A trap prematurely set...

Meanwhile on the bridge of the Helicarrier…

Checking over the inventory of the two transports already in the hanger bay and being unloaded of their cargo from the Baxtor building, director Nick Fury looked over the information pad in his hand and back out onto the flight deck where he noticed a particular blue flying machine was not present from the return flight of his transports. The Fantastic Four were supposed to arrive with the SHIELD transports with Reed’s gene trigger to provide oversight for its delivery system.

“Why aren’t the Four here?” Demanded the man, passing his information pad to a subordinate and moving up to the window of the bridge to look down at the flight deck.

“We don’t know director; Lieutenant Fergusson was supposed to report back if there was any unusual activity with the three subjects granted leave from the RAFT.” Looking down at the display and communications, the agent shook his head. “We haven’t heard from him in at least an hour.”

Rubbing the bridge of his nose in frustration, Nick Fury checked the inventory list again from a nearby agent. They had what they needed to distribute the gene trigger and enough to douse the entire greater Manhattan area if need be. But in his mind, the one factor he did not trust were Susan Storm and the others he let out. Reed may have been able to look past what she had become out of a misplaced love for the woman. But he knew better, not trusting anyone was what got him as far as he was now.

“DIRECTOR! I have agent Fergusson on the line now!”

“Put him up now! NOW!”

With his hands behind his back, Fury looked around with a stern gaze and listened as the speakers clicked and began giving off the noises of a woman struggling in the background, while the lieutenant he sent to watch over the Richards family, finally spoke up for him to hear.

“Lieutenant Fergusson reporting Director.”

“Fergusson, where the HELL are you?! You were ordered to arrive with the shipment and bring the Fantastic Four here for oversight and containment.”

“Sir, Susan Storm apprehended my entire squad and disarmed them, then she managed to grab the remote to their explosive collars and deactivate them prior to latching one on ME.” Still hearing a woman’s voice in the background cursing and threatening to sue. Fury demanded answers. “Mrs. Richards gave the remote to a civilian, a creature she found among the populace and exposed the gene trigger to. Director Fury, according to the Invisible Woman, the city is already overrun with these freaks!”

Suddenly, a soft tremor could be heard off in the distance, alerting everyone to look over the starboard side of the ship and look onto the city where smoke could be seen, up until it was cut off by an unseen barrier.

“That’s the Avenger’s mansion!” Called out one of the agents manning the controls.

Staring out the window to the mansion as it burned, Fury breathed in sharply and commanded the crew to set up the distributers now. As the crewed scrambled to prepare for the worst, Nick Fury continued to look on to the blast from afar, his good eye narrowing in frustration. “Reed… Just what did you do?”

*

“REED! LET HIM GO YOU BITCH!” Susan screamed, struggling against her captures while Carol infected her husband with a bleeding kiss. Pulling away and licking up his neck and chin, the creature using Carol’s body laughed and glared back at Susan with a sadistic grin, then tossed the convulsing Mr. Fantastic to the lawn where he tumbled and rolled until he was lying face down. Turning her attention to the Invisible Woman being held down by Thor and Steve, Carol’s smile became manic.

“He will join us, he and everyone else…”

Looking around, Susan gasped to the sight of Ben and Johnny being pinned to the grass by their former friends. Scarlet Witch circled the Human Torch with amusement who continued to writhe in pain from her hexes, just as she opened her mouth wide to reveal three rows of teeth, teeth she sunk into his shoulder like a rabid animal. Ben cried out as well when the Hulk sunk his mandibles into the Thing’s arm and shoulder, his slithering prehensile tongue burrowing between rocky plates to deliver an infectious bite. Making the man cry out in pain while the two Hulks watched.

Slowly landing on her clawed feet, flapping her bladed wings before folding them behind her, Carol leered at the remaining Fantastic Four as the Avengers infected them. Their bodies going limp, falling to the ground and spasming from the shock as the infection festered through their bloodstream. It horrified susan to see her friends writhe and twitch in pain as she remembered all too well how overwhelming the process was for her when this all began.

“This is inevitable ‘former’ Queen. This city, and every other after it shall fall to the swarm, to be used, consumed, turned, all will be the swarm.”

“All will be the swarm!” The Avengers repeated in unison.

Bellowing out an inhuman screech that echoed across the mansion’s lawns and out to the cityscape around them, the same screeches could be heard echoing out from the streets far away. Susan did not need to look out to the city to know that the hundreds of thousands of Lilith’s swarms had just been given the signal they needed and decided to stop hiding. Flooding out of manholes and alleyways like a flood of mandibles, tentacles, and claws. The swarm struck, pouncing over the human populace to feed. Those that were lucky enough not to be attacked in the first strike and brought low were chased and hunted down. Horrified to find one by one their neighbors or other nearby pedestrians transforming before their eyes and joining in the hunt. Like chameleons they dropped their human glamour and revealed themselves for the predatory parasites they were.

Hearing the echoes of screams, fires and police alarms going off everywhere, the city had fallen to pandemonium.

“You can still have a place in the swarm with us Susan Storm…” Hissed Steve, leering down at the struggling she-creature while licking his fanged teeth, the reptilian slit of his eyes going thin staring down at her. “Maybe not as a queen…”

“Perhaps a broodmare…” Chuckled Thor.

Hearing the rest of the Avengers laugh, Susan ignored them all as her gaze never left Reed’s prone form on the lawn, the man was still twitching and coughing up blood from his mouth as the infection took root. The rest of her friends and family were still being pinned to the ground, and more than likely their fate would be the same or worse. She had to do something, anything! Closing her eyes, she opened them again with a flutter, looking up at Steve with a coy look on her face, her lips pursed invitingly.

“You’re right… Why should I fight it any longer?” Susan purred, arching her back and refusing to resist the grip the two men had on her four arms any longer. “You’re absolutely right; the swarm claims all in the end, even I knew that before I gave in... Do you want me Steve?”

Smilingly sadistically, Steve pressed his mouth against hers and drove his tongue past her lips to explore her mouth, Susan reciprocated the kiss wantonly. Moaning into his mouth, she could feel him loosen his grip over her arms and began to press up against her body. She could feel his erection grind against her black shorts, all she had to do was distract him and Thor long enough to make them slip. When he shifted to pry off her shorts, she found her opening when his foot moved away from her tail. “Sucker.” With a bullwhip crack of air, her tail swung free and snapped her stinger to pierce his side… Only to be horrified when Thor grabbed it before it could pierce his flesh.

“Did you believed we were not watching through Sara’s eyes when you stole her from us?”

“We KNOW your venom turned her against usssss….” Hissed Steve, smiling down at her as he and Thor hoisted her back up to her feet, her struggling renewed now that her ploy failed. “But we are not so easily fooled.”

“Soon your family will be part of the swarm, and thissss city will be consumed.”

“She wished to STING us… Perhaps we should return the favour.”

Gasping and writhing in agony, Steve and Thor sprouted tendrils from their abdomens, spear tipped tendrils that burrowed into her stomach and squirmed around her insides to pierce at her womb. Unable to move and her eyes rolling back from the pain, her two attackers laughed as she struggled against them.

“Pleasure is too good for a traitor like you… Mother.”

Her eyes going wide, Susan sneered back at the former Captain America, seeing him for who was REALLY in charge and controlling all their bodies. “LILITH!” Winced Susan, feeling her insides being squeezed and violated. “YOU are… Are the one controlling them… Where are you?”

“We are nearby…”

“Yessss…” Hissed Scarlet Witch, approaching the trio but keeping her hexes up on Johnny and Alicia. Approaching Susan, she traced a talon under her chin while she struggled under the pain, her smile growing shark-like when she pulled away her claw and turned away to watch over Johnny, who by now was frothing at the mouth. “Unlike you, I am more proactive with my control over the swarm. Their flesh is of MY flesh, their senses are my eyes and ears… And nethers…”

“Puppets all of them.” The Hulk chuckled, his demeanor cold and cruel as his writhing tentacles coiled around his scalp and back along with Jennifer’s tendrils. Reacting to the sensation shared of feeling Susan’s **** at Steve’s hands.

“And once you are part of the swarm again… So will you.” Finally pulling away and letting Susan collapse to the ground clutching at her wounds, the Invisible Woman hugged herself with all four of her arms, watching as her injuries healed, but nowhere near as quickly as they once did before the gene trigger treatment. “It should not be too long now.”

Still injured and weak from the violation, Susan suddenly felt it, looking down at her stomach which had partially healed, she found her womb beginning to bloat and swell. Clutching at her middle to hold the growth down, Susan began to panic. “No! No, no no no no no no!” Rolling onto her side, Susan gasped as the growth sped up, now looking four months along in her pregnancy and quickly growing larger. Her wounds had healed, but now she was worried about the rest of her as she grew months worth of development in the span of a minute. She knew what would happen, HUMAN victims of her sons would burst like a balloon, unable to cope with the strain… And right now, she was no different. She looked eight months pregnant with twins and continued to swell, her top going wet as her breast milk production built up. The pain in her stomach continued to build, the tension in her blue skin becoming tighter as the brood inside her began to kick and thrash, demanding to be born.

“You have become too much like the humans ‘former’ queen, perhaps you will not survive this birth?”

“Such a shame… But only the most dynamic is worthy of survival, at least you served your purpose mother, you began the invasion or Species was built for so many millennia ago, and thanks to you, WE shall finish it.

Laying on her back, Susan squirmed, her four hands on the surface of her now keg sized belly as it spread her talons apart from its growing surface. Half a dozen newborns squirmed and kicked within her body, and she knew that she would not survive their birth if she continued to grow at this pace. The pain had become so sever that her hold over the forcefield keeping the mansion contained had fallen, leaving it open for the Avengers to escape and infect other cities if they so wished. The city was doomed, the WORLD was doomed, and with the building pressure in her stomach, she was not going to live long enough to regret it.