WASHINTON DC
MAIN SENATE FLOOR
VICE PRESIDENT SPEAKING
"Final vote. 267 vote no. 321 vote yes. The bill pertaining to a super human registration act is passed. And this meeting is adjourned."
CHAPTER 12
Venom's eyes opened. For a long moment he lay there next to his mate trying to figure out what had woken him. His answer came in the form of red hot wires being shoved against his neck. They were in danger. Roughly shaking parker Venom dropped down to the floor as the human woke. "Venom…..wa- I'm still tired." Venom slithered over the door and opened it a crack peering down the hallway. Turning back o parker Venom shook his head and put his finger to his lips. "get dressed and put your suit on parker. Something is going on." Parker had been about to speak when he winced his own spider sense alerting him to danger. Peter nodded and Venom turned his attention back to the hallway. He could smell…….someone. not one of the student, this smell was older, that of grown men. Taking his puddle form Venom seeped out from under the door and began moving across the floor and down the hallway. Moving down the hallways Venom stopped as he passed the front entrance. From his vantage point he could easily make out the form of 7 heavily armed commandoes, entering the mansion. Slithering behind a column for cover, Venom reformed and stepped out from behind the column. For a long moment he watched as the commandoes looked up at this new figure that had sighted them. Then Venom shouted as loud as he possibly could. "INTRUDERS! EVERYONE UP! NOW!" behind him Venom could hear the sounds of doors being flung open and sleeping humans leaving their rooms. But he didn't have time to focus on that now.
Diving down from his vantage point Venom hit the stone floor with a loud crash and grabbed a nearby commando, lifted him off the ground and hurled him against a nearby wall. The commando let out a grown as he slid down the wall, a small trail of blood followed him. The next thing Venom knew he was surrounded by gunfire. Bullets flew passed him and pocketed the stone walls, several of them actually hit him but cause no damage to do gel like form. But the shooting had had another effect. They had woken up most if not all the students that had slept through Venom's shouting. Grabbing another commando Venom brought this one down against his knee, a loud crack followed a moment later and the soldier went limp. Turning his attention to the other soldiers Venom let out a deafening roar. He had been about to charge when another voice met his ears that of his mate Peter parker, who now hung upside down from the ceiling. "you guys soooo picked the wrong house." Venom watched as the commandoes moved to shoot but quickly found themselves covered and immobilized by the webbing that parker's body now produced naturally. Leaving the stuck soldier Venom leapt second floor and charged back down the hallway in the direction of several frightened shouts and screams. Behind him he could feel rather than see his mate following him.
After a short run Venom and Peter emerged into a main hallway that led to several of the class rooms that dotted the school. Dozens of student s crouched in doors ways of crouched behind bits of furniture as soldier poured into the hallway. Red dots danced on the walls looking for targets, and with a jolt Venom realized the dots were lazar targeters. One of the student a tall blonde girl stepped out from behind her cover, her hand glowing with energy. She managed to fire of one shot that hit only 1 commando before the swarm of dots was on her check, several almost unheard 'chu's later the girl dropped 5 darts now sticking out of her chest. Moving from their cover Venom watched as parker webbed a small desk of drawers and when the timing was right yanked it into the group of soldiers. The group scattered and it was at that time that Venom threw himself into battle. Gun fired, as Venom leapt high into the air and came crashing down right in the middle of the group of soldiers. Grabbing a soldier neck to him venom used him like a club and slammed him into another soldier before hitting another with a side hook. Venom watched almost lazily as some of his symbiotic goo separated from his main body and stuck the solider to the wall. As the soldier stopped moving the bit of separated symbiote rejoined Venom. Who turned his attention to the final soldier, who was backing away and firing shots more out of fear than anything else. before Venom could however a pulse of red light hit the soldier from behind, lifted him off his feet and sending sailing passed Venom. A faint crash behind them told Venom the soldier had hit the wall at the corner of the hallway.
Venom watched as jean grey and scott summers walked into view. Jean nodded to them and moved past them and knelt down by the now unconscious soldier. Touching his head jean closed her eyes. For a moment they were all silent then jean opened her eyes and looked at them. "he's a SHIELD commando." Scott shook his head. "why would SHIELD attack us. We've done nothing to them?" from behind them Xavier's voice met their ears. "they were sent here by Maria Hill the new director of SHIELD." Scot looked at the professor. "I thought Nick Fury was in charge of SHIELD." Xavier shook his head sadly. "no. fury was opposed to the super hero registration act. So when it passed congress with the president's approval removed him from power. I have no idea where he is now. But that is not what concerns me right now. Right now we must focus on getting the students away from the mansion, and into the alternate safe houses I have set up. Scott, jean, hank, Nightcrawler, storm, and iceman are already working to extract students from the school. I would suggest we do the same." Turning to Peter and Venom Xavier knitted his long fingers together. "Peter, Venom I would ask you to help. After that you're free to do what you wish." Peter nodded and Venom copied him. After taking their orders Peter and Venom clung to the ceiling and began to follow jean and scot as they moved through the mansion gathering students. Every now and then there would be a small scuffle with soldier, but for the most part the mansion's automated defenses seemed to be giving the soldiers hell.
herding students through a series of secret passages Peter and Venom soon found themselves emerging into a large cavern. Artificial lighting illuminated the cavern and they could easily see dozens of bunk beds and several small kitchen areas set up, waiting to be used. Scot turned to them. "thank you. Both of you." Peter shrugged and Venom nodded. "don't worry about it." scot looked around. 'what will you do now?" Peter shrugged. "I'm not sure-" he had been about to say more when he felt his cell phone go off. Pulling his phone out and uncovering his mouth peter spoke. "hello?" a moment later Luke cage's voice filter into his ears. "spidey that you?" "yeah." "thank god. So I assume you've heard about how the registration act passed?" peter chuckled. "you could say that. You could also say they just attacked the Xavier mansion and tried to kidnap everyone in it." Peter could almost hear cage shaking his head in disbelief. "I'm holed up here with the captain and a dozen other hero's who oppose registration. Will you join us?" peter nodded. "of course. SHIELD's new director is out of control. But where exactly is 'here' for you?" "sorry spidey cant say that over the phone. Landlines aren't safe anymore." "then how am I supposed to get to you to help?" "don't worry about that I've already got someone heading your way. He should be there any in moment." "what about the other's from the mansion? What happens to them?" a short pause followed this then. "they can come to. Start made this their fight as much as ours. I have to go. I'll see you in a bit." Putting his phone away peter looked down to scot who still looked up at him.
"Luke cage is organizing a resistance to registration. We're all invited to join. He's sending someone to get us to him." as those words left his mouth peter's spider sense began going crazy. Readying himself for an attack peter watched as a patch of rock on the cavern floor shifted from it's normally earthy color to jet black, and then began to gain a familiar form. Cloak, knelt in front of them after a moment he straightened up and spoke. "spider man I'm to bring you to cage. Peter nodded and dropped from the ceiling venom followed him a moment later. "cage said you'd move us all to him." cloak nodded. "I would have done so even if he had said no. come we don't have much time. SHIELD is still looking for all of you." As everyone moved around cloak scot spoke. "there are other safe houses more people. What about them?" cloak nodded. "I'll get them to. For now worry about yourselves. Few people enter my cloak of their own free will." Peter let out a small gulp and felt venom move a little closer to him. with a small amount of fear peter watched as cloak's cloak wrapped itself around them cutting off all light and sound from the outside world. Darkness surrounded them. It pushed against them and crushed itself against their skin although it was trying to swallow them whole. Peter tried to speak but found his body was frozen. He was trapped unable to move until they left this all consuming darkness. He felt fear and for the first time wondered if maybe he should have tried to get to cage another way. But the darkness was thinning now. He could see a faint glimmer of light through the ocean of darkness. As the light expanded Peter soon found himself Venom, and all the other's from before standing in a large room little with green lights. They looked to be standing in a loading dock. As Peter moved away from cloak scot rubbed his neck and spoke. "that was………. Terrifying." Cloak nodded in sympathy. From behind them cage's voice spoke. "spidey good to see you. Still in one piece?" turning Peter nodded. "yeah. A little shook up but fine. What's going on Luke?"
Cage shook his head and gestured to the other clustered in the dock. "we've set up beds, for all of you. You'll need your rest." Filling out of the dock Peter and the others moved down a small hallway before coming to an intersection. Pointing to the left cage spoke. "summers, take your students down this hallway and make another right. They can sleep in the bed's we've provided. They're military cots so they're not too comfortable but they're better than nothing. Cloak will be moving to the other safe houses to pick up the other's soon. Spidey if you and you're……." cage paused and looked at Venom, and it struck Peter that cage had only just seen him. "don't worry Luke. Venom's on our side. He wants to be good." Cage nodded but still looked unsure. 'well if you 2 will follow me I'll take you to the Cap. He can fill you in about what's happening." Nodding Peter, Venom and Cage left the scot and the others and moved to meet captain America. After a short walk they left the hallway and emerged into a large room. In front of them a massive holographic table stood, images of the base and surrounding areas glimmered in the light from the projectors. Not far beyond the table was captain America. His back was to them but cage cleared his throat and captain turned. His face showed the grimness of the situation. "I'm glad you're all here. With what's happening we're going to need every supporter we can get. I'm sure you have question but let me explain what's happening. If there is anything after that then feel free to ask me. Ok?" Peter nodded and Venom remained silent. The captain nodded and folded his hands behind his back.
"2 days ago I was called to SHIELD'S helicarrier, by Maria Hill. She told me that the registration act was as good as signed and that she wanted me to lead SHIELD forces when they attacked dozens of superhero hide outs. I refused and she ordered me to be……detained. I escaped and since then I've been trying to save as many heroes as I can. This base-" he gestured to the room. "is a HYDRA base that has been abandoned for some time now. For now it's our main base of operations." Punching in commands to a console in front of his, captain America pulled up holograms of stark tower, and the Baxter building. "as you can see, stark tower and the Baxter building have become SHIELD strong holds. I don't know how many hero's are working for SHIELD now. But I do know that SHIELD has a large force of ex-villains on the payroll now. For now we wait, and play shadow games with the enemy. We aren't strong enough to fight in a head on battle just yet. But that time will come soon enough." As captain America looked up Peter spoke. "why would SHIELD attack the X-mansion?" the captain shrugged shaking his head. "I don't know. Perhaps hill thought mutants would rally against SHIELD because this bill is too similar to the mutant registration act. As it is any mutants above a class 2 has to register, according to this bill. The captain paused as a random soldier ran up to him, saluted and handed him a piece of paper. After reading it captain America grimaced. "I've just gotten word that…….. daredevil is dead." Peter took a step backwards. "what?" the captain shook his head. "he died trying to save mutants from some SHIELD soldiers." Peter watched as for a moment captain America stood there silhouetted by the holographic projector. Crumpling the piece of paper captain America hurled the note across the room where it bounced harmlessly off the wall.
"DAMN THAT STARK! DOESN'T HE KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING?!" for a moment captain America's sides shook with anger, but then he reverted back to his calm stance. "for now rest, see a doctor if you were hurt. In a few hours I'll be needing everyone we've got available to help other heroes get here. Dismissed." With that captain America again turned his back on them and busied himself with other things. Peter looked nervously to cage before leaving the room and heading back to Scott and the others. After repeating everything they had been told Peter climbed into a bunk bed and pulled of his mask not caring who saw his face. Vaguely he was aware of several students gasping and pointing but he ignored them. His mind felt cold. Daredevil was dead? Sure Peter had hardly known the almost silent hero but that didn't mean that he disliked him. And now……. Now he was dead murdered for protecting those who needed it. SHIELD had done what no villain had been able to do. Next to him Peter Venom put a hand on his arm. "parker…….?" Peter looked up at Venom. "I don't care." Venom cocked his head to the side. "what?" Peter bite back tears. "I don't care about them." Again Venom spoke. "what doo you mean? Who don't you care about?" Peter took a shuddering breath. "before Venom. I said you couldn't kill. I take it back. If you have no other choice then I give you permission to kill any SHIELD soldier who gets in our way. Do you understand?" Venom nodded slowly. He cold tell his mate was more than upset and right now was speaking more out of anger and loss than anything else.
Pulling his mate closer Venom gently nuzzled parker's neck; ignoring several onlookers who were opening staring at them. "shhhhh. It'll be ok parker. Rest now." Peter shook his head. 'Venom, I don't think I could sleep if you knocked me out." Venom chuckled. 'that could be arranged." For the first time that night Peter cracked a rare smile. Silence stretched between the 2 heroes; then. "thanks." Venom didn't respond. Instead he just pulled his mate closer. Willing all the bad things that had just happened to go away.
AN: WELL FOLKS CHAPTER 12 IS UP AND DONE. I KNOW DAREDEVIL DIDN'T DIE IN THE COMICS BUT FROM HERE ON OUR I'LL BE TAKING SOME CREATIVE LIBERTIES WITH THIS STORY.
ALSO FOR THE RECORD MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE CIVIL WAR ARC IS LIMITED. FOR INSTANCE I DON'T KNOW EXWACTLY WHO WAS ON WHAT SIDE. I KNOW SOME BUT NOT ALL.
ALSO IN THE NEXT FEW CHAPTERS I'LL BE BRINGING IN SOME HEROS AND VILLIANS PEOPLE MIGHT NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH. SO AS A COURTOISY I'LL BE LISTING THEM HERE IN THE AUTHOR'S NOTES SO THAT WAY IF YOU WISH YOU MAY LOOK THEM UP ON GOOGLE. I'VE SCOURED MARVEL WIKI AND I THINK I'VE FOUND SOME VERY COOL HEROES AND VILLAINS TO BRING IN.
CAN'T WAIT TO WRITE THE NEXT CHAPTER.
SEE YA.