"Who am I? Are you sure you want to know? If somebody told I was just any other guy and nobody important…somebody lied"
Most stories start off with warm fuzzy, nice days but not this story. No this story starts at the end.
Taskmaster stood at his window looking down upon the island of Manhattan, now his island. His roving mercenaries secured every entrance and exit to and from the island isolating it off from the mainland. Armoured vehicles roamed the streets and his battle ships patrolled the waters but his greatest achievement was docked by tractor beam at the side of his fortress, the Tri-carrier was secured and over run by his army. And Nick Fury along with the young heroes at the Triskelion were his prisoners,
"ha-heh, it's been a long time coming children but I've finally won" he gloated slowly turning to face his prisoners, shackled to the mobile platform behind him, the new warriors from SHIELDs hero academy "all thanks to you Ms. Ayala" he taunted White Tiger as he grabbed her face "you missed your father so much that you'd blindly trust anyone bearing his characteristics so much as to cast aside your own leader" he mocked pushing her backwards savouring the look of defeat and pain in her face "but I am not cruel" he proceeded to drop a burned and shredded red mask with cracked or broken white eye lenses on the floor in front of them "he died slowly and painfully" he added before exiting the room leaving the heroes to observe the incarceration of all Manhattan.
Tiger stared at her feet refusing to look at the others knowing all she would see is defeat. She deserved this, in her heart she felt this way, she cost her friends and the city their freedom and now she cost her closest friend his life. Taskmaster had indeed won, Deadpool and an army of Mercs gave him Manhattan and the Tri-carrier all because she thought she fell in love. "I'm sorry guys" she whimpered still facing the floor, "this is all my fault"
"No Tiger the fault falls on all of us" Powerman comforted her "we all trusted that scumbag and now we're paying for it it's on all of us"
"Speak for yourselves" agent Venom mumbled.
"Excuse me?" Nova claimed taking offence to agent Venoms remark,
"you guys trusted him Spidey warned you he was bad news I believed spidey but you guys trusted the traitor so don't loop us in with your screw up!"
Agent venoms words struck nerve with Alpha team but he was right, it was their judgement that brought this about. The city below bellowed smoke from the guns as mercenaries asserted their hold over the city by blowing out the bridges. Manhattan was now cut off.
"We've lost… the battle, the city, we lost web head" IronFist sighed.
Taskmaster made his way onto the Tri-carrier where Deadpool and a mechanised reversed colored Spider-man look alike stood over director Fury and the other agents on board "the great Nick Fury on his knees before me" he cackled "what do you think Fury? My own anti Avengers, Mecha- Spider-man, Ragnarok Thor, the iron knight and my metallic captain all copied from yours and Starks databases and brought to life to bring you down it seems that even young heroes will spill everything to someone they trust" Taskmaster laughed his way over to the bridge skylight to further watch his troops conquest when a teenaged sized crimson cat themed person walked to his side "well done Cougar you've done your father proud" he smiled behind his mask
"Thank you…father" Cougar replied.
Deadpool returned to the room where his former team was imprisoned, snaking on beer and tacos "I really didn't think this whole mask thing through you know, it's a pain trying to eat when nothing gets in your mouth you guys want a slug of some corona?" he offered.
"What happened to you Deadpool? You were our teammate, our friend and you sold us out to Taskmaster?" Powerman asked glaring at his former teammate with spiteful vengeance.
"yeah, yeah I did but for more than you might think even with the mutual mercenary discount I gave him he still paid premium for that data" Deadpool replied before he turned to Tiger who still remained silent. "you still pissed that we tricked you into forfeiting the city and being responsible for Webster's death?" he asked hovering inches from her face "cause he's as dead as Elvis" he laughed as he watched Tigers eyes narrow and her sniffling turned into a low resonating growl.
"Grrr Deadpool when I get free I'm gonna rip you and Cougar into tiny little pieces" she roared with bestial intensity in Deadpools face
Wiping his face and giggling Deadpool added one last salt in the wound remark "tsk tsk tiger if you keep being so mean you won't get to watch the epic blockbuster video Taskmaster recorded using Furys gear and it's totally epic, Spider-man vs the Crimson cougar, tittle still a work in progress, but it's going to be great you can all see how Cougar killed him" Deadpool announced with an overly upbeat tone as if he was excited to tell them about the video recordings.
Deadpool quickly directed the restraint bots over to the window so the heroes could witness the cities final moments before Taskmaster took complete control. "Bye guys I'll see you at the inauguration ceremony"
"Tiger are you ok?" Squirrel girl asked in genuine concern for friend,
Tiger shook her head and kick the window with anger and frustration "stupid… I picked the wrong guy. Spidey was always there for me always, even at my worst he was there and I threw him aside because I thought he was just jealous" she panted before repeatedly kicking the window again.
"Save your strength my friend we will need all we have to escape our captors" IronFist suggested
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