Chapter Seventeen (Bell Tower)
"Sir?" Coulson answered the line with a sense of urgency. "What's the matter?"
"I'll tell you what's the matter." Fury's voice has harsh and panicked. "There is a small group of superpowered Centipede soldiers attacking the Fort McLane SHIELD base outside of Tennessee."
"What? Why?" Coulson responded.
"Hell if I know. But it's not looking good over here. McLane agents aren't trained to fight Centipede soldiers, they don't know how to fight them. But your team knows all about them." Fury stated. "I want you and your team at the base as fast as you can get your asses over there."
Coulson gulped at the Director's tone, "Sir, yes we will."
"Good. You better be there."
Coulson walked into the lounge where the rest of the team was waiting to hear what was going on.
"Coulson, what's going on?" Ward asked.
"Centipede has attacked the Fort McLane SHIELD base in Tennessee. The reason is unknown, but Fury wants us there as fast as we can get there because we are the only ones that know the most about the Centipede soldiers." Coulson replied, explaining the situation.
May paused for a minute before turning towards the cockpit, "I'll go ahead and set a course." She disappeared inside of the cockpit.
"What are we to do?" Fitz asked.
Coulson looked to the four agents, "Ward, May, and I will gear up and go see exactly what is going on. Meanwhile, you, Simmons, and Skye will stay here in the Bus and do some digging and provide us with any sort of changes that we would need to know about."
All four agents nodded in reply.
"But, sir, why would Centipede attack a random SHIELD base?" Skye asked. "They really haven't attacked any bases before."
Coulson thought on this for a minute, "No, they haven't. This is strange. But now I don't think that this attack is against all of SHIELD."
Simmons frowned, "What do you mean?"
"I mean that this is a bait attack." Coulson said as he felt the Bus shift direction. "Centipede is drawing us out, right out into the wide open."
"So they are going to trap us?" Ward asked. "This is a suicide mission."
"I don't know what their motives are. We could be walking right into death, just how the Clairvoyant would want." Coulson began. He looked at the four agents, "But, to be honest, I think this could have clues to who the Clairvoyant actually is. And maybe after this mission, we can actually put a face to the name."
"Sir, they have changed their route. They are now headed towards the base."
"Good. Tell the teams that I, myself, will be headed out their personally. I want to personally destroy those fools."
The lone soldier blinked at the masked, shadowed figure, "Yes, sir. I will right away." The soldier disappeared from the dark room.
"Everything is going to my plan." the masked figure laughed. "But of course it would, I made the plan."
The figure stood in the darkness, "The look on their poor, foolish faces when they see that I will be the one responsible for their deaths. Tick tock. The bells of the bell tower will soon ring out their song at the strike of midnight. And those agents will lose their heads."
Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. Short chapter and sorry for the wait, and the chapters will start to get much longer. Plus, this story is not following the current events of AoS or the fallout of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it's is its own story. Coulson and the team are sent to the attacked base and a figure is planning their deaths. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD will return in a chapter. Keep reading and PLEASE review! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.