Kayla was the last person to arrive at the meeting, all eyes on her as she walked through the door. Ward nodded to her, as he began speaking.
"So as you all probably know we're in the last stage of our plan. We have almost everything set up. All we need is the security codes from S.H.I.E.L.D" Ward announced, as Kayla scoffed, as everyone raised an eyebrow to her.
"I'm just saying, it's not going to be easy to get through Skye's security. Do you really think you have a better hacker here?" Kayla questioned.
"That's why we're going to have to go into the main base and take the security codes from there" Ward answered.
"And by 'we' you mean who exactly?" An older woman questioned.
"As in me" Ward replied.
"There are about 10,000 reasons why that won't work. You'll be shot on sight, they won't take you prisoner anymore" Kayla informed him.
"I'm aware of that. That's why they're not going to recognize me" Ward smirked, as he opened a case.
"I put this mask on and I can become anyone I like" He explained.
"We've talked about this, you can't go on your own" Kara insisted, in a hushed whisper.
"Well you can't go with me. We need someone who knows S.H.I.E.L.D" Ward told her.
"I'm not the only candidate" Kara exclaimed, her gaze falling on Kayla.
"Nope. No. No way. I'm not doing it" Kayla refused.
"He can't go in there alone! He needs someone to have his back!" Kara stated.
"Well some of us here were also low level agents, we could go in" A young man suggested.
"Low level being the right word" Kara retorted.
"Well I never even became an agent so…" Kayla trailed off.
"I'm pretty sure you're more powerful than every person in this room, it doesn't matter that you can't throw a good punch" Kara explained.
"There must be someone else who can go" Kayla insisted.
"Look, its fine. I'm better on my own. I go in, get the job done. That's the end of it. Meeting over" Ward finished.
Later that day, Kayla walked towards the lab that she had been told Ward was in. He was going back to S.H.I.E.L.D tomorrow, and she needed to see him before then. She walked into the room, stumbling a little when she saw Ward was shirtless, as he put a shirt on.
"Oh, um, I'll just…" She stuttered, blushing lightly, as she turned around.
"Have you come to wave me off?" He questioned, a slight smirk on his face because of her reaction.
"Yeah, I, uh wanted to talk to you about that" She replied, as she turned back around.
"If you're worried about how people will treat you when I'm not here, you don't have to worry. The people here are good" Ward explained.
"That's not it…is that your mask?" She asked, spotting the briefcase from before.
"You want to see it?" Ward suggested.
"Why not? Let's see if it's an improvement" Kayla grinned.
With a roll of his eyes, he placed the mask over his face as suddenly it changed to make him look like an entirely different person. The only thing that was really similar was he still had the same eyes, apart from that, everything was different.
"Wow…that's just…crazy…" Kayla trailed off, raising her hand to touch his face.
"It feels so real" She exclaimed, cupping his jaw.
"It is, it's just me with paint over my face over my face, really" He answered, surprised at how close they were.
Blinking, Kayla realised what she was doing, and took her hand away, taking a step back.
"Do you still have another one?" Kayla asked.
"Yes...why?" Ward inquired, with a frown.
"I'm coming with you" She told him.
"What? No, you're not" Ward retorted.
"Yes, I am. I've thought about this. I'm not running from S.H.I.E.L.D anymore, I said I'd do anything to take it down, and that's what I am going to do" Kayla insisted.
"It's too dangerous" Ward said, shaking his head.
"Oh, don't start. You were going to let Kara go!" Kayla exclaimed.
"Yes, because she's a trained agent" Ward stated.
"You know you need me if this is going to work. Are you really going to let all of this to go to waste?" Kayla accused.
"I'm not going to let you get hurt" Ward told her.
"I'm not! I don't know if you've noticed, but I've got kind of badass now, I could probably give you a run for your money" Kayla teased, nudging him.
"What's this?" Kara announced, as she walked into the room.
"I'm going with Ward" Kayla informed her.
"Seriously?! I will feel so much better knowing he has someone to look out for him" Kara admitted.
"Alright, I guess I better see this mask I'll be wearing, then" Kayla said, clapping her hands together.
"This is not going as I expected" Kayla sighed, an hour later.
"Sorry about this, it's just really hard to find anyone that matches you" Kara confessed, as she flipped through the magazines she had gotten.
"I'm not really supermodel material" Kayla laughed.
"Ah! I found one" Kara exclaimed, a moment later, as she had been flipping through a local paper.
"Who is it? What are they modeling?" Kayla questioned, excited.
"Um…cleaning...She's a cleaner" Kara replied, handing her the advertisement she had found.
"Wow, that's kind of depressing" Kayla sighed.
"She's quite pretty though" Kara insisted.
"Better than me I guess" Kayla shrugged.
"Oh, shut up. I bet you have all the boys falling for you" Kara accused.
"Afraid not" Kayla replied.
"What? Not even any high school romances?" Kara inquired.
"They used to call me Casper the Pasty Ghost at school, people didn't exactly fight over me" Kayla laughed, bitterly.
"Kids are cruel" Kara stated.
"Yeah, but I've found adults are crueler" Kayla exclaimed, as she placed the mask on.
"How do I look?" Kayla queried.
"Not bad" Kara said, passing her a mirror.
"At least my face isn't so chubby now" Kayla shrugged.
"You look good, different, but good" Kara informed her.
Author's Notes: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! So Ward and Kayla are going back to S.H.I.E.L.D undercover...I'm sure you can guess they're going to have lots of problems along the way. Please leave a review:)
Secret-writer91: I couldn't resist adding some new inhumans into the mix!
Koos: Really, haha? I had a difficult time choosing they're names tbh, I wanted them to sound normal...but not too normal if you know what I mean:)
Bebe558: Thank you so much! I'm glad you like them:)