"Good job, Squirrel Girl," Jim congratulated SG as she sat in the back of an ambulance getting her stab wound looked at. An hour had passed since the raid and the task force could be found loading up all the newly apprehended weapons and organization members, all but Jim and SG who could be found sitting in the back of an ambulance outside the warehouse.

"I think you deserve all the credit, all I did was take out three members and fight our shape-shifting adversary." SG said with a scowl on her face as she thought about 'The Shape.'

"He was here?" Jim asked her in a concerned tone, for they not heard or seen anything from this criminal in months.

"He was the one who murdered the cops that you sent to meet with me, he somehow blended in with your cops and took them out as soon as he saw me." SG scowled as she thought about the cop killing shape-shifter.

"He might have gotten away, but at least he didn't get the weapons that where being shipped here," Jim said a she rubbed his chin in contemplation, "did he say anything to you before he escaped?' he asked the squirrel heroine.

"His exact words where, 'You might have won today, but soon 'Carnation' will be unleashed, and you and the city will fall,'" she informed the police captain, and that made him visibly pale, "Jim what the hell is carnation?" she asked her friend.

"I honestly don't know, we tapped into a previous phone call and we heard about something named 'Carnation' but that's all we know." Jim said with a sad sigh.

"Well whatever it is, it can't be good, especially in this shape-shifters hands, he wants anarchy and chaos, and if I've learned one thing from our two previous encounters is that he will not stop until he achieves that goal..." SG informed the captain.

"Just one more stitch." D-Back said as Roach sat in his chair while his weapons man was stitching up his wounds, even though Roach was a shape-shifter, his wounds still carried over to every form.

"I really hate that heroine," Roach muttered as he sat there patiently waiting for the final stitch, "I can't wait for 'Carnation' to be unleashed that way she will suffer." Roach said as he clenched his fist on his good arm as D-Back finished the last stitch, as Sitcom walked into the room.

"Boss, can commence phase one whenever your ready." he informed his boss, which made Roach nod his head.

"Send our boys to the closest news station, it's time to show this city that we mean business..." Roach said with a sadistic smile.

"How's your arm?" Doreen's mother asked as she entered into the living room to see her daughter laying on the couch watching TV.

"It's alright, stings a bit, but I can feel my healing factor patching up the wound as we speak." Doreen said with a tried sigh, for the battle, and her wound had drained a lot of her energy.

Suddenly the TV cut to an emergency news broadcast, and what she saw made Doreen pale, several gas mask wearing members where in front of the camera holding weapons.

"Hello Los Angeles, we are here tonight to show you that we mean business," the man said as a restrained and gagged news anchor was thrust into the frame.

The News Anchor held tears in her eyes, her face showed true fear as one of the gang members looked down at her, he pulled out a titanium cylinder, he twisted the lid a half turn and pulled, it extended to nearly twice its previous length to show it was hollow inside. But there was something in there.

The man took the object out with a gruel sadistic grin, in his hand was a syringe that was completely filled to the brim with dark, black, liquid that seemed to boil within the containment. The News Anchor gagged for she could even smell it from where she was restraint.

The gang member said looking into the camera and said "We told you time and again, to stay out of the way. We tried to keep the civilians out of the line of fire. But no more! We are no longer playing games..." With a cruel smirk he walked towards the News Anchor.

With renewed vigor the News Anchor began to fight even more, but there was nothing she could do, she gave up, the hope and fire died in her eyes as she finally realized her fate, she gave up as she submitted knowing there was no hope for her. She looked down in defeat tears streaming down her face.

The man who held the syringe smirked as he removed the gag and he asked her "Do you have anything you wish to say?"

The News Anchor said with tears knowing she will never she her family again "I love you my baby boys. I am sorry William, I wish I could take back what we fought about this morning. I love you." She sniffled as she looked at the gang around her she said "No matter what you do, you will-"

The man stabbed her in the neck with the syringe, her words died in her mouth as she let out a scream of pure pain and aguish, horror and terror.

From that moment of death, her body began to cool match the temperature of the city causing the algor mortis affect. Within minutes the muscular tissues became rigid and incapable of relaxing, making the rigor mortis begin. Since blood is no longer being pumped through the body, gravity causes it to drain to the dependent portions of the body, creating an overall bluish-purple discoloration of the whole body as if she was suffocating. Blisters began to appear at the surface of the skin.

The bloat began with the accumulation of gases within the body, causes the distention of the abdomen and gives a cadaver its overall bloated appearance. The gases produced also cause natural liquids and liquefying tissues to become frothy as it reeked of decay. As the pressure of the gases within the body increases, fluids are forced to escape from natural orifices, such as the nose, mouth, and anus, and enter the surrounding environment. The buildup of pressure combined with the loss of integrity of the skin caused also caused the body to spilt, her intestines full to the road with a strong stench that even made one of the gang member gag. Doreen herself threw up at the sight.

The body paled and became a whitish and harden to seem like a marbled appearance.

The skin began to slip from her body, and her hair began to detach from the skin, eventually more of the skin ruptures which then further the putrid reeking smell of the gases and fluids.

Moments later her body liquefied even more, even her bones began to decay, leaving only her skeleton soon even her skeleton turned to dust leaving nothing there, all of this happened with about ten agonizing minutes.

The gang member looked at the camera and said with a dark, evil chuckle "You have been warned..." He paused and added "Oh and Squirrel Girl? If you get in our way... we will unleash Carnation in the city..."

With that the camera feed was killed, and static filled the airwaves soon after that silence.

Credit goes to Death Fury who wrote a large section of this chapter. So Carnation has been revealed, what do you think about it?