Chapter 18.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
Before we continue, the second Black Widow trailer is set to drop tomorrow. And the final two parts of Crisis on Infinite Earths airs on Tuesday. I hope you are all as excited about them as I am.
Now moving on…
This chapter is one I am sure you've been looking forward to; Team Monitor's first confrontation with Annihlus.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed or favirouted this fic so far.
On with the show.
Jason's POV.
Following the whole incident when we were attempting to break Logan and Nuke out of prison, that was the point where everything went to hell.
Some insectoid guy named Annihlus apparently thought that it was a fantastic idea to attack NOW.
I mean come on people.
Before I could tell everyone else what was going on, a missile streaked towards the prison.
It exploded and Jenna, Conrad, Mack, Logan, Nuke and Rory were thrown off there feet from the blast.
The ground crumbled and we all fell down.
Given the fact that I was a few metres away from the others, I fell separately.
I landed on my leg which caused pain to shoot up it.
I groaned and climbed to my feet.
I needed to get the hell out of here now.
I began moving quickly, attempting to find a way out of here.
Some debris was hanging and I used that to climb up.
I rolled to my feet and stood up, my leg now healed.
I heard footsteps and Jenna, Logan, Mack, Conrad, Nuke and Rory came running in.
"Oh thank god, I thought we were goners" Conrad panted.
I almost agreed with him.
Somehow though, I doubted Novu or whichever god controlled this Multiverse was done with us yet.
The walls crumbled and dozens of insect type aliens burst in.
They were all at least seven feet tall.
Logan turned to face them and 3 metal claws erupted from his knuckles.
With a roar, he leapt at the aliens.
Okay.
Novu definitely didn't tell me about this.
I was going to have a chat with him about giving me the full information next time.
Jenna pulled an explosive arrow out of her quiver and shot it at an alien.
It lodged itself in its chest, where it exploded, scattering bloody alien bits everywhere.
Pretty gross right?
Rory grabbed two aliens with his rags and repeatedly slammed them over and over until they were dazed.
Mack took out a shotgun and shot an alien point blank in the face, sending it flying back.
Nuke kicked an alien in its private spot, sending it flying into a wall.
I pulled out my sword and cut down an alien that tried to sneak up on me.
Conrad punched an alien with his Dragon Lightning, which killed the alien instantly.
"Fall back!" I shouted.
The rest of the team turned to follow me.
We ran throughout a series of hallways, trying to avoid any aliens.
As we entered a large chamber, the large alien named Annihlus broke through the roof and landed in front of us.
"Not so fast little humans. It is time to die" Annihlus said in a deep, scary voice.
Nuke walked past us and strode calmly to Annihlus.
"Fuck you asshole" Nuke said without any emotion in his voice.
Annihlus just smirked and waited with his arms wide open.
Nuke punched him extremely hard, which sent Annihlus flying back and crashing into the chamber behind him.
My jaw dropped.
How strong was this guy?
Nuke turned to face us.
"What are you?" I asked.
"I am machine" Nuke replied.
And there, everything fell into place; Nuke sounding like a robot, his super strength.
"Let's go, he wont stay down for long" Nuke said.
We turned and bolted towards where our ship was docked.
"Nico, Takio, get to the ship now, we need to get the hell out of here" I said through the comm link.
"Copy that" Takio responded.
More aliens appeared but Jenna and Mack took them down with there long range weapons.
An alien went flying and Takio and Nico ran through a chamber to join us.
"Good to see you guys" I said.
"You too" Nico replied.
We continued running before we found what was obviously the bridge of the prison.
Annihlus crashed and landed in front of us once again.
"Not this guy again" Jenna groaned.
"I'll handle him" Conrad said with a smirk and charged up his Dragon Lightning.
He ran at Annihlus at full speed.
Annihlus took out a gun of some sort and fired a beam of energy at Conrad.
What happened next chilled me to the bone.
Conrad screamed in pain.
Conrad had explained to me that he was invulnerable to most forms of physical damage.
But this something to be concerned about.
Annihlus grabbed Conrad and punched him out.
Takio tapped his watch and the Halo armour formed around him in seconds.
He then flew straight at Annihlus firing his rockets and repulsers.
Annihlus caught Takio by the throat and punched him so hard; his entire helmet shattered.
He then punched Takio out.
Shit.
This guy was way too powerful to be defeated.
"Fall back now, the fight is lost" I said.
We couldn't beat Annihlus at this point.
Nuke only beat him because Annihlus underestimated him.
Clearly he was a fast learner.
We ran towards the ship.
"Go, go, go!" I shouted.
"Where are Conrad and Takio?" Helena asked.
"They were captured by a big alien dude named Annihlus. We need to move!" I yelled.
"You mean you left them behind?" Tripp asked.
"Annihlus is way too powerful to be defeated at this point. We will come back for them" I said.
Tripp briefly looked worried before firing up the ship.
We began detaching from the prison.
The engines activated and we flew away from the prison as fast as possible.
The green space around us opened up to reveal regular space and we shot through.
Unfortunately the twenty ships were following us.
It soon became a dog fight.
We flew high and low, dodging the gun blasts.
Our goal was self preservation so we were concentrating more on not dying but every now and then we fired our ship's guns and took down one or two.
But the ships were relentless on us.
One ship got in a lucky shot and took out our weapon systems.
"Shit" I cursed.
This was bad.
"We need to head to Earth, go through hyperspace!" I shouted.
We entered hyperspace but several ships followed us.
As we flew, I recognized Jupiter as we entered the Solar System.
A gun blast hit us in the engines and we lost control.
We spiralled towards Earth at rapid speed.
We entered the atmosphere and began accelerating even more than we were originally.
I recognized Malibu as we entered a forest outside it.
"PREPARE FOR A REALLY BAD LANDING!" I shouted.
We slammed into the ground outside Malibu and went skidding for about another hundred metres.
I could hear Nico swearing and cursing behind me.
Eventually we stopped skidding.
We waited for a few seconds, trying to catch our breath.
"Well that could have been worse" Morris said.
At that very moment, one of the wings broke off.
I sent a glare in his direction.
"Okay I take that back, it just got worse" Morris said.
We soon exited the ship to survey the damage.
It was very bad.
"All right then, now what's the plan?" Rory asked.
"My dad has a mansion here. We can go there to freshen up and then we can plan our next move" I said.
Thankfully though, Natasha had informed me that my dad had moved out of the mansion and was staying in Avengers Tower in New York City, with the mansion only being a vacation resort.
"Nico can you get us there?" I asked him.
"Sure, what does it look like?" he asked me.
"It has the words STARK in giant letters on the side" I said.
He grabbed me and we vanished.
We reappeared in the mansion.
I knew that my dad's A.I JARVIS would be here.
Thankfully, Jenna had given me tech that could deactivate any security system in the Multiverse.
Soon enough, JARVIS was deactivated.
"I'll be back" Nico told me and teleported again.
He returned with Helena and Mack.
"Well I certainly get used to this. Why don't we forget the mission and take a few days off here?" Mack said with a smirk.
Helena gave him a glare.
"Yeah that would be cool Mack. Somehow I don't think that's going to be happening" I told him.
While Helena and Mack were exploring the mansion, Nico retuned with Tripp and Morris.
Then Jenna and Logan.
And finally Nuke.
"Damn dude, this is one hell of a mansion" Morris said, thoroughly impressed.
I smiled.
"Yeah it is. I had a lot of fun here when I was younger" I said.
"Okay guys, freshen up, and then we'll figure out our next move" I said.
Boy but I was exhausted.
But now was the time when we needed to kick ass.
No one's POV.
Distant Region of Space.
Conrad was in a sphere of some sort.
And he was attached to various tubes.
Takio was in a separate sphere, still out.
Conrad had found himself becoming weaker and weaker by the moment.
The doors opened and Annihlus entered.
"What did you do to me?" Conrad snarled.
Annihlus chuckled.
"I am draining your life force. Once I absorb it, I will be the most powerful person in the Multiverse" he said.
"And what about Takio?" Conrad asked, pointing to him.
"I will modify his tech to create an indestructible armour. Now enjoy dying" Annihlus said before leaving the room.
Conrad could only hope that the others rescued him and Takio in time.
And Chapter 18 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
So Conrad and Takio have been captured by Annihlus.
Annihlus is draining Conrad of his life force in order to empower himself.
And he will modify Takio's armour in order to create his own exoskeleton.
And now Team Monitor has arrived at the Malibu mansion.
Next chapter will be a bridge chapter, bridging this chapter and Chapter 20 together.
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