Chapter 48

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Simmons, Fitz, Skye, and I are in our room. I am laying on the bed, next to Skye, "Eye witnesses claim the assailant smashed through several walls before killing Colombia's most notorious drug lord, Alejandro Castillo, aka El Dogo. Speculation continues as to whether this superhuman assassination was carried out by a man, monster, or machine" The newscaster says as Deathlok pops up on screen

Fitz turns the tv off, "The correct answer is D, all of the above" He turns towards us, "What the hell is Deathlok doing in Bogota?" Fitz asks

"And why would he kill a drug lord with known ties to Hydra?" Simmons asks

"I mean, Garrett's in charge, and he's batshit crazy so who knows" They all look at me, "What, like I'm wrong?" I tell them

Simmons nods her head, while Skye smirks, "Fair point" Fitz says

"Well, if they really are in Colombia, then Garrett and our hijacked plane might not be in American airspace. I have to expand our search" Skye says

Then there's a knock and we see Coulson in the doorway, "Guys, you wanna come in here for a minute?" He asks us

We walk into their room to see a paper on a stand with a circle chart. We sit on the beds opposite of them, "This is just about everything we've been dealing with. And this..." He writes Cybertek in the middle circle, "...connects them all. Cybertek built Deathlok, shipped items to Quinn, who was working for the Clairvoyant, who turned out to be Garrett, who planted Ward on our bus, because he wanted to know why I didn't stay dead" He connects the circles, "Should've drawn another chart for this part" Coulson explains
"No, I get it. Garret's been developing Centipede serum all this time" Fitz says

"Yes" Coulson says
"And he wants GH-325 as its final ingredient. A way to stabilize and regenerate his Centipede soldiers" Simmons says

"And it's why Ward came back for the hard drive. It had all of your research about Coulson and Skye. It's all on there" May says

"But that's not the only thing on there. Skye left them a little surprise" Coulson says

"A Trojan horse. It's been slowly mapping every system they've uploaded it to" Skye says
"Well, that's brilliant" Simmons says as Fitz says, "A Trojan horse. You can wake ut up and take over their systems"

"Well done, Skye" Simmons says

"Yeah. Thanks. Except, it doesn't work that way because I didn't have enough time to build it, so we need to plug this" She pulls our a flash drive, "into one of their computers to activate it. Spider alert, we can't seem to find one" Skye says

"I think we have. Garrett and Cybertek have been working together for years. If it's on Garrett's system..." May says

"It's on Cybertek's" Skye says

"Which is why we're gonna go into one of their offices" May says

"We have no authority to do this. We're no longer SHIELD agents, we're..." Coulson says

"We're vigilantes" Fitz says

"I was gonna say, doing this because it's the right thing to do, but, yeah. So, if you're with me, I'm gonna finish what I started. I'll be dammed if I'm gonna let Garrett and Ward et away with murder. And I want my plane back" Coulson says

[Outside]

Fitz, Skye, and I are sitting on the chairs by the pool when Coulson walks over, "Okay, we'll see you this afternoon" He ends the call, "We're on with the R&D department up at Cybertek's Palo Alto offices" Coulson says

Fitz sighs, "It'll be okay, Fitz. No matter how deep they dig, they'll only find the new identities I've created" Skye tells him

"It's not that. It's the idea of giving them access to all of our designs" Fitz says

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