Coulson is informing HQ about what they've discovered. "And the 0-8-4 is in your possession?" Someone on the radio at HQ asks.

"It's on board and contains a tesseract fuel cell, so...there's that." Coulson says into the radio.

"Copy. You are a go for check-in guidance through restricted airspace. Safe travels." They say and hang up.

"Top speed's a priority, May." Coulson tells her and she doesn't respond. "I know you didn't wanna see combat. I apologize for that. Do you need anything else before I go check on the device fueled by evil that's sitting in our cargo hold?" He asks her and she still doesn't respond.

"This was fun." Coulson says and leaves the room.

-

In the labs, they're looking over the device and Peter and Ava believe it's only a matter time before it blows. "Not to worry. The device is stable." Simmons tells them as the kids are hiding behind the holographic table waiting for it to blow.

"Not that it couldn't explode at any minute, especially if hit with machine-gun fire. But things like this happen from time to time when in the field, and at first, it's very unpleasant, and you regret your decision to leave the lab at all." She states.

"Are you mental? I did explain in great detail exactly what I meant using the queens bloody English!" Fitz yells to Ward as they enter the labs.

"I use normal English. Words like duck and run and might blow us to pieces." Ward states as they all start arguing.

"Well, congratulations, Agent Ward. You managed to string three words together in a sentence." Fitz mocks.

Outside the labs, Coulson comes down the steps to check on Camilla's men.

"Everyone alright?" He asks them.

"Banged up but alive." One of them say.

"But we lost a lot of men." Camilla says.

"Well make sure the rest of you get home safe." Coulson says and sees them arguing in the labs with the device.

"Are we safe? On a plane with that?" She asks him. "There's a PMP airfield in Iquitos. It's a short distance from here." She suggests to him.

"We'll burn as fast as we can for a S.H.I.E.L.D. containment facility. There's no safer place for us to go." Coulson informs her.

"Sir, if I may? You got anything to drink on here?" One of her men asks Coulson.

"Upstairs. I think you'll find it comfortable up there." Coulson tells them and they move up the stairs.

"I expect them the grand tour." Camilla tells Coulson.

"I know you do." Coulson says and enters the labs to hear them yelling and Peter covering his ears from the yelling and Ava is just waiting for the device to explode on them.

"Do we have a problem in here?" Coulson asks calmly causing everyone to go quiet.

"No, sir." Ward says. "Just working on our communication. Not everyone was prepared for a firefight."

"We go ou, didn't lose anyone, saved a few of theirs. I'd say we did all right. Anything else?" Coulson asks and Skye raises her hand.

"Yeah, I've got a small question. Because I've been feeling like the tagalong hayseed rookie, but now I get the sense that Ward doesn't know which ones Simmons and which ones Fitz, and they've seen even less gunfire than me. And those two kids are too prepared to be in a war zone, and I'm no rocket scientist, but is this you first mission together?" Skye asks.

"No. Of course not." Simmons states. "We've worked with Peter countless times."

Peter quickly raises his head form behind the table and says, "Actually, this would be the 13th time I've worked with you guys. I'm not counting the half of my childhood I've spent in the labs. And Ava's only been with us for the last few months when I was training her. Altogether, this is our second mission together." Peter explains and goes back to hiding.

"I was your first? That's sweet." Skye says, smiling.

"You're amused?" Ward asks.

"I'm terrified. I am in way over my head, but I've been on this team just as long as any of you. I mean, half of you guys don't even like each other very much." Skye states to them.

"This isn't about that. I'm a specialist. Okay, I could have eliminated the enemy threat myself if I was working alone, but I had non-combat-ready agents to protect." Ward states.

"Whoa, you work alone?" Fitz asks.

"So typical. Who do you think designs your equipment?" Simmons asks him.

"Or the polymers for your weaponry." Fitz says.

"See them proving the point I just made?" Skye asks 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. And, Fitz, you are a rocket scientist. Peter, you're one of the best agents S.H.I.E.L.D. can offer for any assignment on any of the corners of the globe. Ayala, you're a rookie Peter in the making. So work it out." Coulson says and leaves the labs.

"I'm good at stuff, too." Skye states seeing he left her out of that statement.

-

Later, Fitz-Simmons are working on the data they collected on the hologram table and are arguing about being dragged into field assignments.

"This swarm in the sedimentary layers suggests some sort of molten cave-in a few decades back." Simmons says and Fitz sees something.

"Yeah, this here, it's optical amplification. I think that the tesseractic everht excites plasma with an inverse population of energy levels." Fitz says.

"A laser. A ray of pure energy. We're lucky the drones didn't trigger it when we were getting taking electromagnet reading. This is a weapon, powerful enough...To melt through 50 ft of solid rock to bury itself. Imagine what it could do to a person."

"Yeah, or an airplane." Fitz states and starts searching through everything they have.

Upstairs, Peter, Ward and Ava have started reading in the lounge part of the plane. Peter is reading Orphan X, it being one of the books that Clint recommended him to read. Ward is reading Hunger Games, it being recommended by his S.O. And Ava is reading The Rosie Project as Skye comes in and sees them.

"Hunger games?" She asks as seeing Ward is reading.

"Matterhorn. One of a hundred books my S.O. gave me that I'm just getting around to." Ward states.

"S.O. means supervising officer." Ava explains to Skye and she understands now.

"Got it. Hackers have lingo, ok, but I'll pick yours up. I feel like we might've gotten off on the wrong foot. Can I get you a drink?" She asks Ward and shows a bottle from the bar.

Skye and Ward start talking and Peter's senses go off and he looks towards Camilla's men and is confused.

"Hey, you okay?" Ava looks away from her book and sees his serious face.

"Somethings not right. I don't know what's not right, but I have a feeling." Peter tries explaining not knowing what his senses are warning him about.

-

Upstairs in his office, Coulson is showing his collection of everything he collected over the years. "First walkie-talkie wristwatch. 1936, Poland." He states showing it to her. "They only made 20, I think. It still works."

"I forgot you're such a sentimentalist, Phillip." Camilla tells him and hands it back to him. "Romanticizing history." She states while looking around at everything.

"Yeah, most of everything is glued down." Coulson informs him. "There was an elegance to things back then. With everything around us changing so quickly, it doesn't hurt to have a few touchstones to the past. Reminds me what's important."

"The last thing I want do do is relive days gone by. A few nights, maybe." Camilla says and closes his door.

"I see what you're doing."

"I'm reminiscing. This plane is such a step up from the R.V. we used to work out of when you were stationed in Cusco. Before the crash of the Parker plane."

"I don't remember much working." Coulson states. "I also don't remember you being the direct."

-

Downstairs, Peter tries refocusing on his book as he sees Camilla's men haven't taken a drink all day.

"Ava, I'm gonna need to borrow that bottle." Peter tells her and she hands it to him.

"I know you have a quick metabolism and everything, but if you get caught.." Ava starts warning him but he interrupts.

"Ava, they've been through a gunfight, in the heat, you would think they'd want something to drink." Peter states and Ava starts putting the pieces together herself.

In the labs, Camilla's men surround the entrance.

Back in the office, Camilla and Coulson are still talking. "We're stuck above the clouds for the next few hours. We might as well enjoy ourselves. We could make a few more memories to add to your collection. What do you think?" Camilla asks him.

"I think...Peter already knows you'll have to eliminate May from the equation to have a chance. Which gives him about 20 seconds to get to her first." Coulson states.

Downstairs, Peter takes the bottle and Ward and Skye cover as Peter throws the bottle, taking the first man down. As for the pilot room, one of her men places a device to drill through the door and uses it to leak in a toxic gas to knock May out. Outside, Ward and Peter are working on the men.

Back in the office, Coulson throws Camilla out of the way and tries making it to the door and makes it downstairs to see Peter and Ward took care of the men and look to the camera and see they have Fitz-Simmons hostage in the labs and Coulson looks to Camilla in surprise.

"We were allies. We had history. When did you decide to throw that away?" Coulson asks Camilla.

"As soon as I saw your team. And how many different liabilities your Agent S had." She states hearing stories about Peter ever since Coulson adopted him. Coulson sees no other choice but to surrender.

-

As the sun rises, they're changing course of the Bus and the team is up against the ramp of the plane and May is still knocked out and they injected Peter with something that immobilized him for a while. Upstairs, Coulson is taking a beating form Camilla's men.

"The reason I'm still alive is because you need me to verify the change of routes for your pilot when HQ calls in any minute now." Coulson states knowing exactly what she wants.

"I'd appreciate that." Camilla tells him.

"But if I don't, S.H.I.E.L.D. will shoot this aircraft out of the sky. That'll take the 0-8-4 out of your hands. Maybe I should let them." Coulson finishes his though.

"Oh, no, I think you'll make the calls. You already handed me your plane for the life of one of your little lab rats. If I open the cargo hold, you'll lose both Peter and the girl and the rest of your team. You care too much for Peter, and such a sentimentalist for the others." Camilla states.

Down at the doors opening, the team are all tied against the doors with handcuffs on and Peter is trying to get all feeling back to his entire body.

"I gotta say, this is the quietest I've ever seen you." Ava tells Peter and all he could do was give her a hate stare not being able to turn his head or talk.

"This is my fault." Fitz states. "Should've learned Kung fu."

"It's not as easy as you'd think, and I didn't even take it." Ava replies to him. "I only took whatever Peter taught me."

"I shouldn't have pushed you into the field in the first place. You weren't ready." Simmons says to Fitz.

"It was my job to make a proper threat assessment." Ward tells them.

"This wouldn't have happened if Agent May was on the stick." Skye states. "She would have busted out some other ninja know-how and gaven Peter an edge."

"Agent May?" Fitz asks confused. "No, she transferred from administration."

"Well, I've see her work with Peter to destroy a guy, so..." Skye states and they all look towards Ward.

"You've heard of the Cavalry?" He asks them and they have.

"Everyone at the academy talks about..." "she's the Calvary?" Fitz and Simmons asks in surprise.

"What's the Calvary mean?" Ava whispering asking Peter and he uses Morse code with his eyes to say he'll explain to her later.

"I told you to never call me that." May says as she starts waking up.

"I can't believe it. We're sure to get out of here now. How do we get out of here?" Simmons asks as she sits up.

"Can't go though the doors. They're bolted, tied to the pressurization lines." May states.

"You two geniuses have nothing?" Ava asks Fitz-Simmons. "The way that Peter always talked about you two, I saw you both like a girl and boy Steven Hawkins."

"Yeah, well, it's hard to concentrate in these intense situations, Ava." Fitz tells her.

"Hey, Don't Freeze up. Take a breath, you don't have to come up with the whole solution." Ward states.

"Pieces solving a puzzle." Skye replies.

"Okay, can someone do something? Because I have a pain in my neck that I can finally feel." Peter tells them.

"Okay, give me a second." Ava says and using her shoulder push him on his back.

"You know, this works. Thanks." Peter tells her.

-

"You knew this was a weapon all along." Coulson states.

"But you got it first." Camilla replies. "So I had to play nice. Yes, Coulson. For once, I'm actually ahead of you. My country commissioned that weapon decades ago. After the fall of HYDRA, many scientists followed their Nazi friends to hide on this side of the world."

"German engineering." Coulson says.

"The weapon was lost during a clash in the jungle until today. With it, we'll end the rebel uprising and finally stabilize my country." Camilla explains her plans for the device to him.

"You mean you're gonna rule your country." Coulson corrects her since it's only a matter of time.

"You stay in your borders. I'll stay in mine."

"Those borders are disappearing. Aliens descended on New York, remember? They don't care whose colors you wear. They just care who's in the way. We should be working together, not fighting." Coulson states to her.

-

Downstairs, they're still arguing with each other. "Well, that's clearly the worst idea we've heard yet." Simmons tells Skye.

"But it could work." Skye defends.

"If I had feeling in my hands, legs and basically everything below my neck, it would be so much easier. But I say we go for it, I'm stuck here for the meantime." Peter states from his place on the floor.

"Camilla's gonna kill us the minute we land, regardless, and blame it on rebels." Ward informs them. "This way, we have a fighting chance. I'll take it. What's first?"

"We can't get upstairs without going in the lab." Fitz tells them.

"And the only way to release the lab doors is from upstairs." Simmons says.

"First thing is, we're tied to the cargo door, so unless you can-" Skye stops talking as she hears something crack from behind May.

"What the hell was that?!" Fitz asks uncomfortable.

"That would be her wrist, Fitzy." Peter informs him, she being the one who taught him to do that and would try to if he could feel his hands.

Above the walkway, one of Camilla's men look at them and see that May is missing and before he can react, May grabs him and throws him over the railing and reattached her wrist. "What's next?" She asks them and they're looking in shock, all except Peter who saw it coming.

"Was It 11 years ago, now?" Camilla asks Coulson. "You swooped in with S.H.I.E.L.D. with so much confidence, so much mystery. You had 100 men at your disposal. And now..."

"Yeah, a handpicked team and my nephew and his padawan as he calls her. And yes, they're that good." Coulson defends his team knowing they're working on the problem somehow as of this moment. He just needs to keep her distracted as they work out a solution.

"Oh, Phil. You're not even aware. Your new idealism, your collectibles, your airborne man cave, surrounding yourself with a bunch of young, attractive agents, and even adopting a secondary child. You're having a midlife crisis." Camilla informs Coulson.

"More an afterlife thing, really. And I didn't necessarily adopt Ava, she's just stuck with Peter." Coulson tells her.

"And I'm not even gonna mention the red corvette." Camilla tells him and Coulson is seeing he actually might be having one.

"Her name's Lola and I've had her for years, ask Peter." Coulson tries to defend.

"Of course It is. It's textbook. You built a team so you could feel relevant, to feel needed."

"They don't need me. They need time." Coulson tells her, remembering how the Avengers came together.

"Well, Time is the one thing they currently don't have."

"No, but you have them something better. A common enemy."

-

In the labs, everyone has been uncuffed and Ava has taken it upon herself to just carry Peter around since he still can't move on his own and she finds it enjoyable.

"Okay, were sure, right? Everyone's sure?" Skye asks them all about the plan and they all agree to it. They hear a engine reeving and turn to see May in the car.

"You guys talk a lot." She states.

"Where have you been?" Peter asks.

They all move out of the way and May drives the car into the lab doors and they break.

Upstairs they hear it and start going to check on it when Camilla stops them.

"No, that's exactly what they want." She tells them.

Downstairs they're all getting the plan into effect by opening a way upstairs through the vents and Fitz releases one of the drones and it flies into the vents and May walks through the doors upstairs. Skye and Ward take the ropes they could find and strap them around Fitz-Simmons, Ava and Peter.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. 6-1-6, we have radar contact." HQ says into the radio. "Requesting conformation on a change in course. Over." Phil thinks weather not to respond when Camilla aims a gun to his head.

"Answer it, or they all learn what a 30,000ft drop feels like." Camilla warns him.

"Agent Coulson, are you there? You have course confirmation. You are cleared direct to the Slingshot." HQ tells him and Coulson vaguely sees the drone flying past and lands on top of the machine l

"Agent Coulson, everything all right up there? We heard you had a little dustup on the ground." Camilla keeps the gun pointed at his head and puts the radio hear his face.

"Yeah, were all good. It's gonna be blue skies from here on out." Coulson says and tightens his tied arms around the pole.

Outside the door, they're all watching as Fitz gets his part of the plan done.

"Simmons, forget what I said before. This is the moment that we'll regret." Fitz states as he feeds the energy needed for the laser to go off and it blasts a hole in the side of the plane and sends one of the men flying out. Coulson is holding on as his ties come undone and he's about to go flying out of the plane.

The doors outside unlocked for them. "The drop of cabin pressure unlocked the doors." Simmons says happily.

"I'll take care of the soldiers. You guys get to the 0-8-4." Ward says and Ava joins him.

"You, don't move." Ava tells Peter, joking.

"Oh, very funny. I'm the one who makes the quips, don't take that from me." Peter warns her. "And what about Coulson?"

"Let's hope he can handle himself." Ward states and they go in and Ward and Ava starts dodging bullets and fighting off her men.

"Find the device!" Ava states to them and they all come crawling in.

In the pilot cabin, May enters and kicks the pilot into the wheel and they start dropping quickly. Coulson saves Camilla from going out of the plane as the team retrieve the device.

"We have the device! Reel us back, Peter!" Skye yells through the wind and Peter uses all of his strength from his muscles to move his fingers to retract his webbing when a pamphlet for the plane falls in Skye's face and she gets an idea and removes the gear and takes off. Coulson moves Camilla into the computer room and ties her up with him.

"Don't want you to learn what a 30,000ft drop feels like." He states to Camilla, mockingly.

In the pilot room, May has taken out Camilla's man and she has the plane back in her control.

Skye is pulling something out of the storage and activated a lifeboat to cover the hole and Ava kicks the last guy in the face, finishing off their men.

"You're saying this actually worked?" Peter asks from the stairway.

"I read the safety pamphlet." Skye states about where to find the lifeboats.

"I think you might be the first." Ward tells her as they walk towards the bar and Coulson poors them all a drink and Ava drags Peter to the couch.

"No other way in, huh?" Coulson asks, referring to the state of his new plane. "Was just starting to warm up to this place."

"The 0-8-4 is cooling and stable." Fitz says, returning from the lab. "But we should call HQ and get it to the Slingshot as soon as possible."

Coulson looks back at Camilla and she can't believe she lost to this group of people.

"Told you they were that good." Coulson states to her.

-

They make it to the Slingshot and is getting the repairs done to the plane and Coulson is checking on Lola as Ava is making sure Peter's okay as he finally regains full control of his body again.

"Not a scratch. But your planes totaled." Skye states. "I hope S.H.I.E.L.D. insurance covers hijacking."

"Sure. Under incidentals." Coulson replies.

"What exactly am I signing up for?" Skye asks him.

"Like I said. Front row seat to the craziest show in earth."

"Yeah, I didn't expect the show to get this crazy this fast all for an object you're just gonna destroy."

"Slingshot is protocol. A weapon like this one is too dangerous for any person or country to have. People like Reyes would always be after it." Coulson tells her.

"What happened to her, anyway?" Skye wonders.

"She's in a S.H.I.E.L.D. detainment facility. I expect the Peruvian government will negotiate for her release. She won't spend much time in jail."

"No, what happened with you and Reyes?" She specified. "You guys totally did it back in the day, right?" She asks with a smile on her face.

"That's classified." Coulson says to her.

"Not that classified." Peter informs them and Skye laughs as Fitz-Simmons come past with drinks. Super hearing can be a curse in some incidents.

"Hey, come on, I know you don't wanna miss this, Peter." Fitz says to him and Ava helps move him, since he still can't feel his left leg completely, to the ledge of the cargo door.

"So, it'll take about 180 days to reach the sun. Now, yes, of course, it would have been faster if they'd use hydrogen-fueled APUs, but they're having fun." Fitz tells them.

"How many of those had you guys had?" Skye asks them.

"It's important when in the field to unwind from time to time." Simmons tells her.

"Yeah, especially after a hard day of everyone almost dying." Fitz says.

"Which doesn't happen every day, right?" Ava says. "It's not entirely normal...it's not daily."

"Speaking of normal whose idea was it to blow a hole on the plane?" Coulson asks them all.

"We all thought of the plan. Everyone had a part to play, sir." Ava informs him they were all in it together.

"Nice work, team." Coulson says and they hear an alert from the base.

"Oh, time for blastoff." Fitz says and they look to see Slingshot shoot a rocket with the 0-8-4 onboard flying off into space to the sun.

"I love this part of the job. Nothing exciting, nothing exploding. Just a job done." Peter tells Ava and she smiles at him and agrees.

-

Later when they're finishing up repairs on the plane, Fury paid Coulson and Peter a visit to figure out what exactly happened. And he's not exactly happy. But yet again, when is he?

"Really, guys? Really?" Fury asks them annoyed. "Six days? It only took you and the kid six days to take a completely renovated piece of state-of-the-art machinery and turn it onto scrap?!"

"My team acted with my authority." Coulson states to him.

"Eh, arguably." Peter states, happy to be able to completely walk without Ava by his side to catch him.

"Don't talk to me about authority. Do you know how much this plane cost?" Fury asks as he moves to the bar. "It's got a bar. A really nice bar. Talking to me about authority. You know, I have the authority to downgrade both of your asses to a Winnebago."

"We're aware of that, sir." Coulson and Peter replies at the same time.

"What did I say about doing that?" Fury asks since the two think so much alike it freaks others out at times. "Well, I want it fixed just like you found it. So don't have Fitz-Simmons going making modifications, like a damn fishtank!" Fury warns them.

"We understand completely, sir." Peter tells him.

"And the new girl, she's a risk." Fury warns them

"I know, sir. But Peter's senses haven't said anything to say she's dangerous." Coulson states and Fury starts leaving.

"How's Lola?" He asks on his way out.

"She's fine, sir." They both reply.

"Talking to me about authority." Fury mumbles as he leaves and Peter laughs and turns to Coulson.

"So, were killing the fish tank, aren't we?" Peter asks him.

"Yeah, were gonna have to kill the fish tank." Coulson replies and they leave to join the others.