Jason Fuller & The Elementals: The Stones Of Olympus (Book 1)

by Andarion The Storyteller

This story is about the adventures of a young mutant named Jason Fuller and his friends as they embark on a journey to save the world from Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil. Lives will be changed, destinies will be fought, ancient magic will resurface, and for Jason, a question that has plagued him since his parents death, about what it truly means to be a hero, will be answered.

15. Chapter 15: I AM GEO-TITAN!

Chapter 15: I AM GEO-TITAN!

Like I said, our deaths should've been as fast, and as effortless as blinking. But my damned body put me in Timeout. I tired to take advantage of the situation, and struggled against my bonds, desperately trying to break free. I strained, and groaned, and roared, trying with every ounce of my being to escape; I probably struggled for like two minutes straight, from my perspective. After all of my huffing and puffing was over, I gave up, done with the pointless struggle. Yet, even in the face of what was sure to be my death, I suddenly realized something; time was still frozen. It didn't occur to me at first, but after re-assessing the situation, I realized that for whatever reason, I wasn't in Timeout; things slow down when i'm in Timeout. Now, everything was frozen, like God had hit the pause button on my life; hopefully he was considering pressing the rewind button as well. For a few seconds, nothing happened, just me, my friends, and a mutant terrorist/freedom fighter, all frozen in time together; then the green spark appeared. It was bright, but fast, almost like it didn't exist. But then came another, and another, and another, until it turned into a straight up green inferno. I honestly didn't know what to think of it, on one hand, it could be a good guy, here to spring me; on the other hand, it could be another surprise enemy, here to conquer the world with an army of demon Care Bears. The blaze burned bright for a good few seconds, and I was surprised by how much it didn't burn, how it felt more like a distant strengthening sensation. The blaze suddenly took the form of a small vortex, and after a few more seconds, materialized arms, legs, and the rough shape of a female. The blaze gradually cooled down, and once the blaze had dissipated, I was left with the company of…Gabrielle Union!? I'm not joking guys, Gabrielle Union, as in, Gabrielle Union the movie star, model, and wife of D Wade, was floating just five feet away from me. She was wearing a simple dark green dress, that matched her chocolate skin beautifully. Her long hair was in curls that reached down to her shoulders, and had a few green streaks in them. She wore a light shade of red eyeliner, red lipstick, and even had her nails done dark red. She stared at me for a good 30 seconds, her beautiful brown eyes boring into me. She didn't say anything as she studied me, she just maintained an odd expression, one that was a combination of intrigue, slight disappointment, and a little bit of happiness mixed in. I had no idea what this was all about, but as Gabrielle started to float closer to me, the less my brain started to care; hell, my attention had moved to a more southern location, if you catch my drift. Gabrielle, cupped my face in her hands, and started turning it to either side. Her face went into a different type of concentration, like she was examining an item on a shelf, not sure about whether or not she wanted it. She examined me for about ten seconds, if seconds still apply to frozen time, let go of my face, and turned her back on me, floating away from me slowly. She stopped just a few feet away from Magneto, paused for a moment, and then let out a deep sigh, that sounded like a blast of wind.

"You are not making this easy for me, child." she said; and good God, her voice!

It was definitely Gabrielle's voice, but it was like someone remixed it with what I assume to be, was the female version of God. She was primal, ancient, OP for lack of better term, and definitely not Gabrielle Union.

"Seriously, the first legitimate candidate for my champion in a millennium, and this is the state I find you in? The real frustration is that you are not a complete failure, you have raw talent, and tons of potential, yet here you are, on the brink of death."

"Not to be rude, Ms. Union, or Mrs. Wade, if you wanna go by that," I responded, still trying to get over that reality defying voice. "But why the hell are you here, why do you sound like pure godliness, and what's with this whole champion thing?"

She turned around, her eyes now blazing with emerald green fire, and raised her right hand. Out of the ground, or should I say using the ground, she created an elaborate stone made throne, and popped a squat just under the dangerous metal projectiles still on a direct collision course with me and my friends.

"Come on, Grant!" she addressed me the way a mother addresses her child. "I know you to be smarter than that. Who am I?"

"Obviously not Gabrielle Union," I responded.

"Well, at least we're getting closer to solving the mystery. If you are interested by the form I have chosen, it's because I always take the form of a mortal, when I address humans. Usually, I address them as the same ethnic origin, but you are a special case. By the way, thanks for holding the image of this mortal woman in such high esteem. Her body is divine, I actually think i'll keep this form."

"Glad to help random, mysterious, magic lady, but seriously, who/what are you?"

She smiled at me, like I was a cute puppy chasing it's own tail.

"I'll give you a hint. she said. 'Titan of the Earth, Champion of….?"

"Gaea!" I spat out. "As in, Earth Mother Gaea, you actually exist!"

"Grant!" Gaea retorted, putting on a fake pouty face. "You're gonna break my heart! I bet if it was Thor that was rescuing you, you wouldn't be so rude!"

"You're right," I said, deciding to turn on my manners for the nice, extremely hot, Earth Mother. "Sorry, it's just been a rough few days, what with the magic rocks, mutant powers, and at this point, I had thought i'd seen it all. So, um, what do you want?"

"I'm glad you asked," Gaea said, abandoning her throne, and floating towards me again. "I was going to tell you regardless, but i'm glad you asked; it implies that you have courtesy. Usually, i'd drone on and on for ten minutes about who I am, but thanks to your mortal device known as the internet, you can just 'Google' me, as they say."

"As long as it's not Wikipedia," I responded.

"No, definitely not," Gaea responded. "But that is beside the point, focus. Grant, long story short, i'm in danger, the earth is in danger, the scattering of the Stones of Olympus is only a herald of greater dangers to come, and I fear that without a champion to protect me, the whole of the earth that is, I will be destroyed."

"Ok," I responded, kinda getting the drift of where this was going. "But, a couple quick questions. Why me? Why not people like Hulk, or Thor? And why now? Lady, do you realize that you left me to die just barely a day ago?"

Gaea's eyes flashed dangerously, and for a moment, I thought she was gonna off me right then. Thankfully, she calmed down, recomposed herself, and answered me in a calm, and respectable manner; also, I was only just able to keep myself from not straight voiding my bowels.

"Why you?" she answered me. "Don't kid yourself, it wasn't like I hand chose you, it was kind of a 'luck of the draw' type thing. Basically, everything born of this earth, is born with a small connection to me. In your case, you have twice as much of a connection to me; the mark of my champion. It dosen't happen of my choosing, a fact that I find extremely frustrating, but as far as candidates go, you are not the worst I could do; I mean, it's not every few thousand years that my champion just so happens to be the tenth great grandson of Hercules."

"WHAT!?" I shouted.

"No interruptions!" Gaea shushed me. "But yes, Grant, you are indeed the tenth generation descendant of Hercules' most recent bloodline. The family gift diminished over the course of five generations, up to the point to where the children were only just stronger than most of the average humans, but your connection to me, plus your mutant ability of super strength, well, it made you more than what you should have been."

"What do you mean 'should have been'?"

"By mortal standards, you should have been classified as a Gamma level mutant, one of the weaker ones, but your connection to me, plus your divine lineage, made you Omega level; even I am almost proud of what you are."

"Ok," I responded, just starting to get a handle on whatever the hell this was. "We got the whole aspect of 'why' taken care of, but there's still one more nagging question that just won't let me be."

"Why I chose not to save you in your moments of need?" Gaea asked me, her face kinda portraying guilt, but mixed with a willful unapologetic mask. "Let me counteract that statement, I mean, i've been protecting you from the sidelines for quite a few days now. For one, do you think you just SPONTANEOUSLY developed the strength to lift a 90,000 ton warship? No, your tenacity impressed me so much, that I willed your strength to increase for that time being. When the fool known as the Green Goblin nearly killed your friends, when his energy blast exploded prematurely-"

"That was you."

"Yes, I sensed how much you cared for the mortals, plus they're just important in the upcoming struggle, so it was in my best interest to keep them alive. As for why I didn't save you from Goblin? Grant, understand that you were never meant to even know who you were, until your 20th birthday, the fact that I am even speaking with you so soon, is dangerous; you're too young, too inexperienced. But it seems as though you are almost incapable of surviving on your own, you will just have to learn on the job; I mean, do you know how much energy it has taken me to stop time like this, I haven't had all of my essence in one place like this, since the dawn of time!

"Sorry to make you go through so much trouble, it's not like I asked you to save me! Hell, you didn't seem to have a problem with letting Goblin run me through!"

"BE SILENT! You think I'm here for you, you think your life matters to me on a personal level!? You are my champion, Grant! Little more than a knight on a chessboard! I need you, I can't let you die, not yet, not while my very existence is at stake! Like it or not Grant, we need each other, so don't you dare get sentimental on me!"

I was completely numb. My emotions were so high with rage, disgust, and straight up disbelief that a person could be so uncaring for those around her, that I literally couldn't process the feelings at one time.

"You don't care about me," I calmly said. "You don't care about my friends, it's all you isn't it? As long as queen dirt-on-my-shoe gets her's, then everyone else can shove it, right? So why should I team up with you? Why the holy f*(# should I even consider being your champion?"

"Here's a bit of incentive," Gaea said, getting in my face, and maintaining a smile that reeked of sarcastic venom. "Because right now, you are about to die; do you understand that? In fact, let's forget about you, you're so much of a hero wannabe, you probably care more about your friends, and about the countless citizens that will perish in Doctor Doom's mad scramble for power, don't you, boy? So here's your two choices. Join with me,and become my champion, or let you and your friends, the only hope the world has for survival, die."

Damn. She had be by the balls with that one; whether I liked her or not, Gabrielle Union aka Gaea, was my only chance to survive, my only chance to protect my friends.

"Not much of a choice when you put it like that," I said.

"No," Gaea said plainly. "Not much of a choice at all; so, are you game?"

"Let's play."

She grabbed my face, with a grip that could crush steel. Her body combusted into fire, that formed a contained vortex around my body, and her voice was magnified in my mind, like a million Clemson fans.

"GRANT ULYSSES JACKSON! I, GAEA, MOTHER EARTH, ACCEPT YOU TO BE MY CHAMPION! TO PROTECT, SERVE, AND WIELD THE POWER OF THE EARTH ITSELF! DO YOU ACCEPT THE POWER, AND ALL THAT IT ENTITLES; WILL YOU BECOME THE TITAN OF THE EARTH!?"

"YEAH, SURE, WHATEVER!" I screamed aloud.

The flames around me swirled a lot faster, condensed into the fiery form of a woman, and quite literally flew down my throat. What happened next, was just straight up brutal. It was as if I was ingesting an ocean of fire and lightning. Power roared through my body in a continuous stream, and didn't f*(#! % stop! The pain was unbearable, almost reminded me of when Dragon Empress had me trapped in hellfire, yet at the same time, the power felt good in the way swallowing a lump of food that move slowly down your throat feels good; don't ask, sometimes I forget to chew enough times before swallowing. After what felt like an eternity of swallowing the Gaea, I finally hit that limit, that soothing limit of energy that my body could withstand, and it finally came out. It wasn't voluntary, no definitely not, but all of a sudden, my body blazed with an aura of green fire, while at the same time, surging with green lightning; it was kind of a weird blend, not fully one or the other. Anyway, I released a huge shock wave of the energy, and let me tell you something; I brought the house down! For starters, I knocked Magneto though a good few walls, which broke his concentration, and lossened my bonds just enough for me to break free.I quickly caught Sunbird and Storm-Lord, ripping away their bonds as well, and then took a quick nanosec to survey the area. I didn't know how I knew it, but my blastwave had destroyed the schools foundations; the basement was on the verge of giving way, bringing the school down on top of us. Sunbird and Storm-Lord were still out cold, and were in no condition to help me take Magneto down, so my first priority was to teleport them back to the Helicarrier. However, before I got to doing that, something caught my eye. A green glow, just under a small pile of metal caught my attention. When I dug through it, I was relieved to see that it was the stone of Demeter; thank God my blastwave was strong enough to knock Magneto away from it. I quickly summoned a canister, put the stone inside of it, and put it in Storm-Lord's hand, before pressing both his, and Sunbird's teleportation buttons. After I watched them vanish, I flew through the hole that I launched Magneto through, and with half a second to spare, made it out before the school dropped a good hundred feet. Honestly, I do realize that it was probably smarter if I had warped away with my friends, but there was a reason I didn't. For starters, Magneto had just kicked all of our asses, and I wanted some payback. However, I also thought about the other party goers, and what would happen if Magneto decided to take them hostage, in exchange for the stone. Also, from a tactical perspective, it made more sense to take Magneto out of the fight, and take away another huge player from Team Doom; so yeah, I went full throttle lookin' for his punk ass.

Luckily, it didn't take to long. I found him smack dab in the middle of the school's football field; actually flying through the giant hole he blew through the home side's bleachers. Now, I blasted Magneto a hell of alot backwards, and I imagine slamming into a metal wall, plus a face plant to the field, had to hurt, and at least keep you out of it for a good minute or so. Needless to say, I was completely shocked when Magneto started hurling bolts of electromagnetism at me, almost to where I didn't deflect them. Don't worry, I overcame the initial shock, and deflected all five of his bolts with my axe. On the sixth shot, I tapped into Blitz, and hit his blast back at him, although he quickly dodged it by flying backwards. He thrusted his hands to the side, and I felt something….well, I guess felt something hit me in the back, but it didn't hurt; didn't even have the force to move me. I saw pieces of the bleachers crash to the ground, and realized I had shrugged off at least a ton of metal like it was pillow foam; that was kinda cool. I quickly flew to the fifty meter mark, the same distance from Magneto, and when I hit the ground…oh my God! It was like landing in a field of pure adrenaline and power. I felt like I could lift a skyscraper like it was a baseball bat, kick a forklift across the Atlantic Ocean, and I was too busy reveling in my new strength, I almost got pelted in the chest with one of Magneto's blasts. I went into Timeout, and on a reflex/hunch, I raised my fists over my face, and imagined the energy coursing through me making a barrier around myself. Immediately, a green barrier, which was both fire and lightning, wrapped around me, and completely tanked Magneto's blast. Before he could try that again, and without dropping my barrier, I slammed my fist into the ground, and a green lightning/firebolt erupted out of the ground just under Magneto, and blasted him a good 50 feet in the air. I quickly rearranged the energy to take the form of two massive green fists, which was easier than rolling clay into a ball, and slammed Magneto back to the ground. I was getting hyped up, carried away, but i'll be damned if it didn't feel good! I created another giant hand construct, just behind Magneto, willed it to backhand Magneto towards me at the speed of a bullet, and as soon as he was in range, I reeled a fist back, charged it with ten grenades worth of the weird green energy, and knocked Magneto in the face, sending him careening into a field goal post, denting the base heavily. Besides the fact that I had just ruined a perfectly good piece of sports equipment, I was overjoyed; no, not with the thought of hurting Magneto, at least that wasn't the sole reason, but because I had energy powers now! No more could jerks like Magneto push me around just because I couldn't shoot lightning out of my hands; now, I had the strength of an entire planet to use!

"Having fun?" Gaea thought in my head, actually slowing down time to talk to me.

"Huh?" I thought back to her. "Oh, right, sorry, guess I just got excited."

"No, do not apologize, Grant. It is good to see that you respond to power so well. It is called the Geo-Force, the literal manifestation of my power and being. Through it you can accomplish much, just remember, the power comes from the earth, not from yourself, when you call on it, imagine it as if you are the water hose that channels the water from the hydrant."

"Is that all?"

"Hmmm…...oh right! The electromagnetism, try not to get hit with that, it distorts your molecular structure, which is very much tied to me, too much of it, and it'll kill you."

"Good to know."

I consciously cut off the conversation, and stood tall, as I prepared to face Magneto.

"Alright, Magneto!" I said, using the Geo-Force to amplify my voice. "Stand down! You got lucky a while back, but as you can see, i've got a few new tricks up my sleeve! Give up now, and nobody needs to get hurt!"

"THE STONE!" he bellowed at me, completely ignoring my generous offer to not kick his ass. "WHERE IS THE STONE, YOU INSUFFERABLE BOY!?"

"Long gone! Back at HQ with my friends, who you treated with such tender love and care!"

He was losing it; I could literally see his face cringing with pain and worry.

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?!" he kept yelling at me. "DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEFYING?! DOOM MAY BE MAD, BUT HE IS ON THE VERGE OF RULING THIS WORLD, A WORLD WHERE OUR PEOPLE WOULD FINALLY BE ABLE TO LIVE WITHOUT FEAR! BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, YOU HAVE PUT OUR RACE ON THE ROAD TO EXTINCTION! I WAS TRYING TO SAVE US ALL!"

"So was I, dude!" I responded. "I'm a superhero, it's my job to save the world, that means everyone! Look, if Doom's threatening us, you should be teaming up with me, I know you've been on the right side of the law before. Work with us, and we can take him down together, maybe even give the mutants a bit more good press!"

Magneto stared me down, his eyes not resembling anything related to diplomacy and/or rationality. He slowly shook his head, rose into the air, and engulfed himself in a huge surge of electromagnetism.

"YOU, BOY!" he bellowed at me again. "MAY BE THE REASON FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR RACE! WITHOUT THE STONE, I HAVE BUT ONE CONSOLATION PRIZE TO OFFER DOOM; YOUR HEAD! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU, BOY, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT I WILL TAKE PLEASURE IN IT NOW!

I willed the Geo-Force to manefit around me in a kick-ass body shield; seriously, the lightning/fire fusion looked awesome!

"IF THAT'S HOW YOU WANNA PLAY IT," I roared at Magneto. "THEN LET'S GO!"

I launched at him, now completely willing and able to beat an old man senseless; that sounded a lot less psychotic in my head.

Magneto blasted at me with more of his bolts, but I created a charging bus construct, and sent it ramming though the bolts, and into Magneto, sending the old coot flying back a good few hundred meters. He managed to recover, but only just in time to take a hard right punch across the face. To give credit where it's due, he took it like a champ. Maybe it was the electromagnetic body shield, or maybe his armor was really, really strong, but he took a punch strong enough to level a bus, and still nearly got me under the chin with a retaliation uppercut. I managed to move out of the way, blocked one of his punches, and kicked him dead in his chest. As Magneto flew backwards, I rocketed after him, and assaulted him with a furious punch and kick combo; denting his armor a few times in the process. At first, it seemed like Magneto was just that bad of a fighter, I mean, just a few minutes ago he was able to keep up with me just barely, but then my body called for a Timeout, and I understood why he was lending his body to be my punching bag. Just behind me, at the speed of bullets, large chunks of the home and visitors bleachers, were flying smack dab into me. To make matters worse, Magneto suddenly remembered how fast he was, and blasted me in the chest with a bolt of electromagnetism, sending me careening through at least ten sheets of metal. I crashed into the ground, leaving a decent crater in the center of the football field, and just barely had time to raise a barrier over myself, as Magneto unleashed electromagnetic hell on the stadium. He hit me with a Kamehameha of electromagnetism, which I was just barely able to hold off with my shield. Tendrils of stray lightning split from the blast, going in every direction, and carving trenches in the football field; the damn place looked more like a battlefield than a football field, which I guess it was now. Magneto didn't stop there, and while simultaneously upping the voltage, bombarded my barrier with lobs of metal; it was all I could do to keep my barrier from getting smashed like glass, using more and more of the Geo-Force to keep it up.

"You are not very good at this." said Gaea.

Man, where was the block number function in my head?

"Oh yeah?!" I retorted. "Well thanks for the commentary, it's not at all distracting! Besides, what the hell do you want me to do?!"

"Deflect the metal."

"WHAT!?"

"Don't yell. But yes, Grant, you can manipulate metal, just like your charming friend. You see, aside from the power of the earth's energy, you have the ability to manipulate any earth, or earth based element. Metal? Just ore in a different form. It takes a significant amount of the Geo-Force, not to mention intense concentration, to use this ability, but you can do it."

"And you didn't share this information before…"

"You weren't strong enough! In fact, you're barely strong enough now! Using my power is not for the faint of heart, Grant. Using it will puts enormous strain on your body. Sure, it's basically the same as working out, the more you use it, the stronger, faster, and more durable you become, but I can't let you overuse it, you have to take it in gradual doses."

"Ok, I get that, but back to the metal bending thing. How am I supposed to use it, if I have absolutely no idea how to?"

"Do you trust me?"

"Not really, no."

"Well let me try something anyway, it's the only way I can help you master a an extremely difficult skill, that takes hours upon hours of practice, in the span of about ten seconds."

"Fair enough, gimme your best shot."

My body shut down for a little bit. Seriously, it was like someone had hit the off switch on my legs and arms, and I crumpled to the ground like a sack of potatoes. Gaea must've been keeping up the barrier for me, because as I was on the ground twitching, feeling like someone had injected liquid nitrogen into my veins, I noticed how I wasn't dying from Magneto's consistent rage quit. After my spazzing had passed, leaving me with an empty, yet at the same time, extremely filling feeling, I noticed something different about…well everything. You know how you can kinda feel fog in the sense that you feel a phantom pain? Well, imagine that, but a hundred times the feels. As I looked around at the lobs of metal still bashing repeatedly against my barrier, I was in Blitz Extreme by the way, I could feel them, I could see the ore elements in them, like green radar blips. I held my hand out, focusing my attention on a piece of metal that either looked like a disembodied bleacher, or a lump of safety rails. I rotated my wrist, focusing on making the metal lob rotate. Gaea was right, doing this took some effort, like lifting 100 pounds with one hand, for me that is, but as the metal spun like a top, I couldn't help but smile; Magneto was in for such a rude awakening. I closed my eyes, held out my hands, and concentrated on every last piece of metal in the air. The feedback was straight up deadly, like asking for a bullet, but getting a missile instead. As I focused on harnessing the energy, and making it obey me, I felt the same way I did when I lifted 50,000 tons for the first time after the battle with Venom; not completely out of my league, but definitely getting into dangerous waters.

"Careful." Gaea warned me. "You still need time to adjust to the strain."

"You don't make the big times by being careful," I thought back to her. "Besides, if it were easy, everyone would do it."

With a roar of resolve, I thrusted my hands towards Magneto, and before he was even aware of what was going on, a hundred sheets of metal decked him in an assembly line of pain. Again, maybe it was the armor, or maybe Magneto was tougher than I thought, but Magneto took that barrage like a champ. He barely moved, and didn't even looked like he was fazed by my ability to control metal; then again, he had repaired his armor, and his face was once again covered in his full body chainmail under layer, and was probably displaying a perfect mix of anger and fear. Still, I had no intention of letting him get his balance back again. I held out my hands again, regaining my control over the metal, and commanded them to smash into Magneto again, and again, making them surge with Geo-Force to get that extra kick. This time, Magneto actually got tossed around. Every time a slab of metal smacked into him, a small tangent of energy discharged like a grenade. Hell, I probably could've knocked Magneto down for the count on this trick alone, but where's the fun in that? On something that was an odd mix between anger, a hunch, and straight up impulsiveness, I balled my fists, and…...well, the metal copied me. Seriously, I don't know how I did it, but all of a sudden, the one hundred sheets of metal, quickly merged into about ten metal fists, each about the size of a jackhammer. The effort definitely put a strain on my body, I could feel that in my chest, but I didn't care; the sooner I finished this fight, the sooner I could take a breather. I noticed a small tug on my fists, like someone was trying to pull them away from me. I looked up, and saw Magneto desperately trying to manipulate my metal constructs, straining with all of his feeble might. I decided to cut him a break, and let him have one of my fists; to the face that is! As he was sputtering in the air, I unleashed the beast on him. From every angle, metal fists surging with Geo-Force decked into every part of him they could reach. One hit him dead in the face, others hit the chest and back; hell, others actually hit his kneecaps and face, so i'm almost certain that his armor had to be some type of reinforced titanium, because with all of the abuse I was giving him, this guy should've been seriously messed up. I was able to continue my barrage unchallenged for about 15 seconds. After that, Magneto kinda got back in the game; in a technical sort of way. He managed to raise an electromagnetic barrier around him, and for a while, my metal fists bounced harmlessly off of it's surface. Still, I wasn't stupid, if experience had taught me anything, it was better to get one big hit, than a thousand little ones. I kept up the barrage, fooling Magneto into a sense of security, and while subtly moving most of my fists behind his line of sight, I willed them to form together in a massive lump, and take the form of a massive missile, powered with an insane amount of Geo-Force. By the way, I don't know how I did it, or if it was just an automatic thing, but as the metal formed the missile construct, they basically melted into a liquid state in less than a second, merged together, took the shape of a missile, and then hardened to it's original state; it was like some Terminator 2 $#!+. So yeah, I think you can predict what happened next, I yanked my arms back, and the missile took off full steam into Magneto's barrier. The explosion was so big, it would've completely incinerated the bleachers if Magneto didn't already scrap them. As was such, the heat from the missile explosion lit up the sky, half melted the field goal post on farther side, and sent Magneto falling to the earth. I tapped into Blitz for two reasons. Number one: This mother f*(#% wasn't dead; I mean, I wasn't TRYING to kill him, but from the look of that explosion, he should've been burnt toast. Number two: The explosion was way too big, and way too close to the school; in other words, this fight needed to hit the road five minutes ago. As Magneto careened towards the ground, I got an idea, but first, let me explain something. I'm a superhero fanboy. On the scale of top three things that matters to me it's, in this order: football, food, and then superheroes; so please forgive me if my constructs seem a little….Avengerish. I covered myself in a thick layer of Geo-Force, imagined it taking the form of an Iron Man suit, and took to the air, delivering a massive punch to Magneto's face, sending him soaring sideways away from the school.

"Iron Man?" Gaea asked me. "Seriously?"

"Hey!" I retorted while punching Magneto about a quarter mile forward. "It's stylish and functional, just watch!"

By the way, yes, my body constructs were actually useful. Other than the fact that the armor was basically the same as wrapping myself in another layer of titanium armor, it increased my punching strength by three times, and if I willed it, I could make the suit work like Iron Man's. For example, after I punched Magneto another quarter mile forward, the guy finally managed to recover, and try to get some hits in. After dodging all of his blasts, I willed my shoulder compartments to shoot out 100 mini missiles, and even though Magneto blocked it with a wall of electromagnetism, the explosion was still strong enough to knock him back a good hundred feet. Even better, the explosion created a small, but nearly blinding burst of energy, meaning Magneto wouldn't see my next attack coming. I sensed him, that is to say sensed his armor, which for some reason I couldn't control, and once locked on, blasted him with the mother of all Unibeam cannons, completely engulfing him in the violent energy blast. Magneto quite literally rocketed into the distance, actually making me try to catch up with him; note to self, learn my own strength. Right before I was in grabbing distance however, the old man recovered with a backflip kick, lightning up the bottom of my construct helmet with a electromagnetic lightning kick, guy must've seen Storm-Lord in action, and blasted me in the chest with an electromagnetic Kamehameha. Gaea was right about the bad outcome of mixing Geo-Force with electromagnetism. I mean, I put a decent amount of energy into this suit, and it just barely managed to hold up against a blast that i'm sure Magneto didn't even give his all on. He followed up his lovetap with another Kamehameha, this one a lot bigger, and more destructive. On a reflex, I recycled the leftover energy from my Iron Man suit construct, filled it with a $#!+ ton of extra Geo-Force, and created a big green Captain America shield, couldn't do the stripes, but managed to get the star right, in front of Magneto's blast. The struggle could not get any more real. Imagine trying to hold off a point blank blast of water from a fire hose with only a trash can lid; if you multiply that by about 50 times, then you might get an idea of how hard it was to not get destroyed by Magneto's Big Bang Kamehameha. The electromagnetism kept corroding my shield, meaning I had to constantly spoon feed it Geo-Force just to make sure it barely held together. Magneto had me pinned down for a good ten seconds, and it was screwing me from both ends. On one hand, the effort of keeping my shield intact, kept me forever on defense; on the other hand keeping the shield up was killing my body, like someone had dropped a skyscraper on top of me, and didn't plan on taking it off. Five more seconds went by, and as my chest started to feel more and more like a lead mine, I got an idea. While keeping my shield intact, I willed it to be pushed back gradually, up to the point where it was almost pressed against my face, and when it seemed like Magneto had the clear upper hand, I quickly filled my shield with an overkill amount of Geo-Force, G-Force for short, curled up, and drop kicked the construct with everything I had; the shield ripped though Magneto's blast so fast, he didn't have time to dodge it, as he was smacked into the distance. I took a nanosec to breathe, before soaring after Magneto once again; right before I caught him, he flew back a little further, managing to recover, and after a turning feeling in my gut, I realized something I should've caught on to since forever ago.

You know that feeling you get right before you trip and fall, but miraculously catch yourself, saving you either a lot of pain, humiliation, or both? Well, remember when I said that I could sense all of the metal around me? You see, the thing about duking it out over a freeway, is that the amount of metal cars are so many, you kinda forget they're there; kinda like a background noise you eventually manage to drown out with your own thoughts. The point i'm trying to make, is that Magneto almost pulled a fast one on me, and as I sensed a BMW being lifted ever so gently off of the ground, I used my own metal manipulation powers to trump his, keep the car on the ground, and tap into Blitz, to give Magneto one hell of a telling off.

"NO! YOU! DON'T!" I roared at him, as I delivered three powerful cross punches to the old man's face, denting his helmet in the process.

As I delivered the attack, I was shocked at how unhinged I was for the small span of time I almost cut lose on this old man. Maybe it was because of the fight with Goblin, and how I failed to keep the collateral to a minimum, maybe it was thought of failing to keep a family safe from a battle that didn't concern them. Either way, Magneto was putting innocents in danger, and wasn't giving two $#!+$ about it; he was gonna learn some manners. I managed to hit him one more time in the face, before he blocked one aimed at his gut, lit up my arm with a surge of electromagnetism, and tired to bat me away with an electromagnetically charged backhand. My body called for a Timeout, and I took full advantage of it. I lit my own body ablaze with G-Force, essentially turning myself into the green Human Torch with a bonus of lightning, by the way, i'm not really gonna name my Geo-Force powers, they're pretty self explanatory. Anyway, I caught Magneto's backhand, my blazing armor holding up nicely against the electromagnetism, and headbutted him hard. That was enough to knock the old man off balance, and I socked him hard in the face, before flying after him. Again, Magneto was quick on the recovery, and even managed to engulf himself in a massive electromagnetic surge, before counter attacking me. We went at it for a good minute or so, punching, and kicking each other in a furious succession. I'll give it to the old geezer, he could really throw down. Even with my two days of Kung-Fu training, I was only barely able to block, and counter him; hell, my speed was more of an asset to me than my strength. Over the course of our brawl, we both got in some really good shots to the face, chest, gut, and even the arms and legs. Magneto managed to pull the rug out from under me, and assaulted me with a huge beat down of probably 100 punches per second; kinda slow compared to me, but still fast enough to where I was the one on the defensive. I managed to turn the situation around by blocking one of his strikes, quickly followed by a hard knee to the chest, and using the hand I still had a grip on, I spun Magneto around a few times, and let him go flying to wherever. This time, when I caught up to him, Magneto was helpless as I assaulted him with a furious punch and kick combo, followed by a hard punch to the gut, a backflip kick under the chin, and a hard drop kick, that…..didn't really do much. Don't get me wrong, I put a good amount of force into that kick, the guy should've been careening into the Atlantic Ocean, but as my feet made contact with his chest…..I dunno, it was like he had gained another few sets of armor in a millisecond. Still, the fun was only beginning. Like I said, I put a good bit of myself into that dropkick, and I wasn't planning on Magneto to be able to just take it; so you'll have to forgive me, if I ended up taking a huge electromagnetic blast, that sent me tumbling into the freeway.

Luckily, I didn't land on any cars, and I managed to get up, and back into the air fast enough to where nobody ran over me; but that didn't exactly solve all of my problems. For the split second that I was out, and not paying attention, Magneto had managed to lift 30 cars into the air, and hurled them all at me. Again, I was gonna make him pay for messing with innocents, but for now, the innocents were my only priority. I tapped into Blitz Extreme, using the Geo-Force to boost my speed, it wasn't hard to get the hang of, and caught each one of the cars, and put them down in some piece of abandoned land, that looked like it was, or could've been used as farming ground; hopefully the people wouldn't get too mad about me causing them a light delay in their travel plans, I mean not to brag, but I did just SAVE THEIR LIVES! I quickly flew back to Magneto, who was in the act of levitating a good 20 more cars. I quickly used my powers to shut him down, although doing so really took a chunk out of my energy. Still, I managed to create a giant G-Fist construct, I swear the name was accidental, and decked Magneto in the side. He got knocked back a good 100 meters; barely a quarter of the distance he should've been launched. I cupped my hands together, put as much G-Force into the construct as I could manage without hurting myself, and launched Magneto a good half a mile into the air, by hitting him from below with a Donkey Kong construct that mimicked my hammer uppercut. While Magneto was flying upwards, I trapped him in a G-Sphere, which is basically the green version of Sunbird's mini suns; and you know what? Regarding my statement about not naming my attacks? Scratch that, it's just who I am. As Magneto was burning/electrocuting in my G-Sphere, a feat that was kinda hard to keep up, what with him trying to escape from the inside and all, I did a full area scan. Using the Geo-Force, I sensed the area for a small, temporary fighting ground, one free of civilians or bystanders; hell, I would've used that spare land, but I had already put a handful of people in that area. Still, I managed to find an honest to God Metro Train Yard, completely empty of people. I could practically see the headlines, bad press, and the ten minute lecture Fury was gonna give me for doing this, but I needed a place to move this fight; just until I could either K.O. Magneto, or move it somewhere else. I flew over to the G-Sphere, created a giant Mjolnir construct, and grand slammed Magneto into the train yard; luckily, he crashed into a small area of empty land, so the explosion didn't destroy any property. Still, the night was young, I would have plenty of chances to cause millions of dollars in property damage.

"Yo, Gaea!" I thought to her as I flew down to confront Magneto again; yeah, he was still alive. "I need to get this fight somewhere private, like middle of a dessert private; any ideas?"

"Would you like to try the Geo-Portal?" she asked me. "It'll take maybe two minutes at the most, but if you provide me with the proper circumstances, I can make your request a reality."

"What do you need?"

"An energy field, big enough to encompass the train yard. After that, I can use the energy to move your battle elsewhere, although I do recommend you kill this fool; it'll make the rest of your night so much easier.

"Look, I know you're down with the whole 'kill anyone who gets in your way' thing. I mean if that wasn't the case, you wouldn't be single, your children wouldn't be in maximum lockdown, and your grandkids might actually visit you every few centuries. Still, i'm not like you, I mean, i'm not above killing for the right reasons, but not every bad person deserves to die, i'm no executioner, and i'm sure as hell not yours'."

I was way too brutal, I hit way below the belt, and for a split second, I could actually feel Gaea sadden. Still, she resumed her cold, careless demeanor, and went on.

"Fine," she responded, her voice extremely testy. "Just do your part; and is there anywhere in particular that you would like me to send you and your sparring partner?"

"Gimme the biggest desert in the U.S. please, that should give me a good home field advantage."

This time, Gaea was the one who broke off the conversation as I charged myself with G-Force, and smashed into the ground. I willed the energy to burst in a small, but powerful blastwave. Powerful enough to knock Magneto on his ass again, but only strong enough to barely phase the metro trains; didn't want them exploding too soon. As the energy dispersed, I willed it to increase in power, fan out to the perimeter of the train yard, and build the massive barrier that would serve to be the battleground perimeter, and the one way ticket out of here for me and Magneto. The barrier was slow to build, in fact Magneto managed to get up, and throw a spare metro train at me, which I simply grabbed by the front, and threw away. Yeah, maintaining this barrier was not gonna be a walk in the playground, and if I wanted to stand even the slightest chance of keeping it together, I had to use as little of my other powers as possible; still, that didn't mean that I was completely defenseless. Gaea said that I could control the earth around me, earthbending basically, and as Magneto reared back, preparing to throw a couple more trains at me, I tired this ability out for the first time. I sensed around for all of the rocks littered around the train yard, and got an enormous amount of feedback. Now don't get it wrong, my plan was not to throw individual rocks at Magneto; that've been stupid. Instead, I willed the rocks to be at the ready, on standby, until I was ready to use them. Magneto launched four train cars at me, and after batting them away, and dodging a few electromagnetic bolts, I focused on the rocks, and swung my arms left and right. Two huge streams of rocks, thick enough to put smash an SUV, tackled Magneto from both sides, and kept up the assault, like mid air snakes on the attack. Even with this amount of rocks, they wouldn't have been able to faze Magneto if I didn't charge them with a good amount of G-Force, and even then, they were only barely affecting him. Still, what are powers for, if not for a little creativity? After the fifth go around, I willed the rocks to join together in a giant mesh, and before Magneto could attack me again, I mimicked a wide swing on him, and the giant rock mesh slammed into him in the form of a giant fist. I must've put more umph in the swing than I was going for, because Magneto went flying straight through an entire metro train. Still, the old man got up, roared loudly, and blasted me with another electromagnetic Kamehameha. This time, I knew he was giving it some effort, because this blast could've easily engulfed five metro trains, and destroy twice as much. I would've blocked it, but I didn't have the Geo-Force to spare; well, actually I did, but my body was struggling as much as it was, without adding another load to the effort. I couldn't dodge the blast either, if it crashed into the metro trains, the explosion would rip through my unfinished barrier, and probably spill into the traffic; in other words, I had no choice but to derail this puppy somehow. As if Gaea had heard me, and she probably did, time slowed down, as we engaged in another mentor to mentee chat.

"Geo-Genesis," Gaea simply said.

"Mind telling me what that is, please?" I asked her.

"The rocks, metal, dirt, anything you have at your disposal, can be multiplied an infinite amount of times, using the Geo-Force. The ability to do so does not require much effort, and is one of the most basic skills that my champions have. All you need do is will the element of your choice to duplicate, using the Geo-Force already in it as fuel."

"Cool beans, let's give it a shot."

I focused on the pile of rocks I left sitting in front of Magneto, called them back to me, and gathered a good bit of other rocks, just for good measure. I willed the rocks to form into a wall that, even with Geo-Force, wouldn't have even held off a shot from a tank. I focused on the G-Force in the rocks, like Gaea said, and after I had gotten a lock on the various energy signatures, I willed them to duplicate 3X over. The way this worked was, kinda like when you take a paper, and photocopy it. After getting myself familiar with the energy signature, I took a tiny bit of it from each rock, amplified the energy signature, and abracadabra! All of a sudden, we got ourselves a decent wall. I charged my new fortress, which was about ten feet tall, and five feet wide, with so much Geo-Force it was strong enough to take 100 RPGs no problem. Magneto's massive cannon collided with my rock wall, and even through the initial impact was definitely no laughing matter, my wall held it's ground; wow, the puns are gonna be so easy, it's actually sad. Anyway, I had no desire to stave off a blast for over a long period of time. Now that the barrier was up and running, and while Gaea was working on the teleportation wiz biz, it was time to start fighting serious; God help the train/subway transportation system in this area. I stomped my foot on the ground, willing a column of stone to generate under Magneto's chin, essentially uppercutting him with the earth itself. Once his blast faltered, I roared, thrusted my hands forward, and willed my rock wall to to attack Magneto in a massive wave. The G-Force helped with the impact, and even through Magneto still held up surprisingly well against what was basically a mini avalanche, he was still knocked back a considerable distance. Still, he didn't go own, and with the flick of his wrist, he sent four more metro trains flying at me. Like I said, being a discount Magneto was not gonna fly right now; I had a force field to keep alive. Instead, I simply took to the air, engulfed myself in G-Force, and took off like a bullet to Magneto. I zoomed past three of the train cars, grabbed the last one by the tail, and did a mid air flip, taking the train with me.

"GOING DOWN!" I yelled, as I brought the train down on top of Magneto.

The dude didn't have a second to avoid or block, as I smashed the train on top of him five times, before it was crushed like a soda can.

Amazingly enough, the old man was still kickin. After I smashed the train over him for the last time, he blasted at me with a huge arc of electromagnetism, forcing me to fall back, and put a body shield around myself. Once Magneto recovered, he reverted back to his old strategy of throwing trains at me; something he really should've ditched after he f*(#& it up the first time. Again, I dodged most of his trains with ease, but this time, I blasted him with a G-Force missile construct, grabbed two trains, and while Magneto was dazed, I made him the filling for a train sandwich. Unfortunately, I didn't see him raise that small barrier around him, thus blocking the impact of the attack entirely, and was completely caught off guard when Magneto pelted me in the chest with a huge electromagnetic bolt. I got decked into the ground hard, and Magneto got his revenge on me as he smashed me under six metro trains. I suppose they kind of hurt, but only in the way that getting hit really hard over the head with a pillow hurts. I quickly got up, my head spinning slightly, and my body immediately called for a Timeout. Apparently, Magneto had been a very busy boy. All of the trains on his side of field had been scraped, and were either body size, or SUV sized scraps of metal, all surging with electromagnetism; hell, looking back on it, I was probably in more danger of death by impalement, than just my axe alone. The metal barrage was already underway, barely ten feet away from me, and covering every possible flight route to Magneto. My only option was to create the best barrier I could, and weather the storm. I quickly did that, but man did I have my work cut out for me! Every piece of metal that impacted my shield, was the one that nearly broke the camel's back. It was like someone loaded nukes into a machine gun, hit the rapid fire button, and broke it off, leaving the damn thing going on forever; hell, I had to wrap myself in two extra layers of rock, and charge it with as much G-Force as I could without hurting myself, and even then, my shield was just barely holding together; in other words, I needed to cash my ticket out of this place NOW!

"Hey Gaea?!" I desperately asked her. "Any luck with that transportation thing?!"

"Patience, Grant," she responded. "The Geo-Portal is nearly ready, just barely under a minute, my champion.

"Guess I have to improvise a little, huh?"

"If you didn't, you wouldn't be much good at this job now would you?

"Whatever."

She was right though. Magneto was on a frenzy, and if I didn't get off my ass and try to get back in the game, i'd either get destroyed, or i'd get destroyed. Suddenly, in a 'holy $#!+ I should've figured this out forever ago' moment, I got an idea. I tapped into Blitz Extreme, pulled my barrier, and the rock reinforcements in, wrapped it around my body, converting my shield into a makeshift armor, and basically becoming a slimmer, more bad ass version of The Thing. I supercharged my armor with more G-Force, locked on to Magneto amidst the whirlwind of metal, and made a beeline for his face. I easily flew through the scraps of metal, like they were wet paper, and decked Magneto in the head with a flying punch, and kept the pain rack going. I punched him two more times in the face, letting the G-Force do most of the work, I couldn't afford to go all out just yet, and to be honest, I got off some pretty good combs. Sure, Magneto was anything but a pushover, but like I said before, my speed made up for that. After surviving a few hard punches to the gut, which my Geo-Armor thankfully absorbed, I decked Magneto across the face with two hard cross punches. Following that, I kneed him in the gut, punched him the gut twice, and literally swept his legs out from under him, and did a mid air back breaker, followed by a hard uppercut that launched him straight into the force field. Whether it was because of the impact, or because Gaea was finally ready to put this show on road, but as soon as Magneto smacked the force field, the energy started surge like crazy, and instead of a fiery/lightningy barrier, I suddenly got the feeling that I was trapped under a spinning circle of energy.

"Gaea," I asked her. "This you, mama?"

"Affirmative," she responded. "We're ready to go, but both you and Magneto must be on the ground, it'll make the transition…less difficult."

"What does 'less difficult' mean?"

"It means your molecular structure has a greater chance to not be violently ripped apart, and scattered to the four corners of the earth. I'd personally recommend this for your charming friend, but because you seem intent on not killing him, I suggest that you keep him grounded."

"Gotcha."

I quickly flew up to a falling Magneto, gave him one last punch across the face, grabbed him by his cape, and after swinging him around a good few times, I let him go careening into a train, and quickly followed suit, decking him with a G-Force punch that was so hard, my armor broke off in chunks. The energy burst caused a minor explosion that probably took out a few surrounding trains, but as everything started to go greenish, and blurry, New York could rest easy on the fact that it's train system was no longer in jeopardy.

Gaea was right about the whole molecular deconstruction thing, because as the Geo-Portal was transporting Magneto and I to Gaea knows where, I could literally feel my body being broken down to a rough collection of atoms and cells, only barely being held in a rough area, by Gaea's sheer force of will. It wasn't painful, in fact, uncomfortable is as close enough to an accurate word that I can use to describe it; but, the sense that Gaea was never gonna let me die from my own trick, took a bite out of my fear, as my atoms played a game of Twister, while riding a roller coaster on steroids. When Magneto and I arrived at our destination, the landing was not pretty at all. Basically, imagine being shot out of a cannon, but your starting point is ten feet underground; yeah, I couldn't have asked for a worse entrance even if I wanted to. Magneto and I were definitely dazed, but we recovered quick enough to do a jump scare, and backtrack away from each other, while looking for some kind of tactical advantage. So far, it looked like the fight was extremely one-sided in my favor.

"Nice choice, Gaea," I complimented her for dropping the fight in an uninhabited desert, with no sign of civilization for miles. "Where are we anyways?"

"Nevada," she plainly responded. "The Great Basin Desert to be precise; you are free to fight as hard as you wish, so unleash Hades."

"Thanks, Gaea, I owe you."

"Humph," she responded, as she left me to my own devices.

Magneto was still silently waiting, probably looking for a glimmer of metal in this godforsaken desert; yeah, that didn't look like a likely prospect. Still, he straightened up in a would be intimidating pose, if I didn't know he was bluffing.

"TAKING ME OUT OF MY ELEMENT, BOY?!" Magneto roared at me from a 100 meter distance. "CLEVER, VERY CLEVER, PERHAPS, UNDER DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES I'D EXTEND MY HAND IN INVITATION TO JOIN MY CAUSE! HOWEVER, YOU ARE FOOLING YOURSELF INTO BELIEVING THAT I AM DEFENSELESS WITHOUT ANY METAL TO RELY ON!

He levitated, and his suit started to surge with a crazy amount of electromagnetism; as in, I had to put a barrier around myself, to be protected from what was basically a light show. When the surge died down, Magneto was still more or less the same, but he radiated so much electromagnetism, I could feel my own battlesuit being drawn to him. In other words, I think Magneto just went Super Saiyan 4 in his own way.

"DO YOU FEEL THAT, BOY?!" Magneto roared at me, his voice sounding like he had ingested 50 stereos. "THAT IS THE FULL POWER OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM, OF EVERY PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM! AH, THE POWER! I WOULD THANK YOU, BOY, IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG SINCE I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FEEL THIS POWER AGAIN; FOR THAT, YOU HAVE REGAINED THE PRIVILEGE OF A QUICK DEATH!"

He rocketed down and forward so fast, I had to tap into Blitz Extreme, and up that by 10, just to keep my perspective fast enough to remain in a barely comfortable position. This time though, I could feel something different about me. My speed, while mostly my own, was being enhanced by the G-Force; I would never have been able to up my Blitz Extreme by so much without tapping into it. I felt stronger, strong enough to use a skyscraper as a sledgehammer, and tough enough to survive a planet exploding in my face. Even my ability to use the G-Force, which was severely put to the test back in the metro train yard, had been increase by ten; in other words, Magneto may have gotten a huge power boost, but so did I. As Magneto rocketed towards me, I set myself ablaze with as much G-Force as I could, turning myself into a living nuke, and counter charged him. Right before we collided, I willed the ground underneath him to harden, shoot a G-Force charged pillar of stone upwards, and after it decked Magneto under his chin, throwing his flight pattern slightly off, I poured on the speed, and straight up decked him in the face as hard as I could; and I do mean AS HARD AS COULD! That's right ladies and gentlemen, Super-G was fighting at 100%. The punch was so strong, I smashed Magneto's helmet like it was glass, and created a 20 foot deep, 100 meter wide crater; oh, but Magneto was fine, so I punched him in the face again, shattering his chainmail mask, and knocked him sky high with a massive uppercut.

I wish I could tell you that the fight was a completely one-sided battle in my favor, but i'd be lying so unbelievably hard. The truth? I basically got in a few lucky sucker punches on Magneto; after he recovered, he came back like a G. I soared upwards, and tired to get in a hard punch at Magneto's chest, but he simply dodged, grabbed my arm, and brought an elbow down it hard. If not for my armor, plus my G-Blazer, my fiery Geo-Force armor, I was pretty sure i'd be using my own arm for a weapon; and that wasn't even the worst part. Magneto quickly elbowed me in the face, which hurt like hell, and aside from the massive sonic boom that echoed from that seismic blow, a huge bolt of electromagnetism shot of Magneto's elbow, and sent me soaring back at Mach 2. Again, if not for my G-Blazer, I would've been so totally dead. As I was flying back, and barely even two seconds since I got b!+(# slapped, my body called for a Timeout, and I barely had half a sec to react to the sight Magneto's hands almost an inch from my throat. I quickly grabbed his arms, used his momentum against him, and flipped him over me. Before I could do anything else, I hammer punched him as hard as I could, sending him meteroring into the ground. I maybe had half a second to breathe, before I realized that Magneto had landed on his feet, and was already in punching range of me. I blocked 200 of his punches and kicks, he blocked 200 of mine, I got a few good punches on his face and gut, he got off more than a few good cross punches on my face, a couple good knees to the chest, and sent me flying with the mother of all roundhouses. Of course, I managed to recover, and after knocking a charging Magneto away with a desperate backhand, we went straight up DBZ on steroids.

For maybe a total of five minutes, we went all out on a relentless spree of punches, kicks, and occasional energy blasts. Who had the upper hand in the fight? Well…. it was half an half. When it came to the hand-to-hand part, Magneto had the slight edge, because while I hate to say it, the guy was stronger and faster than me. Seriously, we were flying back and forth through the air, hitting and punching each other about 200-300 times per second, but while I managed to get between his guard every two out of five times, and capitalized with a monster punch and kick combo, Magneto did the same, just four times out of five, and very nearly brought me to my end every time he capitalized. I mean don't get me wrong, I was no slouch, but while the G-Force was helping me stay in the game, and even with my expanded control over it, there was only so much of it I could use at one time without causing me pain. Hell, Magneto had the force of 8 planets and Pluto; I had the power of only one, and even then I couldn't use all of it. Still, the fight wasn't all bad, in fact, there was one small advantage that I had in my playbook. I noticed that when the fight was on, or at least 10 feet near the ground, I got the upper hand a lot more times. Maybe it was the whole Geo-Force being drawn from Gaea thing, maybe the Geo-Force was stronger when I was near the ground, but for one reason or another, when the fight dropped a bit too low, I put the hurt on Magneto more often. By the way, I just want you to know that this fight makes the term 'clash of titans' seem like an average fight video on YouTube. Every punch that connected, caused a sonic boom that left 10 foot craters in the ground, every move was faster than lightning, and every blow that was struck, was enough to decimate ten city blocks; it was exhilarating, terrifying, and straight up awesome, all at the same time. Anyway, after getting in some of the biggest cross punches of the match, plus a few good kicks, my body called for a Timeout, and I just barely ducked under a huge blast of electromagnetism. I quickly jabbed Magneto in the gut, sending him across the desert, and before he could even think of recovering, I rushed in, and popped him under the chin with the mother of all uppercuts, making another crater in the Great Basin; by the way, if you're wondering how old man metal was still alive after a shot like that to his exposed head, he had a super strong body shield around his face, that simple. Moving forward, Magneto managed to stop in mid air, and without any indication, blasted at me with an electromagnetic Kamehameha, big enough to cut a skyscraper down about 20 floors. On a reflex, I tapped into as much G-Force as I could, abandoning my G-Blazer, and countered him with my own blast; I call it the Geo-Wave. Our blasts collided with each other, and we locked in an intense struggle. I could feel Magneto's blast slowly overwhelming mine's, but that didn't top me from taking the fight back to him. I tapped into more and more of the G-Force, willing the energy to explode inside of me, and enhance my Geo-Wave. The effort hurt like hell, kind of in the good way, but it was slowly making progress, pushing Magneto's blast back little by little; I was starting to get hopeful for a minute there, until I felt the familiar sensation of fighting against a million defensemen. Magneto's blast started overwhelming mine's again, and this time, I had no gas left in the tank to try for a comeback. Within ten seconds, I was literally a few feet away from total obliteration, my puny Geo-Wave just barely holding on for dear life. A part of me wanted to give up, to just lie down and die, but the roar of defiance in my ears wouldn't let me do it. I was not gonna let this fight end up like the one between me and Goblin; I wanted to win, I wanted to live, and if I had to kill myself to do that, so be it. I imagined that barrier that let me know when I was using too much G-Force, and told that barrier to f*(# off! I dug deep into the earth, and pooled out a continuous stream of energy, not even bothering to limit the flow. The result was better than anything I could've hoped for. My Geo-Wave went from 6 to 20 in half a second; Magneto didn't even have a chance to up his game, as my blast barreled into him. He shot into the air like a shooting star, but I wasn't done with him. I created a huge Mjolnir construct where he would end up, and used it to grand slam him back into the lower atmosphere. As he was falling, I intercepted him, and took a different approach on my constructs. I created ten Mjolnir constructs on chains, and once Magneto was in range, it was hammer time. I slashed my arms back and forth, each slash indicating a hammer flying into Magneto. I kept up the hammer barrage relentlessly, refusing Magneto even one second to think, and after I got tired of the assault, I decided to end it with a bang. I willed the chains to wrap around his body, and while he was tied up, I created a Mjolnir construct in my hands, overcharged it with G-Force, and brought it down on Magneto's head; to be honest, I can't even rate the amount of boomage that was dealt, probably somewhere around the power to destroy Harlem.

I got knocked back by the explosion, so I had no way of knowing how far Magneto was launched; still, I had enough to worry about as it was. Yeah, I really dropped the ball with that whole limit break thing I did, because my body seized up in pain, and was forced to one knee, as my body struggled to repair itself; that wasn't working out too well.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF TARTARUS!?" Gaea's voice slammed into my head. "1% OF THE EARTH'S POWER!? ARE YOU TRYING TO-"

"NOT NOW, GAEA!" I interrupted her. "I NEED A QUICK ENERGY BOOST, WHAT DO YOU GOT FOR ME!?"

"NOTHING! THE GEO-FORCE CAN BE USED TO HEAL INJURIES, OR REVITALIZE ENERGY, BUT YOU'VE USED TOO MUCH AT ONE TIME; YOUR BODY IS SHUTTING DOWN TO GET ACCUSTOMED TO THE SUDDEN POWER BOOST!

"AND HOW LONG WILL THAT TAKE?!"

"FIFTEEN MORE SECONDS, BUT YOU MAY NOT HAVE THAT LONG!"

I didn't even need to ask her what that meant, I could feel Magneto recovering from being a land based skipping stone. I could feel him flying towards me, his hands surging with makeshift electromagnetic sabers. I launched him a good ways away, and even at the speed he was flying at, i'd probably be able to recover, but i'd only have a nanosecond to make it work; otherwise i'd be dead. I tapped into Blitz Extreme. It wasn't as good as it was without the G-Force boost, but it was enough to move myself into position. I took a deep breath, and moved my right arm, which felt like moving a battleship with one hand, to the ground, just a little ways away from me, as if I was getting ready to do a push up. It was close, so unbelievably, life threateningly, pants s#!+ingly, close. Still, as Magneto's sabers came within three inches of my neck, I quickly raised my right hand in an uppercut, while summoning my axe, essentially forcing Magneto to chose between taking my life, or saving his own. I'll admit it, in the heat of the moment, I was aiming for his head, to slice it in two, and I am not okay with that. Don't get me wrong, Magneto shot upwards like a rocket, and avoided the upswing, but if he didn't…..well, let's not go there. Anyway, that two second interval was so worth it, because not a moment after Magneto was out of range, my body basically reset itself, like an updated computer. After a small burst of Geo-Force, I felt better, stronger, faster, you get it, than ever! I quickly soared after Magneto, and after giving him a hard punch across the face, I hit him across the chest, with my axe, even harder, sending him crashing into the ground. Before you freak out, no, I didn't kill him, in fact, I hit him across the chest to see if I was right about something; I was. Plain and simple, that armor was a billion times harder, thanks to the electromagnetic reinforcement, and if I wanted to end this fight, i'd either have to go for the neck slice, or knock Magneto out; neither of which was easy, the guy had a body shield around him, and he was barely trying to keep it up. Yep, it seemed like I was due for a long drawn out fight, until Gaea slowed down time, to have another chat.

"Grant!" she excitedly thought to me. "I have an idea, are you willing to listen."

"You're gonna tell me regardless aren't you?" I asked her.

"Now you're catching on, boy. Rest assured, you'll thank me later."

I was totally ready to take her word on it, but the thing was, I was kinda working in a limited time frame. Magneto was already up and at em', so along with Gaea' fascinating lecture about some new power I have that she didn't bother to tell me about until now, I would have to fight for my life.

"Gaea!?" I frantically thought to her, as Magneto charged at me. "Skip the intro, and give me the dummy version, i'm on the clock here!"

Before Magneto could slam into me, I tapped into Geo Blitz Extreme, A G-Forced enhanced Blitz, put my hand on his back, did a handstand, and after I got a good grip on his cape, I grabbed another fistful, took the old geezer for a spin, and let him go flying. Then, to add injury to insult, I flew around him, uppercutted him with my axe, and then, in a heat of the moment type accomplishment, I raised my axe up, roared loudly, and brought my axe down in a swinging motion. Before you go all WTF on me, no that it wasn't real lightning, just a manifestation of the G-Force as a bolt of lightning shooting from the sky; but yeah, I slammed Magneto into the ground just like grand daddy Zeus would. I ditched my axe, and flew after Magneto, getting ready for an old fashioned brawl.

"You were saying?" I asked Gaea.

"Magneto's armor," Gaea started, as he and I exchanged a quick 200 fist slugfest. "When you struck it with your axe, the energy resonated through it, you, and found it's way to me."

"That's one hell of a delivery service," I thought to her, as I ducked one of Magneto's wide swings, and sent him flying with a hard left hook to the ribs. "But what does it have to do with this big idea of yours?"

I engulfed myself in a G-Blazer, and took off after Magneto, who was already on his way back, ready for another tussle.

"Because, while most of his armor is made of some type of alien metal, something you can't control yet, their are vital parts of the armor that are composed of a Titanium/Lutetium alloy, earth metals."

"And that means?" I asked Gaea, as Magneto smacked me away with a hard backhand, and planted me into the ground with a huge bolt of electromagnetism from above; forcing me to hide under a force field, as the blast steadily got more intense.

"If you use your power to destabilize the bonds of the metals on a molecular level, the armor will be weak enough for you to tear through it."

"I'm not gonna kill-"

"I didn't say kill, incapacitate him if you want, but getting through that armor is the first step."

"Ok, cool, let's put a pin in that, let me get out from under the oppressive thumb of electromagnetism, and we'll flesh out this whole armor business afterwards."

I paused our conversation, and focused on Magneto's energy signature. I created three fighter jets out of G-Force, which was cake now, trapping Magneto in a rough triangle, and willed the jets to shoot out endless volleys of missiles. Magneto hid behind a barrier of his own, not even bothering to lessen the intensity of the blast he had over my head, but I saw that coming from a mile away. In half a second, I quadrupled the amount of G-Force in the jets, and willed them to smash right into Magneto. The explosion was enough to severely rattle his force field, and while Magneto had ceased fire on me, I still needed to buy some time to chat with Gaea. I willed the leftover energy to condense, and form a huge G-Sphere; as Magneto was tossed around by internal blasts of fire and lightning, I resumed my conversation with Mother Earth.

"Ok, Gaea," I thought to her. "Now what?"

"Now," Gaea thought back to me. "I have to enhance your sight capabilities by several hundred thousand percent; you need to be able to analyze the armor on a molecular level before you can be able to break them down. It will be extremely disorienting, but i'll freeze time long enough for you to recover from the shock."

"Sounds interesting, let's give it a go."

I should've said by the count of three, cuz Gaea did not f*(# around when it came to getting on with it. As soon as the word 'go' left my mind, a sharp, focused, intense, burning, shocking, and pretty much anything that can be used to describe a mind blowingly agonizing sensation, lit up my eyes; it was like a thunderstorm, a wildfire, and a hurricane times a trillion, was taking place inside my eye sockets, not to mention my brain. It was like Gaea had melted my head, and was twisting it around violently. From my perspective, the pain lasted for a good minute or so, but when the pain started to ebb away, and my vision sorta cleared up, I saw that Magneto was only just now getting out of the G-Sphere. He rocketed after me, breaking the sound barrier in under a second, but before I could charge him back, everything in my head went to hell. It was like a kaleidoscope had exploded in my eyes; one second everything was normal, the next, everything was outlined in green. Even more, there were times where I could literally see atoms, cells, molecules, you name it; oh, and as my vision kept bouncing around erratically, my eyes felt like they were being used as pinballs in a field of glass. Magneto barreled into my chest, and started pounding away. I managed to put a G-Blazer around myself, and after getting decked in the face to many times to count, I managed to get Magneto off of me with a lucky backhand, but I still couldn't see for $#!+, and Magneto was still out for my head.

"FOCUS, GRANT!" Gaea slammed into my mind, while Magneto simultaneously slammed into my chest. "I have enhanced your sight to unimaginable levels, but it is still under your control; focus on what you want to see, and your eyes will adjust to your will!"

Magneto kicked me in the face, and sent me flying into the ground with a huge electromagnetic bolt. Lucky for me, that was just what I needed. I focused hard on willing my sight to focus on the way it was before Gaea gave me mega laser eye surgery. To be honest, Gaea should've started with the instructions, because it was so laughably easy to control this new power, I kinda felt bad about not being able to control it in the beginning. Anyway, my sight cleared up just fast enough so that I could catch a frightening jump scare of Magneto about to deck me in the face with a hell of a lot of voltage in his right fist. I tapped into Blitz Extreme, made two rocks spurt out of the ground as handholds, just behind me in arms reach, and after grabbing them, I pulled myself into a backflip, managing to catch Magneto under the face; I even took a page out of Storm-Lord's book, and made a bolt of G-Force come out of my foot. I then tapped into the highest speed I could get with Geo Blitz Extreme, not even bothering to put a G-Blazer around myself, and hit Magneto hard in the chest. He would've been flying like a rocket, but I was too fast for time to have control of that factor. Instead, I basically did a single version of Delta Speed Thrasher, where I flew around Magneto as fast as I could, beating the everliving $#!+ out of him; I also added some G-Force lasers from my eyes into the mix. As I kept Magneto in speed limbo, Gaea and I finished up our game plan.

"Ok Earth Momma," I thought to her. "How does this whole molecule destabilizer thing work?"

"I'll take care of that," Gaea thought back to me. "As of now, you are in no condition to try wielding anything as precised as molecular level attacks, you might accidentally split an atom."

"Wouldn't wanna do that, but still, what am I supposed to be aiming for here? What areas of his armor are vulnerable?"

"Use your enhanced vision, will it to see the Titanium/Lutetium elements."

I did as she said, and my eyes got the message at the speed of sound. Suddenly, Magneto's lower torso, biceps, thighs, and calves, were are sparkly green. It was like the suit was saying "here are some fun places to break me!"

"Alright," I thought to Gaea. "Just give me that molecular breaker thingy, and we can get-"

Faster than my body could call for a Timeout, Magneto released a huge explosive wave, blowing me away, as he was finally allowed to crash into a small mountain in the distance. I got up relatively quickly, but so did Magneto. He roared like Leonidas, as he blasted at me from every angle with huge bolts of electromagnetism; like, enough to destroy skyscrapers, level of big. I was forced to fly around like a plane in a dogfight, as I tried desperately not to get fried. Dunno how I was gonna smash Magneto's molecules now.

"Having fun?" Gaea asked me after about a minute of aerial maneuvering; what a mythological…uh, nevermind.

"Well what do you expect me to do?!" I snapped at her. "How am I supposed to hit him if he keeps makin' it rain purple thunder?!

"Enhance the gravity!"

"OK, WHAT?!"

"Come now, Grant, you should be used to this already. At any rate, yes, you have the ability to effect the earth's gravity. To accomplish this, all you need do is will a surge of Geo-Force under the area of earth you want to affect. The gravity will affect you as well, but you've already been exposed to Jupiter levels of gravity; your enemy has probably not had that level of conditioning. Still, do not overextend yourself, enhance the earth to be no more than X10 it's gravity.

"Ok, I got that, but you're still gonna hold my hand though the molecular thingy right?"

"Of course. Also, as a precaution, i'll encase you in some rock armor; that friend of yours is too unpredictable for my liking."

"Ok then, it's settled! BRB Gaea, I gotta ground Magneto."

I cut off the conversation, and started to scheme. As Magneto continually tried to strike me down with his electromagnetic temper tantrum, I willed the ground just under him to form into a giant hand, which Magneto was much to distracted to notice it. I waited for the right moment, still dodging purple lightning left and right, and finally, when I was absolutely certain that I would catch him by surprise, I willed the Earth Hand to fly up, and grab Magneto like a ball. Before Magneto could rage quit out of it, I willed the hand to surge with an insane amount of G-Force, frying him just a little bit, and willed it to throw Magneto to the ground. Before Magneto could get up, I willed the ground to enhance its gravity by 10X for an area encompassing 2 miles. I hit the ground just a few feet away from him, and as soon as I did, the earth wrapped around me in a rough battle armor, as in really chunky, bulky, and covering my entire arms in a rough cluster of rock. I was gonna protest to Gaea about this look, but she clearly wasn't done. My armor started to crack and crumble, the rocks starting to spread evenly across my body, until it chiseled into something amazing. My arms, legs, feet, hands, head, everything was covered in a nice even coat of metal. Even my face, which was also covered, felt perfectly free, and the eye holes were perfect. I looked at my body for a quick sec, and if you imagine The Thing as a slimmer, toned, brownish grey rock dude, with green lines running through his body, but with a face that could make a heart of stone melt, then you get me.

"Nice suit, thanks Gaea," I told her.

"My pleasure, Grant," she said while turning on my molecular destabilizer fists; ironically enough, it was basically the symbol for chemistry hovering around my fists. "Now, I believe you have a job to do."

No kidding. Even as Gaea said it, Magneto was already on his feet. He wasn't able to fly, hell he probably wasn't gonna be able to react at Mach 3 speeds, but he was still up and about.

"Just so you know," I started, deciding to taunt him a little bit. "I'm only gonna slightly enjoy this."

I ran full speed, ready to finish this fight.

Starting out, Magneto almost got me with a quick draw blast of electromagnetism, but my body called for a Timeout, and I managed to duck under it, and deck Magneto in the stomach at full force. Even as a crater erupted in the ground from the punch, Magneto was still held in place; gotta love X10 Earth's gravity. Also, I noticed that when I punched Magneto's armor, the molecules basically jiggled, like drops of water. It wouldn't be an instantaneous process, but from the tactical advantage that I had, it shouldn't have been too long before his armor was weak enough for shredding. By the way, if you're wondering why Magneto's armor was so strong, even in the places I had already stabbed him in, it's because of the alien metal. Whatever it was, it could absorb and amplify energy, making it at least 20X stronger than it originally was; hell, by punching Magneto's armor, I could see that the whole G-Force vs. Electromagnetism thing was basically like fire and ice, we both cancelled each other out, both stronger and weaker than the other. Moving on, it took a good three minutes in Blitz, his armor was that strong, before I managed to weaken the molecular bonds in his armor. To hand it to Magneto, even without his powers, he still put up a fight. See, while he wasn't able to fly, he was still able to stand, and surprisingly enough could move at pretty respectable speeds; plus, the guy was a pretty good hand-to-hand fighter. As we fought back and forth, I had to hold my own by using a system of dodging, reversals, and a few good combos that Allyson had taught me during training. Whenever I punched at Magneto, I always aimed at his chest or lower torso, and usually the punches connected 3/5 times. However, when Magneto would punch at me, i'd either sidestep, grab his arm, and bring a hard elbow down on the bicep, or, if he came for a wide swing, i'd block, knee him in the gut, grab the arm, and straight up punch it in the bicep as hard as I could. Oh, and the legs were just straight up too easy to damage. For one, I could do a lot more than punch, and I usually faked Magneto out with a few punches, and quickly got off some good quick kicks to his thighs; by the way, the molecular thingy could extend to any part of my body, not just my fists. Besides, every time he tried to kick at me, i'd catch his leg in some form or fashion, and pound it. In fact throughout the entire time that I was pounding him, only once i'd Magneto even hint a sign of a good struggle. While I was starting to wrap up the molecular busting, he managed to block one of my shots to the gut, and almost pelted me in the face with a desperate, but powerful blast of electromagnetism. I dodged it by doing a backwards cartwheel, kicking Magneto under the chin, and upon recovery, earthbended a continuous stream of discuss shaped rocks, charged them with G-Force, and shot them straight at Magneto; after he got pelted everywhere for at least the hundredth time, I resumed my melee attack.

After another rinse and repeat of punches and kicks, I finally felt/saw it. The molecules melting into gel, figuratively, the Titanium/Lutetium metals becoming as hard as wet paper. Now was the time to finish this, but not in the way you might think. My first thought was to rip through the metals, but that would take to long, plus the metal was still very strong in the unaffected areas, especially with the electromagnetism surging through it; in fact, there was only one real way to end this, but it wasn't gonna be very nice, or pleasant

"Gaea?" I asked her. "I don't really know that much about anatomy, didn't pay much attention in class, so-"

All of a sudden, in like a nanosec, I felt information just surge into my brain, like a million textbooks devoted to the study of the human body, just downloaded into my head. The migraine was hell, and if this was real time, Magneto would've stomped my ass into the ground; thankfully, Gaea remembered to turn on the time stoppers, as she used my brain as a flash drive.

"Now," she thought to me. "You know everything about the subjects of biology and anatomy, from every person who has lived, or currently lives. I shall explain why this is possible, but only after this conflict is resolved. In the meantime, If this information will help you accomplish your goal of defeating Magneto, but without killing him, then use it."

"Uhhh, thanks, G; I…thanks."

Yeah, I can't even explain how to feel after that experience, so i'll just skip back to the part where I kick Magneto's ass. I used my powered up vision to see through Magneto's armor, and through his skin. For some reason, my brain just knew where all of Magneto's important arteries/veins were, how I could stab him without killing him, and even picked up some kind of foreign energy coursing through the almost already healed stab wounds I had dealt him earlier; guess he had some type of healing serum in him or something. Anyway, in less than a second, I had already had a game plan, and I didn't even do any of the work. I started punching at Magneto again, getting some good shots on the face, and after a good right cross punch, that transitioned into a roundhouse kick, I summoned my sword in mid spin, and on the come around, stabbed Magneto in the side of his stomach, just far enough away from any major arteries, and drove the blade up to just under his ribs. He screamed a horrible scream, but I couldn't afford to let my conscience get in the way; again, this was the most efficient way to end this, besides, I wasn't going for the kill. After I had stabbed him in his side I quickly hit him in the face with a stiff right jab, summoned my axe, willed the blade to jut out, and stabbed him in his right arm, and also dragged that wound out. Yeah, I think you get the point, three stab wounds, and three important limbs later, Magneto was bleeding all over. He started stumbling, he was passing out, as the fight continued, his swings were so sluggish and slow, I actually think a three year old stood a better chance of fighting me; this was perfect. See, killing, or amputation wasn't the name of the game, no, it was blood loss. As I stabbed and slashed Magneto, the idea was to make him bleed out enough, to where he was physically incapable of fighting. Sure, it wasn't instantaneous, in fact I actually had to drag the fight out for an extra minute in real time, but after so much blood loss, Magneto could barely stand; now it was time to save him. I focused on Magneto's arms and legs, and after getting a full scope of the severity of his wounds, I inferred how much G-Force was actually needed to close them, and did so. Yeah, there is no easy way to say it, I cauterized his wounds with the fiery/lightningy Geo-Force. It wasn't pretty, and I could only imagine how much pain Magneto was in, but at least he would live; besides, if the blood loss wasn't bad enough, the G-Force first aid was sure to take the fight out of him.

As I finished sealing up his wounds, I walked over to Magneto, turning off the extra gravity. I grabbed him by his collar, and was about to cuff him, but then reality warped again.

Immediately, I was all like 'f*(# no!', because when reality warps, especially for me and my friends, that is usually a sign for a longer task ahead; this situation did not disappoint in the slightest. Immediately, I felt weird, like one of my vital organs was missing. No, that wasn't really the case, but for some reason I felt strange, like I was off sync with myself; still, that was just an appetizer for the things to come. In less than a second, I was thrown into the fire. From every angle, I was getting blasted with continuous, extremely powerful rays of energy. Some of them felt strange, as in I couldn't identify what they were, but some of them felt so familiar, it was almost chilling to imagine the possibility of how this energy signature was even here. I was of course talking about the massive amounts of solar fire being power slammed into me; seriously, even with my updated durability, this $#!+ still stand like a b!+*#. I couldn't feel any of my G-Force senses, but based off of the sheer number of blasts, I could imagine that Magneto had called in the Doombot cavalry, meaning I might have to bunker down for a while. I imagined a barrier forming around myself….and nothing happened! Seriously, at first I thought it was just a little disorientation from the reality warping, but I couldn't feel Gaea, my connection to the earth, or anything; I wasn't a sitting duck, but I was definitely short a few aces up my sleeve. I tried getting up, and even though I managed to get up to a rough standing position, the energy blasts intensified a $#!+ton more, forcing me back to a knee. Again, the problem wasn't the pain, although at this point, it was definitely at a 7. No, the problem was not being able to see, not being able to find a good vantage point to strike from, not being able to tell where I was going, or what was waiting for me on the other side. I stayed under fire for a good 30 seconds before building up the strength to rocket out of the death rays, but before I could get around to doing something delightfully stupid, I felt it, that rush of power, that feeling of being connected to the ground,the ability to feel the hundreds of metal robots orbiting around me; Gaea was back, and i'm only barely ashamed to admit that I kinda missed her.

"GRANT!?" she screamed into my head, also expressing an intense feeling of worry, and relief. "ARE YOU WELL, ARE YOU INJURED? HERE, LET ME PUT UP AN ENERGY BARRIER!"

Not even a half a second later, a G-Force barrier materialized around me, blocking off the oncoming damage, and giving me a second to breathe.

"T-Thanks, Gaea," I thought to her. "I had them on the ropes of course, but it was nice of you to lend a hand."

"Do not mock me!" she snapped. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to lock onto your biosignature after reality has been twisted around you?! I nearly lost you, Grant! I-"

"Awwwwe! You care about me, don't you?"

She didn't answer, but I could feel her consciousness shift, her emotions resemble an odd mix of love, protectiveness, and ownership. She loved me in the way a girl loves her dog, but it was definitely love.

"Grant," she started. "I haven't had a champion in so long. I've been alone for years upon years, unable to be with either of my previous consorts."

"Please, just no." I plainly said. "I don't wanna hear about your otherworldly ex-boyfriends."

"What I am saying is, for a moment, for the small pocket of time that I was disconnected from you, I found myself alone again; and that frightened me."

"Does this mean that we are finally on the same page here, you know, about caring about other people and such?"

"Don't press your luck, boy. I have dealt with heroes before, and they are almost never what they seem, or never get the happy ending they deserve; I do not wish the same path for you."

"I can understand that, but this is what I have to do. With the earth's mightiest heroes gone for a while, it's up to the next generation of heroes, me and others, to step up and take responsibility for the world; The Avengers won't be around forever, and the world needs us to be ready and take the mantle of being its defenders. Gaea, I swear to you, I will be everything and more of what it means to be your champion, but I also swear to be the best superhero, and fill in for The Avengers, that I can be. I know we got off to a rocky start, but if this is gonna be a forever thing, then we need to be on the same wavelength. I need you, Gaea. I need your power, strength, knowledge, and guidance, if i'm gonna succeed at this; what do you say?"

Gaea, thought on my words for a total of three seconds, which really drags in Blitz, before answering back.

"You have everything I am, and more, my champion. I will stand by you always, and when we are truly untied, it is our enemies that will feel fear!"

Insane power started to rumble inside of me, which either meant that half pound brisket was not loving me back, or Gaea was jacking me up on earth steroids.

"Show them who you are, Grant! Show them what it means to be the wielder of the Geo-Force, the champion, the titan of the earth! Who are you, Grant?! WHO ARE YOU?!"

The light went ding in my head, and all of a sudden, in a huge burst of realization, I had found it; my superhero name, the name that I would own, and the name that the world would remember me by forever, or at least until I retired.

"I AM GEO-TITAN!" I roared aloud, as I harnessed the massive power Gaea was feeding me, and forced it outwards in a huge, larger than life explosive wave.

Like I said, there were hundreds of robots, about 500 or so, shooting at me from every angle. After that explosive wave, the number quickly went down to just a little over 50. I used my metal powers to lock on to the rest of the targets, and did something so bad ass, even Storm-Lord would've been jealous. I summoned my axe, using it as a conduit for the G-Force, and after charging it with a good chunk of energy, willed it to shoot off 60 powerful bolts in every direction, pelting and trashing the remaining robots to scrap. On a first glance, it would seem like that was the end of the fight; Magneto basically retreated, used the robot onslaught as a cover, and went back to Doom to either lick his wounds, beg for mercy, or both. Hell, I thought that too, until I heard slow clapping in the distance. I turned around, and nearly had a heart attack. Not at the sight of Magneto, he was still in shambles, probably barely being held together by that healy stuff in his system; nah, the real deal breaker was the company he was with. Yeah, to either side of him were: Sabertooth, Wolverine's favorite playmate, Mystique, that blue scaly lady, who was wearing some type of battle armor, Toad, who was basically a green slimy discount Nightcrawler, Blob, who was looking less like a pile of dough, and more like John Cena on Super Soldier Serum; seriously the guy was jacked as hell, and the fact that he had an orange aura around him, didn't help my morale. Finally, there was the Juggernaut. The guy looked intimidating in his all red battle armor, although his helmet looked really stupid. Normally, and especially under these circumstances, I wouldn't have been too worried about this set up. Mystique and Toad were throwaway villains compared to me, Sabertooth was only one swing of my axe, and all it would take is one 80% power swing, if even that, to bring down Blob; only the Juggernaut should have posed a serious threat to me. Again that would be the case, if these guys weren't glowing all familiar like. For starters, Toad and Mystique had a brilliant golden aura around them, like Super Saiyans in training. If they were anything like Sunbird, then this fight might've been difficult, and that's not the worst part, considering the fact that this was confirmation that Doom had at least two stones in his possession. Everyone else, Sabertooth, Blob, and even Juggernaut, were glowing with that Hercules stone aura; f*(#!^$ $#!+, this was gonna be a Wrestlemania event, and not in a good way.

"Impressive resilience, boy!" Magneto called out to me. "Again, I can't stress enough how useful you would be in my Brotherhood! Yet here you are, alone, foolish, about to-"

Whatever else he was gonna say, was clearly put on hold, because in mid sentence, a green explosion, similar to a giant firework, erupted in the air, and after a bit of razzle dazzle, a small green dot, about the size of half dollar coin, flew down at me, at the speed of a rocket. I barely had time to think "Is that what I think it is?", before my hand instinctively reached up, and grabbed…the f*(#!$% stone of Demeter!

Now, don't get me wrong, I know when I do something right, so I knew without a doubt, that I had sent this thing back to the Helicarrier with my unconscious friends; so why the hell was it here?! Honestly, that question would have to wait, because I had a more pressing matter at hand. See, my magical immunity was still holding down the fort, so however much this energy was coursing over me, it was not getting inside. However, this was different. This energy felt…good, natural, like the world's best protein shake; the energy from the stone felt so close to home, that I kinda, maybe, sorta…..let it in. In retrospect, that wasn't the safest thing I could've done, but then again, when did 'safe' ever describe me? As the power surged through me, I felt more connected to the earth, as in Gaea was the rock, and now, all the trees, plants, and all other associated stuff was now coursing through my veins. The surge was unbelievable, revitalizing me, and giving another few bars of stamina; I honestly believe I could've fought for months on end without rest. Good thing, cuz it looked like I was gonna be in for a little something like that. After that flare, I was pretty sure that the Brotherhood was gonna try for an all-or-nothing assault, and I was ready to go all out as well, but just like my first encounter with Gaea, time had basically stopped.

"Earth Momma?" I asked her. "Is this you?"

"Nope." Gaea responded. "But….3,2,1, aaaaaaand."

Another presence bombarded into my head, not even asking for permission. I was slightly miffed about that, but considering the fact that I knew who she was, and that she felt so familiar to the new energy coursing through me, I let it slide.

"Ah!" a cherry, motherly, and slightly done kinda voice echoed in my head. "So this is who my stone has chosen. Not bad, especially considering that this is an abomination in itself, I mean, no mortal has the right to possess my stone, but-"

"Hey, tree hugger?" I thought to Demeter. "I can hear you, I can hear you just fine."

"Ugh, mortals, what a rude people you are."

"And this one is just getting started," Gaea said. "Let me take this time to apologize for everything he will say over the course of however long this campaign will last."

"For you, Gaea," said Demeter. "I will forgive his vulgarity."

"Ok, ok, timeout!" I shouted to both of them. "Look, i'm up to my neck in angry mutant terrorists, still dealing with this whole magic rock bull$#!+, and on top of that, i've got two goddesses in my head; someone needs to do some explaining, as in, right now!"

"Wow," said Demeter. "The word 'please', seems to be lost on mortals these days. Nevertheless, I will do my best to explain this to you. Obviously you know about the dilemma Olympus is facing, and that the mortal would be usurper known as Doctor Doom, is responsible. As for the stones? Well, magic, especially Olympian magic, is complicated, unpredictable; i'm sure you have seen the results."

"Yeah," I responded. "Two of those 'results' almost got me and my friends killed."

"Do not cast the blame on me, it was your fellow mortal man who did that to you. In any case, the stones are malfunctioning, for lack of better word. Being in your world, or should I say, attuned to its frequency, your plane of existence, is throwing off their calibration to the gods. Contact with you and your friends, our descendants, are as close to matches that they can find, and thus, are drawn to you; my stone especially, considering that you are the champion of Gaea. Earth and nature compliment each other."

"True," said Gaea. "This power, blends wonderfully with my essence, even if it means dealing with the sarcasm of this boy, every moment of this feeling is worth it!"

"Watch yourself, G," I warned her. "It's not too late for me to change my mind. Anyway, I get it, the stone is lost, trying to find home, and settled for the next best thing; but if that's the case, why can't you simply take it back? I mean, it's not like I want it."

"If it were that simple," said Demeter. "I would have extracted it from you already. No, my entire consciousness is in Olympus, defending our borders. Extracting the stone would take too much energy, not to mention, cause a ripple in reality, one that might tear apart everything within a 100,000 mile radius of you, and destabilize Olympus' defensive spells more than it is."

"Wow, you guys are really swarmed up there, aren't you?"

"Indeed, and I cannot maintain contact with you for long, however, I can instruct you on how to use your new powers, which are permanent, even without the stone being fused to your heart."

"WHAT?!"

Before I made Demeter explain, I felt the familiar sensation of several textbooks being dumped into my head; after that, I was a theoretical pro on using my new plant powers, which were actually kinda bad ass.

"There you are," said Demeter. "Now if you'll excuse me, I-"

Whatever had happened up there in Olympus, it had upset Demeter, because she said a stream of words in ancient Greek, that i'm pretty sure was not appropriate for the general public.

"YOU DARE ATTACK MY SACRED GARDEN!" she bellowed at somebody who's life was about to suck. "FOR THAT AFFRONT, I SHALL CLAIM YOUR HEAD!"

And on that positive note, Demeter severed her connection to me, and time unfroze. Honestly, I was kinda banking on the idea that the whole stone from the sky thing had happened to fast for the Brotherhood to notice, but considering the glowing tree shaped emblem on my chest plate, plus the look of their dumbstruck faces, i'd say that my cover was blown; as in, bigtime. Magneto looked the most dumbfounded out of all, his face portraying an almost perfect blend of rage, shock, and glee.

"Ok," I started, trying to stall for time. "I know how this looks, and I know how you must feel, but how about you guys go home? I mean, Magneto, you're f*(#$& up, if you send your goons after me, i'm gonna f*(# them up, so what say we all just take a day long timeout? I mean, come on, are any of us really having a good night right now?"

You'd think after that motivational speech, Magneto and friends would've nodded their heads, wish me a good night, and go out for beers; instead, Magneto shouted "TEAR HIM APART, GET THAT STONE!" at the top of his lungs, and the fight was on. Mystique and Toad bursted into golden flame, and flew straight at me; between the two of them, I imagine they had about half of Sunbird's power, and even less of her skill. Sabertooth and Blob also charged me, running at about 200 mph; by the way, using my X-Ray vision, no other way to name that, I could see a type of serum in all of the Brotherhood members, if it was some type of speed serum, it explains why they could move so fast. Still, that wasn't the worst part. Just before Juggernaut started charging, Magneto pulled him aside for a chat.

"The boy will defeat them effortlessly," he whispered to him. "Now that he has bonded with the stone, his power will have increased exponentially. I shall activate the Omega Defender, you must take care of the boy, use the demon if you have to."

I could see Juggernaut smile like kid in a candy store.

"I got ya," he said in gruff voice. "Hell, you better hurry up with that fancy suit of yours, boss, otherwise there might not be anything left for you to smash."

"I'm counting on that," Magneto said before he took off at like Mach 4, headed straight into space.

All of that happened in like a 2 seconds, and while I was in Blitz, I was still about to be in over my head; good thing I was now packin' twice the power.

"Ready for another round, Grant?" Gaea asked me.

"Always ready," I responded. "But a little memo? When the suit's on, i'm Geo-Titan, no one else."

I stretched my palms out, and went to work.

Quick tutorial of my new powers. I was now connected to the energy of all plant life on the earth, essentially doubling my already insane strength, speed, and everything else. Also, I could pretty much manipulate, generate, and mutate any type of plant life to my wish, as long as it was somewhat possible. I couldn't make a flame throwing rose, but a man eating weed was fair game. Oh, and for the record, I didn't have to be in a plant inhabited, or sustainable area, to generate my plants. So yeah, being in the middle of a dessert, as far as i'm concerned, same thing as being in farm land. Anyway, I stretched out my hands, and willed five massive massive cables of flexible tree bark, big and thick enough to be connected to bridges, to shoot out of the ground, and wrap around each member of the Brotherhood, putting their charge on hold. Mystique and Toad were caught easy, although I had to pump extra G-Force into the plants to make sure that they didn't burn. The same thing could be said for Sabertooth, as I clamped him up in a tree cable, but not for Blob and Juggernaut. Don't get me wrong, Blob wasn't all that strong, but he was giving my tree cable more of a fight than I wanted him to, and Juggernaut was straight up tearing through his; I had to summon five tree cables just to hold him down for a few seconds. Seeing as there was no real effective way to hold those two in place for too long, I had to accelerate my strategy. First, I willed the Tree Cables, official name, to slam each member of the Brotherhood into the ground time after time, like a giant underground octopus in a frenzy. After a good few face plants to the ground, I willed the tree cable holding Blob, to launch him into the air, and after I charged it with more G-Force, I willed it to smack him half a mile backwards into the nearest small mountain. Next, I willed the Tree Cable around Juggernaut to launch him up into the air as well, but I got a bit more creative with him. I willed the Tree Cable to break apart in massive chunks, latch on to Juggernaut, and with the help of a lot, and I mean A LOT of G-Force, I trapped Juggernaut in a makeshift prison that was about as strong as the Titanic, you know, when it didn't get sunk by an iceberg. I didn't stop there. Using my earthbending, I opened up a one way chasm, about a mile underground, and dropped Juggernaut inside; I figured I had maybe a good five minutes before he busted out, so I quickly went about taking out his support.

I started with Mystique and Toad. I willed their Tree Cables to launch them at me, and in a quick one-two combo, I quite literally punched their lights out; i'm almost certain that I didn't kill them.

After them, I went after Sabertooth, who surprisingly enough made it out of his Tree Cable. He charged me, running on all fours, and pounced at me like a puma. I simply side stepped, summoned my axe, and chopped his head off. I would've felt guilty about that, although the blood was more than enough for me too feel nauseous, but Sabertooth was more animal than man; to me, it was like putting down a rabid dog. Anyway, I couldn't take the risk of him regenerating, so I created a giant tulip-like plant around him, and willed the plant to clamp him up, and bury him underground. I may have willed that plant to fill with digestive acid, just to be even safer; yeah, I straight up murdered Sabertooth.

With the three runts out of the way, I flew after Blob, who was just now getting up. I decked him in the face with a hard flying punch, launching him straight through the mountain, and after meeting him on the other side, launched him straight into the air, and knocked him back to the ground with a really hard hammer spike. I didn't know whether that attack had knocked him out, I mean even with my boost of power, forcing me to dial back my hits to about 40% power, sometimes it's harder to gauge more durable opponents. So, in order to feel better about the situation, I stomped on Blob's head with the force of a falling anvil; that did it for sure.

So yeah, in less than a minute, I soloed most of the Brotherhood; damn, sometimes i'm actually in awe of how unstoppable I am. Well, that's what I told myself until I heard the ground literally break.

Juggernaut launched out of the ground like an angry gopher, his body surging with orange Hercules energy, as well as some type of crimson energy, that I assume was directly related to the 'demon.' He looked extremely pissed off, which in itself was a huge problem; I mean, I trapped the guy in a ball, put him over 6 feet under, yet here he was looking like he got done with nothing more than a minor timeout. He cracked his knuckles, and ran towards me, breaking Mach 3 in under a second. I tapped into Blitz, counter charged him, and before we collided, I ducked under his wide swing, and punched him as hard as I could in his chest.

For the record, this punch was strong enough to level a city, created a crater big enough to bury two skyscrapers side by side, and created a small tremor that could probably be felt within 3 miles. Yet, even after that kind of shot to the chest, Juggernaut barely stumbled backwards. In fact, I put so much of myself into that shot, banking entirely on the thought that it'd be enough to make him skyrocket more than a Smash Brothers character, that I forgot to do the whole plan B dodge thing. Juggernaut quickly took advantage of that, and grabbed me by the legs, slamming me into the ground back and forth like a rag doll. That didn't hurt all that much, but it was humiliating as hell. After that, Juggernaut launched me into the air, and before I could move, and even before my body could call for a Timeout, I felt the guy hammer punch me back to the ground, slam his feet into my chest, and start pounding me relentlessly. This time, it actually hurt, and not in the way that other opponents have been able to kinda make me feel their punches; no, EVERY PUNCH JUGGERNAUT LANDED, CAUSED ME SERIOUS PAIN! How many times he pounded me, I don't know, i'm surprised I didn't black out. All I knew, was that after a certain point, I got fed up with being a punching bag, and released a desperate power blast to get him off of me.

Yeah, I think I need to specify how much of a tank this guy was. The blast I just released, probably could've blown through Titanium without a sweat. Even with a blast like that, Juggernaut barely got off the ground: I had to quickly get up, get a running start, and deck him hard in the chest again, before he actually went tumbling about 50 meters. He got up quickly, and charged me again. This time, even though I also counter charged, I went at it from a more tactical angle. I punched him hard in the chest again, but this time, retreated before he could grab at me, grabbed his arm, and flipped him on his back. As soon as he was down, I started wailing on his face mask, which tore apart quicker than wet paper, even if it wasn't any type of metal I could discern. As soon as I tore off his face mask, revealing the lumpy potato he probably called a face, Juggernaut managed to make me backtrack a little, as he tired for a surprise punch, followed by a backwards double kick, one that would've propelled him on top of me. I ducked under it, gave Juggernaut another hard punch to the gut, kind of impaling him with my fist, and roared as loud as I could, as I released a massive wave of G-Force, lightning up Juggernaut like he was a candle. I was pretty sure that he at least grunted, but there was really no indication of whether or not I was actually doing any real damage. Before I could be surprised in an unpleasant way, I quickly took off straight up, and after reaching a good 3,000 feet, I let Juggernaut go, activated my G-Blazer, tapped into Blitz Extreme, and took off backwards. Stop me if you can predict what I did next, but yeah, I got a flying start, came back around in less than a second, got off a hard, and in this case, explosive, punch on Juggernaut, kept going, kept coming back, and kept decking him. I was able to continue that chain for a good 50 hits, before I realized I was doing the equivalent of jack $#!+ to Juggernaut. Still, it wouldn't be me if I didn't end the party with a bang. I flew backwards one more time, and after breaking Mach 5, came back around, did a dive, and came back up with a really, really, really, really, really, hard uppercut. Juggernaut blasted off like a Coca-Cola with Mentos in it, and I had to step on the gas to catch up to him. I hit him in the face with a flying uppercut at Mach 4, and after he backflipped twice, giving me time to charge myself with more G-Force, and tackle him hard in the chest, plunging us both back to the ground. We made one hell of a crater, enough to cover the length of a football field. Oh, and just for reference, since I got the memo that Juggernaut and I were gonna make the ground quake something epic, I asked Gaea to locate the unconscious Brotherhood members, wrap them in G-Force cocoons, and stash them underground ten miles out. Don't worry, the G-Force would keep them alive, but not heal them enough for them to regain consciousness; they were safe. Moving on, I kept up the assault on Juggernaut, managing to keep him grounded for a good 10 seconds, while I punched at him hundreds of times, really, really, hard. He was helpless at first, but as his body glowed brighter with that mysterious red energy, he managed to block more and more of my punches. In fact, after he threw a swift jab, almost decking me, I leaned out of the way, giving him enough time to get up, and fight on his feet. As we fought like savage bears, I had to give Juggernaut some credit. For one, the guy knew how to fight, as in like….really good. I only had about two days of rushed Kung-Fu training, mixed in with heavy amounts of improv, but this guy knew his $#!+. There was definitely some Kung-Fu, and probably some other fighting styles in his bag of tricks, like boxing, judo, and so on; hell, the only reason I wasn't getting pounded, was because I used my speed more efficiently than he did. Granted, I was used to it more, but yeah, instead of blocking all of his hits, and basically trying to out bulldoze him, I mostly dodged his swings, attacked the chest and leg areas, and when he was off-balance, attacked him with another flurry of G-Force powered punches and kicks. I managed to keep up my mildly successful streak for a good minute, but then Juggernaut really came busting out of the gates.

He glowed with even more red energy, which was starting to resemble flames at this point, and got even faster; fast enough to actually make me push it to hold my slight speed advantage. Again, going back to the advantages…speed was my only one. Juggernaut was kinda owning me in the fighting department, even managing to get a hold of me once, and deck me so hard, I would've flown into the next state if he wasn't holding me like a rag doll. Before he could deliver another rib shattering punch, seriously, that $#!+ hurt, I turned the gravity up as high as I could, X100, and wailed on Juggernaut's head as hard as I could. This time I wasn't going for speed, just power, and every blow, even though they were spaced about two seconds apart from each other, hit with the force to level the Washington Monument. I dunno if Juggernaut was actually feeling it, or turning into a discount Red Hulk, but it sure as hell felt good to cut loose on him. Still, even with the insane amount of gravity I was putting on him, Juggernaut was still finding ways to defend. He managed to get off a wild reach on me, and even though I deflected his grab, and socked him in the face another time, Juggernaut actually managed to get up, even faster than I could've hoped to put him down. I wasn't in any immediate danger yet, but my body called for a Timeout. I used that quick span of time to get low, build up some power, and kick Juggernaut as hard as I could in his knee, forcing him to the ground again, and came up with a hard uppercut, rattling his jaw. I kept up another volley of punches, occasionally having to move my attention to the legs, but overall, I was going pretty ok; at least it was until I royally f*(#$ up.

See, Juggernaut almost got me with a fast, powerful, made of glowing red energy, jab. I managed to duck under it, not bothering to try for a block, and tired an idea I had used for incapacitating Magneto. I thought that if I used my axe to, don't freak out, sever his right arm, he'd bleed out to the point of exhaustion, after which I would use the G-Force to cauterize the wound. It wasn't something I wanted to do, hell I knew I was probably gonna vomit/have trouble sleeping if I did this, but I was running out of options here; punching, kicking, and even G-Force didn't really seem to be the answer. So yeah, I brought my axe up under Juggernaut's arm with all I had…and it got stuck. Don't get me wrong, the axe cleaved right through the skin, inner tissue, and even managed to hit, and probably fracture, bone; however, it still got stuck, the axe did not get all the way through. In a roar of both pain and being royally pissed off, Juggernaut unleashed a huge explosive wave of red energy, one that blew me half a mile away, and created a crater big enough to be used as a parking lot for 3 NASCAR tracks. Hell, the force of the blast was enough to make me black out for a few seconds, and even then, I got that feeling from back with Dragon Empress, when I felt like I wasn't really getting the full dose of the blast. Obviously it was magical, i've had enough experience with the stuff to recognize it, and my immunity was working in over time. Pieces of red energy were peeling off of me, like I just wasn't fit for the spell to destroy, and I got the feeling that if it were anyone else, they would be a scorch mark on the dirt. Still, that was just a taste. My metal detector sense were going nuts, and my body almost immediately called for a Timeout; I was just able to roll out of the way, as my axe almost impaled me at like Mach 5. Ok, that was scary, but as Juggernaut quite literally floated 10 feet in the air, over the smoke, I saw something that would be on the top 10 list of the scariest $#!+ i've ever seen. Juggernaut was basically a cross between a demon, and an OP porcupine. His skin was dark red, wreathed with blood red flames, and crackling with red electricity. All over his body, bone spikes were popping out. Six in his back, small spiky stubs out of his face, at least ten growing out of each of his arms and legs, small spiky stubs out of each of his knuckles, which were still big enough to gut a lion, and more coming out of his feet. In other words, this guy had officially unleashed the demon. He looked at me for half a second, opened his mouth, which was glowing with red energy, just like his eyes, and unleashed a blast big enough to swallow a skyscraper. My instincts completely took over, and on a complete reflex, I created a shield. Not any shield mind you, the first layer was made of enough G-Force to cover the blast, but it was also made up of tree bark, leaves, vines, and any plant based material that I managed to bring out of the ground. Finally, the last layer of the shield was made up of stone. Under different circumstances, the material of this shield wouldn't be able to block a shot from a cannon, but remember what G-Force does to rocks and such? Yeah, that was happening….. and it still wasn't enough. That's right, the shield was slowly being pushed back, like a slowly descending meteor, and the impact was gonna be brutal. Don't get me wrong, the shield itself was holding up fine, but trying to make it stand it's ground against Juggernaut's blast, was like trying to stop a tidal wave. I tried holding the shield for another five seconds, before I remembered something important. I had the stone of Demeter lodged in my chest, and I literally had the power of the entire world, or as mach of it as I could use without hurting myself, at my disposal, I could fight this guy back. Without dropping my shield, I felt around for the stone's energy, and willed it to explode inside of me, not bothering to worry about safety issues. Yeah, I won't go in that much depth about the energy feedback, but let's just say I had enough power to blow up half the United States, and that was without the G-Force backing me too. I used a good chunk of that energy, mixed it with as much G-Force as I could use, about 1.6% now, and while simultaneously, dropping my shield, unleashed a big ass G-Force/Nature Force, i'll explain the difference later, cannon, taking Juggernaut's one head on.

I won't lie, the power battle was so real, I will not deny that; however, I was still slowly gaining the upper hand, my blast getting closer and closer to Juggernaut, forcing him to amp up his blast too. I quickly realized that he wasn't going all out either, and willed another huge surge of the stone's energy to rush into my blast; the power change was so sudden, Juggernaut didn't even have a chance to up his blast, before mine's completely swallowed him like he was a goldfish getting chomped by a shark. I kept up the blast for a good few seconds, hoping that the energy bath would be enough to take some of the wind out of Juggernaut's sails. After a good ten seconds, I called it off, and decided to fly up to inspect my progress. The one thing I could say was that I succeeded in pissing him off even more. Don't get me wrong, the dude was definitely shook up, but far from damaged. He roared as he flew to intercept me, and managed to fake me out, get the drop on me, and plant a hard right hook across my face, creating a huge KOOM, that sent me rocketing straight into the ground. My body called for a Timeout, and I just managed to get out of the way of what was sure to be a bone crushing stomp, and after recovering, charged my right arm with some G-Force, and hit Juggernaut as hard as I could, actually managing to send the schmuck careening back a few feet. He recovered, almost pelted me with another one of his magic face lasers, and even though I dodged it, the guy obviously had some kind of experience with energy projection, because he straight up opened fire on my ass. I had to dodge huge, explosive, balls of red energy, all the while trying to get some ground back in this fight. Still, even then I wasn't doing all that great. I tried slamming G-Force charged boulders into him, he barely even moved. I trapped him in a giant Venus fly trap, filled it with explosive acid, and even though he got shot into the air like a cannonball, he was unharmed, and made a beeline for me. I smacked him to the ground with a giant G-Fist construct, and when he got up, I did the thing with the giant Mjolnir constructs on chains, and kept the man busy for a total of four seconds, before he unleashed another explosive wave, forcing me to retreat. Again, he tried rushing at me, and even through my body called for a Timeout, I was so off guard, I instinctively summoned my axe, and swept it across Juggernaut's head, sending the guy careening to the side, although I didn't break skin. I flew after him, charged my axe with G-Force, and smacked him to the ground. Before he could recover, or should I say as soon as he stood up, I put the hurt on him. First, I turned on the gravity, although I was less certain that it would effect his him as much, now that he was all demonized. Next, I smacked him across the head twice with my axe, quickly smacked his kneecaps as hard as I could, came up with a hard uppercut, and used the momentum to spin into a hard strike to the forehead, using the butt of my axe. Finally, I wrapped my arm in a layer of G-Force, Tree Cables, and rocks, and then gave Juggernaut the hardest uppercut i've ever given anyone; consider it his early Christmas present. He actually made it a good hundred feet in the air, before I willed to pillars of G-Force to crash into him, from both land and sky, effectively turning him into the filling for a G-Force sandwich. I knew I couldn't keep him like this for long, and didn't plan on it. I buried the head of my axe in the ground, and wrapped it in a good chunk of G-Force, followed by the tree bark, and rocks. By the way, whenever I use all three elements like that, i'll just use the term Triple Threat for it. Also, I really wished I had a strap for my axe, not that it was necessary, but how bad ass would it be if I was swinging my axe around the way Thor does, only mine's having G-Force? Anyway, after wrapping my axe in a Triple Threat, I threw it as hard as I could at the point where Juggernaut had to be, I couldn't see him all that well, and created an impressive explosive wave if I do say so myself. Of course, while the blast was enough to probably rattle Juggernaut's cage, and while I was definitely sure that I had hurt him in some some way, Juggernaut still recovered in like, 2 seconds, and while throwing a volley of energy blasts at me, homed in on me like a Geo-Titan seeking missile. I called my axe back, bobbed and weaved through his blasts, and managed to sneak a hard throw of my axe at his face. Afterwards, we clashed for a good two minutes in Blitz Extreme, which was the equivalent of two long, grueling, extremely pain ridden hours; seriously, those knuckle spikes did not do any favors for my face.

"Having fun?" Gaea finally asked me.

"Not now, G!" I snapped at her. "I'm kinda fighting for my life right now, if you got some handy dandy intel for how to take this guy down, now would be the perfect time to share it!"

I was pretty sure Gaea and I were gonna have it out for a few, before getting on the same page again, but then I felt a different, powerful, and straight up evil presence, hijack our private conversation.

"Yes, Gaea!" his dark, demonic voice echoed through my body. "Tell him about the the consequences of daring to oppose the dread-"

"CYTTORAK!" Gaea roared at him, kinda making me feel like the little kid who watches two grown ups fight. "HOW DARE YOU DEFILE MY HOLY CHAMPION WITH YOUR PRESENCE, DESIST AND EXIT HIS MIND AT ONCE!"

"Why, Gaea? I only wish to have a pleasant conversation with the lad. Speaking of which, has she told you what I did to her last champion, boy?"

"YOU WILL BE SILENT DEMON, AND YOU WILL LEAVE HIS MIND!"

"Has she told you what she wants of your life, about her ambitious desire for conquest?"

"LEAVE!"

I had no idea what Cyttorak was talking about, or who the hell he was, bad guys are weird that way, and I didn't care, this was a discussion for Gaea and I to have for another time. However, Gaea was most definitely having none of his bull$#!+, because when she screamed "LEAVE!", $#!+ got real. You know how it feels when you're ears pop? Well imagine that, but on a universal plain. It suddenly felt like dimensions were being punched apart, and as Gaea basically shoved Cyttorak from my mind, she kinda shoved him away from Juggernaut too; and it showed big time. See, as Gaea and Cyttorak were having it out, so were me and Juggernaut; obviously. When Gaea pushed Cyttorak away, I was just recovering from dodging one of Juggernaut's punches. When I came around with a hard right cross, Juggernaut not only flew back 100 meters, a new personal best, but his face felt almost normal, rather than the feeling of punching steel; hell, I actually felt his nose break. All of a sudden, I got an idea, and I was sure Gaea was gonna absolutely love, or absolutely hate it.

"GAEA!" I desperately thought to her. "PULL BACK, SHUT THAT GUY OUT, I HAVE AN IDEA!"

Gaea actually growled a bit, but still managed to control her beast mode, and came in for a discussion.

"Geo-Titan!" she started. "Do not listen to him, he is-"

"Probably telling the truth about something you wanna keep me in the dark about," I cut her off. "But we can have that conversation later, right now, we need to talk about this cool idea I have for taking down Juggernaut. If you-"

"Battle Cyttorak on the astral plane, and manage to temporarily expel him from his host, you can deliver the killing blow.

Ok, we were on the same page about one thing, but that last part caught me off guard by so much, I stumbled, and ate one of Juggernaut's fists.

"Not a bad plan," I said, recovering, and batting Juggernaut away with a tennis racket construct. "But I draw the line at killing, I can-"

"No, you can't," Gaea interrupted me. "Cyttorak is an unstoppable force, one of the oldest and most powerful mystical entities in existence. He imbues his avatars with so much power, they are virtually impossible to kill, or tire out. However, if I separate him from his avatar long enough, you can destroy Juggernaut, and I don't mean a simple knockout, or stab to the heart, you must completely disintegrate him, destroy every trace of him on this earth. I know you hate the thought of it Grant, but if there is a body for Cyttorak to come back to, he will rejuvenate it, and come back even stronger, even destroying Juggernaut may not keep him away for all that long, a few decades at the most. Still, this must be done to achieve victory, and when you look at it from a factual standpoint, you are not even killing him, just putting him in an extended coma."

I thought on that for a second, brawling with the monstrous Juggernaut. Gaea was right, this guy was not gonna stop, I probably stood a better chance against the Hulk; like it or not, I had to put this guy down for the count, permanently.

"Ok, G" I thought to her. "I'm in, but how much power is it gonna take to put this guy down."

"Well," Gaea said. "After I knock Cyttorak away from his body, his power will decrease by 65%, but he will still have an extraordinary level of damage resistance. In order to completely wipe him out, you would have to strike him with a blast of energy equivalent to 10% of the earth's energy."

"I CAN'T REACH THAT!"

"No, you cannot, however, if you were to bury that axe under the earth's surface, I could transfer some residual energy roo the axe. It will take my full attention to fight Cyttorak, much less dispel him from his avatar, but enough of my power will be left so that can charge the axe, throwing in some of Demeter's energy would help the process."

"Gotcha."

"Last two things. While i'm fighting Cyttorak, the back and forth struggle will affect your connection to me, same as Juggernaut. When he pushes me back, your power will wane, so be careful as you fight on. Also, the energy from this blast will be enough to create a hole big enough to be what used to be the west coast of the United States, in order for that not to happen, you have to will the excess energy to flow back into the earth, like pouring water into a funnel. Not only will that keep the peace, but it will also put more of the energy blast's focus on Juggernaut; it'll completely atomize him, Cyttorak may not have a champion for another thousand years. Best of fortune to you, my champion, here is a tool to help you succeed."

My body lit up with a ton of G-Force, swallowed by a weave of thick tree bark, and topped off with a fine layer of rocks. The whole getup felt twice as strong as when Gaea first gave me some armor, and even better, I could feel the amazing amount of energy flowing through it; Gaea knew she'd be away for a good while, and gave my suit it's own battery life for me to use, I loved her for that. After making the suit for me, I felt her center of attention change, and a second later, I could feel the astral plane or whatever it was called, explode like the fourth of July; Gaea and Cyttorak were throwing down mad up there. As for me and Juggernaut, well, there was no love lost between us either.

I quickly threw my axe under the ground, and ducked under one of his wide swings, punching him hard in the side as a counter. He stumbled backwards, proving that he was at least somewhat impaired by the lack of his master's full attention, and I pressed on my attack. For a total of maybe…..three or four minutes, we brawled like giraffes; those are some aggressive mother f*(# ^&. I managed to keep up my habit of not dying, by keeping the fight almost entirely in the air. Juggernaut may have been a superior fighter on the ground, but he had zilch experience in aerial combat. Don't get me wrong, there were times where he almost touched me, but for the most part, he was getting owned by my constant use of DBZ combos, and just being a good bit faster than him; that was until another drawback of Gaea being away kicked in. Right as I was in the middle of a combo reaching up to 400 hits, Juggernaut managed to block one of my punches, hit me across the face with a hard left swing, so glad Gaea made my armor to be Juggernaut resistant, and half me in place while he blasted me at point blank range with his face laser. Juggernaut hosed me down with his laser blast for a good five seconds, tearing through a good chunk of my armor's first layer, but I managed to get in a hard kick under his chin, and after he stumbled backwards, I backflipped into position, and knock him away with a hard drop kick. So yeah, that whole predicament was due to my suga mama, Gaea, getting decked pretty hard in the astral plane, not only was my extra speed cut down, but so was my durability. I tried getting back in the fight, and failed miserably at it, when I hit Juggernaut once across the face, got a hard fist to the gut for all my trouble, followed by Juggernaut picking me up, bringing me down on his knee, and hurling me to earth, followed by yet another laser blast. I was completely blown backwards, about 200 meters in total, and when I got up, I saw that most of my first layer armor was destroyed, and a few red flames were smoldering on my tree armor; if I wasn't so handsome, I would've looked completely ridiculous. Anyway, as Juggernaut came flying down after me, I felt a huge surge between Gaea and Cyttorak, and Gaea was the one with the upper hand this time. I got a running start, nailed Juggernaut in the face, and nearly laughed my ass off when he careened straight into the ground #rekt! Juggernaut and I followed that pattern for a good while where we fought, fought some more, and took advantage of each other when our higher ups were losing their respective battle, however, the fight was still kinda in my favor. See, even though I was quitting the Geo-Force cold turkey, I still had access to the Nature Force, via the stone in my chest. So what is the Nature Force you may ask? Well…..it's basically an extension of the G-Force. That's as best as I can put it, it's just an extension of Gaea, just in the form of the collective energy of all plant life that has, is, will, or is even capable of growing out of the ground. It dosen't take the form of lightning/fire, just pure green energy; yeah it's not primordial or anything, the Nature Force is extremely tame compared to the G-Force. Still, for what it was worth, it got me by.

I used it to strengthen my second armor layer, while simultaneously pounding Juggernaut with a volley of blasts, hammer, train, and dinosaur constructs. Juggernaut more often than not was able to break these constructs, but thankfully, it looked like he was either incapable,or just too dumb to attempt making constructs out of his own energy. Still, even the Nature Force wasn't my best trump card. As Juggernaut broke through one of my T-Rex constructs, I used my plant manipulation powers to make him regret that. First, I made a giant Tree Cable shoot out of the ground, take the form of a Chinese Dragon, and slam into Juggernaut multiple times before making it grab him in it's mouth, and fling him into the air. Then, I created a giant spur, the plant kind, attached it to the Tree Cable, made it surge with Nature Force, and slam Juggernaut back to the ground; I did that multiple times, redefining what the term "Wrecking Ball" meant. Still, Juggernaut was far from done, and quickly managed to recover, charging me again with a renewed drive. After that, it was just a continuous punch fest between me and big red, both of us getting some good shots off on one another, and the advantages shifting between which of our patrons were winning their battle. Finally, after what felt like an eternity, I felt it. Gaea was on the verge of winning, Cyttorak was on the ropes, trying to at least hold on to his link to Juggernaut. This was my chance to end it, but even if Gaea drove him out, it wouldn't be enough. She was no stranger herself when it came to battle damage, and as such, would only be able to push Cyttorak from Juggernaut for maybe a good half a second, before he came back, probably locking himself in Juggernaut for good; I couldn't allow that. As Gaea hit, or whatever counts as hits in the astral plane, Cyttorak, knocking his connection to Juggernaut off, I tapped into Blitz Extreme, punched Juggernaut as hard as I could, sending him rocketing across the dirt, and willed my consciousness to go into the astral plane. Dunno how I did it, but I did, and let me tell you something, it was chaos, plain and simple. In here, nothing was completely solid, liquid or gas, colors were both vibrant and dim, and the energies in this place seemed…...jumbled, like this was the cosmic dumping ground for everything supernatural; hell, if limbo actually existed, this had too be it. Anyway, I quickly locked on to Gaea's signature, and as soon as the thought popped up in my mind, I was whisked to her side faster than the speed of light. She seemed surprised to see me, but I couldn't focus on that; Cyttorak was my focus. I searched around for him, and after seeing a dark blood red blotch on the edge of whatever the hell he was on the edge of, I found him. Again, in this dimension, nothing was ever solid, or not solid, but I could still make out a rough demonic figure, one with horn-like tentacles protruding from his head, and a face covered by an exoskeletal helmet. Looking at him freaked me out, so I punched him as hard as I could in the astral plane, and after he sailed off of the edge of whatever the hell he was on, Gaea grabbed me, and we rushed back to my body. Ironically enough, hardly any time had passed between my trip to the astral plane, hell, I managed to catch myself as my body was in the process of collapsing to the ground. In less than a second, I summoned my axe, which by the way, was surging with so much G-Force/Nature Force, that I was basically in the middle of a green electrical bonfire, big enough to swallow half of a skyscraper; in the words of Ruby, I AM AN ETERNAL FLAME, BABY!

I rocketed after Juggernaut, roaring like a madman, and found him at the base of a small hill. He was already in the process of getting up, but the red energy that was previously coursing through him, was now dead. His face looked dazed and confused; hell, he probably didn't even know what was going on right now, he wasn't processing it fast enough. I took comfort in that thought, as I brought my axe down on his head, the energy obliterating him before the blade could even cut through his head. I took Gaea's advice, and willed the energy explosion to flow through him, making sure every trace of him was swept away, and into the ground. The rest of the world wouldn't know it, but I felt the underground tremble, become stronger as the earth's energy redoubled though itself. After the flare died down, I stood up, and took a look at my surroundings…..f*(#!

The Great Basin Desert, was soon gonna be named the Great Basin Forest, because in every direction, lush grass covered the previously rocky ground, converting it into a lush meadow. There were full grown trees of every kind across the entire desert; believe me, even though this place was huge, I could feel the foliage. Hell, there were even different kinds of bushes, cacti, weeds, even vines growing out of the place; I had turned a desert into a small slice of the Amazon, and I was almost certain that there would be no negative repercussions for my actions. That was until I realized that their was one more baddie I had to deal with, and I felt him coming before I saw him a second later.

I'll give it to the old man, he took forever to get it up, but when he arrived, he arrived big; that sounded a lot less dirty in my head. Anyway, Magneto landed, and I gotta say, he had hit the gym big time. For one, he was wearing an Iron Man suit on steroids. It was 60 feet tall, as thick as a skyscraper, and I kid you not, my first thought when I saw it was that it looked just like the Hulkbuster suit, just with a red and purple color scheme, and Magneto's signature helmet for the head piece. Hell, it had a Unibeam, repulsor blasters in it's hands, and I was pretty sure the thing had bonus weapons, rockets, and any and all other hero killing gadgets and gizmos in it. Even worse, this thing wreaked of electromagnetism, I was getting nauseous just being near the damn thing, having to pump G-Force though my body just to make sure I didn't pass out. To put it short, the Omega Defender was legit. In retrospect, I probably should have just attacked Magneto right then, but then again, I didn't have a clue about what I was dealing with. Magneto on the other hand, didn't really seem to be all that interested in me, and not even his surroundings; his armor head moved side to side, and I could see what he was looking for, hell, I could almost see the disappointment in his face.

"Disposed of," he plainly said in his robotic voice. "You have single handedly disposed of my entire Brotherhood, even the so called 'unstoppable' Juggernaut."

The dude sounded so broken down, I actually felt bad for him. I mean, technically only two of his Brotherhood members were actually disposed, but he didn't know that, and he sounded like he had just lost all of his children.

"I applaud you for your achievement," he continued. "You have taken so much from me in such a short time, yes I admit, even I am wounded by what you have done to me, my spirit has been hurt. Yet, in your chest, in your very body holds the prize that I need to ensure the domination of our entire race. The prize that will make the sacrifice of my Brotherhood worth it. I give you one last chance, give up the stone, relinquish it to me, and I promise that the death of you, your comrades, and the ones you call allies, will be fast and painless; this is my final offer."

I paused for a moment, genuinely shocked that Magneto's best proposal was: "Hey, i'm gonna kill you, your friends, and probably all of the heroes in the world, buuuut, and hear me out on this one, if you give me the stone, i'll kill them nicely, scout's honor!" I actually busted out laughing, unable to contain the hilarity of Magneto's ridiculous proposal.

"Look, man," I responded, sombering up quickly. "I'm sorry I trashed your crew, I really am. I didn't wanna kill anybody, it's gonna haunt me for the rest of ever, and I have the sinking feeling that i'm gonna have to do it again. Still, you just threatened my friends, and that is something i can't let slide; so sorry, but not really, i'm gonna have to kick your ass again."

"YOU THINK YOU KNOW SUFFERING BOY?!" Magneto yelled at me. "YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE THINGS I HAVE, YOU HAVE NOT SEEN YOUR RACE SLAUGHTERED, IN THE PLACE THAT THEY WERE PROMISED SANCTUARY. YOU WERE NOT HERDED LIKE CATTLE TO SLAUGHTER, FORCED TO WATCH POWERLESSLY AS YOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED BEFORE YOU! I HAVE COME TOO FAR, LOST TOO MUCH, HAVE TOO MUCH TO LOOSE; YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME!

"Let's see about that," I growled, as I hefted my axe, and rocketed into Magneto's Omega Defender.

I'll be the first to admit, the fight didn't really go all that well for me at first. I flew straight into the chest piece of Magneto's suit, and whacked it really hard with my axe, followed by a powerful uppercut to the face, and a dropkick straight to the chest again. Those were blows that could level tanks, created huge holes in my new garden, i'd be sure to fix those later, and after it was all said and done, Magneto barely stumbled backwards. In response, I felt my armor being pulled towards him, a magnetic pull so strong, even I couldn't fight it on a moment's notice. I was pulled in, and batted away with a hard right backhand, almost knocking me out right then, before being held in mid air by magnetism.

"WHAT WAS THAT YOU SAID, BOY?!" Magneto taunted me. ""SOMETHING ABOUT DEFEATING ME?!"

His Unibeam glowed brighter, and in an almost knee jerk reaction, my body activated my G-Blazer, which somehow freed me from the magnetic grip. Still, the blast was already underway, and I instinctively made a shield construct to block the blast. Yeah…that didn't work out all that well. Magneto's blast tore through my shield like it was made of toilet paper, and basically slammed me 6 feet underground. I managed to tunnel my way out, but quickly had to go back under like a Whack-A-Mole. Why? Because Magneto nearly smashed me to bit with his big ass electromagnetic sword. I made the gravity around him intensify, holding him in place for a good second or two, came back up behind him, and after creating a barrage of G-Missiles, I rained down my righteous fury. I half expected the boomage to be able to level him, or at least I hoped it would, but was unsurprised when Magneto came charging through the green flames, blasting away at me furiously. I managed to dodge them, and even threw Magneto for a loop when I threw my axe at one of his repulsors just as it was about to fire, causing it to backfire a little, but that was about it. For about a good minute, I was reduced to dodging and fleeing. Don't get me wrong, I got some good shots in between my dodging, some just pure blasts of energy, others taking the form of missiles, fighter jets, and various birds, but my attacks were having a straight up minimal effect on his armor; hell, the guy probably had Tony Stark on the lookout for competition. Still, I eventually managed to pull a fast one on him. I barely avoided what had to be his 60th blast, and faster than he could react to it, I flew in close, created a huge sledgehammer construct, and brought it up under Magneto's headpiece as hard as I could, actually managing to topple the metal giant. I quickly summoned my axe, converted it to spear mode, and stabbed the blade deep in Magneto's Unibeam; I figured maybe that would power it down a little…not what it actually did.

Magneto's armor crackled with energy, and unleashed a small, but powerful explosive wave, one that I barely managed to get out of the way of. I dunno exactly what I did, but I was gonna chalk it up for a win; hell, it at least seemed to make Magneto uncomfortable. Still he managed to get up, even though it would've been much smarter for him to stay down and play dead. See, while he was down, I retreated a good 50 meters away, and started playing plant god again. I created two huge flowers, about 60 feet tall, each of which were basically mutated with razor sharp teeth, and packing a whole lot of acid. As Magneto got up, I willed the plants to spew out a continuous spray of acid at his armor; some of which made it through the broken centerpiece hopefully corroding some of the metal inside, because the poison was doing jack $#!+ to the outside. Still, even if it was, Magneto let on no signs of weakness, and rocketed forward, trying to punch me head on. I snapped my fingers, and a Tree Dragon, I used it on Juggernaut, exploded out of the ground, wrapped around Magneto, and started gnawing him relentlessly. I knew the dragon was doing exactly nothing, but it provided me with a good amount of time to create a couple of Tree Titans, big hulking plant monsters armed with clubs, and enough G-Force to make them pretty durable; plus, it was really funny to watch Magneto struggle and cuss, as he tried to shake my dragon off of him. He eventually did managed to get free, but by then, I had already sent my Tree Titans after him, starting the whole distraction process all over again.

"Alright Gaea," I said to her, going into Blitz Extreme to make sure we weren't interrupted soon. "What are we dealing with here?"

"Well," she started. "It is a truly impressive suit. The big bulky outer armor is made mostly of an alien metal I cannot identify, the joints are made of Titanium, Lutetium, and Adamantium, all reinforced by three times. The electromagnetism in his suit is enough to span at least three solar systems, and even though you have damaged his core, the energy levels are still at about 82% power; quite frankly, the only reason you are not dead, is because he can't go all out on you without tearing the world to shreds, and because he is not physically able to use all of that energy at once, the effort alone would kill him.

"Sounds, reasonable, now let's break his new toy."

"I'd recommend using your molecular destabilizer powers, it's going to take a lot of Geo-Force to use, but if you can break down the joints in his armor, it'll impair his mobility by a lot, and might even cut his power by another 20%."

"How do you know so much about machines, energy levels, and a bunch of other things you really shouldn't?"

"I'm Mother Earth, remember? I have the collective knowledge of everyone who has ever lived, or is currently alive. I can send you the notes if you'd like."

"Maybe later, but right now, I got more ass to kick."

I came down from Blitz Extreme, and as if one cue, Magneto tore through my Tree Titans, locked onto me, and shot at me with not one, not two, but ten missiles, each as big as SUV's and probably Geo-Titan seeking; kicking ass would have to wait, for now, I had to focus on saving my own ass. I took to the air, and sure enough, the missiles followed.

"Perhaps the definition of kicking ass has changed in recent moments," Gaea said, making fun of me. "But this hardly counts as taking the fight to your opponent."

"It's called faking," I retorted. "I could've, and will easily redirect those missiles, but right now, let's build up that G-Force I need, I wanna break that discount Hulkbuster in pieces."

"So violent, I love it!"

I willed the my G-Blazer to surge with more power, and as Gaea also spoonfed me energy, I had to up my speed by a lot, to make sure the missiles didn't explode prematurely, because I was basically just one big jumbo beach ball of energy.

"This is enough Geo-Force," Gaea finally said after about 30 seconds of buildup. "Now, how do you plan to deal with the missiles?"

"Just watch me work," I responded.

I focused on the nature patch down below, where Magneto was still shooting missiles at me, now we were up to thirty, willed the plants underneath Magneto to surround him, and take the form of a giant Boa Constrictor. Then, I made my body swallow all of the energy around me, which felt like chugging two gallons of water, and did a dive bomb towards Magneto, making all of the oncoming missiles turn around, and along with the other ten, soar into him faster than he could even break free of my plant snake. The explosion was the stuff of dreams…..and lawsuits. Basically a big purple flare of electromagnetism, that after was all said and done, left a crater big enough to bury five perfectly good satellites on top of each other, and still have +10 feet of space to bury it under. From the looks of it, Magneto's suit sustained some significant damage, but not enough to do anything severe; that was my job. While Magneto was still dazed and confused, I flew as quickly as I could, slammed into the ground all epic like with my fist striking the dirt, and in a split second, I willed all of the energy inside of me to erupt under Magneto in a huge flare, commanding it to destroy the molecular bonds in the exploitable metals in his suit. Gaea must have had a whole platter of the stuff on standby, because instead of a simple flare big enough to level a few skyscrapers, a burst of G-Force, big enough to swallow a whole football stadium erupted out of the ground, probably shooting off the biggest flare in the history of ever; I was so gonna make the news for this, hope they got my good side. After the flare died down, I quickly did a scan of Magneto's armor, and let me tell you, the arm and leg joints were only just holding together. His energy regulators were f*(# $, and using my X-Ray vision, I could actually see that that G-Splosion, official name, had tore through a good two layers of Magneto's inner padding. In other words, he was literally a few layers away from me breaking inside and taking him out. He looked like he wanted to shoot me, or something stupid like that, but I was having none of it. I raised my fists, and two thick Tree Cables shot out of the ground, wrapped around the Omega Defender's legs, and went inside the knee joints. After snaking their way through the armor's infrastructure, I willed them to make thorns, thick enough to impale buses, extend from their lengths, and basically rend through more of Magneto's inner armor. Still, I didn't stop there, I willed the Tree Cables to surge with G-Force, lighting Magneto's precious little toy up from the inside, causing it to spark, explode in some places, and even make some pieces of the outer armor crumble off. I kept up the surge for a good five seconds, and probably would've kept it up for as long as it took to take the suit down, but Magneto was having none of it. He roared, and a burst of electromagnetism came out of his suit, frying most of my Tree Cables, although the thorns were still firmly lodged in his suit. After that, he just went blasting away wildly, releasing missiles and repulsor blasts like there was no tomorrow; I did the smart thing, and flew out of that crater, knowing that I had to get this fight back in the open.

Once I was out of the crater, I quickly outstretched my arms, used my earthbending powers to lift another huge lump of rock, about the size of a gas station, charge it with enough G-Force to put a thousand RPGs to shame, and as soon a Magneto reared his ugly suit, I hurled the land mass at him, and watched the fireworks. Seriously, the explosion wasn't as massive as the G-Splosion, but it was something to see, especially Magneto's 60 foot, 500,000 ton ass careening into the ground, tumbling and cussing, as his suit got more and more f*( # up. I sensed that his suit was nearly done, and even though I could have simply played it safe, used tactical strikes, and wait for his armor to run itself into the ground, that would be very boring for me; besides, this moment was so good, setup so perfect, that I simply could not let it slip by. First, I tapped into Blitz Extreme, knowing that this would take a lot of effort to pull off, and charged myself up with as much G-Force as I could use, even going just a little over the limit. Once I was lost in the tremendous energy, I willed all of the plant life I had created to come towards me, and envelope the 60 foot energy sphere in a cocoon of tree stuff. Finally, I willed the rocks around me to do the same, and after focusing hard on the Combat Avatar I wanted to be, I re-arranged the energy, plants, and rocks into a solid body, and after it was completed, I leapt towards Magneto, ready to end this once and for all. What was my Combat Avatar you may ask? Well, just imagine a Triple Threat armor, 60 feet tall, in the shape of the Hulk, equipped with an Iron Man suit from the neck down, carrying Thor's hammer, and Captain America's shield; I used some extra G-Force to decorate it with green stripes and a star. Magneto was already up, and even though I was only looking at his battle armor, I was pretty sure he was $#!++!^& himself in there.

"What do ya think?!" I taunted him. "Kinda brings a whole new meaning to 'Avengers Assemble', huh?!"

Magneto didn't say a thing, he simply summoned his electromagnetic sword, as well as a huge red shield, highlighted with purple edges, also surging with electromagnetism. He couldn't fly at me, his thrusters were too damaged, but we both charged at each other all fierce-like, and that was just as satisfying. Ironically enough, this time I wasn't the one with the disadvantage. For starters, I cranked up the gravity to X30, which was hard enough without the strain of keeping this Avatar together; and Magneto's suit was in no condition to resist that much gravity. I batted his sword away with my shield, dented his his shield with a hard swing of my hammer, and blasted him in the chest with my Unibeam, sending him sprawling backwards. Magneto tried to get back at me with a counter Unibeam, but was it weak as f*(#. I simply blocked it with my shield, jumped into the air, and threw my shield at his head, making a really cool BONK! sound off of it. I twirled my hammer, and either by my force of will, or the placebo of the hammer, my Combat Avatar was not falling; then again, I did build in thrusters to the suit. Magneto did exactly what I thought he would, and launched a huge volley of missiles at me, unfortunately for him, I was a big fan of Thor. I roared, and again, this was a placebo thing, but I basically summoned a thunderstorm of G-Force from the sky, completely trashing his arsenal, and even pelting him with a good few bolts of G-Force. While he was stumbling, I twirled my hammer even faster, thrusted it at Magneto, while holding onto the strap handle, and I rocketed into him at Mach 3. I hit him right in the chest piece, causing his armor to surge uncontrollably again. Then, while using my left hand to fire repulsor blasts every now and then, I straight up went ham on Magneto's suit. Like I said, the gravity was impairing him by a lot, and I milked that advantage for all it was worth, basically jumping, or flipping around his attacks, striking him with my hammer as hard as I could, again and again, shooting him with repulsor blasts, missiles, machine gun fire, and just basically scraping his suit piece by piece.

"NOW GEO-TITAN!" Gaea slammed into my head after a minute of beating the hell out of Magneto. "HIS ENERGY REGULATORS ARE BLOCKED COMPLETELY, USE THE GEO-FORCE TO OVERLOAD IT; MAKE THAT MONSTROSITY GO BOOM!"

Ok, I was definitely rubbing off on her, because no way Mother Earth says 'make it go boom'. Still, I took her advice, and after batting Magneto away with the side of my hammer, I smashed it into the ground, willing the G-Force under Magneto to erupt into another G-Splosion. Yeah, Gaea wasn't kidding around when she said I was gonna make Magneto go boom. As soon as the G-Splosion hit, it was like a dam being busted open. A starburst of green and purple energy shot into the air in a massive beam; it would've been pretty to look at, what if not for the fact that Magneto was probably dead. Luckily, that was not the case. As the suit exploded one last time, as in like, Michael Bay exploded into little bitty pieces, Magneto was shot into the air, after which, I caught him in my fist, and flung him to the ground. One has to ask how a little man could control such a big suit, but then again, I couldn't judge. Anyway, now came the tricky part. See, Magneto was still sporting his electromagnetic body shield, and I was not about to go round 13 with this guy. I balled my right fist, and slammed it into him hard; his body shield flickered. I punched him again; his body shield flickered off. I couldn't punch him that hard again, otherwise i'd crush him into a paste. Instead, I slightly mashed him with the same force one would apply to crush a gnat, before absorbing my Infinity Hulk Armor, official name, into myself; Gaea said that the suit was so good, i should've been able to bust it out at anytime, and I was totally on board with that. Once on the ground, I summoned my axe, cut through what was left of Magneto's armor, the one on his body, and flung it away; no more electromagnetism from other planets for him. Next, I reached out to the G-Force pods, and in a flash, Toad, Mystique, and Blob were lying unconscious next to their leader. I quickly cuffed them, extracted the stone from my chest, which was like performing heart surgery on myself without anesthetic, and put it in a container.

"An impressive battle, Geo-Titan," Gaea congratulated me. "Perhaps this can be the start of a long and beautiful partnership."

"Maybe," I said. "But I gotta read the paperwork first, have my agents look at it, and negotiate terms."

"How comical. Oh, and not to rain on your victory, but you kinda trashed the earth here, it's kinda bothering me, like an itch, can you fix it please?"

"Sure…..how?"

"Just make a wave of Geo-Force explode under the ground with intentions to heal, everything else will fall into place."

I did as she said, willing a huge surge of G-Force to manifest in my hand, before slamming into the ground. I didn't see most of it, but I could kinda feel the earth healing, like I had given it a flu shot that was doing it's magic instantaneously. Still, the desert went back to being a forest again, and I was probably not gonna fix that any time soon. With all the loose ends tied up, I activated my communicator, and got Fury on the horn.

"Yo, Fury," I said. "You there?"

"Affirmative, Super-G," he said. "Report, and it had better be good."

"Actually, it's Geo-Titan, i've had a name change. Look, i'll explain back at base, but it's way too long, and way too epic of a story to tell over a watch. All you need to know right now, is that I rounded up the bad guys, and I have the stone."

"Good work, a transport is on it's way to collect you and the Brotherhood, stay there and try not to blow anything else up; seriously, you've already caused five million dollars in collateral."

"Way to guilt trip, Fury."

He cut off the communication, and I was just about to pop a squat on the floor and wait to get picked up, until I realized something important.

"Gaea," I thought to her. "Can you use the G-Force to transport objects from one place to another?"

"Of course," she responded. "What did you have in mind?"

"Me and Storm-Lord left our jackets at the dance, plus we all left our free tablets there. Can you teleport them straight to the S.H.I.E.L.D. infirmary."

"Uhh...sure, why not?"

"Thanks. OH $#!+!"

"What's wrong?!"

"The people at the party, we weren't there with them, what if they-"

"Oh, don't worry about them, i've already altered their minds; they think you and your friends have been with them the whole time."

"Wow, that's convenient, thank you."

"Anytime."

Now that all the loose ends were tied up, I could finally relax; that was until I heard a cough. Magneto sputtered to life, and by the looks of it, was trying to blast at me with his now turned off electromagnetism.

"Give it a rest, gramps," I told him. "You won't be doing anything with metal, except being behind bars, and even then they'll probably end up being really hard plastic."

"YOU FOOL!" he shouted at me. "YOU HAVE DOOMED US ALL TO EXTINCTION! WHEN DOOM COLLECTS THE STONES, HE WILL WIPE US ALL OUT, DENY US A PLACE IN HIS NEW WORLD! YOU HAVE DOOMED OUR ENTIRE RACE TO OBLIVION!"

"Dude, relax! In case you haven't been paying attention, I just kicked you and your sorry excuse for a team's asses…ALONE! I'm just a rookie here, I didn't even have my whole team to back me up, and I still beat you. Yeah, I know Doom's a big deal, but so am I, and so is the rest of my team. No races are gonna be going extinct anytime soon, not on my watch; whatever Doom has planned, me and my friends are gonna stop it, you can believe that."

Magneto laughed.

"I will always admire the youth of this generation. So blind, so naive to the truth. You are a boy playing in a man's war... you shall soon see for yourself that Doom is nobody to trifle with."

"Like I said, neither am I."

I heard the sound of a jet, about two miles out, it would be arriving in about a minute. I used the G-Force to wrap Magneto and friends in pods, and lifted them off of the ground.

"Time to go," I said. "Hopefully your cell will have a nice view, i'll put in a good word for ya."

The jet landed a few feet away from us, and with the help of a few S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, we got the Brotherhood situated in stasis, and after buckling up, were on our way back to the Helicarrier.