Agents POV
Coulson stood over the interactive desk, leaning heavily against it. He had a serious look on his face, the troubles plaguing his mind showing on his face. May was already flying the plane to their destination after being briefed separately.
"We've had a sighting. It's really not that good. You will all remember when the chitauri aliens tried to destroy New York it was all down to the cunning of Thors adopted bother Loki."He looked around the room at the faces staring back at him.
"Sorry, But um, are you talking about the Asgardians again? Aren't they aliens themselves?" Skye piped up from besides Agent Ward. She quickly received a glare from around the table. "Sorry" she muttered looking down.
"This was a few weeks ago."Coulson tapped on some links bringing up an image of a man in a green coat. He had black hair and a thin face. "He was spotted in a small town in England. This is what happened." He hit a play button on the desk. They watched as Loki stood watching people for a few minutes, Coulson began to narrate, "He begins to walk towards a large christmas tree. After a few more minutes a girl behind him stoops down, picks something up off the floor and puts it in her pocket. He's gone a few seconds later." He paused the video.
"So whats this got to do with us? Loki turned up, a girl picked something up and Loki left again. Wheres the issue here?" Ward looked around the table.
"When the tesseract was first bought to SHIELD we created a device. The device can pick up on the radiation the tesseract creates so we can scan the earth for any tesseract type readings..."Coulson began to tell them before Simmons, who couldn't contain her excitement interrupted him.
"Yes! And we got a reading from this moment, but only a very tiny reading. Until a few hours ago when we got two pulses, one rather large pulse and another massive pulse in very quick succession." She suddenly fell silent as she noticed the looks everyone was giving her.
"We need to find out if the girl who picked something up did something with whatever gave out the initial reading."Coulson continued.
"I hate to ask this," Fitz said, looking around the room "But aren't we in the least bit worried that Loki might, I don't know, try to kill us? Or blow us up?"
"Or maybe release another alien race on us?" Skye asked sarcastically. She received another glare from Coulson.
"We have no lead on the whereabouts of Loki, however the whereabouts of this pulse is right here." He bought up a 3D map on the screen, explaining the layout of the house and the surrounding area. "Skye, see what background information you can dig up on the family before we go in there."
"What about the family though Sir? Wont they cause us a problem?" Ward asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Were going to extract the rest of the family quietly. Were nearly there, so think fast Ward. This is your part of this mission."
The sun had set not long before the agents arrived at the house parking at the side of an extraordinarily long driveway. They set up gear in mobile units not far away from the house. FitzSimmons set up thermal imaging cameras showing them the inhabitants of the house.
"Where are they all?" Ward asked, leaning on the back of a chair.
"You're in luck. The mother, father, twins and youngest son are all in one room in the living room. The subject-"Skye cut Simmons off.
"Her name is Isobel. Not 'The Subject.'" Simmons nodded slightly, carrying on.
"The-Isobel, is upstairs on the third floor." Ward stood upright.
"Good. This should be reasonably easy. The house is isolated by a small piece of forest land, they're isolated from the girl."Coulson entered the mobile unit they were in along with Skye.
"She's harmless. Teenage girl, no trouble at school, no involvement with the police. Clean record, nothing. The whole family is spotless." Ward nodded, taking in the information.
"Agent Ward. The extraction team we have need to know what they're doing."They nodded to each other as Ward jumped out of the van to instruct the men.
It was simple. They pumped sleeping gas through a little gap in one of the living room windows, causing the family to fall asleep without any fuss. The fuss had begun when the girl had come downstairs and gone into the living room. She hadn't noticed anything, simply walking back out of the room. The team had then quickly entered in through the window, carrying the sleeping family outside and into the van they had waiting.
"Nice work Agent Ward." Coulson said softly, watching the girl scampering around the house looking for her family, turing lights on going around once and off the second time around. She had tried calling them and was becoming quite frantic.
"Sir, I think we may have worked her up a bit too much. We don't know the power she might have right now. We don't even know if she's a threat, but say she does have some powers then-"Simmons couldn't think of how to word it, Fitz finishing for her.
"She might do something she cant control." He said for her.
"-Like explode?" Skye added on, not wanting to be blown up on that particular day. Coulson half smiled.
"We should be there to greet her as she comes out of the house." He said nodding to the screen.
Coulson, May and Ward stood, holding their guns in front of them, informing Skye it was regulation. Skye herself was observing from a few paces behind them, standing closer to FitzSimmons who were tapping away on the computer tablets they carried with them, monitoring the tesseract levels and the heat signatures in the house.
"She's by the door!" Fitz whispered loudly, receiving nod from Coulson. They stood and waited for her.
"Why can't we just knock? We could explain this whole situation? Why'd we have to go all secret covert operation on her. She's just a-" There was a noise from the door, Ward held up his hand to shush Skye who stopped mid sentence.
Isobel appeared at the door, oblivious to their being on the drive. The door slammed behind her as she realised they were there. For a second she was in shock, standing and staring at them like they were aliens to her. FitzSimmons began to whisper to each other realising there was a spike in tesseract energy happening. The blue light died as the girl dropped something from her heart she had been holding with her hand.
"Turn on the lights." Coulson said, turing his head slightly. The car lights illuminated the girl standing in front of her front door being confronted by three people pointing guns at her. Isobel shielded her eyes from the light with her left arm.
"Coulson. Her arm." Fitz said quickly. She dropped her arm, hiding it behind her back. They all stood at stalemate with each other.
Without any warning the girl ran. Ward darted after her, knowing she had a better knowledge of the woods having grown up playing there, however he had the darkness. He could hear May running along behind him and Coulson behind her. After a few seconds they branched off, running different ways. For a few minutes Ward ran blindly, loosing the girls footsteps in Coulson and Mays. He would have lost the girl if she hadn't used the blue light again appearing off to his right-the one direction no one had gone.
He charged towards the light that was fading quickly. The girl had obviously used it quickly to see something. It was quite dark, Ward could only see a tiny bit in front of him self. He relied on his senses, slipping and tripping occasionally. He had lost the sound of Coulson and Mays footsteps, now concentrating on the girls. She wasn't far in front of him, he could hear her. Suddenly the light was back, it wasn't like a torch though it was to diffused to be a torch. He suddenly fell head over heels down a steep hill that had appeared. He realised that was the reason she had used her little light, to see the hill. He saw her face, white and terrified as she looked back at him as she ran back towards him to see if he was alright. He sprung up, lurching for her, but she dodged out of the way having regained her footing before him and running off again. He picked his gun up again having dropped it after falling, bolting after the girl.
The dark had disoriented Isobel as she re-appeared at the bottom of her drive. The van her family was in had been driven away to be debriefed and reassured when they woke up. She stopped startled for a second as Ward appeared behind her. May and Coulson had gotten back to the driveway a few minutes before, Skye and FitzSimmons running down to see what was going on at the bottom of the drive. She went to grab the pendant around her neck, almost as a comfort. Just as her hand reached the pendant there was a loud crack as Ward fired at her.
She fell backward, her head hitting the drive with a thud.
"Grant!" Skye yelped as the gunshot fired. "She didn't do anything!" She said, running over to her. Everyone crowded around her, looking at her.
"Look at her arms, this pattern. Oh! Look! It goes down to her heart and-" Simmons stopped, realising she wouldn't know what had happened to get that pattern. Ward swore under his breath, almost regretting what he'd done.
"We didn't know if she could use that thing as a weapon. She could have killed us. I had to protect us from any kind of enemy." Ward thought out loud, trying to comfort him self.
"Wait-" Skye pointed at the gunshot wound. Simmons wrinkled her nose, unsettled by the blood. "the wound, it's... Healing?" They all leant in looking closer to see the wound closing and healing at an astounding rate.
"Thats just... It can't... Can it?" Fitz said, looking puzzled as they watched the wound heal.
"Hit her with a tranquilliser or something. We could do with her not putting up a fuss until she's being contained." Coulson nodded at the team, walking away as the team still watched fascinated.