I'm using the Enforcers as they were depicted in Ultimate Spiderman, as I don't know too much about their original selves.
The Battle of Bayville Part Three: New Allies, New Enemies
"We know who you are, remember?" Said Toad, "We fought you in New York City?"
"This time, the fight will kill you," sneered Electro, and hurled a bolt of electricity at him. Toad dodged out of the way, and Ray fired a blast of electricity back at Electro. Electro scoffed, and simply turned the bolt on Peter. Peter yelled in agony as the electricity coursed through his metal body.
"Is that the best you can do?" Sneered Electro, "You were tougher the last time we fought." He turned his electricity on Logan. Logan, despite the agony of having the electricity course through his adamantium bones, stood his ground, and actually advanced slowly towards Electro. Realizing the danger, Electro turned his bolts on the Professor, forcing Wolverine to leap away from Electro, and push Charles out of the way.
Then Hank's foot connected solidly with Electro's jaw, and Electro sank to the ground.
"That's one problem taken care of," said Beast.
"And one more fighter unable to fight," said Hawk, "At this rate all of us will be missing or incapacitated by the time this fight is over.
Meanwhile, on a hill overlooking the Institute…
"Pretty impressive," muttered a man wearing a cowboy hat and carrying a whip.
"You losing your nerve Montana?"
"Shut your mouth Ox," snapped Montana, "Fancy Dan, you got a bead on the telepath?"
"I can take him out now."
"I wouldn't advise it." All three spun around to see a man dressed entirely in red, with two intersecting D's on his chest. He was wearing a mask, topped with small horns.
"Daredevil," sneered Ox, "You stepped off your turf. Big mistake." He swung at Daredevil. Daredevil neatly sidestepped the attack, and hit Fancy Dan's knuckles with his billy club. Dan swore and dropped the gun. He quickly brought the gun in his other hand to bear on Daredevil. At the same time Montana curled his whip around Daredevil's neck, and yanked sharply.
Mentally cursing himself for not paying enough attention to Montana, Daredevil brought a hand up, and yanked on the whip, sending Montana flying into Dan.
Then he whirled out of the way as Ox tried to hit him again. Daredevil kicked Ox in the chest. Ox stumbled back, but only a few steps. Then he came at Daredevil again.
This time Daredevil kicked him in the stomach, and at the same time slammed his billy club into Ox's forehead. Ox stumbled back again, and this time Daredevil didn't give him time to recover, but instead, kicked him in the neck, finally felling him.
Fancy Dan had recovered his guns, and started shooting. Daredevil rolled out of the way, and kicked Dan's feet out from underneath him. Then he punched him in the jaw, laying him out flat.
Montana tried to attack him again, but this time, Daredevil caught the whip, and yanked it forwards, pulling Montana with it, and bringing him within range of Daredevil's fists. A few seconds later Montana fell. By that time, Toad and Roberto had mounted the hill.
"Who are you?" Asked Toad.
"A friend," said Daredevil, "watch your back. Kingpin's upping the ante. Elektra was sprung from prison this morning. There's an Irish hitman named Bullseye flying into the country, and suddenly the Rhino's stopped making waves." And with that he leapt backwards off the summit of the hill, and was gone.
"Althea," whispered Toad. Without another word he ran towards downtown Bayville.
Althea awoke. She tried to open her eyelids, but found herself unable. Then she tried to move her arms, again, unable. Besides breathing, and other such movements, she was completely unable to move.
"Open your eyes," commanded Darkshadow, from somewhere to her left. This time, despite her best efforts to keep them closed, in order to spite Darkshadow, they appeared to open of their own accord.
"On the back of your neck is a small device, which has usurped complete control of your motor functions. In short you're mine to control. Now, you're probably wondering what I could possibly have planned."
Althea was silent, not merely out of an attempt to anger Darkshadow, but because she literally had no choice in the matter.
"Your boyfriend has something that I want. Last time I tried to take it, I almost got killed. This time, I have decided to take a somewhat less direct approach. You see, if I was to command you to do something, you would use every skill and power you possess to accomplish that task. You will die, trying to complete it. Now listen closely."
"Where is she, damn it!" Shouted Toad, shaking a dazed Cobra officer. Toad was standing on the roof of a large multistory building, and dangling the officer over the edge.
"I-I swear, I don't know who you're talking about."
"Althea," snarled Toad, "Where is Althea?"
Althea stalked across a building, still not in control of her movements. She saw Toad in the distance, and changed direction.
"Don't play games with me," growled Toad, "The FoH never would have managed to get Al. So that leaves you. Now tell me, where is she!"
Althea landed silently on a building next to the one Toad was on. She drew a sword attached to a belt on her waist.
"This is your last chance," said Toad, "Then I'm going to go find a more cooperative source of information, and let you fall. Where is Althea?"
Althea approached Toad from behind, sword drawn.
Toad let go of the man with one hand.
Althea swung the sword.
Some sixth sense told Toad he was in danger. Without thinking he threw the man backwards, knocking Althea temporarily off balance. She quickly recovered and charged him again. Toad leapt aside, rolling as he hit the roof, and quickly getting back to his feet.
"Al, what are you doing?"
"Darkshadow sends his regards!" She charged him again. Toad dodged, and kicked the sword out of her hand, catching it in his own. She quickly drew a second sword.
Now that Toad could actually defend himself, Althea acted more cautiously. She slowly circled him, but he turned so his back was never to her. Then she charged again. Toad blocked every move she made, but he was fighting purely defensively. As a result, he was slowly driven back to the edge of the building. Althea locked swords with him, trying to tip him over the edge.
"Al, I know you're still in there somewhere! You've got to fight him!"
Althea scoffed, and kicked Toad in the stomach. Toad stumbled back, lost his footing and slipped over the side of the building.
The Master stood on a high cliff and shouted at Hulk, "If you ever want to see Betsy Ross again, you will come alone to Bayville, and speak to my associates the X-men!" And with that he hurried away, lest the Hulk retaliate. The Hulk stared after him for a moment, and then leapt towards Bayville. The Master laughed, "The fool! Thinking that I actually had Betsy! HAHAHAHAHA!"
A few hours later Hulk landed outside the town.
"Great," quipped Kurt, "Just what we needed." Hulk's eyes flicked towards the X on Kurt's uniforms.
"X-men kidnap Betsy! Hulk smash!" He roared and charged Kurt.
Kurt leapt up, onto Hulk's head and teleported him away from the town, at the same time hitting his communicator and yelling, "We've got trouble! The big green variety!" Hulk tried to grab Kurt, but Kurt managed to evade his hands and teleported Hulk several times in rapid succession, hoping to daze him. It worked, somewhat. Hulk was not unconscious, but he stumbled about somewhat, trying to get his bearings.
Xavier sat in the center of the Danger room, with Wolverine standing at the door to make sure that no one would break Xavier's concentration. Xavier reached out with his mind, and touched Hulk's. The pure, savage bestiality shocked Xavier for a moment, but he reached again into the Hulk's mind, looking for Bruce Banner's psyche, and bringing it to the surface.
Hulk clutched his head, and then looked dazedly about at the wreckage he had strewn about.
"What's happening to me? I'm the Hulk, but, I'm me as well, and at the same time. This is very odd. Very odd indeed."
Kurt looked up from the ground where he had dove to avoid Hulk's strike, and said, "Well I for one am not complaining."
Bruce Banner, with the strength of the Hulk proved to be an enormous asset to the X-men. Cobra and the FoH simply could not stand against him. Destro, commanding the Cobra forces from outside the town quickly realized this and ordered his men to begin withdrawal. Personally, he was thankful to be able to get out before the silver clad specter attacked him again. So absorbed was he with this thought, that he did not notice that same man watching him enter his helicopter. As it began to take off, the Silver Samurai ran towards it, and leaping managed to make it into the passenger area. Destro grabbed a gun, and began firing at him, but the Silver Samurai deflected the bullets with his sword, and then advanced on Destro. Destro leapt backwards out of the helicopter, and pressed a small button. The helicopter exploded, but not before an android indistinguishable by casual sight from Destro leapt out as well.
"Hmm," smirked Destro, "That was rather anticlimactic." And with that he pulled the ripcord and his parachute billowed out, as he pressed
Road Pig lifted his rocket launcher and watched as Destro landed in a grove of trees. He then fired. Destro hurled himself to the ground. The rocket whizzed over his head and detonated some distance away.
"Damn it!" Swore Road Pig, then, "A most unfortunate turn of events."
"I'll get him," said Torch over the communicator. Standing a distance away he fired his flamethrower, igniting the entire grove. "All right, Road Pig, finish him off."
Road Pig grinned and fired a second rocket, this time onto into the ring of fire caused by Torch. Monkeywrench then finished the job by lobbing several grenades into the area. When the fire finally died down, some time later, Destro was lying motionless on the ground. Buzzer cautiously approached him, and removed the helmet.
"Damn it!" He swore, "It ain't him, it's an android. The real Destro must have landed somewhere else."
"Let's just hope he didn't see us try to fry his imitation," said Zartan, stepping out of the shadows.
"Yes, let's." Replied Road Pig, "Uhh, yeah!"
Lance awoke groggily, and found himself trapped to an operating table, with a restraining collar around his neck, and a small wristband around his left wrist. A man wearing a ridiculously tall helmet, which nevertheless served to conceal his face, noticed he was awake.
"You may as well go back to sleep, it's gonna be a while before we get to base. Normally we would have flown back to base, and been there by now, but the boss wanted you to feel comfortable, so we're driving. Relax kid, you're with AIM now. You work with us, and we'll make you're life a whole lot easier."
The unspoken threat was clear. Work against us, and you'll regret it.
Althea stepped to the side of the building and peered over the edge. There was no sign of Toad. She turned to go back to Darkshadow's lair, but Toad leapt back over the edge, from where he had been concealing himself under a window ledge. Althea whirled about as soon as she heard the noise, and lunged at him. Toad blocked her sword with his own and attacked. The fight raged back and forth, Toad blocking all of Althea's attempts to break through his guard. Then, beginning to tire and realizing he had no other choice, he went on the offensive. Fortunately for Toad, it was no longer raining, and Althea couldn't gather water from a puddle without letting her guard down.
Then, unexpectedly, for both of them, Toad lunged, and Althea failed to block it. The sword went through her stomach, impaling her. She dropped to the ground.
"Noooooooooooooo!" Shouted Toad. Desperately, he picked Althea up, and slung her over his shoulders. Then he hopped towards the Institute.
He appeared like a wraith in what was left of the infirmary, and laid her down on one of the beds, turning to McCoy and saying, "Help her." Offering no further explanation, he bent over her and embraced her whispering.
"I swear Althea, it's Darkshadow or me this time."
