CHAPTER IX

LEAVES IN THE WIND

Nick Fury walked out of the Helicarrier and sighed a sign of relief. The NYPD had seen the Helicarrier and had arrested all the people inside it. Once Nick walked out of the carrier, he saw Kingpin getting carried away.

"I will give you twenty-five million dollars each if you let me out", said Kingpin.

"I don't think so, Wilson", said one of the police officers as they squeezed his fat body into the police car.

"Officer", said Nick while pointing at the Helicarrier. "Where will that be going?"

"It will be transferred to Area 51", said the officer.

"I thought SHEILD made a decent claim on it", said Nick.

"Sorry", said the officer as he got into the car and drove away. He then turned to the goodies, which were all sitting and watching the sun go down.

"The damn government has to mess everything up now", said Nick. "Now HYDRA will probably be reborn under some new leader after the Helicarrier comes back from Area 51."

"What about Kenny's body?" asked Quentin. "What if they discover his healing powers?"

"We'll hope for the best, then", said Nick. "What are you guys going to be doing now that our mission's over? I still have my job at SHEID."

"I was thinking about going to Xavier's Institute for the Gifted", said Victor. "They have a place for people like me".

"I want to get back to show business", said Quentin. "That's how I got this suit".

"I want to try to get in the Olympics", said Clint. "One of their sports is archery, and they'll pay big bucks if you get the gold".

"I don't know what I'm going to do", said Herman. "I'll probably have to go back to being a criminal if I don't find a job".

"Well, let's just hope that doesn't happen", said Nick. Shortly after that, a helicopter with a yellow eagle on the side landed next to the Helicarrier.

"Come on, Nick", said Frank Gunzer, the pilot that day. "Let's go home".

"Fine with me", said Nick. "See you guys later". The helicopter then took off and flew away as the Goodies watched their short-time friend leave them forever. For a moment they swore they saw a large, flying beast fly beside the helicopter, but they knew the must've been mistaken.

"Let's split", said Herman. "Our destinies await us". The Goodies then walked apart from each other and said a sollem goodbye, but they knew that it wouldn't last forever.

Wade jumped out of the hospital and started to breathe hard, but two warm hands touched his chest and forced him back down on the bed.

"It's okay", said the voice. "No one's going to hurt you".

"Anna!" exclaimed Wade. He then jumped out of the bed to hug her but she forced him back down on the bed.

"You must get your rest", said Anna. "You went through hell and still survived."

"I fell fine", said Wade. "I have a mutation that allows my cells to regenerate. It runs in the family".

"That explains it, then", said Anna.

"It explains what?" asked Wade.

"How you survived the explosion", said Anna.

"Oh", said Wade.

"Can you give me an account what happened?" asked Anna.

"Okay", said Wade. "I pretended I was surrendering to the cyborgs. They took me to their leader to get examined when I killed all the guards and I proceeded to inject the virus into the leader when I was shot in the head. After my regenerative power pushed the bullet out of my head and healed the damage, I was in a white room with Doctor Doom, my old boss, who was telling me I had to use this dimension traveling device to get back to my world and help him. I stuck the Bluejay virus into his head and he exploded, since it was actually the leader. I then stuck my sword into the computers and here I am."

"Incredible", said Anna. "We've never managed to destroy Karat H'Sume, the Cyborg leader. I guess the virus really helped."

"Yeah", said Wade. "So, what's up with this damned place?"

"After you destroyed that device", said Anna, "It caused a chain reaction in all the computers, somehow shutting down all the cyborgs in that base. We've tried that before, but it must've been because you destroyed H'Sume and now we are free".

"What about some of the other android bases?" asked Wade.

"They saw what happened to H'Sume and surrendered to us", said Anna. "We are now removing their implants and are in the process of humanizing them".

"At least our problems are over", said Wade.

"Not really", said Anna. "We lost billions of billions of lives in this ten year war that we can't imagine the breeding effort that would take place."

"Why don't we start now?" asked Wade. "You've never seen me with my mask off".

"That's right", said Anna. She then walked up to Wade and with one sweeping motion she ripped off his mask and saw the horribly scarred face.

"Not as beautiful as your body, huh?" asked Wade.

"Still beautiful enough", said Anna. They then walked into the shower and created new life. Thus they were leaves in wind of life, blown by their instincts to what to a better world. From that moment on, they would create several new children that would bring life to the world for generations to come.

Thus end the tale that I have told you to answer your question. You have seen the heroes triumph over evil, fall in love, die, and create new life, and the cycle will continue until the end of time. This cycle will become unbalanced in certain places at certain times, but I guarantee you, no matter what dimension you're in, there will always be heroes to balance the beautiful equation of life.

THE END