G`day ladies and gentlemen unfortunately due to the increase in my uni workload and the damnable plot fairies as of this moment I am announcing my intent to place my stories up for adoption if you wish to do so please contact me and we can discuss it be aware there will be certain conditions to anyone adopting the stories but im sure we can come to an arrangement. In the event that someone does not want to adopt these I will very ocassionally post new chapters whenever the plot fairies and my schedule allow thanks
-mmjohns
And on with the story
Chapter 2: Meeting Skye and Averting Disaster
The Bus touches down at a classified SHIELD airfield just outside of LA, the wheels have barely touched Tarmac when Coulson started walking down the ramp with Ward in tow, moments later May and Fitzsimmons also start getting ready to depart, apparently because May whilst cleared for combat has only been assigned to liaise ground transportation and because Ward was going with Coulson I was supposed to go with May to guard Fitzsimmons. The next few hours were interesting to say the least we managed to find a secret centipede lab and locate a busted security camera and whilst I couldn't see anyone I definitely got the feeling that we were being watched when I told May as much she hustled FitzSimmons out to the car whilst I followed making sure that no one could get any sort of shot at them.
When we arrive back at the Bus we find Coulson in the middle of yelling at Ward, something about Ward deliberately blowing an interrogation, quickly I manage to interject before things get too out of hand managing to convince Coulson to let me talk to Skye first before he sticks Ward with any truth serum, I walk into the room to find her sitting cuffed at the desk and by the looks of it she isn't overly happy. I walk over to her and remove the cuffs before sitting down on the bed whilst she watches me quietly, after a few moments her curiousity seems to win out as she asks "who are you another of SHIELDS lapdogs?"
"actually not as much as you might think" then beckoning her over I say" you want to know something really cool?"
Hesitantly she walks over and sits beside me then making sure no one can read my lips and I'm not loud enough to be picked up by the mikes I say "what I'm about to tell you can go no further alright" then getting a nod from her I say" actually Skye, I'm not even from earth, I'm Asgardian, I was sent here to protect a team of people these people yourself among them, together you hold the fate of this world in your hands, but only if you learn to trust one another"
She scoffs as she looks at me and says "yeah right, as if I'll ever trust SHIELD"
"I can prove it, besides, you don't need to trust SHIELD, just Coulson" then taking care not to let the cameras see what I'm about to do I reach out and let a little of my magic flow out into the palm of my hand causing a small blue glow to form
Shock appears on Skye's face as she looks at the glowing ball in my hands as she exclaims "holy shit, you weren't kidding, what exactly are you?"
"As I said I am asguardian but I am the last of an ancient race of Asguardian warrior, sworn to protect the 9 realms from threats to the very fabric of reality, as you can see I have abilities, it is from my people whom all asguardian abilities originate. I was sent here to avert disaster, and that starts with you trusting Coulson"
She looks at me curious a moment before she asks indicating to the magic in my hand "this may seem kinda strange but can I touch it"
"Sure it won't hurt you" no sooner has she placed a finger upon the magic in my hands do a small series of runes appear across the tips of her fingers glowing a deep Viridian colour…
To say this surprises me would be the understatement of the century and Skye seems to be freaking out as well, quickly recovering I say "well this explains a lot, apparently Heimdall likes to play matchmaker"
"What?" Skye exclaims shocked
"What you see on your fingers is the Einherjar equivalent of the human Soulmark, they were extremely rare amongst our people only appearing when 2 people were truly compatable, the colour of the mark indicates the type of relationship, Blue indicates a romantic bond, Black a warrior's bond, Red for mortal enemies and Green for friendship. It appears that we share a warrior's bond"
"What?"
"a warrior's bond is formed between warriors that will work truly well together, it forges a sort of neural link between the 2 like a symbiont, allowing them to share abilities, the deadliest warriors of my race were those with Soulbonds, they were nigh on impossible to kill, except by other bonded pairs"
"what, how is that possible, im Human, not Asguardian"
"the bond was not limited to asguardians though that was by far the majority, there were other species involved too, though they were far rarer, it is possible given the proclivities of some asguardians that you do have a small amount of asguardian blood"
Skye laughs as she asks "is that your way of saying that some asguardians slept around"
"yes, during my time there were quite a few half asguardian children"
The door slams open and Ward strides in saying "Ok play times over time for a professional to have a go"
"Actually Agent Ward, that won't be necessary, Skye has agreed to assist us of her own volition" I say shooting him a satisfied smirk
"Don't tell me that she has you believing her, seriously, she's a pseudo-anarchist hacker, you don't get them to help by just playing nice"
Then skye obviously annoyed at being talked about like shes not there says "actually T-1000 if you had asked nicely rather than kidnapping me and explained the situation properly without being a giant Douche I would have"
Gently pushing ward aside for the moment I lead skye into the command centre where Coulson is waiting we have barely stepped past the door before Ward yells out "Hey Fischer, come make yourself useful and spar with me" before waalking out to the ramp of the bus where there are sparing mats set up
I walk after him and as I am just about there agent may says with a small grin "I know he's an arrogant prick but try not to hurt him too badly we still need him"
"No Promises" I call over my shoulder as I walk onto the mats
There is barely any warning and had I not been a battle seasoned warrior with gifts there would have been no way for me to see it coming let alone evade as Ward came at me attacking without warning attempting for a spin kick at my head. Without conscious thought and running purely on ingrained instinct I drop to the floor sliding below his outstretched leg and coming up underneath him delivering a hard punch right between the legs dropping him to his knees, then without hesitation I use my foot to push him hard into the ground before placing my knee above his spine and my hand on his neck pinning him to the mat causing him to quickly tap out.
as I let him up he turns and yells "what the fuck was that"
"that Agent Ward was an ingrained response when someone attacks without warning you are very lucky that I realised that it was you and not an assailant else you would be dead or a quadriplegic by now"
"Yeah right, theres no way you would have won if you hadn't fought dirty" he says squaring up again
"care to test that theory" I ask dropping into a combat stance with a big grin on my face
Just as we`re about to start again Coulson`s voice comes over the PA system "Fischer Ward, stand down before someone gets hurt, and Agent Ward before you say anything its mainly you I'm worried about. I've seen Fischer`s skills and they were better than anything either Agent May or myself have ever seen, even better than Romanoff, if he wanted to hurt you there would be nothing anyone could do to stop him" then he pauses a moment before continuing Fischer, go see if Fitzsimmons need any help, Ward go take a shower or something"