Chapter Twenty Two (A Burning Fire)

"We're gonna die, aren't we?" Fitz asked, looking to his fellow team members. "We're gonna die."

"No, Fitz, we're not gonna die." Ward stated. "We'll get out of here. Right, Coulson?"

Coulson shook his head, "I don't know. I really don't. There are probably at least two soldiers right outside this door right now. Even if we manage to get the door open, we'll have to fight our way past the soldiers. And we are weaponless. They took our weapons before coming in here."

"That's just great." Skye mumbled. "What are we going to do now?"

Ward smiled just a little bit, "Actually," He pulled out an ICER from his pants holster, "They forgot one. Didn't search me there."

Coulson grinned, "Good, at least that will take down a couple of soldiers and probably get us somewhere that has weapons."

"But how do we open the door?" Simmons asked.

"Here we go." May muttered.

"With this." Coulson said, pulling out once again another detonation device from his jacket.

"Seriously, how many of those things do you have?" Ward asked.

"That doesn't matter right now." Coulson said, placing the small, round device on the door's lock. "All that matters is that we have to get out of here and find a way to take down the Clairvoyant. You might wanna step back."

The device blew the door open to reveal two Centipede soldiers glaring at them, ready to kill. Ward quickly took the two down with the ICER and the team walked out of the room.

"Quickly, go." Coulson said. "Go before they notice that we got out."

"Sir, the prisoners have escaped."

"Of course they have. It's all part of the plan. I knew that they would escape. That's why the soldiers 'forgot' that one gun, so they could manage to escape."

"What are you planning?"

"I'll let them find me and then they will be trapped. I'll take the girl and have the soldiers kill the rest of them, ever so slowly. They are walking right into my huge trap. I know that they will come to the center of the complex, where I will be waiting. They want to find me, so I'll let them find me. They just won't know that they will be walking into a burning fire, a fire that is their brutal murders."

"Where do we go?" Skye asked as the team hurried down the hallway after they had found some weapons and armed themselves.

"Away from the soldiers." Coulson replied. "But we have to find the Clairvoyant and take him out."

"I'll gladly put the bullet through his head." Ward griped.

"No, don't do that. We'll capture him and let SHIELD teams come and take him to the Fridge and put him in the smallest, darkest cell that they have available."

"But where is he?" Fitz asked.

"We just keep looking."

The team came out into a massive courtyard that was dead and barren. The trees were mere skeletons and the grass brown as dirt. It was void of all life.

"Well this isn't creepy." Simmons stated.

"This doesn't feel right." May said. "Something isn't right here."

"Well she is correct!" a voice exclaimed.

The team looked around to see that they were surrounded on all sides by Centipede soldiers, they were trapped.

The Clairvoyant walked out into the center of the stark landscape, "And you've just walked into the fire."

Author's Note: I don't own AoS, Marvel does. Sorry for the wait and short chapter, didn't know what to write. The team is trapped again with impending death. What will happen? Marvel's Agents of SHIELD will return in a chapter. Keep reading and please review! I have another story coming soon that correlates with the actual storyline, so stay tuned! ~AwakeAndAliveSpartan.