16: Contract Start

We soon commenced the jump, the Orbital Fortress heading into the contract universe with a shudder. Something or someone trying to keep us out yet the ship pushed through and entered orbit over Earth. Information about this version of Marvel popping up on a separate screen for the contract, and it just feels rigged as all hell. It's every last bit of Marvel character ever known in this version of the universe… shit that means there's some overpowered mother fuckers either permanently dead, alive, or zombified and even stronger due no more biological restrictions from the brain.

"Gaia, prep the Horus, Sniffers, Scarabs, and Sec Knights. I'll do a count of how many reinforcements I can call in then we'll deploy as I call in regulars and elites."

{Certainly Lockhart, should I deploy the protective measures to ensure the Fortress's safety?}

"Threat level Divine, status Black."

{Hades, Apollo}

Hearing Gaia's disembodied voice go monotonous. I heard the strained cackle of Hades and the dead sounding voice of Apollo. Which was fair of the AI to sound dead instead of it being scholarly and serious as usual.

{Ahaha… I understand I'll deploy Project Juggernaut and its Khopesh units! Because fuck I hated that last undead asshole with breathing problems and a shiny stick! Humans should know their place and just quietly go extinct if killed… same for my inferior copy and his slaves.}

{Project Stalker deploying throughout the Orbital Fortress.}

Sighing I don't pay much attention to the quirky Artificial Intelligences while I head to the hanger. Carnage growing from my neck as the Symbiote lets me in on something interesting.

"There is a version of me with our contractors… along with pops…. This will be problematic."

"Zombie versions or still breathing?"

"The version of me is a zombie, Cletus seemed to have been bitten and it turned my copy. Pops is currently fighting him is what it feels like, yet I can also tell Eddie is dangerously close to getting bitten. If he gets bitten then pops will turn and it'll be game over for the contractors."

"Understood, erasing the zombie you is a must. Gaia I can call in a hundred five soldiers, thirty five from each stage of reinforcement if I don't summon my familiars through legendary. Ideas?"

{I would recommend summoning all regular soldiers, divide them in three battalions to guard the rear and sides of the Horus while the mechanical units spear head the front under your fire support while the Horus deals with evacuations and the swarm of undead.}

"I see… are the Fortress defenses ready for undead assholes from space?"

{Yes}

"Then let us commence the operation. Test them with a sanitation barrage, directly on the survivors."

{Firing Viral Cure Barrage on Stark Tower in New York City.}

Boarding the Horus I summoned the normal and elite SAS Operators as they don't have a realistic time limit. Only the legendary ones have a time limit listed so they'll be summoned once we make the planet fall successfully.