Chapter 51:
The first act had been for the Starro Avengers to knock out Carnage. Grace collapsed in a catatonic state like a puppet with its strings cut severely.
The Black Widow might have been controlled by some creepy star fish drone, however she had been one of the most dangerous individuals and fighters. Gwen appreciated that all anew and had to keep one step ahead of the Black Widow when she fought it.
XS rushed into the battle and tried to rip the starfish drones off. Black Widow blocked it and sent a pulse of electricity through her body. Spider-Girl's attempts to web onto the Black Widow had been completely blocked as well and she had been sent.
"Bobbi, snap out of it!" Quake yelled.
Mockingbird did not appear to listen to her. Daisy lifted her hand up and began to quake the the ground. At least until a blast of magic from the Scarlet Witch sent Daisy flying up into the air. Several large spikes threatened to rip Daisy in half as she fought.
White Canary and Black Canary both jumped into the air on either side. The Black Widow stalked them from the shadows. Sara always enjoyed fighting an opponent which had been evenly matched.
"We've got to get her!"
"Got to deal with the girl throwing around probability altering magic too!" Spider-Girl yelled.
Spider-Girl's web shooters malfunctioned and caused them to break all over the place. She had been splattered with webbing which she could not break free. The Black Widow rushed in to stab Spider-Girl in the face.
"All for Starro!"
White Canary blocked the attack from Black Widow. The two skilled fighters went hand to hand with each other. Sara blocked three punches before she had been nailed in the ribs. Black Widow took Sara down onto the ground and wrapped her up in a choke. Sara struggled and flipped out of the move. She landed on her feet before sinking a kick into the Black Widow's ribs and sending her down.
Mockingbird and Black Canary threw hands with each other. Black Canary tried to release a canary cry. However, Scarlet Witch gagged her and made her throat stick at the worst possible time. This allowed Black Canary to crash down onto the ground with a thunderous attack.
"Enough!"
Nora Darhk threw a beam of magic into the air and struck the Scarlet Witch. The Scarlet Witch struggled in the box which Nora trapped her in. Not trapped for long, the Scarlet Witch broke out and sent a very jagged beam of light in Nora's direction which rippled through the air. The two beams hit each other and vibrated with Nora and Wanda fighting back and forth with the war of beams.
"Bow!" The Scarlet Witch yelled.
"Never!"
A tendril came out and ripped the Scarlet Witch away. Alex appeared from the shadows. Supergirl knocked Black Widow down to the ground.
"Starro drones!" Power Girl yelled. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me. As if we didn't have enough problems."
Black Widow released an explosion in the room and sent jagged pieces which the group had to scatter from. The three women left down a tunnel towards a waiting jet. Supergirl tried to give chase only to find that she had been cut out of the air by one beam of light by the Scarlet Witch.
"Ugh, I really hate magic," Supergirl grumbled.
"It doesn't like you either by the looks of things," Sara said. "Everyone okay?"
"Yeah, well Grace is still out of it," XS said.
"I'll get her back to the palace," Power Girl said.
"Be careful, she won't be too happy when she wakes up," XS said.
Oh, Power Girl had that problem with other people, not being too happy when they woke up.
Everyone might have okay. They had two big problems, both which Gwen just had to speak of.
"She's not here," Gwen said.
"Yeah," Nora said. "She's not. I tracked her here, but, she must have gotten away."
"Or the Psycho Avengers attacked her," Daisy said. "I wonder who got the drop on the Black Widow. And Mockingbird and Scarlet Witch and if they have any more Avengers lined up for us."
A possessed Thor or Hulk, oh Daisy just thought of those two possibilities and neither were good. XS leaned down to the ground and flicked a display into her mask to light.
"Hey, guys, look at this," XS said. "There's some kind of residue left on the ground. The drones must have left it behind in their escape."
"Great, that's a start," Sara said. "Gideon, get a scan of this."
"One moment, Captain Lance."
Sara waited for the Waverider to hopefully pinpoint a location. They might be able to find the architect behind the possession of the Avengers and if they did that, they would have to stop it.
"I'm picking up a location with strange energy. It's just over the valley."
"So, that's where Starro is," Kara said. "Okay, listen up. Splitting up is the worst thing we can do. That would allow Starro to come in and pick us off one and a time."
"Okay, you know more about this Starro thing than I do," Sara said.
"It's part of a race of aliens which resemble starfish," Kara explained. "They've gone from planet after planet and possessed the occupants with it's drones, and purged all of it's resources until there's nothing left. My aunt told me about it a long time ago, and she had to slaughter a small group of Kandorians who tried to smuggle in some of the drones."
"And now one of them is on Battle World," Helena said.
"Battle World?" Daisy asked.
"Do you have a better name for this place?" Helena asked.
Daisy responded with a shrug. No, she guessed not. No better name for this place. The group set off on their way to track the lab.
XS groaned very softly and she was not the only one. Daisy did not look too pleased with the situation.
"If it's not HYDRA, it's AIM," Daisy said. "They're dabbling in something far too dangerous."
"Take out those three guards there," Kara said. "That opens a tunnel to the main lab."
Sara smiled, on it all ready. She moved quietly through the shadows. The guards might have been well equipped. They would all hit the ground before anyone knew what happened.
One guard dropped, then a second one. The third guard registered the first one had been taken out just before Sara clubbed him in the back of the head.
Sara opened the eye of the guard to utilize his scan to gain them access. The others joined the White Canary as they stepped into the room. Nora Darhk raised her hand and looked over her shoulder. Several blinking red dots appeared on the wall. Nora waved her hand.
"Cameras are masked, sensors are dulled," Nora said.
"Even with that, we have about five minutes to get to the main lab," Daisy said."Providing the Avengers even came back here."
Oh, something told them they did. Spider-Girl nervously looked over her shoulder and half expected something to attack her. This had been a creepy lab and they would not expect to see something.
Daisy hacked into the control panel and opened up to the main lab. Kara's mouth hung open completely.
A large purple starfish laid in a tank with several devices hooked into her. Fluids pumped into the tank and the anguished cry of the starfish appeared. On the floor, several small drones wiggled to life. One of them jumped into place and tried to snag onto Supergirl until she burned it with heat vision.
"Nora, contain them!"
Nora Darhk blasted the Starfish drones into little boxes before they could jump them.
AIM goons surrounded them. The girls prepared for a fight. Especially when the three Avengers joined AIM and stood side by side with them.
"You will all serve a greater purpose," one of the AIM goons said when withdrawing a weapon.
Alex thought there was more to this than meets the eye.
"Whose greater purpose."
"Mine."
Alex came face to face with herself, or an alternate version of herself. Alexandra Danvers of Earth-X, the Scientist Supreme of Advanced Idea Mechanics or AIM.
"When my associates told me there was an imposter roaming around, I had been curious," Alexandra said. "At first, I thought my sister created a clone of me, but I realized she did not have the resources nor HYDRA was sophisticated enough. As I gathered information, I realized you're not an imposter. You are me, from a different Earth. Flawed, yes, but we do have some things in common. Unfortunately, you have not lived up to your full potential."
"That's a matter of opinion," Alex said.
Alex wanted to bend this woman at a knee and make her humble. Alexandra's eyes just flashed with a smile.
"The only thing I'm curious about is that suit," Alexandra said. "It appears to give you strength. Without it, you would be a weak shell of an individual. A pathetic little girl with delusions."
Alexandra just smiled at the entire group.
"I'm going to save us from this Beyonder," Alexandra said. "I'm going to give you two options. Kneel before me, or drop dead."
"How about a third?"
Alex stretched her symbiotic tentacle out and smacked Alexandra in the face. This triggered all of the AIM soldiers into an attack, along with the mind controlled Avengers who blasted at them.
XS dodged the fire and nailed one of them. She really hoped Nora's containment pods would hold because she did not want to get a face hugger. The speedster jumped high into the air and dodged the attack. One of them tried to contain Nora with a net.
White Canary and Black Widow circled each other for battle. Round two and hopefully the last round. Sara dodged the attack of the woman and Sara grabbed her around the wrist before slamming her down onto the ground. Black Widow released a pulse of electricity which sent Sara sliding back down to the ground.
Daisy shook the AIM drones up and sent them flying down to the ground. She dodged an attack from Scarlet Witch who blasted her.
Alex found herself on the ground and dealing with a particularly beefy boy of an AIM goon. She wrapped the man up and choked him unconscious.
Suddenly, something stabbed her in the side. Alexandra extracted a small part of the symbiote from Alex.
"You made a huge mistake!"
The raging rampage of revenge Alex did tore up parts of the lab.
"Alex!" Kara yelled.
Alex almost smacked Kara and Gwen back from the attack. The main target of her aggression slipped back into the shadows and left Gwen to dodge both Alex and one of the drones which got loose. Gwen snapped it back and webbed it into the wall.
Scarlet Witch beamed the through the air. Nora blocked the attack. She scrambled for a way to turn this situation around. Nora's mind worked frantically until she had an idea. Whether or not it would work, well it depended on a couple of aspects.
"Come on!" Nora yelled. "Have at me!"
Nora sent a blast over her head. The Scarlet Witch deflected it backwards and sent it flying back. Two more beams criss-crossed each other until one nailed the case containing the Starro Queen and practically sliced it in two.
The Scarlet Witch's face hugger drone melted from her face. The other AIM scientists along with Mockingbird and Black Widow fell down to the ground, heavily breathing from the impact of it as well. They had been freed from the Starro drones.
Daisy, Gwen, and Kara managed to restrain Alex and calm her down.
"She's got away with a piece!" Alex groaned.
"Yeah, I know but...oh you've got to be kidding me!"
Everyone just had to have a base destruct sequence. Daisy helped her friend out of there, and Gwen, Sara, Laurel, and Kara assisted the half dazed Scarlet Witch, Mockingbird, and Black Widow out of the base.
Alex fumed, but understood the need to get the Avengers safely out of the base. Alexandra escaped from both a sample of her blood and a sample of the symbiote and neither could bode well.
Wanda, Natasha, and Bobbi all gasped when they shot up out of the bed. Out of the three women, Natasha had been the first to get up and take a few cauctitious, if not shaky steps through the door. She moved over to get a good look at the surroundings and realize she had been in Wakanda.
"So, you're up."
Natasha turned around and smiled.
"Carol's sister, well one of them," Natasha said. "And you have a counterpart who is now running AIM. She managed to get the drop on us. Hopefully you're half as good."
"I have my moments," Alex said. "Maybe you should get some rest?"
"I don't rest well after I've been possessed," Natasha said. "Unless you have some way to convince me to rest, I'll be staying up."
"Well, follow me, and I'll make sure you're rested."
Natasha smiled. A pity Carol could not join them on this adventure. She would settle with getting to know one of Carol's younger sisters.
Sex had always been Natasha's favorite form of therapy. Although it got her in trouble sometimes.
The Shameless Smut Resumes In the Next Chapter.