Smokey and the SHIELD agents
“Time check?” Scott asked.
“According to Fitz, we need another” Daisy said while checking the time “seven hours before the plane can jump again.”
“So do we take the risk of being caught and try snooping around another address or do we head back and wait it out with the others?”
“They could still be here.” Daisy said “ I say we look.”
“Okay then…” He started before slamming on the breaks.
“You know, this would be a lot easier with the Zephyr.” Scott said, standing where a road should have been.
“I guess we’ll just have to go the long way.” He continued, as they got back in.
“I feel like we passed that stump going the other way…” Daisy pointed out.
“We’re in a swamp, there’s a lot of stumps.” He said.
“No, I mean it looked like we passed it on the same side of the car… THERE IT IS AGAIN!”
Scott stopped again and the pair got out.
“I saw THIS stump twice now.”
“How can we be going in circles on a straight road… unless…” He pulled out his phone and commanded the car to drive forward. It wouldn’t budge.
“Someone’s trapped us here.”
“Very observant of you.” a familiar voice said.
Hydra Bobbi was sitting nearby.
“I wouldn’t have expected any less from you SHIELD types.” She said
The pair drew their guns.
“Where’s May and Iris!” Daisy demanded.
“OK… first of all, this is a hologram. You’d actually think I’d come to a place like this in person? It’s digusting. As for the two lovelies, they’re fine. They’re safe. It’s your own safty two of you should be worried about.”
She snapped her fingers and the car radio came to life.
“Attention all units, we’ve got reports of Sap smugglers traveling through the bayou. Be on the lookout for a tall Caucasian male, Light brown hair, green eyes, class T and a mixed Asian/Caucasian female, dark brown hair, brown eyes, class E.”
Bobbi put on an evil smile “I was just hoping to delay you, but I’m too busy to be bothered anymore. Now every cop in the state is going to be looking for you.”
She snapped her fingers again and the pair heard a pop under the hood.
“Good luck getting back to your friends if you can’t hide…” Bobbi said as she vanished.
Scott quickly popped the hood.
“Shit” He cursed “She fried the camouflage control unit.”
“Can you fix it?”
“I’d have an easier time parting the red sea right now…”
Sirens sounded in the distance.
“We need to get moving.” She said as he slammed the hood shut.
“How far are we from the others?” He asked as he started driving.
“Accoring to this… About fifty miles.”
“Damn it.”
Daisy looked over her shoulder.
“Um… there’s about twenty cop cars behind us…”
He activated the comm and called back to the others on the Zephyr.
“And then she somehow remotely fried our cloak and we’ve got a Smokey convention on our tail.” He told them “I don’t want to have to lead them right to you, so buckle up.”
“What does he mean by that?” Jas asked as the others jumped into their seats.
“He means sit down.” Seven said, pulling her onto her lap as the repulsors kicked on and the jet roared into the air.
“Don’t think this is scoring you any points” Jas said.
“This thing got any more tricks?” Daisy asked.
“MI-6 wouldn’t play ball.” Scott said “Best I got is the cloak.”
“This thing can’t fly or something?”
“Battery is too heavy and all the spare hover car parts in storage were reserved to maintain Lola.”
“Coulson and that car…” Daisy said shaking her head.
“We just need to out run them long enough.”
A sudden blast of dirt and rock off the side shook their pair.
“Great…” Scott muttered before screaming “WATCH THE PAINT JOB!” out the window.
“There is one option.” He said.
“What?”
“One of my geek hobbies is Mobile Suit Gundam.” He explained. “Long story short, one incarnation of the show had their robots with a power source that could use up all its stored energy at once, giving the machine a massive boost of speed.”
He flicked open a lid on a switch hidden in the gear stick. “Press this and the entire battery will discharge at once. Should get us going about 200 miles an hour or so, but once we use it, the battery is drained.”
“And if the others can’t get to us in time, we’re stuck on foot.” Daisy said, figuring where this was leading.
She looked over her shoulder again.
“Press it.” She said.
“What? Why?”
A second blast went off right in front of them, Scott swerving quickly to avoid it.
“That’s why.”
“Give me two seconds.” He said, hitting several switches and buttons on the control console.
“Right…” He said “Hold on tight…”
He pressed the button, and for a split second, the car seemed to die. The lights shut off, the displays on the console shut off and the car a seemed to slow down for a moment. Then, the two were pressed hard into their seats as the motors spun up to meet the massive amount of electricity that was being fed through the capacitor.
After less than a minute, the power supply was gone and they were coasting on sheer momentum. No brakes, no steering, but they’d left their pursuers in the dust for the time being.
“So now what?” Daisy asked.
“We wait.” Was all Scott could say.
The car eventually rolled to a stop and they climbed out, waiting for rescue. But they suddenly heard sirens from the other direction.
“Got a plan B?”
“Kinda” He said, pulling a small laser pointer out of his pocket.
“What are you gonna do?” She asked “Blink them to death?”
“Oh ye of little faith.” He said, pointing the laser at the approaching cops.
“Come on…” He said “Work damn it.”
“They’re getting closer.”
“I know.”
“They’re even more of them than the ones’ chasing us. We’re not going to be able to fight our way out of this one.”
Suddenly, the police cars started to explode. The Zephyr zoomed in from behind them, guns blazing. It spun around and lowered itself in front of the pair, automatically dropping it’s rear ramp.
“GUYS! GET OUT HERE!” Scott yelled. “We need a push… NOW!”