Chapter 6
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To Alex: first don't feel bad about giving me critism about something that you feel differently about I actually find it interesting to see it from others points of view, so if you feel like talking more feel free to PM me or just leave a response in the review. Secondly while I always liked the idea of Ward and Skye together I wouldn't say I shipped them but that being said the only couple I truly ship on AOS is Philinda, in regards to everyone else I don't mind who they end up with.
Now even if I hadn't made Ward evil in this story I wouldn't have put him and Skye together, at least at the beginning, because at the moments Skye has memories of being with him and loving him and memories of him taking care of her when she was a baby and child, and so does Ward, so I thought it would be odd to have them together like that, right away or even at all. I couldn't honestly say that the fact that Ward is Hydra in cannon affected me because I'm not even sure it has influenced me in some way. But as answer to your question no I don't 'ship' SkyeWard but as I said I never really did and the main reason it is in this series is because I know how much readers would like and it fit in the beginning.
In regards to Ward in the show personally I would like Ward to be the 'big bad' in season 2 before getting a Natasha or Spike from Buffy, like redemption arch, I honestly think that it could be good story telling but I don't think he is at that point yet, but that's just my opinion.
Other reasons besides the ones I have already said about why Garrett isn't Hydra while Ward is, is because I made both Sitwell and Blake bad and I didn't really want to have Coulson, Melinda, Natasha and Clint being betrayed by another friend, plus I wanted to show how Ward's betray affects the person who is like a father to him.
Sorry for the long reply.
For several hours Skye and Maria sit by Fury's bedside waiting for him to wake. Even though she really didn't want to Skye has fallen asleep and is still asleep when Fury wakes.
"How you feeling?" Maria asks her boss and friend when he wakes.
"Like crap." Fury answers, "Update?"
"You're dead." Maria tells him, "As far as everyone else in the world is concerned you're dead. Skye's filled me in on what she knows, Phil, Melinda, Natasha, Clint and Steve are off the grid and half of S.H.I.E.L.D is looking for them and Skye." She explains.
"How long has she been asleep for?" Fury asks noticing Skye.
"A few hours." Maria answers.
"Use the system to get Garrett here, then go and find Coulson, May, Romanoff, Barton and the Captain." Fury instructs.
"Yes Sir." Hill says and she gets up.
"What's the system?" Skye asks having been woken by the voices because she desperately wanted not to fall asleep.
"There are seven agents that I have a way of getting in touch with, and giving instructions to, that cannot be traced." Fury explains, "From what you've said we're going to need all hands on deck."
"That we are." Skye confirms, "How you doing?"
"I want Hydra out of my organization, that's how I'm doing." Fury responds.
Steve, Clint, Natasha, Melinda and Coulson have been driving for several hours on the way to New Jersey. Steve is pretty sure that he is the only one awake. He looks over and sees that Natasha has fallen asleep, then looks to the back seat and he has to stop himself from jumping; he expected to find Coulson, Clint and Melinda asleep, though only Coulson and Clint are. Melinda on the other hand is sitting up wide awake.
"I thought you were asleep." Steve says to Melinda in a quiet voice.
"Sleep's not something I get a lot of." Melinda tells her friend, "But if you want to sleep I can take over driving." She offers.
"No, I'm fine." Steve responds, "If you don't mind me asking, why don't you sleep?" he asks curious.
"My past." Melinda answers simply, "And right now because I'm worried about my daughter." Melinda comments as what she wants the most now, even more than she wants to know what is going on with S.H.I.E.L.D she wants to know where her daughter is and whether she is okay.
"Skye's smart, and she can look after herself, so until we know otherwise we've got to assume that she is okay." Steve tells her, "I'm not a parent so I don't know what you're feeling, and I know it's not the same but I'm worried too, and I will help you find her." Steve tells his friend.
"Thank you Steve." Melinda responds and Steve gives her a grin in the mirror.
"I saw Peggy yesterday." Steve reveals a few minutes later.
"How is she?" Melinda asks intrested.
"Getting sicker." Steve answers, "You might want to go see her at some point soon." Steve tells his friend, leaving what they both know to be true unsaid because it doesn't need to be.
"I think I will." Melinda responds, "When we're not being hunted by S.H.I.E.L.D." Melinda responds and the pair drift into silence.
It has been several hours since Fury woke up and he has only just fallen back asleep. Skye who has decided to let her godfather sleep in piece has gotten up from the chair that she was sitting in and has headed out into the other part of the room. When she gets there she sees her aunt getting stuff together.
"What are you doing?" Skye asks curious as she walks over to her.
"Going to find your parents, and Clint, Natasha and Steve." Maria tells her.
"Okay, I'm coming." Skye says walking over and grabbing her stuff.
"No, you've got to stay here Skye." Maria tells her, "You're safer here plus Garrett and Tripp will be here soon and they need to be filled in on what's going on."
"They are going out of their minds with worry Aunt Maria, I can't keep doing that to them." Skye tells her, "I need to come with you." She tells her then realises something, "Why couldn't you use the system you used to get Uncle John and Tripp here with Mom and Dad?"
"Because of what they know then it's very likely that they would have ignored the system and become even harder to find." Maria tells her.
"Then let me come with you." Skye tells her Aunt, "I can easily find them."
"No, it's too dangerous for you to leave this place until we have a plan." Maria tells her.
"I don't like being useless, I want to help Aunt Maria, I need to help." Skye says stressing the need.
"You're not useless, tell me the best place to meet up with them and I'll go there." Maria tells her.
"Give me a minute." Skye requests and they are both silent for about two minutes, "In a few hours' time." Skye tells her Aunt, "They are going to get arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D, no Hydra, after a battle with that guy who blew up Nicky's car." Skye tells her Aunt, "There will be a news helicopter around so Hydra will put them all into one van instead of shooting them on the spot." Skye reveals, "They will be taken a short distance away to under a bridge, you've got to get them out by then otherwise they will be shot." Skye tells her Aunt.
"Get them out before the bridge, got it." Maria tells her niece, "When he wakes Fury will be the dictionary definition of a bad patient. Try and get him to do what the doctor is telling him to do." Maria request.
"If he won't listen to the doctor what makes you think he'll listen to me?" Skye asks curious.
"You underestimate what you can make people do." Maria tells her, "John should be here soon but until then it's just you, Fury, and the doctor, stay alert." Maria tells her.
"I will." Skye tells her, "Hang on does that mean that I have to be the one who tells Uncle John about Ward?" Skye asks, "Because I don't need my powers to tell me that finding out Ward is Hydra is going to break his heart, he considers Ward to be his son" Skye reminds her Aunt, "You're his best friend, he'll take it better from you. You should stay and wait for Uncle John, I'll go find Mom, Dad, Uncle Clint, Uncle Steve and тетя Наташа." Skye tells her Aunt.
"I know that finding out about Ward is going to hurt John, and I wish I could be here when he finds out but I can't." Maria tells Skye, "You are on the top of Hydra's most wanted list and who knows what they will do if they get you, stay here where you are safe, please Skye." Maria request.
"Fine." Skye says reluctantly, "Be careful." She tells her aunt.
"I will." Maria responds giving her niece a hug before leaving.
After a sigh Skye grabs one of the magazines that she hasn't read and heads back into Fury's room.
A couple of hours after Melinda and Steve had their conversation, Clint, Coulson and Natasha are awake and the group have arrived at Camp Lehigh.
"Have you ever been back here?" Coulson asks Steve as Natasha and Melinda break the gate open and Clint grabs his bow and quiver just in case.
"No." Steve says as they enter the camp.
"Stay together or split up?" Clint asks.
"Stay together." Natasha responds as she pulls out the gadget she took from Clint's supplies.
For ten minutes everyone looks around as Natasha uses the device she brought to see if there is any signals coming from anywhere.
"There is nothing here." Natasha comments, "The place is a dead end."
"Steve, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Clint asks.
"Yeah I am." Steve responds and the two former soldiers head towards what looks like a bunker.
"Do you two want to explain what you are seeing that the rest of us aren't?" Natasha asks as she, Melinda and Coulson follow them.
"This is a munitions bunker and it's way too close to the barracks." Clint explains as Steve uses his shield to break through the padlock on the door.
After exchanging a look the group makes their way inside where they find what looks like an abandoned office with a S.H.I.E.L.D sign on the wall.
"This is where S.H.I.E.L.D started." Melinda realises, "When I asked Peggy all she would say was that it was somewhere important." Melinda tells the others.
"Where I started." Steve mutters to himself.
"Let's see what we can find." Clint says, "I would bet anything that the programs came from here." He comments.
"There is another office over here." Coulson calls out to the others and they walk over and enter the office together. "Howard Stark." Coulson says noticing one of the pictures on the wall.
"Peggy." Melinda says and she looks at Steve who is staring at the picture.
"Guys, you might want to see this." Clint says and everyone walks over to him.
Steve, who sees why Clint called them over, moves the shelf out of the way to reveal an elevator.
"Secret elevator in a secret office, that never means anything good." Coulson comments and the five make their way into the elevator.
"Any idea how we're going to get it to move?" Steve asks the others.
"Give me a minute." Natasha says as she uses a gadget to find out the code to get the elevator working.
"The file couldn't have come from here, this equipment is ancient." Melinda comments as she steps out of the elevator and her, Steve and Natasha head to the middle of the room while Coulson and Clint look around.
"Well let's see." Natasha says as she places the drive into a very modern looking USB port hub. Once she places it into the hub a initiate system request comes up on the screen.
"Y.E.S. spells yes." Natasha comments.
"Rogers, Steven Grant. May, Melinda Qiaolian. Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna." The computer says.
"What? How can computers this old be running facial rec?" Clint asks as he and Coulson walk up behind Melinda, Natasha and Steve,
"Barton, Clinton Frances. Coulson, Philipp James." The computer finishes, "And I am not running facial recognition."
"Then what are you?" Coulson asks.
"When Captain Rogers took me prisoner I was a man, but I am now so much more than that." The computer replies, an image of a man appearing on the screen.
"Zola." Steve says shocked.
"You know him?" Clint asks.
"Are you talking about Armin Zola? Who worked for The Red Skull?" Coulson asks, knowing who Steve is talking about because Captain America history is something he is an expert on. "He died decades ago."
"Science could not save my body. My mind, however, that was worth saving. On two hundred thousand feet of databanks. You are standing in my brain." Zola informs the group.
"Creepy." Clint comments.
"How did you get into S.H.I.E.L.D?" Steve asks confused.
"Operation Paper Clip." Melinda realises.
"What?" Steve asks.
"It was an S.H.I.E.L.D initiative to recruit Nazi scientists with strategic value." Natasha explains.
"Hydra was defeated, so what are you up to?" Coulson asks.
"Hydra is never defeated." Zola responds, "Cut off one head, two more take it's place. Seventy years ago we realises that humanity could not be trusted with it's own freedom, but if you try to take it by force they resist. So for seventy years we grew inside you. Hydra has been secretly feeding crises, reaping war, and when history did not cooperate, history was changed." Zola says and example of that appears on the screen.
"No, that's impossible." Coulson says shocked.
"S.H.I.E.L.D would have stopped you." Natasha adds.
"Accidents will happen." Zola says as a newspaper article of Howard and Maria Stark's death appears on the screen, "Hydra created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice it's freedom to gain it's security."
"That will never happen, there will always be people willing to fight back." Clint tells him.
"Those people will be dealt with." Zola tells Clint, "Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your life. A zero sum"
Steve who is watching the whole thing in compete shock gets so angry at that that he punches one of the screens.
"As I was saying." Zola says moving to another one.
"What's on the drive?" Melinda asks.
"An algorithm, but none of you will be around long enough to see what it does." Zola responds as the doors shut too fast for Steve to get his shield in the way.
"Missile inbound." Natasha reveals.
"S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Melinda asks and Natasha nods.
"How long?" Clint asks.
"Thirty seconds." Natasha responds as Clint fires an arrow at the roof which he uses to explode a small hole, only big enough for two.
"You two run, I'll protect Melinda and Natasha and catch up." Steve tells Clint, who nods and he uses another arrow and his bow to get him and Coulson out of the building as Steve, Melinda and Natasha go below and are protected by Steve's shield.
Clint and Coulson just make it out of the building as the missile hits and even though neither of them want to they start running they do, as they know that due to the fact that both Melinda and Natasha are quite small Steve can protect both of them with his shield.
Ten minutes after the bombing Steve, carrying Natasha, and Melinda catches up with Clint and Coulson.
"Is she okay?" Clint asks more than concerned when he sees that Steve is carrying Natasha who is just staring to wake up.
"I'm okay." Natasha responds, "Just a little banged up." She says jumping out of Steve's arms.
"We all are." Melinda responds.
"We need to get somewhere to lay low." Clint comments.
"We're not far from Tony's." Steve points out.
"We can't. After the last two years the first places they are going to check for us is anywhere with connections to Tony Stark." Natasha tells Steve, "We can't even go to our safe houses because they may have been compromised."
"What we need is to go to a place, or a person, who we can trust but that we don't have an obvious connection to." Melinda explains.
"I know just the place." Steve realises.
"Then lead the way Captain." Coulson tells him and that's just what Steve does.
It has been several hours since Maria left and Fury has been asleep for the whole time.
"Proximity alert." The voice says, waking Fury. Even though it is most likely going to be Garrett and Tripp showing up Skye runs out of the room, grabs her bow and arrows as she passes and heads to the door.
Skye has her bow draw and is prepared to fire when the door opens and John and Tripp walk in.
"Skye?" Garrett says surprised, "Do you want to explain what is going on?"
"Skye? As in Skye Coulson?" Tripp asks confused as Skye lowers her bow, "Aren't you meant to be a little kid?"
"Cliff notes; when I defeated the Clairvoyant it caused me to take in energy which would have killed me if I wasn't de aged. So I was de aged and my ageing was accelerated." Skye explains simply, knowing that she can trust Tripp so she doesn't watch what she said.
"Do you remember everything?" Tripp asks curious.
"You were there when I broke my arm." Skye tells him and Tripp gets a shocked look on his face.
"Okay, enough with educating Tripp, do you want to explain what is going on? Why my badge suddenly told me coordinates?" Garrett asks interested.
"Follow me." Skye requests and she leads Tripp and Garrett into the sitting area of the bunker, "You might want to sit down." Skye tells the two.
"That bad?" Tripp asks as she sits down.
"Worse." Skye answers taking a deep breath as she puts her bow down on the table "Hydra has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D at the highest level." Skye reveals.
"You're joking." Tripp comments shocked.
"I wish I was." Skye responds.
"How do you know?" Garrett asks.
"My powers, plus they tried to have Nicky killed." Skye tells her Uncle.
"Powers?" Tripp asks confused at the same time that Garrett asks, "Is Fury okay?"
"Nicky's in the other room recovering, but the rest of the world, including Mom, Dad, Uncle Clint, тетя Наташа, and Uncle Steve, believe that he is dead." Skye reveals.
"Where are you parents?" Garrett asks interested.
"On the run form Hydra." Skye answers, "They have the honour of being on the top of Hydra's most wanted list along with me." Skye explains, "Aunt Maria left a couple of hours ago to go get them."
"Why are you on Hydra's most wanted list?" Tripp asks interested trying to understand just what is going on.
"Because they know I was with Nicky when they tried to kill him the first time." Skye tells him, "And they want me to use my powers for them or find a way to get my power out of me to use it for themselves." Skye explains.
"We won't let that happen." Garrett says, "Your powers are too powerful for them to get their hands on." He tell her.
"What are your powers?" Tripp asks again.
"I have an excess of electrical energy inside of me which I can push out of me and control to do different things." Skye explains, "In addition to that I can also know pretty much anything including the future." Skye reveals and she hears a shocked gasp from Tripp, "Don't ask me how exactly or what the energy is because I don't know that, something which I don't say often." Skye admits as she has been trying to find out more of her power but she hasn't had much luck, "What I do know is that the Clairvoyant put the energy into me when he kidnapped me when I was a baby in hopes of raising me to be a weapon against S.H.I.E.L.D but one of his employees rescued me before that could happen." Skye explains.
"Now do you get why we can't let Hydra get their hands on her?" Garrett asks and Tripp nods, still shocked about what is going on, "Is their a plan?"
"The others have found out some very interesting information, they have a plan. We've got to wait for them." Skye explains knowing now that she has to tell Garrett the hard part, "When I first told Nicky about Hydra I told him that I could write him a list about who was Hydra but it would take too long so instead he said names and I would say whether they are Hydra or trustworthy." Skye explains, "One of the names he gave me are Hydra." Skye tells tehm.
"Who?" Tripp and Garrett ask together, "Who's Hydra?" Garrett asks.
"I'm sorry Uncle John." Skye says looking directly at her uncle, "But it's Ward, Ward's Hydra." She says and then she waits for the aftermath.
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