Author Note: If anyone cares I recently bought Cyberpunk 2077, I hope the game gives me some ideas for augmentations and other tech upgrades.
Answers to comments
Guest: I am shot straight to the heart with happiness. Someone considers that I have done a great job with the elements of BlazBlue and Hellsing.
Very nice idea with the use of Nanites as a method of camouflage.
Yes, Iron-Star can recreate the Scarecrow toxin if he wants to, but he doesn't want to create an army of crazy Parahuman terrified for life.
But he can write the formula and another evil Thinker can use it to mess with it.
Silber D. Wolf: Glad to see you enjoyed my fight.
Zyvrexx: I too agree that Wanda is incredibly powerful with big problems with her father. One thing that happens quite often to heroes, Ironman is an example of unresolved issues with dad.
A good question, the spider bite will increase Iron-Star's strength to 4/5 tons or his stamina. The BlazBlue already guarantees a quest for stamina and an endless supply of magic, so I believe an increase in physical power, largely focused on senses / reflexes / speed, is the best option.
I too have long thought about how Dragon will react when he meets Armsmaster in GGO.
I imagine Big Time Rush doing the debut show in the background as a beautiful Dragon dressed in a green skintight costume meets an Amestrian dressed in a blue High-tech agent armor. With Iron-Star watching from afar as they come together in a virtual world.
Turning Dragon into a kind of Vision (synthezoid) using the resources of the Star-Forge seems like a great idea to me.
Guest: I think Zach and Cody's Arwin is a low level Tinker, maybe I can make him a secondary character, some kind of adult fanboy messing around.
Zyvrexx: That's why I chose this power if it is controlled it can become a deadly weapon. I thought I was doing a scene here Iron-Star fights Lung and to defeat him he uses the Thermokinesis to create the requirements to execute his version of Sasuke's Kirin.
RedBurningDragon: The fight scenes always put pressure on me, they never come out as good as you imagine. I feel relieved and happy to see you enjoy my fights.
Uber is not dead, we can say that in the confusion he was dumped by someone and used as a laboratory guinea pig.
But to everyone else he is dead, which will push Leet to grow up and become a serious threat.
Trpstar: I understand that Lisa from the Canon is asexual, but we are in a Fanfiction where Lisa is Bi-curious.
I also want to bring Nero and Othinus, but it takes time and the right circumstances to do so. I promise you it will happen soon, very soon.
Let's say the Spider-Totem wedding gift may have some unique effects on the space-time continuum.
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Chapter 21: Invasion of Spiders and Ants.
POV Narrator
In an underground bunker full of mercenaries, inside an office designed specifically to discuss with "private consultants / contractors" is Coil, would-be Crime Lord, likely pedophile obsessed with blonde girls with Thinker powers.
Coil is currently going through a very bad moment, in the last hour every time he used his power he received a very powerful headache that got worse to the point of causing him to bleed from his nose and eyes.
"That damn Iron-Star is his fault, he must have a Thinker or Trump power interfering with my power." Coil muttered while taking some pilote to soothe the pains.
After receiving information from Tattletale that Iron-Star is at Parian's shop, unarmed and with various advanced technologies installed in the warehouse.
Coil used his power to "split" the Timeline.
Path A, do nothing. In that Timeline you saw live on the Uber and Leet website as the two Gamer idiots were beaten with a few punches by Iron-Star, then tied like salami by Parian. Finally the PRT arrived and the show ended with Iron-Star taking Leet's armored car as spoils of war.
A boring and frivolous show that showed nothing new except the stupidity of Uber and Leet to come armed with simple guns to take on Iron-Star and Parian.
Route B, use one of his agents to "suggest" Kaiser to send a group of his subordinates to visit the unarmed Iron-Star.
This show was much more interesting to Coil's tastes.
Shortly after the entry of Uber and Leet, members of Empire 88 appeared, a fight between 10 Cape in store was a disaster worth filming.
Especially since a new element was introduced, a Case-53, a cat woman with metallic arms and legs, high-level Brute. This cat woman assists Iron-Star in the fight until things escalate with the arrival of Circus.
The fire in a clothes shop put together with two women growing in size led to a bad fire and a building collapsing in on itself.
Parian was partially crushed by the rubble as well as being covered in burns.
The poor seamstress was killed by X-Ray while begging for the help of Iron-Star who fought Menja, Fenja and Circus.
"Stop playing, stop holding back, time to show you the Black Beast!" She yelled Iron-Star of Route B, ripping off her jacket sleeves, revealing a monstrous obsidian-colored right arm and a tattooed left arm.
Iron-Star began a savage massacre of the present supervillains, once he beheaded Circus, took Parian's corpse, screaming to the sky and crying in vengeance on Kaiser.
After the demon he ran like a mad dog to the Medhall Corporation, starting to make his way to the top of the skyscraper, leaving a trail of charred corpses.
The mad hero fought alone against Kaiser, Purity and the rest of Empire 88. He was eventually overwhelmed and killed, but not before ending the lives of Kaiser, Purity and many others.
This was the Timeline that Coil chose.
"Such a tragedy worthy of Greek legends. The new hero and my business rival killed each other, leaving only me and Lung in business. But it didn't happen, how?" Coil muttered, in an angry tone, a so perfect scenario for him, but it didn't happen.
Coil looking once again on the computer how things actually unfolded.
Uber and Leet were welcomed by a kind of realistic hologram, followed by a punch in the face for Leet and a venomous snake for Uber.
After the fight between Iron-Star and Empire 88 took place on the street not inside Parian's shop.
Iron-Star displayed holograms, terrain manipulation, poison arrows and a fantasy sword that stretches in the battle.
X-Ray and Fenja were shot down by Iron-Star without killing them, although Fenja may lose her arm and the ability to move large parts of her body due to the Tinker-Tech toxins present in the sword.
Menja managed to hit Iron-Star and destroy Parian's shop, which is not present in the building, indeed before the fighting she left, taking several things with her.
"Unarmed a horn, Iron-Star doesn't need a weapon, he himself is a weapon." Coil commented, watching as Iron-Star suddenly creates emergency armor, pulls out an Ice Age-capable greatsword, and defeats Menja with a massive metal fist.
"In reality Fenja, Menja, X-Ray, Rune were defeated by Iron-Star, the only one to escape was Corvus. At least Circus did something good and chased Parian." Coil said, recalling how he got a call from Circus asking him whether to attack Parian and take the items in his possession.
Coil at that moment "split" the Timeline, hoping that with Iron-Star busy with Empire 88, his power could work right.
Route A, Circus goes to fight alone against Parian and the cat woman. In less than five minutes she was defeated, then handed over to Iron-Star and the PRT. Very bad path to go.
Route B, Circus waits for reinforcements to arrive, weapons with the right tools to restrain the cat woman and capture Parian to make her question who Iron-Star really is.
For the second time the reality turned out to be different from how Coil experienced, and this time his power was no longer limited to the headache, it started to produce physical damage.
"Once again my infallible power has not worked as it should. Iron-Star to something that compromises my power must be eliminated." Coil stated, fully resolved to send Iron-Star out of town by hooking him up or with a lot of corpses.
Circus entered the room ...
"What the hell happened to you !?" Coil shouted, looking at Circus who underwent a drastic change in appearance.
Circus still wears clown make-up and a jester's cap, with a teal and orange skintight costume complete with brim and bells that jingled from the tips of the cap, flaps, gloves and boots, now instead of just having two arms. has six.
"I was bitten by this thing." Circus said, handing over to Coil's desk, the corpse cut in half of a small bright black and red spider.
"This explains why Iron-Star manages to pull huge weapons out of his body he's a Bio-Tinker, he just earned one more reason to leave or die." Coil replied, looking at the corpse of the spider over at Circus with six arms.
"Besides the extra arms and the corpse of a spider, what did you bring me." She asked Coil, seeing that Coil's arms are carrying a suitcase and a notebook with a spider drawn on it.
Circus handed the notebook to Coil who started leafing through it.
The diary is filled with sketches of costumes and gadgets, some chemical formulas and design schemes. But a paragraph that caught his attention.
XXX
Spider-Man and Spider-Woman costumes. I finally managed to recreate the costumes of my childhood heroes. Certainly the men's costume is much more limited and unimaginative in comparison to the experimental and glamorous High-tech costume of the Spider-Woman model.
I can't believe I can bring my childhood hero Spider-Man to life. It all started with a genetically engineered radioactive spider biting a nerd.
The little boy got a superhuman body and all the powers associated with spiders.
And I can bring this hero into reality, but who is worthy to don the Spider-Hero costume and receive the bite of power?
Maybe Parian or the Queen of escalations?
Maybe I should be the first to try power-spiders, but before I do, he has to test and perfect the spiders, I want quality not quantity.
I'm not like Norman Osborn who craves an army of super-spider soldiers.
An Agent-Spider would be the perfect agent for espionage and murder, but an entire army could bring down a nation, I think. Fortunately, there are only two special spiders in the entire world.
XXX
Coil is smiling mischievously under his mask.
'I don't know why but I feel kind of attuned to this Norman Osborn. An army of super-spider soldiers, that sounds perfect. ' Coil thought, starting to sprout an obsession that led many people on a path full of cobwebs, word games and a slow descent into the madness.
Putting aside the notebook full of notes. Coil to open the silver suitcase, revealing two compartments, one of them is empty, but the other contains the Spider-Man 2099 costume.
"Circus, besides the new arms there have been other side effects ..." Coil asked, finding Circus standing above the ceiling with all six arms crossed.
"Circus, I think it's time to change your employment contract to something more permanent." Coil stated, seeing a big break with Spider-Circus and the newly provided studio sample.
"I accept your proposal in return if you find a way to get rid of these extra arms, I can't go back to my everyday life with these extra things." Circus proposed conditions for him to work permanently for Coil. He helps her find a cure for her extra arm problem and she gives them a helping hand in return.
"Great, I already have a job for you. Today around sunset a New York PRT convoy will pass by, I want you to stop the convoy and bring me one of the most dangerous Bio-Tinkers in Boston, Aloysius Animo aka Dr. Animus. But first tell me how it happened ... this. " He asked Coil, pointing to Circus's extra arms and the fact that he walks across the ceiling.
"It all started when ..."
XXX
An hour ago, not far from the fighting area, crossing the dark alleys are Parian, Taiga, accompanied by Koragg, Stylet and the illusion of Iron-Star and Altair who remained in despair at the back of the group.
Everything was fine until on the other side of the neighborhood, Fenja hit Iron-Star with one of his giant fists, nearly killing him.
This fact caused a stir in the group.
"Where Star-Star Nya Nya?" Taiga muttered, starting to look around for its owner (?).
"Sir Iron-Star where are you?" Stylet yelled, flying up hoping to see Iron-Star somewhere.
"He stayed to fight the Nazis. He said: I'll do the right thing, maybe some of us won't like it, but I'll do what will help more people." Parian muttered, realizing that Iron-Star's words were meant for her. Fighting criminals and risking your life is something Parian doesn't like, but for the greater good someone has to do it.
"Parian, I think I saw Sir Iron-Star, he is flying and fighting in the sky!" Stylet stated, watching as Iron-Star brought out a new pair of bulky wings.
The 6-inch model girl no longer able to see Iron-Star, because it flew too high for her visual sensors, decided to return to the group, landing on Koragg's back which is full of the most precious objects of Parian's shop, including a cage for a special spider, a notebook and a suitcase with a spider-themed costume.
"If I see him again I'll give him a slap to make me worry!" Parian commented, clenching his fists, Parian doesn't seem to respond very well to concern about his friends deliberately putting themselves in danger.
"Danger Nya Nya!" Taiga shouted suddenly, jumping on top of Parian, pushing her out of the path of a bullet.
Shortly after the first shot, three black military off-road cars appeared on the road and their passengers are masked men dressed in paramilitary uniforms, armed with assault rifles and other weapons.
'Since I met Iron-Star my life has been at risk more times in his days than it has been in the last few years.' She thought the petty part of Parian's mind.
The mercenaries started shooting at Taiga and Parian, the Catgirl decided to be a human shield for Parian.
"Koragg, take Stylet and the cargo is running away!" Parian yelled, ordering the Iron-Star steed to leave.
These people definitely haven't come to make friends or take prisoners, the only thing they may want is Iron-Star technology.
If Koragg escapes the mercenaries could pursue him or at least split to follow both objectives, however both options reduce the number of opponents to face.
A good move, too bad the animals look like their owners.
Koragg wasted no time in acting, his hair and hooves caught fire, a pale green and fluorescent fire.
Koragg roared, spitting green fire from his mouth, some mercenaries were hit by the fire and knocked them out of the game, most took cover behind their cars.
"Donkey… it's… strong Nya Nya!" Taiga exclaimed, watching as her quadruped teammate keeps breathing fire and hitting with hooves.
'I thought it was a specialized Bio-Tinker projection or experiment for transportation, not a machine of destruction.' She thought Parian, beginning to feel stupid for suggesting Koragg to escape.
Koragg as if he were a loaded bull straight into one of the mercenaries' cars, rolling it on the road as if it were a ball.
All this super-animal action to drop a small piece of cargo, a notebook and a briefcase.
After this act of power, Koragg begins to gasp from the effort, it seems that his batteries are about to run out. Koragg unwittingly began to envelop himself in green flames and then disappear who knows where, leaving behind only Stylet and a cage with a spider inside.
Taiga may barely speak, but he knows when it's time to fight.
Leaving Parian on her own, Taiga throws herself at the mercenaries who are still stunned by Koragg's fiery attack.
Bullets are practically useless against Taiga, who fights like a wild beast, slashing mercenaries with ease and throws them against building walls, turning them into mere splashes of color.
One of the mercenaries decided to get into the car and try to invest Taiga, bad idea.
Instead of avoiding the car, the Catgirl remains in place ready to act.
She was a crude, improvised version of Judo, Taiga grabbed the car and turned it over and landed on another off-road vehicle.
"I love to beat Nya Nya!" Taiga shouted, raising his fists in the air as if he had just won the championship and showing everyone his belt / trophy.
In this moment of "triumph", a fireball came out of nowhere, hitting Taiga in the face, luckily the Catgirl skin was tough enough not to suffer any damage from a miserable fireball.
Circus just appeared on the scene juggling fireballs, it seems Iron-Star isn't Brockton Bay's only super-eccentric.
Taiga was fascinated for a moment at the sight of a circus act she plays in front of her.
Her infantilism and lack of experience can cost them victory.
Circus finished her show by throwing twelve fireballs at Taiga who stood still too sure of her invulnerability.
The fireballs did nothing to her, except blind her momentarily, someone didn't teach Taiga not to stare at the sun or the fire closely.
"My eyes Nya Nya!" Taiga shouted, instinctively covering her eyes, giving his clown opponent an opening.
Circus pulled out of her pocket size a bag full of grenades.
The clown threw her purse that is ejected right onto the Catgirl at Taiga, it wasn't a burst of fire or energy, but a burst of containment foam.
The grenades are filled with PRT foam, a Brute's worst enemy.
"I'm stuck Nya Nya!" Taiga shouted, trying to break free and failing miserably.
Circus seeing that the greatest threat was eradicated, he went to get the objects dropped by Koragg, a briefcase, a notebook and a cage with a spider inside.
Circus in raised cage looking at the small black and red spider.
For an unknown reason, perhaps curiosity, clown's stupidity or hidden love for spiders, Circus put a finger between the bars of the cage, trying to stroke the spider.
Meanwhile, Parian sent an SOS signal to Iron-Star, using the emergency communication device he received yesterday from his eccentric friend.
As they say, curiosity killed the cat, in Circus's case curiosity earned him the bite of a genetically modified radioactive spider. Perhaps because Circus is a physically enhanced kind of Parahuman, he hasn't gotten the unwanted side effects in a few feelings like Taylor.
Speaking of Taylor at the moment she seems on the verge of dying on the road if it weren't for Panacea and Lisa, but we'll talk about her later.
Returning to the events of our secondary characters.
Circus was bitten by the spider and Parian decided not to be the only one not to fight.
The no longer so neutral seamstress manipulated the fabric available in the area, the torn uniforms of the mercenaries, to create a kind of whip to grab the spider's cage.
"It doesn't belong to you!" Parian shouted, using her power to pull the cage towards him.
Circus wanting to be paid by Coil, Circus decided to bring what she can to her employer, and from how Parian reacts the cage must have a certain value, so Circus also started pulling the cage towards her.
As in the case here two children are fighting for a toy, one pulls the other pulls harder, eventually the toy breaks.
The cage also did the same thing, the force exerted by Parian and Circus tore the cage into two pieces and the spider flew through the air landing on Parian.
He is precisely drawn over her nose where he bites her.
"Haaaaa!" Parian shouted, being bitten on the tip of her nose, very close to the brain, it was no surprise that the mutagenic enzyme started working in record time.
In less than a minute, Parian began to tremble violently, the world around her was a blur of color, her sense of balance was butchered.
"You won't get away with it." It was Parian's last words, before she fell to the ground and lost consciousness.
'Easy job, you let the mercenaries take care and tire out the big threats. All I have to do is let the projection fade, real estate the Brute and watch how Parian succumbs to the spider's venom. I am fortunate that immunity to toxins is among my powers. ' She thought Circus, picking up the notebook and then walking over to the fainted Parian and taking the spider in her hands, examining it.
"My turn!" Shouted the smallest member of the Iron-Star group, Stylet.
The little robot-girl flew in front of Circus, swinging her little sword of energy and managed to cut the spider in two pieces.
"Don't underestimate me because I'm small!" Stylet shouted, firing his guns straight at Circus.
Stylet's shots weren't that great, at best they were like being stung by a bee, a bee that stings dozens of times per second leaving behind marks of electrical and thermal burns.
The death of a thousand cuts the style of Stylet.
Circus took what's left of the spider and puts them inside its pocket size. The criminal clown, knowing that he cannot hit such a small and fast object / person, decides to take a huge leap and walk away.
Before he could run away, his way was stopped by a dozen silver feathers.
"Do you really believe you can run unscathed after hurting my teammates and my friend!" Iron-Star declared, landing gracefully in front of Circus, crafting two large swords in his hands.
Circus recognizing his new opponent as the Iron-Star, the new hero Thinker who defeated Hookwolf and the entire gang of Traders alone yesterday and today fought against five of Kaiser's strongest soldiers.
Iron-Star is a rising star, a high-level threat and must be treated as such.
Circus threw a small torrent of flame on Iron-Star, wrong move because ...
"From now on I'm immune to fire!" He yelled Iron-Star, passing through Circus's fire, delivering a mistral kick in his face.
Circus crashed high into a wall, would have fallen straight down a garbage can if Iron-Star hadn't thrown swords at her, pinning her to the wall and causing severe damage to her hands currently being pierced by her swords.
"I hate clowns, Joker and Zombozo only amplified my hatred, so don't be surprised if my interrogation gets too brutal." Iron-Star explained, walking towards Circus, spreading its silver wings, ready to throw its silver feathers millimeter at its immobilized enemy.
Circus began to panic, his heart beats madly, he tries to soar but without success, until Iron-Star launched his most ...
"Haaaaa!" Circus starts screaming in pain, the flesh of his ribs stretches and transforms, becoming four new arms.
Using her new arms she breaks free just in time to avoid being pierced by Iron-Star's feathers, then jumps and lands on the wall of a nearby building, instead of falling and standing on the wall like a spider.
"You've been bitten by one of my experiments, I wish it were me or one of my friends to become the first Spider-Power user. But at least I can learn why it's working so badly on you and figure out how to avoid such a fate." She declared Iron-Star, looking at Circus as a lab rat to study and less as an enemy.
"I advise you to give up and come with me, your extra arms are the symptom of an imperfect and unstable mutation, there is a risk that you will become more spider than human." He explained Iron-Star, remembering very well what happened to Peter Parker when he sprouted more arms, he slowly became a monstrous and wild humanoid spider. Taking into account all types of Bio-Tinker in the world there is a risk that a Spider-Monster virus could be born.
Circus looked at Iron-Star for a moment then her new arms, clenching all six fists, Circus leapt at Iron-Star.
When Circus's fist made contact with Iron-Star it dissolved into a green haze.
Circus before I understand what happened, I feel a pang of pain behind me.
Iron-Star came out of nowhere and stabbed her in the back with a fancy dagger.
Circus gritted his teeth in pain, reacting quickly to pushed Iron-Star away about ten yards, sending him hitting a streetlight.
"Spider sense absent, strength enhanced and healing factor present." He observed Iron-Star, standing up and covering his arms in neon purple circuit-like tattoos.
"Let's see what's stronger than your new spider-person skills or my Real Steels!" He asked for Iron-Star, creating two huge black and purple metal fists.
Iron-Star has become showered with circuit-like symbols of fluorescent blue and a crimson aura of electrical energy.
Then Iron-Star ran straight to Circus, punching him with his mechanical constructs.
Circus using all six arms manages to block Iron-Star's right fist, but not his left fist which smashes her into a wall again.
'I'm a thief, I'm not paid enough to face this techno-colored and futuristic monster.' He thought Circus, looking around for an escape or a distraction to keep Iron-Star busy.
"Raiden." Iron-Star retired metal fists in favor of a giant purple energy sword, with the same design as Generator Rex's Black Knight.
'Ugly, very ugly.' Circus thought, watching as the closest thing to the Terminator approaches her.
Iron-Star pulled a handle transforming the energy blade into a circular energy chainsaw.
'He just became a horrible nightmare.' She thought Circus, hoping for a little miracle to stop Iron-Star.
The Celestial Forge decided to go into action and give Iron-Star some necessary gifts as always at an inopportune moment, leaving in her little world for a few seconds.
'Holy bearded woman has stopped! "She thought Circus, getting up and trying to run away taking with her the most looking.
Circus grab the silver suitcase and jump up a wall and start running on the walls, only to be stopped in a painful way.
A coffin of purple energy flew past Circus almost sliced it in half, but it just made a nasty gash on the spinal column.
'That futuristic sword allows them to attack from afar.' She thought Circus as he fell off the wall and landed right next to Parian.
Iron-Star made his sword-shaped mechanical construct disappear.
"The beginning is good, but the ending is rather bad. I want Ironman, but I get Ant-Man, I understand that Henry" Hank "Pym is a genius and that he was named by a delusional cosmic entity as the supreme scientist of the earth , a lie in my opinion.
I think I can use Ant-Man's technology for more discreet and subtle things, taking into account who I am related to is no surprise. Maybe for Halloween we can dress up as Ant-Man and the Wasp ...
You are already healing, I think it is a sort of compensation, unwanted aesthetic mutation in exchange for a regenerating factor above the norm. "He told Iron-Star, starting to talk about things that only he can understand and ending with a scientific observation on Circus .
Iron-Star finally noticing Parian looking ready to leave this world lowers on her, placing a hand on Parian's fainting, neon purple colored circuit-like symbols have appeared on Iron-Star's hand and Parian's body.
"Irreversible mutation of the genetic code, you are a hyper-specialized gene therapy or a detailed study, I can't do anything. I'm sorry Parian, I can do nothing but make the process less stressful and painful.
Now because of me not only are you infected with Eldrich computers, you are also being watched by a spider deity and potentially targeted by vampires. I think it's time for you to change your name.
Maybe Metal-Spider, Black Tailor, Cyber Arachne, Cyber-Spider? "Said Iron-Star, gently stroking Parian's hair, stopping using the nanites on her after making minor tweaks to her biology.
'Strong, crazy, dangerous and in love. Parian you have won a man with a winning combination. Desperate times call for desperate measures, let's see how strong this healing factor is. ' She thought Circus, deciding which tactic to use to escape, take advantage of Iron-Star's affection for Parian.
Circus gritting his teeth as he pulled his emergency stash, bags and backpacks full of explosives and grenades out of his pocket size.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
The street was filled with a series of explosions that hit Iron-Star, Parian and Circus.
Circus was thrown like a rag doll through the dark alleys of the neighborhood.
Her body is pretty bad but it has remained whole and somehow she can feel how his body is already healing.
"Parian!" The desperate voice of Iron-Star is heard throughout the neighborhood, clearly Parian unlike the man in armor and the clown with regenerative powers is in very bad shape.
"Circus! Before I just wanted to knock you out, examine you, treat you and send you to the police, nothing personal, just business. But now they are personal, if I see you again and I can get you you will be my first human guinea pig for my experimental procedures!" She shouted Iron-Star, in a voice full of anger and hate, promising to vivisect Circus if he sees her again.
'Crawl and hide in the sewers until he goes away to heal Parian.' He thought Circus, using all of his arms to crawl away from the rabid Tinker.
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Returning in the present to the underground base of Coil.
"Half dead you dragged yourself from the dark alleys to the sewers, healed completely in less than an hour and changed clothes to present yourself in front of me. Impressive." Coil said, genuinely impressed with such dedication to work.
'I hope Parian doesn't die, Iron-Star kills and Kaiser beheaded. If he finds out I've hired Circus what will he do to me? ' He has been thinking a small part of Coil's brain, not knowing whether he has to stay underground for a long time or engage a large number of elite mercenaries and assassins to get rid of Iron-Star.
'It would make a nice Christmas present for Iron-Star, eight of the deadliest and most dangerous killers in the world.' Coil thought, starting to make a list of possible men to be hired in the near future, the normal mercenaries will not be able to stand up to Iron-Star, much less throw him out of the city of him.
"Circus, you can go and rest, I have to make some phone calls." He ordered Coil, wanting a quiet moment to think about his future moves, especially now that his powers don't seem to work with Iron-Star around.
XXX
Returning to our hero to his friend the seamstress badly injured.
Iron-Star after launching a threat to keep focuses exclusively on stabilizing Parian, using the Nanites, some raw Runes and a Blood Vial.
By clapping his hands, Iron-Star used Amestrian alchemy to free Taiga from his foam prison and create a concrete door.
"Taiga, Stylet, Altair, chase me but don't ask questions or bother me, I'm in a critical situation!" Iron-Star exclaimed, pulling out the cosmic key and inserting it into the lock of the concrete door, creating a portal to the Star-Forge .
XXX
Once inside the Star-Forge, the group of Iron-Stars plus a Parian wrapped in a cocoon of telekinetic energy.
Instead of finding yourself as usual inside a monotonous corridor flanked by doors that lead into rooms designed specifically for the performance of a specific job.
Iron-Star and company have arrived in a room with a fantasy design that Iron-Star recognizes very well.
The room looks like a large metal sphere, a tall, narrow, triangular pyramid standing on it and reaching upward.
"This is an exact replica of the Himinbjorg or as the people call it the Bifrost room. Only Heimdall is missing a few components to create a functional Bifrost." He muttered Iron-Star, distracted for a moment by the similarities between this chamber and the real Himinbjorg of his memories.
The hero dressed in obsidian black and neon purple emerged from the Asgard-style entrance, continuing to carry Parian into a cocoon of telekinetic energy.
The exit road from the replica of the Himinbjorg has turned into a rainbow-colored crystal bridge.
A magical bridge suspended over the deep waters that surround the earth, a vibrant array of colors flowing from it and leading to an island.
"Tiles of Nine Realms (Marvel - Cinematic Universe Vol. 1), not only redecorated the Star-Forge, but brought a whole piece of Asgard. How do I find the laboratory from Ultimate Doctor or the Iron-House?" He asked Iron-Star, almost going into a panic attack, seeing how Parian's condition is visibly worsening.
"I take it in flight, you chase me from the ground." Iron-Star said, jumping off the rainbow bridge and taking off, taking Parian with him.
If people would have a satellite to look up the place would be impressed.
The whole place is surrounded by a gigantic dome of colossal dimensions, here would be the whole of Sicily and all its population.
A sizeable island surrounded by the ocean also enclosed by the energy dome.
The island appears to be completely untouched by the hand of man, except for a few places, mainly the city Asondard which can be easily found, just chase the bridge and it will take you in front of the city walls.
The city that once resembles a post-apocalyptic replica of London has undergone an Asgard-style aesthetic change.
First of all the city is surrounded by incredibly high thick walls. Among the ruined buildings there are tall and cylindrical buildings of precious metals and gold, made in the rocky walls; dozens of cylindrical segments arranged in a pyramid whose tip extend into the clouds.
Much of London has assimilated the characteristics of Asgard, becoming a sprawling and golden fantasy city of elaborate and superimposed spherical shapes. Lush trees and large statues dotted the courtyards and gardens; pure, sparkling, rivulets of water gushed from sparkling fountains; Intricate and decorative machinery floats, rotates and flashes in the light of the dome.
We have gone from a post-apocalyptic modern world worthy of Fallout to a fantasy world in ruins. The remains of a great disappeared civilization, replaced by a population of EVOs of various shapes and designs.
"If all roads lead to Rome, then the streets of Rome lead everywhere, the only other building here is the Iron-House." He said Iron-Star, noting that from the city of London / Asgard / Asondard, to the east there is an iron brick road leading to a push.
"Hold on a little longer Parian. Vulture!" He shouted Iron-Star, creating two huge mechanical wings with whirlwinds to fly at a higher speed to get to the Iron-House.
In less than a minute, the Ultimate Doctor and his patient landed in front of a huge mansion located on a cliff near a tropical beach on the eastern edge of this gigantic island.
"Happy that nothing has changed here ... except for the view of the huge Van Kleiss castle, I finish with Parian then I go to explore." He said Iron-Star, taking Parian to the Iron-House laboratory.
Moving your gaze to the horizon, a few kilometers away from the Iron-Star on a tiny islet of land with a restored replica of Van Kleiss's castle on it.
The place has gone from a dark and gloomy castle in ruins to a futuristic castle of glowing metal covered in geometric symbols and glowing neon-style portions. Covered with crimson banners with the Iron-Star symbol on it.
The place instead of giving the impression of a nasty den of supervillains who want to conquer the world, somewhat resembles the base of the Teen Titans, only less T-shaped building and more futuristic castle than a clan of techno-knights.
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"I think I spoke ahead of time, the Iron-House got a little update from the Pym Residence. More rooms, two underground floors full of classified furniture and a secret superhero room. But most of all ants, a lot of ants. . " She commented on Iron-Star as she is carrying Parian in her arms.
The pair of friends went through a spiral staircase that takes him through two underground living floors and a third floor filled with shelves of artificial anthills. Finally they arrived at the underground Ironman-style laboratory.
The place is flooded with a flood of ants ... who are fixing the place and preparing an operating room for Parian, with Más and Menos as robotic assistants.
"I take back everything I ever thought bad about ants, if I have a child I will call him Scott or Janet in case this is a girl in honor of Ant-Man and the Wasp." Iron-Star said, thanking the ants for their invaluable help that could make a difference.
Iron-Star placed Parian on a makeshift operating table surrounded by tools, inventions and two mechanical arms as he is assistants.
"I am the Ultimate Doctor I have at my disposal: Nanites Technology, Halo medical technology prototypes, Dead Space medical substances, Bloodborne and Fate magic potions.
Magic in the form of Magecraft, Strength, Ars Magus, Seidr, Sorcery and Alkahestry.
Finally, a lot of technology and knowledge in human augmentation in various ways. "Iron-Star said, more to himself than to Parian, clearly bracing himself to prepare for his first surgery.
"I need my Reactor Arc, all available crystals, and every piece of cybernetics compatible with human physiology!" Iron-Star yelled at his ants wanting the materials required for the operation.
"At the end of the operation we should rename you Cyber-Spider." He declared Iron-Star, creating a surgical scalpel in his hand, starting the operation.
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POV Harold Hellsing Holmes aka Iron-Star.
"This was the hardest hour of my life, I need a good break." I muttered softly as I am working my hands from the organics from Parian's body.
My friend is stable and alive, but still unconscious, I hope the changes I had to make don't shake her too much.
"Fortunately I managed to keep his legs, arms more or less intact. But head and torso were ruined. I had to replace most of the internal organs with biomechanical verses.
I hope he doesn't mind being an E-cup and having my first miniaturized Reactor Arc working inside her chest.
The head was an almost impossible task, twenty splinters in the skull, third-degree burns and a mask glued and melted to his face.
Perform neurosurgery and replace 10% of the brain with circuitry and computer components. Remove left eye and ears in favor of synthetic Orange-style versions of Code Geass. Then cosmetic surgery to fix everything. "I went through the whole procedure that I just finished and I feel mentally exhausted, almost like I want to drink something alcoholic.
I lay down on the sofa looking for a distraction, I think I can "read" once again the benefits gained today.
The first advantages gained after being punched by Fenja were the knowledge on how to create and use the magic of BlazBlue, Ars Magus and Armagus are a great addition to my arsenal, too bad I don't have the necessary tools to create them, in short I have to wait for the Celestial Forge to give me what I need to have.
Ex Machina (Generator Rex) transforms me into a perfect counterpart of Rex Salazar and Black Knight. Thanks to my artistic imagination and scientific knowledge I can produce weapons never seen before or at least recreate the weapons of the most interesting characters on TV.
The Armor for a Knight (Generator Rex), gave me the basic Providence uniform in black and white, not too interesting. But emergency power armor was a godsend, especially as thanks to Ex Machina (Generator Rex) the armor was inserted into my Nanites.
While I was fighting Circus, I received seven gifts from the Marvel Constellation.
Gift number one, Unstable Molecules, this classic superhero suit will be incredibly useful, the material that composes it will be used to produce much needed costumes for the Protectorate and independent heroes.
Gift number two, Enhancements (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2), this gift gave me the knowledge needed to do some vital tweaks to Parian.
Modular technology to create sophisticated power armor, powerful cybernetics, the basis for creating a super soldier serum worthy of creating a Captain Worm.
Gift number three, Cybernetic Parts (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2), an arsenal of cybernetic equipment available, this equipment was used to put Parian into shape, we hope that the components of Nebula will not cause a problem for Parian. Kree implants on humans.
Gift number four, Pymtastic! (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2), I have become an expert in Pym Particles "capable of transferring or taking mass into another dimension.
In theory by taking special Pym Particle capsules, I can grow from 2 centimeters to 60 meters tall, the next time I see Fenja and Menja we will change roles.
Bonus I can reduce the size of my technology by compartmentalizing it, as well as understanding how to control ants using technology. I'm not basic Taylor Hebert in a normal Worm world, but I believe I can do something with them, especially if I use EVO ants.
Gift number five, Particle Storage Container (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2), a stash of tiny glass bottles, and a device that allows me to store exotic particles in them for transport or storage.
Gift number six, Ant-Man Suit (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2), MCU version Ant-Man costume, personally I don't like the costume itself, the design is quite poor. But I can take his technology and put it into my personal mores.
Gift number seven, Symbiotic Home (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2), the one responsible for the changes to the Iron-House. An unprecedented infestation of friendly and intelligent ants capable of looking after the house in my absence.
Speaking of ants, I can see how a dozen ants have captured a large red and blue spider and are delivering it to me.
I feel like I'm a dictator watching as his soldiers bring the rebel leader to him and prepare him for an execution.
Using telekinesis I lift the spider and place it in front of my eyes.
"You are a beautiful creature with this combination of red and blue. But your younger brother got into big trouble, handing the powers over to the criminals and indirectly helping them hurt my friends. Someone has to pay." I declared my sentence, with a thought I tear off all eight legs, I don't know why, I force him to bite my left annul.
"Worm already two Spider-Women: Cyber-Spider and Woman-Widow. It takes a Spider-Man to balance the scales before a Venom or Carnage appears." I said slowly, as I sense the mutagenic enzymes doing his job, I believe I did a good job because the Celestial Forge is activating giving me ...
[WELCOME MY GROOM TO MY SPIDER'S WEB]
Keep it going ...
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Unstable Molecule Uniform (Marvel Universe)(50): You have a uniform made of some super-material. While it doesn't give you much protection, the uniform is self-cleaning, self-adjusting, never impedes your powers in any way, and is virtually indestructible. Your choice of color, although it probably has a shiny badge somewhere.
Improvements (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2) (200): Sometimes, people have to be better. Maybe the situation is more than they can handle, maybe they are at the gates of Death and you need to fool her for her reward. The point is that at the moment they are inadequate and they need to be better. You will make them better. Modular technology to create sophisticated power armor, powerful cybernetics to enhance their insides ... the knowledge to create them is up to you to do as you see fit. Your knowledge also includes the first steps required to understand the various serums that are floating around the world, so that someday you can learn to replicate them ... or modify them as needed.
Cybernetic Parts (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2) (200): Humanity has always been slow to change in the face of danger and uncertainty. That's why they're so addicted to the Avengers when danger approaches, after all. But you know there will come a time when the Avengers cannot save humanity and you will have to help them save themselves. That's why you have this slew of cybernetic equipment to study and work with to transform humans into transhumans. Prosthetic limbs that increase strength and speed, improved eyes that allow you to see on more spectra, implants that allow interfaces to appear on your body ... and they come from a variety of sources, from CyberTek to HYDRA's Winter Soldier program, even from Nebula particular cybernetic array. Transcend human limitations.
Pymtastic! (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2)(300): The life work of Hank Pym, and Cross Technologies has attempted to replicate it for some time. It has been cracked by another, however. It's been cracked by you. Subatomic particles of an extra dimensional nature, a single application of these particles are capable of shunting or adding mass and reducing or increasing scale of any form of matter. This means that they can compress physical forces around objects or organisms that they are applied to, as well as increasing density and strength of the subject, with additional particle applications only being needed if you want to change the object's size again. However be warned, humans without the proper protection can suffer mental instability at best or being crushed into a protein goo at worse, while shrinking an item or person too small will see them walking amidst the Quantum Realm. This means you need regulation technology similar to the Ant-Man suit to control the changes, or at least adequate equipment that will let you find your way back. On the plus side, your work with these particles allows you to upgrade technology by compartmentalizing and reducing the size of technology significantly while retaining its standard an added bonus, you'll also learn about Hank's ant controlling technology.
Particle Storage Container (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2)(Gratis): Bottling a particle, whoever thought of that? Well, Hank Pym did, because he had to get the particles around and safely handle it somehow. Now you have a supply of tiny glass bottles that happen to fit right in the palm of your hand, allowing you to store exotic particles in them for transport or safekeeping. Just don't throw it. I really don't recommend throwing it at people.
Ant-Man Suit (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2)(Gratis): In order for Pym Particles to be used effectively on a person, there must be a special suit in order to protect them. This is due to the potential altering of brain chemicals that could happen on an unprotected person, and for that you will need this. Coming with a special helmet, it contains both a radio-link to communicate with someone and an EMP communication device to stimulate the olfactory nerve center and pheromones of insect-sized organisms. …meaning you can talk to ants. The gloves/wrists and belt also contain what you need to monitor, regulate, and control the amount of particles used to control your shrinking and growing capability, as well as to make sure you don't accidentally shrink into the Quantum Realm.
Symbiotic Home (Marvel Cinematic Universe - Volume 2)(Gratis): There are some homes which will do their most damned to ensure that there's no creepy crawlies within their walls. Not this home. No, this home despite being very upscale and luxurious has a veritable army of ants living within it, and not just regular ants. Fire ants, army ants, bullet ants, the works. Whether you wish for it to be placed somewhere or be a Warehouse attachment, this place has just about every kind of mundane ant possible in it, and they all serve the owner of the home. They do their best to keep the place clean and move items around to ensure you're comfortable and tended to… and trust me, they can do a lot when they work together. They're also very good at following orders and learning what you want them to do. The basement is where they all live, like a small mine filled with nothing but ants where you can talk with them and collect any ants you need. Not only can you introduce other forms of ants to them, but they'll also retain any modifications you make to them without counting as compantions. Just be careful to warn any guest that comes over.