Author's notes: Well, I finally managed to get this chapter written up. Enjoy!
Also, I am sorry for uploading this chapter, removing it, then uploading again. Formatting errors turned my initial upload into nonsense. Sorry!
I would like to credit"Yada99schleich" for providing rule number 78, "fictionfrek101" for providing rule number 80, "Lord Grise" for number 85, and "BenRG" inspired rule 89. Also, the credit for rule 82 goes out to all the reviewers who noticed my mistake in the chapter before last.
76- Before driving into the bus, please remove all large foreign objects from the exterior of the SUV.
May had managed to extract them from a nasty situation rather nicely, but she doubted anyone would let her live down the fact she drove into the bus with the entire tent still wrapped around the vehicle.
77-Fitz, the Bus not a ship from the age of sail. Damage reports are not to contain words like "hulled below the waterline" or "aft the mainsail", and using the words "powder magazine" to describe the arc reactor just make us worry.
78- Please give prior warnings of any attempted barrel rolls.
Ward had been in the shower.
79- Please, Skye, stop singing "Wreck of Old Ninety-Seven" whenever any mission to do with a train is mentioned.
80-I don't care who you "ship". Please stop locking fellow agents in closets together.
This one had been posted by a very angry looking Agent Coulson.
81-Please do not attempt to operate the holo-table with your nose.
After accidental exposure to a substance that made humans a bit "loopy", FitzSimmons had decided to operate their prized piece of equipment in a most unusual manner.
82-Rule 54 is now level-nine classified "For Fury's eyes only".
Nothing specific was known, but it involved a Changeling, a furious kitten, a time loop, and someone golfing atop the bus.
83- Never again is the vacuum cleaner to meet the six-legged buzz-saw of death.
Skye had vacuumed under her bunk. The kitten had been sleeping under her bunk.
84- Please refrain from re-enacting the entirety of a Silly Songs skit to explain why you are teed off.
In Ward's defense, his hairbrushes had stopped mysteriously disappearing.
85- Please remember to inform NORAD before we make a suborbital run.
Wires had gotten rather crossed, and May had ended up in a high-stakes extremely-high-altitude maneuvering mach with an RIM-161 "Standard" missile.
86- Setting Fitz's favorite hat on fire is not a good way to call for backup!
In Ward's defense, the horrendous knitted yellow monstrosity had made a decent enough smoke signal.
87-Simmons, psychoactive substances are not a method of revenge, even if you are teed off.
All of SHIELD had received an e-mail, containing a short video of Ward staggering toward his cabin, singing …something… at full volume. If he hadn't kept switching between old English, Russian, French, Spanish and Chinese fluently, they might actually figure out what it was.
88- Tony stark is never again to be permitted to fly any S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicle.
One fouled-up landing later, Iron Man had been summarily kicked out of a sorry-looking Mobile Command Post that was now festooned with most of a large maple tree.
89- "Run as fast as possible in the opposite direction" is not the SHIELD standard plan B.
The question "Even if Agent Hill signed off on it?" was scrawled underneath.
Ward glared at Skye.
90- Please make clear what you are talking about when you yell "duck!"
May hit the deck. Simmons continued observing a bird floating down the river.
Author's note: Well, what did you think? Review and let me know!
Also, for you Treecat-kitten fans out there, I am in the process of revising a short story about how Skye and the Kitten first met.
Additionally, in reference to Rule 85, I initially didn't agree with Lord Grise about the Bus having suborbital capability. However, after a bit of fooling around in Kerbal Space Program, and the episode "The Hub" showing the Bus's VTOL capabilities (at angles and thrust levels that most jet engines can't actually manage), have the nagging suspicion that the jet housings are mostly for show, and it actually uses an arc reactor (probably not a miniaturized one like Stark's, but more of "we got it down to the size of a large refrigerator and are happy with that") and repulsors for thrust, explaining the high thrust-to-weight ratio. If that is the case, it would make suborbital "hops" a real possibility.
