Fitz bounded over to Ward and took the cylinder out of his hand. He was quickly disappointed when he realised it wasn't gas to fuel the blow torch. It was another part to their escape route.
Ward realised this too and got to his feet. Looking at Fitz they made they was over to the hay bales and systematically started to scatter them everywhere, covering everyone with hay. To everyone's amusement Coulson started sneezing!
As the hay bales disintegrated around them they found more and more pieces of their puzzle, until the last one had been scattered.
Fitz, who was now happy that they had more parts, inspected the missing piece of the cog mechanism and then set to putting the pieces together.
Ward and Skye, who were both still wet through and shivering, were trying to keep themselves warm by playing 'tag'. Skye was losing. Badly!
May and Coulson were sat off to one side.
"Whose idea was it to investigate these disappearances?" Coulson asked.
"That would be yours!" May responded.
"Oh yeah. Well from now on, we don't investigate any more woodland disappearances."
"Or if we do we take out the psycho behind it first."
"Do you think there is anything going on between Skye and Ward?" Coulson asked May out of the blue.
"Duh! You took your time to cotton on." May thought, but when she opened her mouth she said:
"Not really. Why do you think that?"
"Well you said it yourself..." Coulson started saying, taking a quick look at May's alarmed face as he continued "...he's letting his playful side show when he's with her. And I'm guessing I'm not the only one who noticed that she kept going for his hand when she got scared."
"Ok. So I noticed. I also noticed that Fitz and Simmons were clinging onto each other pretty much the entire time they were in there together. Does that mean that there is something going on between them?" May asked him. She wasn't sure why she was defending Ward and Skye, other than she wanted to see how much Skye would change him.
"Of course not! It's just Ward is completely different around Skye than he is with the others. And you chose to run when you did for a reason." Coulson pressed.
Shouts from Fitz saved May from having to answer. It turns out that, with the additional parts that they had located in the hay the pieces fit together in another way.
"Don't ask me what it does or how it works. But this is the only way they all go together." Fitz told Coulson handing him the item.
Coulson looked at it, scrutinising it from every angle before walking over to the cog mechanism and inserting it into the slot. The item fit perfectly. The cogs started turning and the cage moved slightly before they came to a stop.
A cage door slammed down from the night sky and landed between them and the wall, closing them in completely.
"Damn." Coulson said, realising that he had led his team into a trap.
A/N: Hands up! Who thought Ward had found the gas to the blow torch?