A Miracle Starts With a Beat of a Heart

Chapter 28

The team was met with a very bumpy ride as Zephyr One jumped. They were all rocked back and forth as they ran from the cargo hold to the cockpit. Everyone hung on to the monitors while also trying to gain control of the aircraft.

Luckily, they were able to land the Zephyr without crashing harshly, but they learned that the next time they jumped, they should probably already be in the air by then.

Once they were fully landed, they worked on which systems needed to be running. "Cloaking engaged," Daisy announced.

"I'll run a systems check," Deke added.

"Everyone okay?" Mack asked.

"Not everyone made the flight," Coulson responded.

"Enoch," Jemma stated, the realization of the events that just transpired finally getting to her. "We left him."

"At least he has time to spare."

"Where did we jump to?" Elena asked.

Mack looked out the cockpit window. It was night time, making the outside dark, so it was quite difficult to tell exactly. "The desert?"

"Which desert? Where are we?"

"Why aren't we home?" Daisy asked.

"GPS isn't working," Deke said, looking at the monitor in front of him. "I'm gonna try and find a typographical match."

Jemma picked up a radio device that had fallen on the floor during the jump. She twisted the dial as they were met with radio static. There were a few voices, but they were decipherable behind the static. Jemma continued to twist the dial, scanning for channels, until a man's voice came over the radio over some old-timey music.

"There it is! And we hear you want more Perry Como. We've got him up next!"

"Please tell me that's an oldies station," Elena pleaded.

The man's voice came back over the radio. "But first, a word from our sponsors at Conway Auto. They've got the brand new '55 Thunderbird! Stop by and take the world by storm."

The team all groaned, now knowing for a fact, they weren't home. They weren't even back in their time period yet. "'55?" Daisy questioned. "As in our giant spaceship just appeared in the sky '55?"

"Let's just hope we didn't attract too much attention," Mack added.

After looking at the monitors of the surroundings, Coulson turned back around to the team. "Well, about that. I may actually have some good news. We're just north of Groom Lake, Nevada. Home of Area 51," Coulson announced. "Probably happens all the time."

Great. Just what they needed. More people thinking they're aliens. Well, at least this time, it sort of makes more sense.

It wasn't long before the sun began to rise. The team was still trying to come to terms with what just happened in 1931, and now they had to take on 1955. The team wanted answers and started grilling Jemma for them.

"Why did we jump?" Mack asked.

"As I've said before, I don't know. We jump when the chronicoms jump," Jemma replied. "It means we haven't completed our mission yet."

"Well, some of us still don't have a grasp of what the mission is," Mack said, turning to Daisy.

"I had a tough call to make," Daisy retorted back. "You were off radio, and we were out of time and had the father of Hydra right in front of us."

"I get the temptation, but shooting Freddy would've given the chronicoms exactly what they wanted. Our mission is to stop them. Is that clear?"

Daisy shifted in her spot. Did she know that what she wanted to do was wrong? Yes, she did. However, that didn't stop her from wanting to end future suffering for people. "Clear, Director."