Scorched
On the Bus, Ward and Peter are playing chess, and so far Ward has the upper hand with Peter only having a pawn, castle, and a bishop along with his king.
"From here on out, every decision you've made has lead you here. I accept your surrender." Ward tells Peter, but it becomes a hollow victory when Peter moves his bishop and Ward realizes what just happened.
"Checkmate, I accept your surrender." Peter corrects the agent and he didn't realize he missed that.
"Okay, how on earth do you do that?" Ward questions since they've been playing dozens of times and Peter has been getting the upper hand every time Ward is about to win, it's starting to feel like Peter is taunting him.
"Did you forget I was trained under the Natasha Romanoff?" Peter asks since this was what his every weekend used to be like. Natasha training him to see trough his opponents moves, get inside their head and mess around with them if you can.
Coulson watches them for a minute with May when the alerts go off that there's a new mission for them. "Chan Ho Yin. Just a struggling street performer until a few years ago, when mr. Chan began to exhibit moderate pyrokinetic abilities." Coulson informs the whole group.
"So what gave him powers?" Fitz asks Coulson. "It's still under investigation. But Chan did live near the decommissioned Wan Tai nuclear plant when it caught fire." Coulson explains.
"Yeah, that sounds like the ideal place to get powers." Ava states to them and Peter agrees with her theory. "So how did we find out about him?" Simmons asks Coulson.
"Informant saw him lighting torches in a street show...with his pinkie." May explains to her. "That's probably what got S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention." Peter replies to her.
"We told him to keep his abilities under wraps. He's been on the index ever since." Coulson explains the rest.
"The index?" Skye asks, since she never heard of this. "It's the list S.H.I.E.L.D. keeps of people and objects with powers. Me and Ava are on that same list." Peter explains to her.
"Wait, how many are there?" Skye asks since she thought Peter and Ava were the only two inside S.H.I.E.L.D. "Are you saying there are enough people with powers to keep a list?" She asks them.
"It's a really short list." Peter tells her. "Some on the list are mostly our age. A teenager who can walk through solid objects. Another one who has sharp claws coming from her fists, she still scares me. A girl who can stretch herself long distances. And also a girl who can control squirrels. I...just don't ask." Peter informs Skye and to May's mind, Peter's listed a few candidates for the Young Avengers initiative Fury is trying to put into place with Ava and Peter being the leaders.
Those members being Kitty Pride, Kamala Kahn, Laura Kinney, and Doreen Green. The other members being Sam Alexander, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand. Their codenames being Nova, Powerman, Iron Fist.
"And the list is made to protect all of us. And in some cases, S.H.I.E.L.D. has had to go in and contain them." Peter also admits.
"Mr. Chan was low risk. He had a Agent watching him who checked in every few days with him. That's how we discovered him missing." Coulson informs and may shows his home looks untouched and pulled up Agent Kwan.
"Hello Agent Kwan, how are you?" Peter asked in Cantonese, one of the dozen languages he's fluent in.
"Not as good as I could be." Agent Kwan responds in Cantonese as well.
"Everyone, this is Agent Kwan, Chan Ho Yin's case Agent." May introduces him to the team. "What can you tell us?"
"Not much, I'm afraid." Kwan tells them in English this time. "Chan is a magician, so at first, I thought he'd made himself disappear."
"The file says you caught him violating his index agreements before." Coulson remembers in his file.
"On two separate occasions. Claimed we were hampering his artistic expression. But late last night, he was taken by professionals. The only thing they left behind was thus scrap of aluminuzed material." Kwan informs them and shows them the sample.
"Isn't that for Fireproofing clothes?" Ava asks Peter and she's right.
"That means who took him obviously knew he had powers." Peter states out loud.
"Yes, and we think we know why." Kwan tells them and they listen to him. "Over the last few days, tech division discovered a crack into our data stream. It's the same cyber punks who hacked us before. Somehow, they got in again. It's the Rising Tide." Kwan informs them and they look to Skye.
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Coulson and Ward takes Skye to his office to talk to her privately. "The Rising Tide is a huge organization of hacktivists from all around the world. Any of them could've done this." Skye defends herself.
"No ones saying that you did." Ward informs her.
"But you're thinking it. I can see your face thinking it. I'm sure you're taking into account that I have been living in a plane with you this whole time. It would be impossible for me to hack S.H.I.E.L.D. Especially with Peter." Skye states to them.
"Or even easier. We're gonna need more than that." Coulson tells her, since they can't just take her word this time.
"Let me prove it then. I'll trace the back, and I'll prove it wasn't me." Skye says and Ward thinks they should let her do it.
"Then do it and fast, the longer Mr. Chan's missing, the more danger he's in." Coulson states and they're ready to get to work.
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Skye and Peter do their thing and work together to find where the hack came from and it was easy with them both working on it. "I think we might have our origin." Peter says and Skye looks to see he's right.
"It's in Austin, Texas." Skye tells them. "We got a name?" Coulson asks them.
"No, but we do have the location, it was some cafe, but were in the system." Peter tells his uncle.
"I'm gonna hack into see if any credit card charges from that day match up with any known hackers." Skye says and a name comes up.
"Miles Lydon, That's definitely not Skye." Ava states reading the file they pull up.
"You know him?" Coulson asks Skye. "Every hacker in the world knows him." Skye informs him.
"Not Judy the hacker world, this is the guy who infiltrated the kremlin." Peter states and they're heading to stop Lyson and find what he knows before chasing down who took Chan.
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They make it to Austin and Ava with Skye check out the cafe where he logged in and he hasn't been seen in a while, when Ward and Peter get eyes on him.
Peter is watching from above while Ward is on ground level and once Lydon sees him, he takes off and Ward chases him. "I've been made." Ward warns them and Peter chases him from above as Lydon tries getting away in his vehicle where Coulson is driving after him and Peter swings on to the roof and sticks on.
"Hang on there, Peter." Coulson warns him. "When am I never hanging on?" Peter questions as they're in a chase and Peter tries webbing his car, and tries not to get them stuck and Lydon activated some gridlock protocol from his phone and Coulson can't chase him anymore.
Luckily, Peter was able to get around the vehicles and webbed onto the tires and Peter uses his strength to stop his car. Coulson exits the car and arrests Lydon. "Nice work, kid." Coulson comments on his quick thinking.
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They get to Lydon's place and it turns out that Skye and Lydon actually know each other and she warned him what to look out for. "How long were you two in contact?" Coulson asks her.
"I contacted him once when I joined to tell him I was okay, and earlier today." Skye answers honestly.
"When you tipped off an active suspect?" Peter asks her with his mask still on while around Lydon.
"No, it's not like that. We both met when we were both a little screwed up. Okay, he was a little screwed up, I was a lot." She corrects herself. "We looked after one another." Skye explains and to the two of them it sounds like what Peter and Coulson wound do for each other. "That's why I warned him, not because were working together on this, but because we're friends." Skye tries apologizing.
"So, if not you, who is he working for?" Peter wonders. "Nobody, he's an idealist, believes in freedom of information." Skye explains to them.
"That information cost a man his freedom, and not only possibly compromising more of the people on that list, but you also sabotaged our attempts to remedy that." Peter states since he always stands on the side of human kind, but also on the enhanced kind.
"No, I came here to find what Miles knows about Chan. And he knows nothing. He's a dead end, harmless." Skye tells them and Peter leaves to find how they're doing with interrogating Lydon. "I was gonna find out everything I could to try to help. I juts felt like I couldn't tell you guys everything."
"The classified information you stole, who did you give it to?" Ava asks Lydon. "It's information. It has a life of its own." Lydon tells her and she doesn't know if he's crazy or he actually believes that.
"What happened to mr. Chan?" May questions him. "I don't know who that is, so why don't you tell me?" He asks when Peter comes in. "We get anything?" Peter asks them and sees he knows nothing.
"Coulson says to take him in." Peter informs them and May handcuffs him and they begin to leave.
"Gather all the evidence and secure the prisoners. We got what we're looking for here. We're heading for Hong Kong." Coulson tells them and they head back to the Bus.
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Peter and Ava decided to kill time listening to Skye and Miles argue with each other since they've got nothing to do until they've reached Hong Kong. "So, I guess due process isn't really S.H.I.E.L.D. protocol." Miles states to the camera.
"They don't have time for it." Skye tells him.
"Whoa, are you defending them?" Miles asks her. "These people are denying our basic rights."
"It's not about us, they're trying to save someone's life." Skye informs him.
"Listen to yourself. That's what they always say to justify invading privacy, Skye. They stand for everything we despise. Secrets, censorship. And they've got child soldiers now?" Miles questions referring to Ava and Peter.
"Enough with the manifesto, Miles." Skye states and Peter just shuts off the camera at this point.
"The guy just keeps hiding behind platitudes." Peter tells them.
"He's dirty, I can feel it." Ward states to Fitz-Simmons who are searching though everything on Dylon.
"Actually, there's not much on him. He's got no family records. His apartment is under an alias. And he plays Minecraft a lot, where he runs a nasty mob." Simmons tells them.
"Zombie pigment?" Ava asks since she used to play the same before everything and then Simmons finds something.
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Ward goes into the interrogation room where Skye and Miles are. "She's been defending you, saying you're a stand up guy. So I'm gonna give you a chance." Ward says and drops a file on the desk. "You wanna tell her, or should I?" He questions him.
"I don't have to listen to you." Miles says and Ward takes that as his answer. "Your boyfriend here made a few deposits in the days following the leak. All said it's about a million dollars." Ward explains and shows the payments.
"I can explain." Miles tries to, but Skye interrupts him. "Did you sell information? Did you?" Skye asks and waits for his answer.
"Yes." He answer honestly and Skye is angry. "What the hell were you thinking?!" She asks him.
"It was a million dollars. And the woman was harmless, I looked into it." Miles tells them both.
"No one with good intentions pays that kind of money for information." Skye states to him.
"Who was the woman?" Ward asks him, seeing something useful.
"A fan of the Rising Tide, some rich girl in a flower dress. She knew about me, said I had a gift. Thought people like us deserved more. Wanted me to crack into a S.H.I.E.L.D. feed. It didn't seem like anything I hadn't already put out there, so I did it. And I tracked the money so it want some evil corporation. Just some eco research lab." Lydon tells them.
"Ecological research?" Ward asks him.
"Yeah, insects, some stuff with centipedes." He says and that shocked everyone hearing it. The same people that turned Mike Peterson into a weapon have Chan.
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At a research lab in Hong Kong, the girl in the flower dress is looking over Chan and sees that he's working with the new centipede serum without going nuclear like the past subjects and are ready to go to stage 2.
That stage being drain him of all of his blood and see why he's able to do as said.
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Back on the Bus, they're all coming up with a plan now knowing who they're up against. "First L.A., now Hong Kong. What kind of organization is doing all of this?" Ava asks them, hoping someone understands.
"Could has to be international, well financed, interested in creating a super soldier. Let's hope when we find mr. Chan we get some answers." Coulson tells her.
"Using the account information Lydon age us, I was able to find his location here." Peter tells them while pulling up a map of Hong Kong.
"Any ideas what centipede wants with Chan?" May asks them.
"Hard to say, buy Simmons thinks considering he's pyrokinetic, there's a good chance his genetics could stabilize the Extremis element of the centipede serum. It would keep them from going...boom." Fitz explains and they know that means they're not going to leave Chan alive long.
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As they all get ready to head into the lab, Coulson asks Ward to watch over the two prisoners. Peter grabs his mask and places it onto his face. "You know, if they're looking for super soldiers..." Ava tries to tell Peter and he already thought of it.
"Don't worry, Ava. I have the tendency to be hard to capture." Peter tells her and they meet up with Kwan.
"This facility has five floors. First four are research. Fifth is listed as maintenance but uses half of the buildings energy." Coulson informs the Hong Kong people.
"Either they're guarding the worlds largest vacuums, or that's where they're holding Chan." Kwan states.
"Send your B and C teams in through the tunnels to secure the lower floors. Warn them the centipede serum is highly explosive." Peter explains and Kwan understands and they're going through the roof.
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They make it to the roof, Peter and Ava use their powers to break a hole in the ceiling and they start searching with heat signals and are looking for the largest one.
They find dozens in one room and Ava with Peter kick down the doors and there's only three people guarding him, and Peter webs them to the wall and the agents start releasing him Chan from the restrains.
Peter webs up the last guard when his senses go off and he sees that Chan burned a hole in Kwan's chest. "What did you do?" Peter asks him.
"I've set myself free." Chan says and sends a blast of Fire their way, but whatever was protecting his skin has worn out after whatever centipede did to him so all he ended up doing was burning his hands.
"You were all forcing me to keep my gift locked up inside." Chan states to them as they run for cover.
"Chan, I'm sorry you've lived a life you didn't want, but violence never solved anything." Peter states to Chan.
"It will at least keep me from being a prisoner. By you, by them, there's no difference. Have you ever wondered why they let you, a child, become a Agent? Because you were special, or was it because of your abilities?" Chan asks Peter and he asks himself that a few times.
Chan sends a blast of fire at them and Ava quickly moves before it could hit her. "I'm pretty sure his file said nothing about being a complete psycho." Ava states to Peter.
"Chan, believe it or not, this can get worse for both of us."
"Chan Ho Yin might have believed your S.H.I.E.L.D. lies, but not Scorch." Chan tells them, giving himself a name.
"Wait, who?" Ava ask Peter.
"Oh, no, they gave him a name." Peter states and that means he's gone off the deep end and they pull out theie Night-Night guns.
"Give me some cover, we'll make it so he wakes up in a contaminant facility." Peter says and they both raise up to shoot him and Chan breathes a firewall to protect him.
"Nothing can stop me!" Chan states to them.
"Where's Coulson when you need him?" Peter wonders.
The woman in the flower dress is taking what she can before trying to escape.
Peter and Ava are able to make it out of the room and barricade the fireproof doors. "Well, That happened." Ava states when they hear Chan blow something else up inside the room.
"We didn't barricade the other doors, did we?" Peter asks her and Ava realizes their were other ways he could've escaped.
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Scorch makes his way through and runs into the scientist who was trying to dissect him.
"Please, we can help you. Make you stronger, take the name Scorch and make it mean something." The scientist pleads as Chan doesn't listen and slams his fist into the floor and the entire floor turns into flames and he burns her into ashes.
Coulson comes up behind him, seconds too late and sees him. "Mr. Chan, we don't want to hurt you." He tells Chan and that makes him look to him. "But we're gonna have to." Coulson says as May comes up behind him and injected more of the centipede serum into him and then thy run for it.
As they're doing that, Peter and Ava downloaded everything they could and ran for it themselves as the building goes up into flames.
Coulson gave Lydon a device that'll keep him from doing anything with the Rising Tide, even sent the money Lydon got from hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D. to Agent Kwan for his family.
Peter and Ava were looking into what they stole from their building. "This is a lot of stuff from S.H.I.E.L.D., nothing new on my side, how about you?" Ava asks Peter and sees he's staring into the computer screen in shock.
"Peter, what's wrong?" Ava asks him and look at what he sees and is shocked about what he's looking at.
It's everything about Peter Benjamin Parker. They assumed they knew about him being Agent S, but it's much more than just that. They know where he's lived, what missions he has been involved in, where he grew up. Everything down to where he was born.
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The lady in the flower dress visits someone she knows in prison. "Well, you know I'm not going to do the talking." He tells her.
"The Doctor is dead. She did find a solution to our combustion problem. It won't be long until we have stale subjects. We're into stage 2 now." She informs him
"That mean my situation's going to be improving?" He asks her.
"Well, other problems have surfaced...resurfaced, I should say. The S.H.I.E.L.D. unit, they were the same who took care of mr. Peterson in Los Angeles."
"Not much I can do in here. So why visit me?" He is still asking.
"I need you to get back in touch with the clairvoyant. Peter Parker seems to finally be ready for us to begin stage 3." She tells him and sees him go into shock to hearing that name.
"The one who can give our toy soldiers a kickstart off the shelves. You think you can secure his DNA? The clairvoyant doesn't like to be touched." He tells the girl.
"We'll find a way to get him. He may think S.H.I.E.L.D. will keep him safe, but he'll learn that they're not invincible." She tells him and knows that they need Peter Parker alive to hopefully either brainwash him, or get a sample of his blood to create indestructible soldiers.
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