Adtr509: Yeah Emma is definitely like that. And trust me Logan will get with someone.
Disclaimer: Spider-Man is owned by Marvel. Red Sonja and Vampirella are owned by Dynamite Entertainment. Other Marvel, Dynamite, and some DC characters will appear plus a certain bad girl.
Chapter 10: AvX Part 4: Divide and Conquer
The Avengers arrived in the mystical city of K'un-Lun and began guiding Hope to Iron Fist who was a few steps away. The hero walked up and greeted the heroes. Danny had approached them and spoke. "Guys, I'm glad you're here", Danny said. "Now that Hope is here we can begin".
"Begin what?" Hope asked.
"Your training", Danny said as he guided the heroes to a room inside of a building. Inside the room was a man with a black cloak over his body with yellow eye similar to the eyes on Danny's bandana. "Guys this is Master Yu-Ti, he trained to becoming the Iron Fist".
"So Hope is here to learn how to fight?" Sonja asked.
"Not necessarily, we are here in order to train you to become one with the Phoenix", Yu-Ti spoke.
"Really why?" Hope asked.
"Decades ago, one of the Iron Fists before Daniel became the host for the Phoenix", Yu-Ti revealed surprising everyone. "She was able to control the power of the Phoenix after merging with it. If the Phoenix is after you then you must learn how to control it's power".
"Alright then I'm ready if you are", Hope said as she went with him while the heroes stood back.
"We need to inform the other Avengers as soon as possible", Steve said before turning to Peter. "That also includes your vampire friend".
"I'll tell her though she should be coming here", Peter said with Cap nodding. Logan and Diana grimaced at this.
-Flashback-
Peter and Vampirella walked into Avengers Tower to speak with Cap. Upon entering they saw that he was with Wonder Woman, Power Girl, Wolverine, Iron Man, and Hawkeye.
"Cap we need to talk", Peter said.
"What's going on and who is this?" Steve asked
"I'm Peter and Sonja's bodyguard of sorts against Purgatori and Gath", Vampi says as she extends her hand. "Ella Normandy, my real name is Vampirella. My friends call me Vampi". Steve shook her hand but was kinda confused.
"You're an actual Vampire?" Steve asked.
"An alien vampire but yes I am. Don't worry I don't bite... hard", Vampi said in a flirty way. Steve looked a bit uncomfortable by this powered through it with a smile. Logan, Tony, and Hawkeye were glaring at Peter with the intent to kill.
"Good to know", Steve said before turning to Peter. "Okay what's going on?"
"Madame Web sent her to me and Sonja to help us fight off against Purgatori and Gath as she said. I decided to take her here because she could help us against the Phoenix Five", Peter answered sheepishly as Diana and Karen gave him the 'you have some explaining to do' look.
"Does Blade know her?" Steve asked out of curiosity.
"Yes he does", Vampi answered for Peter. "We actually worked together to fight Dracula once".
"Wow, you have to tell me the story after this is over", Peter told her.
"Will do", Vampi said.
"I'll admit Peter this is not what I thought would happen today but if she wants to help alright then", Steve said. "Just be sure that she doesn't try to kill anyone".
"Understood", Peter said just as Logan approached him.
"I hate you so much", Logan said.
"You're not the first to tell me that Logan and sadly it won't be the last", Peter said.
-Flashback ends-
The group had decided to rest up a bit and headed for a nearby tent to relax and heal up. At that moment Diana spoke to Peter. "Peter are you sure we can trust Vampirella?" Diana asked.
"Honestly Di, I'm not sure but we'll see", Peter said as they continued walking.
Later
Logan was waiting outside for Peter and Sonja to return. The moment the portal opened Peter, Sonja, and Vampirella all appeared with Doctor Strange.
"I will never get use to magic", Sonja muttered to herself.
"Thanks Doc", Peter said.
"Any time Peter", Stephen said.
"Hey Logan what's up?"
"I've trying to activate this device for a while now I think it's stuck. You think you can fix it?" Logan asked.
"Sure no problem", Peter said as he grabbed it and began working on it.
"So this is K'un-Lun? Honestly, it looks beautiful", Vampi commented.
"Yeah just make sure you don't do anything crazy or kill anyone", Sonja said.
"I won't kill unless I absolutely need to", Vampi said. "What's going on with you anyway?"
"I still don't trust you that's what", Sonja retorted.
"That's not it", Vampi said. "You seem different for some reason. When we fought you had no reason to not kill anyone at all. Now here you are and you're an entirely different person".
"Maybe I've adapted to this time".
"Or maybe something happened to you the last time you were here in this time", Vampi concluded.
"You know, now that she mentions it, you do seem a bit different, in personality that is", Peter said.
"Really Spider?" Sonja asked with a questioning gaze.
"It's nothing bad Sonja but look we'll figure it out later", Peter said. "Right now we need to focus on stopping the X-Men". Peter then handed the device to Logan. "Here you go, good as new".
"Thanks", Logan said with a small smile.
"So who are you trying to get in contact with?"
"You'll see", Logan said as he activated the device and it showed a hologram of Ororo Munroe aka Storm. "Ro".
"Logan", Ororo said.
"I understand if you're mad by what's going on mainly with me but what I'm doing right now is for the good of all", Logan said.
"Was trying to kill Hope for the good of all?" Ororo questioned skeptically.
"You know the answer to that. Ro look, Scott isn't thinking straight and you know that", Logan said. "None of this is what Xavier wanted".
"Then why are you with the Avengers?" Ororo shot back. "Why be with people who know little about our people at all?"
"Because unlike the Avengers, the X-Men have lost their way" Logan said. "You think I want to be away from you all? Do you think I want to disagree with Scott and Emma on how to teach kids? Do you think I want to see my race start to disappear? But more importantly do you think I want to fight against any of you all because of a little girl? The answer is no Ororo I don't and you know that".
Ororo for the most part was silent at that response. Logan did have a point. The only reason why he is the Avengers and not the X-Men is because Scott made it personal between them. Ororo could see that Logan meant every word he said.
"I-I better get going", Ororo said before she cut off the feed.
Logan sighed at this before Peter spoke up. "Logan, we'll stop Scott, that I am sure of".
"I know", Logan with a small smile forming.
5 Days Later at Avengers Tower
Iron Man and Captain America was able to contact a select few heroes whom they were able to get in contact with. The heroes they were able to contact were Beast, Vision, Black Panther, and Black Canary. The two decided to tell the others of what happened to Hope and Scarlet Witch's return to help.
"So what's next now that Hope is in K'un-Lun?" Dinah asked on the monitor.
"For now we make sure that we keep the X-Men off of our scent and away from Hope until she is able to fight alongside us and against the Phoenix", Steve said.
"And what about Wanda?" T'Challa asked.
"Exactly the question I wanted to ask" Vision chimed in. "Can we even trust her to help?"
"Look I get there are some trust issues when it comes to Wanda but listen Wanda is here to help", Steve said.
"Despite what we feel about Wanda she was able to inflict pain to Scott", Beast stated. "It seems as though the chaos magic she wields is effective to the Phoenix".
"That is why we need her. Her powers are the key to stopping the Phoenix Five", Tony said. "How are things with the other Avengers?"
"Not good", a voice called from behind Dinah revealed to be Hal Jordan the Green Lantern. "We ended up fighting against Rouge and her group and we lost Carol, Jess, and Clint"
"What?!" Everyone gasped.
"Apparently the X-Men are taking prisoners. We saw that girl named Magik open a portal to some place called Limbo and drop them in", Hal said. "We're going to need to find a way to get them out and fast otherwise they'll go insane".
"We'll get them out that I promise you", Steve said. Just then someone in the background was ran in for Black Panther.
"T'Challa great one, the lake, Twisted Visions Lake, it rises up! A wall of water simply rose up!" the man said.
"Oh no", T'Challa said as he ran outside.
"T'Challa! Shit!" Steve yelled as he turned off the monitor, ran and grabbed his shield, and activated his communicator. "Avengers, Wakanda is under attack! Time to assemble!"
Wakanda
The moment Steve and Tony arrived in Wakanda only to see hundreds of Wakandans drowning in water and being eaten by sea monsters. They could see that T'Challa was desperately trying to save his people. Sadly though, he was failing as he can't save everyone. Steve gritted his teeth and clenched his fist before yelling. "DAMN YOU NAMOR!"
"Steve, relax there's still time to save a few of those people", Tony said before flying off to aid T'Challa. Cap tried to run towards them only to Namor shoot a fireball at him.
"Gaaaaaahhhh!" Steve yelled in pain.
"You brought this upon yourselves! You defy our power! You defy our kindness and leadership!" Namor yelled as he attacked Steve. "Everything that was ours we gave to you and you repay us with betrayal! And for that-" Before Namor could finish Cap's shield hit him in the face.
"Shame on you, Namor" Steve said. "Avengers how are you and where are you?" Namor charged at Steve only to be punched at the back of his head by Iron Fist.
"You brought this on yourselves", Namor said getting back up.
"I was just thinking the same thing", T'Challa said as he tried to blast Namor with a gun only to be hit with cosmic fire courtesy of the Phoenix Force. Namor held him up by his neck. Cap and Danny tried to get to them but had to contend with the sea monsters trying to eat them. "I am going to see you dead for this Namor".
"Not with a tool of a surface dweller, and not by your hand King T'Challa", Namor commented. "Must know I would not stand for this. You must know I was going to come here and kill you. You must know your power is nothing compared to mine".
"I do know that", T'Challa said. "We were stalling". Just then a portal opened with Spider-Man, Red Sonja, Vampirella, Red Hulk, Vision, Valkyrie, Thing, Doctor Strange, Thor, Beast, Falcon, Quicksilver, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna.
"Avengers Assemble!" Peter yelled as they all attacked.
Zatanna removed a wand and pointed it at the sea monsters attacking everyone. "Sretsnom, nruter ot erehw ouy emac!" In an instant the monsters disappeared returned back to the seas allowing Steve and Danny to join the fray.
Peter swung in and shot a glob of webbing into Namor's eyes. After Peter webbed his eyes Namor was slashed by Sonja and Vampi with their sword and claws. This resulted in Peter kicking him in the face. Namor was then attacked by Quicksilver who ran around Namor at high speeds delivering over a thousand punches before running off. Vision followed afterwards by firing a beam at Namor. Namor in his rage released a powerful shock-wave sending everyone back.
The thing that happened was something that was a long time coming. The Avengers all jumped in and was beating the ever loving shit out of Namor. Red Hulk punched him. Thing punched him. Iron Fist kicked him. Diana punched him in an area where no man should be punched... especially by an Amazon. Vampi slashed at him again causing him to bleed and Valkyrie backhanded Namor in the face. Namor having been fed up with everything, grabbed Red Hulk's arm and broke it with his bones tearing through his skin before shooting fire at everyone.
"I am homo superior!" Namor yelled. "I am your king!"
"Let us show how we feel about that your majesty", Peter said before releasing his stingers and dashed towards Namor and slashed his chest. Peter sheathed his stingers just as Sonja and Diana punched Namor into the sky with Thor striking down the Atlantean with his hammer.
"Wanda, now!" Steve yelled. With that Wanda appeared and used her powers to attack Namor. After along struggle an explosion occurred with Wanda and Namor falling to the ground. Peter was able to catch Wanda in his arms Namor fell back first onto the ground only to be kicked by Thing.
"And that's just cause you're you", Thing said.
"Thank goodness it's over", Vampi said.
"I'll admit you did good fighting him", Sonja commented.
"The others are going to come for us now", Danny said.
"Agreed", Diana said before nodding to Doctor Strange who created a portal to K'un-Lun. Just as they were exiting the other members of the Phoenix Five appeared. They were able to use their combined powers to hold a few Avengers in place to prevent them from leaving. However, this stopped when they were given Namor's portion of the Phoenix Force the second it left Namor. The trapped Avengers were able to get away quickly before anything could happen to them.
Later in K'un-Lun
A day had passed after the battle in Wakanda and the Avengers' are being beaten left and right with the Phoenix Four's assault on it's members everywhere. As everyone guessed if a member of the Phoenix Four is defeated then the others will be empowered with their fragment of the Phoenix. To make things worse, so far Hope's training hasn't been getting anywhere. Yu-Ti decides that instead of learning martial arts for now, someone should be able to talk. The person that he chose to do so shocked everyone there.
"Say what now?" Peter asked.
"Train her", Yu-Ti said. "Teach her everything you know".
"But-but aren't you the kung fu master of all kung fu masters?" Peter asked.
"Quite".
"Show shouldn't you do the-" Peter was cut off.
"Now it is your turn", Yu-Ti said.
"Hasn't she already been trained by Cyclops, Wolverine, and... and..." Peter began when Hope spoke.
"Cable".
"Yeah, Cable".
"Yes. Now... it is your turn", Yu-Ti said as he started to walk away.
"Well I'll leave you alone to get started", Danny said as he began to leave.
"So uh..." Peter said unsure of what to do. Hope gave him a look of annoyance.
"I'm not dressing like you. I can tell you that", Hope said.
"Thank God, there's already like 8 Spider-Ladies", Peter said. "So what's Magneto like?"
"So you've got nothing", Hope said.
"Hey, give me a break. I just got this gig", Peter said.
"Okay, well you go figure the 'gig' out and I'll be over here figuring out what exactly I've been put on this Earth to do, how I ended up in a magical Kung Fu city where no one teaches anyone Kung Fu and what I'm suppose to do when the cosmic powers of a big firebird dump themselves right on my head!" Hope snapped. "Because right now, I'm pretty sure the world's going to blame and I didn't ask for any of this. Not one damn bit of it".
"Yeah, well..." Peter said as he decided to tell her something that was taught to him just as Sonja and Diana were coming by to see what was going on. "With great power comes great responsibility".
"What?!"
"With great power comes great responsible", Peter repeated.
"What the hell am I suppose to do with that?" Hope said.
"It's something my uncle used say to me".
"Your uncle, he'd say this what, over breakfast?" Hope asked skeptically.
"Sometimes", Peter joked. "And this was before I got bit by the Spider that dumped its Spider-Powers all over my head and everyone started blaming me for every bad thing that ever happened to New York City, so yeah. The thing is, when he said it, I didn't know he was talking about and I didn't figure out what he was talking about until it was too late. Until some idiot with a gun shot and killed him. An idiot who I could have, maybe, definitely, stopped if I wasn't so busy worrying about myself and, instead, really listen to the words he was saying".
Hope's skeptical look turned into one of intrigue.
"With great power there must come great responsible. And ever since that day... I've been trying to live a life that resembles what those words mean", Peter said. Hope had realized that she like many other people had misunderstood Spider-Man. Cable had told her that Spider-Man would be become the greatest hero ever and right now she was seeing why. "And I can tell you they mean everyone. I can also tell you this..."
Hope paid close attention to what he had to say.
"You can live everyday of trying to think of something more profound or more on the nose", Peter said before continuing, "but for us, for people like us, who suddenly find themselves out at a crazy world and not knowing what the hell we're supposed to be doing in it, I can tell you that just remembering that with great power comes great great responsibility... can completely define you". With that the arachnid based vigilante started to leave. Hope apparently was inspired by him chased him to ask him a a myriad of question.
"Hey ho, wait up", Hope said. "What else did he say? Did he say anything else? Should I get a new costume? Maybe I should should. Where do get you yours?" All the while Peter chuckled to himself knowing he did the right thing. Apparently Diana and Sonja smiled at what was said.
"That's Peter for you", Sonja said. Diana nodded but quirked an eyebrow before turning to her.
"Did you just call him Peter?" Diana asked. Sonja's eyes widened by this and questioned why she did that.
Later on Hope's training showed a vast amount of improvement as she was able to learn various attacks and how to hone her abilities. However, a badly beaten Cap approached Peter, Sonja, Vampi, Diana and others to tell them something bad.
"We lost Thor", Steve said.
"By Hera", Diana gasped.
"By Mitra", Sonja also gasped.
"Okay, I gotta ask, who is Mitra?" Vampi asked getting a slight glare from Sonja.
"Vee focus, we need to get Thor back and the others", Peter said.
"I know, but we need a location on where", Steve said.
"I believe I can be of help", said the voice of Charles Xavier who walked in with Storm.
"What's she doing here?" Vampi questioned.
"I have defected from Scott' side after hearing what happened to Wakanda", Storm said. "I admit that I joined his side because I thought he was right but if it meant the destruction of a city I use to rule then I would never have joined him".
"Use to?" Peter asked.
"Let's just say that T'Challa was angry that I joined Scott and the high priest decided to annul our marriage", Storm stated with sadness. "T'Challa was the high priest".
"I'm sorry to hear that", Diana said.
"For now we have to focus on getting the other Avengers out", Charles said. "And we know where they are".
"Lead the way Professor", Peter said as they started to leave.
"And to answer your question, Mitra is the Persian God of light and justice", Sonja answered and Vampi shrugged satified that she had an answer.
Limbo
With Doctor Strange's help the group consisting of Peter, Sonja, Vampi, Diana, Logan, T'Challa, Danny, Jen, Steve, Ororo, and Charles were able to teleport to where the other Avengers were being held. The group was able to get to a cave where upon entering saw multiple demons. Doc Strange was able to cloak them all with a spell in order to pass on through undetected by the demons and eventually found their missing, imprisoned, and defeated teammates.
"Found them", Sonja said as she looked at the unconscious form of Carol hanging upside down. Beside Carol were Jess, Thor, Luke Cage, Thing, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Power Girl.
"Are they still alive?" Diana asked as she floated near Power Girl.
"Barely, these creatures are feeding on their minds, possibly their very souls", Strange said.
"We need to get them of here, now", Logan said.
"We'll have to carry them out by hand", Strange said. "There is too much demonic interference for me to teleport us back to K'un-Lun. That and my spells are being blocked".
"Um guys, who's gonna carry us?" Peter asked as his spider sense was blaring at him. Just then Magik and Colossus attacked them all. Try as they might the Avengers could not keep going and they were being decimated by the Phoenix empowered siblings.
"Sonja get the others down", Peter said.
"Done", Sonja complied and used her sword to set the unconscious heroes free.
"Time to go", Peter said as he webbed up Logan and Jen and pulled them away with the other heroes just as they started to escape. Just as they were making their getaway debris started to fall. Peter was able to push the others out of the way in time but he was trapped with Magik and Colossus.
"Spider/Peter!" Sonja and Vampi yelled as they tried to help free him.
"Come back for me later! Make sure the others are alright!" Peter said as he turned to face the two siblings. Sonja slammed her fist at the side of the cave as she started to run away with the others with Vampi following right behind.
"You intend to hold us off how exactly?" Magik mocked.
"Why the power of laughter of course! Knock knock", Peter said only to avoid being attacked. "Gah, nobody appreciates the classics anymore". Peter was squaring off against them as best as he can however their overwhelming power was able to push him back hard. Peter started to get back up only to be punched in the face by Colossus causing him to reel back in pain.
"Stay down I wish not to hurt you, at least I don't think I do", Colossus said only to receive an uppercut from Peter at full force. Metal skin or not Colossus felt a bit of pain. Colossus went for another punch but Peter jumped out of the way and kicked Magik for trying to attack him from behind. However Colossus got the upper hand and punched him back down before stepping on Peter's back.
"This is pathetic brother. You have this power and yet you hold back. Finish him before I finish you both!" Magik said. Colossus turned to her
"Please stop saying such things sister. You are beginning to worry me", Colossus said. "I worry what this power is doing to you Illyana. I worry that you are giving in to the darkness. Perhaps you should let me carry this burden for the both of us".
"You simple-minded child! You barely know what to do with your own power!" Magik retorted. At this Peter got an idea.
"You know you two should stop and think about what you're going to do next", Peter said. "If one of you tries to take me out, who's to stop one of you from attacking the other and gaining their power? After all, you both know what would happen to all that power if one of you was to fall, right? I'm sure neither of you wants to see that".
Moments later the other heroes returned to the cave. Just as they were able to break through what was blocking their path they were met with the Phoenix Force that flew above them and left to find Scott and Emma. Sonja rushed ahead breaking through to find a badly beaten Spider-Man with the unconscious bodies of Colossus and Magik.
"Spider!" Sonja yelled as she ran towards him and caught him in her arms as he collapsed.
"I goaded them into fighting each other and they took themselves out", Peter said. "If they're both down that means their power just went..."
"Yeah it did", Steve said as he and Sonja started to hold him up and get out of there.
K'un-Lun
Hope was standing with Iron Fist worried about Spider-Man. After Cap and the others got their missing teammates back, Hope was shocked to learn that Spider-Man stayed behind. Right now she hopes that he is alright. Just then a bright light appeared before her and Danny.
"What in the world is that?"
"That is what it looks like when someone tears their way through dimensions. I am sorry Hope, I truly am", Danny said.
"Sorry about what?"
"I am sorry we will never get to finish your training". It was then that a voice spoke to Hope.
"Hope! It's time to come home", Scott said as he held out his hand for Hope.
Next time the Hope vs Cyclops and the conclusion of this titanic story. After that the aftermath and a confession.