"Director Fury. Welcome aboard" Coulson welcomed him onto the bus.
"I felt it was necessary. You told me you could handle them both together."
"Yes, Sir. I actually left them in the lounge playing Battleship."
Fury raised his eyebrows at Coulson and followed him to the lounge. As soon as Coulson opened the door from the access chamber he was forced to close it quickly by some sort of dart. He waited a couple of seconds before trying again.
"I thought you said they were playing Battleship" Fury said to him.
"They were."
The two men entered the lounge to find the two agents, were in fact playing battleship. They were simply guessing the others co-ordinates using darts instead of pins on a board. When they saw Fury they swiftly went their different ways. Romanov went to the cockpit to talk May and Ward went to find Skye to train.
"Handling them, eh Coulson?"
"Fury's on board then" May asked Romanov as she entered the cockpit.
"Yeah"
"What were you two doing?"
"Battleship Darts"
"Which is why you have come to hide in here?"
"Yep."
"Have we figured out why he's here yet?"
"I don't think he thinks Coulson can handle us"
"So, Fury's here to watch you and Nat?" Skye asked Ward as she threw a punch at him that he deflected.
"Guess so." He said, returning the punch. Skye was getting better at hand to hand combat.
"You two are a handful" She said trying to execute a roundhouse kick, but falling flat on her butt.
"Really? Why do you say that?" Ward asked her, helping her up.
"I saw you put that Lizard on Simmons' pack" she replied with a smile.
"Ready?"
"Ready" They started sparring again. They trained for another hour before Ward, glancing through the window, noticed something on the board they were using to track Covenant movements. This lapse in concentration was enough for Skye to strike him on the face using a jab kick, knocking him to the ground.
"YES!" Skye exclaimed. This was the first time she had managed this.
Fitz and Simmons, who were working looked through the window, say Skye cheering and Ward on the ground, minor cut to his cheek. They looked at each other in mild amusement.
"There is no way you would have done that if I hadn't have noticed..." Ward started before trailing off; taking the hand Skye was offering him and instead of allowing her to pull him up, he pulled her down.
"Gaaahhh" Skye screamed as she fell. When she was on the floor beside Ward she continued "noticed what?"
He moved her into the correct position to see it. When she did she gasped.
The pins that they had used to identify the origins of attacks were in one colour and they made an inverted pentagram, the pins used to identify the places attacked were in a different colour, also making an inverted pentagram, perfectly outlining the first. The symbol of the covenant. The pair scrambled to their feet and headed into the lab. They had spread the map of the world (that they were using as the board) over the entire wall of the plane, so the corners could only be reached using a stepladder. Skye grabbed some string and her and Ward, taking a different colour string each, set to work.
Coulson and Fury were watching the lab cameras. They had seen Skye and Ward sparring through the glass, they had seen her kick him, seen him fall and pull her down too. They also saw them scrabble to their feet and run into the Lab and grab the string.
"Maybe it wasn't Romanov and Ward I needed to worry about with Coulson." Fury thought as he and Coulson raced to the Lab to stop Skye and Ward creating carnage. When they got there though, there were two brightly coloured, clear as day, inverted pentagrams staring at them.
"The Covenant" Coulson said, recognising the symbol from the file Romanov had obtained.