"CAPTAINWHEREISMYBROANDHISIDIOTBOYFRIEND?" Tommy yelled as he returned from leaving Kate in Argentina before running back to help the captain out.
"Wait, what? Billy? Teddy went to find him and now both are gone!" Captain said. Tommy sighed in an exagerated manner as if to emphasize his annoyance,
"Captain, I´ve told you it´s not wise to let the love birds wander off!" Tommy said,
"Tommy, just go find your brother and his partner." Captain ordered. Quicksilver and Tommy exchanged glanses and then twin mischeivous smiles,
"Right after a quick trip Captain," Pietro said. Before Captain could answer he felt himself being lifted and moved at inmense speed,
"Not this again!" He yelled as hard as he could but he was already being thrown on a beach and abandoned.
"Argh, I swear one of these days," Steve hissed.
"Welcome to Argentina," A voice said from behind, Captain turned around to face a not amused Kate Bishop sitting on one of the rocks by the shore,
"I´m guessing we´re stuck here until they decide?" He answered,
"Or until Scarlett goes ape shit on them and teleports us back," She concluded. Captain sighed and sat nearby Kate but on the sand,
"Well, it´s not exactly warm, but it´s better than snow." He sighed. "I'm a bit worried about the two boys. Teddy set off to find Billy and they haven't showed up since,"
"Don't worry captain, those two can take care of each other. And if by any chance they couldn't, we both know either Pietro, Tommy or Wanda will liquidate anybody who puts a hand on them." Kate said with a reasuring smile. Captain returned the gesture but inside he had a strange hunch forming at the pit of his stomach.
"Dont sweat over it, Cap," Kate seemed to notice the worry on the soldier's face and tried to comfort him.
"It's fine Hawkeye, I just have a strange feeli... what on earth?" Cap looked down at his body as it was slowly covered in a red glow,
"I told you Cap," Hawkeye commented with a smile, her body also covered in the same red aura. Captain sighed as he realized the situation,
"Oh, yeah, she's going monkey shi..." but they were teletransported before he could finish his sentence.
...
The two speedsters were practically annihilating the spiders one after another.
"How about we find your twin and his green boyfriend and get out of here, I´m getting tired of the slow arachnids," Pietro said as he dashed through a few of them and made them explode.
"Yeah, why do I have a hunch they're in there?" Speed answered as he pointed towards the white facility. Pietro shrugged,
"One way to find out," With that both Maximoffs speed away from the mass of spiders and towards the the building.
"Overthere!" Speed yelled, pointing to Wiccan's cape that fluttered in the air. Both of them sped onto the roof and gaped at what they saw. The spiders were just seconds away from dissecting both Teddy and Billy. They heard a zip but were fast enough to dodge the sleeping darts that went their way.
"Get them and run," Peitro growled. And with that he was across the roof punching the spider off Hulkling and picking the massive boy up, Speed was doing the same with Billy.
"Alright, let´s do th-" but before Tommy could finish there was a flash of red and suddenly they were on a cold floor.
"Thank goodness! We thought you guys were gonners!" Kate's voice came from somewhere in the room, before he knew it he was being embraced by a familiar scent he recognized immediately.
"Hey mom," Tommy said as he returned the embrace, "You teleported us, huh?"
"Oh Tommy! I saw everything through the camera but I couldn't see Billy! I'm just glad you are both ok." She said with a sigh,
"I wouldn't be so sure, they´ve been sedated and when we got there it looked like the arachnids had intentions with their innards." Pietro said with a stern expression. Wanda was suddenly pale and Wolverine and Hawkeye quickly escorted the unconsious boys to the hospital. Wanda paced around slowly, thinking about what her son had told her.
"But, if they wanted to then why wouldn't they just take them inside?" Wanda asked, Pietro simply shrugged,
"It beats me, for all I know we got there in time to save their insides, but who knows what the robots had taken before that." he stated. Kate walked over to Tommy,
"How was the fight after I left? Uneventful sounds about right," she said with a smirk. Tommy rolled his eyes,
"Keep thinking that, princess," he chuckled. They walked out of the room and towards the medical area where Teddy and Billy were being kept.
"You think the spiders did anything?" she asked quietly. Tommy was silent for a moment before looking up at her,
"I don't know, but my guess is that if they were that close to just cutting them open, they must have done something other than just sleeping them." He said with a serious tone. They walked past the room where Teddy and Billy lay unconsious, now with diferent IV´s connected to their veins and Dr. Strange standing near them while a doctor took Billy's pulse. Tommy didn't know what the whole thing was about but one thing was true, their mission was a failure.
"It just sucks that we didn't get any information," Tommy sighed. Kate snickered and Tommy turned to look at her.
"I missed out on something, didn't I?" He said. She gave him the best "you think so?" look she could make,
"I have all types of arrows honey, including ones with microphones and other little gadgets to get all the information we need," She said with a smile. "That, and also my so-called-sunglasses you always make fun of have a microcamera, they were recording the whole thing and we now have a 3D map of the outside structure of the building. I´ll be dammed if that doesn´t count for something." she stated. Tommy´s lips curled slightly up into a smile,
"You just never stop surprising me, Kate Bishop," he said as he shook his head in a defeated way. Kate smiled,
"It's just one of my many talents," she said. Tommy smiled fully at that, but Kate was looking back towards their two friends again. The doctor was talking to Dr. Strange and it didn´t seem there was anything urgent or worrysome. Tommy stole a glance from Kate´s hands, they were on her hips and something about the way she did that was just so commanding it made Tommy´s bones turn to jelly. He was mad about her, in a way she knew but he wasn´t sure she really understood just how madly in love he was with her. Tommy could always be flirtacious but when it came to Kate, he was down right trying everything he had to show her she was the one. Kate of course was able to break codes from professional spies and was trained in the levels of sign reading in people to tell when they lied, but she didn´t seem to ever react to Tommy. This meant one of two things: 1, Kate Bishop was completely unnaware of all of Tommy´s acts and ignorant of the way he felt because she couldn´t understand his indirect signs, (which was improbable, because nothing escapes Hawkeye) or 2, she was completely and absolutely ignoring him and not in the slightest interested. That last one burn hard. Tommy remembered when there had a been a thing with Eli before and during some time when he joined the Young Avengers. He remember he and Kate even shared a kiss! But for some reason that seemed longer ago than ever. Tommy sighed,
"Alright, I´m going to go get something to eat, wanna tag along?" Tommy offered like he did every time,
"Nah, I want to go back and go over the recorded informacion," she answered,
"Alright, you go do that," Tommy said with a smile. She returned the gesture and then walked back towards the monitoring room. As soon as she was out of sight Tommy felt himself sigh deeply and look back towards his twin brother and his boyfriend,
"You two hang in there, we need you if we want this all to work." He murmured, mostly to himself. With that he walked towards the exit, he went straight home, not even bothering to eat anything.
...
The scientists rolled in two of the spiders they had retreived from outside. These two specific ones were extremely important for them, and all they could hope was that the mission had been succesfull. They opened up one of the storage sockets on one of the sides of the spiders and retrieved the glass bottles in them. They were untouched. The scientists sighed in relief and the man in black carefully took one of them from the hands of a female scientist. The red blood cells inside were unmistakably Skrull blood, but there was something slightly off as if there was another species involved. The man smiled and took the other container that had normal human blood. He nodded and handed them to another scientist who quickly walked out of the room towards one of the labs.
"Good job fellas, wonderful action and planning, couldn't have done it better!" the man said outloud and the scientists applauded at his words. "Alright, lets work a bit more and then hit the hay," he announced. The scientists began picking up and a few doctors went towards the lab to find out their new orders. The man in black walked towards his HQ but right before getting there he stopped in front of a door. "Level 8 Experiments" It said in dull grey letters. He pushed the heavy and cold door and let himself in. He walked through a few more doors, these with security on them and requiring certain codes and ID. But he made it through none the less and found himself in a room full of creatures in small capsules and incubators. They were all sleeping, it was their nap time after all. It was the nursery of the building, filled with only the youngest and most delicate specimens. He walked slowly and peered down at all the sleeping aliens and mutants and creatures from other dimentions as well as crossbreeds between diferent species, all of them less than two years old. He finally stopped at a certain incubator. It had the thickets glass from all the rest and various tubes connected to it. The small creature inside shifted at the feeling of beeing watched,
"So tell me, child," the man said silently, only loud enough for the creature to hear, "Since you adapt to well, everything. Let's see you adapt to some new transfusions." He smiled to himself and walked away, leaving the creature in it's'unbearable loneliness and silence.