By The Uncanny R-Man And Agent-G
Shout Outs-
Episodic: Hey if you've been busy that's okay at least you reviewed now. I'm thinking of using that information but with my own twist.
Sean Malloy-1: You'll see where they will live later on most likely at the Hellfire Club and Morph will have to commute to the Complex but that's an easy commute. I'll get to the next AGU later I just need to finish off a few things first.
Silver Warrior: Well I'm not sure about the Lockheed thing, and I thought that bit with Guardian and those three was too good to pass up. Yeah the Brood are bad news.
Aaron: Glad you liked that jokes and the parties and with Guardian getting extremely lucky that night. I wanted to do that line for Morph for so long. R-Man would most likely know what you were talking about more since I barely know anything about the Brood.
Ruby: Yeah I thought it was pretty funny too. As for Vince, well you'll see later what happens.
X-Over: JL The Spider and Spider-X sequel will take time.
Thanks to: Red Witch, Jenskott, Draconigeno
Chapter 29: The Brood-Westchester, 2 months ago-
"Look I'm telling you I saw something land near here," Jubilee a girl of Chinese decent and mutant of the Xavier School said while walking in the woods of the place. Next to her was Kitty Pride AKA Shadow Cat.
"I know but why did you bring me along for this?"
"Well first off I need someone with brains to help me find out what it is and Beast is too busy for that." The mutant teen said to the slightly older girl.
"Fine but if you've dragged me off to here just for nothing then you'll regret it," They went through the woods for a few minutes more and just when Kitty was about to call it in they found a few trees that seemed to have been shattered. They slowly came to a crater with a large silver object in it. "Okay…this wasn't for nothing, we should get the others."
"Aw, come on Kitty just a bit more," But before Kitty could tell her to stop, she jumped down into the small pit and looked closer at the object wondering if it was Shi'ar, Kree or one of those other aliens that the X-Men had met over the years.
Kitty pulled her back forcefully, "Damn it Jubes you got no idea what that thing is it could be dangerous." Then there was a hissing sound as a section of the pod that wasn't in the dirt slowly opened up. It was pitch black inside and the fact it was night didn't help matters.
Jubilee activated her powers a bit on one finger to give a bit more light and moved closer against Kitty's protests. As soon as she was close to the opening something quickly shot out of it grabbing the young mutant. Kitty heard the girl screaming inside and yelled out to her. Then something large came out of it and Kitty could see in the moonlight something she never wanted to see again.
In their first encounter with these things the team had been infected and nearly died, she never wanted to see them again she turned to ran but hit something solid that wasn't there before and looked up at another one. She screamed once as she felt it grab her and they were but the first to fall under this new attack.
-New York, a few days ago-New York was in dire peril. The remaining Avengers and X-Men were trying desperately to defeat the oncoming onslaught of alien beings but the aliens' numbers were too much for the heroes and they soon found themselves falling underneath the aliens' greater numbers.
"We can't hold them off much longer!" Iron Man said as he blasted away at the aliens with his repulsor blasts. "My suit battery's running low. I can't hold on much longer."
"Hold on for just one more second, Shell Head." Wolverine replied as he slashed at the aliens with his claws. "Cap and the others just need a few seconds more to cut us a way outta here."
Iron Man yelled under the strain as he pushed his armour's batteries to their limits. "You alien freaks aren't going to get me!" He yelled.
"Tony! No!" Logan yelled as the armoured Avenger piled in to the hoard of aliens. But Logan's pleas came too late as Iron Man was soon beaten down by the mass of aliens before him.
"Looks like I'm the last one left." Logan muttered to himself. "Let's see how many of these freaks I can take down before they get me!" And with that, the feral mutant charged at the hoard of aliens with a fierce battle cry.
Exiles Complex, now-The Exiles were sat in the briefing room of the Complex patiently waiting for Guardian to come in and give them their latest mission. Everything had been slow since Morph and Rahne's wedding and the team was eager for action. As well as the core team, Dare and James had joined them recently.
Everybody looked up as the doors swished open and Guardian walked in. "I'm afraid that I will have to get straight to business." Guardian said solemnly. "It seems that a world is in dire peril."
Guardian switched on the holo-projector to show an insectoid alien with six legs, a scaly hide, a two-pronged tail, evil yellow eyes and a mouthful of vicious fangs.
"It seems that this reality has been invaded by the Brood." Guardian explained he saw several members of the original team get uneasy with that. In the past when they had all been split up Mimic had been infected and had caused the death of Mariko Yashida AKA Sunfire.
"The brood is a level Alpha One threat level. Very few species meet this but as some of you know they are very dangerous as they take over sentient beings and if they have powers they can use them as well. This world's heroes tried to put up a fight but the Brood's forces were too much for them. I'm not sure how many heroes survived, if any survived at all. You will all be teleported down to the main headquarters of the Human Resistance located in London."
"Alright back home for me," Jono said he had heard of the Brood from the X-Men in his reality and from Jubilee and knew that these things were nasty and wasn't looking forward to fighting them.
"How did they overwhelm all the heroes?" Blink asked him.
Guardian sighed as he showed them the Xavier Institute, "They infected the X-Men first and put a queen inside of Jean Grey."
"Oh hell," Dare said hearing that, "They had to pick one of the world's most powerful mutants as a host for the queen didn't they?"
"I do have some good news," Adam said and The Doctor came in at that moment with a tray of hyposrpays, "These carry nanites that will act as an immunization for you all."
"You got a cure for Brood infection?" August asked him stunned but she should have known better.
"Not exactly…These attack all Brood cells and DNA. I got this from a few technologies I…'acquired' over the years."
"What you steel these from The Borg?" Vincent asked since he was a major sci-fi fan and since coming here had caught up on all the episodes.
"Well now that you mention it…yes I did," The others didn't know to be impressed or worried that he would steal from a race like that. "I also made these…" he picked up a black case and opened it then handed out some vicious looking weaponry that looked like a P90 only a modified version of them.
"These fire nano-rounds that will 'infect' the Brood and start to kill off their DNA from the host…but there's a catch."
"Isn't there always?" April groaned handling the weapon with ease, she was in her element even though she didn't want to kill again she had read up and various hostile species and the things she had seen and read of the Brood made her sick to think of that Earth in that kind of danger.
"The longer a host is infected with the Brood the more they lose of their own DNA. After a certain amount of time these weapons will not only kill the Brood but the host as well…but the alternative is to let them live being trapped in their monstrous forms as the aliens in control destroy their world…"
That was some choice for them to make. To let a world suffer extinction or try to save the host while killing those that couldn't be saved. "There's more I'm afraid," He showed a star chart as several worlds lit up. "When I check not only was Earth attacked but also a world in Kree, Skull and Shi'Ar space…at the same time."
"Whoa…you mean a planned invasion? Do they do that?" James was staring at the screen at the worlds that looked spread out in almost a circle to him.
Adam shook his head, "No they don't. I traced back the path of a meteorite that crashed on each world and they all seemed to come from this sector of space." The map zoomed in on a section of space. "I think this is where they are coming from and I'm going there to find out what's going on…and to stop it."
James nodded his head, "I got a new battlesuit that I've been building for the really tough missions and I think it would be perfect for this."
Adam nodded, they would need all that they could for this, "I also suggest some of you head to the armoury and take some of the Mark V Enforcer Battle Armour that I have there. Alfred and show you where they are and I highly suggest you use it for this mission."
"Well, you heard the guy." Blink said as she got up from her seat. "We've got a world to save."
Human resistance HQ, London-The Exiles appeared in a flash of light and looked around their surroundings. They all had on full black bodysuits with armoured parts over certain places, like a chest plate, shin and forearm guard as well as equipment backs and combat webbing with extra ammo for their nanoguns.
James was in a suit that looked like War Machine only white and red. It was also modified with the nano-weapons technology. Only the face had on a large black visor and a mouth guard below it.
They were currently what looked like an underground base that they knew was the headquarters of the Human Resistance. It also looked surprisingly clean for a small group of humans that had been dominated by an alien force.
"Weird." Dare sniffed. "I was expecting a welcome party or something."
"I guess we'd better go look for someone in charge." Blink suggested. "Tell them why we're here."
"Not to pooh-pooh your plan or anything." Jono replied slinging his weapon over his shoulder. "But, what makes you think that they'll believe us?"
"I'm an optimist." Blink shrugged. "It's my curse."
Unfortunately, the Exiles didn't get a chance to move anywhere as alarms began to blare all through the compound. "Intruder alert! Intruder alert! All personnel report to Sector 7-G. Intruder alert!"
The Exiles got ready for a fight as armed guards spilled out form somewhere and surrounded them. "Stand down.' A gruff voice said. "Lower yer guns, dammit!"
The soldiers reluctantly complied as a grizzled-looking man walked through the crowd. "What the hell are you people doin' here?" Nick Fury, the former Director of SHIELD asked. "You ain't part of the Resistance so who are yer?"
"Perhaps you'd let us explain." Blink replied. "We're the Exiles…"
Later-The Exiles were gathered in the Resistance's briefing room while Blink told them about their mission. The room was filled with surviving heroes that were still in the base as well as a few military personal. "So yer been sent here to help us?" Fury asked. "You'll have ter excuse me if I'm a sceptic."
"I know this is weird but trust me on this, we gave you all a look at our weapons and a data disk that contains their blueprints," Blink told him, "I'm sure that your people can tell you that they are weapons against the Brood."
At that moment Hank Pym, once known as the Avenger Yellow Jacket/Giant-Man/Ant-Man walked in with a cane and lab coat. He had been taken off the active duty roster while he was severally injured in the leg he now needed a cane to walk around with now.
Fury turned to the man that was their chief science expert for the human resistance, "Well?"
Hank nodded, "Their weapons will do exactly what they say."
Fury was taken aback as this was the first time since this started that they had finally a decent weapon. He was afraid that nukes would have to be used but then again there were so many Brood by the time they used enough it would not only kill the aliens but all life on Earth. They tried bio weapons but nothing would work on the alien DNA. "Can you use it to make our own weapons?"
Dr. Pym nodded, "Yes I can but it will take time. We're already making more of these nanobots since they can replicate by themselves from a sample I took of their weapons. They are already making a delivery system for them and I think if we grow enough I can make a type of bomb we can use to planet entire cities, but there's a problem."
Fury sighed he should have known there was one, "Okay what is it?"
"Time. We don't got enough of it, the Brood Queen is making more and more of them all the time."
"So…what if someone takes out the Queen?" Vincent offered to them. Every one of the resistance members looked at him like he just grew another head. "What? I take it she's heavily fortified?"
"Among other things," Captain Britain said. "Did you know who what Queen took over?"
"Who?"
"Jean Grey."
The Exiles just stood there for a moment trying to let that sink in, it was Jono who spoke given he knew what she was capable of doing from all the things he had heard about. "Well…bloody hell."
"Pretty much," Captain Britain said. "She's holed herself up in the Avenger's Mansion when she and most of the X-Men that were turned into those things invaded New York. And that place has some of the best defences around."
"No kidding," Hank said shaking his head, "I know the defences of that place, hell I built some of them. The outside alone is filled with all sorts of weapons both anti-personnel and anti-air."
"Well what if we could get inside another way?" Blink asked him and he asked her what way. Then she created on of her portals and appeared next to him. "Will this work?"
Fury could see that they now had a way to attack the hive directly. They didn't have a teleporter around and he was tempted to just have her send in a nuke but the weapons gave them the ability to turn a few of them back not to mention all the civilians as well. If there was just a chance to take out the queen and turn a few of them back would help things out more then just a bomb. "Alright but I'm not sending you guys in alone."
"Who are you going to send with us?" August asked him leaning back against a wall.
"I'll get a team ready for you," Fury told them all.
Just then a few people walked in through the door, "Hey Fury what's going on? We were ready to go and you pull us off?" They looked to see the mutant Logan and the mercenary Deadpool with them, two of the few people on Earth immune to the Brood thanks to their healing abilities.
Heather however looked at Logan and took her husband's hand. James knew this was going to be hard for his wife. Hell he had been the best man at her first wedding to her first husband Logan. He was happy for them but then the day came that their Logan went out of control and she had to kill him. He had been there for her for all those terrible months as she at times literally cried on his shoulder. He knew that seeing him or at least someone that looked and sounded like his old friend wasn't easy.
It wasn't easy for him too seeing that the last time he had seen Logan he was being buried in the ground. But he knew for her it was worst.
-In Space-
The Guardian Adam was on a deserted asteroid or at least it was supposed to be. The giant dome on it proved otherwise. He didn't need a spacesuit, not like he needed to breath when he didn't have to and the cold of space didn't bother him either. He was now looking inside the giant clear dome at the large facility inside of it. There was a Queen laying eggs and they were signs that they had held people.
He used his powers too see into the shadows of the past and saw innocent people being dragged here and forced to bond with the aliens. They would then go into metal pods that were fired by a giant rail gun of some kind. He came back to the present and saw another things in space. It was in front of the cannon and he had a guess as to what it was. It had to be something to make a wormhole or a gateway of some kind. It could fire anywhere but he guessed that it had limited range so far and exited inside the system.
He stood up and looked down at the scene. He should just blow the dome but he sensed life in there that wasn't Brood and he needed to know if they were captives or not. He disappeared as he reappeared in the shadows of the large place out of view of the Brood.
He saw many Brood working in this place and the technology wasn't typical. It was all-metallic like it was made by somebody else. He didn't like the smell of his and picked out something in his travel pouch. It was a small silver handheld weapon that shot out darts. Only there were dimensional transponders and when they hit a person it would activate the transporter at the Complex. This way he could get them out safely and worry about putting them back to where they belong later.
He silently made his way through the facility trying to find the holding pens for how many poor souls were left uninfected. He made his way hearing the hissing and the clattering of the giant alien bugs. He really hated these things; it was species like this that made the biggest problems. Unfortunately he was too preoccupied to notice he was being shadowed until he felt a presence behind him.
A spear of something shot out and he had to jump out and landed…right out into the open and looked too see that not only it had been Scorpion of Weapon X that attacked him. But he saw the other group here as well as all the Brood in the area looking at him hissing.
"Oh this is just great…" He muttered as the aliens started to surround him preparing to either rip him to sheds or to try and infect him later. He stood up and looked around and if he had to guess there were a few hundred of them showing up from doorways and he didn't like this at all.
He sighed looking around at the trouble he was in. "It's never easy…"
TO BE CONCLUDED IN CHAPTER 30: PEST CONTROL
Well the next chapter will be the last for now folks. But I promise you that R-Man and I will have either one shots or small fics based off of this from time to time but we really needed to end it at some point and this is it.