Chapter 1
"Skye, Mack, Lincoln, can you three come with me to my office? We've found another Inhuman."
Skye could not even begin to express how much she loathed that sentence if she was given fifty years in which to express her loathing.
The first time she heard it, it was a little bit exciting and scary, but in a nervous, oh-God-I-hope-I-don't-screw-this-up sort of way.
Now though... Now it's just a million different kinds of horrifying.
Whenever a new Inhuman popped up there seemed to be a massive trail of destruction in their wake. Often there are other people, police, different government agencies, sometimes well meaning citizens who were trying to face the recently powered person. It had yet to end well for any of them.
So far, every time Coulson had called them into his office to formulate a way to retrieve the new Inhuman, there are already people hurt and news crews reporting the situation.
Skye hates it. Hates watching the person stumble around in front of the cameras, destruction spreading around them like wildfire, pleading and begging for help, but no one being able to get close without being hurt.
She is eternally grateful for Lincoln. If he wasn't there to help, she isn't sure she would have the courage to help the new Inhuman's. She thinks about being the only Inhuman on the team, the only one who knows how the transition feels, it's too scary to contemplate for long.
Heaving herself to her feet with a quiet sigh, she forces herself to push the negative thoughts away and concentrate on helping the new inhuman and reducing casualties.
"What have you got for us this time Coulson?" Lincoln asks the moment the are all in the office and the door is firmly closed.
In reply Coulson presses a button on his computer, and the screen on his wall switches from blueprints of Lola's engines to a news station, twitter feeds and a couple youtube videos all showing the same thing. A young man is running down the street, his arms windmilling a wordless scream coming from his mouth while a giant thing chases him. Coulson pauses one of the clearer videos for a moment so that they can see the creature a bit better. It is huge, with glowing blue eyes, fangs, claws and is covered in black fur.
"What the heck is that?" Skye gasps. They've rescued half a dozen other Inhumans, but none of them have looked like that. She looks over at Lincoln to see if this sort of physical transformation is normal.
Based on the wide eyed and jaw dropped expression on his face she's thinking that it's not.
"Are you sure that's an Inhuman and not an alien?" Skye asks, stepping closer to the screen.
Coulson rewinds one of the videos, which shows a girl doing the splits while being cheered on by her friend behind the camera. In the background a man walks by, the man is holding onto the arms of the young man who had been being chased in the other video. Suddenly the boy jerks out of his grasp, punches him hard in the face and starts screaming bloody murder, kicks him in the groin, and the turns and runs.
The man had fallen to his knees, the girl who is holding the camera approaches him, asking if he is alright when the man snarls, his eyes turning an electric blue. He swipes a clawed hand across his face then pushes himself forward and starts to change. Fur ripples across his body like a wave while his muscles double in size, his face morphs as well, changing to look more like some deformed wolf's head. He snarls again and take off running after the boy.
"Well, that is absolutely horrifying but it doesn't answer the question if he's an alien or not. I can list a couple aliens that I know of that look like humans. Like, oh yeah THOR. Oh and Lady Sif. Oh and-"
"Okay Skye." Coulson interrupts. "I haven't ruled out alien quite yet."
"Looks more like something from a horror movie if you ask me sir." Mack rumbled softly, crossing his arms over his chest.
"I know! Look at those claws!" Skye gasped gesticulating at the thing on the screen.
"No." Mack said, shaking his head and pulling his arms tighter around himself "I meant, it looks like a werewolf."