Chapter 3
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AN2: Sorry that this is later than usual but I was at the movies with my brother.
As she rides her bike Skye uses her power to tell her the way will get her to Washington the fastest and where to go to avoid police, because she really doesn't have the time to risk being pulled over. Even though her bike is a road bike, rather than a dirt bike, she goes off road once or twice because it saves time. She doesn't take a single break as she knows she doesn't have the luxury of time; she needs to get to Director Fury as soon as possible.
It has been a little over five and a half hours since Skye left the plane and Coulson is still unconscious when Clint, Melinda, Fitz, Simmons and Ward arrive back.
"Skye's bike is gone." Clint notes when he gets out of the car.
"She probably went for a ride somewhere." Melinda comments as the group begin to walk upstairs, "Phil?" Melinda asks when she sees a figure on the ground and she runs over to it, Clint right behind her. "Phil wake up." Melinda says attempting to shake him away.
"Who would knock someone out and put a pillow under their head?" Clint asks confused.
"No idea." Melinda responds, "Phil wake up." Melinda says shaking him, "He's got a pulse, he's breathing fine, and there's no sign of injury but he's not waking up." Melinda says worried after several minutes trying to wake Coulson.
"I've looked around, there is no sign of foul play, or Skye." Ward informs the others when he returns to them after checking the rest of the plane.
"Simmons can you tell if Skye's power did this?" Clint asks.
"Why would Skye knock out Phil?" Melinda asks confused.
"I don't know." Clint admits, "But it makes sense." He tells her, "Think about it." He tells her and Melinda does just that, "Simmons can you tell?" he asks.
"If we get him down to the lab I should be able to." She tells him.
"Clint, Ward, get him down there." Melinda says and she pulls out her phone to call Skye, as she does a ringing is heard from Skye's room. "She left her phone." Melinda comments not surprised by that, but she was still hoping that she didn't.
"There is a tracker on the bike, once we're down in the lab I'll see if I can track her." Clint tells Melinda as he and Ward carry Coulson downstairs.
Once everyone is down in the lab Simmons begins to run her tests on Coulson while Melinda paces.
"I don't understand, why would Skye knock out Phil? It doesn't make any sense." She says.
"None of us know the answer to that." Clint says walking over to his sister, "The only ones who do are Skye and Phil." He tells her, "Stop pacing." He tells her.
"Trace the bike." Melinda says. Clint sighs and walks over to the computer and enters the tracker information as Melinda continues to pace.
"It's been disabled, I'm guessing that wherever Skye is she doesn't want to be found." Clint comments.
"Simmons, have you gotten anything?" Melinda asks.
"He was defiantly rendered unconscious by Skye's power." Simmons informs them. "Judging by the level of electricity I would say that he will wake completely fine in about an hour to an hour and a half." Simmons explains.
"Mels did you hear?" Clint asks when several minutes later Melinda hasn't said a word.
"Yeah I heard." Melinda responds, "She must have discovered something, and had to do something, so Phil, being Phil, wanted to go with her. My guess is when he wouldn't back down she knocked him out, that's the only reason I can think of." Melinda says trying to make sense of why Skye would knock out her father.
"It makes sense." Clint confirms, "But we've got to wait until Phil wakes to know for sure." He comments.
Due to the fact that she sped, and used a very creative way to get there, Skye manages to make the eight hour trip from Boston to Washington in a bit under six hours.
When she arrives in the city Skye realises that it wouldn't be a good idea to take her bike, or her bow, with her to the Triskelion. So instead she heads to the bus station where she parks her bike in the car park. Once her bike is parked she removes her helmet, bow, quiver and jacket.
"Guess this will have to do." Skye mutters to herself, glad that the tank top she is wearing is a part of her mission outfit so it offers the same protection as the rest of what she is wearing. As she looks around to make sure that no one is around Skye, folds her bow down, wraps her jacket around the bow and quiver and puts it under her arm. Once she is sure that her bow and quiver are as covered as they can be Skye picks up her helmet off her bike and heads inside the bus station to get a locker.
As she gets near the doors into the bus station she pauses so that she can use her powers to determine where the security cameras are. Once she knows she heads into the station and avoids each and every camera until she gets to the lockers where she gets one for two days and she puts her helmet, jacket, bow and quiver into it.
Once she is sure her belongings are safely locked away Skye once more avoids the cameras and walks several blocks before getting into a taxi.
Back at the plane almost an hour and a half has passed since Clint and Ward carried Coulson down to the lab and Melinda has been pacing that entire time. Without a word Clint gives Fitz, Simmons and Ward a look telling them to give him and Melinda some time alone.
Knowing what the look means Fitz, Ward and Simmons nod and leave. Once they do Clint walks over and blocks Melinda's path.
"You need to stop pacing." He tells his sister.
"What could be so bad that Skye would knock out Phil so that he wouldn't go with her?" Melinda asks Clint.
"I don't know." Clint answers truthfully, "But you and I both know she would have had a very good reason." He tells her, "But I think we should get ready for a fight."
"Why hasn't he woken?" Melinda asks Clint.
"I don't know." He tells her, "Not even Simmons fully understands Skye's energy." He tells her.
"I just want him to wake up." Melinda says and a moan is heard from Coulson's direction.
"Phil." Melinda says racing to Coulson's right hand why Clint rushes to his left.
"Agh, Skye? Where's Skye?" he asks
"We were hoping that you could tell us." Clint comments.
"She said that she needed to talk to Fury." Coulson tells them, "And whatever it is that she needs to talk to him about it seems like it's pretty important." Coulson comments.
"I'll set a course to the Triskelion." Clint says.
"No." Coulson says sitting up, "Set the course for an airport in DC, not the Triskelion." He tells Clint.
"Why not?" Melinda asks.
"Skye told me that no matter what I do don't go to a S.H.I.E.L.D base." Coulson explains, "You didn't hear her Mel, she sounded so serious." He reveals. "We go to DC and try to find her, but we don't go to the Triskelion unless we have to." He explains, "I can't explain it but I know we have to listen to her on this one." He explains.
"Okay, I'll set the course." Clint says leaving Melinda and Coulson alone.
"What happened?" Melinda asks, "Why did she use her power on you?"
"I wanted to go with her, wouldn't take no for an answer." Coulson explains.
"Do you think that whatever she had to talk to Fury about had to do with Tasha and Steve's mission?" Melinda asks her husband curious.
"It would make sense." Coulson responds, "Mel, she said that everything was about to be on the line." He tells his wife and they both drift into silence as they feel the plane take off, both of them worrying about their daughter.
Once she gets in the taxi Skye gets the driver to take her to a location several blocks away from the Triskelion instead of directly there. When she gets out she walks the rest of the way, which only takes a few minutes.
"Hold." The guards out the front of the Triskelion tell her and, because she doesn't feel like getting shot, she listens
"Identification." One of the guards asks as another points a gun at her.
"Agent May Coulson. Identification is in my back pocket." Skye tells the guards, glad that she brought it with her. "Can I get it? Or will you shot?" She asks.
"Do it slowly." The guard tells her and that's what Skye does. She reaches into her back pocket and pulls out her badge and id and hands it to the guard.
"Sorry Ma'am, we had to be sure." The guard says, both lowering their guns.
"That's fine I get it." Skye responds and she collects her badge.
"Your access badge will be waiting for you at reception." The guard says letting her through.
"Thanks." Skye says putting her badge back in her back pocket.
When she enters the Triskelion building Skye collects her access badge from the desk and heads to the elevator.
"Agent May Coulson, level 3." The elevator says when she enters.
"Director Fury's office." Skye requests and the elevator starts to move.
When she exits the elevator Skye makes her way to her godfather's office.
"I need to see Director Fury." Skye tells his assistant who is sitting at a desk outside Fury's office.
"Director Fury is in a meeting and I can't let anyone in." The assistance tells Skye, "You are welcome to wait though." He tells her.
"Look, I'm Agent May Coulson and I need to see director Fury. Now." Skye tells the man, showing him her badge as she does.
"I'm sorry Ma'am, I didn't realise. Go right in." The assistant tells Skye.
"Thank you." Skye responds and she makes her way into Fury's office. As she does she is very thankful that she is one of only three people who can interrupt Fury no matter what he is doing. The other two are her father and Maria Hill, for obvious reasons. Fury decided to put her on the list because due to her power it is likely that the reason she would need to see him in an emergency is because something truly horrible is about to happen, which it is. The other Avengers would be on the list, but because not a single one of them would let Fury's assistant, no matter how good of an agent he is, stop them so Fury didn't see the point.
As Skye enters the office she sees Fury in the middle of a conversation with Alexander Pierce, a man that Skye has met before because after everything that happened with Quinn and Hand there were hearings which he oversaw a lot of.
"I need to talk to you." Skye says looking directly at her godfather. "In private." She adds, not looking at Pierce because she is sure that her face would give away what she now thinks of him.
"If your powers have told you something important then you can talk to both of us." Pierce tells her. Skye's abilities being one of the things that came out at the hearings thanks, in large, to Quinn and Hand. But it is because of her family, not the council, that nobody else is able to use her for what they may have wanted her for.
"It's nothing like that." Skye lies, "It's just really important that I have a conversation with my godfather about something personal, you understand right?" Skye asks using the knowledge that Pierce is a family man against him because at the moment it is Director Fury she desperately needs to talk to, not Nicky her godfather.
"Of course, I'll leave you alone." Pierce says and he leaves them alone.
"Can you make this room secure?" Skye asks second Pierce is out of the room.
"Secure office." Fury requests and that's what happens, "This is about your power, isn't it?" Fury asks his goddaughter.
"Oh yeah." Skye answers and she takes a deep breath, "Hydra has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D at the highest level." She informs her godfather.
"What?" Fury asks shocked.
"Hydra has spent the last seventy years establishing itself within S.H.I.E.L.D." Skye reveals, "And their leader is Alexander Pierce." Skye reveals not sure how her godfather is going to take that because Pierce is his friend.
"Are you sure?" Fury asks, not letting the news affect him.
"Positive." Skye responds.
"How many people in S.H.I.E.L.D are Hydra?" Fury asks.
"I'm not sure, a lot." Skye tells him, "I could write you a list but at the moment we don't have time." Skye tells him, "We've got to stop what's to come but we need help." Skye tells him, "So for now give me a name and I'll tell you in a couple of seconds if they are Hydra or trustworthy." Skye offers as because she knows what's to come she knows that they can't face what is to with just the two of them.
"Maria Hill?" Fury says.
"Trustworthy." Skye responds in a couple of seconds.
"Phil Coulson?"
"Trustworthy."
"Melinda May?"
"Trustworthy."
"Natasha Romanoff?"
"Trustworthy."
"Clint Barton?"
"Trustworthy."
"John Garrett?"
"Trustworthy."
"Grant Ward?"
"Hydra." Skye responds the process being so automatic now that the word is out of her mouth before she even realises what she is saying.
"Are you sure?" Fury asks shocked.
"Positive." Skye says completely shocked as she wasn't expecting that, she knows that there is a possibility that people she knows could be Hydra, but she never though that it could be him, "Give me another name." Skye requests because as much as she would like to at the moment she can't fall apart, not now, that has to wait.
"Are you alright?" Fury asks his goddaughter because he knows how close her and Ward are, what he means to her even though they decided not to continue their relationship once she regained her memories and became an adult again.
"Another name." Skye requests avoiding the question.
"Antoine Triplett?"
"Trustworthy."
"Sharon Carter?" Fury asks.
"You're seriously asking if someone with the last name Carter is Hydra?" Skye asks shocked.
"Just answer." Fury requests.
"Trustworthy." Skye responds several seconds later.
"Leo Fitz?"
"Trustworthy."
"Jemma Simmons?"
"Trustworthy." Skye responds, truly thankful for that because she doesn't know how, or even if, she could handle one of her siblings being Hydra as well as Ward.
"Tony Stark?"
"Trustworthy."
"Pepper Potts?"
"Trustworthy."
"Bruce Banner?"
"Trustworthy."
"Steve Rogers?"
"Trustworthy." Skye responds, "But did you really expect anything else?"
"After the last ten minutes there isn't anything that would surprise me." Fury tell her.
"I'm guessing that's everyone." Skye comments as she can't think of anyone else who Fury would want authentication on now.
"For now." Fury responds.
"So, what do we do? How do we get the team together?" She asks as one of the reasons she came to Fury is that he will know what to do.
"First you and I need to get out of the building." Fury tells her, "With Hydra everywhere we can't stay here." He says going to his desk and grabbing out a gun and handing it to Skye, "Here, take this."
"I have my powers, I don't need a gun." Skye tells him.
"And technically you don't need a bow either, but that doesn't stop you from taking it with you whenever you go on a mission." Fury tells his God daughter. "Take the damn gun." He tells her; Skye takes it and puts it in the back of her pants, "Lead the way." Skye tells Fury and she follows him out.
Twenty minutes after they left the Triskelion Skye and Fury are in Fury's car driving through the streets of DC.
"If you've got a plan then I would love to hear it." Skye tells her godfather.
Fury just gives her a look and makes a phone call on his car phone.
"Hill." Maria answers.
"You need to get to DC under deep shadow conditions." Fury tells his second.
"What's deep shadow conditions?" Skye asks curious.
"Skye?" Maria asks surprised, "You're with Fury."
"That's not important." Fury says, "Get here." He orders
"Give me four hours." She requests.
"You have three." Fury says ending the call.
"So, where to now?" Skye asks as they pull up at the light. "Um Nicky I think we've got a problem." Skye says when she realises how the police offices in the car next to them are looking at them.
"What, do you want to see my lease?" Fury asks the police officers, which makes Skye laugh; something she didn't even think she was capable of doing at the moment.
As Fury drives into the intersection behind the police car another comes from the opposite direction and hits them on Fury's side of the car.
"Put a force field around yourself now." Fury tells Skye.
"What about you?" Skye asks as she does what he told her to do; now she is completely surrounded and protected by a force field of electricity. As she does this their car becomes surrounded by several more police cars.
"Fracture detected recommend aesthetic injection." The car tells Fury.
"Don't worry about me, just keep that around you." Fury says as he grabs a needle out of the glove box and stabs himself with it.
"This isn't good." Skye says as a swat team arrives, "I can knock them out but I will have to lower my shield to do it." Skye tells her godfather.
"Do not lower that shield, that's an order." Fury tells her, "Get me out of here." Fury requests of his car.
"The propulsion systems are offline." The car informs Fury.
"Of course they are." Skye says sarcastically, "How long can this car hold?" she asks as the police open fire.
"Depends on what they use." Fury tells her, "Get in the back seat." He instructs, so that's what Skye does.
"Warning window integrity compromised." The car tells Fury.
"You think." Fury says as he jumps into the passenger seat.
"I can put a force field up around the whole car." Skye tells Fury, "It will hold them off no matter what they do but because of how strong I would have to make I don't know how long I could hold it." she tells him.
"No, focus on protecting yourself." Fury tells his god daughter.
"Deploying offensive measures." The car tells Fury.
"Hold defensive measures." Fury orders.
"Why?" Skye asks surprised.
"I have a plan." Fury informs his goddaughter as the car keeps telling Fury how little integrity the window has left. "NOW." Fury says and a machine gun pops up and Fury uses it to clear a path for them to get though, "Go." Fury yells as he climbs back into the driver's seat, "Give me the wheel."
"Nice." Skye tells her godfather impressed.
"Call Hill." Fury instructs.
"Communications if offline." The car response.
"What is still working?" Fury asks.
"The air conditioner is fully functional." The car responds.
For several minutes Fury drives himself and Skye around the streets trying to avoid getting hit by bullets coming from all directions.
"Keep down and keep that shield up." Fury instructs his goddaughter as he leans back to try and stay out of the path of bullets,
"Get me off the grid." Fury says to his car.
"Nicky look." Skye says when she spots the figure that is standing in the middle of the road that Fury just turned them into to avoid more of the people who are after them.
Fury sees the figure but he doesn't stop driving. "Increase the strength of your shield." He tells his goddaughter when the man throws a metal disk at the car.
Skye just manages to increase the strength of her shield when the metal disk that attached itself to the underside of the car explodes and the car is flipped through the air where it lands upside down with a small explosion.
"NICKY." Skye says terrified as she lowers her shield and craws to him because why her shield protected her so she is fine, he wasn't so lucky.
"Top pocket." Fury tells Skye and she pulls out something she recognises as one of Fitz's inventions.
"Get us out of here." Fury says and Skye uses the device to cut a hole through the roof of the car and the road below it, "Go, I'll be right behind you." He tells her.
"No, we go together." Skye tells him and with difficulty Skye and Fury manages to get down into the old tunnels below the road.
"Go." Fury tells her, "Get out of here before they follow." He tells her.
"No way." Skye responds grabbing his arm and putting it around her shoulder to help him walk. As she does she uses her powers to tell them the best way to go.
For five minutes, walking as quickly as possible, Skye helps Fury through the tunnels, "They're not following us." She informs Fury.
"Are you hurt?" He ask.
"A little banged up from the first hit but nothing serious." Skye responds as the most serious injury she has is a cut on her arm, "You on the other hand need medical attention." She tells her godfather, not needing her powers to tell her that he is seriously hurt.
"And I'll get it, but you can't come with me." Fury tells his niece.
"What? Of course I'm coming with you." She tells her godfather.
"You can't" Fury tells her, "That was Hydra, you and I both know it and the most important thing now is that they don't get their hands on you." He tells her.
"The most important things are stoping their plan and getting you help." Skye tells her godfather "I don't matter."
"Skye you matter more than anything." Fury tells her, "You learnt about Hydra when you were at the academy and you've heard Rogers's stories. What do you think Hydra would do if they got a hold of someone with your power?"
"I would never use my power for them." Skye tells him, knowing without doubt that she would rather die than let that happen.
"I know you wouldn't but they would do whatever it takes to get you to, and if that failed then they would find a way to get your power out of you and put it into someone else." Fury tells her, "If Hydra had your power you know what would happen." He tells her.
"They would be unstoppable." Skye realises, "What do you want me to do?" She asks with a sigh.
"You need to disappear." Fury tells her, "Hydra knows you were in the car with me, we've got to make them think you died." He reveals.
"What about Mom and Dad? If Hydra thinks I'm dead then it's likely that everyone will and I can't do that to them." Skye tells her godfather.
"You have to." Fury tells her, "I'm thinking of a location, have you got it?" Fury ask.
"Yeah." Skye says about twenty seconds later.
"Get there." Fury tells her, "If I'm not there in the next seventy two hours then I will never be and you have to disappear. Let no one know where you are or that you are alive." He tells her.
"I can't do that. I won't do that." Skye tells him, "My family needs me, they have a Hydra agent on their plane and they don't even know it." Skye tells him, "I need to help them and I can't let them think I'm dead."
"Disappearing is helping them." Fury tells her, "You know this is what you have to do, if you don't you could be risking countless lives." He tells her, knowing that the guilt trip will be effective even if it's not he kindest tactic.
"I hate this, everything." Skye tells him, knowing he's right, as Fury almost falls over. "At least let me help you to wherever it is that you are going before I go." She tells him.
"No, it's too risky. I've got to go alone." He tells her.
"Well then in that case this is the least I can do" Skye says putting a hand on her godfather's shoulder.
"What did you do?" Fury asks as seconds later he feels fine.
"I'm temporally blocking your pain receptors, I basically short circuited them." Skye informs her godfather, "It will last about an hour. You're still hurt you just can't feel it." She tells him, "Do me a favour and tell them, even if I can't see them right now they need to know that I'm alive, it's to cruel for them not to." She tells her godfather and he nods. "Be careful." She tells Fury as she gives him a gentle hug
"You too." Fury tells his goddaughter and once the hug ends they walk away in different directions.
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