Spirits And Flames: A Avengers Fanfiction Story
Act II:
Meanwhile, in the Trolls and Ogres realm of Vanaheim…
Gray mountain ranges surround a winding upward rocky path, taken on by the Warriors Three and Captain America. At the top of this mountain that the path travels up to is the newest Surtur commander Baron Zemo. With a set of flaming black rimmed and bright red energy swords, he is firing self guided missile like fireballs down below through Surtur fire manipulation like skipping stones across water.
Warriors Three leader Fandral points out, "I know any fighter with Thor shall have victory, but we shan't last long this way!" Fire Demons are coming ten by ten down the mountainside slope like flaming boulders, with half of them pausing rolling to stand up and fire fire at Captain America and his Asgardian allies.
The Warriors Three and Captain America seem to be doing very well against the Fire Demons with Captain America's main shield and Asgardian swords. But, Surtur commander Baron Zemo himself is blasting the rock slope in front of Captain America's team's feet to make it even harder for them to get to Baron Zemo without exhausting themselves.
Within several minutes of his team taking down then exploding Fire Demons, Captain America thinks out loud, "it didn't seem like we had much of a choice…sigh…but I guess even I have to fight dirty sometimes." Captain America hurls his shield into one of the Fire Demons close to the edge of the rock spiral, bouncing it off the mountain.
As the Vibranium shield bounces off the rock wall, he jump flips in front of its path to midair kick the flipping over itself shield hard into the air.
Surtur commander Baron Zemo laughs, "what does this mortal…?" From this surprised Surtur commander's side, the shield hits his head hard against the mountaintop before he can launch more fireballs.
Holgun figures in respect, "comes with the territory."
Captain America slightly nods before pointing out, "now!" With a few minutes to spare, Captain America's team run up the rock slope fast enough to mostly let the Fire Demons around them blast each other.
Baron Zemo slightly laughs to himself before getting back on his feet, "almost thought he wouldn't make it."
Meanwhile, near a certain mansion in the mortal realm of Midgard…
On the good side of things, New York City is being evacuated by police to underground emergency shelters. On the bad side, Surtur commander Hulk has already destroyed the Avengers Mansion and the base of a nearby apartment building through Surtur's efforts to destroy the nearby Avengers. Iron Man mutters over comlink, "Hawkeye! If a Uni-beam can't even make a dent…" He and Black Widow are flying and grapple hooking their way around the nearest streetlights to distract Surtur commander Hulk.
Simultaneously, Hawkeye with trick arrows ready is using his Sky Cycle to speed up the falling apartment building. He insists over comlink, "if this doesn't work, we're french fries anyway!"
Black Widow sighs over comlink, "all jesting aside, he has a point." She and Iron Man fire stun blasters and missiles at Hulk, but to no effect. They dodge several of Surtur commander Hulk's now apartment floor sized fireballs, which turn entire street sections into smoke.
Seeing now uncovered sewer pipes where road pavement was, Iron Man starts to consider in pause, "maybe…"
Unfortunately, Iron Man is caught off guard by Surtur commander Hulk's own angrily superpowered fist. He crashes against one of the dented pipes, coughing hard and clutching his battlesuit's then very much smashed chest plating. Iron Man's shielding doesn't even come back up.
All he can gasp in his coughing is Pepper's name, remembering the nights they spent together for many nights in the Avengers Mansion and his own mind possession episode with the Purple Man that reminded him how much the world still needs the Avengers to help protect it. Black Widow in increased inner fear runs for Hulk, not having a clear enough shot for the sewer pipes without destroying Iron Man in the process.
In the midst of Iron Man's fall, several Fire Demons appear from the flames spreading up the slamming down apartment building. Glass shatters and bricks break. The just appearing Fire Demons come to keep the Hulk powering up. Hawkeye mutters, "oh no, you don't!" He fires a arrow from behind him, releasing a big wind gust from its center as it explodes.
Several Fire Demons get caught in the cold front, freezing to pieces off the side of the building. Hawkeye quickly fires two electromagnet arrows in front of him in one shot, destroying the last Fire Demons of recent with a high speed trail of metal building shard remains. That is, before his Sky Cycle gets blasted in their flames.
Hawkeye cries out Hulk's name as he high jumps off of his exploding Sky Cycle, seconds before being knocked fast off the building by the explosion's wind impact. Hulk hears Hawkeye's cry, pausing in confusion and mental pain. His back is to a trying hard to stay awake Iron Man.
Black Widow briefly pauses on her way to Iron Man, realizing with a bittersweet chuckle what Hawkeye had in mind all along.
Within Hulk's mind, during the physical pauses…
Hulk has scientist Bruce Banner's part of him getting stronger from within. Bruce Banner starts encouraging the Hulk, "you don't have to be a monster: No matter what Surtur is showing you!"
Memories of the Hulk's first battle with Absorbing Man and fighters led by fighter Ross resurface, but so do memories of himself helping to save New York City from Graviton in the midst of the Breakout that ended up being the start for the Avengers' world saving adventures. Surtur's voice echoes to Hulk, "I can only show you the inevitable."
Meanwhile, in the Frost Giant realm of Jotunheim…
Miles and miles of melting snow, ice, and fading cold are everywhere. Jotunheim itself is melting like summer is coming upon it. Thor and Beta Ray Bill had recently tried to offer putting aside differences with Ymir and the other frost giants to have a better chance of stopping Enchantress, only to be punched away in the frost giants' cold anger.
Thor and his Korbonite spirit brother get up from a melting snow puddle, with many frost giants on their right running scared past and taking their ice spiked staffs with them. Thor sighs hard, "the frost giants have their own battle, but without honor."
High above Thor and Beta Ray Bill as a brother of his in spirit is Surtur commander Enchantress, summoning giant Sutur commander level demon versions of familiar faces in waves without pause. These demons are demon copies of the Red Hulk and of a pure Arc Reactor energy version of Iron Man, blasting and punching everything around them into water vapor in intense energy characteristic of the Asgardian metal Uru at superhot levels.
Ymir with most of the frost giants are continuing to fight Surtur commander demons. Unfortunately, the frost giants are being melted into puddles faster than the demons are being smashed with Loki magic enhanced frost giant staffs. The two Asgardian level spirit brother heroes take to the skies, with their Asgardian hammers Mjolnir and Stormbreaker.
Beginning to fully realize what Surtur is doing to all of Jotunheim's winter like land, Beta Ray Bill shouts in heightened worry, "for Korbin!" Deep down in a ice cave below the melting ice, the special Korbonite ship the Skuttlebutt rests between two cave floor ice spikes.
Thor shouts, "for Asgard!" He and his Asgardian level hero teammate both call forth lightning blasts upon Surtur commander Enchantress.
Surtur through her laughs, "no Asgardian shall stop Ragnarok: No matter how it is written." Apparently because of anticipating the attack, Surtur drained the lightning blasts' energy from the Enchantress' still possessed body to catch Thor and Beta Ray Bill off guard instead.
They're both blasted from behind by two flying Surtur commander Iron Man energy demons, sending them for a mountainside turning into a giant steaming hot waterfall.
Meanwhile, at the rainbow Bifrost Bridge in Asgard…
Along the cloud edge between the gold edged grayish black gateway to Asgard and the Bifrost Bridge, Odin with Asgardian fighters Balder and Heimdall are fighting Surtur himself. With the dark orange Twilight Sword in one hand, the slightly taller Surtur in humanoid form is using its fire summoning power to make it have two side flame energy blades orbiting the original flame energy blade. The Twilight Sword, now at its highest power, is easily deflecting Odin's fighting force's efforts to destroy him.
Even Odin's Odin Force magic would be deflected back at him with the actively used Twilight Sword, which is the only reason why a fiercely fighting Odin is only using his signature grayish black and golden staff against Surtur. Much to Balder's greatly increasing unease, his skills with an Asgardian sword aren't helping much despite still not being hit.
Heimdall with a battle cry comes at Surtur with the starting to spin flat side of his gold rimmed dark brown battle axe, only to have Surtur with his free claw tipped hand punch Heimdall hard off the cloud edge. Heimdall's battle axe falls onto the cloud edge.
Odin shouts, seconds too late to stop his fall, "no!" Thankfully though, Heimdall grabs the edge of the Bifrost Bridge to keep himself from being lost forever between realms.
Balder battle cries in the name of Asgard as he strikes at Surtur with swifter blows, only to seconds realize it isn't swift enough to get past the Twilight Sword's multiple magical blades. Odin though uses this opportunity of distraction to kick Surtur from the side, making Surtur crash through the gateway's walls.
By this time, Heimdall has pulled himself onto the Bifrost Bridge with a slight sigh of relief and a few deep breaths. Surtur is dazed by Odin's surprise kick, but beginning to get back to his feet in growing anger at Odin in a matter of minutes.
Balder is about to charge at Surtur, but Odin quickly gets in front of him, "nay, Balder! If we get close enough for me to touch Yggdrasil, I shall generate enough Odin Force to end Ragnarok." Balder slightly nods in slightly confused understanding, following Odin swiftly for his Asgardian throne room.
Meanwhile, in the Souls realm of Niffleheim…
In the midst of dark green light and floating dark green crystals reflective of souls, grayish green dressed Hela is standing on her rock pedestal stand to keep an eye on her realm. Her black hood like mask covering everything but the lower half of her face has four branch like horns sticking out of the sides. Her bat like black rimmed Loki made cloak is over her shoulders, like wings always ready to take off.
Here with Wasp is medium blond haired Valkyrie with Asgardian braids over her shoulders and mostly silver Valkyrie battle wear, both standing at the ready for battle. Wasp wonders worried, "where is Hank?!"
Hela slightly sighs, "his tortured soul is hard to sense, but…" Then a dark red and bright red mosquito themed Yellowjacket appears in normal size from behind her, kicking her off her pedestal. Hela's cloak that Yellowjacket while shrunk loosened fell off onto the rock pedestal. Hela is coughing hard against the rock ground of Niffleheim, the visible part of her face very aged and physically weak from her magically cursed cloak.
Wasp and Valkyrie angrily charge at Surtur commander Yellowjacket, who had recently landed on the rock pedestal. Wasp tries to say, "Hank, I know you have…!" In carefully timed seconds, Surtur commander Yellowjacket enlarges to the size of a frost giant and punches both of them against the ground.
Wasp and Valkyrie cough hard, much to Surtur's laughter through a possessed Yellowjacket. Surtur with his laughter cruelly says, "you never really knew him before I came…and now the Hank you knew is gone." A teary eyed Wasp struggles to get back up, seeing Surtur commander Yellowjacket with his altered yellow tipped gray ray gun teleport unwilling soul after unwilling soul to Surtur.
Within the mind of the first Ant-Man who became Yellowjacket, in the midst of souls being stolen by Surtur to keep his Fire Demons going…
Yellowjacket is reexperiencing the painful memory of the explosion in his Grayburn College lab. Interestingly, Surtur's flames are around the device Yellowjacket was working on seconds before the explosion. Then he found himself trapped in a bright blue chamber in his own Microverse, with Hulk and Baron Zemo in neighboring chambers. Yellowjacket struggles to break free without his ray gun by trying to enlarge, only to realize it's not working here.
Then realizing Wasp seems to be right behind him, he turns to her. Before he can say anything, Hela's mind projection of a teary eyed Wasp reveals to him, "I may've had trouble coming to grips with my feelings, but so do you: Ultron, the Microverse… Because of Surtur making you what you are now, you think it's all for nothing!"
Meanwhile, in the Dark Elves realm of Swartalfheim…
In a grayish green haunted woods haunted with darkness, the only light is from trails of fire made just by Surtur commander Wonder Man's feet touching the ground. From fire trails come wave after wave of Fire Demons, blasting the becoming outnumbered dark shadowy souls of Dark Elves and their dark realm in walls worth of highly destructive flames.
Long before Hela became in charge of Niffleheim, these dark souls have become shadow beings too dark to be overseen by Hela or even Surtur from their destruction at the hands of the frost giants. And so they have been cursed to stay in the remains of their realm by Odin himself.
But despite all of this, they're now being defended by blasts and punches from Miss Marvel, Sif, and Eitri in the dark gray Iron Man like Uru made battlesuit he kept from helping overthrow Loki from Asgard's throne. The Dark Elves, too busy defending themselves, ignore Miss Marvel's team while blasting many Fire Demons to pieces.
Miss Marvel sighs hard in frustration, "they just keep coming!" Surtur commander Wonder Man keeps using his fire manipulation to turn lots of exploding Fire Demons back into very much intact Fire Demons.
Sif comments, "then maybe we need to destroy their source." She blocks several Fire Demon blasts with her shield, seconds before swinging it into some Fire Demons from behind her.
Miss Marvel slightly chuckles, "sounds like a plan." She flies for Surtur commander Wonder Man, who blasts her hard with a focused wind gust surrounded fireball. Miss Marvel struggles to absorb it for some minutes against Surtur commander Wonder Man.
Surtur through him mutters harshly, "you may have cosmic powers from Captain Marvel…but I am the only cosmic power that matters!"
While Surtur commander Wonder Man is ending up being distracted by fighting Miss Marvel, Sif and Eitri in Asgard's name are now too busy blasting as many officially being destroyed Fire Demons as they can.
Unlike most battles, Sif internally can't help but worry how Thor and the rest of their forces are doing against Surtur's highly powerful odds. Deep inside for quite some time, she has missed being together with Thor ever since the mortal woman Jane Foster came into his life.
Memories of Thor returning to Asgard to save Asgardians from Loki and the frost giants come back to her in flashes, along with Thor's difficult efforts to get Asgardians including herself to see honor in mortals on Midgard. Out of a deep respect for Thor that has resurfaced since Surtur's attack on the Korbonites, she worries because of not being sure if she will ever regain that kind of respect from Thor or get that kind of respect from mortals that are just as worthy to care about. And now Sif is taking out that growing uncertainty on the Fire Demons.
Miss Marvel cries out in overwhelmingly absorbed firepower from Surtur. She crashes down, shaking hard on the pale green ground. Miss Marvel remembers pieces of her personal fights with Captain Marvel's Kree related decisions, her fights with the Kree, and Captain Marvel in recent days taking over the Kree Empire for the better. But all she can think of in her dangerous shaking is questioning what Captain Marvel would do to survive against the cosmic level odds she faces now.
Meanwhile, in the Light Elves realm of Alfheim…
Dark red Ultron troops in a flying charge are firing bright red Arc Reactor energy blasts, upon the burning forests across the land. Light Elf archers are using fiery branches from the debris with their orange golden bows like they're explosive Asgardian arrows. Plenty of incoming Ultrons are destroyed. But, even this change in plans isn't holding off the Surtur commander Ultrons well as they easily replace themselves with summoned copies. Through Yellowjacket being turned into a Surtur commander, Ultron's conscious thoughts weren't as hard for Surtur to possess.
Medium pale blond haired light elf archer Faradei with Asgardian braids on his shoulders and light elf battle wear encourages his fellow light elves, "keep firing! We shall only keep this up for a little longer." Plenty of light elf archers' positions on treetops are blasted in flames. One of the blasts knocks Faradei against a bush, otherwise all right as he gets back up to get back to firing flaming branches.
Surtur's voice echoes through the Surtur commander Ultron troops, "there is no more mortal or Asgardian hope: Only everlasting flames."
While the light elves are putting up their fight, Black Panther is running up and flipping off of falling tree after falling tree in his very advanced Wakanda battle gear. He in a matter of minutes gets to a high tree, which is about to be blasted by the Surtur commander Ultrons. With a deep breath, Black Panther jump flips himself high into the air.
He calls out, "now, Vision!" Vision swiftly phases through the flames to provide his android back as a platform for Black Panther, flying him out of the way of the exploding big tree. Black Panther quickly gets out a clear blue diamond from a underground Wakanda mine, holding it with careful timing and positioning in front of Vision's forehead laser.
Vision's laser blasts Surtur commander Ultrons all around him and Black Panther, overloading all the Surtur commander Ultrons over Faradei and his light elf fighter team in minutes. Vision reports, "Ultron destruction at twenty percent. We are still fully…functioning."
He and Black Panther are just seeing Surtur's Ultron network thinning out their forces over Alfheim's forests to try to keep their forces multiplying, much to the heightened worries of Black Panther and Faradei's forces.
Several Surtur commander Ultrons are fly charging for Black Panther and Vision. The lead Ultron of their upcoming group attack darkly reveals, "do not express human pity for our network, Vision: We and Surtur will restore peace and order for all worlds."