Three days later Ward and Skye rejoined the team. Fury had given them special permission to extend their leave for a honeymoon, so they spent it in Paris.
They were heading out to Angola where objects had been reported as moving of their own accord.
The team were gathered in the lounge eating their breakfast while Coulson outlined their mission.
"The main priority is to find out what's causing this. If it's a 0-8-4 we will need to assess how dangerous it is. If it's a person we will have to add them to threat watch and monitor them."
Coulson looked from one member of his team to another. He saw that Ward and Skye were completely relaxed, which wasn't surprising, but May was eyeing them up suspiciously.
He dismissed them all, except May and they went their separate ways. Ward and Skye retired into their bunk, Fitz-Simmons went to the lab to check the Dwarves were working properly and the Interns left for a workout.
"What's going on?" Coulson asked May.
"Nothing."
"That is why you were looking at Ward suspiciously?"
"I'm waiting for payback for that bath soak. They aren't going to let me and Amber get away with that for long."
"Well you did prank the prankster. What else did you expect?" Coulson warned her, conveying a tone that she should just accept her punishment.
In their bunk Skye was applying some cream to the stubborn area of redness that was still evident on the small of Ward's back. They heard May and Coulson talking and now knew who was responsible for the green skin.
"You can bet May was behind it, Amber just played along." Ward said to Skye in a hushed voice.
"How can you be so sure?" Skye asked.
"Amber wouldn't be stupid enough to do something like that on her own."
"True, whereas May has the balls."
"So what do we do?" Ward asked her. Whatever they do they have to be in it together seen as though the original prank was on both of them.
"Well, Amber could get what she gave?" Skye suggested.
"I have an idea for May." Ward said to her, that devious, dangerous gleam in his eye.
"Do you think that Ward and Skye will try something with us? I mean, we did kind of ruin their wedding night?" Amber asked Kain as she landed a roundhouse to his face.
"I think we all better watch our backs. They clearly know who was involved." Kain answered, rubbing his cheek.
"You weren't involved."
"And yet I'm worried I'll pay the price."
"I think that they will take it in the spirit it was intended and we will all be fine!"
"Yeah, right. You have met Ward!" Kain pointed out.
"I still can't believe that you didn't tell me any of it!" Simmons complained to Fitz as they recalibrated Sleepy.
"We would have told you but you are such a bad liar!" Fitz pointed out.
"I wouldn't have told. I could have helped!"
"And what would you have done?" Fitz asked with a chuckle.
"Well I could have..."
"Exactly." Fitz said, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek.
They arrived in Angola and arrived at the place where the reports had been made from. Immediately Fitz-Simmons unloaded the dwarves and sent them around the area to take samples of, well, everything.
They analysed the items that had been moved and realised there was a trail of electrically static charged particles leading in the same direction.
"Coulson. We may have something." Simmons called.
"What?"
"We have a trail. It's leading through that door!" Fitz told him, pointing down a partially obstructed alleyway.
Checking their weapons May and Ward headed down the alley, followed by Fitz-Simmons and the dwarves, Skye, Amber and Coulson. Kain was kicking over a corrugated steel sheet that had clearly been part of a roof at one point.
Before anyone realised what had happened a gate slammed shut behind Coulson, leaving Kain alone on the other side.
"Coulson?" He called.
"Kain? What happened?" Coulson asked, voice muffled.
"I don't know!" Kain rattled the gate but it wouldn't budge.
"Try and find something to open this gate with. We are going to go and find the source of this, well, whatever the hell it is we followed in here." Coulson told him.
"Great. Leave me here with the floating things!" Kain mumbled under his breath.