Chapter 15
After a few minutes the life form pulled back off him leaving only Spider-man behind. Sucking in a great breath of air he fell to the ground and started to speak out as both Captains ran over to his sides to make shore he was ok. "Please you don't have to do this," he pleaded. "I know what they did to you was wrong but wiping them out will not bring the others back."
"What is going on?" Captain America asked.
Up in space Bard had her crew keep scanning the mother ship for any changes but even she wasn't expecting this.
"Ma'am the ship it is breaking up."
And there it was right in front of her. The massive ship that looked so dangerous for so long had pulled its spikes back in on itself and now it was breaking up. Not into one or two smaller pieces. No, the whole ship just kept dividing into two until there was twelve of them left. All of them identical to the first. All of them egg shape and all of them covered in spines and they shot out all around the world before entering the earths atmosphere.
"What the hell are they doing now?"
"What is going on?" Captain America asked.
"The hive mind has decided that the Sentinels are a clear and present danger to the Race and so need to be wiped out of existence." He looks Captain America square in the eyes, "they have no concept of one single life working alone. They are like one giant bee hive only without the queen. They think as one they act as one and, so they have no need to or desire to communicate with sounds. That is why they need to touch people to talk with them and even they it's no really talking it is them entering your mind and basically down loading everything you know into their memory banks." Letting out a sigh he hung his head as he continued. "They took my memories and everything that had happened to the race we rescued and came to the conclusion that the Sentinels need to be wiped out. They have scanned the world and located all the sentinel bases and all the sleeper agents and are proceeding to mass genocide and there is not a dame thing we can do about it. Because if we do if we try to step in the way and I mean any of us. If one single human anywhere on the planet try to stand against them then they may try and wipe out all of us to."
"You have got to be kidding me."
All around the world the Race passed over every town and city and as they passed over a target small parts of the ship brock off and fell to the ground next to the person they were after. Followed by a tentacle quickly reaching out and instaring the person in question before pulling them into the mass. Even if the target was inside that didn't save them. The race would just land on the building form into a human like figure before hunting the person down and pulling them in. After they had finished all the drop offs they would pass out into the country side and buring themselves into the ground and where if anyone was nearby they would feel the rumbling and hear explosions going off underground.
Spider-man ran up to the Race that was walking back to its ship. Grabbing it by its shoulder he span it around to look it straight in the eyes. "You can't do this. I know you don't understand about how we are all our own people, but you can't hold everyone accountable for the actions of one person. Especially considering that you are probably scaring them all right now. Unlike you we don't have some sort of over mind that thinks for us. We each have to learn we each have to grow we each have to live the lives we are meant to live and try and learn from our mistakes we make." Letting the alien go he dropped his arms and let out a sigh before he continued. "Somewhere out there there are Mums, Dads, Sons, Daughters, Husbands, Wives and Friends are all watching as you attack their loved ones and when that happens they get scared."
In some non-descript kitchen out there in the world a Mum had been standing and making dinner for her family before she was attacked and dragged into the waiting mass. Her Husband had chased the kids out of the house and took them over to the neighbour's house while he went back to discover what had happened to her. He found her and went to get his bat from the garage now he had returned to try and make this thing get off of his wife. As her approached with the bat back over his shoulder a head formed out of the mass with two blue eyes it stared down at him as it formed to very large, very sharp looking blades out of itself.
"Get off my wife."
"Some of them will lash out and think they are doing the right thing by attacking you but you need to realise that to them you attacked first." It twitched its head to one side as it seemed to take in this information. It reached out, and a tentacle formed from the ship taking its hand. "So please don't do anything we will all regrate. After all, if you start this fight then we will be forced to push back, and we don't want this fight. So please stand down and let the people go." The Race then held out its other arm for Peter to take. Once more he took hold to the offered limp and once more he was taken into its body.
Lashing out with his bat he aimed for its now visible head, but it blocked his strike with one of the blades. Cutting the bat in half it then reached out to grab him with its other blade. He dived out of the way as he felt the wind off the blade pass over his head. Throwing away what was left of the bat he ran forward and tackled the alien to the ground where the two off them rolled around on the ground until it wrapped itself all around his middle and held him down forming yet another blade it drew it back above itself. He closed his eyes and waited for the end to come.
Once more it let Peter go and once more he fell to his knees.
"Thank…you," he struggled to say once this time only Carol came to his side and helped him to stand. "You will not regret this. If you ever need anything come find me."
The Race let its head to one side in an almost confused manner.
"Peter what's going on?"
All around the planet the ships that crashed into the ground flew slowly out of the holes they made without a mark on them and anyone that entered the holes that where left behind found hundreds of destroyed Sentinels in them and the building underground had no power left in them. Then they passed back over the same path they passed on the way in.
"They did it. They destroyed them all. There is not a single working unit left on the planet. They wiped them all out and made shore they could never be activated again."
"What about the people. The sleepers we can't even pick them up what did they do to them?"
The blade never fell. When he once more opened his eyes, the blade was just millimetres away from his face and yet there it had stopped. Drawing itself up back into a standing position it pulled itself from his wife and allowed her body to fall onto her husband. He didn't even think twice as she fell he wrapped his arms around her to cousion her landing. Checking to make shore she was ok he found he uncouses but her pulse and breathing where still going strong. "Thank you for giving her back."
"They took all the tec out of their bodies. All the sleepers are now one hundred percent human again. They didn't no they were infected by nanites and now they are all gone. They listened to me and decided that they would give them a chance." Pulling off his mask he kissed her as hard as he could catch her completely of guard. "It's over, we did it, the fight is over before it could even begin." Lifting her up into the air he spun her around causing a squeal to escape her mouth, "Our daughter's future is safe form them."
