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Last Thing Expected
She touches her right ear, "Did you get their command code frequency, Ares?"
"Yea," Wade replies, "they tried to detonate Fury's kill switch, inversely activating their own as well. I insulated his chip against their termination code signal".
"Great," she cancels the holo-Fury. "Initiate treatment, and have doc deactivate that chip, then bring the big man around within the hour. He has a few questions to answer, before I can return him home".
Wade didn't question her orders. He knew better, especially given her current mood. He didn't want her to fry another com system. He'd only set this one up again, and got it fully operational. And besides, everyone gathered around him. An exploding terminal would put their lives in jeopardy.
He sympathized with their doubts. He shared the same concerns, wondering where she was and what she might be up to next. The uncertainty alone made this whole experience far more unbearable. His terminal beeps, he updates everyone, "Dragon Phoenix located Hydra's latest stronghold. Our enemies are held up inside a base, beneath an old estate, 20-miles outside of Berlin".
"Way to go, Ares," Aconasema shimmers into open view. No longer the Dark Dragon Phoenix.
Wade snaps his head around. He'd never been so confused. One minute, she's insanely mad, ready to bathe the world in blood. Now? She moseys into his lab like nothing ever happened, wanting an update on what he'd accomplished thus far. And, against all logic, she's calm and collected.
"Is Kimiko awake, Annie?" She breaks the tension between them.
"Her vitals show she's awake, but distressed, Aconasema," Annie plays out her preprogrammed ruse.
"Good," she rubs her palms together with sinister glee.
"Annie, initiate Black Knight Protocols".
Annie activates Kimiko's bio-beacon's homing signal. A launch platform rises above ground outside Berlin. Annie feeds the estate's coordinates into the targeting computers launching. The Taurus KEPD 350 missiles scream through the air, locked upon her chip's bio-signal. This attack timed so precisely. The timer hits double zero, approximately the exact second both missiles slam into Hydra's latest secret base. Both ordnances detonate simultaneously amplifying their yield radius.
The viewer overhead switches on with GNN News, "Just moments ago, the German government received a tip. A German citizen kidnapped an American child and fled here. The child was none other than Aconasema's own daughter. Chiyoko Muramasa assure German authorities. The last remnants of Hydra's surviving leaders are held up inside an estate outside Berlin.
Two eyewitnesses verify. Kimiko Muramasa had just saved the helicarrier from certain destruction. Thor, a founding member of the acclaimed Avengers, subdued, then relinquished her into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. Hydra's double agents then stole her off the carrier. This cell lead by international assassin, Fukushima, code named Viper under Hydra's guise.
We even learnt, Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker—who disappeared three years ago, and authorities assumed died eluding capture—is very much alive. He's held up inside this very estate. In fact, Strucker kidnapped Aconasema's daughter to turn her into some kind of ultimate weapon for Hydra. He's hiding under the alias, Nicolo Silvino. Tarus KEPDs impacted the 20-acre estate, leaving little behind but a craterous wasteland. It has been confirmed Kimiko Muramasa's perished amidst this preemptive strike".
Wade kills the connection. All back away, half expecting her to revert back into the Dark Phoenix. Instead, she turns towards them ordering, "Doc, have the big man awake within the hour".
His granddaughter's death hits him hard. Wolverine felt like exploding, killing everyone in his path, especially Strucker. One concern takes precedence. Chiyoko didn't share his ire. In fact, she was void of any emotion, almost like she'd given up. "Chiyoko," he inquires about her reaction, "what's going on with you? Why are you so clam?"
"She served her purpose, Father". Aconasema avoids eye contact.
"Served her purpose? You killed hundreds protecting her. And now she's served her purpose? I know you well enough now. You're giving up".
"I'll rejoin my child shortly, Father," she turns to leave.
Wolverine grabs her wrist, "No. I won't let you give up. Not like this. You survived those blasts last time. Maybe she could've survive that, too?"
"I'm incorporeal. She corporeal, Father. There's a difference". She storms out the room fighting back her own tears.
Fury Meets Fury
She wouldn't sidetrack him that easily. Wolverine was hot on her heels, til losing her around a corner. He spent the next hour searching every square inch of her Martian base.
"Doc, is he awake?" Aconasema storms into the sickbay.
"He recovered faster than expected".
"How strong is he?"
"You can ask him questions," Dr. Possible permits.
Wade's duplicated commend signal deactivated Fury's chip's failsafe protocols. Kim's fire phoenix could now safely phase into Fury's body, and dissolve the chip currently lodged in his brain. "You," she directs the closest phoenix.
The fiery creature phases into his host. Fury's heart rate, breathing, and perspiration instantly spike off the charts. He cries in deep agony twists his head, convulsing and kicking violently against his current restraints. His glassy eyes open, wearily locked with hers, mirroring his deep-seated fury towards her.
Leaving little doubt, he held her responsible for what he'd current, both now and at Hydra's hands. She didn't care. Let him blame her. It'd ensure he play his role, setting her plan into motion. He'd become humanity's savior. The man who singlehandedly ended humanity's single greatest threat, ever. The man who killed Aconasema.
Her fire phoenix dissolves the chip, then phases back outside his body.
"You," Fury grits his teeth peering hard. "What am I doing here? And Why'm I strapped down like your private lab rat?"
"Please stay calm, Director," she assuages him. "Hydra captured, and implanted a neuro-synaptic chip near your skull base".
"I vaguely remember Doc Oc standing over me, but relegated it as a bad dream".
"It wasn't a dream, Director".
"And you are," he petitions the older redhead. He still hadn't recovered all his memories yet.
"My name's Dr. Anne Possible".
"Agent Possible's mom, right?" He vaguely remembers reading his newest agent's file.
"Ex-agent actually, Director," Kim's clone informs him.
"Why ex?"
"You fired me, right before you hired assassins to kill me, my family, and friends".
"What? I'd never...?"
"Does the name Jupiter Kipling mean anything to you, Fury?" Aconasema stops his objection cold.
"Where'd you hear that name? I invented it when younger, but never used that alias".
"You didn't, Director. Hydra did," Kim steps in. "In fact, you hired Dante Reza, a.k.a. Red Hawke, to kill my family under that very name. I injured him in Eureka, NV. And you called...".
"I don't recall that, Agent Possible".
"I have your black-market Hydra issued satellite phone right here. Study it's call logs. I even have a certified voice print analysis to prove what I'm saying, Sir".
"I don't doubt your word, Agent Possible".
"Why not?"
"You wouldn't have kept me alive this long, if you only intended on killing me. And besides, lying about my condition serves no viable purpose".
"She didn't keep you alive, Director. I did," Aconasema interrupts their touching moment. "My little girl gave her life so you could live. I'm honoring her last wishes".
"And what's that, Aconasema?" He condescends.
"I'm returning you unto your helicarrier, Director".
"Then what?"
"To see you're acquitted, and Dr. Director's prosecuted".
"For what?"
"Aiding WEE, Hydra, and HenchCo in slaughtering hundreds of innocent people, that I can prove".
Back Aboard The Carrier
A bright light washes over them both. Fury and Aconasema vanishes a second later.
"Hey, what about us?" Dean Stoppable
"She can't leave us on Mars, if she's going to commit suicide?" His wife shares his concerns.
"Watch your damn mouth, Woman," Wolverine shouts, deploying his claws.
Olivia Stoppable backpedals, startled by sharp claws shoved in her face. "I'm sorry," she hides behind her husband.
"Calm down, Wolverine," Professor X reproves his mannerism. "She didn't mean any harm".
Wolverine eyes Olivia like a ferocious predator, debating whether to attack or let her live.
Aconasema appears on the helicarrier. Fury leaning against her shoulder. Again. Alarms blare over the bridge.
Mariah Hill and security personnel rush on deck but stop cold, "Director?"
"Here, take your man," Aconasema casts him into their waiting arms.
"Your daughter said, it'd…".
"If you wish to live, it's best you don't mention her again, Deputy Director," she turns to leave.
"How's she?"
"She's dead, Thunder God. They killed her. I hope you're happy. Tell Odin, my crown's broken".
"Now," Fury orders. He'd been gone a while but not that long. His security teams still remembered his signals.
Thornsby alerts their scientists manning Cerebro's control. The head scientist throws the switch. Every laser on the command bridge comes alive. All deadlocked, firing upon her.
Aconasema absorbs their full fury. "You fool," she backhands Fury, as if angry, though his treachery played right into her plans. It served her purposes in ending Aconasema once and for all.
"What'd I do?" Fury feigns ignorance.
"You just damned everyone on this carrier, possibly this planet, too".
Fury knew she wasn't playing, "How'd I do that?"
"You tied the tesseract directly into your weapons array. I admit, it boosted your carrier's shields and tripled your weapons' potency. You then capitalized your stupidity, by tying all that into Cerebro". She knew this cerebro was a dud, and didn't pose any threat unto humanity. She couldn't let them know. That catastrophic threat would make Aconasema's death more believable.
"You fool!" Thor sides with her. "You said you destroyed it".
"We don't have time for that right now, Thunder God".
She reaches down mutating the carrier's molecular bond. Solid metal loses its cohesion. The crew slips through the alloy plunging into the bay below.
Hell On Earth
Fury and the other burst above the waters. "Thor, what's she doing with my boat?"
"Fury, you're a fool. She's done nothing. You have".
"What'd I do?"
"You fool, you still don't grasp your folly. You tied together two incompatible alien technologies. If Cerebro and the tesserac destabilize in the slightest way, the ensuing explosion could easily rip this planet apart at the seams, possibly taking most of the Milky Way with it".
"You can't be serious," Mariah gasps in mortal terror, glaring at her boss and colleague.
"Lady, believe what you will. She possesses Raja, the Phoenix Force, and the Odin Force. And I doubt even she can survive the resulting explosion".
"How can I save my boat?"
"You can't," Thor glares towards the helicarrier.
The carrier starts to glow. Its outer hull encapsulated in a thermo-psionic quantum bubble. Reverse polarized shielding plates breaks loose, splashing in the bay below. The hull slowly crushed by rippling gravimetric sheers, forming around the carrier.
Aconasema phases through the hull. She cries with exertion erecting a field around the carrier. The gravimetric distortions stop spreading straining against her containment field.
"Ares, where's the best place to deposit this quantum nuclear bomb, preferably a dead region of space".
"Try the Serpens constellation, 3C-321 galaxy's a dead region of space".
"Distance?"
"370-MPC, approximately 1,206,778,604.79 light years".
"Far enough," she vanishes, as does the carrier.
"What the hell's going on, Ares?" Wolverine demands.
"Fury tied the tesseract into Cerebro".
"Those fools, that will annihilate most of this solar system," Professor X sighs, escalating Wolverine's concerns.
"Can she survive an explosion of that magnitude, Ares?"
"I don't know, Wolverine".
"Timing," Annie announces. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0". A massive explosion lights up the heavens. A blast so potent, its magnitude dwarfs even the brightest sun, devouring nearly suns, stars, moons, and planets, even asteroids' cores, atomizing hundreds of thousands of light years within seconds.
"How strong was that blast, Computer?" Wolverine held out hope.
"Off the scale, Wolverine," Annie quantifies. "The quantum radiation output exceeds an estimated output of one million 5-billion megaton nuclear warheads detonating simultaneously".
The Martian base starts to shut down, losing power. Lights go off. Nearby computers explode, as violent sparks, glass shards, charred computer components, metallic beams, and other composite material rain down around them, amidst escalating explosions. Field integrity reaches zero. The base's hull groans under structural fatigue threatening to buckle any second.
Cavalry's Arrival
Twenty crimson red robots charge into the main area. Their leader, beckons them, "C'mon, you must leave this place. Immediately".".
"What's wrong? What's going on here?" Wolverine demands, heading towards the nearest exit.
"Mistress, didn't clear the explosion. This base won't last another three minutes"
"What about Ronald?" Dean inquires about his son.
"Mistress already loaded him onto her warship. Now let's move". No one else bothered to argue. A massive explosion decompresses the base's farthest left corner, followed by a second blast less than 10-seconds later, then another, in close proximity, one after another, like a chain reaction.
Each sent more powerful tremors throughout the base's upper and lower decks. Everyone scampers towards the nearest exit behind their metallic escorts. Minds determined to reach her warship at any cost. They no sooner get into the air. The alpha-bot presses the bridge's big red button. A colossal explosion levels the entire Martian mountain leaving nothing but dust.
The robotic crew reaches the Triskelion in under 30-minutes. The Triskelion temporarily served as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s base of operations until their new helicarrier's built.
"Sir, we're being hailed".
"By who, Romany?"
"A robot identifying itself as Alpha C7".
"Put it through, CCO".
"Fury here. What can S.H.I.E.L.D. do for you, Alpha C7?"
"Help this unit fulfill its mistress' last wishes, Director".
"Who was your mistress?"
"Aconasema," the bot deadpans.
"She's dead?" He asks, curious but hopeful.
"I regret to inform you, Director, she didn't clear the blast radius, created by your vortex".
"What can we do for you, Robot?"
"Take possession of my human passengers".
"Who are they?"
"The Possibles, Stoppables, Loads, Team Go, Shego (their sister), Drakken's body, also Ron Stoppable, who has been comatose since Red Hawke blew up your agent's apartment".
"Our people will board..."
"There's no need, Sir," the bot denies them right to board the saucer. "My passengers are already on your helipad".
"Where are you going?"
"To fulfill my last directive".
"What directive would that be, Robot?"
"Fly this ship and my crew into the heart of the sun".
"You can't..."
"This vessel is over 6,000 years ahead of anything you currently have".
"That's my point exactly".
"You can't handle the technology you currently have. Gaining more so fast would only endanger your planet worse. Look what you just did with the tesseract".
"Stop that saucer by any means necessary," Fury orders.
The saucer zips away with ICBMs exploding roundabout and lasers hammering its outer hull. Even their combined yield wasn't enough to slow its ascent velocity. In no time, the vessel cleared the upper atmosphere and beyond their ICBMs and lasers' range.
Aftermath
Two weeks. Nothing. Her parents and brothers knew her secret identity. They accepted her clone, but longed for the original to merge against with her clone counterpart. Gut? Instinct? Intuition? Call it what you will. No one believed she perished in that vortex explosion.
The Stoppables shared their best friends' concern over their daughter's safety. They, though, worried ffor vastly different reasons. They'd only learnt, she was Hana's mother. Now, they had no clue where she was, or if she was still alive.
Hana's reaction worried them most. Kim could reclaim her daughter any time she chose. She even had a solid enough case to prove she gave her daughter up under duress. A sympathetic judge could award her custody over Hana.
Then, again, they worried about her safety as well. Hana cried nonstop. She stayed inside her room, almost 24/7. She wouldn't participate in normal, everyday family activities; whereas, she used to be the life of the party. Olivia tried to console her lost, but couldn't make any headway.
The Loads weren't more concerned than ever. Kim's life became more dangerous with each passing day. Her enemies grew in number. Some could easily seek vengeance by striking at them or their son. His mother and father urged him to severe ties with Team Possible. Of course, he refused.
The Stoppables sensed, and tried to diffuse the growing friction. Dean arranged a private BBQ, just the Possibles, Stoppables, and Loads invited. Everyone reclined on the patio deck eating BBQ wings., ribeye steaks, and hotdogs, while catching up on what's new in their lives, and local gossip.
Olivia starts to lose interest. She couldn't enjoy herself. Her baby was in deep emotional pain. And she couldn't do anything to help, but be there when she's ready to talk. Hana's turmoil broke her heart. First, she refuses to speak with S.H.I.E.L.D. or Global Justice about her experience. Nor did she join the family BBQ, which was usually one of her favorite activities. She'd really bonded with Kim.
Olivia slips inside the house and up the stairs. She stops outside her daughter's bedroom hearing her exclaim joyously, "You're alive, Mommy! Really alive! My heart told me you were. Why'd you wait so long to come back, Mommy?"
"Baby girl," Kim hugs her daughter tightly, "I had to make sure no more mean people wanted to harm my little angel".
"Really?"
"Really," Kim pinches her nose lightly. "Our powers scares people, even our parents. You mustn't use them, unless I give you permission. Do you understand me, My Brave Little Girl?"
"Uh-huh," Hanna nods.
Kim senses Olivia's presence adding, "I'm proud of how you stuck up for Mama, Little One".
"I have two parents. Mom is mom; you're Mommy".
"You be good, until I return," Kim disappears, only to reappear in the hall.
"My word," Olivia grabs her chest. She doubted she'd ever get used to that.
"How's Ron, Maw?" Kim hadn't had a chance to check on her husband.
"Doctors say, his brain scans show he's waking up, though he's still comatose for now".
"Watch over him, Maw. I must tie up a couple of other lose ends, before resuming my life as Kim Stoppable, that is, if you'll still have Aconasema back into your family?"
Olivia had never heard such foolishness. She grasps, hugging her hard, crying softly, "I'll never let you go again. Not only are you Hanna's birth mother, but my son's wife as well. Handle what you must, Darling, then return home to us quickly. The clone was nice, but can't compare with the original".
"Oh, Maw, you can't imagine how many times I imagined you rejecting me over who I am. I'm glad you can still accept me," she was near tears.
"Not a chance, Darling," Olivia assures her daughter-in-law. "To reject you is to reject my little girl. Not gonna happen. She's a part of you, and me".
Hanna stood at her door listening. She smiles, relieved Mommy could rejoin their family getting things back to normal, well, normal for them anyway.
A Final Goodbye
Wolverine hadn't slept much over the past two weeks. Every instinct screamed for vengeance. His heart blamed Fury over all this heartache. He didn't take revenge, sensing she was still alive.
Aconasema appears inside his room.
"You're alive?" He grouses, not giving her a second glance or any tearful hellos, I'm glad you're alive. Nothing.
"Yes, Father, I'm alive".
"What the hell took you so long". Straight and direct, that was his way.
She didn't answer right away. He knew either she couldn't or wouldn't. Either way, he asked the next question topping his list, "How are you still alive?"
"I absorbed the tesseract's expelled energy, using a potion to destroy two dead galaxies, Father. That way, even those beyond Earth's orbit will assume Kimiko and I are dead, and won't come hunting us, like they did mother".
"What took you so long getting back unto me? You could've at least let me know you're alive".
"I had to ensure my baby's safety, first, Father".
"She's alive, too?" He asks with doubt and relief.
"Yes," she confirms. "We're old enough to fend for ourselves. She isn't yet. I made sure no one else was seeking her life".
"And?"
"The last six bounty hunters vanished under mysterious circumstances. No one else is seeking us right now. Fury is a hero. Dr. Director and her accomplices were tried and executed for their crimes against humanity, and using me as an escape goat. Humanity can relax once again.
Aconasema is dead. The world media extols Fury's ingenuity. He willingly sacrificed his carrier for the good of humanity. Even Asgard celebrates Aconasema's death. She won't demand Crown Prince Thor's life. Odin even restored Thor's honor and Mjolnir".
"So, what are your plans now?"
"Return unto my husband, Father. He needs me, and I need him".
"When will I see you again?"
"I honestly don't know, Father. I can't come around for casual visits. It'd draw too much attention. But, we can hook up on missions, if Professor X doesn't mind collaborating with Team Possible".
"He doesn't".
Kim turns, greeting by a smiling man in a motorized wheelchair, "Thank you. Both of you. I lost my humanity for a while. Fusion was harder than either Chiyoko or I ever imagined. You never gave up until we were fully integrated and back in control".
"That little girl of yours deserves most of the credit there, Young Lady".
"Yes, she does, Professor. Till we meet again," she vanishes, returning unto her old life.
Back at home.
She and Ron lost their apartment, for obvious reasons. Her double moved back home. Anne didn't mind. She watched over Ron closely. Kim phases with her clone reclaiming her humanity, completely. She smiles jovially, she was home, the world was right, and her heart mended once again. She couldn't help but pity the masses' overwhelming ignorance.
If this whole experience taught her anything, it taught her, most people seek ultimate power, willing to sincerely sacrifice everything they have or own, yes, even their families' lives, on the chance they might obtain a fraction of what he wielded.
Ultimate power.
Where mere mortalsbecome virtual gods. Believing, this power will somehow fill the void in their hearts, a hole in their lives, their family and friends couldn't appease.
She couldn't ignore the irony. Here, she possessed what they sought, albeit in sublime ignorance. And she only wanted what they already had. A normal life.
She wanted to live each day without fear, not having to worry about when and where assassins might hit them next. Her family and friends could be truly safe. Aconasema could remain dead. Humanity could once again forget she ever existed.
She'd take a normal life over ultimate power and untold riches any day. Because, she'd learnt, the hard way, she could become global dictator and be the richest woman on Earth, it meant nothing without family and friends.
All too often, we claw our way unto 'the top of the food chain,' leaving behind a string of broken lives, those we've trampled underfoot without a moment's notice. It's those 'broken ties' with family, friends, even strangers that come back to shatter our own. Only then do we truly consider the consequences of our actions. How we selfishly induced other's suffering.
Alas, a normal life was her greatest treasure, far surpassing her wealth and prestige she may have achieved as Aconasema. At least, she was dead. World leaders could relax. And this insanity end. Man slaughtering man, only hoping to survive long enough to end the greatest threat unto humanity.
Kim relaxes. It was over. Or was it? She could only hope, but keep her eyes open.
The End