Chapter 2

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Everyone has secrets just some are bigger than others

Alora knows eavesdropping is not a good thing to do, but when they are talking about you it's really hard not to listen to the conversation. Now she was used to people talking about her, but hearing it from people you have to live with on an aircraft is kind of hurtful. 

Though right now they were talking about Skye, Alora didn’t really have an opinion on Skye yet seeing as she had never talked to her. 

“ We have two kids on this bus that are not cleared for combat, You’re adding a third” May said. 

“ At least Fitz-Simmons are trained Shield scientists, but Skye? You said this was a select team. Assembled to work new cases, to protect people, I don’t see how letting some hacker tag along-- “ Ward said before being cut off. So apparently they were not talking about her because they had forgotten she was a person on the team too. 

“I’m looking for an objection I haven’t already anticipated. I’m calling this, but your frown will be on record.” Coulson said before looking over to where Alora was attempting to go unnoticed. 

“You also are forgetting that Dr.Robin is apart of this team--” Coulson continued before being cut of by Ward and May

“Another mistake, she is even younger then Fitz-Simmons, and contributes nothing to the team that they can’t already do. I have read her file, she should be in Australia working in one of her labs” Ward said words practically dripping with distaste

“ There is no denying that that girl is smart but she should not be in the field. She is too young and is not ready for this responsibility” May said, partly agreeing with Ward. Alora didn’t want them to be right, but she knew they were.

“She has every right to be on this plane, I’m not going to lie. I didn't pick her for this team but Maria Hill did. Here's something that is not in her file Agent Ward, her S.O is Agent Hill. When was the last time Hill trained anyone? Dr. Alora Robin was her pick, every single division wanted her but Hill grabbed her before anyone else could. If I am being honest, her being here is a courtesy to us.” Coulson finished leaving a shocked Ward and an unreadable May. Alora mouthed a Thank you to Coulson before slipping away.

She started down toward the bunks where she had left her phone, Almost running into Skye in the process.

“Oh I am so sorry I didn’t see you, Skye right?” Alora said, holding out her hand.

“Yeah, I didn’t meet you last time” Skye said shaking her hand

“No you did not, because I am only to assist when necessary, Dr. Alora Robin” Robin said quoting May. 

“Wow that's a bit harsh” Skye said looking around 

“They think I am too young and the only am good for lab work, but if you ever need someone to talk to my bunk is the one furthest down.” Alora said with a smile before walking up there and grabbing her phone. As she was walking back Ward was there. She knocked right into him, waiting for his response. 

“What the hell Robin”

“Didn’t see you but now that I think of it, you would honestly make a great candidate for my labs back in Australia, maybe you should go there” Alora sarcastically while walking backwards, Skye giving her a thumbs up. 

Alora turns back around and walks down to the lab where Fitz-Simmons were packing equipment.

“ An 0-8-4, how exciting is that” Simmons said as she saw Alora walk in

“Very, I actually made this device that scans for any symbolism that could be there, even if we can not see it. I consulted with Dr. Jane Foster on the device to program all the symbols she knew into it.” 

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When the car stopped she got out and headed around back to grab her case. She was wearing green pants with a light green/blue jumper, and a pair of brown heels to match her belt. Her gun was safely tucked away under her sweater. 

She started walking up into the temple, setting her case on the ground and opening it. Alora turned it on and picked up her tablet making her device go up and start scanning the area. 

“Nothing seems out of the ordinary symbol wise so far” Alora said as she made it fly outside nearly missing Ward head.

“Sorry Ward, You might want to move out of the way, It is reading something” Robin said looking down at her tablet seeing what it was reading, It was a local badge. She goes wide-eyed for a second when multiple guns are trailed on her. 

Soon the guns were off of her, apparently Coulson knew their commander. Alora quickly made her way back inside of the temple. A few minutes later the temple started shaking.  Fitz started shouting causing Alora to turn around

“Ward, do not pull that out of the wall, we do not know anything about it!” Alora shouted as she started going out of the temple after Simmons.

“Robin don’t go out there they are shooting” Ward shouted at her as she tried to make her way out. Though she didn’t listen to him, she reached for her gun and turned the safety off. Took a second to see how many people were there. Alora aims for the one who is the closest to her, shooting him in the chest. She rolls to the ground dodging one of the bullets, Robin shoots another one from her knees. Getting up she feels something brush against her side. 

Alora quickly turns around and shoots the one who almost shot her. Next thing was Ward grabbing her arm and pulling her to the ground. May comes around with the car and everyone gets in. 

Everyone's arguing about the structure that Fitz currently has.

“I could roll down a window” Simmons says doing that exact thing

“No don’t roll down a window,” Alora said, taking her gun back out

“Whoa Whoa Whoa, why do you have a gun” Fitz says 

“For the aesthetic, no use your brain to shoot people with.” Alora said, putting her head down trying not to get shot. As the car got into the ramp she got out and got pushed off the ramp by Ward.

“Stay here” Ward said

“No” Alora said, running back to the ramp and shooting at the rebels coming toward them, She shot two of the ones shooting at them before running back as the ramp closed. 

“I got to say it. I miss my van” Skye said breathing in and out as Alora sat in the ground next to her.

“Now, what was the problem?” Ward asks ignoring Skye

“As I said before, This device has a high frequency, fluctuating sub-material compression--” Fitz started saying before Ward interrupted 

“ Fitz, in English” 

“ The 0-8-4 is fueled by tesseract technology. Hydra. World War ll. Captain America. It's full of lethal amounts of Gamma radiation”

“Gamma, You’re saying it's nuclear?”  Ward asked as a follow up

“No. He’s saying it's much much worse” Coulson answers. They all collectively took a step back or in Fitz and Alora’s case scooted back. 

At this moment Fitz went off with Ward and Simmons, Skye, and Alora went into the lab.  

“Robin is that thing stable” Skye asks as she puts it down on the table. 

“Well according to the reading yes it should but it's also not something we deal with often so anythings possible.” Alora answered letting Simmons take over. 

“Well that's reassuring” Skye said as Simmons went on talking until Fitz and Ward came in arguing. 

“Are you mental? I did explain it in great detail. Exactly what I meant using the Queen’s bloody English!” Fitz exclaimed coming over to the table  

“I use Normal English-- words like “duck” and “run” and “might blow us to pieces” Ward said going up next to Fitz. Alora rolled her eyes

“Oh. Oh well, congratulations Agent Ward. You managed to string three words together in a sentence” Fitz exclaimed Alora couldn’t stop the words that came flying out of her mouth and once she started she couldn't stop 

“Maybe if you were smarter you would know more than three bloody words, or just maybe give it a thought that you could actually learn from this experience because your people skills are absolutely horrible Agent Ward. That is literally the only reason I am here because of your lack of expertise in basic human interaction, believe it or not you don’t always have to punch your way out of things. “  After she stopped shouting she clapped her hand over her mouth. She hadn’t meant to say all of that, not that she didn’t mean what she said though. 

Everyone stayed quiet for a minute processing what she had just said. 

“What happens when you can't talk your way out of things? The sweet, pretty face girl act isn’t going to cut it” Ward said, now this just made her mad

“Well sometimes the sweet girl gets mad, really mad, and suddenly they don’t care what they say or what they do.” Alora said through gritted teeth. 

“Okay do you even know if this thing is stable?” He asks, completely ignoring what she said before. This caused him and FItz to get into it again. 

Alora walked over to the chair behind her and sat down not wanting to deal with this anymore. The yelling stopped when coulson walked in

“Do we have a problem in here?” 

“No, sir” Ward said before adding “ Just working on our communication. Not everyone was prepared for a firefight” Ward says as Alora just shakes her head. 

“We got out, didn’t lose anyone, saved a few of theirs -- I’d say we did alright. Anything else?” Coulson says no expression on his face, Skye raises her hand. Alora just decided to tune out the rest of the conversation putting her head down on the counter. That is until Ward started talking about non combat ready agents. That's when she started to slightly bang her head on the table.

“ Ward just shut your fucking mouth” Alora said before clapping her hand over her mouth again “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to say that but I am just over Ward being all hung up about non combat cleared agents. I can shoot a gun with almost perfect accuracy. I shot five rounds, and shot five guys. I am capable of doing things other then just assisting people because two agents don’t agree that I should be on a select team”  

“See them proving the point I just made” Skye said now next to Coulson 

“You’re not wrong. We still need to iron out the kinks. But, Ward, You can speak six languages. Simmons you have two PhDs in fields I can’t pronounce, Fitz you are a rocket scientist. Robin you had 9 degrees by the time you were 18 and are spoken very highly of by Maria Hill. So work it out” Coulson said, turning to walk out of the room. 

“ Now that wasn’t in your file” 

“Yeah I don’t like talking about my achievements so they just put the degree I liked the most” Alora said twisting her ring. 

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Alora and Fitz-Simmons were still in the lab. Looking at what the device they had on the plan could do. Which was a lot of damage. 

“-Fitz I’m not sure that would even work” Simmons said adding to the conversation her and Fitz were having about the current destruction device they have on the plane. Though something felt off. Alora looked from the corner of her eye, two people were walking in and they did not look happy. 

Alora looked at them to see no weapons, but there was a scalpel on the table. She made eye contact with one of them before lunging for it. All the other tools fell to the ground getting the attention of Fitz and Simmons. 

“What was tha-'' Simmons started but when she turned around, Alora had kicked the guy in front of her in the stomach, the guy behind her grabbed her arms and put the scalpel to her neck. 

They grabbed her gun and put it to her head, while the other guy took the scalpel to Fitz neck. The place where they had punched her was starting to bruise, while the place they had the scalpel on her was bleeding slightly. 

So that's how they ended up with their hands zip tied behind them. 

“This is my fault. I should have learned Kung fu” Fitz said randomly 

“Oh yeah I shouldn't have pushed you into the field in the first place. You weren’t ready” Simmons said Fitz taking offence to it. That's when everyone started talking over each other. 

“I should have stabbed him with the scalpel” Alora said everyone now turning their heads to her “What it's true. I had the scalpel but the second guy came up behind me and grabbed my arms, while the other one grabbed the scalpel and punched me, which I’m not happy about” 

“Well we need to get out of here, how do we do that?” Skye asks. This is where she decided to tune out the conversation.

“We can’t go through the doors, They’re bolted tied to the pressurization lines. You three geniuses have nothing?” May said

“Well it's hard to concentrate in these intense situations” Fitz said

“Hey, don’t freeze up, you don’t need to figure out the whole solution right now” Ward said 

“I have an idea but it could end in all of our deaths.” Alora said everyone looking at her like she had two heads 

“Ah what?” Skye asked slightly concerned.

“Well if we can get to the lab, Fitz can get one of the drones up to the 0-8-4 and set it off. This would make a hole in the side of the plane, therefore making the pressure drop releasing the doors and sending anyone near it into the sky and to their death.” Alora explained maneuvering her wrist out of the cuff. Looking at the soldier who was guarding them. Alora slipped out of the cuffs, keeping her hands behind her back She only tuned back in when she heard a crack. 

“Her wrist” Ward said 

“I have a much simpler way of getting these off us you know” Alora said making sure the guard wasn’t watching before pulling her hands out. “I have very tiny wrists,” Alora continued, putting her hand behind her back again. 

“You couldn’t have done that sooner?”  Ward asked 

“Well you all were too busy judging my plan and feeling sorry for yourselves” Alora said while May went up to the guard. As soon as the guard was on the ground Alora cut them free from the cargo door. 

Okay, we’re sure, Right? Everyone's sure? Skye says as everyone starts to agree.

“We’re all on board”Jemma says As everyone starts to say things an engine revs 

“You guys talk a lot,” May says before getting in the car. Ward pushes them all aside as May drives the car through the door. They all get to work. Alora goes with Fitz to start up the drone. Ward comes back in and puts a makeshift harness around the four of them (Skye, Alora, Simmons, and Fitz) connecting them all. 

“Okay it's now or never” Alora says to Fitz whose finger is hovering over the button.  Fitz says something to Jemma before pressing the button. 

“I'll handle the soldiers, you find the 0-8-4”

 From there it was complete chaos. It was hard to move in the area where the 0-8-4 was, it was also hard to hear. When Simmons found the 0-8-4, Skye had undid her part of the harness. 

“Skye what are you doing?” Alora shouts 

“Just trust me” Skye shouts back. That's when a soldier grabs Skye's harness pulling towards them. 

“Cut him loose,” Simmons said, before Fitz could undo the harness Alora reached into her back pocket and stabbed the guy in the hand with the scalpel she had grabbed from the lab. She then undid herself from the harness. 

The guy grabbed at her, she ducked and swept his legs from under him. She got up and scanned the room before she saw a beam that had fallen because of the 0-8-4. Alora jumped up right as the guy got up, and he swung her legs out. He fell back out of the plane. She gripped the beam tightly. She saw Ward flying backwards, and she made her hand stiff as a board and pushed it out slightly just as an inflatable raft the opening. 

Alora jumped down from the beam and sat on the floor catching her breath, making sure no one saw what she just did. 

After Skye helped Ward up and she walked over to the bar, Ward came over and helped her up. 

“Where did you learn that” He asked, she went wide eyed

“Learned what?” She asked

“To fight” 

“Oh one of my old friends taught me, so I thought I would give it a go” Alora said relieved that it wasn't about something else.

“You went to Sci-Tech right?” Ward asks her 

“Yeah why?” 

“If you didn’t go to Sci-tech would you have gone to communications?” Ward asks, Alora knows what he is getting at now.

“Yeah nah I would have gone to operations” She tells him 

“In your file it said that you had potential to be a combat agent, if you want to do that then I am open to being your S.O for that” 

“Am I hearing this right? You want to be my S.O for operations” Alora said on the brink of laughter.

“I said I was willing, you could be an asset” Ward said, clearly regretting his decision.

“What time do I start?”  Alora said, walking over to the bar. She actually needed to know that but whatever. 

After Fitz told them his assessment Alora said “ Good I want that thing off this plan as soon as possible”

As soon as they touched ground they got the 0-8-4 off of it as well as any remaining soldiers.  Her, Fitz, and Simmons also grabbed a cooler of beer and walked down to the cargo hold. Fitz and Simmons chatted about their new experience. When they sat down at the edge Alora handed May one as well as well as grabbed one for herself.  

“Robin, are you even old enough to drink that?” May teased.

“I’m 22 so yes” Alora said taking a sip of hers. 

“So who’s Idea was it to blow a whole in the side of the plane?” Coulson asked standing in front of them. 

“Well May said that the doors were tied to the pressurization so-” Skye started

“I thought if that if the-” Alora cut trying to tell him it was her idea

“We thought it was the only way to release them” Simmons added

“It was everyone idea, sir” Ward said 

“Yes, quite Genius really” Fitz imputed

“Nice work”

All Alora could think while everyone else was having fun was how lucky she was that no one saw the faint glow of blue and purple from the opening of the plane before the inflatable got there.