Part IV of IV: Earthquake
The mayor was having a nice, quiet time. He was getting far in his book and no one disturbed him. Suddenly he received a phone call, just as he heard a little rumbling.
"Hello, this is the mayor."
"You'd better turn on the news! Look!" The mayor switched on the TV and was shocked to see the ground ripping apart. Why had earthquakes been happening around New York? That was impossible! Then he remembered the earthquake device. It must have fallen into the wrong hands. He prepared for the worst.
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War Machine knew had to stop the earthquake device, but he also had to save many people along the way. He saw a car about to fall into the growing chasm. He swooped downwards, lifting the vehicle and flying it to safety. Now he thought about how to stop the quake. He groaned when he found the solution. Duh, Stark had told him that the machine could be stopped simply by pulling some levers and pushing some buttons in a certain combination.
War Machine flew back towards the plant. Once he got there he immediately went to work on the earthquake device. Iron Man couldn't help because he had almost been beaten to death. The Mandarin had left the scene to watch New York's destruction from the sky and the other villains were either unconscious or had disappeared themselves.
Pull the blue lever and then press the green button thought Jim Rhodes. He could clearly remember the first step. Now what was the next one? Pull the yellow lever and then press the blue button…no wait… the red button. War Machine knew that every second he spent was another second that the earthquake was nearing New York.
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The earthquake was almost at New York. The mayor prepared for the end as the inhabitants screamed and tried to flee. The Avengers and Spider-Man had come and helped save tons of endangered men, women, and children in the surrounding towns, but they had no idea how to stop the quake.
Henry Pym increased his size to hold up two cars full of injured people. The Wasp flew in between small holes in the rubble to find trapped people. Hawkeye shot a rope arrow and swung off a collapsing building with an old man. Captain America shielded himself from flying pieces of rubble.
"Wasp, this must be a result of the earthquake device at the Stark plant! Do you have any idea of how to stop it?"
"Sorry, Cap, none of us know, except for maybe Iron Man or War Machine.
A web-swinging superhero spotted a preschool girl in the path of the growing chasm. Spider-Man was knocked off balance by a swirling car and the little girl was about to be swallowed up when everything stopped. New York was saved! Now the heroes needed to find survivors amidst the ruins of the towns.
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War Machine sighed with relief. After pulling four levers and pressing six buttons, the quake had stopped. Now he went over to Iron Man. "Hey, Tony, are you all right?"
"I'll manage. Where's the Mandarin?"
"He escaped, and it seems that the Blizzard and Mr. Hyde have too. That's four out of seven Masters of Evil down. I'll bet the Mandarin is real mad now that his little urban renewal plan has been foiled.
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In his plane, the Mandarin roared in anger. "That accursed War Machine must have stopped New York from being destroyed!"
Event Mr. Hyde was shocked by the vicious yelling of his leader. The Blizzard was just annoyed and he finally got up and prepared to jump out on an ice-slide. "I'm cutting out, Fu Manchu. You can get yourself some new cronies."
The Blizzard left and soon it was only the Mandarin and Mr. Hyde. As their plane left the United States, the Mandarin shouted out his plans to form a new Masters of Evil. Hyde got sick of it and secretly escaped from the noise with a parachute. He could swim to the coast when he landed in the water.
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Tony Stark stepped up to the podium and spoke into the microphone. "The earthquake device will be dismantled and its pieces kept in heavily guarded vaults. This will be done due to stealing attempts made by many super-villains, including HYDRA, the Eel, and the Mandarin's Masters of Evil. It is my wish that no one attempts to recreate this machine and the Avengers have agreed to stop any such attempts. Thank you, that is all."
Tony met Jim and the two went out to dinner with two dates. The two armored superheroes deserved a good meal.
The End