Chapter 123 - 120 - Choices.

Unknown Warehouse, New York

"Why are we here?" Jessica asked as she stepped out of the black car, with Natasha following.

"You will see," Adrian responded nonchalantly and started walking.

Jessica didn't really care about why Adrian had taken them here, but she'd be lying if she wasn't curious.

After Natasha had shut the door, she began observing the building, trying to find out what secrets Adrian had hidden here. 'A warehouse? Why has Adrian taken us here?' she wondered.

Looking at the warehouse, Natasha reminisced upon the mission three days ago.

Natasha did not know what Adrian was planning. Although Adrian has a tracker in his body that was placed by Leona, Natasha avoided watching Adrian's location as much as she could. After all, she knew that abusive surveillance could be something annoying for Adrian in the future.

Although Adrian didn't mind being tracked, he knows it's for security, and it was only his lovely girlfriends that could track him.

Walking over to the warehouse with the girls, Adrian saw the man he had been looking for.

"Nick."

A bald man with an eye patch was waiting at the warehouse door.

"Adrian, I am a busy man," Nick complained.

Despite being controlled by Adrian, Nick Fury still retained his personality.

Adrian ignored his words completely. "Did you do what I asked?"

Adrian knew that Kilgrave's controlling power was not perfect, as well as the fact that Nick Fury's original personality jus remains inactive inside of his body.

If Adrian wanted to manipulate Nick Fury completely, he will need the mutant powers.

"Yes." Nick Fury nodded and walked to the warehouse entrance. "I wonder what you are planning."

"So your curiosity is still intact, huh?" Adrian joked.

Nick Fury said nothing, he just opened the warehouse and went inside.

Jessica and Natasha looked at each other for a moment, as Jessica tried to communicate, 'What is happening?' with her eyes.

After being one of the best-trained field operatives for SHIELD, Natasha had a hunch of what Adrian was planning to do.

At first, she had no idea what Adrian was doing, but when she looked at the warehouse, she remembered the girls they saved three days ago.

...

Before Adrian went into a coma from power overdose, he asked Nick Fury to do something for him. He asked for him to gather all the girls affected by Kilgrave and transferred to this warehouse.

Adrian knew he didn't have to feel responsible for them but believes he's doing this to prove he still has some humanity left within him.

It could be said that what Adrian is doing was just another whim.

In a poorly lit warehouse, over a hundred children and women remained, looking much better than the first time Natasha and Adrian had rescued them.

They are dressed and looking healthier, but the one thing that hadn't changed yet is their dull and unresponsive eyes.

"What are you going to do with them?" Natasha asked curiously.

"I will heal them."

"Don't tell me..." Having experienced this once, Jessica was a bit concerned.

Jessica knew that what Adrian did to heal her was nothing more than transferring her wounds to himself. Adrian uses his symbiote to heal the victim and takes all the wounds that the victims suffered for his own body.

Jessica knows that Adrian has an insane healing factor, but doing the same thing with this many people is just crazy.

"Adrian, this is too risky," Natasha said seriously.

"Don't worry, I am not the same as before. Healing some girls should not harm my body." Adrian responded and walked over to the girls.

'Some girls?' Natasha thought ridiculous, looking around at the more than 100 people gathered.

"Do any of you remember me?" Adrian asked.

The group of females looked at the person speaking but soon went back to their unresponsive sitting.

"Tsk." Seeing this attitude, Adrian grew angry. Not with the girls' attitude, he was angry with Kilgrave for managing to do this to them.

They were nearly mentally dead

Slowly, the symbiotes extended themselves from Adrian's body, seemingly turning a darker shade of black and their thickness managing to look more solid, while still in their liquid form.

Adrian covered himself with the symbiote and soon he was standing in front of the girls wearing his old costume.

"And now? Do you remember me? "

Some girls were shocked or scared by Adrian's appearance, while some just looked at him curiously.

Some girls also nodded their heads confirming that they remembered him.

"Good."

Adrian managed a smile through his mask. 'They can still gather some will power left, that's a good thing.'

As he was thinking, tentacles start to come out of Adrian's back and start to move as if they had a life of their own, while bone claw-like protrusions extended from his phalanges (fingers and toes).

Adrian was changing back to his Hybrid Form.

Looking at his bone appendages, Adrian commented, "Hmm, it looks like this is going to be my standard shape."

Adrian looked back at the girls, but this time, he took off his mask and said, "I have two proposals for you."

Adrian raised a finger that contained the sharpest bone. "The first option, I will heal you and make you forget all that you have suffered."

Some girls react to what Adrian said, but most just kept quiet.

"The second option, I will heal you and make you stronger. Of course, you will have to work for me in the future, but I promise to protect you until the end of your life and ensure that you have a great life… The salary is very good too. "

!!!!

This time quite a few more girls react to what Adrian said.

"What is Adrian planning? I thought he was just going to heal them." Jessica wondered aloud.

"He must be doing it unconsciously, but he is giving these girls choices to make them want to live. After all, these girls were just used and never had control over their own destiny." Nick Fury commented.

"He is giving them two very simple options. Live happily and forget everything that happened, or get stronger and get even," Natasha said.

"..." Nick Fury and Jessica looked at Natasha, speechless.

"What?"

Jessica and Nick Fury just shook their heads and sighed.

Adrian ignored the group's comments and continued waiting for the girls to respond.

A blond-haired woman approached Adrian. "... Will you really make me stronger?" She spoke a little awkwardly, but Adrian understood what she meant.

"Yes," Adrian replied, sounding completely assured he can do it.

That answer shook the blond-haired woman a little.

"... Will you protect me?" She asked in an empty voice, but it contained a great sadness behind it.

"Yes."

"..."

The woman looked at Adrian's neon blue eyes, searching for any signs of falsehood.

"I'll go with you."

Adrian smiled. "Very well."

Adrian touched the blond-haired woman's shoulder.

The new black slime began to cover the woman's body, restoring and changing it, strengthening all her bodily functions.

"Now you are under my protection."

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Edited by: Slammeron

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