''Where the hell are we?'' Coulson asked, unplugging himself away carefully from all of the cables that surrounded his body. May jumped up, taking in deep breaths loudly, she's been in there for so long...she almost forget what the real world felt like.
Coulson jumped from the weird looking chair and knelt down in front of May, ''Careful,'' He warned, unplugging everything, ''We're back.''
May nodded, relaxing into his arms when he finally lifted her out and placed her on the cold ground. Mace woke up and unplugged himself before taking a look at his surroundings. ''What is this place?'' He questioned before Coulson turned to him, never leaving May's side, ''That's what we're trying to figure out.''
Fitz was next, he roughly pulled away all the cables and fell onto the ground with his fists hitting it first, ''It's my fault that Mack is in there.'' He whispered, his gaze never leaving the concrete ground.
''No it isn't, Fitz.'' Coulson said, trying to comfort him.
Fitz shook his head, ''It is, I helped to build Aida, I helped. She's a work of my hands. It was me, I built her and she did this to us. To Mack.'' He sat down, burying his face into his arms that were shivering from the cold of the surroundings.
Mace approached him and tapped his back, ''You ended it, agent Fitz.'' He said truthfully, ''there's no way we would be back here if it wasn't for you, if you hadn't killed her. Aida would have followed us and killed us in ways it's hard to imagine.'' Mace's thoughtful explanation made Fitz look up. He did end it. He did.
''Maybe I did end it,'' Fitz said before directing his gaze from everyone's faces again, ''But it doesn't change the fact that I've started it. It doesn't change the fact that I lost my best friend to a fake world.''
Coulson shook his head from across the cold room, ''We didn't lose him, not yet. Hard to admit but Ward might actually save the day in there. For the first time, I trust him to bring out team member back and do something good.'' He explained with a slight smirk, giving Fitz hope.
Mace tapped Fitz's back again, ''We need to get going.'' And everyone was up on their feet.
''You're not going anywhere.'' A deep, manly voice with an accent said. It was the Russian man, known as the superior.
XXXXX
''Oh Dios! Thought you weren't coming back'' Yoyo yelled when Daisy finally opened her eyes, Jemma was unplugging herself from the machine with Pipers help. Daisy sat up carefully and took in a good few breaths of the real world air.
Yoyo unplugged her, throwing the cables to the side and onto the floor. ''Did you get everyone out?'' Yoyo questioned, but Jemma and Daisy were sharing weird looks that she didn't find appealing.
Daisy didn't answer directly, ''We can't say anything now, we have to locate them first, Aida must've used a good place to hide them before plugging them into the framework.'' She said and put on her SHIELD jacket. Agent Davis directed Daisy to the nearest computer where she tried to get their location somehow.
''What do you mean you can't say anything now?'' Yoyo asked, her annoyed tone coming out after she had been waiting for everyone's return for so long.
''I'm sorry.'' Jemma said, ''We're still unsure of who woke up.'' She lied, everyone except for Mack were back, but the girls still had hope that Ward was going to convince Mack to come back. He had to...
Yoyo bit her stood with a blank look when Simmons moved away and went to join Daisy near the computer.
''qué está pasando?'' She whispered to herself and let out an annoyed breath before joining the girls. ''How are you going to locate them?'' she questioned, watching Daisy working on the computer
''I saw a submarine before entering the framework and before I knew almost everyone were LMD's. We locate that and maybe we can get the answers we want.'' She explained and Yo-yo just nodded, waiting patiently for Daisy to find something that could lead them to the team.
XXXXX
''Damn wrong you are.'' May said, standing up before falling back to the ground.
''It's cute.'' The superior said with his bulky arms crossed, ''You all have matching outfits. All terrified and confused.''
Coulson was trying to get May to stand down, but she was stubborn, getting ready to attack and fight. The superior grinned, ''Want to fight me?'' He asked and then looked at Coulson, ''Let her.''
''How about you fight me?'' Coulson said, feeling stronger that May currently was.
''Coulson, I wouldn't say that's the best idea-'' Fitz was then suddenly cut off by Coulson.
''It is.'' He said, standing right up to the superior. Fitz eyed them carefully before whispering 'no' under his breath.
''Coulson, stop!'' He yelled before hearing at least a few other pairs of footsteps from outside the door. It opened, and it was just exactly what Fitz feared. The russian in front of Coulson was an LMD...and there were many more of them.
Coulson turned to the door, looking at many other copies of LMD's of the superior before all air went out from him as he was grabbed by the neck. Coulson was slammed to the nearest wall, the superiors hand was tightly wrapped around his throat that was desperate for oxygen. Mace tacked the superior to the ground, and Coulson fell with him. With a few good bunches, Mace could hear little sparkles of something coming from the LMD, he had killed it.
Five other LMD's of the superior entered the room, each one of them took a different corner as they scattered themselves out. May finally managed to stand up, she was definitely not going down without putting up a fight.
''You won't get out of here alive.'' The LMD's said in unison, but the team refused to believe that. None of them had weapons, just hand to fight. Without any warning, May was the first one to leave her position, she ran towards the LMD closest to her and slid on the floor, getting behind him. She was behind his back. Grabbing his arms with her own, May flipped him over her own body and the superior fell with a loud thud. Another one was prepared to attack her, but Mace and Coulson stepped in.
The rest of the three turned to Fitz, all eyeing them with their realistic eyes that he knew were robotic. ''I got him.'' One of them said, marching towards Fitz. Fitz backed up so far that his back hit the wall. When the LMD was close enough to cause damage, Fitz landed a punch right into its nose, it let out a sickening crack, but the LMD of the superior only grinned wider. ''Scared?'' He asked for his own amusement before punching with in the stomach.
''Fitz!'' Coulson yelled, seeing the younger man falling to the ground with his hands around his stomach.
''Go!'' Mace yelled, ''I've got this one.'' He said and continuously beat the LMD in the face and its most weakest areas that he assumed was the neck. Coulson ran towards them, kicking the LMD in the back of its knee, it fell to the ground with a slight grunt, but it wasn't pain, it was annoyance.
Fitz looked up, seeing that Coulson was in front of him. He stood up painfully, still holding his abdomen as pain radiated through it. Coulon had his arms wrapped around the back of the LMD's neck, twisting it as gruesomely as he could to somehow rip it off. The LMD was slowly regaining its composition, trying to grab Coulon from behind itself. With a final thought, Fitz kicked the LMD right in the middle of its neck, Coulson and its head went flying backwards as sparks of fire and electricity came out from the now naked wires.
May was struggling to fight due to being plugged into the framework for so long. She wasn't accustom to this yet. Feeling everything that was this real. She finally felt alive. Really alive. The LMD of the superior that May was fighting had flipped her over to the ground. The LMD stood above her as she tried to kick it in the most sensitive area known to man. It didn't work. The LMD couldn't feel anything. May was grabbed by her hair and dragged across the ground painfully, her back rubbing across the concrete roughly. She groaned out, but continued kicking it with no response to her kicks.
Coulson was desperate to go and help her, but another LMD stood in his way, blocking his complete view of May. ''Let go!'' May yelled angrily, the LMD stepped on her neck, preventing her from breathing. Her hands reached to different directions in attempts to get the LMD's boot off her neck somehow, it didn't move, didn't even flinch slightly.
Then, as if luck had finally started being on her side, she felt something long brushing her fingers just slightly, it was something made out of hard metal, though the rust stained it just slightly. May pushed her body out even further to reach it with the boot of the LMD still on her neck, pressing hard. May had it. It was withing her grasp, she wrapped her fingers around the metal object and brought it up. It was an old pole, shorter than her leg. She pushed in into the LMD's knee, and it fell to the ground as she managed to damage some of the wires. May rolled to the side, gasping for air before standing up and bringing the pole right through the LMD's eye. It was dead.
''Damn.'' She whispered out, breathing shallowly to return all of the lost oxygen back slowly. May ran up to Mace, stabbing the LMD that was on top of him through the chest. Mace rolled out from underneath it with a bloodied face. ''He got a few good hits in.'' Mace said, rubbing his nose that was bleeding the most.
''Two more to go.'' May told him and they turn to face the other two LMD's.
Mace ran out to Fitz, grabbing the LMD's attention before it could get to the engineer and hurt him. May was with Coulson, trying to free him from the tight grasp that the LMD hand around his neck.
The LMD pulled out a knife, waving it in front of Mace to show that it had the upper hand. Mace watched the LMD, then the knife, both swinging towards him. ''I hope you really don't think that you can beat me with that.'' Mace said with a serious face. The LMD of the superior frowned, letting out an angry grunt before charging at in full speed. Fitz couldn't just watch, what if Mace got stabbed? Fitz would blame it on himself...
Fitz grabbed the LMD's arm from behind, stopping it front running at Mace. The LMD turned around, hitting Fitz hard in the face with the butt of the knife and slashing across his shoulder. As the LMD turned back around to go after Mace, he was already there with the pole that May had used to end the previous LMD's. Mace smiled, impaling it right through where the heart would be. It fell to the ground with a heavy thud as electric sparks burst out from its chest.
''You okay?'' Mace asked before hearing May screaming out in pain. She was on the floor, the LMD smashing her face at the ground brutally. Coulson was out cold. Unconscious. Mace ran towards it, swinging the pole back and then into the LMD's face. He received no reaction, it was still beating May's face down. Mace grabbed the LMD's head, pulling it towards himself before sticking his thumbs into the realistic eyeballs.
A soft pop came out, Fitz was sure he was about to throw up as his face paled and his heart beat fastened. The door opened, but nobody heard it.
The LMD was still standing, even with its eyeballs out. May was almost unconscious, breathing heavily on the bloody ground beneath her that was covered in her blood. Just as the LMD was about to deliver a punch into Mace's face a knife came sticking out right through its neck and out as it finally crumbled to the ground. ''Agent Johnson...'' Mace breathed out, giving her a grateful look before sliding to the ground and sitting down.
''Fitz, you're bleeding!'' Jemma exclaimed eyeing his shoulder whilst running towards him.
He shook his head, ''Help May, she's pretty beat up.'' Jemma went running to aim, getting her up slowly before examining her injuries with care.
''Mack...'' Yoyo whispered out softly, seeing his body still plugged into the machine. She went towards him, placed her hands on the wires as she was about to pull them away.
''No!'' Fitz screamed, scrambling up from the floor, ''It could kill him. You can't just unplug him.'' He explained and Yoyo stood still, eyeing Mack's body sadly.
''Why is he still there? Didn't he want to come back? For you? For me?'' She questioned, and the whole team seemed to look down.
''Something happened to him.'' Jemma said, ''On the other side, he has Hope...His daughter is there with him. He wasn't strong enough to leave her behind...'' She explained, sadness in Jemma's voice was evident. Yoyo shook slightly, almost falling. She placed her hand on Mack's, knowing that it was his choice to come back...
''He has every right to decide now.'' Yoyo spoke quietly, just above a whisper, ''I love him for whatever choice he makes.''
''We have to go. We'll bring his body somewhere safe with this whole damned machine.'' Daisy said, motioning out to the door.
I think I'm doing alright with the updates this week ;) Unfortunately, I did not study for my chemistry test at all and ended up getting a really low score buuuuut this fanfiction needs finishing! Please review, and as always, thank you for reading! :)
It's almost the end of this story, what would you guys expect to see in the end?
