Ignoring Director Fury on the video feed, Hawkeye proceeded to tell Coulson the problem they had encountered.
"Are you sure it's him?" Coulson asked.
"Positive."
"You're telling me that AD Jefferson is heading the Covenant. An organisation hell bent on destroying the world?"
"Yes."
"You and May better set off and get into position."
"Sir."
Coulson turned back to the screen where Director Fury was watching, disapprovingly.
"My team have just learned that the head of the Covenant is Assistant Director Jefferson."
"WHAT?" Fury exploded.
"It's a shock to us too Sir."
"Where are your people?"
Coulson looked to the ground and mumbled.
"Coulson, I will not ask you again. Where are your people?"
"Skye, Ward and Romanov are at their headquarters, Hawkeye and May are now on route to provide back up, the interns are driving and Fitz-Simmons are running mission control from here."
Fury looked sideways; Coulson assumed Hill was there, shaking her head.
"Get me into their feed."
"You won't be able to hack their feed this time, Sir" Coulson told him "The transmitters were specially designed to be undetectable to anyone scanning for a frequency. We are the only ones with the capability to hear it."
"Well then Coulson, transfer me to your mission control, and Hill, get me a jet."
"They're all offline, Sir. It's going to take three hours."
The Covenant had learned their lesson last time; do not leave Ward and Romanov in a room alone, even strung up to the ceiling by their wrists. None of the agents had struggled, they had prepared for this. They had not prepared for the loony behind it to be one of their own.
Ward, very slowly undid Romanov's foot binds until she could just tear her feet apart. Then he moved onto her hands. Before the guards knew what had hit them Romanov was free and fighting. She knocked them all unconscious. As soon as he had freed Romanov, Ward started on his own bonds. Romanov found a knife on one of the guards and hacked away at the rope around his feet. Once Ward was free he used the knife to free Skye, it was quicker.
"Phase one complete." He said to mission control.
"Hawkeye in position."
"Cavalry in position."
"Copy that."
"Do you want the better news?" Hawkeye asked to the group as a whole.
"What?" asked Romanov.
"We've been busted by Fury. He's trying to hack into our feed."
"Hey Nat. Do you think we can actually give the principal a heart attack when we get our asses shipped back off to Phys Acc?"
"Maybe. Let's not blow up his car this time though."
"Commence phase two." Mission Control told them.
Romanov picked the lock on the door and the three of them crept out of the corridor down to where they assumed the computer room was. Skye had pointed out the air conditioning ducts, as they were in the middle of the dessert and the corridors were painfully hot it made sense they were there to cool the computers.
When they reached the computer room Skye started downloading any incriminating evidence that she could while Romanov and Ward planted detonators.
"I'm done. It's all here." Skye said handing Ward a hard drive.
"Safer with me right?" He said to her with a grin, repeating what she had said to him the last time she had handed him a hard drive.
"Absolutely."
"Timers set for 25 minutes, if they find them and try stop them they will detonate, so let's get out of here." Romanov said to them as she walked over.
Checking the coast was clear the three of them crept out of the computer room, Romanov first, and then Skye with Ward pulling up the rear, and tried to find their way out of the building.
Skye heard a noise from behind her. She turned and saw a guard stood behind Ward, choking him with a garrotte, Ward's eyes bulging. He saw the fear in Skye's eyes as she tried to catch Romanov's arm and he slammed the guard back into the wall. A few expert martial arts moves later and the guard was lying on the floor not moving. Romanov and Skye ran over to Ward to check his throat.
"Is it ok?" Skye asked, scared at the amount of blood around his neck.
"I've had worse shaving cuts." He croaked out, feeling his neck.
"The boss told me you guys were good, but you really are good. One day you will have to teach me how to get out of those knots." Deep Voice told them.
"Bite Me."
"Or not. I have orders." Thirty men surrounded them and bound their wrists again, before searching them to make sure they hadn't acquired any weapons.
They were led to the roof and forced to their knees. Three guards stood behind them, machine guns ready to fire.
"Any last words?"
"You're a maniac?"