Sue studied her captured target as he began to blink rapidly and began to slowly nod. She was guessing the prospect of throwing up and having go right back down his throat was not exactly his idea of a fun time. Without hesitation Sue retracted the tube from his stomach and with it his would-be suicide pill. Sue then encased him in an invisible cocoon on the wall and said, "
Okay, I am being nice to you so it's time to return the favor. Start talking or I promise you…" She then levitated the cocoon and put it on another wall with a bit of force behind it and said,
"I will bounce you off these walls so many times I promise you when I'm done you will have traumatic flashbacks every time you see a ball bounce."
The target took a deep breath and said, "All right…" he closed his eyes and Sue said, "Losing my patience." The target said, "I work for…" and then his eyes grew bigger and he began to convulse and shake all over. Sue said,
"Oh no, no, no, no!" She set the target on the ground and he began to shake and seize so hard that she heard his back brake within ten seconds of being on the ground. Then as quickly as it began it was all over. The target had white foam coming out of his mouth and just stared at the sky. Sue knew that he was dead but she checked anyway. Sue knelt next to him and she was right her target was dead. Sue shook her head in frustration and said,
"I should've known that it wouldn't be that easy." Sue crawled over to the body and saw bruising and marks behind the ears. Which indicated something having to do with brain trauma. She leaned against the wall and realized that whoever was behind this obviously had planted something in the brains of each of their people to keep them from revealing anything. It was done without the people even knowing it, because if they had known he would've put up a much bigger fight to keep from talking.
Sue looked up and said, "
On the whole I think I was better off playing poker in blissful ignorance."
Just then she saw someone in basically wearing an American flag costume arrive with several others. Sue studied the person in question for a moment and then said, "It can't be him. His being alive is an urban myth or folk legend. Is it possible? Only one way to find out." Sue stood up and brushed herself off and made her way to the gathering, but decided it best to not stand out for the time being and turned invisible.
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As Steve got off the Harley SHIELD agents and NYPD were all over the scene. He heard, "Captain Rogers, this is Agent Melos. I'm on scene at the docks. Sir, I was told to communicate what we suspect we've found. We think X-23 was here, sir. We think she killed most of these people. Director Fury wanted you to know right away. Melos, out."
Steve tapped the side of his cowl and said,
"Roger that Melos." He looked at Logan and said, "I just got word X-23 might've been here. I think you should handle that one."
Taking it all in tragically Steve had seen scenes like this time and again. Whether it was on battlefield in Germany or the Icarus Building this evening carnage and loss of life was something he never could accept, and Steve knew, as a soldier, that in war that there would always be death. Steve believed though that if humanity devoted a tenth of the effort they devoted to destroying a body in war into pursuing peace then humanity might have a chance in taking a step forward to a better world.
This all became very real as he saw Wanda looking around. He walked over to her and said,
"No matter how many times I see this I too have troubles seeing death like this." Steve looked at Wanda and said, "
This is only the beginning. If you don't feel that you can deal with this I will make arrangements for you to go back to the school tonight." He shook his head and said,
"I won't think less of you for it Wanda, but this is what we are fighting to prevent on a global scale and I can assure that it's going to get more dangerous, and that means deadlier." As he started to walk away he said,
"The choice is yours."
Steve said to Quicksilver,
"Scout the area see what you can find. You run into trouble radio us asap."
When Grant asked him his question Steve replied,
"It looks like the fighting is over. However, I still need for you to do something for me." Steve looked at the nearby buildings and said, "
You're a sharpshooter Grant, but yourself in that mindset right now and start policing the surrounding buildings. You find anything radio it in. We're dealing with soldiers I'm counting in them not being very neat about cleaning up their evidence."
Jessica Jones landing next to him was a surprise, but a pleasant one. She was a private investigator and someone that he had his eye on when he was perusing the SHEILD database on the plane. Steve knew he would need someone who could be counted on to provide a set of eyes that were trained to spot anything out of the ordinary. Word on the street was she was an excellent PI and Steve could use her in this case. He looked at her and said,
"Rogers, what I need for you to do is to see if you can find me anything that we can use for analysis. I'll give you the recruitment talk and all that later."
Just then he noticed an NYPD detective sitting in his bullet riddled car. Steve realized that this guy had been here from the start. Steve walked over and said, "
I know this won't be a simple question to answer, and I know right now you're beat, but I need your help. I need to know what happened." Steve couldn't swear to it, but he could almost feel another person there.
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