Chapter 10
Carol slammed her hand right into the chest of the last Sentinel she was facing, and it looked down at her almost in a state of surprise that it wasn't dead yet.
"Hear have a present." With that she let her photons flow from her hand causing them to explode out of its back killing it. Letting out a sigh she wiped her hand over her for head and looked around the room. There was now four trashed Sentinel's lying in pieces on the floor of the room Bastion was still standing over near the door with his arms cross his chest with a very superior look on his face. This was starting to get on her nervours. She had now killed three of his so called improved Sentinel's and he was still looking like he didn't care. She also saw Spider-man still standing over the far side of the room where the Alien had grabbed his head. She wanted to go over there and rip its stupid arms off for doing whatever it was doing to him, but May had said he wasn't in any sort of danger because it hadn't set off her spider sense or his to that matter before it grabbed her. Finally, she looked over at May who was just slamming the last Sentinel down onto its chest before she climbed onto its back grabbed it by either side of its head and slowly ripped its head off its shoulder.
May crushed the head she was carrering in her hands as she walked over to her mother's side. Once she reached her she through the crushed head down at Bastions feat, "Is that the best you have got because so far I am unimpressed?" Carol wiped her head around to look at her daughter with a look of shock on her face. May floated up into the air and started to charge up her hands, "You gave us a much harder time where I come from. So maybe we just gave you too much time the first time around."
Bastion chuckled, "Little girl I don't know who you are or where you have come from and considering the fact that I have access to the largest bank of information on the planet that says something but alas play time is over." Uncrossing his arms, he shot wires out of his arms and hands that connected up to all the remains in the room before he pulled them all to him. They clipped and joined up all over his body increasing his size and strength as they went.
"No, no, no, no." May repeated over and over again like some sort of mantra as this was happening in front of her. "NOOO," she yelled one more time as she slammed herself into him carrying him straight through the door and down the hall somewhere.
Carol was about to race after them when she hears a very weak voice behind her. "Carol," she wiped around to find the alien had let go of Spider-man's head and now he was down on his knees next to the alien. "Carol help," Now she was torn does she help the man she loves, or does she take after her daughter she had only just meet knowing she was in the greatest danger of the two of them. "Carol, it's safe it just needed to communicate to me and it can't do that with sound." It now turned its face to her and for the first time she had a really good chase to look it over. It looked like a small child just made out of a mess of wires and cables making up its body and in its face looked like two small lenses but there really was no openings anywhere on its body. "It needs help. It is damaged both from the crash and from the sentinel's experiments on it. It wants us to take it to some sort of communications device. There it can connect its body up with it and call for help. This will bring a ship here to collect it."
"Yeah sounds good." Carol slowly and menacingly floated over to it. "It can call in the rest of its kind and they can start the war early and wipe us all out or have you forgotten what May told us?"
"No, I haven't forgotten," Spider-man very carefully made his way back to his feet but ended up rocking back onto the wall near them. "It accessed all of my memories to try and talk to me and, so it now knows everything I know. The only reason its race would have attacked us was if they felt like we started it and going on what I know they would have come here and found us fighting the Sentinel's and seeing how close they are to it. They would have thought had that we were wiping people like them from our planet. Then they would have attacked without knowing any better." Pushing himself off the wall he took off his mask and walked over to Carol. Taking her hands in his he looked her straight in the eyes, "I know you are going to find it hard to trust him so instead trust me and I know for a fact it is ok we can help it get home and then there will be no war."
She kept looking deep within his chocolate coloured eyes looking for anything to tell her he may have been compromised but eventually she just gave up. Dropping her head down to rest her forehead onto his nose she totally relaxed her body, "fine we will do it your way but if this thing turns on us and they come down to wipe everyone out. I will get back up one more time to kick your ass."
"Fare call," he kissed her head and then stepped back to pull his mask back on. Picking up the alien he carried it like it was some sort of hurt child in his arms. "So where do we go and um," looking around the room he asked. "Where is May?"
Clint ran along the side of the room trying to keep ahead of the laser blasts that where blowing holes in the walls behind him. Reaching back over shoulder he pulled out his last arrow as he leaped up onto a broken Sentinel, twisting in the air he fired off the arrow behind him. It hit dead centres in the chest of one of the following sentinel's before shooting out a small canister which fired off darts in every direction shorting out the surrounding sentinel's. Pulling off the empty quiver he detached a smaller quiver from the base. Just as a sentinel landed next to him.
"Human designated as Clint aka Hawkeye. Stand down and elimination will be quick."
"You know what that dose sound very tempting, but I have another idea." Quickly he throws the empty quiver at the sentinel yelling, "catch."
Turning around he took off for the door as quickly as he could. The Sentinel caught the quiver in flight and looked down to find a flashing light on it just for it to blow up in his hands ripping it to shreds.
Hawkeye pressed a button on the bottom of the small quiver, so it would enlarge in his hands before swinging it around on to his back. "I can't believe I'm saying this but thankyou Hank Pym for the back-up arrows." Sliding down behind cover he held his finger to his ear. "Ladies I hate to break up the party but I'm down to my fall-back arrows and they are not made for this type of thing."
Black widow ran up the front of a sentinel flipping over it and placed a small charge on the back of its head. As she landed it blow the head clean of the sentinel then it fell foreword landing on another that was following her. "I agree, I'm heading for the door now. I suggest we blow the charges before they find them and with any luck it will give us a chance to make a break for it."
Spiderwoman was being pushed to her limits for her speed and agility as she was in the middle of the room with the Sentinel Prime and some of its newer creations around her all of them firing at her at once. She wished she had Peters spider sense at the moment but so far, they had only clipped her once and that was one time to many. "Right ill set the last charge and then make for the door but don't wait for me if it looks like I can't make it blow the charges and make a break for it." Just as she finished saying that she was hit in the shoulder knocking her balance off and forcing her onto the ground at the Primes feet.
Black Widow hooked back up with Hawkeye under the same bit of cover. Both of them looked out to see the Prime bring its foot down where they could see Jess lying on the ground kicking up a dust cloud and braking the floor under its foot.
"No," Hawkeye yelled.
This got the attention of ever Sentinel left in the room. Widow pulled out the trigger and held it out for them all to see. Slowly the two of them got out from behind their cover and backed up towards the door. "Know what this is?"
"Scanning… Key charger for plastic explosives."
"That's right you bucket of bolts. We have left charges all around the room and we are going to blow they very shortly." Hawkeye opened the door while Widow kept up the conversation. "I just have one question for you before I blow it."
"And what is that human?"
"Still think we are a low-level threat?"
Just then Spider women came flying over the Sentinel Primes head flying straight for them. "Blow it," she yelled. Throwing the trigger to one side she turned and made for the door just as explosions went off all around the room. Spider women just made it to the door with the charges closest to the door went off throwing her out of the room. If any of them had the time or the ability, they would have also seen the head of the Prime blow straight of its shoulders, but they didn't have the time for the force of the explosion through all three of them across the hallway they were in covering them with dust and dabry.
Wolverine slowly stepped away from the others. Slowly he moved his hands down in a calming motion. Making shore he didn't make any sudden moves he walked a part of the way over to stand in between his team and the new Sentinel's before him. All at once the middle two rows stepped to one side forming a small path. Wolverine stopped so he was in line with the path, he stretched out his mind to Racheal's. Get Blink ready to open a portal right over the main part of the line but only on my signal.
Got it we have linked up with the Avengers and they are going to drop right on top of the metal heads. Racheal sent back.
"So, which one of you bits of scrap metal feels like coming out here to talk?"
Looking down the line he watched as two of the sentinel's stepped out and started to join together. Once more it grows in size but this time its arms didn't join in together. This time the second set stayed under the first now giving it four arms. Cannons formed on all four arms, two more came up and clicked onto its shoulders giving it an even more threating appearance. It turned on the spot and walked out to stand about three paces away from him. It held out one hand pointing at Wolverine and another pointed out at his team. Just then a red light shot out and scanned everyone present.
"Mutant, Clarice Ferguson AKA Blink, teleporter, threat level low." It started with, "Mutant, Ororo Munroe AKA Storm, weather manipulator, threat level moderate. Mutant, Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla AKA Magma, earth and fire manipulator, threat level moderate. Mutant, Racheal Summers, Omega level threat level possible moderate to high, depending on presence of Phoenix force."
"Hay Tin head that's Marvel Girl and the last name is Gray get it right."
"Data not found. Changing to compute. Changes found. Mutant, Marvel Girl, threat level possible moderate to high, depending on presence of Phoenix force. Mutant, Robert "Bobby" Louis Drake AKA Iceman, Omega level, threat level possible moderate to high depending on weather pattern and access to water." Dropping its arms, it once more focused on Wolverine, "Mutant, James "Logan" Howlett AKA Wolverine, enhanced senses and healing, also contains adamantium skeleton with claws, threat level moderate. Total threat level moderate. Eliminate all mutants."
Wolverine chuckled at it, "nice the robot thinks I'm only a moderate level threat. You do realise I am the best at what I do."
"Information computed and already found. Threat level moderate. After recent upgrades skills have been matched with selective weaponry."
"Cute." Wolverine walked right up until he was standing toe to toe with it. "What about my hidden assets?"
"Computing… Unknow, what hidden assets?"
"Now," he yelled, "Avengers Assemble."
Just then two Ports opened up over the Sentinel's. Out of one jumped a roaring Hulk followed close behind by Thor. Out of the other came Captain America carried by a Hulk buster size Ironman. As soon as the Hulk buster hit the ground he throws the Captain as a fast ball right through the chest of a few Sentinel's before opening fire on the rest.
Wolverine ducked under the Sentinel's arms slipping around the back of the Robot he popped his claws and dug them straight into the machines legs and started to climb up its back. Reaching the head, he drew his hands back to start cutting into it when it twisted its head around a full 180 degrees before firing an energy blast out of its eyes sending Wolverine flying.
"Blink get me in there." Magma called out as she shoots out flaming boulders from the ground.
"What?" Blink asked as she looked around to find some sort of cover.
Magma came alone side her and raised a rock wall blocking off any fire from hitting them.
"I can melt the ground out from under them, but I need to get in with them."
"Ok just remember you asked for it," forming a portal she held it open as Magma jumped through.
As soon as she hit the ground she reached out as deep as she could and started pulling up as much heat as she could and all around her the ground started to melt making any Sentinel caught in it to fall over and sink into the ground.
Storm flouted up into the air changing the weather around them into a great hail storm that fell on the Sentinel's and one Iceman as he ran at the Sentinel that was talking to Wolverine not three seconds ago. As he ran he pulled the ice into himself growing in size till he was the same size as the advanced Sentinel before he ploughed into it. Knocking it off balance he ducked under its first shots from its shoulder cannons. Iceman slipped around it to grab hold of its shoulders and froze up the cannons before breaking them off. It retaliated quickly by swigging out with one arm to hit him away just to find that Iceman brock himself apart and reformed to take out two of its arms the same way as he took out the shoulder cannons. Once more it took another wild swing at him only for him to this time catch the arm followed closely by the other.
"Tell me you bucket of bolts. Do you feel fear?" As he asked that ice started to freeze up its remaining hands and arms.
Just then it opened its chest to blast Iceman cleanly straight through the chest dropping him backwards onto the ground. "Negative," walking up it melted the ice off its arms and grabbed hold of his head, "I feel nothing."
Just then the ground started to shack under everyone's feet.
"NOOO." Magma yelled seeing Iceman fall she pulled even harder causing the ground to rumble, shack and then erupt into large streams of magma all around.
"Threat increase from moderate to high. Eliminate immediately."
Raising one of its hands it got a lock on to her before a large explosion blow out of the Sentinel's base from the west wing.