So, nice to see that I got as many reviews as I did last time. anyway, no my chapter was not short, it was just as long as the others, above 2000 words, though I guess that I did ramble a bit. Hey, to make it up to you, i'll try to make this longer. With the internet down and only a generator for power, I have nothing better to do.
You could in fact compare this to a Comic Annual. An extra length issue! One that I won't be doing again...for a while. I don't do big chapters like this because I feel as though I can't keep them consistent. I use cliffhangers to generate suspense and allow people to suggest ideas to make scenes flow. But, I had to get through a few points, had the time, and will smooth out some rough spots later.
As to Ultron...well he's dangerous but there's something else to take into consideration with this particular version of Ultron, at least initially.
What this is, you shall soon see,
As to the point of my story jumping around, the idea of it is to show three different teams: Superboys, Robins and Kid Flash's, with some Light scenes.
Also, I do plan on adding some lemon scenes soon, I just need to get the connection fixed up and I have to get the right time for it. Robot attacks are not the time for sex
But now to put some stuff in to show the Light isn't just standing by
Battle with the invading robots: Metropolis
The Light had a desire to push forth human evolution, to allow Earth to be a cosmic superpower. To do so, some chaos was needed, which is why battles between Light controlled heroes and villains were staged.
The battles would leave damage to the landscape, as even the injured pawns were healed by Elixir, the healing metahuman. This would spur advances in humanity as Earthquakes or Volcanic disasters would.
However, total extinction of humanity, or mass depopulation, by these 'Sentinel Amazos' would be detrimental to it.
And so the Light's pawns responded
"Accessing, Black Lightning" a blast of lightning from one of these robots smashed into Superman, who was blasted into the side of a skyscraper. Laser vision fired back, striking the head of the robot and dislodging it, causing it to explode and rain fire down to the ground.
Meanwhile, a new squadron of these mass duplicating robots (They really should not have sent bomb wielding Billy Numerous's to attack Quarac...) were flying to strike Metropolis, as a bald man made of a chaotically amount of colors stood on the nearest skyscraper top: Metamorpho.
The hero who could change his body into any solid, liquid or gas jumped, as his body turned into a caustic acidic gas. The gas flew into the robots head on, dissolving them.
"Accessing, Red Tornado" some of the last in the attack wave formed into a living storm barrier, blowing away the metal destroying acid.
However, they still failed to make it, as a flaming missile shot into the last robots, reforming into a android made of fire.
For while Professor Ivo failed to completely redo T.O Morrow's work, he was missing something they had no record of that made the robots, he was able to make his own.
The Human Torch*, first in line of new Red Tornado esc robots, by Professor Ivo.
Moscow
"Accessing, Metamorpho" the Amazo Sentinels were all linked to a central power core, transferring their collective absorbed power data to each and every Amazo robot.
Meaning that even if this particular robot has not encountered Metamorpho before now, it could still shoot a caustic acid at the man made of metal as he charged.
However, this metal destroying acid failed to hit Metahuman, and descendant of Vandal Savage, known as Colossus by the light, elder brother of Magik, due to the Martian Manhunter, who rose up behind the Russian meta human and used his telekinetic power to reflect it back, melting the robot as a dozen each surrounded the two.
"Accessing, Human Torch" the robots all suddenly burst into flames all around them, causing the Martian to collapse from the intense heat.
This failed to bother Colossus, and he smashed into two of the robots at once with outstretched metal arms in response as Magik launched herself at them as well, her sword swinging as its powerful Magic hummed.
Battles like this were going on all over the world, between the Light and the Sentinels...Gray vs Black mortality.
T.O Morrow's lair, Yellowstone
"Unauthorized human detected"
A mechanical voice beeped in warning as Ultron turned his optics away from his energy gathering from the meta humans eyes.
"Oh man" Ben weakly muttered as the Robot began approaching him...
Ben cowered, expecting laser blasts or something to be fired at him, but the robot was only moving at the average speed of a human.
Even running, Ben was still quick and managed to avoid the Robot and his much less fluid, inorganic movements.
"Hey tin head, I thought that Robots moved faster and were stronger with humans. Or at least had lasers. Your lame!"
"Ultron unit 3 has a body of galvanized steel, and the Ultron series of Robots were meant as the servants of Professor T.O Morrow. I lack these, lasers and super human skills you mean to suggest I would have, or shall once the powers of the device are unlocked"
The green light that still filled the room was finally dimmed enough for Ben to see through it, revealing some sort of black wrist gauntlet, with a green and black hourglass like symbol in the center.
"The device was found by my creator and used to give power to his original creations. From it he copied the ability to create gusts, the power to alter the earth ,the power to launch tidal waves and the power to launch powerful flames. He never knew what the devices's origins were, he suspected it was the legendary H dial. My superior robotic mind, however, suspects it of alien origin. No matter its origins, I shall use the energy drawn from the child Scott Summers to unlock it, as the volcanic energies that the creator had once himself harnessed have been diverted and diluted by Superman and one of the Green Lanterns after their covert team had defeated Red Volcanco, who had caused the volcano to become more active and a danger to humanity..."
"Do all villains have to explain their plans like big hams?"
Ultron gave Ben a look that somehow felt like a scowl despite his unchanging face, for he was still trying to remove the Ham program that T.O Morrow gave him to entertain the old meat sack "For comparing my robotic greatness to human food products...your death will be more painful"
"Device hacked, power duplication beginning" the computerized voice that had given Ben away announced as the device began to glow in a pattern of blinking greens, the cables connected to it humming with power, and the poor laser kid screaming in agony, as Ultron began to glow.
"Yes...it would seem as though that I will finally get my dues, with more powers than any of my siblings" Ben could have briefly sure he saw the dial on the device change into something that looked like a manta ray as Ultron's eyes glowed.
"Download complete: laser based blast attack. Systems being upgraded for flight capabilities" Ultron computerized, and fired a series of laser blasts that got a little too close to Ben as he ran.
"Didn't you complain about my lack of lasers, and how that was 'uncool, flight at 14.673%'" Ultron roboticly deadpanned as he fired lasers at will, scorching the wall as Ben continued to barely avoid them "It would seem as though I will have to improve my targeting programs, flight at 17.244%"
More shapes began to flicker on the device, as Ultron kept gathering more powers, blasting lasers all the time.
"Download complete: enhanced sensory abilities, Download complete: technopathy, Download complete: strength with maximum level at 20 tons, approximately fifth of full blooded Kryptonian power levels at know records, Download complete: bodily endurance enhanced by the fifth factor...Download complete: ability for bodily unit to survive up to the fifth millennial after construction without decomposition..."
"Oh shut it you overgrown toaster!" Ben, who had managed to avoid the lasers shots all the way to where the device was being hijacked, more random shapes flickering on the device, and yanked the thing out.
However, the thing oddly then jumped and stuck itself to Ben's wrist...("YAHHH! WHAT THE HELL!")
"Data download incomplete"
"HOW DARE YOU, YOU MEATSACK!" Ultron, who had finally fully downloaded and compensated for flight, glared down as his eyes glowed "Prepared to be terminated, meat sack"
The watch like device then partially jacked up its dial, as if sensing the danger its user was in, and Ben, desperate, smashed down on it, as the same flash of green light filled the area, just as the laser Ultron fired blasted him...
As a flaming humanoid flew out of the blast zone, crashing into the wall from the laser hit, stunned but alive.
Ben was gone, in his place was an adult sized humanoid creature made of magma. His head was a raging fire, as was the inner areas of his body in between the magma that made him up.
"What the...I'M ON FIRE! SOMEONE GET THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER!"
"I will oblige with your demise, most likely alien humanoid" Ultron's laser fired again, just as Ben, quite by accident, fired a fire blast.
The two attacks collided, but the fire was more powerful and smashed through the laser and into Ultron, who was knocked to the ground, his body steaming.
"Systems overheating! Begin cooling air" the slight air conditioning in the room kicked into overdrive.
Ben's now fiery eye sockets widened in alarm "Uh oh...better get out of this crazy place" he noticed the laser eye guy..."Can't leave him here in this hell" Running over to him, Ben placed his now on fire fingers on the metal bars restraining this 'Scott Summers', melting the metal away as the kid stretched out, his eyes no longer shooting that laser.
"Ow...my head" he was dressed in a suit that, based on the fact Ben was close to him and he was not sweating, was probably heatproof, meant to deal with the overheating from the eye laser. A red tinted visor covered his eyes.
Which he still could see through as he gave Ben a alarmed look. "Your on fire!...What are you"
"I know, not sure what...and lets get out of here before that robot gets back online" Scott, who had been used as power source by that robot, could not agree fast enough, as he grasped onto Ben's neck like a injured person being carried out of a fire.
Though in this case, he was being shot to safety by a living, fiery missile.
"Ultron 3's body had not compensated for overheated systems. Compensate when building Ultron 4" the robot muttered to himself as they fled.
Kentucky Mutagen plant
A final vaulted door stood before the trio, who had been spending the crisis that was plaguing the world breaking into it for that girl that was apparently trapped here.
Wally had also used his hacking skills to figure out exactly what was factory was used for, and grew only angrier as he read it.
The Light was using people like guinea pigs? As weapons? AS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT FUEL!? And not just people who did so on their own, like Captain Cold or Mammoth, or grown for it like Superboy or Roy, but innocent people too? People who had no idea that The Light even existed!? To see them do it was one thing, but for them to write the entire thing off as a 'necessary evolutionary step'...they didn't deserve to live.
"Okay girls" Wally gave both Artemis and Ravager a look. They both nodded in acknowledgment as he took each of their hands, and ran at the door, faster and faster...
As his molecules shifted and reformed on the other side of the heavily vaulted door.
The girl was lying on the ground, her body covered in only the sheerest remains of clothing, as if she shed it like a bug does its husk.
She had a resemblance to her brother who had died outside, with blondish hair and a certain southern charm to the whole appearance. Breast size wise, she was larger than Ravager (Though few things were smaller...) and smaller than Artemis.
"Lets get her out of here..." with the girl on his back, trying to ignore the feeling of her breasts on his back, Kid again sped them on throug the walls and as far away from Kentucky as they could get...
"So, if she's naked, does that mean we get to have a foursome?"
"ROSE!" Artemis blushed.
With perverted banter
Pepsi Center
It had been originally the plan of Lex Luthor and Brain to have the Mutagen go off under the Pepsi center to attempt to mutate the seven science fair finalists in the Light created Science Fair. This was mainly due to Lex wanting more intelligence to bounce around innovations and ideas.
They needed fresh outlooks, which was one of many reasons Luthor didn't accomplish the increase in brain power by cloning himself for a huge council of Lex Luthors.
The plan had still went off...but it wasn't due to them pressing a button, but a laser blast from the Amazo Sentinel attacks, all the while engulfed in concentrated mutagen gas like a purple fog.
"Meta-humans detected" the robots, who had torn a hole through the hockey arena's top and were now swarming in like a swarm of killer bees, mono toned "Accessing..."
"Access the scrap heap you overgrown R.O.B's!" a blast of electricity flew from below, smashing the robots head good and toasted.
The blast came from a African American kid with dreadlocks, who happened to be a mediocre Super Smash Brothers Brawl player.
"Never thought I'd be happy about the random mutation thing...but still glad its just shooting lightning" what if he had turned into a Hulk or something? One was all the world needed.
"Metahuman detected, powers being decoded and weaponized..."
"DECODE THIS CHROME DOMES!" Dakota's very own comic nerd and super genius extraordinaire and now newly mutated super human, fired another blast of lightning.
"Accessing Wonder Woman" the lead robot managed to endure a nice blast of Virgil's power, before a very light blue electricity thundered in their hands and fired at our newly powered sparky hero.
It was then he found out another power beyond that of shooting electricity, absorbing it. Still, he got blasted back and could have sworn he smelled ozone.
"Hold the phone, since when did Wonder Woman shoot lightning?...or did I just miss one of you shouting..."
"Accessing Black Lightning" darker lightning was now being generated and fired at him.
"OWWW! NOT BETTER!" but this electricity failed to have that ozone smell...how odd.
"Accessing, arms" this time it was just to be straight lasers, something he doubted that he could absorb like these lightning strikes...
When a burst of webbing blocked up the blasters. With a boom, the robots blew up from backed up explosives.
Turning around, he spotted a brown haired, white kid, whose hands seemed to have launched the webbing, if his odd looking at them was anything to go by.
"Peter Parker...the Spider experiment guy?" our shock friendly guy said in his city accent
"Virgil Hawkins, the electric guy?" so said the other guy, Peter Parker, in a Queens accent.
How ironic they seemed to have powers based on their experiments. Wonder what happened to the ant guy or the plastic man?
Er...better off not knowing. That was when they heard a groaning sound.
"Mom..."
"There, underneath that fallen...whatever team that is" there was a odd lump underneath a little banner with the symbol of a mountain and a stream of snow.
"The Colorado Avalanche, a NHL hockey team...my Uncle Ben hated them..."
"Hockey...they have that in the U.S?" Virgil asked as he used a band of electricity to remove the sheet...to a very odd sight.
"Mom..." the odd green boy who was under the banner whimpered. He looked about 9 or 10, dressed nicely in a tux that his mother most likely set up with great care... albeit the only deviation of normal here was the kid's green skin.
He blinked at them with dark eyes "Where's mom..." he was just a poor lost kid, if green.
"Erm..." how to explain they had no idea where his mother was, or if she was still alive...
Paradise Island
BOOM
An explosion coursed across the island of the amazons, ceasing Donna and Dick's little sparing match and causing the queen to burst up in shock.
Zatanna and Barbara were not far behind her, Donna jumping up to her mother holding Dick in an inversion of the bride carry style, as lightning sparked, the winds howled...the heavens themselves raged
Hippolyta had a, dreary if determined look "So, it has finally come out" she said to herself
"What has come out, Mother?" Donna asked in both a formal and a scared tone, still having Dick in her arms...and ignoring the looks Zatanna and Barbara were giving her. ("Please put me down")
Donna ignored that. ('I need a growth spurt'). Now, while Robin could normally escape the grip of a super strong human...it would require severely hurting the girl.
"Donna...take them to the Invisible Jet and go" Hippolyta said simply.
"Invisible jet?" Zatanna frowned. That seemed...unnecessary. They could fly, why the hell would they need a plane...a visible or invisible one?
For that matter, where did they get a jet?
"Mother...what is going on?"
"...My duty as your queen and your mother...NOW GO!" Hippolyta pointed to emphasize the order.
Barbara and Zatanna were going to argue, but Donna, who was a bit too well trained by the strict Amazon society to listening to their leader...
"LET ME GO!" Donna had, while still having Robin over her like a sling ("Erm, my legs just fell asleep and I am not feeling the aster"), grabbed the backs of both Zatanna and Barbara's outfits and flew away.
"AH! MY OUTFIT JUST TORE..."
Hippolyta sighed "Now, to deal with Hera..." she really should have written out that will.
Back to the site of the 2008 Democratic National Convention
"Metahumans detected, initiating..." more Amazo sentinels had appeared before they could complete their comment, before a laser blast shot into them, destroying another round as a kid in a black bodysuit and a red, glowing visor leapt down from above, with a little kid in a white and black T shirt with cargos, green eyes, brown hair who appeared Green Boy's age, with a strange looking watch with a beeping red alarm on it.
"Warning, genetically mutating gas in the vicinity. Approximating protection" the watch beeped as the two landed.
"It talks?" the other, older boy asked.
"IF I KNEW HOW TO WORK IT, I'D STILL BE HEATBLAST!"
"Heatblast?" the other guy deadpanned.
"Its a cool name! All Superheroes have them...Cyclops"
"My name is Scott Summers" he said tersely. "I will not call myself something as ridiculous..."
"Strike the one eyed human" more robots were flooding in.
"Damn it, FINE! LET IT BE THAT WAY!" The now christened Cyclops yelled as he pressed his finger to the side of his right temple, as the eye laser fired, striking the robots full blast.
However, even as several were taken out, more kept flooding in
"Destroy the humans" one robot in particular had its weapon set on Beast Boy...
"STAY AWAY FROM HIM!" a voice yelled as something shot through the robot, short circuiting it as a red, circular ship flew down right before them.
"Megan..." the green boy said weakly as the ship began to open a hole on the side, revealing a green skinned, attractive auburn haired girl.
"Get in" was all she said. They didn't argue.
As they left, the Light entered...as others there began to stir.
Meanwhile, Sentinel HQ
"The objectives were reached: prepare to move to take new base of operations, after bleaching"
*Their are two Human Torches. The first was a robotic android made before Captain America was around, I think he went by the name of Jim Hammond or something (I am typing while the internet is down so I can't be ultra certain on my facts. I can't even get to my older chapters, so I have to be really careful what I type.)
He made a Cameo in Captain America, the First Avenger if I recall.
This Human Torch created the Marvel Universe when he got into a fight with the much better known, but even then still not mainstream anti hero, Namor the Sub Mariner.
The second one, Johnny Storm...well you did catch Reed Richard's earlier cameo right? That means its possible that he could appear, but as I am not a huge FF fan...Reed's fate will hint at where he might end up. In fact, generally the characters who I personally like will be against the characters I don't like all that much.
Though how to fit Cap in...
Spiderman on occasion can create webs organically
Now do expect that somehow, the members of the Justice League I like will somehow be on the side of good. The ones I don't like all that well, well you saw what Hulk did to Doctor Fate and Red Arrow, right?