Marvel Nonsense

Chapter 14- Mayday

Our heroes are waiting in the Quinjet, anxiously waiting, hoping they will make it to the Helicarrier safely. It's been an hour. The lights slowly begin to dim.

Kaine raises an eyebrow under his mask, noticing it just as Delia does. Jayla still remains indifferent.

"Jayla," Kaine asks, "How much fuel do we have left?"

"Not enough."

"Well, let's go. Get as close to the Helicarrier as you can. Delia and I'll take care of it from there."

"Roger that." Jayla heads for the controls, switching it to manual. She pilots the jet to the side of the Helicarrier. Suddenly, the lights all go out. Fuel's gone.

Kaine presses the head of his spider insignia, illuminating the room for Jayla and Delia. "Delia, let's go."

Kaine pushes down the back ramp on the bottom section of the jet, the backside of the Helicarrier just in sight. He spins a web, aimed for the small section just above the hangar. His feet anchor to the floor, and Delia adapts his powers, then proceeds to do the same, pulling the Quinjet towards the hangar. Both of them struggle to hold their respective webs, as they begin to slip. Kaine wraps the webbing around his fingers, pulling as hard as he possibly can. Delia, on the other hand, is holding up well. They near the hangar, when suddenly, Jayla runs down to the bottom section.

"Change of plans. Ship's going down."

The jet completely shuts down, nearly falling to the ocean, with Jayla in it, until Kaine spins a web line down to the Quinjet. He pulls as hard as he can, unable to hold it up without help. He flexes to the point where the sleeves on his suit rip from stress.

"Delia, fucking do something!"

She spins a web down as well, pulling the jet up as hard as she can to keep it up. Jayla climbs up on Kaine's web, climbing to where Kaine is. "Grab my hand!" Kaine says, as the lower web begins to slip from his grip. She jumps up to him, grabbing his forearm. He yells to Darla to let go, then releases his hold on the lower web as Delia does, grabbing Jayla.

"Wait a minute..."

Delia's eyes widen.

"We left Trigger in there!"

"Jayla, fly up. Delia, climb up your web.I'll handle this. I can glide down."

"I'll come with you. I can fly, remember?"

"Fine."

Kaine and Jayla drop, nosediving towards the falling Quinjet. The Quinjet got into a position where air resistance was already slowing it down significantly. Before impact, Kaine opens up his web wings, gently gliding to the floor. Jayla flies in behind him. They run over to Trigger. Jayla throws her over her shoulder.

"You go. I have something I need to do."

She nods, running out, flying downwards with Trigger unconscious over her shoulder.

Kaine runs to a small drawer in the jet, opening it and pulling out a small flash drive he found on the ship they were on earlier. He looks back to see how long he has to get out. Just as he is about to turn, the Quinjet falls into the water offshore, quickly sinking with Kaine inside.

Meanwhile, Trigger wakes up on Jayla's shoulder, quickly snapping out of her drowsiness. She quietly uses one of her arms to grab a dagger, then just as Jayla lands and puts her down, she swiftly attempts to stab Jayla in the arm, but fails when she quickly darts backwards. Jayla then freezes the blade and shatters it.

"So, that's how you wanna play, is it?"

While that was going on, Kaine attempts to swim out of the Quinjet, but is then pinned down by something that he can't see. He then pushes it away, again swimming up towards the surface. On the way, a pulse of pain shoots through his body, stopping him about ten feet from the surface. He quickly recovers, continuing to swim, despite the fact that he's about to drown, as he is too deep to make it. After another five feet of swimming, Kaine's vision begins to slowly fade to black.

Jayla throws a punch at Trigger, who throws three in return. She then freezes her feet to the rooftop, punching Trigger repeatedly in the face.

"Don't screw with me," she says, delivering a powerful blow to Trigger's stomach, which knocks her out. She then turns her comms on, trying to reach Kaine.

"Kaine? Kaine, do you copy?"

No answer.

We've neglected Delia, who is still on the Helicarrier. She tries to track Kaine and Jayla on the GPS, only finding Jayla's.

"Fucking dammit!"

She could see Kaine's GPS going down, when it suddenly just blinked out.

"Jayla? If you can hear me, Kaine is underwater along with the Quinjet. You need to find him."

"Roger that."

Jayla flies down into the water, looking everywhere she can see for Kaine. The then pulls out a small, waterproof flashlight from her pocket. She swims further down, not able to see anything significant. After some time, the Quinjet comes into her view. She finds Kaine floating nearby, and swims to him. She grabs him and swims back up to shore. Upon reaching it, she swims out, dragging Kaine behind her.

She turns on her comms, trying to reach Delia.

"Hello, this is Jayla Rogers, does anyone hear me?"

"Yes, we're sending down a Quinjet to pick you up."

She then collapses onto the sand beach, falling asleep on impact.