Centre for Disease, Controlled!
In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, the last thing the CDC needed was a break-in by villains. Viper of Hydra, Azazel of Brimstone, Margali of the Winding Way, and little Max 'Frankenstein' of Hellfire: all were united in common cause. And the cause was diabolical... biological warfare!
Above: Battle-Bamfs, a Brimstone strategy of troop deployment!
The night began with a nightmarish downpour... of human beings from the sky! They crashed upon the secretive installation, littering its grounds and rooftops with bloody, broken bodies. Lab staff and security personnel alike were murdered en mass by the demonic Azazel and his army of imps. And this was just the opening act of a horrific plan to plunder the CDC, as a swarm of armed Hydra lunatics were teleported to the scene, soon followed by some kind of long-range tactical battle-bot which we now believe was under the remote control of Max Frankenstein!
Above: SHIELD arrive on the island and mobilise special forces.
SHIELD were very quick to respond, deploying an advanced drop-ship of its specially trained and gifted assets to reconnoitre and make way for the cavalry of standard superhuman clean-up crew.
Above: Spider-Man swings in, joined by young heroic allies.
Other more colourful heroes showed up, including Toymaster of JGS, Tantrum of FF, Bloodkat, Vanish and a lion-themed vigilante. They wasted no time at all in coming to blows with the devoted cultists of Hydra. What is worth noting here is that a whole platoon of notoriously disposable goons seemed to be entrusted to Azazel, while Madame Hydra herself infiltrate deeper into the installation along with the Battle-bot, hounded by Agents of SHIELD hot on their heels!
Above: Viper, Madame of Hydra, with a Frankenstein Battle-bot!
Deep within the sub-basement levels of the quarantine island facility, the heavily armed destructive battle-bot and the single-minded Madame Hydra sought out the CDC's clean-room vaults ~ where some of the deadliest viruses known to man are securely stored for study and medical breakthroughs.
Above: Spec-op assets raid the compromised CDC installation.
Their nefarious efforts were halted at every step, however, by Assets of SHIELD and the Avenger Academy student Jake. They hunted the villains to the vaults, where an army of genetically engineered Super-spiders joined the fray against our brave men and women in uniform.
Above: Joined in unholy matrimony, Azazel & Margali vex heroes.
Above ground, Margali unleashed a magical storm of fury against our heroes, while Azazel coordinated the Red Bamfs to attempt capturing or crippling the heroes, before joining the fray himself - seemingly taking great pleasure in every wound whether suffered or inflicted.
Above: Web-slinger snatches deadly payload from enemy hands!
All of it was just a vile smoke-screen, however, for fleeing Hydra agents carrying Bio-hazardous materials which constitute WMDs in their own right, in the wrong hands. But Spider-Man's famous sixth sense alerted our heroes to the danger, and not a single one of them escaped with deadly viruses. In fact Azazel brutally murdered one of the fleeing Hydra by beheading him with his swords - presumably the price of failure.
Above: Moments before the battle-bot self destruct sequence.
The shock and awe was mere misdirection still, buying time for the villains inside to download a mysterious genetic code that the facility was researching, before beating a hasty retreat in the wake of the battle-bot blowing itself up. The CDC refuse to comment for reasons of national security, but a reliable source informs us this code was part of some on-going research to sequence the many permutations of the mutant genome.
Could it be that while having successfully prevented some of the worst pathogens known to man falling into the wrong hands, the most dangerous threat as-yet unknown to man has been misappropriated?
~Reported by Jay L. Quandry.
((OOC Words & Pictures: Jay))