Nicholas Joseph Fury (furious_nick) wrote in oh_marvelous, @ 2009-09-11 17:54:00 |
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Once upon your, once upon your, once upon your, dead body...
Characters: Fury, Magnus, Wanda, Pietro, Iron Man, Cap
Setting: The Helicarrier
Content: Epic Battles
Summary: Magnus arrives at the helicarrier for an attempt to retrieve his wayward children.
“…And that’s the report, sir,” The soldier standing before Nick finished speaking and Nick nodded distractedly. It was after six and he was more than ready to go home for the night. It had been rather a long day filled with irritation and conferences and whining underlings. He saluted the soldier in a gesture of dismissal and then turned to make his way from the helicarrier’s main console command room. The automatic door was halfway through sliding open when the power went out. Fury was surprised but he waited for the backup generators to click in before turning with a resigned expression back to the room. Dim red lights flooded the space, creating an eeirie atmosphere. The room was full of the buzz of confused and then, as more moments passed, panicked voices.
“What is it?” Fury barked, his voice loud and steady over the noise.
“S-Sir, the engines have died completely,” someone answered and the room grew still.
Fury blinked and was silent for several long seconds before asking the obvious question that was on everyone’s mind. “Then how are we still in the air?”
“I don’t know sir!” the soldier replied, “We’re suspended in midair by some force, though the carrier seems to be shifting ever so slightly towards the-“ the man was interrupted by the raucous clamor of every metallic object in the room hitting and sticking to the room’s easternmost wall. Several people had to duck to get out of the way of hurtling objects and Fury felt his dog tags and pistol ripped forcibly away from him.The ship itself gave a deafening groan.
“East,” the soldier finished weakly. There was only one explanation for this, and Fury realized it immediately; Magneto.
Nick remembered with sudden clarity a moment a conversation from over a year before in his office, a conversation with Xavier and a beautiful young woman he’d only seen in file photos that marked her as a mutant terrorist. Wanda Lehnsherr, the Scarlet Witch, sitting and watching him with uncertainty written in her face but a smirk placed perpetually at the corner of her crimson lips. She’d tried to seem self-assured but her eyes had looked remarkably sad. He had a file on her, and Xavier gave him the intelligence to complete it.
The mutant pair had come to ask if Fury might offer Wanda a job and though he had been hesitant, and rightly so, he had eventually given in. During the whole of their meeting Xavier had psychically fed him information about Wanda and by the end he felt genuinely sympathetic towards and strangely responsible for her. It was as though Xavier was removing a child from his own protection and placing her in Nick’s care. As Xavier and Wanda were preparing to go at the end of the meeting Fury stopped her at the door, staring down at those sad blue eyes.
“I promise you, Miss Lehnsherr, I will do everything in my power to protect you. Your father won’t hurt you again.” Those were the words he had spoken quietly and fiercely and the young woman had looked shocked and then unimaginably grateful.
He’d broken that promise once already. He had been gnawed with guilt ever since she’d been taken from that party where he’d cast her off to get her out of the way for awhile. Then again when her father had brought her to headquarters, again Nick had failed her. He’d had dreams of that appreciative gaze she’d given him that had said more than any words of thanks. He was not going to allow his promise to be shattered a third time. He would rescue that poor girl and her brother from that monster they called their father. With newfound alacrity Nick bolted from the command room and pelted through through the helicarrier’s halls, intent on getting to the twins’ quarters.
Nick paused only long enough to pull out his phone and dial the number that would put him through the the alert system and send out the same message to Cap and Stark. “Helicarrier compromised, Magneto aboard, we are in red alert.”