"You got it?" Jim asked as he and Moss walked into his office, and found SG there leaning against the wall, her response was to reach into her utility belt and pull out two blue tinted vials and put lay them gently on Jim's desk.
"Excellent work, question is, what do we do with hem?" Moss asked as he leaned down and took a closer look at the vials.
"Isn't it obvious, we use them for the city, maybe we can mass produce the antidote." SG said in a calm manner, after her stressful search for the antidote, but before Jim or Moss could answer, Jim's office phone began ringing, and he picked it up, and after a few seconds a disgusted look formed on his face and he uttered, "send him in." before hanging up the phone, still with a disgusted look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Moss asked his captain.
"The Mayor has found out that we have two of the cures, and he want's us to discuss with him what we should do with them." Jim said, and that made SG's stomach tingle, she really hated the mayor, and she didn't want to discuss this with him, but he entered the room a minute later, and there was nothing she could do or say to change things.
"Gentlemen," Barron said as he addressed the police captain and his lieutenant, "and heroine," he said with an unconvincing smile, "is it true that you are in possession of two of the ten antidotes?" Barron asked Jim, having not noticed the vials on Jim's desk.
"They are on my desk," Jim said as he picked up both the vials, "Squirrel Girl was able to secure both of them." Jim said in an approving tone, but the mayor was not impressed.
"Why didn't you tell me about this sooner?" Barron asked.
"Because we secured them just a little over an hour ago, haven't been able to do anything with them." Jim answered back.
"Regardless, I'll be taking one of the vials," Barron said, and that surprised the trio, "I need to be safe, the city needs to know it's leader will be safe, and a figure they can look up to in this time of crisis." Barron said with a smug smile, and that made Moss slam his fist on the table.
"If anyone is getting the antidote, it'll be Squirrel Girl, she's the cities heroine." Moss argued as he pounded his fist on Jim's desk, which surprised Jim, the mayor, and Squirrel Girl.
"I don't think so," SG began as she stared at all three of them, "the city deserves this antidote, that's my final decision," SG said with a stern tone in her voice, but her tone was not reflecting her thoughts, for she was wondering if Moss was right, did she deserve this antidote, after all she had done, but she erased that thought with a shake of her head, that was not how heroines dealt with situations, a heroine had to be selfless, capable of looking at the bigger picture, "I admire you thinking I should be the recipient of this cure, but the city comes first, Moss." SG said with a stern tone in her voice, which earned a head nod from Moss, who left the room to get a cup of coffee.
"Squirrel Girl is right, Mr. Mayor, the city needs the antidote more than any of us do, it would be selfish for anyone of us to take it for ourselves." Jim said in a stern tone of his own, which earned an approving nod from the squirrel heroine, but a huff from the mayor.
"Perhaps you don't understand, Captain," Barron said coldly, "I'm taking hat antidote, wether or not you like it is your choice." he said coldly, which caused SG to get in his face.
"I'm not letting you leave with a single antidote, you want them, you'll have to go through me!" SG snarled, which earned an amused look from the mayor.
"I give the orders here, Squirrel Girl," Barron said in an amused tone, I'm the most powerful person in this room, so I deserve this antidote." Barron said with a smug smile.
"You might be the mayor," SG began just as coldly, "but I'm a S.H.I.E.L.D. sanctioned heroine, which means I outrank you, and I say, you are not getting the antidote." SG snarled as she walked back to the desk, and picked up one of the antidotes, and removed the top of it, revealing a needle inside the jar, through which the antidote could be injected.
"You might be a heroine," Barron began in a surprisingly calm tone, "but I run this city, which means you are duty bound to serve us!" Barron practically shouted at her, which made SG take her eyes of the antidote and get right back in Barron's face, just as Moss re-entered the room carrying two cups of coffee, one for him, and one for his captain.
"I might be duty bound to serve the city, but I will not be your puppet!" SG shouted, her anger at the mayor having finally boiled over, as she walked back to the desk and slammed her left palm on the desk for extra emphasis, only to be met with a sharp pain, and she looked down and saw a needle with a liquid in it sticking into her hand, and the liquid was quickly injected into her hand, and with a shocked look, she looked up and saw that Moss was the one who had injected her with the antidote.
"What the hell have you done, that was meant for me!" Barron shouted at Moss, all the while SG stared at Moss, completely shocked by what he had just done.
"She deserves it more than you ever will, at least now she's safe, and that's all that matters." Moss said as he removed the syringe from her hand and laid it on the table.
"Moss," SG said as she finally got over her initial shock, "the city needed it more than I did, now we only have one antidote, why the hell would you do this!?" SG yelled in confusion, as she took her eyes off of her injected left hand and stared at Moss, with rare anger in her normally calm eyes.
"I did it for you, SG, we need the cities protector to be secure." Moss said defiantly as Jim suddenly gasped.
"Squirrel Girl, your hand!" Jim shouted in concern as she looked away from Moss and raised her left hand to her face, and was surprised by what she saw, her flesh seemed to be peeling off at an alarming rate, and turning a bluish purple, it was a sight that SG recognized, one from the news woman's death.
"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit!" SG said as she quickly realized what was happening, it was the 'Carnation' virus, and she was infected!
"Call, and ambulance, quickly!" Jim ordered Moss, who was just as stunned as everyone else.
"Jim, there's not enough time, an ambulance wont do shit," SG said as she tried to formulate a plan, and she came up with the only option that could possibly save her, "Jim... I need you... to amputate my left arm...," SG said in a tone that indicated she was serious, "my healing factor will slow it down, but it's not powerful enough to beat the virus, my arm needs to come off, it's the only way..." SG said in a sad tone as he arm was now beginning to rot, while it's true that ehr healing factor might be able to slow down the virus, it couldn't stop it.
"SG, how the hell could I possibly do this?" Jim asked in a concerned tone, and that made SG think for a second, before she came up with an answer.
"The laser cutter, it melted cement, it should take off my arm like it was nothing." SG said sadly as Jim nodded and the four of them raced downstairs to the weapons vault, where Jim opened the vault and pulled out the laser cutter.
"You want me to knock you out?" Jim asked as he prepared to amputate his friend.
"Just do it, quickly, I've got less than ten minutes at the rate it's spreading." SG said as Jim nodded and turned the cutter on to maximum power, and it's red beam soon engulfed her arm, just below her shoulder.
At firs tit felt like a warm tingle, but soon it felt like a raging fire, as it cut through her skin, muscles, veins and arteries, as she finally couldn't hold it back anymore and wailed to the Heavens in pain as after two agonizing minutes, her left arm dropped to the floor, completely severed from her body, leaving a barely conscious heroine to finally slip unto unconsciousness.
So the antidote was the 'Carnation' virus itself, what do you all think about that, and please tell me what you think, since Doreen has lost her left arm.
