Chapter 5
Talbot and his men dragged the three into a truck and tossed them in the back.
Daisy looked at Scott as the truck bounced along the worn, damaged roads.
“Scott, seriously, why did you let that…thing… inside you?” she asked, extremely upset.
“I can still hear you, you know.” Evolt said through Scott, causing her to shudder a bit.
“It’s ok.” Scott said, shaking his head “I’ve got him on a very short leash…”
She gave him an angry stare.
“Hey, he got us out of that fortress and took care of that spider monster. So far it’s working.”
“Why do you never ask before you do anything?” she yelled.
“Okay, honey, I’m sorry I let an extratertersital lifeform share my body without consulting you.”
“Would you two knock it off” Skye said.
“HEY!” Talbot yelled from the front “Keep it down back there.”
Evolt began to speak “I shared Mrs. Stark’s body for nearly fifteen years. What her husband knows, she knows, and what she knows, I know. This world is dangerous, Agent Johnson. Without me, you would have been caught in the fortress or eaten by that spider. If you want to get home, you need me, a lot more than I need you right now.”
“It’s been over a day...” Fitz said as he paced back and forth in the quarters he’d been sharing with his wife and their boss.
“Fitz, you’ve said that fifteen times since lunch” Fury said with his feet up on hit cot. “A sixteenth time is not going to get us any answers.”
“I’m worried, I’m sorry.”
The door to their room opened and Xavier stepped in.
“Professor?” Fitz asked “What’s going on…?”
“Unfortunately,” He began “Logan was killed fighting Stark’s machines. We have no information on the whereabouts of your friends. They could be dead. They could have been infected.”
“I’m sorry…” Fitz said “About your friend”
“At least he died doing what he loved…” Xavier said with a chuckle before shaking his head.
“What are you going to do with us?” Jemma asked.
“You’re being moved to secure containment.” He said, “Orders from the top.”
The three all voiced their combined anger at that statement.
“I want to talk to the other me… RIGHT NOW.” Fury demanded.
After several hours ride, Daisy, Skye and Scott arrived in a military camp in what had been the Missouri state capitol of Jefferson. The city looked like it had been abandoned for a lot longer than it had been.
“You better have a good reason for bringing these folks here.” An older man said as the three were led into a tent.
“General, these people escaped from old St. Louis.” Talbot said. The men in the room raised their guns.
“We’re Inhumans.” Scott said “we’re immune to the infection.”
The men looked them over.
“Really, I didn’t know that freaks got special treatment…” Talbot said.
“Glenn, shut up.” The older man said before walking up to Scott.
“General Greene, MDF Army.” He said holding his hand out.
“Scott Riley, my fiancée Daisy and her sister Skye. We’re not from around here…”
“You’re from Squidland?”
“No.” Scott said, with the girls confused.
“the Gulf?”
“That’s not exactly what I meant…”