Revamped!

[Okay, so my plan is to finish this arc with its final filler before the new year and come back with the next arc which also answers a lot of questions].


Chapter 79: Escaping SHIELD Island Part Six

SHIELD's Prison Island - 57 Minutes Till Detonation

Prisoners of all kinds resided on this island - failed experiments that went rogue, hackers who couldn't be trusted near any technology, people affiliated with terror organizations, madmen with extraordinary combat skills, and much more. They're against a unique team of their own - superhuman agents, an assassin hybrid with an exceptional aim, beings with powers inherited from their parents, intellects, a demigod, and a mutant panther.

Obviously outnumbered, Project: New Generation knows that they won't be leaving this island without a victorious fight.

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55 Minutes Till Detonation

Iqadi doesn't have a plan in mind for how she'll fight except for the fact that she will stay in front of Imanu, being his shield the whole time. She vowed to protect her country and in her eyes, that's her husband. In any situation, one of them has to make it off this island to guarantee an heir, even if not blood. She'd rather die than lose him.

Iqadi leaps over Imanu's head, locking her thighs around the neck of an inmate. Iqadi grunts as she forces him to the ground. Iqadi uses her hands to push herself back up, looking back at her husband. Imanu nods reassuringly at her and she shakes her head in response.

"I'll be fine," Imanu reassures.

"You'd better be," Iqadi replies. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if anything else were to happen.

-o-

48 Minutes Till Detonation

Angela, in her fighting stance, lowers her guns as her enemies fall at her feet. When all is calm again, she holsters her guns and steps over the bodies of her victims. She sees Apollo standing to the side with his eyes wide open in shock.

"You -" he starts before cutting himself off, "- this has happened to you before?"

Angela blows a strand of hair out of her face that's damp from sweat. "I'm pretty good at not getting shot."

Apollo puts a hand on her shoulder. "You're tougher than I remember."

"In that case, I don't want to know what you remember." She smiles a little. "That's what SHIELD does to you. As you said, I have SHIELD training now."

"What happened to make you like this, Angela?"

Angela takes a breath. "I have been shot at, blown up, dropped out of planes, beaten up, attacked with knives, electrocuted, hit by every kind of moving vehicles on the planet - and that was during extremely realistic training simulations. Any other questions?"

Apollo is speechless. Angela nods, confirming her statements.

"Your power is impressive," Apollo starts. Angela smiles at that compliment. "That is, for a mortal."

Her smile vanishes as he continues fighting. Angela doesn't move her eyes from him as she reloads her gun and starts firing at will. She doesn't shoot to kill, but to slow down and knock unconscious.

-o-

45 Minutes Till Detonation

The Hulk plows through the inmates like a machine, none of them even equivalent in terms of strength. This was the first time that Daniel has put his Hulk into battle with him in there, although for this fight, he turned himself off and let the Hulk do the work. Ironically, some prisoners found it honourable to have been taken down by the Hulk. Combined with the possibility of escaping prison, it made being trapped in here worth it.

Another inmate comes out from behind a palm tree and sees the giant fight happening on the beach and several of his fellow inmates lying on the sand, defeated.

"I thought you wouldn't take part in our escape plan?" Another inmate says to him. "What changed your mind?"

"Only came because the Hulk showed up," the first inmate responds with a small chuckle.

Almost instantly, the Hulk looks right at them and charges in their direction. The inmates start running for their lives.

-o-

39 Minutes Till Detonation

"Jarvis!" Emily exclaims. "Please speed up the clock. I don't want to be here anymore!"

Jarvis: Sorry, Miss, but since the system went back online, it has been blocking me out.

Emily rolls her eyes, tracking the ticking time and the inmates who come her way from all directions. From the ground, Emily puts her suit in some form of autopilot since the fear in her body caused her to seize up. She's scared of having never been in a battle with so much pressure on her shoulders before - the ticking clock, circling inmates, and inferior combat skills. Then, she feels her body go back in her control when she realizes that she wants to go home.

"Can't you see I'm busy?!" Emily yells at all the inmates.

She blasts them all down with the repulsor beams on her hands. Emily flies off the ground to get a full aerial perspective. One of the inmates jumps on her leg, pulling her back on the ground. Emily feels her head spinning due to the impact. She stays on the ground before blasting aimlessly to defend herself.

-o-

31 Minutes Till Detonation

Xavier and Merida are fighting their battles nearby one another. They eventually bump backs and are encircled by inmates and their weapons. Xavier and Merida look at one another with a slight head tilt before turning back.

"How many arrows do you have left?" Xavier asks her.

"None," Merida responds, eyeing each inmate carefully. "You want me to throw rocks?"

Xavier smirks and a small laugh escapes. To get out of this confinement, he kicks sand at the inmates which distract them. Merida spins her bow around in circles like a baton to make the same sandstorm effect before Xavier bodychecks some over as if he was back on the football field.

Xavier stays on his knees, crouched over as he sees Merida running towards him. She steps on his back and leaps off, whipping her bow across the beach as if it were a baton. She flips back on her feet and pulls Xavier up.

-o-

27 Minutes Till Detonation

The Hulk roars as it continues to fight all the inmates that come his way. Nearby, Angela gets choked from behind by another inmate. She grunts, digging her nails into his forearm and when she feels his grip loosen, she flips him over her head.

When the inmate is on his feet, he proceeds to attack Angela but to her luck, the Hulk grabs him and throws him across the island.

-o-

24 Minutes Till Detonation

"Look out!" Emily exclaims.

Iqadi spins around and sees Imanu in trouble. Her anger for the inmates rises inside her before her fear or concern for her husband.

"Don't touch him!"

Iqadi's eyes turn white as storm clouds entrap the island and thunder crumbles. The wind picks up and she charges over at top speed.

"Iqadi no!"

It couldn't be. That was her husband's voice. Iqadi immediately stops running and turns around. She sees Imanu right where she left him and freezes, keeping her eyes on him. While distracted, the mirage of her husband electrocutes her and she falls over. Iqadi's vision blurs as she falls to the ground, constantly muttering her husband's name. Lightning fills the sky but it's not from her.

"Iqadi!" Apollo exclaims. "I hid Imanu somewhere. Don't worry."

Emily flies in from above. "We have a quinjet leaving the island with inmates on it! Iqadi, have a storm send it down!"

"Iqadi's down!" Angela yells. "Apollo!"

Apollo holds his hand out to call his axe before he gets kicked over and lands on top of Iqadi. He turns around and sees the quinjet continuing to fly away.

"I got this!" James exclaims.

James runs to the edge of the shore and uses the Pym Particles in his body to grow into a giant since everyone already knows they're here. He makes his hand into a fist and slams the quinjet into the ocean. James falls over as well, splashing huge volumes of water on everyone on the island. James shrinks back to his normal size.

"We have one jet left!" Xavier yells. "If you can't fly, then get on and we're out. The rest of you follow before the timer goes off!"

Angela, Merida, and Xavier run towards the jet, taking down any outstanding inmates who stand in their way. The real Imanu runs over and he and Apollo pick up Iqadi. Imanu takes his wife over to the jet and once they're on, the jet flies off. All who remain on the island are Emily, the Hulk, Apollo, and James.

"How much time?" James asks as he flies around inmates, blasting them over.

"Just under 10 minutes!" Emily replies.

Apollo swings his axe, narrowly skimming James's head. James jumps a little, glaring at Apollo before going back to fight. He flies past the Hulk who is in the middle of a fist-fight with a mutation monster from a failed experiment. As an odd strategy, the Hulk shrinks back into Daniel. Daniel looks up at the monster with complete horror in his eyes. As the monster charges towards him, Daniel holds his breath as he dives through the monster's legs. Before the monster could react, Apollo's axe slices right through him.

"C'mon, babe," Emily says, landing right beside Daniel. "We're getting out of here."

She picks him up and James flies beside them.

"Apollo, we're out!" James yells at him.

"Marvellous!" Apollo exclaims. "What a great battle."

As Emily, Daniel, and James's star flying off the island, Apollo bids all the inmates a final farewell before swinging his axe and joining the others off the island for good.


[If I was fighting on the island, I'd probably do what Apollo did and say goodbye as well].