Hi guys...
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Took a while right? Yeah. That's cus my phone got stolen.. again. You know, when you live in my city you gotta be careful.. but I just wasn't.
Right now I'm using that same phone, cus I got it back... and it took me a while tho.
Well, if you guys think I am a little slow with updates, well, I'm working. So I can promise that I will update at least once a month..
I'm really sorry
Ben: Once a month?! Duuuude! *Starts laughing hard*
Ash: Dude, I said 'at least' what is wrong with you?
Ben: Whatever man. Well we got some new reviews we haven't replied
Ship: ship ship.
Ash: Right, but we'll get to them at the end of the story. Like Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson said during his rivalry with John Cena... " IT IS TIME, TO GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT.. THEY.. WWWANT!
DISCLAIMER
I do NOT own Ben 10, The Avengers or Justice league. They belong to Man Of Action, Marvel Studios and DC Comics Respectively, but this story is mine.. and mine alone, also the cover, and the ideas.. well the other ideas of Thanos and all are from Marvel and DC, but they dont know that I'm doing this now do they? *Evil smile*
The Ultimate Alliance
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CH 9;
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The Unity, No Way Forward
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The Unity
"Remember me" Arthur waves his fingers with a smirk on his face at a huge, armored man-like creature, with what looked like horns. He was wearing what looked like living armor from head to toe and he looked pissed and was turning around to see who's presence he had sensed. Steppenwolf stood to protect what could end the planet as it was. The Unity.. The three motherboxes coming together. Once it was completed,
Planetary annihilation.
Steppenwolf picked up his axe that was planted into the ground and faced his enemy, which was Arthur.
Standing by Arthur was the Cyborg who also looked ready for battle.
" Round 2?" Arthur asked the Cyborg as he held his triton in position. The Cyborg formed his left hand into a kind of blaster. He looked back at the King of Atlantis and replied..
" Hell yeah"
The creature slammed his axe into the ground and began charging towards the duo. Arthur turned his triton upside down and pierced the ground with force, creating a sort of energy wave towards the monster. Cyborg fortified the energy with more from his arms making the wave extremely powerful. Steppenwolf did not stop and charged into the wave , but was knocked back by the severe power of it. He stopped himself with the axe as he tumbled back landing in a fighting pose, even more pissed as he focused his blue eyes on the duo, growling and seething.
Just then, Diana landed in their midst with a thud, turning the duo into a trio.
" Shall we?" She said as she brandished her sword and held her shield ready for battle with the conqueror.
Steppenwolf, upon seeing the princess, spoke..
" Tell me Amazon, why did you abandon your sisters?"
Diana was puzzled by that question.
" Only to cast your love for these creatures, clinging to their puny lives." Steppenwolf continued
" You weren't there to protect them from me.." Diana was fuming at this point
".. and sadly you could have"
" HYAAAAGH!" Diana let out a war cry as she and the other two charged at Steppen wolf.
Steppenwolf walking towards the charging three, on what looked like a bridge that led to where the unity was slowly forming. Steppenwolf was the only thing standing in the way of the Justice League and the Unity.
Steppenwolf swung wildly at Diana, who blocked with her shield. Both swung back and their weapons clashed. Arthur lunged in slamming his triton into the ground in front on Steppenwolf, but he got knocked away quickly.
Diana came back with rage but had to block another hit, Cyborg hit Steppenwolf with a barrage of bullets.
Three members of the JL attacked Steppenwolf from all sides but he held his ground..
The flash was still running around the area trying to gather enough energy to charge the Cyborg, who had now snuck past a distracted Steppenwolf towards the Unity..
" Barry, Im in position" he said..
But the other two couldn't hold Steppenwolf back for long. A knee to the gut of Aquaman had him beat and he got flung away by Steppenwolf. Diana had to lift her shield to block a huge swing from Steppenwolf's axe, but the impact knocked her further back down the bridge.
Steppenwolf turned his attention to Cyborg.
" O..Okay, I built the charge..." Barry said on comms to the Cyborg... still running.
"...you call it"
Cyborg looked at the slowly forming Unity, then made his mind up and prepared to invade the it.
" Okay Barry on one.." He said
" Three... two..." He couldn't finish as he was yanked in the air by Steppenwolf
" Get the hell off me!" Cyborg yelled as he tried to break free of the alien's grip.
Barry had reached his highest voltage level and he needed to let the charge go. He couldn't keep running, but he had to keep running in order for the charge not to die out.
" Victor!" He yelled over the comms not knowing what was going on.
Diana saw that Victor could get hurt and she made her decision..
Letting out a war cry she slammed both bracelets together, creating an explosion and destroying the bridge.
She, Arthur, Victor and Steppenwolf fell to the lower level of the dome.
Steppenwolf picked up his axe and attempted to slice Victor in half, who quickly dodged and flew back immediately to the part of the dome where the Unity was forming.
Steppenwolf followed him in the air, but almost there, he was stopped mid flight by Diana's lasso.. pulling him back down.
Steppenwolf however held himself from going down with his axe, clinging to the side of the platform where Victor was ready to infiltrate the Unity. Steppenwolf trying to pull himself up became almost too powerful for Diana alone, but Arthur joined Diana in pulling Steppenwolf down and eventually, Steppenwolf comes crashing down.
The Amazon amongst them seemed to be a real obstacle to the conqueror.
" I watched your Island burn, your sisters begging for their lives...
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.. as did your mother"
Steppenwolf was slowly getting into her head as she wore a scared and petrified look on her face.
" Liar.." she said with a low voice. Her confidence weakened.. and she had to block a huge axe swing from Steppenwolf and she got knocked away.
Arthur also got knocked hard into the wall and fell to the ground..
Cyborg was alone.
Steppenwolf was back on the platform where Cyborg, who had connected himself to the Unity, was.
" For Darkseid.." he said as he lifted his axe into the air, ready to slice the cyborg in half.
But just as the axe came down, it didn't land on the Cyborg..
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" Not, impressed" Superman said unfazed as the axe landed on his shoulder, not even hurting him in the slightest.
Superman used his freeze breath to cool out and literally freeze the axe.
A look of sheer fear and horror was on the face of Steppenwolf.
Superman lifted himself into the air and with one quick punch, shattered the frozen axe to pieces. Steppenwolf was in shock.
One powerful boot from Superman sent Steppenwolf flying all the way across another bridge into a wall and onto the ground.
Steppenwolf tried to get back up, but a huge energy blast knocked him back. Steppenwolf looked up to see Carol flying really fast towards him
" Eat this you son of a bitch!" Captain Marvel said as she sent Steppenwolf right back into the wall with one fist.
Carol flew back to Clark's side as her helmet came back off.
Diana and Arthur got back to their feet and spotted the Kryptonian and the Kree.
" Alright" Arthur said with a tone that said 'game on!'
" Kal El" Diana said "and Carol Danvers"
" So that's the guy huh?" Carol said as she stood by Clark's side.
" Obviously" Clark replied as they both looked at Steppenwolf who was trying to recover from those heavy hits.
" You know, your mum told me to protect you, so.. don't do anything rash" Carol teased Clark, forcing him to look at her and smile
" Are you being serious right now?" Clark said amused " Do I look like I need YOUR protection?" He asked looking back at Steppenwolf.
" Well, you did die the first time right?" Carol teased again, a smirk forming on her face.
" That was different. That was a Kryptonian monster." He defended himself as Steppenwolf was making his way back to his feet.
" Whatever," Carol said as she and Clark lifted themselves into the air...
" Let's kick his ass"
She said as her helmet came back on
" With pleasure" Superman replied as his heat vision charged up.
TIP: Listen to 'Jungle' by Jamie N Commons ft X ambassadors while reading this part..
Steppenwolf's armor got hit by a long ray of heat vision burning it to an extent. Steppenwolf then charged across the bridge to attack Superman with a huge arm which Superman 'side-floated' easily, before hitting Steppenwolf with a huge arm, sending him down to the lower level hard. Diana landed in front of Steppenwolf, who charged towards her on sight. With a smile on her face, Diana slammed both bracelets together creating another explosion sending Steppenwolf flying away. Arthur then struck Steppenwolf with his Triton, which had a large amount of energy and sent Steppenwolf towards a flying Superman who hit him with a thunderous punch which had him flying towards the wall... but he didn't hit the wall because Carol's beam caught him mid- flight and sent him into the ground creating a crater.
Before Steppenwolf could get up Carol flew right into him, creating an even larger crater in the ground, then hitting Steppenwolf with two mighty punches, grabbed him by the neck tossed him a little in the air and hit him with a huge uppercut, sending him upwards. Before Steppenwolf could know where he was at, or even finish his ascension, he spotted the Kryptonian coming down from way up high towards him.
Superman flew a mighty fist into him, sending him into the crater and deepening it even more. Superman then landed on him then punched him hard in the face, then used his heat vision to burn one side of his armor and one of the horn like extensions on his head, completely off as Steppenwolf let out a cry of pain.
Superman punched him again, and again.
Meanwhile..
" Victor! I can't hold this!"
Barry was still running! He needed to let the charge go, but a parademon had spotted him running around the dome. With what looked like an alien machine gun, the creature made a guess shot and unfortunately for Barry, the bullet scraped the skin and gear off his side, causing him to tumble and roll and yell in pain before coming to a stop, flat on the ground.
The parademon aimed for his head as he laid there but just before it could pull the trigger, Batman shot it down.
" Barry!" Batman said on comms " Barry are you okay?"
Barry now on his feet was in severe pain
" I got the wind knocked outta me. Just need a few seconds that's all" he said almost crying from the pain, and shaking.
On the inside of the dome...
Superman was hitting Steppenwolf with huge, shockwave creating punches. After each punch, heat vision so the sequence was: Punch, heat vision. Punch, heat vision. Punch, heat vision. The rest of the Justice League and Carol just watched him destroy Steppenwolf with shockwave after shockwave of punches, and Ray after Ray of heat vision.
Carol knew he was a fighter, but she never knew that he could be this destructive to one person alone. Well it is understandable because the Justice League are his friends, and he was hurting them. She wasn't really sure she was what he could call friend, but they were on the same team. Carol wondered whether she would be able to do that to Thanos one day
'Man that would feel good' She thought, but she was knocked out of her thoughts when a portal started opening behind them..
" BARRY! WHERE ARE YOU? IT'S ALMOST SYNCHRONIZED!" Cyborg yelled on comms to Barry as he felt the Unity completing their forge.
" Okay, okay.. gotta heal Barry, gotta heal, come on.." Barry said as he tried to focus his energy towards the injury he had, healing it gradually.
Batman was on top of the dome and he could see what manner of punches Clark was hitting Steppenwolf with.
The portal fully opened and Arthur, Diana, Clark and Carol saw who was on the other side.
Three god-like figures stood there... looking at them.
On the left was a figure in a hood and was covered in a black garment with some designs on it.. it's face was dark and scally. On the right was a man with blonde short hair, who had a cape, glowing eyes and held a staff, all dark.
In the middle was the biggest, fiercest and mightiest of the three.
With a bald head, huge arms and armor on, with glowing eyes and two huge bracelets on his wrist, this man was obviously the leader, and the one who sent Steppenwolf.
" BAAAAARYYYYY!" Cyborg cried as he tried to slow down the almost completed Unity, but there.
The other heroes looked over at the 98% completed Unity, with the reality of what could happen if Barry doesn't get the charge to Victor, dawning on all of them..
even Carol...
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and then...
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The Unity formed.
Victor looked at the now completed three in one doomsday box and knew there was nothing more any of them could do.
" It's too late" he said in despair.
" He's here" Steppenwolf said as he sensed the presence of his Master.
Carol looked at Clark.
Clark looked back at Carol.
Arthur and Diana knew what was gonna happen next.
' Oh God' Carol thought as her helmet came on and she tried flying towards the Unity in an attempt to destroy it, but then the box started glowing really bright.. like a charging explosion...
" NO NO NOOO!" Carol screamed, as the motherbox exploded.
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No Way Forward
The team was supposed to see Bruce, but due to the fact that Tony was a better scientist, they were hoping that if they brought this idea to him, he would totally dig it. Tony was stubborn, arrogant, but he had a good heart.
Ben sat at the back of an SUV the team was in, talking to Scott.
".. So you mean to tell me, that you're from an entirely different universe? And you don't even know how you got here?!" Scott asked Ben still finding it hard to believe his story.
" Well, that's just about it" Ben shrugged. " But hey, you can shrink to the size of a grain of rice, if not waaay smaller. That's incredible "
Scott chuckled " Well I got this whole superpower from the first ant man, Professor Hank Pym. He created the Ant-Man suit and the Pym particles."
" Oh, so you're not the first one?" Ben said now hearing that detail.
" Yeah, I'm not. I'm just a guy who's lucky enough to inherit the Ant-Man."
" Okay guys " Steve said " We're here" He said to the team as they drove into Tony's house area. Ben was nervous. Hell! They all were.
" This is a bad idea." Ben said
" Yeah, this IS, a bad idea" Scott said
They all knew that Tony was capable of pulling this off, but was he going to agree?
The team stepped out of the car and just as Ben was about to move forward, they spotted Tony.
Tony was carrying his daughter, and of course he saw them. The entire team just looked at him as he made his way onto the veranda then turned around and looked at them again.
Nat did a small head gesture, like a 'hey there ' sorta thing. Tony did the same, just before he went inside to drop his daughter
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" No.. We know, what it sounds like.." Scott said to Tony as he and the team was now on the veranda with Tony
" Tony, after everything you've seen is there really anything possi.." Steve couldn't finish
" Quantum fluctuation messes with the Planck scale, which then triggers the Deutsch proposition, can we agree on that?" Tony said as he handed Cap a cup of.. something.
" The what now?" Ben said utterly confused
Stark then clarified " In layman terms it means, you're not coming home."
Ben closed his eyes in despair
" I did" Scott said defiantly.
" No" Tony said to Scott " You accidentally survived, it's b.. It's a billion to one cosmic fluke... and now you wanna pull a, what do you call it?" He said as he handed another cup to Scott
Scott shrugged a little before he came up with the name
" A... Time heist?"
" Yeah" Tony chuckled " A time heist. Of course. Why didn't we think of this before?" Tony said sarcastically " Oh, because it's laughable? Cos it's a pipe dream?"
" The stones are in the past. We could go back we could get them." Steve said
" We could snap our own fingers, we could bring everybody back"
" Or screw it up worse than he already has, right?" Tony said not buying the idea
" Come on Tony." Ben said seeing the negativity in him.
" I don't believe you would" Steve said to Tony.
"Gotta say sometimes that you miss that giddy optimism. However, high hopes won't help if there's no logical tangible way for me to safely execute said... Time heist." He said nodding to Scott.
Ben didn't see this whole thing going through.
" I believe the most likely outcome would be our collective demise"
" Not if we strictly follow the rules of time travel." Scott said " That means, no talking to our past, selves. No betting on sporting events.."
" No telling others of things that we know are gonna happen." Ben chipped in.
" I'm, I'm gonna stop you guys right there" Tony said " Scott, are you seriously telling me, that your plan to save the universe, is based on back to the future?"
"Come on!" Ben laughed " That's ridiculous, of course not" Ben said, then he looked at Scott
" Is it, Scott?"
Scott rolled his eyes " Of course not, No!"
" Good cus you had me worried there cus that would be horse shit" Tony said relieved " That's not how quantum physics works"
" Tony.." Nat called getting a little emotional " We need to take a stand"
" We did stand. Yet here we are" Tony replied. Ben felt this wasn't gonna work. Tony wasn't gonna change his mind.
" Look Tony, we understand that you got a family but, we have to give this a shot." Ben said " It is worth it, isn't it?"
" No" Tony said bluntly " No it's not worth it"
Ben's mouth fell open in disbelief
" I know you got a lot on the line." Scott said with a serious tone. " ..got a wife, a daughter.. but I lost someone very important to me. A lot of people did. And now," Scott was becoming frustrated and annoyed ".. now we have the chance to bring her back, to bring everyone back and you're telling me that you won't even.."
" That's right Scott I won't, even." Tony said calmly. " I can't"
Scott couldn't believe it. Steve and Nat understood, at least it seemed like they did. Ben was amazed. Yes he expected Tony to back out, but not like this cus, it almost seemed like he didn't even give a shit.
Tony's daughter ran out of the house towards where he was seated.
" Mommy told me to come and save you" She said as Tony carried her onto himself.
" Good job" Tony said " I'm saved" he proceeded to stand up, still carrying his daughter. Then he said to the team.. " I really wish you guys were coming here to ask me something else, anything else. I'm honestly happy to see you guys. I just.. Oh , table set for six.."
" Tony, forget it" Steve said to Tony. "..and I'm happy for you. I really am, but this is a second chance"
" I got my second chance right here Cap." Tony said not budging in the slightest "Can't roll the dice on it"
Ben then understood that he wasn't gonna risk his family.. not for anything
" Tony, can I ask you something" Ben said to Tony
" Kid, if it's about the time travel I think I've made myself perfectly clear that I'm not gonna.."
" What if the snap took them?" Ben cut him off. That look of 'excuse me?' etched on Tony's face
" Your wife, your daughter.. what if Thanos took THEM away?" Ben asked " Would you be saying all of this?"
Tony looked him dead in the eye, but didn't say anything. Then he looked away " If you don't talk shop you can stay for lunch" He said to the team as he walked away, back into the house.
" He's not gonna budge" Ben said as they went back to the car
" He's scared." Nat said disappointed
" He's not wrong" Cap said, understanding why Tony wasn't going to do this.
"Yeah but I mean what are we.. what are we gonna do? We need him. What, are we gonna stop?" Scott asked upset
" No, I just wanna do it right" Cap said thinking " We're gonna need a bigger brain."
" Bigger than his?" Scott asked.
" Yeah like we're gonna find a scientist who's sm..." It hit Ben just before he finished. He just stood there with wide eyes
" Ben" Steve asked " You okay?"
" You know someone that could help?" Scott asked
" Of course!" Ben yelled as he looked at Scott and back at Nat and Steve.
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" CLOCKWORK!"
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Aaaaaaaaaaand done!
Okay, I know this took too long but I explained what happened to me so, yeah.
This is the part where Ben remembers that he has an alien that can reverse time. We just have to wait and see what happens in the next one
Ben: pff, I use clockwork and reverse all of Thanos's nonsense. Easy peasy.
Ash: Do you really think it's that simple?
Ben: Well, what could go wrong?
Ash: *facepalms* Okay guys, I gotta run. I really appreciate your reviews. Really, I do. I will be replying them in the next chapter.
Gotta go, but remember
BEING GOOD IS GOOD. BEING BAD IS BAD^_(•‿•)