I own nothing.
He couldn't believe it, Ward had started up Hydra again, so much for not being Hydra. He needed to do something, he needed...
"Billy."
"How are you Director? I'm surprised you're away from the lab, I just walked past there and saw May. She's awake."
Finally some good news.
"I'll go back in a minute, I need you to get Agent Weaver on the line. She needs to be updated."
"I'll have it done in five minutes."
"Good and Billy I'm going to need you to prepare the base in case of any emergencies. Make sure no one can access it without their lanyards."
"Will do sir."
They walked into his office and Billy got Agent Weaver on the screen in front of them before leaving to work on his other duties.
"Agent Weaver, I want you to put The Illaid on total lockdown. No one leaves without your approval and no one boards without it either."
"Is this because of Agent May? Did she finally wake up?"
"Yes and I have some troubling news: Hydra's back."
"What do you mean Hydra is back? We defeated them, you blew up your plane to defeat them."
"Don't remind me. Besides you know what they say about Hydra."
"Chop off one head and two more takes its place. Who is supposedly in charge of Hyrda now?"
"Ward."
"So let me get this straight." said Bobbi. " You found out about Hydra, spied on Hydra, beat up and then almost killed by them. This is what you call a good vacation."
"This one was more violent than the others but overall it wasn't that bad." answered May.
"You are unbelievable." muttered Hunter
"Not to be rude or anything but did you bring us back anything?" asked Skye
"Is that really where you priorities lie? May was almost killed and you're asking about presents." said Simmons attempting to examine May in order to see how her injuries have healed.
"They should be arriving any day now. Simmons, I'm fine. No need to poke me everywhere."
"I'm just checking your ribs. Fitz can you start up the x-ray machine. Someone help May up and bring her over please." said Simmons walking over to the machine with Fitz.
"So what's the verdict?" asked May after a round of tests were done.
"Your ribs are healing but I wouldn't recommend you do any field work for a couple of weeks. You can train though but try to take it easy. Remember you were just in a coma."
"I will. Thank you Simmons."
"You're welcome. Are you hungry? You haven't eaten all week let me get you something easy to eat."
Simmons came back a few minutes later and left May with some tomato soup, crackers, and water. A few spoons into her soup, she received a visitor.
"Glad you're awake." said Coulson walking into the room and taking a seat next to May's bed.
"Me too. Crackers?"
"Sure. You could have called you know."
"I know, next time I'll call. I promise."
"Good. I sent a team to the warehouse and it was clean. Found your car by the way."
"I completely forgot about that. It needs to be returned to the rental agency."
"A rental agency?" asked Coulson slightly chuckling.
"I was in a hurry, afraid the lead may go cold."
"Tell that to the minivan that's currently being driven back to the base."
"It was the only one that they had available."
"Whatever you say May. Whatever you say."
Meanwhile in an undisclosed location
"So tell me how she was able to escape?" asked Ward to the group of men in front him.
"Well she kicked you back, the gun went off, and the bullet cut the rope. Its all on the security feed that you showed us." said Jerry
"That was a rhetorical question. What I want to know is how I was the only one on base."
"Oh we went out for lunch."
"Lunch? Who told you to do that?"
"Is that another rhetorical question?"
"Never mind you idiot. Now I want you guys to gather as many friends as you can and any artillery that you can find. We're going to need them and if anyone goes off to lunch without my permission they'll get a bullet in their gut."
A week later.
She woke up covered in sweat. She had the dream, no, nightmare again. Ward didn't miss this time. She normally doesn't get nightmares after situations like this but being in a coma for about a week probably messed her up.
She got up from her bed and slowly put on her workout clothes. Simmons did say that she could exercise a little harder this week due to the fact that her ribs almost healed completely but she wasn't cleared for field work yet.
Once in the gym, she began her routine of stretching before gently moving on into her tai-chi forms.
"You going to join me or are you just going to watch." she said to the person who has been watching her for the past twenty minutes.
"Can you teach me how to do that? The whole knowing what's going on behind you trick." answered Skye walking into her line of sight.
"It's not a trick, it comes with experience and age."
"So I just have to wait some twenty five odd years before I become the all seeing eye."
"Maybe."
They continued with the routine in silence before they started to spar. The longer the sparring went on, the faster the movement between the two of them became.
"Your form is off. Have you sparred with anyone while I was gone."
"Not really and my form isn't that off." said Skye before she landed on her back.
"It's a little off."
They cooled off soon after and later on they joined the others for breakfast. She was about to head off to the showers when Coulson ran into the kitchen holding a tablet. He was worried.
"Where's your Mom?" he asked
"What? Why?"
"Just answer the question please."
"I don't know. She's taken to traveling during this time of year."
"Is she safe?"
"Most likely. Why are you asking me these questions?"
He doesn't respond but instead handed her the tablet and played a video on it. It was Ward.
Hello my favorite SHIELD agents, I hope you enjoyed my present. Did she get to you in time? I sure hope she did because I'm not done with her yet. May, do you know what I found while I was digging through old Hydra files? A photo of a Lian May attending a funeral of one Joseph Ping May and I thought that last name seemed familiar. So after further digging I learned about your parents. Did she tell you that Hydra killed you're father? I imagine not considering you were ten at the time. So young to lose a father, what a tragedy. Now if you don't want to lose another parent to Hydra, you'll turn yourself over to me in the next seventy-two hours.
Thanks for reading. I want to thank beanie0700 for giving me the idea to continue Lesson 1 from How not to enjoy your vacation. If you have any idea on what gifts May bought for the team leave a comment.