Marvel's Secret Invasion Prose Novel by Paul Cornell

Author:Paul Cornell
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Titan

THIRTY-THREE

ALICE CREASY

ALICE CREASY had stopped seeing the difference between “heroes” and “villains” a long time ago. She was nineteen, and where she worked, at a twenty-four-hour drug store, the young staff would listen to Sullivan, the proprietor, talking in his boomer way about how some mystery hero had saved his life in the 1970s, about the latest Avengers gossip, who was in and who was out, who was dating who… and they would look at each other, baffled. It was like hearing someone excitedly talk about romances in the NYPD or the government. It didn’t help that Sullivan had told them all the story of him being rescued at one time or another, but he couldn’t seem to keep straight in his memory which super hero had saved him. The only constant was that it was one of the ones who’d been around “before they’d started poppin’ outta the woodwork.” Alice suspected the story might not actually be true, that Sullivan had started telling it to make himself sound more important by association or whatever, and now believed it had actually happened to him.

“Captain America is dead, dude,” one of her fellow employees had once said to Sullivan, “get over it.” He had quickly found himself on the zombie shift.

But that had just been the truth, said out loud. Captain America was dead and super hero culture was a toxic mess that nobody in her generation cared about. Ever since Alice could remember, whenever a super hero was in the news it was because they were literally destroying some building in New York, having their weekly battle with Terrible Man or whoever it was, not caring if innocent bystanders got hit by the wreckage. That was what had happened to Alice’s Gran Creasy. She hadn’t been the same since She-Hulk had demolished a wall, sending one brick randomly flying precisely at the center of Gran’s forehead. Now Gran sometimes bled from the nose, and had episodes of forgetfulness, but every time Alice said to her that here was a class action suit waiting to happen, Gran looked at her with horror and said that She-Hulk was both an Avenger and had been one of that lovely Reed Richards’ people and so she would never… blah, blah, blah.

It was like the USA had invented a monarchy for themselves.

The Super Hero Civil War had been, to Alice and her friends and millions like them online, just the latest idiocy these hugely privileged morons had perpetrated against the everyday people of New York. I mean, great, now they didn’t even need villains, they were picking sides and fighting each other. Had one side been better than the other? Well, given that Tony Stark was an out-and-out fascist who’d finally shown his true colors, and that Captain America… well, even Alice had to admit that there was one guy who’d never crossed the line, who even the most radical of her friends always gave a pass to, so, yeah, maybe the “rebels” had been better than the “official Avengers.

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