Sub Level 13, Negative Island - 20:12PM, 3rd September
"Is that it?" Deadpool asked as he and De Largo passed another empty cell.
"No, it's the cell at the end of the corridor." De Largo huffed as they passed another offline security point. "Hey what's that?" he asked as they came to the end of the corridor. He pointed to a box left on its side and the remains of EOD splattered across the walls.
"Oh that." Deadpool stated, "Janissary told Bombshell and EOD to deliver it down to a prisoner down here. Oh." he added, "Guess that didn't work out here." he added as De Largo bent over the body. "So Doc what happened?" he asked.
"Looks like multiple gunshot wounds. He sprayed a fare amount of C4 around this place but there is no sign of any damage to whoever was attacking him." De Largo told Deadpool, "It was clear that he was outclassed. Looks like they got Bombshell too from what I saw briefly in the lift car."
"Whatever the case it was clear that they went out with a bang." Deadpool announced slipping a pair of trendy sun-glasses over his eyes before singing the first lines of the Who song Barbara O'Rieley. After finishing the song he shook his head and pressed the button on the console by the end cell. Nothing happened for a second before the system brought up a map confirming that the beacon had been activated before revealing that the next was four levels below. "So the Rebel Alliance has obtained the plans for the Death Star." Deadpool said wheezing between words, "Let's hope they don't discover the Achilles Exhaust Port."
"The Emergency Stairs are locked down." De Largo mused, "And the lift shafts well I don't fancy another trip down that. Here." he said pointing at some tubes, "These are water cycling tubes, we should be able to enter on this level and exit at the area we want. And it has the bonus of being only a few doors down from the target."
"Huh so we're going swimming?" Deadpool asked, "And me without my bikini." he mused as he pulled a pistol from his bag, "Well let's get number two before we get attacked again." he announced walking behind De Largo towards the water cycling centre for this floor. Turning around he saw a word scrawled on the wall. "What's Delanzy mean?" he asked.
"Who knows?" De Largo replied, not really listening. "Hey wait a second." he added as he reached a guard station, "I'm just going to have a piss." he told the Merc as he headed inside. Deadpool darted in behind him only to see De Largo glare at him, "Preferably alone." he yelled.
"Let me just check in here." Deadpool said opening the only stall door, "Just as I thought a mop and bucket. Okay your free to go." he announced trotting outside whistling a song about buckets he had once heard. "What you really want to see what happens in there?" he asked.
Dark Energy Focusing Centre, Sub Level 5 - 20:42PM, 3rd September
Norman Osborne led a team of villains into the focusing centre, black lightning arching up the spires to a spinning series of discs currently stalled, unable to generate any additional power until reactivated. Luckily since he had built the prison, Norman knew how to reactivate the centre, and after a brief charging period of twenty minutes, would be stepping out back onto Terra Firma, ready to reclaim what he had lost.
"Okay everyone" he announced, "Follow my instructions and we'll get out of here." he told the others. "Electro over in the control bunker is a series of computers, take Pit Viper and power them up. Creel we need more fuel, take one of those dark matter containers and slip it into the amplifier base unit. Yelana stand guard while I input the coordinates and in less then half an hour we will be back on Earth." Norman finished as the other villains got to their stations just as the door whooshed open and the Hobgoblin limped in.
"Norman trying to escape?" he cackled, "And you didn't invite me, that's just plain rude."
"Get lost Urich we don't need you." Norman snapped
"But I can be useful." Urich sneered, "Just think the Green Goblin and the Hobgoblin working together."
"What happened to your leg?" Electro asked.
"Deadpool, I'm afraid I might have been rash attacking him, but I escaped with just a knife in my leg." the Hobgoblin cackled before itching the back of his hand. "Let me help I will be no bother."
"Fine we don't have time to argue." Norman hissed, "Go with Viper and Electro." he ordered. The Hobgoblin bowed before heading to the booth after Electro. Activating the door he ducked inside and checked the plasma fuel cell limit of the Accelerated Pulse Canon he had 'acquired'.
"Okay guys." Electro grunted, "Lights and stuff will flicker off for about a minute while I charge the computerized aligning system" he told the other villains. His hands sparking he drained the whole centre before electricity sparked from his hands into the console, the spinning discs turning in sync to form a tunnel for the energy source to move through. What sounded like a shot rang out and the last disc stopped in place as the lights came back on, the Hobgoblin bolted, but Electro's body was sparking with blue light.
"Oh crap." he yelled as Pit Viper smashed through the reinforced glass window as he exploded, blue light hanging in the air.
"What the fuck happened?" Norman growled as he and the others came over to where Pit Viper was smoking, her eyes blinking as she flexed her body before wobbly getting to her feet.
"It was the Goblin." Pit Viper moaned, "He betrayed us, shot Electro before he could finish aligning the discs."
"Curse you Urich, no doubt we will be getting every con in this facility flocking to us for a way out." Norman growled, "Creel take Viper and make sure he doesn't talk, if he does we may not have enough power to get out of here."
"On it boss." Creel growled, not overly happy about taking orders from the man who had locked him away in this place. Slapping Pit Viper on the back he stomped out of the room leaving Yelana and Norman alone in the Focusing Centre.
"There is somebody else with similar powers in this building." Yelana told Osborne, "I was in the cell next to her, a woman called Ion she will help us."
"Find her." Norman ordered, "And be quick about it, the Hobgoblin just gave me an excellent reason to leave those idiots behind." he growled as the Russian flipped up to the observation balcony around the discs before stalking out through a second exit. Norman smiled and went back to programming the destination location before slamming his hands into the console in frustration.
Water Cycling Tube, Somewhere between Sub Level 15 and 16 - 21:32PM, 3rd September
"I'm just saying it ain't natural." Deadpool announced in a Southern Drawl as he repelled down the large cylindrical tube, dropping down the ridges on the side. The tubes had been empty although there was indication of recent activity as well as rapid pumping to one of the lower levels. Not that Deadpool had realized this, as far as he was concerned De Largo had become a far more interesting character.
"I'm sorry Mr. Big Shot Mercenary who doesn't age." De Largo snapped, "But older people sometimes have problems."
"Forty Five minutes, you were in the loo for forty five minutes." Deadpool replied.
"So what you want me to do a constipation ad?" De Largo asked, "Hey kids if your bowls get blocked use Crap Eater, the only pill to shift your shit." he spat, "Yeah I broke the forth wall what the hell are you going to do about it." he yelled pointing at Deadpool.
"Ah it's contagious." Deadpool screamed wiggling out of his harness before falling down the pipe. De Largo quickly let go of his own cable and grabbed the merc as he fell past. "You, you saved me?" Deadpool said surprise in his voice.
"Yeah my mistake." De Largo grunted, "Now clip on." he yelled as Deadpool rested his feet on one of the ridges lining the pipe. Deadpool clipped his carabineer to De Largo's rope before breathing a deep sigh of relief.
"Why did you save me?" Deadpool asked as they went past the big number 16 etched on the side of the pipe above a pressure door to the actual floor.
"Because you may be an annoying prick." De Largo grunted, "But we are being hunted by everyone else in this place. And you and me surviving are the only way we are getting out of this hell hole. When I quiet the army I swore that I wouldn't go back into combat for my wife's sake but no some bitch and her two hackers decided to free everyone from their cells."
"Yeah bored now." Deadpool moaned as he waved to Alyson Hannigan who was banging on the Sub Level 16 Air Lock and shaking her head. "Strange Woman." Deadpool mused as he waved back and dropped down to Sub Level 17.
"She's a Florist." De Largo droned and Deadpool shook his head as the Warden dropped down to the same landing as him. "Well let's get this done." he told Wade as he activated the palm scanner allowing the two into the air-lock. The door beeped and the light's turned red before locking both doors. Out on Sub Level 17 proper Deadpool saw the remains of a heavy prison chair, usually too heavy to lift float past.
"It's under water." De Largo stated, "The door's are locked, the one out is being stopped by water pressure and the other is automated not to open until the first has lifted." He turned around and glared at the pipe he had just abseiled down. "Just great we're trapped like rats in a trap." Deadpool glanced out into the flooded room and saw something swim past the entrance before doubling back round and glaring through the door with red eyes. Nervously he hummed the Jaws theme tune before De Largo slapped him round the face, "Stop that it doesn't help us."
"But…but…but." Deadpool whimpered pointing at the glass. De Largo turned just in time to see the figure swim away from the door way. Placing his hand against the glass he felt the whole door shake as something heavy rammed it. Glancing around the room both the men couldn't see anything, but once again the door shuddered before the streamlined shape of Tiger Shark swam into view sneering as he passed the reinforced windows.
"He can't get in right?" Deadpool asked, "Because I kind of beat him up real bad a while back."
"No the door won't open due to the water pressure, and should be, if Osborne didn't cut corners, be resistant to attacks from anything up to the Juggernaut." De Largo replied, "Besides we will run out of air before he gets in."
"Not me I don't use any air." Deadpool replied smartly as Tiger Shark swum past, his teeth glinting in the air-lock's red light. "I breathe oxygen."
"Oxygen is in Air, if you breathed pure Oxygen you would probably die." De Largo snapped as Tiger Shark snapped at one of the door hinges, the bite carving a large amount of metal around the impact site. The door held before a tiny fountain of water burst through spraying Deadpool on the groin.
"Great now it looks like I'm an incontinent old man like you." Deadpool sighed. "More to the point how the hell did he do that?" he screamed.
"Adamantium Teeth." De Largo moaned slapping his forehead. "We used to feed him intravenously because he had a mask on. We fitted it because he kept biting off the guards hands."
"Silly De Largo." Deadpool stated slapping De Largo round the back of the head as Tiger Shark bit a second chunk out of the door hinges. De Largo glared at Deadpool and slammed him against the door to the pipe as more water entered the air-lock.
"This is all your fault." De Largo snarled, "I don't know how but it is." Deadpool slammed De Largo against the other door and was about to announce that they were not going to die when the door buckled and swung outwards, water flooding the chamber and depositing them into the room with Tiger Shark. Bobbing to the surface De Largo and Deadpool grasped each other looking nervously around as Tiger Shark circled them, the large distinctive dorsal fin cutting through the water.
"Oh it can't end here." Deadpool announced, "Impurest Cheese wouldn't be so cruel to leave us in dire peril would he?" he asked as Impurest Cheese decided he would do just what Deadpool had suggested chuckling diabolically as he clicked save.