Chapter 6
“What the hell has gotten into you?” Fury demanded from his other self as he stormed into the room.
“Bureaucracy…” The Director said “I told them I would not sign off on it, but they wouldn’t listen. You know how it is.”
“They are going to throw me and two of the brightest young minds I’ve ever met into a cell and weld the door shut.” Fury yelled “And you’re not going to do anything about it?”
“What do you want me to do?” The Director asked “When I found out who they were, when I found out they had half my people in their employ, I had no choice but to go along with them and what they wanted. We agreed to work together to keep that… that… THING from doing whatever insane thing he’s been working on for over a decade. I admit I had to give in to some of their demands.”
“Some of their demands?” Fury asked, living up to his name “Some of their demands? I saw the world their demands created.”
“Do you think I enjoy this? Do you think I like it?”
“I think you know it’s wrong, but you don’t have the guts to do anything about it!”
“Well… That’s where you’re wrong!”
The Director pushed a button on the keyboard on his desk and spun the monitor around to show his other self.
“Meet your new cell mates…”
“Well… Son of a Bitch…” Fury said with a smirk.
“Another dimension?” Talbot asked, looking at them like they had three heads.
“Son, you do realize how ridiculous that sounds?” Greene asked. He turned to Talbot “Get on the horn with transport, get these kids away from the front line.”
“Yes sir.” Talbot said, motioning for the three to follow him “And you, give me that.” He said to Daisy, still holding on to 827’s head.
“I would very much appreciate if you’d not touch me.” 827 told him.
“It talked…” Talbot asked, confused.
“Of course I can talk, philistine…” 827 said “What were you expecting? ‘Danger Will Robinson?”
Talbot kept his composure, but the mechanical talking head was getting to him.
“Young Lady, give me that head.”
“Fine…” Scott said, taking the head from Daisy’s arms and handing it to Talbot. “Happy.”
“Thank you. Was that so hard.” He handed it to a soilder standing nearby. “destroy this thing.”
“WHAT?” Skye and Daisy asked at the same time.
“Girls, let it go, it’s just a head.” Scott said as the men pushed them out of the tent.
“Scott, how could you?” Daisy asked as they we led into the back of a new truck.
Scott ignored her and pulled out the device he’d built once the men had locked the door and the truck had started moving.
“Daisy… Just trust me…”
Scott pulled a small object out of his pocket and inserted it into the back of the device.
“How we doing in there?” Scott asked.
“Well, it’s not exactly what I was expecting, but it’s nice to be away from those creeps.” 827 answered from within the device.
Scott looked up with his trademark smartass smirk “We yanked 827’s memory core out of his head while I was taking it from you. He’s inside the driver now.”
“We?” Skye asked
“I helped” Evolt added.
“You… Stop that…” Daisy said.
“Fine… I’ll do the talking” Scott said.
“You’re no fun…” he heard inside his head.
“So…”
Scott knocked on the window into the front of the truck.
“Hey, you mind telling us where we’re going.”
“Center 201.”
“And that is?”
“You’ll find out when you get there.” The man said, slamming the window.
“Well, got anything?” Scott asked out loud.
The two girls shook their heads.
“Not you.”
“Oh alright…” Daisy said.
“Thank you.” Evolt said
“Don’t push your luck.”
“201 is the Mojave Union’s concentration camp in this reigon for people like you. Inhumans and mutants are completely banded here.” The alien said. “Though in the case of the three of you, they’d probably kill you on the spot.”
“So what do we do?”
“we get out of here.” Evolt said, summoning his equipment. “You two might want to keep back.”
Evolt held out the little bottles, but this time, one of them look diffrent
“DRAGON! RIDER SYSTEM! EVOLUTION!” the device called out
Evolt cranked the handle and the device began to make noise.
“HENSHIN!” he called out
“Dragon! DRAGON! EVOL DRAGON!”
A bright flash filled the truck and Evolt’s suit of armor had returned, this time less ornate with a different head with two blue eyes instead of the large red visor.
“Phase 2…” Evolt said has he punched the door open. “Back in action.”
“I could have gotten the door open.” Skye said.
“Could you deal with them?” Evolt asked, pointing at the Humvee with a canon on the roof behind them.
“Yeah.” She said. The truck opened fire and Evolt caught the projectile one handed.
“Want to try that again?” The alien said, smugly. He tossed the shell back at the tuck, causing it to explode. He then grabbed the two and jumped from the truck, landing gracefully on the ground. The two women ran off the road while Evolt took his time. Enough time for the soldiers in the front of the truck to stop, get out and start shooting.
“Spoil sports.” He said as bullets bounced off his armor. He turned and blasted the two with energy from his hand.
Evolt deactivated his transformation and walked toward Daisy and Skye.
“They never learn.”
“You killed them…” Skye said in shock.
“Like it matters to you? They were going to kill you ether way.” Evolt said, not returning control to Scott and walking toward the truck. “You two just going to stand there or what?” He called as he climbed into the driver’s seat.
“I don’t like this, sis…” Skye said “What if that… thing won’t leave?”
“Scott might have bitten off more that he can chew, but do we really have a choice right now?” Daisy told her as she started walking toward the truck.
She climbed up and sat in the middle, next to Scott/Evolt. Once Skye was in they started off down the road.
“Skye” Evolt said after a few minutes “Check around for some food or something. Daisy needs to eat.”
“Why do you care.”
“Because I want you to trust me?”
“If you want me to trust you, then let me talk to Scott.” Daisy said.
“He’s asleep.”
“What did you do?” she asked, suddenly enraged.
“Nothing, if you want him back that bad, hold on…”
His eyes closed only for them to snap open again.
“Hun, who what?” Scott said, panicking and confused to find himself driving a Duce-and-a-half.
“Scott… what happened?”
“I fell asleep…” He said, shaking his head and trying to regain his faculties.
“What’s the last thing you remember.”
“Evolt suiting up. I think I passed out.”
Daisy put her hand on his “Scott, get him out of you.”
“And what, have him enter you or Skye? Once this is over, I’ll kick him out whether he wants it or not.”
“I hope so…” She said.