Marvelous Angel

Chapter: Thirty-Five

Ironic Angel


AN: This will be set during the events of Iron Man 3, but certain changes like Tony not having PTSD, unlike he had in the film


"Thirty-nine hours ago, the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait was attacked. I...I...I did that. A quaint military church filled with wives and children, of course. The soldiers were out on maneuvers. The braves were away. President Ellis, you continue to resist my attempts to educate you, sir. And now, you've missed me again. You know who I am, you don't know where I am, and you'll never see me comingThirty-nine hours ago, the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait was attacked. I...I...I did that."

"A quaint military church filled with wives and children, of course. The soldiers were out on maneuvers. The braves were away. President Ellis, you continue to resist my attempts to educate you, sir. And now, you've missed me again. You know who I am, you don't know where I am, and you'll never see me coming."

"Not even humanities savor Alita the battle angel"

The image of the one called the Mandarin appeared on all television broadcasts around the world. In the meantime it has been seven months since the alien invasion of New York City, the Avengers and Mighty Avengers came together to put a stop to the invasion in which they did.

Alita informed the public that both teams came be trusted and the general public trusted her word. After the events on the invasion the heroes went their separate ways.

Carol couldn't stay long, so Captain Marvel headed back into deep space. Nanor and T'Challa went back to their kingdoms. The ancient one had magical issues to deal with, Spiderman had a family to support as Mary Jane had a second child named May Parker. Elektra simply vanishes after the battle, but was spotted in Hells kitchen.

Thor is busy in Asgard, Steve Rogers is exploring the world a bit and connect with old friends that are still alive. Bruce is hanging around Stark Tower. Natasha is still working for Shield and going on solo missions. Clint Barton Hawkeye is with his family.

What is Alita doing?, It is simple she is helping Shield and other intelligence agencies solve this problem of the Mandarin. Even she can't be everywhere at once.


The Triskelion, shield headquarters Washington DC

"Even Shield is baffled at the lack of evidence," said Fury "I don't know how he does it, but he did it."

"I've seen the videos of the Mandarin's propaganda campaign." Noticed Alita "And I believe I have seen his face before."

"Where" asked Fury?

"A pilot for some TV series," Alita replied "Uh...Caged Heat, it was and I do recall Howard Stark put some money into it."

"Did it go through," said Fury

"No, CBS," shook the head of Alita "They didn't bother picking it up. A English actor named Trevor Slattery was going to have the lead role."

"I never knew you watch television." Muttered Fury

"All those channels are waste of time watching, well maybe for the documentary on history." Said Alita

Fury went over to the computer console to look up the name Trevor Slattery. He found a great deal of information on the man and his family. Only then Fury does a facial recognition of both the Mandarin and Trevor Slattery, it wasn't long before the computer found a match and both people are one of the same.

"Damn, they are the same person." Said Fury

"An actor posing as someone he is not supposed to be." Said Alita "A puppet is more like it."

"Speaking of puppets, I overheard your conversation with Loki." Said Fury "You seemed to know who was pulling his strings."

"More like was watching." Growled Alita "I still don't know how he got to Loki."

"He, who" asked Fury?

"An enemy of mine from a far away place." Alita spoke mysteriously "A man of great evil, who always watches in his own way."

Before Nick Fury could speak, he is listening to someone in his ear and then he switched over to a news broadcast already in progress. By the looks of it the Chinese theatre was destroyed. by a blast of some sort. Alita got the quick evidence from Tony's A.I Jarvis by form of email.

"The heat from the blast was in excess of 3000 degrees Celsius. Any subjects within 12.5 yards were vaporized instantly."
"No bomb parts found in a three mile radius of the Chinese Theatre"

Then the television broadcasts are interrupted by the Mandarin.

"My disciples just destroyed another cheap American knock-off: the Chinese Theatre. Mr. President, I know this must be getting frustrating, but this season of terror is drawing to a close. And don't worry, the big one is coming"

The television broadcast has ended which Alita and Fury stared at each other sharply for a moment, this situation is even worse.

"I'll let the other agencies know the Mandarin's name is Trevor Slattery." said Fury "Alita we will talk later."

"I got to leave as well." Spoke Alita "I will have a chat with Tony"

Later on

Tony Stark and James Rhodes managed to sneak into the loading docks where Matthew Ellis was strung up inside the Iron Patriot armor over the adjacent oil tanker, the Norco. Without their armor, they were left with the prospect of facing Aldrich Killian's men and Extremis soldiers, armed only with their wits and a pair of 9mm pistols.

Starks current armor had been disabled, of course Alita had no idea of where he is right now. Trevor Slattery had been arrested by Shield. Pepper was kidnapped like a damsel in distress, of course Alita had trained Tony to defend himself without the armor by using the basic form of martial arts she called Panzer Kunst.

They were soon discovered, and found themselves facing a force of several dozen Extremis Soldiers. Those odds were evened shortly thereafter when Stark's Iron Legion arrived in force and engaged the soldiers, after he used the House Party Protocol. When the structure became unstable due to one of the Iron Legion crashing into it, Stark ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to have Igor to stabilize it.

Stark donned one of them himself and flew through the fray to find Pepper Potts. The Extremis-enhanced Killian blocked Stark's rescue attempt, but was fended off long enough for Stark to make a second try. Stark was unsuccessful however, and watched in horror as Pepper fell and was engulfed in flame.

Or so he thought. Leaping out of the flames is Alita, which she held Pepper Potts in her arms and landed safely right besides Tony. He was scared to think what would happen if Pepper had died.

"I'll handle him." Said Alita

"Oh, what makes you think you can handle the powers I have." Mused Killian "I dreamt of this day taking on humanities so-called savior."

"Spoken like a complete fool," Alita spoke to him.

Charging forward Killian tried to overwhelm Alita with his enhanced speed. Only for her to counter by dodging his rapid punches and elbowed the man in the stomach, which he gasped in pain and is sent flying hard to the deck.

Slowly getting up, Killian can feel is body slowly being healed. However Alita point up above his head and a shadow loomed over Killian. A shipping container slammed hard upon his body with a bone crunching sound.

Killian roared like the hulk and crashed from out of the shipping container. He attacked Alita, but she proved too fast for him and fought tight back with a technique known as Plasma Bissen or plasma bite.

Alita generates split-second plasma jets from her fingertips to create undetectable cuts and gouges in the opponent's body. Usually concealed as a punch, swipe, or parry. She is virtually ripping Killian apart, until he blew fire from his mouth and Alita ducked, then flipping upward she landed a devestating which her foot connected with Killian's head.

His head was kicked clean off of his shoulders and rolled along the floor. Tony's Iron legion blasted away Killian's body to bits and Alita sliced up the head of Krillain with the blade of Damascus into little bits and pieces.

'Well, we are done here." Said Alita "Let's get out of here."

"Agreed," spoke all three of them


Iron City: Underbelly

"So, this is where the mighty Zapan has gone to," spoke a voice from the shadows "Hiding like a rat, to vane to show your face in front of the ladies."

"Yeah," growled Zapan "Got a problem with that."

"The problem is just yours and not mine." Chuckled the voice "A ruined reputation thanks in full to a little angel."

"Alita," snarled Zapan "She ruined my face, stole my sword and kicked out of the hunter warrior guild."

"The blade of Damascus is not meant for a simple mind like you." Said the voice "

"Who are you." Yelled Zapan?

A man stepped out of the shadows, which Zapan dropped to one knee and bowed respectfully which the man's eyes glowed blue.

"Nova." Gasped Zapan

"Rise," spoke Nova "I have a task for you and it's simple to find where my little angel is hiding."

"I will get my revenge and kill her." Sneered Zapan

"Finding her first is your main task, but a secondary task is suitable for you." Said Nova "I want to learn more of the Tesseract, who else seeks it and why."

"The Tesseract." Spoke a confused Zapan

"It would take too long to explain." Sighed Nova "It was the very same energy that brought the one called Loki back to the point in time to the 2010's" he continued "I am able to duplicate it's energy, but I require a test subject and this is where you come in my friend."

"The year 2012 is when the event happened according to history files." Said Zapan

"Yes, I am aware of it." Said Nova "And shortly you will be prepared to go."

"Prepared how," asked Zapan?

Out of no where several cyborgs jump out from the shadows and pin Zapan down upon the ground.

"Prepared in a way I can personally watch through you." Said Nova "But first, your face is needed to be removed, so my eye can watch through you."

A drill comes towards Zapan's face and he howls in fear, while Nova seeing through his puppet sneers sinisterly. Soon, soon he will know everything. If Zapan failed him, which eventually he will. Nova will consider Zapan expendable like the rest of his puppets.


To Be Continued?