OverNerd V: It's time to pledge your allegiance.
Rider Paladin: To what, exactly?
Kamen Rider ZER0: Ah, damn it...I have to commit to something...
O.N: That, my friends, is the million-dollar question, as today Kamen Rider Drive's first step towards becoming an Avenger starts with Captain America taking him under his wing.
Deadpool: Boo, I hate Sam Wilson!
RP: Let me guess, "Not my Captain America"?
Deadpool: Hashtag notmyCap, thank you.
O.N: Not literally, Wade, and what is Captain America without the greatest foe of all time, HYDRA!
RP: Fail HYDRA!
O.N: Yes, Readers, Kamen Rider Drive will be battling the forces of HYDRA in this arc, however...things may not be as you think they are. Overdrive Universe is full of surprises.
Deadpool: Yeah, like no Spid…*rips out his tongue, jaw, and vocal cords*
O.N: We're also gonna give you a heads-up, we'll be doing flashbacks Kamen Rider Kiva-style showing Captain America's past with his original team the Invaders!
Disclaimers: We do not own Kamen Rider Drive or The Avengers. The Avengers and all related characters and properties belong to Marvel Comics, Marvel Entertainment, and Marvel Studios. Kamen Rider Drive and all related characters and properties belong to Toei and Ishinomori Productions.
"...War...has changed…" Captain America, dressed in a bulky blue uniform and army helmet decorated to resemble the American flag, threw a round disc-like shield similarly painted like the American flag, concentric stripes of red and white framing a star in a blue circle, at a monstrous humanoid, the shield cleanly slicing the creature's head off.
Accompanying Captain America was his team, the Invaders. First among them was Margaret "Peggy" Carter, who was garbed in her own American flag-themed costume under the name Miss America. Second was Ezekiel Sims, who wore a black trench coat and vest over a black shirt and pants with combat boots and gloves and a leather mask with aviator goggles that concealed his face, also known as "Slinger," and it wasn't for his guns. A third was T'Chaka, heir to the throne of Wakanda and garbed in a black suit with a mask that made him resemble the black panther he took his alias from. Fourth was Robert Frank, a man in a yellow-and-green military suit, known as the Whizzer for the sound he made as he ran at speeds too great for human eyes to track as more than a blur, if he registered in their vision at all. Fifth was a man in a trench coat with a flaming skull for a head, known to some as Ghost Rider, but publicly called the Blazing Skull.
Slinger approached one of the strange monsters the Invaders had put down and examined it, seeing machinery grafted into flesh. It was also clear the flesh was rotting these creatures were never gonna last long. "Some kind of . . . machine organism," he muttered.
"What is it, Slinger?"
"The flesh, skin, hell, even the organs, they couldn't handle the grafting, these things were gonna die in days...weeks at the longest," he replied before opening its mouth and putting his revolver in it, then pulling the trigger and blowing out its brains. "Good measure."
"Cries...of the innocent…"
"What?" Miss America inquired.
"These monsters...didn't wish for their forms...people experimented on them," the Panther informed, closing the eyes of some of the monsters but also making sure they were dead.
"You're saying the fucking Axis actually turned people into these things and then sent them out to kill and be killed?" Whizzer deduced.
"...Focus, team, we need to find Stark, these things kidnapped him to make new weapons for the Axis, he's not a fighter, he couldn't ha…" Captain America started before a metal fist tore down the wall, revealing a figure in crude cybernetic armor.
"Peggy here for the Fondue?" the metal man spoke.
"Howard?" Miss America asked. "What are you doing in that contraption?"
"Escaping," he replied, "and raiding the cafeteria. Say hi, Arsenal."
-Good Evening-
"Stark...how…"
"Cap, you won't believe what was going on here…"
Slinger held up the mechanically augmented corpse he had been examining earlier. "Maybe we will, Stark."
"Good...if you think they're something, wait till you see the Basement...they got something down there called...the Sleeper."
Cue opening
Ameagari Break Cloud sukima-kara[After the rain, from the break in the clouds]
Aozora ga te maneki shiteru[The blue sky is beckoning]
Alright sorosoro ikou ka[Alright, let's get going]
Dare ka ga iu Logic shinji nai[I don't believe in other people's logic]
Chokkan wa shinjite itai[I want to believe in my instincts]
High Time hajimari wo sagashite[It's high time we search for the beginning]
Fire Up, Ignition
Heavy-na Pressure bukkowashite[The pressure's heavy]
Accel fumikome[but break through and step on the accelerator!]
Surprise sekai-chu ga Drive[Surprise, the world is on a drive]
(It's faster than ever)
Feelin' High mezameru you na[Feelin' High like I've just awakened]
(Drivin' Show me)
Hajimaru unmei ni wa[Once we've begun our fate…]
(keep chasin' forever)
Back Gear wa nai…[There's No Back Gear]
All We Need Is "DRIVE"
Back in the present, Steve Rogers awoke from his sleep and flashback to that day. "...Why was I thinking about that...it's been so long," he muttered before seeing a red dinosaur chase around Shinnosuke. "I think he likes you, Tomari." He chuckled before the id cards went off. "Captain America here."
=Hello, Captain= greeted a familiar and unpleasant voice. =It has been a long time=
"Baron Zemo." The Captain's tone was cold, almost hissing.
=I have a message for you, Cap...pure and simple...it awakens...the Sleeper is coming= With that, the frequency turned off.
"..." Steve stood up and put his card close to his mouth as he uttered, "Avengers Assemble."
At that moment, Shinnosuke's pocket lit up like fireworks as his id card glowed.
"..hmm?" Bruce Banner blinked, seeing his card glowed. "Looks like it's that time."
"Aye!" Thor cheered, holding up his card as Black Widow and Scarlet Witch came into the main room holding up their cards as well.
Tony blinked as he stopped working with Krim and Rinna after his id card went off.
"Oh, what of all things?" Tony asked as he dropped his possibly super-expensive and advanced tools unceremoniously on his work table. "Come on, Krim, we're picking up your body."
=I assume this is nothing good.= Krim sighed.
"Where's Go?" Shinnosuke wondered before seeing the apelike people messing with Go again. "Go."
"I didn't steal anything from that Moon Boy this time, I swear!" Go defended as he ran from them with the opening he got.
"Grr…" Devil Dinosaur growled at Gabutyra. "Rahh!"
"Rahh!" the mechanical dinosaur growled back before they ran off to race one another as the Quinjet returned.
"Ah, thank God…" Go sighed as Kiriko exited out first with her special boots on. "Nee-san?"
"Someone told me a certain brother has been breaking expensive cars outside his pay grade."
"How did Stark know I stole hi...I mean I don't know what you're talking about." Go whistled as he looked away. "Oh, look, Devil Dinosaur, let's go play fetch, boy."
"Not now," Steve said with a frown as he dragged Go to the Quinjet.
"Here," Bruce said, tossing Krim to Shinnosuke.
=I hate when people toss me...=
"What's going on?" Shinnosuke asked as he walked over to them.
"Everyone in the quinjet now," Steve ordered as they followed orders.
"Uh-oh...game face on."
"That is creepy…" Howard Stark blinked, seeing Ghost Rider spew fire from his mouth to cremate the dead experimented victims. "Massively creepy...and possibly a good few years of therapy to get over this. But...what disturbs me is how interested I am in the prospect of a fusion of machine and organism...wrong as it might be...thinking of how they made these...things so strong," he said. "Clearly the real issue is making the metal parts stick."
"What do you mean?" Steve asked.
"Well, how do I explain this in an...English way…?" he muttered. "It's like this, they can't function for long, because the...well, fleshy parts reject the metal parts. The result being shortened lifespan, bouts of uncontrolled rage due to their bodies' constant rejection. It'd be like if a normal person thought...it'd be cool if I replaced my arm with a gun. And then they did it."
"How did you make this suit?"
"Well, the idiots put me in a room with all the super-advanced weapons they had," he explained simply. "Really, all it took was a few hours of crude metal forging, and some hodgepodge of random things to make moving this heavy hunk easier." He chuckled.
"Why a suit?" Black Panther inquired.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe since I'm not exactly well-versed in how to deck a man in the jaw like you all, and I kind of want to wear something where if someone shoots at me it'll bounce off," Howard explained with a slight hint of sarcasm. "Also, I met two odd guys who weren't in the reports."
"Who?"
"They called one the Professor, and the other was a red-cloaked guy who called himself...the Supreme Leader," he replied.
-flashback-
Howard looked from his prison as various men, women..even children were taken by a man clad in wine-red and indigo-blue, a cloak concealing much of his features except for a demonic mask over half his face. Standing there was a figure clad in a deep blood-red robe covering all of his body. He had a hood drawn over his head that pointed up slightly, with two eye-holes cut in it as he looked out at the prisoners. His 'eyes' spotted Howard and he stared at him for a moment. Howard couldn't explain it...but something about this figure inspired the purest feeling of fear he'd ever felt in his life.
"What is the meaning of this!?" a Nazi officer approached, yelling at the two. "These Jews, and rebellious female pigs, are to be burned, you are aware of Fuhrer Hitler's commands."
"..."
"I am talking to..." At that, a snake - a literal snake - impaled the officer's throat.
"Humans...such disgustingly prideful beings," the red-robed being spoke in a garbled voice, that could not be understood unless one listened carefully.
"It's amusing they can't tell the difference between those fake burnt bodies we left at their camps...those bodies serve a higher purpose for us," the red person's companion spoke.
"Even these soldiers of theirs have their uses. This one should prove a good subject, his breathing has stopped but all his vital organs are still perfectly functioning," the red-robed one noted. "We can use this for one of our new Cyborg tests. His body is stronger and healthier than the others."
"But health has not proven useful...hmm, Howard Stark is in the cell over…"
"Yes, my friend, we are on the same page." The Red-Robed Man nodded. "Perhaps we looked at it wrong...perhaps will...or intelligence will prove better compatibility factors. And the American forces have many of those types," he mused as the snake that was lifting the officer...seemed to ignite the body aflame before tossing it down the hall, lighting up the area.
"I will entrust you with handling the transport, I need to prepare the Sleeper."
"Yes, I have many new notes to implement," the red-robed being mused as he walked off, but not before he stopped and looked at Howard. "You shall prove a useful baseline for a new theory, Howard Stark. You have my thanks as a being of sciences, however...under-leveled you are in comparison to us."
"Yeah, give me a second," he said, leaving the window.
"A second for.." The wall was then torn down as Howard exited in a metal armor.
"Now where were we?" he challenged as the cosmic rounds glowed.
"No, not the parts!" the red-robed man panicked. "Get them out of here, Professor."
"Yes, Supreme Leader!"
"Oh, no, you don't!"
"Yes, we shall," Supreme Leader said as a snake wrapped around his leg and lifted him and armor up. "...I take back my comment about you being underleveled."
"Thank you," Howard said, firing at the man who used a snake to take the bullet for him.
"The Invaders are here! They've found us!" a soldier shouted over the comms.
"..." The figure dropped Howard as the Professor had gotten the last prisoners in a truck.
-flashback end-
"After that they drove off and a lot of their men loved getting in the way," Howard informed. "I've looked in the Basement...and trust me, we gotta bury the Sleeper."
"Just how bad is it?" Captain America asked.
"...hm...well, let's just say if this thing gets turned on...the level of damage would be so bad we'd need to redraw maps," Howard explained, making everyone just stare in shock. "And I'm not exaggerating...if this thing is as strong as they say...it can level cities easy. Nations are what it's meant to level."
"Vengeance must be served," Ghost Rider snarled, heading for the area Howard had just escaped from.
"Patience, friend," Black Panther admonished, stopping the Ghost Rider.
"We'll need to make it fast…" Howard adde., "Given what they talked about...I'm inclined to believe that what's down there...is some stuff we're not ready to fight." He paused. "Cap…"
"What is it, Howard?"
"I'm gonna be honest, I don't think the Nazis are the real enemy here."
"What do you mean?" Captain America asked.
"These guys...it's clear they are using them and Hitler as pawns...they don't care for anyone...because they aren't even human."
"Stark, where do I put these bombs?" Slinger asked, returning with various bombs.
"Come with me, Slinger, I'll tell you."
"..." Captain America frowned.
"Cap, Union Jack and Spitfire are on their way with the Ghost Jet…"
"Helljet!" Ghost Rider snarled.
"Calm down, Blazing Skull."
"Grrr...I hate that newspaper name."
"It's more people-friendly then Ghost Rider...ghosts don't inspire troops, ya know…"
"What do I care for inspiring others, all I inspire is fear."
"Why do I put up with you…?"
"Fury picked this team out, Peggy, let's all get along here. It's time to fight...or in this case...destroy.."
"Steve…"
"Ghost Rider look around your...so called supernatural powers should be useful in making sure we're not about to kill anyone….Panther go with him...make sure he doesn't kill anyone...and where's Jim and Namor?"
A literally burning man and a black-haired man in green briefs with small wings on his ankles flew up to the assembled Invaders. "Scouting ahead," the burning man, known as the Human Torch, replied. "What we found . . ."
"These inhuman creatures have to be obliterated," the wing-footed man, Namor of Atlantis, cut in. "That's the only solution for them. They don't deserve to draw another breath."
"...Good job," Captain America said, "let's shut this place down."
"Shinnosuke," Cap spoke up. "Tell me what you know about HYDRA."
"That they're an organization of subversives and terrorists bent on world domination and pretty much broke off from the Axis Powers of World War II to pursue their own agenda, which may be why they're still a threat today," Shinnosuke replied. "Are they back?"
"Yes."
"How do they keep getting away from ya?" Go spoke up as the Avengers glared at him.
"They have a special space, it's called Dimension Z officially, but to them it's the HYDRA Empire."
"Dimension...Z?" Shinnosuke, Go, and Kiriko asked in confusion.
"In short, what might be a few hours here...is like 50 years there," Cap informed. "Arnim Zola used it and took all of Hydra's chosen ones there in order to build paradise, I think they had planned to return after they won the war, but now it's their freezone,"
"Every time we beat up a Hydra agent and his life enters a red zone, they vanish," Tony said, "Hell, they're convincing people through the teleportation mechanism that they activated something to burn their bodies."
"How do you know HYDRA is up to something?" Scarlet Witch asked in confusion.
"They called me," he replied, making his team look at him.
"Come again?" Tony asked.
"Zemo contacted me and taunted me with how they are beginning their plans," Steve explained. "Which tells me one thing."
"And that is…"
"This is a declaration of war!" a speaker declared as a man in black tactical armor with a purple mask, a golden circlet around his forehead, and a sword strapped to his back watched on.
A line of students stood, dressed in green slacks, with black jackets with a latch that spread over the right chest, and a large green HYDRA symbol on the left chest. All of them had black goggles with red lenses across their eyes. Some opted to have their jackets open, revealing white shirts and green ties around their collars.
"Students of Hydra Gakuen…" A figure clad in dark black armor with green trim stood there, his armor made of scaled plates like samurai armor with a mask with an ever-so-slight skull theme, the crest atop his head being none other the a golden symbol of Hydra. A long billowing cape hung behind his back, he drew a sword handle off his belt as a blade made of solid red light formed as he held it up in a ceremonial manner. Next to him six more in similar armor, but colored in white and green and minus the helm crest and cape, stood next to him, drawing real swords or resting rifles against their shoulders. "We are proud to say you've reached the highest stage of honor for your Hydra Queen, you will devote yourself to the mission, to the truth!" he declared, as he held his blade up towards the army of students as they saluted the Hydra way. "We will free the fake Earth and awaken its people to truth, Hail Hydra!"
"HAIL HYDRA! HAIL HYDRA! HAIL HYDRA!"
"Yes, Hail! Hail!"
"He's gotten into this again." Baron Zemo sighed, before being addressed by a strikingly beautiful woman in black with a purple cowl covering her head, gold cuffs on her forearms and calves, and white fur on her shoulders.
"The Council is calling," she said.
"...what do they want?" He frowned.
"Answers about your contact with America."
"..."
"Zemo...do you understand why you've been summoned?"
"I have a few ideas," he replied, placing his sword on the ground, "and I disagree with you sending your 'Avengers' into my battle...the Captain and the Avengers...are mine." He frowned behind his mask. "I don't care about their new Kamen Rider, the Avengers will be defeated by me!"
"And do you honestly believe you can plan for everything?"
"Quiet, I am on the battlefield while you all hide in your little glass globe the so-called Supreme Leader made for you."
"How dare you insult the Supreme Leader!" the Supreme Hydra snarled. "He is a god, a being mightier than all of us!"
"Then where is he? Why hasn't he smited our enemies, why isn't the true world ours?"
"Because of the very thing called Kamen Rider," he countered. "You underestimate one being, your own creation, no less, and it can harm even the greatest. He has learned, he created an ever-evolving force, and so he was pushed to evolve. Yet...have you?"
"All I hear is the bellow of cowards, I am leaving," he declared before a shield with HYDRA's symbol stopped him.
"..Helmut." Captain Hydra frowned. "You're getting impatient again."
"I refuse to stand here and wait...I shall act! I can't stand by...the Avengers made their move and recruited an outside factor...who knows what else can happen if we give them too much time!?"
"You have a wife, Helmut, you also have a duty," he said. "The Captain and his team belong to me and mine, I promise you, if we fail, you will get your chance."
"Tsk...very well! I shall stand down this once...but only this once!"
"Thanks," he replied as Zemo left. He then looked at his superiors. "My team is ready...we await your command."
"First thing first we have a new armor for you."
"...but i like this suit…"
"So where are we going?" Tony asked.
"Germany," he replied as they stopped at Japan.
"So why are we here?" Go asked.
"One of us here just doesn't belong," Tony answered as everyone glanced at Go.
"Hai, hai, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm just a freeloader who eats all your stuff and sells bad pictures of Tony to the press to get the money to buy my soda," Go mocked.
"Is he always like this?" Black Widow asked Kiriko.
"He's a very snippy person," Kiriko replied.
"Ah, right, because I'm just a stupid kid who doesn't get how this stupid nonsense works," Go retorted as he leaned back.
"Miss Widow?" Kiriko asked as Nat gave her gauntlet and Kiriko aimed it and fired, hitting Go with an electric dart and making him fall down.
"...nee-san...you're so mean…" Go cried as Shinnosuke helped him out.
"Keep some Roidmudes alive for me." Shinnosuke sighed, laying him outside before hopping back in. "Kiriko, you can leave, too."
"Oh, no, she's cool," Tony said.
"I don't mind the lady joining us," Thor added.
"Cookie?" Bruce offered Kiriko.
"Thank you."
'I'll never be free of her, will I?!' Shinnosuke mentally panicked.
As the jet took off, Viv returning from school found Go.
"Mister Go?" Viv asked. "Do you require medical aid?"
"Unless they make Band-Aids for pride...I'll take a cat scan for head trauma…" he groaned, getting up for a second before falling down.
"Completed cat scan, googling for pride Band-Aids."
"I can't get mad at something that adorable…" Go groaned.
"Adorable...googling….I am a...pet?"
"I have this odd feeling Go is confusing a young girl." Kiriko sighed as Black Widow prepared her guns and tossed Kiriko a high-powered pistol. "Eh?"
"You may have anti-Roidmude bullets but just in case you run into something...totally bulletproof."
"Oh." She nodded as she quickly took it apart before reassembling and reloading it.
"Fast learner." Black Widow smiled. "Been a cop long?"
"Not that long, really...but I just don't want to feel helpless like I did back during the Global Freeze," she explained simply.
"...It's a long way to Germany, let's do some sparring."
"Oh, you better freak out now Shinnosuke once Nat's done with her, she'll know kung fu." Tony chuckled.
"Really?!" Bruce complained as Drive was trying to jump out.
"Let me go...let me go!" he panicked as he was pushing past them despite all those holding him back.
"This amuses me greatly," Tony said. "Friday, we got the ok to land in Germany?"
=When do you ever have the ok to land anywhere?=
"I thought you promised to never discuss my failed 'women to get laid with' list."
Captain America laid back, resting peacefully despite the ride and the ruckus as Scarlet Witch noticed him tossing and turning.
"Holy…." Captain America panicked, seeing a massive machine before them. "...This...is the sleeper?"
"I know it's half the size of the Empire State Building….and we all remember the King Kong incident," Howard, or as he liked calling himself, Arsenal, reminded them.
"Well...we'd need that big ape to deal with this thing…"
"It's worse, it's an inner factory making smaller robots to clean up the pests it misses," Arsenal informed.
"You mean this is a walking battleship...that makes its own army?"
"Yeah, the kids can turn intangible and the daddy and them, well...they fire volcanic blasts from their faces."
"These things are insane."
"...Stark, are you sure blowing this place up will bury it?" Captain America asked.
"It's all we have as an option right now," he stated. "If we let this thing stay...or worse, anyone find it...how can we stop it?"
"Together…" Captain America muttered in his sleep before he woke up from alarms.
"What the hell are these things?!" Tony snapped, looking at the squat purple robots with orange arms and faces.
"More importantly, I want that one!" Thor laughed seeing the giant robot. It stood tall with powerful thick legs, and two incredibly long arms relative to its frame, two canisters extending from its back as a large chest armor extended outwards, revealing glowing engines and two bright lights flashing brightly. Its head was rounded with a helmet-like frame covering the chin, and a large protruding forehead, its 'face' a large metal plate mask with two glowing eyes.
"...No…" Captain America said in horror. "It is awake." The giant then fired missiles and said missiles broke off like one of Tony's trademark Jerichos, but instead of more missiles, it was more of the purple robots.
"Nani...more robots?" Drive asked as they landed in front of them.
=Be careful, Shinnosuke,= Krim spoke up.
"It's a walking factory," Captain America said. "Their faces fire off volcanic energy blasts."
"So...take them down fast and get past?" Iron Man asked as he raised his hands up.
"I live for fast," Drive agreed as he slid his leg back and got into a ready pose.
"There, just one mo…"
"BATTLE!" Thor roared as he swung his hammer at one...and went through it like it was a ghost.
"They can go...wha...oh, intangible!" Cap shouted.
"That's annoying," Iron Man spoke.
=Got it,= Krim spoke. =Shinnosuke, ike!=
"HAH!" Drive roared as he blurred forward.
"Shinnosuke!"
=Now!= Krim ordered as Drive's fist went through the face of one of the robots.
"Oh...I get it, the kid can move fast enough to hit them before their system activates!" Iron Man realized.
Drive ducked a swing from one of the robots before he spun around and kicked through another of the robots. He then dashed around as he punched through several of the robots and cleared out a path for the others.
"Tony, scan for civilians, Wanda, Hulk, Thor...handle…" Captain America started before the giant Sleeper's thrusters activated and it flew off.
"Ah?!" Drive asked as he uppercut another robot tearing it's head off.
=It's making it's move already?= Krim asked.
"...it was progarm to target the nations of the allies…"
=Already tracking it's estimated flight path.= Krim spoke.
"Yeah...and that doesn't look good." Iron Man agreed as he did the same.
"Perhaps but you will not stop the plans of the glorious HYDRA!" a voice shouted as the Avengers saw a portal in the sky.
"Who's there!?" Drive shouted, before getting struck by metallic tentacles with three sharp pincers on the end of each.
After striking Drive, the tentacles then pulled back to reveal a man behind them, clad in a skintight black suit accented with light gray in the shoulders and head, with green lenses covering his eyes and a green octopus-like symbol spread over his chest. He wasn't alone, either, accompanied by a man dressed in what would have passed for Iron Man's armor if the red hadn't been replaced with green and the Arc Reactor was covered by HYDRA's emblem. Beside them was a man dressed in leather armor that made him resemble Thor, but colored dark green with gold accents as opposed to black with silver accents like Thor, and he wielded his own hammer, a comparatively crude mockup of Mjolnir. Alongside them was a man wielding a bow and dressed in a green-and-gold version of Hawkeye's costume, a redheaded girl wearing a red-and-black corset with mostly black leather pants and wielding dual guns, a man dressed like the Grim Reaper and wielding a scythe attached to his arm, and a man in a death's-head mask with a white cloak over tactical body armor.
"Omai tachi...nani…" he started before seeing the tentacle that hit him...had one of his shoulder pads in its claws. "My shoulder…" He blinked in realization. He growled in anger as he pulled out his Door-ju.
"Oh, no, a gun, my greatest weakness!" the octopus man mocked.
"Shinnosuke, stand down," Captain America ordered.
"See you guys got to meet HYDRA's old WW2 baby," the man in the white cloak mocked.
"Yeah...not bad for an antique," Iron Man spoke up. "So...what, you guys here to collect it and put it in some HYDRA cult museum?"
"No, Stark, you insufferable idiotic fool," the octopus spoke, "we're here to watch the world burn, prevent you from saving the day and once HYDRA takes this world as our proper place, humanity will call us their protectors; we are the true Avengers!"
"You're nothing but opportunists," Drive shouted back.
"And this world...is a lie…" a voice spoke out as a man stepped forward in green-and-gold armor designed to resemble Captain America's suit, with the helmet being almost identical if not for the green coloring, and bearing a green-and-gold triangular shield with a glowing gold star in the center of the cross
"That's just not right…" Captain America said, seeing that.
"What would you know about rights and wrongs, Steven?" he asked. "Allow me to give you my obvious name...Captain Hydra."
"Yeah, no clue that would have been the name," Iron Man responded sarcastically.
"This world is a lie, we bring only the truth," Captain Hydra informed, "and we will not let you stop the Sleeper from awakening you all to the truth."
"However, if death will awaken you to the truth, that's very fine," the octopus-like man added dryly.
=...I know that voice...Otto?...Otto Octavius?=
"Who?" Drive asked.
=He's a scientist, he is a brilliant man. Primarily in mechanical engineering and nuclear physics,= Krim explained. =One experiment of his almost allowed him to hold the sun in his hands.=
"Nani?" Drive asked. "Such a smart man...now works for something as twisted as Hydra?"
"Because I have an enemy! An enemy I must defeat with all I have, I am not satisfied till I can defeat the man who ruined me!"
"I'm drawing a blank here…" Iron Man muttered with a shrug of his shoulders despite having a weird sense that he knew the costume.
"We should focus on what's simple, they are in our way," Captain America stated.
"We should smash the…" Hulk started before a tentacle actually knocked him down. "...Nobody saw that."
"Let's take them for a ride," Drive spoke.
"You're one of us, Kamen Rider," Captain Hydra spoke. "You may not be aware but your origins connect back to WW2, you should be fighting alongside us."
"What?" Drive asked in confusion. "WW2? Belt-san?"
=Beats me...I wasn't making things till the 80s.=
"And then getting outshined by me a year later." Iron Man smirked.
"This is getting annoying, if you're not a Kamen Rider who will stand with us, may the Leader forgive me, but you must fall," Captain Hydra said, lifting his shield as the HYDRA symbol on it glowed...and fired an energy HYDRA skull at them.
Drive held up his Door-Ju as it projected an energy shield that deflected it away. Drive then aimed and began firing back as Captain Hydra blocked with his shield, the two charging at each other as Hydra swung his shield while Drive leaned back and skidded under the swing before he spun around and turned to face the copy. Drive grunted as he jumped and kicked at Hydra, who blocked with his shield before he spun around and grabbed the Rider's leg. Captain Hydra spun and tossed Drive away. Drive grunted as he slotted a new Shift Car into his brace.
=HOOKING WRECKER!=
A green tire locked into his chest before a hook shot off and tied around Captain Hydra. Drive then grunted as he used the fall to drag him with him. However, tentacles quickly separated the Captain from the hook as the Octopus came for Drive.
"Face a more worthy foe of speed and mind, I am the Superior Octopus!"
"Let's go for a ride, then, Tako-yaro!" he shouted as he landed before backing away as he reverted to his Type Speed Tire.
"Hey, kid!" Iron Man called out, only for the two to run off and take their fight somewhere else. Before Iron Man could follow, his green HYDRA knockoff stopped him.
"Name's Tactical Force."
"Good to know…" Iron Man said as they both aimed and fired at each other at the same time. "Reflexes are good but you can't beat the real deal."
On the ground, Thor battled his knockoff.
"What do they call you, imposter?" Thor demanded.
"The Hammer!"
"Straightforward!" Thor complimented as they clashed hammers, causing a large shockwave.
"Who do they call you?" Black Widow asked, dodging various arrows.
"The Bowman!"
"Hydra doesn't have the best think tank for names, do they?" she couldn't help but say as she dodged another arrow. "Also, your arrows pale in comparison to the real Hawkeye's."
Meanwhile, Scarlet Witch dodged gunfire from the redhead and slashes from the Grim Reaper and the Taskmaster. "Don't say it," Wanda warned the redhead, knowing what she wanted to say, judging from the sneer on her face.
"Die, mutant whore!"
"I said don't!" she shouted as she unleashed a large pulse of red energy that sent them all flying back and slamming into a wall hard.
"Surprised you're so powerful," Grim Reaper snarled as he charged at Wanda, "but you couldn't even save my brother!"
"Don't you even use him as an excuse, you black-hearted bastard!" Wanda screamed, lashing at him with her psychokinetic hexes.
"Ok, he's faster then me…" Drive started before he got punched in the face. "Ow, stronger, too...those arms are deceitful."
"I'm just fighting with all my available arms," the Superior Octopus mocked.
"Grr…" Drive growled as the arms shot at him. He then moved forward before he became a blur that swerved around the arms. Octopus blinked as his arms moved more wildly and the red blur moved around the area even faster.
"So...this is the full extent of your speed," he said as the blur moved around him before he was hit from behind, making him stagger forward. "Your trick will only work for so long, eventually I shall capture you, Drive!"
"I'm counting on it!" Drive shouted as he jumped into the air.
"This...that trick won't work!" Octopus shouted as his tentacles all shot at Drive as he aimed his leg at him.
=TYPE WILD!=
Drive's armor changed as he turned into Type Wild and used his shoulder-mounted tire to body-slam into the tentacles. Octopus staggered as Drive grabbed all four tentacles under his arms before he backed away and dragged Octopus with him, then spun him around and slammed him into and through a wall.
"...grrr.." Octopus growled before Drive grabbed his back and tore the arms off.
"Let's settle this with muscle!" Drive shouted as he charged at him. Then they both locked hands and tried to overpower each other...but seemed dead even. "Nani?"
"If you thought my arms were my source of strength, no...it's all my new body's superior genes!"
"Even if you are superior...I won't stop!" Drive shouted as he began pushing as best he could. He then leaned back, bringing Octopus with him.
Octopus blinked before Drive locked his arms around his right arm and began pulling. Octopus groaned as he realized what Drive was doing. The Hydra warrior groaned as he reached his hand over to his locked right and grabbed his hand with his left. He then began pulling his arm up to keep the pressure from the arm bar from getting worse.
"Such...a simple...move is really the best a master of hand-to-hand combat can think of?!" he growled.
"No...but it's the start!" he shouted as he swung his legs around while he spun over Octopus and locked his left arm behind his back. Drive's right arm locked around his neck as he slammed his knee into his back. "You might be strong...but even your body can't work against its own anatomy!"
"...Did you think you would really rip my tentacles off so easily?" he asked.
"Hu.." Drive started before one of the "severed" tentacles choked him from behind. "What the heck?"
"My arms are linked to my mind," the Superior Octopus sneered his explanation. "I can control them even if they are 'severed' from my body."
"Ghh…" Drive groaned as he looked around before he noticed a circuit box. Drive used his free hand to drag him and Octopus closer to it.
=Shinnosuke, what are you doing?= Krim asked in worry as they closed the distance.
"It's no use, Kamen Rider, I know your armor offers you your own oxygen supply, but it won't do you any good if I cut off the path for it!" Octopus gloated.
"In that case...let's get a wakeup call…" Drive groaned as he forced himself up while holding onto Octopus. Drive then shouted and he lifted his fist up before...he punched the circuit box. Sparks began escaping it before electricity ran along Drive's armor.
"What are you doing!? That energy is feeding right into your armor!"
"My armor...with golden circuits," Drive corrected.
"Golden...you clever littl-!" He was cut off by the electricity feeding directly into his body instead of Drive.
"Yeah…" He smirked as Octopus backed away in pain.
"...Not as bad as Electro but..annoying enough…" he growled, about to go for more until he caught a shield. "...Taskmaster."
"Back off, Tako, I want a go."
"Weren't you supposed to take the Witch?"
"This is more fun," he replied. "Besides...if you keep going on, he'll adapt to your tricks." He approached Superior...before hitting him with the very exact same moves Drive always used. To Shinnosuke and even Krim...it was like a perfect mirror.
"Ore no waza…" Drive spoke.
"Oh, I got a lot more school in session," he said. "Let's go for a ride." He grinned, doing Drive's pose.
"Ha!" Drive shouted as he charged and the two swung punch after punch, blocking one another.
"Insolence…" Superior Octopus complained as the two went at each other.
"I never thought I'd fight myself...and it not being a roidmude!" Drive said as he blocked a punch before kicking as Taskmaster, only for him to duck under it. Drive then rammed his shoulder tire into his shoulder, sending him flying away.
"So...how do you copy a shoulder-mounted tire?" Octopus asked, enjoying that bit.
"Can't, ain't an Adaptoid...but I do adapt my own way…" he replied as he was covered in a white aura.
"Eh?" Drive questioned before the aura turned red.
"Gekiwaza...ho ho dan!"
Drive lifted the Type Wild Shift Car as his shoulder tire began glowing and he moved it forward. The Tire began spinning as it took the red tiger that crashed into him, and Drive groaned as he moved his leg back to push against the force of the blast.
"So it doubles as a shield...with its own barrier...interesting," Octopus noted.
Drive moved up his brace as he slotted in a new Shift Car and he lifted it up.
=TYPE TECHNIC!=
The armor-changing aura formed around him and the tiger exploded. After a moment the smoke cleared as Drive stood there in his green armor.
"Well, Mister Roboto, domo arigato," Taskmaster joked as he took out a bow and fired fifteen arrows.
"Wait…" Octopus noted but he stopped himself.
Drive grunted as a force field formed around him and blocked all the arrows.
"..." Drive took a step back before he fired at Taskmaster, who shot arrows to perfectly counter each shot. "...Kuso...he knows my pattern."
=Indeed, who is he?= Krim asked.
"I am the asskicker, you are the asskickee," he introduced.
"The only one allowed to say that is shorter and cuter," Drive countered. "My tastes are none of your business, Jack Skellington."
"I'm surprised you deduced his face wasn't a mask," Octopus said.
"Wait, that's his actual face?" Drive asked freaked out. "How are you alive?!"
"Your tricks won't work on me!" Taskmaster shouted as he charged and punched Drive, sending him stumbling back. "I've fought some of the best martial artists the planet has to offer, kid, you ain't shit."
"I'm not a martial artist...I'm a police officer," Drive corrected, lifting another Shift Car in his brace.
=TIRE KOUKAN: ROLLING GRAVITY!=
The new Tire slotted onto Drive's chest as the old one crashed into Taskmaster, catching him by surprise. Taskmaster groaned as Drive simply put his 10-ton weight down next to him. Drive waved goodbye before the weight became a dome of gravity that pinned him down to the ground. Taskmaster groaned as the gravity kept him from moving at all. Octopus laughed at the simple trick used to put him down for a moment.
"I can't believe you of all people are ok with that killer Rogue living as a peacekeeper of her own private island!" Grim Reaper snapped, slashing at Scarlet Witch. "She needs to die, help me kill her and I'll spare your friends!"
"I help you kill her, I'm betraying my friends, anyway - that's worse than death," Scarlet Witch retorted, using her hexes to make Grim Reaper misaim his slashes.
"And I thought my brother meant something to the Avengers."
"The Avengers aren't murderers, Eric!"
"Then the name Avengers is misleading!" he snapped at her as his hand glowed and skeleton hands erupted from the ground and grabbed the Scarlet Witch's legs. "I have you now, Witch, time to di…" He was interrupted by a gunshot in the chest, and he then looked to see Kiriko as he fell over and died.
"Kiriko?" Wanda blinked in surprise.
"Are you alright, Wanda-san?"
"You need to get away, there's a reason we call him the Grim Reaper," she replied in a panic.
"Eh…" she started before half-rotting corpses rose from the ground under her.
"You're going to watch, Wanda…" Grim Reaper spoke, as he got up, revealing holes in his chest now thanks to the gunshot. Even more unsettling, worms were spilling out of the holes, revealing how rotten his body was inside. "You're either gonna help me or suffer." He walked past her and aimed his scythe at Kiriko as it lit up. "I'm gonna drain you dry, police bitch."
"Kiriko!" Iron Man panicked, trying to assist but having to dodge shots from Tactical Force.
"Hulk save bike man's sister!" Hulk declared before the Hammer slammed his knockoff weapon into the Hulk's head.
"You and the Thunderer are mine, beast."
Captains America and Hydra were busy fighting each other while the redheaded woman and Bowman had Black Widow cornered.
"Who the hell are you anyway?" Widow asked the girl.
"I'm Sin, the Red Skull's daughter...pleased to kill you."
"Tomari!" Captain America shouted into his comms. "Get back here now, these guys are more skilled than we assumed, and Kiriko's about to get her lifeforce drained by the Grim Reaper."
"Eh?" Drive asked as he blocked a punch from Taskmaster. "Sorry...I can't play anymore." He pushed Type Speed into his Shift Brace.
=TYPE SPEED!=
"...And it was just getting fun, too." Taskmaster frowned as Superior approached
"Fun...this was work," Drive explained. At that, the wall behind him shattered as Tridoron appeared, surprising the two villains. "You were my first fight as an Avenger, so thanks." He pushed the finisher button.
"You really shouldn't waste time, Grim Reaper's process is irreversible."
"...tch," Drive groaned.
=Shinnosuke, Kiriko's life is more important than these two=
"I've already stopped thinking about it," he answered, lifting the car.
=FULL THROTTLE!=
Drive then jumped back as Tridoron spun around, its tire spoilers spinning before he jumped off of them. Drive launched up into the air, Tridoron backed up before it flipped over and transformed into its own Type Technic. The Tridoron grabbed Drive as he descended before it began spinning. It then tossed the Kamen Rider up even higher into the air. The two villains blinked before Tridoron grabbed them and bashed them into one another. The car then spun around and slammed them both into a wall.
"That was dirty…" Taskmaster complained as he pushed Superior off of him. "we ready?"
"yes now that he's out of the way its time to retrieve it."
"Shinnosuke?" Captain America repeated before the ground under them began shaking.
Everyone looked down before the ground under them exploded as Drive shot into the air with his leg outstretched in a kick. Drive flipped forward and landed on the ground. His eyes lit up as he blurred around and separated everyone from whoever they were fighting.
"What the…" Grim Reaper started before a punch ended up knocking off his entire jaw.
"Gross," Drive said plainly before he kicked the Reaper, sending him flying into a wall. "Never want to touch him again…"
=I detect life signs...but at the same time don't...it's a paradox=
"He steals human life forces to sustain himself," Scarlet Witch informed.
=He's like the Schrodinger's Cat theory...perplexing=
"I...never thought of that," Iron Man admitted.
"His Scythe also absorbs energy any form of it, so be careful what you throw at him," Wanda advised.
"That's alright, I'm not planning to blast him."
=You are very informative about him, Miss Wanda=
"He hates the Avengers for not saving his brother," she said before walking up to Kiriko. "Are you alright?"
"I've...felt better…" she admitted while gasping for air.
"You didn't have to help me," she said.
"What are you talking about?" Kiriko responded, "You looked like you needed help. So I helped, it's my job, after all." She paused. "Besides, it seems like Tomari was popular at the time."
"I didn't like them!" Drive countered. "Ok, so what did I miss?"
"The girl in red says she's the Red Skull's daughter," Black Widow said, getting everyone's - especially Captain America's - attention.
"That's...uh...disturbing?" Drive muttered.
"Seems about right." Iron Man nodded his head.
"The green Thor calls himself Hammer and green arrow man calls himself Bowman." Hulk laughed.
"Bowman...Hammer?" Drive blinked.
"I know, right." Hulk chuckled.
"My almost handsome doppelganger is called Tactical Force."
"Now that's better."
"What about you, Shin?" Black Widow asked.
"I faced some guy called Superior Octopus…"
=He's a rather well-known scientist formerly known as Otto Octavius,= Krim added. =His new body is strong and powerful.=
"Ugh." All the Avengers minus Wanda groaned like some kind of headache hit them all at once.
"Are you guys alright?" Drive asked.
=That was a rather odd reaction…= Krim noted, getting a nod from Kiriko and Wanda.
"I...feel like my brain wants to tell me something but it's locked."
"Hulk feel like smashing Octopus..but can't remember why…"
"Ugh...I have not felt this bad since that time I got into a headbutting contest with Hulk," Thor groaned.
"Hey, Team!" Taskmaster shouted as he came in swinging on a web.
"Oh...and then there was that guy, Taskmaster," Drive added.
"How'd it go?" Captain Hydra asked.
"Excellent, after car boy left us, Ock found what we came for and the other sleepers should be awaking."
"So...calling the Kid back...was a blunder?" Iron Man noted looking at Captain America.
"Tony, did it look like we were gonna be able to save Miss Kiriko?"
"Fair."
"Besides, I doubt whatever it was I could have got it," Drive countered. "They really seemed to like me."
"Is everyone else ignoring the fact he said other sleepers?" Widow asked.
"No...was just hoping we could double back to that after this whole...uh...team grudge match."
"Excellent, and the new targets are set?"
"Yep, Genosha and all those mutant scum are toast and then Latveria," he informed.
"Excellent, come on, Team, we're leaving."
"You guys heard that, right?" Drive asked.
"Unfortunately, Sir Tomari...we have." Thor nodded.
"So...punch and kick?" Drive chuckled sheepishly.
"It's pointless, they're already gone," Cap said as the team glowed before it faded away, "and even if we hit them, they have something that automatically sucks them into Dimension Z."
"Uh...anyone have a Plan B...really, no stupid ideas," Iron Man spoke up.
"Back to the Quinjet and straight to Japan."
"Why there?"
"Japan was part of the Axis, the sleepers have no reason to attack it, we'll plan and then inform the authorities."
"Is that really all we can do?" Iron Man asked.
"Besides maybe Hulk and Thor...I doubt any of us can stop one mid-flight...and even then Cap said we can't hit them," Drive spoke up.
"So let's get into the jet and go home and start planning," Black Widow said.
"It's really the best call," Kiriko agreed.
"I'll kill this Grim Reaper son of a bitch!" Go snapped after being told what happened. He even swung his fist and made a large dent in the wall. "He'll never get another chance to so much as swing his damn toy!" He growled furiously, surprising them at how he changed so much.
"That's...not...normal, is it?" Bruce asked, backing away.
"Yes, Doggie Kruger?" Steve asked on the phone. "Yes, I would like your assistance...yes...you received reports...it's called the Sleeper...I believe there are at least 3 more." He sighed. "Yes...and it seems that priority targets have been set. Yeah, those are the places…" He then smiled, "Thank you, Doggie, I knew I could count on your help."
"He really likes that dog," Thor noted.
"You kidding me, he and DekaRed were on his list for Avengers," Tony explained. "I mean...a space warrior who's famous for taking down 100 enemies in less than 4 minutes. A Space officer who has risen to be one of the best law enforcers in all of space. And is kind of known for pulling off some insane things." He was reading off a file showing images of Dekamaster and DekaRed along with their civilian forms.
"Ahh!" Go snapped, constantly punching the dent he made before Viv held up a Snickers bar to him. "Huh?"
"I saw on TV when people are acting irrationally, they are craving for Snickers."
Go...stopped and looked away and took a deep breath for a moment before he turned back around and took the candy with a smile. "Thanks...Viv…" he said as everyone just watched Go. It took most of them a moment...but they could finally read the 18-year-old.
"...Should I assist?" Jarvis asked.
"No, buddy, take care of your family and enjoy your retirement," Tony replied. "We got this."
"Are you certain?"
"We got it...trust me. We have Krim here to help me with tech, and we got the kid to be a useful powerhouse," Tony explained. "You don't need to push yourself into this stuff anymore than just being here to listen to us groan and complain."
"...Very well, Sir, but if Mister Go dents another wall, I will be peeved."
"Don't blame you...but I'm letting it go for now. Kid's sister just got attacked by a mad zombie...she's all he's got," Tony explained.
"Kiriko, are you…" Shinnosuke asked before seeing her preparing her guns. "Eh, you're still planning to go with us?"
"Why wouldn't I?" she asked as she cleaned one of Black Widow's guns. "You always rush into any danger with little care for what happens to you. If I can't respond with the same determination...then I can't in all good intention be called your handler." Loading the gun capped her explanation.
"You're lucky, kid, I wish someone would handle me." Tony laughed.
"The handling shows respect, I've been handled many times and loved it!" Thor cheered.
"Wanda," Kiriko said simply as both Tony and Thor ended up tossed out a window by an unseen force.
"Alright, team, listen up, time for a little divide and conquer," Steve said.
"Divide?" Bruce asked as Thor jumped back in while Tony desperately climbed back in as best he could.
"We'll be splitting up and going to each likely target, the first Sleeper is off the grid but his mini-mes are heading for separate areas," Steve explained. "SPD has already tracked possible locations given the last place they spotted it, and narrowing those out with the Mini's." He showed them a map.
"I never should've let him watch all three Austin Powers..." Tony muttered.
"Nat, you and Bruce are going to Russia."
"Oh, boy," Nat replied with fake excitement.
"I'll pack the Big Guy's snow pants…" Bruce chuckled.
"Tony, you're off to Latveria to support Doom."
"Hahahaha...oh you're being serious…"
"Wanda, you're going to Geno…"
"I'm going to Latveria or I'm not going anywhere at all," she snarled, her eyes glowing with her magic.
"...Fine, Tony can go to Genosha."
"I just can't catch a break...still better than Doom," Tony muttered.
"Where do I go, Captain?"
"Thor, I need you to go and assist Captain Britain, Union Jack was a member of the Invaders, so he'll know about the sleeper."
"Then off I go," he said with a nod.
"What about me?" Shinnosuke asked.
"You're with me to America, the Skull wouldn't resist hurting me by wiping America off the map."
"So...we're going to America, then?" Kiriko asked.
"I was thinking you'd be better assisting Wanda, Miss Kiriko," Steve explained.
"Eh…"
"And that's an order, remember, you signed on as a member of our staff."
"Well, I can't deny that." She nodded. "...Tomari-san...at least be careful."
"If it helps then you girls can take Go."
"Wait...what?" Go asked.
"I don't mind," Wanda replied, "he's her brother."
"Don't worry, I'll keep Nee-san safe!" Go saluted.
"Why only me?"
"Because you don't have superpowers?"
"Good, you all know your jobs, then those who can't fly grab a Quinjet."
"Shotgun!" Go shouted as he split.
"Shinnosuke, we're picking someone up first."
"Eh?"
"Hmm, first trip to America." Doggie chuckled, flying the Quinjet, the leader of the Earth branch of the Space Police sitting across from Shinnosuke and Steve.
"Thanks for agreeing to assist us," Captain America said.
"But of course, I love the exercise. Plus it beats the paperwork...and since Ban got promoted that's about all I really get to do. He brought in all the really nasty aliens." He chuckled.
"Have you ever dealt with Skrulls or the Kree?"
"Diplomatic immunity." Doggie sighed. "But before I became the boss, in my youth I would often battle them by the dozens. Hahaha...I loved the looks on their faces when I showed up," he recalled wistfully.
"Well, next time they bring their war to this planet I know who to call." Captain America laughed with Doggie.
"Ah, this old War Dog still knows his tricks, even though now I'm but a glorified guard dog."
"So who's in charge while you're here with us?" Shinnosuke asked curiously.
"Tetsu...but he's gonna be mad…"
"Why?"
"No!" Tetsu cried, seeing mountains of untouched paperwork.
"Oh, don't be such a crybaby," Swan said as she slammed a stack down in front of him. "How are you ever going to get fully promoted to a captain if you cry at the sight of paperwork?"
"Why does the boss leave so much to pile up?"
"What do you mean...this is his early morning work. This isn't even near piled up," Swan explained.
"AH!" Tetsu cried slamming his head on the desk.
"So that's the deal...a Nazi killer robot is coming to kill all mutants," Iron Man told the X-Men who came to greet him.
"He's not lying," Jean Grey informed.
"Who lies about stuff like that?!" Iron Man complained.
"You do know Erik was in a concentration camp right?"
"Yeah...and you also probably know that it was either here...or go talk to Doom...I chose the less annoying one," Iron Man explained. "Well, hardly chose...but trust me, I'd take this over spending more than 5 minutes with Doom." Then his armor locked up and he was forcefully turned around to face a glaring Magneto. "Still better than Doom. Yo, Magnethead, how you doing?"
"What's this I hear about...Nazis…?"
"I was right to pack the snow pants," Bruce mumbled as he got out of the Quinjet. Bruce closed his black jacket as he felt the chill, on the plus side his pulse wasn't racing due to the cold. "Maybe I should have hid out in places like this...cold slows the pulse."
Next to him, Natasha got off the Quinjet, dressed in a red-accented white version of her usual uniform, complete with a Russian snow cap.
"...It's, umm...been awhile since we've been alone..." Bruce whistled. "Listen, about this...unspoken thing between us…"
"Bruce, I adore you but this isn't the best time…" she admitted. "This has been a rough week."
"Why, Nat?"
"...I...think I might've found my mother."
"Oh...well...uh...yeah, I suppose that is more important," he mumbled, rubbing the back of his neck. "So what, is she being held captive here, do we need to bust her out? Did Fury know?"
"Of course he did...and he told me I wouldn't like what I learned if I kept digging."
"Nat...screw Fury, this is your family, your life…"
"Bruce, I was raised a killer, how can I expect her to welcome me with open arms?"
"You're right...you're smart like that. But don't you want to at least say you met her...you know what she looked like. At least one memory?" he asked.
"Bruce...this is the image of her I found last year."
"...My God...that's impossible…"
"Exactly my point," she said, equally confused.
"It's just there, not unless she and you are…"
"Bruce…" Nat said. "Don't...move."
"...Please don't tell me there is a red dot on me…"
"Worse…" she said as he noticed a clawed hand around both their throats.
"Hello there, trespassers," sneered a man in a dark cloak with the hood pulled over his head, leaving only a bug-eyed mask that covered most of his face exposed.
"...How did you sneak up on me of all people?" Natasha demanded.
"I'm just gonna be...not panicking…" Bruce muttered.
"They call me the Wolf," he replied, "and for you two, it's nap time." Then he released a gas.
"Oh….nooo," Bruce groaned, falling and dozing, as did Widow.
"Be calm, students of Braddock academy!" Thor shouted to the curious students of the superhuman school of England. "I come seeking your teachers." As he spoke, he gently put his hammer down. "I seek my old friend Captain Britain!"
"And you've found him," replied a blond man in an armored suit painted to resemble the British flag. "Hello, Thor. It's been a while, hasn't it?"
"Sadly, I do not come with great news, is the Union Jack of World War 2 around?"
"No, but his sister would gladly see you," replied a woman in yellow-and-black who appeared out of nowhere, or at least that was how it would seem to anyone without Thor's keen senses. "What is the problem, thunder god?"
"Do you know of the Sleeper?"
"Yes, we buried that monster," the woman, Spitfire, replied.
"It had been unearthed and more are likely coming, they will be targeting the nations that allied against Hydra back in the great war."
"What do they look like?" the Captain asked before the cloud darkened and they all looked up to see the sleeper's army of robots.
"Like those." Thor frowned. "Come Captain my old friend today we fight for your motherland!"
"So does this mean I'm an Avenger?" Go asked.
"You failed the psychological exam," Wanda said as they approached Latveria. "Now listen, when we approach Latveria, let me do the talking. Doom is a powerful madman and a tyrant, you both can't risk upsetting him."
"Yeah, who knows what dastardly, inhuman, sick and twisted crap he's doing to those poor Latverian people as we…"
"Or not," Kiriko spoke up, looking out the window.
"Winner of the science fair!" Doctor Doom declared, holding up a smiling little boy carrying a trophy. "But this young man's victory does not mean any of you are inferior, we are all winners, my people, and you will all shine, so swears Doom!" Then he noticed the Scarlet Witch, Kiriko, and a gawking Go. "..." Doom then placed the boy down and raised his hands, ready to battle before Wanda bowed to him. "You dare invade my home, Avenger."
"Now, Father…" Valeria said, appearing behind him. "What did we discuss?"
"..." Doom lowered his hands and looked at Wanda. "...How...may Doom assist you?"
"Hydra seeks war with you, Victor, any idea why?" Wanda asked.
"I have long had misgivings with the Red Skull and Hydra when they were reforming, months ago they attempted to recruit Doom," he replied, crossing his arms.
"They've awakened a machine called the Sleeper, it seeks to destroy Latveria."
"Seems they did not take my...response well," Doom added.
"Sending a country-scale death machine would imply that," Go muttered.
"If that's all, Wanda, you may leave Doom to defend himself."
"I am not leaving, Captain America asked me to help you…"
"Latveria has its own team of heroes to defend it," Valeria informed
"So...we can bounce...okay, later…" Go said before Kiriko yanked him back.
"We're not leaving, Victor," Wanda said before Doom cupped her chin.
"Oh...and to think you rejected my marriage proposal."
"The only reason she's here is cause she'd rather deal with you then Magneto," Go spoke up.
"Cute, but Doom still hopes for a yes, my dear. Very well, you and your...guards may come to Castle Doom."
"Okay, have fun, sis, I'm back...ack!" Go cried as both girls grabbed him before he could try to escape.
"Apologies...Guard and buffoon." Doom corrected himself.
"Hey, I made an impression!" Go laughed.
"Go...be careful."
"Oh, come on, what can he do to me?"
"Back in my early days, Doom one-shot the Hulk who was at max power," Wanda whispered to him.
"He doesn't let him live it down, does he?" Go asked.
"No." Valeria smiled.
"This one is...Kamen Rider Mach," Doom spoke up as he looked at Go. "You made a name for yourself across America."
"Meh." He shrugged his shoulders, earning a kick to his gut that made him double over. "My sister is brutal…"
"Everyone but Nat and Bruce has checked in…" Steve frowned.
"Go was very vocal about his...but still, I'm sure they are fine. I mean, they are the last ones we need to worry about...right?" Shinnosuke asked.
"I hope so, Natasha seems distracted lately." Steve sighed. "Bruce...I get the feeling he has something going on...but hard to tell with the Big Guy around so often," he said. "Thor's under attack, but with Captain Britain and his school behind him, he'll be fine."
"Now all we need is a way to take down that sleeper." Shinnosuke smiled. "Yosh, I'm getting revved up."
"...I'm off to contact S.H.I.E.L.D….Shinnosuke, you meet with Doggie and I'll communicate with you both when I'm on my way back," Steve said before he walked off.
"...Cap?" Shinnosuke asked in concern. "Belt-San, did you…"
=Ahh, he seems in a hurry…= Krim spoke up from his spot on the table. =Something seems off.=
"You feel it, too."
=Hard not to, I'm sure Mr. Kruger also felt it."
"He feels responsible," Kruger said, appearing next to them.
"Ah/Whoa= Both of them spoke up at that.
"He feels like if he ended this in the war it wouldn't be hurting people in the now," he explained. "He probably plans to end it solo, find a weakness...but if I was him, the only way to pull it off would be at the heart."
"At the heart…" Shinnosuke repeated.
"Ahh, too bad I went off ahead on Tomari, I'll have to tell Steve I lost sight of the lad," Doggie said, turning away and not looking behind him.
"..." Shinnosuke smirked before he grabbed Belt-san.
"The Sleepers will soon wipe the world clean." Arnim Zola smirked, watching the timer as Captain Hydra approached. "The Supreme Leader will be pleased...Captain, how did they do?"
"I want Grim Reaper, Sin and Bowman off my team."
"Whatever for?" was his counter.
"Sin was very disobedient. I need a team that I can trust, Reaper is too focused on his vengeance towards the Avengers and Bowman's skills are lacking, I told him his daughter Kate was a better archer."
"...Anything else of...interest to add to that list?"
"I'm still evaluating Tactical Force..but I will be keeping Hammer, Taskmaster, and Superior," he explained. "Taskmaster and Superior at least showed some use in being able to deal with Drive, if I'm right, that one shall become an issue as he adapts and becomes a better member of the team."
"Superior is too focused on his revenge on the one…"
"That is something I'd like to mention...no one seems to remember that one."
"What? How odd…"
"I suspect something happened on Earth, but as we are cut off here in Dimension Z . . ."
"...we had complete immunity," he finished the theory. "Very well...we shall...roll with this as they say. It's one of our biggest threats down."
"Careful, Father, you're thinking like an American." The Captain smirked.
"Ugh...regardless, your evaluation has proven useful. I shall consider the suggestions...and based on manpower and resources implement fitting modifications."
"...You can stop following me…" Steve said as Shinnosuke came out of the shadows. "...I take it you wanna stick with me...and nothing I say is gonna convince you otherwise?"
"No, sir." He shook his head.
=Even if you try, he's going to catch up to you regardless.= Krim laughed.
"Well, we're gonna need to do this slow and quietly...I have a plan."
"A plan?"
"If the plans for the Sleepers don't exist here...then we have to go to Hydra's personal dimension….where a literal planet will be against us."
"So how do you plan to get there?"
"...I know a guy…"
"Ok, ok, so...let's recap...eheheh, see what I did there?" a figure asked, cleaning his sword. "You want me….to get my pals in Hydra, backstab them...get you into Dimension Z...then get you out?"
"That's right, son," Steve said as Shinnosuke and Krim looked uncomfortable.
"Sure!" he cheered. "Oh, they'll get over it when I pay them for the troubles! Ahahaa, are you kidding me, a chance to work with The Avengers?! No way are we passing that up!"
"...How much do you want?"
"1 billion dollars!"
"No."
"An orgy with female Avengers?"
"No."
"...A blowjob?"
"No..."
"...An autograph...on my butt!"
"...Fine."
"Whoo-hoo!" The figure laughed as he turned on the lights, revealing a group of costumed men and women in the same attire, but colored differently for each. One was a girl in pink-and-white with bare legs and her mouth and jaw exposed. Another was wearing a gray-and-beige tactical suit that also looked like a Zen monk's attire. A third was in green-and-yellow, a fourth was in a red-and-black suit that looked roughly and crudely stitched together, and the leader was garbed in a much more smoothly tailored red-and-black suit. "Deadpool and the Mercs for Money are at your service!"
つづく
O.N: Aww, shit, he managed to show up for chapter 4.
Deadpool: Foursome~
Kamen Rider ZER0: I knew we couldn't keep him away forever.
Rider Paladin: He is here. The Messiah has manifested. The time of judgment is at hand.
O.N: Well, things are bad if Steve's going to Deadpool for help.
Deadpool: I resent that!
O.N: And looks like Nat and Bruce are dealing with a roadbump, hope they can escape the mysterious Wolf before the Sleepers hit.
Z0: Things are proving to be interesting.
RP: Very interesting.
O.N: And what's worse than Sleepers, knockoffs! HYDRA coming at the Avengers with their own Avengers, for where the idea came from, follow Secret Empire and read previous Secret Wars tie-in Hail Hydra at your local comic book store or website.
Z0: Read at your own risk.
RP: Indeed. Or even read the New Avengers arc of Amazing Spider-Man (issues 519-524) where a few of the HYDRAvengers were originally introduced, specifically Tactical Force, the Hammer, and the Bowman.
O.N: And if you're real Marvellites, I hope you picked up a certain name related to a certain Archer.
Deadpool: Yeah, lady ha…*gets his head stomped on my maximum gamer's foot*
Z0: He's okay.
O.N: It's called allowing the fans to figure it out like a surprise quiz, anyway, next time we continue the Sleeper problem. Until then, I am OverNerd V . . .
RP: I am Rider Paladin.
Z0: I'm Kamen Rider ZER0!
O.N: And we'll return in the next Drive.