Chapter 22.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
This chapter will go back to Jason's team and there mission and it will also serve as a teaser for a future story arc in the sequel. And it will advance the plot further.
Also for those wondering, this story will be 32 chapters long.
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.
Warning- blood and gore.
On with the show.
TheLycanKing: I agree with you. I too, am looking forward to seeing Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Not as much as Black Widowand Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness but I am still excited.
Aragorn II Elessar: Thanks for the review. Glad you enjoyed the Shang Chi/Tripp smackdown. The thing with Cthulhu and Cthylla is definitely gross. I looked up the Avengers#200. I nearly vomited when I read it though. What the hell was that writer smoking? And here I thought that the Cthulhu/Cthylla thing was gross. Turns out I was wrong. I like that line. Thanks for the suggestion.
Jason's POV.
Following the skirmish at Grand Nixon Island, Mack, Frank, Logan, Nuke, Jenna, Slade, Rory and I had left to go track down the Yakuza in New York.
We needed to get rid of the Yakuza as Natasha had informed us that both the Yakuza and Strucker's HYDRA cell were paid by an unknown source to steal the nuke that turned Grand Nixon Island into a crater.
That meant we needed to figure out who was behind this and kill him.
Of course that was easier said then done.
We had tracked them down to a restaurant in down town Harlem.
We arrived at the restaurant that had the Yakuza in it.
They were all lounging about casually.
"All right guys, the plan is simple; we get in, we get answers, we get out" I ordered.
We all quickly armed ourselves with our weapons.
I fired an explosive arrow at the window which exploded and sent many Yakuza members flying.
We took advantage of that to storm the place.
Mack fired his gun and killed two of them.
Another one threw a knife at Nuke who barely reacted when the knife got impaled in its forehead.
He lifted his shotgun and shot the Yakuza member in the chest.
I swept a man's legs before shooting him in the throat.
Logan roared and stabbed a Yakuza member in the eyes.
"Get me out of here now!" the leader shouted.
About seven men went with him.
The remaining dozen Yakuza members faced us.
I fired an arrow into one's eye.
Nuke punched a Yakuza member so hard; its fist went right through the back of his head.
Frank was unloading a machine gun on them.
One tried to stab him in the side, but Frank pulled his hammer out and smashed his face in with it.
Jenna flip-kicked a Yakuza member before firing an arrow into his eye.
Slade slashed a Yakuza member's throat in a rotary motion before taking out a pistol and shooting another one in the head.
"Guys, the oyobun's getting away. Nuke and I will go after him!" I shouted.
The 2 of us took off in the direction of the oyobun.
I barely dodged several bullets that were fired at me.
"These people never learn" Nuke commented as it smashed another Yakuza member with the door.
I imiadetley ducked down from the gunfire.
A grenade rolled right next to me and I grabbed it before throwing it right back at my enemies.
It exploded and I yelled as I felt the heat hit the back of my head.
The 2 of us moved through the room to a staircase that lead outside.
The oyobun was about to get in a chopper when Nuke intercepted, killing all of them with his shotgun except for the oyobun who was starting in shock.
Nuke marched forward and picked the oyobun up by the foot.
He then carried him over to the edge of the building.
I drew my sword and pointed it at him.
"All right ass clown, we're going to play a little game here. I'm going to ask you some questions. When you give the answer I don't want" Nuke then loosened his grip slightly.
"Okay, you get the idea. I recently found out that HYDRA leader Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker was hired by someone to steal a nuclear warhead. And then I discovered that your clan of Yakuza were involved in the deal. So why don't you tell me who hired Strucker?" I asked him.
"I swear, I don't know" he yelped.
"Oh wrong answer" I said and cut one of his fingers off.
He screamed in pain.
"Wait! Stop please. I'll tell you! It was Russian general Drakov. He hired Strucker to steal the warhead. He is in a large red building downtown. 3rd Street. Please let me go. You promised!?" he begged.
"He lied" Nuke said without any emotion in its voice before it let go.
The Yakuza leader screamed as he fell.
He hit the ground with a crunch, and all of his bones were broken, his body now a bloody smear on the ground below.
"Well I don't think anyone's going to miss the guy, he was a prick" I commented.
We walked back to where we came from, and found Mack, Jenna, Rory, Slade, Logan and Frank had finished killing the last Yakuza members.
"Did you get a name?" Slade asked.
"Yep. Russian general Drakov" I replied.
"Drakov? Never heard of the guy. Did he give a location?" Frank asked.
"Yep. A large red building on 3rd Street" I replied.
"Well considering he hired Strucker to steal the nuke, I say he is definitely a scumbag" Frank said.
"All right, let's kick this guy's ass" Jenna commented.
I smirked.
We decided to wait out until morning before we went to go pay Drakov a visit.
In the meantime, we were going to wait out on the roof top until the morning. Plus there was no likelihood that Drakov would be in the building at night.
The Next Morning.
The eight of us walked into the lobby where we were met by one man.
"Hey you can't be here! Leave or there will be consequences" the man said.
Logan just brandished his claws and stabbed the man in the throat.
We walked in.
There we were met by more thugs.
"Do these people never learn?" I asked.
"Nope" Jenna replied.
"No sympathy from me" Slade said as he drew his sword.
As they fired, Logan roared and stabbed one in the gut before spinning and stabbing the other through the head.
Slade spun around and cut a thug down in a rotary motion.
Frank took out his hammer and spun around, clubbing a guy in the throat, smashing his windpipe, and killing him instantly.
Nuke punched a man so hard, he went flying and when he hit the wall, he died instantly.
Jenna pulled an arrow out of her quiver and stabbed a guy through the eye.
I kicked a guy in a rotary motion before drawing an arrow and kicking it, where it impaled itself in a man's forehead.
Mack punched one thug in the face before pulling out a machine gun and gunning several others down.
Rory grabbed several thugs with his rags and threw them away.
Nuke grabbed one that was about to shoot Jenna and brought his back onto its knee, shattering it.
The eight of us then went upstairs.
As more thugs attacked us, Slade stabbed the first thug clean through the throat.
Frank drew his hammer and with a roar, smashed one thug's skull.
Mack pulled out a knife and rammed it into a thug's eye.
Rory shielded Jenna and I from bullets before grabbing two and hurling them into a wall.
Logan stabbed another through the gut.
Nuke grabbed another and head butted him, shattering the thug's skull.
Some automated turrets that appeared out of nowhere fired at us and we dodged.
"Oh fuck off already" I muttered with irritation.
I drew an explosive arrow and fired at them, causing two of them to explode.
"Where's General Drakov?" I interrogated a wounded thug.
"Fuck off and die asshole" he replied.
Frank pulled a gun out and shot him in the leg.
"You son of a-"
Frank grabbed him by the hair and slammed his face into the floor.
"Ah! Behind that door!" the man cried out.
Nuke shot the man point blank in the face with its shotgun.
The thug went flying back a few metres as his face turned into a bloodied mess.
Slade kicked open the door.
Waiting on the other side were five people.
Logan's eyes widened in horror as he recognized one of them.
The man was tall, and was wearing a flannel shirt with a trenchcoat.
"Victor?" he asked.
"It's me Jimmy, or Logan as you prefer nowadays" Victor Creed aka Sabretooth said.
One of the others wore black robes with metal gauntlets on his hands and had a blue dragon drawn on the front of his robes.
"I actually never thought you'd make it here. But its all for nothing" the man said in a Japanese accent.
"Who the hell are you?" Mack asked.
"My name is Itto Yamura. I am called the Blue Talon and I am here to kill you" the man said as he looked at us with indifference.
"Not today man" Rory quipped.
"And who are you morons?" I asked the other three.
One was a tall man with a shield.
Another was a dark skinned woman who looked dangerous.
And the third was a beautiful young red haired woman with some sort of firing device on her wrist.
"I am Kodiak" The shield man said.
"Call me Red Dart" the red haired woman said.
The dark skinned woman simply signed in sign language but thanks to Nyssa teaching me sign language, I recognized that she said "Silencer".
"Where's Drakov?" I asked.
"Oh he's kind of busy right now. But we have time to fit you into our schedule" Kodiak said as we all began circling each other.
"Get the fuck out of our way or die" Frank growled.
"Yeah, in case you haven't noticed, there's 8 of us and 5 of you" Rory said mockingly.
"Just 5?" Victor said as the doors burst open and a dozen thugs entered.
"Now we're even" Red Dart quipped.
I drew my sword.
Then the fighting began.
Rory and Jenna engaged the thugs.
Frank and Slade engaged Blue Talon in combat.
Logan, Mack and Nuke attacked Sabretooth.
That left me with Kodiak, Silencer and Red Dart.
I dodged a projectile that Red Dart fired at me and Kodiak leapt at me.
I barely dodged Kodiak as his shield nearly bashed me in the face.
Suddenly all sound in the room stopped.
I mean literally I couldn't hear a single thing.
Silencer was looking at me and smirking.
So she was clearly a metahuman.
I didn't hear anything which gave Kodiak an opportunity to bash me with his shield.
Unfortunately, his shield had blades on it, so my face was cut open and bleeding.
Red Dart kicked me in the chest, sending me to the floor.
This was not going well for me.
I climbed to my feet.
The sound was still out, so that made fighting fifty times more difficult.
Sabretooth kicked Mack in the chest before blocking a strike from Nuke.
Logan leapt with his claws.
"Why are you doing this Victor?" Logan demanded.
"I simply work for Drakov. And you sure as hell aint getting past me" Victor chuckled before slashing Logan with his claws.
Blue Talon kicked Frank in the knee, which sent him stumbling backwards while Slade slashed at him in a rotary motion.
Blue Talon swayed before sending a punch which Slade blocked.
Logan managed to stab Sabretooth in the thigh and Nuke punched him back.
Slade managed to cut Blue Talon on the arm and Mack leapt and kicked him in the face.
The sound returned all of a sudden and I saw Silencer panting.
I guess she couldn't hold it for very long.
Kodiak grabbed me by the throat and threw me across the room, where I went skidding.
I staggered to my feet as all 3 of them rushed me.
I blocked an attack from Red Dart and ducked under a shield strike from Kodiak.
Silencer drew a knife from underneath her jacket and threw it at me.
It impaled me in the shoulder and I grunted in pain.
"Fall back now!" I heard Sabretooth shout.
The 3 of them along with Sabretooth and Blue Talon ran towards the elevator.
It closed and they went up.
I staggered.
Only one thug was still alive.
His leg however had been blown off.
How I don't know.
"Who the hell are those guys?" I interrogated him.
"Sabretooth and Blue Talon work for my boss General Drakov. Kodiak, Red Dart and Silencer are a group called the Longbow Hunters. The Longbow Hunters were hired by Drakov for extra protection. You have no chance against them" the thug said with a smirk.
"Thanks for your cooperation" Frank said before grabbing the thug and throwing him into a ceiling fan that was operating.
The fan tore the man to pieces.
I hit the elevator button and we all crammed into the elevator.
It opened up and many thugs were waiting for us.
We attacked them all, with Nuke firing its shotgun.
Mack punched one guy in the face before taking his gun and shooting several other thugs down.
Frank pulled his hammer and smashed a man's face in.
Logan stabbed and slashed many thugs' down.
Slade cut down any who tried to fight him.
I duel wielded my bow and sword together.
Jenna fired her last few arrows and Rory grabbed thugs and tossed them aside.
Soon all the thugs were brutally killed.
Logan suddenly pushed Frank out the way as a spiked shield hit him in the side of the head and he went flying.
The shield bounced off the walls and returned to its owner; Kodiak.
Logan got up and growled as the wounds in his head healed.
I surveyed my enemies briefly.
We then ran to engage our enemies in battle.
Nuke punched Sabretooth which caused the mutant to stumble back.
Slade slashed at Blue Talon but he dodged and slugged him hard.
Fortunately, I was behind him and I caught him before pushing him back.
Silencer caused all sound to cancel out once again.
I turned and ran at her before flip-kicking her in the head.
She staggered back and I slashed her arm with my sword.
Sound returned to the room at that moment.
I heard a whistling sound and instinctively, I spun around, cutting a dart out the air.
Red Dart rushed to engage me.
We traded viscous blows but I had the upper hand and slammed her face onto my knee, breaking her nose and knocking her out cold.
Silencer grabbed me and put me in a headlock.
I tried to struggle out but it was nearly impossible.
I grabbed an arrow from my waist and slammed it through my chest and into hers.
It hurt a lot.
She stumbled back, and I knocked her out with a flying kick.
I then pulled the arrow out as I knew my wound would heal in a few minutes.
Rory and Mack were currently fighting Kodiak.
They had managed to disarm him of his shield and were fighting him hand to hand.
Jenna fired an arrow into his shoulder, which sent an electrical discharge, knocking him out.
Logan grabbed Blue Talon and slammed his claws into his throat.
The man gurgled and died painfully, his body slumping to the floor.
Slade blocked a strike from Sabretooth with his gauntlet covered arm and spun in a rotary motion, decapitating the mutant.
His headless body dropped to the floor with a thud.
We then walked into the office up ahead.
A large man with a ponytail, grey beard and a general's uniform was sitting in his office calmly.
"So Blue Talon and Sabretooth are dead and the Longbow Hunters are defeated. Impressive" Drakov noted.
"Yeah, kicked the shit out of them" Jenna said with a smirk.
"And you're going to do the same thing to me?" he asked.
"Nah, maybe throw you out the window" I said in my modulated voice.
"You think I am behind all this?" he asked as he looked at us.
"Well duh, your Yakuza man confessed the entire thing" I pointed out.
"I did not order the nuke to be stolen" Drakov said.
Okay, this was confusing.
"He's not lying" Logan said.
I wondered how he knew though.
"Then who did?" Jenna asked.
"I do not know. But you killed my men and it is time to die" Drakov said and rose.
Oh shit.
Drakov moved with superhuman speed and slugged Mack hard.
He hit the ground and lay there for a few seconds.
Seriously?
Were there no non super powered people in this Multiverse?
Frank moved to engage him but Drakov kicked him in chest and he went flying.
I tried to kick Drakov in a rotary motion but the man dodged my attack and hit me in the ribs.
I herd it crack as the pain shot through my body.
Logan roared and leapt only for Drakov to catch him by the throat.
He then threw Logan out of the window.
I heard him slam into a car below extremely hard.
I winced.
That must have hurt a lot.
Nuke punched Drakov back and he staggered.
He glared at us hatefully.
"Very impressive. But this will not be the last time we meet. I will have my revenge. For the glory of Russia!" Drakov snarled.
He then threw down a flashbang grenade.
He was gone.
Well so much for that lead.
At least we found out that Drakov was not behind this.
"Well this didn't turn out quite the way we expected. We still are no closer to finding out who is behind this" I said.
We walked out the building and found Logan, who looked incredibly pissed.
"Where is he?" he snarled.
"Gone. He escaped. We now need to figure out what's going on" I said.
Some serious shit was about to go down.
And Chapter 22 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
I hope you enjoyed the restaurant fight against the Yakuza and the fight against Sabretooth, Blue Talon and the Longbow Hunters.
For those of you wondering, the Longbow Hunters are from Arrow but exist in the MCU in this trilogy.
I killed off Sabretooth and Blue Talon as I have no further use for them in this trilogy.
I left the Longbow Hunters alive as this will not be the last time we'll see them. They will show up again in my version of the Black Widow film in the sequel.
And for those wondering, Drakov is the man whose daughter Loki mentioned when he was talking to Natasha in The Avengers. I thought it would be a good idea to introduce him here. In this trilogy, he is part of the Red Room. He will show up again in my version of the Black Widow film as one of the main villains.
In the comics the Black Widows were all enhanced with Russian super serums so I wouldn't be surprised if the generals in the Red Room were also injected with the same serum.
Next chapter will return to Tripp, Morris, Nico and Shang Chi.
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