The cold

Peter Parker, one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s greatest agents, is as of now crawling across the basement of the house of Ian Quinn with two bullets in him. He tried doing the best he could to stop the bleeding, but his webbing could do so much when he realized that his powers weren't helping save him.

Peter feels nothing but the cold air around him and from the blood escaping him as he's trying to get word out to the others of his location, but nobody knows where he is.

He uses all of his strength to try to reach the door handle, to call out for anyone...but it was too much and he drops to the floor as all of his strength leaves him and he closes his eyes for the last time.

-

You wanna know how this began? How he ended up here?

It began this morning, when the team found out Ian Quinn was getting a big purchase package from a company called Cybertek Technologies. A complier that deals with advance technologies and research.

Where it gets interesting is they've hired a private security outfit to transport the purchase, all former military men. And it's being transported on a train through the Italian countryside straight to Ian Quinn.

They took over the operation from the Italian government so they can work on the operation with someone knowing what's happening while they go in undercover.

May and Ward are going in as a couple and are there for when they locate the package and place a tracker on it.

Fitz, Peter and Skye are on communications. Peter has also noticed how Coulson has been keeping him away from the frontlines as well as he can for some strange reason.

Coulson, Simmons and Ava are going in as a family. Coulson being the father, Simmons his daughter and Ava the adopted daughter.

-

They're all on the train doing their assignments as may and Ward make it to their room in first class.

"Once I've located the package, I'll let you know where to place the tracker." May tells him.

"Does it seem like things are getting personal with Coulson and these assignments?" Ward wonders. "I know Coulson's been though hell, but...he hasn't been the same since, and I don't know what he said to Skye, but she's different. Driven, focused. It feels like Coulson is on a warpath to take down Quinn."

May doesn't want to say much since she knows about the threat that the Clairvoyant said about Peter. "The Clairvoyant had him tortured, this is personal. Quinn's the only person we know who's connected to all of this." She says and tries out the new spy-sunglasses Peter created to see through solid objects.

May then opens the window to the plane and climbs onto the ceiling of the train.

-

With Skye, Fitz and Peter, they're in the train car waiting for their cue to steal the keys to set up in the storage area of the train.

"Has Coulson been acting strange to you guys?" Peter asks them in a hushed voice.

"No, why?" Fitz asks.

"I don't know, it feels like he doesn't want me to be in the line of fire recently." Peter explains.

"Maybe since these guys wanted you and Coulson last time, they're keeping you out of their grasp." Skye suggests.

"Oh, here we go." Fitz says as the one of the train men approaches them.

Skye gets up and gets his attention. "Do you speak English?" She asks.

"Of course." He assures her. "How may I be of service?"

"Can you recommend a restaurant in downtown Zagreb?" Skye asks.

"Someplace affordable, with big portions." Fitz adds using an American accent.

"You are looking for something romantic?" He asks them.

"Oh, no. Traveling family, our little brother is with us." Skye lies and points to Peter.

"How's it going?" Peter asks him.

"We've been planning this whirlwind trip all around Europe for a while. But our parents didn't trust us leaving the country with him until he was old enough to at least know how to find us if he were to get lost." Skye explains while leaning in close enough to seal his keys.

As soon as he left, they made up shop in the compartment of the train using his keys to get in.

"Family trip, great lie." Fitz tells Skye.

"Well, I could easily say that you chained your hair color and me and Peter look like we can be siblings." Skye says.

"Nah, I don't see it." Peter replies to that statement. "Besides, could've been easier for me to have just break the lock with my powers." He states.

"Just wanted to see your face with my lie. You disappointed me." Skye tells him.

"I was trained to hide my emotions when needed to. Frankly, you could've stubbed my toe and I wouldn't have flinched." Peter says as they get to work. "Comms are now live. Check in, who's out there?"

"We're here. Just waiting for May's signal." Ava reports to them.

-

"So, remember, our target is Carlo-" Coulson was explaining when the girls interrupted him.

"Manchini, head of security." Ava states.

"I know, I memorized his face." Simmons says. "I memorized everything." She says when they see the said Carlos heading in their direction and Ava slips a tracker into his pocket for May to see from above.

-

May activates her glasses and gets the signal from the tracker. "Following the target to the package." She tells them as she follows him from above.

"Okay, all of Cyberteck cases are usually lined with tungsten polymer to prevent scanning." Peter explains to her. "Meaning it will show up as black on the infrared."

May understands and keeps following the man until she comes up across a black box blurred out on the scanner.

"Eyes on the package. It's the fourth seat from the back." May tells them but gets nothing back but static. "Can anyone hear me?" She asks when she sees Cybertek is taking the package and leaving when one of the security men starts shooting and she looks and sees someone in the car's opening shooting and uses her parachute to get off the train and tries getting into contact with anyone on the train.

-

Everyone is getting the same thing as May about the static in the comms and Coulson is getting worried.

"My comms aren't working, you guy?" He asks the two of them.

"Peter? You read?" Ava asks into her comm.

"Fitz? Skye?" Simmons calls and gets static as well.

Coulson is now fearing the worse and gets up. "Somethings wrong. Sit tight. I'm gonna go make sure we don't loose the package." He says and goes to the back of the train to Where May said it was before they went offline.

Coulson makes it to the back and sees the package is gone when Ward comes running in.

"Ward?" Coulson asks as he keeps running.

"We've been made!" Ward says as the Cybertek security comes chasing Ward and pulls out a device.

"Grenade! Coulson, we got to jump!" Ward says and they leap out of the door of the plane and they drop the grenade, freezing the two of them in place.

May just reaches them and sees they're frozen in place for some reason.

"I've got to get you guys somewhere safe." May says before leaving into the fields and finds a farmers truck and starts to Hotwire it when a gun gets pointed to her head.

"We've been looking for you, Agent May." One of the men from the European government says who may recognizes as who Coulson talked to about the case, Signore Russo, when a truck arrives and surrounds her.

-

Coulson and Ward finally get up with no memory of being frozen but sees that the train is gone.

"The train, it just..." Ward starts trying to find the words.

"Yep. Vanished." Coulson confirms. "Which I might add, not easy." He says.

"I told Simmons I'd be back for them." Ward informs Coulson.

"May and Peter are there. They'll be okay." Coulson says when Ward looks and sees May's spy-glasses.

"May's not there." Ward states picking the glasses up.

Coulson now gets worried for everyone and pulls out his phone to call for backup. "Is your phone working?" He asks Ward.

"No." He says while pulling his out. "Cybertek must have taken out our electronics." He guesses when Coulson picks up the weapon they thought was a grenade.

"Might be a cloaking mechanism." Coulson guesses.

"Maybe it created a portal and jumped the train there?" Ward guesses.

"Let's hope not. I can't deal with Asgard today." Coulson states looking over the device.

"Cybertek knew we were coming. How?" Ward asks.

"Could've been the Clairvoyant." Coulson guesses and thinks he might've played Peter into their hands when they see cars approaching and think they might be Cybertek.

"We got to get back to the plane." Ward says and they run into the fields.

They go through the field and they spot the car may hotwired.

"Keys might be in it. It's the country. People are very trusting in the country." Coulson says as they approach and see the car already running and it was hot wired.

"This is a bit suspicious." Ward states.

"I was thinking fortuitous. Let's get to the plane." Coulson says as they get into the truck and drive off for the plane.

-

With May, the Spanish government men have moved her to a secure house and have tie her hands above her before finally waking her with water.

"Get your bearings, sweetheart. There you go." Signore Russo says to her. "I realize you're confused. But I'm here to help. You see, I make it so Cybertek equipment moves across Italy without incident. They make sure I'm well taken care of. All we need you to do is tell me where Agent Coulson and Ward are."

May gets angry and quickly smiles at what she heard him call her.

"Why are you smiling?" He asks her.

"You called me sweetheart." May mocks.

"Fine, have it your way." Russo says when he grabs a knife from across the room. "Just remember, your boss asked to be part of this op. I warned him against it. So if you're looking for someone to blame, look for him." He states and stabs her shoulder.

May groans in pain before getting an idea. "That's just what I needed." She states when he turns away and she grabs the knife and cuts her hands free and starts fighting off the men in the room and Russo gets into his car and drives off while she was distracted.

-

Back on the Bus, Ward and Coulson arrive to get a call from him and answers.

"Signore Russo, are you okay?" Coulson asks and sees his head has a mark from May. "What happened?"

"Agent Coulson. Thank god. I've been trying to reach you. Cybertek knew." Russo lies to them. "They knew we were at the station."

"They knew we were on the train, too. Most of my team is unaccounted for." Coulson says.

"Most of my men are dead." Russo says referring to the men May just took out. "Where are you now?"

"On our plane. We'll send you the coordinates." Coulson says. "And Russo, do you have any idea what happened to the train?" He asks, hoping they haven't gotten to the the rest of the team, especially Peter.

"What do you mean?" Russo asks, not understanding what he means.

"It vanishes, with our team still on it." Coulson explains to him.

"Okay. We'll look into that. I'm on my way to you now." Russo says going along with whatever they're saying trying to get away from May. "And maybe together, we can find some answers." He promises before handing up.

"What do we do now?" Ward asks Coulson.

"I'll call H.Q." Coulson says and hands the device to Ward. "You take this to the labs. We need to figure out what happened to the train."

Ward places the device on the table and waits for something to happen and he has no idea how it works.

"Holotable, on." Ward says while waving his hand and nothing happens.

"Holotable, activate." He tries and nothing happens so he looks underneath the table and finds the power button. As soon as it powers up, everything from their past missions comes alive.

"Really? Is this Peter messing with me again?" Ward wonders knowing Peter loves pranks and starts swinging his arms around and removes everything until he finds the small grenade when Coulson joins him.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. has satellite images and the train's gone. They're checking alternative routes it could've taken. If it's somewhere on earth, we'll find it." Coulson explains and sees how far he's gotten with the table.

"It's tricky, isn't it?" Coulson asks. "I couldn't even find the on button without Peter's help. That kid makes me feel old." He says and wishes he took Peter up on that offer to show him how this thing works.

"Can you zoom in?" Coulson asks Ward and he tries using his hands and nothing happens.

Coulson tries it himself and only manages to get the device to squish itself.

"Okay, let's just upload the specs to H.Q." Coulson offers giving up and Ward agrees when they see Russo coming up.

"Agent Coulson, it's gonna be all right." Russo comforts them as he starts boarding the Bus. "We found your people. The train, it's-" he gets interrupted by a knife going into his back and they see May bruised, beaten and wet.

"Wheels up in five." She says leaving them with questions.

"You okay?" Ward asks seeing her bruises. "You were on the train when it disappeared."

"May, why'd you kill Russo?" Coulson asks.

"The train didn't disappear, Russo sold us out." May explains to them. "Get the plane ready. I need a shower." She states and leaves them.

-

Back before the train disappeared, Peter sees the glasses go offline and his senses warning him something is wrong.

"May, can you hear me?" Peter asks, hoping it's just some train-tick. It's not a thing, but it's better than thinking they've been lead into a trap. "Ava, you there?" He asks and is now fearing the worst.

"All comms And phones are dead." Skye informs them. "Someone's using some sorta electronic scrambler."

"Cybertek knows we're here." Peter warns them.

"We have to go warn the others." Fitz says and they agree when the door burst opens and someone starts shooting at them.

"Stay down!" Peter shouts as they duck for cover. Out of nowhere, Ava comes out from behind him and tackles him to the ground when Simmons comes in and the man pulls out a bomb.

"We've been made!" Simmons says as they all try getting a distance away from the bomb as it goes off and Simmons along with the security guard falls to the ground.

"She okay?" Ava asks as Skye checks for a pulse.

"She's okay." Skye is happy to report.

Peter takes a closer look at the device and what happened to the two of them. "I'm guessing this is a different form of Dentotoxin."

"Like the stuff in the Night-Night gun?" Skye asks.

"Yeah, but they've updated it. It's now airborn." Peter states.

"I suppose if they were in some form of black sleep, that makes sense." Fitz agrees with him.

"We got to get out of here, find the others and find out what to do." Skye says and they agree.

"Maybe we should leave Jemma a Night-Night or something to help in case." Ava says and Peter paces his into her hands and takes his web shooters out of his pockets.

"Never leave home without them." Peter states to them.

"What do we do with this guy?" Skye asks regarding the security guy. Peter smiles and knows exactly what to do.

He works fast and uses some of his webbing to put the guy into a cocoon that he can breath in, while he's hanging upside down.

"Don't worry, the webbing holding him up will snap before he dies of head rush, but the cocoon will keep him for about a few hours." Peter says to Ava when the train begins to stop.

Skye comes back after checking the train for the others. "I've looked everywhere and can't find the others anywhere."

"What about Cybertek?" Fitz asks when they hear vehicles outside and look out the window to see that they're taking the package away.

"What do we do? We're the only ones left." Fitz asks.

"Do you have an extra tracker?" Skye asks Peter.

"Yeah, of course I do." Peter informs her.

"Then let's follow them. Two of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best agents and two tech geniuses. Let's do this." Skye states and they leave to follow them to Quinn.

-

Coulson and his team have caught up with the train and missed them by about a half hour.

"Agents on the ground have no idea why the train stopped suddenly." Ward tells them.

"Any sign of our team?" Coulson asks.

"No." Ward says when they see where the windows have been cleared off to see the package being moved.

They go into the car to see what the can find and see all of their tech equipment has been shot when Simmons wakes up and grabs hold of the Night-Night gun.

"Everyone get down!" She yells before she starts shooting everywhere.

"Simmons, stop!" Coulson calls out for her and she sees that it's the rest of them and is confused.

"Where's everyone else?" Simmons asks and they were hoping that she knew.

-

Ava had Peter were able to keep up, but it took some time for Skye and Fitz to keep up since they're not as fit as the two of them. Heck, no one is as fit as the two of them.

"Here we are." Peter says as the car with the package apeoaches and leaves into the countryside home and Quinn joins them. "Uncle C was right. Cybertek lead us right to Quinn." He informs them.

"Okay, activate the tracker. Let them know we're here." Ava asks them and Fitz is on it.

Peter takes a close look and knows there's something going on here bigger than just a simple package.

"We can't let Quinn get away again." Skye says knowing they'll escape before the team arrives. "If Coulson we're here, he wouldn't let that happen."

"That's crazy, right Peter?" Ava states since neither of them have their bulletproof suits and that could mean something bad could happen.

"He wouldn't want us to let that happen, she's right." Peter says and Ava is confused. "Fitz, Ava, you guys stay out here, disable their cars. Me and Skye will go in, take down their tech support." He tells them the plan.

Ava quickly grabs his hand before he has a chance to leave with Skye. "You sure this is a good idea?" She asks.

"No, but I'll be okay." Peter promises.

"I'll hold you to that." Ava promises as they split up to do their jobs.

Skye and Peter make it to the house and Skye shoots the guard using the Night-Night gun. Peter uses his mask to scan the building and finds the tech labs on the top floor.

He then shoots a web to the ceiling and grabs onto Skye's waiste. "Hold on." He warns her before retracting his web and she grabs onto his neck and they get pulled to the computer labs. To make sure she doesn't get caught, Peter webs the door shut so nobody can get in.

"Get what you can, I'll look for that package." Peter tells her the plan and leaps down the window and into the lower window. Luckily it was open so he didn't smash any glass on his way in when he hears someone from Cybertek talking down the hall using his super hearing.

"Find mr. Quinn, tell him his purchase is downstairs." She says and Peter knows where he's going.

He makes his way through the building and finds his way down the stairs into the basement and sees a long cylinder container in the room that looks like a Star Trek escape pod. Peter approaches the container and looks inside to see the last person he ever expected.

"Mike Peterson?" Peter asks when his senses go off and he turns to see Quinn and half a dozen guards holding quick rifles at him.

"Peter Benjamin Parker, I presume." Quinn says as Peter is aiming his web shooters at them, but he knows if he tries to fight them, he will get shot since he doesn't have his bulletproof suit on. "The Clairvoyant told me to expect you. Yeah, you guys have been looking into us, while we've been looking into all of you." Quinn tells him.

"And we found a handful of particularly interesting things in your parents crashed plane." Quinn continues as he opens Mike's container and Peter now sees the scars from the explosion he was in and his missing limbs.

"Oh, that's right. You two know each other, don't you?" Quinn asks them. "Yeah. With great power, comes great responsibility. I believe your exact words were at the station. Do you know who I am?" He asks Mike.

"And do you have your orders?" Quinn asks and Mike nods his head. "Good. Because I purchased something that's gonna help you complete them." He says and shows he has bought animatronic leg. That's what the package was they were after.

"Mike." Peter calls out to the man. "What's going on here?" He asks and he doesn't answer as Quinn attaches the leg to Mike.

Peter just watches while keeping his guard up, knowing it's bad time to let it down as Mike takes his first steps with his new leg.

"Thank you. You will be receiving your payment shortly." Quinn tells the sellers. "That is the best money can buy, my friend. Every piece of technology in you is top of the line." He informs Mike.

"I just wonder if I'm getting my money's worth." Quinn says while Peter is getting a bad feeling. "I know you get your orders from the Clairvoyant. So that means you're not allowed to hurt me. But what I tried to hurt you?" He asks and pulls out a gun on Mike.

Peter gets ready to web the gun if he tries to hurt Mike.

"No." Mike says and Peter sees he must be under the same control as the Centipede soldiers.

"And...if I wanted you to hurt him?" Quinn asks and hands Mike the gun and raises his hand to face Peter. "Could you hurt him? I mean, what would hurt Agent Coulson more than taking away the one person he cares about in the world?"

"Those aren't my orders." Mike says and hands the gun to Quinn. "He's not who I'm supposed to kill." He says before leaving along with the other men.

Peter then gets over the fear and turns to Quinn and raises his web shooters.

"What did you do to-" Peter was asking when a BANG is heard and Peter feels nothing but cold and looks down to see Quinn actually shot him. The blood rushing from his heart, hoping his powers kick in and starts healing him, but they're not doing anything as he starts to fall and Quinn catches him before shooting him again and dropping him.

"I'm sorry." Quinn apologizes and takes some of Peter's blood. "I have my orders. They said they don't need it fresh. But you were S.H.I.E.L..D.'s greatest asset." He says before leaving him to die, but before he could close the basement doors, Peter shot a web to his suit that he doesn't seem to notice.

And this is about where you started off.

Peter's down bleeding, nobody knows exactly where he is and there isn't much hope for him. The webbing he tried to stop the bleeding didn't do anything, and he's starting to think that maybe the bullets were created to counteract his abilities somehow.

He feels nothing but the cold air around him and from the blood escaping him as he's trying to get word out to the others of his location, but nobody knows where he is. He uses all of his strength to try to reach the door handle, to call out for anyone...but it was too much and he drops to the floor as all of his strength leaves him and he closes his eyes for the last time.

As he closes his eyes, one thought enters his mind. The only person he truly failed in his life.

Gwen.

-

Upstairs, Mike meets up with the rest of Cybertek's people.

"Where's Quinn?" One of them asks.

"Where's the money?" Another asks.

"There is no money," Mike informs them, "you failed. The Clairvoyant isn't happy. You lead S.H.I.E.L.D. right to us." He states before he grabs one of their necks and everyone starts trying to shoot him but they're failing.

-

Outside, Fitz and Ava are working on the cars when Ava can smell something in the air using her emblem that she keeps with her even without her suit (Peter's advice). it smells like...blood. Before she could tell Fitz what she can feel, a man comes flying out a window and they hear more commotion inside the home before they hear another gunshot and see Ward and the others have made it.

"Where's Skye and Peter?" Coulson asks them.

"Skye's in the top floor in the building on the computers, we don't know where Peter is." Ava tells them.

"They didn't want Quinn getting away again." Fitz explains as they rush to surround the building.

-

Quinn was walking out to his car when one of the men warn him the driver isn't responding.

"Ah, Coulson's team finally arrived." Quinn states when the door gets broken open and Ward comes in and shoots the Night-Night gun at all of Quinn's men and before he could go anywhere, Coulson points an actual gun to his head.

Ava comes in and punches Quinn and he falls onto a table where Coulson holds him down as Skye joins them after Ava cut trough the webbing. Ava sniffs Quinn and smells Peter and Coulson sees the blood on his hand and in the canister.

"Where's Agent S?" Coulson yells while keeping the gun to his head.

"You know, Agent Coulson, it's dangerous...to keep sending your own nephew into dangerous assignments after what I warned you on that phone call. Especially when he means so much to you." Quinn states as Coulson punches him, knocking him out.

"Search the house, find him!" Coulson tells everyone as they start looking. "Tiger, you got his scent anywhere?" He asks Ava when she sees the web attached to the floor.

"Don't need it." Ava tells him and leads him to the basement when the scent of blood gets stronger and Ava breaks down the door and looks around the room when Coulson spotted him leaning next to the door.

"Oh, no." Coulson says hating to see his nephew like this. "Simmons! Get down here!" He calls out and Ava runs to him and sees the injuries.

"No, no, no!" Ava says rapidly as her heart starts racing seeing not only her friend, but someone she has come to see as family is dying.

"Just hang on, Peter, okay?" Coulson pleads to him when Simmons and everyone else makes it and sees him. "He's been shot." He tells them.

"Keep him upright." Simmons says and tries to stop the bleeding.

"I got no pulse." Coulson says. "And I don't think his healing factor is working." He warns Simmons.

"He's lost too much blood. I don't..." Simmons was saying before she sees Peter's hand is pointing towards the container that held Mike earlier. "Put him in there." She tells them.

"What is that thing?" Skye asks.

"It's a hyperbaric chamber, and I said to put him in there now!" Simmons comands and everyone helps carry Peter onto the machine.

"I need to get his temperature down. Fitz." Simmons calls out.

"Yeah, I got it." Fitz says and gets to work as they close the container. "It has to be lower than normal, to help counteract his abilities." He reminds himself and they now wait for something to happen.

"Is it working?" May asks as Peter seems just as lifeless as ever before.

"Simmons, is it working?!" Coulson asks, yelling worried for him as Peter lets out a small breathe they could see in the cold temperature.

"For now." Simmons says relieved she was able to save him, but he needs real medical treatment. Fast.

-

They move him in the container onto the Bus along with Quinn in the interrogation room.

"His core temperature is hovering around 22 degrees Fahrenheit. If we don't bring him back up to temp in the next few hours, he could start sustaining permanent brain damage." Simmons warns them. "We need to get him to a medical facility and fast. Until then, I'll do everything I can to make sure he will stay alive." Simmons says before excusing herself to go and clean the blood off her hands.

Coulson looks at his nephew and knows if he doesn't save him, he failed his promise to his parents on keeping him safe. But one things for certain, he's gonna do whatever it takes in order to save his life.

Because he isn't just his nephew, Peter's basically his son.

And he would do anything to keep him alive. And there might be only one way now...

T.A.H.I.T.I.

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