𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙎.𝙃.𝙄.𝙀.𝙇.𝘿. - 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘏𝘪𝘭𝘭'𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚.𝘏.𝘐.𝘌.𝘓.𝘋.

𝙀𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩. 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘙𝘶𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴

CHAPTER EIGHT
Diamonds, Rubies, Saphires

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DAYS WENT BY AS USUAL WITH COULSON BACK AS THE TEAM LEADER. The team's last mission had been back at the Science and Technology Academy, which Skye had enjoyed seeing very much, but to all of their dismay, Ian Quinn had been behind the investigation.

He'd gotten two students wrapped around his finger, bribing them with empty promises in return for them creating a large snow storm with the Cybertek device. The team was able to stop it, but they had all came back startled.

Currently, Andrea, May and Ward were walking through a self storage warehouse, each with their guns held up infront of them in different coridoors.

"The heat signatures say he's at that right turn from you, Ward." Fitz filled the three of the field agents' ears as he read the information from his laptop while sat in the back of the van alongside Skye and Simmons with Coulson at the front.

"On it." Ward nodded as he neared the corner. As he was getting ready to turn it, his gun was snatched from his hands. He acted quickly and grabbed the target's hands and pulled him forward towards him until his head was low enough for his knee to strike.

The target, Liam English, a notorious seller, stumbled back, holding his nose with his hands, while still holding Ward's gun.

Ward noticed the satin pouch poking out of his pocket and went to grab it, but English seemed to be quicker than him because he grabbed it out of his pocket and bolted the other way before Ward could stop him.

The agent began to run after him, but he'd already turned a corner. "Andrea, he's approaching you." Ward warned the girl.

She turned around at the sound of echoing footsteps coming towards her. They got louder as English turned the corner she was at. She caught him by suprise by tripping him up, but as he fell, he turned to land on his back and he pulled out a pocket knife and cut her thigh with it.

"Fuck." She groaned as he stood up and began to run away. She shook her head and bit her lip in an attempt to take her mind off the pain radiating through her thigh. It wasn't a deep cut, but it still hurt. She wasn't going to let him escape though.

Andrea sprinted as fast as she could after English, but he was too far ahead. "May." She called after the woman through their comms system, slowing down her pace.

One of the roller shutters opened up behind English and he was pulled inside the empty storage space. May threw him against a wall by his shoulders, but didn't manage to grab the pouch from the pocket of his jeans because he's turned around and punched her square in the nose.

May cracked her neck and threw a punch at English's stomach. Mid roundhouse kick to his body, he caught her leg and tripped her onto the floor.

"Tell S.H.I.E.L.D., It was nice to do buisness with them again." Liam told May as she picked herself up off the ground, bur he'd already gone too far for her to track him down by the time she'd gotten out into the coridoors.

"Fitz?" She asked.

"He's gone."

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The team had come together around the holocom as they always did to discuss missions. Jemma had cleaned up Andrea's cut and placed closure strips on it before they'd come upstairs to the breifing room.

"Liam English," Coulson changed the picture on the montor to his. He was a blonde man with blue eyes and a muscular fit. He seemed nice until you came face to face with him and he used your own fighting skills against you. "our seller. He has the 084 we're investigating."