The Fastest Man Alive
Chapter 60
By: BigTofu
Fury
Director of S.H.I.E.L.D
The mont those blasted robots struck, Fury knew that he was getting far too old for this shit. Maybe his sister was right, maybe he should just retire on that beach alongside her and teach his nephew's kids. Fury chuckled to himself: Yeah, that would serve him right, having little spies running around the house ssing things up.
Pulling his Last Word, which, with its size, should be called a hand cannon, but was assuredly just a miniaturized canon. Fury fired off four rapid shots in succession and the rounds exploded on contact, delivering devastation and destruction to the robot's body.
Yeah, I still got it. Fury smirked before walking over to kick the pile of scrap onto it's back as he peered down upon it's broken form. These sentinels and yes, he felt that na was very pretentious, were very ugly purple things.
"Sir, shouldn't you be behind cover?"
Fury looked over at May before shaking his head at her, "My trench coat isn't just for show you know. Barton, stop being lazy, tell
what you see."
"Sir, Widow already has the lower levels handled and I have already cleared out the right side. Two on the left remaining." Barton instantly replied without hesitation.
Fury took a mont to think as Coulson unleashed a gust of wind on the two unsuspecting robots. Ignoring the carnage of what was going on around him, Fury tapped Coulson and May on their shoulders before he jumped over the balcony.
Ohh yeah, he was back in the ga, baby. Landing smoothly, he stepped from his location while doing a smooth quick draw. Two more rapid shots and another set of robots went down. Walking past the cowering politicians, Fury hid the look of disdain on his face behind a calm facade when he looked at them.
Tapping his earpiece, and checking his omni, Fury called for a sitrep. "Hill, how's it looking up there?"
"Hanger one is down, but our forces are being assisted by Pandora's forces, sir." Maria Hill answered over the comms.
"Take the helicarrier over the bay as Pandorans did with their forces, we don't want any more collateral damage than what's already been done," Fury commanded in a tone that allowed no argunts. Before he could hear the reply, Fury perford another smooth quick draw firing off three more shots before anyone else could react.
Screams from the politicians echoed in the room as three robotic humanoid bodies fell into the conference room. Snorting and ignoring them, Fury decided to walk over to where Widow had a command station set up.
"Your Grace, I deeply apologize for this blunder on behalf of the United Nations." Fury began and heard the gasp from the politicians behind him. "Ignorance of my colleagues aside, Is this the command station we are working out of?"
Widow made a crisp turn to look at him through her visor. Standing there with Coulson at his back, hand cannon in hand, Fury had a sudden itch for action. Instead of answering, Widow smoothly moved out of the way while motioning towards a set of monitors.
"May, Barton, you're on overwatch, Coulson you're up." Fury said, while standing back and letting his team take over.
One flap of his badass trench coat later, he holstered his hand cannon and made sure that he was at least inside the privacy bubble before he asked any of his questions.
"Now that everyone is distracted, what type of situation are we really dealing with?" Fury asked discreetly.
"It's all bad," Widow replied, visor facing towards the command center.
"Are we talking about nuclear options bad?" Fury questioned.
"If only. No." Widow said, letting out a sigh. "We are talking Skynet bad."
At that proclamation, Fury almost visibly flinched at what he was hearing. He wanted to rub his brow but Fury knew that he couldn't since he was in public.
"Please tell
that we are dealing with this," Fury asked, hands itching for so more action. Yet he knew that the field wasn't his place to be.
"Well, see for yourself." Widow gestured and Fury looked over to see his nephew making a path of nothing but destruction. Even the high speed caras could not catch anything but a shadow of his nephew. Fury knew that these caras were leagues better than anything that his people could get their hands on. If even the caras could not catch him, then he was moving extrely fast.
And that was far too damn fast if you asked for his opinion.
Then it happened; and Fury had to flex his hands so that he didn't white knuckle them. Clear for all eyes to see, Benjamin sliced a mountain into four parts. The first cut clearly uprooted the mountain while the second cut bisected it.
Yeah, it was days like these when Fury was more than glad to be the favorite Uncle to that juggernaut of a nephew. The video feed then shifted to Benjamin raining down so pure destruction on the forces hidden inside of that mountain base.
Fury's teeth ground as he saw who was behind it all, Bolivar fucking Trask. He had shut him down a few years back. If he recalled, it was over so inhumane military experint.
"Fuck." Fury spat as he saw who it was, and now with the talk of Skynet. He didn't know what he hated more. The fact that he couldn't put a bullet in Trask, or that he had to be the one to clean up this fucking ss.
Ororo Blake
Storm, Queen, Avatar of Earth
Rolling over to the side in the air, Ororo dodged what she deed a redundant swipe as the sentinel she was facing missed it's target.
[Mutant subjugation protocols activated.]
That was all she needed to hear as she once more vacated the location she was in. Rolling her eyes at the flailing robot, Ororo just couldn't wrap her mind around it. The robot was programd to find and subjugate ta-human DNA. What happens when it completes its mission? Logically, Ororo could already see the conclusion with these robots going to subjugate the rest of humanity. It was as clear as the robot before her that was constantly adapting to combat her powers.
It was such a logical conclusion since as far as Ororo could rember, both of her parents were standard humans before their untily demise. So if you calculated it all the way to the end, since ta's ca from humans: once all of the ta's were taken care of, it would only an the sterilization of humanity being next. Since, logically that would be the only way to truly stop births of ta-humans.
[Mutant subjugation protocols activated. ]
Dodging another swipe from the robot she was facing, Ororo flew in close and placed a hand on it's back. Calling forth an Earth Series spell, Ororo unleashed the gathered magical energy from her palm sending the adapting robot into the road below.
The robot in question slamd into the road, creating a crater. Glowing brown lights then gathered around the robot as pillars of earth rose to engulf the downed bot.
Before it could be smothered within the earth, arcs of electricity flowed all over the robots body and Ororo was reminded of the lightning used against it. The robot did not only adapt, but it also absorbed the excess energy.
Growling softly to herself, Ororo sent a ntal comand through her neural link and her helt responded. Taking a deep breath, she then pulled out a gladius blade from her bag of holding. She took a mont to admire the finely made blade. It was a masterwork made from Vibranium and Adamantium, the gladius extended her reach but not enough to feel unwieldy. A fine blade that was well balanced and today was its first foray into combat.
A flash of blue rolled over her body as Ororo empowered herself with a spell. The wind whipped around her as she flew down post haste, never allowing the foolish robot to lock onto her.
With speed and grace, Ororo landed on one foot as she kept herself from doing a three point landing. Turing on a pivot, she then launched herself towards her target with clear purpose. Within a blink of an eye, Ororo was within striking distance, but two more steps had her within the personal space of her target.
This was the place she wanted to be as she then turned and swung upwards with her sword. Ororo's blade caught the robot off guard behind the leg and underneath the pelvic structure. The nano-molecular edge of her blade proved to be far superior to the tal composites that made up her adversary.
Ororo noted that as her blade traveled upward, the robot wasn't able to compensate for the lost limb. While the robot was falling due to a lost limb, Ororo conjured another spell that bathed her sword in a green glow. Stopping the montum of her swing she slashed her blade in a downward arc bisecting the killing machine into halves. The earth shook and rumbled for a mont before vines sprouted from both halves of the fallen robots body.
If energy attacks wouldn't work then a spell conjuring the breath of life, that can bring green to the driest of places, should. Seeing that her spell did actually work, Ororo held her hand before her as more and more spell circles ford. Then before anyone could say or do anything more, vines flew out before engulfing the rest of the robots present.
Ororo checked her surroundings before speaking over her neural link. "Samuel, what's the sitrep?"
"The pronade and the outer areas around the UN buildings are clear. Widow handled the situation inside the building and we have a team on their way to Brazil." Samuel answered over the comms.
"I received a ssage that Benji took care of the place where these things ca from?" Ororo asked since she had removed her helt from which that information had co.
"Correct, his majesty destroyed the mountain and the mainfra that held the mastermind behind this fiasco. Her majesty Raven is right now overseeing the team that is in charge of ensuring the destruction of the leftovers." Samuel said while sending his reports to her omni.
Nodding her head at what she was reading, Ororo did a quick flick of the wrist sending the oils and robotic fluids onto the pavent. Then she slung her sword on her back, mag locks holding it in place as she took to the sky. anwhile a team arrived at her location and was already in the process of cleaning up the ss.
As she flew towards the UN building, Ororo did a quick geo ping for everyone and found Benjamin on the island at ho with dusa. A security feed popped up and allowed her to spy on dusa getting far more than her fill. Tilting her head sideways, Ororo made a ntal note to try that position later.
Closing down the security feed, Ororo then found the location pinging for Nat before she flew to her location. The correct building was easy for Ororo to locate as it was the only one with the most of the flags from around the world. Not only that, but it was the building with an enormous hole on its side and ergency vehicles surrounding it like ants.
Touching down inside the hole, Ororo ignored those around her as she made her way to the security station. This was the security station that was being manned by Natasha as it projected an unobstructed view for all to see.
Ignoring the playback of her destroying the robots outside, Ororo landed beside Natasha and checked her over. Before anything could be said between them, Natasha removed her own helt and pulled her in. The kiss they shared was a long and passionate one. It was clear that once they left here, they were going to have a wonderful ti.
Pushing those thoughts out of her mind, Ororo's tongue dueled with Natasha's before they were interrupted by a cough nearby.
Turning and looking into his one good eye, Ororo summoned her throne and took a seat. "Nicholas, it's good to see you have made it through this ordeal."
Ororo watched as he smirked at her while Natasha sat down on her own throne. The other delegates began to circle now and Ororo understood why Ben didn't want to be here.
"Director, I believe we can leave the coordination of our forces to you and Samuel." Ororo said, pointing to the head spartan in the command center. "Now, before we were rudely interrupted by soone's sick attempt at creating skynet,"
There were gasps of surprise amongst the crowd and Ororo had to put on a smile and wait patiently for them to calm down again. She couldn't help the image of them acting like little unruly kids playing in her mind's eye. "Yes, my fellow officials." Ororo said with a smile she reserved for the slower kids. "If you did not hear it clearly, these robots or sentinels as they were called, were programd to subjugate ta-humans and those that carry the gene. Now, since we know through science that the gene can be carried by anyone and it originated from homo-sapiens in the first place. It's easy to put one plus one together and understand the answer is two. For those that are unable to put the pieces of the puzzle together: simply put, once ta-humans are subjugated, the next step would be to sterilize humanity to prevent such a gene from surfacing again."
Fury turned away and quickly started to take command of his forces in the area and Ororo could already hear him sending a team to Raven's location. Discreetly she noticed that Natasha was also giving out orders from her own omni. Most, if not all of the orders were to make sure none of the sentinels would remain before S.H.I.E.L.D arrived.
Yes,that was a prudent precaution Ororo noted.
"Impossible!" One of the delegates yelled out loud.
"I am sure the news stations personnel here will gladly sell you their video footage so you can further evaluate what happened while you were under your desk. Impossible or not, that is not why I am here right now." Ororo replied, peering at him from her seat. With a sigh, she stood up and dismissed her hovering throne. The delegate took a step backwards as she stood before them all. "The only reason why I have decided to stay and speak with you is to make a few things clear. My Emperor, my husband, has made his stance very clear about your perceived notion of power over our nation because we share the sa borders with the majority of the nations here. That is not for
to dispute; of course the submarines that were liberated from our waters will be returned to each nation, unspoiled and unscanned. And it should go without saying: with the advent of the sentinels, cooperation and solidarity in the face of such an attempt at our annihilation should be the thing we strive for in hope for a better tomorrow. So, in the spirit of that, I will be opening our borders for travel or an embassy for those of you who would like to look into our cures and publicly available technology."
Natasha placed a hand on her shoulder and Ororo allowed her to speak, "Of course we will not allow our military technology to fall into the hands of any nation. Respect that, and you will be allowed on our space station above as well."
One of the holograms over the command center station changed and showed the now modified Attilan. The moon city was shaped like a massive snowflake, while on top of the base were sprawling skyscrapers. The shielding that protected the station from the harshness of space was clear for all to see. Any who laid eyes on Attilan could tell that it was vastly more advanced than the International Space station in orbit. Ororo nodded in agreent as she decided to make a few more points. "One last thing that is dear to my heart, the ocean."
"What about it?" The French delegate's translator asked clearly translating in real ti for his official.
"We will no longer accept the unrestrained pollution of our oceans." Ororo said eyes alight with power. "Before, we kept to ourselves and cleaned whatever we could, but that ends today. You are now aware of our nation under the waves and we shall hold you to a higher standard.
Natasha took a step forward in a stance that was clearly one of aggression. "Let's make this easier for you to understand, you either start fixing the pollution problem, or there will be no more offshore drilling. It's that simple."
A delegate with the flag of Morocco on his lapel gasped clearly in distress. "You can't do that."
"We can and we will
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