29Touma Kamijou: Agent of SHIELD
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Chapter 03: Codename: Ms Marvel
Kamala Khan, Ms Marvel, she would never have guessed her end would have come by the feet of a talking dinosaur.
In all fairness to her I doubt anyone would have guessed that. She struggled to move, her flesh was sluggish and stretching out wildly.
As the dinosaur reach for her she fought as best she could, her mind flashed to her family, her parents and her brother, and of her friends including her best Friend Bruno. She loved heroes, what they stood for and she knew the sacrifice that some of them made.
But she wasn't ready to die, she had to return to them. She forced her arms to move.
"Valiant little thing," Devil Dinosaur chuckled, "But valiance will-"
There was a roar but not a natural one, but the roar of a motor just before a Humvee hit him in the side.
The door flung open as a woman in black got out of it with a rifle in hand. She held it ready to fire.
She made her way over to Ms Marvel never lowering her guard, "Are you okay?" She wasn't sure, the whole flesh seeingly melting thing did raise a few concerns.
"I'm fine," Ms Marvel grunted, "he had a weird device and it's messing with my powers."
May tapped her ear piece, "Coulson, I found Miss Marvel,"
"You stupid little monkey." Devil Dinosaur growled still in pain from having a car strike him.
May barely showed a sign of surprise, "Coulson, we have a talking dinosaur."
"Did you say Talking Dinosaur?" Coulson was shocked,
"Yeah, it's one of those days." May continued, "Its smart enough to use some sort of device that's done something to Ms Marvel's powers."
"I think I have an idea on how to fix that. I'm picking him up now."
Devil Dinosaur stirred and May cocked her gun, "Hurry."
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Illyana used her discs to teleport the raptors away, to somewhere they wouldn't cause harm. If what they shouted over their communicators then it wouldn't matter where they matter where they were sent they'd snap back to where they belonged.
She would love nothing more than to just teleport to the others were but that wasn't an option. She didn't know the location well enough to teleport blind and hope for a safe trip. And even if she could Touma's hand would negate her disk. So once assuring everyone was safe they went outside.
Soon enough their ride showed up, literally coming down from the sky.
The red sports car dropped before them.
"I got their coordinates," Coulson told them, "hop in."
Touma then pointed out something, "This car is a two seater."
"Lola is a two-seater." Coulson corrected him, "The others need our help and no normal car would reach you and get you to them as quick. So hop in."
Illyana opened the door and shoved Touma in. Then she procedded to sit on his lap and close the door.
"You're-" Touma began.
"I wasn't going to let you sit on me." She told him wryly.
"Hold on." Coulson told them as the engine roared and they zoomed up into the air.
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May had seen a lot of crazy things in her Career in SHIELD she didn't expect to see a dinosaur in a waist coat. Still she kept her gun pointed at it.
She looked over her shoulder at the seemingly melting girl.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah" Ms Marvel managed to say, "This doesn't hurt, it's just really uncomfortable."
There was a loud bang and May instinctually pulled back just in time for the gun in her hands be crushed. A broken handle was all that was left in her hand and behind her was a large hole in the wall.
To her surprise she found the dinosaur holding a gun and pointing it at her.
The list of the strange was growing.
It was a rather large revolver.
"Who makes a dinosaur a gun?" Ms Marvel asked. "Why does a dinosaur have a gun?!"
"And it surprisingly good aim." May said calmly tossing the handle away.
"Hardly," Devil Dinosaur got up, "I was aiming for you. I think the sight is a little to the right, pity." The great beast hissed as it moved up.
May noted that, she had already hit one dinosaur with a car and she wasn't an expert but didn't think that was possible. Something was wrong.
Still it didn't seem like much help now, she was nowhere near strong enough to fight off a full grown dinosaur. This one wasn't a dumb animal that she could simply out smart. That intellect was her best bet, with that came ego and she could use that against it.
"Why aren't we dead?" May asked.
"Don't complain about it!" Ms Marvel shouted.
"I don't think it can." May focused on the reptile. "Why does it need a gun? Why hasn't it stomped us out?"
As almost on cue the gun lowered as his hand began to tremble. "Uh, I-" It was shaking, forcing its body to stay still. "Don't take that as mercy. I just didn't want to dirty my hands. And the gun" He looked at it trembling, "Is not useful. My mission is to Kill Ms Marvel if I get to kill the Calvary too all the better."
May's expression grew even more stern.
The dinosaur let out a small nasty chuckle, "Ah, yes, Melinda May, you are on a list of targets just like her just not as big a threat."
May held her ground between Ms Marvel and this evil Devil Dinosaur, "Isn't it surprising? That this were your life comes to an end? You standing to try and save an inhuman child." A cracking smile spread across it's lips, "Does it remind you of Bahrain? Does it remind you of Katya?"
May felt her fist go white as she clenched them.
"Do not think you can play mind games with me, Monkey." Devil Dinosaur snarled, "My brain is much-"
A flying red car slammed into the red Dinosaur.
"Mind games?" May smiled slightly, "I was distracting you, you people love to monologue."
"Was that really necessary?" Magik cringed and huffed as Touma held onto her tightly.
The air bags popped out once they hit the dinosaur and the landed roughly, it didn't help that Touma slammed into her.
Coulson pushed away the air bag, "Yes, it was." He stepped out, "Is that Devil Dinosaur? I thought he was in the past. I guess someone brought you here too."
"Never mind that." May told him, "Kamijou, over here."
Coulson pulled out his gun as Magic pulled out her sword.
"Sir!" Fitz's voice rang out over the coms, "Are readings are suggesting that whatever happened is undoing."
Light and sound swept across the city as the dinosaurs were all pulled back to their proper places in time.
The Devil Dinosaur still remained.
"And he's still here." Coulson readied his gun "I guess you're here because you're from this time. Not sure how that's possible but I'm sure you can tell us all about it once we have you locked up."
Touma reached May who told him, "Just touch her."
"Right," Touma placed his hand on her head and a crack like shattered glass filled the air.
Ms Marvel felt her body snap back into place, "What? What just happened?" Her muscles felt tense but as her a second she started out her hands again. "I'm back to normal."
Devil Dinosaur groaned as it tried to get back up, "I will not be beaten back but apes! I will-"
His speech was cut short as helicopter flew above them and several SHIELD helicopter surrounded them and pointed their large guns at the dinosaur.
"Ah-" Devil Dinosaur collapsed and spat out blood.
"I didn't think you hit him that hard." Magik pointed out.
Coulson looked over to his sports car, "I didn't, I didn't want to dent Lola."
Ms Marvel got up, "Who are you people?"
Touma scratched his head, "We're SHIELD and we're looking for you."
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After everyone was patched up and they started to take care of the mess around the city they sate Kamala down in their air ship.
Coulson had asked Touma to sit in, he felt someone closer to Kamala's age would help. Kamala stayed in her hero costume as they explained the situation and what they wanted from her.
"You want me to join SHIELD?" Kamala shouted
"Basically, yeah," Coulson confirmed. "A special group working on the borders. We work special missions investigating a situation we see on the horizon. We can't go into all the details now but-
"What exactly do you want from me? I mean, like, what do you expect from me?"
"Work with us to discover the source of certain threats." Coulson hit a few keys on a tablet and the conference room screen turned on. The screens flashed various images Touma noticing one of the images were of those Titans.
"At the moment we're recruiting more members for the teams, then we will work together root out the cause of this mess." Coulson smiled, "And we think you'd be a useful member of our team." With a few more silent commands Coulson brought up picture of Ms Marvel in action along with news stories. "You've done a lot of good work, but from what I can tell your pretty much by yourself with little support. If I were to guess I'd say learning on the job. You actually remind me of someone else." Coulson chuckled to himself, "Never mind, we think we can help you improve and you can help us make a difference."
Then Coulson took a deep breath, "Though this does mean that you'd have to leave Jersey City. Our Training facility is in New York and we will often go on missions in other countries."
"But my parents don't know I'm a super hero." Ms Marvel panicked.
Coulson smirked, "Yeah, you remind me more of him. Yeah, don't worry we won't out your identity and we can fabricate a cover story. Nevertheless you will be away from home for a while. Before you decide anything think it through."
Coulson knew about the importance of getting everyone in on this team but she was still a kid and wouldn't force her into it.
"I'll give you some time to think it over." Coulson excused himself and left the room.
Touma looked around confused as to why he was invited. Could he leave?
As he tried to get up "Hey."
Touma gulped unsure of what to do, "Hey."
"So, you're like a SHIELD Agent?" She asked him.
"Sort of, I haven't been one for very long. Like just a few weeks."
"Really?
"Yeah, they really recruited me because of my hand."
"Your Hand?"
"My hand's weird, whenever it comes into contact with anything supernatural it sort of negates it."
"Huh, I don't think I heard of anything like that."
Touma just shrugged, "Yeah, it seems to be pretty unique."
"Do you mind if I ask you something?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Why did you join up?"
"Well, Coulson just asked if I would join up."
"So, you joined just because you were asked?"
"I mean, for me its pretty rare people ask me instead of knocking me out and putting me on a plane or-"
"Wait, how often does that happen?"
"One is too many." Touma looked on shaking his head, "well, there are perks with this job but it mostly comes down to Coulson asking me to help. He said he needed help to help people, and the way he said it he sounded like he needed me to do it. I guess if someone needs help, I just think I should help."
Ms Marvel smiled, it seemed to simple and maybe it should be. Maybe it should have been.
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"We're interrogating a dinosaur." May bluntly put it.
"Yeah," Coulson agreed sounding almost delighted at the idea.
At a nearby warehouse that SHIELD owned they found the giant reptile bound with steel as Simmons studied him.
Simmons walked over to the pair, "Sir? Uh, we have a bit of a situation. Uh, he's dying."
"Dying?" Coulson questioned.
"I didn't hit him that hard." May told him.
"No, you didn't do any lasting harm. You did crack a rib but that's not the issue. I did a blood work on our prisoner and I found tell tale signs of aged acceleration and genetic manipulation-"
"You're going to say cloning?" Coulson shook his head, he knew someone who had some experience with cloning. "It explains why this Devil Dinosaur seemed to act so differently from the one I know about."
"Yes, well," Simmons continued, "the reason he gave up is because his body has started to fall apart. His organs have started to fail. He doesn't have long, maybe an hour."
"You monkeys think that I can't hear you!" The Devil Dinosaur coughed, "They promised me a cure-" his started to flake a turn to dust. "You can't seem to even do simple math, my cells are-" he coughed again much harsher.
Simmons looked over a tablet checking over the results, "It's happening much faster than I thought. I haven't had any chance study living dinosaurs, there must be something I haven't accounted for."
"I'm larger," Devil Dinosaur smirked, "it takes more energy to simply live and thus is organs failure and when cellar degeneration occurs its effect is more wide spread and quicker."
"If you're feeling talkative," Coulson stepped up, "Maybe you are willing to talk about your friend who left you high and dry." Coulson looked at him deeply, "Someone else was working with you, pulling those dinosaur across the city. I'm sure you wouldn't mind-"
"Stop it!" Devil Dinosaur coughed, "Those whom I work with all work for someone greater. If they have abandoned me it's because he's told them to. I am not foolish enough to make him my enemy."
"You're dying, what do you have to worry about?" May asked, "Tell us what you know."
The dinosaur hissed, "You have no idea of what is in store for you. I do not envy you."
He closed his eyes and slowly his body began to dissolve into dust.
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Kamala was surprised, when Coulson said they would make a cover story. At the moment she was watching her parents in her living room talking to May and Coulson. They both had on a pair thick nerdy glasses on.
And to her surprise, May was open and friendly. Not that Kamala thought the SHIELD agent was mean but she could tell right away there was a distance and it could be intimidating. Here there wasn't any shred off it. Kamala would have no trouble seeing her as an actress in another life.
"You want to take our Kamala…?" Kamala's mother asked
"We will give her back." May joked, "Our program takes students to our camp, all expenses paid of course, and helps nurture their talents."
Coulson took the chance to speak, "We have found some of your daughter personal works online and that lead to one thing to another. We believe that this program would perfectly suit you daughter. To bring her out the best from her."
Kamala watched as her parent leaned in listening to fake pitch. The agents were telling them everything they wanted to hear.
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Kamala wasn't sure about going with them. Sure things had been calm at home than it had been for a while, if any super villains showed up New York was close by and that place was full of heroes. Plus Coulson promised that SHIELD would look into the city which with an invasion of dinosaur would have all sorts of people looking into it.
She stepped onto the dragging behind her two large bags of stuff.
"Hi!" Kamala greeted Touma.
"Hey!" Touma returned the greeting helping her pick up one of her bags.
"Good you're here." Coulson followed close behind, "We're going to take off in five." He waved a folder, "We have another mission and another person to recruit. We're heading to LA we will be off in five," He looked over to Touma, "please help her settle in."
"Touma nodded, "Sure thing, ah, lets find you a room."
"I get a room?" Kamala asked.
"Yeah, the rooms here aren't all that much."
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Touma and Kamala had been talking in the sitting area when May's voice rang over the intercom systems. "We are coming to LA we should be touching down soon-" Her voice broke as she quickly turned if off.
Coulson made his way into the cock pit quickly, "Is something wrong?"
Coulson knew May for a long time and could tell when something was wrong with her.
May looked over the control, "Yes, I'm trying to contact the SHIELD base in LA and I'm not getting anything. I'm trying all channels but I'm picking up nothing but an emergency signal and it's barely coming in."
Touma and Kamala both gasped as they looked out of the window to the city below.
Kamala looked on in shock, "Uh, I know LA is know for fog but that looks more like-"
"That's not smog," Touma confirmed. "that's smoke,"
They looked down bellow to where the LA skyline was covered in dark smoke as red and orange light filtered through it.
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Fires jumped across buildings and sires and screaming filled the streets of East LA. A red haired teenaged girl named Lisa ran down the streets pushing a wheel chair.
That was Gabe Reyes and he was unconscious and he wasn't in the best state. Not that Lisa was much better, both of them had bruises and burns. Lisa huffed as exhaustion and all the smoke in the air were making it all the harder to breath while running. Still she couldn't stop, she couldn't.
Above her one of the buildings shattered as a black charger jumped out of it. The car skidd to a stop on the street before them.
Before Lisa could do anything the door opened and a young man got out.
"Lisa, Lisa, Lisa,"
Lisa shuddered at his twisted distorted voice.
Standing before her wearing a leather black jacket was the Ghost Rider, his skull head was ignited with unnatural flames.
"Robbie." Lisa gulped.
"A bit slow on the uptake, Robbie isn't here." He tapped his skull, "Well, he is but he's busy. He does have a message for you. He's screaming for you to Run."
Lisa shuddered she was sure that if the person before her had lips they would be curled into a smile. She still didn't understand anything that was going on but something was there controlling Robbie, who turned out to be Ghost Rider.
Before it all happened he could only scream out the name Elias.
Something took him over, this Elias took him over and attacked them. They got lucky this Elias laughed and started to burn everything around them. Lisa just barely managed to get out with Gabe and only got a few burns. But he chased after them and set the city on fire as it raged.
Now he found them.
"I guess it doesn't matter," Elias taunted, "there no where left to run."
Author's Notes: Hey
So yeah, sorry for the long wait. I was just feeling the story. Hopefully I can get going now. So leave a review telling me what you guys think.
