wall.
"Exactly as we found it," the professor says.
"Who else knows about this?" Phil asks.
"Just the ministry. I believe they are the ones that contacted you," The professor says.
"Sir, I need you and your team to evacuate the site until we determine the risk associated with this object," Phil says. A drone flies in front of the professor.
"Leave the man alone," Jemma says. The drone flies over to the 084.
"Now. For your own safety," Phil says. The professor leaves the temple.
"There's nothing about this anywhere. It's amazing. I searched every data stream. What do we got here? Guys?" Skye asks. Skye walks over to the device.
"Whoa, Careful I…. No. Wouldn't do that," Fitz says. Skye moves her hand away from the device.
"The objects placement in fossiliferous formations suggest it's been here for at least one-thousand-five-hundred years. That predates this temple by a millennium. Maybe it's alien," Jemma says.
"Yeah, but the shape and the craftsmanship, it's almost German," Fitz says.
"Sir," Ward says through the speaker.
"Go," Phil says.
"We have a situation," Ward says.
"Lots of rebels in the area," Skye says.
"Not enough gunfire. Keep working. I'm on my way," Phil says. I grab an arrow and slot it in my bow before following. We exit the temple to see soldiers everywhere. Phil says somethings in Spanish. Then a woman with a couple of men walk over.
"Phillip?" The woman asks.
"Camilla? Do you mind?" Phil says.
"After you," Camilla replies. Phil nods. Ward lets go of an agent and I slowly retract my arrow and put it in my quiver. May lowers her guns. Camilla says something in Spanish. Camilla's men lower their weapons. Camilla walks over to Phil. "And know for a proper hello," Camilla says before kissing Phil's check.
"Comandante. A promotion. Congratulations," Phil says.
"Three years ago, but thank you," Camilla says.
"Agent Melinda May. Agent Grant Ward. Agent Oliver Queen. This is comandante Camilla Reyes. She's with the Policia Militar del Peru. We used to work together back in the day. Let the team know everything's okay," Phil says. Ward and me walks to the temple.
"I know you found a strange object on Peruvian soil. We should have a conversation about how to proceed," Camilla says.
"Of course. But an 084 supersedes all national claims," Phil says.
"You look good," Camilla says.
"I work out," Phil replies.
"Come, let me show you something," Phil says.
Meanwhile in the temple.
"Are you seeing this? It's alive," Fitz says.
"'Alive,' alive?" Skye asks.
"It has a functioning powered source," Fitz says.
"Sleepy's reading radionuclides, but they don't match any isotope," Jemma says.
"I get temporal matches, but even then they seem to shift. Is that even possible," Fitz says.
"It depends on the shifting of the temporal radio stuff, so….," Skye says. Jemma and Fitz stare at her. "It's totally weird, right?" Fitz nods. "I'm gonna go check on Coulson." Ward and me enter the room.
"We've got company, National police," I say.
"What?" Jemma asks.
"Why are they here?" Fitz asks. I point at the device in the wall.
"They heard about the object. They're probably here to protect it. This area has lots of rebel uprisings," Ward says.
"Yeah, people are fighting back against the government's mining polices. It's pretty kick-a**," Skye says.
"Yeah. It's kick a**. All the violence," Ward says sarcastically.
"That's not what I'm saying," Skye says.
"I know it's what you're typing. In your van, alone, where it's safe. How much longer?" Ward says.
"What's the hurry?" Jemma says.
"Are we in danger?" Fitz asks.
"Not if everyone does their job," Ward says. He turns to Skye. "What is yours exactly." Explosions sound and dust falls from the roof. "Sounds like they're engaging rebels. Let's go. There coming for it. Come on." The drone flies into Fitz's hands. Jemma and Fitz bend down and Fitz puts the Drone back in case.
"We need a containment case for the 084," Jemma says.
"There's no time," Ward replies.
"But it has a fluctuating power core. Frequency way above ten exahertz," Fitz says. The ground rubles and more dust falls down. I walk over to the 084 and pull it out of the rock. "Whoa!" Fitz says running towards me. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! You did not just pull the wall. What is the matter with you? Do you realize we do not know the amount of photon emissions coming out of this… Okay? And we don't know what'll happen if it gets excited." While Fitz shouts at me everyone packs everything up.
"Fitz, come on!" Jemma says. Everyone runs out. When we exit we are fired at.
"Move back!" I shout. Everyone runs back into the temple.
"Queen, I have a plan, you look after them," Ward says. I nod. Ward moves out holding a gun and a spear like metallic object. We hear Camilla shout something in Spanish and suddenly all here me jump to the floor. Ward jumps out into the field and plants the spear like metallic object into the ground. Ward presses a button and an object slits off the spear like metallic object and flies into the air. Ward ducks as far down to the ground as he can. The piece of the spear like metallic object explodes knocking the rebels to the ground.
"My truck," Camilla shouts. Camilla runs and then shouts something in Spanish.
"Let's go," I order. Skye, Fitz and Jemma start to run and I run behind them keeping an eye on the surroundings. I see a rebel aiming his gun at us and I shoot him in the shoulder with an arrow. A truck pulls up in front of us and May opens the door. "Move! Now!" May shouts.
"Yeah that's a good idea," Jemma says as she, Skye, Fitz, Ward and me run to the truck.
"Yes, of course," Fitz says.
Scene change, the Bus.
"Cut it pretty close, sir," Ward says.
"Did want to leave anyone behind," Phil replies.
"I got to say, I miss my van," Skye says.
"Now, what was the problem?" Ward asks.
"As I said before, this device has a high frequency fluctuating sub-material compression…..," Fitz explains.
"Fitz, in English," Ward adds.
"The 084 is fueled by Tesseract technology. HYDRA, World War II. Captain America. It's full of lethal amounts of gamma Radiation," Fitz says.
"Gamma? You're saying it's nuclear?" Ward asks.
"No. He's saying it's much, much worse," Phil says.
Time skip.
"Are you mental? I did explain in great deal exactly what I meant using the Queen's bloody English!" Fitz says.
"Well, no offence, I didn't learn that in any of the four Ivy league schools I dropped out of," I reply.
Everyone gets into arguments. "Guys, stop it, we are on a plane with an alien weapon so, this is serious," I say. Everyone ignores me and continues to argue. Phil walks in.
"Do we have a problem here?" Phil asks.
"No, sir. Just working om our communication. Not everyone was prepared for a fire fight," Ward says.
"We got out, didn't lose anyone, saved a few of theirs. I'd say we did alright," Phil says. "Anything else?" Skye raises her hand.
"Yeah, I have a small question. Because I've been feeling like the tag-along hayseed rookie, but now I get the sense that Ward doesn't know which one's Simmons and which one's Fitz, and they've seen less gunfire then me, and Oliver seems to know less about S.H.I.E.L.D. than me, and I'm no rocket scientist, but is this your first mission together?" Skye asks.
"No. Of course not. It's our second," Jemma says.
"I was your first? That's sweet," Skye says.
"You're amused?" Ward asks.
"I'm terrified! I am in way over my head, but I've been on this team just as long as any of you. I might as well be team captain," Skye says. Jemma scoffs. "Just joking. But maybe that's not a bad idea, because these guys do not like each other much."
"This isn't about that. I am a specialist. Today, I could have eliminated the enemy threat if I was working alone. But I had none combat agents and an idiot with a bow and arrow!" Ward shouts.
"It's so typical. Who do you think designs your equipment?" Jemma says.
"I'm sorry your majesty," I say sarcastically. "But I hate to break it to you, but we are all equals, Jemma and Fitz are two of the smartest people I have ever meat and I meet them yesterday, Skye, she things out of the box and can hack into almost anything, and then me, I've been through hell and back, I've seen things, magic, aliens, time travel, stop being all high and mighty!"
"See, them proving the point I just made?" Skye says.
"You're not wrong. We still need to iron out the kinks. But, Ward, you can speak six languages, Oliver, you know more about the impossible than anyone here and are one of the most skilled men alive, Simmons you have two PhDs in fields I can't even pronounce, and, Fitz you are a rocket scientist, so work it out," Phil says. Phil walks out.
"I'm good at stuff, too!" Skye shouts.
Scene change.
I was sitting in Skye's room, looking at a picture of William. I hear a bottle smash. S***, I think. I get change into my Green Arrow costume. Two of the Spanish soldiers walk in. I lock two arrows into my quiver and fire them into the men's shoulders. I remove the duct to the air conditioner off. I crawl into it. While crawling I hear something. Phil's voice "The reason I'm still alive is because you need me to verify the change of routes for your pilot when HQ calls in any minute now," Phil says.
"I'd appreciate that, I'd also appreciate if you tell me where your agent is, the one who shot two arrows in my men," Camilla says.
"But if I don't, S.H.I.E.L.D. will shoot this aircraft out of the sky. That'll take the 084 out of your hands. Maybe I should let them," Phil says.
"No, I think you'll make the call. You already handed me your plane for the life of one of your little lab rats. If I open the cargo hold, you lose them all. And you are such a sentimentalist," Camilla says. I crawl towards the cargo bay.
Scene change.
Fitz, Jemma, Ward, May and Skye are all sitting tied up to the cargo bay. "This is my fault, I should have learnt Kung-Fu," Fitz says.
"Oh, yeah, but I shouldn't have pushed you into the field into the first place. You weren't ready," Jemma says.
"It was my job to make a proper threat assessment," Ward says. I flip the guard over the railing knocking him out.
"Guys, what's the plan?" I ask. Everyone looks at me in shock.
Time skip.
"Okay, we're sure, right? Everyone sure?" Skye says.
"We're all on board," Jemma says.
"Yeah, let's do this fast," Fitz says.
"No turning back, no freezing up," Ward says.
"Because if we do everyone dies," Fitz says.
"So, what are we waiting for?" I ask. We hear a car start up and turn to see May.
"You guys talk a lot," May says. We walk out of the way as May gets in the car and drives it into the lab window.
Scene change.
"Simmons? Forget what I said before. This is the moment that we'll regret," Fitz says. Fitz presses a button on his laptop. We hear an explosion on the upper levels of the bus. A green light appears on a machine next to the door as well as letting out a beep.
"It worked the drop in cabin pressure released the doors," Jemma says.
"I'll take care of the soldiers, you guys get to the 084," I say.
"And Coulson?" Fitz asks.
"Let's hope he can take care of himself," Ward says.
Scene change.
I open the door. A soldier aims his gun at me. I fire an arrow stabbing into the soldier's chest. Another one in front of me aims his gun and I knock it out of his hands by bashing it with my bow. I then kick him in the stomach knocking him to the ground. Three soldiers jump on me; tackling me to the ground. "Go now! Protect the 084!" I order. Fitz, Jemma, Ward and Skye look for the 084. I head-butt the guy holding my feet down knocking him off of me and then I kick the same solider in the stomach knock that solider even further back. I then use my left hand to punch the guy holding my right arm taking the guy holding my left arm with me. The guy holding my right arm lets go. I then kick the guy holding my left arm back. I then fire an arrow which goes into the guy who was holding don my legs and knocking him into a wall which the arrow stabs and gets stuck to. I punch the guy who was holding my left arm and he stumbles and gets sucked out of the plane. I turn to the guy holding my right arm and I punch him repeatedly knocking him out and I anchor him to the couch by stabbing his hand with an arrow that is stabbing into the couch as well.
"We got it, reel us back in!" I hear Skye shout.
"What are you doing!" I hear Jemma shout.
"Trust me!" I hear Skye rely. I knock out another solider by punching him in the head. I see he is being sucked into towards the hole. I grab him.
"Hold on!" I shout. The Solider tries to climb up my arm but the part of his shirt that I'm hold rips off and the solider falls through the hole in the wall. I lose my grip but an air-filled plastic boat plugs the hole before I reach. Skye walks over and helps me off of the floor.
"No other way in, huh? I was just starting to warm up to this place," Phil says.
"The 084 is cooling and stable. But we should call HQ and get it to The Slingshot as soon as possible," Fitz says. Phil turns to Camilla who is tied to a pole on the ground.
"Told you they were good," Phil says.
Scene change.
Fitz, Simmons and me walk into the cargo deck. "Hey, come on. You guys don't want to miss this," Fitz says. Fitz Jemma and me sit down. "So it'll take about one-hundred and eighty days to reach the sun. Now, yes of course, it would've been faster if they used hydrogen-fueled APU'S, bat there having fun," Fitz says. Everyone comes over and Jemma hands everyone a drink.
"How many of those have you guys had?" Skye asks. Jemma laughs.
"Skye, it's important when in the field to unwind from time to time," Jemma says, Jemma passes Skye a drink.
"Especially after a hard day of everyone almost dying," Fitz says.
"Which doesn't happen all every day, right?" Jemma asks.
"In my old job it did," I say.
"Well in this job it's an anomaly. An irregularity. Not the norm," Jemma says.
"Speaking of not the norm. Whose idea was it to blow a hole in my plane?" Phil says.
"May said that the doors were tied to the pressurization, so I thought….," Skye says.
"So we thought it was the only way to release them," Jemma says.
"It was everyone's idea, sir," Ward adds.
"Yeah, it was quite genius really," Fitz says.
"Nice work," Phil says.
"All clear for lift off," A S.H.I. . agent says into the speakers.
"Time for blast off," Fitz says. "Launching in three, two….," Fitz says holding his noise. Jemma and me laugh. Then a rocket launches into the sky. "The trajectory will take it beyond the Lagrange points so that it doesn't hit Herschel."
"Yeah, and there hasn't been any coronal mass ejections., so it should lose telemetry," Jemma adds.
"Guys, English," Ward says.
How was that? Good or Bad? Also, I want to do a chapter for Oliver, someone from his past coming back, so please vote on what should happen in that chapter. I also decided to leave some skipped in the story since i felt it wasn't needed. Please give me any suggests and constructive feedback. Until next time, Ant-boy out.
