Chapter 4
Daisy and Skye were both taken aback by the fact Evolt, the planet destroying supervillain alien, was now inside Scott, controlling him.
“You… get out of him this instant.” Daisy said, holding her hand up. “I’m warning you.”
“Why? He invited me?” Evol said as Scott’s body tensed, and he shook his head.
“It’s alright…” Scott said, speaking for himself, taking deep breaths as he exerted control. “I let him in.”
“Why?”
“I figured we could use him.” Scott said.
“Feels nice to be wanted.” Evolt said sarcastically inside Scott’s head.
“Scott… are you sure about this?” Daisy asked.
“Well, it’s not the weirdest thing I’ve done to complete a mission.” He said looking at them with a face that told them exactly what he was referring to.
“You’re not going to let us forget that are you?” Skye said
“I wanted to do a middle of the night grab and go. But no. You two decide to make Jas and I dress up like the locals for three days on a gender reversed Steam punk world while you two sat back and watched us make fools of ourselves.”
“Hey, you looked really pretty in that gown.” Skye said, turning the tables on him. “I almost wanted to do you.”
“And you’re not going to tell me our little girl on ‘girl’ session wasn’t enjoyable.” Daisy teased him. “I think we should do that more often, spice up the bedroom a little.”
“I can’t believe I’m hearing this.” He said, listening to Evolt’s hysterical laughter in his mind only making it worse.
“Oh come on… girlfriend.” Daisy continued as she and Skye couldn’t stop themselves from laughing.
He just scoweled, growled and and turned back around, sticking his head outside “No sign of any hostiles. Do you two think you can stop laughing at my expense long enough to continue walking? We should really be putting as much distance between us and them as possible.”
“Fine, fine…” Daisy said as Skye helped her up.
As they walked along, Scott reached into the bag on his back he’d taken from the Zephyr and pulled out 827’s head.
“You alright?” Scott asked
“Yeah, I have a few days’ power stored in an emergency backup.” The severed mechanical head said “I should be fine. It’s even USB compatible. Assuming you can find an outlet. Or a USB charger.”
“What the heck is he doing here?” Daisy asked. “He tried to kill you and kidnaped us.”
“I’m sorry” 827 said. “I was remotely hacked and corrupted by the programing of Stark’s machines. I did not mean to cause you any harm.
“Stark sent me back to my home world” 827 continued “To force Howard Stark to send certain items he needed. Howard had the smarts to send Scott my override command code, hidden in the packaging of the ARC reactor.”
“You have a reset button?” Daisy asked.
“It’s a phrase, a quote from Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘the Raven’. It triggers an automatic system reset, which cleared the invasive programing from my system.”
“Why ‘The Raven?”
“Howard Stark built me not long after his family was killed. He felt like the narrator of the poem.”
“Maria Stark, his lost Lenore.” Scott said.
“Yes, the accident cost him not only those he cared about, but the use of his legs. It’s not age that put him in his chair.”
They continued on, Scott trying to keep Evolt at bay in his head while trying to ignore Skye and Daisy still making jokes about him in a dress.
They’d walked a few mile when Scott, or rather Evolt, put his hands up.
“I hear something.” He growled. “You two stay back.”
“Whatever it is, I can deal with it.” Daisy said.
Evolt took a defensive pose before the ground before them began to shake and then explode, letting a large creature the size of a small car climb out and screech at them.
“OK… not what I was expecting.” Daisy said.
“Stark liked to… play around with the genetics of life forms using his technological infection.” 827 said. “That, for example, was a common tarantula.”
“Hold him.” Evolt said, handing Daisy 827’s head. “I’ll handle this.”
He held out his hand and a gel like substance appeared in both hands, coalescing into three objects. One, in his right hand was a large box with a handle sticking out. In the other hand, two small bottles.
He held the box up to his waist and inserted both bottles and cranked the handle.
“COBRA! RIDER SYSTEM! EVOLUTION!”
The giant spider lunged towards, landing right on top of Scott’s body.
Daisy and Skye feared the worse when a voice called out…
“COBRA! COBRA! EVOL COBRA!” followed by the spider getting blasted into the air from beneath. Where once was Scott, now stood an armored figured in black, red, blue and gold.
“Alright you ugly bug, let’s get this over with.” Evolt said as the monster charged towards him, only for the alien to smack it back a few yards.
“That it? I’ve been stuck here for years and I’m itching for a good fight.”
The spider jabbed and spat at him, but he quickly dogged everything it threw at them effortlessly.
“You’re boring me.” Evolt eventually said, before reaching down for the handle at his waist and cranking it.
“EVOLTEC FINISH!” the voice yelled as his hand began to glow, engulfed in flame. He swung, at the spider’s head, killing it.
“Ciao…” He said as the creature fell apart.
As the spider slowly dissolved into nanotech goo the group heard yelling as a squad of soldiers climbed over the hill.
They raised their guns on the group and ordered them not to move.
“My name is Col. Glen Talbot, Mojave Union Defense Forces.” One of them yelled “Who the hell are you three.”
Evolt sighed, yanked the bottles out of the device and the armored form dissipated, restoring Scott to control.
“You wouldn’t believe us if we told you.” Scott said, putting his hands up.