I flew straight up for the dragon the instant Mandarin gave the attack order. Peter/Bucky took on the ground demons right after this. I fired off multiple energy arrows into the dragon's hide as I shot up for it. The arrows, charged with explosive magical energy, went off upon making contact with the dragon's body. It shrieked at the sudden trauma put upon it. It then angled its head for me and shot fire; it did nothing. I fired three energy arrows into its open maw as I drew near of it. The arrows went inside the monster and exploded; the dragon's head went with it. The headless dragon body plummeted toward the ground fight. Peter/Bucky saw it and easily maneuvered away with time to spare. It crashed into the ground to crush enemy combatants beneath it.
I swooped down and fired off more energy arrows to obliterate more enemies; I fluctuated between regular and explosive energy arrows to do the job. Peter did his spider thing to great effect; Bucky's rounds were adequate against the lesser demons; he also had a machete/smaller blades with him for close quarter stuff. Personally I'd rather fight Mandarin as IP right now but sometimes WW was the only/best way to do it. Right tool right job...
A four legged monster the size of a horse went hard/fast for Bucky's back. He nailed a few in front of him with solid auto fire to kill them but he ran out of ammo in the process. It was nearly upon him when I put an energy arrow into its side; this only slowed it down. I couldn't risk an explosive one or it would hurt Bucky. It tried to slash him down but Bucky threw himself back in time to prevent getting ripped good. He reloaded as he fell and fired a full auto burst into the demon's head to kill it before it could get close enough to try again. I landed beside him and fired off an explosive arrow to destroy a new group of demons coming at us.
"Can you walk?" "Yeah," he said. He stood while I covered him. "Thanks for the save." "No problem." Peter wasn't far away, bashing away demons with godly ease. He used webs in various ways too but stuck mostly with his blurring fighting style that was unique to his power set. He dodged a monster's snapping teeth before hitting it with both fists to crush its neck. He looked over at us and then did a running super fancy flip to end up right beside us again. "That was not cool," he said. I kept my bow up; Bucky's gun was ready.
The demons were all there still, but they didn't rush at us. They now knew we were contenders. It was going to get better than that. "Surrender now Mandarin and end this madness!" I said. "I'm only giving you one chance." He appeared again before us. "You can't stop the communist advance wonder woman; none can." "You want to bet on that?" He cackled. "Communism appeals to the masses; it always has. Why would that stop now? You offer an alternative that isn't an alternative..."
"Honey - just shut this moron up okay?" Peter begged. I did one better; I readied another explosive arrow and fired it off at Mandarin at super speed. He'd anticipated this...but not fast enough. My arrow struck him right in the chest and blew; it wounded him really good. He was knocked to the ground and was stunned. I fired another for his head...he vanished again in time.
We readied for another round...but the demons pulled out. "What the hell?" said Peter. "You can say that again," said Bucky. "Did we win?" I kept my bow up for a moment before choosing to answer that in any way. "For the moment." I then lowered my bow; Bucky slowly did the same with his gun.
I truly hadn't expected Mandarin to give up so easily. I wasn't ready to leave just yet. We'd stick around and see what happened next. It made sense too; this was still the strongest demonic energy convergence point by far; the wonder plane had confirmed it. Now we'd see for sure. "Let's stick around and see what happens." Peter shrugged and pulled off his mask. "Why not? It's only world war if we fail right?"
