Ward goes to a hanger and sees a massive cargo plane they call the Bus and enters to see Fitz-Simmons arguing over their equipment.

"Whoa, Whoa! Watch it! That's the Night-Night gun." Fitz states to Simmons.

"Well, it's on my stuff, and it doesn't work, and there's no way we're calling it the Night-Night gun." Simmons states to him.

"Why not something like, the Sleeper?" Ava asks. "That sounds like a weapon to be feared."

"Come on, Ava. They're non lethal, heavy stopping power, break up under the subcutaneous tissue." Fitz informs her.

"Oh, with a dose of only .1 microlithers of dendrotoxin." Simmons tells him. "I'm not Hermione. I can't create instant paralysis with that."

"You sound like Hermione at times." Ava jokes as she comes down the stairs and sees Ward and hears Fitz-Simmons overlapping each other and Ward drops his bag that gets their attention.

"Fitz-Simmons?" Ward asks the scientists.

"Fitz." Simmons says pointing to him.

"Simmons." Fitz says pointing to her. "I'm engineering. She's biochem." Fitz explains the pair.

"Agent Ward, right?" Ava asks him and he nods.

"You're Agent Ayala?" Ward asks surprised.

"Yeah, I get it a lot." Ava states seeing his confused face.

"Coulson said I'd need my comm reciever encoded." Ward says and hands it to them. "Don't know if you've worked with that model before." Ward says as Fitz just smashes the device.

"It's...new." Ward says seeing what he did.

"Hell repurpose the I.D.I.S. chip." Ava says. "Whatever that it, he did the same to all of ours." She explains to him.

"Don't need the external reciever for the inner-ear comms anymore." Fitz explains and gets to work on it as Simmons gets a sample of his saliva.

"Embedded sensorineural silicone matched to your DNA." Simmons explains. "It's very posh. So, you excited to be coming on our journey into mystery?" Simmons asks Ward.

"It's like Christmas." Ward says dryly and Ava can see he's not a fun guy and gets bummed out by him when she hears a car driving up and turns to see the infamous Coulson's Lola car driving next to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Jeep. She gets excited when she sees Peter in the passenger seat as Coulson and him get out.

"One of Coulson's old S.H.I.E.L.D. collectibles." Fitz says. "Flamethrowers, world's first GPS. He and Peter are mad for this crap." He explains as one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s me walk up to the car.

"Don't touch Lola." Peter warns him and he doesn't and leaves.

"And he calls it a girls name." Fitz says happy to see Peter after everything since they haven't talked since the NASA base destruction. Coulson and Ward move upwards to the main part of the plane as Peter joins Fitz-Simmons in the lab.

"Lola's not just a collectible, you know. People tend To confuse the words new and improved." Coulson explains as they make to the main living space of the plane. "This mobile command, they were in heavy rotation back in the '90s, then we got a Helicarrier. Hey, did you hear the one about the guy who's afraid of flying?" Coulson asks trying out a joke.

"I've done a night jump into a drop zone under heavy fire, sir. I can handle it." Ward says not realizes what he was trying to do.

"It..That was a..joke. The first part of a...I'm not gonna say it now." Coulson states as Melinda May approaches them.

"If you plan to unpack, make it quick. Wheels are up in five. Peter's algorithm might've have finally got a hit on the Rising Tode"s routing points." She says and leaves.

"Was that...who I think it is?" Ward asks seeing May.

"She's just the pilot." Coulson explains.

"Agent May is just the pilot?" He asks Coulson. "And that wouldn't have to be Agent S downstairs, was it?" He asks surprised to see two of S.H.I.E.L.D's deadliest agents in the same place.

"What game ar egos really playing?" Ward asks.

"Better stow your gear." Coulson says ignoring the question as the Bus gets ready for take off as Peter intercepted another Rising Tide message.

"How will you come at us? From the air? From the ground? How will you silence us this time? How can you?" The message keeps going and they get a location on the signal.

In an parked van, Skye, a member of a Rising Tide, is sending out the message Peter is tracking. "The truth is in the wind. It's everywhere. You cannot stop the Rising Tide. You will not find us. You will never see our faces. But rest assured, we will rise against those who shield us from the truth. And nothing, nothing can stop us in the-" she gets interrupted when her door opens revealing Coulson and Ward.

"Hey, what up?" Skye says shyly as they place a sack over her head.

Later they bring her into the Bus and into the interrogation room and remove the sack.

"You guys are making a big mistake." Skye tells them.

"Really? You don't look that big." Ward states.

"Sorry for the lack of finesse. Agent Ward here has had a little history with your group, the Rising Tide." Coulson explains.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Skye says trying to cover for herself.

"Okay, there's are two ways this pans out." Ward states to Skye.

"Oh, is one of them the easy way?" She asks confidently.

"No." Ward says coldly.

"Oh." Skye understands.

"What's your name?" Coulson asks.

"Skye." She answers.

"What's your real name?" Ward asks, not believing her.

"We'll get to to that later. Right now there's another name we need a certain hero." Coulson says.

"What makes you think I know that?" Skye asks him.

"Well, you made a little mistake." Coulson says as he pulls out a file. "The phone you filmed the hooded hero with had the same cryptographic signature as a few of the Rising Tide posts."

"Yeah, was that a mistake or am I now sitting in the center of your secret headquarters?" Skye asks them and looks around the room. "What is this place? A sort of plane?" She asks. "I got inside. And by now, you discovered you can't beat the encryption on my laptop, so you've got nothing."

"We have a fairly strong coincidence, you being on the scene right before it went up in flames." Coulson says and shows the site in the files. "Want to tell me what my team is gonna fond out?"

At the site, Ava, Fitz-Simmons and May exitthe van and see where the hooded hero leaped from and they go inside to investigate the cause of the explosion.

"How did you know the hooded man was in the building?"

"Did you blow it up to draw him out?" Ward asks her.

"Did you?" Skye asks them.

"That's not our style." Coulson explains.

"I was kidnapped by your style. S.H.I.E.L.D. covered up New Mexico, Project Pegasus. Of course you'd be covering up Centipede." Skye states and noticed they're confused faces to the last one.

"Holy, no way. You don't know what that is. Billions of dollars wasted on equipment at your disposal, and I best you with a laptop I won in a bet?" She asks

"You need to think about your friend. We're not the only ones interested in people with powers." Coulson explains, as he and Fury are even to this day looking into Richard and Mary's killers since they were never caught. "We'd like to contain him, Yeah. But the other guy just might just want to exploit him, and the other guy after that might want to dissect him."

"What is Centipede?" Ward asks getting into her face.

Back at the site, the team is searching for anything useful.

"This was a lab." Simmons pieces together from what she's found. "Was this leased as a lab?" She asks May.

"Self-empowerment center." May explains. "With a top-of-the-line motion sensor security system."

"So, a top secret lab?" Ava translates from secret agent to normal.

"And a superhero. It can't just be a coincidence. So was the explosion sabotage or was it for the masked hero?" Ava asks the scientists.

"Or maybe they were just over their heads." May states.

"We're working that problem out now." Fitz says as he opens a case filled with miniaturized drones.

"If you're gonna be in the field, Agent Fitz, you have to get your hands dirty ." May informs him.

"No, I don't." Fitz says as the drones come alive and fly off. "Heigh-ho, off to work you go." He says as they start scanning everything in the environment.

"Centipede, it was chattered in the web and then vanished." Skye explains. "I traced the access-point MAC address to that building."

"What were you after?" Ward asks her.

"The truth. What are you after?" She asks back.

"World peace." He states. "You pseudo-anarchist hacker types love to stir things up. But you're never around for the fallout. People keep secrets for a reason, Skye." Ward informs her.

"Well, just because you're reasonable and...firm, doesn't mean you're not an evil, faceless government tool bag." Skye says as Ward gets up to her and she sees he towers over her.

"Just give us your guys name." Ward commands.

"He's not my guy!" Skye states.

"You understand he could be in danger right now." Coulson states.

"Then let me go. Let me talk to him alone, not the T-1000 here." She states and she swears she heard someone laughing outside the room.

"You want to be alone with him. Of course. She's a groupie." Ward says to Coulson. "All this hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D., tracking powers. She might as well be one of those sweaty cosplay girls crowding outside Stark tower."

"What?! I would...it was one time." Skye states.

Coulson calls Ward out of the room to talk.

"Is it the girl?" He asks her. "She getting under your skin or is it the assignment? Are you so anxious to get out of this assignment that you'd deliberately blow an interrogation?"

"Sir, give me a minute alone with her, you'll have your answers." Ward states as Peter walks into the computer room with them.

"Wow, that your answer for everything?" Peter asks him.

"She's an asset." Coulson states as he takes something from a container.

"She's such an...asset?" Ward asks completely confused.

"We know nothing about her." Peter explains as he shows that he found nothing about her anywhere in S.H.I.E.L.D.s database.

"Do you appreciate how often that happens? That never happens." Coulson states as he opens the case and shows a syringe with something inside it.

"We need what she knows, and that's when you come in, S." Coulson says to Peter and hands him the syringe.

"I'll get answers. I just hate doing this." Peter states.

"By the way, did you seriously have to laugh at the T-1000 joke?" Coulson asks Peter.

"It was too good not too." Peter explains and walks towards the room