The Age Of Akaige
By Pakkrat
Chapter 4: The Head of the Serpent (Part 4)
Note: The disclaimers tell how I don't own Teen Titans and other materials like that. I do like the Kagejin and Akaige original creations of my own. Also, several other shows are in this chapter and a special bonus. To my readers can you name the two anime references in this chapter? Hints, one makes you paranoid, one makes you foolishly cool. There is another anime since some of our story gets global. If you can guess what anime will be appearing later from the penname of a character, an extra 5 points to you! If you have the song "The Reason, By Hoobastank" you might want to listen to it at a specific scene. A very moving moment to its music. This chapter is also fairly long as it is the end of the "Head of the Serpent" parts. I may also change the rating from M to T and see what people think. Things will be fairly intense with action and murder but maybe it isn't an M story, more a T type story with very subjectionable properties? What do you believe? Who can guess what importance 'Head of the Serpent' has to Akaige coming? Enough questions, time for the best twists of this fic yet! More to come I promise it is me after all!
The Justice League consisting of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, J'onn, and Batman sort of watch the two fights outside. Flash yawns asking "Why did we really come here if all we are going to do is stand around?"
"We came to learn anything about an up coming war along with the help of the Teen Titans. That was the only reason Flash not to pick fights."
Flash looks over to that hole in the store blinking, "Really?" he points asking "Did anyone tell him that?"
The five members look at the red droid Nimrod now levitating out of the hole and scanning the area. It looks up to the roof where Raven fought Blink. "Mutant detected." Nimrod flies up and lands a little past Raven and Blink making them stop fighting and looking at the robot here. "Surrender mutant!"
Blink looks at the robot confused "Is this one of your friends?"
"No…"
"You have five seconds to…" Nimrod's screen seems to fizzle in and out and when it turns back on Nimrod screams "Initializing protocols! New protocol, destroy all enemies of master Akaige!"
Raven jumps to that name, "Akaige!"
The Nimrod raises its right hand and creates a golden orb around its palm. Raven jumps in front of Blink raising her shield to block the blast. Nimrod raises both hands and fires making the dual impact on Raven's powers drain her. Raven snarls until Blink grabs her shoulders and teleports them both to the street. Nimrod looks over to Blink helping Raven to her feet. "Why did you help me?"
"It's what was right Blink." Raven glares to Nimrod now levitating off the roof and straight to the ground. "Besides this Creed guy might be upset if something happened to you, right?"
Blink sort of smiles before Nimrod raises his hands as fists and fires two beams again. A green wall blocks the Nimrod blasts and soon the League come over to Raven. "It said it's with Akaige so does that mean he's here?"
"No he can't be something is wrong. He must have agents working for him here."
Nimrod looks over the heroes and floats higher into the air. Nimrod then opens up panels over its body and sprays thousands of missiles on the groups. The missiles don't hit the ground but detonate over them leaving gray gas covering the area. Ravager is coughing and hacking with Beast Boy and Starfire before she is smacked off into a wall. Starfire looks over to than have a metal hand on her face tossing her into a street lamp. Beast Boy glares to the silhouette of Nimrod raising its fists into the air for a slam. "He's using the gas as cover!" the hands smack down and Beast Boy thwacks to the pavements hard. Nimrod looks over to Raven who is stumbling in the dust.
The Nimrod takes and floats towards her sparking energy over its right fist but when it came close someone grabs her and they disappear. Nimrod turns his attention to the Flash who is on his hands and knees coughing. Nimrod floats over readying to fire when a strange gale of wind pushes away the cover. Flash sees the shadow over him and dashes leaving the crater in the ground where he once was crouched.
Nimrod turns to the colored woman with white hair and bolts sparking her eyes. "Mutants detected."
Slade and Robin stand in front of the monster as its arms were out from its sides ready to defend. "Who are you?"
The monster smirks its skeletal fangs, "One of the horsemen of Apocalypse. However, I have found someone more to my liking, Akaige."
"That's the demon you mentioned earlier Robin?" Robin nods "Well just great I just pissed off Trigon, I may as well beat on this one too."
"Wait you're a horsemen of Apocalypse? Why did you join Akaige?"
"Ah, a valid question boy!" It stands tall and thinks back, "A man named Mesmero came to me and put some memories of a previous minion of Apocalypse called Holocaust from another timeline. With several of these memories and other things I am supposed to be the same entity that later became Nemesis, and who then turned into Holocaust. I figured if it was meant to be, it was and so I began taking up my old hobbies and working to remake my old form that I loved so dear." The monster rolls his hands over his body, "This form of pure power, and hell's flame. The time then came along that I lost my facility, this suit, and the last chances of being the nearly omnipotent killer I was during the Age of Apocalypse. Then, in my cell at that prison Akaige came to me and told me how he knew that with him I could be who I was before but even better! I could not resist and so I am once again," The monster stomps his foot and flings his arms out with the scream of his hellish name, "Holocaust, the greatest horsemen of the apocalypse!"
"… That's your name? Holocaust?" Slade shrugs, "I figured Prometheus, of Ifrit something more intimidating and iconic than Holocaust!"
"Screw you cyclops! I'll break your neck twice over for that remark!"
Holocaust screams and charges like a rhino with his arms out. The skull has hate on its screaming face but Robin and Slade nod zig-zagging past each other. Holocaust halts and watches them circle around him. Robin and Slade leap kick but Holocaust screams and swings his club smashing Robin away like a ball. Slade is then grabbed by the neck from the human hand and raised into the air. Slade grabs the hand by the wrist and begins trying to kick the beast. Holocaust grins before pulling his arm back and flinging the dangling Slade up over to a wall. Standing victor Holocaust raises his club arm and charges flames from it on Slade.
Robin leaps in with his staff and smacks the club down making it misfire and melt some of the floor instead. Robin now strikes his staff over the face of Holocaust making the larger beast bob from the strikes. Robin strikes more and more, fast and fierce until he has a hand grab his staff and struggling to pull it away. Holocaust pitches his head to Robin snarling while still hunched from the last strike. He launches a punch of the club over Robin's chest smacking the boy wonder through a wall. Robin rolls over the floor and rolls with his legs and arms weakly to a halt. Some debris from the wall falls on Robin making him stand up slowly. Holocaust grabs the hole in the wall and steps through brandishing his club arm. Smirking, Holocaust readies to fire again until a staff is cupped under his helmet. Slade has leapt on the back of the beast and pulls with his staff making it stumble back out of the hole in the wall.
Robin flops his back on the wall inside this room tiredly looking around. His eyes pop wide, "Weapons storage?" he reads several labels, "Starks Enterprises, perfect!"
Slade holds on for dear life since that was the case. Holocaust tosses his shoulders back and forth trying to swing the smaller man off. Slade then lets go and dropped as Holocaust made a swing of the club, hitting himself instead of Slade. Slade lands and runs as Holocaust twitches his right eye and moves his arm to his side. "I'm really getting pissed now." Holocaust looks over to see Slade twirling the staff with his fingertips. Slade points out the staff and Holocaust swings the club snapping the end off a little. Slade pulls the staff up straight and blinks. Another swing and another piece is broke, and then another, and another until the staff is nothing more than a piece of metal.
Holocaust smirks as Slade drops the stick and raises his fists, "Alright! Come on!" Holocaust puts his arms out "Give me your best shot!"
Robin leaps in and with strange gloves flings a punch "Gladly!" the gloves are glowing green and the hit plows Holocaust into the weapon storage. Slade looks at Robin nodding "I always did think you made a great apprentice."
"Whatever Slade." Several sounds of bullets spraying make Slade and Robin dodge behind some shelves in the store. Stomping through the hole Holocaust raises the strange gatling gun in his human hand. Still having some dizziness Holocaust shakes his head and looks up glaring. Letting a long spray loose Robin has a hand struck and tosses off his new gloves "Slade, we have to rush him!"
"Rush him?" Some bullets burst through the shelf and a glass of vinegar spills on a very upset Slade, "You know what be my guest."
Robin looks over through some shelves and watches the now screaming Holocaust firing his new toy. Then the gun clicks but no bullets, "No ammo! Come on Slade!"
Robin scrambles up and readies his bird-arangs as Holocaust was shaking the gun. Looking up Robin tosses the bird-arangs and they fire off with boosters pushing Holocaust through the hole again. Inside, Robin leaps in while connecting his weapons to make his sword weapon and now he starts to clash the blade with the crystalline club of Holocaust. Holocaust pulls back over his chest and in a blood curdling scream he swings. The sword is snapped in half and Robin blinks before a crystalline hand grabs his throat and holds him in the air clenching tightly. Holocaust smirks to himself until a foot strikes the face of Holocaust making the giant tumble back and on his side dropping Robin. Robin notices a hand and his stands up, "I hope you didn't mind I followed your lead."
"I'm just glad you followed."
Holocaust leaps up catching the two off guard, and with his human arm pressing Robin by the throat and club arm over Slade's throat he holds them against the wall choking them.
A vent pops open and a dark figure falls with their back turned to the three. They look confused as the caped person rubs their hands together and starts to open a trunk. With a mechanical voice, they speak "Come to poppa!" They turn around and lay their skull masked face on the trunk to hear the combination lock. That is when he sees the three others and still lying on the trunk, the skull faced figure with a red X tilts his head up and says under his breath "I hate this damn city…"
The X-men arrived to find a very strange scene what with all those heroes and the Nimrod. Nimrod levitates in place looking on the X-men and Wolverine realizes what it is "Just great they made a man-sized sentinel!"
Nightcrawler leaps over and blinks "Are you sure Logan? That doesn't even look like a sentinel."
"Trust me sprite, I know a sentinel when I smell one!" he unsheathes his claws having Kitty ask, "You… smell sentinels?"
"For the love of… just get ready to attack that thing!"
The wall then comes crumbling out and Red X rolls with the attack, he looks up as Holocaust leaps up high with the club arm perched for a strike. "Shit!" Red X turns and runs from the strike now breaking up pavement and up heaving some of the ground.
Red X stops short of the X-man Wolverine with his claws, "Double shit!" then turning on his heels he nearly bumps into Nimrod, "Triple shit!" he then turns to the Martian, J'onn, "Holy shit what is this shit?"
"Would you stop all that cursing? You're worse than Logan on one of those there 'family nights' at the mansion." The X-men glare to the southern teen Rogue, "Aw come on Logan doesn't really curse that much."
"Uh…" Red X points to all the strange looking characters, "How the hell am I supposed to react to this?"
Holocaust looks over the X-men and snarls, "I remember you all!"
Wolverine looks kind of confused "We never met you before, bub."
"Not in this life perhaps but oh we have met!" Holocaust raises his one arm in a fist, "By all means we met!"
Raven was with Blink on the roof "What is going on?"
"I could ask the same question. One second I'm here fighting you teenagers the next some sort of monsters are ripping through walls and robots are blasting on me."
"I'm sorry to say this but some kind of demon has entered our world. Worse yet he's planning something evil but I don't know what. I fear this is somehow related to that monster."
"Really?" Blink is wide eyed from this info. "Wow, I never knew. Wonder what we can do to help."
"I have an idea." A somewhat whimsical voice speaks behind the girls. When they turn Raven is being blasted and surrounded by green energy. Raven is now standing jagged within the energy before she is able to murmur her chant releasing her from the power. Blink grabbed the fainting Raven and looks on the attacker "Who are you?"
"Why I am," The fiendish red eyes look with a pale, dead white face strong and chiseled like the man. His hair was black like black birds would be, and flatly pressed to a slick platform like appearance. Taking a bow his cold voice speaks with no emotion but with a sadistic pleasure as Raven still spasms from the pain "Mr. Sinister the greatest mind this world has ever seen." The black glossed lips curve evilly with fang like teeth, "Perhaps the greatest any world has ever seen."
Blink glares heatedly with her eyes glowing. Something about Sinister was angering her, maybe his walk of power and self-assured victory. That armor he wore was not armor as it was metal blue bands wrapped on his frame. Red emblems were on his center chest and forehead representing something of a diamond shape. A cape made of the flimsy metals bent from the back in seven strips. Sinister was about to make a move when Raven chants, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" and Sinister is encased with blackness and raised up into the air. The energy covered Sinister is held before his body glows and the energy breaks and cracks like glass. Sinister lands on one foot before stepping the other down, and crossing the strong arms Sinister shakes his head "Tsk, tsk young Raven. What exactly were you trying to accomplish? What a waste of perfect potential energy."
Raven stands up groggily as Sinister steps forward asking "Would you not wish to be more powerful? I can do this I will improve on your powers and genetically make you into the ultimate warriors! Follow me, and the new age my lord brings."
"Akaige?" Raven looks up seeing the nod of Sinister, "I should have known you were working for him."
"Not for but rather with him. Akaige promises that after he has destroyed this planet he will leave the remnants to me for my experiments. I can make a genetically perfect world of only those whom I find suitable. You two would be very acceptable specimens I promise let me alter your genes and I will allow you a moderate amount of free will."
"Sorry but I like my body the way it is." Blink twirls her needles growling "If you want to try you're allowed to!"
"Of course that is the only way you will be taken. How sad I hoped to take you alive."
Before Sinister can lay a finger towards them a portal opens next to them both. Dr. Fate levitates forward and raises a hand "Don't even try it Sinister."
Sinister halts his attack and smiles "Whatever you say fate."
"Raven I wish for you to come with me." Raven looks to Cyborg who is still off-line, "Blink could you take Cyborg to the other titans to be repaired? I won't leave until you are with them and are both safe."
Blink nods and teleports Cyborg away to the others on the street. Sinister shrugs asking "What are you up to Fate? You know Akaige won't like you interfering like this."
"I don't really care about your idle threats. Raven we must be going."
"Where?"
"En Sabah Nur has tried Akaige as a breaker of the laws to celestial claim. That kind of infringement can cause a war of holy proportions and to take it into account, the three have been summoned."
"The three?"
"I will explain later on for now we must go quickly." Fate opens a portal and Raven enters cautiously. Sinister grins as his eyes slink "It was not a threat Fate. Akaige will know you interfered not only with me but with En Sabah Nur. When he comes he will kill you."
"I know." Fate closes the door slowly "It is my fate."
Slade runs next to Rose looking at her chin "Are you okay?"
"Yes… I'm sorry I failed you father."
"This was out of our hands daughter. It seems others had plans of their own for this day." Slade glares an eye on Holocaust and Nimrod standing shoulder to shoulder. "They both are brutes so why do we have such trouble defeating them?"
"Some brutes are not only brutes but masterminds cyclops!" Holocaust glares hatefully on the man with one eye "I'm going to enjoy ripping you into little pieces."
Another figure appears on the roof "Am I too late Holocaust?"
Holocaust looks up and smirks "Hell no Sinister! I prefer you than this overgrown toaster oven!"
"Incorrect materials and title."
"Oh shut your… screen… things…"
Sinister leaps down and lands with that one leg drop as before. Blink has teleported to the spot with the titans and looks to Sinister "That guy just feels so evil."
Robin looks over Cyborg "I'll say he fried Cyborg pretty bad. It might take me an hour to fix him completely."
"Um…" Blink blushes and rubs the back of her head "Actually that was kind of me."
"…." Robin looks to Cyborg and tries his best to repair him "You could have blew him up that would have been easier to fix probably."
A mechanical voice asks "Hey, can I check him out?" Robin looks to Red X and shrugs "You think you know how to fix him?"
"I make my own toys without all the money and perks of the hero's life. I think I can figure this out pretty easy." Red X look over the circuits and connectors, "He should be okay if I…" Red X connects something making it spark. Cyborg leaps up and screams "Aye, and if William Wallace were here he'd shoot lightning bolts out of his arse and send the British home in ashes!" Red X pulls a wire and Cyborg is still again. "Okay… maybe not that one."
"You think?"
A large door bursts open and to the floor, "Doom Patrol!" The voice of the leader, Mento, screams and points forth but the scene ahead of them makes him sort of stare in awe "What… happened?"
The purple and black outfitted leader with a special head piece and lightning emblem on their chest steps forward. Behind him a woman in a purple and black outfit with a short skirt, was stretching over to Mento. A bandaged man steps along the side with his orange robotic friend speaking sarcastically "Someone did the dirty work for us." He picks up the robotic head of a Brotherhood of Evil drone, "I say they did pretty damn good too."
Mento moves past all the drones and to the moving podium with an evil face on it. A machine carrier with shattered glass and ripped gray matter Mento nods "They took down Brain. I'm not sure who it was but they did it."
The stretching girl twirls to a higher level and then grabs the rails to bend onto the scaffolding "Madame Rouge is up here."
The wrapped man looks up screaming "Yeah, she's down here too Elastigirl… well, parts of her anyway."
"That's not funny Negative Man!"
"I wasn't being funny her leg is over here!"
"That's not hers." The robot shakes his head "It's his."
Negative man turns and sees the wrinkly face of a man impaled on some broken pipes. His eyes look dully on the heroes "Immortus?"
"Robot Man! Get him down from there!"
Robot Man nods and grabs the elderly immortal off the pipes and to the ground. "I don't think we can help him Mento."
"I know but I want to know what happened." Mento kneels down to the still out of it Immortus. His eyes glow and soon Mento is seeing the scenes play out in his mind.
"So, when the Doom Patrol arrives. My sentries will shoot their plane down and drag them to me. As for Robot Man, his body will be a warning to all who oppose us. Madame Rouge and Immortus will wait at the main facility with a number of the androids until we come with the energy source. After that…"
The roof now caves in. The Brain looks to have a blast destroy his dome and shatter the brain into pieces. Mallah, a giant gorilla looks horrified as their master was destroyed. In a curdling roar of bloodlust Mallah turns with a large cannon on their side and fires sparse red beams. The attacker has red glowing eyes and an unusual smirk with metallic lips. The large machine monster raises its right arm forging some large cannon that soon fired golden blasts that destroy Mallah's weapon.
Mallah lasted no more time than the weapon did. Immortus screams orders to his drones but they are torn to bits by the superior mech. After a few moments the new machine starts to glow with its eyes and the drones stop attacking it. The drones turn on Immortus and Madame Rogue destroying them. Immortus an immortal was skewered and ripped apart. The robot was all Immortus remembers soon in his dying eyes. It steps forward and speaks in an accent, "You were so foolish. Akaige told me you were too unpredictable and dangerous to leave unattended. In truth I planned on joining with your group before his little talk with me. After all, who better to be in the Brotherhood of Evil than Brother Blood?" Brother Blood strolls over in a full coating of metal. He has made himself a robotic form rather than a cyborg. Blood takes to the machine in the far back and tries to use it after several hours with the assistance of the robots his hijacked, the machine produces the necessary power source and Blood grins cruelly before leaving with his little metal army. "Oh, and Mento I left a surprise for you as well." Blood tosses a bomb into the building and leaves.
Mento pulls from the mind as he sees numbers flashing down. "Everyone! Get out of here immediately!"
The Doom Patrol escapes the exploding facility to turn and watch as their leading enemies the brotherhood was finally gone. After the essential feeling of relief amongst the team Mento then starts to contemplate the visions. "Brother Blood where have I heard that name before?"
"Whoa!" Negative Man slaps his forehead with the surprise of the name "Beast Boy has been fighting a guy like that from Jump City! You think they're the same person? I mean, how many people are called Brother Blood."
"Negative man's right! We're going to Jump City and checking out this dilemma. I want to know what Blood could be using that power for."
Raven steps out from the portal with Fate. Fate and Raven stood outside a beautiful multi-colored entrance of marble stone. The columns wrapping along the walls to hold up the majestic fortress floating in deep space. Raven seems to glare at the stars behind them asking "How do we not suffocate?"
"Entering this realm you and I are now merely spirits. Our bodies are in the library of my home. I have my reasons for that. When we enter you will see many beings of exceptional power, good and evil, angelic and demonic. Do remember one law no blood is to be shed within these walls as they are holy quarters where the three converse in peace. I can not tell you it is something one must find on their own Raven." Fate and Raven are now interrupted as some unknown figure steps forward, "Thanos…"
Thanos smiles his prefect teeth over a purple stone like jaw. "Fate you are not debating the entry into these halls are you? It is for only those of demonic, angelic, or perhaps even celestial descent not aware mortals." Thanos stood with a blue outfit tight with a vest and pants. His vest has gold trimming at the center and top with fanned shoulders. The boots and gloves are golden fabric which showed his demi-god status to the mortal Fate.
Raven is soon being eyed by Thanos she feels uneasy as his stare fell on her hood and then her leotard. "What?"
"You would be best to not look at her like that Thanos." The voice of a silver surfer who lands next to Raven and Fate causes Thanos to glare more heated rage on this person. Thanos has no eyes but his sockets gave more than enough a glare to hate. "Why is that Surfer?"
"Because she is the daughter of Trigon."
"I saw that Surfer. That does not mean she is not worth looking over!" Thanos turns to Raven again and nods "She reminds me of the lady my goddess Death." Thanos kneels on one knee grabbing Raven's one hand gently "Perhaps beautiful half-demon I may persuade you to be my love with the destruction of a planet, or even an entire solar system?"
"… You're kidding right?"
Fate snorts "Thanos is not kidding. He tries to show his love to Death from destroying entire planets full of life."
"That's horrible!" Raven looks at the now kneeling demi-god before shaking her head "Um, thank you for the offer but I really need to ask you NOT to do that."
"Oh," Thanos frowns for a moment but then he stands up and grins on Raven "Either way I am more than adamant in persuading one such as you with such a true similarity of my goddess. Perhaps allow me the honor of escorting you within the halls of the celestial council?"
"Um thanks but Fate will take me around."
"Fate?" Thanos laughs into the air "Fate can not enter! He is not a celestial or demi-being like myself! He is a mortal and so he can not enter!"
"Then I will be her escort Thanos." Surfer bows to Raven asking "Will you accompany me?"
"You small Surfer? Do not make me laugh more than needed! You do not even know what ways to deal with the celectial entities before you! It would be madness to go inside with this small and weak being."
"I am not so weak Thanos do not forget I have beaten you many times before."
"Indeed." Thanos hears something like a motorcycle engine and grins, "Perhaps Surfer you can get a Celestial to talk to you."
"Of course." Surfer watches the woman on a yellow vespa riding out of the council hurriedly, a guitar strapped on her back and a scarf over her face the orange jacket and pinkish rocker hair makes Surfer nod and raise his hand "May I…"
The yellow vespa barrels over Silver Surfer making him spiral up into the air and back down with his eyes swirling. Fate and Raven blink as the vespa stops and soon rolls back over Surfer who begins screaming in pain. "Hey… don't I know you?"
The girl was not that happy as she looks from the windows. After getting to Jump City she figured her father would be here. Magneto was not even one hair near the city yet! Scarlet Witch is the daughter of Magneto and with her red long-coat and short black hair with red streaks. With a cruel look as hers most kind of would back off from her but a guy leaps down and holds out some pop-corn. His wide grin a sweet mixed with putrid Toad has tried to charm our lady but she's denied all his advances. Wearing a brown armor over his chest and some ragged outfit Toad merely watches as she sticks up a nose to the gift. "Come on Wanda you haven't eaten for a long time now. A nice show, some pop-corn, this is almost like the movies and a…" Toad latches his tongue to the pop-corn and eats some. "You know, date."
"Ergh!" Scarlet Witch turns in heated rage to her 'friend' the toad. He has put his neck out for her and lost his place in the brotherhood to help her. She's pretty much dragged him all this way to catch up with her father and get revenge. Still, he keeps quiet with his wishes to return because he loves her. Hell, even if she went into the fires of hell he's going to follow.
Sinister, Darkseid, Nimrod, and Holocaust have been fighting wildly with the heroes here. Red X and Robin tried repairing Cyborg so he can fight but they seem more confused than helpful. Then a new person pops up he steps down after letting his boosters shut-off. Robin and Red X look astounded with the metal covered hero with red and yellow. His face a constant glare of machine like fancy, his armor was a special metal but some might call it iron-like. "Hey let me check him out."
"Iron man?"
"That's what they call me." Iron Man chuckles and looks over Cyborg "Hm, he's not too bad in shape except all these crossed wires." The two kind of cough a little. Iron man finishes up and Cyborg stands up rubbing his head "Man what a dream." He looks over seeing Iron Man and sweats "Whoa! Iron Man! What are you doing here?"
"I came because someone destroyed some friends of mine. You ever hear of The Avengers?"
"Your old team has been destroyed? Who did that?"
"I don't know but rumor has it they were headed to this city. I think they have business here too." Iron Man sees the fight and charges his hands with energy "Tell you what I'll help with your pests if you help with mine later."
"Sure!"
Iron Man was about to attack when a blast makes him halt. The villains pull back and look to their latest, and late, ally Brother Blood. The now machine brother stood off the edge of the rooftops grinning to his allies. "I apologize my friends but I had to eliminate some riff-raff, and steal something all of us needed." Blood holds up in his left hand the energy source from the Evil Brotherhood and a device with the right. Iron Man snaps "That device is from the Avengers headquarters! You're the one that killed them all!"
"I didn't kill all of them! I know some one had to have survived for you to be here!" Blood sighs and placed the power source with the device "Either way it's not important! I have more matters to attend to. What of the rest of you did you finish what you were supposed to?" the other villains nodded "Good, then let's say hello to my little friend also soon this world's new master!" Blood turns the switch but the machine does not work. "What? The power source is not registering! I need more time, damn!"
Iron Man charges into the air, "You don't have any time!"
Blood flings out his hand and a small army of robots attack him. The robots were the ones that once were working for the Brotherhood. Beast Boy screams "Dude, those are Immotus's drones! Is the brotherhood here?"
"No little one I took care of them personally. Holocaust, Darkseid, Sinister, Nimrod keep these brats away from me and the machine! I need more time to situate it!"
The villains nod and begin attacking again. The drones even follow in to the attack. Wanda or Scarlet Witch watches more angrily as this all happens "Where is he?"
Raven looks at the punker girl on a vespa and shrugs "No…"
"Are you sure? I could have sworn I know you from somewhere!" Thanos shook his head smirking as Surfer was now drooling in a sort of comma, "Haruko you could not have came at a better time."
"Really what did I do?"
"Nothing…" Thanos smiles to Raven offering his arm out, "May we go my lady?"
Raven looks to the down-and-out Surfer then Fate. Fate shrugs as he was stuck too. "I guess we should get going."
Thanos nods and Haruko starts her vespa again "Wait why are you in a hurry?"
"You didn't hear? Something's up on Earth. I need to… see a friend."
"Atomsk left earth some time ago who else are you trying to find?"
"Just a friend Thanos, mind your own damn business!" Haruko starts off and disappears quickly through space. Raven wraps her arm around Thanos's with a small grin though she was severely worried. Thanos steps her through a doorway and they disappear. Fate sighs as Surfer merely twitches on the ground. "The law makes it so he can not harm her in those walls so I hope she will be safe. As for you a lot of help you turned out to be."
Slade leaps over the green blasts of Sinister. He uses the staff like a pole-vault to get over the two beams and in the air he swings to connect to the jaw of Sinister. The pale skinned fiend smiles as his head had been pitched but nothing else. Slade lands with a glare as Sinister shakes his head and tsk-tsks his finger to Slade before forming red energy over his eyes. Slade blocks his arms over his face before the blast and accepts the force that flung him into a wall but only lets him peel off an indentation he makes. Sinister steps slowly over and grabs Slade over the face raising him up the wall. Slade grabs the wrist but soon the green energy of Sinister's hand glows on the mask. The blast slams Slade's head through the wall along with his shoulders but his legs dangle outside the wall. Sinister chuckles before turning around to move on. With the back turned Slade latches his legs over Sinister's head and pulls the fiend back then kicks off. Sinister is toppled over on his face while Slade kicks off the wall and now plows a powerful punch to the back. Sinister growls more in anger than pain but turning he fires a beam.
Slade flies in an arc to the air, but sparse beams of green bob him too and fro. Sinister laughs to his twisted delight while Slade is helplessly suspended in attacks. Slade is then saved by a green shield; Lantern floats over and grabs the now broken and battered Slade. Landing and holding up his shield to continuous barrage of Sinister he asks "You okay?"
Slade, with a crack of his neck and then arm stands up looking angrily at Sinister "He's the one you might want to ask that!"
Sinister glares his eyes hauntingly cold, "He has a regenerative power as advanced as my own. He may be close to as immortal as I am. What a fun little specimen that one-eyed male could be."
Beast Boy tosses up a drone as a giant green gorilla. The drone is swirled into a giant red tornado with a puff of smoke appearing over it and dropping other drones before disappearing. Flash stops in a halt and the tornado breaks apart along with the several drones inside. Flash skids over to an exhausted Beast Boy asking "How many of these things are there?"
"Knowing Immortus he had more than enough."
The puff of smoke shows as Nightcrawler "You know the old villain saying there's never enough for enough."
Several drones land with rifles ready. Flash smirks asking "After we save the day let's go and try our hand at some trio-comedy! I bet we'd bring the house down!"
Flash swirls around a building causing it to crumble on the drones while Nightcrawler escaped with Beast Boy. The two teens smirk at the job done before a pink haze of smoke covers them both. The two begin coughing before Flash drags the smoke with his speed. Flash comes back and the two have fallen a sleep, he notices the shadow ahead and watches the Nimrod holding its right hand up with gold energy, "… Uh-oh."
Nimrod fires tossing Flash back and into Jean Grey the psychic. She barely catches him in the air and lays him down. Nimrod levitates toward Jean charging its hand again but Jean raises her shield to block these blasts. The Nimrod begins calculating on its screen and the beams become stronger each blast. Jean cringes and sweats as she blocks the beams barely with her powers. Cyclops screams as he was behind her, Jean drops her shield and lets Cyclops fire his eye-beam against the golden Nimrod blast. Nimrod is overwhelmed and soon the beam blows up the right arm.
Cyclops smiles a moment, but soon he's horrified as the arm was remolding into an arm again! The bits destroyed have flown into the air and mold together once more. Nimrod raises both hands and fires the beams more destructively tearing up a path of pavement under the force. Cyclops and Jean are barely able to hold up a field of energy and blast to counter the attack. Nimrod halts the attack and turns upward to Iron Man now banging his fists over its screen bobbing its levitating form from side to side. Iron Man pulls back and taps something on his right wrist five red orbs pop out from his waist and float around the Nimrod blasting sparse bolts over its body. Iron Man floats over to the two young mutants asking "Okay, just what the hell is that thing?"
"It's a sentinel. They have been designed to destroy mutants." Jean nods with Cyclops clenching his fist "This one is called Nimrod."
"Nimrod?" Iron Man shakes his head "Tony Starks funded a project called Nimrod it must have been this. Just great he really should read his papers more."
"You're his bodyguard aren't you?"
"Yeah… something like that." Iron Man turns back to his last drone being tossed to the side and one other crushed in a hold by Nimrod. "Let's just try and keep it busy the best we can!"
Wonder Woman reflects the rifle fire with her bracelets. The drones seem to not have the capacity to realize she's using their beams to defeat them. Wonder Woman then has a strong grapple over her waist and arm to be raised and tossed towards another persopn. The person was Kitty she notices and phases through Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman slams through a wall and Kitty watches as that happens. She looks at the attacker to find Darkseid with his glowing red eyes leering on her. Kitty freezes as Darkseid steps at her smirking a little to her fear, "It is right that you fear me girl. I am a god after all."
Starfire screams with her punch to his jaw she had flown in to the save. Starfire grits her teeth and lands a strong upward kick to land Darkseid back and on his side. "You are not a god! I have heard of your cruel and unjust rule of tyranny!"
"Cruel? I agree but unjust?" Darkseid pushes up smirking more as Starfire's eyes glow "How is what I do on my planet unjust?"
"You enslave the weak and make them your personal tools. You treat them as if mere objects and give your other minions seniority over them. You allow the slaves to be tortured and murdered merely as if they mean nothing."
"Nothing means more to me than those mongrel slaves. They have been too useless lately that is why I joined with Akaige. He promises that I can turn some of this planet's populous to new slaves. In fact," Darkseid glares a shined leer on the Tameranian, "I heard you Troqs are very adaptable to harsh environments. Perhaps after I take this planet I can start my way to your world?"
Starfire screams with her two fists planted to Darkseid's face, "Never! I will not allow one such as you to ever touch my home!" Starfire grabs Darkseid's feet and then twirls him around before a massive toss. Darkseid is under a collapsing building but he steps out pushing a wall over and smiling. "We'll see Troq, we will see." He fires the dual red eye beams to Starfire's emerald ones.
Wolverine leaps off from a wall and slashed the upper part of Holocaust. Holocaust glares as Wolverine now lands and runs up slashing his claws over the chest of the crystalline armor. Each scratch does little damage; Wolverine backs up and snarls "What is this freak?"
"Holocaust," Holocaust swings up his club bashing Wolverine into the air, "The greatest horsemen of all time!" Holocaust then waits and swings like a bat to plunge Wolverine into several other heroes and drones. His scream of rage echoes the streets as Holocaust now leaps up and begins a mad slamming of anything too close to him. Smashing Storm from the sky, then tossing a drone onto Cyborg who was going to fire at the back Holocaust screams more aggressive yells as he looses his cool. Blink lands in front of Holocaust making him stop his advance.
"What?" Holocaust glares heated flames for eyes. Blink disappears and reappears over Holocaust's head to land both her needles into his helmet's back. The helmet stays strong and Holocaust is able to reach up and toss her off. Blink is flying off towards a wall before she tucks her legs and arms like a human pinball. The portal opens for her to enter and emerge in front of Holocaust. Holocaust is struck over his face making him arch his head over his back. Blink pulls out from the ball and with her legs out she teleports again. Blink appears over Holocaust letting her two feet plant fast on his abdomen and plows the larger beast into the pavement. Blink was about to teleport again but a club smashes her in the left jaw. Reeling from that she is not able to counter her ankle now grabbed by the other crystal arm hand. The arm swings Blink down hard, and as she moans with pain Holocaust rolls on top of Blink and wedges is club under her throat with the ridged sharp edges protruding onto her delicate neck. "You bitch! You think speed is going to save your hide?" Holocaust growls lowly as he feels adamantium claws on his back and a sonic cannon over his shoulder "They won't save you girl! I own you now!"
Holocaust then feels a tug; he bobs off her as he's being dragged a little distance. Turning on his side Holocaust sees his two legs firmly gripped by a cat-like man in a brown trench, "Get your filthy mitts off Clarice!"
Sabretooth roars like a lion of rage with his pride in danger. Twirling the larger monster on Creed's heels Creed lets go letting Holocaust spin much like a discus. Holocaust slams through a wall over Wanda and Toad. Wanda screams as a beam struck her head knocking her cold, Toad barely grabs her and escapes within the facility.
Creed snorts his nostrils before being gripped with a massive hug, "Mr. Creed! You saved me!"
"Ah! Let me go kid!" The laughter of Logan, the one and only rival of Creed makes him more embarrassed than usual. Clarice lets go still smiling as yet again he saved her. Sabertooth sort of shies his eyes as she gleams on him. Logan notices all too well and murmurs to himself "I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it."
"What was that shorty?"
Scarlet Witch is slowly starting to wake up after several slaps to the face… and licks too. "Eh… yuck, Toad?"
"You're alive!" Toad grips Scarlet tightly with the fear of loosing her was gone he just smiles saying "Guess what your pops showed up! He's over there helping the X-men fight those drones and other nut-jobs. What do you want to do?"
Scarlet Witch sits up and looks to see her father was tossing the drones into each other blowing them all to bits. Scarlet grits her teeth as she charges a strange energy in her hands "He's going to pay."
Toad hears something moving and turns around. His eyes are like hub-caps as he kicks her to the side and leaps onto the roof. Scarlet turns up screaming at him but notices the pipe protruding from the wall she was just at, shaking from a forceful toss. Wanda shakily follows an imaginary trail to the still out stretched hand of Holocaust, who is bending up straight with a snarl and his chest bobbing with heated rueful breaths.
Thanos was very polite to Raven. Taking her through the halls he tells her of the reason it was here and why the celestials used it from many realities. Celestials are beings that can be considered to some extent gods, much like the Olympians. These beings have great power and that much power clashes time to time, which let's face it what happens when the Olympians clashed in Greek myth? Instead of putting reality in danger and letting things get out of hand the council was designed to keep celestials from blowing up the universe with their battles. Then again the council was not perfect because the celestials still try to get what they want. A ting about any beings not truly omnipotent, they always want their way.
Now two pearly white doors are in front of Raven and Thanos. Thanos reaches out but a voice catches them,"Hello Raven. It is a pleasure to see you."
Raven turns to the bulged head on a slinkier body. His giant eyes and tunic with a scroll in one hand. "Who are you?"
"Uatu or Watcher to some others. I am a being that keeps records of the worlds all through the cosmos, in several cosmos. My mission is that of a simple one as now I log your world on behalf of knowledge."
"That's a lot of work isn't it?"
"Indeed but I find rewards in my humble duty."
"You are so boring Uatu." Thanos shakes his head before preparing to open the doors "May we enter my dear?"
Raven shrugs before another voice, a voice that still chills her soul speaks behind her, it speaks, "… Daughter."
Japan, the most technologically advanced and economically powered region of this world. Though not every part of it is so 'evolved'. There's the small town that a single boy walks in plainly in a gray school uniform. He's called Naota Nandaba, and in his small normal town of Mabase he's just as ordinary as any the other kids. Well, except for the robot in his house cleaning all the time called Canti. Yeah, that was only a little time back when Medical Mechanical plant's big plan to smooth out the wrinkles was thwarted. Well, he didn't plan that it just happened. Haruko, Atomsk, Canti, all these beings altered Naota's life but just as they changed it he finally went to a normal one. Naota never worries bout it now. Soon he hears footsteps hurriedly following him. Naota turns to two boys, his friends asking "Well what's up Naota?"
"Yeah fight any super robots today?"
"Nope." Naota turns and walks with them at his sides with a simple dry attitude, "I didn't do anything. It seems like another simple day today."
"Don't you mean boring?"
"Life's not boring anymore it's just… simpler."
"Talking about simpler isn't it true you and Ninamori are hanging out more?"
"Yeah, so what's your…"
"Smooch! They are all on Smooch alert!"
Naota glares to the boy with glasses, obsessed with the perverse and wrong for their age minds. "Shove it I'm just spending a little time with her! You really are immature!"
"You knew that Naota he's always immature. Still I hear you spend a real lot more time with her."
"So what?" Naota stops at a vending machine and tries to use a buck but it refuses to vend.
"Smoooooch!"
Naota pulls out a bat and glares "You asked for it!"
The two boys leap back as Naota swings the bat on a vending machine, making it drop a canned item. Naota pulls up the drink and pops the top. Sipping it he looks to the terrified duo. "What?" he turns and leaves pitching the bat over his shoulder, "It's just a drink that machine has been giving me trouble for a while now."
"Sorry… you hear that weird rumor about Little Slugger?"
"Oh, yeah! He's real bad, like a demon with golden skates, a golden bat, and a golden cap! He's gone around and slams his bat over people's heads and stuff assaulting them. Worse yet, they say the bat has been bent from all those people he's been hitting. Somehow he's come all the way here but no one knows why."
Naota shakes his head as they go on a rant. Yeah, that's the exciting news now. Some kid around their age skating around and smacking people with a gold bat. He's not too worried it was just a stupid rumor. The thing is from the alley a young boy smiles a cruel kind of wide grin. He gleams with pride as he slowly strolls out in his in-line skates, rolling and thundering slowly to the streets. The streets have few people out wandering but too busy to notice him. The boy raises his bat to his waist, bent like a dog's hind leg. The three boys are strolling ahead of him, he leers cruel eyes with a red hint in them to Naota's bare scalp. Strolling closer, closer, he was still some distance but slowly making way. Then, far enough from the boys that he could not be heard over some loud noises of a motor, he readies to dash. That was when she came, Haruko pulls in with her vespa between him and Naota, the distance still too great. The boy snarls a little as she now revs the engine twice, staring him down in a cold way with her gold like eyes. The boy skates backwards a little, snarling, and then he turns around fully and rolls off.
Haruko looks over her shoulder to Naota and his two friends oblivious to the whole ordeal. She smirks and drives off as Naota turned; he only saw a yellow scarf going down a road to the side.
Magneto screams as he slams two robots together making them explode. "Where are they coming from?"
Robin leaps down and swings his staff through the face of a drone behind Magneto, "I don't know! I only know he's the one controlling them!"
Magneto looks up to the cyborg, Blood. Blood is trying very hard to finish the device but each moment he tries something another thing goes wrong. Like right now Magneto has levitated up and begins tossing drones to the distance "Damn not now!" Blood screams and slams the device down hard. That was when it happens the device flickers and a portal opens. The portal shows through with a cave like inner working where Magneto glares heatedly before returning on the device. On the other side a skeleton like creature with dragon form and human shape grabs several straps on his shoulders "Looks like this is what Akaige mentioned! Move it or loose it!"
The other monster at his side nods and leaps through the portal with things strapped to his back. The two escape barely as Magneto collapses the device in on itself. The portal that had been open seems to shift in and out before collapsing in on itself. Rogue has the skeleton monster land to her front, she blinks kind of confused as it stood up and sees her, looking her up and down it gleams a toothy grin asking "Hey like demon men?" Gaikotsu as he is called steps over and grabs her chin, his eye then twitches before pulling back screaming "The hell is that?"
Rogue's eyes turn to the same green discolored version of Gaikotsu's "Give ya a hint sugar! I have your thoughts and no way whatever hell you're from you'll get that close to me!" Rogue swings out her fist smashing Gaikotsu back to the streets. Gaikotsu pushes up holding his chin, she had his super-demon strength. "I'm always screwing something up!" he stands up and looks to Blood who is in trouble, "Roram! Get up there wills you!"
The second shadow bows their head. Roram is a deep blue skinned demon with red serpent tattoos stretching his body. The tattoos cover in intricate patterns over his curves of the muscular body. His underbody is baggy green pants, and leather brown shoes. The tattoos cover his underbody but that was covered, these tattoos did show on his bare chest and upper body. The tattoos roll on up his spine to the scalp where two serpents' heads end the tattoos slightly on the brows over the eyes. Red glossed eyes with no pupils look up to Magneto with the constantly stretched grin of sharp teeth. His mouth never moves like normal jaws, rather he just keeps grinning. Roram has a long tail of black hair from the back of his head flapping in the wind. Roram leaps up to the roof blocking Magneto and Blood.
Magneto raises a brow as the monster rolls out their palms towards Magneto "What are you?"
Roram then pulls back his palms and with a collection of wind with both arms he flings them forward to create a gale that tosses the still shocked Magneto off the roof and to the streets. Magneto readies his powers when a scream is heard. "Wanda!" Magneto disappears into the collapsed building leaving Roram looking at the other heroes. Blood smirks as he looks to the destroyed device and steps on it more "This is all as he predicted. A truly ingenious evil this Akaige shows to be."
Raven looks over her shoulder cautiously to the red skinned, four eyed monster she calls father. He has changed to a human sized version but his face harbors unimaginable hate. Raven feels a chill as he reaches to his side growing a fireball. Raven is shadowed by the taller, more sized Thanos. "Trigon! You know never to attack in these halls! It is a holy place which no demon, angel, or even celestial may ever disgrace! To do so is heresy!"
"I care not for your laws! I am Trigon, fire god of the damned! I make my own laws!" He raises the orb and readies to attack his insolent daughter but Uatu reminds "This is not just a place of holy meaning but much more! Break a law here and consequences can easily become more than you can counter!"
Trigon glares on Uatu "You and my daughter I could expect." He snorts towards Thanos "However you? What makes you turn on our darker evils?"
"I am still evil Trigon. I merely find this company of a beautiful maiden more enjoyed than your ongoing heated stench of decaying flesh."
"Insolent!" Trigon growls with his fist clenched but moves on. He has not the power to face Thanos anyway, not here especially. Thanos smirks as Trigon disappears into the doors. "May we follow my dear?"
"If you insist." Raven smirks a little after seeing her father so pissed. That put her in a much better mood. Entering the room it was quiet. Thanos nods as they head to sit on the side with the most demons and evil beings. "That is the side of Akaige." He turns to the other side of the room, "This side is for En Sabah Nur."
Raven glares to that side and Thanos looks to the demonic side, "Perhaps…" Thanos smirks before taking to the other side, "We should give our assistance to En Sabah Nur."
"Thank you."
Thanos halts, "What?"
"Thank you. For helping me and sitting with me."
Thanos now seems to blush, "Even lady Death never thanks my worship of her. She is forever silent with my gifts and services."
Thanos sits to Raven's right as Uatu sits to her left. Behind them sat another holistic being with a glowing hammer. "Tis a pleasure to see another within this matter against the rise of a demon over a celestial."
Raven looks back to the long blonde haired man who spoke with an old accent but he was young looking "Who are you?"
"Thy name is Thor, god of thunder and lightning. I am a proud warrior and master of the elements. When word spread unto my land of Akaige and En Sabah Nur, I decided to come and see what it is to become of Earth." Thor nods to Uatu, but not to Thanos "This is a grand occasion for us."
"Good time to you as well Thor." Thanos snarls out. Thor glares his blue eyes and ignores Thanos. Thor looks to his side to another being, a god of lightning and the sky, "Raiden do you know what it is that will occur?"
Raiden was another world's god. His white suit with blue apron and symbols along with a strange straw hat with a cone shape, Asian in design. His eyes bolt with energy, and with a self-gathered intelligence he shakes his head no "This can go either way. All I know is Shao Khan has been very impressed with Akaige."
Raven notices now the being Raiden looks at. Shao Khan, a strange demon god form Raiden's world has a human face with six small horns on the forehead. His red eyes look with a pleased smirk. On his lap was a half-skull helmet that only covers the upper-face and skull but not the jaw. It has two V angled horns, and like his warrior straps and pads with many spikes he too seems fearfully powerful as all the celestials in this room were.
Then the voices of some strange energy beings on higher chairs speak. The one speaking is a very light gray color; between it and the dark gray energy was a mid-gray energy. The light gray speaks "We have heard both sides of this matter. En Sabah Nur stand for us."
En Sabah Nur nods and stands. He was a spiritual projection of himself. This shining entity looks mostly like a pharaoh, which in his time he was. The glowing body stands tall with not looking at the other prospective clicking his three claws on the countertops. "Akaige, stand for us."
Akaige, the evil demonic shadow being stood tall. His hood bends slightly as if merely moving, but Raven knew his eyes glowed towards her for a second or so. "We have reviewed the case thoroughly. On one side En Sabah Nur's claim was validly made several years ago."
A female voice muses, "Yet the demon has as much right to claim through the passing of Trigon. This means both have an actual claim of noticeable right."
The middle, mid shade gray finishes, "In this case, both entities have the right of claim. Which ever is able to materialize into that realm may do as they wish. Both may even exist at the same time if need be but this will not change the claim. If they are unable to fulfill their claim however than it is invalid and so another may rise instead. Akaige, En Sabah Nur, this matter is yours to take into your own hands from now on. Whether the age of Apocalypse, or age of Akaige, we are not going to claim either has more right than the other. May you both find the power and strength you seek."
"Thank you elders." En Sabah Nur bows and turns to leave. He bumps into Akaige, snarling, "In time I will prove I am stronger than you."
"Not before I can reign supreme over your world, Apocalypse."
Raven and the others are outside before she asks "What was the point of all this?"
Fate chuckles after hearing from Uatu what happened "Then all is as planned. Raven, the device Akaige was going to use to enter your world was destroyed by Magneto. Without it Akaige is as powerless as En Sabah Nur to enter Earth. Your world is safe once more."
Raven was confused, then it hits her "This whole thing was a distraction! You planned to keep Akaige here while the device was being destroyed! Now my world is safe! Thank you!" Raven hugs Fate who nods happily with her. "You are welcome."
The laughter then catches them. Akaige steps from the last step and bats a hand at them, "That device was not my way to your world. I have other means. This little ordeal was expected." Akaige glares his eyes on Fate, "As for you I will take care of you as well. I have many matters to take care of on Earth and you will be among them." Akaige opens a portal to some place when Shao Khan grabs his shoulder; with him was Trigon. "What is it?"
"I wish to speak about your recent conquest. I feel it is a perfect chance to gather worthy souls." Shao Khan smiles more as Akaige nods, "Excellent! Let us talk over it at my realm! We will feast, and then plan strategy!"
Akaige shakes his head no "I have other plans but I will speak with you on this matter a few moments before I leave."A glint of glee he turns to Raven, "For Earth."
(Music: The Reason)
Wanda charges her magic energy and then tosses it on Holocaust. Holocaust simply stomps over to her and tosses a desk that was in his way idly. Scarlet Witch glares before yelling "Back off!"
"Make me!" Holocaust grins his little side grin as he slams his club through another desk. A hex blast and he merely shrugs it off and continues the march. Scarlet Witch backs into a wall she turns to it and wide-eyes the wall in her way. Holocaust stomps up to her smirking as she begins to fire harder into his chest. "Night-night, Slappy!" Holocaust readies his club to a smashing swing when Scarlet Witch screams. Holocaust swings but a green tongue wrapped his club and yank it back up slowly. Holocaust pulls in his swing still before realizing what is happening. With a glare up he sees Toad with a determined look pulling with his tongue on the club. Holocaust glares and pulls harder not noticing Scarlet Witch squeeze out of the club's path. Toad lets his tongue go and screams "Go on Wanda! Get out of here; I've got this over-grown microwave!"
Wanda blinks confused as Toad leaps from the roof to a wall narrowly dodging the blast of flame from Holocaust. Holocaust begins streaming the flames off the roof to the wall; Toad leaps and dodges to a spry hold on the floor. Toad slicks out his tongue and wraps an ankle, dragging out a foot Holocaust roars in his falling back and slamming to the floor. Toad glares his eyes sternly to Wanda, "Go on girl! Get out of here!" then a scream as a metal pole was ripped through his left shoulder. Toad glares his eyes on Holocaust who swings his arm to dislodge a large pipe in the floor then jam it into a shoulder. Holocaust smirks before Toad spits a gray goop onto Holocaust's smug face. As Holocaust tries to pry the goop Toad screams "I'm not afraid of you! I'm the Toad! T, to the O, to the A with the D, homie!"
"You're going to be road-kill in five seconds!" Holocaust rips off the goop and screams his monstrous scream in a full charge after the now hopping Toad. The two are headed into some other room as Wanda looks on in horror; Toad is not strong enough to beat that thing. Then she sees her father, Magneto levitate to her side, "Dad! You have to save Toad!"
Magneto looks to the room she's pleading him to go to. "Yes, let's go!" She nods and the two head towards the room.
Toad is on the roof waiting as the slower monster did not see him. Holocaust steps into the room turning from one side to another as Toad waited. Toad then sees the beast turning up and so he leaps down with his two legs spryly pulled. Toad kicks Holocaust strong making the beast topples on its one leg. Holocaust catches himself, and in a snarl he swings his club over the ground tearing up floorboards and into Toad tossing the smaller fighter into a wall. Toad screams in pain as his body was tossed. Holocaust grins as he grabs a table at his side and tosses it. Toad leaps past it and to the wall. He is then struck by a chair.
Holocaust leaps up over the room's items with club poised in a punch. Toad turns up and screams in a leap to the beast. The armor of Toad's body helps him as he forces the larger beast up into the air backwards and into the roof. Toad feels an aching back, but he ignores as he lands and hops from the soon dropping behemoth. Holocaust pushes up seeing Toad try a leaping dual kick, Holocaust grabs a leg, snapping it Toad screams with tears in his eyes "No more of this leaping around shit! I'm having frog-legs for dinner!"
Holocaust tosses toad to the side while raising his club, flames licking at the points Holocaust licks his lips in the suit. Toad slams onto a wall and watches the flames pouring at him fast and fierce. Magneto and Wanda enter into the room to see Toad. Magneto raises some metal objects in the room to block the fires but they are melted immediately. Wanda screams and fires a stream of flame between the other blasts to block. Toad grins as he pushes off the wall. Slowly crawling with his arms Toad sees the face of Wanda, "Like my guardian angel, a beautiful one at tha-." Toad has a glowing gold foot slam on his back, cracking his already crackled armor. Holocaust begins pressing more until Magneto charges his energy with Scarlet Witches. The two fired a beam mixed, and Holocaust has a twitch in his one eye, "Ah… shit."
The blast tares Holocaust out of the building and into the room opposite of them. Toad feels a set of arms wrap him tightly, and a smirk he asks "That you Wanda? Cause, I don't like your pops like that, sorry."
Wanda, smiling at the stupid humor says "Yes Toad it's me… why did you do that?"
"Because…" Toad grins his little grin, his armor chipping off and arm bloody from before. They lock faces with the fires burning around them, "The reason is you."
(Music: Ends)
Wanda feels his lips touch hers, she normally felt disgusted or upset but now she really felt… happy. Kissing back Toad is even happier than with just a kiss. Magneto, looking with mixed surprise hears the shifting of rubble "I'll get you my pretty… and your little toad too."
Naota steps to his home's door. It was late, and night fell on their town. The world was going so strange today. The Justice League had members all over their town looking around. He didn't know why they just did. Every part of the world was being skewered. Naota walks into his house and turns into the living room. The world goes white, comic like, and in a manga style scream Naota is pointing to the girl eating noodles at the table, "You! You again! What is going on?" a speech bubble shows him screaming to her.
"Hey!" The girl is waving with an innocent expression, "What you been up to slugger?"
"What's going on? Dad?"
A man is drawn sitting and eating with glasses and hair in a tail, "Hm, what is it Naota my son?"
"It's her! She's back! I thought she was gone! What's going on?"
"Well…" Naota's father screams "Wait!" he rips through the screen of manga snapping "I'm sorry we just can't do this!" he falls back with Naota panting, an old man is wheezing the corner before a robot shocks his system "This manga in a fan fiction… just too hard…"
"What? What are you talking about?" Naota coughs as he sits at the table. Naota's father smirks "Sorry, it's not important. The thing was the writer thought since he was doing a scene with all of us characters he should try the manga form. Still, it was a valiant effort but he couldn't seem to do it in a style fitting manga. I mean, a picture is worth a thousand words but a thousand words are not worth a manga, do you agree?"
"…." Naota glares to Haruko who is slurping her noodles "What is she doing here?"
"Oh she's here to help around the house. I hired her as our…"
"Housekeeper?"
"Exactly! Gee, that's not original is it Takun?"
"Don't call me that!" Naota takes and leaves up stairs, "I don't believe this after all this time!"
Naota sits in his room talking online to a friend. This person he met some time ago, she was fun and really nice. His age, and living near his town she was with her sister, Ayeka, and several other girls. One was really tough, Ryoko, and another was super smart, and Washu then there were the two girls that were best-friends, Mihoshi and Kiyone. Then, you had the boy they all had a thing for except the two last ones, Tenchi. This girl, he knew her as Sasami, but her Pen-name was PrettySammy65839
PrettySammy65839:Lol
PrettySammy65839:She's in the house again? Same girl and all?
CantiSama67495:Yeah same one. She's going to cause trouble I know it.
PrettySammy65839:You like Ninamori, right?
CantiSama:…Yeah
PrettySammy65839:You like this girl… right?
CantiSama:…Yeah
PrettySammy65839:Lol
PrettySammy65839:You're as bad as Tenchi!
"So," a guitar is plucked, Naota looks up startled from Haruko hanging half off the bed, her one eye opens up and she looks at Naota grinning, "She your girlfriend?"
"No… she's just a friend." Naota turns and types "Got to go, talk again soon?"
PrettySammy65839:Yes, bye!
Naota signs off and turns to Haruko "What are you dong here?"
"Taking care of the house." Haruko plucks a cord, "So, Naota has one girlfriend in town, another in some other town. Naota's becoming a regular ladies-man, a play-boy, naughty-naughty, Naota."
"Whatever…" He looks to a clock and grabs his jacket and puts it on. He has a T and shorts "I'm leaving."
"Going to see," Haruko plucks a cord, "Your girlfriend?"
"… Yes." He closes the door. Haruko blinks before falling off the bed, a scream as she hits the floor. Haruko leaps up to the window and watches Naota meeting up with a violet haired girl with a pink coat on and miniskirt, "Ninamori? She's his new girl?" Haruko turns with a huff, "They deserve each other then!"
Haruko does not notice someone skating down the road behind the two very slowly.
Haruko lies against the bed idly drumming her guitar. She listens to the T.V. down stairs, "So Little Slugger continues to frighten the populace of our town. Reports say, 'He's like a demon lurking in the shadows. He strikes the head so hard he can split your insides out.'" Haruko squints her eyes, "What was that?"
She turns to the side, "Akaige is coming… some how…" Her eyes pop with a string snapping, 'Little Slugger… just like Naota is a Little Slugger…
"No!" Haruko runs up to the window and looks to see nothing… "Naota!" she leaps out of the window screaming "Canti! Get out here!"
A blue robot looks out of the window to the back with his screen showing a '?' Haruko lands inside a garbage can, fumbles inside it with screams and grunts, then pops out with her vespa and goggles on. "We have a world to save!"
Canti nods and tries to hurriedly finish some dishes. Haruko's head pops through the window, screaming with a red vein on her head "Don't worry about those! Let's go!"
Canti is really trying to hurry but Haruko growls and revs off on her vespa. Her mind is racing, she didn't know that boy on the street was Little Slugger, the same one that was attacking people! Worse yet, the little monster was after Takun! Her mind realized too late what has happened! Akaige knew any other plan would have been seen that he's being watched too closely. Somehow the good-guys could find his plot elsewhere, but this little town on the other side of the world? She snarls, "Devious bastard!"
Ninamori gasps, "Her? After all this time?" Naota nods and she shakes her head "Wow how do you feel?"
"Fine." She nudges his head, "No, I'm not growing anything out of my head this time!"
"Just making sure." Ninamori turns as they are on the bridge, "Isn't this where it all started last time?"
"Yeah. I thought maybe I should come here and gather my thoughts." Naota sighs, "I'm so upset she's back. The thing is… I'm…"
"Happy?" Naota turns to Ninamori who has slumped over onto the railing to see herself on the water. She sighs; he does the same thing next to her. "I guess you still love her?"
"Yes."
"… Do you love me?"
"…." Naota opens his mouth; a blur passes the water's surface with a loud thwap sound. Naota blinks, "What was that?" he then sees Ninamori falling back on the water's surface. Naota turns to see Ninamori, her eyes glazed over and her head bleeding on the ground "Ninamori!" Naota bends down and scoops her into his arms, eyes wide in horror. He hears a sound, the sound of skates braking. Naota glares angrily at the golden bat now sparking with a second pass over the bridge. "You're him aren't you?" Naota grabs his bat and as that golden one came close he swings to block it.
Little Slugger strikes hard and knocks away Naota's bat and to the side. Naota looks horrified, Little Slugger grins as he sways along and skids to a stop to turn. "All I wanted was you." Little Slugger tips his hat to Naota, "But that girl was in my way. I didn't want to kill her. Granted, I never really planned it but maybe I could have let her live. Or maybe she is alive I don't know. How about you check if you live through this!" Little Slugger begins a charge hearing the now revving engine. Haruko pulls out her guitar and tosses it like a boomerang; Little Slugger is still skating as he ducks. Naota ducks the toss, but while bending back up he hears the sound of air rushing and soon the bat hitting his forehead.
Haruko screams Naota's name, and as Naota is arching up into the air he feels a pain like he never felt. Little Slugger keeps skating with a larger smile over his face. Naota lands on his back, a little blood trailing his forehead from the force. Haruko skids to a stop, her eyes lucidly shaking at what she just saw, "Naota…"
Naota stirs, he sits up, his head aches and he grabs it. His head aches more… and worse. He screams as his head seems to begin bulging at three points. His screams begin to echo as some kind of three fingered claw reaches from his head out to the sky, twisting up to the air as it reveals itself. Naota now drops, screaming and crying in pain as the claw is with an arm, shoulder, hood, and body. The entire form rips from Naota's head and steps onto the bridge gently. Naota has snot dripping his nose from the massive pains of his head and looks up between his tears. Haruko revs her engine as she was gripping to tightly her vespa. Little Slugger has turned and knelt down to the figure now freed. Standing with his three fingered claw clasping tightly was… The Age Of Akaige.