Ares was ecstatic. For the first time in thousands of years, he felt a rage like no other coming from the heart of Themyscira. And it was slowly rising. Even with his powers shackled, he could tell that whatever the being was that was coming to him, it was a being of pure rage. He then did something that he hadn't done in a long time, something that alerted the Amazons that he was was happy for some reason, he began to chuckle.
"Things are about to change." Ares spoke, for the first time in years. He knew that his escape was close at hand.
Change scene to the Hulk
Hulk came down with a thundering crash. He could tell that whatever was causing him to feel angry was close by. He didn't know why he was angry, and he didn't care. He just wanted it to stop. Before Hulk could begin to move, he began to hear a growling noise coming from his left.
He turned abruptly in order to gaze at the creature that was making its way towards him and saw that it was a lion. It began to slowly stalk towards Hulk, as if to determine whether he was a threat. When he reached him, the lion began to rub itself against Hulks leg for about ten seconds before it took off back into the jungle.
After the lion left him alone, Hulk began to march to where he felt the entity that was causing him to be angry was coming from.
With Hippolyta and the Amazon army, 2 miles behind the Hulk.
After witnessing the transformation of the young man, and his intended destination, Hippolyta ordered the Amazons to prepare for battle. As soon as all were ready, with Diana along with Agrippa, Artemis as well as Ingrid, since she was the one to first meet the descendant, all took their horses and began to race after Hulk.
Diana, after contacting the League to tell them that she was going to be late coming back, was asked why. When she told them how a young man by the name of Adrian Collodi seemingly washed up on Themyscira, she was surprised to see Batman and Superman's eyes widen at the name. When she asked why the two looked surprised, they began to tell her of how Superman had met the young man two days ago at luthors Research facility in the mountains, that was attacked by both Joker and Harley Quinn. Batman took over and told her how Adrian had seemingly sacrificed himself in order to save everyone after Luthor's grand invention that would have wiped Metropolis off of the map if it wasn't for Adrian.
Batman then asked, "Wait, you said something was holding you up, what is it?"
"Leave it to the Batman to notice", was Diana's thought as she then started to tell them what happened. "As you both know, today is the day that I would come to visit my home. It started off normal, until something expected happened. One of my sisters by the name of Ingrid, brought Adrian from the shores of Themyscira and how he seem to be on the verge of seeing Hades in person. And if that wasn't a surprise enough, it turns out that Adrian is the descendent of Marcus, the former general of Ares before he betrayed him and helped free my people from slavery. When he revealed to us who he was, he began to say that he was thankful that he came to our shores and looked to be about to say something else until something happened to him. He collapsed to the ground and began to shake as though he was in pain. When he closed his eyes, we thought that maybe something was hurting them. But when he opened them back up, they were no longer their brown color. But instead, they had turned a deep forest jade green, but it didn't stop there. He began to grow even bigger and taller, almost like Blockbuster, but instead of being blue, he turned jade green in color as well."
Superman, after hearing this began to think about what could have possibly caused this to happen to the brave young man who had saved everyone in Metropolis. That's when he remembered about the Gamma and Cosmic radiation generators. He then reminded Batman about them and told Diana about how managed to absorb them before he was thrown into the ocean.
Batman then put his theory to the test by saying," Imay have a theory. When he began to absorb the vast amounts of radiation, the electricity that also coursed through his body may have provided a catalyst for the initial transformation. Diana, was there anything that happened after he transformed that was odd?"
Diana began to think back to the transformation and how after his transformation, Adrian seemingly faced towards- "Ares."
Superman and Batman were confused by what Diana meant when she said the god of wars name. "What do you mean by Ares, Diana?" Questions Superman with a confused look on his face.
"When Adrian first transformed, he turned himself in the direction of Ares prison. And began to make a move to his location, that's the reason why I was going to be late. I think that since Ares powers were so powerful, that maybe a tiny sliver of it may have pushed through and activated the transformation."
Before Diana could answer her comrades, the whole army of amazons as well as Diana's teammates heard a loud roar that resonated from just ahead of them, it was something that sounded like the roar of some primal being. Diana then hung up on her friends so as to prepare for the possible battle that was coming up.
At Ares prison
Ares was simply smiling at his weary guard, who were on edge from the sounds of roaring that was something that neither one of them had heard in their entire years that they had been alive on Themyscira.
That's when the moment of silence was ruined by the sound of yelling and angry roars along with the sounds of blows being delt outside. The two guards shifted into fighting stances when the sounds of fighting that was going on outside suddenly stopped. The two guards were frozen with anxiousness from the suspense that was being made. The guard on the right side of Ares cell gave a loud sounding gulp that was the heard throughout the cell.
This proved to be disastrous, for not even a second later the door to the compound was ripped open, and what the shackled god and two warrior women saw would be forever burned into their minds; for standing in what used to be the entrance to the prison compound was a massive brute of a behemoth, muscled arms that looked to be made for smashing, forest green skin, and piercing emerald green eyes.
As soon as Hulk stepped into the room, he began to feel that the source of his anger was right in front of himself. He then saw how the two women in the room were guarding a shackled man behind a cell, and was further angered when he realized that the man was the source of his ever increasing rage. He then began to angrily stalk towards the cell that Ares was held in, until both amazons gave out battle crud and leapt forward at impressive speeds in the hope of bringing down the massive creature before them quickly, not the least expecting the creature to grab the both of them by their arms and proceeded to smash the two together with such force, that the blow knocked both of them unconscious before casually tossing them to either side of himself.
Ares, still inside of his cell with a look of awe on his face, couldn't help but marvel at the sheer strength and speed that the creature before him possessed. He truly believed that the beast before him was here to help him escape from the infernal Amazons. He was only further convinced when the green Goliath stepped up towards his cell and ripped the steel door off as though it was made of paper.
Ares grinned as he stepped from his cell to properly present the hulking brute of a beast before him with his gratitude. "Thank you my friend. I must say that out of all the beasts and creatures that have served in my armies, you are by far unlike anything that I have ever seen," He observed in curious amusement. "Tell me Green one, what is your name?"
For a few seconds, all that was said was silence as Hulk silently glared down at the puny man that stood before him, angering him so much that he couldn't stand it.
Ares, seeing that the behemoth wasn't even moving began to grow a bit frustrated and decided to ask, " Come now, speak up. Surely after everything that you would have done, you must have something to say."
Indeed the rage consumed Goliath had something to say. Despite the fact that every fiber of his being was locked in the throngs of the most malevolent states of rage that, for a brief moment, a tiny sliver of intellect from his humanity left to pierce through all of his enveloping fury, driving two single words to his mouth. "Hulk!" He bellowed as the hulking green eyed monster instantly pulled back it's massive right arm, with its hand formed into a massive fist, "Smash!"
Ares eyes barely had time to widen before the Hulks massive fist smashed right into his chest, causing Ares to feel pain the likes of which that he had never experienced before. He then felt himself being launched through the wall of his cell and into the jungle, smashing through multitudes of trees, before finally coming to a stop right in front of what sounded to him, like horses. But he was to focused on his injuries to care: he had at least a couple of broken ribs, a heavily bruised back, a broken left arm, a collapsed lung and a sprained ankle.
Before Ares could even move, let alone try to block out the massive amounts of pain that he was currently feeling, he heard a familiar voice speak to him with venom and a hint of surprise, "Ares?!"
Ares looked above his temporary resting place and saw that the one who stood before him was Hippolyta, and an entire army behind her. Hippolyta descended from her horse, along with 4 others who quickly drew their swords and looked ready to stab ares until all of them began to take note of the state that he was in.
Hippolyta drew her sword before placing it at his throat before asking in a demanding tone, "What did this to you, god of war?"
Ares, after hearing this question being asked of him and knowing that he was in no place to play games, answered with a bit of blood leaking from the side of his mouth while taking in labored breaths. "A Hulking green creature did this to me. I thought it was here to free me, but it seems that it came to kill me instead. It was like looking into death eyes. The monster, Hippolyta- it is rage incarnate. I could tell-"
Before Ares could continue speaking, a load roar was bellowed from the direction of Ares former prison, drawing everyone's attention to it. Suddenly a boom was heard before something fell from the sky and landed a few feat away from the entire entourage of Amazons and Ares, throwing up a massive dust cloud, obscuring everyone's vision. When the dust finally settled down, they were greeted once more to the creature that was once known Adrian Collodi pushed himself up while grunting and finally growling like a wild animal. He then stepped forward and released another of his soul shattering roars that issued a challenge to any who would dare fight him.
The Amazonian army as well as Ares were further amazed by the creature that now stood before them. But suddenly, Hulk dashed forward until he was next to Ares and Hippolyta, who was shocked at the speed that he possessed, and reached down until he grabbed Ares from around his throat and lifted him up above Hippolyta herself and then pushed Hippolyta towards her daughter, who caught her and then tried to rush forward to fight the Hulk , who was still holding Ares in the air.
Hulk then slammed Ares into the ground with such force that he created a created a crater in the ground, eliciting another cry of pain from Ares, who spat out a glob of blood from his mouth before he was smashed farther into the ground by the Hulk, who then began to speak, shocking the Amazons.
"Hulk smash little man! Little man, leave Hulk alone!" Exclaimed Hulk as he began to angrily grunt and roar as he further beat Ares into the ground. When it seemed like Hulk had finally calmed down, he then picked Ares up again and showed just how damaged he was. He was bleeding copious amounts of blood from both his nose and mouth, his left arm looked destroyed beyond repair, and his legs were broken if the way that they were bending was any indication. He then grabbed Ares by his torso with both hands while still grunting, and with an impressive amount of strength, tore Ares right in half while he was screaming from the amount of pain he was going through until he knew no more, shocking the Amazons by the brutality being displayed by the creature and a little bit of envy of not being the ones to kill Ares themselves.
Hulk then slammed both parts of Ares into the same crater from before. Hulk then leaned back and roared out to the heavens themselves and made a declaration that would shake the very foundations of the world, "HULK IS STRONGEST THERE IS!"
While Hulk made his declaration, Ingrid who had been standing behind her queen, slowly began to move forward towards him, confusing her fellow sisters as to what she could possibly be thinking by approaching the Green Goliath that had done the impossible- slain a god.
When Hulk heard movement behind him, he quickly turned around, slowly calming down due to Ares aura no longer affecting him, and saw who he faintly remembered was the first Amazon to befriend him, Ingrid. When they stood just a foot apart with Hulk being taller then Ingrid by at least four feet, Ingrid then slowly reached up and began to gently caress the Hulk's cheek, mesmerized by his eyes and the gentleness that they now held, rather than the fury and rage not just a few moments ago. Ingrid then said in a soothing tone, "It's ok. He's gone, he can't hurt you anymore."
Hulk just slowly drew in air as he reached out his own massive hand and gently stroked Ingrid's cheek while saying exhaustedly, "Ingrid, Hulk...tired." With those last few words, the Hulk began to shrink down to his original size while stumbling towards Ingrid, who caught him before he could hit the ground. As soon as Adrian fell into Ingrid's arms, the rest of the Amazons surrounded them, knowing that something maybe even worse than Ares was now among them.
3 hours later in the afternoon, on Olympus.
A nervous hum of hushed whispers echoed through the Olympus pantheon as the assembled gods uneasily talked amongst themselves with worry and concern.
At exactly three hours ago, each of them had been summoned by Hermes on a matter of dire and grave importance, the death of their fellow Olympian, Ares: God of War. The death of the imprisoned Olympian god caused Zeus, who sat at the center of the gods, had growing storm clouds that reflected his suppressed rage.
Noticing everyone's fear of his mood, Hera soothingly touched her husbands shoulder. "My husband, calm yourself." She Said soothingly, calming the thunderer ever so slightly.
"You ask me to be calm while my son now lies in the very depths of Tartarus?", he growled, surpressing his rage for the sake of his dignity amongst his family.
"If you recall, he is my son as well," Hera sighed to some slight regret. As with any mother, it truly saddened her to have seen her child walk down such a terrible path, such as he had. If he had perhaps taken a different vocation amongst his family, then ares would still be with them today.
"You shouldn't worry about your son, sister dear," the obese god of the underworld assures her from his throne. "Although his fate is now in my hands, I do try in my regard to be kind to him as he attends to me." His lips then twisted into a smirk of amusement as he bore witness to his to his brother stewing at his latest comment.
Hermes merely rolled his eyes in boredom. "Zigs just as well anyway," he said, giving bored yawn.
"You dare speak in such regard to your brother!", stormed Zeus as the surrounding storm clouds clapped with thunder, accompanying his anger.
"Half-brother." Hermes amended. "Zander yes, I do. Face it Zeus, Ares' plan has always been to overthrow us all, and even if he failed at that, he would have sent the humans into a full scale war which-lets face it- would have probably wiped them all out and destroyed the planet. Which I'm pretty sure leaves all of us out of a job."
A murmur of agreement quickly swept throughout the pantheon.
"Enough of this!" Shouted Zeus, his temper clearly lost. "You all may think this to be a blessing, but what if it had been one of your children to be slain! None of you can deny that you wouldn't want retribution to be dealt out."
Once more, a series of agreements was heard amongst the gods, albeit reluctant ones.
"While it is one matter to be slain in the heat of battle, it is another matter to be slain when powerless. My son deserves retribution." Shouted out Zeus, his decision having been made.
"Does he now?" A new voice asked.
All eyes in the room instantly turned their eyes to the hearth that illuminated the room, and saw what looked to be a little girl in a brown toga sitting close to the hearth with what looked to be a stick as though she was keeping it from going out. Everyone in the room instantly knew who she was, and were even further surprised that she chose to show herself amongst them once again.
This time, Artemis: the goddess of the hunt was the one to speak,"Hestia? Why are you here?"
It was rare for Hestia to come to Olympus. Even rarer for her to defend someone from the other gods.
"What business do you have here, sister?" Questioned Hera, wanting to know the reason as to why her eldest sister was now before them.
"To keep you all from making a mistake in punishing the young man who took Ares life." Hestia replies back to her sister in a slight scolding tone.
Artemis chose that moment to speak up from her throne and kindly asked her favorite aunt, "What do you mean be that, Aunt Hestia?"
Hestia simply glanced over at her niece for quick moment before she turned her head back to her sister and brother and began to answer the question that was now burning on everyone's mind. "What I am talking about is the transformation that the boy who slew Ares was under wasn't normal. I was passing through Themyscira when the incident occurred. The boy who killed Ares was forced to kill him."
"By who?!" Demanded Zeus with a look of rage on his face.
"By Ares himself." Answers Hestia.
This of course sent the gods into an uproar, while a majority of them were confused on how Ares forced someone who he has never met to kill him.
"What exactly do you mean by that, Hestia? How could Ares have possibly made that boy kill him? Ares thrived for war, not death." Poseidon Asked his sister, confused by what she could possibly mean.
"What I mean, dear brother, is that although the Amazons were protected from Ares aura of rage, however minuscule that had managed to seep through the magical bands that kept him mortal, the man who arrived on Themyscira didn't have such protection placed upon him. And from what I overheard from Diana, daughter of Hippolyta, when she was talking to her fellow members of the Justice League, the boy appeared to have somehow absorbed two different types of energy that was supposed to kill a normal human, but somehow he managed to survive. Furthermore, the presence of Ares aura was the catalyst to the transformation that the boy underwent. Meaning that if you were to try to go and kill the boy, you would force him to transform back into the creature that slew Ares."
After the explanation was given, the rest of the Olympians began to seriously think about releasing the beast that slew Ares. But what Hestia would say next would have the gods gawking at her for the sheer audacity that she had. "Besides, the boy was justified in his errant desire to kill Ares."
Everyone was shocked that out of everyone in assemblance, Hestia was the one to say that Ares deserved to die.
"How dare you? You, the Goddess of Family has the gall to say that my son deserved to be killed?!" Demanded Zeus as sparks literally began to fly off of his body.
"Yes, I do. Time and time again, Ares has completely disregarded us one two many times. Starting wars needlessly, and also enslaving your own followers, the Amazons, who have been nothing but loyal to you and you just allowed them to suffer under all of the heinous acts that were forced upon them by Ares and his men. Poetic really, that the one who slew Ares was a descendant of Markus," cue the shocked look on everyone's faces at the revalation, "who has fulfilled his ancestors promise to give the Amazons the Justice that they deserved. One thing that you should realize, brother- those who try to interfere with an oath sworn by the Stix, it never turns out well for them. So, with that information now given to you, what will you do?" Hestia Asked her family, knowing that they would now reconsider their choices after hearing all of the valid points that she brought up.
The gods conversed for nearly 20 minutes before coming to a verdict, and decided that it be fitting to give the news in person.
Meanwhile on Apokolips
Sitting in his throne room, rewatching the clip that his loyal servants had luck of coming across: Darkseid watched as the Hulk was utterly thrashing Ares about. The sheer brutality, the forociousness, and the sheer power that the creature seemed to radiate was simply to good an opportunity for him to pass up. He then signaled for Granny Goodness, who had been watching from behind his shoulder, to go to Themyscira with her Furies and her newest addition to retrieve the creature from earth, all the while smiling cruelly.
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