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Posted by Cap
on 4/10/2009, 10:56 pm
98.108.31.220
New York City, Avenger’s Mansion
“Are you sure you can take care of him here,” Cap asks. Steve along with the Young Avengers all crowd into the room were there teammate lay. He is hooked to all manner of monitors and his vitals are stable. Still, he hasn’t awakened since Vision brought him here.
“His individual injuries are not life threatening but all of them together sent him into shock. He should be fine with a little time to recover.”
As if on queue Nathan’ eye lids begin to flutter. He squints his eyes against the brightness of the lights of the room. Vision waves everyone off as he begins to do a quick once over.
“How long have I been out,” Nathan asks.
“For about eight hours,” Vision replies. “Do you know were you are?”
“The armor was damaged when I recovered it so the time circuits could have been damaged. I aimed for the mansion and the year 2009.”
“Well it appears they weren’t to damaged because that’s were you are. What happened Nathan,” Cap asks.
“I’ll start from the beginning but could someone please get me some water?” Kate quickly pours him a glass from a pitcher at his bedside and hands it to him. He takes a quick drink and tells her thank you. “When I left to return to my timeline I found that the Kang I had killed was not Kang prime”
“But your memory was wiped,” Teddy adds.
“I’m coming to that. I returned to my future to be arrested immediately. I was taken to the palace and brought before the new grand ruler of Kang’s empire, Marcus the 24th. Marcus had me imprisoned for a crime at the time I could not even remember. He had me tortured and told me over and over that I was going to be executed.”
“For some reason, Marcus changed his mind about executing me. Instead he decided to reeducate me and use me as his successor. Something in this reeducation regimen erased the mental blocks that whipped my memories. I knew then that I had to escape before he could remake me into a monster.”
“I bided my time and endured the brutal training he imposed upon me. My chance came when there was a major slave rebellion that engulfed the throne world. One of his generals led the revolt and stormed the palace with an army of slave warriors in the hopes of wiping Marcus and I both out so he could claim the throne. I had to fight my way to a vault were Marcus had stored my armor. There was a major explosion and a large chunk of ceiling fell on me as I was activating the time circuits.”
“Sounds like you’re lucky to be alive,” Eli adds.
“When I was there I tried to find out how killing Kang could have done so much damage to the timeline but unfortunately I came up empty.”
“That doesn’t matter now,” Cap says. “You’re here and you’re safe now.”
“If he is able to Marcus will come for me. He has his father’s single minded purpose and he will not suffer the slight of my escape.”
“We will be ready for him when he comes,” Teddy replies.
“Why don’t we all let Nathan get some rest,” Cap suggests. With that everyone files out one at a time, each one offering words of encouragement.
“Cassie wait,” he calls as she is about to exit last. He motions her back closer and she approaches. “Once my injuries have healed you have to help me get back. I don’t want to be responsible for what Marcus will do to this planet in retaliation…”
P.O.D. Center, Baltimore MD
“This is it,” Gizmo says over his com. He and Jinx are about 100 yards away from the rear fence of the detention facility. He had already compromised the security cams by remote, setting them to record a three minute span then play it back in a loop. Mammoth and Shimmer wait for the signal off of the road leading up to the main entrance. Surge rides a motor scooter down the road towards the main gate, a pizza delivery outfit completing her disguise.
“I’ll be there in about a minute,” Nori says. “Be ready for some fireworks.”
“What do you make of the new girl,” Gizmo asks, clicking his com off.
“Keep your mind on the mission, I doubt she’s into trolls old enough to be her father.”
Gizmo chuckles at the rebuke, making a note to send a nasty virus to Jinx’s computer when this is all over. He takes a look at his energy scanner again to make sure that he still has the video slaved. There is a sudden burst of energy coming from the direction of the front gate, followed by the wailing of alarms. Gizmo presses a couple of buttons to send out a signal intercept. In a matter of a couple of seconds, the outgoing distress call is squashed.
“Let’s get down to business,” Jinx says rushing forward. First she takes aim at the guard town, send a shockwave through the earth and knocking it to the ground. With a wave of her hands she sends bolts of energy slashing through the fence leaving it in tatters. Jinx begins to walk forward as more guards dressed in riot gear stream out of one of the smaller buildings.
“I’ve got this one,” Gizmo yells. He aims what looks more like a child’s toy gun into the air and fires what looks like a large yellow puffball into the air. The puff ball suddenly explodes sending a shower of needles at the crowd of guards. All of the men drop to the ground motionless. “You might want to whip up some wind to blow the lose ones off the grass or we’ll be out for hours like they are.”
Jinx sends a gust of wind to scatter the darts and the both walk through the opening in the fence. The sounds of battle can be heard from the front as they make their way to the building the guards came from. The door opens before they reach it and a guard levels a shotgun at the pair. With a quick gesture, Jinx crushes the barrel of the gun just as he pulls the trigger. The gun shatters in his hand sending shrapnel unto the guard. Jinx delivers a casual elbow to the man’s face knocking him unconscious.
“The schematic says the auxiliary shaft is two floors straight down,” Gizmo says. “That can take us to the brain center of this place.”
“Let’s go then” she replies contorting her hand in arcane somatic motions. A small greenish dot appears on the floor and rapidly begins to spread. Gizmo fires another shot from his dart gun down the hall as another pair of guards appear. By the time he turns back to the sorceress there is a smoking hole through both concrete levels. Without a word Jinx drops down the hole allowing a spell to slow her decent. Gizmo flicks on his jet pack and follows.
“Ok, up ahead is the special pump station that controls the big guy’s cell. We hit that and he’ll do the rest I’m sure.”
“This place is full of small potatoes, how can we even be sure he’s here?”
“How am I supposed to know, I’m not Tony Stark’s right hand man.”
“There’s only one way to find out.”
“Then shall we,” Mikron says starting down the hall as quickly as his short legs will carry him with Jinx trailing behind. Reaching an intersection, He scans left and right before continuing straight ahead. Up ahead is a large solid steel vault door blocking the entire path. Gizmo looks unimpressed as he goes to work on the digital lock. “Be ready for anything”
It takes all of 15 seconds for Gizmo to crack the code and hear the hiss of the lock releasing. Both villains tense as the giant door opens to reveal a huge room filled with generators, pumps, and other massive machines. Gizmo smirks as he takes in the archaic relics that he considers inferior.
“Which one is it,” she asks.
“It’s that big one over there,” he replies pointing vaguely over to the right. The two make their way across towards a particularly large monstrosity and Gizmo begins to explain. “According to the file that pump generates an atmospheric density that basically crushes our guy and keeps him immobile.”
Jinx begins to weave her hands through the air, leaving the tell tale traces of magic shimmering in her wake. The pump begins to shake and gauges attached to it start to red line. There is a large pop as all the numbers suddenly flatline.
“Not anymore…”
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