"I just don't see why we have to work with Ward," Skye said his name with disgust.

"Skye," sighed Coulson, "we've been over this. Ever since Ward got out of our custody, he's been changing. And as much as it pains me to say it, I think he's changing for the better."

She rolled her eyes, "he's still a mercenary."

He shrugged, "so are we technically,"

She opened her mouth as if to retort, but closed it again in defeat and stomped away to mission briefing.

"So, all we have to do is infiltrate this old warehouse. It used to be owned by Hydra and probably still is, but inside is an 0-8-4, but because it's an 0-8-4, we don't know what it does so we need to be careful. I'm sending in a 4 man team. Bobbi, May, Ward, and Skye, you 4 are going in, knock out the guards, do whatever you have to do, get the 0-8-4 and then get back out."

"You make it sound easy," said Ward.

"If the job was easy," said Skye

"It wouldn't be any fun," finished May.

Ward glared at them, knowing that they were mocking his loyalty to Garrett.

"When do we need to go Boss?" he asked.

"15 minutes,"

"Copy that," Ward said as he left the room to get ready.

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"I'm sorry about them," said Bobbi as she stood in Ward's doorway. Everyone had forgiven Ward except for Skye (and sometimes May, but she was trying her hardest.)

"They're entitled to their anger."

"Yeah, but that while Hydra thing happened 5 years ago."

He shrugged, "people hold grudges."

"That's true, but not usually for this long. They just want a reason to hate you."

"Gee thanks for making me feel better Bob,"

She laughed, "no problem!"

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Ward, Bobbi, May, and Skye had already taken down all of the guards outside the warehouse. All that was left for them to do was disable the security systems, which Skye would do, and grab the 0-8-4 and get out.

They entered the room holding the 0-8-4 where they were met with one last hydra agent. He was holding the 0-8-4 in his hands and he shot it straight at Skye. Ward saw it and jumped in front of the beam so that it would hit him instead. The last thing he saw was Bobbi and May killing that guy.

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"Where the hell are we?" asked Skye as she rubbed her head.

Ward slowly stood up, "I thought we were in the warehouse, but the 0-8-4 must've brought us here. So why are you here then? It hit me."

She shrugged, "0-8-4s are weird, we were probably too close so it took both of us. Where are we?"

"The middle of the woods somewhere... wait, I know this place."

"What, you recognize a few trees?" laughed Skye, she froze when she saw someone staring right at them, "who is that?"

Ward turned around and looked where she was pointing. She was pointing at a boy, no older than 16 looking at them. Well that just confirmed his suspicions, "that's... me."