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As they rode there, Tempest's thoughts raced back to Oliver. "Hey so, I know this is not the best time to bring it up, but it's the holidays and that always has me feeling warm and fuzzy, but what do you make of that guy Oliver. Cute huh?" It hadn't even dawned on Tempest that she was asking Tinley, her boss essentially, this. Tinley focused on driving but gave a slight shrug. "The new guy? Or one of them anyway. He's a hacker type, right? I don't know, cute enough I guess. Not my type, but he seems like yours."

Tinley had bad luck with relationships. Often the men she dated didn't like having a powerful woman. They either wanted her to have a career, but only if it was less than theirs, or they wanted her to be a housewife. Expected it of her really. And Tinley would never be such. It was why she had thought about adoption. She had always wanted kids. Still did, but she didn't see the need to include anyone else in the mix, especially one who expected her to form into their own mold.

"I mean, I've dated here and there with techy types. Or rather we talked online, but there's a difference when you actually see them and realize it's not some troll living in his mother's basement. Also what is the policy on inter-office dating anyway?" Tinley fought the urge to laugh. "Truth be told, I don't know. I never expected it to come up, but I am willing to bet it is frowned upon. But fuck it, it's the holidays. I say go for it."

Tempest grinned as they pulled up to the park. It was relatively empty, which made sense given the time of year. They both stepped off, waiting for the others. "Ok, he's not here yet. Keep the bikes more or less away from each other so as not to tip him off. I want people on all exits. I don't want to give him a chance to escape, but remain close to your vehicles just in case. Also, I assume Raynor and Sparky will follow suit, so someone try to fill them in. Otherwise, remain hidden until we get him."

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Novikova's shoulder was tender and bleeding, thanks to Roman's bite. "Agh, this is not the kinky evening I wanted," she muttered, letting Maria stand in front of her for the moment. Maria did have more skills when it came to fighting and she wasn't about to argue with her fiancée at the moment. "If I turn into an alien, I'm suing," she then added. But before either Maria or Novikova could do anything, Oliver had sprayed Roman with vodka, stolen the knife, and hit him over the head with a bottle.

The alien didn't say a word, vodka dripping down his face. He lunged at Oliver, only for Novikova to kick him in the back and send him to the ground. She was glaring at the creature as she sent the utensils in the room up into the air, suspending them just inches from the creature's throat. "Tell us what the hell is going on or I dissect you and win a Nobel Prize for the groundbreaking research."

"Your planet is lost," the alien hissed. "The secret invasion has already begun."

The Park...

Bonnie shook her head slightly at Cass' comment, not even wanting to get into that at the moment. She hadn't slept with Flynn - Bonnie was taking things relatively slow with their relationship. Anything faster was just too much for her at the moment. Flynn thankfully didn't poke any fun at that, getting onto one of the trikes and Bonnie got on behind him. Less than ten minutes later, they were all at the park with Tempest, Tinley, and the others. Raynor and Sparky touched down a moment later, having flown there.

"I have these for everyone - one inhibitor dart, it fits into your gun like any bullet," Bonnie explained, handing out the inhibitor darts to everyone. "I also have this - it generates an inhibitor field. I'll place these orbs around Deadpool and immobilize him," she added. She figured the others - those with more combat experience - would be able to handle the Merc with a Mouth and she would try to use the device to pin him into one location.

"Got it, we hide and then jump him," Raynor summarized, not caring too much to point out how difficult it would be for him to hide in the bright red Santa suit he was currently wearing - and Sparky was dressed as an elf at the moment. He walked over to one of the trees in the area and he climbed up it, perching in the branches as he was ready to quite literally jump on Deadpool the moment he saw him. He twirled the inhibitor dart slightly, before inserting it into one of his pistols and waiting.

Bonnie glanced around for a moment, before she spotted a few bushes that seemed like as good a place as any to hide. Carrying the device to make the inhibitor field with her, she went and crouched behind the bushes, practically vanishing from sight. Everyone would be able to find a place to hide - just in time as well, as Tempest had asked Deadpool to meet "Peter" in ten minutes... ten minutes ago.

Deadpool's motorcycle was roaring as he pulled into the park, the sack of gifts slung over his shoulder and the puppy barking happily under his arm. "Oh Spidey, I'm heeeereee~!" he sang. "I'm ready for you to make an honest man out of me~!"

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Cassandra looked over at Niah and gave her a slight smile. "Don't worry, i'll make sure you don't get hurt." She said as she continued to drive through the city, following the others down the road while weaving through in between traffic. They eventually got there and Cassandra climbed off of the trike, offering any help if Niah did. She made sure the trike wasn't parked in the open if Deadpool noticed their bikes nearby. She started to make her way over towards Bonnie, handing over some inhibitors to the other members of the team, she noticed that Maria, Novikova, Oliver and Roman weren't present yet.

"Thank you Bonnie." Cass said as she took the single dart as well and loaded it into the gun, she looked around for a moment finding a nearby large newspaper/comic book stands and hid behind it. She leaned her back up against the wall of it, when she started to hear some motorcycle sounds. She noticed Deadpool coming through with the sack still in tow along with the puppy in his hands barking away happily, Cassandra closed her eyes for a moment. Before turning around and then quickly fired off the single dart, her aim completely off as it missed it's target.

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Harry looked at Matt and gave a slight shrug, he wasn't really sure why the other four didn't join them, he knew that Maria and Novi were a thing. "Maria and Novikova are probably in a room together or something, I don't know about the other two though." Harry said, as he held onto Matt and continued to ride. It didn't take to long until they were at the park that Tempest had told them to go to, and climbed off of the bike looking at Matt and nodded towards him. He was grateful for the ride, never really riding a motorcycle before, Harry met up with Bonnie as she started to hand out some inhibitors to the others.

"So one shot, we have to make them count." Harry said as he loaded up the dart and looked over finding a bush to hide behind, and then waited for about ten minutes until finally Deadpool came. He gagged slightly hearing his comment, and looked over seeing Cass getting in position, before hearing her firing off a round which missed. Harry took that time to and then waited a few seconds before firing off a dart which landed.

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Maria watched as Oliver took action and grabbed a bottle of vodka and poured it onto the alien, and then smashed the glass over it's head, she was about ready to attack him again only for Novi to easily kick him to the ground. Seeing all of the metallic utensils fly and stop near inches from Roman's neck. Seeing that Novikova was bleeding from the bite wound, she was a little more than pissed off at Roman for hurting her. "Yeah, wrong choice on trying to kill my fiancé." Maria said a little coldly.

What he said sounded very worrying to her and looked between Oliver and Novikova, before turning her attention back to Roman and punched him in the face. "What are you talking about?" Maria asked, and then punched him again in the stomach, but he didn't reply to her questions as she stepped back a little bit rubbing her fingers, seeing that Oliver was bleeding also. "Are you two okay?" Maria asked, though she was more worried about Novi.

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"Okay, this guy is starting to get really annoying, and is clearly a bit of an idiot..." Sparky muttered slightly as she kept flying along after Deadpool. Hearing that he was heading for the park, she nodded her head slightly at Raynor, before she headed off that way, figuring that if she was lucky they'd beat him there. Especially since she was flying and could take a much more direct route then a motorcycle could. Flying above the buildings she eventually had them reach the park, where everyone else seemed to be assembling.

She nodded her head slightly at Bonnie as she mentioned the inhibitor darts. Sparky wasn't one who really was a combatant of any kind with weapons at the least, she was getting better when it came to using her powers. However she kept having a reoccurring nightmare about the incident in the Quantum Realm where she accidentally made the spider bigger somehow as opposed to blasting it to smithereens like she had hoped to. It was constantly in the back of her mind as she found a place to hide and she had to stop herself from gagging slightly at what Deadpool was saying.

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Flynn nodded his head slightly when he heard that the plan was to more or less take off for the park in order to meet up with Deadpool there. He was more annoyed with Deadpool at the moment then anything, sure, Flynn didn't celebrate Christmas, but just about everyone else really did, so this was still a major inconvenience. It made him wonder what was going through the others heads regarding this whole situation. Deadpool really needed to stop messing around or something like this or whatever.

Once they had reached the park, he listened as Bonnie handed out the inhibitor darts and they sort of scattered to find hiding places. He found one, and just more or less waited until Deadpool decided to show up prancing around or whatever it was that he was doing, calling out for Spider-Man who clearly wasn't there or whatever. Flynn glanced around at the others in their hiding spots, before he loaded the dart into his weapon and fired it off at Deadpool. It looked like it might hit him, but instead it seemed to have hit the buckle that connected one of his sword sheaths to his suit. "Damn it..." he muttered under his breath, hoping the others would have better shots then him at the least, it did look like Harry had managed to hit him.

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Niah got off the bike, thankful for Cass' help. Her body was shaking slightly and she didn't like the thought that the only way back would be on that bike. It did feel a bit safer than motorcycles at least. Even if part of her was considering vomiting. She found a hiding spot with her inhibitor dart. She saw Deadpool enter their ambush area. Cass took the first shot and sadly missed, but thankfully Harry hit him.

With her hand shaking slightly she took her own shot and was pleasantly surprised it looked like it hit the mark, but Deadpool dodged it just in time. Niah thought that was more impressive. She took a slow breath to try to steady herself. Then she looked at Bonnie. Two of the darts had hit home it was up to Bonnie now to get the immobilization field set up around Deadpool.

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Matt nodded at Harry. He wasn't surprised the two girls were an item, they definitely looked like they were ready to disappear into another room at any moment during the party. Matt was tempted to ask what the deal with Roman was. That dude was weird. But they were at the park and Bonnie had given him an inhibitor dart. They set up their ambush spots. Matt keeping his bike near him in a bush.

When Deadpool came into sight, they started shooting. Harry hit him first. So, he had been telling the truth. The lab kids in SHIELD were nothing like the lab kids he had known before. Matt lined up his shot and aimed. Deadpool was dodging Dr. Bautista's shot and Matt took advantage of that. Hitting Deadpool dead on, no pun intended. That was two inhibitor darts. Hopefully, it would be enough against him. And if Matt could close the distance and touch a bit of skin... He didn't want to get caught up in whatever it was Bonnie had planned with the immobilization balls. But he was ready to dart forward if her plan fell through.

Oliver looked over the thing that had just tried to kill him. "I'm gonna see if we have anybody on whatever this alien is." And with that, he snapped a photo of Roman, and ran a reverse image search of him against what was in the S.H.I.E.L.D database. Scanning for a minute, he squinted at what he found, before widening his eyes for a minute. Connections in his brain were firing off, and he started to get an idea that shook him to his core. This thought he had was, unsettling, to say the least, and he immediately had to take precautions, even if there was the smallest chance he was right.

He started to clear any records he made in finding this information, and noticed he had tripped some kind of flag on his way in. Gritting his teeth for a minute, he sighed, that was a red flag for sure. Making a copy of the information in front of him, he ran the quick check against it, and found even more alarming things. Quickly taking action to disarm them, he huffed at seeing it had already fired off. That was concerning, but ultimately fine, he thought, as people probably wouldn't think anything of it. Quickly, he was proven very wrong.

Oliver's phone would ring once again, and this time when he answered Tony's voice was a lot louder to the point anyone near Oliver would be able to hear him, "Why the hell are you still looking at things you aren't supposed to? Didn't you learn ANYTHING from our last conversation?"

Oliver's hand trembled as the phone began to ring, steadying his breath for a moment, and answering it, only to jolt his head away from the phone. "In my defense." He started, speaking for more quickly than he normally would, "This was in a S.H.I.E.L.D database, and I had some good reason. There's a skrull in front of us, and I needed to know what we were facing."

"...That's more then a bit concerning. The Skrulls are almost completely indistinguishable from the people they have shifted into. It's almost impossible to tell the difference, some of them could even replace people higher up around the world and you wouldn't know. I kind of threatened them during our last encounter to stay the hell away from Earth."

Oliver nodded along to Tony and said, "Almost? Is there a way to tell?" He couldn't find any trace of that in the file, and that was something that he'd very much want to know. "If an agent was already replaced by a Skrull, a way to confirm that more of them aren't would be indispensable."

"You could do a DNA test to look, but some Skrulls can even replicate that."

Oliver nodded, and closed his eyes, "Got it. Thanks. Anything else, or um... can I hang up?" He asked, unsure. "I really would rather not end up in The Raft for this." He tacked on.

Oliver would be able to hear a voice in the background, "Daaaaad c'mon it's time for more shots!!"

Tony thought for a moment before responding to Oliver, "Nothing else, but final warning got it?"

"Got it. Have a nice night, um, sir."

"Now get lost and stay out of trouble!" With those parting words, Tony hung up.

Breathing a sigh of relief, he looked around at the people in front of him. "He's a Skrull, some kind of alien that can shapeshift, obviously, and that's about all we know." He said, slipping his phone back into his pocket.

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"I'm fine," Novikova muttered, her shoulder screaming at her in pain but she pushed through it. Her ears were ringing and she didn't really hear what Oliver was saying, staring at the skrull that had been impersonating a team member. She didn't care that the skrull had bit her - well, that was a lie. Novikova was infuriated that that had happened. She'd need to treat her wound later and make sure that the skrull hadn't injected her with poison or some sort of alien virus, but at the moment, all she really wanted was revenge.

She extended her hand and Roman's knife flew into her grip. "Fuck. You. Asshole," she cursed at the skrull, before driving the knife down into the creature's chest. The skrull tensed up, before becoming incredibly still - dead. Novikova didn't care that they couldn't interrogate "Roman" anymore. She didn't care that she had probably just made studying this creature a lot harder in terms of its internal organs. All that mattered was the piece of shit who bit her was dead.

The Park...

Now you're probably wondering - gee, I thought Deadpool was narrating this story, but he just got shot with some fucking darts like it's Friday night at some crappy bar! What the fuck is going on with the inconsistent writing in this story? But no one likes a story where the heroes don't have at least some chance of winning. And it's not like these little darts take away my badass ninja skills. I don't even think I can die - Lady Death has the HOTS for me. Yeah, that's right Thanos, she calls me daddy too!

But what's truly disappointing is that my true love, Peter fucking Parker, is NOT HERE! I'm Wade Wilson, I proudly sport Canada's Ass - I'm not some sort of drugged up prom date that you can ditch to go fight Vulture. Or is it Morbius now? I saw the trailer and let's just say I am confused. I thought Feige would have smacked that down! Aaaaanyways...

Time to make the chimichangas!

Deadpool was laughing in his suit, pulling the darts out. "Wow, good job! Only two of you managed to hit me! But let's face it, you're S.H.I.E.L.D. agents - I know that you're not going to kill me. More of you than just B film Black Widow would get fired if you killed me over presents, isn't that right, Fido?" Deadpool said, petting the dog. The little puppy was barking and squirming happily in his arms. "Or should I call you Max? I'm not green but I do think I could be made Mayor of Whooville or whatever the fuck the Grinch was at the end of the day. Nightcrawler keeps saying chicks dig the fuzzy man anyways. Maybe he's onto something."

Setting down the puppy named Max, Deadpool unsheathed his katanas and stretched slightly. "Maximum effort." Raynor and Bonnie both fired off inhibitor darts at Deadpool, but they missed. The doses Matt and Harry had delivered would keep Deadpool from being able to heal himself rapidly, yet they did nothing towards keeping the Merc with a Mouth down and getting back their presents.

"Damn it, Wade!" Raynor cursed, sending a blast of light at Deadpool. The mutant in the red suit jumped up into the air and over the blast with practiced ease.

"Missed me, missed me, now you gotta kiss me!" Deadpool taunted. He tried swiping his katana at Raynor, but only managed to cut off the Asgardian's shirt. "Oooh, nice abs," Deadpool complimented, as Bonnie tried to set up the inhibitor field around him. Unfortunately, Deadpool caught her out of the corner of his eye and he spun around, kicking her in the jaw and sending Bonnie flying backwards.

"Oof, put some ice on that sweetheart!" he advised. "Who's next? T and T? Gosh, you two are so quiet, it's almost like your writer hasn't given you any lines yet!"

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Deadpool came just as they thought he would. They were prepared, but Flynn's dart didn't appear to work. With their cover blown, Deadpool launched into defensive mode, fighting off Raynor and Bonnie. Tinley had just about enough of this imbecile. She ran forward with Tempest as Deadpool called out to them.

"Oh T and T, that could be our ship name!" Tinley glared daggers at Tempest and the girl quickly shut up. "Ok, here goes nothing. I'm going to regret this." Tinley then tried to enter Deadpool's mind. It was chaotic and gross, she had already figured it would be. There was no way she was going to control him, but she was able to latch on long enough to give off a strong suggestion. "Give back the gifts."

Tinley exited and she waited to see what Deadpool would do. The mutant with a mouth proceeded to then toss their gifts up into a nearby tree.

That was the last straw.

Tempest had worked hard on her gift-giving to not let it be foiled by some Scrooge. She charged, jumping up and wrapping her legs around Deadpool's neck, spinning and flipping him to the ground with ease. She felt just as badass as Black Widow. Tinley followed that display up by running towards Deadpool's sprawled out body. "Let's see how Spiderman likes you..." she reared her foot back, bringing it forward and decking Deadpool in the sack. "as" another kick, "a" and another, "eunuch!" One last kick for good measure. All Deadpool could say through tears was "Kinky."

Tempest, meanwhile, had turned to the tree and scaled it with ease. She grabbed what presents she could and brought them down to the ground. She glanced over as Tinley kicked Deadpool with a grimace. She proceeded to grab the other presents. "Well, we got them here. Anyone willing to ensure he doesn't get up to nab them again?"

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Cassandra stood up from where she was hiding from, as everyone started to get into the action Deadpool managing to almost hit Raynor with his swords, and then him going up to Bonnie hurting her friend which made her really angered now. As she watched the inhibitor field getting knocked out of her hands. Though she couldn't see where it had gone either as Cass quickly went over towards Bonnie and knelt down to get a better look at her. "Are you okay Bonnie?" She asked her, and looked to Tempest and Tinley as the two of them went into action.

Cass watched Tinley giving Deadpool a command to drop the sack of presents and it ended up getting caught in the nearby tree and then Tempest managing to grab them. Tinley also kicking him in the nuts which she did wince slightly, though they probably wouldn't keep him down for long. "We still need to find the inhibitor field."

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Harry looked at Matt and gave him a slight nod seeing as they were the only ones who had managed to hit Deadpool with the inhibitor darts, though they wouldn't be able to knock him out it would just remove his healing for a little bit. He winced when Bonnie was kicked in the jaw by Deadpool and turned to glare at Deadpool no one hit his friend ever. As Harry got up and started to search around for the inhibitor field like Cassandra was but he didn't see where it had gone flying at all.

Harry saw Tempest managing to grab the two presents without any problems which he was glad, he did spend a lot of money buying his gift after all. He wasn't sure where the device had gone as he continued to try and look for it and sighed but it looked like Deadpool had gotten kicked pretty hard as well seeing him going down.

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Maria watched as Oliver went to take a picture of the Skrull and then started to search through some of SHIELD's database on it, while still looking down at the alien who had tried to kill her fiancé which she was really pissed off about. Maria started to pace around the room a little bit until Oliver got a phone call, hearing Tony Stark's voice on the other end and the two of them talking a little bit. Before the phone call ended. "Why would an alien be put into our team anyway?" Maria asked, and looked to Novi when she used the knife and killed Roman without getting some answers first. She was a little bit disappointed but she didn't say anything to her fiancé sighing a little bit.

"Let me go and grab a medkit or something." Maria said as she turned and headed out of the Commons and found one just outside of the room, and yanked it off of the wall before coming back in. Though it really wasn't her field Maria started to search for some bandages and looked over at Oliver. "So what did you find in the SHIELD database other than the info Tony gave you?" She asked, as she found some and walked over to Novi. "We can get Bonnie to look at that whenever they get back."

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Deadpool was really starting to get on Flynn's nerves a little bit. The guy never knew when to shut up, at all, no matter how many opportunities he was given in order to do that. Tinley seemed to somewhat agree with that, considering the fact that she then proceeded to kick the guy a lot. He was mad somewhat that Deadpool had kicked Bonnie in the head, in a bit of retaliation for him doing that, Flynn sent a small fireball of sorts that hit him. It was not really meant to actually hurt him, it was more of meant to be annoyance than anything.

With that, he went over to Bonnie, looking at her now. "Hey... Are you okay Bonnie?" he asked her softly, giving her a slight smile at her now. He was glad that things seemed to be calming down now slightly, as Deadpool was down and they had gotten back the presents and whatever that had been stolen by the Merc with the Mouth. Right now he was more concerned then anything with Bonnie and if she needed medical attention or something. He knew next to nothing about medicine or first aid really, so he couldn't really tell all too well.

Sparky somewhat was just trying to pay attention to what was going on in front of her, and the chaos that resulted in Deadpool getting kicked by Tinley a lot. She mentally made a note not to piss Tinley off, but she was more of focusing on that sort of thing, and not the little thought in the back of her mind agreeing with Deadpool on Raynor's abs. It was getting a little difficult for her to really focus on what was going on because of it. Instead, she decided to focus on something, like trying to make sure that Deadpool stayed down, at least for now.

This caused her to have electricity creeping along her arm as she walked over towards Deadpool, and she sent electricity surging through her arm that then hit Deadpool. Her first attempt to shock him didn't really seem to work, but her second attempt seemed to do the trick and knock Deadpool out. Smiling slightly at that, she walked over to Raynor and looked at him and the others. "So... He's unconscious now... We should see about heading back..." she said, almost asking Raynor the question in the back of her mind about why he suddenly had a change of heart when it came to the Christmas presents. Why did he suddenly want to go after them and whatever?

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"Bonnie!" Concern was written deep in Niah's features when Bonnie was hit. She glared at Deadpool ready to launch herself at him and just punch him, knowing perfectly well she wasn't any good at that, but it would make her feel better she thought. But Sparky was shocking Deadpool and he was now unconscious.

She wanted to go and help Bonnie, but Flynn was already at her side. She'd check on her after she found the immobilization field. Niah searched and was able to find the balls for the field. She collected them and then started finding any of the other gifts that Deadpool had taken, making sure she found the one from her to Bonnie.

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Things went sideways. Bonnie had been hit and was down, and only he and Henry had actually hit Deadpool with the darts. So, Deadpool would be slightly weaker. Matt was about to run forward and try to paralyze Deadpool but Sparky had shocked him unconscious. He stepped forward to check on Deadpool. It looked like he would be unconscious for a while, with his healing factor diminished from the darts. He nodded, then looked to Tinley.

"What should we do with him? I can paralyze him for a bit, but I suspect once his healing comes back he'll be able to, I guess heal that. I've never really thought about how it works and if it would work on someone with his power set." Matt gave a small shrug. "Technically, what he did was harmless. Well, except for hitting Bonnie. So I don't know if we can bring him in. Your call."

Oliver cringed for a moment as the knife was plunged into the creature's chest. Such brutality was not his typical way of dealing with things, so he looked away from the violence. He quite simply didn't have the stomach for the stuff. He cleared his throat and said, "We're going to want to collect tissue samples from that Skrull, and every member of this team." He said, forcing his gaze on the corpse. "Not to start any concern, but if these things can copy people, and had infiltrated our team, we need to know that none of us are compromised." He closed his eyes for a moment and looked up, "Iron Man said that some Skrull could sometimes be identified by DNA, failing that, maybe somebody can come up with some other way to identify them."

With that, Oliver looked over to Maria, "Not much, just a report of a previous encounter with Skrull." He said, running his hand through his hair as he said that, taking a deep breath, "I'll send you a copy when I get a chance. I wouldn't go looking for it yourself though unless you particularly want to get into a screaming match with Iron Man." He explained, "And if you do want that, I'd still rather you didn't, as it'll fall back on me, and ending up in the Raft isn't exactly the direction I want my career to go in." He gave a somewhat pleading look to Maria, only half joking with his last comment.

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"Pff, like Stark is going to be any help - you can't trust him," she warned Oliver. Her mentor was Hank Pym, an intellectual rival of Howard Stark and thus Tony by extension. She smirked slightly though as the conversation turned towards making sure that the team wasn't compromised. Roman had been a skrull, so they were doing a fantastic job at that in her opinion. She opened up another bottle of vodka and took a swig, seeing as this was S.H.I.E.L.D. business and she had been fired. It wasn't her problem. "How do you know Stark isn't a skrull, kid?" Novikova pointed out to him, raising that question purely in order to antagonize Oliver.

She remembered when their team had first formed - the HYDRA infiltrating of S.H.I.E.L.D. This was hardly any different than that, wasn't it? To defeat an organization, all you had to do was weaken it. "What if you're a skrull?" Novikova then pressed, taking another drink of vodka. "And this is all just a ploy to get us to trust you, by making it seem like you couldn't possibly be one?" The silver haired mutant then tipped her glasses, staring at Oliver as she fell into a trance, seeing hundreds of his alternate lives rush by.

By the time she slid her glasses back onto her eyes, Novikova was laughing as she stared at Oliver. She was laughing so hard that she cried. "You're worse than a skrull," she snickered, more than a little bit wasted. "You don't even know who you are."

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Raynor winced, taking a sharp breath as he watched Tinley pummel Deadpool's family jewels. Yes, he was angry with the mutant for stealing the presents - mostly because of the present he had gotten for his Secret Santa - but Raynor was also male. He couldn't watch such a thorough dick stomping without feeling a swell of pity for the Merc with a Mouth. Raynor shifted his stance slightly, just in case someone tried to go and do the same thing to him. He didn't really care too much about being shirtless, even with the evening chill setting in - it was California, things never really got too hot here.

"I'm fine," Bonnie muttered, her head pounding. Cass, Flynn, and Niah were all asking about her - it was sweet. Her ears were ringing and she couldn't focus properly enough to realize that she was concussed. Sparky had zapped Deadpool into unconsciousness and since Tempest had recovered all of the presents, there weren't any objectives remaining to this mission. "Hey, Freddie... Happy Hannukah..." Bonnie then mumbled, trying to get up to her feet but it was hard to find her balance. "Maybe we can play dreidel or something since... since we... we caught Deadpool." She almost forgot why they were there in the park for a moment.

Raynor glared at Deadpool for a moment, thinking over what Oliver said. "He stole something incredibly precious and valuable - and almost ruined this night!" he shouted, completely ignoring the fact that he had punched Harry earlier and had arguably begun the destruction of the party. "Are we seriously going to just let him go? He's a mercenary, a trained assassin, and a completely annoying one too! And weird!" he huffed, running a hand through his hair. "We should book him - send him off to the Raft. He can keep Luminous company on Christmas."

"Let him go, I was the one that got hurt," Bonnie argued, finally having gotten back up to her feet without falling back down to the ground. "It's Christmas Eve - we can be nice to him for once." After all, wasn't that the spirit of Christmas - having compassion for others? Or was it about getting second chances like in a Christmas Carol? Or not shooting your eye out, like in Christmas Story? Or being green and mean like in Grinch? "It's like in Grinch - we have to be nice to him, or he'll just be a dick for life." Bonnie rarely swore - pretty much everyone there with medical training would realize she had a concussion by this point.

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Cassandra looked at Bonnie with a little bit of a concerned look on her face, she wasn't really fully trained in medical training except for combat first aide. She turned to look over at Raynor and shook her head slightly she did agree with Bonnie that it was Christmas and that he did was completely harmless anyway. "Just let him go with a warning, he probably knows that if he comes at us again he would probably lose anyway." Cassandra said shrugging a little bit, before turning her attention back towards Bonnie hearing her friend swear which she never really did.

"Take it a little bit easy Bonnie, you have a concussion." She said looking over at Flynn for a moment. "We should head back, could you take Bonnie with you?" She asked, seeing that both Maria, Novikova and Oliver still hadn't shown up were still probably back at the Hub right now. She wasn't sure why the three of them didn't come at all, though it was really Tinley's decision on what to do with Deadpool now at this point.

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Harry walked over towards Bonnie, she looked like she was fine but still he was concerned for his friend and he really wanted to beat the crap out of Deadpool for hurting her. He looked at Deadpool when Sparky had knocked him out pretty easily and looked at the others, he didn't really think that letting him go with a slap on the wrist was a good idea at all or anything. "We should at least string him up to the tree, and humiliate him a little bit knock him down a few pegs or something." Harry said shrugging slightly.

Seeing Bonnie getting up though was good at least, though hearing her swear was a little off for her to do after knowing her for a very long time. And then Cass pointed out that Bonnie has a concussion was a little bit worrying as well to him, they should head back now, there wasn't anything else really for them to do now and Deadpool was unconscious now as well.

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Maria looked at Oliver as he spoke to her, it did sound concerning and that they should look into it as well, she looked down at the body of the Skrull and then over at Oliver. "SHIELD might have some DNA stuff maybe from the Phase Three Experiments, at least for some of us but i'm not sure about that though." Maria said shrugging slightly they probably took some samples after the procedure that some of them had undergone. She looked over at her fiancé pointing out some concerns, though a bit drunken and trying to antagonize him by the looks of it and sighed.

"I think you've had enough to drink tonight.." Maria said as she reached for the bottle of vodka that she had been drinking from, the others probably wouldn't be back for awhile anyway. "We should head back to our place soon anyway." Maria said as she started to take some bandages and tried to clean Novi's bite wound.

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Sometimes Tinley hated being the leader. There were two sides to this: either they let Deadpool go, allowing him to not pay for what he did (granted he only stole gifts, but he did also attack Bonnie) or they made him pay, which could result in many different things that could come to bite them on the ass in the future. And she was to decide.

Tempest, meanwhile, had managed to get all of the gifts safely off the tree. How they would transport them all back remained to be seen. "I'm for letting him go. If you think about it, he didn't do anything nearly as crazy or dangerous as he normally does. He did hurt Bonnie, but I think getting kicked in the junk four to five times comes pretty close to making amends for that. Just my two cents, but the sooner we decide the sooner we get back and can crack these babies open."

Tinley considered it all. Fuck it, it was the holidays. She wasn't a scrooge like Deadpool said, she did have some heart. "Fine, he's free to go. It would just take time to process this and he won't learn his lesson anyway. Let's head back to H.Q. and to the others. I'm concerned that Maria, Novi, and Oliver didn't follow us here so I imagine they either ditched or something happened and given all we've been through, my bet is on the latter. Everyone grab a gift or two and let's head back."

Tinley picked up what she could and so did Tempest, returning to their bike and prepared to take off back to their base. Deadpool was still on the ground and that seemed like the best punishment for him for now. Tinley did give him a solid hit or two.

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A small relieved sigh escaped Niah when Bonnie confirmed that she was okay. Her shoulder tensed only slightly when Luminous was mentioned and she tried to shake it off. There was a lot to try to shake off though. Niah took a deep breath and smiled at Bonnie, satisfied that her friend would be okay and was in...well...capable hands.

Niah frowned at Tinley mentioning that Maria, Novi, and Oliver all had not joined them. She wondered if they were aware of what the meetup point was. Or if something bad had happened to them. She'd feel awful if the latter. Though she knew Maria and Novi could both handle themselves just fine. Oliver was new so she had no idea of what he was capable of.

She made herself busy trying to secure the presents she had grabbed to the trike. And did her best to not think of what her body would look like if she was thrown off at high speeds. But that was like trying not to think of a pink elephant, which she decided was way better to think of and tried to picture a pink elephant as best she could. At least until Cass was ready to go and then she kept her will as best she could while climbing on behind her friend.

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Matt nodded at Tinley and grabbed a gift before climbing back on his motorcycle. He waited for Harry to climb on again before taking off. Matt was tempted to just give Deadpool a zap of his paralytic power just for the satisfaction. He decided it was best not to though. Niah looked sick again at the thought of climbing onto the bikes and he wondered why she had such a strong fear over it. He loved the freedom a motorcycle gave him. Especially in busy cities like San Francisco.

"I certainly am ready to open presents. And check on the others." He remembered his concern from earlier when the others hadn't joined them. He was more concerned now. There was no way that guy who was even newer than him would be any good in a fight. He could guess that the two women would have to take care of themselves. And of course, there was that weird quiet one that just stood in the corner the whole time.

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"...Might I point out that riding off on a motorcycle for someone with a concussion would likely be a bad idea and cause more damage," Sparky said, speaking up somewhat and looking over at Bonnie and Flynn. It was standard, a concussion usually had it so that you had minor brain damage that needed rest and such, so racing off on a motorcycle would be a bad idea. Rest and limiting any sort of activity that the person would usually do, since otherwise the brain wouldn't heal at all.

Flynn however had another thought going through his head that caused him to be somewhat annoyed with Tempest at the moment. She was someone who seemed more concerned on stupid presents at the moment, then she was at what was wrong with Bonnie. Her powers were literally healing and concussions typically were bad, he's had more then a few in his life, and typically if not treated could end up being pretty serious. Like, any sort of head injury could turn bad, and that was just from what he knew from his personal experiences.

"Hey Tempest, how about instead of you dealing with Deadpool or thinking about presents of all things, you see about helping Bonnie out. Concussions can end up being bad, and she just said we shouldn't be racing around on a motorcycle which is how we got here. So how about making yourself useful and actually help her out right now? Or would you rather we end up sitting around waiting for an actual car or whatever? Take your pick!" Flynn snapped in her direction, clearly more then a little bit pissed off that Tempest wasn't doing anything to help her.

Sparky shook her head slightly and wandered over to where Raynor was now. He certainly was acting more then a little bit strange all things considering. She was trying not to be too distracted by the fact that he wasn't exactly wearing a shirt at this point, and she thought to ask him about what he was even going on about at this point. "Hey Ray, calm down okay? Look, what is going through your head? Since clearly something is bugging you or whatever, but you haven't seemed all too thrilled about the whole Christmas thing, and suddenly after Deadpool showed up you were... What's going on?"

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"You mean HYDRA," Novikova corrected her fiancée, breaking into giggles. The Phase Three experiments had been secretly organized and funded by HYDRA. Everyone who received their powers due to them had been intended to be molded into weapons for HYDRA, designed to be used against super threats like the Avengers and anyone else who would try to stop the offshoot of the Nazi science division. She wished that there was a HYDRA operative at the party - in her drunken mood, she definitely could have had some fun beating them up like a piñata. She even wished that Agent Kennedy was there.

As Maria tried to take the bottle of vodka away from her, Novikova extended her arm in order to keep it within her own grasp. "But we haven't done Secret Santa yet!" Novikova then protested, her tone switching to something more serious than playful. "We spent money on those gifts and if we leave without getting our gifts, then we get nothing," she reasoned, before forgetting that she was trying to keep the vodka away from Maria and she took another swig, draining as much from the bottle as she could. The stereotype was true in this case. "I'm sure they'll be back soon or maybe Deadpool killed Tinley for firing me or something..."

The Park...

"You're too sweet, Cass," Bonnie said, tempted to shake her head but she knew better. She was a doctor herself and wasn't about to try to worsen the concussion. Everything was a little bit dizzying and confusing, but she knew that it would pass with rest (and careful monitoring). It didn't click in her mind just yet that Tempest could have healed her concussion, as Bonnie waved at Tempest and Tinley as they got on their bike. "Oh, yeah - I shouldn't go on a motorcycle," Bonnie then recalled, nodding in agreement with Sparky - before abruptly ceasing to move her head again, trying to stay still.

"Freddie, calm down, I'm fine!" Bonnie protested. "I can call a cab or something - or maybe Sparky can fly me back..." she suggested. She knew that he got angry pretty easily and as much as she did enjoy seeing him shirtless, she didn't want him to burst into flames at that moment. For a split second, she saw double. "Or I can walk - it's nice out... Or..." Bonnie trailed off, trying to think of another form of transportation. Walking was definitely not the best choice. Concussions called for rest and pain meds.

As for the Asgardian, he sighed slightly as he looked at Sparky. He didn't want to lie to her, but it would ruin all of this if he just flat out told her right now. It was going to be way more dramatic and he lived for drama. "Sparks, if I told you, it'd be lame," he admitted, smirking a little bit. His ensemble certainly was a little bit odd - Santa hat, pants, and boots without a shirt - and probably would have been decent for a calendar photoshoot for the month of December. "And Sexy Santa never ruins a surprise." His mind flickered towards Yule for a moment and the pain of his parents' death - of the loss of his planet - and he forced the smirk to stay on his face. "If you're not flying Chase back, mind giving me a lift?" he asked.

"You could be my reindeer," he joked.

Oliver blinked at Novikova, as she seemed to finally break down from the stress of the situation, or at least from the amount of alcohol she'd poured into her body. Playing along with it, he raised his hands in the air, and said "Guilty," sarcastically. He was pretty sure he wasn't a Skrull, but he didn't know that of anybody else, and he thought that reasonable made him uneasy. he gave a smile at Maria, and mouthed, "Thank you," glad somebody was acting reasonably.

He gave an exasperated smile in Novikita's direction. She was right, they hadn't done Secret Santa yet, and that was something he was looking forward to. He had a look of pity in his eyes at her last comment though, he was worried about her. Losing your job couldn't be easy, especially here. They all seemed to be friends, so losing your job meant losing your circle, in a lot of ways. That couldn't be easy. He held a cautionary hand towards her as she drank more, hoping Maria would get that bottle out of her grip.

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Cassandra gave Bonnie a slight smile, but then got worried again when Bonnie started to shake her head and walked a little closer towards her. "Don't shake your head like that, you know better than that Bonnie." Cass said, giving her a smile and then looked around seeing a bench nearby. "Just take a seat, we can call you a cab, or Sparks could fly you back." She watched Flynn as he started to snap at Tempest and sighed shaking her head towards him, knowing that he had a little bit of a hot temper.

Cass watched Niah making her way towards the trike, knowing that her friend couldn't drive it alone she looked towards the others. "I'll take Niah back." She said, Cassandra really hated leaving Bonnie but she did have Flynn who could take her back she gave Bonnie a quick hug. "I'll meet you back at The Hub, just don't shake your head to much okay?" Cass said as she walked over to the trike and climbed on it, letting Niah take hold of her, and then started to drive back to HQ.

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Harry watched Bonnie shaking her head, after having a concussion which was a bad thing to do as he looked at the others, as he rubbed the back of his neck slightly. "Yeah that's a big no, no on that Bonnie." Harry said, giving his friend a smile before grabbing a present and overhearing Flynn snapping at Tempest, he didn't like it that he snapped at one of his friends either. But he decided to stay quiet for now. "I'll see you guys back at The Hub then." Harry said to the others.

Harry turned around feeling bad and he didn't want to leave Bonnie there, but he knew that she was in good hands right now. Harry got onto the back of Matt's bike and then they were off. At least they got their things back, though he did wish that they could have done something with Deadpool as well.

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Maria turned to look at her fiancé and nodded slightly true it was originally funded by HYDRA in secret, as she rubbed her neck slightly. "Yeah true, but still SHIELD could have files still or something." Maria said, she still wasn't to sure about Oliver, but they all needed to make sure that no one else on the team was compromised. She gave Oliver a slight nod while Novikova went to keep the vodka out of her hands and sighed. She did spend quiet a bit of money on her gift for her secret santa and wanted to make sure that it would make them happy.

"Alright you win, we stay and open the presents, discuss about this Skrull thing with the others, then we can go back home. But no more drinking tonight, i'd rather not have to carry you all the way out to our car and into our apartment. Besides if we want to have our own fun later i'd like someone who's conscious." Maria said, as she stared at her fiancé once again giving her a little wink.