The Next move.
“What the fuck are those?” Daisy asked, jumping next to Scott into what was becoming her regular seat.
“I don’t know. I don’t want to know.” He said as more of them began to crowd the deck. Scott hit a button and the interfaced changed. The plane’s wingtips opened, revealing two of the plane’s four guns.
“Open wide…” he said as he pulled the trigger.
The guns fired, punching a hole in the ship, and causing it to collapse in on itself, sinking further into the water.
“Was that absolutely necessary?” Daisy asked him
“Tenticaled monsters on a ship controlled by Hydra.” He said “You do the math…”
“Then they know we’re here and we need to be somewhere else… Like NOW!”
“What happned?” Jemma asked Seven and Thawne
“That… thing just jumped out of nowhere and tried to eat us.” Thawne said
Jemma looked him over. “That thing must spit acid, you’ve got a nasty burn on your back.”
“Once I get my speed back, it going to heal.” He said. “Just get me some painkillers.”
Jemma ran back to their medical supply stock.
“Thanks.” Thanwe said to Seven.
“Well, if you didn’t come back in one piece they’d suspect me of doing it.”
“Maybe we can find an old smuggling base or something” Scott said to Daisy.
“How about we just stick to the air?” She said.
Sudenly, the radar began to ping. Scott moved the controls, turning the plane to the left and droping in alitiude. The blips followed.
“We’ve got company.” He said. He looked out the window and saw that it was flying people. No suits, no wing packs, just flying along. The group split in two and came around the sides of the plane.
“Hang on!” Scott yelled.
Fitz looked up at the second device’s screen. It was showing it was completely charged.
“We’re good to go!” Fitz yelled.
“Then punch it!”
Fitz hit the trigger and the Zephyr vanished, leaving the approaching flyers to crash into each other.
Several thousand miles away, a tall, imposing man was sitting at his desk eating a late dinner. “So, they got away?” He said to his subordinates, trembling before him.
“Yes sir, Lord Hyperion, they used the device and escaped. They did do us one favor, they destroyed one of the Saps bio weapon production labs.”
Hyperion, the leader of the Homo Superior race, slammed his hand on the desk, breaking it in two, sending the food flying.
“So what?” He yelled “That’s just one monster factory down, God knows how many more to go! Do you idiots realize how far you’ve delayed our goal? We were supposed to get rid of them. That woman offered us a counter agent to Argonite if we caught them! I could have crushed the remaining Saps with ease!”
“Temper, temper, your Lordship” A woman’s voice said “Don’t want to burst a blood vessel.”
“Oh…” Hyperion said “It’s you… I didn’t hear you come in. I’m sorry to report that my men have failed.”
“I’m sorry to hear that.” She said “Unfortunate really, I was looking forward to working with someone of your… caliber… on future occasions.”
An aid burst into the room
“Sir, we’ve got incoming! ICBMs!”
“Ugh… third time today…” Hyperion groaned and he stood and walked towards the door to deal with the incoming threat.
“Well, that’s my cue to leave then. Need to check in on another friend” The strange woman said “I wonder what an Argonite based fusion warhead would do to someone like me…” She pondered as she diasappred.
“A what!?!” Hyperion yelled as a blast wave tore through the base.
Meanwhile…
May’s eyes opened and she found herself being dragged down a hallway by two of the hunters.
“Well, she’s finally awake” one of them said “Told him he’d wacked her too damn hard”
The passage opened up into a large room. There were large, free standing glass cubs around its edges. The two brutes tossed May into one of the glass enclosures via a small opening.
“When I get out of here I’m going to kill you freaks.” She yelled as the wall reformed.
“It’s no use” a woman’s voice said behind her “The glass in sound proof unless Mistress wants it otherwise.
My turned to look where the voice had come from.
“Bobbi?” May asked.
“No, my name’s Kelly. Kelly Grayson.” The other woman replied. She was wearing a rather expensive looking gown and was sitting on a king sized bed, the only thing in the room.
“You look just like her.”
“I know. I think that’s why I’m here…”
“How long have you been in here?”
“Three weeks. Welcome to Mistress Morse’s Menagerie of Pretty Things. Hail Hydra and all that jazz.”
The opaque glass suddenly became clear. May looked out at the other cages. All women, some of whom looked like Bobbi, all in fancy dresses.
“She’s got a thing for girls in ball gowns.” Kelly said.
“Mine was the same way.” May said. “I was married to the Bobbi of my world… before she died. She loved dressing up. But this is sick.”
“I’m sorry about your wife and I’m sorry you feel this way about your new life.” Kelly said “Come sit, we’d better get to know each other, we’re going to be here a while. Mistress expects all the new couples to perform for her once they are settled together. So, what’s your name?”
“I’m sorry, what?”
“Don’t worry, you’ll enjoy it.” She got up off the bed and strode over to May, embracing her.
“Look, Kelly was it? You’re gorgeous and all that, but this doesn’t feel right. Actually it’s a little creepy.”
“Come on, live a little gorgeous.” Kelly said as she kissed May’s neck.
“May,” she said “My name’s Melinda May.”