Our world's about to break
tormented and attacked
Lost from when we wake
with no way to go back
I'm standing on my own
but Now I'm not alone
( AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE )
Always we will fight as one
Till the battle's won
With evil on the run
We never come undone
Assembled, we are strong
Forever fight as one
Assembled, we are strong
Forever fight as one
The following weeks, Jen and Arcee regularly came back to New-York and met various heroes : Spiderman, Daredevil, The fantastic Four, Luke Cage, Iron fist, White Tiger, Cloak and Dagger, Blade, A-bomb, Red Hulk, War Machine, Vision, Spider-woman, Black Widow, Falcon, Winter soldier, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Hercules, Ghost rider, Goliath, Doctor Strange, Songbird, Tigra, Wonder man, Mockingbird, Quake.
They had mixed feelings about Punisher and Moon knight. On one hand, they felt the two were too brutal ; On the other hand, they agreed that some criminals deserved nothing less than death.
They had to fight Hydra, Spidey's ennemies, Whiplash, Iron Monger, Blizzard, Griffin, Red Ghost and his super-apes, Mandrill, Radioactive-man, Baron Zemo, Crimson Dynamo, Grey Gargoyle, Chemistro, Living laser, Whirlwind, Serpent Society and Mole-man.
One of their mission was to play bodyguards to Doctor Doom, ruler of Latveria, while he was coming to a UN meeting in which Optimus also participated. After protecting the building from an attack of Hydra, Optimus and Jen accomplished the feat of earning respect from Doom. But no real thanks, we can't except too much miracles.
The two partners eventually had to fight Hulk's old ennemies such as Abomination, Absorbing Man, The Leader, Blastaar, Zzzzax and the U-Foes.
Jen even met her own rogue gallery : Titania, Volcana, the trio Abberration, Axon and Morass, and Thundra. Though the latter was more a friendly rival.
But one day, Thor had to go back to Asgard to defend it against an alliance of Frost Giants, dark elves and trolls while his father Odin was in the Odinsleep. But he came back two weeks later and beat up the Wrecking Crew to a point he would never do.
The Heroes tried to stop him but he held his own really good against them. Then he threw his hammer at Jen and she caught it, without being brought on the ground.
" Everyone ! It's not Thor ! It's an impostor ! " She yelled at them
So everyone stopped holding back but the impostor broke Goliath's neck, killing him. But Hercules then threw his fist through the impostor's chest, mortally wounding him.
With his dying breath, the false Thor revealed he was a clone created by Hank Pym, the first Ant-man, and Reed Richards.
Which brought us to this day where Jen and Arcee were patrolling in New-York while the other Heroes were discussing with the two scientists.
( Nemesis )
Megatron was thinking about taking advantage of Thor's departure and his revenge against Jen when Soundwave showed them something.
" A huge ship. And from Sakaar ? " Megatron asked, surprised
Soundwave nodded and showed them the ship's destination : New-York City
( New-York's streets )
" Too bad we are stuck on patrol duty, I would have loved to talk with those two idiots. " Jen said, cracking her knuckles on a roof .
" And so would I. " Arcee added, from the streets
Suddenly, Arcee was struck by a beam.
" Arcee ! " Jen yelled, turning towards the Beam's source
It was Titania holding some sort of blaster that continuously fired. Gammazone then jumped and landed on Titania, making her drop the blaster.
While she was under the blaster's ray, Arcee had changed into her robot form but something happened : She shrunk and changed into a human until she was 7 feet and dressed in a blue sleeveless leotard hugging her sexy curves.
" What did you do ?! " Arcee yelled, while Jen pulled on Titania's hairs
" A gift from the Leader, before you two sent him in the Raft. " Titania answered while trying to escape Jen's grip
" You'd better change her back or I swear I'll take my time to make you cry. " Jen threatened
" I can't. It only works in one sense. " She explained, as she managed to free herself and throw Jen against a wall.
Without warning, a loud booming sound echoed through the entire city. It was felt as much as heard, causing the three to stop what they were doing and look up. High above, a shape appeared over the city. It was a massive craft the size of three skyscrapers hanging hundreds of feet in the air. Its design easily dwarfed the SHIELD Heli-Carrier.
" What's that. A decepticon warship ? " Jen asked
" No, They don't have one so massive. " Arcee answered
( Avengers Manor )
The autobots and heroes had interrogated Pym and Richards who revealed that they were planning to help the governement create a Law who will force every superhero to work for them and revealed their identity.
Everyone took it really bad but before they could say anything, the warship projected a massive hologram, nearly a hundred feet tall, grey but clear. It showed a massive figure in what looked like a loincloth with a silver headband and its left arm covered in a massive metal cast with a spiked shoulder. While the color of the hologram was grey, everyone could tell by the shape alone who this was.
" It's Hulk ! " A-bomb yelled in joy
" Oh great, as if we didn't have enough problems. Greenie had to come back from his vacation. " The Thing said
The massive hologram looked around, its voice booming through the city. "Puny Humans. I've come to smash. And you should know why."An image appeared on the massive billboard over Times Square. The same image that was being broadcast to ever television outlet, billboard, computer and even Decepticon warship, all translated into the host nation's languages. It showed what appeared to be a recording of Reed, Pym, Dr Stephen Strange and Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans, standing together. "You call them heroes," the Hulk bellowed. "I call them killers. Watch."
The recording flared to life as Reed spoke. "I've always considered us friends, Bruce so this truly hurts. But you are simply too much of a danger to this planet and to yourself. So this was the only way. We've programmed the rocket to send you to an inhabited planet where you can be alone as you always wanted. I hope…you can find some peace."
The Thing and Susan Storm stared at Reed in absolute shock. "Stretcho?" the Thing whispered. " I was joking, for God's sake!"
"Reed?" Sue whispered. "You…you banished him? After all he's done to help…"
"They sent me to die," the Hulk continued. "I crashed on the world of Skarrar. I survived, with my Warbound." The hologram widened to show a collection of 6 alien beings standing behind him, each looking as fierce and strong as the Hulk. He introduced them as No-name of the Brood, Miek of the Hive, Hiroim the Shameful, Elloe Kaifi, Korg the Kronan and Caiera the oldstrong.
Wasp looked at her ex as if she never saw him before. " Hank, what have you done ? " She whispered
"I was their king. And Caieira the Oldstrong was my Queen." The monster's voice had softened, showing some true longing and pain. "But it didn't last."
"Oh, I do not like where this is going," Spider-Man summed up the feelings of everyone watching.
The image showed a gigantic explosion coming from some sort of craft, like a nuclear bomb taken to the tenth power. "Your 'heroes' sent a bomb. Killed a million people. Including my wife…and our unborn child." All the feeling had left the Hulk's voice as it rose in volume and rage. "Now this city will fall. You've got twenty-four hours to bring Strange, Richards and Pym to me. Otherwise…"
He reached below the hologram and pulled up a figure in a navy blue and black costume. It took a moment for most to recognize Black Bolt, mainly since his face was bruised almost beyond recognition. "I do this…" The Hulk finished. "To your whole stinking planet."
The hologram flickered and died out. Then everyone turned towards Pym and Richards.
" Is it true, Hank ? Did you really do it ? " Cap asked
" Steve... He was out of control. " Pym answered
" Oh, I'll show you out of control, bastard ! " A-bomb yelled, charging at them, his eyes wild with hate and anger. He was almost on them when the Thing managed to tackle him to the ground and pin his arms back. Rick fought against him hard even as Luke Cage and Ms. Marvel raced to help the Thing out. "Let me go! " He screamed. " The son of a bitch lied to me! He sent Bruce into space and he lied to me about it!"
"Trust me, Ricky, I know how ya feel!" the Thing said as he threw a glare toward Reed. "But killing Pym now ain't gonna help us."
"Rick" Reed began. "You have to understand…"
"Oh, I understand!" Rick snarled. "After all the times he's helped us out, you believe the worst and blast him into space!"
"I was trying to make him happy!"
"And great call, Misters smartest men in the world. ," Spider-Man said, sarcastically clapping. "Gee, might as well go to work for FEMA with that mentality."
Pym wiped his face. "Just let me explain."
"Yeah, let him talk," Cage bit out. "Maybe then we'll all wanna take a shot at him."
"Enough !" Optimus ordered
The single word cut through the chaos, silencing everyone. All eyes turned to Optimus Prime, who stood resolute.
" We cannot allow ourselves to be divided. The Fate of Earth is in our hands. " He said "The Hulk is here. He's angry, he's intelligent and it looks like he's been learning how to fight better. And it looks like that ship is carrying an army who appear ready to follow him." He looked around. "I'm not any happier with this than any of you. But right now…the only thing that stands between this planet and chaos is us. "
Everyone was wondering if Cap and Optimus were related.
Just then, Gammazone arrived, carrying a black-haired, very tall and sexy lady in her arms and a blaster.
" Sorry to be late but Titania escaped us. " Jen explained
" Jen, who is this ? " Steve asked
" Cap, it's me, Arcee. " She answered
Everyone could have heard a pin fall on the ground.
" What ? " Clint asked
( one hour later, autobots base )
Arcee was examined by June Darby and Ratchet, while the autobots and Jen were waiting.
" You seem to be healthy, Arcee. No side effects from this thing. " June concluded
" This thing, as you call it Nurse Darby, is a cybertronian refformatting module. " Ratchet said, making the autobots widen their eyes.
" And what is a refformatting module ? " Jen asked
" Long ago, in the early days of Cybertron, the planet's greatest minds gathered together to create a way to instantly upgrade a cybertronian from weapons and armour to the inner circuitry all at once, they dubed this process Reformatting.
After many years of failure, they succeeded in creating a working device but when they tested it on simple machines, the results were something they had not imagined : The module altered the machine at the subatomic level and transformed the metal and circuitry into organic matter.
While some of its creators saw this as a success of a different kind, others saw it as a dangerous mistake for its effects could never be reversed. In the end the project was cancelled and the module was ejected into space." Optimus explained
" The Leader must have found it and Titania stole it from him. " Jen stated
" Normally the Module should have completely changed Arcee into a human, but since Jen interrupted it, she still has some parts from her old form. Like your weapons." Ratchet said
Arcee then tried to activate her blasters and her hands transformed then she shot at the wall, then she changed her hands back, and she activated her wrist blades.
" That's not so bad." She said
" We must be ready for anything, now. Hulk and his army must be stopped. " Optimus stated