"I knew I should have left May with them" Coulson thought as they tried to get in touch with Simmons, Fitz or one of the interns. Then Simmons voice came through loud and clear and he felt a sigh of relief.
"We're alright, Sir. We just had a run in with another alligator." She explained.
"As long as you're alright!" He said.
"We're fine. Just a little shaken. I think that might just be the first time the interns have had to fire their guns outside of the academy!" Fitz told them.
Knowing that the rest of the team were safe Coulson and his team carried on. They located the door with no handle and applied another universal lock. It quickly blew and they realised that they were now on their own. Looking out of the door they were in the middle of a corridor. Coulson and Romanov headed one way, Hawkeye and May the other.
Hawkeye and May headed down the corridor, trying every door they passed. They were all empty. They got to a room at the end of the corridor, and when they went in they saw they were in some kind of office.
On the 'bus they had forced Ward back into his hospital bed when his blood pressure dropped a little more. Hollie was sat with Skye asking questions about life on the bus.
"It must be difficult to form close relationships if you spend your life on an aeroplane?" She asked.
"You get to know the people you live with very well. You learn their routines, bad habits as well as personal flaws."
"That isn't what I meant. I meant love lives."
"I know, I was trying to buy some time. Personal relationships are complicated."
"Complicated. Hmm. You're wearing a wedding band. How does your husband feel about you living on a plane with these other people?"
Skye let out a laugh, before she heard May's voice calling her over the microphone.
"Cavalry to base command, cavalry to base command."
"I'm married to Agent Ward" Skye told Hollie as she flipped the switch to talk to May.
"What can I do for you May?" Skye continued.
"Can you see these computers?"
"I can. You need me to hack them?"
"The thought had crossed my mind."
"I will get on that for you."
"We're going to follow Coulson."
"Copy that."
Skye saw the video feed of May linger on the computer long enough for her to start the hack, then she turned and followed Hawkeye out of the door.
She started tapping away at her laptop and found her way into the computer's system.
"Everything alright Hollie?" She asked, not taking her eyes off the screen.
"Yeah. I'm just waiting to start our chat again!"
"I can type and talk at the same time."
"You did say personal relationships were complicated. I didn't realise they were that complicated!"
"Me and Ward aren't complicated, the Director gave us the ok to be together, but there are rules we have to follow. Fitz and Simmons and the way May feels about Coulson are complicated. Nat and Hawkeye too."
"Intimate relationships aren't allowed?"
"No, but Nat and Hawkeye were made for each other, and she did kiss him in front of the Director, so I guess he kinda knows about that, Fitz loves Simmons but she doesn't love him back, May loves Coulson and we thought she would never admit it to him, which she did yesterday morning."
"That's what you mean when you said it was complicated?"
"Yup!"
Romanov and Coulson had taken the opposite path to Hawkeye and May. They too tried every door they passed and found nothing. They suddenly heard movement from ahead of them and ducked into one of the vacant rooms.
From their vantage point they saw six men carrying six unconscious bodies down the corridor towards the room they had come from. Silently Romanov crept from the room and before they knew what was going on the men were all unconscious too. Between Romanov and Coulson they dragged the men into one of the rooms they found which also had no handle on the inside, and then dragged their victims into the room they had come from. This is where May and Hawkeye caught up with them.
After leaving a note to stay put with the victims all four made it down the corridor. They got to the door they had seen the men come out of. It led straight into the 'alternate' track of the ghost train.
"Assault team this is base command, do you read me?" They heard Skye over the comms.
"This is assault team, we read you. What's up Skye?" Coulson replied
"I've managed to pull up the schematic of the ride, including the psycho extras."
"We need to plan our next moves."
"Where are you guys?"
"End of the tracks on the 'alternate' route."
"With your back to the wall, facing the track there should be a boulder looking thing to the left."
Coulson looked at Romanov, who cautiously walked out onto the track.
"I'm there." She said.
"Do you see the boulder?"
"Yes."
"In it appears to be the controls for the entire operation." Skye told her. Coulson, May and Hawkeye looked at each other. Romanov, however was more interested in the boulder.
"It's just a boulder Skye."
"It's got a pressy in thingy to remove the cover job."
"A what?"
May, knowing Skye a little better than Romanov, and therefore understood her own special slang language a little better, and having experienced the same mechanism before walked over to the boulder and ran her hands over it. When she found the right point she pressed into the boulder and it gave way, opening to reveal a rather complex panel of switches and wires.
"Skye? Can you see this?"
"I can. There are a couple of ways to beat this. Pulling out the wires..." Romanov pulled the wires before Skye finished talking.
"Is not one of them and will set off a tamper alarm." Skye finished as an alarm started wailing.
"You have a thirty second window before they all come running." Skye told them as the four found adequate cover.