Continued from here part 2
Chicago, Ferrum HQ
The Supreme Commander sits in his office as two men stand before him with datapads, one a Ferrum executive the other a Lieutenant in the Iron army. The executive nervously speaks, "In the past few weeks Zemo has hit seventeen armories, five storage centers and three maintainents depots. The net loss is estimated in the billions but we should be worried about the potential security threats presented by many of the items taken. The weapons themselves have been traced, he seems to be selling them to everyone aside from us and New Latveria while we aren't entirely sure what he's doing with the more...exotic, items."
The Supreme Commander resisted the urge to murder the executive as he turned to the Lieutenant with a scowl, "Make it quick."
The Lieutenant gulped before speaking in a shaky voice, "The mutant terrorists have destroyed multiple facilities and are apparently using weapons supplied by Zemo to over power the hunter units and other soldiers we sent after them. Their leader a, " he looks back to the pad for a moment, "Bennet DuParis seems to be a telepath of considerable power and has been taking strategic intel directly from field commanders and finding all the most exploitable holes in our defenses. Another worrying report indicates that they are gaining new members in the towns they raid, not to mention the ones that live out in the wilds who seem to be flocking them."
A voice comes from the back of the room, "How strange, you're not popular with the mass of living weapons you've been slaughtering like cattle for nearly two centuries."
The Commander along with the two others look back to see Mephisto kicked back on a couch with his legs kicked up on a coffee table. He gave a smile, "I could assist you with some of these little bumps in the road for a price."
***
Doomstadt, New Latveria
Murmur stands in silence on a street corner as Arson and Shift tap their feet impatiently. She gives them a glare as she points to a fourth floor window, "Its in there."
Inside the apartment Fry is finishing off a sandwich as he's heading off to work. Just as he grabs the door knob he is caught in a blast that hurls him out the window. He lands hard on his back, shattering a chunk of sidewalk beneath him. As he pulls himself up he looks to his apartment, "What the starking hell was that?"
Back in the apartment Murmur grabs the dusty envelop, "Time to head home boys."
They casually walk to the elevator. The doors slid open to reveal an angry Agent Fry who instantly recognized Arson before punching him hard in the face as he came out of the elevator. Shift attempted to go into a gaseous state but Fry slammed down a red button on the wall and an alert blared to life as many armed Shield agents in various states of undress poured out of the apartment doors surrounding them. Shift looked to his sister, "You could have told us the place was a damned Shield nest."
Arson tried to do a flame burst but his power didn't work, "The place has a power dampener."
Shift sighs and looks down on Fry who stands half a foot shorter than him, "Move it tiny."
Fry then kicked him in the groin and hit him in the face as he went down. Arson went to tackle Fry but was caught by a large man nothing but pajama pants name Agent Ned Sterns. Agent Sterns yanked Arson up by the neck and drove his huge fist into his gut before slamming him into the floor. Murmur cursed to herself as she dug into her pack to find one of Zemo's gadgets. She pulled out three metallic spheres that she was unsure of the function of and tossed them. One shot into the air and sent out an electric pulse that knocked out several of the agents as Murmur ducked down to avoid it. The second let out a sonic shriek that sent the rest of the agents down to block their ears as the third sphere blasted a large hole in the wall leading into an apartment. Shift and Arson followed as Murmur ran toward an open window. As they crawled out the Shield agents regrouped and Fry called the head office along with New Latverian police and informed them of what happened.
***
Zemo stood in the cavernous storage facility of the former Hydra base his team now occupied and looked over the vast stockpile of weapons they'd acquired over the last few weeks. Cutthroat looked to Juggernaut, "Its like Christmas for megalomaniacs."
Lash walked behind them, "We need to beef up security here. If anyone gets a hint of some of this crap being here we'll be crawling with enemies."
Zemo nodded, "Quite right, take anything that can be used to block advanced sensor sweeps and add it to the systems. We need to acquire an engineer, Cutthroat take Callous and go hunt one down."
(To be continued)
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