Jemma Simmons and Skye stood next to one another in a dimly lit room silent and motionless. They eventually lost track of how long they had been standing there. Eventually the door to the room opened and the women were led into the back of a cargo truck.
All of the girls sat perfectly still and quiet until the truck stopped and they were ushered out of the truck and through the back door of a building. They were led down a dark hallway and into a large office. Killgrave's men left the room and shut the door.
Skye and Simmons were both completely aware of the peril that they were in, but neither of them were capable of moving or even speaking. After a moment they heard the door open again. A large, bald man in a white suit walked into the room and sat down
at the desk.
"Ladies, I am Wilson Fisk. I am a business man who deals with the darker side of society. Mr Killgrave has been supplying me with young women for some time now. My staff will clean you up and prepare you for the auction tomorrow. You are to follow their
instruction to the letter. I have given them strict orders not to harm you or to violate you in any manner. Tomorrow morning you are to be sold off to begin your new lives."
Fisk left the room and a handful of his henchmen took the group of girls to a locker room in the basement of the building. They were instructed to shower and to put on the clothes provided to them. The girls disrobed and showered. When they were finished,
they found that there was a box with each of their names on it. They opened the boxes and found that they contained matching white bikinis. The silently dressed themselves and awaited further instruction. Fisk's men reentered the room and led them to another
room with cots. They were instructed to sleep until they were told otherwise.
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Back on the SHIELD plane, Agent Ward was hailing The Hub on the video phone. Jasper Sitwell answered his call.
"Agent Ward, what's the problem?"
"My entire team is off the grid. I need some serious back-up. Can you pass the message on to Hill and see if she can bring an extraction team to try to locate my team?"
"I'll try to get a hold of her, but Fury doesn't usually like to send her out in the field."
"Do your best. The situation here is critical."
Ward ended the call to The Hub and send a distress signal to Natasha Romanoff.
"Agent Ward, this had better be important, I'm en route to meed up with Cap and Barton."
"Agent Romanoff, this is urgent. My entire team has disappeared. I haven't been able to contact anyone at HQ, and you're the closest field agent to my position."
"OK Ward, I'll be there as soon as I can."
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SHIELD Agents Phil Coulson and Melinda May entered the SHIELD facility in Pittsburgh and were greeted by Victoria Hand.</div><div><br></div><div>"Phil, it's good to see you again. I trust this meeting will go more smoothly
than our last encounter."
"Agent Hand, we are here to investigate the missing girls in the area. I have my team looking into things, I was hoping you might have some more information."
May interrupted, "Phil, we have problems. There is a distress signal coming from the spare vehicle. It looks like Skye decided to go out into the field again and got herself into some trouble."
Agent Hand looked on disapprovingly, "Phil, how many more times do I need to tell you, that girl is not SHIELD material. She does not follow orders, she's a liability."
"Victoria, I don't need the lecture right now. I need to go find my agent. You can either help or you can get out of my way."
"Phil, we're pretty short handed at this facility. I'm only here to try to get this operation off the ground. I only have four agents here and none of them are qualified for field missions."
"Well, then it looks like we've wasted a trip."
"You misunderstood me. I'm the only qualified field agent within 100 miles. So unless you guys are going to go chasing after the Widow to help you, you're going to have to bring me along."
Hand, May and Coulson got into the Acura and drove toward the Killgrave lab.
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