Light Up My Life

Part 1 : The Expected And Unexpected Returns

Spoilers: All Marvel Movies and Episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. until S02E06

Disclaimer: I own nothing at all

*Author's Note*

This story is set after the episode of "A Fractured House". Some of the events that happened on the show after this episode will also take place in my universe but not all. My story will also be linked to the movie - Avengers: Age of Ultron but I will also tweak the movie's story line so beware of any possible spoilers.

I planned to update this story once a week and most likely to be during the weekends and please take note that I am a Asian, although English is my main language but my grammar is not my greatest strength. Do forgive me for my English.

I will be dividing my story into different parts. This will be the first part where Skye is looking for Ward. Each part will have a rough of 5 chapters each.

I have only came up the story of the first three parts so I can assure you that this story will have at least 20 chapter.

Alright I'll stop talking and let you get to the story... Happy reading...

CHAPTER ONE

It was been two years since Ward escaped from S.H.I.E.L.D custody. I still could not forget what he said to me the day before he was being transported to his brother. I know deep down in my heart, I still love him, but I just could not bring myself to admit it because of the things he did to the Team. Why do I have to fell for him? Why is it that it always hurts so badly when I thought of him? Why can't I try to forget about him?

An eye drop dripped onto her diary as Skye wrote her usual input in her bunk on the bus. Skye lifted a hand to wipe off her tears only to create a freeway exit for more tears to escape. She knew she need to buckle up as she and her team will be infiltrating another Hydra bass and this isn't the time to sob over the guy that brought great unhappiness to everyone on the team.

"Landing in ten minutes." May's voice poured throughout the aircraft through the intercommunication system.

Skye quickly tucked her diary under her pillow and hoped off her bed and walked towards the bathroom to wash her face before she made her way down to the hangar to gear up.

"… We have located a total of ten agents stationed at this base and…"

"… We have to be in and take out all the agents within 2 minutes if not they will activate the self-destruct and we will not be able to retrieve all the weapons they have taken from the Fridge. This is one of the last few bases they have left and I want this place to be clean by the time we take off."

"And not to mention, their computer system. There should be lots of dirt stored in there." Skye added as she entered the room ten minutes later, while FitzSimmons was having a briefing with Coulson and a few other S.H.I.E.L.D agents.

"What took you so long? You were supposed to be down here ten minutes ago helping Fitz do a scan around the perimeter." Coulson turned to the young Asian mixed brunette as he voiced out his accusations.

Skye shrugged at the old man and explained, "Sorry. I was doing some test run in my bunk and I forgot the time."

Coulson eyed the young Asian mixed brunette before turning to the other agents in the room, "Alright, May and I will lead a team of agents through the exit on the South and Skye, and you'll enter the base through the main exit on the North five minutes later with the rest. FitzSimmons will keep in touch with us through our comms, any questions?"

"No, Director Coulson." Everyone except Skye and FitzSimmons replied.

"Coast is clear." Coulson announced through his comms. "Skye, what about you? Any sign of any Hydra agents?"

Coulson and May have lead a team through the back entrance of the South hoping to avoid any attention and at the same time, to clear off any mess in the base, but they have entered the base for more than ten minutes and found nothing but empty rooms and empty hallways.

"Skye?" Coulson frowned as he called out for Skye again after not getting any responses for two minutes.

"Um…" Skye voice filled the comms not long after, with a tone full of doubt and uncertain. "Yeah, DC. I found something. You… might want to see this yourself."

"Where are you, Skye?" May spoke up immediately, worrying that Skye may have caught herself in a dangerous situation.

"I'm still at the main entrance." Skye replied and this time, she sounded much normal.

Less than a minute later, Coulson and May, along with the agents, arrived in the front room and immediately, were all stunned by what they saw.

Five Hydra agents were tied up and knocked unconscious next to a few opened boxes of weapon with some of the stole S.H.I.E.L.D tech and the weapon which was once stored in the Fridge.

"What the hell just happened in here?" Coulson voiced his doubts after a good look around the room and realized that there was not much traces of fighting in sight.

"We have no idea what just happened too." Skye turned to the Director, "The moment we entered the room, all we saw were this."

"Base 812, Aircraft 801 calling for landing in ninety seconds. Repeat, Aircraft 801 calling for landing in ninety seconds."

Just then, a voice emerged from the speakers of the computers which were all laid on the table by the fair corner of the room.

"No matter what happened, its best we remove everything here before Hydra realized this base is down. This is definitely not the time to go face to face with them." May interrupted.

"May is right. Bring them on board." Skye nodded her head at the Director, "We will have plenty of time getting Intel on Hydra and the people who did this after we're up in the air."

Coulson eyed Skye and May for a second before he turned to give the other agents a look. The other agents silently moved forward and moved all the weapon and Hydra agents out the base while Skye walked towards the computer and pull out all the data from their mainframe. Less than two minutes, the two SUV with S.H.I.E.L.D logo, which were parked outside the base, disappeared as though they were not there at all, leaving only traces of tire marks.

"You better talk or I will make sure you will regret keeping all your little secrets, mate." Hunter said calmly with a straight face. "If I am not convincing enough, Agent May will be more than glad to convince you for me."

Two hours later, the team has returned to the new Triskelion, located in a classified location. One by one, the Hydra agents woke up and within minutes were brought face to face with May and Hunter or Triplett and Morse.

"I really have no idea who attacked us." One of the five handcuffed Hydra half-shouted for the tenth time. "There was a smoke bomb thrown into the room and within seconds I was out. Please do not hurt me."

May, who was standing in a dark corner, stared at the Hydra agent for a minute before she left the room with Hunter close behind.

"Bloody hell! This is the fifth time, I've heard the exact bloody story. How could anyone take down five Hydra agents when they were all stationed five different locations in the base?" Hunter grumbled as he met with Coulson, Skye and FitzSimmons.

"Not to mention, one of the guys we brought in has the title 'The Assassin' in Hydra." Morse added as she joined in with Triplett beside her. "This is very unlikely of Hydra to do this to their own agents. They might be sick, but not insane."

"Were you able to learn anything on the hard disk we brought back?" Coulson turned to Skye.

"Yes, DC. I have run through their files when we were on the Bus and base on the information I found, the base we just infiltrate was their sub-headquarters. I managed to decrypt the data and found that they have recently changed their frequency for mission alerts. Apparently, Bakshi found a mole in this base and planned to wipe out everything in this base by sunset. We were lucky that we managed to remove everything that was in the base before they clean out everything." Skye informed her findings.

"Were you able to decrypt any other details out of the data?"

Skye shook her head at the Director before she continued, "Not at the moment, DC. I found a detonating bomb in their mainframe that will wipe out everything in their computer out of existence in less than 24 hours. I've only got so far before the disk got fried, but don't worry, I've managed to duplicate the data out of their hard disk before it was deleted onto another hard disk."

"Good. Continue to work on that, Skye." Coulson commented before he turned to the British Scientist and Scottish Engineer. "FitzSimmons, I want a full agenda of the items we brought in by the end of the day…"

"Shouldn't we try to locate the people who arrived before us? I mean what if they have taken something important from the base?" Triplett interrupted as he turned to the Director.

FitzSimmons shared a look before Simmons turned around to the others and smiled, "That is very unlikely, Triplett. Fitz and I have checked through all the weapons that were brought back and we found quite a handful of level 8 weapons in the crates. I'm sure whoever that was at the base, did not take anything."

"You sure this is something we should be happy about? I mean the five Hydra agents, we brought back all said that they were not able to see anything. I don't know about you, love, but I find this very alarming." Hunter quirked an eyebrow at the young British Scientist.

"Guys, chill. If they were the bad guys, we will not be able to bring back the Hydra agents, be it the weapon that have been taken from S.H.I.E.L.D two years ago it or the Hydra agents." Mack wrapped an arm around Hunter and Triplett as he spoke.

"Team, we will need to locate whoever managed to beat us at the Base. I need to know if they are allies or enemies." Coulson eyed Skye and FitzSimmons before he disappeared around the corner.

There is something wrong with this mission. I swear everything that happened during that mission was as though it happened before in the past.

Could it be? After two years, he finally appeared again?

Skye knew that there is no point in guessing, she needed hard evidence so she silently backed away from her teammates and headed for the lab to grab the stuff they found at the Hydra base before returning back to her living quarters.

Skye started decrypting the hard disk she brought back with all the data she have gotten from the computer back at the Hydra Bass.

There has got to be some evidence left at the base. I just need to find it. Focus! Skye, focus! What am I missing? What am I forgetting?

She tried to dig deeper and deeper. After every five minutes, she will always be caught up in a dead end, but she did not give up, she would try another way.

"Ding!"

Finally, after digging for the whole afternoon, a sound surfaced from Skye's laptop.

"Bingo!" Skye exclaimed as she threw her fist into the air.

An hour later, a knock was heard on the door of Coulson's office.

"Come in." Coulson voices surfaced not long after.

"Director Coulson." Billy Koenig opened the door and greeted the director.

"An O84 have been located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Traces of Hydra signal have also been found over the Pacific Ocean." Billy Koenig informed before Coulson could say anything.

"Send in Team Beta, stat." Coulson ordered and immediately, Bill Koenig nodded his head at the Director in reply before he closed the door to get Hunter, Morse, Triplett, Izzy and Mack.

"I'll get FitzSimmons to help run parameters around the area through satellites." May, who was also in the room with Coulson, suggested as she stood up and headed for the door.

"I'll be right over." Coulson added as he started to put away the documents and files laid on his table.

"Phil. This conversation will continue later." May informed Coulson before she walked out of the office.

"Man, you sure know how to move your way around people." A dark-chocolate skinned man, who was sitting on an old couch in an old house in the countryside of Texas, teased as he opened a can of beer.

They have returned back to their home an hour ago and have freshened up before they sat down to rest in their living room.

"What can I say? I have a gift with people." Another white man walked towards him with snacks and peanuts in a bowl. He laid the bowl onto the table in front of the couch before turning around to get the other food from the kitchen.

"The match is starting." The man who was sitting on the couch announced as he put his beer down on the table. He then started cleaning the blades and gun placed by his right foot. "Who are you up for tonight? I'll bet you."

"I say Germany." The white man, who was preparing ox tail stew in the kitchen, gave it a little thought before he replied. "If I win this time, I'll decide which mission to go on next time. Deal?"

The man on the couch quirked an eyebrow at the man behind the counters, "Oh! You are so on. You are so going down. I'm going to choose Spain anyways."

The other man walked out of the open kitchen with the rest of their dinner chuckled as he sat beside his best friend in front of their television to watch the ball game tonight as though nothing happened before, including their interruption at the Hydra Base.

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~ xoxo, Bella