Dark Pasts {Marvel & Criminal Minds Crossover FanFiction}

Chapter 2: Mission Briefing

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any Marvel or Criminal Minds characters that appear in this chapter only my OC Ari. Seriously, would I be writing this stuff if I did?

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Chapter 2: Mission Briefing

"Fury! Hi! Work's been great! Yup, chasing murderous psychopaths has been fantastic!" Ari answered sarcastically.

Hotch was asking his ex wife to take Jack and leave. Time to go to work and steal err... earn their paycheques!

"SSA Hotchner, you might want get the team" stated Fury "SHIELD needs your team's help".

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In The Conference Room

Reid, JJ and Morgan were already at the table awaiting the others, and were talking amidst themselves. They were discussing the last case when the door opened and in walked Garcia and Prentiss.

"Does anyone know exactly why we're here? Besides the fact that this where we all work, but even I don't know our next case is and I'm the liaison!" fumed JJ.

Once again the door opened, and in came five costumed people. One was in a yellow and blue outfit with a mask that covered most of his face. The second was in a blue, red and white costume and had a shield, coloured exactly the same. He also had a form of mask on and was taller than the other man, who smelt vaguely like cigar smoke and beer. The third man was smaller than Number Two but bigger than Number One, he was in red, blue and had the picture of a spider on the back. Number Four was a woman with red hair and was wearing a simple black costume. The final man was in red and black, had two katana strapped to his black in the form of an 'X'. He also wore a mask but his covered all over his face. Behind them came Hotch, Fury, Rossi and Ari.

"Everyone, let's start the introductions" said Rossi looking around at the other thirteen or so people crowded in one seemly very small room.

"How about Prentiss and I get some more chairs, for our... guests?" questioned Ari as she also surveyed the room. She and Prentiss went and got enough chairs for everyone.

"Okay, introductions" said Hotch "My name is Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner, this is SSA David Rossi, SSA Derek Morgan, SSA Jennifer Jareau, SSA Emily Prentiss, Dr Spencer Reid, our Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia and SSA Ariana Howlett" while pointing to each in turn.

"Alright, this is Wolverine" Fury said as he pointed to Number One. "This is Captain America" he pointed to Number Two. "This is Spider-Man" pointed to Number Three. "Black Widow" Number Four. "And unfortunately, this is Deadpool" Fury pointed to an empty space where Deadpool used to be. He was chatting up JJ and asking if she liked Bea Arthur at all, JJ just answered politely 'No'. Deadpool looked devastated or the best you can look devastated in a full-face mask.

"You don't like Bea? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" he screamed as ran out of the room.

Wolverine, Spider-Man and Nick Fury rolled their eyes. The FBI agents all looked at each other in turn.

"So our case is to profile him? I can tell you already, he's insane" asked Morgan.

"No, we already know that. Black Widow, go get Deadpool and bring him back here. This briefing is for everyone" ordered Fury.

Black Widow nodded. "Yes, Colonel Fury" she said in a slight Russian accent, and went to find Deadpool.

"Ari, go with Miss Widow and help her find her companion" ordered Hotch as the others were talking quietly in their own groups. FBI on one side of the room and costumes on the other.

"Sure, finding an insane guy. Something different for a change" answered Ari as she rose out of her chair and walked towards the doorway.

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Downstairs

It wasn't hard to find Deadpool, but getting him back to conference room was another matter altogether. He was holding two agents hostage and forcing them to give him their wallets, so he could get something from the snack machine. As Ari and Black Widow turned a corner, Deadpool had got the money from the agents and was trying to decide what to have. The choices were a Mars bar, an apple or a Mexican chocolate bar with spicy sauce. Ari and Black Widow looked at each other, as Deadpool was mumbling about apples, the planet Mars and spicy sauce. Black Widow walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder.

"What? I don't have any money. I swear!" he shouted at Black Widow, and then turned back to the machine and decided on the Mars bar.

"I don't want your money. Fury wants you back in the conference room, NOW" said Black Widow calmly, as if she had to go through this every day. Chances are is that she did.

"Uh huh" nodded Deadpool as he allowed Black Widow to lead him to a very bored Ari, who was devising plans for more ways for pranks and world domination. Oops! Inside words, outside words! She was also secretly wondering if this Russian woman and possibly insane man would hinder her mission. At that moment, Deadpool noticed her.

"Hi..." he started as he noticed Ari's scars across her arms, neck and the two on her face. One was on the right side of her face, going vertically down her eyelid. The other one was going from one cheek to the other, in a downward direction. The scars on the arms were mostly covered by her black three-quarter shirt, but some were still visible. Deadpool also noticed her hair and eyes. The hair was white but the eyes were sliver-white.

Ari had become aware of the staring and simply said "You finished?"

"Yup!" Deadpool answered and with the company of the two women, went back upstairs to the conference room.

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Conference Room

"Finally! Now we can get on with the briefing" said increasingly growing impatient Fury, as Deadpool, Black Widow and Ari sat back down in their chairs. "Recently, a number of former SHIELD agents have gone missing and three days later turn up dead".

Black Widow took up the briefing "They all have this mark on their chests" she pointed to the now projected pictures of all of the victims.

"A pentagram. You think this is a satanic cult?" asked Captain America.

"Apparently, even Fury's own team didn't know about this case" thought Ari. "By the way Spider-Man is acting, this is his first time"

"There's no such thing as satanic cult murders. They're urban myths, as SSA Rossi proved" answered Reid.

"Correct" stated Rossi, with a quick look at Reid and Captain America.

"*Cough* Nerd! *cough*" said Deadpool very quickly, and keeping his head down.

"How many have turned up dead?" questioned Hotch in his drill sergeant voice, and ignoring Deadpool's antics as Morgan, Garcia, Ari, JJ and Prentiss all gave him the evil eye.

"Two, but another has been reported to NYPD missing" replied Black Widow "They all lived in New York and here dumped near the Hudson River".

"The Hudson? That's bad" remarked Spider-Man

"Well... you can explain more on the jet" said JJ as she and the team rose from their seats.

"Fine, but we'll need to talk to your pilots before we go. We're going to be working on the helicarrier" said Fury as he also rose from his chair.

"You got a jet?" inquired Spider-Man while he and the rest of Fury's team got out of their chairs.

"Uh huh, and while you guys are explaining 'bout the case, we can explain to you guys 'bout satanic murders" replied Ari while she was heading downstairs.

"Girl moves fast" muttered Wolverine as everyone else was socialising and heading downstairs.