"Attention, all teams! Highest response level. Our top priority is to eliminate any possibility of an enemy counterattack. Do not attempt to take resistors alive. Repeat: if anyone resists, abandon capture and kill them with full force!"
Two columns of standard-issue skimmers and supersonic enforcement jets poured out icy blue repulsor flames as they hovered steadily over the city ruins centered around Grand Army Plaza.
Teams of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Order Whip agents and enforcement officers descended from the sky, clad in full-body armor and armed with energy weapons. Even as they faced the unconscious figures strewn across the ruined plaza, they remained on high alert.
Peggy Rogers stood at the edge of the ruins in blue-and-green armor, her hands clasped behind her back. A longsword hung across her back, and a pair of Adamantium pistols called Guns and Roses rested at her waist as she issued commands in a low voice over her earpiece.
With neither Professor Xavier nor Steve present to oversee the Order forces, Peggy had decisively taken command of the Order Whip and rallied fighting forces from New York City and the surrounding areas to the scene.
The catastrophic anomaly in Brooklyn was the largest and most destructive supernatural attack ever seen on American soil.
Nearly half of Brooklyn had been swept by a raging tide of earthquakes, hurricanes, lightning, and steel. Even the house Peggy and Steve had next to Hull's Kitchen had been caught in the devastation.
From the moment she received the first report about the "Howlett Family Civil War," Mrs. Rogers hadn't believed a word of it. The strange details Peggy had pieced together from intelligence reports over a long period suddenly fell into place.
Though she had caught a distant glimpse of Mr. Howlett defeating all the "family members" before suddenly flying