They spent the next week planning their moves carefully. Ward and Romanov would be frequently seen tying each other up using the knots they knew the Covenant favoured and tried to get out of them. Fitz-Simmons spent the time perfecting monitors and trackers that would allow them to track the agents movements, heart rates and conversations, without being detected. Skye was trying to figure out the best way to hack her way into their system, but without their computer she couldn't get very far, so she joined in with the knots. Coulson was making sure that they were flying well under Fury's radar and Amber and Kain were throwing things for Hawkeye to shoot. They were fascinated by him. They never saw him miss, even when they insisted he shoot blindfolded. The interns were getting exicited. They had never seen the team so serious for a mission. They usually just winged it!
"We've got the transmitters as small as we can, but they are still big enough that if they pat you down they are going to find them." Simmons told them, showing them the microtransmitters they had come up with.
"So how do we proceed?"
"Sub-dermal implantation" Ward and Skye said together.
They had got the idea from Skye's joke about the trackers being implanted into cardiac tissue.
"That's a good idea. Implant the trackers into our skin and they won't get found when they pat us down." Romanov agreed.
"I thought you guys already had them, being level eight agents? We saw the implantation scars on Coulsons chest" Amber pointed out.
"We've never done that. We never had trackers in our hearts. Especially not ones that could be hacked."
"So how did Coulson get the scar?"
"He got stabbed through the heart by Loki, Thor's brother." Romanov told her.
Fitz-Simmons placed the trackers into everyone involved in this mission who were getting off the bus. Hawkeye and May had theirs placed in their upper arms, Ward had his placed in the scar on his back, Skye had hers placed in her wrist and Romanov had hers placed by her collar bone. They had decided that they should differ the locations as they could pass them off as training exercise accidents.
"The only thing left to do is figure out how to untie those bonds. They'll take a knife off us for sure." Romanov told everyone.
"Wait. I think I have a solution to that!" Ward said.
He flexed his wrists and allowed Hawkeye to tie them up as tight as he could and suspend him from the ceiling.
"Nat, now you. Flex your wrists the way I showed you."
Hawkeye tied her up. Ward ordered him to tie Skye up as well. Once all of them were suspended from the ceiling Ward set to work. Flexing their wrists had forced the knots to be looser than they would normally be, and if they didn't struggle they would remain loose.
Ward set to on the knots. He started on Romanov's. He focussed all of his attention on the knot, his eyes turned blue and slowly the knot started to come undone. She dropped to the floor and landed cat like. Ward moved his attention to his own knot. Again it slowly came undone and he dropped to the floor. He then moved to Skye's knot. Again he focussed all of his attention on the knot. Skye dropped to the floor like the others. They had discussed this order in great detail. Romanov was to drop first. She could then defend Ward and Skye while he undid his own knots. He would drop next so that he could help Romanov if he needed to and Skye, being the least experienced would drop last.
Amber and Kain watched this in fascination. They had never seen Ward use his 'special skill' before (he had always used it on them without them knowing about it) and now understood why his code name is Blue Eyes.
"I have an idea for the video feed" Romanov said.
They spent another week planning, making back up plans and back up plans to the back up plans. Ward, Romanov and Skye practised their escape many more times until they could do in within minutes of being tied.
Romanov and Fitz also worked on her idea to provide the team with video feed. It was one single contact lens. It should not interfere with her vision, but just to be safe she would be the one to wear it as they couldn't risk Ward and Skye not being able to see. It matched the colour of her eye perfectly and concealed the tiny camera perfectly.
As the date of their assault got closer, tension grew and the 'bus became deathly quiet. There was a beeping noise from Coulson's office.
"That'll be director Fury. He keeps calling to check that I'm coping with these two." Coulson told them, nodding at Ward and Romanov.
"He has no idea that Hawkeye is on the 'bus, so Clint, make like a banana." He continued, climbing the stairs to his office.
"How's it going?" Fury asked Coulson when he switched the video link
"They are behaving themselves"
"That's shocking."
"I'm slightly concerned they are planning a big finale for the interns."
"Let them have it. They need to have their fun, if they don't we all suffer."
"Yes Sir."
"AAAAAGGGHHHHHHH!"
"I think you spoke too soon. Transfer me to the lounge."
Coulson did, and when he made it into the lounge it transpired that his team , knowing Fury was on the line, decided to liven things up. It looked like they had split into two teams and one person had volunteered to stand against the wall (the interns had volunteered, they didn't want to hurt the crew before the big mission!) and the others were taking it in turns to throw knives at them.
"What the hell are you doing?" Fury demanded.
"Beetle Drive, Sir" Ward said.
"Beetle Drive?"
"Yeah, roll a six you get the body, five you get the head, four is the tail, three are legs, two are antlers and one are eyes." Romanov told him, rolling a three and throwing the knife at Kain's legs and pinning his trousers to the wall."
"Coulson, tell them to play twister, it was safer."
"Yes, Sir."
"And stop them before I have to explain to an interns parent's why they have a knife sticking out of their eye."
"Yes, Sir."
Fury hung up and Coulson looked back to his team.
"Are you trying to get me fired?"
"Fury wouldn't fire you. He gives you free reign and he gave you a 'bus.
"Hawkeye, It's safe to come out now!"