Chapter 48: Where did the engine go? (Unedited)

***Narrator P.O.V.

"Yes sir. You don't need to worry. I will constantly keep you updated." Caulson narrowed his eyes at the scene in front of him where you could see shield workers setting up a barrier around the crash site.

He turned around and walked outside where there were some local people talking to shield officials.

"A second, sir." Caulson said in the earpiece before addressing the crowd.

"What is happening here?" Everyone turned toward the voice and agents quickly saluted him.

"Agent Caulson, these people were locals living at the nearby town. They were present at the site when we first arrived. We suspect that they took some "trophies" from the crash site." One of the agents explained.

Caulson nodded before turning to the people, " Ladies and gentlemen, look this thing that you are seeing behind me is very important to military and we have complete jurisdiction to arrest any civilian that failed to cooperate us. So, I politely asked you all to cooperate with us."

After finishing what he has to say, he just stared at them causing them to feel uncomfortable with the silent treatment.

"Thank you", Caulson motioned the agents when the locals didn't protest. Agents quickly led them to somewhere else where they would be interrogated while Caulson once again started talking to the earpiece.

"Sorry for the interruption, sir." Carlson started before nodding," I don't think I would require more agents at the moment but I would keep them in mind, sir. Now if you excuse me, sir. Yes, good day to you, sir."

"Now let's do some work, shall we?" Caulson muttered to himself before walking inside the crash site once again.

"What do we have here, agent?" He asked to the supervising head.

"A mystery, sir. We have spent quite a few hours in the debris but there is not a single piece of engine found until now. It's like it never existed in the first place." He pointed at many points on the site where agents were still collecting material.

"Hmm, the ship couldn't possibly fly at Mach speed without an engine, could it? Quite a mystery indeed." Caulson looked at him.

"Keep searching and inform me if you encounter more mysteries like this one." Caulson patted him on the back before turning and walking away.

"What... What about you, sir?" The agent quickly asked.

"I'm going to the nearby town with some agents to see if they encountered some mystery too." Caulson waved a goodbye without turning.

He randomly motioned 3 agents from the crowd before sitting inside a car. Mentioned agents quickly sat themselves too.

"To the nearby town." Caulson told the agent that took driver a seat.

***15 minutes later.

"Stop beside that restaurant." Caulson ordered as soon as they entered the town. The restaurant was situated quite close to the town entrance which brought it a lot of customers.

The town wasn't that big. Usually not many people visit such border town but this town fell on a highway road that goes to Canada which is why a lot of truck drivers visit here to spend the night and eat breakfast before once again getting on the road. Rarely, some travellers also visit the town.

They all exited the vehicle and entered the restaurant and themselves in quite a environment.

The whole floor looked like a mess. Broken glasses, chairs and even a table were scattered in the middle with vomit and blood mixed in patches.

"Looks like we came at right place, sir." The only female agent couldn't help but frowned at the mess in front of her.

"Right place but not at the right time it seems", Caulson replied back before carefully walking to the counter table where the restaurant owner was standing and looking at them with suspicion.

"Good morning, ma'am." The owner was a bulky woman in her late 40s.

"This looks like a good morning to you?" The woman asked while pointing at the mess.

"That...", Caulson wryly smiled.

"We are from FBI", Female agent interjected by showing her fake ID.

"I can tell from your attire, young lady." Woman grumbled," What do you want?"

"Could you tell us what caused this? We will pay of course." Caulson asked while slipping a 100 $ bill to her.

"Sure" She grabbed the note.

***Re-telling by owner starts.

It was a normal morning like any other even though we all woke up in the night due to some explosion that happened few miles outside the town.

I was on the cash counter while chefs were busy preparing orders giving by early customers. Waitresses were being harassed by few rowdy truckers which was nothing new around here. As long as it's just some dirty talking, I let it go unnoticed since most of my customers were these truckers.

And then a lad of 20 - 21 year old showed up at the entrance. He was not that exceptional handsome but quite pleasing to the eye. Dressed in some comic costume with a red cape and all.

He looked quite upset and frustrated by something.

As he walked toward the counter to place his order, other patrons jeered and laughed at him but he didn't flinched even once.

'He sure have guts at least ', I thought since quite a few jeering at him were man with solid built and menacing tattoos.

He ordered a normal breakfast from the menu and when I asked him for the payment, he said he will pay after eating.

I didn't think he would gonna pay at all since I have running this restaurant for quite some time and have equal experience to boost.

*** pause

"Can you tell a bit faster?" Female agent grumbled, " We don't need all the details about you and your business."

"Fine", Owner hmphed.

***Continuing

I still let him eat since I could make him pay by cleaning dishes if he doesn't pay with cash.

While he was eating at the corner table, truckers started to get more rowdy than usual probably because they couldn't sleep well last night due to that explosion.

Once he was done eating, I signalled once of my man to stand at the door in case he might try to flee.

When I asked him to cough up money, he looked at the rowdy men messing with women before turning to me and saying," How about I teach these bastards a lesson for you as a payment?"

He was certainly not quite when he spoke because the whole shop got quite after that.

"What did you say, dumbass?" One of the men screamed angrily as he rose from his seat and walked up to him.

***Pause

"The result is in front of you." She pointed at the mess.

"They fought and this is the result?", Caulson asked.

"I wouldn't call it a fight. It was a one sided massacre.", Owner shook her head before continuing to recount the story.

***continuing

Lad was facing me which automatically caused his back to be turned toward everyone.

The man walked up to him and put him hand on the lad's shoulder and pressed, " Say it again if you dare."

Lad was unimpressed as he rolled his eyes at me. He then stood up from the stool and turned at the man and then slapped him so hard that quite a few of man's teeth flew across the room.

That was it, that man fell to the floor and didn't rose up until I sprayed water on him after everything was over.

To be honest, he was the lucky one out of all.

Once the man was down for good, the lad walked up to the tables on which all the rowdy men were sitting on still in shock over what just happened like everyone else in the restaurant.

When he finally stopped beside them did they finally reacted. Some grabbed nearby chairs while others grabbed plates and glasses.

Most didn't even get the opportunity to hit the lad and those that succeed didn't get the desired response. They seemed to hurt the lad, not a single scratch.

He fought like some Greek war of God with his cape fluttering behind him. Every time he kicked or punched, one of the men got down for good.

He was fast and agile quickly subduing his opponents with precise strikes. Whenever he would hit, either blood or vomit would come out of his target's mouth.

And then one of the men took out his gun and screamed, " Stop or I will shoot."

His target was lad's chest and the lad stopped for the first time since he started fighting.

"Heh hehe Hahahhahaha What? Where did all your bravado go now, huh?" It was clear to me that that man was utterly terrified and trying to find relief in the fact that he know has the absolute power with his gun.

"Shoot" Lad looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Wwwhat??" The man was in confusion.

"I said shoot." Lad slowly walked up to the man unconcerned of the gun in his hand.

When he was just two steps from the man, he finally fired. And he didn't stop until he the last bullet. My waitresses screamed in terror.

"How .... How... How could this be!!!!!???" The man's voice was full of terror when the lad just dusted the S sign in his chest like it was nothing. He finally couldn't hold it in and fell unconscious once the lad once again start approaching him.

"Well, that was anti-climating." The lad muttered looking down at the down before exiting the restaurant.

***End of re-telling

"Do you have any idea where did he go?" Female agent asked while Caulson was busy asking for reinforcements with his ear piece.

"Yeah. You see, girls here are quite bold and prefer tough men. A new blonde girl recently started working here as a waitress. She was one of the girls that was being harassed by those truckers."

"She looked quite in heat as she quickly followed after the lad. They should probably be making out in her apartment at the moment." She shrugged her shoulders.

"Do you know where she lives?" Caulson finished detailing everything to fury before asking that.

She nodded but chose to remain silent. Caulson passed another 100 $ bill to her before she opened her mouth.

***Sometime later.

"Make sure to keep your guard up. It will take some time for reinforcements to arrive until then we need to keep the target in check." Caulson ordered as some of the agents took to stairs while others chose elevator.

"Sir, a question." One of the agents asked on the shared network.

"Be quick", Caulson muttered.

"Why don't we just wait for the reinforcements to arrive?"

"Because we don't know how our target operates. For all we know, the act of procreation might lead to some catastrophe." Caulson signalled his team to take their positions before he slowly approached the room no. 307 and knocked twice.

There was no reply from the room.

"Hello, this is room service." Caulson tried once again and this time there were some reaction.

"Barh mmm hehe", To the agents outside, it looked like the girl was struggling to even make words.

Caulson was quick to take action and at once broke the door with his fellow agent.

Both of them entered with raised firearms almost ready to fire at given notice only to find something that caused both of them to instictively turned their eyes away.

It was a king size bed. On it was a naked girl with a expression that told whoever looked at her that she has experienced heaven.

Saliva was dripping from her content experience and she would twitch from time to time like she was still experiencing orgasms.

The only female agent in the group quickly stepped forward and covered the girl in bed sheet.

"He is not here. Quickly bring her back to her senses and ask her where did he go." Caulson ordered her.

She nodded and slapped the girl hard.

"Where is he?" She screamed and the girl flinched back.

"He...h he asked if he could borrow my car. Said that he needed to visit the nearby city." The girl replied almost like a broken record.

The agent glanced at Caulson and he nodded.

"Good night, Sweety", The agent told the girl before making her unconscious.

"You stay here and wait for the medics to arrive. We need to keep the girl in custody until we are sure that she is not infected by some alien virus. Also make sure to collect everything thing in this room in case we could find traces of his DNA." Caulson ordered the agent before hurrying to the groundfloor.

.....

Some inside the car, Caulson started to give instructions in the ear piece.

"Hello, there are some chances. I repeat there are some chances to the plan. Target is inside a car traveling to the nearest city. Send reinforcement after him and catch him halfway." He then turned to the driver," What are you waiting for? Drive as fast as you can."