Chapter 147: Dropping Major Hints
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After closing the deal with Mystique, Peter was finally given the coordinates, which he swiftly put into his ghost phones GPS.
"Hmm, the map shows nothing but empty desert, but I'm sure that's Shield doing." Peter comments as he studies the terrain through his phone.
"Their secret base wouldn't be very secret if anyone can just pull it up on google maps..." Raven comments with a roll of her eyes.
"True..." Peter said absentmindedly as he looked over what little the GPS showed. 'I wouldn't put it passed Fury to change the terrain on the GPS as well, so this is likely a waste of time.'
Stuffing his phone away, Peter looked toward Mystique with an undecided expression under his mask.
'Should I do the rest myself?' Peter wondered.
On one hand, Raven's powers would be useful, as she can easily impersonate a Shield Agent.
Though, on the other hand, that plan was scrapped the second Shield was alerted to Mystiques snooping. Now the plan is to basically storm the base and take the Tesseract.
"So, how are we stealing the cube?" She asks, ready to fulfill her end of the bargain.
"Hmm, you can head back home." Peter says after a second of thought. "I'll take it from here."
"Huh? What about our deal?" Raven asks worriedly, thinking Peter was backing out of their agreement.
"You did enough already, so don't worry." Peter says with a shrug. "It's just that the new plan is a bit more forceful, which isn't really your strong suit."
"I see..." Mystique sighed in relief.
She was more than happy to ditch the dangerous base raiding and still get her agreed-upon payment after all.
"Are you sure?" Walking to her car door, Mystique turns back to ask. "You could cause a distraction and I can slip in and out?"
Mystique didn't know why she was asking this, as it would give her more work, but for some reason, she felt obligated to earn her payment.
"...Nah." Peter says with a shake of his head. "You may get caught on camera or something. It'll be easier if I just do it. Thanks though."
"Alright..." Mystique shrugs and gets into the car. As she drives away, her body morphed into a random woman.
'Now, who should I impersonate for this heist?' Peter thought as a lightbulb goes off in his head. 'Hm, that's a good of idea...'
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Ronan the accuser stood in the observation deck of his flagship, all of space spread out before him as he stared off into the distance.
"Are you sure your father said planet C-53?" Ronan looks over his shoulder and asks specifically.
"Yes, why do you keep asking that?" A gruff female voice answers.
Standing across the room, a beautiful bald blue-skinned woman crossed her arms in utter annoyance. She wore a tight black and purple combat suit with many weapons strapped to her. From the tiniest of knives to the large blaster rifle across her back.
[Insert picture of Nebula here]
Nebula's many cybernetic enhancements were hard to miss, and so was her prickly personality, which Ronan has had to deal with ever since their armies departed.
As the bullets flew by, men and women in lab coats huddled in the corner like frightened rats. They were just getting ready to clock out and head home before this happened.
Standing still this time, each bullet hit the giant monster but sadly they couldn't break through his skin. As the bullets impacted Thanos and dropped to the floor with light clinking noises, the soldiers ran out of ammo.
"Weak..." Thanos muttered in disgust as he marched forward and threw the guards across the room with a swipe of his hand.
Similar situations unfolded as the purple giant invaded deeper and deeper into the research building. Blocked door? Break them down, deal with those inside, and move on to the next.
Though this routine changed as he broke yet another door and the sound of something rolling across the concrete floor was heard.
Looking downward, five grenades slid along the floor and stopped perfectly around his feet.
Resisting the urge to kick them back at the soldiers ahead, Thanos did nothing as they exploded in a big fiery blast.
"Did we get him?" One man asks as he looks into the smoke with his assault rifle lowered.
"Finally changing tactics..." A voice says from the smoke as the sound of footsteps head their way. "I commend you for your effort."
Walking out of the smoke, the purple giant was completely intact. Not even his armored clothes were damaged.
"Now step aside." He towers over the humans and orders menacingly.
"...Y-Yes, sir." One of them squeaks out as the shuffle out of his way.
Behind them was a big vault door with a keypad on the wall to the side. Turning back to the frightened soldiers, Thanos gives them an offer.
"Open this door and I'll spare your lives when my army arrives to cull this planet." Thanos says, but no one steps forward to do so.
Either they didn't have the access codes or they're very loyal soldiers.
"I'll do it myself." Thanos tsk'd in disdain as he reached back and slams his monstrous fist into the metal door.
"Bang! Crunch..."
The metal door was instantly dented as his fist opened a head-sized hole. Grabbing the door by the hole, he ripped it backward and tore the whole thing off of the wall.
Inside, a few scientists were working around a glowing blue cube, which was wired up to countless machines.
[Insert picture of Tesseract here]
"W-Who are you?" Erik Selvig, a scientist that Shield found during the whole Thor debacle asked in shock.
"I'm inevitable!" He replies but goes quiet and marches toward the cube at the center of the room. 'Maybe I laid that one on a bit too thick...'
Plucking the cube from the metal table with his giant hand, Thanos admired it for a moment before turning to the people and cameras inside the room.
'Two down, four more to go...' Peter thought as he spoke in his Thanos voice. "I'll be back."
Leaving those words behind, he kicked off the floor and crashed into the ceiling, breaking through and disappearing.
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Only seconds after he left, a heavily armed team of soldiers breached the room, followed by a very angry looking Nick Fury.
"The f*ck just happened!?"
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