Chapter 0149: Retrieval

"Let's get this done quickly, we go in and out. Stick together, if you can't deal with someone, call for backup." Wolverine said while standing in front of the exit hatch of the jet that was still miles above ground, "Move out." He said as everyone jumped down from the jet.

The entire team of 6 jumped down from the jet and dove through the air.

Soon, their target came into view. It was a fortified facility surrounded by multiple perimeter guards. Half of the facility was in the middle of the forest and the other half was facing a military town with a caravan entering the facility.

When they were a couple hundred feet above the ground, "Demiurge." Wolverine signaled to the warlock and a wave of blue energy spread out from him, wrapping around everyone and slowing their descent. It also served as an invisibility field.

The team stably landed in the middle of the forest behind the facility but Demiurge didn't remove the coating of blue that was surrounding all of his teammates.

Wolverine signaled to them to stick together and gestured in the direction that they were supposed to move in.

"Do you really think there's an Inhuman strong enough to create and control an entire forest and monitor everything at the same time?" Ms. Marvel asked Laura, her apparent new best friend.

Laura merely shrugged. She didn't have any insight to give.

"To think that there's someone who can process all that information simultaneously…" She looked around and squinted at one of the trees to notice something different about it, but it just seemed like a normal pine tree. According to their information, each tree in the entire forest was essentially the 'eyes' of the Inhuman. They could sense and monitor everything through the trees. That's why there were so many trees throughout the military base.

"Quiet down. Demiurge's protection doesn't extend to sounds." Wolverine warned Ms. Marvel.

Mumbling an apology, she quieted down.

Soon, they entered the facility, still under Demiurge's invisibility protection, but the whole place was heavily guarded and they wouldn't be able to move further before eliminating the guards.

Wolverine signaled to Riri and she released a set of tiny camouflaged drones from her shoulders that spread through the room and attached themselves to the walls.

"Field engaged," She said in Wolverine's intercom. It was an electromagnetic field that would prevent any signals from escaping the room. Unlike the others, she was in her suit and her speech wasn't going to cause disturbances outside the suit.

Wolverine narrowed his eyes and examined the 7 enemies in the room. He directed each person in the team to one guard and sneaked up on two of the guards himself.

He kicked the back of one's knee and just as the guard knelt on the ground, he banged his elbow against the guard's skull, incapacitating the guy instantly. As for the other guy who'd now reacted to the sound, he elbowed the man in the waist and grabbed his head with his other hand. The man quickly attacked Wolverine with the electric baton that was already in his hand, not having the time to pull out his gun, but before he could touch Wolverine, the mutant hit the guard's neck and incapacitated him.

As for Laura, she decided to use one of the new features that she'd discovered with Ms. Marvel. She approached the guard and used her suit to constrain the limbs of the person. She put her hand over his mouth so that he wouldn't make any sounds and twisted his neck.

Demiurge and Patriot also made quick work of their targets.

As for Ms. Marvel, "Haah!" She exclaimed as she kicked the man in his front while holding back so that he wouldn't break his bones.

The man quickly got up and was about to press the button for the alarm, but Wolverine's claws came through his skull before he could do anything.

"What the hell are you doing?" He asked with an almost growl at Ms. Marvel whose eyes couldn't move away from the massive amount of blood that was spurting out of the skull of her target. She moved her eyes and saw the same blood dripping from Wolverine's claws and whimpered.

"Y-You killed him…" She stuttered out.

Wolverine narrowed his eyes at her, "You've never killed anyone?" He asked with a gentler tone. However, he still seemed scary to Ms. Marvel, who shakily shook her head.

Looking at her face, he closed his eyes and thought for a moment, "Hm…"

As for the inexperienced Ms. Marvel, her gaze went back to the blood that didn't stop gushing out of the three holes in the man's head.

Wolverine's next action surprised everyone in the room. He moved behind her and before she even realized it, he chopped her neck, rendering her unconscious. She couldn't even try to defend herself since his attack was a complete surprise for her.

"That's why I didn't want to be stuck with a team of kids…" He grumbled annoyedly as he gently laid her down on the ground.

"Your powers are similar to Strange, right?" He pointed to Demiurge and continued, "Cast some protection on her until we complete our mission. We'll be leaving through this same exit so we'll grab her on the way back."

He didn't react and gazed at Wolverine warily.

"Fuck's sake." Wolverine understood what the man was thinking, "I don't know what made them send her, but she should not have been here in the first place. We'll be killing not just one or two people, but many people here. What we need is going to be the most secure item in this facility and the only way for us to get it is if we work quickly and efficiently. She's gonna do neither."

Hearing Wolverine's explanation, Demiurge nodded and spoke some incomprehensible incantation that cast a bubble of protection over the girl, "Make her lean against that corner." Wolverine said and Demiurge floated her to the corner and made her invisible as well.

"Let's continue, Ironheart, scout the rooms and find the elevator. We'll then start clearing the rooms and make our way to the elevator." Wolverine said and Ironheart nodded, not really bothered by his actions. None of them were, since they understood his reasoning. She moved to the control panel in the room and started working her tech magic.

Patriot was the same as Ironheart. He didn't mind Logan's actions either. They had all already been on a couple of missions and had seen their fair share of bloodshed. Ms. Marvel was the only actual newbie among them.

As for Laura, she walked up to Wolverine and asked, "Did you have to?"

The man couldn't help but slime a little, "Worried about your new friend?" He asked.

When she nodded, he continued, "You don't need to. She'll be fine. She would've been a liability on the mission. She's a nice kid, and she shouldn't have been here in the first place." He explained while ruffling up Laura's hair.

She didn't say anything else as everyone waited for Ironheart to make her report.

"Found it." She said and everyone got ready to battle through the rooms.

She opened the door to the next room and they all moved in under Demiurge's protection. This allowed them to quickly ambush everyone and clear their way without any issues.

They were soon at the elevator.

"We don't have much time before the higher ups eventually notice that we've infiltrated this place, we have to make as much headway as possible before that," Wolverine said as they all entered the elevator while Ironheart hacked the control panel of the elevator to allow them to use it.

At the lowest floor, the Elevator stopped, but the doors didn't open. Ironheart had made sure that they stayed close since there would be many people on the other side.

"How many?" Logan asked Ironheart who had already sent her nanotech drones through the doors to monitor the situation on the other side.

"52." She answered after a count.

"Block the room, Ironheart." Wolverine said before turning to another person, "Demiurge, I think this would be a nice time to use that spell you were talking about,"

"I need a minute." He answered as he started chanting something under his breath.

Wolverine nodded and waited for a few seconds before Ironheart said, "Done."

"Patriot, Laura, keep your senses peeled for any unknown variables," Logan said as they both took a fighting stance.

Soon, Demiurge was ready with a ball of blue energy compressed in his hands. Logan signaled to Ironheart who opened the doors and Demiurge instantly threw a sphere of blue into the room. At the same time, he blocked the energy from entering the elevator.

As the wave of blue spread through the room, the people within the room all fell asleep and the team entered the room calmly.

Everyone walked to the center of the room in a formation with Logan in the center. Demiurge was slightly panting, but he didn't seem too tired after that spell.

Soon, a large contraption came into view. It looked like a cylindrical chamber that could house an entire person.

Logan made his way to the side of it and pressed an eject button. A cylindrical container, filled with a mystical blue substance came out of the contraption as Wolverine whispered, "Terrigen Essense…"

He stored it inside a prebuilt container in his combat armor before turning to the team, "Let's—" His senses honed through countless battles flared and he noticed something coming at them, making him battle-ready instantly, "Everyone, duck!"

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