They are lead to a section of solid steel doors that looked about an inch think side by side with little rectangular glass windows that are locked from only the outside.
Clint kept a stern look as he followed the others, Dr. Reyes opened the first door for Illyana whose expression is as careless as always in his mind.
"I'll see you in the morning." Dr. Reyes comments.
Illyana just whips around with Lockheed on her hand, "And I'll see you in hell!" She mocks before Dr. Reyes closes the door locking it behind her.
"Come on!" She says to Dani and Clint moving on to the next cell. That's for Dani who walks in Clint notices the young Native American taking in her new surroundings as all sight of her vanishes from Clint's view with a click of the lock before he follows Dr. Reyes to the last cell that's obviously for him. She opens it, he steps inside he notices the small room is no different than a ordinary prison cell with a hard mattress for a bed with no pillows or blankets, and in the corner he saw a small faucet and near the other corner was a old looking toilet with barely any paper left to clean up after a number 2, the only exception of this room is the bars of course but after all it was solitary confinement.
Taking a breath Clint turns to face Dr. Reyes who looks back with a monotone face. "So how long am I in this cozy little box again?" he asks her a little bit of sass still evident in his voice.
But still Dr. Reyes answers the sincere part of the question. "Until tomorrow morning any incident with patients involving rebellious or uncooperative behavior as well as unauthorized use of powers mandates immediate solitary confinement for any and all of those who were involved."
Clint just chuckles while his eyes roam around the room. "Wow! A doctor and a prison warden anything else I should know about in your resume for this place, or do I just have to find out on my own like tonight!" He asks looking back at her folding his arms with a semi curious expression.
"I told you Clint your not a prisoner your a patient everything that I do is for your own good and for the good of others around you!" She states solemnly closing the door locking it shut.
Clint can hear the sound of her footsteps fade away into complete silence again. He stares up at the ceiling as he walks over to the mattress and sits down with his hands on his knees slightly crunched over. He notices another security camera and microphone in the top left corner by the entrance to the cell and active from the looks of it. His gaze returns to the grey concrete wall in front of him letting out a sigh.
Meanwhile back in Dani and Illyana's cells the two girls have adjusted to their surroundings Dani was still taking it in as she also sat on the hard mattress beneath her, she actually never ended up in solitary before since she arrived at this place. However the same couldn't be said for Illyana who was all curled up in her cell with her legs up to her stomach laying there like she had countless times before with Lockheed snuggled up under her chin.
"What's that Lockheed?" Illyana asks her companion.
Unknown to her Dani could hear the Russian girl through the wall. Getting off of her bed putting her hands and right ear up against the cold concrete trying to listen to what she's saying.
"We'll go to our special place okay!" The blonde said with Dani now listen on the other end. "The Smiling Men can't get us in our special place!"
The monitor in Dani's cell shows another red energy reading showing Dani's body lit up again with the words 'PSIONIC ENERGY ELEVATED' underneath. She listens in for a few more moments only getting dead silence thinking that Illyana must've gone to sleep. Dani backs away from the wall and lays back down on the uncomfortable mattress closing her eyes attempting to drift off to sleep.
In Illyana's cell still curled up with the purple puppet still against her chest under her chin as she looks off at the other side of the room but her mind and thoughts are elsewhere. As she strolls deep into her mind and replays a memory and a very traumatic memory it is indeed.
A Russian woman starts singing lowly for what sound like a lullaby or something laying on a bed is a smaller and much younger Illyana who couldn't be more than 9 or 10 years old from the looks of it. As she hears a low demonic chuckling as she grabs her bed covers and throws them over her head hiding underneath. A tall man wearing a black dress shirt and dress pants and a mask of some sort enters the room and bends down to the bed.
The present and older Illyana shudders at the memory closing her eyes before the view switches back to the memory to see the man from a different angle as he is seen to have a bald head and snarls before he turns his face to show a white and black smiley face mask. Illyana opens her eyes again even though you can't see it there is a little fear on her features at the memory. With that she shuts her eyes and goes to sleep.
About an hour later or at least what feels like an hour later comes around and outside it is quiet and black outside with the front of the building shown the angelic hooded statue outside.
While back inside in the solitary confinement wing everyone is now asleep well almost everyone that is. In Clint's cell he tosses and turns restlessly as he tries to get comfortable against the stiff mattress that in his mind is a poor excuse for a bed. A few more turns and a fustrated grunt later Clint finally opens his eyes and sits up swinging his feet over the edge onto the floor.
"God! How can anyone possibly sleep on this slab of cement?" He asks to himself. Putting his head into his hands giving a little shake.
Maybe it's just your use to softer beds and more comfy rooms! A voice rings out inside his mind.
Clint's eyes widen as his head shoots up out of his hands. "You! It's you isn't it?" He asks optimistically to the voice that has plagued and invaded his inner thoughts for so long since his arrival.
Clint hears an amused chuckle in his head before getting a response back. Yes it is me and now it is time for us to bust out of here!
Clint's face turns to complete confusion. Honestly now he wanted some answers and it's obvious that trying to get any sleep isn't going to work at the moment anyway. And best of all there's no one here aside from the two girls in their neighboring cells but Clint guessed that they have to be fast asleep by now.
He waves his hands out, "Woah woah woah! Just hold on here I'm not doing anything until I get some answers about what you are okay, are you some side effects of my mutant powers or something or am I just going insane and no more bullshit. Truth! Now!" Clint demanded pointing a finger down at the ground demandingly.
Unbeknownst to Clint on the cell monitor his midsection started to glow as some blob inside his stomach started to show on the screen words reading 'BIO ANOMLY DETECTED'.
Dr. Reyes who was still awake in the control room noticed this on the cell monitors security screens she leaned forward intently staring closely at Clint on the screen it almost looked as if he was talking to someone since she couldn't hear his voice so well.
Back in the cell Clint sat back with a stubborn look and his arms folded tightly against his chest awaiting a response.
Fine! You want the truth you got it but don't say I didn't warn you when your not gonna like it, but first I got to take out the camera and microphone can't risk being revealed….yet! The voice responds annoyingly.
Before Clint can do anything a small black blotch of black goo shoots out of his right shoulder quickly covering the security camera and microphone completely as the receiving end of the video turns blackout.
Dr. Reyes barely caught what just happened as she looks at the screen seeing everything still functioning except the video and audio are completely cut off. She types into the keyboard trying to reboot the camera which should take a few minutes at least before going down there personally to see what happened.
Clint looks at the camera now all covered in a black blob with little bits of white in it. He opens his mouth to speak pointing at the patch but nothing comes out.
There that should buy us a few minutes alone!
Suddenly on Clint's back a black blotch starts to slowly form into a flowing tendril that goes around his left side Clint notices that this tendril looks different from the ones before what he sees next makes him speechless and basically horrified. He sees the black start to form into two white looking eyes and a set of k9 looking teeth about half to a full inch thick looking almost like a smile a creepy smile that is as the tendril takes the form of a face looking right at him a monster.
Clint's has works itself open and shut a few times before he can find any words and luckily the right ones come out. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?" Terror clear in his tone.
"I am Venom! And you are mine, listen very carefully Clint you did not find me I found you think of yourself as my ride!" The voice now known as Venom says out loud this time.
Clint only half absorbs what it said. "R….ride so your my mutant power!" He guesses.
The face visibly chuckles, "No! Not even close Clint you are not a mutant you never were, at best you are enhanced thanks to me that is." Venom corrects.
Clint's face starts functioning again confusion written all over it, "What enhanced but Dr. Reyes said that I'm a mutant that she and her boss know the signs and saw them in me! And what do you mean thanks to you?" Clint argues.
Venom just keeps his natural hard to read expression as he get close to Clint's face, "Think Clint isn't there anything you remember before coming here some little incident that happened to you?" Venom asks rhetorically knowing that Clint already has the answer.
Clint shakes his head before a lightbulb goes off in his mind as shock covers his facial features. "That night at the Life Foundation uncle Eddie and I- then that woman she attacked…that was you!" Clint says pointing at Venom.
He just lets out what he would call a small laugh, "Yes good you remember, and she was a fine host but not a very good match unlike you Clint!"
Clint is starting to see the picture much clearer now. It started to make sense everything the weird urges the extra strength and speed those out of body memories. Suddenly another terrifying realization hits him.
"Those men the goons with guns that wasn't that-…how? You but their heads off, why?" Clint asks Venom who at this point is amused with Clint's reactions.
"They tasted delicious and plus they fueled the tank!" Venom admits.
Clint groans in disgust at that. He then regains his composure before asking the more itching question on his mind. "So if I'm not a….mutant then what the hell am I and still what the fuck are you….specifically that is?"
"Like I said before you are still just a human Clint just much more than one, and what I am is what you humans refer to as a symbiote a living alien organism needing to bond a host to be able to survive in your environment!" Venom explains.
Clint starts to absorb the information much better now and honestly there's this small part of him that actually thinks it's quite cool….almost.
"Well if that's the case then why didn't you trade up my meatsack for another one then you wouldn't even be stuck in here with me, thus you wouldn't be nagging me to bust outta here!" Clint pointed out defiantly.
"It doesn't work like that, yes I could have bonded with another human but I don't know how long they would have lasted I can't just bond to anyone the way it works is that the host has to be a compatible match to me so in bullshit terms the better the match the stronger the bond and you Clint are practically a perfect match to throw away so soon besides like I said before I'm starting to like you!" Venom says honestly as Clint can tell.
Clint knew for sure he is going be through a lot of Goddamn therapy after this. "And the strength and speed boost?"
"When I end up with a good match like you the bond we share gives my host which is you in this case enhanced abilities similar to my own mostly enhanced strength and speed though!" Venom clarifies.
There is a moment of silence between the two of them before Clint gets to the more disturbing question. "So are you….um gonna eat anyone else?"
"Probably! That is why I am here Clint, if you cooperate with me then I will cooperate with you, that is the deal!" Venom finishes.
Dani is sleeping comfortably in her cell cell until she feels a sudden drop of temperature in the room. Things get even more freaky when Dani who is now partially awake feels this slight breeze almost like she's caught out in a winter blizzard. Flakes of snow start to fall in the cell as the ceiling dissolved into a cloudy night sky. Dani's eyes are now opened as she sees the night sky and snow fall down.
Meanwhile back in the control room and alarm goes off on Dani's screen cell monitor video camera display cuts off and the words go off 'Anomaly Detected' this of course grabs Dr. Reyes' attention as she had no luck rebooting Clint's cell camera or mic. She heads out of the control room and down to the solitary cell block.
Back in Clint's cell he's just so caught up with the revelation that there's this carnivorous alien that's literally inside of him and that he's not a mutant so yeah he's going to need a moment to himself. While Venom who had not receded back into Clint yet whips his tendril head around towards the wall Clint is facing. Clint snaps out of it and notices Venom's sudden change of attention.
"What is it what's wrong?" Clint asks cautiously.
"That girl Dani something is wrong I sense a sudden change in temperature in her room and also I smell…blood!" Venom says flatly.
Clint on the other hand is more alert especially after the mention of the word blood. Could she be hurt is she alright Clint thought to himself.
"Well I'll check it out then although you might want to um…you known!" Clint tries to verbalize pointing at Venom and then back to his torso. Venom catches on land slowly the tendril on his back recedes into him again. Clint stands up and puts his ear up against the stone wall trying to listen.
"Dani are you alright is everything okay in there?" He asks carefully not even knowing if she was awake or not.
Dani unfortunately doesn't hear Clint as she's fixated of the aberration before her at the moment. She sees the flakes starting to fall are now turned red as one falls on her finger and realizes it's blood. She looks back up to see a black smoke starting to spread covering the majority of her room before she knows it she's back in the woods down the hill in the forest unconscious as the smoke and a dark shadow looms over her body as the ground shakes at the sound of a low growling and heavy footsteps make their way towards her. Dani's eyes snap open to see two crimson red dots that look almost like eyes looking right back at her followed by a loud roar and a big set of teeth trying to swallow her up causing Dani to scream in fright.
Clint hears the scream as well his eyes widen in fear now knowing something is very wrong he bolts towards the solid steel door and instinctively gives it a lower punch sending the door completely off of its hinges across the other side of the hall. Clint rounds the doorway to Dani's room to see Dr. Reyes there already looking completely startled by the sudden display of strength Clint unknowingly had just shown her. Before turning her attention back to Dani's cell quickly unlocking the door opening it to see Dani standing up now with her dark hair all damp and her hands have drops of blood on them. Clint glances over Dr. Reyes shoulder to see the girl looking scared straight.
Dani is shivering looking at her body before looking to Dr. Reyes, "What's happening to me?"
"I don't know but I'll do some tests and bloodwork in the morning okay Dani, and you Clint how did you do that?" Dr. Reyes points out to the two of them.
Clint looks back at the door that he just crumpled up in half. He scratches his head looking back to answer. "Adrenaline rush I guess!" He shrugs.
The monitor camera in Dani's cell comes back online and her body is glowing even brighter as the readings on the scale keep going up and up. The monitor now reading.
#203 Moonstar, Danielle
Analyzing Psionic Event Data
Psionic Energy levels elevated for 48 hours
Mutant powers undetermined
Collect blood samples for analysis
Observe interactions with other subjects.
While out in the hall Clint's body was also glowing not as brightly as Dani's but still same scenario.
#204 Fincham, Clint
Analyzing Biological Anomaly Data
Physical abilities exponentially elevated
Mutant powers undetermined
Internal biological substance unrecognized
Collect blood samples for analysis
Observe interactions with other subjects
