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Sitting in their cell and looking up at the two guards at either side of the door, the three Susans traded looks and slumped their shoulders. There didn’t appear to be any way the Invisible Woman could reach the director after the actions of one of her duplicates. Combing her fingers through her hair, the Invisible Woman sighed, her mind a storm of worries as she couldn’t get the thought of her family in danger out of her head.

“What are we going to do?” Asked one of the Susans sitting next to her. Looking up to her double, Susan frowned and got to her feet, approaching the barrier wall of her cell to address the two guards and pound her fist against the energy barrier like it was a door.

“Hey! I need to talk to Fury, now!”

Looking to each other, the pair of guards chuckled as one of them went to the device on the table and brandished it in front of her for the trio to see. “He’ll talk to you when he’s good and ready, in the meantime you’re going to sit there and wait until we determine why you stole the energy absorber here.”

Making a face and crossing her arms, Susan scoffed at the guard, wondering just how thick SHIELD agents had to be to make the cut. “That’s not the energy absorber, that the empathy ray.”

“Pff… RIiiiiight, do you really believe you can trick the best that SHIELD has to offer?”

“What part of SHIELD? The one that was infiltrated by HYDRA? The one infiltrated by the Skrulls? The one who went to war with Asgard and lost or the one that tried to arrest every super-powered being on Earth and lost their budget because of it?” The other two Susans behind her snickered at that, which only made the guard in front of them fume.

“SHUT UP!”

“Mark?” called out the other guard, going over a data pad on the same desk and showing him a picture of the stolen device, the two looked at the pad and the item in the guard’s hand, realising she was telling the truth. “Huh… My bad.”

“An empathy ray, what does it do?”

An idea in mind, Susan smirked as she folded her hands behind her with a coy pose and pointed towards the device. “Oh, its really neat, it’s a ray gun that gives off a pulse that makes women fall in love with the first man they see…”

Their eyes lighting up, the two guards fumbling with the controls to the ray gun in hand, while they did, the model snuck up behind Susan to whisper into her ear. “What are you planning?”

“Shhh, you’ll love this. Just think happy thoughts and you might get out of this without a splitting headache.”

Finding what looked like the activation button on the empathy ray, one of the two SHIELD guards aimed the ray at the ladies and pulled the trigger. When he did, a mechanical hum filled the air that was noticed by everyone, followed by the hairs on the back of their necks and arms stand on end like a static charge in the air. They could all feel it, almost like a sense of pleasant nostalgia. Memories and emotions that made them all feel warm inside flooded their psyche, giving them all a sense of peace they hadn’t felt save for the best days of their lives. The two guards on the other hand, winced and doubled over as they were struck with splitting migraines, clutching at their heads as the empathy ray fell to the floor but still broadcasted its energies. After a few minutes and with a shrug of activity from the two blinking sleepily, the two guards got back up to their feet, and looked at each other like they were long lost friends and immediately hugged, patting each other on the back with a light chuckle as they kept up the embrace.

Leaning in close, the model and former sex **** watched the two with a sense of confusion tanged with a sense of friendly warmth. “What’s going on…? And why do I feel so nice?”

“This is the empathy ray sisters, it stimulates the part of your brain that encourages compassion and pleasant feelings, we used it on Carnage once and it put him in a coma.”

“Who’s Carnage?”

Hearing their voices whispering over, one of the guards turned his attention to the three women in the cell and smiled almost drunkenly.

“Oh, hi there… Why are you in there again?”

“Oh?” Tilting her foot and tapping a finger to her lip, Susan tried to play as innocent as possible, the model hugging her waist from behind and showing a pouting smile. “Fury’s upset and he wanted us to stew in here for a while before being questioned.”

Giving looks of disappointment, the two guards put the device down as it continued to broadcast and deactivated the locks to their cell. “That’s not nice of him… Here you go, all free.”

Immediately the cell opened, and the energy barrier turned off, allowing the three women to step out. Patting the man on the shoulder, Susan smiled, offering a thanks of being released and plucked the empathy ray from off the ground. She was almost caught off guard when one of her other selves wrapped her arms around her waist from behind and hugged her. “I love you sister…”

“That’s the empathy ray, just let me turn this off and…”

A clarion siren went off overhead, getting everyone’s attention as the Invisible Woman clutched the empathy ray close to her chest. “That’s not because of US, is it?”

Looking up at the flashing red lights and the still shrill alarming noises, one of the two guards scratched his head and answered. “Huh? Oh, no that’s the proximity alarm, I guess someone’s trying to break into the Helicarrier.”

A cold chill ran down Susan’s spine at that, trading looks with her two sisters who quickly got the idea. “Hey, could you two do me a SUPER huge favour?” She asked the two guards who looked back to her with optimism in their eyes. “Could you lock yourselves in that cell until the alarms die out?”

“Yeah sure.” “Okee dokee, sounds like fun.”

Stepping into the cell the three women were in originally, Susan had to pull one of her copies away from joining the two men inside before closing the cell door and locking it. The moment it was, she turned off the empathy ray, snapping the two guards back to normal to realise where they were and to find the trio of Susans gone. Realising what just happened, the two slumped their shoulders.

Running down the corridors of the Helicarrier to get back to the Fantasticar, Susan could hear one of her doubles call out to her over the alarm. “Are you sure that was nice to put them in there?”

“Nice?! I just saved their lives.”