Carnage and Shriek
The Avengers tried to find any clue where Cletus was heading.
“We can’t wait until a pile of bodies shows up.” Rhodey said. “We need to find where the bastard is heading.”
“Hard to say. What could Kasady be looking for ? Apart from more victims.”
“Maybe it’s just that. Victims.” Yelena said.
“Maybe, But....Ugh this is so confusing.” Rhodey yelled.
Tony kept looking at his computer.
“What are you looking for ?” Yelena asked.
“Before leaving with the others, Eddie mentioned that Kasady talked about his angel, his shining light on this broken world. Well I made a little digging.”
He showed them a picture of a woman.
“That’s Francis Barrison. She was at the same jubie that he was. Turns out they were childhood sweethearts.”
“Well look here.” Yelena said as she read. “She’s as crazy at him.”
“She’s also a mutant.” Tony said. “She has a supersonic scream. The louder she yells, the more powerful and deadly her power becomes.”
“But here says...she’s dead.” Rhodey said. “She tried to escape and was shot and killed.”
“Now that could be true. But take a look at who were the ones to get her.”
Tony showed them that the writers of the report where....SHIELD. and not the friendly one of Now.
“Crap.”
“Everyone here does what the higher ups of SHIELD would do to get their hands on a mutant. With Xavier and his school getting them would be impossible, so they have this one that was free for the taking.”
“You are saying that they could have faked her death, to make her disappear so they could test and get everything they could from her.” Yelena said.
“Yep. I beat she’s on the Raven. And Venom says that his kind can hack computers so...”
“There’s a Chance that he is going after her.” Rhodey said. “Fuck of all the ways to find the Raven.”
“Daisy is hard at work trying to get that place. With the deaths of FitzSimmons she is particulary determined.”
“Good. I’ll see how she’s doing. The clock is literally ticking,”
Rhodey left the two of them alone.
“So you heard...the news.”
“Yes. FRIDAY told me.”
One of the victims on the rampage of the Raft was recently confirmed to be Alexei Shostakov. Seemed the idiot tried to fight the beast, only to get slaughtered by it. Melina Vostokoff was smarter and ran, so she’s alive with minor injuries.
“How are you doing ?”
“He sold me out to Dreikov. But....I don’t know. At least he went out fighting.”
“It’s ok to be sad or conflicted.”
“I’m fine. I’m just....ready to move on.”
Tony patted her shoulder, she grabbed his hand.
“I’m happy to hear that.”
“Yeah...I got new people now.”
Eddie sat in the lab as they continued to make some tests.
The weird thing is that Venom is allowing it.
“I like them Eddie. They are cool.”
Dr. Lewis took a little blood sample.
“So if I ate this, I would have a cool symbiote of my own ?”
“Darcy, don’t.” Jane warmed.
“As far as I know symbiotes can bond with any living being.” Thor said. “But they eat up their host, unless they are a perfect match for them. What makes you and Venom bond son of Brock ?”
“I don’t know man. He’s been here for a year, and granted, he does make life more interesting, fun, but also chaotic.”
“I’ll take that as a complement Eddie.”
“Haha, I like you both.” Thor laughed. “You remind me of me and Loki back at the day.”
“Wong never told me about symbiotes.” Stephen said. “You guys well.”
“That’s because magic has little effect on us.” Venom came out of his shoulder. “Once we are formed, we do gain mostly immunity to it.”
“Hm.”
“Oh you have made him bitter.” Tony said coming in with Yelena. “Someone call Christine. He’s gonna have a heart attack !”
“Shut up Tony.”
“Boss. Mr. Parker has entered the premise.”
Everyone saw Tony sight a bit.
“Let him in FRI.”
He will have to tell him that training is temporally canceled. There is no way he would allow Peter anyway near Kasady.
“Hey Mr. Stark.” Peter greeted. “I see everyone’s in the edge, what’s...happening ?”
Peter was suprised at the amount of people.
“Is...is that head coming from that man’s...arm ?”
Then suddenly, Venom took over Eddie.
“Hey !”
Venom ignored him and walked towards Peter.
“Eh...Mr. Stark ?”
“Calm down kid. He’s an ally....right ?”
“I do not mean any harm to this one. He just seems....special.”
Venom got even closer to Peter.
“Look at him Eddie. If it wasn’t that you are already here, he would make a fine host.”
“Great, now take a step back from him !”
Venom grunted and stepped back. Morphing back into Eddie.
“Oh god, I’m so sorry, I don’t know what got into him.”
“What do you mean you are sorry. That was so dam cool !” Darcy said.
“Eddie, I like this one better than Anne. She would make a fine partner indeed.”
“...”
Tony sighted.
“Sorry for the craziness kid. However, I’m sorry to say we are gonna have to stop the training for sometime.”
“What...why ?”
“Because there is another monster like Venom out there. But this one bonded with a serial killer and they are both equally blood thirsty.”
“Oh...but I could help.”
“No. Listen kid, even without the monster I would never allow you near Kasady. He’s to dangerous without it, and with it.....well that’s another level now.”
“But Mr. Stark....”
“Nope. I made my choice. Responsable adult talking.”
Peter sighted in frustration.
“Don’t be mad little spider.” Yelena comforted him. “It’s for your own good. I would like to keep training you more (she had become his hand to hand teacher) than fighting that maniac.”
Peter sighed.
“I understand sir....I won’t lie. Kasady does creep me out.”
"Any smart person would be creep out by that man Pete..."
"So, I guess I should be going now."
"Yeah, take care kid. And hey, don't go out at night. It's better for the friendly neighborhood spiderman to stay in his home while Kasady is on the loose."
"Yeah yeah. I get it Sir..please be careful."
"Of course. Now off you go, say hi to May for me."
"Yes Sir."
"We will see each other again little spider," Venom called as Peter left.
"What is it with him and you ?" Eddie asked.
"I doubt you'll understand that."
"You guys are so cool." Darcy laughed.
"You always think the weird is cool Dr. Lewis." Stephen facepalmed.
"Lewis....by the way, are you related to some Dan Lewis, a Doctor on San Fransisco ?"
"Huh ? Oh yeah, he's my brother."
"Oh.."
"He's a dick and I hate him."
"Now I really like her Eddie !"
Meanwhile at the secret prison, the Raven.
Fury and Hill just landed at the prison. The last place were they could get enhanced in, that hadn't been discovered by Coulson.
They were dam lucky that the man was stabbed by Loki just before he was granted authorization to know where the Raven is. If he knew....then it would all go to hell.
Fury knew exactly what happened to change Coulson from the loyal agent of his, to this one trying to tare all SHIELD's control down.
That woman, Johnson.
Ever since he brought her in, Fury had known she was trouble. She questioned to much, she didn't back down from the more...questionable things. When they have built that team for Coulson, they had selected every member to keep the man loyal under control.
Then again, all of that team was messed up. Grant Ward was Hydra, they should have know the close relationship he had with Melinda May could have won out, and those scientist were just newbies. But that girl that they never saw coming, it changed everything.
Her morals and curiosity rubbed off to Coulson. Suddenly he was no longer fine with the secrets and manipulations, he wanted to change things, and when the old SHIELD fell, it gave him the right opportunity. He completly ignored Fury's plan, and teamed up with other agents that also questioned the way SHIELD used to work, as well as General Glenn Talbot, who hated the old SHIELD, so he could basically fuck all of his plans.
And to make matter worst, his team up with Stark made things even harder. Oh what would Fury do to have the billionaire under their thumb again.
"Director Fury, Ms. Hill." A guard greeted. "Why are you visiting ?"
"We need to see Prisoner 9. Francis Barrison."
"Barrison ?" The head guard asked. "But why her ?"
"I think you all know of Cletus Kasady's breakout. You know her connection with him."
"Yes. She's been unstable since all of this happened." She told them. "I have had to improve security."
"That glass was meant to hold on the Hulk. Are you telling me she can break that ?" Hill asked.
"We were never able to properly test it Mam. We have no idea if someone like the Hulk could break it. And it is not her we are concerned about, but rather that her now monster boyfriend comes for her."
Fury nodded, that is a good reason.
"Lead us to her."
She nodded and walked with them.
"Any word from Romanoff ?"
"So far nothing, he has gone off radar."
"Fuck. Did you tell her and Barton where we are ?"
"Yes. They were the ones that arrested them sir, Kasady might target them.."
"I am aware of that Hill. Which is why we are having Barrison moved to another place."
"Why not just....kill her."
"Because she is the only mutant we have ever gotten our hands on. With that school most of them are under protection of the government, and now the Accords Council."
Fury wasn't exactly a hater of the accords like Rogers was. Keeping heroes in check, even he knows that has its merits. But that also meant all organizations keeping tabs on enhanced were kept under check, meaning SHIELD wouldn't get away with anything now.
"And we are not repeating the incident with Deadpool. Guy slaughtered all of our agents."
"Agreed. But why keep it from Rogers, Wilson, or Maximoff."
"Becasue Rogers and Maximoff are destructive as hell. They come here, and they'll create a chaos that will be noticed by everything, meaning Stark would find the Raven. And telling Wilson is just like telling Rogers himself, so.."
Dam it, Fury sometimes wanted to strangle Rogers.
He knew his leadership would be toxic. He knew it would ware Stark down, that's exactly why he placed him on that post. But he never imagined the man would throw such a fit over the accords, and Barnes of course. All of that hard work to get Stark under their control, now gone.
Now the man is surrounded by people that do have his best interest at heart. Even if for some reason they manage to get Rogers and the others pardoned, getting Stark back to how they wanted him would be extremely hard, maybe even impossible.
Fury has tried to sneak in to visit the man, but has failed every single time. Most of them by FRIDAY, but one time, he sneaked in into his car, only to find Yelena Belova to be the one driving it (he had tored Romanoff a new one when he learned she never told them of her sister, or that her father was a soviet super soldier, that is now dead thanks to Kasady) and he almost got shot on the face.
So in other words, this was a complete disaster.
"We are here."
The guard open the window to the cell, where the glass box that held Barrison was in."
"Hey Francis." The guard called. "This people want to talk to you about your boyfriend."
The woman stood up and glared at them. She typed on the key board that she used to communicate.
*Screw..You*
"Oh lovely." The guard laughed. "Sad to say you are not my type, I'm straight honey."
The woman continued to glare.
"Now Ms. Barrison." Fury spoke. "Do not loose your marbles yet. We need to know all you know about Cletus Kasady."
*Never* she typed.
"Surely you know, he is not gonna find you. Now if you help us, we may help you in return."
He saw her eyes go wide. They had her.
"Now tell me, where do you think, Cletus Kasady is."
*I'm right here*
Suddenly, a large red...thing grabbed the head guard, and held her by the neck.
Fury and Hill saw it in shock, and then turned to the cell, only to find...
"Why hello there !" Cletus laughed.
No....this was fucking impossible.
Cletus smiled and had Carnage break the guard's neck. She fell dead besides Fury and Hill.
"Freeze !" Hill shouted, pointing her gun at him. "Hands on the air, now !"
"Oh ok...but which hands ?"
A giant red spike came out of his shoulder and went threw the door, impaling Hill and throwing her to the floor.
"HILL !"
"Nick..." She mumbled, before the red thing dragged her back to Kasady.
Fury then saw a red head, the one of the monster, come out of his shoulder, and....eat Maria Hill alive.
"Ah, so much chaos...so beautiful."
Fury stumbled back a bit.
"Ah but where are you going Director. See, I am a revengefull man. And you...you kept my beautiful Francis, locked on this cage, for all this dam time ! I think, I think some payback is in order."
The monster's head turned to Fury. Growling and smiling.
"Mother fucke...."
He was unable to finish before the monster went straight for his head.
Cletus watched as Carnage finished eating Nick Fury. The great Director has finally meat his end.
After that, he turned to his Francis.
"Baby." He greeted her. "I'm back..."
"Baby, what's that !" She said exited.
"Now don't be afraid, he's just my new friend. Meet, Carnage."
The long tentacles spread around Francis' cell, gripping it tighter and tighter.
"Wow, that is so sexy !"
Cletus laughed as the glass started to break.
And then...it shattered. And just when it did, Cletus grabbed his angel and kissed her.
"Now my love. Let's have some fun."
"Fuck !" Rhodey screamed, coming into the room.
"What is it now Colonel ?" Vision asked.
"He found it, he found her !" He yelled.
"What are you...oh shit." Tony said.
"Can someone fill us in please ?" Stephen asked.
"Tony deduced Kasady would go after his old lover, well he found her, on the fucking Raven. Of all the ways to find the prison, this had to be the one !"
"Barrison is also a mutant." Yelena said. "So this has become even more dangerous."
"Carol and Daisy went on ahead." Rhodey added. "I tried to stop them, but dam it. Daisy is desperate for revenge, and Carol is so in love with her she went along, at least she's keeping her safe. Dam it guys, they left before he caused this mess ! "
"Daisy must have found it, and FRIDAY told everyone about Barrison....Then we need to move, before Kasady and his pal do something horrible to them !"
Carol had heard that love makes people do stupid things.
But this was so dam stupid.
Daisy had found out the location of the Raft, she was deperate to go there and avenge her friends. And Carol like an idiot, agreed to go with her.
Which is why she is driving a car now, with Daisy at her side, going straight towards a secret prison, without the others.
"Would you relax. You are making me nervous while driving."
"Yeah well you could have let me go alone. I could have driven myself, and already be there."
"And let you break traffic laws, possibly crash before you reach there, or get yourself killed. No thank you. I still think we should park on this...desolate road, and wait for the others."
"And I think you should go faster. There are no cars in here now, we must be getting close !"
"Look I get you wanting revenge, but..."
"No, you don't get it. I lost Trip, I lost Lincoln, and now Fitz and Simmons. And everyone always wants to calm down instead of going after their killers."
"Raina and Hive are dead now aren't they. You could have waited to take down Kasady with the others. You heard what Venom could do !"
"He said sound is one of their weaknesses. I can create sound."
"Yeah but who knows if you can stay still enough so you can actually hit him."
"Why do you care so much about me anyway ?" She asked her seriously.
"You know...you are my teammate."
"If one of the others would be on this chase, would you go with them, or stop them at any cost ?"
....
"Yeah, I'm not a fool Carol. Don't get me wrong, you are really pretty, but...I think I know what you are really after, and I don't know if I like it."
"What do you mean ?"
"I am meaning, that you might see me as a replacement for your wife."
"What ? That's not..."
"Really, because you come back, and she divorces you, and then suddenly you are making eyes on me. I know you are a lesbian, so there are other woman you could make eyes at, why not at Yelena ?"
"First, Maria and I had planned the divorce for a while ok. Second, Yelena is cute, but she and Tony are obviously gonna end up together so why would I look at her. And yes there are a lot of other cute women in the compound....but well I think you are the prettiest, sorry if that offends you ?"
"It's not like that. Look I have had shitty experiences with me exes. Not just with men, but with a woman I dated as well."
"You did have a girlfriend in the past, but Coulson.."
"I asked him not to tell. It was sometime ago, when I realized I am bisexual. Anyway, it did not end good, none of my relationships end good, and I don't know if I want to even try with a woman that just lost her wife."
"Now look here, I have done nothing to earn this mistrust and...
BAM !
Carol's words were interrupted, when their car was suddenly hit by something and they were sent rolling threw the air.