Chapter 87 - [42] The Raft (Prison) | Part 3

With Max,

Max sat on top of a sentinel, tinkering with its mechanism. He wanted to know how they were programmed; maybe he could reprogram them. Well, it would be helpful to have sentinel fighting against Thanos, they needed every opportunity they could get their hands on. Because nothing is too much against the Mad Titan.

As he was engrossed in with the robot, he jerked up due to the sudden alarm he got from his earpiece. Tapping it, he let the signal play, "Max, there are at least five sentinels that are coming your way." Steve said. "You need to get..."

"Hmm, don't worry," Max replied, cutting him off. "Me and Tyrone can handle them. But you need to hurry; a distress signal has been sent." Max said. Steve understood what that meant. If a distress signal has been sent, that means The Raft prison could get help from any nearby marine vessel-sh.i.p.s, and if that happened, their situation would only worsen.

Just as Max finished gathering all the data of the broken sentinel robot, the room door lifted as five other sentinels came forward. Or at least they tried, but couldn't go inside due to having less space, so they staved at the doorway and started shooting laser beams at the heroes. Military soldiers also emptied their rifle shooting at the two individuals.

Max jumped out, nearly dodging a laser-beam. It was quite hard avoiding these things, bullets could be easily dodged, but lasers were very hard. Unless you have a danger-sense based skill, it was nigh impossible.

Coming forward, Max produced another Organic-Vibranium shield in front of him. This time he directly grounded it, as the lasers hit the shield Max used his powers to absorb it. He wasn't going to let it be. Tyrone had teleported behind long ago, unlike Max, he was tired. He wasn't used to using his powers that much.

After a full minute of tanking the laser-beams, the sentinel robots started shooting orbs at them. Max didn't know what it was but was smart enough to web them and throw them back at the doorway. The ball-like objects exploded as green smokes came out of them; the military soldiers started to retreat, due to it. Some of them even fainted on the spot, judging by the reactions it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it was a potent sleeping gas.

"Stay here," Max said, looking back at Tyrone, who nodded. Max crouched, jumping over his shield, landing on it. He pushed against the symbiotic construct using it as a spring his leap. As he leapt forward, he took out his Grasscutter sword. Midair, he dodged a laser beam by angling himself, another laser was too close for him to dodge. He slashed forward channelling his energy into the sword as it created a forcefield, he struck the incoming laser beam. And to his surprise the laser-beam didn't get cut in half, rather it bounced off of his sword. The deflected laser-beam hit a nearby sentinel's c.h.e.s.t, destroying the robot in the process.

As Max landed, he wasn't free enough to apparate his sword as the sentinels kept shooting as they took a few steps back. Max came forward deflecting another laser-beam, then another, he used the laser-beams against the sentinels. Coming forward he pushed himself off the ground as he slashed horizontally at the legs of the mechanical robot, separating it immediately as the robot lost it's balance, falling due to the shortage of its legs. Max detached a few hand grenades throwing them at the sentinels, destroying its core.

He would have loved to celebrate, but the rest of sentinels wouldn't give him any, gripping his sword tightly, he dashed forward. As a trail of darkness was drawn from where he was.

Moving his new Adamantium-shield forward, he deflected the bullets from the military unit. Jumping sideways in a roll, he threw his shield. As it bounced off from one soldier to another, knocking them off of their feet.

Steve dashed from his crouched position as he punched another soldier taking him down, before rolling sideways to get cover behind a wall. Steve got his shield back, throwing it against a wall as it bounced from soldier to soldier he ran. The soldiers kept firing only with his enhanced reflexes did he dodged the bullets. As he ran, he caught the shield mid-air. It didn't take even a minute for him to take down a group of 10 soldiers.

The whole place was on high alert, running through the long corridors. Steve checked out the location from his watch. It was there in front of him; the metallic door was 8-feet long; only an eye-slot could be seen. Sliding the eye-slot, he looked inside, calling out Wanda. "Kid, you in there?" He asked.

"Steve!?" came a raspy female voice from inside. "Is that you? What are you doing here!?" she said.

"To get you out, kid." He said as he tried to open the door. The door's security system was compromised, it was all but thanks to Max's tinkering. Steve, tapped on his watch before he positioned it in front of the hand scanner. A red-holographic light came out of the watch, soon after the scanner's blue screen green as the lock mechanism opened.

Sliding the door sideways, he saw Wanda. Strapped in a tight vest, so that she couldn't move her arms. He looked at her with a sad smile.

Steve felt a tinge of sadness, seeing her like this. It was technically his fault that a minor like her had to suffer. The girl came running as he tackled the American hero. She would have hugged him if the vest wasn't there.

Steve hugged her back after going through all the situations, the Sokovia incident, the civil war. He looked at her like a little sister he never had and seeing her like that. Only made him feel worse and guilty. The girl cried for some time; Steve let it be only after Bucky's call came did he separate.

"Come, we have to leave," Steve said, as the girl nodded. But as they were about to leave, they heard a loud thud, making Steve jerk up as he held his shield in a defensive position. Steve didn't know what it was, a sentinel, maybe. He didn't know, but he was on guard.

"Gee' me outta here!!!" Demanded a growling voice, only then did Steve notice that it was coming from the other cell. It was the same as Wanda's cell, but the door was even bigger, 12 foot maybe and wide enough for a car to go in.

He frowned, looking at the door that was at the end of the hallway. He tried to check who was kept there, but Wanda stopped him. He looked at her with a questioning gaze.

"Don't." She said in a low voice. "That's the Juggernaut."

Hearing that Steve's eyes went wide, he knew about this criminal. A mutant some theorized that caused a lot of destruction wherever he went. He was not to be reckoned with. But a guy like that being imprisoned with former heroes hurt Steve's pride even more. He also asked himself how the guy was held captive.

"Bitch, is that you?" The growling voice asked, hearing Wanda's voice "If you don't let me free. I will smash that skull of yours." He said as various loud thuds were heard, he was trying to escape. But it was futile.

They looked back at the cell before going. Now looking back Wanda, who was still in her vest. The collar around her neck was disabled, only the vest was stopping her from using her powers. "Oh, sorry. Let me fix that." Steve said, taking out a combat knife from his boots.

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