Heads of a Hydra

Disclaimer: All familiar characters belong to Marvel or Hasbro. I own Farrah/Persiana and Leon/Crisis. L1701E owns his OCs.

Chapter 4: Two Forces

Arnim Zola turned his attention from Crisis to X-23 and Spiderwoman. The two former Hydra operatives were in an arena of sorts, both of them just regaining consciousness. The scientist wanted to bring them both back into the fold, but, Zola's faceless boss ordered only one would be able to rejoin Hydra, and it was left up to Zola on how to choose. Being a complete sadist, the Hydra scientist devised a way; have both Spiderwoman and X-23 fight to the death. One would survive and that one would be reborn as part of the Hydra family.

Jessica Drew, the high school dropout, moaned as she got up and looked around,

"Where am I?"
She then noticed the symbol of Hydra and shook her head,

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me. I remember what those bastards did the last time I was here."

Arnim Zola spoke over the intercom,

"How very perceptive of you, Miss Drew. However, this is hardly a happy reunion."

X-23 woke up at that moment. Zola continued,

"One of you is leaving this place alive. It will be up to you on whom it may be."

Zola pressed a button in the control room and seemed to flood the place with a colorless gas. In reality, it was a specific scent, used to trigger X-23 into a battle frenzy. She came up and roared animalisitcally. Jessica turned and swallowed nervously,

"Oh, crap."

Meanwhile…

It was agreed by the adults on both the West Coast teams to meet at the West Coast Misfit's Manor. The hope was that, by persuading the teens to work together, they could find a way to discover what happened and where Hydra was holed up.
Needless to say, however, that team co-operation was not a highlight of the meeting, as the teens began squabbling.

Wildstar shouted,

"You're boyfriend hit M!"
Persiana shot back,

"Yeah, he did! And he probably improved Monet's looks by doing it!"

Thunderbird glared at Falcon and Redwing,

"You two remind me of that giant chicken that gave me an expired coupon!"

Falcon cracked his knuckles,

"Bring it on, Geronimo! I'm actually lookin' forward to kickin' your ass!"

A brawl soon broke out between many of the West Coast Misfits and Avengers. Sunfire tried to barbecue Miss Marvel. Beast King turned into a rhino and charged at Hercules, while Crystal and Dazzler got into a cat-fight.

War Machine groaned,

"Oh, this is not our day."

Hardcase shouted,

"Hey, keep those brats of yours under control!"

The former soldier shot back,

"Oh yeah, Hard-ass! Why not tell them to break it off? They started it!"

And, in a minute, the adults then began fighting. Quick Kick, Kicker, and Hardcase were brawling with Wonder Man, Pulsar, and War Machine.

Vision, Black Panther, and Siryn all looked at the chaos and destruction that unfolded and the synthoid asked,

"What should we do?"

The prince of Wakanda shook his head,

"I do not know, Vision. I thought this was supposed to be a meeting about team building and co-operation while we search for Crisis."

Siryn snapped her fingers,

"I got this one, lads. Just cover your ears."

She inhaled loudly and let loose a powerful sonic scream. The loud noise was ear-splitting to say the least, as it blew many of the brawling people to one side of the room, stupefying them all. Black Panther had the sense of covering his ears, and Vision turned off his audio receivers.

After a few seconds of holding the scream, Siryn stopped and smiled,

"That's better, lads and lasses. Now, can we all try this again?"

Wolfsbane shook her head,

"It's not me fault, Theresa. We're all just a little on edge."

Farrah quipped,

"Lassie's got a point. I miss my boyfriend!"
Rahne snapped,

"Don't call me Lassie!"
The white-haired cat-girl smirked,

"Whatever you say, bitch!"

The Scottish were-wolf growled,

"I let Thunderbolt get away with sayin' that because he's young. The same won't be said of ye, hairball!"

She pounced in her wolf form, and another fight broke out. Thunderbolt was cheering,

"Go! The Thunderbolt's got money on you!"

War Machine looked at the ensuing cat versus dog fight and sighed,

"I don't suppose we have anything to drink around here, do you?"

Hardcase nodded,

"I'll show you where we get the good liquor. Something tells me we're going to need it."

Thunderbolt then looked at Black Widow. More specifically, her chest,

"Hello gorgeous!"

At this, the young Russian spy delivered a roundhouse kick, flattening the electricity-using Misfit into the wall…

Next Chapter:

More Hydra and West Coast team-up insanity! Stay tuned, fellow readers!