Chapter Nineteen (Nearing Midnight)
"As you can see," Roth began. "We've barricaded ourselves inside of this base. We weren't prepared for the Centipede attack and we underestimated their strength. Agent Coulson, you're looking at about what is all left of us."
Coulson looked at the eight agents, "Really?" he asked. "Centipede killed almost everyone?"
Roth sighed, "This base had about 200-ish people stationed here. We're about all that's left. There are probably a couple more agents stranded around the base. But we're pretty much all that's left. Centipede got us that good."
"But why would Fury call us in?" Ward asked, looking at Coulson. "What can we do?"
"I was wondering that as well." Roth added in. "Why would Fury call in a six man team to help us?"
"We've had first-hand experience with Centipede." Coulson responded. "Hell, our very first mission as a team was investigating a building that exploded due to a Centipede soldier detonating because of the serum. And we've had many run-ins since then. Truly a pain in our asses."
"And that serum, what is it exactly?" Roth asked.
"Some kind of mixture of Super-Soldier serum, Gamma radiation, and Extremis. Not good." Coulson replied.
"Great." Roth muttered. "I was hoping that I could live through this day, but it looks like I might not be able to. We're no match for them."
Banging echoed throughout the small room that the eleven agents were in. And it was getting louder by the second.
"And it looks like it may be soon."
"They're near." May said, narrowing her eyes. "We need to move, and try to take out any soldiers we can. We can't just stay here and wait for death to come."
Coulson looked at Roth, "You heard her, let's get moving."
"What do you mean that there's Centipede soldiers headed this way?!" Skye exclaimed.
"That's what the computer says! It's registering the movement as the enemy and it's never been wrong before!" Fitz tried not to yell.
"But what do we do?" Simmons asked. "There's no way that we can defend ourselves against a horde of soldiers! There's no bloody way!"
The three agents exchanged glances with each other, trying to figure out what they could possibly do.
"I know," Skye finally spoke up. "We head for the base."
"What?!" Simmons exclaimed. "We can't! That's crazy! That's suicide!"
"Well it's better than staying here and waiting for death!" Skye yelled. "Would you rather stay here and do nothing or try to head to the base and meet up with Coulson, Ward, and May?" she asked. "What would you rather do?"
"I agree with Skye on this." Fitz stated in a small voice. "Jemma, we can't just stay here and die. It's better to try and get to the others."
"Jemma," Skye said, looking at Simmons. "Yes, it will be risky. We could possibly get caught and be killed, but it's better than staying here and doing absolutely nothing. If we try to head for the base, there's a possibility that we can survive."
Simmons blinked, looking at her two friends. After a few moments she finally responded. "Alright." she said. "I guess we can try."
"Jemma, I promise that we can make it there." Skye reassured. "And we can arm ourselves with ICERs to make sure we can get there." She looked at Fitzsimmons and smiled when they nodded.
"Good, good, good!" the masked figure cried. "They'll all be in the same location!" He watched from an unknown position near the base as Skye and Fitzsimmons left the Bus equipped with ICERs. "They'll all be right there as I can kill them all!"
"Sir?" a soldier asked. "Do you want to start heading down there?"
"Yes." the figure replied. "I do. Because you know that I want to be the one to personally take their lives. I want to see their blood stain the ground, all because they got in my way."
"Alright." the soldier responded.
"The clock will soon strike midnight and those agents will personally face my wrath. The wrath of the Clairvoyant."
Tick, tock the clock strikes eleven.
Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. Yep, that. Skye and Fitzsimmons leave the Bus for the base as a horde of soldiers head their way and the Clairvoyant heads to make his personal appearance. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD will return in a chapter. Keep reading and please review! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.