Chapter 076: The Ninth Day
Even after being locked up in the interrogation room, even though she was constantly being treated with disappointment and eyes from her teammates, Skye still didn't confess Felicity. Just then, Bus receives a call for help from the base near the city of Fawcett, and it is clear that the gang of people who are holding Felicity hostage and using Felicity are not just trying to destroy the families of several Hydra agents to get revenge. So, under the command of Coulson, the bus returned to the city of Fawcett.
Felicity didn't know what happened next, all she knew was that there was a big battle at the base over there, and Coulson, Ward, and May, who had rushed to help, were missing in the battle. Fitz and Simmons, who stayed behind in Bus, had no choice but to release Skye from the interrogation room, and the three of them worked together to figure out a way. The trio of Refitz are rocket engineering experts, Simmons is a double doctor of biochemistry, and Skye is a super hacker, and none of them are strategic experts, nor are they trained field agents, let alone anything like that. After a restless argument, Skye offered their final attention - to wake Rhaegar awake.
It sounds a bit cruel, or cold, but the team members are forced to do so. It's not that they don't implement the way to save Rhaegar even though they have it, but that no one can guarantee that the so-called method will succeed, and if it fails, Rhaegar will only die. If they don't take such an extreme approach, Rhaegar is still alive in a vegetative state, and maybe they can find a more suitable solution in their daily search. Fitz and Simmons even received special authorization from Coulson to access all level 8 and below information in the Hydra headquarters, as well as to consult almost all relevant experts in Hydra. Ward and May also reached out to their connections outside of Hydra to see if they had encountered or heard of anything similar. Coulson also secretly did the same thing to the higher-ups of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Ward and May; He even thought about going into Thomas Wayne's house, finding the contact information of that Lei Xiaogu, and getting the resurrection pool water from the latter, so as to save Rhaegar from him.
Unfortunately, none of them got anything, and Rhaegar could only continue to be his vegetative state.
Then Felicity and the Hydra base happened, distracting everyone. And when Coulson, Ward, and May were all missing, as Skye said to Fitz and Simmons at the time, "Maybe Rhaegar will die, but he's not much better off than he is dead." If you don't dare, if you don't want to take responsibility, I'll come! Rhaegar died because of this, and I'll go back with him, but if he can wake up, he'll take us back to Coulson. And don't forget, he's done it himself, and you know I'm right! ”
Aside from Skye's responsibility and her emotions towards Rhaegar, the last sentence she said referred to when the team members lost contact with Bus in Gotham, and rushed back to Bus when they suspected Rhaegar had betrayed him, and saw Rhaegar sleeping there with Bus's bus cable in his hand. Rhaegar told them that he was recharging his superpowers, his 'soul'. Skye remembers this very well, so when Fitz and Simmons have no other way to get along, she asks if it is because the 'soul energy' is running out that Rhaegar can't wake up?
Honestly, Skye's statement is not unreasonable. But Fitz and Simmons were scientists, and they were unable to connect their ideas – or beliefs – to the doctrine of the soul, and the other experts in Hydra were skeptical when Fitz and Simmons asked them for advice, and some even denied the existence of souls outright. Fitz and Simmons couldn't give positive advice or reviews. The most important thing was Skye's approach at the time: to replicate Rhaegar's previous gesture - wrapping the cable around his body and touching the main power supply of the Bus with his hands bare...... This time there is no need for Fitz and Simmons to explain, even Coulson, Ward and May, who have not studied much science, know that the moment a strong current passes through the human body, it will directly scorch it!
After all, no one has ever really seen how Rhaegar 'recharges' himself......
Then, as mentioned earlier, Coulson, Ward, and May are missing and need their help, and they have no direction and are overwhelmed - as a last resort, Fitz and Simmons finally agree to Skye's plan and connect the main power of the Bus to Rhaeggar's body.
Even as a last resort, the professional Fitz and Simmons are quite cautious. They put a device on top of the main power supply, controlling the output of the power supply, increasing the current through Raygar's body as appropriate. When the magnitude of the current approached and leveled off, to the point where it slowly exceeded the limit of human capacity, and Rhaegar's body did not appear to be in the negative state it should have, Fitz and Simmons finally breathed a sigh of relief. Skye was so excited that tears flowed from her eyes.
Next, Fitz and Simmons continued to adjust the size of the input current, maintaining a relatively safe amplification. However, at this moment, the alarm system on the bus detected that someone was trying to approach not far away. Skye recognized it, it was the same group of guys Felicity had described to her, that is, they were enemies, and the disappearance of Coulson, Ward, and May was undoubtedly related to them, and may have even fallen into their hands. The point is, the closer they are, the more they will discover Bus.
Obviously, Skye and the others can't let those people approach, but how to send those people is also a problem for them who are still infinitely close to 0 in terms of combat power of the three of them. In addition to their combat effectiveness, the trio's ability to deal with this kind of thing is also close to zero, and as a result, they came up with the idea that Simmons, who is usually a team doctor and has a scientific background to deal with bus cables and the equipment that adjusts the current, stays and takes care of Rhaegar while Skye and Fitz are responsible for rushing out and luring the guys away before they find out about Bus.
Previously, Coulson, Ward, and Mei drove away the SUV. In order to increase the success rate, Skye and Fitz didn't care that the remaining car was Coulson's painful car, and Coulson didn't let him touch it, and they drove away 'Laura', successfully attracting the attention of those people and taking them away from the Bus. It's just that in the process of chasing and fleeing for two consecutive days, they are unfamiliar with the terrain and fall into the encirclement of those people, and finally Fitz is a man, leaving the broken back, giving Skye a chance to escape.
Skye walked past the men's eyeliner and returned to the Bus with a heavy heart. It seems that the bus is still safe, but Skye's approach should have triggered the alarm on the bus, but Simmons is not seen to come out to answer it, which freaks Skye out. Luckily, Simmons on the bus heard Skye's crying and came out to pick her up. Then Skye learns that after she and Fitz are gone, Simmons has an accident on her side. The accident had nothing to do with an external enemy, but with Rhaegar.
At that time, Simmons was a little tired and accidentally fell asleep, which was more than ten hours, which was to make up for the time when she didn't have a good rest because she was worried about her teammates. But when she woke up, she found that Rhaegar didn't know when, and she didn't know how to do it, so she reversed her previous state of slowly 'replenishing' and absorbed the energy of the entire Bus!
But Rhaegar still hasn't woken up...... Obviously, all the energy has been absorbed......
The journey from hope to disappointment is not the worst, but even worse is that those people still come to me. And this time, Skye and Simmons couldn't get those people out of the way anymore.
The story was relayed by Felicity, from Skye's description, and this is the end of it. Eventually, Skye and Simmons were going to borrow the terrain and weapons from the Bus to see if they could knock them back. Before that, though, they hide Rhaegar and the little pit bull tetanus before contacting Felicity.
"After Skye told me this, I told me to keep an eye out for news on the Internet in the next few days. If there were, she asked me to contact them and work with that person to find a way to get them out. And if not, I should have given up after five days. Felicity took a sip of water, moistened her throat, which had been dry, then looked at Rhaegar and said seriously, "I've been waiting for you for eight days. You're Skye's only hope. ”