"Gravitonium. It's an extremely rare high-atomic numbered element." Fitz tells the team what he discovered within the device

"It's what's been powering the device." Simmons clarified for them. "It's so extremely rare, most people didn't believe it existed, much less the theory that any isolated positive charge would turn the flow from isotropic-"

"Guys, high school dropout here." Skye informs them, not following.

"And not all of us speak Science. How does the device work again?" Ava asks them.

"The gravitonium distorts gravity fields within themselves, causing things to act without the laws of gravity. Because it is gravity. See, those wiggly bits, when an el cried current is applied, the gravitonium solidifies." Peter explains to them.

"And those gravity fields erupt, randomly as Peter said, changing the rules of gravity around it. Now imagine what would happen to a big rig at 100 kilometers per hour. Or, well, you could just remember, 'cause we saw what happened already." Fitz says.

"And this is where things get interesting. Guess which geniuses published every theory about gravitonium and possible applications years ago?" Simmons asks.

"Dr. Franklin Hall." Skye and Ava reply.

"Not only him, but a Richard Parker." Simmons says and Peter quickly turns to her.

"My dad?" Peter asks, in shock to hearing something new about his father he never heard before.

"It would appear so, he and Dr. hall attended the university of Cambridge at the same time and were actually as it seems college buddies at the time, and they attended there the same time as Ian Quinn." Fitz replies.

"Coulson May be off on this. Quinn is a notoriously good guy. His charity endowment's something like eight billion." Skye states, confused.

"Yes, with money made from leeching the earth of its resources." Ava replies back, remembering what she read of Quinn a while back before she was introduced to Peter.

"Yes, and it looks like he dug up another resource." Simmons says.

-

Back at the estate, Quinn is showing the gravitonium.

"20 years, 12 mines, 6 continents, but yes, I found it." Quinn tells Hall. "And now. We get to play with it." He starts laughing and takes another drink.

"Do you remember in all our talks on orchard street the part where it's very, very dangerous?" Hall asks him.

"Everything powerful is dangerous. But I'm not gonna convince you with more talk. Talk of shares, novel prizes. No, not you. You...will just have to see it." Quinn opens up a wall to a second room where there's a human sized model of the small machine. "I built a full size generator, but I need you to tell me how to control the gravity fields." Quinn explains to him. "You could complete you and your friends life's work. I plan to do this with or without you, but I know you. I know you want it done right."

"In order to do that, I would need Richard's notes. Sadly, they went with him." Hall informs him and Quinn goes back to the labs and pulls out a box that looks like it was just pulled from the ocean with coral on it and the lock was broken off. "Pulled from the wreckage of the Parker plane that went down all those years ago, what there was of it, that is. Found this and almost all of his work in waterproof cases. This amongst other things, but that's for my employers," Quinn explains and hands him the notes for the gravitonium.

-

"The man's a prisoner, and it's up to us to get him out of there." Coulson tells the team that was called together after they learnt who has Hall.

"We've checked the specs. There's no way into Quinn's compound without a large S.H.I.E.L.D. strike force or a man inside. He's got neodymium laserfencing surrounding the property. And lasers is the one fear I'm not getting over." Peter explains the situation to him.

"They'll neve allow a strike force into Malta." Coulson tells him. "Plus, this weekend, Quinn worldwide got its annual shareholders gathering. We'd risk global outrage."

"But f we go in alone, S.H.I.EL.D. can't be held accountable, claim ignorance." Ava says, seeing where he's going.

"Peter's training you well." May states.

"Without a man inside, we can forget it. Unless my skin is actually laser proof." Peter says and starts thinking. "I'm...I'm not laser proof, am I?" Peter asks Fitz-Simmons and they nod their heads no. "Okay, I thought not. I'm barley bulletproof."

"If we had a monkey, we could get in. A small monkey could slip through the sensors and disable the fences power source with his adorable little hands." Fitz throws out there and Peter and Ava look confused.

"You have a trained monkey in your lab we don't know about?" Ava asks as Skye is on her phone and looks towards them. "Hey, I could get in." She tells them.

"Drop me in the hills outside of Valletta, I'll spend a few weeks establishing a cover, gathering intel." Ward offers.

"Hall doesn't have a few weeks." Coulson tells them.

"And to restate, any agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. caught on Maltese soil can be shot to death with bullets, legally." Simmons says.

"Not me. I could go in." Skye fries again and they look at her.

"Skye, this is serious." Ward tells her. "Wait. What are you saying?" Coulson asks, letting her speak up. "Well, I'm not an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., so I can go without breaking the rules." Skye explains.

"This isn't something the Rising Tide can hack, Skye." Ward informs her.

"I have a feeling she's ahead of you, Ward." Peter says and sees her smile.

"Exactly. You said you could get in with a man inside. Fitz-Simmons love the guy and he needs help. Peter just learnt this is one of the few people who knew his parents, and they could be torturing him, or worse, making him do strength exercises." She states.

"But you don't have the background or clearance for any of this." Ward states again.

"I know. But I've got an invitation." Skye says showing her phone with the invitation up. "Well, technically it's a E-vite." She corrects herself.

-

Later, they're discussing her decision. Well, they've agreed to it and Ward is yet still against it. "I understand your concern, but we don't have a lot of options." Coulson explains to Ward.

"Hey, I'm impressed. She just wrangled an invitation on her phone using insider back-channel voodoo in minutes. But sending her in with no raining, you're taking a huge risk. I know Director Fury felt like he owed you after you sacrificed yourself."

"And my card collection." Coulson interrupts him, still angry about that.

"He gave you some autonomy, but Skye in a covert op?"

"Are you worried about her safety or her loyalty?"

"Both. Rising Tide is the reason she was able to get an invite. Who knows how many protocols she broke."

"That's her job. Ignore the protocol, find connections and backdoor nobody else can find. Peter thinks like an agent, not like a hacker. He follows the rules...to his liking. But I can see something else is bothering you."

Ward looks around annoyed and back to Coulson. "She's holding back, sir. She says she wants to be an agent, but she won't commit. She doesn't listen and makes jokes. How did you do it with Peter?" Ward asks, curious.

"You think he was any different? He was four years old when Romanoff started teaching him how to flex his body in ways four year olds shouldn't be know how to. But the reason he was able to do so well was because we weren't hard on him. Were you hard on her?"

"I tried playing nice, too. I need a new strategy."

"Try no strategy. Stop thinking like an operative, start thinking like a person. It worked well for Agent Barton when he taught Peter archery. Just took him to a nice, calming place and taught it to him as if Peter was his son. Try it with Skye, maybe she'll get it easier." Coulson states and leaves.

-

Peter and Ava are back to training while Ward is teaching Skye self defense against an armed man, this time Peter allowed Ava to use her amulet to give her an edge in training. Yet, it doesn't help her lay a finger on him. "How are you so fast?" Ava just asks him while catching her breath. "There's no secret to it, Ava. You just need to work hard, train even harder." Peter explains to her.

"You're gonna die and leave us hanging out to dry, you know that?" Ward tells Skye, getting frustrated. "You're going in with no self defense skills." He explains. "I have a few tricks up my sleeve." Skye informs him. "You need muscle memory, fundamentals, the tools to turn yourself -"

"Into a full bag of tools. Or turn into Peter?" Skye asks and looks to Peter who's drinking water. "Don't get me involved in this. I'm training my own apprentice." He informs them.

"How did you get so good at computer science without committing yourself to it?" Ward asks her. "C.S. comes naturally to me. I'm sorry I'm not naturally whatever you guys are." Skye states to them. "You think this came naturally?" Ward asks her. "I had a brother who beat me and my little brother..for nothing, for eating a piece of his birthday cake. I had to learn to protect us the way I'm trying to protect you." He explains to her. "That was my moment. You asked earlier."

"Sorry, didn't mean to push." Skye states and shows she stole the gun. "But I did manage to get this." She jokes. "Getting the gun is one thing. Pulling the trigger, that's another." Ward explains and they get back to work.

"Hey, since you rarely talk about it, what was your moment?" Ava asks Peter and sees his smile slowly drift off his face. "A moment I wish I could've changed." Peter tells her and they get called in to get the mission assignments.

-

"Skye will walk in the front door. The only external access point to Quinn's underground facility is from a beach cove. A two man extraction team could slip in there, but it's not easy." Coulson explains to them and hands the rest over to the tech team.

"The perimeter is surrounded by a 20ft High neodymium laser grid. Touch it, and you're toast. Dead toast." Fitz explains.

"The only way to disable the grid is to crack the system and trigger a reboot. That would give the team three seconds to cross. Of course, Quinn's too smart to allow any wireless access on his property." Coulson explains.

"That's where I come in." Skye realizes.

"Yes, working compact, holds up under X-ray." Simmons says and Fitz hands her a small makeup case.

"It's a readout. Turns green if you're in close enough proximity to a computer to gain wireless access." Fitz explains. "When it does, just drop it nearby and walk out. We'll do the rest. Easy as pie."

"Got it." Skye states. "Plan, green, drop, walk...pie." She recaps quickly and they all set off to do their thing and May stops Coulson.

"I don't want to question your orders. But this two team extraction team, it's exactly the kind of action I've been hoping to avoid." She explains to him.

"That's why you're not on it." Coulson explains.

"Specialist work is different from field work, believe me." May explains.

"It's not me, either. We need stealth, combat experience, and fast movement." He explains and faces Peter and Ava talking to each other.

"You think she's ready for real field work?" May asks, not questioning Peter.

"Hall's one of ours, and he's in trouble. I need two people to watch each other's backs. Peter makes one. Ava wants the chance to be able to prove herself. You forget, he and me saw plenty of action with the Avengers." Coulson explains and walks off.

"Then you died." May says to herself.

"All right, team, suit up." Coulson tells them.

-

Republic of Malta. Skye exits a cab to a giant, white mansion and enters to see hundreds of rich people around and takes a drink.

"Who are you?" One of the people ask her and she sees someone behind her. "Apologies for his manners, he knows very little English." Someone with him explains.

"Oh, that's, okay. Skye." She introduces herself and holds her hand out. "Qasim Zaghlul." He introduced himself. "Big fan. You built half of Dubai, including the Arabian blade. I love that building. It's super sci-fi. Where's your wife..."

In the Bus, Fitz-Simmons are telling her the information she needs. "Wife names Nadrah." Simmons tells her

"Nadrah?" Skye asks Qasim. "He has twin sons." She gets informed. "Staying at home with the boys?" She asks and gets into a conversation and knows she has to get back to the mission. "The pleasure is mine." She tells him and walks off. "I could get used to this, guys." Skye says. "It's like if Siri ever worked." She jokes and sees Ian Quinn talking to other investors.

"Skipper to bravo. I got eves on top dog. The eagle is landing on it." Skye informs them and walks towards Quinn. "I'm sorry, what did she just do?" Peter asks through the comms. "I'm sorry, even I don't know. I see Quinn, I'm gonna go talk to him." She explains and keeps walking through the yard towards Quinn.

"Ian Quinn. I'm your last minute party crasher." Skye explains to him and holds her hand out. "Oh. Wow. Great to meet you. This is Skye. A member of the Rising Tide." Quinn explains to his investors. "A group of hackers. I've gotten some pretty big secrets out to the public."

"I prefer "hacktivist." Skye tells them. "I'm glad to hear you've read of our site."

"I read it. We think very much alike. More freedom of information, less government infringing on everyone's rights. I'm a fan."

"That explains the invite. This is a tough party to get into."

"Not as hard to get into as the encrypted back channel you contacted us through to request the invite."

"That's sort of where I live."

"You've got to show me how you did that. I mean, if you sign on."

"Sign what, now?" She asks, now confused what he's talking about.

"I've been known to turn a few black hats into white hats, not just for vulnerability analysis, but for creative thinking." He explains to her.

"Are...are you offering me a job?"

"Well, I didn't invite you here for your pretty face. I didn't even know you had a pretty face. Yes, I want to hire you before someone else snatches you up." He explains and walks away to talk to everyone on the stage.

"Many of you shareholders have been with us for years, and I see a few new names here. But I want to thank you all for traveling so far to this beautiful country and for slumming it at Shaba tal-banar." He jokes and everyone laughs at it. "This country where we are allowed to pursue progress and profit without the stranglehold of regulations that are now chocking our world. The US government, E.U., the DRCT, S.H.I.E.L.D. These are just a few of the institutions that are guilty of halting the development of new technology for anyone...except themselves. We dare defy them with a new idea, they steal in and sweep it out from under us. But not today."

On the beach behind his mansion, Peter and Ava get off of a S.H.I.E.L.D. lifeboat and are in their suits and make their way up to the gate.

"You're all aware of what Quinn worldwide has been able to do with basic minerals, let alone uranium, plutonium, despite these unjust restrictions that weigh the scales in the other guys favor. Well, today, I'm announcing something new. An element that could balance those scales, and I mean that literally." He keeps talking and Skye sneaks off.

In the laboratory downstairs, Hall is moving the gravitonium into the full size model. "Imagine if you could control gravity, if instead of dripping for oil, it rose up to greet you. Imagine if you could move a super tankers worth of cargo with a swipe of your hand. Well,we will do this and more." Quinn's speech continues as Halllooks back at Richard's notes for information.

-

Peter and Ava start climbing the rock wall to reach their location. "This could've been a traumatic experience for dr. Hall. He may not be the same when you find him, Peter." Coulson says into their comms. "That means it's up to you to talk him down, Peter. Maybe you should show your face. He might recognize you look a lot like your father."

"Okay, we get it. I go in, Ava watches my back, I get him out, if needed, show my face." Peter recaps and he and Ava reach the top of the rock wall.

-

Back at the mansion, Skye looks around and finds a computer room and tries getting in and it's locked. "It's locked and there's no key." Skye tells them.

"Check for a keypad." Fitz tries and she looks and sees nothing on the wall. "There's nothing here. Wait, you can hack a keypad?" She asks him. "No, not over the phone." He explains, just trying to see if there was one.

"Is there a receptionist desk?" May asks her and Skye sees one. "Yeah, there's one here." She states and goes over to it. "Now what do I do?"

"What are you trying to do?" Someone asks and she turns to see Ian Quinn watching her.

"Just...looking for a pen." Skye says and grabs the pen and a piece of paper. "Gotta write down all these ideas, you know what I mean?" She asks and starts writing. "What are you really doing?" He asks her.

"All right. I'm busted. I was trying to get a glimpse in your office doors, see how things operate."

"I invite you here as a guest, you treat me like another corrupt organization, looking for trade secrets to leak online?" He asks her, surprised. "Security." He falls into his phone.

"No, no, no. Wait. It's just, with all these la-di-da people, you have to be so guarded, so careful...what you say, what secrets can reveal. And...I was hoping that you and I could be honest with one another." She explains and holds up the paper and he reads what she wrote. "Shield is listening"

—

"My office had less space and more wheels. You have a view of the ocean and the pool." Skye tells Quinn while they listen on the Bus.

"Got the dispatch leaking Hall's location." May saying looking at a tablet. "User's an alias.

"Oh, can you trace the DHCP Server?" Fitz asks her.

"Trace is running, but it'll take time. Our girl?" May asks.

"I thought she was done for, but she just sweet talked her way into Quinn's office." Simmons comments on Skye's persuading skills.

"How'd she manage that?" May questions when the signal goes dead.

"Oh, my gosh the signals gone dead." Simmons says and they realize it was on Skye's end, not theirs.

-

In Quinn's office, Skye has dropped her earpiece into a glass of Champagne. "That's better. I haven't felt hat someone's watching my every move feeling since I failed my drivers test." She states th Quinn.

"You want to tell me what is going on here?" Quinn asks Skye. "S.H.I.E.L.D. got to you?"

"They picked me up in LA, I helped them in a crisis, and now they want to recruit me. So I played along. Talk about inside info, I have a bunk on their plane. I've been gathering intel, biding my time until I could become useful. I thought this qualified."

"Why would they trust you with a covert operation like this?"

"Something about S.H.I.E.L.D. not breaking international laws. They had no other options, whereas I like to keep mine open."

-

At the cliff side, Ava and Peter are still making their way to the location when they see a warning sign of lasers. Peter checks and picks some dirt up and throws it and it hits a laser wall.

"It's still up. Better stay back unless you wanna learn what laser does to skin." Peter says and they can only wait for Skye to do her part.

"The next patrol can be here any minute." Ava states while she's keeping her eyes open.

"Skye's offline. We've lost audio and vitals." May informs them.

"Abort is not an option, but if she's compromising-" Ward states.

"She's still our only way in to get to Dr. Hall." Coulson replies.

"And were their only way out." Peter states when his sense go off and they hear security checking the perimeter and they hide out of sight.

-

"You're saying that they roped me in because I pose a genuine threat." Skye asks Quinn.

"Yes, and for their profile." Quinn tells her as he's looking out his window. "You're a criminal, you have a warrant somewhere. Specialized skill set." Quinn explains to her. "I try to stay humble, but fail." She tells him. "No family. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit a nerve, but that's what these people do." Quinn explains to her.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. they prey on fear and loneliness and desperation, and they offer a home to those who have no one else to turn to. I can offer you something better." He offers her and sees Skye's considering her options.

-

The guards keep looking as Peter leaps above them and Ava uses her taser claws to take out the two men and grab their guns and throw them into the laser wall. "Guys, we can't wait out here forever, where are we with getting in?" Peter asks the others.

-

"You can stay with us, there's no secrets, no lies, no agenda. You're free to do what you do. With no big brother watching over your shoulder." Quinn tells Skye.

"But first, you have to tell me exactly what agenda S.H.I.E.L.D. sent you in here with." He tells Skye. "Well, they wanted me to do whatever it takes to get in here." She explains as she pulls out the device and opens it and she gets a signal. "Get in here and...?" Quinn asks her.

"Bat my eyes. Get you talking." She explains and places the device down and let it do it's thing.

-

On the Bus, the team gets the signal. "She's done it!" Simmons says and they get to work on shutting down the security gate.

-

At the gate, they hear a radio say they know they're there. "We have a man down. Hostile son the east ridge." The radio says and they start getting shot at and they dodge the shots.

"Come on, Fitz, give me a rest!" Peter pleads as they avoide more shots from the men and are up against the wall, trying not to touch it.

"Okay, your window is open!" Fitz yells and they watch the wall shut down and they run through before the system reseted and once it does, they don't care about the bullets as they burn up on the laser.

"See ya, suckers!" Ava yells as they run for it towards the house.

"Okay, here's the plan. I'll look for Hall down in the labs, you go get Skye." Peter tells Ava as he closes his eye lenses again.

"Copy that, Agent S." Ava says and heads off to find her.

-

"No, you can't be the only angle. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s thorough enough to know about me and my exploits." Quinn states to Skye. "It takes more than a pretty face to disarm me." He explains when his men come in. "Sir, we have a security breach." The guard explains the to him.

"Oh, the timing on that was perfect." Skye comments on them and Quinn picks up her makeup container and sees what it's doing and pulls a gun on her.

-

In the labs, Peter makes his way through and finds Hall in one of them. "Dr. Hall. Agent S, we have an exit strategy for you." Peter tells him.

"S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Hall asks him.

"Yes, sir. Let's get you out of here." Peter says and starts walking back to the door.

"I'm sorry, mr. S, I'm right where I'm supposed to be." Hall tells him and Peter looks back confused.

Peter looks at him, confused for a minute then replies, "I'll be honest, I ran thousands scenarios in my head on what could happen. I didn't consider you ever saying that." He tells Hall.

-

On the Bus, May was able to locate the mole and shows it to Coulson and he sees it's Hall.

"Hall leaked his location?" Coulson asks May.

-

Peter moves back to Hall. "Look, I don't know what Quinn promised you, but-"

"An opportunity." Hall interrupts him and Peter looks to see a giant gravitonium device. "We can't let Quinn have control of this!" Peter states to Hall.

"We can't let anyone have control over this." Hall tells Peter. "That's why I'm here. To bury it at the bottom of the ocean, with him." Hall explains his plan to Peter and the machine comes live.

"Peter,." Coulson calls in. "The leak came from-"

"Dr. Hall, I'm putting that together myself." Peter interrupts him. "All petitions, embargoes in the world couldn't stop Ian. He grows more powerful every day." Hill tells Peter. "Then I got word he found this. I'm sorry, S. I had to make a choice." Hall explains and the machine comes alive and gravity starts going haywire.

"This isn't gonna hurt."Peter says as the gets pulled into the wall.

-

Later Peter wakes up and he looks to see a mess of papers, desks and more. "Guys, I need to talk." Peter says.

"We lost you for a minute, kid. You good?" Coulson asks him. "Hall wanted Quinn to kidnapp him?" Ward asks, confused.

"Yeah, why would he do that?" Fitz asks.

"Quinn built a gravity generator, like the one we found at the crash site, but much bigger." Peter explains as he stands up and sees a box with his father's name on it. "Hall knew Quinn would need him to control its raw power, but hall wanted to unleash it to destroy him."

"The one we found was 2.5 centimeters in diameter. It stopped a semi." Simmons comments. "How big are you looking at?"

Peter looks for the device and then looks down to see the device and the window are across him. And that's when he realizes that he is on the ceiling without using his powers.

"It's at least 12ft." Peter tells them. "And it's definitely strong enough to take down this entire side of the beach." Peter says as he looks across the room and sees the controls. "I'll disconnect the power before things gets...crazier, I guess." Peter says as he looks to see Hall.

"They can't help you." Hall tells him as he takes a bottle from the containers. "Soon, it'll reach an exponential acceleration state." Hall says as he pulls up a chair. "I'm sorry."

"My team is here. My friend/protege is here. They're good people." Peter states as he walks closer to Hall.

"Sworn to protect all mankind?" Hall asks. "That's what I'm doing, I promise. I'm making things right." He then pours himself a drink and it goes crazy with the gravity problem and the room starts shaking. Peter goes flying across the room and his gun leaves his holder and hall catches it. Peter gets up to see that they're on the wall.

"All I had to do to get access to Quinn's lab was drop little clues, create a puzzle for him to solve." Hall says as he aims the gun at Peter. "Quinn likes to feel smart."

"So you leaked your location for him to find and bring you to him."

"He's addicted to exploiting opportunities. He never gives a thought to the friends, ecosystems, future generations left ruined in his wake." Hall explains.

Peter thinks for a minute and remembers what Coulson told him to do. "Friends like Richard Parker?" Peter asks as he pulls off his mask revealing his face to him.

Hall takes a minute to realize why he looks so familiar to him. "Oh, my god. Your Richard and Mary's kid." Hall realizes.

"That's me." Peter states to him. "I've been told you and him were good friends. Is this something he would've wanted? To turn against what S.H.I.E.L.D. stands for?" Peter asked him as the room begins to shake again.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. it's just as guilty of the same thing. Experimentation without thought of consequence!" Hall states. "Their search for an unlimited power source brought an alien invasion."

"Yeah, not their best moment." Peter replies as he steadies himself from the rooms movement.

"This element is far too powerful for S.H.I.E.L.D., for Quinn, for anyone! But I don't have to tell you that." Quinn states. "I was the one who figured it out that you were going to be born different, you know that?" Hall asks Peter as the entire place begins to shake. "I warned them they would be targeted for someone wanting to get to you."

-

Skye is running away from everyone chasing her when they finally surround her and get the drop on her. Their victory is cut short when Ava comes running in and fights them off when most of them start floating. But Ava uses it to her advantage and finishes them off and gets Skye free.

"Hey, you miss me?" Ava asks her. "Come on, let's get out of here." She says and they run off.

-

In the labs, Peter is getting thrown around the room with Hall as gravity is getting really weird and Peter gets his gun back.

"I see the future, Peter. And it's a catastrophe." Hill tells him. "Even your father knew what this could do to people. Why can't you see it?"

"I just see people in trouble. People who need my help." Peter says as he rips the power free and sees it's not working. "Powers gotten too powerful. I need a catalyst." Peter tells himself. "Something to create a chemical reaction to the core." Peter explains to the others and looks to Hall.

"It's not too late to do the right thing. Help me stop this!" Peter begs the man.

"I am doing the right thing, a completely selfless act. I know history never celebrates what didn't happen. They'll call this a tragedy. They won't understand what I did here." Hill explains. "Killing innocent people? People who have done nothing, some trying to protect others?" Peter asks him.

"We all have to live with the choices we make. Sometimes we have to die with them, too. It happened to your parents."

"You made a call in a difficult situation. Now I have to make one of my own." Peter says, knowing he's going to regret this. "Tell my parents I wish I got to know them." Peter asks hall as he smashes the window and Hall falls through into the gravitonium and starts getting absorbed into it and Peter shoots a web to stop him from flying as the gravity goes back to normal.

As he gets back up, he sees the machine us shutted down for good. He quickly walks over to the box with his father's name and sees it's still closed and everything is still in there.

-

On the Bus, Coulson is watching S.H.I.E.L.D. removing the gravitonium device. "Repeat it back to me." Coulson tells the agent on the screen.

"Deepest level of the Fridge. Unmarked vault, no access granted." The agent tells him.

"And no recorded entry. I don't want it listed. I don't want it for the Slingshot." Coulson clarifies and hangs up. "It's what Richard would've wanted." Coulson whispers to himself when he gets a knock from his door and sees Skye.

"Skye, what can I do for you?" Coulson asks her as she enters his office. "Well, while Ward is busy with something with Fitz-Simmons, I wanted to ask you something." Skye explains as it's something that's been bugging her.

"What is it?" Coulson asks. "Peter's parents. For someone who's never met them before, the kid seems to worship them. I want to know how you knew them." Skye asks.

"It's a little bit of a story. So you might wanna take a seat." Coulson tells her.

-

1993

Coulson was assigned to talk to a scientist who has real potential inside of S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson was the one assigned because he and the scientist have history in the past.

He makes it to a apartment in New York, Queens and knocks on the door and someone he doesn't know answers. She's someone with glasses, dark hair. "Hi, I'm May Parker." She introduces herself to him.

"Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D." Coulson introduces himself to her. "I'm here to talk to Richard Parker." He explains what he's there for when said scientist sees him in the doorway.

"Coulson?" Richard asks the agent. "Hey, Richard." Coulson smiles at his high school friend and Richard pulls him into a hug. "It's been so long. Last I saw of you, you were working to become a history teacher. And now you're an agent." Richard comments on Coulson.

"Yeah, Well, this is a special visit. How would you like a place at S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Coulson asks his friend.

-

After a few day of working there, Richard met another scientist who worked there. Mary Fitzpatrick. The two quickly got along easily and four years later they were married. Coulson was there as best man since he didn't have family and May brought her boyfriend, Ben who she'll marry just two years after them.

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It was a normal day in the labs when an accident caused an small explosion. Luckily no one was hurt, but Fury wanted everyone checked on just to be safe. That's when Richard and Mary got the news she was pregnant with Peter.

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"The rest is self explanatory." Coulson tells Skye. "Once Peter was born, they discovered he was different from other children easily. Then their plane was either hacked or hijacked, we never learnt what happened and they died. Peter made it his life work to be like them in all the possible ways." Coulson tells Skye.

"You ever wonder what the S in Agent S came from?" Coulson asks her.

"Yeah, What does it mean?" Skye asks him, wondering it ever since she heard it's his code name.

"Everyone thinks it means super, or even supreme, spectator, superior." Coulson names a few examples. "But it stands for Survivor." Coulson informs her. "Last surviving Parker. He uses that name to memorize his parents and what they sacrificed for him."