Coulson's Team

"You used to have 100 men at your disposal...and now?" "A hand-picked team, and yes, they're that good."

- Camilla Reyes and Phil Coulson

After Phil Coulson recovered from his injuries sustained before the Battle of New York, he put together a team which investigated the cases S.H.I.E.L.D. had not yet classified.

Coulson's Team
Some time after the battle of New York, Melinda May assembled a team of agents to keep an eye on Phil Coulson's recovery for Nick Fury. Coulson however believes he has set up the small, highly trained team of agents to tackle the cases that haven’t been classified yet. The team originally consists of Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Grant Ward, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons. They are first sent to investigate a superhuman, Mike Peterson, who is able to survive an exploding building and a hacktivist group called the Rising Tide that seems to have information. Skye, a member of the Rising Tide, meets with Peterson to warn him about S.H.I.E.L.D., saying that they cover up superhero-based events and that she can help him, which he declines.

Later, Skye is abducted by Coulson and Ward and questioned on their plane. She does not cooperate initially, but eventually reveals what she knows. It is later revealed that Peterson had been supplied with the Centipede serum giving him his powers, by an unknown organization.

After visiting the explosion scene, Coulson's team is able to recreate it and learn that it was caused by another subject exploding due to Extremis. While attempting to get info to the team, Skye is kidnapped by Peterson (who is now on the run) and makes her give him a clean slate. Coulson's team is able to track them down and subdue Peterson without him causing mass damage while stopping an assassin that was sent by Dr. Debbie. With Peterson in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, Coulson offers Skye a place on the team and they go to investigate a 0-8-4

Peru
Skye was integrated into Coulson's team as a consultant and the team's next assignment was in Peru. Their mission was to track a "an object of unknown origin." or "0-8-4". The team arrived and quickly realized that the object was actually a piece of forgotten HYDRA technology powered by Tesseract energy. Coulson met with a former ally, Camilla Reyes, and brung her team aboard the plane.

While on the plane, Reyes betrayed Coulson and had planned to take the HYDRA weapon for herself so she could destroy the Peruvian rebels. The squabbling team members banded together, utilized each of their talents, and took out Reyes' men. Reyes was taken into custody and Skye texted another member of the Rising Tide, confirming that she has infiltrated Coulson's team. Director Fury later met Coulson on the Bus and scolded him for the damage to the plane and reminded him about the risk Skye poses.

The Asset
S.H.I.E.L.D. then searched for one of its assets, Dr. Franklin Hall, who was kidnapped by his former research partner and CEO of Quinn Worldwide named Ian Quinn. His soldiers used a gravity device on the S.H.I.E.L.D. convoy that was transporting him. Quinn wanted to use Hall to take control of the planet's gravity by building a giant gravitonium generator. Coulson's and his team headed to Malta and Skye volunteered to infiltrate Quinn's mansion during his party so that Coulson and Ward could rescue Hall. Skye tricked Quinn into believing she is betraying S.H.I.E.L.D. for Rising Tide to get his guard down. However, Coulson discovered that Hall perpetrated his own escape and wanted to destroy the massive device as believed he is in the right. Coulson warned him that doing so would end up killing millions. There is a violent disagreement which lead to Coulson being forced to leave Hall to die as he fell into the middle of the generator. Coulson ordered that the gravitonium be placed under high security and off the books in the Fridge.

S.H.I.E.L.D. did not notice that Hall is still somehow alive but trapped within the gravitonium.

Akela Amadour
After a series of thefts throughout the world that were almost impossibly premeditated, Coulson and his team investigated and uncovered the identity of the thief: his former protégé Akela Amador. Coulson had presumed that she was dead and did not believe that she was capable of turning on S.H.I.E.L.D. The team nearly caught up to her, but she managed to evade them. May took matters into her own hands upon finding Akela's hotel room. Coulson caught up to her and found out she was being blackmailed through a camera (with X-ray backscatter functions) that had replaced her right eye. The device also had a fail-safe bomb in case she rebeled.

Coulson took her to the Bus and hijacked her feed so Ward could take over her new mission. Ward discovered an image of a mysterious chalk drawing. Fitz took out the bomb while the others worked to remove the camera from Akela's right eye. Coulson caught up to who he thinks is the mastermind behind Akela's thefts, but the man is quickly killed through a similar device to Akela's. Coulson and Ward are left to wonder who was behind Akela's thefts. Akela is taken away by S.H.I.E.L.D. officers.

Purpose
The team's goal is to deal with super human cases that S.H.I.E.L.D has not classified and are usually called upon to deal with cases involving superhuman or supernatural events.

Skills
Each member of the team has their own special skill set that contributes to the team. Grant Ward and Melinda May being the teams Combat specalist, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons the scientist and Skye the Hacker of the team.

Allies

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Nick Fury
 * Phil Coulson
 * Maria Hill
 * Jasper Sitwell
 * Felix Blake
 * John Garrett
 * Antoine Triplett
 * Streiten
 * Shaw
 * Anne Weaver
 * Tyler
 * Mack
 * Kwan Chen†
 * Jazuat
 * Sif
 * Akela Amador (former enemy turned ally)
 * Archaeologist
 * Elliot Randolph

Enemies

 * Centipede Group
 * Clairvoyant
 * Raina
 * Ian Quinn
 * Debbie†
 * Englishman†
 * Scorch†
 * Edison Po
 * Deathlok
 * Donnie Gill
 * Seth Dormer†
 * Camilla Reyes
 * Perez (Soldier)
 * Nahui†
 * Lopez
 * Cusi†
 * Vilca
 * Petra Larsen
 * Jakob Nystrom
 * Tobias Ford †
 * Luca Russo†
 * Sofia (Cybertek) †
 * Carlo Mancini †
 * Lorelei