Chapter 8
Clearing
"Good job Agent Wells"
"Thank you sir although none of this would be possible without the team I was able to command in this mission."
Colonel Nick Fury smiled even with the stubby unlit cigar in his mouth. He may have been allowed to smoke in his office. But even he couldn't go against some government regulations.
They were in an underground complex about twenty miles from the city and several hundred feet underground. It was a government installation build during the height of the cold war in the 1950's. Now it was used as a holding location for various federal agencies including SHIELD. Wells and Fury were inside a small office located deep inside the complex.
Fury handed Wells a manilla envelope. Wells opened the flap and looked at the papers inside.
"These are your new orders, Agent Wells. You've been assigned to London office where you'll be overseeing some of our operations."
"A promotion why thank you, sir"
"Don't get carried away Wells. You've been a good agent and your work here in this situation has been admirable."
"One question before I go, sir?"
"Go ahead"
"What is to become of the two subjects that we captured?"
Fury clamped down harder on his cigar. "That's up to the defense brass. They'll be sending one of their reps over here in just a matter of time. But you shouldn't be concerned for you job is done Agent Wells."
"I understand, sir"
"Good, now I'm giving you a few weeks off so you can get yourself ready for your move to London."
Wells smiled. "Thank you, sir"
She picked herself up and walked out. After going over some reports sent by SHIELD intelligence operatives. Fury went out of the office and took an elevator down to where the two creatures were held. He personally wanted to see this these things first hand.
"I can't believe I can do this!" Mary Jane exclaimed. "This is amazing!" She said as she hung upside down from the ceiling by her hands and feet.
"I guess your symbiote does have some of my spider powers." Peter said
Mary Jane looked down and then did a back flip and landed perfectly on the ground below her. She felt this rush of energy and power that she had never felt before. She liked and couldn't imagine what life would be without it.
"Now you want to make sure you don't get to emotional. And what I mean is anger." Peter told her
"Why what happens?"
"Let's say you can tend to act out your emotions more. I mean it's not like the Hulk. I can form a sentence when I'm P.O'ed. But the fact is you have to be careful with it. "
"Okay" Mary Jane then did a backwards somersault and landed on her feet once again. Next she extended some tendrils from her arms to attach onto the wall and allowed her to swing from one part of the room to another. All of the movements were amazing and graceful not even Peter Parker could do some of the things she was doing.
"We're ready to take the subjects." Instructed Doctor Henry Pym. He was going to oversee the transport of the creatures captured in Times Square.
"Your people have done excellent work, Colonel." Pym said to Fury
"They are the best doc, I'm proud of just seeing them every day."
"Well SHIELD'S job is done. Now we take over."
"Now I'm not comfortable handing two dangerous creatures of alien origin to bunch of lab rats. But the fact is government doesn't want us to blow stuff up anymore. I can see why but it's so tempting to do so."
Pym smiled. "Very witty Colonel. But don't worry the Defense Department is being very carefully with project. In fact we don't even need to take them out of the holding area till we are ready."
"How are you going to do that?"
"Through an ingenious system of transportation. Over the past thirty years this complex has gone through very extensive renovation In fact certain holding areas are on a rail system which allows a perfect transport without the risk of harming government personnel."
"Very ingenious Doctor Pym."
"I know I study it back in college. But I'm letting you know this is now a DOD operation. It's out of your hands Colonel."
"I understand Doctor. But I still would like to see what these creatures look like first hand."
"That can be arranged. I'll have some guards take you over to observation area."
"Okay, then I shall be seeing what you can do, Doctor Pym."
"So will everyone else Colonel."
Inside the holding cell, Peter and Mary Jane were learning against the blank wall.
"So where are we?" Mary Jane asked
"Not sure, all remember was that you, I mean Carnage was in Times Square causing some problems. I went to stop it and we were caught in some kind of government raid."
"Government? Like FBI, CIA?"
"No I saw some name on a few jackets, it read SHIELD."
"SHIELD?"
"Yeah I'm not sure who they are myself. All I know is the government has us in some secret location."
"What do you think they'll do to us?"
"Us? I think it's the symbiotes they want. Although they think were aliens of some kind."
"So what do we do?"
"Find a way to get out of here without being a witness to our own alien autopsy."
As Peter finished his last sentence the room began to shudder and move. Both he and Mary Jane could feel the room going forward. They could hear the sounding of wheels clacking against track. It felt as if they were in some kind of subway car that had no windows or dispatcher calling the stops through a broken microphone.
They knew what lay ahead was their greatest challenge. They didn't know if they would make it out alive. But at least one thing was clear they would face it together.