Chapter 10

Jemma Simmons watched her ex-boyfriend carefully when they were on the jump jet. She knew take off wasn't his thing but somehow Skye got Parker distracted completely. He looked perfectly fine. Maybe Skye was the perfect match him, Simmons would just have to accept once again and move on. Thankfully Fitz kept her grounded the whole trip.

When the jump jet reached the hanger that Coulson had Trip land in, they decided they to go over the plan for the mission. It was somehow decided that Fitz and Simmons would go scout out the bus that Grant Ward and John Garrett were still on.

"Sir, do you really think that's a good idea?" Parker asked concerned for his friends.

Coulson immediately responded. "Yes, I do. I would send you with them but we will need your help at the barber shop."

Parker just nodded. It was going to be okay. FitzSimmons was just going to watch and see what happens with the bus.

The team split up for a bit making sure they had all the gear that they needed. Trip was giving advice to Fitz about his grandfather's howling commando gear while Skye and May were making sure setting up the Trojan horse wouldn't be a problem.

Right now Parker kept piling gear into his bag. A few things that Fitz gave him that he was familiar with from their academy days along with a few extra bullets for the ICER. He got his gun strapped to his side and jacket on after and was about to put the backpack on when Simmons walked over.

"We'll be fine, Andrew. To be honest I'm more worried for you and Skye, and the others." She told him.

"I just rather be with you guys knowing that you'll be safe."

"You can't watch us all the time, you do know that right?"

Parker sighed.

"Just make sure Skye gets protected, she needs more of your protection sometimes then us. She is your wife after all." The biochemist explains.

"I should have told you sooner." Parker tells her rubbing his head. "I'm sorry. It must be hard for you to watch sometimes."

"Andrew you don't have to be sorry. I totally overreacted when I found your wedding ring. I guess I was just confused. You kissed me back when were at Providence and I thought maybe it was a chance for us to try again."

"It shouldn't have happened."

"I know that now, Andrew. I shouldn't have done it."

"I'm really happy with Skye. A lot like how you and I were back during our academy days, Jem." Parker answers pulling the straps of the backpack on.

The team was getting ready to split up to go to their separate places. Skye was walking over towards the former couple dressed with her gear ready to go.

The agent and the biochemist never finished their conversation as Simmons just walked away towards where Fitz was. Skye took Andrew's hand and then kissed him on the cheek.

"Ready to go get a haircut?" She asked referring to her husband's longer hair than normal.

Parker just laughed it off and they headed to the vehicle Coulson managed to find them. Skye got in before him and as she did, Parker watched as his ex-girlfriend got into a separate vehicle with Fitz. He shook his head. What was going on with him?

10AOS10

When the team got to the barbershop, Coulson had Trip take a look inside to see if anyone was there. It seemed to be too late though. No one seemed to be found in the area.

"We're too late." Coulson told them as he saw Trip walk back to the van.

"They knew we were coming." May answers.

Parker watched over his wife's shoulder as she continued to click keys to find something. He was still trying to clear his head from whatever went through it when Simmons left with Fitz.

"I'm not sure everyone's gone. Something is generating a signal." Skye told them all.

"Is that something underground?" Parker asked her.

"I'm not sure exactly. Maybe-"

Before Skye could finish, Coulson's phone went off. Maybe FitzSimmons had found the bus already?

"Yeah, go ahead." Coulson tells his phone.

"Sir, we've found the bus. It's right outside the airfield by Santa Maria."

Parker could hear Jemma's voice on the other line. He just wondered if it was still safe for them to be out there.

"We are on our way. How far is that from our location?"

"About three hours. But from the looks of it, you might not make it."

Parker saw Coulson look over to him. He could tell that he was regretting his idea of not having Parker go with his friends.

"Get out of there. Meet us back at the jump jet."

"Copy that, sir."

Coulson hung up his phone. The team all looked at him waiting for further instructions. Parker ran his hand through his hair. He knew something like this could happen.

"Sir, are FitzSimmons okay?" He asked.

"They'll be fine. Let's get back to the jump jet."

"A.C is that a good idea? We still have the flash drive. We can wake up the Trojan horse." Skye told them holding up the stick.

"Skye, shouldn't we wait?" Parker asked his wife.

"Coulson said it, FitzSimmons will be fine."

Parker sighed. She was right and so was Coulson. His friends were going to make it back to the jump jet.

"Okay." Andrew breathed out. "Let's do it."

10AOS10

"I know Coulson said not to engage, but I can't help but need to know what's going on." Simmons told Fitz who was looking through the binoculars.

"Garrett's there. Meaning Ward is probably too." Fitz said.

"What if we send a D.W.A.R.F. in there? It can track the plane. Didn't Andrew make some kind of cloaking device for those back during when you two created them at the academy?"

"He did, but that function hasn't been used in a while. I keep forgetting Andrew put it on there." Fitz answered. "Speaking of Andrew, I saw you talking to him before we left."

Simmons sighed. "He's always worried for are safety. I told him it will be fine."

"He still has feelings for you. I saw the way he looked at you before you got in the car."

"No. No no. He's much in love with Skye. Andrew is much more comfortable with her now."

"I did notice that." Fitz says before pausing. "Let me go get the D.W.A.R.F.S. out of the car.

Fitz grabbed the binoculars out of Simmons' hand and closed up the lens protector. As he looked up towards the door, he saw their newest enemy from Hydra.

"Long time no see." Grant Ward said coming in.

10AOS10

Fitz and Simmons were immediately escorted to the bus by a few of Garrett's people. Ward was right behind them making sure the two scientists wouldn't go anywhere.

"We should have let Andrew come with us. He probably would have been able to get us out of this mess." Fitz whispered over to Simmons when they are walking.

"But Coulson didn't want to do that. Obviously he had better plans for Andrew."

They were up the cargo ramp when a few of the guards jabbed them with their guns.

"Ow." Simmons grunted.

The two agents were taking up to the main level waiting for Garrett to come out and see them.

"Look what I've found, sir." Ward tells Garett as he's walking towards them.

"This is our plane. We want it back." Fitz tells Garrett.

Garrett just laughed it off. "You think it's going to be that easy. Coulson probably found out we are using the barbershop. Call Kaminsky."

A Hydra agent does what he is told and goes in search for a phone. That's when Fitz got an idea. He had forgot that Trip gave him some of the gadgets from his grandfather's Howling Commando days. The engineer had stuck one of the EMPs in his pocket earlier just in case something like this was to happen.

When Garrett wasn't looking, Fitz stuck his hand in the pocket of his jacket he was wearing. But before he could press it, Ward got a hold of him and took out his hand with a quarter and the EMP in it.

Garrett of course noticed what his protégé did and looked over at Fitz.

"What do you have there?"

"Looks like a prank joy buzzer" Ward answered not doing a full examination.

"Yeah Ward, you know how much I like pranks."

Fitz clicked the button and all of a sudden the power cut out along Garrett who was shortening out because of it.

"What the hell was that!?"

Ward quickly went to his boss's side and made sure he was okay as Garrett still had his hands on his knee and part of his back.

"Looks to be an EMP." Garrett answered.

Fitz wanted to fight them but he knew that probably wouldn't be able to work out so well. He still wished they could have got Andrew to come with them or it would have been a different story. Parker had better fighting skills then both Fitz and Simmons combined but that was because he actually trained for the field.

"Looks like the jokes on you." The engineer told them as he was pulled back towards Simmons.

10AOS10

Ward had ran back into the area after getting the emergency kit for Garrett. FitzSimmons were both forced to watch as the Hydra agents had no further instructions on what to do with them yet.

"I'm glad I did it. You deserved it." Fitz said still running his mouth. "Ward, you don't have to keep taking orders from him. Let Garrett die."

Ward just looked at the scientists and didn't say anything. His allegiance was with Garrett and he was going to help save his boss.

"Get them out of here!" Ward finally yelled.

FitzSimmons were immediately pushed out of the room taken to another location on the plane.

10AOS10

The rest of the team decided to move on with their task of trying to get the Trojan horse activated. Trip and Coulson had gone in first followed by Parker and Skye. May had went in last with her gun drawn.

Everyone made sure to keep a watch out for any signs of anyone. But when they got down to the basement area, they didn't see anything. That made them a little bit of suspicious.

"Skye, where is the mainframe?" Parker asked his wife.

"I'm working on it." Skye replied typing away on her tablet.

"Trip, do you think your granddad's kit will work?" Coulson asked.

"Always."

As Trip set the bag of gadgets down on the table, Parker began looking towards the walls to see if they could find anything behind it. Andrew thought he was pretty good a finding secret spots.

"Drew, please be careful." He heard Skye say.

"I know."

"Have you found anything yet, Skye?" Coulson asked.

"Not yet but I think I'm close."

Trip pulled out a scanner and began looking around the room. He didn't stop until he got to the wall where Parker was standing in front of.

"Looks like we have something here, Parker if you want to check that out." Trip said.

Andrew quickly felt of the brick on the wall to find an opening. Once he did, his hand pressed a brick in and the wall began to open. But before they knew it, the lights went dark. Appearing in the doorways were the Hydra agents Garrett had sent after them.

"Centipede soldiers." Coulson said.

Parker pulled out his gun and immediately prepared to guard Skye and make sure the hacker was safe while she got the Trojan horse put into the system.

10AOS10

"Maybe we don't need Andrew? We can figure this all out right?" Simmons questioned.

"I hope so." Fitz answered before tipping a chair they walked by. "Simmons run!"

They quickly began running in a sprint hopefully to find a place to escape to. It wasn't long until they sealed the door that lead to the engine area so the Hydra agents that were with them couldn't get far. They kept running until Simmons found a pod that looked safe for them to hide in after they saw Ward climbing down the ladder. They closed the door and watched to see what Ward was going to do.

"Open the door, Fitz."

"Ward, please, you don't have to do this."

"He doesn't care, Fitz. You need to accept the truth. We have better people that care about us. We have Andrew and Skye along with Trip, May and Coulson. Ward is a traitor." Simmons argued.

"I don't believe that. We were friends. Friends look out for each other." Fitz tried to explain.

Simmons gave Fitz the, you can't be serious right now. She thought there was going to be no way that Ward would just come back from a path that dark in the middle of locking them in the pod they were in.

"I know that you are a good person, Ward."

"I have my orders. Open up the door."

"No." FitzSimmons both said.

"Okay. Have it your way."

The scientists watched as Ward walked over to the control panel. They begged him to stop and think about it but he wasn't having it. The specialist just kept hitting buttons.

"Ward, stop!" FitzSimmons both yelled.

"Ward don't do it! I know that you care about us!"

They continued to watch Ward and before they knew it, he pushed the button to send them out into the ocean.

The last words before Jemma blacked out was hearing Leo yell out Ward's name as they fell into a deep plunge.

And that's the end of chapter 10. Ragtag seemed to be much harder to write about since it's mostly about how Ward got with Garrett. This is the last part of the chapter before we go on to Beginning of the End which I have a few plans for along with season 2. So if you read this please leave a review. I really would like to know what you think. I haven't really gotten too many recently but the views are there and would be really happy to see how many of you are still liking this.