Marvel: I'm a Symbiote-Symbiote 0254: Hostile Takeover

“Yelena,” Natasha said, “I want you to take command of the Widows when we land and represent us. I have some things to take care of back home, so I’m not going to stay here long term.”

“So you’re abandoning me in this wasteland?” The blonde asked, looking at Natasha with a betrayed expression. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

“You can ask Apex to connect us whenever you want to contact me. If you need any help or even just want to talk, you can ask him, okay?”

“Fine,” Yelena nodded reluctantly. “The Widows are already assembled, will you be the one to give them a commencement speech, or should I do it?”

“I’ll do it while also briefing them about the new leadership situation,” Natasha said. “You can disembark and talk with whomever this base’s leader is. It’s a high chance that you will find an arrogant egotistical prick with more power than he knows what to do with, so you just need to keep him engaged until the widows spread through the entire base and take control over the strategic locations. And if he is a little smart and understands his situation, we can move more diplomatically.”

The flying fortress lowered itself to fly right above the ground beside the settlement, its thrusters raising their own dust cloud that formed a tornado in the sandstorm.

The hanger hatch opened as Yelena heard Apex’s voice in her head, [You can pass through the shield, it won’t be an issue.]

“You sure I won’t get fried or anything?” She asked as the visor formed over her head, covering completely from head to toe while still allowing her hair to flow freely as the red streaks over her outfit accentuated her figure.

[The shield only stops things that are outside from coming in. Not the other way around. You don’t need to worry. As for coming back, There’s no need to come back. You can stay in the wasteland from now on.]

“Apex …” Yelena ground her teeth.

[I’m just fucking with you. I can calibrate the shield to allow you in whenever you want to. Don’t worry so much. I have everything thought out.]

“Fine,” Yelena said before taking a deep breath as she charged right out of the hanger bay and jumped from a few miles in the air. She somersaulted in the air as her speed of descent continued to increase. Uncaringly, she continued diving through the air, maneuvering herself such that she landed right in the center of the small settlement that was barely the size of a small village.

Her landing destroyed the ground and threw some debris all around her. Still, she didn’t forget to make a cool pose while landing, “How do I look?” She asked Apex.

[I want to come up from behind you and fuck that superhero hard-on right out of you.]

Yelena didn’t react. She didn’t even know how she was supposed to react to Alex’s words. In the end, she just cleared her throat and jumped out of the crater that she had landed in, “Hey guys,” She waved at the four people dressed in complicated-looking hazmat suits that also seemed to serve as armor, “Take me to your leader.”

They shared a look, “Hands above your head,” A man stepped forward, his gun pointed at Yelena.

“Look up there,” Yelena said dryly, pointing at the floating fortress. “Do you want to antagonize what could be very real and genuine help for you and your community? And do you really think that you can take a flying fortress on? Take me to your leader, I have a deal for him.” She dismissed their threat completely and stood with her arms crossed.

The four guards shared a look and nodded amongst themselves. “Fine. Follow me,” The first man spoke as he approached her.

Yelena raised a brow as he gestured, “This way,” He pointed to the direction behind her.

“Got it,” She walked with the guard who seemed to be the leader while the other three walked behind them, their guns still pointed at her.

“Please wait here while I call the mayor,” The guard spoke as Yelena nodded waiting with her arms crossed. She didn’t show any outward change as Natasha’s voice reached her ear, telling he that the widows had already started infiltrating the settlement. After her showy and exposed landing, the sentries would expect to see similar things, but the Widows all jumped down in a camouflaged state as Alex made sure to slow down their descent as much as necessary, allowing them to land on the ground without being detected at all.

Almost ten minutes passed in waiting before Yelena heard a voice, “You may come in now,” The same man spoke as she entered the building through the door. “Please disinfect yourself,” The man spoke to her through a glass wall as he pointed at a chamber. He had already removed his Hazmat suit and was in some kind of bodysuit now.

“Fine, whatever,” She said. “The other bastions all have much better filtering technology. Where people can roam around the walls freely …” She mumbled, giving some insight into herself to the guard as she walked into the chamber. After being doused in all sorts of cleaning solutions and mists that were absorbed back into the chamber, Yelena finally came out before pulling her helmet away, freeing her head from the mask.

“Please follow me,” The guard couldn’t help but stare at her for a few seconds as he spoke.

She didn’t say anything and started moving, leaving the lost guard behind. She knew where she needed to go after Apex gave her directions to the entire building.

As she entered the leader’s office, following the guard who had caught up to her after a few seconds. As the two entered, she heard a deep, slightly cracked voice speaking, “I was told that this one was a woman, but I never expected one as beautiful as this.”

“Of course, it’s one of those kinds of people,” Yelena said under her breath before turning to the man with graying hair who seemed to be in his late forties. “My name is Yelena. I come here representing The Sanctuary. We are hereby taking over this settlement in exchange for providing the inhabitants with the basic necessities, providing them jobs that can be exchanged for a merit system, and more. We will even protect you in case you get unlucky enough to face a hoard of Abominations. While you’ve been lucky for a while, such as keeping the people locked in during the night times so that the monsters don’t get too aggressive, it’s only a matter of time before your luck runs out.”

“Who do you think you are?” The man stood up from his seat. “I have been leading this place for months and you think you can just waltz in here and take over my hard work? Over my dead body. Instead, I will give you a counteroffer. Join me as my mistress. I’m still virile enough that I can put some obedience in your head and teach you what it’s like to live under the leadership of a man.”

“I always feel that no one would be as dumb as to threaten someone who is clearly in a superior position, but color me surprised. Maybe living in this irradiated wasteland is getting to you in your old age. You have no chance against my forces. Surrender peacefully, otherwise, I know how to take you down.”

“Even better, actually,” The man said. “You said we’re lucky that we’ve survived up until now, right? I’ll show you just how lucky we’ve been.” Just as he said that he picked up his phone and pressed a single number to speed dial someone. He didn’t even hear the other party’s greeting and spoke “Jerry, charge up my Damocles Cannon. Blow that fortress out of the sky and tell this bitch what it’s like to feel despair.”

“My apologies, Jerry is a little busy at the moment,” A female voice spoke through the phone, making the man’s hand quiver, “Please call again later.”

“You may have gotten Jerry, but I have all sorts of weapons that can obliterate you and your forces. Don’t test me and obediently surrender to me. I will allow you to manage this place by my side.”

“Not a chance, you fool,” Yelena shook her head. “As I said before. You’re an idiot. I’ll give you a few more chances to make calls. My people have already taken over all of the strategic locations in this base. I just came to meet you as a courtesy.”

The blonde woman’s confidence unnerved the leader, making him growl at her as he called another number that was on his speed dial. A widow answered, dashing his hopes. Yelena enjoyed the increasing look of despair in the man’s eyes as he continued calling more and more people, only to find that all of them had been intercepted by Widows.

“If you’re done, shall we continue?” Yelena asked as the man sat defeated in his chair.

“What is it that you want?” He asked her with a weak voice, unable to even look at her.

“Nothing much, I just plan to take over this place and establish it as a base of The Sanctuary,” Yelena said. “As for the inhabitants, they will be integrated into our system. As much as my blood boils when I say it, it’s a kind of meritocratic communist system where we will centralize everything and base the exchange of materials and services on the basis of merit. Sadly, in this wasteland, this is the only kind of system that can thrive when it comes to small-scale communities.”

Just as Yelena finished, a loud sound reverberated through the entire community as the building shook a little as if a weak earthquake had occurred.

“Don’t worry,” Yelena said. “It’s just the shielding system that we threw down on the ground. Prepare to announce your abdication to our authority in front of the three thousand or so citizens that you have. Once the shield is established and given an hour or so, the air will naturally become breathable for everyone. Call them in some kind of assembly ground.”