A Series of One Shots: #05

The End

"Carrie, you're not the same girl you once were, you were once young and full of rage. Look at you now child, look how far you've fallen. How pathetic you've become. This world is mine child, and no fragile old women can stop that. Your anger, your aggression, your power, it isn't what it once was."

2038

New York City

2:14 PM

Carrie sat in her cell trying her best to ignore the devilish voice scraping inside the back of her skull scrabbling her mind. Someone, or something far more powerful than herself was trying to send her a very clear message, a message that played over and over again in her head, a message telling her to stay away. "...who, what are you..." She said to herself in a panic breathing heavily. As the voice finally dissipated, the smell of burning attacked her nostrils, it was coming from outside. "...the hell is going on out there?" The fearful women asked peaking her head out a bared window. She looked down to the ground level and saw panic in every direction. Security guards, doctors, patients, everyone was screaming there heads off running to the nearest exits. She looked up and saw the city, it was burning in every other direction. Explosions and chaos overflowed New York, it was like Armageddon. There were some strange looking jets flying across the sky as well shooting lasers and such. The sky itself was black and red, not the typical bright sunny day she was use to by now. Suddenly the wall she leaned against cracked and creaked, she backed away just before it was ripped from its foundation. Ben awkwardly landed inside Carrie's cell, he looked like he was hurt.

"BENNY!" Carrie yelled excitedly, she was just happy to see her boy again, she probably didn't even notice he was injured. "Hey mom..." Ben said wrapping his arm around her waist hugging her the best he could. "Whats going on out there?" Carrie asked as Ben nonchalantly tore off his mothers power restraining collar. "We need your help mom, something bad has happened, something really bad..." Ben explained as Carrie felt that old familiar rush of power through her body. "What do you mean?" Carrie asked gazing out into the hellish looking city. "Monsters mom, monsters are attacking the city, they came out of a flash in the sky, and a ripple through the clouds. There too powerful it..." Ben froze up thinking about all thats happened today, so much death, destruction.

"I'm not a hero Benny, I don't think you should want my help." Carrie said nervous about going back out into the world again, she didn't trust herself not to hurt anyone, she didn't trust herself not to become The Rage again. "Mom, we need you, we can't fight this on our own." Ben pleaded with his Mother to join him, "Who's we?" Carrie asked as she saw a red and black suited man pouncing up and down on her bed listening to Michael Jackson's version of Come Together. "...well this asshole and, the rest of the family...Sadie, Anthony...dad, mom were the last line of defense...us six our the only ones left to save the world..." Ben said tossing his Mother a paper bag filled with cloths.

"...please just, get dressed, we need to come together on this one mom...we need your help to stop the end of the world..."

Meanwhile

Peter and Sadie fought there way through endless amounts of these creatures, there bodies were starting to defiantly take a beating being smashed through endless amounts of buildings and cars, Spider-Man and The Rage were doing everything in there power to protect the civilians. But it got harder by the minute, Sadie was terrified of these monsters, they looked just the devil that Carrie was raised to fear, maybe this was it, maybe this was Sadie judgment, maybe this truly was hell rising up to the earth. "SPIDER-MAN WATCH OUT!" Sadie screamed as her husband was snatched out of the air by The Green Goblin of all people, or one of his knock offs anyway. Peter was dragged across the sky before being dropped into a burned up church, crashing through walls and glass tearing up his already demolished Spidey suit. He weakly returned to a vertical base before he was again greeted with a pumpkin bomb straight to his face, he smashed through a stone wall and eat dirt as he went down.

"Oh misery misery misery thats what you've chosen." Goblin said standing over Peter's broken body. "You know we offered you friendship, and you spat in our face." He said kicking the kid back to his feet, Peter was weak and injured, there was no fight to be seen, he was getting beaten like a battered housewife. "The world is ours now Parker, its over, you can stop trying to be the hero please for once in your two lives, just stop." Goblin pleaded booting the boy back into another wall.

"Ah...aga-again with the wa-walls..." Peter said tasting his own blood. "DADA!" Anthony suddenly smashed down from the sky protecting his Father exploding the crazy man's head with his mind. "I GOT HIM-I GOT HIM DADA I GOT HIM!" Anthony said laughing and hollering in excitement, "Oh god Anthony what have you-" Peter puked his guts out seeing the Goblin's corps the way it was. Anthony's heart was always in the right place, but he had a weird tendency to slaughter people that done wrong. Peter loved him all the same, but he would be lying if he said he wasn't disturbed at how easy it was for Anthony to take a life like it was just another day. "Okay my little killing machine maybe lets not do that again okay."

"But its funny." Anthony said laughing.

Meanwhile

Deadpool launched himself into the heart of the city, cutting down these creatures like no ones else could. "Hi I'm Deadpool, everybody die-oh god no, scary, scary scary scary..." Wade took cover behind a large truck, attempting reload his weapons, while Michael Jackson's music blasted in his ears, "One Thing I Can Tell You Is You Got To Be Free, Come Together, Right Now..." Wade searched around for his extra ammo, "AH SHIT, I FORGOT MY AMMO BAG!" Wade shrieked as his head was crushed by the foot of one of these monstrous creatures. "...ow...that really hurts guys..." Wade said as his head quickly blew back up like a balloon. He flipped to his feet and continued his assault, chopping off limbs and slicing out eyes. Every demonic bastard fell in the wake of Deadpool's madness, this was the closest to cloud nine Wade has probably gotten in a good long time.

"Come Together, Right Now..."

Carrie and Ben landed down on top of the old Avengers Tower, from there they could see where the chaos was coming from, there was a massive pit of fire burning in the center of Manhattan spilling out these creatures at an alarming rate. Behind it was a giant monstrosity with red skin and a crocked smile across its face, it was so disturbingly massive, bigger than any building New York had offer. It was like looking into the eyes of Lucifer himself, "Ben how are we gonna stop this?" Carrie asked with her heart racing a mile a minute. The two were soon joined by Sadie, Peter, and little Anthony. These kids were really the last hope for New York.

"HEY, DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME!" Wade interrupted slowly climbing up the side of the tower, meeting the family head on. "Ah...hold on-oh...nice to meet you Carrie...ah-okay I'm good, I'm good..." Wade said trying to catch his breath. "Ben we can't stop this sweetie..." Carrie said more afraid than she has ever been in her whole life. "We can beat this Carrie, we will..." Peter assured her with his same old shy smile. "I'm sorry Peter but, you should know I'm not much of a team player-I don't work well with others." Carrie said looking into her old lovers eyes, those eyes that use to drive her crazy.

"Well its good were not a team..." Sadie said as the two Carries finally locked eyes. "...were not a team...were a family...with great power, comes great responsibility...were not sitting back and letting this happen Carrie..." Sadie said offering her older self a faint smile. "YES, OKAY PARKER FAMILY LETS SAVE THE WORLD ONE LAST TIME-HA-HA-HA!" Deadpool proclaimed now blasting his music on a speaker. The family leaped off Avengers Tower, powers at the ready, weapons at the ready. This was humanities last stand, maybe this was Carrie chance to be a hero, maybe this was Carrie chance to finally have a real family. But as the kids swung into action, a smile appeared across the old girls face. Uncle Ben was smiling down on his family today. And Deadpool.

"With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility."

"Come Together, Right Now, Over Me..."

-The Rage Concludes-