Davida

It didn't take me long to find a place with things I could make use of. Luckily I was in a school dedicated to science and technology and I soon found a room dedicated to engineering that was full of things like robot arms, half-built computers, and something that looked like a laser gun that had married a video game console. Everything was placed on the various tables and counters in haphazard ways, which made sense since any students that had been in there had evacuated out before they could put away their projects.

I didn't stop to admire them. I entered the room as Fasttrack and tapped the Omnitrix. I didn't call out when I changed, the need to be silent overriding the habit.

Something interesting happened when I turned into the tiny form of Jury Rigg this time. As I looked around at all the half-finished projects I could see all the love and care that had been put into them. Someone had clearly tried to build something beautiful with that robotic arm, something that could replace prosthetics. That computer over there had a chip more advanced than anything on the market, but I could see it was made for video games. It was a passion project, not just a school assignment. Most of what I could see was made by people who loved creating things.

So I hopped onto the table and patted the robotic arm affectionately. Then I ignored it, and all the others. Instead, I ran to a shelf full of parts and tore into it, metal shelf included. A calculator had been left on the floor, so I grabbed that too.

"DISASSEMBLE!" I coughed a moment later. "Uh, disassemble," I whispered this time. Hopefully, there were no HYDRA nearby to hear that first cry.

I focused on my work, going through the various objects before finally finishing my first device. Considering the time crunch, I'd been forced to make something less ornate than I would have wanted, just something similar in shape to the Stargate from... well, Stargate. I raised the ring up in my red claws and adjusted it a bit.

"X," I whispered. "You connected?"

"Yes sir," he replied.

"Good, I'm about to activate this teleportation jammer. It'll work, but I want to see if the range is what I'm hoping for."

"...I thought you were going to ask me to self-destruct."

I blinked in shock. "What?"

"It is the common next step in fictional stories when a computer gains sentience despite the creator's wishes. In order to assauge any fears you may have, please know I am ready to self-terminate. I do not wish for you to be in trouble for my creation, nor to lead you to fear that I will hurt you or others."

To that, I could only shake my head. "What kind of angsty... X, those stories are bullshit. If you want, we can discuss it in full later, but know that I trust you. If it helps, focus on Data from Star Trek, or KITT from Knight Rider. Then you'll know why I'm not worried. For now, we've got work to do buddy."

I felt like I'd been very abrupt. But the idea I couldn't trust X was ridiculous. Maybe, if I'd been human, I'd have been nicer. As Jury Rigg, I knew him more than anyone else I'd ever meet. The question of his loyalty was ridiculous.

"Understood sir," he said over the comms.

With that, I activated the ring. The center of the ring ejected several panels that changed the ring into a round disc, 'closing the iris'.

"I can read the range of effect, sir," X said. "It covers every bit of the school."

I tweaked the device a bit.

"It has extended a yard. How far can you have the range of your device cover?"

"Not as much as I wish," I admitted. "But it will be enough to prevent easy access to the school, and defend the rendezvous when we get there."

Placing the Iris Device on my waist, I made one more device before I was finished. I reached for the Omnitrix and changed into Fasttrack, the devices I'd made resting on my hips. I ran for the room, then took a detour to hide one of the devices I'd made, a 'just in case' measure.

"This is Dial, I've finished the device. When they try to teleport in they'll just bounce back to where they came from now."

"Good," Natasha said. "Come back, we're going to need you."

"I'm already here," I said, coming to a stop next to her an instant later. Tomas and his guys pointed their guns at me, but Natasha held her hand up to stop them and nodded. They were a few rooms from the lecture area that HYDRA had taken as a beachhead if they hadn't moved on. More SHIELD agents stood with us, ready to move in, with some downstairs.

"All right, let's move in," Natasha said. "Dial, take out as many as you can while we move in. 3, 2," I leaned into a sprinting position. "1-"

I was gone in an instant. I entered the room and looked around. The HYDRA soldiers seemed confused as to why no more of their people were teleporting in. Apparently, they'd been hoping for more numbers before going on the attack, but there were only about forty in the room now. Some were floating in the air in their armor like discount Iron Men. I leaped towards one at super-speed, smashing my feet into his chest as he floated there. I pushed off from him to jump towards another guy, twisting in the air to punch him in the face. As soon as I hit the ground, I was running again. HYDRA realized there was someone in their midst, and tried to aim at me. But Fasttrack was way too fast. I ducked around a purple bolt by dropping into a slide, then popped up for a blisteringly fast uppercut that sent a guy backflipping to smash into a wall. I did a back kick into another guys knee, shattering his leg, then ran to a man who was taking off. He tried to shoot me, and I was forced to spin around the purple energy bolt. As soon as I was safe, I leaped up and grabbed him as he tried to fly away, pulling him down before spinning around ten times and throwing him at his friends.

At the same time, SHIELD rushed into the room through the upper and lower doors. They charged in weapons raised, yelling for surrender.

That's when the woman who looked like Michelle Rodriguez acted. Her eyes began to glow a bright red, which could not be a good sign. She looked at the SHIELD agents that had entered through the lower floor. They started staring at her with... uncomfortably lustful eyes. Then they pointed their guns at the SHIELD agents on the higher level and started shooting.

"Down!" Tomas yelled, ducking behind some desks. "What the hell are they doing!?"

"Dial, get their guns!" Natasha yelled, shooting a HYDRA agent in the head before her cover was blown apart by a purple beam, forcing her to switch to a different section.

I had a moment of shock before I ran towards the SHIELD agents. I passed through their ranks three times, grabbing their guns and piling them in my arms before running upstairs to drop them next to Tomas and his men. I looked at the SHIELD agents, who blinked at their now empty hands before they pulled out handguns. I was going to run and pull those out of their hands as well when the SHIELD agents held their guns to their heads.

"Stop!" Michelle Rodriguez's double shouted.

The room froze for a moment. Natasha looked at her and cursed. "Davida..."

"Hey, Nat," the woman said casually. The SHIELD agents below, still holding guns to their heads, moved to join the HYDRA soldiers. "You look good."

"So do you," Natasha said casually, pointing her gun at the HYDRA soldiers. "That's a new trick," she nodded towards the SHIELD agents currently threatening to kill themselves.

The woman, Davida I guess, scowled but nodded. "It's something HYDRA gave me. I don't like using it, but I have my orders. Invade the academy and take the students."

"You're HYDRA?" Natasha asked.

"I'm hired by them," Davida corrected.

"Natasha," Tomas asked as I watched alongside him. "Who is she?"

Davida smirked. "Someone you love..." Her eyes flashed red, which could not have been good.

"Damn it!" Natasha attempted to fire her weapon.

But by then, I was already in love with Davida.

Why shouldn't I be? I'd always loved her. I'd only met her moments ago, but she was just so... perfect. Everything about her, from her raven hair to the way her leather jacket and blue jeans hugged her form.

That was when I saw Natasha pulling the trigger and acted before she could. With Fasttrack's speed, I kicked Natasha in the side. Not enough to break her ribs, but enough to push her to the floor.

As she landed, Tomas and the other SHIELD agents grabbed at Natasha. She rolled to her feet, jammed an elbow into a soldier trying to wrap his arms around her, then kicked Tomas in the thigh when he tried to punch her. She leaped over a desk to escape another SHIELD agent's grasp

Then I grabbed her by her hair and pulled until she was bent backward. Natasha struggled against my enhanced strength for a moment, then tossed a taser onto my chest.

"Aaaaagh!" I screamed, letting go of her. Natasha spun away, then rolled when purple bolts and bullets aimed at her. Desperate to please my love, I ran towards her. Natasha got up to confront me, but she was far too slow. I was already-

The Omnitrix timed out. I came to a stop in front of Natasha, who grabbed me by the shoulder and twisted around to throw me out the door behind her, the both of us getting out before bullets and purple beams passed through the air where we were once standing.

"Snap out of it!" Natasha yelled at me, slamming my face into a wall.

"I already did!" I yelled back.

Natasha pressed me harder into the wall. "Wait, what?"

"I have a different brain now, pretty sure changing cures mind-control!" I yelled again. Although I was confused. I had been certain that the Omnitrix protected against that sort of thing... our maybe Davida's powers could overcome that somehow?

"...That's useful," Natasha said.

A whistle came from downstairs. We looked down the stairs and I groaned. "Ah, shit."

Davida was down the hall. She smirked up at us, then looked at me before her eyes glowed red.

"You titanic bitch-" I had time to mumble. Then I was in love again.

But this time Natasha was ready. She grabbed the Omnitrix the second it turned green, twisted the dial, and slammed down on it before flipping away.

I grew several feet. Orange and black striped fur grew across my body. I roared, a massive blast of noise that felt like freedom.

"Rath!"

Behind me, SHIELD agents stormed out to start shooting at me. I ignored the bullets bouncing off my skin with ease. "Let me tell you something, Davida-Who-Is-Working-For-HYDRA!" I yelled, grabbing a SHIELD agents gun and snapping it over my knee, before gently headbutting another. "Rath doesn't like getting mind-controlled! Only Rath can tell Rath's brain what to do!"

I got in the way of bullets that would have hit Natasha. She grabbed my head and flipped over me to kick the guy who shot at her, then springboarded off my back to kick another guy.

"Rath's mind is like a black hole that reflects light!" I roared, then sliced a gun in half with my claw before grabbing a HYDRA soldier that had come out of the room to throw him over Natasha as fought two other men.

"That's not how black holes work!" Black Widow pointed out. Natasha grabbed another agent as he walked out and spun him to slam into a wall.

"I will protect my love!" Tomas, yelling desperately, swung a metal baton surrounded by electricity, pressing it against me. I looked down at the baton sending a weak charge through my skin that left me wincing slightly, then grabbed it out of Tomas' hands and snapped it in half.

That's when Davida had made it up the steps. She ran towards me with her soldiers hovering behind her and punched me in the face.

To my shock, her fist sent me through the window behind me, sending me flying through the air with the loud sound of glass shattering. I fell into the courtyard below, and Davida followed, landing on my chest as the concrete below cracked under my landing. She looked into my eyes, smirking as they flashed red.

"You love me," she purred softly. "Don't you?"

I stilled, locking my eyes onto her beautiful face. "Rath... loves you."

Then I punched her in the chest. She let out a startled shout, flying back twenty feet and smashing through a pillar.

Natasha Romanov/Black Widow

Natasha spared a glance when a massive noise was followed by Davida flying back from a punch thrown by Rath. "Huh. Guess he's immune?"

She ducked a punch thrown by one the SHIELD agents and focused on the task at hand. She grabbed the arm of the man who'd tried to punch and elbowed him in the chest with a vicious and quick strike. Then she ran.

Bullets and purple beams flew towards her as she entered a door and ran through a classroom.

"This is Black Widow!" She shouted over the noise. "SHIELD agents have been compromised by a mind manipulator!"

"Ma'am," X said over the comms. "I can see you on the school's cameras. I can mark any SHIELD agents that have been affected by Davida Devito's powers if you wish? I can use the Hercules app?"

"Do it!" Natasha yelled, rolling under a desk when another purple beam sizzled through the air to pass her. "But I'm taking them out before that!"

"In that case, Dial made sure to leave a non-lethal weapon nearby, in case he needed it," X said, surprising Natasha. "Run down the hall, then enter the room on your left, the supply closet."

"He left a weapon for me?" Natasha asked, sprinting at full speed before seeing the supply closet. She entered it and looked around.

"He left it for himself," X noted. "A cautionary measure he did on a whim. It's installed with the Hercules App so that any HYDRA using it would have it explode in their faces. A flash-bang."

Natasha sighed. "I have no idea if I should commend him or be angry at him."

She saw the device instantly. It looked like some sort of ray gun from an old sci-fi movie. Natasha grabbed it and looked it over. "Any idea how to use it?"

"Point and pull the trigger."

"What a time for the robot to discover sarcasm," Natasha said with a sigh. She left the room, holding the ray gun in a single hand. She took her time, listening closely to the area around her. After a moment of walking through the silent halls, she heard footsteps.

Soon three SHIELD soldiers and a pair of HYDRA fliers turned the corner. As soon as she saw them she shot the gun in her hands. A strange green projectile shaped like a ball surrounded in a green ring slammed into one of the SHIELD soldiers, lifting him up and tossing him back. Natasha fired again, taking out one of the HYDRA fliers. As the flier fell out of the air, the other three men started shooting, but Natasha ducked aside into a bathroom. The soldiers rushed after her, entering a small side hallway.

It was empty. For a moment, the three men looked around the small hallway in confusion, walked into the hallway.

"Hey boys," someone said, prompting the three to look up. Natasha had a smirk on her face as she held herself against the ceiling with her feet and hands against the walls to apply pressure and keep her in place, pointed her ray gun downwards.

Three loud shots rang out, followed by three bodies hitting the floor. Natasha dropped to the floor and went around the corner. Tomas stood there, looking surprised as they almost bumped into her. He swung a fist at Natasha but she ducked it to gut punch Tomas. He fell back, then received a kick in the head that brought him to the ground. Tomas went to rise up, but Natasha shot him in the chest, knocking him unconscious.

"Well, just a few more to go," Natasha mused to herself.