In the exact second before they collide, everything becomes quiet. The
birds that haven't decided to leave New York forever stop chirping. The
wind stops. Redpool finally shuts up for second, thank God. All I can hear
is my heartbeat.
And then they collide.
Thor's hammer and the beast's fist meet with incredible force, sending out a shockwave through the air, shattering windows and even knocking me back.
"There, show the God of Thunder your full might!" Thor says, as the two clash again, the earth beneath them cracking. "Bring all thou could possess and more, Thor will match you!" The monster shoots his hand forward and grabs Thor's hammer by the head, pulling it. Bad idea. Nobody but nobody touches Thor's hammer and gets away with it. "Thou wouldst dare lay impure hands upon sacred metal? Well and good! Grasp hands upon mighty Mjolnir..." Thor says, as the monster's whole body turns pure white with lightning. "...And feel power's true nature!" Thor reels back with his spare hand and smacks the monster straight on it's jaw, sending it flying into the air.
"Why dost thou take flight?!" I could be wrong, but I think that was Thor's version of a taunt. Thor is cracking wise. That's a sign the world's coming to an end. Not good. "So quickly didst thou sully hands on Mjolnir's head and feel the might of Asgard's warden son!" Thor starts to swirl the hammer above his head, drawing more lightning into with each swing. "Come, taste it yet again!" He tosses Mjolnir straight into the air, crashing into the monster's chest and demolishing yet another building. New York is starting to look like New Jersey.
"Whaddaya know." Redpool says. "Fabio kicketh much asseth."
"Of course he does." I say, as Thor's hammer returns to him. "He's Thor. He eats thunder and craps lightning. Literally. This guy doesn't stand a chance in-" The monster shrugs off the tons of rubble like it was nothing. Except for the hammer mark in his chest, he's looking pretty good, and he's glowing more than ever. "-Hello."
The monster begins to laugh, the sound making me wish I'd just fell into unconscious when he nicked me instead of staying awake like a good little superhero.
"Cackling brute!" Oh boy, blondie's mad now. Leaving the area is becoming an increasingly good idea. "You would deride me with scornful laught? Damn your soul, if indeed you have one to be damned! The maggots will gorge upon your rotted flesh!"
"Will you shut the Hell up and hit the guy!" Redpool calls out, covering his ears as the laughing gets louder. "Ears...Bleeding...Losing...Mind...Man-essence...Shriveling...Beat his ass already!"
The monster stops laughing and goes back into his berserker mode, breaking out what must pass for a war cry in whatever crazy universe he comes from. He digs his hand into the street and rips out a huge chunk of concrete, hurling it at Thor.
"Thou wouldst seek to assail the God of Thunder with such a paltry attack?" Thor says, charging up his hammer as the mass of rock closes in. "Folly, and nothing more!" Thor slams his hammer into the concrete, shattering it to pebbles in a single blow. Before he can make another move, the monster leaps at him and tackles him to the ground, beating on him furiously and laughing some more as his body glows even more.
"Off!" Thor says, as he grabs hold off the beasts arm and yanks him to the ground, reversing positions. "Ravenous thing! Allow Mjolnir to sate the murderous appetite within!" Thor brings the hammer down right into the monster's face, sending a resounding crack through the air. Normally, taking a hammer to the face like that would be a knockout for just about anyone on the planet, with the exception of the Hulk in extremely-pissed- off mode (which he's in just about all the time.) But instead of going out, this guy just gets even more ticked, reaching up and grabbing Thor around the neck. The thunder just starts wailing him in the face, but each blow just seems to do less and less the creature, and soon he's back on his feet and throttling the life out of Thor.
"That tears it!" Captain America says, reeling back with his shield for another throw. Before he can throw, a lightning bolt shoots out from Thor's hammer and crashing a few yards away from the Avengers.
"No!" Thor says, as he begins to pry the monster hand from his neck, slowly but surely working him back. "I proclaimed that this creature would fall by my hands, and by Odin's eye, Thor's word will ring true!" Thor pushes the monster back and slams his hammer into its neck, getting a very satisfying cry of pain from him and staggering him. Lifting his hammer into the sky and grabbing the monster by his hair, Thor takes off into the sky, dragging the beast along with him, the both of them disappearing into the sky.
"What the hell?" Redpool calls out, as if Thor can hear him. "What's he doing
I shake my head. "You do realize that Thor could turn you into crispy critters just be looking at you hard, don't you? You really don't want to get on Thor's bad side."
"Hey, Spidey. Do you hear that? Listen close." I don't hear anything. "It's the sound of me not giving a damn." He looks up into the sky. "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! No, scratch that, it's a plane! No, nope, wait it's...Holy %@!#, it's coming this way!" The monster's body comes screeching out of the sky, and I grab idiot boy just as the building we were on is smashed to pieces, adding to the layer of rubble on the street.
Despite being launched out of orbit and plowed into the ground, somehow he still managed to live, shaking off the rubble and roaring defiantly into the sky's, as if to curse Thor. BIG mistake.
Thor's hammer comes flying out of the sky and strikes him in the back, the blow bringing the beast to his knees, howling. Lightning comes from the sky into the hammer, massive amounts of electricity pouring into it's body. The cosmic energy inside the freak tries to fight it back, but the lightning overcomes it and flows into the monsters, it's body writhing as Thor unleashes his full power. The beast lets out a final scream (hopefully it's death scream) and the area around it becomes engulfed in power, waves of it blowing out.
The power hits me like a wall, knocking Redpool out of my hands and send us both flying. "Hang on!"
"What the hell am I supposed to hang on to?" We both crash through the window of some apartment building. I land on very comfortable wooden table (sarcasm, by the way), crashing through it and getting a table leg stuck in a very uncomfortable place. Redpool landed on a very comfortable couch (not sarcasm, by the way). Life just isn't fair sometimes.
Redpool gets up first, as I pull myself out of the floor. "Hey, they have those 'Precious Moments' dolls!" Redpool says, reaching slowly for his gun. "Their eyes...Staring at me evilly like some...Evil staring thing. Die." Before he can fire, he's distracted by something outside. "Whoa...Check it out."
I limp over to the window, and see the most glorius thing I've seen all day:
It's dead. Finally.
Thor slowly descends from the sky, looking pretty wrecked up, but no worse than his opponent.
"Easy there, big guy." Iron Man says, hovering up to help to help Thor on his way down.
"Mjolnir, to my hand." Thor says, as his hammer flies out of the wreck and back to its master. "If combat so intense is to be had again, I shall not join it in haste; truly such combat is rare, e'en to an Avenger."
Iron Man sets Thor back on the ground, but as soon as he gets on his own two feet, he stumbles back a bit. "Whoa there!" She-Hulk says, grabbing Thor under his arms and helping him stay straight. "A little tired, Thor?"
"Aye, I smote the beast, but it took great power to do so. I sense some otherworldly poison coursing through my veins. Fear not, tis a slight malady; it shall pass."
"Glad to hear it." She-Hulk says. "Say, you're not going to throw up on me or anything, ARE? "
"Nay."
"Good, because, no offense, I don't really need the puke of the gods getting-"She-Hulk stops in mid-sentence, and suddenly all the Avengers turn to the beast's body, speechless. I really don't want to look, but I do anyway, and what I see is the monster getting back on his feet like he wasn't just dead a minute ago, with a red aura glowing around him to boot.
Hawkeye hooks one of his arrows, looking at the scene with as much disbelief as the others. "Okay, I'll admit I've got a short memory, but wasn't that thing dead a minute ago."
"Aye, and it will be dead again!" Thor says, tearing himself away from She- Hulk and sending a lightning bolt in the beast's direction. The lighting crackles through the air, hits the monster right on it's chest...And does nothing.
"Not good." I whisper, joining in disbelief with the Avengers.
Thor throws another lightning bolt, but it has the same effect as the last one. "What trickery is this?!"
"No trickery, Thor." The surfer says. "I suspected my power would have unique affects on him, but this was unforeseen. His body seems to have inherent resurrection properties, and the power cosmic is only augmenting that."
"Hold the phone!" Hawkeye says. "You mean to tell me every time we kill this thing, it just comes back like nothing happened to it?!"
"More than that. Judging from its recently gained immunity to Thor's electric strikes, it seems to develop a resistance to whatever killed it in its prior incarnation."
"So what you're saying is, he can't be killed the same way twice?" Quicksilver says.
"Precisely."
"No matter!" Thor says. "If he rises a thousand times, I will slay him a thousand times more!" The monster leaps into the air, coming down on them with red energy flaring over it's body.
Iron Man's hands begin to glow, as he and the other Avengers prepare for the worst. "Can I quote you on that, Thor?"
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And then they collide.
Thor's hammer and the beast's fist meet with incredible force, sending out a shockwave through the air, shattering windows and even knocking me back.
"There, show the God of Thunder your full might!" Thor says, as the two clash again, the earth beneath them cracking. "Bring all thou could possess and more, Thor will match you!" The monster shoots his hand forward and grabs Thor's hammer by the head, pulling it. Bad idea. Nobody but nobody touches Thor's hammer and gets away with it. "Thou wouldst dare lay impure hands upon sacred metal? Well and good! Grasp hands upon mighty Mjolnir..." Thor says, as the monster's whole body turns pure white with lightning. "...And feel power's true nature!" Thor reels back with his spare hand and smacks the monster straight on it's jaw, sending it flying into the air.
"Why dost thou take flight?!" I could be wrong, but I think that was Thor's version of a taunt. Thor is cracking wise. That's a sign the world's coming to an end. Not good. "So quickly didst thou sully hands on Mjolnir's head and feel the might of Asgard's warden son!" Thor starts to swirl the hammer above his head, drawing more lightning into with each swing. "Come, taste it yet again!" He tosses Mjolnir straight into the air, crashing into the monster's chest and demolishing yet another building. New York is starting to look like New Jersey.
"Whaddaya know." Redpool says. "Fabio kicketh much asseth."
"Of course he does." I say, as Thor's hammer returns to him. "He's Thor. He eats thunder and craps lightning. Literally. This guy doesn't stand a chance in-" The monster shrugs off the tons of rubble like it was nothing. Except for the hammer mark in his chest, he's looking pretty good, and he's glowing more than ever. "-Hello."
The monster begins to laugh, the sound making me wish I'd just fell into unconscious when he nicked me instead of staying awake like a good little superhero.
"Cackling brute!" Oh boy, blondie's mad now. Leaving the area is becoming an increasingly good idea. "You would deride me with scornful laught? Damn your soul, if indeed you have one to be damned! The maggots will gorge upon your rotted flesh!"
"Will you shut the Hell up and hit the guy!" Redpool calls out, covering his ears as the laughing gets louder. "Ears...Bleeding...Losing...Mind...Man-essence...Shriveling...Beat his ass already!"
The monster stops laughing and goes back into his berserker mode, breaking out what must pass for a war cry in whatever crazy universe he comes from. He digs his hand into the street and rips out a huge chunk of concrete, hurling it at Thor.
"Thou wouldst seek to assail the God of Thunder with such a paltry attack?" Thor says, charging up his hammer as the mass of rock closes in. "Folly, and nothing more!" Thor slams his hammer into the concrete, shattering it to pebbles in a single blow. Before he can make another move, the monster leaps at him and tackles him to the ground, beating on him furiously and laughing some more as his body glows even more.
"Off!" Thor says, as he grabs hold off the beasts arm and yanks him to the ground, reversing positions. "Ravenous thing! Allow Mjolnir to sate the murderous appetite within!" Thor brings the hammer down right into the monster's face, sending a resounding crack through the air. Normally, taking a hammer to the face like that would be a knockout for just about anyone on the planet, with the exception of the Hulk in extremely-pissed- off mode (which he's in just about all the time.) But instead of going out, this guy just gets even more ticked, reaching up and grabbing Thor around the neck. The thunder just starts wailing him in the face, but each blow just seems to do less and less the creature, and soon he's back on his feet and throttling the life out of Thor.
"That tears it!" Captain America says, reeling back with his shield for another throw. Before he can throw, a lightning bolt shoots out from Thor's hammer and crashing a few yards away from the Avengers.
"No!" Thor says, as he begins to pry the monster hand from his neck, slowly but surely working him back. "I proclaimed that this creature would fall by my hands, and by Odin's eye, Thor's word will ring true!" Thor pushes the monster back and slams his hammer into its neck, getting a very satisfying cry of pain from him and staggering him. Lifting his hammer into the sky and grabbing the monster by his hair, Thor takes off into the sky, dragging the beast along with him, the both of them disappearing into the sky.
"What the hell?" Redpool calls out, as if Thor can hear him. "What's he doing
I shake my head. "You do realize that Thor could turn you into crispy critters just be looking at you hard, don't you? You really don't want to get on Thor's bad side."
"Hey, Spidey. Do you hear that? Listen close." I don't hear anything. "It's the sound of me not giving a damn." He looks up into the sky. "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! No, scratch that, it's a plane! No, nope, wait it's...Holy %@!#, it's coming this way!" The monster's body comes screeching out of the sky, and I grab idiot boy just as the building we were on is smashed to pieces, adding to the layer of rubble on the street.
Despite being launched out of orbit and plowed into the ground, somehow he still managed to live, shaking off the rubble and roaring defiantly into the sky's, as if to curse Thor. BIG mistake.
Thor's hammer comes flying out of the sky and strikes him in the back, the blow bringing the beast to his knees, howling. Lightning comes from the sky into the hammer, massive amounts of electricity pouring into it's body. The cosmic energy inside the freak tries to fight it back, but the lightning overcomes it and flows into the monsters, it's body writhing as Thor unleashes his full power. The beast lets out a final scream (hopefully it's death scream) and the area around it becomes engulfed in power, waves of it blowing out.
The power hits me like a wall, knocking Redpool out of my hands and send us both flying. "Hang on!"
"What the hell am I supposed to hang on to?" We both crash through the window of some apartment building. I land on very comfortable wooden table (sarcasm, by the way), crashing through it and getting a table leg stuck in a very uncomfortable place. Redpool landed on a very comfortable couch (not sarcasm, by the way). Life just isn't fair sometimes.
Redpool gets up first, as I pull myself out of the floor. "Hey, they have those 'Precious Moments' dolls!" Redpool says, reaching slowly for his gun. "Their eyes...Staring at me evilly like some...Evil staring thing. Die." Before he can fire, he's distracted by something outside. "Whoa...Check it out."
I limp over to the window, and see the most glorius thing I've seen all day:
It's dead. Finally.
Thor slowly descends from the sky, looking pretty wrecked up, but no worse than his opponent.
"Easy there, big guy." Iron Man says, hovering up to help to help Thor on his way down.
"Mjolnir, to my hand." Thor says, as his hammer flies out of the wreck and back to its master. "If combat so intense is to be had again, I shall not join it in haste; truly such combat is rare, e'en to an Avenger."
Iron Man sets Thor back on the ground, but as soon as he gets on his own two feet, he stumbles back a bit. "Whoa there!" She-Hulk says, grabbing Thor under his arms and helping him stay straight. "A little tired, Thor?"
"Aye, I smote the beast, but it took great power to do so. I sense some otherworldly poison coursing through my veins. Fear not, tis a slight malady; it shall pass."
"Glad to hear it." She-Hulk says. "Say, you're not going to throw up on me or anything, ARE? "
"Nay."
"Good, because, no offense, I don't really need the puke of the gods getting-"She-Hulk stops in mid-sentence, and suddenly all the Avengers turn to the beast's body, speechless. I really don't want to look, but I do anyway, and what I see is the monster getting back on his feet like he wasn't just dead a minute ago, with a red aura glowing around him to boot.
Hawkeye hooks one of his arrows, looking at the scene with as much disbelief as the others. "Okay, I'll admit I've got a short memory, but wasn't that thing dead a minute ago."
"Aye, and it will be dead again!" Thor says, tearing himself away from She- Hulk and sending a lightning bolt in the beast's direction. The lighting crackles through the air, hits the monster right on it's chest...And does nothing.
"Not good." I whisper, joining in disbelief with the Avengers.
Thor throws another lightning bolt, but it has the same effect as the last one. "What trickery is this?!"
"No trickery, Thor." The surfer says. "I suspected my power would have unique affects on him, but this was unforeseen. His body seems to have inherent resurrection properties, and the power cosmic is only augmenting that."
"Hold the phone!" Hawkeye says. "You mean to tell me every time we kill this thing, it just comes back like nothing happened to it?!"
"More than that. Judging from its recently gained immunity to Thor's electric strikes, it seems to develop a resistance to whatever killed it in its prior incarnation."
"So what you're saying is, he can't be killed the same way twice?" Quicksilver says.
"Precisely."
"No matter!" Thor says. "If he rises a thousand times, I will slay him a thousand times more!" The monster leaps into the air, coming down on them with red energy flaring over it's body.
Iron Man's hands begin to glow, as he and the other Avengers prepare for the worst. "Can I quote you on that, Thor?"
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