Chapter 30: I Kick Ass with The Avengers!
(Grant's Perspective)
As soon as the battle picked up on the ground, I hightailed it into the air! I know, kinda lame of me to call the greatest battle cry in history, only to dip out when the fighting really picked up, but ya boy definitely wasn't running scared! There was a whole sky fulla Dragon Men, demons, Doombots, and enemy warships, just waiting to get wrecked by Geo-Titan! Definitely wasn't gonna keep em' waiting for long!
Here's a little visual to give you an idea of what me and Air Team was up against. About 3,000 feet above Empire State Building level, Doom and friends were raining down a party like you couldn't even imagine! Doom's ship was spitting out Doombots, like confetti, and Dragon Empress had four dozen black warships, each the size of three Titanic sized ships stacked on top of each other! Outta those bad boys came, Dragon Men, dragon fighter ship's, regular dragons, and of course, laser shots strong enough to blow apart tanks; courtesy of the big ass turrets on the warships! All in all, it was 11 heroes against at least 3,000 dragon creatures and counting, several hundred fighter ships and counting, and 48 colossal dragon warships! Says a lot about what i've been through, when all I think is "this looks kinda tough", when staring down an other worldly fighting force that could easily take out large cities.
"Alright guys," me and Iron Man said at the same time.
We looked at each other, and I could totally feel the tension brewing. No disrespect to Stark, but I knew my $#!+ on this one, and was not backing down.
"No offense, kid," Iron Man said. "But I got the mileage to pull rank on this op."
"Really?" I clapped back. "We're facing down a dragon army, led by the daughter of Surtur. Ever fought Surtur's little girl?"
"Can't say I have."
"Well I have. Twice. I know her tech, how to take it down, and how to beat her. So no offense Iron Man, but ima take the lead on this one."
"I concur with the boy," Thor said. "He has proven himself a capable warrior, Stark. Besides, this was his fight before it was ours. We've no right to strip it from him."
Iron Man looked around at the rest of the team, and after seeing that he had no foundation to mount a counter vote, finally gave me the reins.
"Alright, junior," he said. "Let's see what ya got.
"Cool," I said. "First thing's first, we gotta get Hulk, Ms. Marvel, and Blue Marvel through that army. Thor, let's you and I make some sparks fly! We'll open up a path for them to get to the main ships. Ship team, you're gonna attack that launch bay on the ship's under side. Fight your way up a few floors, and you'll get to the core of the ship. The core of each ship has four huge cables connected to the reactor. Cut one of em' and the ship goes boom. Make sure you get out before it does. Also, don't worry about the wreckage, i'll just scoop it up in my All-Metal, and put it in the Geo-Force."
"Wanna run that last part by me again?" Iron Man asked.
"No time, maybe later. Everyone else, we're on Doombot, dragon, and Demon duty. Nothing gets below 500, feet."
"Humph," Thor grunted. "The invaders will not leave the sky with their lives! So swears the son of Odin!"
"Cool beans." I responded. "Alright Air Team, punch it!"
Thor and I immediately went to work! The sky got dark, just where our enemies were coming down! Before they even had a chance to think of how f*(#$& they were, lightning ripped across the sky, and through them, like wet paper! In one second, half a thousand dragon creatures, demons, Doombots, and fighter jets got vaporized, and that was before I brought down my own thunder! I willed G-Force bolts to scatter strike the sky, just like Thor's attack, and we tore those f*(#€^% a new one! I thought it would take a good few minutes to clear a path for Hulk and the Marvels, but they had a clear window within less than a minute! By the way, Hulk had a giant jet pack. Dude really wanted to be on Air Team! Anyway, with the ship team gone, me and the rest of Air team started puttin' in mad work on border patrol! Thor and I kept up our respective energy storms, but Thor wasn't satisfied at kickin' as from a distance! He flew up into the heart of the battle, started spinning his hammer all badass, and shredded dragon creatures, demons, and Doombots in his hammer windmill. I had to force myself not to fanboy out loud! Iron Man, Chase and Star-Lord followed Thor's example, but with more of an emphasis on ranged attacks. Iron Man shot off massive volleys of missiles, countless red repulsor blasts, and even some sonic blasts. Chase, was kinda the same, but if i'm being honest, was kickin' so much more ass! First off, the dude's suit was LEGENDARY! The structure of it was constantly changing around to make whatever weapon he wanted at the time. In five minutes, I remember shoulder gun turrets, flaming laser arm swords, a flaming axe for a left hand, and a missile shooter on his back! Hell, even Chase's repulsor blasts were more dope than Tony's! The energy was some kinda mix of classic arc reactor tech, mixed with orange plasma! The blasts either shoot through, or straight up melted whatever they touched! Hell, if that wasn't enough, the motherf*(#%$ suit could actually make giant fire constructs! Dude cleaved dozens of dragons, demons, and Doombots with a giant fire sword construct, mowed them down with Gatling Gun constructs, and threw fighter jets, kamikaze style, at them! If Thor was number one, this dude was a close third place, just behind me! Star-Lord was doing good, but nothin' legendary. Props where they're due, the guy was a great shot, and one helluva maneuverer. Put him in the middle of some dragons and Doombots, and he came out unscathed, leaving a heap of torn Doombot debris and dragon carcasses. Also, Storm flew up to help Thor with the thunder storm. She always kicked ass, and this time was no different. As for me, I was fighting in the sky and the ground!
Long story short, Doom was summoning extra demon muscle on the ground floor. Storm-Lord and I worked together to get those reinforcements down to size. While he blew them apart with lightning, I turned the ground into a living death drap of spikes, fists, and giant slabs of crushing asphalt! Hell, that was the easy part. Remember those big ass turrets on the dragon warships? Yeah, those things weren't just for show! Every second, those f*(#$& were shooting down volley after volley of tank bursting laser shots, that I just barely managed to deflect, by using a lotta All-Metal to make rotating shields! After a few minutes of trying to keep the fight up on the ground, around me, and playing overhead defense at the same time, I decided to make the load a little easier. I divided up the All-Metal into 288 tank sized chunks, and launched them into the turrets! It took a while, but in less than three minutes, the warships' clogged artillery backfired into themselves, causing a wave of explosions to ripple through the them!
"Not bad," Gaea said.
"Not bad?!" I responded. "You're a hard lady to please, Earth Mamma! Here, lemme crank it up a notch!"
I willed shards of All-Metal to fly through the heart of the battle, like heat seeking swords! Within three minutes, the sky was raining dead deemons and dragon creatures! I honed in on the Doombots that had Nature Force in them, blew them apart, then stitched them back together with Geo-Force! Five minutes of doing that got me an army of my own, which I used to wreak havoc on the Doombots, demons, and dragon creatures alike! And don't get me started on the battles I fought up close! I was a goddamn bull on a china shop! I extended my axe, Earthshaker, to spear-axe mode, lit it up with G/N-Force, and had at the dragon creatures! One swing spelled the end for either one big dragon, or up to seven Dragon Men! To add insult to injury, my construct game was on point! I slashed apart dragon creatures by the dozens with giant G/N-Force Medieval knights, Optimus Primes, Deadpools, and tigers with Gatling Guns for tails! Don't ask about that last one, it just kinda came to me. Oh, and while I was trashin' the lizards, Hulk and the Marvels managed to blow one of the warships! I quickly summoned a giant wave of All-Metal to swallow the wreckage, and dumped it into the Geo-Force!
"Better, G?!" I asked Gaea.
"What?" she laughed at me. "Do you want a cookie? Perhaps a gold star?"
"Jerk."
"Thank you."
Before we could continue our fun, I felt a huge surge of God Steroids, kinda had a ring to it, props to Storm-Lord, shoot outta Doom's ship! It was like someone put all of gravity in a person, and shot him out of a cannon! Hell, Thor threw his hanmer at him, Graviton, and the dude deflected it with a wave of his hand, and decked Thor in the face, sending him careening outta the sky! I woulda made a move to catch him, but Graviton musta had special orders from Doom, cuz he made a beeline for me! I felt him put a gravity field around me, trying to to crush me in an invisible compactor, but he was gettin' nada! I mean, maybe if I concentrated, I could feel his power, but I was strong enough to where I could stack continents on my shoulders. Graviton was gonna have to do much better than what he was at now! Hell, just to make sure he knew who I was, I pulled the rug out from under him, and shrunk to Tiny Titan; props again, Storm-Lord! His punch caught air, and before he knew what was where, I hit him in the gut with a punch that could literally break a city in half! Hell, Graviton was all kinds of f*(#$& up, cuz that wave of God Steroids supercharged my punch like you couldn't even imagine! The dude literally flew through four warships, like they were made of paper, and if I didn't fly up and hammer pound him down, he woulda shot outta the atmosphere!
Things only went downhill from there for Graviton! I kept knocking him around in Tiny Titan a few more times, before stopping his momentum cold via letting him slam into my giant fist! I quickly shrunk down to normal, and gave Graviton the DBZ beating of a lifetime! Hundreds of punches to the head and sides, just as many brutal kicks, knees, and elbows to his abdomen, face, and throat, all topped of with a few Tiger Fist slams! Graviton tried his best to counter with some swings and gravity blasts, but the best he could do was push me back with a gravity blastwave. Those would buy him five seconds max, before I was back on his ass!
I waxed Graviton in a little under three minutes, and yeah, it really was that easy. First off, that chi training I did amped up my fighting skill by 100. I barely had to think about my movements, as I countered Graviton's telegraphed attacks, and went hard on the offensive; focusing on getting the God Steroids outta his system. I hit him with some quickl punch and kick combos to the head, chest, and back, before bustin' out some giant G-Force sledgehammers to pound out the rest of the energy outta him. Graviton tried for one last hail mary, and blasted a huge wave of gravity at me. The blast woulda knocked me back at least half a mile, but there was another benefit to that chi training! I could kinda roughly read people's chi, and sense the rising energy in them. I could sense the energy traveling from Graviton's brain synapses, to his arm. I could literally telegraph his punches at a microscopic level! So yeah, you better believe I felt a huge gravity power blast comin' from a mile away! I simply wrapped the caveman lookin' dumbass in a sphere of G/N-Force, and let the blast do all the hard work for me! Felt like holding back an avalanche, but I managed to do it, and Graviton got a one way to Magick's magic prison dimension! Pretty sure the Geo-Nexus was better! Anyway, I had no time to celebrate my win, cuz Star-Lord came flying by, with a pack of Dragon creatures hot on his heels!
He was blasting down the smaller ones, so I helped him out with the big ones, aka, slicing them down with some giant G-Force swords! We stuck together for a good while; which gave me some time to get to know what his deal was.
"Ever thought about bigger blasters?" I asked him.
"Ever hear bigger isn't always better?" he responded.
"I have. Tho it was always from smaller dudes who say that to feel better about themselves. So…."
"Size ain't everything, man. It's about skill and stamina."
"True, but if you have size, you can be three for three. Better to fire on all cylinders, than just two."
"Good point. So how big are you?"
I smashed a $#!+ ton of dragons, demons, and Doombots in with giant G-Force hands.
"Plenty big!"
Star-Lord responded by shooting down an oncoming horde of dragons, and blasting down a big one with an electric probe to the head; frying his brain!
"Nice!" I said, giving him a fist bump.
"Not too bad yourself, man!" he responded. "By the way, why is the sky all crystal-like?!"
I looked up, not sure what to expect, but sure enough Star-Lord was right! The sky looked like I was seeing it though a kaleidoscope, and my voice sounded all echoey.
"Oh…$#!+" I said. "Gaea?"
"Mirror Dimension," she said. "And you might be, as you'd say, f*(#^%."
"Your goddess cannot help you here," I sneering voice echoed though the sky.
The voice materialized half a mile above me and Star-Lord, as Baron Mordo.
"Clever of you to hide your army in the Mirror Dimension," he continued. "Count yourselves fortunate I did not anticipate such a maneuver, or this battle would be over before it began."
"Sucks for you, bro!" Star-Lord said. "Now how about you get us outta this fun house, pack it up, and get outta here!"
"And why would I agree to such terms?"
"How about math, genius?! Two of us, plus one of you, plus our size, skill, and stamina, equals you lose!"
Mordo laughed at us in a low key evil chuckle. That woulda been easy to brush off, but the laughter was comin' from all over, and sounded like an army of Mordos. Within a few seconds, Mordo clones started materializing around me and Star-Lord, like flying gophers! They all looked the same, but each had glowing eyes resembling the Olympus Energy they were made of. I could sense how solid they were. Sure, they weren't massive powerhouses, but with as much energy as original Mordo was channeling into them, they weren't gonna be a cakewalk.
"That all ya got, ya half rate Doctor Strange?!" Star-Lord continued.
Mordo's eyes went a weird mix of purple and red, and some kinda small glyph, that looked like a tic-tac-toe box, with circles on the corners, formed on his forehead. He raised his hands, and the city below us literally folded in on itself Inception Style, and rose to the sky! Mordo split it into chunks, multiplied and condensed certain parts of it, and even split a skyscraper into big ass jagged spears!
"Well-" Star-Lord tried again.
"Just don't, bro," I cut him off. "Just get ready to shoot."
Mordo sent a torrent of metal at us, while his clones unleashed a wave of Olympus Energy at us! I quickly put up a G/N-Force bubble around me and Star-Lord, and braced for the worst roller coaster ride in history!
Yeah, Mordo gave us the business! It wasn't so bad at the start; just giant metal shards and an energy barrage. Naw, $#!+ got real when Mordo literally took the ChryslerBuilding, and swung it into us, like it was a baseball bat! Me and Star-Lord went flying, and it didn't get any better from there! Mordo sent more clones and buildings at us; knockin' us all up and down Midtown! I just barely managed to keep the barrier together, and Star-Lord was not makin' it easy with all his back seat drivin'!
"Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!" he kept yelling! "If you let that shield drop, we're toast!"
"NO, REALLY?!" I yelled back.
"LOOK OUT!"
Star-Lord was pointing up, or maybe down, but one thing was certain: we were about to get crushed under a falling Avengers Tower!
I quickly summoned a bit of All-Metal, shaped it around us as a giant drill, and kept it going, until the entire building crumbled around me and Star-Lord. It was at that moment that Mordo f*(#^% up! Even if it wasn't real, the bastard dropped Avengers Tower on top of me! Used the beacon of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes to try and kill me! He may as well have burned a flag, while kicking my dog! I busted me and Star-Lord out with a G-Force explosive wave, and summoned a volley of All-Metal spears! I got a quickly lay of my surroundings, and shot the spears at the various Mordos in every direction! Each spear was charged with enough energy to put blow a hole in a battleship, and all of em' got headshots with each Mordo they came across! Hell, to make things sweeter, all I had to do was blow apart the Mordos made of Nature Force with a simple thought. Oh, and Star-Lord was doin' pretty good too. He amped up his blasters, and took it to the Mordo's with black hole grenade shots, gravity mines, and even blasts of ice, fire, and lightning from his blasters!
"Not bad," Gaea said to me. "But try some earthbending."
"I can still do that here?!"
"Why wouldn't you be able to? It's still earth. Go on, give it a try!"
I made a fist, and the glass of an entire skyscraper shattered! I charged the millions of glass shards with G-Force, and sent them hurtling at the Mordo army, while keeping Star-Lord safe under a G-Force dome! After keeping up the glass storm for 10 seconds, only one Mordo was left standing! His face was a priceless mix of anger and pants $#!++!^* fear!
"Wanna give up?" I asked him. "It'll be much easier on all of us."
Mordo responded by folding the city on itself again, and launching a volley of skyscrapers at me. Again, I made a fist, and those skyscrapers broke apart, like they were made of puzzle pieces! I brought down thousands of tons of steel and glass on Mordo, who just managed to put up some kinda spell seal that transformed the rubble into bubbles! He blasted at me with a huge Olympus energy wave, doubled by a pentagram spell seal, and I blasted back with a G/N Force wave. Gotta say, Mordo definitely had some fight to him. His power blast wasn't the strongest i've ever held back, but enough to where I had to put in some decent effort to hold my ground. Still, if there's anything i've learned from power blast battles, its that it leaves the bad guys wide open for a blindside! Mine cane in the form of Star-Lord blasting Mordo from behind with some kinda seismic blast from his guns! Mordo's concentration shattered, and my G/N Force blast rammed him through several skyscrapers!
"What was that about size again?" Star-Lord said.
"It still matters," I responded. "But we can agree big things sometimes come in small packages!"
"I hear that!"
He gave me a fist bump, and I heard Gaea sigh.
"Can you be an idiot later?" she asked. "You need to get back to the real world. Look up!"
I did, and almost choked on my spit! The Marvels and Hulk were doin' their jobs too well! In the five minutes max me and Star-Lord were in the Mirror Dimension, they took down two more warships, but I couldn't swallow the wreckage with All-Metal in here!
"How long till we get 9/11 on steroids?!" I asked her.
"At the rate they're falling?" she answered. "About four minutes. The propulsion systems seem to be working fine enough to slow down the fall, but you have to hurry! Get his Sling Ring, charge it with Geo-Force, and I can fill in the gaps you lack to make a portal!"
"Why can't you just portal us outta here?!"
"For one, your friend wouldn't survive the jump. Second, all this matter folding makes it to where I can't get a read on what would actually be the ground! A jump in this environment might irreparably scatter your essence across the two dimensions!"
"And you know that, how?"
"The less you know, the better. Now get back to the violence!
"Will do!"
"So what's the plan, Titan boy?" Star-Lord asked me.
"We need to get his magic portal ring from him fast, before those warships crash into the city. I'll keep his attention up front, while you stay back, blastin' him with your guns. Once we get it, we'll blow this fun house. Cool with you Star Crunch?"
"Groovy."
I could tell he was hurt by Star Crunch, but Titan boy wasn't my name. Gotta give what you wanna receive. Anyway, Mordo charged at us, with five city blocks folding behind him. He teleported away at the last moment, and let the city try to sandwich itself, with me and Star-Lord inside. I focused on sensing the God Steroids and Nature Force in his energy aura, and as soon as I got a lock, smashed through the folding city, and found him just a few miles behind it! I socked him in the jaw, launching him into the ground, and didn't stop comin'! Mordo managed to get a magic shield up in front of him, just before my fist crashed into his face! The shock wave was so big, it crumbled the foundations of four surrounding skyscrapers, and brought them down house of cards style! I used the crumbling rubble as fuel to make a hurricane of glass, steel, and earth, easily half the size of Midtown, and launched Mordo into it by grabbing him with a huge vine, and chucking him into the storm! I kept him inside for a good 30 seconds, before he managed to teleport away. I pinged him just a few feet behind me, trying to stab me in the back with some kinda jagged piece of crystal. I dunno if that was strong enough to hurt me, but I wasn't feelin' brave enough to risk it. I sidestepped the shiv, while simultaneously elbowing Mordo in the face, before giving him an RKO! While he was down, I willed the sandstorm to collapse on him, while I dipped out. I kept him churning inside the storm for a few more seconds, then spit him into the sky! Star-Lord was waiting just above, and started blasting Mordo down to the ground again! I helped him out with a few G-Force fists, and once we got him on the pavement, Star-Lord amped up his seismic gun, and kept up a continuous blast; keeping Mordo pinned down. The blast shredded Mordo's energy aura over the course of a minute, and Star-Lord knocked him out with one last, non-fatal, headshot. I quickly grabbed his Sling Ring, and flew up. Star-Lord followed my lead, and after charging the Sling Ring up with Geo-Force, me and Gaea kinda punched a hole through reality. Yeah, unlike the last portals I did with the training wheel version of the Sling Ring, this one was violent and unstable. Hell, as soon as me and Star-Lord flew through it, the portal went haywire, and collapsed in on itself with a boom! Also, the Sling Ring shattered around my knuckles. Not exactly the best exit, but ya gotta take what you can get. Anyway, I quickly summoned enough All-Metal to swallow and trash the falling warships, and got back into the fight!
While Star-Lord and I were gone, the fight went a little south. Sure, Thor and Storm were still bringin' thethunder, and even brought in a giant, city wide vortex to keep the outer reaches of the air battle in control, But Iron Man and Chase were gettin swamped under the onslaught of demons, dragons, and Doombots. Hell, my Doombot army that I worked so hard to create, fell apart while I was in the Mirror Dimension.
"This seems to be going well," Gaea joked.
"Yeah, yeah," I responded. "Break time's over. Back to work!"
The next ten minutes was nothin' but a knock down, drag out, smash fest! Star-Lord and I flew in to help Iron Man and Chase, while I reseted my dominance over the battlefield!
I restarted the process of thrashing Nature Force Doombots, and reanimating them with G-Force. I brought back the giant G-Force Medieval knights constructs, along with some Ninja Turtles, and Ben 10 aliens, and lit the sky up with G/N-Force! Me and Star-Lord fought with Iron Man and Chase, and again, I was floored by how badass that suit was! The dude literally shot a volley of mini-missiles, that lit on fire, and exploded into the surrounding enemies with the force of tank busters!
"So what do you call yourself, bro?!" I asked him. "A badass in a badass suit needs to have a name to match!"
"Huh," he said. "Never thought much about it. Just got this thing literally 3 days ago. Back when all I had was fire/missile shooting gloves, my team called me Talkback."
"Talkback?! What are you, a walkie talkie?! Dude, that sounds like a D-grade phone company data plan!"
"Hey, I was sixteen when I came up with that!
"Well…..alright, I can't say I hit it in one either. I was Super-G when I started out. Still, that lasted for like two days, before I upgraded to Geo-Titan!"
"Which was my idea," Gaea chuckled at me.
"Shhh!" I thought back.
"Ok," Chase laughed. "Talkback is a no go, so what am I, Fire Iron Man?"
"Not on my watch you're not!" Iron Man said across the battle. "The Iron Man brand is exclusive! Pick that name, and i'll sue you so hard, your grandchildren will be picking up the tab!"
"What about the Iron Torch?!" I said. "I mix of Iron Man, which you are, and The Human Torch, which I could make an argument you're better than!"
"Iron Torch?!" Chase asked. "Iron Torch….yeah! I dig it, brother!"
"Awesome! The Iron Torch lives!"
"AND NOW HE DIES!" a raspy/mechanical voice boomed from above.
A multi colored beam of light shot down, and woulda nailed Iron Torch in the head, if I hadn't bat it away with my axe! I looked up, but by then it was too late! M.O.D.O.K., Titanium Man, Iron Monger, and Crimson Dynamo broke our defensive line!
The good news was that Hulk and the Marvels had downed some more ships, and Thor, being an impatient badass, summoned massive bolts of lightning to add to the effort. I had to swallow five more warships into the G-Force in just under the ten minutes it took to level out the battlefield for my team! Now I had to duke it out with f*(#!^% Titanium Man of all people! Now, I know what you're thinking. I'm a metal bender, Titanium Man is Titanium, which should be an easy with for Geo-Titan. By the way, Iron Man has no Iron in his suit; it's a gold/Titanium alloy. Anyway, what should've been an easy win for me, was a pretty drawn out fight, thanks to Titanium Man's ridiculous amount of War Force energy! Again, Storm-Lord's knockin' these names outta the park! Just like with Doom's suit, Titanium Man was gettin' a massive energy surge from doubling the War Force with his suit's internal arc reactor, and damn….it had a punch! The first blast damn near knocked me outta the sky, and Titanium Man was relentless with the attack. He shot at me with a barrage War Force repulsors, missiles, and mini-gun bullets, and i'll admit, for a split second I was in some $#!+. I managed to get a shield around me, and held back the War Force weapons volley, whiLe Titanium Man took the few seconds to trash talk.
"HOW ARE YOU THE ONE THAT KILLED TASKMASTER AND ABOMINATION?!" he laughed at me in a thick Russian accent. "BOY, YOU ARE NOT-"
Had ta stop him right there. The name Geo-Titan may not have been much now, but this dude wasn't paying proper respect! Had to teach him who he was dealin' with! I converted my shield into a G/N-Force power blast, and bulldozed through everything Titanium Man was throwin' at me! He shot up, like a fireworks display, which only got bigger once I barraged him with 50 G-Force Doombots kamikaze style. Hell, even when Titanium Man recovered, he was still f*(#^%! I went Tiny Titan while the kamikaze Doombots did their thing, and after the explosion died down, I smacked him around the sky, skyscraper trashin' style! After givin' him the Atom Ant treatment, I stopped his momentum cold, by going Mega Titan, my giant form, and smashing him between my hands, like he was a bug. Don't worry, he wasn't a bloody spot on my palm, but his War Force aura was almostdrained! I shrunk down to normal, and finished his aura off with some quick punches, kicks, and knees to every area of his body! He was only able to get off two repulsor shots, and one punch; which all missed! After his aura was spent, I metalbended his suit off of him, like peeling an apple, took his reactor, and plucked him in the head. He fell into Limbo, and I dropped his suit in the Geo-Force, before destroying his arc reactor.
"And what am I supposed to do with that?" Gaea asked me.
"Stash it in the mansion," I answered. "Might be useful, ya know?"
"No. I could construct a vastly superior war machine with dirt and glass. It's the Scabrite that's useful to me! The possibilities of that metal are boundless! Give me more!"
"Careful, G! Good things come in moderation. Don't want ya to get fat!"
"Is this coming from the boy who preached about size mattering?! Also, how dare you body shame me!"
"You're the earth! your body is a construct based on my perception of the most beautiful woman!"
"Even so, it's not polite. Now put those falling warships into the Geo-Force!"
Funny thing is that I have no idea whether or not Gaea was joking about the body shaming thing. Oh, and don't get me wrong, i've got nothin' against bigger women! Hell, some of the best sex i've ever had was from heavy sets. Anyway, back to the battle. Hulk and the Marvels downed two more ships in the five minutes it took me to put Titanium Man outta commission, which I swallowed into the G-Force, right before Iron Monger almost careened into me! I managed to backflip over him, getting a little kick outta his God Steroids energy aura, and by the time I recovered, him and Iron Man were goin' at it DBZ Kamehameha style! Iron Man's red Unibeam blast was holdin' pretty strong, but Iron Monger's God Steroid Unibeam was slowly overtaking his. Being the Good Samaritan I am, I decided to give shell head, the good one, a hand! I quickly flew behind Iron Monger, and blasted his in the back with a G/N-Force Kamehameha! Iron Monger got sandwiched between two energy blasts, and went KABOOM real good! Granted it didn't kill or put him outta commision, but it dazed him enough for me and Stark to put the beat down on his ass!
Iron Man and I damn near played a game of ping pong with him, as we knocked Iron Monger back and forth between us! I had to scale down my hits, otherwise i'd steamroll Iron Man with Monger; tho that's not to count the Iron Avenger out. His armor arms transformed into something that looked like futuristic/alien version of my Power Gauntlets! They were a lot bigger, and used rocket propulsion to increase their impact. We made sure to keep our attacks fast moving and varied. Iron Man mixed up his gauntlet punches with repulsor and Unibeam blasts, with some mini missiles on the side. I kept up the DBZ level fighting, along with summoning some kamikaze Doombots, G-Force sledgehammers, and some All-Metal fists. Iron Monger was really outta his depth on this one! He was too big and slow to put up much of a fight. Hell, other than letting off some wild torrents of bullets and repulsor shots, he barely had a few seconds in between getting his ass kicked!Together, me and Iron Man managed to beat down Iron Monger's energy aura in about three minutes, after which, I did the same thing to him as I did to Titanium Man.
"Thanks for the assist, kid," Iron Man said. "That one really is his father's son."
"No sweat," I said. "Now- $#!+ WATCH OUT!"
I just barely managed to get an All-Metal dome around us, before Iron Torch's barrage of various badass fire weapons torched the $#!+ outta me and Iron Man! Hell, as soon as I dropped the dome, I pinged the dude comin' back around for another volley!
"STEIN!" Iron Man shouted to his comlink. "WHAT THE HELL'S GOTTEN INTO YOU?!"
"I HAVE, STARK!" M.O.D.O.K. said through Chase's suit. "AND WHAT A DELIGHTFUL PIECE OF MACHINERY THIS ONE HAS! ONCE I'VE KILLED YOU WITH IT, I'LL-"
Again, I had to shut up another loudmouth that needed to know who I was, and that my friends are off limits! I pinged his voice, just half a mile west, he was using cloaking tech, and smashed M.O.D.O.K. upside his abnormally large head!
"GAAAKKK!" he grunted, and straight up passed out!
"For real?!" I laughed into the comms. "Torch, how'd you get got by that loser?!"
"Snuck up on me!" he said. "Before I knew something was in my systems, it was already too late."
"Gotta get an onboard A.I., bro. That'll help with keeping out hackers."
"Got it."
"Hey!" Star-Lord shouted into the comms. "Can someone help me out with Russian Iron ripoff over here?! My blasters ain't workin' on him, and you don't even wanna know what my translator's saying he says!"
"On the way, Star-Lord," I responded. "C'mon guys, let's whup some ass!
"I hear that," Chase said, as we flew to help Star-Lord out!
All things considered, the dude was doin' pretty good. True, his blasters weren't much good against Crimson Dynamo, but he was makin' the best of it. His maneuvering was to notch, as always, and he was gettin' in some good shots with his seismic and lightning function on his guns. The problem was that Crimson Dynamo was all about the up and close combat. Even tho he was powered by War Force, he rarely used repulsor shots or missiles, unless he was trying to stiff arm one of Star-Lord's quick dodges. Ultimately, before backup got there, Star-Lord did end up takin' a nasty hit to the face! Lucky, his weird face mask took most of the hit, tho it fractured, and he spiraled backwards.
"IS THAT ALL YOU CAN DO, COMRADE?!" Crimson Dynamo taunted Star-Lord. "PAULTRY EXPLOSIVES, WHILE YOU RUN, LIKE A FRIGHTENED CHILD?! AT LEAST STAND AND DIE ALONE, LIKE MAN!"
I knocked him in the face with an axe throw, and by the time he recovered, me, Iron Man, and Iron Torch were barely a few feet away from ass kicking distance! The dude barely had time to say "nyet", before we gang jumped him! Took less than two minutes to knock him out, and stuff him in Limbo! With that small attack put down, me and Air Team went back to business! For a good while, it was nothin' but smooth fighting. I decided to take a page outta Thor's book, and supercharged my axe with G/N-Force while I was fighting, and after I built up enough power to where it didn't even look like I was swinging an axe, and after using my enhanced vision to see through the ships, I threw it at any of the ones that didn't have any of our guys inside. The axe had so much energy in it, I was able to guide my axe through five whole ship cores, before it ran out! Gaea got a good meal from that one!
"Well, shot!" Thor congratulated me. "I feel the power of Jord flowing through you! That makes us brothers!"
"Always wanted a brother!" I said. "Then again, Gaea, or Jord to you, is such a pain in my ass, it's almost not worth it!"
"I'll remember that," Gaea thought to me.
"Nevertheless," Thor continued. "A fine-"
A conch horn, louder than a damn airplane taking off, interrupted him, and I just noticed that there was another f*(#!^% tidal wave about to crash into the city! I didn't know if Storm-Lord had it in him to stop another one, but it looked like he might not have to. The wave stopped, and Namor's voice boomed out, echoing the fury of the sea at Doom! The wave then broke into chunks, some of which following the Atlanteans who went to battle on the ground level, while the rest shot straight up towards us! I was seeing Atlantean warships, fighter vessels, and various Sea Dragons and Leviathans; all lead by Oroco, and ready to kick some Dragon, demon, and Doombot ass!
"HELL YEAH!" I roared. "MY BOYS IN BLUE, BACK AT IT AGAIN!"
The Atlantean battle vessels started shooting away at the dragon forces, demons, and Doombots! The smaller fighter vessels took on the Dragon Men, demons, and Doombots, while their warships and sea monsters opened fire on the Scabrite warships! Hell, I had to call off Hulk and the Marvels, as Atlantis was not f*(#!^% around! Their Sea Force lasers and missiles punched hulls in their enemy warships, like armor piercing bullets. It was almost unfair, as I made sure to take out the enemy cannons early on in the fight, but leave it to life to f*(# up a good thing! A wave of hellfire energy rippled just barely below the edge of the troposphere, and another wave of dragon creatures, fighter jets, and warships materialized! Everything me and Air Team managed to get done over the last…...15-20 minutes may as well have not happened, cuz Empress Dragon Bitch came in with a force that damn near doubled what we had to start with! I could sense the roayal pain in the ass inside of this big ass mother warship, that was like three warships put together, hopped up on a $#!+ ton of Viagra! Seriously, the guns on that thing was givin' me one helluva boner! Of course that boner got killed as soon as the newly replenished lizard army opened fire! I managed to block a good bulk of the oncoming shots with some G-Force barriers, and even managed to take out a good chunk of the cannons with the same clogging trick I used last time. Didn't work as well this time around, but the Atlanteans helped pick up the slack. We fought together in a giant air battle, that was like the perfect sex between Star Wars and Transformers! There wasn't enough room to make the badass constructs I was used to, but I made do with giant swords, axes, and cool alien lookin' blasters. Also, this gave me more time to take a more personal approach with my axe and sword! I flew through the air at Mach 2, slashing and blasting down dozens of dragons and fighter ships per second! I used my hijacked Doombots in the background as kamikaze missiles, and kept some shards of All-Metal flying around the skies, takin' out enemies one after another.
"Neat trick!" Star-Lord complimented me. "I know a guy named Yondu, who'd drop his jaw if he could see you in action!"
"Give him my regards if we get outta this alive!" I responded.
"Of that, you can be certain of, Earth Titan!" I heard Oroco roar behind me.
He flew in on a hammerhead fighter vessel, cuz of f*(#!^% course he did, wielding his battle axe/hammer combo, blasting bolts of Sea Force enemy fighters!
"Oroco!" I shouted after him. "Good to see you too, man!"
"Well met indeed! Now, let us do away with these demons of fire, smoke, and multiple colors!"
Gotta love his enthusiasm! We fought together for several minutes; blissfully dismembering Dragon Men/destroying fighter vessels in massive fiery heaps. Things were goin' pretty swell for a while, but then I heard Storm-Lord's message through the coms! That first energy pocket was done, and Jason, was gonna take on the big man himself! I tried not to focus on what he told me was in store for his future, but all I could think about was Doom impaling my bud, with me nowhere in sight!
"You gonna help him or not?!" Star-Lord shook me outta my mental crisis.
"That's a no go, Quill!" Iron Man said through the coms. "We got a whole army to deal with up here, and we need all the help we can get!"
Before I could say anything in my own defense, I felt my insides light up, like someone lit em' on fire! Voltage, just as intense as Storm-Lord's was surging though me; damn near eating me from the inside out! A few seconds later something big clocked me in the back, sending me flying up, like a rocket! I barely managed to shake off the pain, before whoever it was that attacked me, was back at it again! My insides went back in the fryer, and my head felt like it was gonna explode! Forget fighting back; I didn't even know what to hit! The voltage knocked me around the sky for half a minute, before I felt another fist slam me to the deck of the mother Dragon Warship! Before I could get up, I felt a giant Scabrite wrecking ball smash into me from above! I blacked out for a little while, and when I was literally jolted awake, I was being held down by Titania and Absorbing Man. They were powered up with a lotta God Steroids, but I normally woulda been able to power though these chumps in my sleep. This time was different tho. Zzzax, a giant hulking dude made entirely of voltage, was controlling my nervous system with his powers! I was struggling like hell, just to move a finger! He laughed at me, and amped up the voltage, makin' my head feel like I had the world's worst brain freeze!
"Not yet, creature of lightning," I heard Dragon Empress growl.
She walked forward, looking like her super hot, scaly, Asian self. Couldn't get too happy to see her, tho; she had a Scabrite dagger in her hand!
"Lift him," she said to Absorbing Man and Titania.
They lifted me off my knees, and got me level with her. She smiled, and dragged her blade across the side of my face. That rare sting of being cut rippled through my body.
"I know what you must be thinking, boy," she taunted me. "Let me fight! Let us settle this like warriors! Where is your honor?! Damn your pride, damn honor! You shamed me in the eyes of my father, and threw this planet, what should have been mine, into the hands of the one you call Doctor Doom! The only thing that will give me joy, is carving off your face, before executing you slowly, with a Blood Eagle! Let us begin, shall we?!"
I had no idea what a Blood Eagle was, but I knew I was way too pretty to get my face carved off! I struggled with everything I had, trying to get my body free, but it was no good! Dragon Empress got her blade to my forehead, and started cutting into it! Pain shot through me again! I woulda screamed if I could move my lips, but it was no good! She managed to get halfway across my forehead, before Thor's hammer smashed into Zzzax! Immediately I was free, and shot off a blastwave of G-Force! The wave healed me, and reconnected me to Gaea, who had more than a few strong words for Dragon Empress!
"CORPSE BREATHED, VILE DEMON!" she roared in my head! "YOU DARE TO FLAY THE CHAMPION OF THE EARTH?! YOU WILL KNOW DEATH AT THE HAND OF THE MOTHER OF TITANS!"
"Chill, Gaea," I nervously laughed at her. "You ain't even in the driver's seat!"
"Then bond with me! Let us show these bastards of worthless whores what it means to slight the very earth itself!"
I sensed Absorbing Man, behind me, getting back to his feet. He quickly revved up his wrecking ball, and launched it at me.
"You're on, Earth Mamma!"
I let Gaea bond with me, and while it never got old when I did it before, it was better than sex now! With my chakraks all open, and more in tune with the Geo-Force, it was able to bond with more of Gaea, and get more bang for my buck! I'm almost certain I could've lifted a quarter of the planet at current strength! That left Absorbing Man $#!+ outta luck! I caught his wrecking ball with one hand, and kicked it back at him! The attack sent him damn near skipping across the warship deck, which was easily the length of half of Manhattan! I flew after him, and by the time he got to his feet, he was met with another Titan sized punch across his face! I hit him with several more shots to his face and chest, before his God Steroids finally ran out. After that, it was pretty much over, as I attuned to his chi, and found which points were responsible for his powers! Yeah, all internal powers are just a flow of energy through the body. Once you block those points, you can easily put a temporary stop on someone's flow! For Absorbing Man, it was a series of chi points in his forearms, three in his abdomen, following by the Crown Chakra on his head! A few really, really, really, hard punches later, and Absorbing Man's Scabrite skin reverted back to human flesh; which I easily knocked out!
With him on the way to Limbo, I quickly got a look around at the battle. Titania was givin' Thor a good fight, but goldilocks was gradually wearin' her down. Oroco was smashin' up a squad of Dragon Men with a good bit of Atlanteans had just joined the fight! Hulk was slugging Zzax with something that looked like advanced Gamma powered Power Gauntlets. The two were goin' at it like bulls, and while I hated to interfere with another man's fight, Hulk did all the hard work for me. In just a few punches, one of which coulda easily leveled a city, Hulk took out Zzax's Zeus Energy aura; leaving him open for some Geo-Titan shenanigans!
I summoned some All-Metal, and shaped it into a lighting rod, with a whole bunch of wires spinning off of it. I charged it with G-Force, and shot it into Zzax's chest! Lightning man definitely didn't go down easy! As soon as my lightning rod shot into him, deadly bolts voltage went haywire in all directions; killing a few Dragon Men, and getting dangerously close to some Atlanteans! I quickly made an All-Metal dome to close off the voltage, and accidentally stumbled into genius! The way I had this makeshift tesla sphere set up, the mixture of G-Force and raw voltage bouncing off each other in a soccer sized metal ball, made it a bomb just waiting to go off! Only had one shot, so I had to make it count! And what better way to give a hearty f*(# you to Dragon Empress, than to blow her precious warship to bits! I quickly enveloped the soccer bomb in a G-Force drill, looked through the hull of the ship to find the ship's core, and sent the drill through the ship! Five seconds later, the core when boom; sending a wave of explosions through the ship! The turrets and thrusters went down, like dominos, the the ship was blowing apart from the inside out! Dragon Empress was not happy about me breaking her $#!+, and after swatting Oroco aside, made a beeline for me!
First off, holy $#!+, that bitch could move! I barely had enough time to conjure up a half assed G-Force shield, before she barreled into it with the force of a jet! The shoulder charge completely shattered the shield, and sent me flying back! She followed up by flying after me in her dragon form, and assaulting me with the fury of a million fire demons! Seriously, if not for my chakra increased reflexes and speed, Dragon Enpress woulda sliced me up like a turkey! Like last time, she was the perfect mix of savage ferocity, with combat skills that woulda put Iron Fist and Black Panther on the ropes! Now, take all of that, and mix it with the fact that she was damn near impossible to read! With the few flashes of chi I was able to read, she was all rage, which straight up blinded me from reading her movements! It was like her body was separate from her brain, which was just screaming ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK! I managed to dodge, block, and even counter a lot of her hits, but she was clockin' me a lot more than she used to! When she reared back for a fire blast, I backflip kicked her under the chin, and slammed her in the chest with several hundred Power Gauntlet Punches! I put everything I had into those jabs, and ended up knocking her onto another warship deck! I slammed into her inside a massive G-Force comet blazing around me! We tumbled through the ship, flew through the core, and made it go boom! My G-Force comet kept me safe from feeling the brunt of that explosion, and Dragon Empress' scale/Scabrite skin was pretty much fireproof! Oh, and don't worry about the warships. They were falling more frequently now, but Gaea kept me posted on which ones needed swallowing.
After Dragon Empress and I made it through the other side, she managed to get a hold of my throat, and started roasting me with a fire blast from her mouth! The flames stung, but she coulda done this all day, and I wouldn't get a single burn. Still, i'll be damned if I was gonna let Queen Lizard roast me like that! I shrunk down to Tiny Titan, and socked her in the jaw with an uppercut that woulda split Manhattan into chunks! Dragon Empress skyrocketed upwards, with me hot on her tail! I smacked her around the sky for half a minute, actually managing to chip away at a good handful of her Scabrite scales! I got her again under the chin with a giant fist, as I grew to Mega Titan, and smashed her between my palms, like a mosquito! Yeah, i'll admit, I walked into what came next. First off, I dunno what this chick's workout regimen was, but whatever was the equivalent of a protein shake on Muspelheim, I had to get me some! Dragon Enpress was literally pushing my giant hands apart, with a roar of defiance echoing though the upper troposphere! She then proceeded to stick my hands with dozens of jagged pieces of Scabrite! I immediately let her go, and shrunk down to normal size, before she could fly into my neck! The Scabrite spikes were meant for me as a giant, so when I shrunk down to normal, my hands slipped through them. I quickly healed myself with some G-Force, and Gaea was laughing her ass off at me!
"What happened to all that $#!+ about her daring to flay me?!" I snapped at her.
"It still applies," she responded. "But you have to admit, you had that coming!"
Like I said, couldn't argue, just had to get payback!
As Dragon Empress swooped down at me like a hawk, she shot down a volley of Scabrite spears, while also summoning little Scabrite rhombi to carve me up, like last time. I was havin' none of it this time! I summoned my own All-Metal shards and spears, and shot them back at her weapons. Right before they made contact with the Scabrite weapons, I made the integrity of my All-Metal go all liquid, and swallow the Scabrite weapons into the G-Force! We kept up that dynamic, as we closed the distance on each other, and before we collided, Dragon Empress did a quickly corkscrew around me, and tired to cut me in half with her Scabrite spiked tail! I backflipped over it, and when I recovered, I sensed her about to cleave me in half with her flaming axe of death! I quickly made an All-Metal shield to take the blow, but the shield just barely held up! I'm serious, that Scabrite axe, cut through the metal, but was stopped just enough to not sink into my lower spine! I wrapped a G-Force Iron Man suit around Dragon Empress, made it blow up, the blasted her in the chest with a G/N-Force ray from my eyes! She barely stumbled back, but that bought me enough time to bust out my axe and sword, and start hackin' away at her!
I had to have fought her for at least 30 minutes straight, and it was as brtual as you'd expect! We did not give each other an inch, or enough time to get comforable in each other's fighting styles. Hell, we switched from armed, to unarmed, to summoning our respective metal arsenals, in just under five minutes! Every hit, kick, and block went off with a sonic boom, and we each averaged at least 30 punches and kicks in on each other every second! I had to be careful with how many shots Queen Lizard got in on me, cuz she eventually shot out some Scabrite spikes from her knuckles; which was proven to not be good for my skin at all. I managed to not get cut up, by surrounding myself in my G-Blazer, and going Tiny Titan often; confusing/frustrating the $#!+ outta her! Still, Dragon Enpress wasn't a push over. Even in Tiny Titan, bonded with Gaea, she took my city shattering punches like a champ! Hell, she eventually covered herself completely in a Scabrite body suit; rendering Tiny Titan useless! After that, the fight started to go south for me. I was still able to use Earthshaker to get in some good hits, and even get in some good shots with some G/N-Force constructs, but Dragon Empress was on a f*(#!^% warpath! Every time we exchanged blows, she would extend Scabrite spikes outta various parts of her body to shank me with. While we went at it again with our weapons, she almost stabbed me in the face with a Scabrite spear jutting outta the back of her hand, while she blocked one of my sword strikes! When we went at it DBZ style, she would shoot out various Scabrite spikes outta her hands, chest, forehead, and kneecaps! Again, I dodged most of em', and used All-Metal to swallow them into the G-Force, but she did scrape me across the forehead, got a good spike in my right thigh, and even managed to get a jagged Scabrite dagger into my left shoulder! I relatively blasted her in the face with some G-Force from my eyes, and got her off me with a huge Power Gauntlet punch with my good arm!
For a while, I stayed strictly on defense, while getting the Scabrite outta my body, and healing myself. Dragon Empress was relentless on the attack, but I managed to stall her with a mix of All-Metal sledgehammers, fists, rhinos, and T-Rexes. The biggest highlight of the bunch was when I wrapped her in bands of All-Metal, and before she could break free, shot her backwards into one of her warships, and then smashed her in between said warship, and an All-Metal battleship lit like a bonfire with G/N-Force! I was really hoping that trick would do her in, but I could sense her struggling to get clear of the crumbling wreckage.
"Gaea," I quickly thought to her. "We gotta do the metal skin thing, but with All-Metal!"
"Are you insane, boy?!" she responded. "That's metal literally enhanced with my divine presence! Your body cannot sustain a form like that in long spans of time!"
"I don't need a lotta time! Give me five minutes, and I guarantee i'll put Lizard Queen down for the count! While I keep her busy, you build a G/N-Force spirit bomb inside me!"
"What in Tartarus is that?!"
"A constant buildup of G/N-Force through my chakras! The energies'll get a massive jump from that, enough to make an explosion to give a nuke a run for its money!"
"And you'll keep this explosion contained by-"
"Sucking it into the G-Force. It's all you, so no feng shui disruption, plus a dead Lizard Queen, and another two warships' worth of Scabrite!"
"You sweet talker, you…...alright. I'll help you, but this is going to be excruciating."
"Should we establish a safe word?"
Gaea must've not appreciated that, cuz she started the transformation process immediately!
Imagine having your skin melted off, peeled, while also slowly getting embedded with white hot shards of glass. Multiply that by 10, and maybe you'll get a small understanding of what it was like to bond with All-Metal! I haven't felt something as intense, since the first time I bonded with Gaea! My vision went pure green for a few seconds! At a certain point, I mighta blacked out, cuz the pain either stopped, or overloaded my senses. I could feel my body getting denser and stronger, yet as malleable as Mr. Fantastic! The process lasted may be a minute, but by the time it was over, I felt like a f*(#!^% monster! My body was literally an All-Metal construct! I could feel the power of Gaea radiating through it and me at a concentrated level! My body was literally vibrating, like I was my own personal earthquake, and G-Force was blazing outta my eyes, and various Greek symbols all over my body! Hell, Dragon Empress' face said it all! When she finally recovered and came back around to dish out some claws, she damn near stopped in her tracks when she looked at me! That was her bad, cuz I was finally about to get that payback for her trying to carve my face off!
I thought about turning my right arm into that cool gun show orgy Jim Carrey's Mask did in the casino, except my guns were all real! I opened fire on Dragon Empress with a volley of G-Force blasts and All-Metal missiles, bullets, and grenades! The blowback knocked Lizard Queen 400 meters back, and I kept the pressure going!
For five minutes, the two of us went at it like bulls! Dragon Empress fought with every scrap of skill, power, and fire she could muster, and i'd be lying if I said I had it completely under control. For starters, that badass gun thing I did was a one and done. It was powerful, but with the way Gaea was diverting most of the G/N-Force up through my chakras, I had a lot less power to work with. Also, while merging with the All-Metal made it and me 10X as durable and strong, it was just barely enough to match me up with Dragon Empress, who was pretty much like Hulk at this point. The more we fought, the more war crazed she became, the harder her punches hit. This woulda been a blessing in disguise, if she traded strength for skill as she fought, but the opposite was true. For example, after two minutes of straight DBZ fighting, me and Dragon Empress landed a hard punch across each other's face! The blows broke the sound barrier, and f*(#&% our faces right up! I shattered a good amount of Scabrite scales off her right side, and she straight up dented the side of my head, before batting me a few feet away with her wings, and throwing a Scabrite sword into my abdomen!
Pain was weird while in All-Metal Titan form. My pain receptors weren't working, but my whole body went on alert, and almost immediately repaired itself, before a torrent of G/N-Force could escape!
"Watch it, Grant!" Gara warned me. "In this form, you're essentially five nuclear bombs waiting to go off; especially with me using your chakras as gunpowder! Too many breaches, and you'll be obliterated beyond even my capability to repair! Gods, why did I agree to this?! Your stupidity must be rubbing off on me!"
"My brilliant sense of humor certainly didn't!" I responded, before slamming Dragon Empress in the chest with a giant All-Metal mace for a hand!
She stumbled back, and I shot her with a volley of All-Metal mini-missiles that shot outta my chest! Yeah, I kinda turned myself into an organic Iron Man! I made repulsors on my palms and was ready to make any kinda weapon outta my body on a moments notice!
Dragon Empress cane back around with her flaming axe, and I decided that I was the only one that gets one of those. I shot out a massive amount of vines from my wrists, Spider-Man style, wrapped her axe up, and yanked it from her. Before she could call it back, I swallowed it into the G-Force, and slammed into her at Mach 3!
If it wasn't clear, me and Dragon Empress were out for blood! In the remaining time it took for Gaea to get the G-Force spirit bomb ready, she scraped me across the face and chest with her talons, and on top of the hundreds of punches, kicks, and waves of fire she shot at me, the bitch actually managed to bite into my neck with those jaws that woulda made even Venom jealous! Like I said, pain is a weird thing in All-Metal Titan, but when someone bites over 20 holes in your neck, even if their super kinky, you can't help but lose your $#!+. I decked her in the chest with a Unibeam blast so strong, she cleared a full mile! Before she could even think about comin' back around, a flying right cross, compliments of my fist, slammed into the side of her face at Mach 5! I went all out for the ass whoopin'I served her! From punches that could shatter cities, to a beat down with giant maces and spikes where my fists used to be! I blasted her with a volley of missiles, repulsor and Unibeam blasts, to even stabbing her in her right eye with a talon of my own! I caught a good set of jabs and a hard tailwhip for that, but it was soooooo worth it!
"If you're done playing with your friend," Gaea said. "The spirit bomb is ready. Also, you've got four minutes before your body shuts down! Get a move on!"
"Copy, G!" I said, before kicking it into high gear!
Me and Dragon Empress went at it for half a minute, with her using two Scabrite Katana's versus my jagged blade arms. After I managed to parey her blades to either side of her, I liquidated my blade arms, like a T-1000, and absorbed her blades into the G-Force. Before she could attack again, I launched her upwards, into one of her warships with a massive uppercut! I flew after her, launching a volley of All-Metal missiles, and explosive pollen grenades up at her, launching her through three floors. She landed in a weapons room, and I landed just 50 meters ahead of her. She charged at me, and we resumed the fighting.
I made sure to keep the battle limited to the weapons room; which was just below the reactor room. Dragon Empress held nothing back, and for a while, we fought around the football stadium sized room, throwing our respective magic metals at each other, engaging in DBZ fights, and hacking at each other with whatever type of blade we could muster up. I eventually managed to get her in a position to where I suplexed her into the ground from 200 ft! As soon as we landed, I immediately upped the G's! It wasn't enough to pin her down, but it was enough to keep her from rising to her feet. Still, Lizard Queen was not gonna go out gently. We ended up getting into a wrestling match for a half a minute, and I kept Dragon Empress busy with some trash talk.
"This was a lotta fun," I said. "Wish we could do this some more, but I got other places to be. You woula kicked ass as my nemesis, and you're carrying a piece of my heart as you go. It'll mend in time, but it sucks to lose you so soon."
"You talk of me as if I do not draw breath!" she grunted at me. "My claws are still sharp. The fire in my soul burns white hot for your death, and I will sever your arrogant skull from your neck!"
"Cool story babe. Tell me again in three seconds."
Her face went confused for a little bit, but even if she could figure out what was happening, it was too late! See, while we were fighting, I latched a huge hook of All-Metal to a nearby warship. As me and Dragon Empress fought, the ship was gradually making its way towards us. Also, I shot up a G-Force charged chunk of All-Metal to the reactor! Combine that with my chakra bomb just waiting to blow, and this place was one big powder keg waiting for a spark!
When the fireworks did go off, it was a f*(#!^% sight to behold! I let the chakra bomb go at the same time I triggered the explosive on the warship's core! The explosion of red and green, hot enough to give the sun a run for its money, blasted the Scabtite scales offa Dragon Empress! The doubled explosion of the crashing warship made it even worse! I barely remember her screaming one last curse at me, as she disintegrated into nothing! I was barely conscious, but I did manage to pull enough sense together to suck the explosion and Scabrite wreckage into the G-Force, as my body reverted back to normal, and I blacked out for a bit. Dunno how long that was for, but Gaea sure as hell snapped me out of it!
"WAKE UP!" she roared in my head. "IT WAS ONLY THE FORCE OF FIVE NUCLEAR BOMBS, YOU ARROGANT, LOUDMOUTHED-"
"OK, OK!" I finally snapped back. "I'M UP! JEEZ, YOU'RE ONE HELL OF AN ALARM CLOCK!"
I managed to recover outta my tailspin, summoned Earthshaker, and got back in the game!
For a while, it was smooth sailin'. It took a while to get my energy back to normal, but my raw strength helped me kill time, Dragons, demons, Doombots, and most of the remaining warships Dragon Empress had. Hell, I was fighting side by side with Thor, Oroco, Iron Man, and Hulk for at least ten minutes. Nothing could ruin this day, right?! Well, leave it to life to find a way to f*(# up a good mood! I heard Jason roar in pain from a distant skyscraper in Hell's Kitchen! When I looked over, I saw Doom with a foot on his chest, and a sword raised over my friend's chest!
I didn't wait for permission, or offer any excuses. I shot like a rocket at Doom; my head flooding with ways to f*(# him up!
As I flew, I sent an S.O.S. too Allyson!
"ALLYSON!" I mentally yelled at her. "JASON'S IN TROUBLE! SKYSCRAPER! HELL'S KITCHEN! I'M GOIN' IN! NEED BACKUP!"