Chapter 17.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
This chapter will bring in new members of the team and also introduce the main villain of this story.
Aragorn II Elessar's 'Devil and the Archer series' was what inspired me to use the two characters in this chapter. If any of you haven't read his fics, I would highly recommend you do. He writes the most amazing stuff.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed or favirouted this fic so far.
Disclaimer: I don't own Avengers, Arrow or any characters and elements pertaining to the mentioned franchises. I only own Jason Stark and any other OC's and worlds you see in this story.
On with the show.
supercode: Actually; Tony will only find out Jason is alive once we reach my version of Infinity War. And you will see on the good Lovecraftian monsters.
Jason's POV.
I woke up peacefully which considering the day I had yesterday was very nice.
I got up and stretched my muscles.
Boy but I was tired.
A portal appeared in the middle of the room.
This was probably Novu doing his thing.
"Seriously, I haven't even had coffee yet. This is really tiring," I grumbled but sighed as I didn't want to keep Novu waiting.
I walked through the portal and into the star podium.
"You rang?" I said sarcastically to Novu.
"Ah Jason, I'm glad you're looking so well this morning. Time to get to work young man" Novu said.
I rolled my eyes and thought to myself, 'What's the point in being sarcastic when the other guy doesn't even know about it'.
"Where's our next mission?" I asked him.
"We will start off in the same realm you came from. And we have 4 new members of your new team" Novu said.
I frowned.
4 new members?
Were six not enough for this mission?
Novu made us vanish and we were back at the tropical realm.
I could see the building with our rooms in the distance.
We were at a runway with what looked like a Quinjet there.
Novu and I walked towards it.
Jenna, Takio, Morris, Nico and Conrad were there alongside 4 other people.
"Jason, let me introduce to you the 4 new members of your team" Novu said, gesturing to each one.
"Helena Bertenelli. Also known as The Huntress. She is a master archer" he said pointing to the dark haired woman with a crossbow slung over her shoulder.
She nodded at me.
I knew the name from somewhere but I honestly couldn't remember where.
"Rory Regan. Also known as Ragman, he wields a set of mystical rags that obey his every command" he said, gesturing to the dark haired man with a set of rags under his arm.
He smiled.
"Wow nice party trick" I muttered.
"Alphonso "Mack" McKenzie. He is a SHIELD mechanic and engineer" he said, pointing to the black man with a truckload of weapons next to him.
"And Antonnie Tripplett. He is a SHIELD pilot and sniper" he said, gesturing to the other black man with a pistol at his side.
"And this is Jason Stark, you're new team leader" Novu introduced me.
I nodded my head in acknowledgement.
I looked at everybody and gauged them.
'Well this should be interesting' I thought to myself.
"Nice to meet you Jason. Just call me Tripp for short" the man called Tripplett said as he shook my hand.
"Okay, what is our mission?" I asked Novu once I finished aquatinting myself with everyone.
Everyone gathered around.
"Your next mission lies in an alternate universe called the Negative Zone. There is a special prison for enhanced and dangerous individuals. You must break two of these individuals out. There names are Logan Howlett and Nuke. There are special designations on there cells" Novu explained.
"Why are we breaking dangerous individuals out?" I asked the obvious question.
"Because I have used the Book of Destiny to look into the future and Logan and Nuke are vital to the plan, Logan especially as he could be the key to defeating the Anti Monitor" Novu said.
We nodded.
"Good. See you when you get back" Novu said.
We grabbed all of our gear that was piled up and walked into the Quinjet.
"Tripp, I take it this is your area of expertise" I said.
"Yep it certainly is" Tripp replied.
We all strapped ourselves into the seats on the Quinjet.
The Quinjet began levitating in the air and Tripp pointed it to the sky.
The engines blasted and we flew upwards.
The Quinjet entered hyperspace and flew into space.
My face felt like it was getting ripped off by the extreme pressure.
A green portal erupted in front of us all of a sudden and we flew in.
When we stopped, space around us was completely green.
I guessed that this was the Negative Zone.
The most obvious part was the massive singularity that took up most of the place.
And there was a large prison at the edge.
"Tripp, fly us in and try to avoid the singularity" I told him.
He did so and we approached the prison carefully.
There were no guard ships or anything which was curious.
But then again, the sweet thing about having a prison right next to a singularity was that the prison could simply fall into the singularity and there would be no problem, it would just get crushed into nothingness.
"Tripp dock us on the underside of the prison, we need to plan our move" I said.
Everyone gathered at the centre of the Quinjet.
It was very stressful that everything was dependant on my leadership skills.
Hopefully I wouldn't get anyone killed.
"All right" I said, bringing up a map of the inside of the prison.
"The prison room is located here. Conrad, Rory, Jenna, Mack and I will get Logan and Nuke out. Helena, Tripp, Morris, you guys stay here on the ship and make sure no one storms it. Nico, Takio, you guys need to deactivate the power in the prison. Got it?" I asked.
Everybody nodded.
"Let's suit up then" I said.
I put on the Black Arrow suit, feeling very confident about this.
I knew that my team and I could pull this off.
My unit had departed first and we snuck inside, following an extensive period of time, during which we were cutting the prison open.
It was alien like in appearance, sort of like the Chitauri but more advanced.
We began sneaking inside the prison towards where the prison was located.
So far we had not encountered any guards.
I was quite thankful about that.
We were going carefully with Conrad covering us from behind.
It was a good team and Mack was scouting ahead.
We had continued on until Conrad had spotted a lone guard following our trail.
I guess there were guards.
"Okay guys. Let's move it. We find the prisoners and get out" I said and we moved onwards.
A few minutes later and we entered the prison room.
It was huge and there were over four hundred prisoners, maybe more.
I groaned.
This was going to be a long job.
"All right split up guys. Cover more ground, Conrad come with me" I ordered and we split up.
Conrad followed me.
We walked on the first row and saw many types of creatures; most of them aliens but some of them were humans.
How humans ended up here I have no idea.
This was some freaky shit.
The first ten rows were a waste of our time.
But on the eleventh row, we got lucky and found one of the guys we were looking for.
Novu had shown me who we were looking for telepathically.
The man was tall, muscular and bearded.
He had broad shoulders and a beard that clearly hadn't been shaved in months.
I took a deep breath.
"Logan Howlett. My name is Jason Stark. This is Conrad James and we are here to rescue you" I told him.
He looked at us with contempt.
Why?" was all he said in a gruff voice.
"Because we need your help. I'll explain it once we get out of here" I said.
"What makes you think I want to help you?" he asked.
"Jason, I can always knock his ass out and drag him out of here" Conrad said in a bored tone.
I just shot him a look.
"Look Logan, we're just doing my job. Now do you wanna get out of here or not? As far as I'm concerned, you can rot in here for the rest of your days. Now you coming or what?" I said with intritation.
"You have balls bub. Okay I'll follow you. Let's see where the party takes us. I was getting bored in here anyway" Logan said.
Conrad charged his fist up with lightning and punched the glass.
It shattered on impact.
"Let's go" I said.
Logan climbed out and together, the 3 of us jumped to the ground.
Rory, Jenna and Mack were there alongside a tall, blonde haired man who I assumed was Nuke.
He was even bigger than Logan was and his hands looked big enough to crush my skull.
I turned to face Rory.
"I assume you explained what's going on to him?" I asked Rory.
He nodded.
"He did. And I agreed to help you" Nuke said in a cold, metallic voice.
I turned to face him curiously.
He didn't even sound human.
"Okay, seriously are we going dancing or what guys? Can we get on with whatever this bullshit mission is" Logan sarcastically.
"Will someone throw this guy a bone to chew on" I said sarcastically.
Logan nearly leapt at me but Mack stopped him from jumping at me.
"Down boy" Mack said.
"So what now?" Nuke asked.
"We need to get the hell out of here" Mack said which was an obvious answer.
"We get out of the Negative Zone and fly to Earth" Rory added.
"Assuming that is going to be easy. The portal closed upon entry" Conrad said.
"Uh, I was wondering about that. Things were getting a bit boring" I said sarcastically.
"Wow, well organized rescue" Logan said equally sarcastic.
"Shut up Logan. If you have nothing to contribute, shut your mouth" I said.
Logan just growled at me.
"Okay. Here's the plan. We find the others, get to the ship, find a way to open the portal and get out, then we fly to Earth and deliver you guys to Novu" I explained.
"Nice plan. So now we're delivery like in the mail or something?" Logan demanded angrily.
"No that's not what I said" I blinked as Logan was probably a dangerous man.
"Yeah had better have been bub" Logan snarled.
"Okay let's take it easy guys. Lets not start a fight" Mack said.
"Mack's right. That is not a good idea," Conrad said.
"All this testrorineone is getting on my nerves. Can we just get on with the mission?" Jenna snapped.
Before I could say anything, the alarm on my suit started blearing. I activated it and brought up a screen.
It was the ships cameras.
It showed twenty large ships approaching the prison.
I zoomed inside the lead ship and it showed a massive insectoid like creature in the window.
The insectoid was cackling. "It is time we showed the beings of the Negative Zone that I am the one true king. They will all bow before me" he said in a deep menacing tone.
"I am…Annihlus"
And Chapter 17 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
So now Antonnie Triplett, Mack McKenzie, Rory Regan and Helena Bertenelli have joined the team.
Tripp and Mack are my two faviroute Agents of SHIELD characters.
And Rory and Helena have pretty much been wasted in Arrow.
And Logan Howlett aka Wolverine and Nuke are here.
Aragorn II Elessar's 'Devil and the Archer series' inspired me to use them in this.
In the Marvel Comics, we have Nuke, a super soldier who was created by the Weapon X Program. But in this fic, Nuke is a cyborg.
For Logan, picture the one and only Hugh Jackman in the role as I really can't imagine anyone else as him.
And for Nuke, picture Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role as I think he would be perfect.
And Annihlus is here as well.
For those of you who guessed he would appear in this chapter, well done.
He will be the main villain in this story and a pawn of the Anti Monitor.
Next chapter will feature the team's first encounter with Annihlus.
Until next time, review, follow, faviroute, stay tuned and tell me what you thought of this chapter.
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