The trio walked upstairs and into an empty hallway. The pain in Skye's ankle had shrunk into a dull ache. She was leaning on Bobbi less, but still had her arm around her neck. The blonde still had her arm wrapped firmly around the brunette's waist, not ready to let her walk on her own yet. May was up ahead with her gun held out in front of her.
They heard yelling and crashing in a room to the right. The three of them looked in and saw Cal on top of a man.
"Coulson!" May yelled, being the first to recognise the battered and bloodied body of Phil Coulson. She went to run into the room but Bobbi stopped her and turned her around. There were 8 hydra guards walking towards them. May looked at Skye, then Bobbi. Bobbi looked worriedly at Skye.
"I can go stop Cal, and get Coulson checked out on the bus" Skye said firmly
Bobbi sighed and looked unsure of this. She turned to look at the guards then sighed again "Ok, but be careful" Bobbi said
Skye nodded "I promise"
the blonde cupped Skye's cheek and pressed their foreheads together. Bobbi moved one hand from Skye's cheek to hold the back of her head. The brunette put her hands on Bobbi's neck. "I love you" Bobbi said, with worry and sadness in her eyes.
They pulled apart and Skye smiled at her blonde. "I love you too" she smiled "But don't you dare say it as a goodbye. I'll be fine and so will you. We'll see each other in a couple hours. This is not goodbye" Skye assured Bobbi, but also herself.
"I know." Bobbi put on a tiny smile "I guess I'll see you later then"
Skye nodded then ran into the room where Cal was beating Coulson. She quickly stole one last look of Bobbi, to see the woman taking on the guards with May. Then she ran up onto the stage of the theatre room, with her gun raised.
"Stop it!" she yelled. Cal continued to beat Coulson "Stop it or I'll shoot!" this didn't seem to bother the man, as he punched Coulson again "Dad!" she shouted.
Cal looked up at this. He panted "He took something from me"
Skye stepped off the stage and took a step towards them, her gun still raised. "No, he saved you from killing more people. Now get up and get away from him" she glared at him.
Cal slowly got up and backed away. Skye followed him with her gun in his face.
"You have to finish what we started" her father said
"No I don't. I'm not going down there. I'm not going to change or transform, or whatever the hell you think is gonna happen" she growled
"Why can't you see it's a good thing?" he argued
"Maybe it's all the dead bodies lying around. Or the fact that hydra wants it." She paused "I'm gonna make sure the obelisk never gets down into that city" she looked at him with tears forming in her eyes "And you're gonna leave. This is your one chance to walk away… or I will kill you"
He looked at her with hurt and sadness in his eyes "Okay, I'll go. But I'll be waiting for you. After you change, no one else will understand. They'll be afraid. Change is terrifying. But I'm your father and I love you, I will always love you Daisy." Cal looked at her one last time, before turning and walking out the room.
Her eyes lingered on him as he walked out. She sucked in a breath that she didn't realise she was holding, lowered her gun and ran over to Coulson.
She bent over him, put her hand on his cheek and began to cry "I'm so sorry" she choked out "I couldn't do it. I couldn't kill him, and I wanted to and I couldn't" she sobbed "I'm so sorry" Coulson groaned and gasped in pain. Skye sniffed "I'm gonna make it right" she said firmly "I'm gonna find the obelisk and I'm gonna stop the drill"
"No" Coulson said quietly
"I'm gonna make it right"
"No Skye." Coulson groaned as she got up. "Skye no, don't go down there" he said as she ran out of the room. He couldn't get up, let alone try to stop her.
Bobbi stood over the unconscious body of the last guard, panting. She had a bloody nose, a cut under her eye, a split lip, and her ribs hurt like hell. May also looked out of breath and weary, but she stood up straight and said "We need to find Coulson and Skye"
Bobbi nodded and the two began to walk down the hallway. Bobbi noticed that May was limping slightly, but the older woman was trying to hide it.
The blonde was worried. Her soul mark was tingling and she felt nervous. She knew something was wrong. Something had happened. Bobbi felt sick to her stomach when she thought about something happening to Skye. She sucked in a shaky breath and continued to walk down the hall towards the room where Skye had last been.
Skye walked down to the lower level and over to the plasma drill. She saw the case that the obelisk was in. But it was empty. There was a rope going down into the city. She fitted the pieces together in her head "Oh god, Raina"
She quickly put on a harness and attached herself to the rope. She lowered herself down into the city, with her gun and torch raised, ánd began to walk through the dark halls.
She didn't know where she was going but she felt something pulling her in the right direction. She turned a corner and almost had a heart attack when she saw a figure standing in the shadows. The brunette recognised the build of the tall and muscly figure standing in front of her. "Mack?" she called out "You scared the hell out of me" she sighed as she began to walk towards him. "What are you doing down here?" Mack had his back to her and didn't respond to anything she said. "Mack!" she shouted.
He spun around and she gasped and took a step back. Her mouth opened and closed in shock. She shined the torch in front of his eyes but he was non-responsive and his eyes were black "okay okay, oh, erm, err, we, we" Skye stammered "We gotta get out of here" she began to walk but he didn't move. She pushed his shoulder "Mack?" she shoved him again frustratedly "Mack!" she said loudly. She sighed "okay, I'm gonna come back" she nodded, mainly to reassure herself, as she began to walk down the corridor.
At the end of the corridor there was a split in the walls, like a doorway. "The temple" she muttered to herself. She spotted a torch on the floor and knew it was Raina's. She walked through the entrance and into the temple.
She saw Raina by a podium in the centre of the temple, with the obelisk in her hand. The brunette dropped her torch and walked further into the temple.
"I knew you'd come" Raina said with her usual smirk on her face
"Somebody had to stop you" Skye said as she walked closer to the woman, with her gun raised.
Bobbi and May found Coulson on the floor of the theatre room, his face covered in blood.
"Coulson" May gasped as she ran to his side
Bobbi looked around the room. No sign of Skye. She grew fearful and ran over to Coulson.
She bent down next to him "Coulson, where's Skye?" she asked
Coulson groaned as May helped him into a sitting position "She, she, err" he groaned in pain
"Coulson, where is She?" Bobbi pressed for answers rather harshly
May looked at her, telling her to go easy on the man who has just been beaten to within an inch of his life.
"She went down to the city" Coulson finally managed to get out
The blonde shot up and began to run towards the door
"Morse" Coulson called out "Agent Morse"
"What!?" Bobbi snapped as she stopped at the door
"We're coming too" Coulson said as May helped him up
"No disrespect sir, but you can barely walk. And I need to get to Skye" She said
"I put her on this path, I've gotta fix it" Coulson said.
Bobbi sighed then nodded and they all headed down to the lower level.
Once they got downstairs, they hurried over to the drill. Bobbi began to strap herself into a harness.
"We're coming too" she heard May say
The blonde looked at the two older agents "No you're not"
"I'm sorry?" May questioned her as raised her eyebrows at the other woman
"Coulson can barely walk, and May, I've noticed the limp that you're trying to hide." She saw Coulson look at May in concern
"I'm fine" she said to both the blonde and her boss.
"Skye wouldn't want you guys going down there after her, especially not in the state that you're both in." Bobbi said
"She wouldn't want you going down there either" May countered
"There's no way I'm losing her. So if I have to do something that she doesn't like to make sure that doesn't happen… I'm sure as hell gonna do it" Bobbi said
"Your whole life- our whole lives- have been leading to this moment" Raina said
"Sorry, I don't buy into the whole 'this is your destiny' thing. We're taking the obelisk and we're leaving. There are too many lives at stake." Skye thought about Bobbi, and Coulson, and May, and the team. She couldn't let anything happen to them.
"You've got it all wrong. Whitehall, everyone has got it all wrong. This doesn't destroy" She lifted the obelisk "it gives life. New life. We finally get to find out what we become." She smiled
The obelisk began glowing "Make it stop" Skye ordered
Raina let out a small chuckle "I can't" Skye's eyes widened as the obelisk was drawn towards the podium. "Neither of us can"
Skye looked around as she heard a loud scraping sound. The walls began to move. The temple entrance was sealing itself shut.
"If you want to leave, now's your chance" Raina smirked. "I gotta admit, I'm just a tiny bit nervous"
Skye looked around frantically, not knowing what to do. She watched as the walls came closer together. Then a figure ran through the entrance and stood next to her.
"Oh my God, Trip. What the hell are you doing here?" Skye asked.
"Came to get you" he answered simply
"Trip, you can't be here, it's not safe" Skye said, worried for her friend's safety
"I couldn't just leave you" the man replied, the green tint of the flashlight illuminating his face.
Skye stared at Trip, horrified as there was a loud bang. The entrance closed, sealing them in, with Raina and the obelisk.
"Skye" Bobbi called out as she continued running through the corridors "Skye"
She walked up a corridor, letting the tingling of her soul mark guide her. She rounded a corner and was almost knocked off her feet by a tall muscular figure.
She stepped back and gasped in shock as she saw her friend glaring at her through deep black eyes.
"Mack?" she said unsurely
He let out a low growl and the blonde took a fearful step back. She knew she could take Mack if she had to, but she didn't want to. She didn't want to attack the man who was like a brother to her.
"Mack, this isn't you. Just please-" she began
Mack roared before he charged towards her. Her eyes widened but she reacted quickly. She kicked Mack in the stomach and he doubled over. She quickly bashed him over the head with her torch and the man collapsed to the floor. She worriedly looked at her friend before sprinting down the corridor, determined to get Skye out of here as quickly as she could.
Bobbi heard a grinding sound as she turned another corner. At the end of the corridor she saw the walls closing. She saw the green tint of a flashlight and knew that Skye was in there.
"Skye." she shouted as she sprinted towards the closing walls. Just as she reached them, a loud bang sounded and the walls clicked together. "Skye" she yelled desperately as she pushed as hard as she could on the walls. "Skye" she screamed as she kicked the wall. A low moan was let out of her throat as she punched and clawed at the wall. She felt tears dripping down her cheeks. She couldn't hear anything from the other side of the walls. Her soul mark was burning and she itched it furiously.
"Skye" she yelled one last time before leaning against the wall and sliding her back down it until she was sitting on the floor. She felt the tears start flooding down her cheeks. She pressed her ear to the wall, hoping to hear some signs of life.
Nothing.
But she knew Skye was in there, she could feel it. She just hoped that the walls were just too thick too hear through, the alternative being that there were no signs of a living breathing person.
The obelisk began to open and a silver crystal like thing revealed itself. She stared at it in a mixture of shock and horror.
"How do we stop it?" Trip asked
The brunette shook her head slightly "I don't think we can"
Both her, Trip and Raina stared at it intently.
"What's supposed to happen here?" Trip questioned
"Something beautiful" Raina said
A wave of gas erupted from the crystal and pushed them all back. They all panted, trying to catch their breath and stared at the obelisk. Skye didn't bother to hide the terror on her face and neither did Trip.
Skye looked at Raina and saw a black mould working its way up her arm. She looked at her hand to see the same happening to her. Her gun clattered to the floor as she stared horrified at the black mould smothering her skin.
"Oh god. Oh, oh god" she began to panic as the mould wormed its way up to her chest and continued to rise. She gasped and panted as it moved up to her throat. "Tr-Trip!" she called out as she reached out her hand. She saw Trip panicking and trying to figure out what to do, as the mould climbed up her face. She looked at Trip one last time, then the mould covered her completely and all she saw was black.
Bobbi heard footsteps and quickly looked up. She scrambled to her feet and wiped her eyes. Mack rounded the corner and glared at her again. The black still consumed his eyes. She couldn't do this again. She was fearful of losing Skye; she couldn't fight her best friend again.
Mack walked towards her, but about a step away he fell to his knees, his hands covering his face. He groaned but slowly lowered his hands from his face. He looked up at her and she sighed in relief as she saw the familiar brown colour in his eyes.
"Bobbi?" he questioned
"Mack" again she sighed in relief as his name left her lips.
Skye felt the mould around her eyes crack as her vision returned. She saw Trip turned to stone on the floor and felt the tears in her eyes as she saw the shattered pieces of the crystal surrounding him.
She thrusted herself forward and the rest of the mould cracked and shattered into tiny pieces. Then the ground began to shake and the tiny pieces of the mould swirled around her. She looked up to see the temple falling in on itself. She looked at Trip, to see his frozen body shatter. She let out a moan and nothing was more visible than the hurt on her face.
She looked at her hands as the temple continued to collapse. She knew. She knew she was different now.
As she helped Mack to his feet, the ground beneath them began to shake. She looked up; the ceiling was crumbling. She saw Mack frantically looking around in every direction. The shaking got violent and she lost her footing. She fell to the floor. Mack was there in an instant, pulling her to her feet.
Mack looked up to see pieces of rock falling everywhere
"Bobbi, come on, we gotta get out of here" he said
"No, wait." She ran over the walls of the temple and pounded her fists against it. "Skye!" she screamed "Skye, can you hear me? Skye!"
"Bobbi, we need to go" Mack told her
"No, I can't leave her. I promised I'd never leave her"
"If you don't, you're gonna die Bobbi" Mack argued
"And she'll die in there!" Bobbi shouted back. The blonde kicked and punched at the wall.
"Bobbi, you can't punch through solid rock. We need to go. I'm sorry, but if she's in there, she's gone" Mack said
Bobbi whipped around to look at him "Don't you say that. Don't you dare say that" Her shoulders sagged and her tone softened "She said it wasn't goodbye, and it's not" Bobbi looked at her forearm. Those nine words were still sitting comfortably on her arm "She's not gone. I can feel it."
Mack sighed "I'm sorry Barbara" He walked over to her and hastily threw her over his shoulder
"Mack!" she screamed as she kicked his chest and punched his back. His grip on her didn't relent and she knew it wouldn't. "Skye!" she called out desperately, clinging to all hope that those walls would open up and her rock star would casually stroll out.
It didn't happen. Mack carried her down the corridor and her gaze never left the walls. Her rock star didn't come strolling out.
She stopped struggling when they rounded the corner and she let her body go limp. She couldn't hear anything, everything around her was like white noise. All she could think about was Skye.
She let Mack run them through the city until they reached the site where she'd left her harness. Mack put her back on her feet and strapped her into her harness. He was saying something but she couldn't hear him over the pounding in her head. Her rock star was gone. No. She couldn't be. She just couldn't be.
She was lifted off her feet by the harness.
She saw May and felt her pull her up out of the city. The older woman looked at her. She was also saying something but Bobbi couldn't hear her. She felt May cup her cheeks and the older woman looked at the blonde's eyes. They were unseeing. "Bobbi!" the woman shouted. Coulson helped Mack up out of the hole and they all turned to look at the non-responsive blonde.
May's hands were still on Bobbi's cheeks. "Bobbi!" she shouted again "Bobbi, where's Skye?" May asked frantically. The brunette's name snapped Bobbi out of her state and she stared at May, her eyes widening.
"She's not gone, she's not. She can't be. No. She can't be" the tears flooded down the blonde's cheeks. "I said I'd never leave her. I can't leave her. I need to go get her" Bobbi went to walk back over to the hole that led to the city, but May firmly gripped her arm.
"You can't go back down there, Bobbi. It's too dangerous" May told her
Bobbi squirmed out of May's grip but it was replaced by Mack's hand on her bicep. "Bobbi, you're not going down there" he said
She forced his hand off but he wrapped his arms around her stomach and lifted her off her feet. "Mack, let go of me. I need to get her. Mack!" she screamed
She was hitting and clawing Mack. May looked at the blonde, horrified. Bobbi was going mental. She threw her head back and impacted with Mack's nose. His hand flew up to his nose and he released Bobbi. She ran over to the hole, but this time it was Coulson who stopped her. He tackled her to the ground and pinned her shoulders down. She was writhing and shaking, trying to get him off her. "Bobbi, stop. I know it hurts. I want to go down there myself, but we can't. Skye wouldn't want that" he said
Bobbi had zoned out again. The pounding in her head returned and she forced Coulson off of her.
Then May rushed towards her and she felt something cold pressed against her bicep. "I'm sorry Bobbi. I truly am" a shot rang out and her vision started swimming, she blinked rapidly.
"Skye" the name escaped her lips as a whisper, before black swarmed her vision and and she fell into May's waiting arms.