Vol 1 Issue 8: Cleaning Up the Kitchen
Latverion
A jet that carries the reassembled Superior Seven is en route to Latverion. Neo Mecha Spider-Man's driving the aircraft while the other six are hanging out in the back. "Welcome to Latverion, friends. Hope you survive the experience." Grimadoom said to Team Toxin. Emerald and Mercury look through the window to see what this fused country looks like, an eerie fusion of Latveria, Eggmanland, and the Land of Darkness that it surprises them the citizens of Latveria seem very comfortable living in this new land.
"Is that a ferris wheel?" Mercury points to an Eggmanland ferris wheel. "Looks pretty deadly. My kind of amusement park." He joked.
"You are very crazy." Emerald told her partner.
"So let me get this straight," Cinder starts talking, "Thanos is coming. And if we don't retrieve the Exo Stones before he does, the whole planet will get destroyed?" She asked. Cinder doesn't know anything about Thanos except from small stories like how he's an intergalactic warlord and once wiped out half of the universe with the Infinity Stones.
"You scared?" Grimadoom slyly teased.
"Don't be a fool. I was hoping I was called for something more challenging than a fetch quest." Cinder replied calmly.
"At least you get to explore the new world before it potentially gets destroyed in a few days." Grimadoom joked.
"Swell." Cinder replied sarcastically.
"We are approaching Doomstadt. Prepare for landing." Neo Mecha Spidey informed the group. The robot Spider lands the jet outside of Doom's Castle, looking the same as it was before the Convergence. The Superior Seven walks out of the jet into the castle, where they walk into the throne room to meet with their superiors, the Masters of Evil, and a few new guests that seem extremely familiar to some.
"Well. Look who we have here. Didn't think we meet again."
"Hmm?" Cinder looks to her front to find out who was talking to her and her partners. When she recognized the orange-haired man with a black bowler hat, she becomes mildly surprised to see it's her old subordinate thought dead, Roman Torchwick, a former crime boss of Vale. Standing next to him is his ice-cream themed silent partner, Neopolitan. Right behind those two are some of Salem's old associates who were also thought dead by the Green Goblin: Doctor Arthur Watts, the crazy scorpion faunus Tyrian Callows, and the quiet but tough Hazel Rainart.
"If it isn't Cinder and the kids. Long time no see." Roman greeted with a sly smile.
"Roman?! But that's impossible! Goblin killed you! He killed all of you! How're you all still alive?!" Emerald asked, sharing a shocked face with Mercury.
"We brought them back with the power of the Nether Stone!" Eggman sinisterly smiled, as Salem shows Team Toxin the dark purple Nether Stone in her hand.
"An Exo Stone that can bring back the dead, and you chose to bring back these weaklings? I don't see how we'll survive against Thanos with these losers." Cinder insulted her revived former cohorts, crossing her arms with an indifferent attitude.
"My, my. You developed quite a joking attitude while we were away." Arthur Watts, a man Cinder clearly doesn't like, walks up to his former teammate with his hands cupped behind his back. "We've been informed of everything after our 'disappearance'. I heard you bonded with 'quite' the monster. A supposed symbiote 'god', I believe you call it? A gift from your late and monstrous boyfriend?"
The mocking of Eddie Brock, also known as Venom and a surprise love interest to Cinder, sparked a nerve in both her and the Toxin Symbiote. Without flinching or moving a muscle, a piece of her symbiote strangles Watts's neck, making it hard for him to breath. A small head of the Toxin Symbiote forms on a smiling Cinder's shoulder.
"Why yes, he did," She responded to his last comment. "Toxin. This is Arthur Watts."
"Is he a friend?" Toxin asked.
"Nope."
"Does that mean I can eat his head?"
"Tempting. Save it for later."
"I'm gonna like you." Toxin said to a frightened Watts with a wicked smile before he lets go of him and returns to being a suit for Cinder.
"What a perfect pet you found." Arthur scowled while rubbing his neck. The Remnant doctor then notices Grimadoom approaching him. "And you're Grimadoom, I believe?"
"Yup. I'm Salem's son." Grim mockingly said.
"Her 'son'?" Hazel raised an eyebrow while leaning on a pillar. It didn't take long for the irritated Salem to telekinetically throw her 'son' straight to the ceiling where his head gets stuck, with Team Toxin simply staring at him struggle to break free.
"He's 'our' most powerful creation. A little too powerful in some areas." Salem told her revived associates. Grimadoom certainly is a force to be reckoned with as not even the Masters of Evil can control his disrespectful behavior and his babbling mouth that constantly gets on their nerves.
The dark hedgehog quickly broke free from the ceiling and teleported to Salem's side, floating in mid-air with a taunting smile on his face. "I really love messing with you, old lady." He said before he gets blasted away by his 'mother'.
"Enough playing around! We have work to do!" Dr. Doom announced to get his united forces' attention. "Phase 1 of uniting the worlds is complete. Now onto phase 2. It's only a matter of days until Thanos invades the planet. Our forces must be ready by his arrival. The Superior Seven will go out at once retrieving the scattered Exo Stones across the planet. Meanwhile, Salem's henchmen will do whatever they can to distract the heroes while the remaining of us prep our defensives for the coming war."
"As you wish, Doom." Hazel responds to the plan.
"I wonder what's the first thing I should do in this new world created by our 'gods'." Tyrian said, sounding as insane as usual.
"I know what I'm going to do. Take control of New Vale and topple its Kingpin." Roman said.
"Pfft. What can you do against Wilson Fisk? That guy is 10 times way more intimidating than you, and he's fat!" Mercury mocked the Vale crime boss.
"I've been doing a little research since I got back. Supposedly Fisk has a special Tablet in his possession that'll definitely give me the power to take over the city." Roman replied.
"Good luck with that. That city's riddled with superheroes, especially your old pal, Spidey." Mercury said with a mocking smile.
"Not even he can stop me once I gain that Tablet. Come along, Neo. Let's go meet up with the Hooligans and take my rightful position as the Kingpin of New Vale." Roman starts walking out of the castle with his silent partner following him.
That night…Over at an Abandoned Subway underneath Hell's Kitchen
"You fools aren't getting past us!" A Maggia goon, part of Kingpin's Maggia crime family, was firing his assault rifle in hopes of killing a certain web-slinger and his friends but was quickly kicked in the face.
"Sorry! Couldn't hear over you kissing my foot!" Spider-Man quipped as he knocked down the Maggia gangster. Together with Daredevil, the D-Avengers found themselves fighting the Maggia family during their search for Shocker, who's supposedly holed up in this abandoned subway. In less than 30 seconds, the united heroes spectacularly defeated the Maggia enforcers as they continue exploring the subway.
"You sure Shocker's here?" Daredevil asked.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. intel doesn't lie. The fact the Maggia's here means we're on the right track." Spider-Man replied, crawling on the ceiling of the subway station.
"Scarlet Rose, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. I like the sound of that." Ruby smiled, as she and the rest of those with superhero costumes are back to wearing them.
"You'd make a terrible secret agent." Weiss told her.
"Never know until I try." Ruby smirked.
"Grr. I should be guarding over the Master Emerald. Not searching for a two-bit punk like Shocker." Knuckles growled, regretting not guarding the Master Emerald while it's stuck on Wakanda Island since he doesn't truly trust the Wakandans.
"The Master Emerald is safe. We need you here. Don't you trust King T'Challa's words?" Palutena asked him.
"Nope. That's why I hid it in the Hidden Palace chamber." Knuckles grinned.
"You are one stubborn knucklehead." Sonic shrugged.
"With all these gangsters from our dimensions out in the open, we're looking at a massive gang war brewing. And with the city still in disarray after the Convergence, we need to prevent that." Spider-Man told the team.
"Or worse, let the Kingpin take control of them all and rule the city." Daredevil added.
"That won't happen. We'll stop them." Axl said determinedly.
Spidey's Spider-Sense rings up commotion coming from deep within the station. The sounds of screaming and rapid gunfire can be heard from a mile away. "Wonder what's going on over there?" Peter wondered as the team rushes over to the source of the gunfire. When they got there, they see a whole bunch of Maggia goons shot down dead. The person who killed them was a middle-aged man wearing a trench coat and a shirt with a white skull emblem knelt with a machine gun in his hand.
Peter face-palms as he and Daredevil are very familiar with this murder-loving vigilante, "Oh you got to be kidding me! Punisher?!"
Frank Castle, also known as the Punisher, turns around to face his 'sometimes' allies and the rest of the D-Avengers. He grunts, "What the hell are you folks doing here?"
"Who's he?" Pit asked on the identity of this man.
"Frank Castle. The Punisher. Loves guns. Loves skulls. Loves being called bonehead." Spidey joked.
"You better shut the hell up before I crush your skull, bug boy." Punisher threatened.
"What're you doing here, Castle?" Daredevil asked his brutal anti-hero.
"I was on the trail of the Shocker. Guy just robbed Casinopolis. Chased him down here." Punisher answered.
"Oh, Casinopolis. I love that place. I once had my own giant statue until a red, dumb knucklehead destroyed it." Sonic slyly teased his dumb echidna friend.
"I swear I thought a Master Emerald piece was in it." Knuckles remarked, may or may not be telling the truth.
"Riiiight." Sonic slyly smirked.
BGM-Marvel's Spider-Man OST-Shocker Boss Battle/Fight Music Theme
A loud explosion came somewhere from the upper level of the station belonging to Shocker as he lands down with the money he stole from Casinopolis, but just his luck, he turns around to already be met by the D-Avengers, Daredevil, and the Punisher.
"Hi, Herman." Spidey casually greeted the shock-waving criminal in armor.
"Seriously? Grr…" Shocker immediately makes a break for it, using his vibration gauntlets to launch high into the air repeatedly through the abandoned subway. Not wasting any time, the heroes do their best chasing Shocker so he won't escape, "Give it up. You're never gonna catch me."
"That's what you said last time." Spidey quipped.
"I don't wanna hurt you, it'll just slow me down." Shocker said.
"Wow, that's…considerate." Spidey said, raising a confused eyebrow.
Not long into the chase, the heroes suddenly find themselves in the ruins of an underground city of Mountain Glenn from Remnant, thankfully with no Grimm anywhere. "We're back here?" Weiss remarked.
"Anyone feeling nostalgic?" Yang grinned.
"Not really, no." Sonic joked as this is his first time visiting these ruins.
"Shut up and keep chasing!" Punisher shouted, trying to shoot down the runaway Shocker and fails because of his large vibro-jumps.
"What's the money for, Herman?" Spidey asked.
"Why do you care?" Shocker replied.
"Actually, I don't. Just trying to make polite conversation…" Peter quipped.
"I'm done talking."
"But this could be so much more rewarding if we connected on an emotional level…Wait, I forgot, you don't have emotions." Peter mocked.
"OOOOOOOOH!" Team RWBY hollored.
"Savage." Knuckles remarked on Peter's mocking words.
Despite the insult, Shocker doesn't bother with an angry retort and continues evading his pursuers. "C'mon, Herman. At least talk to me so we can make it interesting….," Spidey said, "Herman? What? Do you only answer to 'Shocker' now? Mister Shocker?" With Pit destroying part of the ceiling to slow down Shocker, Spider-Man was able to web zip and pin Shocker to the ground, "Gotcha. Now let's talk-."
Shocker's gauntlets to start to charge up as he says, "I said I'm…DONE…TALKING," punching Spider-Man with shockwaves that blow him back on top of Ruby and Lucina. Shocker super jumps away while Punisher tries to shoot him down.
"Noted." Peter said, a bit groggy while Ruby looks dizzy. Lucina helps Ruby up as the gang continue chasing Shocker out of Mt. Glenn and back in the familiar abandoned subways. "Honestly Herman, why are you robbing again? You know the police are watching your every move. I mean, we all know you're kinda dumb, but I didn't think you were 'this' dumb. You must be desperate. Which means you're not just stealing for yourself. You must be working with someone. Or 'for' someone…You can tell us who it is now, or make us punch it out of you later. Your choice!"
"I've said enough." Shocker replied.
"Not really. You were pretty quiet this whole time. It's called 'deduction'." Axl joked.
"Grrrrr!" Shocker fires multiple shockwaves at Axl and the gang, some getting hurt and some barely avoiding the blast that caused the ceiling to collapse. Weiss got the idea to set an ice glyph trap on the next spot Shocker lands on. When he does, in that split instant, ice spikes forms that spikes him staggered in the air for Sonic to deliver a homing attack to his back. The costumed criminal fires a shock wave at Sonic, only for Spidey to swing in and web up his gauntlets and the villain as a whole to the floor.
"You know what Herman, you have like zero personality…but your suit is awesome. Can we talk design details?" Spider-Man asked.
"I also want to know how you create shockwaves out of your hands! Those are very cool!" Ruby excitedly asked about his gauntlet weapons, but he ignores her while trying to break free from the webbing, "Maybe later."
BGM End
"Alright, Shocker. What's going on? Who are you working for?" Daredevil started interrogating the defeated criminal.
"Start talking before I get trigger happy." Castle points his gun on Herman's forehead, scaring him completely to point of talking.
"Okay! Okay! I'll talk! Let's make a deal, you get me my old cell block back at the Raft, and I'll tell you what you want!" Shocker proposed.
"We'll see what we can do. Now start talking." Spider-Man narrowed his eyes at the criminal.
"Alright! Alright! It was Mister Negative who hired me. Y'know, the Chinatown crime boss with the freaky negative powers?" Shocker said.
"We've met. What does he want?" Weiss asked.
"Tonight, he plans to steal some ancient stone tablet from the Kingpin at one of his new nightclubs in the Nightclub District. Said it'll make him strong enough to take over the entire city."
"What's it called?" Daredevil asked with Punisher's gun so up close to his face it's not even funny.
"I-I don't know! Tablet of Life or something!" Shocker scarily answered.
Peter's eyes widen in shock as he knows what this tablet is, "The Tablet of Life and Time."
"You know it, Spider-Man?" Tails asked.
"How can I not? That thing was the cause of one of the biggest gang wars in the city. Every crime boss known to man wanted their hands on it." Peter replied.
"What's so special about this tablet?" Lucina asked.
Spidey begins explaining what he knows about the Tablet of Life and Time to his allies, "There's a biochemical formula inscripted on the tablet that can turn anyone immortal. Near omnipotent. If someone like Mr. Negative gets his hands on it…"
"I'm gonna tell you to shut up right there." Weiss refrained him from speaking any further of how destructively powerful and impossible Mr. Negative could be if he gets his hands on the Tablet.
"We have to get that Tablet. Something that powerful shouldn't be in the possession of mortals, especially Kingpin and Mr. Negative." Palutena said that everyone agrees with her.
A few minutes later outside the subways…
Yuri Watanabe, now Police Captain of the New Vale Police Department (NVPD), oversees Shocker getting arrested, then walks over to meet the D-Avengers, Daredevil, and Punisher. "Good work, Avengers. Did you learn anything else about his motives or what Mr. Negative's planning?" She asked the heroes.
"Not really. He's not very talkative. Plus, I think he hates me." Spider-Man replied.
"You have that effect on a lot of people." Yuri said.
"But you love me, right Yuri?" Peter asked.
"I tolerate you." Yuri replied.
"Ouch." Yang chuckled.
"Wow," Peter scratches the side of his head from her, possibly hurtful words, "That might be the nicest thing you've ever said to me." He joked, getting a chuckle from some of his friends.
"Captain Watanabe. Do you know any new nightclub owned by the Kingpin that recently opened?" Blake asked the police captain.
"Hmm. There is one that comes to mind. It's called the Blood Rose Nightclub. Its own by a man named Junior Xiong, but I have no background information on him." Yuri told the team.
"Huh? Junior's here?!" Yang remarked with a surprise face, as Junior was actually an owner of his own club back in Remnant that she visited a few times in the past.
"You know him?" Yuri asked Power Woman.
"We've met a few times. All of them weren't pretty. He probably hates me." Yang replied.
"Then try not to make a mess this time." Yuri warned the reckless blond.
"No promises." Yang grinned.
Outside the Blood Rose Nightclub
The team hides behind an alleyway close to the growing popular Blood Rose Nightclub here in Hell's Kitchen, owned by Junior Xiong. Yang chuckles, "I can't believe it. Kingpin BOUGHT Junior. And it's only been what, a day since the Convergence?"
"I can't believe Kingpin owns a nightclub." Pit said.
"It's a front. It's connected to a warehouse supposedly filled with all his ill-gotten goodies." Daredevil said.
"Well sure. He IS the Kingpin. I assume everything's a front…for a fast-food franchise." Spidey joked, which makes everyone look at him strangely. "Y'know, 'cause he's fat."
"Enough yapping," Punisher reloads his gun, "Let's go meet with this 'Junior' and get him to talk." He says as he prepares to walk in but was blocked by Spider-Man.
"Easy, Mr. Death Wish. I like to keep the body count low." Peter told him.
"You don't order me around, kid. Remember I can turn my back on you at any moment." Punisher said which got the young heroes in the group to gulp at his tone.
"Do that and I'll punch you into next week." Peter threatened.
"Frank, now's not the time." Daredevil ordered.
"Tch. Fine." Frank puts away his gun and scowled at the red costumed vigilantes, regretting his decision.
"We got your back. Let's go." Axl said.
The united gang, led by Spidey and Yang, walk through the entrance of Blood Rose without trouble thanks to most of them holding their Avengers I.D. card to give themselves a free pass. Inside, they become mildly shocked to see so many various people from their three dimensions like Faunus and Mobians partying on the disco floor with the loud music and many lights.
"This is a nightclub?!" Lucina questioned loudly as this is her first time ever setting foot inside one.
"Ahhh, memories!" Yang commented.
"Try not to destroy the club a third time, Point Break!" Spidey warned his girl.
"Second time wasn't my fault! Only partially!" Yang joked.
At the bar is the owner of the nightclub hailing from Remnant, Junior Xiong. He wears a black vest along with matching black hair, beard and mustache. He was busy cleaning a glass cup when someone called out an order, "Strawberry Sunrise. No ice. Oh, and one of those little umbrellas."
"Coming right up." Junior says as he makes the Strawberry Sunrise without looking who ordered it. "Y'know, it's funny. I remember someone ordered the exact same thing bef-." He turns around to be surprised the order came from his old 'friend', Yang, who grins and waves at him next to the D-Avengers, Daredevil, and Punisher.
"Sup, Tiny." Peter casually waved at him.
Junior stands completely shocked as he accidently let's go of the drink to the floor. He sighs and practically accepts defeat before any fight started, "…Okay, fine. What do you want?"
Yang was the one to speak, "Kingpin's warehouse of goods. Where is it? And you better not lie. My friend Punisher here is itching to shoot something and cause a big mess all over your new gig."
Castle stares Junior straight in the eyes and growls like an animal to frighten him, "Through the backdoor! It'll take you to his private galley!"
Yang creepily smiles at him, "Thank you. And I'm not paying for that drink."
"See ya, little man!" Sonic waved good-bye as the heroes leave a groaning Junior to himself while they go through the backdoor to Kingpin's warehouse.
BGM-Marvel's Spider-Man OST-Fisk Hideout (Fisk Thugs) Battle/Fight Music Theme 2
"I'm sensing Mr. Negative is approaching the location. We have to get that Tablet!" Palutena sensed. More Maggia gangsters guarding the warehouse spot the heroes and confront them with their various weapons.
"We might be delayed ourselves. More Maggia incoming!" Spider-Man warns the group and gets ready to fight. Daredevil runs to jump-kick a Maggia down and beats down a few more with his Billy Club. Spider-Man web throws curled-up Sonic and Tails at more of the Maggia, taking them down with ease. Pit teams up with Axl to shoot down their enemies, leaving them open for an aerial dive attack from Lucina. Weiss freezes some goons for Palutena to telekinetically use as projectiles and throws down at more mobsters. Blake dive-kicks another one while Punisher uses attacks criminals with electric bullets that stun them long enough for Knuckles and Yang to uppercut into the area.
BGM End
With most of the Maggia cleared, the heroes are free to enter Kingpin's Private Gallery where the Tablet of Life and Time is up for display in the middle of the room. "There's the Tablet." Blake pointed out.
"Good. Let's grab the Tablet and get the heck out of here." Sonic said.
Just before they could reach the Tablet, a sudden black bomb was suddenly thrown at the heroes and explodes, causing them to get blown back to the floor. "Did I get 'im?! Did I get 'im?!" A goofy-sounding Mobian duck asked.
"Yes, yes. That was very nice." The voice of an old enemy gets the heroes' attention as it's none other than Roman Torchwick, standing beside Neo and his hired help, the Hooligans, a mercenary group from Mobius consisting of the silent-powerhouse, Bark the Polar Bear, the crazy bomb-throwing Bean the Dynamite, and the clever weasel leader of the group, Nack the Weasel.
"It's been a long time, Red and Bug. Miss me?" Torchwick asked his old enemies, Ruby and Spider-Man.
"Torchwick?!" Ruby's mask eyes widen in shock and surprise.
"Working with the Hooligans?!" Sonic remarked in surprise.
"Who's he again?" Peter joked.
"WHAT?! You seriously forgotten me?! My name is Roman Torchwick!" Torchwick shouted at the jokester.
"I don't know a 'Roman Torchwick'. Are you brothers with Conan Blowwick?" Spidey joked again, getting on the nerves of Vale's old crime boss.
"I thought Torchwick died! How is he still alive?!" Blake asked.
"I'm sensing the Nether Stone's power was the cause." Palutena sensed.
"Why the heck would the Masters of Evil bring back this wannabe Kingpin?" Spidey insulted Torchwick.
"You won't be saying that for long after I take the Tablet for myself and rule this city, as I was destined to be." Torchwick grinned.
BGM-Marvel's Spider-Man OST-Mister Negative Boss Battle/Fight Music Theme 2
"That Tablet doesn't belong to you." Now everyone's attention is turned to a negative-colored man with black skin, white hair, a white suit, and glowing eyes. He's seen being accompanied by his henchmen wearing demon-looking masks, "It belongs to me."
"This is bad timing! It's Mr. Negative!" Spider-Man recognized the Chinatown crime boss.
"Who?!" Torchwick asked the Spider. Mr. Negative answers the Vale crime boss with a charged blast of highly destructive electric negative energy that was strong enough to destroy a part of the private gallery and send the heroes, Torchwick's group, and the Tablet flying outside. The corrupted crime boss and his Inner Demons walk out to confront their enemies in a three-way battle.
"I want that Tablet! Destroy anyone that gets in my way!" Negative ordered his corrupted men. One of the Demons runs up to pick up the Tablet but was shot down by an explosive round from Torchwick's cane.
"That Tablet is mine, Negative Man!" Torchwick shouts as he confronts Mr. Negative alone while everyone else are fighting each other: The United Heroes versus Torchwick's group versus the Inner Demons, all with the same goal of retrieving the Tablet of Life and Time.
"Can't we find a way to share the Tablet equally?! You guys get a 1% while we keep the 99%?! Or how 'bout you keep 0.01%?! Is that fair?!" Spidey quipped while fighting against the Demons.
"Out of my way you mask-wearing freaks!" Nack blasts a couple of the Demons with a laser gun, only to get attacked from behind by one of them.
Yang locks hands with Bark of the Hooligans, who quickly proves he could match her in strength, so it didn't take long for her to get overpowered after getting blindsided by her old enemy, Neo. "Oh, it's you. Looking a lot less ugly last time I saw you." Yang insulted as the last time she fought Neo she was infected by the Goblin Formula and then killed by Akuma in his Oni state. Neo scowls from the insult and engages Yang one-on-one. Thanks to all her recent training and experience fighting way more powerful foes during her time as an Avenger, Yang is much more capable blocking Neo's attacks and countering with really good punches. Neo steps back after receiving another punch, being forced to use her illusions to even up the playing field, catching Yang off-guard which Neo is the real deal.
"I got this." Daredevil comes to her rescue by using his superhuman senses to track down Neo's real self. It didn't take long until the Man Without Fear kicked the real Neo in the face. "I can see through your illusions. You have nothing to hide from me."
"It's ironic a blind man can see through your illusions." Yang smirked at Neo, who's silently irritated as she's forced to fight a powerful brawler in the martial-arts and a costumed vigilante that can see through her illusions, losing her advantage in the battle.
While most of the heroes contend with the Demons, Knuckles goes toe-to-toe with Bark in an intense brawl of brawn, all while Pit flies away from Bean's barrage of bombs. The angel whips out his Guardian Orbitars to reflect the bombs back at Bean. "Uh oh." Bean's eyes shrank as he receives the impact from his own bombs, knocking him on top of Nack while he was fighting the Punisher.
"Get off me…" A crushed Nack told Bean to get off of him.
"But I'm sleepy…" Bean yawned, earning an annoyed growl from his boss.
Nearby, Torchwick and Mr. Negative are still clashing for possession of the Tablet. It quickly becomes quite obvious that nothing in Torchwick's arsenal can hold up to Mr. Negative's powerful negative powers. "You are outmatched, worm. If you can't be me, what makes you think you can control the power of the Tablet?" Negative slashes Roman with his negative sword and then blasts him away and be free to collect the Tablet on the floor. "Finally. My prize." He was about to grab it until a stream of petals speeds by and retrieves the Tablet, revealing to be Ruby.
"Finders keepers." Ruby grinned.
"YAAAARGH!" Negative fires multiple blasts of energy Ruby is having trouble avoiding even with the use of her Semblance. One of them manages to hit her, causing her to throw the Tablet straight into Torchwick's hands.
"Yes!" Torchwick smiled, until he was kicked in the back of the head by Spider-Man.
"Nooope!" Spidey quipped. Torchwick growls and repeatedly swipes his cane on a Spider that easily dodges his pathetic attempts to hit him. "C'mon, Boman. It's been a while since we last seen each other…" He said before dodging another cane swipe, "Okay, a while for you. I actually haven't seen in over two weeks because time travel…" He dodges another cane swipe, "Can we at least talk? Discuss your feelings? What you truly want in life?"
"You dead and that Tablet!" Roman fires an explosive round Peter jumps over.
"I can provide something better. How do feel about a web-swinging butt-whopping?" The webhead webs strikes and starts beating on Torchwick without giving the man a chance to counterattack. He was interrupted when Ruby collapsed on him after fighting Mr. Negative for a bit.
"I am tired of this game with you all, and it ends now! Give me that Tablet or you'll all SUFFER!" Mr. Negative charges up his negative powers to the fullest, trapping everyone in a dark, chaotic illusion version of the warehouse and surrounds himself in a large demonic-looking entity.
"Where the hell…" Punisher looks around in this dark illusion realm.
"Can you do this?" Yang asked Neo, who gives a very stunned shake of head, denying her illusions can't do whatever Mr. Negative trapped them in.
"Whoa…" Ruby commented, completely stunned on how big the demon beast is. The Demon Beast roars and tries to attack Ruby, Spider-Man, and Torchwick but they narrowly avoided its claws, which scratches the ground to create zombie-like entities for all his enemies to face.
"I am not getting paid enough for this!" Nack complained, fighting the Demon Zombies.
"We won't lose to your Demon!" Lucina declared while trading blows with Negative's swordplay.
"'My' Demon?! I 'AM' the Demon!" Negative summons his Demon Beast that swipes the Exalt princess aside.
"That…is a big Demon. Biiig Demon." Spidey commented. Sonic, Punisher, Axl, and Weiss throw everything they can on the Demon Beast. It retaliates with claw swipes and large shockwaves that knocks them around, even knocking out Neo, Bark, and Bean out cold.
"That Tablet belongs to me! I will use it to cleanse this city of filth like you and the Kingpin and be it's one, true crimelord!" Negative said while fighting Ruby and Spider-Man.
"You'll have to take us down first!" Ruby retorted. Spider-Man throws some debris at the Demon Beast which causes it to disappear for a while, allowing Ruby to dash up and start beating down Mr. Negative.
"That's ENOUGH," Negative dashes at inhuman speeds that surprises Ruby as he escapes her wrath, "This will all be over soon!" He says as his Demon Beast returns.
"I sure hope so!" Sonic remarked while getting smacked around by the giant Demon.
"Y'know! I think I'd liked it better when I was dead!" Torchwick said as he can't handle all this craziness with Demons and people with negative powers. He and Nack were nonchalantly knocked out by Punisher and his bat.
"Be lucky I don't have time to kill you." Castle told him.
Palutena unleashes a burst of her light to disintegrate the Demon Zombies surrounding the team. "Let's shed some light in this darkness!" She fires a beam of pure light that severely weakens the Demon Beast and Mr. Negative.
"He's almost down! Pour it on him!" Axl shouted as the whole D-Avengers, Daredevil, and Punisher unleash everything they got on Mr. Negative.
"My will is stronger than all of yours combined!" Mr. Negative proclaimed.
"We'll see about that!" Blake retorted as they keep firing on the Demon Beast. Palutena fires another light laser that pierces a hole in the beast, allowing Sonic to strike Mr. Negative out of it and for Ruby to strike him down.
"Give up!" Ruby told the crime boss while holding the Tablet.
Mr. Negative pants but he definitely doesn't look like he's gonna give up. With a mighty roar and the last of his strength, he summons back his giant Demon to grab her, but she leaps back to give Spider-Man the chance to web slingshot kick through the big Demon, destroying it and kicking the negative crime boss straight in the face. Everyone watches as the Demon Beast roars in pain as its body disintegrates into nothingness, just as the whole illusion disappears too, bringing everyone back to reality. The remaining Inner Demons loses their power after their boss goes unconscious, still in his negative form.
BGM End
The D-Avengers celebrate a rounding success defeating two crime bosses and their henchmen and recovering the Tablet of Life and Time from their greedy hands. "Well, alright, alright, alright! We won one! High five!" A happy Yang offers a high-five to Daredevil and Punisher, both who are too serious for a friendly high-five. "You can't give a sister a high-five? Don't leave me hanging."
Just when you thought it was all over and they could all go home, a mysterious man wearing a red hooded cloak and boots and dual-pistols suddenly pops out of a portal to greet the heroes and their Tablet, "Thank you. I was looking for that." Everyone starts dodging his bullets like crazy. Knuckles show some bravery and lunges at the hooded man with a furious punch, but he disappeared into the portal and leaves Knuckles to crack the ground instead.
"Sweet Christmas! Who the hell was that?" Yang asked.
"You stealing Luke Cage's lines now?" Spidey quipped.
"He calls himself The Hood." Punisher answered the Power Woman's question.
"So all the good names were taken?" Pit joked.
"Don't underestimate him. That cape and hood, let him teleport anywhere in the world." Daredevil explained the man's power.
"Wish my hood could do that." Ruby said, touching her red cloak.
"Intel says he's a serious pretender to Kingpin's throne." Punisher said.
Unknown to Ruby, The Hood pops out of his portal right behind her and punches her in the face, grabbing the Tablet. Everyone else comes to her aid and to stop the Hood but he disappeared back to his portal with the Tablet in his possession now. "Damn it!" Lucina exclaimed.
"Okay then. Good job, everybody." Ruby joked while Tails and her sister helps her up.
"We just gave the Hood the edge he needs to take this entire city." Daredevil said.
"Ain't gonna happen. Someone somewhere knows where this guy hangs his cape at night." Sonic said.
"We need to go to Fury with this." Axl recommended but Spider-Man seems to have a better plan in mind.
"Actually, I think I know who we should talk to first." Peter smiles behind his mask, knowing only one person that could help them track down the Hood and the Tablet before all hell breaks loose.
BGM-Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 OST-Character Select
Sonic: I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog! Just when we thought a prevented a gang war, The Hood shows up out of nowhere and stole the Tablet. We need to get it back now. According to Spidey's sources, he's hanging out in New Jersey. I wonder what fused city we'll find here! I'm looking forward to it!
Next time in D-Avengers: Exo War:
Pursuing the Hood
Sonic: You can't teleport from us forever, Hoodie! We'll find you!
KFX Here: Poor Torchwick. Compared to other crime bosses in the Marvel Universe, you're not even in Top 5 or even Top 10. Before anyone asks, Mr. Negative in this series is moreso based on his comic book/Earth-616 incarnation than the Marvel's Spider-Man version, so he doesn't have any beef with Norman Osborn or anything. He's simply another crime boss that wants to take over the city. And no, no one knows Martin Li and Mr. Negative are the same. As far as Spider-Man and everyone else knows, the two are completely separate entities. And also in-between this chapter and the next, Torchwick, Mr. Negative, Neo, and the Hooligans are arrested, in case you're wondering about their fate.