The reinforced door vibrated as Deadpool pushed against it, trying to keep the larger man out. "The door locks, Tate type in the Door Locks." Deadpool screamed as Scourge of the Underworld slammed into the door again.
"I can't reach it unless I move." Tate replied as she attempted to reach the automated door lock system.
"What are you doing here?" Deadpool asked.
"I'm a hallucination, listen Milos and I are working on an emergency teleport to get you out of there but you have to hold on." Tate announced before vanishing. The door stopped rumbling and Scourge stepped back three paces. Deadpool breathed a sigh of relief before spotting the trigger in his enemy's hands. The door exploded outwards knocking Deadpool and the locking system backwards. "Oh no cool slow motion Call of Duty breaching sequence." he moaned as Scourge strode forward un-holstering a Desert Eagle Pistol and firing five shots into Wade before he shimmered out dropping onto a table. "My god that stings like a mother." he moaned as Tate locked down the controls.
"Wade are you okay?" Tate asked lifting his mask off to survey the two shells that had penetrated his skull. "Oh my god?"
"What?" Deadpool asked, "What is it and why do I not like your tone of voice."
"Your skin, its normal, no sign of any cancer." Tate told him as the five shells popped out of his skin. Bending down she picked up one of the rounds, "Oz-Corp Pharmaceuticals. Wade I think this is bad."
"Anti Cancer Round Bad." Deadpool said weakly, "To be honest I thought the days of Osborne trying to kill me where over."
"This is bad how?" the Unicorn asked, "Cancer is bad."
"Wade's Cancer keeps his ultra efficient healing factor in check, without the cancer he will die in under ten minutes." Tate explained.
"Then make my last ten minutes amazing. I'll go out in a blaze of glory." Deadpool said before singing the chorus of the Bon Jovi song Blaze of Glory.
"Your not going to die somehow you'll get out of this you always do." Tate replied, "As a doctor I forbid it."
"Sorry doc but I feel like crap, that stage 1 of dying." Deadpool announced
"Milos punch him." Tate announced. Unicorn looked at her before punching Wade in the chest. In seconds the bruise from the punch healed and Tate narrowed her eyes. "Keep hurting him, if we can keep his healing factor busy then maybe I can whip up some-kind of super carcinogenic blood transfusion." she announced spraying a thick brown substance into a coffee cup.
Corridor 7, Sub Level 4 - 01:32AM, 4th September
Iron Clad rumbled down the corridor on the quest for something to eat, from what he had deduced the gas attack was over, whatever had stopped it had come just in time he had been worrying as the first traces of nerve toxin had infiltrated the storage closet he had been raiding. Passing a derelict guard station he saw something move, a slight scuttle of feet moving in the darkness, yellow eyes glaring out of the gloom.
"Hello anyone in their?" he asked as the figure behind the eyes retreated back into the station. Confidently Iron Clad strode in lighting up his body, the shining steel cutting through the darkness as Skein covered her eyes and stepped backwards. "Sorry Skein." Iron Clad said turning down the light, "What are you doing in a closet?" he asked
"Waking up." Skein announced softly, "And I'm hungry."
"Yeah there's almost no food in this dump." Iron Clad remarked, "If you want I'll share what I find with you." Skein smiled licking her lips as Iron Clad walked over, "What's wrong with your eyes and you teeth." he asked as she smiled before nibbling his shoulder. "This one is too hard." she hissed as Iron Clad shrugged her off as Blade dropped from the ceiling his sword clenched in his hand, "What should we do master?" she continued as the two vampires circled the former Avenger.
"Kill him see if he bleeds my child." Blade instructed, "Learn to use your new powers. Soon we will be king and queen of this prison, we will reap an army and take the world from the humans, liberate them from death." he snarled as Skein leapt at Iron Clad wrapping him with the threads hanging from her costume. Angrily Iron Clad strode towards her before head-butting her causing the former Thunderbolt to release him from her coils. Grabbing the young vampire by her hair Steel threw her at a set of book shelves bolted to the wall before ripping the piece of furniture off it's mounting and burying Skein underneath it, the enhanced gravity neutralizing the Undead woman's strength.
"You feel confident that you beat a fledgling." Blade hissed, "Now you will see the full fury of a vampire." he snarled leaping at Iron Clad his sword slicing off a patch of metal off the former Avenger's skin.
"Nice Sword." Iron Clad grunted, "But I've faced Asgardians, Giant Devil Snakes and Norman Osborne, some fagot with bad teeth doesn't scare me."
"How about me?" somebody said from the door before the clink of several pumpkin bombs echoed around the guard station. In seconds they detonated showering the room with a thick choking purple smoke before the sound of a plasma canon sounded, multiple energized shots causing the smoke to flash red, one of the villains silhouetted against the smoke falling to the floor in agony.
Medical Centre, Sub Level 6 - 01:48AM, 4th September
Tate added the last ingredient with a quick slice to the vein, the grey fluid dropping into the cup, the chamber echoing with the grunts as Deadpool received a close range energy blast from the Unicorn. It had become quickly apparent that punches and kicks were not going to be enough so Milos had improvised using his battle ram, a chair leg and a pair of scalpels coated in acid to inflict more pain, yet he was fighting a loosing battle, Deadpool's healing factor was working too fast, maybe too fast for the cancerous brew Tate had concocted.
"Okay Wade, your going to have to either drink this or inject it." Tate stated holding up a disgusting coffee cup full of a sickly yellow gel, "Maybe even both." she added.
"What's in it?" Deadpool asked.
"Nicotine, Arsenic, Liquid Benzene, Ethylene Oxide and Asbestos Wool just for good measure. A word of warning it's going to taste foul but it may just save your life." Tate stated, "Now bottoms up."
"Can I just have a Soda?" Deadpool asked pushing the coffee cup away, "Sorry but I'm not going to drink that."
"Milos hold him down." Tate instructed, "Guess we're going to have to go for an injection instead." Quickly Deadpool flipped off the table he was lying up kicking Milos in the chin sending him flailing backwards before picking up the pistol lying on the table. Firing a quick double tap at Tate he fled for the exit as the former SHIELD agent sprayed a thick gel that absorbed the bullets flight before leaping over the table and firing a quick spray of adhesive sticking Deadpool to where he was standing. Wiggling Deadpool slipped out of his boots before being struck by an energy beam sending him flying into the corridor and impacting with the wall. Shaking himself Deadpool got up and fired a few shots into the Med Centre as he ran for what he assumed was his life.
"Why the hell are you running?" Tate yelled as she emerged from the Medical Centre, "We're trying to save your life." she screamed her spittle burning holes in the corridor's floor.
"Making what happens next more dramatic." Deadpool announced, "Plus I hate needles, I would rather have had a suppository." he added as Vandal threw the double doors at the end of the hall open and unloaded an entire magazine from her MP5 into Deadpool sending him convulsing to the floor. Automatically Tate fired a thin jet of impact gel binding the woman's hand together and jamming her sub machine gun before knocking her to the floor and kicking the weapon away.
"Wade, oh no." Tate said, "Milos come quickly bring the serum."
"Looks like Impurest Cheese wins." Wade coughed, "Funny I had so many death monologues I could have ripped off but all I can think of at the moment was what Obi Wan says in New Hope. If you strike me down I'll become more powerful then you can ever imagine." Tate checked for a pulse and felt the last three beats before Deadpool made an annoying squelching noise and stuck out his tongue.
"No you bloody Merc with a Mouth you can't be dead." Tate hissed shaking Deadpool and nervously flicking his tongue. There was no response Wade Wilson seemed to be truly dead, his healing factor had burnt out his body moments before the gun shot wounds he had received. The Unicorn arrived and handed Tate the needle who angrily stabbed the syringe into Deadpool's heart pressing the plunger down, a futile effort that had arrived too late.
"You who are you?" Tate said whipping a few tears away as she turned on Vandal.
"I have to kill Deadpool." Vandal said her voice trance like.
"Who are you?" Tate asked more angrily.
"I have to kill Deadpool."
"Tate she's packing Anti Cancer Rounds." Unicorn announced removing a bullet from Wade's chest.
"You killed him." Tate said in surprise and anger, "You killed him, I don't even know who you are but you killed him. He was a friend, a good man, well good enough at least. Yes he was annoying but he didn't deserve to die like that. I'm going to ask you one last time, who the fuck are you?"
"I have to kill Deadpool." Vandal replied
"Let me tell you who I am." Tate snarled, "My name is Odette 'Payback' Williams and as you may have guessed I'm a bitch." Quickly she jammed one of her wrist-sprayers into Vandal's mouth and sprayed a thick blue fluid into the cavity before walking away as her victim choked uncontrollably. "That's liquid oxygen just breath normally." she instructed. Vandal took a breath and watched as Tate turned and spat into her mouth, the phlegm mixing with the oxygen before igniting the fluid and Vandal's skull. "And that's why my middle name is Payback." Tate announced picking up Deadpool's body and returning to the medical lab resting it on the table. "Sorry Wade, as soon as I can I'll come back for you." she added closing his eyes. Stalking out of the lab she switched the lights off and sealed the door shut before she and the Unicorn walked off past the burning Vandal and heading for the stairs up to the main Guard Control Room.
Medical Centre, Sub Level 6 - 03:22AM, 4th September
The door to the medical room splintered as the shape outside ripped it off it's hinges before crawling inside snuffling as it came closer to where Deadpool's body lay. Rearing up the figure stared at him with its red eyes before licking his wounds with a forked tongue, lapping up the blood before hauling itself on-top of the dead body, licking the uncovered face.
"Monkey Food." the Lizard hissed as he unhinged his jaws in an attempt to swallow the dead body whole. "Maybe start with arms, just in case." it decided, "Maybe take head and study it." As he considered how to eat his first meal since his escaped the Lizard didn't notice the fingers on Deadpool's left hand flick upwards displaying a rude gesture. "Defiantly take head." the Lizard hissed as he cradled Wade's head in his jaws.