So many spoilers. Literally. So. many spoilers.

[maveth]

[The gloves are off. It's interesting and - well. Good - very good to be back. It's a new body and a new place with new memories and new things to explore. Something twitches under it's skin and death appears, for a moment, just a single moment before retreating.]

This isn't going to go as well as you think it will.

[Still though, the potential. He relaxes, his body as he offers a thin lazy smile.]

Hydra will bring all to me in time.

But in the meantime I have a lot to catch up with. And three months to do it.

[Grant Ward tho. That makes the monster laugh.] A wasteful fool who's achieved his true purpose at last. We'll do - [and he sounds incredibly like Ward] "Great things together. Because he's part of a grand plan."

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[morethan084]

Coulson hadn't told her what happened to Ward and the others from HYDRA, the only thing she had known was that they didn't come back. So to see Ward, here, was understandably a shock. And even more of one when he revealed another side to him.

No, that wasn't Ward. That was someone else.

"You're not Ward." Of course Daisy was just stating the obvious, but she was trying to figure out who this was.

[maveth]

It raised an eyebrow at that before turning to face her and tilting it's head. Well isn't this interesting.

Very interesting.

"...Does that shock you?" ward's chest doesn't move. It's frozen, repairing itself as the thing inside his head exerts it's control, "I'm not the first person you've seen come back from the dead Skye."

[morethan084]

Daisy took out her gun immediately, aiming it at him. He looked and smelled of death.

"Guess you missed the memo, it's Daisy now." Still had her sarcasm to use as a tool for when she was fucking terrified.

"And Coulson didn't smell or look like death."

[maveth]

"I don't need to tell you." It raises his hands in that same gesture that Ward used to do, "That appearances can be very deceiving do I?"

He tilts his head, "...I'd ask him. I'd ask him what he means and what he left behind and what sins he committed. Grant Ward deserved to die perhaps, but did he deserve to die the way he did?"

"Get it out of your system though. I mean honestly. Shoot if it will make you feel better. did it make you feel better before?"

[morethan084]

Damn her constant curiosity over everything.

"How did he die?" It felt weird to refer to Ward as if he wasn't there when whomever this was looked like him.

She of course avoided his question, because as terrible as it sounded, she did. She did feel better after doing it. Of course she hadn't aimed to kill him, just knock him down.

[maveth]

Ah ha.

The thing in Ward's body shrugged and casually leaned up against the bar, "He really did care for you. He was angry as hell, but he did care for you. And that's the absolute, burning tragedy of it. When you shot him? He did move on. He abandoned it, he thought he wasn't insane."

Maveth smiles. It's not a pleasant smile and there are black veins that twitch and writhe beneath the flesh before he shrugs.

"What a psychopath indeed."

No. It's not answering your question Skye. It's just going to wait and watch.

[morethan084]

Her eyes were focused on those veins, still trying to figure out what this thing was. A shape shifter? Did those actually exist?

"What are you?" He better answer that at least.

[maveth]

"You always dodge questions." It raised an eyebrow, "What would knowing really do for you?"

It keeps his distance however, but is it hesitating? Or Mocking her?

"I am death, destroyer of worlds. Phil Coulson gave me a chance when he killed what was left of Grant Ward."

Maveth breathes and she can probably see his lungs - or what's left of them try and contract.

"I've never had anyone make it so easy. He shot him and beat him senseless and then crushed his chest. Not the...easiest escape but easier then most."

[cryogenics]

[Too bad he couldn't actually articulate the feeling of immense confusion into an exact word. There needed to be something better and stronger than just 'what'. He needed to feel this out before he said or did too much.]

Hydra hasn't been doing so great, lately.

[maveth]

An inferior organization left in the hands of inferior creatures. It's failures are based on human failings and they fail to see what must be done.

[This is something he's been considering. He killed the planet out of spite, for banishment - fools. If he did the same thing here it would be foolish. He would be left weak.]

They dream of conquest and glory and a place at my side. Such...emotional creatures.

[This one left a lot of emotions in him. A lot of feelings. The world was colored a very particular way.]

It could be great again.

[cryogenics]

Emotions are a part of life.

[An important part, even if they were sometimes terrifying and overwhelming.]

Hydra's doing everything the wrong way. It'll never be anything.

[maveth]

They killed this body. Emotions.

[He tilts his head]

Are you sure?

[cryogenics]

They do that sometimes. [But that was the really disturbing part. The part that he didn't like. Not that emotions killed people, but that that was what'd happened here.] What happened?

[No, he wasn't really as sure about that. Not as sure as he'd like to be.]

I wish I was.

[maveth]

The body felt too much. You are all prisoners...slaves of your emotions. It was so desperate to throw itself into battle and pain that it aligned itself with me and made a most worthy sacrifice.

[Interesting]

You work for them.

[cryogenics]

Feeling too much is just as bad as not feeling enough.

[They were both dangerous, unhealthy.]

Not anymore.

[arach_nerd]

Well, that shoots my Ego, the Living Planet theory out of the water.

[maveth]

[He only offers what might be a slight shrug in response. Or it might not. Then.]

So much less and so much more.

[arach_nerd]

Dude, get over yourself. You're a parasitic organism capable of controlling other people's bodies. You have any idea how often I have to deal with that? I'm sure it was very terrifying centuries ago, but not so much now.

[maveth]

[He tilts his head at that, staring at his hands.]

And you are?

hai

[avengeme]

[There are no words. Even if the logical side of his mind tells him that this isn't -- can't be -- Ward, he still reaches for his revolver and fires off a point blank shot at the left side of the other man's chest.]

Haaiii

[maveth]

[The body staggers - visibly - before Maveth snaps it's head around and stares at Coulson.

And smiles.]

There's a joke here. "Surprise bitch. I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me?"

[avengeme]

[his own response is cold and he really doesn't care that he's showing a lot of anger right now]

Who are you?

[breaker_of_dawn]

You.

You are familiar to me, though I doubt you know why.

[Nur smirks.]

I'd never have thought you'd stoop to taking a Homo Sapien as your host.

[maveth]

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

[He's been fed human hosts for centuries.] enlighten me. About what you...think you know.

[breaker_of_dawn]

I suppose, we make do with what's available.

[The smirk drops, he's all business now.]

I know that you fancy yourself a God, but I think we both know where you really come from....Celestial. It was you and your kind that uplifted Homo Sapiens, and made me.