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In short I don't own anything in this story.
This is just for fun.
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Sorry for the delay guys; had a lot going on this month ... work, best man duties and so forth. Just so you guys know, my busy schedule is not calming down soon so the next chapter might take just as long to come out.
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Chapter 9: Boarding the Aeacus
New York City – Mongo Dreadnought "Aeacus" – Night
One of the Invading forces Capital ships "Aeacus" has positioned itself miles above the city in order to coordinate the attack. Out of all of the alien ships attacking the city, it is the most heavily defended; dozens of turbo lasers, powerful shields and snub fighter defenders. Any attempt to engage this dreadnought has ended in complete failure. Neither the US military nor S.H.I.E.L.D. has been able to get close enough to do any damage ... until now. Meanwhile on the bridge of the Aeacus, Its Captain is busy reviewing the progress of his forces while also receiving reports from the different Captains stationed around other cities alongside one of his officers.
Mongo Captain: How fairs The Miltiades?
Mongo Officer: Captain Roack reported that his forces have taken down the Earthlings "Tri-Carrier" over the region known as "To-ron-to".
Mongo Captain: And The Cimon?
Mongo Officer: According to Captain Lanks, she has managed to break through the robotic ranks at Lat ... Lat ... ver ... ia.
The ship's captain turns to look at his officer, giving him a confounded look then sitting back in his chair.
Mongo Captain: Latveria ... Wakanda ... Toronto ... Which of these Earthlings came up with these names.
Suddenly a beeping sound was coming from the Captains chair-console, alerting him to an incoming message. When he activated it, a holo-screen appeared in front of him, showing an image of one of his Commanders.
Mongo Captain: What is it Commander?
Mongo Commander: "Sir, we've just received a priority 1 message from the Telamon; they've engaged the Nova Corp in orbit."
Mongo Captain: What! The Nova Corp is here?
Before he could process this information, the ships proximity alarm went off, causing the Captain to nearly jump out of his seat in a panic. After he settled back down he turned his attention towards one of his crewmen nearby.
Mongo Captain: What is it now?
Mongo Ensign: Captain, the Humans are launching another counter attack against us; we have incoming fighters and robotic drones off our port bow.
Mongo Captain: Everyone to their stations and activate counter measures!
Miles away, a large force of Predator Drones, Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. Jets along with Military Bombers roared across the skies above New York City towards The Aeacus. As they get closer to the capital ship, the alien vessel responds to this threat by launching their own Snub Fighters, Earths forces line up in formation; Drones at the front, then Jets protecting the Bombers behind them. As the two aerial forces meet, the drones launch their missiles at the alien fighters in an attempt to clear the way for the Bombers, this does work, many of the alien fighters are destroyed but unfortunately they have numbers on their side, so the S.H.I.E.L.D. Jets have to engage the rest of them in aerial combat in order to keep them occupied. As the dogfights rage across the sky, amongst the explosions and debris falling towards the city below, the Bombers try to manoeuvre their way through the battle and towards the main objective.
As the Bombers get closer to The Aeacus, the ships turbo lasers open fire in their direction. A few of the Bombers are destroyed but a couple had managed to avoid the laser fire with some skilful flying and get close enough to fire their payload before being destroyed themselves. The Aeacus tried to destroy some of the incoming projectiles before they impact the ship's hull using advanced beam laser technology, however they were already too close for all of them to be stopped. A few of the projectiles made it through and hit their target.
Though The Aeacus shields took most of the impact, it was enough force to disable the ships shields, a number of its defensives turrets and significant damage to the ships outer hull. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to bring down the alien vessel, though damaged; it still hung above in a stable position, thankfully that was all that the League needed.
Spiderman: Its shields are down!
Rocketeer: Everybody ... hold onto your lunch.
One of the Stark jets suddenly broke away from the aerial battle and raced towards the Aeacus; followed closely by a few enemy fighters. The Leagues Jet avoided the projectile fire coming from its pursuers by performing Barrel rolls, Aileron rolls ... all performed with expert precision. As the fighters drew in closer for the attack, the Leagues jet then performed more fancy manoeuvres to counter the incoming fire and get behind the attackers, shooting them all down.
Green Hornet: Urg! Yep ... though up a little in my mask there.
Rocketeer: We're not done yet!
The Leagues Jet continued towards the alien capital ship, as it got closer, what remained of the Aeacus turbo lasers opened fired at the Jet. Although it was fast and agile enough to avoid most of the incoming fire, one lucky shot from the ship was able to graze the wing of the Leagues Jet. Smoking ... the Jet started to lose altitude.
Rocketeer: We're hit!
White Tiger: Can you still get us there?
Rocketeer: Is Tony Stark a pig? ... I'll get us there; it's just going to be a little bumpy.
The Jet headed towards one of the Aeacus hanger bays and as it drew closer, the occupants of the hanger had began to either evacuate the area or take cover as the Leagues Jet crashed into the bay, skidded along the surface before stopping at the far end of the hanger, destroying a lot of heavy equipment and stationed fighters along the way. Meanwhile inside the crashed Jet, Spiderman and the rest of the League began to recover from the impact.
Zorro: Is everyone alright?
Spiderman: I think I'm getting used to Rocketeer's flying ... I didn't web my shorts that time.
That's already a victory in my book
Rocketeer: Err ... guys; you may want to get ready?
Green Hornet: Give us a minute.
Rocketeer: We don't have a minute.
Curious, Spiderman makes his way to the cockpit and looks out of the window. Before him, he sees what looks like half a battalion of alien troops, all armed to the teeth and marching their way towards their Jet.
Spiderman: And here's me thinking that the difficult part was over. Guys ... time to work off that jetlag.
The troops started to position themselves around the Jet, some of them setting up turrets. As a small number of them approach the Human vessel, its ramp opens up slowly. The troops gather round the opening cautiously but suddenly they hear the roar of a engine as Zorro, riding his Tornado Z speeds down the ramp, knocking down a few troops as he does so. A few of the alien troops opened fired at him, but her was moving so fast and zigzagging amongst them that many of them were taken down in the crossfire. Since they were temporary distracted by this masked rider, the alien troops failed to notice the other occupants of the Jet when they came pouring out.
When a few troops finally noticed the rest of the boarders, they pointed them out to their comrades until most of them were all looking in the direction of Spiderman and the rest of the League; all in new costumes and posing in a battle stance.
Spiderman: All right fellers, here's the deal. We are here to commentate this ship so could you all just throw down your weapons and surrender please?
A few of the alien soldiers just looked at each other in confusion before firing at the team of heroes. Each member scattered in different directions and engaged the aliens, while making the most use out of their new upgrades.
That's one way to say no ... Well at least we now get to test run our new suits; what do you think? Oh, that's right you lot can't see ... let me paint you a picture. Allow me to introduce you to the "Spider-Armour Mark lll"; this bad boy has built-in web-shooters, jet boosters and a customized helmet containing a hearing acuity device (I based it on Daredevils special hearing)and enhanced lenses with a holographic visor (sees through holograms and illusions).
Spiderman uses his armours jet boosters to launch himself high into the air above a group of soldiers firing at him, but the energy blasts ricochet of his armours chest piece. As he lands amongst the aliens, Spiderman strikes out at them; punching and kicking them yards across the hanger bay.
Oh Yeah ... put together by the best mind at Parker Industries ... Me, in case that wasn't clear. I was so proud of this baby I decided to make one for all the Leaguers; every one of our armour has a ballistic vest and calve helmet, reinforced with contour carbon armour plates and wired for cellular and radio communication. Not forgetting a layer of micro weaves combination of Kevlar, Torreon and Horicon fibres – skinned in a titanium ceramic alloy in a neuron-symbiotic mesh which makes it resistant to heat, electricity, firearms and heavy impacts. They're durable enough to withstand one of Rhinos brute force assaults.
He ensnares a group of alien troops with a wide web-net and swings them around over his head and throws them across the hanger.
What's Neuron-Symbiotic Mesh you ask? It's the latest thing from Parker Industry; a modern Bio-Electronic prosthetic; the materials density is determined by the signals from the wearer's brain and will protect them from bladed weapons, falls and impacts.
He gestures his thump over to Phantom as he takes on a group of aliens (his new armour has a black and dark purple colour scheme and has a smooth helmet with a black visor that conceals and protects the top half of his face. The suit has a large collar that protects his neck and his Skull gun belt if visible at his waist). Each one is firing their weapons at him but Phantom easily dodges every shot. Ducking and weaving he runs up to them, tackles one to the ground, rolls over him and gets back up. He grabs hold of the weapon being held by a soldier next to him, yanks it out his hands, spins round and whacks him over the head with it knocking him to the ground. Phantom then back kicks the alien behind him, launching him off his feet but before he hits the ground, Phantom punches him in the gut, sending him flying and crashing into a group of troops about ten feet away.
If you thought that was cool then you should know that like an insect's exoskeleton, the mesh effectively amplifies the wearer's initial speed and strength by a factor of 2.5 times their normal output. So Phantom just struck that guy with the force of over 26 hundred pounds per square inch ... yeah that guys not getting up again for a while.
Meanwhile at another corner of the hanger; Kato is single handily taking down groups of aliens with her incredibly impressive fighting skills which are now amplified by her armour (Kato's black armour doesn't look that much different from her regular set. Except that the mesh is worn under her coat, she has a mouth guard that protects her neck, jaw and mouth, also a pair of gauntlets that fires darts, Shurikens and other projectiles.) Her movements are now so fast that her arms and legs seemed like a blur to the untrained eye.
Just as a large group of alien soldiers charged at her at the same time, a green mist suddenly engulfed the lot of them. In seconds each one of Kato's attackers had collapsed to the ground unconscious. She looked round to see her boyfriend; The Green Hornet standing a little bit away from her, emanating the gas from one of his hands (His armour his just like Phantoms but green coloured and covered by his long trench coat and instead of his gas mask, he now also wears a sleek new helmet which lenses gives him a more insect-like look. To finish off, he wears over his helmet a wide-brim green fedora).
Kato: I have to admit ... the fedora is a good look for you.
Green Hornet: Really, you don't think it makes me look a bit too discreet?
Kato: You're wearing hi-tech armor in bright green colours ... nothing about you has ever been discreet.
Green Hornet: I thought you liked it that way?
He hears something running up behind him so he quickly spins round and grabs hold of his attacker wrists as he tried to strike Hornet down. As his grip tightened, a small burst of yellow electricity emitted from his gauntlet and sent a current through the alien trooper and causing him to lose balance and fall down unconscious.
Green Hornet: I love my new Stinger.
As the two of them team up to fight off a new wave of troops, at the other side of the hanger, Spiderman is now fighting back to back with White Tiger (Her armour is similar to the one she wore during the Singh War but with the Neuron-Symbiotic Mesh upgrades). The aliens surrounding them attack with their electro-staffs but they prove little effect against Tigers "tail" which strikes at anyone that gets close and even strong enough to lift Tiger off the ground. As they continue to fight, Spiderman noticed that the bulk doors leading out of the hanger are starting to close.
Spiderman: We need to finish up here quickly guys!
White Tiger: I gotta say web head ... I'm loving this new suit.
Spiderman: I made a special effort with yours; it's lighter so it should make you more flexible.
White Tiger: You would now about my flexibility.
Spiderman just webbed up a pair of troopers, yanks them towards him and takes them down with a double haymaker. After which he looks back at Tiger with a puzzled look.
Spiderman: Huh?
Suddenly his Spider-sense goes off and he leaps out of the way of the Tornado Z as it sped past with Zorro on seat (Like Kato, Zorro's armour is similar to his regular outfit except it looks lighter than the others and he wears it along with his cape and sombrero). He performs some hit and run attacks against the alien troops, slashing them with his sword as they rode past before stopping to admire their handy work.
Zorro: Like shooting fish in a barrel.
Tornado Z: Como se relacionan esta situacion peces tiros? (How does shooting fish relate to this situation?)
Zorro: It's just an expression ... We really need to work on your metaphors.
Tornado Z: Eso no fue una metafora era un simil. (That wasn't a metaphor it was a simile)
Zorro: ... Callate! (Shut up!)
Suddenly Zorro's attention was directed towards a group of alien soldiers coming through the last open bulk door. In a flash, Zorro pressed a button on the bikes dashboard and a pair of miniature rockets fired from the front of the Tornado Z. Both rockets hit their targets, one landing and exploded right amongst the soldiers, blowing them all off their feet. While the other one strikes the bulk door just as it closed ... causing a huge dent in the side.
Zorro: Damn! Thought that would do the trick.
Rocketeer lands right beside him and points her arm in the direction of the door.
Rocketeer: Allow me.
She fires one of her rockets at the damaged door, only this time it was powerful enough to blow it to pieces. Rocketeer turned and smiled at Zorro.
Rocketeer: Leave it to the pros next time. Spiderman, we've got an entrance!
Spiderman just finished up with the last of his opponents. He looked round to see that everyone else was victorious in their fights.
Spiderman: All right guys ... huddle up.
The League members rush over to meet at the centre of the hanger.
Kato: Huddle up? What are we, a football team?
Phantom: Yeah like Spidey can catch a football.
Spiderman: Hey ... priorities man. Hornet you're up.
Hornet presses a button on his wrist which activates a hologram that projects from his hand. It showed an image of the ship they were on.
Green Hornet: Unfortunately I couldn't get too far into their systems ... too alien even for me, but I was able to get a schematic of this ships' interior.
The hologram now starts mapping out routes on the image with red lines.
Green Hornet: This is the quickest route to the bridge, this leads to the engine room and this should be the ships weapons system.
Spiderman: We all know what we have to do; Hornet and Kato, you two disable the ships weapons. Zorro, Rocketeer you two go for the engines...
Tornado Z: Oye! (Hey!)
Spiderman: That means you too. Phantom, Tiger and I will take the bridge.
Phantom: This will be fun.
Spiderman: If we all do our part; we can take this ship down.
White Tiger: I hate to do this web-head, you've overlooked something?
She pointed over to the wreaked Stark Jet, now smoking and on fire.
White Tiger: How are we supposed to get out of here?
Spiderman: I've got that covered.
White Tiger: ...?
He activates his com-link built into his helmet.
Phantom: Hangers clear, you can land now.
Just outside the hanger bay, a small drop ship "de-cloaks" and flies into the hanger, then landed at the centre of the battle. The drop ship was very dark and sleek design with two rotary wings on both sides. As it touched the ground, a hatch at the front opened and one by one, a platoon of human soldiers emerged from the ship. They were all wearing armour very similar to Phantoms and armed with sophisticated weapons. The soldiers then lined up in front of the League and their commanding officer approached Phantom, saluting him.
?: Phantom.
Phantom: Commander Guran ... you and your men stay here and protect this hanger. We need you take us home when we're done.
Commander Guran: What do we look like a taxi?
The Commander turns to address his men.
Commander Guran: Jungle Patrol ... secure this area, now move out!
The soldiers of the Jungle Patrol disperse and take up defensible position around the hanger.
Spiderman: I think that's our queue too ... let's go guys and good luck.
Spiderman and his team all split up and head towards their separate objectives. Each one of these heroes knows what's at stake and are willing to fight with every inch of their abilities, because if they are successful in taking control of the Aeacus, it'll be one step closer to saving America ... maybe even the world.
A/N: Hope this makes up for the delay... comment and review.
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