"Aarrgghhh." Ward swallowed the pain as yet another electric shock passed through his body.
"You ok?" Skye asked. She was concerned. He was usually the one who felt the least pain, or at least showed it less.
"Yeah. I'm fine. But do I need to remind you all water and electricity don't mix?" Ward panted in response. He was still very wet from the river.
They had tried different combinations of the buzzer beaters including, one at a time, in pairs, in threes, fours and all together. None of the combinations had stopped the electricity from surging through their bodies. To top it all off, every time they hit the buzzers there were almighty sparks of electricity coming of the generator.
Fitz had even tried to get out of his chair, but they all received a sharper shock than they had previously received. They all understood this. It meant 'stay put'.
"Well let's think about this rationally." Simmons said.
"We so don't have time." Skye pointed out in a rather higher pitched voice than usual.
"We have covered all combinations of buzzer and yet nothing has stopped it." Fitz said, ignoring Skye.
Ward sat listening to the two scientists before looking at Skye. He was worried about her. She was clearly getting more and more scared as they progressed, and now that they had stalled she was getting hysterical.
That's when he saw the picture behind her head. It looked like the buzzer next to their chairs.
Skye saw Ward check on her. In the dim light she could just about see the concern in his eyes before noticing his expression change as his gaze did.
Skye saw the picture and remembered the words in the previous room.
"Hey guys. Brace yourselves." Skye announced as she reached for her buzzer.
"SKYE!" May yelled.
"Enough. Can anyone see a picture on the walls?" Ward asked looking around to his front and sides.
"Over here!" Fitz yelled, staring at the picture on the wall.
"What does it look like?" Skye asked.
"It looks like one of the chairs. Can't tell which."
"Hold on to your hats." Ward advised before pressing his buzzer.
"Gahh!"
"Wow"
"Do we have to do this every time?"
"Who's got the next snap?"
"That would be me. It's showing some sort of connection."
May searched around her seat for the connection. She found it just underneath the buzzer.
"Found it." She announced, hitting the buzzer.
"I have the picture. It's a spanner." Simmons said happily as they were finally getting somewhere. Rather hesitantly though she pressed her buzzer, sending yet another shock through their bodies ad sparks flying.
"I have the picture. It's one of..." Ward said.
"One of what?" Skye asked. She was at the wrong angle to see.
"You." Ward said, looking at her.
"Me?" Skye asked, disbelievingly.
There was a crackle and they all heard the gong indicating that the gate was on the move.
"What does this mean?" May asked.
"I don't know. All we know is that pictures paint a thousand words." Skye said.
"Wait." Fitz ordered "Pictures paint a thousand words. What was the first picture?"
"The buzzer." Skye said.
"Then the seat." Fitz reminded everyone.
"connection." May prompted.
"Spanner."
"Skye." Ward finished.
"There's a spanner under Skye's chair that she can use to disconnect the buzzers from the power." Fitz told them.
Skye immediately searched under her seat for the supposed spanner. She felt it pulled it out.
"Where's this connection?" She asked.
"It's under on the underside of the platform that the buzzer is on." May told her.
Skye looked underneath her buzzer and found the connection May had told her about. Hesitantly she touched it with the spanner. When she realised it was safe she made to unbolt it. When it was loose enough she pulled the bolt out, which made the generator sound as if it had blown up.
Realising that their chairs hadn't shocked them they made to stand up and search for the key, but a loud clunking from the generator made them curious.
Fitz walked up to it and gave it a cursory inspection. As he did he noticed a piece of curled metal poking out of the generator.
Gingerly he touched it. When it didn't give him a shock he pulled at it.
"I have the key!" Fitz shouted.
"Congratulations yet again. You have made it through with relative ease. You have a 73 metre head start. Choose wisely. You have thirty seconds."