Chapter 12: The Destroyer

Chapter 12:

May 31st, 2011:

The next day I woke up at 5 AM feeling refreshed and different, like I was energised. Even if I had just woken up, I was fully aware, which was weird because it never happens to me. I need to sit on my bed staring in space for at least 5 minutes before I can understand where I am. So yeah, feeling energised was different. Thinking it had to have something to do with me being a host to Venom, I ignore it and get on with the day. After freshening up, I go to the cafeteria and have lunch with Barton. I even pick a few packets of different chocolate bars for Venom. Venom, obviously likes them all, so I buy them all again. This time without sparing with Barton, I go to the Command room and just chat with the agents.

At about 3 in the afternoon, a warning alarm starts ringing on one of the monitors. I, like every other agent in the vicinity go there to look what it's about. One technician takes control of the computer to find out what it is, when we all see an image of a wormhole suddenly appearing and disappearing as soon as it opened. Suddenly Coulson appears sprinting.

Without wasting any time he asks the technician, "What the hell was that?"

The technician answers, "I don't know, sir! We got massive energy readings out of nowhere and then they just disappeared. 15 miles due northwest." He tells us the distance without any prompting.

"Lets go take a look." Coulson says and a few agents start getting into cars. I quickly run up to my room, put on the unstable molecules suit and put my suit over it and run back out to get in the car with Coulson.

"Hope you didn't wait long, Coulson." I say once I'm seated.

"I knew you'd like to take the suit, so I waited." Coulson says in that damn monotone.

"I knew you cared about me, Phil." I smirk at him. Coulson says silent and just starts driving. The other cars had already left so he goes fast to catch up to them.

Halfway to the anomaly, Coulson's radio clicks, "Base, we've got... Xena, Jackie Chan and Robin hood in town."

I snort at that and look at Coulson's face in amusement. He knows they're probably talking about someone who's dressed like them, but still. Calling an Asian looking person Jackie Chan? That isn't racist at all.

Coulson listens to the message and drives faster. Within 5 minutes, we reach at the spot where the wormhole was recorded. I take out my scanners and start recording everything while discreetly telling Siri to take a video record of it and upload it directly to my private server.

Almost as soon as I start recording, another storm starts up. It looks like a tornado, but I know it is anything but a tornado. My Spidey-Sense starts screaming at me. Even Venom who was silent this whole day screams in my head, "Run out of here you idiot!"

I, knowing he can hear me, say in my mind, 'Not yet, dumbass! This is prime fight material!'

Venom doesn't say anything but I can still feel his panic, as well as excitement. Soon the tornado touches down right in front of us and we all hide behind our cars to protect ourselves from the winds. When it slowly ebbs away, it leaves a giant 10 foot metallic robot, which I identify as the Destroyer, that Loki has sent to kill Thor and destroy everything.

Sitwell, the Hydra guy, stupidly asks Coulson, "Is that one of Stark's?" I look at him with a 'are you serious' look and then look at Coulson, silently asking 'Is he seriously asking that?'

Before I can say something to question Sitwell's intelligence, Coulson grabs a megaphone from Sitwell and starts to move towards the Destroyer, and says in a tired voice, "I don't know, the guy never tells me anything." The Destroyer starts walking towards us. I could literally hear his footsteps. Oh wait. I can even hear Coulson's heartbeats. How interesting. "Not the time to be fascinated by your new powers, Harry!" Venom screams out at me. Right. Forgot he could read my mind.

"Hello. You are using unregistered weapons technology. Identify yourself." Coulson, the brave soul that he is, speaks up into the megaphone. The Destroyer stops about 10 meters away from Coulson and its face plates starts opening up.

"Here we go." Coulson says looking back at us. When the Destroyer's face opens up fully, it shows and empty head, while an orange light fills up in its stomach and throat.

Coulson unnecessarily screams, "Incoming!" and everyone starts running back. Thankfully the Destroyer was only aiming for a car. He blasts a few cars with an orange beam of energy and moves on to go towards civilization. The town was about a mile away from us so I give it about 6 minutes at the speed he's going to reach it.

I meet Coulson's eye, who nods at me and I commandeer a Shield car and drive towards the town purposefully taking a longer route. The agents will probably think I'm some coward agent running away, which is what I want them to think and I don't get blown up by the Destroyer. On the way to the town, I speak out loud, "Hey Venom. Can you be like a suit of armour for me?"

No sooner that I ask this, Venom covers my whole body in an imitation of what my Unstable suit looks like. It even feels like my Unstable suit. Curiously, I ask him, "Did you absorb the unstable molecules suit I had on me?"

"Yes." He grumbles like I just caught him stealing a cookie. I laugh at that. He can merge with Mjolnir, absorb unstable molecules and Carbon fibre into himself, I don't think I should even be surprised anymore.

"Don't worry about it Venom. Just ask me next time. The unstable molecules will help you a lot. So I'm not mad at you." I explain patiently. I literally feel the tension leave Venom. Currently, my head was free from any Venom mask, but as soon as I reach the town and see the Destroyer just entering the town and start blowing the shops and houses up, I will it into existence and get out of the car. I make it look like my Black Spider mask, don't want to creep people out with the Venom mask.

"Venom, incorporate my web blasters into yourself. I don't want you using your own skin as web." I speak out to venom. I had read about that once, how Spider-Man literally used this against Venom by tiring him out, so I was not taking any chances.

"Alright! I thought I would have to do that, but you hadn't given me permission yet so I didn't do it before." Venom explains. God! First he doesn't speak for 10 hours and now he speaks too much. Is he a baby or a fucking teenager?

"Great, Venom." I say needlessly. I start swinging towards where I can see the Destroyer is, and see him blowing another house up. I don't know yet how strong he is, and there's only one way to find out. I rip a traffic signal pole out of the ground and call out, "Hey, dipshit!" And swing the pole into the Destroyer's chin when he looks at me. I've been spending a lot of time with Peter. He's rubbing off on me. Ugh..

The Destroyer gets thrown into the air and out of town. I look at the effect he's had on the pole and am totally not shocked. The pole was bent at the point halfway between my hands and where it hit the Destroyer, while the point at which it hit him is weirdly distorted. I grimace at that, drop the pole and start swinging after the Destroyer.

By now he had already gotten up and started coming into town again, destroying everything he could see. It's like he has a one track mind. Destroy. Right, he's called the Destroyer for a reason. I see Warriors three and Lady Sif coming down the road and join them.

They give me a look but see that I'm not against them and turn to the destroyer. The fat one, Volstagg I think, is carrying a battle axe, The Japanese looking one, Hogun has a mace while the flirty one, Fandral and Lady Sif have a sword each. Sif looks at the Destroyer blowing a car up, says, "Keep it distracted." and start's to run into a building.

They distract it alright. Fandral and Hogun throw Volstagg towards the Destroyer who is screaming at the top of his voice, "FOR ASGARD!" and gets punched away for his efforts, into a car. The Destroyer blows up a gas station and walks leisurely towards Volstagg. Me, Fandral and Hogun run towards him and stay in a protective stance. The Destroyer bends down to look at Volstagg and starts heating its throat to blow us up, when Sif jumps down from the rooftop of a 3 story building on top of the Destroyer piercing its throat with a spear, which she didn't have before. Either that's movie logic or she magicked it out of the air.

The Asgardians look relieved but I know it's not over yet, so I'm not surprised like the others when the Destroyer's fire starts burning again and he sort of spins and rearranges itself to now face Lady Sif. It looks like it's about to blast Sif, so I web her and pull her towards me right in time, cause the Destroyer blasts off in her previous location. They now start running away from the Destroyer due to it just blasting everything in its way.

I run towards it and punch it in its face using my full strength. The Destroyer gets thrown backwards and keeps going for about 50 yards. Wow! My strength has increased too! Right, fight first, Excitement later. The Destroyer gets up and blasts his energy beam towards me, which I dodge. I then web his face and guts and pull him towards me, when he gets close I use a spinning kick to drop him to the ground. He gets up, then ignores me and blasts the Asgardians in different directions. Fuckers couldn't even dodge this simple attack.

Almost as soon as I think that, my Spidey-Sense warns me of an attack coming. I bring my arms up in a cross but still get thrown into a car.

Damn, it hurt! Oh hey! Sif's here too. I grimace and then stand up. The Destroyer was currently ignoring me and Sif so I take a look around. A lot of shops and homes were destroyed by this petty squabble.

"Fall back!" Someone shouts out, which I don't listen. I run towards the Destroyer and start attacking it with my claws. I punch it, kick it, and at one point, I even jump on its face and try to rip the metal out. Nothing works. Sif tries attacking with her sword but the fucking robot heals right after.

He's still destroying everything and none of our attacks work on him. I once again get punched back. Thankfully Venom heals almost all my wounds instantly, so I don't have to worry about that, and stand up again. I see the Warriors three are evacuating the town of any stragglers. Sif looks determined and stands next to me when a blast right in front of us sends us both flying into a car.

I see Thor comes running towards us and looks at me thankfully.

"Listen, Sif, you've done all you can." He says to her while smiling softly.

"No! I will die a warriors death! Stories will be told of this day!" Sif says determinedly, but I can see she's scared.

"Aren't Asgardian men supposed to be the bull headed ones? And my lady, you can live now and tell those stories later yourself! I'll even come and listen to them." I interject their conversation. Frankly her dying was not a good idea. I know she doesn't die, but that doesn't mean I can't help prevent it. Thor smiles at me, understanding the sentiment and brings her up on her legs.

"Now go!" Saying this Thor takes her shield and helps her walk to the warriors three. I follow because honestly, this was Thor's movie, I'm following his lead on this one.

The Destroyer blasts a car near us and I create a shield out of Venom in my hand while Thor uses Sif's shield to protect himself and Sif. We reach the Warriors three and see that they're only lightly injured, except Volstagg, who looks like he's broken a leg.

"You must return to Asgard. You have to stop Loki." He says to the Asgardians.

"And what about you?" Fandral asks him.

Thor smiles at him reassuringly, and says, "Do not worry my friends, I have a plan."

Fandral looks at Thor doubtfully, but understands. He starts helping Volstagg to a safe area. I hear one of them give others the order to fall back but I don't pay attention. I look at Thor's face, and ask him, "You're planning on sacrificing yourself, aren't you? It won't work. Whoever's controlling that thing wants total destruction."

Thor looks visibly upset, he looks at where my face is and says in a grave voice, "I have to try." He throws down Sif's shield and starts walking towards the Destroyer, who is still blowing everything up. I see that all the others who were running, which now include the three scientists have stopped and are staring at Thor walking towards his death.

"Brother, whatever I have done to wrong you, whatever I have done to lead you to do this, I am truly sorry. But these people are innocent. Taking their lives will gain you nothing." By now he had stopped about 2 feet in front of the machine, which was now preparing to blast Thor. He continues, "So take mine.. and end this." Saying this Thor raises his hands up and spreads them apart in a 'do what you want' gesture.

The orange fire in the Destroyer's throat starts receding and it's face closes up. He turns back and it looks like it's about to return to Asgard, when suddenly the Destroyer backhands Thor in my direction. I jump and catch him to prevent him hurting himself even more by falling down, and let him down slowly. His face had scratches in them and he had some blood running down his face.

"No!" I hear from behind me and see Dr Jane Foster who really looks like Natalie Portman start running towards us. She bends down to check up on Thor, who looks up at her and smiles.

"It's over." He whispers.

"No. It's not over." She whispers in return and puts his hands on his cheek.

Thor smiles at her and reaffirms, "I mean, you're safe."

Jane nods at him and says, "We're safe."

"It's over." Thor repeats and starts closing his eyes.

Jane starts tearing up, her hands start shaking, when Thor finally closes his eyes and stops breathing, she whispers, "No!" to herself and starts crying. Even I get sad at that, and I know he's not dead yet.

The Destroyer starts going out of town, his job now done.

Suddenly, there's a sonic boom in the distance and I and everyone else turn to see an object flying in the air from the direction of the base towards us.

Oh, crap. It's coming straight for us. Knowing what it is, I pick Jane in one hand and web out of there ignoring her scream for Thor. Just in time in fact, cause no sooner do I take her away from Thor, Mjolnir lands in Thor's outstretched right hand and a lightning bolt slams down on his position.

A small lightning storm starts in his position and winds start blowing. Selvig looks baffled, the Warriors three and Lady Sif start laughing and crying tears of joy respectively.

Jane looks like she's seen something truly fantastic, which she has, and whispers to herself, "Oh. My. God."

The Destroyer stops walking away and turns towards us again. It starts firing up another blast in its throat, when Mjolnir hits it in the face and diverts the blast towards the road below, where it harms no one. The hammer hits it on the head again from behind and makes it fall on the ground and Mjolnir now lands in Thor's hand, who is now dressed in his Asgardian armour, with a red cape, fully healed and with small bursts of lightning coming from him.

The destroyer slowly gets up and the lightning around Thor dies down. Thor flies up into the air to get its attention and starts creating a storm. He just creates a fucking storm! How awesome is that?

Strong wind starts blowing, pulling everything in and near the eye of the storm up into the air. But the Destroyer is still on the ground. Knowing what he wanted, I run behind the Destroyer, but still out of the eye and throw a car at him which causes him to lose his balance, right at the moment when Thor increases the speed of the winds.

The Destroyer and Thor start battling in the air, still inside the storm. It fires off a blast which Thor deflects with Mjolnir, another blast which Thor deflects again.

Then when the Destroyer powers up another blast, Thor starts flying towards it while blocking the blast with Mjolnir and inserts the hammer in the still open face of the Destroyer.

The feedback of its blast causes the Destroyer to explode outwards and fall down, in pieces. I quickly pick up a few of the significantly bigger pieces, before anyone notices and absorb it within myself to examine later. The storm ebbs away to reveal Thor walking out of the explosion, completely unharmed.

Jane looks Thor head to toe, when he stops in front of her and she asks, "So is this how you normally look?"

"More or less." Thor answers while smiling.

Jane ogles him once more and says, "It's a good look!" At which, Thor smiles at her again and turns to the Asgardians.

"We must go to the Bifrost site, I would have a word with my brother." I snort loudly at that, knowing what kinds of words he has for Loki.

"Excuse me!" A voice comes from a car which just got here, and it's Coulson. He starts walking towards Thor, completely ignoring me, the nerve, and says, "Donald, I don't think you've been completely honest with me."

Thor completely ignores that sentence and speaks loudly, "Know this Son of Coul," I laugh out at that, seriously, Son of Coul? Thor continues, having not heard my laughter, "you and I, we fight for the same cause; the protection of this world. From this day forward, you can count me as your ally, if you return the items you've taken from Jane."

"-stolen." Jane interjects.

"-borrowed." Coulson returns now looking at her. He's still not looking at me. "Of course, you can have your equipment back. You're gonna need it to continue your research." Jane and Selvig have a big smile on their faces instantly.

Thor turns to Jane, "Would you like to see the bridge we speak of?"

Jane looks undecided but the chance of looking at a stable wormhole is too much to pass on, so she says, "Uh.. sure."

Thor then turns to me, which startles me, and says, "You're strong for a mortal. You've fought bravely, and stood by Lady Sif even in a losing battle and not run away. You have my gratitude for that. I apologize for bringing my fight onto your realm."

I smile at Thor and offer him my hand to shake, which he takes, and say, "It's okay. I got to have a real fight after a long time, it was fun. Find me if you're ever on Midgard again, big guy."

Thor smiles at me again and turns to Jane and hugs her close to his body, "Hold on!" he says to her.

Jane gets surprised, but not enough to not hold on and suddenly Thor shoots into the air with Jane in his arms. They don't hear Coulson complain that he couldn't debrief them.

Laughing at Coulson's face, I look at the warriors three and Lady Sif who are now looking at me in a new light. We start going towards the Bifrost site in 2 cars. Me, Selvig, Darcy, Sif and Hogun in Selvigs Van, while The Warriors three go with Coulson.

Sif turns to me while going and asks in a confused voice, "What are you?"

I look at her and say in a jovial voice, "I'm a human. They call me the Black-Spider. I call myself the Venom."

Sif nods, then asks again, "Why do you not show your face? Are you ashamed to be a warrior?"

Darcy snorts at me, while Selvig smiles, but doesn't say anything.

"Huh-? What? No! It's something we just do around here. On Earth, uhh, Midgard, there are not many people as strong as me or you. And humans are fickle beings, they get afraid of anything different than them. So what would they do if they find someone who can tear them in two with their bare hands? Never mind that I wouldn't ever do that!" I grumble. Even I hated being masked while being a superhero. But I didn't want my private life to be mixed up with this superhero business.

"I still don't understand." Sif says after a while.

"Look at it this way. A race full of people who don't like anything different than themselves, who don't even like people of different colours, would most definitely try and harm the ones that are stronger than them. It's been proven in our history too. Just a century ago people of fair skin used to enslave people of darker skin. It was a dark past that my people, the ones whose ancestors enslaved others are trying to think, didn't even happen. Fucking assholes." Sif looks disgusted at this and even Darcy and Selvig grimace, so I continue, "Thankfully that got abolished really quickly. I don't want how strong I am to affect with how people see me. So I created a different persona for the stronger person to take and save people, while the normal person does normal things. Study, go to school, meet people, and so on. Plus, if I someday marry and have children, I don't want my enemies to try and hurt them to cause me harm."

"Wow! So noble!" Darcy sarcastically says.

"Shut up!" I grumble at her. She was one of my favourite characters in the movies.

"You are a weird but noble human, warrior Venom. I like you." Saying her piece she turns away from me and starts looking out the window. Thankfully I'm wearing my mask so she doesn't see my red face. Can't help it man! Getting called a Warrior by a literal Goddess and her saying that she likes me, even platonically, is just too much!

It takes us a few more minutes to reach the spot where Thor and Jane were waiting for us while Thor was screaming above for Heimdall to open the bridge.

"Siri. Take these scans and send them to our private server, have Peter look at them if he can." I ask Siri, while scanning the ground and air.

"Yes boss." Siri replies.

I get my attention back to the Asgardians just in time to see a cloud forming up above us so Thor, Sif and the Warriors Three stand in the circle which the Bifrost left when the Destroyer came here. Thor goes back to Jane and pulls her close and says something too softly for anyone else to hear but my advanced hearing picks it up, but that being a private conversation, I ignore it. I look at them to see Jane try and get closer to Thor to kiss him, to which Thor kisses her hand.

I groan loudly at his action, while Sif smirks. Thor looks at me questioningly but I just shake my head at him.

Fortunately, no one has to explain anything because Jane pulls Thor down into a kiss. Ugh.. So mushy..

Hey! Venom! Stop overloading my thoughts with yours.

Thor returns to the circle after breaking the kiss and the Bifrost pulls them up into space. I keep looking at the space they disappeared into for a few seconds, and then say. "Well that was disappointing."

"Yeah, you're telling me. I expected something more from the Rainbow Bridge, to be honest." Darcy says from beside me.

I think for a while, and say, "Maybe it looks better from the inside of it."

Jane interrupts us by saying, "Shut up, you two. It was amazing. It was an Einstein-Rosen bridge. A real live Einstein-Rosen Bridge!" and she shreiks in excitement. Yeah, lady, I know.

"Huh. So that's how I get when I learn something new. I didn't believe my friend when they told me. Anyway, my job here is done. Agent Coulson, would you mind dropping me at New York? I'd like to return to my city now." I say, purposefully being formal.

"Certainly." Saying that with his smile, Coulson and me enter his car and turn around to go back to the base.

"Well, that was certainly interesting. How strong would you say Thor is when compared to you?" Coulson asks after a minute of silence.

I think for a bit, it was tough to estimate correctly, "I'd say, about twice as strong as me. Peter and I fighting together could maybe defeat him, but alone? Nope. He is probably an even match for Hulk!" I know so. Coulson widens his eyes, and keeps driving.

Soon we reach there and I pack up. Coulson already had a plane ready for me, so I leave to go home. I had really missed New York. Plus I have new toys to study.