Chapter 131 Task Force X

Inside a prison a few guards were transporting one of Earth's most dangerous and lethal serial killers. Cletus Kasady. (Carnage's original host)

Cletus was unable to get out during Ashly's little universal wide prison escape since he was contained in one of the most secure cells for monsters like him.

Right now he was being escorted to the chair after his appeals were finally up.

With them was a priest.

"Theres still time, Mr. Kasady. Are you sure you don't want me to pray for you?" The priest asked.

"I'm sure. But if it comforts you by all means be my guest." Cletus said.

Opening the door to the chair they saw a well built man in the chair.

"Oh look at that. Someone has already taken my spot. Guess I'll just wait my turn." Cletus said trying to walk away but the guard stopped him.

"Who are you? What is this?" The Warden asked before the man pulled out an envelope and handed it to him before the warden read it. "Release the prisoner." The Warden said.

"What! Are you out of your mind!" The guard yelled.

"Release him!" The Warden said making him growl before doing so before the Warden and Guards left with the Priest.

"What if I don't want to go with you?" Cletus asked before he got in his face.

"Then you can take your seat in the chair smart guy."

Cletus frowned at this before they left.

Soon they were on the road.

"So what do I call you?" Cletus asked.

"Colonel Flagg." Flagg said.

"Colonel Flagg? You're joking, right?" Cletus asked before looking at the care door handle about to grab it.

"Before you do something stupid. Tell me how was your last meal?" Flagg asked.

"Not bad. Been a long time since I had lobster." Cletus said grinning.

"It was laced with Explosive nanites." Flagg said making his eyes widen. "Any escape attempt and, well, you're gonna look kinda funny trying to run away with no head." Flagg said grinning.

"Thats a lot of trouble to go through to just keep me around. What do you want?" Cletus asked.

"You're gonna do something patriotic, convict." Flagg said.

"So you need me to kill is that right?" Cletus asked.

"No. That won't be necessary if the plan works. But if it doesn't, I need someone who can adapt and overcome in a tight situation." Flagg said.

"An expert with nothing to lose. This must be some nasty business." Cletus said.

"A little B and E, A little grand larceny, no big deal." Flagg said.

"Whatever. What's the target?" Cletus asked before a file was handed to him of...

"Legions second primary base of operations. The Watch Tower." Flagg said.

"Always did want to die for my country." Cletus said grinning. (Yeah right)

Later

Cletus and Flagg soon arrived at an abandoned Lex Corp building by the docks.

"You know, this might not be the best place to talk. Our friends in the sky have very good ears and eyes. Thats how I got caught 3 years ago a week before those winged men attacked." Cletus said.

"Not a problem, convict. The previous tenant had to leave in a hurry but he was pretty good about security." Flagg said. "Cletus, Meet task force X." Flagg said showing three other people. "George Harness, AKA Captain Boomerang. Temple Fugate, The Clock King. And Bette Sans Sushi, Current Alias Plastique." Flagg said.(All Unlimited version)

"I know. I've seen the pictures." Cletus said eying her.

"And thats all your gonna see killer. Your not my type." Plastique said making him smirk.

"Enough of this now. Lets get stuck into the business at hand." Harness said.

"Agreed. Time is of the essence." Fugate said.

Soon everyone was going over the plan.

"It's a blooming fortress crawling with Superheroes and highly trained solders and war experienced vets." Harness said.

"Listen to me, we've got one advantage. This tower is three times as large as the original. And theres so much staff on it no one's going to notice us. Unless one of you does something stupid." Flagg said. "Once' we're aboard, Plastique and Cletus will make their way down to the watchtower reactor where plastique will create a diversion." Flagg said.

"Is it Nuclear or Energon Reactor?" Plastique asked.

"Nuclear. Harness and I will make our way to the package which is kept on a storage level midway up." Flagg said.

"And just how the hell are we supposed to get past all that security?" Harness asked.

"Simple really. Like any security they have a weak time zone. Your target time is their weakest." Fugate said showing the more concerning members they may encounter. "Just three major obstacles. Captain Atom. His abilities include flight, super strength, and absorption of Radioactivity. Next would be Captain Cold, former thief turned hero like many others. His main weapon is an absolute freeze gun. He's intelligent, Calculating and has an eye for anything out of the ordinary so best to avoid him. Next is M'gann M'orzz the niece of the Martian Manhunter. Same abilities." Fugate said.

"Those are the only obstacles? What about Kruger?" Harness asked.

"Thats the unknown part of the plan. His visits are random." Flagg said.

Everyone was going over the plan to make sure they had all the basics down.

"Okay, Plastique, you're setting the charge and Kruger walks in the room." Flagg said making her widen her eyes.

"You said he wouldn't be there." Plastique said.

"No I said he's the unknown part. He's got the drop on you. What do you do?" Flagg asked.

"Before or after I start flirting with him?" Plastique asked making the guys snort.

"Yes, very amusing. You have three-tenths of a second to respond. What do you do?" Fugate asked.

"I grab a hostage and threaten to blow him to bits of the big guy doesn't back off. Hows that?" Plastique asked.

"No unnecessary killing." Flagg said.

"What?" Harness asked annoyed.

"You kill someone, they find the body, sound the alarm and we're trapped." Flagg said.

"Or you take the time to hide the body. Time we don't have to waste." Fugate said.

"Speaking of the time." Cletus said tired.

"Plenty of time to sleep in the grave. Which is where we can all end up if one of us misses his mark." Flagg said.

Later

A group of three people out in a cornfield were waiting for a fourth member. These were workers for the Watchtower ready to be teleported. Suddenly the Fourth member arrived.

"Took you long enough."

"Had to drop the kids at..." Only to get shot with a dart in the neck along with all the others. Flagg and his group then came out. All of them were dressed in the same uniform before they stole their name tags while Cletus emptied a lunch box and put some supplies in it.

"Five seconds. Prepare for transport." Fugate said.

"Copy that. You heard the man. We're on the clock." Flagg said putting some glasses on before they vanished.

They appeared on the watchtower and Plastique looked in awe of the view.

"Yeah, yeah its awe inspiring but I got a schedule to keep." One of the workers said before they approached him to sign in. Flagg took off his glasses revealing them to be a jamming device before selection the scanner making it turn off. "Oh for crying out loud! Second time this week this piece of crap has gone out." The man said about to call it in.

"Look we gotta get moving. We're running late." Flagg said.

"Tough break pal. You know the rules."

"Sure just so long as you don't mind explaining it to Garrett." Flagg said making him pale. Even before he went insane Garrett did not like it when people were held up for dumb reasons.

Soon the group went forward without raising an alarm.

"I almost thought that guy was gonna piss himself when he mentioned Garrett." Cletus said.

"That was nothing. I almost lost it when this bonehead set off the metal detector." Plastique said about Harness.

"75 cents is 75 cents. I'm supposed to throw away money?" Harness asked.

"Shut your mouths and get your mind on the job." Flagg said as they went into a utility room to gear up. Cletus pulled out the lunch box from before and assembled a guy while Plastique ripped off fake skin on her stomach revealing explosive devices and Harness pulled out his weapons of choice.

"Wheres your weapon?" Cletus asked Flagg.

"This one don't need no weapon." Harness said.

Soon the group split up. Cletus and Plastique went to the elevator to go to the reactor. Walking in they tried to close the door when Snart stopped it.

"Going down?" Snart asked getting in.

"Sure." Cletus said.

Both of them looked very nervous till Cletus grinned.

"By the way. For six weeks now my wife has been begging me to get Golden Glider to sign an autograph. You wouldn't know where she is today?" Cletus asked making Plastique look at him like he was insane which technically he was.

"Sorry but she's not in today better luck next time." Snart said as the doors opened and he walked out. Once he did Plastique punched him in the arm.

"Ow! What!" Cletus asked confused.

"Are you out of your mind! I know your insane but come on!" Plastique said making him roll his eyes.

"Your welcome." Cletus said making her growl before she noticed some device on his neck.

"The hell is that?" Plastique asked.

"Huh? Oh something Flagg put on me. Probably a bomb or something to make sure I don't misbehave." Cletus said making her frown.

'Thats no bomb. What is that?' Plastique asked in her mind.

Meanwhile

Flagg and Harness were hacking into the storage area when they felt heavy footsteps and hid when Atom Smasher walked by before he left.

"Atom Smasher? Whats he doing here? Fugate never said anything about him." Harness said annoyed.

"Must have switched duty with someone else." Flagg said before the doors opened up. "This is X-1. We've reached Checkpoint A." Flagg said.

"Your 34 seconds behind schedule." Fugate said.

"Now that we're inside, we'll try to pick up the pace." Flagg said as they went inside but came face to face with a second door. "Theres no second door on the blueprints." Flagg said.

"Most likely to fool anyone who's acquired the Blue Prints. Kruger thinks things like this in advance." Fugate said.

In the reactor room Plastique was setting the charges to blow the reactor.

"Move it sweetheart." Cletus said.

"Thirty six seconds." Plastique said.

Cletus grinned but didn't see one of the workers coming around the corner till it was to late.

"What are you doing!"

Cletus quickly put him into a headlock before he twisting his head around way past killing him till the skin broke and tore his head right off.

"Beautiful." Cletus said satisfied. (Ugh! I don't know much about this guy but I defiantly think he would do this for his disgusting pleasure)

"Gross." Plastique said.

"We need that back up plan, X-4." Flagg said.

"32 seconds until Plastique's detonation." Fugate said.

"Roger that. Synchronizing." Flagg said.

"X-3, you have 28 seconds. Do not be late." Fugate said.

"Got it." Plastique said as she and Cletus rushed off.

"And...NOW!" Flagg yelled getting Harness to throw his explosive boomerang and blew up at the same time as the reactor.

"Good lets move." Flagg said as they rushed in to find their objective.

"Crikey!" Harness said surprised.

"Boomer, Meet the package. The Annihilator." Flagg said looking at the weapon Shinock had fooled Hephaestus into making posing as Ares.

At the bridge M'gann was giving orders to everyone she could.

"Captain Atom." M'gann said on comms.

"I'm on my way now. I should be able to keep the leak from spreading." Captain Atom said.

"Snart?" M'gann said.

"I'm making sure everyone gets off through the portals down in the hanger. Atom make sure you investigate the reactor since I doubt this is an accident." Snart said.

"Will do." Captain Atom said.

Back in the storage room

"Hephaestus mighty vessel, chosen weapon of Ares arise and destroy at my command." Flagg said reading a note but nothing happened.

"It's not working. Now we're in for it." Harness said facing him and widened his eyes when Flagg punched him back hard before he stood up and pulled out his weapon. "Whats your problem, then, Mate? Want to go a couple of rounds?" Harness asked ready for a fight when the face of the annihilator glowed and stepped forward. "Right triggered by rage. Right. I forgot. Now what?" Harness asked.

"We wait for the others." Flagg said making him grumble.

Cletus and Plastique were rushing up the stairs when the door started closing on them.

"No!" Plastique said trying to keep it from closing. "NOOO!" Plastique yelled before a hand grabbed it and pulled it up revealing Captain Atom.

"It's okay, you two." Captain Atom said as they rushed past him. "Just heading up Quick as you can." Captain Atom said before flying down letting the door close.

"That was the idea." Cletus said.

"You are two minutes past zero. You used up your pad. There is no longer any margin for error." Fugate said just as Plastique and Cletus came in.

"Okay lets go." Flagg said.

Sean suddenly appeared on the watch tower in the bridge.

"The fuck happened here?" Sean asked.

"We don't know. Something went wrong in the reactor room." M'gann said before they heard what sounded like fighting outside before Atom Smasher was thrown in through the wall by the annihilator.

"Hmm?" Sean said before Flagg and his team walked in.

"Sean." Flagg said.

"Rick? The fuck are..." Sean tried to say till he saw the Annihilator. "Oh no. You guys are not taking that thing out of here." Sean said as his armor appeared.

"Too bad Kruger." Cletus said shooting him but they just bounced off before Sean dashed at him and cut off his arms making him scream in pain.

"You are hardly worth the effort." Sean said charging at Harkness knocking him down before throwing Flagg into a wall and kicked Plastique down.

"End of the line." Sean said.

"Sorry Sean...But I've got one last trick up my sleeve." Flagg said pulling out a detonator before pressing it and the device on Cletus's neck went off before a small glass container with red moving ooze broke apart before being absorbed into Cletus's skin making him scream before his arms started to grow back.

"What did you do!" Sean yelled.

"Lets just say you got a choice. Focus on us or finally finish off the real threat." Flagg said picking Harkness up but left Plastique behind who got up with a groan before Cletus's body was engulfed in a familiar red ooze.

Venom suddenly took over.

"I should have known." Venom said before the Ooze took on the form of the Symbiote Carnage.

"I'M BACK!" Carnage yelled laughing like crazy into the air. (Since Cletus was the original Host for Carnage it only made sense to use both of them)

"What the?" Plastique yelled in shock.

"How the fuck is he still alive? Natsu burned his ass!" Sean yelled.

"As long as theres even the smallest part of us left we can survive. Clearly Cadmus must have found what was left and given it to this freak." Venom said.

"Ah. I had almost forgot what it feels like to move again. To feel this kind of power. This hunger." Carnage said grabbing Plastique.

"NO! NOOO! NOOOOO!" Plastique yelled as he was about to bite her head off. Venom however dashed at him and fought outside the room.

"Oh boy." M'gann said knowing exactly how this was going to end. However she saw Flagg and Harkness along with the Annihilator get on the telaporter and vanished. Quickly she rushed in to see their inputed coordinates but everything fried. "They thought of everything."

Venom and Carnage continued to fight in the hallways before Venom took out his chain and wrapped it around him till he started slamming him into the walls but made sure to avoid the glass.

Crashing into the Medical room Carnage got out of the chain and roared at him.

"You won't be able to defeat me this time Venom. Why you side with these humans when you should be helping our kind feast on them is beyond me. Riot was right about you. You are weak." Carnage said making him snort.

"At least he's not some ugly Parasite." Sean said.

"PARASITE!" Carnage roared enraged by that remark.

However suddenly another chain wrapped around him before he saw the Rainbow Rider wide awake glaring at him.

"This thing is really ugly." The Rainbow rider said before his chain was engulfed in a rainbow of flames and Carnage roared in agonizing pain.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Carnage yelled as he was turned to stone before a hard tug broke him into pieces while Cletus with his arms remained and looked around before the Rainbow Rider shoved his fist into his chest grabbing his heart before crushing it.

"I like this kid. He's tough." Venom said making Sean chuckle as he took control.

Later

What was left of Task Force X was back at the building before Amanda and Faust walked in.

"You think you can make some use out of this?" Amanda asked.

"An unstoppable armor forged by gods. Oh yes certainly." Faust said.

"I understand we lost Plastique and Cletus." Amanda said to Flagg.

"Yes m'am. You'll have my full report in the morning." Flagg said walking away.

"Rick." Amanda said making him stop. "I know this wasn't easy going up against a friend who helped you out. Still I think your father would be proud." Amanda said.

"M'am." Flagg said leaving.

Meanwhile

"So who the hell is this kid?" Garrett asked Sean who stood outside the medical wing.

"His name is Adrian Marksmen. His father was a billionaire who both supported and obeyed Legion law. And Apparently had connections to Freddy being a personal Banker for him. When Ashly found out about it she had his parents killed. The Trauma of the whole thing awakened that power of his without all the Riders dead." Sean said.

"All right. What do we do with him?" Garrett asked.

"Under normal circumstances he would have to wait three years before joining the Legion...BUT we do make very rare exceptions. He'll be placed under a special case so no one gets the wrong idea. Now have you found our mole?" Sean asked making him frown.

"Oh yeah. Dumbass sang like a bird. They offered him money. I'd like any of our Mind bending friends to go in his head and erase everything he knows since joining the Legion." Garrett said.

"A little harsh don't you think? He probably spilled everything he knows." Sean said.

"Yeah well we can't trust his dumbass anymore." Garrett said.

"Garrett, we can't trust anyone anymore." Sean said.

"Maybe not. I'll triple security around here. Make them think twice before screwing with us." Garrett said.

"Fine." Sean said.

Authors Note: Oh boy. Now CADMUS has the armor...HOWEVER I have something very special planed next chapter. Something so special that everyone will reread the chapter for weeks. Now onto questions for my Most Loyal Guest Reviewer. Yes Roulette can take all the money away from Moneybags since she's in charge of the finances and Sean gave her that building. Also I meant Langstrom not Langston. You know Man bat? Bloody Autocorrect caused that. Again next Chapter will make everyone happy with what I have in store for everyone. Now Read, Review, Fav and Follow. REVIEW MY LOYAL FANS! See ya.