New Avengers: The Purple Man

Chapter 5: The Widow and the Soldier

Part 1: The Bait

Steve Rogers huffs and puffs as his strong frame jogs through central park. This run is the just another failed attempt to get his thoughts together. For 3 days, Spider-man, his wife, and Spider-woman have been missing, and Steve has already tapped most of his resources in trying to find him.

“This shouldn’t have happened on my watch.” he thinks to himself as the mental barrages of guilt continue to flow over him.

It’s nothing new for superheroes to disappear for days at a time, or even weeks and months, but Steve knows that Peter and Jessica would have checked in. As Captain America, Steve Rogers has the full resources of the U.S. government, not to mention the spy network SHIELD, at his disposal and even these resources are turning up zilch.

Minutes and miles pass and Steve’s mind is no clearer when he returns to his SHIELD secured apartment. He opens the door to his living room, and receives an unexpected visitor.

“Hello, Steve” a female voice says to him.

Steve jumps to attention, taking a defensive stance towards the direction the sound came from.

“Who’s there? Show yourself!”

Out of the shadows walks Natasha Romanov, dressed in her normal black leather uniform, swaying her hips as she approaches.

“Always this jumpy, Steve?” she remarks.

“Only when spies break into my apartment.” he replies, recognizing his on-again, off-again teammate.

“Oh come now, its SHIELD security” she says as she gets closer to Steve, breaking into his personal space as easily as she broke into his apartment,”you really think I couldn’t access to your codes?”

“I’ll have to talk to Fury about that.” Steve replies, taking a few steps back. “What do you want, Natasha. This really isn’t a good time, and I doubt you’d stop by just for old time’s sake.”

While Natasha was an on-again-off-again Avenger that has proved reliable in the field, Steve never did trust her. He didn’t know if it was her manipulation techniques, or the times her Russian accent came out in her tone, but he always kept her at arms length.

“Your right, Steve, I didn’t.” she says, handing him a small jump drive. “I found that exactly three hours ago on a mission into a HYDRA facility. I haven’t even showed it to SHIELD yet. It details correspondence from two HYDRA officials regarding your comrade Jessica Drew. Seems she’s on their payroll, but isn’t working out as expected. They kidnapped her, Steve, and their holding her and your missing Spider-man here in the city.”

“What? Where?” Steve quickly heads to his computer, plugging the jump drive into his box and reviewing the documents.

“The intel says a small warehouse near the docks. They are to be transferred out of the country via Oil Tankard to Europe in a couple of hours.” Natasha answers, using every Alias technique ever taught to her as a Black Widow.

“We’ve only got a couple of hours? No time to call in the rest of the Avengers. Let me grab my gear and we’ll go” Steve hastily responds, pushing a key on his computer and turning off the display on his computer before making his way into his bedroom.

“I thought you’d want to hurry.” Natasha replies with a grin, thinking of the surprise in store for Captain America.

Part 2: The Web

Steve and Natasha find a small door next to a second story fire-escape where Natasha’s information said Captain America could find his teammates. Unfortunately for this small rescue party, all the windows are boarded up with no way to know what they are walking into. Their only indication that there are people inside is the sound of screaming and grunts flowing from inside the door.

As Cap signals to the Widow, she nods understanding the motion. She slinks down into a crouched position, sliding under a broken, multi-pane window that looks down to the lower level. Each of them cautiously lean into their side of window and take a look at the view below.

Cap’s eyes widen as the picture below becomes clear. His blood starts to boil as he sees his teammate, Jessica Drew, and the wife of Peter Parker, bound to circular tables. Their wrists and ankles are chained to the legs of each of the tables, and each woman appears to have two large men raping them orally and from behind.

Steve looks over at Natasha, noticing she is biting down at her bottom lip and staring down with envious eyes. A heavy growl forms in the back of his throat to snap her to attention. He knows that Natasha was a free spirit sexually, but never anticipating that the show below would turn her on.

Natasha brings herself back to the here and know, looking over and giving Steve a wink and shrug to appease him. This is a pivotal point in her master’s plan, and she has to carry it out perfectly. There would be plenty of time for fun later once Captain America has joined the party.

As Cap notices the Widow’s head is back in the game, he takes one more look at the surroundings of the distressed damsels below. Finally, he sees the third target he’s looking for. Peter, dressed in full costume without his mask, is bound by thick metal chain to a nearby poll, forced to watch the defilement of his wife at the hands of these goons.

With one more look at the layout of the floor below, Captain America drowns out the harrowing grunts and yells coming from down below and takes point. A firm kick drills the door open, and the two SHIELD agents rush into the room. They fly through the air, their athletic bodies leaping from the stairs into the middle of the debauchery.

Cap wastes no time, literally having his opponents with their pants down, he jumps at the first two. His shield bashes the first as his free hand places itself on the table next to Mrs. Parker, and with acrobatic ease his body pivots on the table, landing the heel of his foot into the jaw of the second goon.

Natasha follows suit to play along. With dart gun loaded and in hand, she drills a powerful tranquilizer dart into each of the innocent men she knows are being commanded by her Master to fuck Jessica. She quickly runs to their fallen bodies, grabbing a set of keys and starting to undo the closest shackle on Spider-woman’s appendages.

Steve Rogers is mortified by the view in front of him. The desecration of a woman is about as low as a villain can sink in his book. Just as quickly as he can, Cap takes his indestructible shield and pounds its edges through the chains holding Mary Jane, freeing her used body from the table.

Mary Jane, to Cap’s surprise, rolls over and eyes him with a grin, “If you wanted a turn, hero, all you had to do was ask.” She spreads her legs for him, giving him the perfect view of her used cunt.

Steve replies, “MJ!! What are you saying?”

He looks over to Natasha and Jessica, who after a deep kiss greeting, walk to surround Steve.

Just as Captain America figures out he underestimated the situation, he performs another feat of acrobatics, flipping completely over Spider-woman and the Widow, making his way for the bound and gagged Spider-man. The distress and sadness in Peter’s eyes spawn trust in Steve that at least he has some sanity in this situation. With several sharp blows from his shield, always keeping an eye on the women in the room, he breaks the bonds of Peter Parker.

“Very good, my dear Captain” says a voice as a nearby crate flips open and Killgrave’s purple figure raises out of the top, “now if you’ll be so kind as to help your lady friends with their clothes, I doubt we have much time.”

Part 3: The Surprise

It has been 15 minutes and Cap’s tracer signal hasn’t moved from the general vicinity of the docks. Ever since Steve pressed the data sync button on his computer to upload Natasha’s data into Tony Stark’s central repository, Tony has kept an eye on the Cap’s location. The minute he realized Peter and Jessica were missing, he fitted all the Avengers with tracking devices.

“That’s it!” Tony exclaims as he turns around, facing his remaining teammates. His voice, digitized by the Iron Man suit, continues, “We’re going in after him! I’ve never been very good about waiting on the sidelines.”

Before him stood the other three current members, Luke Cage, Wolverine, and the newest Avenger, the Sentry. Each one of them brings something to the table. Luke Cage is a smart street fighter with impenetrable skin; Wolverine is a mutant assassin, the best at what he does, while the Sentry could possibly be the most powerful telepath and hero on the face of the Earth.

“Sentry, you grab Luke. Wolverine, grab on!” Stark says

Wolverine grumbles as his small stocky body hops onto the back of the Iron Man, “Alright, Bub, but the movie and peanuts better be damn good!”

As the windows to the computer lab open, the two Avengers with the power of flight head off at top speed to the source of Captain America’s beacon.

Fueled by the almost limitless kinetic energy of his mind, the Sentry and Luke Cage arrive first, crashing through a boarded sky-light to the floor below.

There is no hiding for the Purple Man this time. He knows his chess match with the Avengers comes down to these final moves. In front of him is the line of knights and rooks that he had collected: Spider-man, Spider-woman, the Black Widow, and Captain America. Each hero instructed to defend Killgrave or die trying.

As the two opposing forces drop to the floor, Luke is the first to recognize what is going on. He panics! His history, or better yet, his girlfriend’s history, with Killgrave lets him know all to well what is about to happen.

“Sentry! Get ..” He screams, trying to warn his teammate to get out, but unable to finish before Killgrave interrupts him.

“Sentry! Lay down!!” Killgrave yells at the top of his lungs. It’s a big gamble for Killgrave. From the intel he has gathered, little is known about Robert Reynolds. All that even his teammates know is that he possesses unlimited potential, and that was worth the gamble.

The Sentry reacts to his surroundings. First he hears Luke’s words and watches as Luke charges the line of fellow heroes at the same. He starts to interpret Luke’s command as “Get them”, but then hears the words of the man behind the line. Robert knows of the Purple Man, but had not anticipated meeting him in this manner. As Killgrave’s words wrap into his brain, he realizes his body is giving up on him, forcing him to lie flat on the ground.

“NO!!!” comes a digitized scream as the two remaining Avengers drop through the hole. Tony’s long range visor gave him the whole story as they dropped in. He knew his armor kept an air proof seal around him, making him invulnerable to Killgrave’s powers. He shoots disrupter beams as Wolverine leaps straight at the purple figure, both trying to take him out quickly.

The line in front of Killgrave reacts and split apart.

Captain America leaps between Killgrave and Iron Man, blocking the disrupter beams with his shield as Tony continues to try to maneuver around him.

As Luke Cage hits the line, his comrade and friend Peter Parker grabs his wrist, and with the proportionate strength of a spider, spins him into a stacking of crates across the room. As wood splinter fly, Spider-man leaps toward his prey, his attack relentless as the bones in his hands start to crack from pounding into Luke Cage’s invincible skin.

Wolverine charges in full berserker rage, only to be stopped by Jessica, who engages him in hand-to-hand combat. The two spar in the middle of the floor; each blocking each others punches and kicks. Jessica leans back, almost bending her body completely backwards to avoid the steel claws of the Wolverine. She buys just enough time for Natasha to lock and load. With a pull of the trigger, she puts a bullet into Logan’s skull.

Killgrave grins as the first opponent goes down. He has picked his soldiers well, but he knows they cannot win this battle alone. They are there to protect him and buy time to think. Like the spider symbolized by three of his players, he has to carefully maneuver his web in order to devour his prey.

He plays his first move, seeing Spider-man come flying back in his location. Out of the two opponents left, Luke Cage is the only one he can affect.

“Mr. Cage, if you would be so kind as to stand there quietly for a while”

Luke stops in his tracks, grunting, feeling the burn and desire to move, but unable too.

Cap continues to block the onslaught of blasts while Tony tries in vain to talk his old friend into sanity. From behind, Tony feels the pounce of Spider-man, who starts to wrestle mid-air with the mechanical outfit as a diversion. Captain America leaps to the air, sending the corner of his shield into the main power section of the armor.

The suit alarmingly provides status to its wearer. “Warning: Main conduit severed, switching to secondary power. All weapons and communication will be offline for automatic bypassing. Main thrusters will be at 20 percent capacity. Estimated time to repair: 2 minutes.”

“DAMN!” he yells. Frustrated, Tony realizes that he needs help but he may have waited too long. With a hard blast of his boot rockets, he soars back through the skylight with Spider-man in tow. “Hold on Peter, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!”

Killgrave knows he can’t afford to lose Iron Man, not now. He had hoped that Spider-man’s strength would be able to free Stark from the armor, but that wasn’t going to happen. He decides to play his wild card.

“Sentry! Bring them back!”

Robert Reynolds rises and soars faster than sound towards Stark and Parker. On his best day, the Sentry can hit the outer atmosphere in seconds, so the quarter of a mile to catch Iron Man is not even a race. With excessive strength, he grabs Stark’s boot and pulls him back down.

As the bruised and beaten Parker leaps back to the ground, taking position next to the still frozen Luke Cage, Killgrave is pleased.

“Very nice!! You are handy, aren’t you?” Killgrave says with a grin as he watches Stark try to escape the binding grip of the Sentry. His rockets press harder, exceeding 100% of their current capacity, finally forcing them into shutdown. Stark’s armor falls to the ground.

As the Sentry finishes his defeat of Iron Man, Natasha looks down at the befallen Wolverine. Noticing that his body is rejecting the steel from the bullet, forcing it out of his adamantium-lined skull, she fires and places a second nugget in the back of his neck. Each of these moves, Killgrave knows, is only temporary until the battle can be finalized.


“Now open up that tin can, please!” Killgrave signals to Sentry.

Sentry does as told, taking a hand on each side of the face plate. His fingers dig into the metal, strengthening his hold before tugging the helmet in two directions to crack it in half. The exposed face of Tony Stark looks on in horror as he views the Purple Man for the first time with his own eyes.

“Mr. Stark… may I call you Tony?” Killgrave says with a grin as he feels the adrenaline of victory rush through him, “Oh no matter! Either which way: welcome to my world!”