"Coulson. We didn't make a plan for this" Simmons almost cried. She was starting to panic.
"Plan X Coulson." Director Fury ordered.
Coulson picked up the microphone.
"All agents, all agents, initiating plan X"
The interns looked at each other confused, they hadn't organised a plan X. Fitz and Simmons were also looking at each other confused. They had never heard of plan X either.
"This is Hawkeye, I copy"
"May, I copy"
"Nat, I have something to tell you. I have your copy of War and Peace." Ward told her.
"YOU have my copy of War and Peace? I've been looking for that for months."
"Go, go, go" Coulson ordered. "May, I want you to hold."
Ward knew the key would be to keep Deep Voice talking for a couple of seconds.
"So what's your name deep voice?" Ward asked him.
"Why do you want to know?"
"So I can add it to your file when I kill you."
"I think you're overestimating your abilities."
Thwack, thwack, thwack.
Three arrows, three guards eye sockets. Romanov and Ward slit their ropes on one of the arrows and proceeded through plan X. Ward first made sure Skye was safely out of the way.
The team saw Ward and Romanov fight like they had never seen them before. Each blow was damaging to their opposition and when the two agents had obtained their weapons the guards were quickly killed. Of course Hawkeye's arrows helped them along a great deal.
"Plan X?" Simmons asked Coulson.
"Plan to eXecute. It means use deadly force."
"Ward, we have 60 seconds to get out of this building!" Romanov shouted at him. They knew they weren't going to make it out down the stairs. They ran to the edge of the roof. There were no buildings within jumping distance and Hawkeye was too far away for the cable to be any good. Ward suddenly saw something.
"May, the frog is running straight into your line of fire." He told her as he saw AD Jefferson making a run for it.
The three of them looked at each other. They would have to jump. They climbed onto the ledge. Romanov jumped first. When she was about to land on the cold hard earth she suddenly stopped, then dropped the three foot to the ground. She picked herself up, unhurt. She looked up to see Ward putting his arms around Skye. They were going to jump together. He looked straight at Romanov, eyes still blue.
"Go!" He yelled. "We'll be right behind you!"
"Right, explosives" She remembered before sprinting away from the building. She turned to watch Ward and Skye. He jumped backwards off the building, so that Skye was on top of him, and if he messed up on timing he would take the brunt of the fall.
Ward didn't mess up on the timing. As he had with Romanov, he stopped himself and Skye three foot off the ground, but then his concentration was broken by a very loud explosion. The detonators exploded better than they thought they would and Ward was forced to roll over, pressing Skye into the ground; otherwise they would have both died.
The team were watching all of this through Romanov's eye cam. Even though they could see Ward and Skye's heartbeats clearly displayed on the monitors, they were sure they would be dead soon.
They were shocked when the fireball cleared and Romanov headed back towards the now burning building and helped Ward and Skye off the floor. She checked them both over for serious injuries, but the worst injury was to Ward's shirt, which was slightly singed.
"I think that's phase three complete" Coulson heard Skye say, coughing slightly
"You two alright?" Coulson asked.
"You know that conversation we keep having?" Coulson heard Ward ask Romanov
"Don't go there."
"I think it's definitely the right time to collect on roulette."
"You ok?" Coulson asked again.
"We're fine. Singed rather than crispy" Ward told him.
"Mission Control, I have the frog, ribbet, ribbet." They all heard May say.
"Complete phase four and then come on home"
"Copy that!"
Ward, Romanov and Skye untied the thin silken rope they had all concealed on their persons (Romanov and Skye in their hair and Ward around his shoelaces) and proceeded to round up Covenant members who had survived the blast. There were one or two who resisted, but soon held their hands up in defeat when they were hit by Romanov or Ward.
"Mission Control, we have ten prisoners." Romanov told them as they lined the last one up.
"What do you wish us to do, Sir" Coulson asked Fury.
"What was your original plan?"
"Tie them all to the cargo door with a pressure device so if any of them escape their bonds the door will open and they will all fall out."
"Sounds good to me, I will meet you at the Fridge."
"I thought we had abandoned the Fridge after Hydra?"
"New location, same principle. I will guide the 'bus as soon as May has it in the air and I will tell them you are coming."
"Yes, Sir."
The van arrived first with the Interns, May, Hawkeye and their prisoner. They saw director Fury on the screen and the also saw the after effects of the explosives off Romanovs camera. May took the prisoner to the 'busses cell. Hawkeye took off his quiver and shut his bow down.
It was a short while later they saw Ward, Romanov and Skye leading their prisoners to the 'bus on foot. The team cheered. They had done it. The insane and crazy plan had worked. They had taken out the Covenant.
And no one died this time.
When the cargo doors were closed and the prisoners secured to it Ward took Skye in his arms and kissed her. They looked up just in time to see Romanov stride up to Hawkeye, put her hand on the back of his head and pull him into a kiss.
"Hmhm" They all heard a cough from behind them. They had completely forgotten about Fury on the monitor. He had just witnessed everything.
"Hit the showers" He told the team, noticing how dirty and singed they all were.
"Sounds like a plan" Ward said, sly smile on his face.
Ward, Skye, Romanov, Hawkeye and May all raced off for a shower. Reality suddenly dawning on Fury.
"Coulson, there are only three showers. There's five of them."
"We're a close team." Was all Coulson could say to him.
The interns, Fitz and Simmons just laughed.