Episode 7: Captain America and Scarlet Witch vs. Hulk!
Previously on Marvel DISK Wars...
Iron Man: That evil alchemist Diablo gave some kind of potion to Hulk and now the big green guy can't tell his friends from his enemies and he's gone on a rampage! And when Hulk rampages, watch out! Even I couldn't stop him. And if I couldn't stop him, it goes without saying that Goldilocks couldn't.
Thor: Who is this 'Goldilocks'?
Iron Man: Anyway,someone better help Scarlet Witch stop him before he smashes us all to bits. Luckily, Chris stepped in to do a little smashing of his own: D-Smashing. So let's see if Cap can handle it. Not that I'm subbing him up, I mean.
At the burning air base, the fight against Hulk still continues.
"We're live at the scene, where the rampaging Hulk now faces the one man who could help Scarlet Witch and stop him. But does even he really stand a chance against the brutal power of the Hulk? We're about to find out." Rosetta reported.
Scarlet Witch's eyes sparkled as she whispered, "You really came."
Hulk growled, "Captain America... No way! You're another fake!"
"Listen to me, Hulk. You're not yourself, I can see it in your eyes. They poisoned your mind, whether by chemicals or hypnosis, I'm not sure. Whatever the reason, you will not go past me, Hulk!" Captain America commanded as he readied his shield.
"Just try and stop me!" Hulk yelled and jumped high, causing Chris and Sandra to gasp in shock.
"Just stay calm, Chris!" Captain America assured.
"Don't let him get to you, Sandra!" Scarlet Witch also assured.
Hulk bashed his fists on Captain America, but the latter blocked it with his shield, causing a small shock wave and a strong gust of that nearly blew Chris, Sandra, and Scarlet Witch back.
Once the gust of wind dissipated, Captain America said, "This shield is made of vibranium iron alloy."
Hulk gasped as Captain America attacked him with his shield, thus sending the former to the ground.
"It can stop just about anything." Captain America continued.
Hulk got up and growled ferociously before he bashed his fist to the ground. The impact of Hulk's fist and the ground created a large crater and caused everything around it to shake. This also caused Akira, Hikaru, Pepper, and Jamie to nearly lose their balance.
"Oh, great! Now he's really angry!" Pepper explained.
"Okay, Akira! Now's our chance!" Hikaru said.
"Right!" Akira nodded.
"D-Secure!" the Akatsuki brothers said as they transferred Iron Man and Thor in their respective DISKs.
"Leave the rest to me." Captain America said.
"You sure you can handle him alone?" Chris asked.
"Oh, I'm not alone. I have you as a partner, Chris." Captain replied.
"Don't forget us." a voice said as Captain America and Chris looked at Sandra and Scarlet Witch not far away from them.
Chris turned to Captain America and encouraged him, "Then it's in the bag."
"Be careful, Scarlet." Sandra said.
"I will. Don't worry, Sandra. I still have some minutes more." Scarlet Witch assured.
Meanwhile, in a ship sailing across the water, Spiderman is seen chained to an anchor in the ship's storage area. He struggled to get himself free, to no avail.
"Man, what a drag." Spiderman remarked.
Tim entered the storage room, saying, "Sorry for the rude accommodations. You'll be more comfortable living in here, I think."
He showed an empty DISK.
"Thanks. I'll pass." Spiderman declined as Tim snickered deviously.
Little did both of them know that inside an air duct on the wall behind Tim is Jessica and Edward trying to escape unseen.
"This is very bad!" Edward whispered with dread.
"Move over." Jessica scooted over so she can see what's going on.
"Let's face it. Spidey is our only hope. If they caught him, we're done for. It's over and I never got the chance to shape Cap's hand or get his autograph or anything." Edward lamented.
"Oh, hush." Jessica interrupted as she tried to remove the vent grate.
"Wait. Don't."
"Let's begin this little experiment, shall we? What category would you fall into, Spiderman? What's your factor?" Tim asked.
"What's my what now?" Spiderman asked, "I know. Why don't you tell me? Isn't that what the villains do when they think they've won, reveal their evil master plot to the helpless hero?"
"I'm tired of your talking." Tim remarked.
"Hold it!" Jessica interrupted as she jumped out of the air duct. Edward had a hard time to get out but he was able to.
"Jessica! And Ed." Spiderman was surprised that the two escaped their cell.
"Naughty, naughty. You better get back in your cabin. Unless, of course, you'd prefer I'd throw the two of you overboard." Tim demanded in a calm yet urgent tone.
"No. Not especially. I can't swim! Jessica? Maybe we oughta do what he says." Edward stammered and turned to Jessica, but she wasn't listening.
"Forget it. Not happening." Jessica replied while keeping a straight face.
Hulk continued to fight Captain America and Scarlet Witch, the former using his shield to block out Hulk's attacks and the latter evading Hulk's fists.
"HULK SMASH PUNY MAN AND WOMAN!" Hulk angrily roared.
"Shield Throw!" Captain America threw his shield at Hulk.
"Hex Bolts!" Scarlet Witch shot red fireballs at Hulk.
The two impending attacks causes Hulk to skid back. Captain America threw his shield again but Hulk dodged it.
"YOU THINK HULK DUMB ENOUGH TO FALL FOR SAME ATTACK TWICE?!" Hulk exclaimed.
"That's what you think, big guy." Scarlet Witch contradicted as Captain America's shield flew back and hit Hulk at the back.
"Shield Boomerang. You see, I'm not dumb enough to use the same attack twice!" Captain America said as he caught his shield.
"That was awesome!" Akira exclaimed.
"The dude can rock it." Chris commented.
"No kidding." Sandra added.
Hikaru turned to his brother and said, "Akira, be ready to D-Secure Hulk as soon as Scarlet Witch and Captain America neutralize him."
The Akatsuki brothers' biocodes start to beep. They pressed their DISKs as Iron Man and Thor appear as holograms.
"Thor! Have you fully recovered?" Hikaru asked.
Thor replied, "Yes. How goes the battle?"
"You don't have to worry about the Hulk. Scarlet Witch and Captain America are all over him." Akira assured.
"I'm not so sure about that." Iron Man intervened.
As if true to Iron Man's words, Hulk got up and growled, "You made Hulk mad. Big mistake!"
He then charged at Scarlet Witch and Captain America. The former was able to dodge in time while the latter blocked Hulk's fist with his shield, only to be send crashing into a nearby truck.
"Captain!" Scarlet Witch gasped as she ran to Captain America.
"See? The thing is, the angrier Hulk gets, the more powerful he gets." Iron Man said as Hulk jumped in the air and raised his fists. "And since his anger is limitless, well, you get the picture."
"Cap, get out of there!" Chris yelled.
"You, too, Scarlet!" Sandra exclaimed.
"HULK SMASH!" Hulk then readied his fists to defeat Scarlet Witch and Captain America.
"Just what we've been waiting for!" Captain America said as he and Scarlet Witch dodged Hulk's fists. The impact between Hulk's fists and the ground caused a small dust cloud around Hulk so he can't see anything.
"Where are you hiding?!" Hulk asked.
"Right here! Lesson 1: Focusing all your energies into an attack means you're neglecting your defenses." Captain America said as the he and Scarlet Witch grabbed Hulk by the head..
"It's very easy to avoid! While you were drowning in rage and power, it was inevitable that you would make this tactical mistake!" Scarlet Witch continued.
Hulk tried take Captain and Scarlet off of his head but they managed to hold on. Eventually, it ended with all three of them falling on the ground.
"Now the question is: which comes first? Us exceeding our time Limits or you going to sleep?" Captain America asked.
"You wanna know what comes first?! YOU TWO SCREAMING FOR MERCY!" Hulk exclaimed as he got up and ran through the flames, with the two Avengers still holding on. Scarlet Witch lightly blushed that she is fighting with the hero she has a crush on, and fortunately, Captain America didn't notice this.
Meanwhile, back on the ship...
"I'm impressed by your ingenuity but seriously, you gotta get out of here. I mean, like, right now." Spiderman urged.
Edward agreed to what Spiderman said, "Come on, Jessica! Let's go now!"
But Jessica still didn't listen.
"Well, well. Aren't you brave? I can see it's going to take more serious methods to convince you-" Tim said before he was cut off when he noticed Jessica showing Wasp's DISK and the white biocode strap on her wrist.
"Huh?!" Spiderman was surprised by this.
"How did you get that?!" Tim asked.
"You'll never know, sorry." Jessica answered, pointing to the air vent she and Edward went out of.
"Give me that, you little brat before I come and take it from you!"
"Kid, help me out. What was that phrase Sandra and that boy used?" Jessica asked Edward. "You know, to make Iron Man and Scarlet Witch to pop out of their DISKs."
"Um... the phrase?" Edward answered in a questioning voice. "I think it was D-Smash."
"That was it! Here we go!"
Jessica held out Wasp's DISK and touched behind it.
ACCEPTED: MATERIALIZING. ANIMAL IDENTITY.
"Wasp, D-Smash!" Jessica said as she threw her DISK on the ground.
Wasp got activated and she appeared.
"Villains in town, let's take 'em down!" Wasp said.
Wasp stretches herself as she said, "I can spread my wings again! Thanks a lot, whoever you are."
"I'm Jessica Shannon." Jessica greeted.
"They call me 'Wasp'." Wasp greeted back.
"Yeah, I know. Just like I know you're one of the original founding members of the legendary Avengers."
"Oh? You're a fan, huh?"
"Actually, I told her that!" Edward butted in but Jessica pushed him aside, saying, "We've got a problem"
"Way ahead of you!" Wasp said as she winked and jumped off the platform.
"Mister, that's gotta be the most idiotic mask I've ever seen." she said to Tim. "You have no fashion sense."
Tim seemed to take it as an insult, "You have no sense at all! D-Smash!" he said as he throw a red DISK that has M.O.D.O.K.'s face on it.
"Take care of her, M.O.D.O.K.!" Tim commanded.
"Now, you'll feel the destructive power of Ultimate Weapon for there is no escape. In short, the one and only M.O.D.O.K. Laser!" M.O.D.O.K. fired his laser beams at Wasp.
"Too long." Wasp said as she shrunk down to avoid the purple lasers, "Mine's a lot shorter. Wasp Sting!"
Wasp fired an orange beam and it harmlessly passed by M.O.D.O.K.
"You're aim needs a little more work!" M.O.D.O.K taunted.
Wasp fired another orange beam M.O.D.O.K but he blocked it with his blue barrier.
"Missed again! You can't mass my own ultimate impenetrable barrier! In short, the one and only Psionic Forcefield-" M.O.D.O.K. was cut off when Spiderman kicked him to a truck trailer.
"Now that was way too long!" Spiderman said.
"The pain! The agony! In short, ow!" M.O.D.O.K. yelled in pain as he rolled along the floor.
"How did you get loose?!" Tim asked, shocked.
"Nice shooting, Wasp. Thanks." Spiderman gave a salute to Wasp.
Tim noticed that the chains used to tie Spiderman to the anchor were broken, "You think you're so clever."
"Anytime, Spidey." Wasp gave Spiderman a wave.
Diablo and the rest of the Celebrity Six entered the storage room.
"What's going on here?!" Jubei asked.
"Hi there~!" Wasp greeted them in a singsong voice.
"Where'd she come from?" Joel was shocked at Wasp's presence while Angela only scoffed at the heroine's presence.
"Never mind that now! Just hurry up and D-Smash!" Tim commanded.
"Got it!" Angela replied.
Joel threw Abomination's DISK to the ground.
"A child went running to you. Gonna squish you like a bug." Abomination growled, cracking his knuckles.
Jubei threw Whirlwind's DISK to the ground.
"Whew, what a relief! Thanks for gettin' me out of there! Now who do you want me to blow away?" Whirlwind asked.
Angela threw Enchantress' DISK to the ground.
"Looks like this is gonna be your ultimate demise, you impudent arachnid." Enchantress said.
"Now, that's not so good." Jessica said.
"It was never good! Now it's even worse. The heroes are outnumbered 2 to 5!" Edward exclaimed.
"This looks like fun." Wasp began. "Ready?"
Spiderman interrupted, "A little warning, Waspy?"
"Yeah?"
"You've got less than five minutes before you gotta go back in the DISK."
"Huh? Wait, but why?"
"It would take me about 4 and a half minutes to explain. Just trust me. Okay, while you look after those 2 and try to round up some reinforcements."
"And let you take these goons all by yourself? I don't think so."
"Take 'em out!" Tim commanded and Enchantress, M.O.D.O.K., Diablo, Abomination, and Whirlwind all let out a battle cry and charge towards Spiderman and Wasp.
"Never mind me. Just go!" Spiderman shouted as proceeded to fight against the 5 villains.
"Okay!" Wasp relented.
Abomination prepared to punch Spiderman but the latter only somersaulted into the air. Wasp then turned to Edward and Jessica.
"Jessica! You and your friend need tog et out of here!" Wasp said. Jessica and Edward follow her order.
"I'm sorry but no one's going anywhere." Diablo opened his vial of potion.
"That's what you think!" Spider threw spider webbing onto Diablo's face. This causes Diablo to drop the potion as it cracked and explode upon impact to the floor.
"No! The potion is losing its effect on Hulk!" Manino said.
Back in the airfield, Hulk is now completely free from Diablo's control. He also fell down to his knees due to all his endurance fighting against Captain America and Scarlet Witch.
"Good...?" Captain America asked.
"I'm sure he's gonna be fine, Cap. He's just tired, that's all." Scarlet Witch calmly assured.
In the helicopter above them, Rosetta could only watch them and cowered inside, whispering, "I need to D-Secure Hulk..."
"D-Secure him. You might wanna hurry before they try and get him." Iron Man told Akira.
Akira took out an empty DISK and said, "Right! D-Secure!"
Hulk is then transported into the DISK.
"This means... it's over?" Akira wondered.
"I think so." Jamie answered.
Sandra and Chris then sent their respective partners in their own DISKs.
Meanwhile, in S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters...
Robert had a call from his secretary.
"Pardon me, Senator, but the police called again, asking for S.H.I.E.L.D. to be mobilized. This is the third time. And there's an S.O.S. from a girl named Jessica Shannon, who says she's being held prisoner by the same supervillains who attacked Stark International. Her location is..." the secretary said on the other end.
"How many times do I have to say it? Tell them all to standby until further notice." Robert interfered.
"But sir!" the secretary said but Robert hung up. He then read the papers on his desk.
"Once the Council passes this resoution, there will be no more place for Tony Stark anywhere in this country." Robert said as he sees his true form in the window in front of him.
Back to Jessica and Edward...
"Okay, where are you? Those brats can't hide forever~." Joel searched for those 2 kids, who are hiding in the ducts, along with Wasp.
"Who are we kidding? No reinforcements are coming. We're on our own" Edward lamented.
"You think Spiderman can really handle all of those guys?" Jessica asked Wasp.
Wasp replied, "He's tougher than he looks."
"He's done for!" Edward whined.
"Don't worry about Spidey. He'll be alright." Wasp assured.
"I'll never make another blog post!" Edward whined again.
"Would you please just stop?! Is thinking of yourself all you ever do?" Jessica said.
Flashback - an hour ago
"Emergency! S.O.S.!" Jessica said through the microphone in the ship's control room.
"Where is the 'quit' button on this game? I'm hungry and tired!" Edward whined.
"We've been captured by supervillains and we need help!"
"Oh, I just wanna go home and have cookies-"
"Be quiet!"
Edward then noticed Jessica glaring at him.
"When did you get so wimpy? What happened to the other Ed, huh? The gutsy kid who stood up for Hulk?" Jessica asked.
"Hey! You're angry at me now? We wouldn't be even in this mess if it hadn't been for your brave act, Jessica! I said we should stay hidden in the air duct, not go jumping out into the open!" Edward snapped, seemingly insulted as Jessica felt hurt on the inside.
"Jessica, has enough time gone by that you could D-Smash me again?" Wasp asked.
"Yeah... I wish..." Jessica replied, "What do you think? Do you think I made a mistake, too, Wasp?"
"No way. Don't worry. You'll see. It's all gonna work out. And what place to hide from those big goons. They can't even fit in here. After all, being small does have its advantages. Small is beautiful." Wasp said until she heard something in the distance. Jessica and Edward heard that sound as well.
"What was that?" Edward asked.
But they didn't know that the sound is actually King Cobra.
"Something's coming..."
At the Celebrity Six's lounge, Rosetta watched today's news report before turning the TV off and sighing, "Oh, boy. It's exhausting switching back and forth between an ace reporter and a masked villain." She then turned to her King Cobra's DISK, "Hurry up and finish it, Cobra!"
"Roger that, slavedriver." King Cobra said as he slithered his way to the 2 kids, but with difficulty since the ducts feel like a tight fit to him.
Edward starts to tear up as he waited for his unexpected doom. Jessica noticed him.
"Listen, Ed. Why don't you go on and get out of here?" Jessica told Edward.
"Mm-hmm. Don't worry, we'll hold them off. Go on." Wasp agreed with Jessica.
Edward had no other choice but to follow their words. Meanwhile, Spiderman gets thrown into the walls by the 5 villains and Jessica and Wasp wait for King Cobra to come to them. As Edward ran down a hallway, he tripped on a metal doorway and fell.
"I... I have to go. It's not like I'd be of any use to them anyway." he said to himself as he got up and went up the stairs to the ship's deck. That's when he noticed Whirlwind and Jubei and hid behind a corner so they won't notice him.
"Why should we be so nervous? Who cares if those kids got a distress signal out. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s not gonna respond." Whirlwind said.
"It's not S.H.I.E.L.D. I'm worried about. It's the others that might have intercepted the signal." Jubei said.
"Huh?" Whirlwind asked.
That's when they heard something in the sky. They looked up but they didn't see anything.
"Others? What others?"
"Those others." Jubei and Whirlwind notice the plane Sandra, Akira, Hikaru, Chris, Jamie, and Pepper were inside.
"Leave them to me." Whirlwind replied.
"No doubt about it! The distress signal came from that ship!" Sandra said, pointing to the ship below.
"Better sit down! It's gonna get rough!" Hikaru to Akira said as the former took hold of the wheel and steered the plane.
"Hikaru, where'd you learn to fly like this?!" Akira exclaimed with awe.
"It's kinda like driving a motorcycle! I'm engaging the auto-pilot!" Hikaru said.
"Let the party begin!" Thor exclaimed.
"A rescue party. Just like old times." Captain America said.
"Yeah, let's do it!" Scarlet cheered.
"Well, then, lads and lassie. Are you ready?" Thor called.
"Well my biocode seems to be fully charged. Come on, guys! Let's do this!" Hikaru replied.
Sandra added, "We're good to go."
Chris sighed, "I'm ready, I suppose. Totally sleep-deprived but otherwise-"
Suddenly, a vortex of seawater surrounded the ship, much to the kids' surprise.
"What is that?!" Hikaru gasped.
"Whoa!" Sandra was shocked at the vortex.
"It's a whirlwind!" Akira exclaimed, equally shocked as Sandra and Hikaru.
Iron Man said, "Quite a welcome, isn't it?"
"Looks like they knew we were coming." Scarlet Witch added.
"We can't get close enough!" Pepper stated.
"But I can see Whirlwind inside the waterspout." Jamie pointed to a speck in the vortex, which is, in fact, Whirlwind.
On the ship's deck, Edward could only clutch to the wall so he won't get blown away.
"Leave this to me! I will get through!" Thor volunteered.
Hikaru interrupted, "Too risky!"
Captain America agreed, "He's right. There's only one person who would be able to force his way through that twister."
"And that person would be...?" Chris asked before it dawned on Akira and Iron Man.
"Right! The Hulk!"
"Exactly!" Captain America replied.
"Okay! He was able to take everything that Thor and Iron Man could throw at him. If he could withstand that kind of damage, he can handle that twister no problem. Uh, probably. At least in theory." Akira said.
"No matter what, let's still give a try and call out Hulk!" Sandra said as Akira took out Hulk's DISK.
"Here goes. Hulk, D-Smash!" Akira threw Hulk's DISK to the floor but it didn't work. "Huh? I don't get it. What's wrong?"
The word 'ERROR' appeared on Hulk's DISK, revealing that it didn't respond to Akira's biocode. Akira picked it up and read, "'Error'? But why"
"Something's wrong..." Sandra trailed.
In the ship's ducts, Jessica and Wasp are still waiting for King Cobra. Meanwhile, Spiderman is eventually defeated by the 5 villains he fought in the storage room.
"We are running out of time here. How many more secrets do Dad and Dr. Gonzales' biocodes have?!" Hikaru asked.
"Not sure. But I'm certain those biocodes have certain specificities." Sandra said. She then remembered Edward from the Raft and the green biocode installed on him, 'Of course, that boy wearing those glasses. He has the green biocode.'
To be continued...
