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Chapter 8 T.A.H.T.I.
I wake up to see that I'm in bed. I feel someone snuggling me, and turn my head to see that it's Darcy. I smile as I kiss her on the forehead, before getting out of bed. I go to the kitchen and work on breakfast in bed. I then get interrupted by a ringing sound. It was my phone on the table. I look at it to see Coulson ringing me and answer it. "Hello," I say.
"There something we need to tell you about," Coulson says. He pauses. "About Skye," he says.
"What is it?" I ask, a bit concerned by how Coulson's acting.
"She's been… shot," he says.
"But she's okay, right?" I ask.
"We are bringing her to a SHIELD facility with doctors that'll do everything they can to save her, and Jemma's doing everything she can to keep Skye alive," he says.
"Where do I meet you?" I ask.
Scene change.
Me and the rest of the team are sitting in a room, except Coulson who's on the phone with someone. "I'm here. That's unacceptable. I need to speak to Director Fury immediately, please," Coulson says, to the person on the other side of the phone.
"Why didn't I stop her? I could've," Fitz says.
"As if you could stop Skye from doing anything she set her mind to," Jemma says.
"I shouldn't have let her go after Quinn herself. What was I thinking?" Fitz says.
"It's not your fault. She shouldn't have been there. I'm her SO. It's on me," Ward says.
"The one to blame is the man who shot her. Ian Quinn. He's responsible," May says.
"Yes, the message is I have an agent dying and there are questions only he can answer," Coulson says, before declining the call.
Time skip.
A nurse comes in. We all get up. "How is she?" Coulson ask.
"Not good. The shot perforated her stomach and penetrated the large and small intestines," She says. My eyes glow bright blue. "We resected what we could, but there's been too much damage," she says.
"So what's next?" Coulson asks.
"We can keep her comfortable, but you'll need to make a decision or not you wanna keep her on life-support," the nurse says. I clench my fist.
"You're saying there's nothing to be done?" Coulson asks. There is a pause.
"I'm saying you need to call her family. Get them here as soon as possible," the nurse says.
The nurse looks over to me, Fitz and Jemma, before turning back to Coulson. "In that case. I'm very sorry," she says. The lights in the room start to flicker and my eyes glow brighter. I take a deep breath in and the lights stop flickering and my eyes go back to normal. I then walk out of the room without a word.
Scene change.
I open the door to the interrogation room. I look to see the infamous Ian Quinn. "Finally. I was beginning to think…," Quinn says, before I fire a beam of electricity at him that knocks him into the wall.
"Wait! You can't!" Quinn begs. I then grab him with electricity and suspend him in the air.
"Why? Because you're as defenseless as Skye was?" I ask, before bashing him into the wall.
I then push him from side to side, bashing him into the corners of the room. "Declan! Declan!" Coulson says. I bash him into the wall as hard as I can before I let him go. I look over to see Coulson, Ward, and May. "Outside. Now," he says. I reluctantly go outside.
Scene change.
"He deserves that. H deserves to die. Not Skye," I say.
"Agreed. But right now. Quinn doesn't matter. Only Skye does and I need your help," Coulson says.
"You heard what the doctors said," I say.
"He said there was nothing more they could do for her. But there are doctors who brought me back from the dead. If they can do that, I'm betting they can save Skye," Coulson says.
Scene change.
A man walks over to Ward and me. "Agent Grant Ward," he says as they shake hands.
"Trip," Ward says. "Is Garret upstairs?" He asks as he lets go of Trip's hands.
"Yeah," Trip says. "Who's this," he asks pointing to me.
"Declan," I say.
Trip turns back to Ward. "You know, Garrett still talks about that 1000 yard shot you took in Bandung," Trip says.
"It was 2000," Ward corrects. "So what are you doing here?"
"Man, this is like the playboy jet," Trip says. Trip playful slaps Wards shoulder. Trip chuckles. "I mean; a guy could get a soft bunk in space like this. How did Coulson swing such a sweet ride?"
"He died," I say.
"That's tight," Trip says. "You want to point me to the box you're keeping Quinn in? H.Q. ordered Garrett to haul his *** to the Fridge for questioning," he says. Trip then sees the Bar. "Is that a full bar?"
"You're welcome to it. But Quinn stays put till Coulson says otherwise," Ward says.
"Come on, man. Garrett was your S.O., too, so you know how this works," Trip says.
"Why don't you remind me?" Ward says.
"Garrett wants Quinn. It's my job to make sure Garrett gets what he wants. Now where is he?" Trip says.
"Can't help you with that," Ward says.
"No worries. I'll find Quinn myself. I'm sure he's tucked between the Jacuzzi and the squash court," Trip says, before attempting to walk away.
Ward grabs him by the sleeve of his shirt. Trip punches Ward in the chest, which I very much enjoyed watching. Trip and Ward then start tackling each other. I blast the ground in front of them, causing them to stop and look at me. "Enough," I say.
"Agent Ward. Mister Diaz. Stand down," Coulson says, walking into the room with somebody. "Agent Garrett and I have come to an agreement. He convinced H.Q. he could interrogate Quinn here on our plane as we continue to Bethesda," Coulson says.
"Well I'm a bit of a sweet talker when I need to be. You wouldn't believe what I could talk with this son of a gun into," Garrett says. Garrett talks directly to Ward. "Good seeing you, son," Garrett says, shaking Wards hand.
"You, too, sir. Thank you," Ward says.
"Saving the girl's top priority. And she might know something," Garrett says.
Scene change.
"The guest house is not a SHIELD facility. We don't know who or what's in there. Be prepared for potential resistance," Coulson says.
"No contact from inside?" Garrett asks.
"I've tried every known channel. No response," May says.
"Place could be abandoned," Ward says.
"Let's hope not. We need the people inside to work on Skye," Coulson says.
"Simmons is preparing Skye to move at a moment's notice, sir," Fitz says.
"Trip can help. He's had med-tech training," Garrett says.
"Good. We do our job right, this will all go peacefully," Coulson says.
"What if they don't wanna help us?" I ask.
"I'll say, 'pretty please'," Garrett says.
"We need the doctors alive and the place intact. If it does go sideways, Fitz. I need you down there to determine what Simmons can use to help Skye," Coulson says. Fitz nods. "And then we take it. Let's move," Coulson says. Ward, Garrett, Coulson, Fitz and me leaving, with Ward and Garrett holding guns. We walk over to a door in the side of the mountain. We look up at the security camera.
"How was the drive from Istanbul?" a voice says over the camera.
"Countersign?" Coulson asks.
"No clue," Garrett replies.
"Never heard of it," Ward says.
"I can't find it in any of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s protocol directives," Fitz says.
"This is agent Coulson with S.H.I.E.L.D. We don't know the counter but we have a team member in dire need of medical assistance. We know she can be treated here. Open the doors, maybe we can work something out. Do you copy?" Coulson says.
"How was the drive from Istanbul?" the voice repeats.
"We're looking for medical assistance. A person's life is at stake. Will you help us?" Coulson says.
"How was the drive from Istanbul?" The voice repeats.
"'Pretty please' it is," Garrett says, and Ward shoots the camera. Fitz hacks into the machine.
Time skip.
We're standing on top of an elevator. Fitz had hacked into a camera in there and was looking throw it. "There's an antechamber and a set of glass doors. Can't see much beyond that. Lights are all out," Fitz says.
"Well they know where coming. Let's go say hello," Coulson says. Ward then drops down.
"Clear," he says. We then drop down after him. Fitz was the last one.
"Comms are down. There's too much mountain on top of us," he says.
"Trust me it's better," Garrett says. "You don't want them hearing the horrible death where walking into," he adds. Fitz has a blank face. "Humour, son. You Brits are too serious. Presides if the job was easy…," Garrett says, before being interrupted.
"It wouldn't be any fun," Ward says.
"I'm not afraid. Not yet," Fitz says. he walks forward. "I suspect the real danger won't happen until we breach that bullet proof glass," Fitz says. he turns to a door. "Probably a stairwell back to the surface," he says. We reach the bulletproof glass door.
"I'll go first. You know what they always say. The bulletproof man should always be the first to walk into a death trap," I say. I then look directly at Coulson. "I' can open it, sir. Just say the word," I say.
"Once we get inside, everybody find cover," Coulson orders. "All right, gentlemen, here we go," Coulson says. I then blast the door with a beam of energy, shattering it. Everyone gets in and gets behind cover. A shadowed figure fires at us. "We've come for medical assistance but if you continue firing on us, we will defend…," Coulson says but is interrupted by gunfire. I turn to Coulson with a grin on my face.
"I got this," I say. I then jump out from behind my cover. The bullets fly at me but, a barrier of energy appears around my skin, deflecting the bullets. I then fire a beam of electricity at him. I then for the first time notice the second one. He fires on me. A beam of electricity comes out of my hand and flops to the floor. I then swing it at him and knock him into a wall, knocking him unconscious. I turn back around to see Garrett stunned, and the others watching in awe. "Fitz, is that what I think it is?" I ask, pointing to a timer.
"Semtex. The whole place is rigged to blow," Garrett says, staring at the ceiling.
"There's enough explosives to bring down the whole mountain on top of us," Fitz says.
Ward picks up the timer. It reads 095371 "Sir, less than ten minutes," Ward says. Coulson walks past Ward. "It's probably a failsafe. If the guards had eliminated us, they'd stop the timer," Ward continues.
"Since they didn't….," Coulson says, but is interrupted by Fitz.
"There's some kind of emergency override. Skye could probably get past it, but I can't hack the panel, which means we're trapped in here," Fitz says.
Coulson turns to Garrett. "You're the guy who taught Ward how to disarm nuclear bombs. Figure out a way to get out of here," he says. He then turns to Fitz and me. "Let's go find the drug," he continues.
Time skip. (I'm going to skip some scenes because they won't change much).
Fitz and me run in. We see Jemma giving Skye chest compressions. "We found it," Fitz says.
"What is it? And how much? Injected where?" Jemma asks, continuing to give Skye chest compressions
Ward presses a button on his ear piece. "May get us off the ground or it'll fall out from under us," he says.
Small time skip.
Jemma sticks the needle in Skye's arm. Coulson runs in the room. "No don't give it to her!" he shouts. I give him a look. Jemma turns to Coulson.
"I was losing her anyway. What harm can it do?" she replies. Coulson looks at Skye. Then we all look at the screen monitoring her heart beat.
"Come on, girl," Trip says. There was a beep.
"It's working," Garrett says. I let out a huge sigh. Jemma smiles. Then Skye gasps. Skye then flings her chest in the air. I hear rapid beeping from the heart beat monitor.
"She's spiking!" Jemma shouts. Skye gasps for air.
"Stop it! How can we stop it? Skye!" Ward shouts. Jemma looks like she's on the verge of tears.
"What's happening?" I ask.
"I don't know," Jemma says.
"Skye!" Coulson shouts.
"Do something! We have to do something!" Fitz shouts. Skye gasps. Then her body drops to the bed. The beeping starts to slow down.
"Her heartbeat. She's stabilizing," Jemma says.
"Simmons?" Coulson says.
"Can someone tell me what we just saw?" Ward asks.
"Girl's a fighter. What was that stuff you gave her?" Trip says.
"I don't know. All I know is that it worked," Jemma says.
"You're a real miracle worker," Trip says. A tear runs down Jemma's eye.
"You did it," May says. Coulson turns back to look at her before looking back to Skye. Coulson then walks out of the room. May turns to Garrett "Something happen down there?" she asks.
"I'm not sure. One minute he was fine, the next it was like he had seen a ghost," Garrett says.
Okay, I'm planning on doing a chapter with the x-men. Minus Wolverine since he's not with the x-men at the moment. Do you have any suggestions? Also, what villains would you like Declan to face. Until next time, Ant-boy out.