Henry entered the warehouse to find a rush of activity like he had never seen before. The buzz of excitement was palpable and caused the immortal to sigh with relief. He flagged down the first person he recognized. "Claire?" he asked Stephanie. "What's going on?"

Stephanie stopped when Henry got her attention. She read his rush of conflicting thoughts and emotions and sighed. "The Guardians are fine," Stephanie reassured Henry, confirming his suspicions.

"What about the others?" asked Henry.

Stephanie's face fell. "Shadow and Doctor Foster never regained consciousness. No one can explain why. The Mùshī and Yīzhì are with them in the lab if you want to check on them. Now, I'm sorry, but Phoenix is calling for me. I need to go."

Henry watched Stephanie briefly walk off before heading to the lab. The atmosphere in the lab was no less intense for its lack of activity. Skye and Jane were laid out on two gurneys, motionless save for the rise and fall of the air in their lungs. Stark and Banner were hard at work in the lab, Banner working on some blood samples and Stark focused on the myriad of computers now connected to Mjölnir.

Lanie opened her eyes as she completed the healing she was performing on Jane. It was obvious to Henry that that was not the first healing that Lanie had performed since the spell; nor would it, probably, be the last. He reached out to the healer with a gentle hand on her shoulder. Lanie gasped in surprise at the unexpected contact before standing up and turning around to embrace her friend. "It's so good to see you, Henry," she greeted him, her voice awash with relief.

"Same," Henry agreed, his voice echoing the relief that Lanie was feeling. He tilted his head to direct their attention back to the two patients. "How are they?"

"I wish I knew," Lanie shrugged as she broke the embrace. "There's no physical damage from the spell that I could find. In either of them. They both have normal brain activity, but they just won't wake up. Ryan's been linked with Skye since we settled them in here, trying to pinpoint what's going on in her mind."

Henry glanced over at the patient on the other gurney, the man who was clutching to her hand for dear life and the Guardian who was deep in a trance at her side. "What happened back there?"

"The way Castle described it?" Lanie replied. "We called out to the foundations of the universe. The universe answered back."

"I know what it did to me," said Henry. "Did it..."

Lanie shook her head. "My guess is that you died because the energy coming in collided with the energy you were putting out for the spell and you, for lack of a better word, exploded from the impact."

Harry's eyes went wide. "That's a new one, even for me. So none of you...?"

Lanie shook her head again. "None of the rest of us were affected, save for..."

"Yeah." Henry turned his attention back to the only people who didn't come out of the spell unscathed.

Ryan eyes flew open as Skye bolted upright in the bed, her eyes glowing with a bright yellow light. He jumped up, backing away from Skye to Lanie and Henry, his expression showing amazement and urgency, wonder and fear.

Ward grimaced as Skye squeezed his hand so hard that it broke bones in his finger. "Skye," he grunted in pain, worried more for her than for himself, "what..."

Skye then spoke for the first time since the spell, spouting off a stream of letters and numbers in an emotionless monotone.

Those letters and numbers caught Stark's attention immediately. He grabbed pen and paper and ran across the lab, writing down everything he heard Skye say.

Banner felt his friend's level of excitement grow with every letter he wrote down. "Tony?" he asked Stark warily.

"Do you recognize what she's saying?" Lanie asked Stark.

"I think so," Stark declared as he wrote the last letter down. "She's repeating a pattern!" he exclaimed as he ran across the room. When he typed the pattern into one of the Mjölnir-connected computers, the machines jumped to life. Stark was practically beaming as the computers returned exactly the type of result he had expected. "The pattern matches latitude and longitude. It's a location."

Banner's eyes went wide. "On Earth?"

"Yep," Stark replied. He was bouncing on the balls of his feet with excitement.

"Do you know what the location means?" asked Lanie.

Stark stopped bouncing. "Nope."

"I do," Ryan declared. When all eyes focused on him, he explained, "the spell worked. Skye and Doctor Foster's stones are calling out to them. So if Skye's spitting out a location..."

"That means she found her stone," Stark agreed as the last piece of the puzzle clicked into place. He ripped the page out of his notebook with a flourish and handed it to Ward. "Get these coordinates to Phoenix. It looks like we need to suit up."

#

"She's not going."

May sighed, frustrated by Ward's overly protective declaration. "Skye has to go," she insisted. "She's the one who knows where the stone is."

Ward was not backing down. "Have you seen her?!" he exclaimed. "She's not even in her right mind, let alone in any position to take care of herself."

"I'll protect her," Alexis volunteered. "I won't leave her side and she'll be fully shielded. There's no way anything will be able to happen to her."

Ward seemed placated by Alexis' promise...but only slightly. "Thank you," he said begrudgingly. Alexis nodded.

The matter settled, Fallon directed the group back to the mission. "All right, the coordinates that Skye gave us are for a location in Sokovia." The screen lit up with an image of a heavily fortified medieval castle surrounded by dense forests.

Castle's eyes lit up. "You mean we actually get to go storming the castle?!"

Beckett and Coulson chuckled at Castle's exuberance before Coulson pulled out his cell phone to read a text message. The rest of the room, though, ignored the comment as Fallon continued. "If the stone is actually there, then we have to assume that we're not going to be able to just walk in there and take it..."

"It's a fairly safe assumption," Coulson declared as he put his phone away. "I just got a message my contact in Sokovia. That castle's a HYDRA base."

"I thought that explosion was Loki taking his scepter back?" asked Ryan.

"We assumed that was what that explosion was," May countered. "After I watched all of you die I wasn't exactly focused on looking through the rubble to see if the scepter was really gone."

Fallon moved to take control once again. "Regardless," he insisted, "this changes things." He turned to Stephanie. "It's all hands on deck this time. Make the calls."

"You got it, boss," Stephanie said before turning to walk out of the room.

"I don't suppose your contact in Sokovia has updated reconnaissance for the castle?" Fallon asked Coulson.

Coulson shook his head. "Sorry."

"I could go," Ryan volunteered. "I just need a wizard to get me back and forth."

"I'll go with you," Castle volunteered with just a little more enthusiasm than the conversation required. When Beckett glared at her fiancé, Castle was unrepentant. "Oh c'mon," he declared defensively. "The chance to invisibly roam around an old medieval castle? How could I refuse?!"

Beckett sighed patiently. "Fine," she replied with a smile. "But then I'm going with you. In your current mood you'll be so busy playing haunted castle that you won't pay attention to getting what we need to know to get the stone back."

"That settles that, then," Fallon declared to the group. "We'll regroup when you get back. And be careful, guys. If you get caught they'll move the stone again and we'll be back at square one."

On that point, Ryan, Beckett and Castle were in full agreement. "We'll be careful," they replied in unison.