Chapter 13.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
This chapter will begin the major canon divergence and will set up a new superhero team that will play a major role of sorts in defeating the Anti-Monitor.
Now, my version of Crisis on Infinite Earths won't follow the Arrowverse version at all except for drawing elements from it such as the Paragons, since I enjoyed the comic's version a lot more. And I also have much different plans for future story arcs as well. And I can confirm now, not EVERY fandom will be involved in COIE. The ones I can confirm are: Arrowverse, Smallville, MCU, DCEU, Lucifer, John Wick, Star Trek, Once Upon A Time and a few others.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed or favirouted this fic so far.
Disclaimer: I don't own Flash, Avengers, Star Trek 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 fic.
On with the show.
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Jason's POV.
Yep, I seem to get the worst luck.
I was calmly sharpening my knives in my quarters when I heard Lorca's voice boom through the speakers.
"Jason Stark to the Bridge!" Lorca said.
Now that might not seem out of the ordinary, but Lorca's voice was cold, almost like he was angry with me or something.
"On my way" I replied.
When I arrived on the bridge, everyone was there and were all looking at a holographic screen.
I felt a few deep glares on me that confused the heck out of me.
As I got closer, I saw that the screen was from Engineering and that it showed me.
I was busy smashing and destroying the spore containers and basically being human-sized Hulk.
What the hell was going on?
I'm pretty sure I never did that, unless I somehow sleep-walked and I have never done that.
When the footage was finished, Lorca turned to me with an angry look.
"Care to explain why you had to do that?" Lorca spoke, his eyes burning with questions that suppressed his anger.
"Yeah, I didn't do this" I tried to reason with everyone.
Lorca raised an eyebrow and a bitter snort escaped his lips.
"Quite the contrary from what you've just seen" Lorca replied.
"I've never been anywhere near Engineering today" I said.
Why the hell would Lorca think I would jeopardise everything?
"I invited you Jason Stark onto this ship to help us win this war, to work on our most vital asset and you do this?" he shook his head, anger leaking into his voice.
"Right now I'm trying to understand why you'd lie about it with evidence so clear"
Stammets looked at me with confusion and sympathy while Snart and Beck both looked like they wanted to protest.
"It'll take weeks to get this going. We won't be able to jump at all" Saru reported, with anger in his voice.
I was stunned to say the least.
"So Discovery has to be on the sidelines again until the drive is fixed. I can't have any complications so you'll be confined to your quarter's imiadetley and you'll stay there until told otherwise. You got that?" Lorca said.
"It's a bloody set-up, why would I do that?" I asked.
"Your privileges are being revoked as we speak and if you step out of line again, you'll be moved into the brig for as long as this war goes on for" Lorca continued and looked at Stammets.
I was so shocked at the moment; I didn't even register what Stammets was saying to me.
He calmly led me out of the Bridge and I looked at everyone's faces.
Everyone was looking at me with cold anger in there eyes.
Burnham and Tilly were looking at me with pity.
Beck was practically seething, his hands conjuring weapons of all sorts.
I was led towards my quarters which were being removed of all my weapons and suit as those could be used to escape.
"Are you okay?" Stammets asked me.
I gave him a look.
"Right, sorry. I'll be back ASAP" Stammets replied and moved out of the room.
When everyone was gone, I sat on my bed.
This was so not good.
That meant that whoever framed me was still on this ship.
A few of what felt like hours later and Saru entered the room.
"Commander Saru" I greeted trying to keep my voice neutral.
"I've come here to inform you of your duties for tomorrow" Saru said.
"I thought I was confined here?" I said in confusion.
"I am aware" Saru replied.
"You'll be going over the spore's coding and repairs" Saru informed me.
"You still want me to help you with the spore drive?" I asked in surprise.
"It wasn't up to me. It was only by Captain Lorca's orders" Saru said.
"What did you want me to do?" I asked.
"If it were up to me, you'd have nothing to do and be serving the remainder of your time in the brig. Damage was extensive" Saru replied.
Yeah this was so not good.
"I know you don't believe me have you considered the possibility that I didn't do it, and am being set up?" I asked.
"I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, you were caught on camera and I don't know why you are denying it" Saru replied.
"I didn't do it, and I'll prove I didn't do it" I gritted my teeth.
Saru nodded stiffly and exited the room.
I was sot tired right, now, I fell asleep instantly.
I woke up with a start a few hours later, to hear someone coming into my room.
I got off my bed and barely managed to dodge a knife swing, aimed at my head.
Great, now folks are trying to kill me. This is exactly what I needed.
I elbowed the man in a rotary motion, and ducked under a phaser shot.
I flip-kicked the man away and jumped up to avoid a knife throw.
I wrestled the knife away from another assailant and jammed it into his throat, killing him.
I broke the arm of another and threw him into a wall.
That's when I heard something roll into the room.
Looking down, I saw it was a grenade.
"You're kidding me" I deadpanned.
I kicked up a knife and threw it at the assailant, killing him before running from the room.
The grenade exploded and a hole was ripped into the ship.
I was yanked out of the hole, despite my best efforts and flung into space.
Turns out, no amount of super-soldier serum can save you from space.
I began choking; gasping for air, but there was none.
I was about 5 seconds from dying, when a beam of light caught me and I felt myself flying upwards.
I then passed out from lack of oxygen.
When I woke up, I was in a metal chamber.
The first thing I noticed was that I was on a cold, metal floor.
Groaning, I looked around to find I was in some kind of Shuttle Bay.
I coughed, trying to gather in as much air as possible.
I heard footsteps coming in and looked ahead to find a young dark-skinned woman dressed in jeans and a combat jacket standing at the entrance.
"Who are you?" I asked, still feeling weakened, but willing to put up a fight if neascary.
"Monica Rambeau. And you're Jason Stark, I know" she introduced herself.
"What do you want from me?" I asked.
"To help you. Come with me and the big boss will explain everything" Monica said.
"Who's the boss?" I asked as I got to my feet.
"You'll see" Monica replied with a smirk.
She led the way as we travelled across a winding ship that looked a lot like a fancy, super advanced Helicarier back on my Earth.
When we reached what I assumed was the cortex, 4 other people were standing and seated respectfully.
Two of them were green-skinned aliens with large pointy ears.
The third person, I recognized as my eyes widened.
It was Maria Hill, the Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. on my Earth.
The fourth person turned around and I also recognized him.
It was S.H.I.E.L.D. Director, Nick Fury.
"Fury?" I asked in shock.
"So nice to finally see you again Mr Stark" Fury said.
"What are you even doing here? I thought you were you know back on Earth, running S.H.I.E.L.D.?" I asked.
"Sit down please and everything will be explained" Fury said.
I took a seat at the round table.
"First off, these are two of my associates, Talos and Soren. They are members of a shape shifting alien race called the Skrulls. And you know Agent Hill and Agent Rambeau already" Fury gestured.
"So what exactly is this?" I asked.
"Welcome to S.W.O.R.D. It stands for "Sentient World Observation and Response Department". S.H.I.E.L.D. deals with domestic threats and S.W.O.R.D. handles extraterrestrial and interdimensional threats" Hill explained.
"How long as this been operational?" I asked.
"For quite a while" is all Fury said.
But this is Fury we're talking about, so no surprise there.
"Who framed me?" I asked the most important thing on my mind.
"Gabriel Lorca did" Fury said.
Okay what?
"Why would he do that?" I asked in shock.
"Because he knows that you pose a threat to his plans and he is willing to do anything to make sure you don't ruin those plans" Talos said.
Okay I knew he was shady, but I didn't think he would be willing to go this far.
"What plans?" I asked.
"Recently, we discovered that Lorca is not from this universe at all" Hill revealed.
"What!?" I exclaimed in shock.
"It's true. He's from Earth-2. He was a criminal who killed dozens of people and committed acts of terrorism. He somehow made his way over to this universe and killed the real Lorca, taking his identity. We think he may be using the spore-drive to find a way back to his universe" Hill explained.
"Oh boy. That actually explains a lot" I said.
"So what the hell do we do now?" I asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Well we need to travel to Earth-2. Your friends should probably arrive soon" Fury said.
I nodded.
This was a rough day for sure.
"And then we need to kill Lorca. Cause if he's still around when the Crisis happens, we're gonna be in some deep shit" Monica voiced.
I whirled on her.
"You know about the Crisis?" I asked her.
"Yes we do. There are 31 events that will somehow weave into the countdown to infinite Crisis" Soren explained.
"31? What events are these?" I asked.
"We don't know. All we know is that there are 31 events that will happen at some point between now and the Crisis and the only way we know of them is via 31 messages" Hill explained.
"Do we know what the messages say?" I asked.
"Only 4. Here they are" Hill said showing me a screen with 4 messages on it.
Fall of the Foundation.
Trio of Three End the Final Fantasy.
Master of the Force Rises One Final Time.
City Of The Queen-Mother.
Okay this was so odd; I don't even know what to say.
But I needed to table this for the current moment.
"How far from the breach are we?" Fury asked.
"Two light years" Hill replied.
"Punch it" Fury instructed.
The ship went into warp and we flew into the breach which was a blinding series of lights.
When we finished arriving, we were at a sector of space.
But it was littered with the remains of a destroyed moon.
"Looks like we're here" I noted.
"What now?" I asked.
"We wait for the Discovery to arrive" Hill said.
"Now until then, we have a job to do. You're coming with us" Fury said to me.
And Chapter 13 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
So Lorca has framed Jason. Given how much of a bastard he was, I wouldn't put it past him to do something like that.
And now S.W.O.R.D. has been introduced. The current line-up consists of Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Talos, Soren and Monica Rambeau.
And given how horrific the Mirror Universe was in the show, and how in the Arrowverse, Earth-2 was also horrific, I thought it would be a good idea for the Mirror Universe to be Earth-2.
Now we have 31 events that will tie into Crisis on Infinite Earths and you will see how when we get there in the sequel.
I hope you can guess what the lines mean. Try our best. If not, then you will have to wait and see.
BTW, "Fall of the Foundation" is related to the Scarlet King.
Next chapter will have Jason having dreams of various events and will have meeting other god-level beings.
And in the following chapter, S.W.O.R.D. will meet the crew of the USS Discovery.
Until next time, review, follow, faviroute, stay tuned and tell me what you think of this chapter.
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