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.

33. Chapter 33: We Get A Rematch

Chapter 33: We Get A Rematch

(Grant's Perspective)

You already know what time it was! As soon as Gaea gave me the heads up, I rocketed towards Doom at Mach 10! Him and Jason were on top of some skyscraper in Hell's Kitchen. Jason was barely crawling away from some kind of attack that involved branches and $#!+. Steppin' on my turf a little there, but i'll overlook it. His armor was torn to shit, tho i'll give him props, as Doom wasn't lookin' too hot either! Doctor Dick's armor looked like someone put it in a shredder! His stupid rainbow sword was nowhere in sight, and he had a slight limp! Storm-Lord definitely served him up decent helping of whup ass, and I was gonna deliver the dessert! With a $#!+ ton of G/N-Force surrounding my body, I slammed into Doom's force field, and completely shattered it, and like half the glass on the skyscraper! No worries, I could fix that, but Doom was gettin' this ass whuppin' today!

I trucked him through dozens of skyscrapers, punching the living $#!+ outta every area I could get my fists to hit, until we crashed in a basketball court, somewhere in Brooklyn! I rolled off Doom, and came back around with a wide swing from Earthshaker! Doom blocked my axe swing with a black sword, but my swing was so strong, all the pavement within a mile radius cracked like glass! Doom was shook, and the dude bulked up for war real quick! In half a second, the shredded remains of his armor blazed to life in a War Force/God Steroids inferno! He blasted me half a mile back through a good few apartments and stores, until I recovered on Fulton Street, just a few feet from an Aeropostale store. Doom was quick on the attack, but he ain't had $#!+ on my new chi powers! I sensed him coming before his attack even got off the ground! He was gonna attack me from above, covered in a giant ball of War Force/God Steroids flame, that woulda trashed this entire section of Brooklyn!I'm sorry, but nobody handles Cap's home turf like that! Like I said tho, I knew what was comin' and had somethin' to put Doom on his ass! Long story short, I made up a new move I call the Dragon-Crane Strike! I did a quick meditation surge to get in sync with my dragon and crane spirits, charged that energy through my chakras, and got a quick read of Doom's chi. The guy was a complete f*(#!^% mess! Seriously, this dumbass musta flooded his entire chi with Olympus Force, cuz his chakras were way off! Good for me, cuz a move like this required my enemy to be as spiritually off-balanced as possible. If I was attempting this move against Iron Fist, or even Doctor Strange, i'd probably fail. Anyway, with my set up good to go, I waited for Doom to barrel into me. A little tip for y'all: if you're charging head on at a dude who ain't flinching, you probably f*(#!^% with the wrong guy. Doom was about to get that lesson first hand! As he got within striking distance, I did a quick circular motion with my arms, and launched a palm strike straight into his face! The first strike was the dragon; which hit so strong, Doom's War Force/God Steroids inferno fizzled out in a second! His War Force faded into wherever, but I used my crane spirit to channel his God Steroids through my body, the same way Firebenders redirect lightning! The energy went straight into my left fist, which found its way to Doom's face! All that skyscraper destroying energy exploded outta me, and launched Doom sky high! I shrunk down to Tiny Titan, intercepted him at 10,000 feet, and slammed a drop kick into his back that was strong enough to clear a section of cloud, big enough to put a stadium in! Doom flew to the ground like a comet, but I intercepted him, knocked him in the side, sending him halfway to Manhattan, and while he was still over the river, grew to giant size, and clapped him between my hands like the mosquito he was! He was still alive, but I shrunk down to regular size, summoned Earthshaker, and after giving it a huge G/N-Force charge, smacked Doom under the chin with an axe uppercut, launching him way above the clouds again! I summoned my sword to complete the party, and flew after the bastard!

First off, I realize I never named my sword. From here on out, its name is Gaea's Claw! I think she'll like it. Anyway, Doom and I went at it for a good five minutes, and the dude was total candy ass! While I kept at him with Avengers and Fantastic Four constructs, he kept summoning waves of Olympus Force powered demons and magic blasts to hold me back. He maybe slowed me down for half a sec, but my G/N-Force constructs were too strong, as they tore through at least 75% of Doom's attacks. I chased Doom all the way to the middle of Queens; where I decided to ground the fight. I charged my body with a massive surge of G/N-Force, and personally smashed through Doom's remaining demon horde! I tried burying my axe in his neck, but he parried my strike with that Scabrite blade he almost used to take out my boy! Somethin' about that lit a fire under my ass, and I went complete apeshit! I swung Gaea's Claw at his right side, and when he blocked it with another blade, I turned the whup ass dial to 11! I barreled into Doom with a barrage of axe/sword swings, stabs, and several hundred kicks and knees! He was able to hold out for a good half a minute, but Storm-Lord really took the wind outta this dude's sails! Doom was so tired, he overextended his left swing! I immediately took advantage of that, and blocked his other sword swipe with a G-Force shield, and stabbed Gaea's Claw into his right bicep! Again, props to my boy for tenderizing this chuckle f*(#$ armor! Doom howled in pain, but he ain't seen nothin' yet! I extended Earthshaker to axe-chain mode, wrapped it around his left leg, and pulled that $#!+ so hard, the blade sure as hell had to be getting close to the bone! If Doom was screamin' I couldn't hear it, as I drowned it out via blasting him point blank with a G/N-Force Kamehameha level blast from my eyes! I held Doom in the fryer for a good ten seconds, before shrinking down to Tiny Titan again, and launching him damn near into the stratosphere!

"Yo, G?" I asked Gaea. "Can I make All-Metal constructs inside the G-Force?"

"You…...actually can." she responded. "Wow. How have we never thought of that?"

"Never wanted to create a G-Force powered nuke till now! Let's make it happen!"

I focused on making a nuke about as big as a jumbo jet. It was a little hard to get the hang of; like playing Operation while blindfolded, but Gaea helped me fine tune myself. Charging the nuke with G-Force was a whole nother thing entirely, and Gaea had to do that herself. A little frustrating, but i'd get it later on. Anyway, once I got my nuke set up, I launched it outta the G-Force, just 50 meters over where Doom was! It was funny, cuz the dude recovered just in time to literally take a nuke to the head! The sky lit up bright green for a good few seconds, somethin' i'm sure was gonna trend on Twitter, and Doom spiraled downwards at Mach 3!

I took off upwards, shrinking down to Tiny Titan again, and planted a half hearted fist into Doom's back! Even half assing it, I had enough muscle to stop Doom's momentum cold, with a blow that felt like it shoulda snapped his spine! No such luck, but I was able to make it up by growing to regular size, grabbing Doom by the waist, and suplexing him to the ground! Granted, Doom was 10 ft tall, which made this a little awkward. Hell, Doom started to fight back a little, as I felt his armor start to heat up! I wasn't tryna get blasted with demon vomit or some $#!+ like that, so I wrapped him in a G/N-Force inferno, and spun around as we dived towards the ground! Just before we crashed half a mile ahead of the Queens side Queens-Midtown tunnel, I let Doom go, and he cratered into the pavement, while I recovered and looped around to continue the ass whuppin! I slammed into him with a flying punch, amped up the gravity where he crash landed, and proceeded to beat the $#!+ outta him! We're talkin' 500 earth shattering punches per second! The ground around us literally splintered with every punch, and while I definitely had a big mess to clean up after this wrapped up, I used my surroundings to my advantage, and gave myself an armor boost. It started out as a thick layer of vines around my body, leaving just my face exposed. I followed the vines up with an All-Metal coating, and topped that off with a G-Force enhanced asphalt exterior! As I kept slamming into Doom, who was starting to put up a fight, I modified my makeshift armor into a more efficient combat machine; aka turning it into a mix of an Iron Man/Spider-Man hybrid. I mentally chiseled the asphalt armor to make hand repulsors, pouches on my shoulders, arms, and legs for rocket launcher pads, afterburners on my back, feet, and calves, and little notches on my wrists that would be my vine version of web shooters. I also gave my armor a quick G-Force ripple to ensure it was malleable enough to change into different battle constructs. I did such a good job with this one, even mama G was impressed!

"Nice craftsmanship," she complimented me, as Doom blasted a column of War Force at me. "Show me you know how to use it, and i'll add it to the other one."

"Too easy," I responded as I made some All-Metal spikes jut outta my armor's knuckles. "Deal."

I kept up my beat down as best as I could, but props to Doom for managing to fight his way outta the corner. With every passing second I was getting in less hits, and Doom even managed to get in a few good hits. He gradually found his footing, until he was finally able to stand up via getting behind an Olympus Force shield. Even when he was on the ropes, the dude had mad drive, as I was havin' trouble breaking through. I had to bust out a damn Power Gauntlet to do the job! Totally worth it, as I waxed the $#!+ outta him with my Bruce Lee level skills! Sure, Doom was able to hold his own, but when I could sense his attacks coming, on top of him fighting like he was constantly outta breath, it was almost no contest. He came at me with some quick jabs, but I bobbed and weaved around his attacks, while getting in some earth shaking blows to his body and face. He occasionally got some Olympus Force attacks off, but they were both easy to track, and tragically weak. A Death Force powered punch? Easy to side step. Some Apollo Fire kamikaze Doombots tryna ruin my new digs? A few All-Metal missiles wiped them away. Hell, the only attack Doom managed to get in on me backfired on him so hard, I almost felt sorry for the dude! He summoned a horde of 50 God Steroid Hydra heads to bust outta the ground, propel me into the air, and start chomping at me. Not a bad move, but hardly anywhere near effective. God Steroids was like a temporary high for me, and while the Hydra heads bit into my armor, they couldn't make a dent in my skin. I coulda easily broke free, and continued force feeding Doom that ass whuppin', but Gaea had other plans.

"Wait!" she stopped me. "This is your birthright, my champion. You are a descendant of Hercules. Take this power, and make it your own!"

"And I do that by….?" I asked.

"Must I really spell it out for you?! Absorb the damn energy, and merge it with your chakras!"

"Oh yeah! Right! Sorry. Forgot."

I think Gaea facepalmed at that, but whatever. It was time to do some juicing! I started absorbing all the Hydra heads into my body, as I shifted into a meditative position. It felt like drinking an entire pool of lava with a straw, but I powered through, and merged the God Steroids with my chakras from the Crown, down to the Root. I didn't expect to feel all that different, but HOLY F*(#!^% $#!+, THIS $#!+ WAS NEXT LEVEL! God Steroids f*(#!^% rules! In the span of less than five seconds, I felt my chi open up to the strength and power of not just grandpa Herc's 12 labors, but literally everything he's ever done ever! That one time he lifted Manhattan? Mine. The many times he fought Thor? Mine. Hell, the God Steroids infusion even latched onto my personal achievements! It felt like someone crystallized all my greatest moments, and turned them into constructs on standby! The first fight, football game, and championship I ever won. All my battles I ever fought since I joined Delta Force! All the strength of both Herc's and my own feats, turned into instruments of ass kicking! And don't even get me started on what I could do if I mixed this with Geo-Force and Nature Force! In less than five seconds, my body was attuned to, and could easily tap into God Steroid energy! Time to see what this baby could do!

Doom was currently on the ground, chucking waves of Olympus Force blasts at me, but the energy feedback that came from merging with God Steroids was so strong, not one of those blasts got anywhere near me! Hell, just to taunt him some more, I got behind a God Steroids phalanx made of multiple copies of Cap's shield, before charging my hands with the trifecta of Geo-Force, Nature Force, and God Steroids! From here on out, this union will be known as the Titan Force! Anyway, I got a pavement shattering amount of energy around my hands, and did a thunderclap! The Titan Force charged clap completely blasted through Doom's volley, and sent him tumbling into the Queens-Midtown tunnel! I turned up the gravity towards the middle, where Doom stopped, while I turned the tunnel into a death trap! First off, I blocked off both the exits with layers of Titan Force charged thorn walls! This is where the God Steroids really earned its keep, as I was able to shape the barriers with snarling Cerberus heads, made from vines, with thorns for teeth! I also set up a serious amount of flora fire power all over the length of the tunnel! The walls were covered in pollen grenade shooters, and turrets that shot Nature Force charged seeds that hit as hard as 20 shotgun shells in one. The roof was coated with acid spitting Venus Fly traps on standby, and a series of giant seed pods, charged out the ass with Nature Force, embedded beneath the pavement, waiting as landmines for Doom to trigger! Once the landmines went off, they'd grow into bowling ball sized spurs, that would act as constant bludgers! And the cherry on top of Doom's $#!++¥ ice cream sandwich was the fact that I had just extended the gravity field to the whole tunnel! Doom was still able to move around, but gettin' off the ground was gonna be a hard no for him! He struggled to his feet, and tried to blast me with something that was guaranteed to suck, but I siced the grenade shooters and turrets on him! The force of over 1,000 rounds per second pushed Doom down to his knees, and I even had to make an Iron Man mask to keep my vision 20/20.

"In case you're still confused, dickwad," I taunted him. "This is the part where I kick your ass!"

"I'm so proud of you right now," Gaea complimented me. "Don't ruin it."

I struggled not to retort, as I flew full steam ahead into Doom with a right cross that sent tremors throughout the whole tunnel! Don't worry about the damage by the way. I was fortifying the tunnel with G-Force, so as long as I didn't punch too hard, I wouldn't cause a flood. Hell, with all the plant themed attacks goin' around, I barely even had to hit Doom all that much! The seed bullets and pollen grenades kept Doom off-balance, and any time my fists propelled Doom toward a seed mine, it blew up, and launched him into the acid spraying Venus Fly Traps! They'd gnaw on him a little, before I made them spit him to the ground again. Doom maybe got a break for half a second, before I went in for the kill! I got him to his feet, busted out my axe and sword, and hacked away at him!. Most of the damage I got in on Doom was in compromised areas in his legs and arms, but they healed fast enough to where I had to stay on those areas. Speaking of which, it just occurred to me that Doom's actual body must've grown to match the suit! Kinda dope to actually be fighting a dude that was 10 ft tall! Anyway, as much as I would've loved to bury my axe in Doom's face, I had to use a more subtle approach to shutting him down. While I hammered away at him, using the giant spur bludgers and various plant ammunition to keep Doom subdued, I made a conscious effort to dial back the surrounding fire power by a good 20%. Not enough for Doom to mount a full on counter attack, but enough to where he could fight back, and even get off some good shots on me. He blasted me with War Force charged Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, tried slicing me up with Death Force charged Demons of Denak, and was about to torch my whole set up with a wave of Apollo Fire charged Seven Suns of Cinnibus blast! I immediately upped the plant ammunition up to normal again, and made Doom's sun blast explode in his face! It was enough to torch a small part of my setup, but it was easily fixable. I kept that part of the fight up for a minute or two, as I willed the plant layer of my armor to create a poison. I honestly didn't know how it was doing it. Hell, i've had my plant powers for a few days now, and haven't even tried growing apples 's sad. I got the power to feed starving people, but only used it for death and destruction. I gotta fix that. Anyway, I just thought of my vines generating a liquid poison that would clot Doom's blood over time; especially if he kept fighting like a damn gorilla. The vines didn't let me down, and I had about half a gallon of blood clotting poison flowing through my vine layer! That's when I went for the critical shot! I made four Iron Spider legs, filled with poison funneling vines, and topped off with All-Metal stingers, sprout from my back! Doom was way too slow to dodge or defend against my swift spider legs, and before two seconds had even passed, I stabbed him in both his biceps and calves! That pissed Doom off, and he responded in kind by creating another inferno armor, made of all the Olympus Force! It was a pretty boss set up, as even my plant ammo barrage and gravity field were only barely slowing him down! Poor sap was doin' all the hard work for me!

Doom tried to slam a few hundred punches and blasts into me, but I dodged and/or blocked them, and slammed an elbow into his face, followed by two quick kicks to his kneecaps, a backflip kick to his chin, and washed it all down by flying at him full steam, and smashing him into the ground! I started wailing on him with 200 hits per second! He tried blasting me off him with a few small blastwaves, but my armor, which I overcharged with Titan Force, was able to power through it, and I kept up my fists of fury! Doom eventually did manage to get me off him, via summoning a Scabrite axe outta nowhere, that almost lodged itself into my neck! If Doom didn't know that I had a weakness to Scabrite, the way I scrambled off him was a dead giveaway! That musta given him a bit of a confidence spur, as he charged at me full steam with his Olympus Force charged axe! Despite all the firepower raining down on him, he was able to get a decent charge in. Still, he was no match for my mad skills, and I proved that by matching his charge, doing a side flip over him, and kicking him upside his head with a twisting kick! Doom came around with a wide swing, but I ducked under it, and got him in the chest with a Power Gauntlet punch that sent him careening into one of the tunnel walls! Doom bounded between the walls, as he kept hitting pollen grenades! I eventually ended the back and forth via shooting some vine webs outta my wrists, and yanking Doom back to me! I punched him back again with another Power Gauntlet punch, and for a few secs, used Doom as a yo-yo! He got tired of that real quick, and after bringing him back for the 100th yo-yo punch, broke my combo by doubling his speed, and barreling into me! Good attack, i'll admit, but I rolled with it, knocked Doom away with another Power Gauntlet punch, and blasted him with a Titan Force Kamehameha! The blast propelled him into one of my Cerberus head barriers, and the hounds went to town! They chewed/blasted Titan Force flames at him, but it was obvious Doom had a decent chunk of fight left in him. I poured on the speed, tryna give Doom another knuckle sandwich, but Doom was quicker on the draw than I expected! He slammed his knuckles together, and all the energy he was using as a body shield went exploding outwards in a blast that wrecked me and my whole set up! Seriously, the energy wave torched the entire tunnel, and sent me and Doom flying in opposite directions!. He got blown outta the tunnel, while I got the $#!+ end of the stick this time around, as the collective energy of the pollen grenades took me for a pinball style tour of the pavement! Not my finest moment.

"That looked unpleasant," Gaea chuckled at me.

"Nothin' compared to what's comin' his way!" I responded, as I took off after Doom.

He musta really got the light end of that explosion, as he was already charging me with a whole new set up! He was inside this giant War Force construct, shaped like the nine tailed fox, if the nine tails were Chinese Dragons! Dope as $#!+, not gonna lie, but I had a few ideas to try and match his play. First, I made Gaea put my armor setup, which i'll dub the Titan Armor, in the 'save for later' bin, and tapped into my God Steroids energy. This was gonna be risky. Sure, i've turned my body into sand and plant life, but energy, especially a new one, was something G was gonna tear my ear off for. Still, I focused on the flow of the energy, let it consume and change me from the inside out, and when Doom and I collided, I was in the form of a giant God Steroids Nemean Lion, with nine Hydra heads for tails! Doom and I wrestled, bit, scratched, and blew fire at each other for a good minute or so. Our nine tails wrestled and bit at each other, tho I had a slight advantage, as my hydra tails fought without me needing to control them. Hell, those sons of bitches were vicious! They bit off Doom's dragon tails almost flawlessly, and the one time Doom's dragon tails got one of mines, two more took its place! I was totally gonna save this move! With Doom's main defense down, my hydra tails ensnared his main fox construct, as my lion body dug its teeth and claws into it! Doom was one second from getting crushed between my jaws, but managed to buy himself some time via switching his energy to Death Force, blowing me back with a small blastwave, and shaping the energy into a giant Cerberus construct. Cute, but I could do him one better in my sleep! I reconstructed my damaged lion form into a flock of Stymphalian Birds, and swarmed Doom's Cerberus construct from all sides! Doom panicked and dashed into the sky, while blasting off wild columns of purple fire. He torched a good dozen of my birds, but the energy would just transfer to my other birds, who were poking holes in Doom's construct left and right! Once again, my superior game was burying Doom alive, and I sensed him about to switch to Apollo Fire, and set off another blastwave! The first one was hard enough on my lion form. If this one hit me, it'd disintegrate me to atoms! I thought on my feet, consolidated my energy in one place, and transformed into a giant God Steroids Hydra with ten heads; each as big as skyscrapers! I used said Hydra heads to wrap wrap around Doom's blast; smothering most of the fire. When I retracted my heads, I found Doom in a giant wolf construct. I almost felt bad for him, as I easily destroyed it! Dude was quick on the rebound tho, as he tried for one last hail mary! He used all the Olympus Force in his arsenal, and attacked me as a giant Chimera! He put up a good fight, as he clawed, bit, and blasted fire at me for his life, but the deck was too stacked against him at this point! I felt it before Doom even knew what was goin' on. The blood clots finally catching up to his heart. The All-Metal permeating his veins and arteries. The dude's blood was poisoned to shit, and his heart was bout to be a gold plated trophy i'd stuff in my Geo-Nexus mansion. Doom started to convulse and make choke under his mask. He dropped his constructs, and was bout to slowly glide to the ground, but f*(# that $#!+. I punched him into the pavement, just ahead of Queen's Museum, and landed just ahead of his head. I was feelin' a weird mix of emotions right now. On one hand, I was royally pissed off! Lookin' at Doom in this damn pathetic shape rushed everything he put me and my friends through these past several days. Venom, Goblin, Magneto, the Helicarrier battle, how his stupid plans almost cost me my friends and our lives. How he took a lotta good people from this world: workers, agents, and heroes alike. That full on fed the sadistic desire I felt rise in me. I was excited for this $#!+ to finally be over, and was totally down to give him some more pain on his way out! I focused on the All-Metal coursing over Doom's heart, and willed it to slowly tighten, like a damn python! He convulsed even harder, and flailed his arms and legs around, as he had one helluva seizure!

"Yeah," I growled at him. "You feel that?! That's your own blood, clotting your circulation, mixed with a coat of every metal known to man squeezing your heart to mush! Some god you are, huh?! For all that talk, you sure ain't got the chops to back it up!"

Doom seemed like he was tryna clap back, but it came out as more choking.

"I do have to thank you tho!" I continued. "Thanks for takin' the choice outta my hands about whether or not to spare your sorry ass! Ya shot yourself in the foot, dude! In order to take out your death comet, I gotta knock your lights out for good! They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die! I hope it's true! I hope you remember everyone you ever hurt, every innocent person you've ever murdered, and every time a hero clipped your wings when you were ridin' high off powers you stole from better people! I want you to know you ain't nothin' but a waste of space. All your power and smarts, and you used it to make the world worse off! Nobody's gonna miss you, Doom! I sure as hell won't!"

I squeezed my hand into a fist, and willed the All-Metal cast to squeeze as hard as it could on Doom's heart! It looked like I was gonna squeeze it to mush, but Doom suddenly disappeared in a bright yellow flash!

"Where the hell is he?!" I asked Gaea; cuz I couldn't sense him anywhere for $#!+.

"No idea!" she responded. "He's not even on the planet anymore! Damn you, boy! You should have-"

She stopped suddenly, and I could sense a faint terror in her. I couldn't blame her, as I could sense the seismic energy surge as it entered the dimension! To put it in context, when Magneto and I duked it out back in the desert, he was rockin' the power of the electromagnetic spectrum, made from the solar system's planets. Each hit could be felt for at least 50 miles out, and it felt like goin' 12 rounds with a planet. Whatever Doom was packin' now was easily 10x that at least! It felt like someone dropped a nuke on my face, and that was just the energy feedback of Doom teleporting back into this dimension! Dude was literally an OP machine just by walking through the damn door! I took to the air immediately, avoiding Doom's smash that leveled half a mile! I got a quick look at him, and will fully admit I was a little freaked out. Dude was damn near buried in Apollo Fire, but this was way different. Sunbird's fire was always a bright yellow, and even in battle, had a non-malevolent nature to it. You could just tell her fire was a force for good. Doom's fire gave off clear bad guy vibes. First off, his fire aura was an intense, dark gold, and sounded like an angry beast softly growling. The flames radiated pure anger and destruction. It was like everything I ever heard about the Hulk, but amplified to an ungodly level! Hell, just by him touching the ground, he was sending tremors throughout all of Queens! His energy output was so high, I couldn't even measure how much chi the dude was givin' off. If I had a scounter right now, it'd be in a million pieces! Anyway, Doom got up, and in addition to going Dark Super Saiyan, was rockin' a modified mask that had a mouth piece with four fangs, in addition to his hands being replaced with spiked club heads. We looked at each other for about two seconds, before Doom rocketed into my gut so fast, I was barely able to track him! Just like Dragon Empress, the blind rage of Doom's power up made it hard to track his movements! With one hit, Doom had cracked my battlesuit down to the Kevlar! He got a few hundred more hits on my chest, digging down to my flesh, and blasted me above cloud level with a fire blast that felt like someone crashed a flaming battleship into me at Mach 4! Doom stayed on me, but my body called for a Timeout, and I used that quickly half sec to summon my Titan Armor, give my chi, which would enhance my body, a quick jump of Titan Force, and shrunk down to Tiny Titan, and dodged another one of Doom's attacks! I quickly gave him the business, and slammed several full force Tiny Titan punches and kicks into Doom's face and gut! These were punches that could level cities, and Doom was barely feelin' em'! I decked him a few more times, before suddenly growing to giant size, while uppercutting his body up to eye level, and smashing him in between my hands! It felt like smashing my hands against a bowling ball, and before this backfired, I shrunk down to regular size, summoned Earthshaker, and tried burying it in Doom's face! He was fast on the recovery tho, and got up a clubbed hand to block my strike! Again, just him putting a hand up to block my strike negated enough force to crumble a skyscraper! The one good thing was that the Holy Waters of Eden spell was not only kickin' but got a massive overdrive! Seriously, my axe was drowning in so much holy fire, I could barely even make it out! Even better, the fire got Doom to grunt a little. Not exactly the crippling weakness you'd want, but it was a start! Doom pushed me back a good 100 meters with his Demon fire, which actually burned a little, shot his spiked club hands out, which had f*(!^% chains where Doom's bones shoulda been, and started using em' as flails! Not gonna lie, that was pretty badass! Doom flew full force at me, and through sheer willpower, I managed to keep ahead of his attacks. Doom threw his flails around with a surprising amount of skill, but I was able to weave in and out of his attacks, use my own axe chain to tie up Doom's flails, and shot some vines with thorn spearhooks out from my wrists; which actually had a little of the Holy Waters of Eden spell on the thorns! The spearhooks pierced Doom's shoulders, actually earning a roar of pain from him, and I yanked him towards me! Once he got close enough, I shrunk down to Tiny Titan, and decked him in the forehead! Doom flattened out, and I grew to Mega Titan. Is it already Mega Titan? Sometimes it's hard to keep track of all the names. Whatever, me going giant size is Mega Titan. If it wasn't before, it is now. Anyway, I smacked Doom towards the ground, shrunk down to normal size, and kept the pressure on Doom via launching a continuous wave of All-Metal shoulder rockets, and repeatedly launching a Holy Water/Titan Force charged Earthshaker at him! I almost managed to dump him into the Hudson, but Doom turned the heat way up, and actually melted my missiles before they even reached him! Hell, when I threw my axe at him for the 30th time, he popped out his spike hands, made a Mjolnir-like hammer with spikes jutting off every surface, and a giant spiked club! And again, he was quick! Before I could even think to set up, he whacked me across the face with his hammer, sending me flying towards Staten Island, and tearing half my face mask off! He flew after me, and I put some Titan Force Avengers constructs in his path to give me some time to recover. Doom slashed through my constructs like glass, but I had already bounced back from the hit, Earthshaker and Gaea's Claw in my hand, and countered his charge! As we got closer and closer to ramming each other, Doom wrapped a giant Demon Fire skull around his body. Not bad, but I sure as hell wasn't bout to be shown up! I went back to my God Steroids Hydra/Nemean Lion fusion, and turned it up a notch by adding, the horns and backside of the Cretan Bull to my fusion construct! The more labors I stacked, the stronger the construct. Anyway, I charged my monster construct with as much God Steroids as possible, and right before collision, ejected outta my construct, and dove for the water! The resulting explosion from the construct crash was so massive, it woulda put a hole in at least half of Queens! Luckily, we were far enough out over the water that we didn't damage any of the surrounding boroughs. I quickly scanned for Doom's energy signature, and zoomed after him! He was still reelin' from the explosion, and it felt so good to whack him in the face with Earthshaker at Mach 3! The uppercut sent Doom spiraling above skyscraper level, and after U-turning back down, I slammed my Titan Force/Holy Water charged weapons into Doom's back; killing his upward momentum! He didn't take to kindly to me trying to split him in half, and whirled around with a club strike headed for my exposed head! I blocked the club with my sword, and reconstructed my face guard in the shape of that helmet Peter wore in the Battle for Narnia. Sweet helmet. Doom tried ramming a hammer spike through my face, but I smacked it upwards with my axe, and shot another missile barrage at Doom point blank! He spiraled back a good 50 meters, and I was immediately on him with a flurry of axe and sword strikes to wherever I could get a hit in! I kept circling Doom with my strikes, and made sure to keep a good majority of my strikes aimed at Doom's head and arms. In the span if about half a minute, I landed a good 2,500-3,000 hits. Doom wasn't a slouch tho, and I had to earn every hit. Sure, he wasn't the best fighter, but he had enough speed and strength to cover his ass, and when he landed a hit, it completely f*(#^% my set up sideways! For example, after getting in a good slash and spin combo to Doom's chest and legs, he parried my next strikes, and punted me half a mile away with a fire blast that shredded the front half of my armor entirely! Before I could recover, I felt four barbs actually pierce my skin, and yank me back to Doom! Yeah, Doom had ejected four pincers from his back, and stabbed me in my shoulders and thighs! I wasn't sure what the hell kinda metal this was, if it even was metal, but I could see Doom preppin' his spike hammer to put my head on a f*(#!^% spit! I immediately made a note to learn that phasing thing from Storm-Lord, cuz the $#!+ I was bout to put myself through was not pleasant! I repaired my armor as much as I could, and braced for the stab! Thankfully, even tho Doom stabbed a spike in my left peck, my armor managed to keep the spike from actually running me though. I still felt the sting of getting a blade inch deep in my skin, and felt blood running down my chest, but i'd live for now. Of course, Doom wasn't satisfied with that! While trying to push the hammer spike into my chest, he made his tendrils shoot Demon Fire into my body! I haven't felt pain like this since Dragon Empress first introduced me to hellfire! It was hard to stay conscious, but I managed to keep my hands on the hammer, keeping it from running me through, and charged all my chakras with Titan Force. While Doom was incomprehensibly roaring and grunting at me, I unleashed a chakra bomb, giving me enough time to heal myself, and got back into the fight. Me and Doom matched each other blow for blow; switching between armed, unarmed, and occasional ranged combat. I had no room to bring constructs into the mix, and quickly realized I had to move this fight to the ground if I wanted to gain whatever advantage I could scrape up. Doom made that hard, and Gaea was to busy losin' her $#!+ to give me any tips.

"Damn it, boy!" she thought to me, as Doom slammed me through five skyscrapers. "You should have killed him went you had the chance!"

I recovered with a few backflips, and when Doom got close enough, nailed him upside his head with a twisting kick, and flew full speed into his chest; driving him towards Wall Street!

"Shut it, Mud Cake!" I snapped at her. "The hell are you freakin' out for anyway? We beat three demons in one! We can take this creep!"

I slammed Doom into the pavement so hard, I created a 15 ft crater! I immediately upped the gravity to X20, and jumped outta the crater. Before Doom could even think about gettin' up, I crumbled four huge sections of pavement around the crater, multiplied the rocks with Geo-Genesis, and threw a barrage of Titan Force charged rubble in after Doom! I also added some G/N-Force Gatling gun constructs overhead, and kept a constant stream of God Steroids Stymphalian Birds dive bombing in the pit! I knew this wouldn't keep Doom down for long, but I hoped it would be long enough to set up something badass! I landed a good 100 meters from Doom, and started charging my axe with the power of: Hercules lifting the sky, me decimating an army on my own in Atlantis, and just recently, when I raised all kinds of hell in the Mirror Dimension! I also flooded my axe with Titan Force, and enhanced it and the Holy Waters of Eden spell with my own chi! It was gonna be one gangbuster of a hit for sure, and if Gaea would stop whining at me, I could actually focus more on it!

"I know you're incapable of taking life or death matters seriously, so let me educate you." she continued. "Doom is channeling the energy of Zom; one of the most powerful mystical entities in all of existence! His rage and strength makes your precious Hulk look like a toddler throwing a tantrum! He easily has enough power to destroy the earth ten times over! And the last time he was unleashed, it took the power of the Living Tribunal to lock him away! Doom is channeling but a fraction of the monster's power, and you're already in your most challenging battle yet! If he continues to grow in power, your defeat is all but certain!"

As if on cue, Doom finally managed to blast off outta the crater, but barely got a few feet off the ground, before I hurled my axe at him at Mach 5! The axe slammed into his chest with more force than a squad of tanks; absolutely shredding the road, and nearby glass, and shot Doom all the way back to the East River Bikeway! I immediately upped the gravity, as far as I could, while I tried to even the playing field as much as I could! I never tried this ever, and Gaea had to help me not screw up my chi, but after letting Gaea possess me, I harnessed the power of animal spirits, mixed with Titan Force, to power up each individual chakra, and thus myself to an insane degree. The list went as such from Root to Crown. Always has to be in that order went escalating or you'll f*(# your chi up big time.

Root chakra: Nemean Lion spirit (to ground myself, anchor my feelings of safety and security, and keep fear at bay.)

Sacral chakra: Monkey spirit (to loosen myself up, physically and creatively, and increase my flexibility, reflexes, and instincts.)

Solar Plexus chakra: Bear spirit (to center my feelings of resolve, self esteem, and personal responsibility. This spirit gave me the strength of bringing to mind and amplifying the reasons why I had to take Doom down.)

Heart chakra: Dove spirit (to focus and harness the power of self-love, confidence, and keep enemy taunts at bay. The dove was both a Christian and Hindu symbol for love, so I figured why not?)

Throat chakra: Dragon spirit (ima be honest, I didn't fully understand how to integrate this one. The throat chakra was for communicating clearly and effectively. No animal really symbolized that for me, so I just inserted the dragon, and hoped it would give me some dope ass fire.)

Third Eye chakra: Owl spirit (to enhance my ability to read Doom's chi, predict and get around his attacks, and find weaknesses in his spiritual connections.)

Crown chakra: Tiger spirit (to enhance my spiritual connection to Gaea, and help me reach my greatest potential.)

As I powered up, I could feel certain changes in my body and general abilities. First off, most of the spirits awakened what were basically permanent constructs. What I mean by that is the fact that I normally have to focus and maintain concentration to keep my constructs was not the case here, with the constructs and the general Titan Force aura that was coursing around me. For example, the lion, tiger, dragon, and bear spirits gave me a nice set of Titan Force claws at my fingertips, physically grew me to 8ft tall, and changed most of my teeth to fangs comparable to the beast spirits I was channeling! The lion spirit also made my hair grow to shoulder length. Not my style, but hopefully it would revert to normal after this was over. The monkey spirit gave me a ten foot long Titan Force tail attached to my tailbone. The dragon spirit gave me scaly skin that felt like it could hold up to missile fire! Finally, the dragon and dove spirits gave me dual sets of Titan Force wings! One scaly and dragon-like, the other feathery and angelic. Again, these were constructs that were a result of my chakra boosting. I didn't have to think about them at all, and they felt like natural extensions of my body! I immediately tried them out, as I honed in on Doom, and in a mix of a forward dash and a flap of my four wings, caught up to Doom in like half a second, and slammed a fist across his face! The blow cracked the pavement in a hundred pieces, and with a normal reverse kick to Doom's chest, I sent him flying five miles across the pavement; making a crater as he skidded across the road! Before his momentum was even halfway spent, I launched him up with a Titan Force geyser, and flew after him. I slashed him with my wings on the flyby, and proceeded to flyby slash Doom 200 times per second, from every angle, for the next ten seconds! I was honestly surprised by my strength and reflexes! I barely even had to think about my moves! My body damn near fought on autopilot! Anyway, after slashing Doom 4,000 times, I finally slammed him into the pavement, dropped a knee into his chest, upped the gravity, and proceeded to punch him in the face as many times as I could! While that was goin' on, Gaea and I brainstormed on how to deal with Doom's inner demons.

"G!" I thought to her. "I got it! Remember how we trashed Juggernaut a few nights back?"

Doom blasted a wave of Demon Fire out of his mouth, but my Third Eye chakra picked it up a few seconds before, and I rolled off him just in time.

"You believe we can dispatch of Doom in the same manner?" she asked me.

Doom shot his club hands out into spiked chain whips, a slashed them at me from either side.

"You don't sound too hyped. What gives?"

I used my wings as a shield, while simultaneously stomping my foot on the ground, and launching Doom several yards back with a rush of giant pavement slabs! I followed that up by grinding the slabs and some surrounding rock into sand, and trapped Doom in a Titan Force charged sand tornado!

"Zom is infinitely more powerful than Cyttorak, boy! Even if you can hold him off, I doubt I have the strength to break the bond the mortal has with the demon!"

Gaea being a downer musta been fuel for Zom, cuz Doom blasted free of my tornado, and slammed into me with his spike fists! If I hadn't gotten my wings up to shield my body in time, i'd be catchin' a major ass whuppin right now!

"Better than doin' nothin', G! Hell, right now, my Third Eye chakra is pickin' up pressure points to chi block Doom! He may be gettin' a power boost, but he's got the spiritual fortitude of a flat tire! We can take this chump!"

Doom got in a good 600 strikes in 7 seconds, but I managed to get him off me by willing my tail to extend, snake around to Doom's right leg, and after grabbing hold of his leg, thrashed him around the pavement, and tail whipped him half a mile backwards! Before he even landed, I summoned Earthshaker, flew after him, and slammed my axe into his chest; flooring him 5 feet into the ground!

"I wished I shared your optimism, Grant. But i've never fought anyone as powerful as Zom before."

Doom immediately blasted me off him with a Demon Fire blastwave, and floored me with a comet! My body called for a Timeout shortly afterwards, as Doom was comin' down on me with two huge chain whips! I flew just outta range, and summoned my weapons, as Doom converted his chain whips into two huge swords, and battled it out with me! We're talkin' over 200 slashes, stabs, blocks, and parries per second! Not gonna lie, this was the most challenging duel i've ever had, as Doom was relentless!

"Same deal for me with Venom, Goblin, Magneto, Demon King, and Doom! I've beaten the odds more time in a week, than most do in their whole lives! I didn't get those wins by lying down, and accepting my fate when things looked down! We're a team, G, which means I can't do this without you! So is it too much to ask you to put on your big girl gloves, and help me save the world?!"

Doom blasted me two miles back with a surprise fire blast from his mouth, and immediately launched a Demon Fire power blast at me, that was big enough to swallow a damn school! No time to dodge or build a shield, so I immediately sent a massive wave of Titan Force through my chakras, givin' em' a massive boost, and let it out as a counter power blast! My blast fought with Doom's for a good ten seconds, as Gaea finally got her head in the game.

"Alright," she sighed. "Damn you and your woeful stubbornness. Prepare yourself. Zom's very voice will be as if standing in a cosmic storm. He will try to strike fear into your very soul."

"I've dealt with my share of pants $#!++!^% demons," I responded. "Stop stalling, G! Let's do this!"

I felt Gaea sigh at me, right before her consciousness doubled, and collided with Zom on the astral plane! The rush of power was so strong and unexpected on Doom's end, he dropped his blast; leaving mine's open to steamroll him across FDR Drive! I stopped his momentum via conjuring up a slab of asphalt for him to slam against, and was immediately on him with a set of pressure point jabs! In just one second, I hit him with 50 precise hits to his head, chest, throat, shoulders, and abdomen! I felt his energy output block by maybe half a percent, as more pressure points popped up! Some were in the same place, while others popped up on his back, knees, and thighs! I managed to get that blockage rate up to 3%, before Doom blocked one of my strikes, and punched me a mile away! He took to the sky, but I slammed him back to the ground with a G-Force bolt, and smashed him in between two slabs of asphalt! I used that last move to cover my rebound, and continued to jab Doom in his pressure points as often as I could. The son of a bitch made it hard, as he kept finding ways to break my combos! After getting in another set of jabs, he broke free with a small explosive wave, and kept me at a distance via Demon Fire mini-sun barrage! Putting aside the fact that Doom was steppin' on some serious home turf with that, I got around his barrage with a mix of Titan-Force charged asphalt barrages, and fire blasts from my mouth! After squeezing in another set of chi blocking jabs, Doom blocked me just before I got him to 5%, and tried stabbing be in four places by doing a Doc Ock impression, and making four spiked tentacles shoot outta his back! I retracted my wings into a shield, but Doom was just gettin' started, as I felt the ground rumble, until massive spires of Demon Fire erupted outta the ground, shaped themselves into snakes, and attacked me from everywhere! I had get inside an All-Metal bunker, arm it out the ass with Gatling guns, and missile launchers, and go guns blazin' on all sides! The snakes were relentless, but my guns pulled through, as I managed to clear some space for a takeoff! Good thing too, cuz it looked like Doom was usin' the snake charmer bit as a smokescreen for his real power play! At some point, Doom went sky high, created a meteor of Demon Fire around himself, and was currently rocketing down to set me and a good chunk of Manhattan on fire! I shot upwards, and used my Third Eye chakra to asses the massive fireball. From what I could tell, the meteor had one weak spot at the base, where I could disperse of the whole thing with a precise and powerful chi attack. I was a little nervous at first, as i've never tackled anything like this before, but that monkey spirit was a big help keepin' those creative juices flowin'!

An idea just kinda came to me, and after a quick sec to plan it out, I got the ball rolling! I folded my wings over me, and kept soaring upwards inside a spiraling cocoon of Titan Force. I kept that going until I was just outta arms reach of the comet, before I absorbed all the surrounding Titan Force into my body, through my chakras, and directed all that energy up through two fingers, right into the weak spot of Doom's giant fireball! The thing dispersed, like someone threw a tornado under it, and I closed in on Doom! Usually this would be the part where I gave him another round of at least 50 chi block jabs, but Doom was playin' a whole new ballgame here, as he countered my charge; forcing me to change gears with my attack strategy. Right before we collided, I tucked into a front flip, and tail smacked Doom a few feet forward. I immediately recovered, and got some good chi jabs in, but Doom almost instantly recovered, started blocking my punches and kicks, and fought back with a vengeance! I couldn't even track how long the fight was, cuz I was too busy fighting at max! Seriously, to say that neither one of us ever had the upper hand for more than a few seconds was an understatement! I'd maybe get in a set of 10 jabs, before Doom knocked me halfway across whatever city we were fighting over with one punch! He'd launch a Demon Fire barrage at me, and i'd disperse it with a wave of Titan Force fire from my mouth! We kept clashing with each other, throwing at least 500 punches, kicks, and blasts per second! Our battle literally took us from the ground, to the sky, to everything in between in less than a second! Every time I managed to tackle Doom into the pavement in Brooklyn, he quickly blasted me through several brownstones, caught up to me, and punched me so hard, I ended up on a Tarmac in Queens! And that was just on the physical plane! On the astral plane…..well, imagine a hurricane the size of Jupiter. Now imagine that hurricane at war with itself. Sometimes Gabrielle Union in Greek armor would literally throw a continent sized blast at Zom, who looked like someone unevenly melted someone else's face to melted ice cream. He responded with a blow that rung with the force of an asteroid! They were goin' at it in a slugfest that woulda tore the earth to shreds halfway through round 1! I could feel Gaea's fear, mixed with sheer stubbornness, as I got to my feet just in time to dodge Doom's fist, and side kick him across the pavement! He recovered just in time to take a couple more chi blocking jabs to the face, arms, and sides, and we were off to the races again!

(Allyson's Perspective)

Ok, seriously, Jason and Grant have to stop doing this to me! Do you know how stressful it is to darn near bring these meatheads back from death's door every other five minutes?! Like, why do they always insist on tearing themselves to pieces every time they fight anything that can shoot a laser?! I literally just got done fighting seven supercharged villains…..with a little help….but…...actually….yeah, I think that's it! Every time they decide to do things gung ho by themselves, especially without me, it always blows up in their faces. I'm not sayin' I hafta be there to hold their hands 24/7, but i'm seriously gonna get some typa buddy system goin' with those guys, because Jason doesn't get to die until I get at least 5,000 more kisses, and neither does Grant, because he's just amazing, and I can't stand the thought of not having his goofy butt around! Anyway, mild rant aside, I found Jason atop some skyscraper in Hell's Kitchen. Yeah, great directions, Grant; that really narrowed it down! If it wasn't for Green Bean literally tackling Doom clear of the skyscraper, no doubt to get himself chopped to ribbons too, i'd probably never find Jason! As such, I found my kinda sorta boyfriend atop the skyscraper, and I had a slight heart attack! You'd think i'd get used to seein' my teammates torn to shreds, but absolutely freaking not! Jason's suit was 70% trashed, he had multiple puncture wounds in his arms and legs, and by the looks of it, had minor burns on the exposed parts of his back! He was barely moving, and I automatically assumed the worst!

"STORM-LORD! STORM-LORD!" I shrieked at him.

He was too unconscious to answer, which was not a suitable excuse, so I took it as an all clear to do my healing thing. I quickly descended, and put my hands on his chest. Quick shoutout to grandpa; my healing powers seemed to get a minor upgrade too. I could tell from a few branches and leaves sprouting from Jason's wounds, that i'd have to be more surgical with this procedure. Didn't wanna close a wound with a clump of thorns still in his arms. Before, i'd have to do a little pre-healing hum to assess the damage. Now, I just knew the what/where of what was wrong. Long story short, Bolt Boy was gonna live. He had several leftover branches and thorns in him from whatever the heck Doom and Gloom did to him, but that was about the extent of the physical damage. Heck, even then, Jason's body was over his mess! I assumed i'd have to burn the foliage outta his body, but his body was internally surging; burning the leftovers away on its own. Shortly afterwards, his wounds closed up, and I expected him to jump up, and try to get back in the fight. That didn't happen, and in the split time it took for the rest of my teammates to finally join me, I had another quick panic attack, before my healing powers told me the issue. Apparently Jason's chi was flat out spent. The Olympus Force his body had gotten accustomed to using was on an empty tank, and that I didn't exactly know how to fix!

"Is he well?" Namor asked me as he landed.

"Kinda sorta," I responded. "His physical state is fine, but his chi is spent."

"Chi?" Molly asked.

"His life force/energy flow," Daiya answered. "Any idea how to revitalize him, Sunbird?"

"Anybody got any Senzu beans handy?" Kira asked.

There was this collective sigh, mixed with a wave of confusion. For y'all that don't know, Senzu beans are DBZ instant heal ups. Those of us here that got the joke sighed. Those that didn't eventually picked up on the fact that Kira was joking. Grant would so totally like her.

"I wished you weren't joking about that, Starlight," I responded. "But….."

I switched my focus to my last remaining Sun Goddess token.

"Hey, Lupa?" I asked my wolf spirit. "I know it's not your thing, but do you think you can recharge my friend's chi?"

Lupa gave a low growl. Poor baby. All she wanted to do was tear my enemies to shreds. I really had to make this up to her.

"It can be done." she responded. "I need a sample of the other six energies first. I'd rather destroy your enemies, but I will heal your friend."

"Thanks, Lupa. I'll give you a good fight next time around."

"Ok," I said to my team. "I can recharge his chi, but I need a sample of all seven energies to revive him. I got the solar power, Namor's got the Sea Force-"

"And I can handle the rest," Daiya said, as she summoned some kinda device over her arm that looked like a bunch of metal tubes surrounding a needle that I was certain could pierce a rhino!

I got slightly freaked out, but Daiya put my apprehensiveness to rest, as she turned her thingamajig on, and literally absorbed several chunks of residual War Force, Nature Force, Zeus Lightning, and Death Force! Her needle thing spun around for a few seconds, and shot out four colored energy balls, about as big as marbles. Namor followed suit, and made a Sea Force ball to complete the set. I quickly drew up the spell for recharge (επαναφορτίζετε), and merged it with Lupa. She then proceeded to gobble up the energy marbles, grow to the size of a water bottle, and slam into Jason's chest! Jason convulsed a little, but gradually mellowed out, until he was still again. I was hoping the recharge would be more instant, but Jason remained still, as his chest glowed with strobe lights.

"So, how long is this gonna take?" America asked me after a good five minutes.

"If his current state is any indication," I answered. "Ten to fifteen minutes."

"Que?! Then what are we still here for?"

"Gotta guard his body. Also, when he's up and at em' again. we're all gonna finish Doom off."

"And we can't do that now, because…?" Karolina asked.

"You hear those really loud booms/feel those tremors? That's Geo-Titan and Doom just by themselves. You wanna get in the middle of that without a full set of backup?"

Nobody else asked any questions after that, but even I was startin' ta get antsy. It didn't help that after ten minutes, I sensed a seismic wave of pure evil just flood into the world! I totally knew Doom was behind it, and even though I wasn't anywhere near him, my Eden Inferno flared up! Ok, Jason really needed to wake up now! Now turned out to be a little over three minutes later for him, and man was it the most stressful three minutes of my life! Grant and Doom's battle went all across New York at least ten times! Their punches and blasts resounded so hard, I was scared they'd end up toppling the skyscraper we were standing on! I immediately said a silent prayer for Grant. I didn't have a clue what ace Doom pulled outta his sleeve, but it seemed to be a real doozy. Just as I was wrapping up, Jason glowed real bright one last time, and shot upright! About time!

(Jason's Perspective)

I remember Allyson screaming at me, passing out, feelin' like someone tried to cook my insides, and snapping awake, like someone splashed me with water! Allyson immediately put her hand on my chest, and calmed me down with a hum. Always reassuring to wake up to her voice. She sighed in relief, and gave me a quick hug.

"Hey, Sunbird," I responded. "Thanks for the patch job. Uhhhh, where's Doom?!"

A huge sonic boom from above, and Grant was careening towards us at Mach 6 minimum! Ok, several things.

Allyson's Sun Form was completely made of the Holy Waters of Eden spell. Cool?

Grant was bigger. He had four wings and tail. Ok?

Doom was blazing with a more sinister version of Apollo Fire, and might've been hosting a demon inside him. Just gonna roll with that.

I quickly took stock of my surroundings (nice to see so many barely familiar faces), got up, summoned Excelsior, and got ready to do a Static Jump.

"Don't you dare!" Allyson protested (cute). "I just fixed you! We got a whole team here! Let's attack together."

"That comes later." I responded. "Catch Geo-Titan. Ima finish this thing I had goin'!"

She looked like she was gonna stop me, but I disarmed her with a quick kiss (cuz this was totally the time and place), and Static Jumped right in Doom's path! Poor bastard didn't see it comin', and I got a Vibration Stab through his top right arc reactor! God Steroids exploded outta him in a violent explosive wave! Usually i'd dip beforehand, but I wasn't givin' Doom an inch! I deflected the explosive wave (which seemed to severely agitate whatever demon he was connected to) around me, and got a final Vibration Stab in his top left arc reactor! I Static Jumped away from Doom, and the ensuing Apollo Fire blastwave! As I flew downwards towards the team (me and Grant dapped each other up real quick), I gave Doctor Strange the signal.

"NOW, STRANGE! DO IT NOW!" I yelled aloud.

Either he heard me, or was acting off of the now full reservoir, cuz he shot me a response after he released the juice.

"You're up Z!" I thought to Z.O.R.D.O.N.

My A.I. shut down Doom's entire operations, and I do mean all of it! I could sense his Doombots go limp, his entire ship power down and fall from the sky (Grant apparently caught it with his All-Metal, and stashed it in the Geo-Force), and of course, his gauntlet overloaded, and blew apart! The explosion was a lightshow for the ages, but what I wasn't ready for what came next! The stones were bandwagon as f*(#, cuz as soon as Dooms gauntlet was toast, they ditched him real quick, and shot straight into me from behind! We're talkin' all seven Olympus Stones injecting themselves into my body at once! Of all the things that coulda been racing through my mind at the moment, the only thing I could think of was that this was waaaaaay too much! Sure, I could probably lift mountains, clear the earth's gravity in one jump, and take on an entire empire, but there was so much energy coursing inside me, it felt like every molecule of my body was getting ripped apart! I dunno if I blacked out, or if my body acted on desperation, but when I could actually see, I was on the skyscraper rooftop with my friends. I was on all fours, panting like a dehydrated dog, but the power rush felt like it was cut in half! I still felt like I was a living wildfire, but I could manage this! As I struggled to get up, I was able to tell why. Allyson was back in Sun Goddess (Eden Goddess?) again, as the Stone of Apollo, now in her chest, recharged her powers! Grant had both the Stones of Hercules and Demeter in his chest, and he was damn near the center of an orange/green bonfire! Hell, my body decided to give away the stone of Poseidon; now lodged in Namor's trident (he looked just as confused as I felt)! That left me with the Stones of Zeus, Hades, and Ares.

"Goodness!" Allyson breathed out. "I feel like the whole sun's inside me!"

"Welcome to the big leagues, Sunbird!" Grant congratulated her. "Hell, I feel like I could take on an entire planet! Yo, you good, Storm-Lord?"

"Fine," I answered. "Couldn't handle all the stones, and it's the season of giving, so Merry Christmas. Now, let's-"

My formulating plan to finish Doom off died in my throat as I looked to the sky! The explosion of those last two arc reactors shoulda died down by now, but the sky above us was a multi-colored, pulsating aura of screeching energy. It felt like a black hole sucking at the very fabric of space (so…...a black hole), and I noticed how malevolent (more than usual) the energy was. It was like pure evil hyper condensed into a giant ball. Before I could try and make sense of it, the ball contracted into itself, almost disappearing entirely, and a blastwave of Olympus Force, strong enough to shake the skyscraper we were standing on, shot out! What resulted was easily in the top 10 of the most terrifying things i've ever seen! Doom had literally grown to 20ft tall, had a complete armor fix (minus the repulsors and knee blasters), and was currently drinking in the essence of multiple demons! I had no idea who any of em' were (tho i'm sure Doc Strange was havin' a heart attack), but it's pretty demoralizing to see a giant flaming head made of War Force, some green bug/gremlin cross mix, and a God Steroids charged demon, jacked like the Hulk, with a gaping maw for a stomach (and now Tekken 5 is ruined for me), all hover around Doom, as he drank in their power! I knew, even with all the fire power we had here, even if we consolidated every fighter we had in New York, Doom still had enough muscle to kick our asses ten times over! He demonstrated that by conjuring up a Dark Olympus Force (not great, but functional) ball, the size of a goddamn stadium! He growled maniacally, and it sounded like seven voices (some dark and foreboding, others high and weasley) ringing out at once!

"INSIGNIFICANT WORMS!" he bellowed. "LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO ME! I AM THIS WORLD'S SAVIOR AND LORD! MY VISAGE SHOULD BE ONE OF GREAT SPLENDOR! INSTEAD, YOU HAVE FORCED ME TO TAKE THE FORM OF A MONSTER! YOUR INCESSANT MEDDLING IN MY GRAND VISION HAS BEEN AN INSUFFERABLE ANNOYANCE! IT ENDS NOW!"

He threw his huge energy ball at us, and in a brief moment of terror, I realized I hadn't come up with a plan to counter this! Seriously, this was an energy ball that had enough power to trash half of Manhattan, and my brain was completely dead in the water (not one of my finer moments)! Thank God for Grant steppin' in to pick up the slack!

"STRANGE!" he roared. "PUT US ALL IN THE MIRROR DIMENSION!"

I immediately felt reality shift, and when I looked around, we were still in the same physical place, but everything felt off; like we were slightly off-balance. Grant was apparently at home, and launched a volley of All-Meal missiles at Doom's energy ball, and after arranging them into key positions, drilled them into almost every angle. The energy ball damn near exploded in Doom's face; tho we took a lotta the blowback! Hell, even under a Sea Force barrier, the fallout from Doom's energy ball completely leveled the skyscraper we were standing on! I almost felt bad for the poor schmuck who owned it, but the rules were different here! Doom literally took Manhattan, folded it to a 90 degree angle, and multiplied it until there were literally half a dozen copies of the city hovering overhead! Doom was losin' his $#!+.

"IMBECILES!" he roared. "I BEAR THE MARK OF DORMAMMU! IN THIS DIMENSION, REALITY ITSELF IS MINE TO CO-"

Apparently Grant was counting on that, as he grinded the cities into hundreds of city block sized chunks, charged them with Geo-Force, Nature Force, AND GOD STEROIDS (ok…..), and hurled them at Doom from all sides! The slabs of energy charged rock and metal hit Doom with enough impact to crumble mountains! Wasn't phasing Doom all that much, but it was enough to give us a brief window of communication!

"GUYS!" Grant yelled. "WE'RE NOT IN THE REAL WORLD! NOTHIN' WE DO HERE EFFECTS IT! WE DON'T GOTTA HOLD BACK! LET THIS ASSHOLE HAVE IT!"

That was a good start, but I knew we'd have to knuckle down and make an actual plan. Last time I checked with Strange, we had an hour before Deep Impact. It had to have been at least 25 minutes since then, and that comet was gettin' dangerously large. We had to be quick and decisive in how we took the fight to Doom, but he was havin' none of it, and dropped a small army on our asses! Said army consisted of several hundred Death Force Skeletor lookin' mofos, War Force Heatblast (Ben 10) lookin' dudes, snake demons charged with Zeus Lightning, and God Steroids demons, as big as Hulk, with curved ram horns, and snapping jaws for a stomach! The biggest f*(# you was him using that green bug demon to literally multiply himself into dozens upon dozens of copies! They all had a green aura to them, so it's not like there was any danger of losing Doom in the crowd, but the fact that i'd have to….beat Doom's ass over and over again….nevermind, this was amazing! The sole redeeming factor (I can look on the bright side too) was that Doom still couldn't get a grip on the Sea Force. I felt him try too summon summon some kinda tentacle demons (I remember seeing a Sea Force charged, one eyed tentacle beast bond with Doom), but the Sea Force was rejecting him. The only thing Doom could manage was six giant fleshy tentacles, charged with what little Sea Force he could muster (still enough to level a skyscraper) to sprout from his back. Even so, we were way the f*(# out outnumbered, probably overpowered, and running outta time. In other words, what else is new?

The initial burst of demons was enough to split us all up, and even put is in a bit of disarray for half a minute or so, but props to everyone, we came back with a vengeance! First off, even tho I couldn't summon any cloud nymphs, I used my Hades Stone to summon waves of damned souls to eat away at Doom's copies, while I summoned a series of continuous lightning strikes to blast apart the God Steroids demons. All that while I mixed my War Form (that time when my body became a living blood/fire construct) with Thunder God mode, and damn was that a beast of a combo! Not only could I turn my arms into grenade shooting Gatling guns, and turn my kneecaps into mini-rocket launchers (i'm the Crimson Kneecap!), but the explosions hit way harder, as my ammo was now supercharged with Zeus Lightning! Thank God this wasn't actually happening, cuz the amount of destruction I was wreaking on my own was enough to make 9/11 look like a house of cards falling down! Still, that was just a taste of the ass kicking me and the team were dishin' out! Molly and Chavez were easily as strong as Grant, and were smashing demons to bloody a bloody pulp, Powerpuff Girls style! Molly actually ripped apart a dozen snake demons with her hands, then grabbed a bus and smashed several hordes of War Force demons! Chavez kicked off the head of a Doom copy. Enough said. The Nova Twins were straight DBZ incarnate. Every time I caught a glimpse of one of em', they were dashing through dozens of demons, ripping them into several pieces, or shooting hundreds of Nova Force blasts from their hands; hitting their targets with exceptional accuracy! One of em' went full Michael Bay, and summoned this wicked gun that was literally double the size of her, that shot heat seeking plasma rockets, black hole grenades (Allyson wouldn't like that), and Photon barrages! Whichever one she was, she was my favorite! Karolina was tagging along with them. She wasn't great, but she held her own with her light blasts and sabers. Hell, we needed every fighter we could get, so I wasn't complaining. Moving on, I assume Power Pack was that big unicorn with a Cavalier sword on its back (reminded me of Dueling Diego). I was gonna call it stupid, but hot damn if that unicorn wasn't the most badass one here! The horse had all the powers of Power Pack, and was usin' em' like a straight boss! In the span of two minutes, he took out hundreds of demons via energy blasts, slicing them apart as he rainbow dashed across the sky, and even used his anti-gravity powers to lift cars, buses, and whole houses to smash them into putty! Namor was MIA for a little while (not cool, dude, I gave you the Poseidon Stone!), but when he popped back up, about three minutes later, he came back with an entire cavalry of Sea Force charged sharks, Leviathans, Itchacyocerberi, dragons, Sea nymphs, and piranhaoids! Hell, he was determined to make up for lost time, as he let loose a super loud 'Imperius Rex' while he buried his trident into several Doom copies! Grant and Allyson didn't even bother with the small fries, and went straight for the big fish! First off, Allyson helped with the respawning army (oh yeah, Doom kept the bad guy factory generator on) by letting loose giant versions of her spirit animals (cuz she can do that) on attack mode! The Stone Of Apollo was boostin' her way the hell up, as she was literally blasting house sized mini-suns at Doom rapid fire! The Eden spell was keeping Doom at bay, but he was puttin' up a helluva fight as he blocked her suns, countered with multiple energy blasts and spell seals, and threw chunks of Manhattan at her. Allyson was able to stay in the fight with well placed shields, as well as attacking Doom with giant missiles, eagles, and Charazords. That was the other thing. Because of Doom's size, 'go big or go home' was the name of the game. On that note, Grant was haulin' ass! He grew to match Doom's size, and was basically running interference for Allyson, as he busted out his Power Gauntlets and hammered away at Doom with at least 500 hits per second! The attacks resounded with enough force to shatter the glass across all of Manhattan, and made the ground splinter, like a disaster movie level earthquake (startin' to realize why Grant decided to dump us in an entirely different reality)! Doom was just as fast tho, and to my horror, at least twice as strong! Grant definitely hit Doom more often, but Doom wasn't far behind, and by the way he mostly kept Grant on the defensive, hit harder. Allyson's Eden Inferno (she filled me in on the details) kept Doom from takin' it to Grant too hard, and Grant was also changing his strategy pretty effectively. He actually used his Nature Force powers to completely turn Queens into a forest, and change the plant life into artillery weapons! Doom was literally getting blasted with Titan Force charged vine rockets, bombs, and giant energy charged pinecones! That was all while Grant kept grinding Doom's Inception reality warps into giant chunks he used as a constant stream of projectiles. Still, as good as they were, Doom was still holdin' the advantage. They needed another big gun, and I had several. I pulled a recent trick, and reshaped myself into a War Force Metroplex, and mixed it with an energy core of the entire Olympus Force spectrum. I gave myself all the bells and whistles of Metroplex, and put repulsors on my palms. Afterwards, I timed my attack right, and as Doom blasted Grant near the Hudson (Grant was using his wings as a shield), I nailed Doom over the head with an Olympus Cannon from above! Doom crashed into the water, and when he shot back up, a volley of Olympus Force charged missiles, an avalanche of rocks, and a holy firestorm slammed him with enough force to literally reduce a good chunk of Manhattan to ash (this place basically reset every 30 seconds). Overall, the team was doin' pretty well, and Allyson made sure to get us all on the same page via Namor channeling the Dolphin Spirit, and folding me and Grant into the loop. After a quick test, I started to coordinate with the team.

"Ok, does anyone know what the hell we're dealin' with here?!" I asked, as Doom escaped our barrage with a blastwave, and took off straight at me(I wasn't even the strongest one here!).

"Demons!" Grant answered, as he got Doom in the gut with a Power Gauntlet punch, and punted him halfway to Brooklyn.

Without even communicating, Allyson got in a 20ft tall Eden Inferno Angel, and the three of us hammered Doom with Delta Speed Thrasher!

"Long story short, Doom just bonded to six demons! He already bonded to some assclown, called Zom, and I was tryna block his chi, and force the demon outta him! Now we got six times the trouble!"

Doom let off a blastwave that split the gang attack up! Before we could recover, he sent out three different blasts from his hands and mouth, all of which could carve New York state in half! We all immediately countered with our own power blasts, and kept Doom at a standstill! Grant's Titan Force was just barely losing the struggle, Allyson's Eden Inferno had the slight edge, and my Olympus Force blast was holding it at 50/50.

"Geo-Titan!" I thought to Grant. "Ima zap him with a surprise surge from the Power Grid! Once he's distracted, get him in that All-Metal ball you did back at the canyon! Sunbird, after we launch him sky high, we're gonna do the finishing half of Delta Killer! Everyone ready?!"

Grant and Allyson gave me the go ahead, and I summoned a blaze of lightning, big enough to decimate an airport, around Doom! It was just enough to knock Doom off-balance, and give Grant enough time to trap him, and a $#!+ ton of volatile energy in an All-Metal ball, and launch him sky high! Allyson and I immediately slammed two pillars of lightning and Eden Inferno into Doom from high and low (I was the top); causing an explosion that looked like someone nuked the sky!

"Delta Tornado!" I thought to Grant and Allyson, as I reformed my body (with the Zeus Stone in my chest, I was always in Thunder God X10).

Before Doom's big ass could drop to the water, Grant, Allyson, and I had him swirling around in an F5 level energy tornado!

"Ok," I continued our brainstorming. "You said somethin' about chi blocking, GT?!"

"Yeah!" he responded. "Might be too late now! Doom's got so much energy flowin' through his body, his chi points are unstable. If I was able to somehow keep his energy flow stable enough, I could block his chi one demon at a time. Hell, even then we still might be f*(#&%. I'd need a massive energy attack to fully sever the connection. I got one buildin' up, but I doubt I can do it six times over!"

We managed to keep Doom in the Delta Vortex for maybe 30 seconds, until he split up our attack via deconstructing his body into a giant War Force dragon head, big enough to swallow the entire vortex (badass and terrifying), and slammed us all into the Hudson! Doom transformed again into a mass of big grey tentacles, thick enough to crush bridges! Even worse, the tentacle mass was spreading across the immediate Hudson area, and I felt a massive rush of something swim its way towards East River! Didn't have time to worry about that, as Doom was sure to leave enough giant tentacles behind to give me, Grant, and Allyson a handful to deal with! Allyson's Eden Inferno was like a hot knife to butter with Doom's demon powers, and she easily cut her way free with a giant sword construct! Grant got creative, and got inside a Titan Force construct of ever growing Hydra heads! For every tentacle Doom made (they kept multiplying), Grant had a Hydra head to chomp into it! As for me, I summoned my trident, got loose of the tentacle that was holding me down, and swam to the surface. It definitely wasn't peachy up here. Allyson was tryna take the fight back to Doom, but he was holding her back with a mix of tentacle attacks, lightning strikes, and huge blasts of War Force energy from the eyes on his hands and chests! Yeah, that's the other thing: Doom was somehow an even worse monster than before! He had grown to skyscraper height, and was a grey, fleshy, octopus/human hybrid. He now had that weird demon eye on his chest, looked like he was winding up somethin' serious for Allyson, but before he could get his attack off the ground, Namor beat me to the punch of gutting the asshole with somethin' sharp! Multiple giant hard water harpoons shoot outta the water, and pierced Doom in his back, throat, and stomach (shoulda aimed for the eye, Namor)! Doom roared in pain, and it looked like Namor wasn't done yet! Just ahead of Doom, a 60 ft tall, water construct of what Namor looked like when he was channeling an Ithacyocerberus spirit took shape (basically a more bulked up version of himself, with four huge tentacles sprouting from his back)! Namor opened his attack against Doom with a massive column of Sea Force fire, followed that up by digging his talons into Doom's chest eye (that had to sting!), and wailed on him with massive blow after blow! Namor's surprise attack definitely put Doom on the defensive, and Allyson was able to focus another giant mini-sun barrage on him again, but Doom was a tough son of a bitch! Namor and Allyson only held the advantage for about ten seconds, before he struck back with a vengeance! Doom kept Allyson at bay again by summoning pentagram shields, and making a battalion of his demon army focus solely on her, while he took it to Namor just as hard. The two of them together were barely hangin' in there, and were in need of some more firepower. I was happy to oblige, as I took to the sky, made the clouds expand to cover the whole state, and flood them with the trifecta of Zeus Lightning, Sea Force, and Death Force! Thunder roared loud enough to be heard from here to Virginia, and before Doom had a chance to even contemplate how screwed he was, I slammed several Triforce Mega Lightning Strikes on top of his head (just in time to save Namor's ass)! I kept the lightning strikes comin', while shaping chunks of the billowing storm cloud into Triforce charged missiles, trains, Ben 10 aliens, Yu-Gi-Oh monsters, and Mortal Kombat characters! With Doom constantly under siege of an armada of Raidens, Ripjaws, Egyptian god monsters, and enough missiles to take on the world, Namor and Allyson were havin' a much easier time holdin' him off! Wasn't perfect tho. With me as the new prime threat, Doom trained a good chunk of his demons, and even started throwing multiple copies of Staten Island at me! The demons were easily dealt with, and Grant constantly grinding the Staten Island copies to dust was a big help. Ultimately, we weren't doin' half bad, but we didn't have that silver bullet we needed to end this. Thankfully, Doctor Strange came in with the assist!

"Storm-Lord!" his voice boomed in my head. "Listen to me very carefully! I have been monitoring the situation, and have devised a plan to defeat Doom. First and foremost, Doctor Voodoo and the Scarlet Witch are using their combined magic to slow down the comet's momentum. Their combined magic will add about ten minutes to our time; leaving us with a mere fifty minutes to act. Your friend, Geo-Titan has the right idea with using chi blocking techniques to weaken the bonds between Doom and the demons he has summoned to his cause. He is also correct in the assessment that it will take a multitude of massive energy attacks to fully sever the connection. You'll have to be creative with the latter, but I can provide you with some assistance in getting there. For starters, I will cross into the Mirror Dimension with Hulkling, Wiccian, Sister Grimm, and Magik. They will provide you with additional skills and weapons to weaken Doom's power. I will remain in my sanctum, where I can affect Doom directly, and force his arcane aura to stabilize; allowing you to weaken and sever his demonic assistance one entity at a time. Doom will sense my energy into the Mirror Dimension, and will make every effort to destroy me in my sanctum. I will require you and your compatriots as wards against said incursion. Plan as you must, and inform me when to make the transition into the battle."

That was a lot to chew on, but I processed it, and came up with a semi-working plan in about four seconds.

"Alright guys!" I thought to my team. "Just got a memo from Strange. Long story short, he's bringin' extra firepower, and a way to stabilize Doom's chi. Grant, you'll be on chi blocking duty. Namor, Sunbird, Chavez, and Molly-"

"Princess Powerful!" she responded.

"Whatever! We're gonna be main attack squad. Punch, kick, blast, stab, and inflict whatever kind of pain you want on Doom, but we keep him away from Doctor Strange's base at all costs!"

"Quick recommendation, Storm-Lord!" Allyson spoke up. "Princess Powerful and Ms. America have this cool thing they do where they take off at top speed, and portal back to punch Doom with a sick amount of momentum! Great for surprise attacks and emergencies!"

"That'll work too!" I responded. "We'll still need another big gun on Doom!"

"I got big guns!" Starbright (not bad) piped up! "I got a giant Nova Gundam with plasma swords and Neutron Star rockets! I volunteer as alternate big gun!"

"You're in! Ok, everyone else is gonna be on guard duty! When I give the signal, make a blockade, and don't let Doom's minions get anywhere near Greenwich! Trust me, as soon as Doom realizes we've got his number, he'll throw everything he's got at gettin' to Strange. One last thing: we gotta come up with good enough attacks to throw off Doom's demons, so get creative! Any questions?"

Nobody spoke up. Good.

"Ok!" I continued. "I'm bout to drop a bomb on Doom! When I give the signal, everyone close to Doom get clear!"

I made the state sized cloud swirl in a sorta calm hurricane, with Doom square below the eye (an off center eye, but an eye all the same)! I made the storm surge with the entire Olympus Force spectrum, and focused on directing all that energy on Doom! Once I got the energy flow where I wanted it to be, I gave the symbol for my team to jet, and dropped the bomb! If I had to call this move anything, it would be the F5 cannon, but even that felt like an understatement! I quite literally took that statewide, Olympus Force charged storm cloud, and funneled it down into an F5 tornado that hit Doom with enough force to decimate the entire state! Hell, it took everything I had to keep the blast funneled just on Doom, and keep him pinned under East River!

"Make the jump, Strange!" I thought to him, as the rest of my team got into position.

By the time Doom surfaced, America and Molly already made a flight halfway across the Atlantic (nice!), and cracked Doom in the head with a blow that could be heard across half the east coast! They took off upwards, as the main squad dogpiled Doom! True to his word, Strange sent the cavalry in full force! I almost felt bad for Doom, as we got more big guns than we bargained for! In addition to me dropping back into the fight as a giant Storm-Form Ninja Storm Megazord, Starbright was inside a 30ft tall Nova Gundam (exactly what you'd imagine), Allyson in a Garnet (Steven Universe of course) construct, and Namor…...deciding to attack just with his trident (props for bravery at least), Magik and Hulkling dropped in on the fight in mad style! Magik was 30ft tall, rockin' demon wings, horns, goat legs, and wielding a flaming sword that was bigger than her! She flew down at Mach 1, and went to work slicing and burning (she could blast fire from her mouth!) Doom's surrounding tentacles! As soon she got rid of one (her fire made sure the tentacles stayed down) she either flew over, or teleported to another; hacking and slashing away with a mad cackle roaring from her lips! I think I just developed my first superhero crush. Anyway, Hulking had grown to match Doom's height, and the dude was a beast with his sword! The green machine came down with a lightning wreathed sword, and stabbed Doom right in the chest! Just like Allyson's Eden Inferno, Hulkling's sword was another Achilles' Heel in Doom's demonic form! Just one stab jilted Doom almost in the same way fire and intense sound effects Venom! In addition to that Wiccan and Sister Grimm were pelting Doom with a series of blue and purple magic blasts respectively. Hell, Wiccan was definitely earning that Sasuke haircut, as he shaped his blasts into giant shurikens, Kunai knives, and Rasengens! He also made a habit of cloning himself, and bombarding his energy charged constructs into Doom! Sister Grimm was less creative with her magic blasts, but it was still kinda awesome when she smashed a giant energy guitar on top of Doom's head! Doom was not at all prepared for this level of a beat down, as me, Starbright, Magik, Hulkling, and Namor took it to him for a little over half a minute, while Grant hit all the chi points of Shuma-Gorath (the one eyed tentacle beast that bonded to Doom's Sea Force. Strange filled me in on the demonology)! Yeah, Grant decided to go more under the radar with this one, as he shrunk down to normal size, and was constantly flying around Doom's body, slamming his chi points. Apparently this was supposed to take a lot longer (no complaints from me), but the Sea Force was not on board with being bonded to a multiversal demon (yet the other Olympians were totally chill about it), making the detachment process faster than usual. As soon as Grant finished hitting the chi points, Shuma-Gorath went fucking bananas! Imagine a giant one eyed tentacle beast, as big as Manhattan, flailing about just over the height of the Empire State building, radiating with such power, the entire Mirror Dimension felt like it was on the verge of collapsing! Still, the demon was grafted onto the Sea Force, which made it vulnerable to a Sea Force attack!

"Namor!" I thought to him.

"Already done!" he responded, as enough energy that would equivalate to an extinction level tidal wave start to hum over the ocean!

Namor drew up this spell in skyscraper sized glyphs: _).(./.'-).(.\/|.(.'.,-._/ . |.-.-_. Roar of Oceanus. A real simple spell for somethin' that packed one helluva punch! Seriously, whatever those Titans were on, we could sure use some of it! As soon as the spell touched the water, a whirlpool, literally the size category 5 hurricane, flared to life! The whirlpool charged itself with Sea Force, and the spirits of quite literally every sea animal/monster in existence merged into the whirlpool! The blast charged up for another five seconds, before exploding upwards in a Sea Force charged water spiral that coulda decimated the entire east coast! Hell, if it wasn't for the Poseidon Stone, Namor woulda killed himself tryna cast this spell! Still, it was totally worth it, as the blast decked Shuma-Gorath right in the eye, and made his energy aura implode into itself, as he evaporated into wherever the hell he was from! That was one down, and as Doom shrunk down to 18ft (better than 20), I made sure to try and keep him far from Doctor Strange as I flew at him, and knocked him a mile backwards with a Storm-Lord special! He was still dazed from the power surge, so I kept the hits comin'!

"Taking him to Staten!" I said. "We make our stand there! No matter what, Doom doesn't get anywhere near Strange! C'mon guys, we got this!"

Grant and Allyson musta got a kick outta that, cuz they were the next ones to come in and give Doom the next few hits! Starbright reduced her Gundam armor (cuz it could do that) to match Doom's reduced height, and kept a volley of plasma rockets trained on him. Wiccan, Magik, and Sister Grimm (those three worked well together) actually combined their arcane energies together to create a blue, purple, and red Combat Avatar that was basically a mix of a Hindu god (three sets of arms and faces) and a Djinni ('Genie' ain't how you spell that)! From top to bottom, Magik, Sister Grimm, and Wiccian controlled the arms. Magik was blasting a volley of fireballs from her hands, Sister Grimm was chucking purple skulls, and Wiccan kept his hands in a triangular shape, as he blasted out a continuous blast of energy charged wind! Namor got in a few hits here and there. In just under a minute, we landed Doom in Conference House Park, at the edge of Staten Island. Good place to hold the fort down. Near the sea, and on a large bed of grass. Namor and Grant both had a lotta room to do some damage. Speaking of which, Grant got to work immediately on blocking the chi points of the next demon. This one was Dormammu, and he was bound to Doom's War Force. Oh, and Doom was totally pissed! As soon as he got up, and subsequently repelled a six man attack with an Olympus Force blastwave, he shouted at the top of his demonic lungs: STRAAAAAAAAANGE!, and tried to make a dash for the Sanctum! He mighta made a good sprint, but Molly and America came out of a portal, landed an earthshaking blow on top of Doom's head, and took off to prep another attack! That gave me and the team enough time to recover, as we launched ourselves at Doom again!

True to Strange's word, Doom turned all of his respawning minions towards getting at Strange, and boy did the defense team have their work cut out for them! Hell, I felt kinda bad, as they were outnumbered 10 to 1! Power Unicorn (never gonna get used to that name) was puttin' in massive work, as it kept blasting out constant vollies of energy blasts from every area of his body, as he flew around the perimeter at Mach 3! Every time he slashed his sword, anything within' his eyesight got sliced in half; like he was condensing the air into a giant blade! Karolina was doing a lot better in this part of the fight. She was as graceful in the air as Allyson, and was using her blades in a kinda dance of death that took out anything that dared get close to her. Ultimately tho, it was Starlight and her massive Nova Armada that helped put defensive team over the edge! She was inside what was basically a human sized Pacific Rim Jaeger armor that was so ridiculously bat$#!+ bonkers, i'm almost certain it had to be illegal on this planet! The suit had these massive Ironhide level cannons that shot out energy blasts that split into energy shrapnel; taking out 100 demons per shot! 100 mini rockets kept shooting outta her chest, back and legs every second, and hitting their targets with just enough force to put them down. Her hands were spraying energy bullets! Like, Iron Man's repulsors, but bullets! Absolutely crazy! The final cherry on top were these Nova Drones she had! About the size of basketballs, with the red Nova Cross at the heads. The drones were basically indestructible kamikaze machines, as they easily plowed though several hundred targets every two seconds, and didn't stop for nothin'! Between them and the small army of Sea Force charged monsters/animals (RIP to the fallen sharks who fought like champs), the Sanctum was covered from all sides. I was thinkin' about sending Wiccan and Sister Grimm to help with the defense lineup, but they had it under control. It was us who could use another set of hands here!

To say that were were holdin' Doom back by the skin of our teeth doesn't do it justice! We basically ran up to get knocked back down, and kept that cycle going in order to buy Grant some time. For example, I was able to get in a good set of 50 Storm-Lord Specials, and dash outta the way of a Kamehameha level Nature Force blast from Doom's hand. While that was goin' on Starlight and Allyson were constantly switching it up with melee and ranged attacks; working out a sweet little system. While Allyson was up close, hammering Doom with mini-sun boxing gloves, Starlight was keepin' up a constant volley of small, high pressure Nova Force blasts, as she constantly circled Doom. Whenever one of em' got knocked back by one of Doom's punches or blasts, the other would do an energy dive bomb as cover, while they took each other's place. Hulkling was gettin' some good slashes and stabs in with his sword. He also used the sword to summon lightning strikes, but he wasn't able to get in more than a ten hit combo (even with super speed) at a time, before Doom punted him halfway across the park! Magik, Sister Grimm, and Wiccian were still a Djinni, and admittedly held there own against Doom with a mix of turning their bottom arms into cannons, while the top arms wielded Magik's sword. Just like Hulking's Excelsior, Magik's sword disrupted Doom's magic, and caused him a great deal of pain. They were able to stave him off for a whole minute (a record as far as we were concerned), before he blew them apart with a blast from his demon maw stomach! Magik shot sky high, but shifted into her demon/human hybrid form, and dive bombed back for more action! Wiccian teleported right over Doom's head, and blasted him point blank with a Rasengan! Sister Grimm transformed into a giant shadow panther, and attacked Doom with a flurry of teeth and claws! Doom swatted them away, but Namor immediately came in with a save. Props on a near miss, cuz as the rest of us kept lining up to get swatted away, Namor almost beat the one minute record! He was using his trident in a pretty standard attack pattern, but his hits had the force of the entire ocean! On top of that, he kept bombarding Doom with water spirals from the bay, and when the fight was swinging too far south, he let loose Sea Force power blasts to hold his ground. Still, Doom eventually powered through his attacks, and uppercutted Namor above the clouds! There was no one guarding him for a split second, but before Doom could get any bright ideas, Molly and America came flying out of a portal to knock Doom back to base! Oh, and Grant was in Tiny Titan mode, hitting Doom's chi points. He barely had to tap them, so Doom didn't know he was there, and I bet he was yucking it up at how bad we were struggling. But yeah, this was the plan. War of attrition until Grant got the chi blocks set. Nothin' to write home about, but we made do….about until the halfway mark. Yeah, based on Grant's current progress (we were at the four minute mark), it'd take another six minutes before he got the next demon ready for blast off. Doom was not havin' any of our $#!+, and flipped the tables almost immediately!

To our credit, we did manage to put the heat on him pretty bad! While everyone else kept attacking Doom from various angles, I was constantly dashing around the big guy; slamming a good 50 running punches in on him per second! When Doom blasted everyone off him with a wave of God Steroids, I came back around, shifted into a Death Force charged War Form, side flipped over Doom's head, turned my arms into Ironhide Cannons (yeah, might as well make it official), and blasted him point blank with a blast so powerful, the propulsion launched me 50ft high! Hulkling took advantage of the distraction, and rammed his sword deep into Doom's back! Dude musta been a little pissed off, cuz he kept his sword buried there, and made it surge with lightning! Doom howled in pain, but was unable to retaliate, as Sister Grimm and Wiccian bound his hands together with energy shackles!

"Magik!" I thought to her. "Gut him and torch em'!"

"THAT'S MINE NOW!" she cackled as she ran her sword right through Doom! "FEEL THE WRATH OF MY SOULSWORD, LOSER!"

She's perfect.

Moving on, Allyson put a Sunspot under Doom's feet, and upped the gravity, while Starbright flew a dropkick into Doom's left knee; forcing him down.

"NAMOR, SUNBIRD, STARBRIGHT!" I thought to them. "POWER BLASTS! LET'S GO!"

Hulkling and Magik split (I felt bad about not givin' em' a decent heads up), as Doom ate four huge Kamehamehas from our respective energies! Grant was fine by the way. His chakra aura thing he had goin' on, mixed with how durable he was in Tiny Titan, made it to where he was barely fazed by the energy attacks! Doom on the other hand looked like he was on the ropes! He was still grounded on his knees, and seemed to be sinking lower and lower! Just when I thought we had Doom in a corner for good, he let loose a surprise blastwave that completely f*(#%& our set up to $#!+. Hulkling, Magik, Sister Grimm, and Wiccian got magic shields up, and were able to roughly maintain their positions, while me, Allyson, Starbright, and Namor got thrown for a loop (Grant somehow managed to stay completely on target)! We recovered almost instantly, but Doom was goin' for a divide and conquer mentality, as he let loose Satannish (the big orange demon with a face for a stomach) from his body, and targeted him at Allyson! The demon tackled her so hard, she got trucked into the mesosphere!

"SUNBIRD!" I mentally shouted to her.

"Don't worry!" Starbright responded. "I'll help her!"

She was gone before I could stop her; leaving me and the rest of the team to deal with this f*(#!^% mess on the ground! Yeah, Doom turned into a one man wrecking crew! He was amping up the power of Set to an absurd degree, as dozes of giant Zeus Lightning vipers were sprouting from his back, and attacking everything in sight! Hulking and Magik were choppin' em' down as best as they could, while Sister Grimm and Wiccan were throwing every magic trick they had in the book at Doom. He was trouncing them easy, as he blocked, reflected, and countered their spells. Namor was strictly on the defense; using water shields as Doom kept him occupied with a volley of sentient mini-suns! Hell, this wasn't even the worst part, as Doom finally got the bright idea to bring Strange to him! I felt reality shifting and grinding, and my Thunder Sense was picking up Doom folding the Mirror Dimension, and bringing Greenwich and Staten closer together! Son of a bitch! I was about rocket down, and give him my best effort at a beating, but Molly and America pulled through for me again, as they came out of a portal, and socked Doom under the jaw! That opening was just what the team needed to get our footing back! I turned my arms into cannons with blades on the sides, and hammered away at Doom with 100 slashes, stabs, and blasts per second! He was off-balance for a good ten seconds, but turned his right hand into a giant yellow spike, and punched me so hard, he knocked me all the way to the other side of Staten! It wasn't good on this end. The Sanctum Sanctorum was already getting close, and we were still a good ways away from another chi block completion! This one was gonna be close, so I had to plan ahead. I powered down to normal, and started vibrating/charging my vocal chords with Olympus Force. Now I just had to not make a sound for another five minutes, while fighting a villain that was kicking our asses. On that positive note, I vibrated my whole body, timed my attack (Namor held Doom off long enough for Molly and America to get another attack in), and slammed a supercharged running Storm-Lord Special into Doom's face, and damn near knocked him into the bay! In a stroke of genius on both our parts, Namor and I slammed a water spiral into Doom's back, and floored him back to the park! Namor quickly reshaped the water into a swirling dome, about as big as a high school gym, with Doom trapped inside with us. Namor quickly put the spell for absorb /.'|..-_..(_)|.. into the dome, as he constantly kept water flowing into it. Essentially, we were inside a bomb shelter that looked no thicker than pool water. I summoned my trident, as Namor and I really took it to Doom!

"Hey, GT?!" I asked Grant, as I slammed several lightning charged water spirals into Doom's chest and back. "How we doin' on that chi block, buddy?!"

Doom blasted a wave of horned demon shaped fireballs at me and Namor, while tryna use his lightning snakes to bust outta the dome.

"A little over halfway, Storm-Lord!" Grant responded.

Namor and I swatted the fireballs away with our tridents, and Doom's lightning snakes simply got absorbed into the water spiral! Now I had the best of both worlds!

"Cool. By the way, you know Doom is literally bending space to bring Strange to us, right?!"

I blasted Doom from all sides with lightning charged water snakes. He blocked most of em'', but I was able to use my speed to get in some good stabs to his legs, back, and arms, while Namor whacked him in the face with his trident!

"No $#!+, dude! I'm doing everything I can to stall him, but my earthbending can only do so much!"

Doom transformed the ground under us into a Nature Force charged Dragon head, but Grant and I tore it apart, before it could swallow me and Namor. He did manage to swat Namor away, before transforming into a Djinni that would put my team to shame! His billowing under half was a War Force inferno, and he added three sets of arms made of Zeus Lightning, War Force, and Death Force! He combined his hands together, made a pentagram, and shot a Final Flash level blast at me! I quickly made a giant spinning water shield, enchanted it with a transport spell, and made the blast resurface on top of Doom's head!

"Anyone on the magical end of the team got any bright ideas?!" I asked. "I'm all ears!"

Me and Namor renewed our team up on Doom, but he was stopping us cold on every attack. Whether it was my speed, water constructs, or Namor's raw strength, Doom's extra arms seemed too have a mind of their own, as they gave him 360 degree offense and defense!

"Wiccan's doing that thing he does where he wishes really hard for something to happen!" Sister Grimm responded. "No clue if it's working, but the rest of us are still fighting lightning snakes!"

Namor and I tried blasting Doom from all sides with water spirals, but he blocked them with pentagram shields, and retaliated with a volley of mini-suns.

"Hey, Nico!" Hulking thought to her. "Remember that fight against the Black Order in L.A.? When you used your Witch Arm to channel some kinda dark beast that was an octopus mixed with a porcupine and a panther?"

I countered the mini sun volley with waves of water, Death Force, and lightning blasts, while Namor did a teleport spell, landed on Doom's back, and used the surge of Sea Force to drive in a good stab! As Doom flailed about, I made thick grass cables sprout outta the ground, bind his arms (all of em') and legs, and assaulted his front with various Olympus force hammers, gorillas, and power blasts.

"Oh yeah! The arm of the Nephilim! Man, that was awesome! You want me to bust it out?!"

Doom ripped himself free of my grass cables, grabbed Namor with one of his arms, threw him into the dome (that looked like it hurt), and proceeded to put the hurt on us both! Again, those arms were a chore and a half, as Doom was conjuring a brutal bombardment of magic bolts, medieval weapon constructs, and demonic appendages shooting outta various portals to keep me and Namor constantly on the defensive! I was just barely able to use a mix of Death Force skull shields, War Force rockets, and lightning charged water constructs to hold Doom's assault back. Namor was basically in my position, but only had access to water and Sea Force.

"Yeah! You can demolish out here with that! While you and Billy hold the fort down, Magik and I can help Storm-Lord and Namor inside! Sound cool with everyone?!"

I just barely ducked under some other dimensional claw swipe, and got a Death Force shield up to block a shadow axe from cleaving my head in half! Oh, and everyone agreed with the plan. Thank God, cuz Magik and Hulking stabbing Doom in his sides was the only thing keeping me and Namor alive! We got back to fighting form, and resumed our barely functional war of attrition style of attack.

Yeah, we may have gotten a slight upper hand on Doom, but a quick set of blasts and spells split us all up again, and it was back to square one! Hulking would rush in, but couldn't get past the blasts and constructs. Namor and I blasted Doom from all sides with hard water swords and Sea Force blasts, but only caught pentagram shields. Magik was able to get in a stab via teleport to Doom's legs, and even managed to chop off Doom's lower Death Force arm, before teleporting away from getting smashed under one of Doom's spare arms! Namor came in with some brutal trident swipes to Doom's face, and I gave him some cover with a wide array of Olympus Force blasts and mythical beasts, as I summoned Excelsior, ran around, and slashed/stabbed Doom anywhere I could. While that was goin' on, Hulkling was finally able to beat his way past Dooms constructs, and stabbed his sword into the back of Doom's neck, and slide all the way down! Doom exploded with a roar of pain, and blasted us all into the water dome with an explosive wave! He trained his remaining hands on all of us, but Magik teleported on top of Doom's neck, and drove her sword into his head! In a perfect world, this woulda been the end of it, but Doom shrugged her stab off. Magik then proceeded to pull a Nightcrawler, and started teleporting around Doom's body; gettin' in a slash/stab wherever she could! Namor made a giant Sea Force/lightning charged water shark, and tried to tear Doom's limbs from their sockets! Hulking used his sword to enhance his speed (totally cheating), and did a flying version of my run n' slash technique. This was as close as we got to a stable fighting pattern, as even when Doom blasted one or two of us off him, there was always a fighter on him. We got our asses handed to us more times than I could count, but we held the line…..until Doom threw a bitch fit, and let loose an explosive wave that was strong enough to blow through the water dome! My Speed Sense hit me like a damn hurricane as Doom's explosive wave was an inch from incinerating Magik and Hulkling! I quickly wrapped them inside Nature Force charged vine cocoons, did the same for me and Namor, and rode out the worst roller coaster ride in history! The water dome was strong enough to where we only went sprawling across the park, rather than blasted halfway to Queens, but that was the least of our worries, as the Sanctum Sanctorum was literally 50 yards away, and Doom locked onto the approaching brownstone like it was a five star meal! Molly and Chavez came out of a portal for a last minute save, but Doom was havin' none of it, as he punched them so hard, they landed in The Bronx! Doom continued on his merry way to the Sanctum, and I was very tempted to let my Black Bolt loose a little early, but Allyson and Starbright came in with the real last minute save! Satannish musta caught that ass whuppin' somethin' fierce, cuz Allyson sent the demon crashing into Doom inside a Eden Inferno comet! Doom and Satannish screamed in unison, as the Eden Inferno made their bonding painful as hell! Good for us, cuz that gave Grant enough time to finish off the rest of Doom's chi points! As if Doom wasn't already havin' a $#!+ time, Dormammu's War Force form, as big as the Empire State Building, violently splintered outta his body! Dormammu looked like he was gonna blow a fuse, but I jumped into the air and let loose a yell (I screamed 'BACK OFF!') that was so ridiculously overcharged, it easily coulda destroyed all five boroughs and New Jersey! Dormammu got punted back to his dimension with a bang, and I dropped to the ground; feelin' like my vocal chords were on fire! Without Dormammu, Doom's reality bending days were done, and the Mirror Dimension immediately went back to default. Doom shrunk by another two feet (16 ft now), and while those last 10 seconds musta been hell, he was nowhere near done, as he charged me so fast, I just barely had time to conjure up an Olympus Force shield construct!

The shield held Doom in place for a whole two seconds, before Doom swatted it and me away with a spiked club fist! Ispiraledd halfway through Staten, but managed to catch myself, and use my Thunder Sense to track Doom. The dude was makin' a beeline for the Sanctum, and his mad dash gave him one helluva start, as even Allyson and Starbright were a considerable ways away from catching up with him! Luckily, he passed over the upper bay, and I diverted his momentum with a giant Sea Force charged spiral cannon! That wasn't gonna hold him for long, and I immediately Static Jumped in front of him ,and slammed him as hard as I could with a set Storm-Lord Specials (really resented Grant for being small right now)! I noticed how much weaker Doom was now! Granted, his weak was still a million times stronger than me, but my hits rocked him harder than they woulda if he was at full demon strength! Still, I was only able to hold him off for 100 punches, before he blocked my next one with a pentagram shield, and charged said shield up for what was sure to be an epic blast! I wasn't in the mood for that, and stabbed him from behind with a War Force sword construct, and then in the front with Excelsior! I followed that up with a Storm-Lord Special in uppercut form just under Doom's jaw; launching him upwards a good 200 meters!

"New plan!" I thought to my now arriving teammates. "Keep him in the sky! Let's go!"

Getting Doom up to just under the stratosphere turned out to be super easy! I got the ball rolling with some Storm-Lord Specials, while Molly and America really got the momentum up with their ridiculous haymakers! Allyson and Starbright kept up a volley of mini-suns/Nova Force blasts respectively, Namor got in some hits here and there (him and Hulking were too busy tryna keep up), and Magik, Wiccan, and Sister Grimm had reformed the Djinni, and were blasting Doom with….the universe? Yeah imagine clumps of star filled outer space, and that's what they were blastin' him with. Hell, they even threw a mini galaxy at him Destructo Disk style! Love that Djinni! Anyway, we got Doom just under the stratosphere, and I noticed how I absently made a storm cloud that was covering half of the entire United States! That gave me another idea for how to ace Doom again, as we got this new round properly started!

Grant was already hard at work on chi blocking Doom's next demon (Mephisto on the Death Force), while the rest of us held the big man off! America was the first one to draw blood, as she landed a series of quick portal punches and kicks from all sides! Hulkling took a piece of that action too, and got in some really good slashes and stabs to Doom's chest, back, arms, and legs! With them keeping Doom off-balance, the rest of us simply jumped Doom with as many hits as we could, until the fight was just us givin' Doom a high air beat down! Fun for sure, but short lived! Doom let loose a God Steroids explosive wave, and tried to cook us all with an ever expanding Demon Fire mini-sun he constructed around himself! Allyson came in with the quick save, and wrapped his mini-sun inside an Eden Inferno mini-sun, and tried to collapse her sun into his!

"Need some help here, y'all!" she thought to us.

I backed her up with a condensing tesla sphere around her mini-sun. Namor made a condensing orb of Sea Force, and Djinni (might as well lump em' all together) wrapped an orb that looked like a Nebula around Doom. We were able to keep him trapped inside for….ten seconds? Props for his fighting spirit, cuz Doom managed to power outta four dense energy spheres, and throw us all for a loop! I recovered as quick as I could, not wanting to be on the wrong end of an ass whuppin', but Doom was clearly in pants $#!++!% mode, as he was flying straight down to earth! Dude had to be desperate to give Strange a smack across the head, cuz he was damn near to the bottom of the stratosphere in under a second! Unlucky for him, I was steadily building a storm cloud that was currently covering half the world! I made that sucker surge with Zeus Lightning, and launched Doom back up to our level with an absolute avalanche of voltage! I maybe overdid it a little, as Doom was lookin' like he might shoot into the mesosphere, but Namor channeled the spirit of an Antarctic Leviathan into his trident, and stopped Doom's momentum cold with a trident smack! The team was set to gang him again, but Doom wasn't with it this time! He did that lightning snake outta his back trick again (one was shaking Namor like a chew toy), and doubled down, as he split Mephisto and Satannish off from him, and unleashed them on us! Satannish didn't want any more whup ass from Allyson, as he came straight for me (I had somethin' for his ass), while Mephisto went for her. The purple demon slashed his claws at her, but she blocked them with an Eden Inferno shield, created a Seraphim Combat Avatar around her, and hammered him with a barrage of detachable feathers that hit like grenades! Mephisto responded with more claw slashes and magic blasts, but Allyson's wings worked equally great on defense and offense, and she ended up stabbing four of her wings into Mephisto's chest, and flew him up into the mesosphere for a one on one.! I was struggling with Satannish (this guy had no chill), and was afraid the rest of the team wouldn't be able to hold the fort down with Doom, but they actually did pretty good! America and Molly somehow were able to keep the fight up close with Doom, as Molly was basically a pink Super Saiyan (we seem to have a lotta those) who could match Doom blow for blow! Doom was definitely faster than her, but America was doin' some quick portal jump attacks to run interference on Doom. Starbright, Namor, and Hulkling were on snake patrol, as they blasted and slashed apart the horde almost as quickly as they came. Djinni was ultimately the one doing the heavy lifting, as they kept at Doom with an assortment of multi-colored blasts, energy constructs, and pentagram combinations that resulted in screeching bat/human hybrids attacking Doom out of a purplish orange portal (scarred for life)! Even fighting like hell against Molly and America, Doom was able to cast defensive spells that just barely kept Djinni's attacks at bay, but with Molly makin' him work for every hit, some of those bat$#!+ crazy attacks actually managed to connect. That just left me with Satannish, who was more annoying than anything else! Don't get me wrong the demon was throwing hands that could collapse an entire city, but he was slow, easy to read, and in my way. Still, my worldwide storm wasn't quite ready yet, so I went into my War Form, mixed it with Zeus Lightning and Death Force, and went at it with the big ugly! Satannish was definitely no lightweight, but when you mixed my speed with a billion damned souls, the power of both World Wars, and the ability to change any part of my body into a weapon, then it wasn't gonna be a good day for you! Sattanish was able to get in a good amount of swings and blasts in on me, but I easily blocked them, and kicked his ass with a mix of Gatling gun arms, and shoulder rocket launchers! After making Satannish literally eat bullets for five minutes, my earth sized storm cloud (now raging with Death and War Force, along with the Zeus Lightning) was finally ready for him to take a spin! I quickly created a skyscraper sized proton cannon, with Satannish in the chamber, and blasted him down into the storm! With that blowhard outta the way, I rejoined the rest of the team against Doom. As I slammed a barrage of bullets, blasts, and missiles into him, I kept a mental beat with Grant and Allyson about how much longer we had till Mephisto was ready to pop, and once we were just a little over 15 seconds until lift off, I had the team spring a plan that was so haphazardly put together, it was a miracle it came together!.

Long story short, I pinged Satannish in my storm, contracted it into a cloud just large enough to cover the United States, and blasted Sattanish up in a huge Death/War Force, Zeus Lightning cannon! At the same time, Allyson trapped Mephisto in a giant Eden Inferno blender (cuz of course she did), reshaped the blender into a giant water gun (cuz why not?), and blasted the demon back down!. Right before they hit Doom, America rounded everybody but me, Grant, and Allyson up, and portaled them back to Staten Island. Also, great timing, as Grant literally finished the chi blocks just as the demons collided into Doom! If it wasn't obvious by now, that whole splitting off demons thing was not workin' out so great for Doom, as the energy runoff from the collision and the chi tether on its last legs made an undoubtedly painful semi-fusion between Sattanish and Mephisto! Doom was catchin' the tail end of that, but his pain wouldn't last much longer. I did a Static Jump into the troposphere (over Kansas to be specific), absorbed the super storm into my body, and Static Jumped back into the mesosphere, and expelled the entire storm into Doom's chest via explosive wave! I'm not saying this was enough energy to destroy a good quarter of the planet, but let's just say it was a good thing I was high enough in an atmosphere that didn't have enough air pressure to maintain clouds, in a dimension that couldn't affect the real world, and that my friends were pretty much indestructible god people, or I might've made a big mess. Anyway, another demon bit the dust, and Doom was really getting desperate, as he zoomed downwards so fast, my Speed Sense just barely alerted me to dash outta the way, as he meteored to the earth!

Allyson didn't miss a beat, and zoomed after him! She put multiple walls, and barricades in his path; giving me and Grant just enough time to catch up! What ensued was freefall brawl for the ages! Grant, Allyson, and I hammered Doom with sonic boom level punches, while Doom kept tryna swat us away! Every time he recovered and gained a little more momentum, one of us would blast/put a construct barrier in front of Doom, and tacked him with more sonic haymakers! That lasted for a good two minutes or so, before we ended up crashing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (not ideal, but whatever)! Before I could unleash some underwater whup ass on Doom, he started morphing into this huge lightning monster, that almost certainly woulda gave Grant and Allyson one helluva shock, (I launched us all outta the water via water geyser)! It only took a second for him to form into a giant beast that reminded me of Orochimaru mixed with God of War III Poseidon! Doom was a giant scaly version of himself from the waist up, with giant flesh and blood snakes coming outta his back, and shoulders! The dude was radiating so much Zeus Lightning, I was getting somewhat of a contact high from him. Grant and Allyson's protective auras were keeping them safe from the voltage, but this amount of juice would no doubt kill everyone else. Not an ideal place to be in, but thankfully I had a special card for this. As I got ready to go Olympus Prince, I summoned my trident, and bombarded Doom with thousands of tons of Sea Fore charged water! Once I got a decent storm up and going, I gave Grant the signal to start with the chi blocking process, while Allyson got inside a giant Eden Inferno mermaid warrior to hold Doom off, while the rest of the cavalry showed up. Props to my team, they were really good at showing initiative, and wasted no time in getting involved in the fight! Namor attacked Doom from all sides with massive waves, water spirals, and animal/monster constructs, while never leaving Staten (lazy ass). Starbright came down in a Nova colored Voltron (we had to be friends ASAP), and whacked Doom on top of the head with a Nova Force charged lion fist! Djinni could apparently change its form, as the magical trio changed their form from cloudy, to entirely water based! They basically did what Namor did, but also threw in some sea monsters, ghost pirates, and vampire mermaids (I dunno either)! Doom was overwhelmed just long enough for me to get to the ocean floor, and power up into Olympus Prince! I immediately focused my Olympus Force energies, and forced them out into seven different entities, just like last time! I shot my seven different forms up to the surface and willed them to take shape just before popping above the water! I shaped my War God into Darksiders' War (always War), Death God into Darksiders' Death, Nature God into the Jolly Green Giant, Strength God into Bayformers Grimlock (who had a sick ass design!), Sea God into a Minotaur, Storm God (best I could do) got projected into the clouds, and formed a huge version of me from the torso up, and Sun God was shaped into a giant fire breathing centaur! So with ten uber powerful giants ganging up on Doom, you'd think this would be an easy win, but Doom really wasn't f*(#!^% around! His lightning snakes spread out for miles above and below the water; essentially turning the fight into a death trap for us!

Starbright was the first to go down; as her Nova Voltron got torn apart two minutes into the fight by a dozen lightning snakes! She had to eject and get portaled back to Staten. Doom probably woulda done the same to all of us if Djinni hadn't conjured up a horde of water dragons to combat the lightning snake pit as best as they could. Wasn't perfect, but it at least gave us a chance to hold Doom off. That hope lasted for a total of…...maybe ten seconds.

For starters, Allyson, who was holdin' her own pretty damn good thus far, ate a huge Zeus Cannon level blast to chest, and got punted backwards like five miles! I launched my various god constructs at Doom from all sides, but got royally rejected with a massive lightning blastwave that sent my god forms flying! Djinni stepped in, and trapped Doom in this cube-like force field made of pentagrams, that projected some kinda orange light, and sounded like a buffalo being devoured by sentient slime! It looked like it hurt, as the pentagram cube seemed to twisted and contorted him into origami positions! Almost felt bad for him, but Doom wasn't havin' that for too long, and destroyed the pentagram cube from the inside with a blastwave of all the Olympus Force he had left! The surge of God Steroids, Nature Force, and Apollo Fire mixed with Doom's lightning, and he pulled an old card outta his deck, and made six more arms on his main body (two for each Olympus Force power), made pentagrams for each hand, combined them into one, and slammed them into his chest! A huge wave of power rippled through the whole atmosphere, and from seven different angles, I got the full scope of how screwed we were!

Doom had just generated an army of thousands of Olympus Force snake monsters of various shapes (some regular serpent, some snake men, some hydras, some dragons, etc.) and sizes; enough to cover all five boroughs! Hell, I had to fight a full on sky battle (cloud Spartans vs lightning snake monsters), as Doom woulda ambushed the team from above too! With my various god constructs scattered about and fighting to get back to the center (I really got to cut loose), and Allyson preparing somethin' a good ways away from the fight (gonna keep my mouth shut on that one), Djinni and Doom got to have a Wizard 101 battle for the ages! I mean damn! It was like watching the very fabric of reality fighting against itself! Doom blasted waves of Olympus Force charged balls, made of some kinda dark matter, that mutated into energy eating fungus (yuck)! Djinni dispelled it with a hand wave, and blasted Doom with mini White Holes (think black holes in reverse) that hit with enough force to create stadium sized holes in the sea! Doom was put on the defensive for a bit, but created a pentagram shield that converted the white holes into vapor. While they were trading blows, my six god forms that weren't Storm God were getting closer to the center. War and Sea God were doing the best, as one got stronger with the conflict, and one was literally made Sea Force charged water. Strength God was barreling through the horde alright, Death God was doing pretty damn good, as I shifted its form into a mini hurricane of screeching souls, and Nature God wasn't doing great, but I found out I could create a whole bunch of seaweed to make weapons, and Nature Force charged seaweed projectiles! At my current rate, i'd probably get to the fight in about two minutes, but Doom really wasn't up for this $#!+. Him and Djinni exchanged one more round of universe bending spells, before Doom straight up ripped the Djinni to shreds via some magic shockwave he created by clapping his hands together! Magik, Sister Grimm, and Wiccan must've been hit with some kinda sleeping spell, cuz they were falling towards the sea, like dead flies (really hope it was a sleeping spell)! In a quick move of genius, I dropped my Sea God form, transferred my consciousness to where they were falling, and formed a giant hand, charged with a transport spell, to catch them. They took a slight plunge (they were gonna hate me for the sea water bath), but they were instantly transported to Staten, where they would hopefully wake up. I reformed my Minotaur right in front of Doom, gave him some blows across the face, but Doom quickly blocked my hits with a pentagram shield, which immediately released a War Force power blast that actually knocked me back a mile! I managed to stop myself, overcharge Sea God with as much Sea Force as I could, and blasted a Sea Force Final Flash outta my mouth! The blast managed to more or less even the odds, but I could sense Doom moving his other hands to add more power to the blast! I quickly made my other God Forms surge with an intense amount of energy, enough to make a makeshift barrier against the horde of snake monsters, and willed my other five available forms to blast Doom from various sides with with Final Flash level blasts! Doom was caught off guard for a second, but managed to get shields up as the blasts got frustratingly close to smashing into him! We held this struggle for a little over half a minute, and this one really coulda went in either direction, but Allyson finally got her $#!+ set up (she'll get me for that), and entered the fight again in a pretty badass way!

She conjured up enough fire to create a giant Eden Inferno eagle, with a wingspan coulda engulfed the coast from Maine to New Jersey, and rocketed forward, singing the chorus to Let it Go (hate that song); absolutely incinerating every snake monster in her path! She detached herself from the eagle construct, which stayed about five miles back, and kept flapping waves of Eden Inferno on the battle, and got inside a giant Master Chief construct (I guess she's a Halo fan?). She created that cool laser sword in one hand, mounted some mini Gatling guns and rocket launchers on her arms and shoulders, and went to town on Doom with a mix of ranged and melee attacks! Doom tried to grab her with his arms, but she did a side flip over his wild swing, upped the missile blasts, and upon landing, stabbed him in the chest with her Halo sword! That Eden Inferno was like cosmic Oxi-Clean to Doom's pentagram, as his magic spell seal went haywire! That was enough for me to try and hone in from all sides with my God forms, but Doom had other plans. Doom pulled an old trick again, and released Satannish out again to attack my God Forms! Satannish didn't seem happy about another battle, but Doom was way smarter this time around, and attacked me where I was weak! In a brutal attack, Satannish launched into my Nature God, and savagely ripped it apart in like ten seconds! My God form shriveled into a ball (like a defeated Bakugan), and shot down into the water to my latent spirit form. Satannish didn't chase my defeated God Form, but that did nothing for me, as the demon tackled Strength God, and tried eating it! Yeah, I dunno what I was feeling at the moment, but I knew I never wanted to be used as demon chow again! As was the case, Sattanish took a hefty bite outta my neck, and actually grew a good ten feet! Before he could finish this meal, I willed my God Steroids form to self destruct, and slightly off-balance him enough for War God to ride in on a War Force horse (no way was I not gonna do that), and catapult into Satannish's stomach with a stab from Chaoseater! The demon roared in pain, but managed to swat me off him, and attack with a bull charge. War God grabbed Satannish by the horns, rolled with the momentum, and flipped the demon! Shortly afterwards, War God created wings, flew into Satannish from behind, stabbed him in the back, and flew upwards! By the way, i'm just gonna talk about my God Forms in the 3rd person. Less confusing that way.

Anyway, back at the main fight, Allyson was holdin' the fort down. Doom was doing his best to take Allyson out, via Death Force Cerberi, God Steroids Efreet, and some kinda magic attack that looked like an evil spirit bomb, but Allyson's Eden Inferno arena made Doom's attacks super weak! A good third of em' fizzled out before they even touched her construct! Hell, Namor took advantage of the Eden Inferno mixing with the water, and gave Doom one hell of a baptism (John the Baptist would be proud)! With Allyson and Namor doing the heavy lifting, forcing Doom to get inside a barrier for a while, I was FINALLY able to converge Death, Sun, and Sea God in on Doom! Together, we managed to hold Doom off for the remaining four minutes it took for Grant to finish the chi blocks, but just barely. Ok…..just barely for me.

Allyson was completely on her game with that Halo armor, as she took it to Doom head to head! He blasted her with various magical attacks, tried cleaving her armor in half with a huge fire sword, and summoned an army of flesh eating lightning wasps to throw her off. She blocked his magical blasts with a fire wall, cut his sword in half with her Halo sword, and incinerated the wasp swarm with a wave of Eden Inferno! Shortly afterwards, she converted her armor's fists into boxing gloves, redoubled her mini-rocket launchers, and took it to Doom Rocky style! They exchanged some pretty hard blows against each other, and even with the Eden Inferno saturation, Doom was no slouch. For every punch Allyson got in, Doom got two. Allyson sprayed him with missiles, but he'd sprout some lightning snakes outta his arms and back, and rip off some of her weapons, or restrain her arms and legs for a short time. While that was goin'' on Doom was handling me so dismissively, I was actually kinda hurtful. For example, Sun God attacked Doom on his right, but didn't even manage to touch him, as Doom converted his Death Force arm into an avalanche of dead souls! A good chunk of them didn't get past the blaze of the Eden Inferno soaked landscape, but the tougher ones (and there were a lot of em'), managed to swarm him! Sun God held out as long as it could, but the sheer number of damned souls eventually did him in two minutes later! Death God managed to last a little longer, as he basically turned the fight into a two on one for two minutes, but Doom formed a small pentagram in his Apollo fire hand, and while he took a good set of licks from Death God, he managed to sneak me with a seemingly inconsequential slap to the arm. That slap proved to be way more than what I thought it was, as Death God literally started to get infected with some kinda demonic virus! It hurt as much as it could for a living energy construct, and Death God started spasming uncontrollably, as Doom blasted Allyson off him just enough to create an Apollo Fire war hammer, and smash Death God's face in! So that only left Sea God standing on the ground level, and Doom was way ahead of keeping that on lock. When my forms started to converge on Doom, Sea God was comin' in from the back, and was amassing a lotta Eden Inferno water. Doom sprouted a whole ass lightning snake hydra from his back, easily 100+ heads, and attacked me with an onslaught of snake bites and lightning blasts that kept me from taking the fight to him! I launched myself at the snake mass as a giant Minotaur, tidal wave, God of War III Poseidon, Spongebob's King Neptune (the movie one), and even a giant Sea Force charged Beyblade! Everything I tried got blocked by the snake army, or Doom's magic hands creating pentagram shields, energy vortexes, hellfire comets, barricades, and all manner of magical blocks. All in all, this was just not my round, and I was super happy to get it over with. Speaking of which, Grant had finally wrapped up on the chi blocks, and Set went f*(#!^% ballistic! A torrent of giant lightning snakes, big enough to swallow a dozen skyscrapers stacked on top of each other! I had to retract my god forms back into my body, as the war in the clouds was quickly turning into a bomb waiting to go off (oh, and Satannish got yanked back into Doom)! I got scared for a split second, as I realized we didn't establish who was gonna blow this one up, but Grant was ready for this one. He grew to regular size, summoned his axe, which was bathed in enough Geo-Force to destroy a state, and threw it up at Set! One big green boom later, and the lightning snake demon was toast! We were able to enjoy that win for all of five seconds, before Doom exploded outta the water, and f*(!^% dipped for New York!

Seriously, this dude was like a bat outta hell! I ran behind him as fast as I could, tryna knock him off course with waves, lightning strikes, War Force drones, and Death Force wraiths, but Doom kept up a series of revolving pentagram shields, and managed to fly just above the water as to not get pulled in by my attacks! We were in sight of Long Beach in ten seconds, which was way too close to the Sanctum for any kinda comfort!

"Storm-Lord!" Allyson thought to me. "Make a huge wall of water! I'll charge it with Eden Inferno! GT, as soon as he kisses the holy water, Storm-Lord's gonna send him out to sea! Make sure you're small and giving out tons of mosquito bites by then!"

"Tiny Titan!" Grant snapped at her. "Never call me a mosquito again!"

"Knock it off, dude!" I responded. "We gotta stay focused!"

Grant was still a little miffed at the mosquito thing (baby), but he calmed down. Anyway, before we got the wall set up, I gave an order for the rest of the team to regroup at the beach. As Doom got closer to the shore, Namor and I combined our power, and raised a huge wall of water, big enough to cover the entire length of Long Island, just a few miles off the coast! Allyson clapped her hands together, and the wall blazed with enough Eden Inferno to cleanse the sins of all New York! Doom smacked into the wall, and I did a Static Jump to Long Beach shore (Allyson took the long way), before Namor and I let it rip, and sent Doom careening back to the sea! Grant was already in Tiny Titan, and giving Doom the usual. We had peace for about five seconds, before Doom launched another hail mary at us.

He took to the sky, yelled at the top of his lungs (ok?), and started surging with all the remaining Olympus Force energies he had left. First, he combined the power of Zom and Satannish (Apollo Fire and God Steroids respectively), and transformed into a boss battle that looked like Jinpatchi Mashimu, Onaga, and mutated ram. His gut was a growling, snapping demon face, he had Demon Fire spikes jutting outta his arms, legs, and back, and he had huge ram horns on the sides of his head. Thankfully he was reduced down to a manageable 12 foot tall demonic giant (gotta think positive somehow), but that wasn't too much to get happy about, as he used Ikonn's power to multiply himself hundreds upon hundreds of times over, and charged a pretty sizable army at us! Namor and I quickly took to creating a hefty defense, as I strafed the skies with lightning, while he blasted giant Sea Force charged water cannons at them! Everyone else immediately caught onto the trend, and proceeded to throw in their best stuff! Allyson redid her Eden Inferno eagle, and sent multiple waves of holy fire out to thin Doom's ranks. Wiccian and Sister Grimm did some cool pentagram attacks that either shot out mass magic blasts like Gatling gun shells, mini bombs, mines, and shrapnel grenades! Magik was a little late to the party, as Allyson's Eden Inferno torched the demons she summoned (the side eye was real), but managed to save face via sending giant magic sword slashes into the battlefield. Starbright changed her armor into a black and gold War Machine suit on steroids, completely equipped with heat seeking plasma mini rockets, photon bullet shooting Gatling guns, black hole grenade launchers, mini supernova mines, and Nova Force scatter shot pods! I've never seen demonic carnage look so beautiful! So yeah, we managed to hold the border pretty strong, and judging by the feedback from the Sanctum Sanctorum defense squad, Doom was feelin' the heat!

"Excuse me?" Starlight thought to us. "Did we win? The demons just vanished, and these giant sea monsters are getting frustrated! Can somebody please fill me in?"

I thought on it for a few seconds. Doom musta really been all in on this attack (the army kept multiplying at an alarming rate), but even he couldn't be stupid enough to give up a strategic foothold on his objective. Still, as much firepower as me and the team were dishin' out, it was just a matter of time until Doom overtook our defenses anyway. We needed all hands on deck.

"Long story short, Starbright," I started. "We're getting close to the finish line, and Doom's in full all or nothing mode! All his forces are here at Long Beach! We're holdin' the fort down, but we're gonna need every ounce of firepower we can throw at him! You and the defense team form up with the main group! Namor, bring the sea monsters over as well!"

"Starbright," Daya thought to her sister. "You know how you've kept pestering me for days to use the Dreadnought Orion?"

"YEA?!" Starbright squealed.

"Let's do it!"

Kira screamed this big, goofy YAHOOOOO, and said something in an alien language. Her helmet glowed bright with Nova Force for a second, and about 1,000 feet above us, a huge battleship that looked beat for beat like the Vestal Destroyer from Bakugan, with a black and gold paint job (I may have teared up a little)! I didn't know if it was possible to get even more badass, but the Dreadnought Orion proved me wrong!

"Dreadnought Orion online!" the ship boomed as it scanned the area. "Acquiring targets….targets acquired…..commencing termination!"

The ship sprouted cannons, rocket launchers, sonic cannons, photon Gatling guns, and a whole manner of weapons that had to be illegal in most galaxies! The ship opened fire on Doom's forces, and cut them down to size in no time flat! To be honest, most of us became window dressing, as the ship was doin' 70% of the work! Daya and the Sanctum defense joined the party soon after the Dreadnought Orion started runnin' things (I set up a four block perimeter phalanx of damned souls around the Sanctum just in case), we had a pretty good time basically shooting fish in a barrel for five minutes, but Doom was adamant on not letting us have an easy win.

"Yo, Storm-Lord!" Grant thought to me. "Heads up! Doom's bout to make a massive charge! The dude's powering himself up like you wouldn't believe! Do whatever ya gotta do, but you got about 20 seconds until Doom powers through that defense of yours!"

"Appreciated, bud!" I responded. "Don't worry, I got somethin' for him! Okay….Nova Twins, Chavez, Sunbird, Hulkling, and Princess Powerful, y'all are with me! I'm gonna slip into something a little more appropriate, and when Doom busts through, we stay on him! I don't care if you get hit with the force of a star, you get the hell up, and you get back in the fight! Are we clear?!"

Everyone gave me a nervous yes ( I may have laid it on a little thick there), and I experimented with my God Forms. As of now, the only ones I had left were War, Sea, and Storm god. Instead of busting them out separately again, I internalized and combined the energies into myself, and transformed into a behemoth of my own, ala The Shredder (Michael Bay style), just big enough to match Doom! My body was water, my heart had turned into a War Force core that was pulsing the energy to every molecule of my new form, and my armor was solid cloud (as solid as a cloud can be)! I finished gearin' up just in time to catch Doom smashing through the water wall, and tryna make a beeline to the Sanctum! I countered his charge, and we ended up in a mid air grapple, as we careened towards Brooklyn! We blasted and punched each on the way down, but Doom was still way stronger than me, as he punched me off of him with a real haymaker! Doom mighta made a break for the Sanctum, but Molly and America flew into him, and crashed him in Greenwood Cemetery. Despite how icky this made me feel, Allyson rightly assumed we needed to keep Doom as grounded as possible, and put an Eden Inferno Sunspot over the entire cemetery grounds, as well as an Eden Inferno dome for extra protection. Doom writhed and struggled in the holy blaze, and it wasn't gonna get any easier for him as me and the team ganged up on him!

I started the fight with some really hard punches across Doom's face, while Starbright and Allyson barraged Doom with an onslaught of Photon rockets and Eden Inferno mini-suns respectively! Hulkling came in with some slashes and stabs from his Excelsior, while Starlight took a page outta her sister's book and got inside a giant mecha-samurai armor, and slashed Doom with a Nova Force charged dwarf star matter sword! We were able to get in a good 5-10 strikes each, before Doom either blasted or punched us off of him. Aside from Allyson, America and Molly were the real silver bullets of this fight. America was dashing in and out of portals, attacking Doom from all sides with punches and kicks that woulda splintered the ground if Grant wasn't fortifying it with G-Force (even if it wasn't real, nobody wanted to brawl with corpses flying about)! Molly was the constant, and kept matching Doom blow for blow! Shots that sent me and the others flying only knocked Molly slightly off-balance! That gave the rest of the team enough time to recover and get back in the game! The rest of the fight only lasted for five minutes, but they were intense as f*(#. For example…..

Four minutes left:

I slashed and stabbed at Doom with War Force Baraka blades, while Starbright attacked Doom's back with her sword! America and Molly got in some good hits in, and Allyson and Starbright kept up their respective barrages. Doom took that for all of ten seconds, before he blasted us off him via explosive wave! He locked onto me (always me), opened his stomach mouth, and blasted a huge God Steroids/Demon fire Kamehameha at me! I recovered just in time to turn my hands into cannons, and blast out a counter Kamehameha level blast of War/Sea Force charged water! Our blasts collided with each other for a good ten seconds, before Allyson came in with an assist, and rammed an Eden Inferno train construct into Doom's back! That was enough to break his concentration, allow my blast to plow him into the other side of the barrier, and my team to rain down a massive energy barrage on him!

Three minutes left:

Doom wasn't very happy about that, and quickly broke free via sonic scream from his stomach (gross and badass at the same time)! He quickly transformed his arms into spiky clubs, and zoomed forward so quick, I barely had time to block it via turning my left arm into a shield! I quickly converted my arms into giant spiked hammers, and was able to get in five hits, before Doom slammed one hit into my chest, and rocketed me halfway across the graveyard! My head was spinning a bit from that one, and Doom was fully intent on smashing my head 6ft under (had to make that joke), but Starlight intercepted his jumping attack, and stabbed him in the stomach with her dwarf Star katana! Hulkling followed her up, and shanked Doom in the back with his sword! Doom was really starting to come apart at the seams, as his demons damn near jumped outta him from that last stab! Allyson only made it worse, as she shot Eden Inferno tendrils up at him, stabbed him through his arms and legs, and slammed him to the ground!

Two minutes left:

America, Molly, and myself swarmed Doom like he was the last slice of pizza, and pounded him as hard as we could! We held him down for a good ten seconds, before he blasted us off him, and went completely ape$#!+. Dude musta juiced super hard on the demon roids, as he knocked America and Molly to either side of the cemetery with two hits! Starlight came in with a katana slash, but Doom blocked it, and stomach blasted her so hard, her Samurai armor got seriously wrecked! I came in from behind, and slammed a giant War Force charged water shuriken into his back! He whirled around with a wide swing, but I ducked under it, and slammed him several dozen times in the face, gut, and chest with my hardest punches! Doom shrugged them off, and grabbed me by the arms, as he tried to eat me with his stomach! We grappled for a few seconds, before Allyson and Starbright saved my ass with another volley of Eden Inferno blasts and Nova forced charged rounds. Doom had enough of that, and created two mystic spell seals over his hands, that shot out red tendrils that were fast enough to even get them both off guard, and strong enough to where Allyson's Eden Inferno aura was havin' a difficult time breaking through! That sucked for them, as the tendrils were actually tongues that were pulling them both into barking, snapping hellhound heads, comin' outta Doom's pentagrams! Hulkling came in with the save, and snipped the bands with his sword! At the same time, America, Molly, myself, and Starbright (her samurai armor repaired itself) were closing in on Doom as Grant was an inch away from scratching off another demon!

One minute left:

Props to Allyson, as she came up with a pretty sweet way to get around Doom's strength and speed. First off, we had to establish that she taught her team the Delta Playbook, as she suggested a modified version of Delta Speed Thrasher. Basically, me, Molly, America, Starbright, and Hulkling kept up a quick in and out series of ten second attacks, before dipping out before Allyson and Starbright bombarded Doom with their respective energy attacks! Doom was dead in the water, as we constantly kept switching formations and attack patterns with every rotation! He whirled, blasted, and screamed his head off, but we ran circles around him up until the moment Grant finally pumped the brakes on Ikonn! The green, bug-like demon's aura shot upwards, towering over the skyscrapers, flailing wildly!

"We got this one!" Starbright announced. "Sis, let's fire up the Big Bang!"

"Oh dear…" Starlight said (always a good sign), as her helmet's eyes blinked a few times. "Miss America, please transport us to the beach."

The Dreadnought Orion literally transformed into a giant satellite gun kinda thing, charged itself up with so much Nova Force, I could feel a slight gravitational pull from way out here! America quickly rounded us all up (Grant included), and star jumped us to Long Beach with the rest of the team. We were just able to catch the back end of the explosion, as the Dreadnought Orion literally blasted Brooklyn off the face of the Mirror Dimension! I was gonna ask why the hell this wasn't the game plan from the start, but it looked like it was a one off thing, as the ship reverted to its regular form, and disappeared into…..the Nova Force I assume. Ikonn was history, and as such, Doom's demonic horde dropped significantly! Magik was not havin' any more of that, as she teamed up with Wiccian and Sister Grimm to transport Doom to the beach shore, summon this huge pentagram that was crackling with black and purple energy, and slam it right on top of him! Unlike all the other pentagrams, this one broke down into raw energy as soon as it made contact with Doom, and soaked into his body! The energy crackled and snapped almost as loud as Doom was screaming, and when it subsided, Doom's remaining demons evaporated into nothing!

"We clipped his dick!" Magik mentally shouted to us (what a gem). "No more armies! Let's kick his ass!"

Did I mention that I loved her? Cuz I do. Anyway, we basically did what she asked, and gave Doom a pretty thorough beat down for a good five minutes, using a juiced up version of Allyson's modified Delta Speed Thrasher! Me, the Nova Twins, and Hulkling kept up quick and hard bursts of ass whuppin' from all sides, before Namor, Karolina, America and Molly, who were doin' the whole fly super fast and come hot out of a portal, came in to deliver a blow that could level a city! Afterwards, Allyson, Power Unicorn, Magik, Wiccian, and Sister Grimm would come in and rain down the wrath of the gods on Doom! We'd repeat the same technique, while making sure to change up the attack patterns and keep outta range of Doom's desperate attacks. Again, this worked for a good five minutes, but Doom flipped the script on us outta nowhere! The dude went full on resurrected Power Rangers monster, and grew to 100 ft tall! The dude sent the team reeling, as he went on a Godzilla rampage, heading towards Doctor Strange! I tapped into so much power from the Olympus Stones in my chest, it actually hurt! I made the skies darken and thunder, and slammed several Olympus Force energy bolts, as big as city blocks, into Doom's chest! He staggered backwards a few blocks, but this massive hail mary could only last me so long! Thankfully, my team rallied behind me! Allyson called her spirit animals into the fight, and unleashed them on Doom from every angle! Wiccan, Magik, Sister, Grimm, and Hulkling unleashed every magic attack they could throw at Doom, and with an assist from the Nova Twins and Power Unicorn, Molly and America started their Portal Punches (might as well make it official); giving Doom several hard flying punches to the head, chest, and gut! We were able to slow Doom down for a bit, but he recovered, and started trudging through our attacks! As he touched down on Brooklyn, I condensed a huge portion of my storm cloud into a giant fist, and slammed it into Doom's gut! I made the fist explode, and Doom went careening back to Long Beach! Namor immediately took advantage of that, and made the ocean flood inland; covering Long Island and half of New York (thank God this wasn't the real world)! He immediately shot giant harpoon chains into Doom's back, which Allyson lit up with Eden Inferno! Doom sprayed demon fire, let loose so many explosive waves, and roared bloody murder, but we kept him subdued as we blasted him with everything we had! Olympus Force lightning, crashing waves of Sea Force/Eden Inferno charged water, enough Nova Force blasts and artillery to wage war on a third of the country, and the occasional Mach 7 punch comin' from a star shaped portal; we went all out! Oh, the next demon Grant was teeing up was Satannish…...probably shoulda mentioned that sooner. Anyway, we were totally able to hold Doom off the rest of the way, and when Satannish's aura was shot upwards, Allyson combined the first wave of Sun Goddess charges into a massive power blast that rocketed the demon back into whatever alternate hell it came from!

One. More. To. Go. Zom was the last one!

It was like a wave of adrenaline washed through everyone (Doom included). This realization that this was the final round, especially with the comet literally being 11 minutes away from crashing into the earth! It was go time, and we were gonna leave it all on the floor!

Allyson combined all her remaining charges into one last strength boost that made her Sun Goddess form flare up so much, she was completely lost in the bonfire, and everyone else…...tried really really hard, as we jumped Doom for all we were worth!

Minute one:

Me, the Nova Twins, Molly, America, and Hulkling did our usual ten second rotations of Delta Speed Thrasher beatdowns, while Allyson, Wiccan, Power Unicorn, Magik, and Namor ran through the playbook of wide range ways to screw Doom in between intervals. Sometimes they'd do Delta Killer, and trap Doom between Final Flash level blasts of magic energy, holy fire, and water, other times they'd do Aerodynamics, and crash Doom from all sides with aerial death machines, The group favorite was 100% Animal Kingdom (Nico really liked Koalas).

Minute Two:

Doom flipped $#!+, and blasted us off him with a huge explosive wave! I just barely got alerted to a giant spike connected to a demon fire chain (Ghost Rider woulda been jealous) about to smash me into the water, and just barely managed to fly outta the way. Namor and Power Unicorn got decked pretty hard, but everyone else managed to just barely maneuver around the ever increasing wave of chain spikes flying outta pentagram portals. Allyson and Hulkling were the most effective in combating the spikes, as her Eden Inferno cancelled the demon fire out, and Hulking swung his sword to make huge waves of lightning that shattered the chain spikes.

Minute Three:

After getting enough of an opening, I did a Static Jump right in front of Doom, and wailed on him for a good ten seconds with 100 Storm-Lord Specials per second! Granted, Doom fought back, and I was only able to connect a little under half of my blows. I dodged and blocked most of Doom's counter strikes, but his entire arm was a freaking spiked club, and he only needed five hits to send me rocketing backwards! Magik came in with the swift teleport, and shanked Doom in the back with her soulsword, and was swiftly followed by Hulkling stabbing Doom in the neck! They quickly backed off, as Molly and America came out of a star portal, and trucked Doom in the gut with a sound shattering punch! Namor and Power Unicorn got back in the game, and flew one hell of an uppercut under his chin! They gave me time to recover, and as one, everyone who could blasted a wave of energy at Doom (Molly and America felt left out) from every angle!

Minute Four:

We kept Doom pinned down under our barrage for a good ten seconds, before he fought back in a big way! All of a sudden, our blasts were pushed back just enough to give Doom some breathing room, and you better believe he took advantage of that! He literally honed in on ten different blasts, and countered in full! We literally had twenty Kamehameha blasts fighting with each other at the same time, and i'm not sure if I was fanboying, or $#!++!^% my pants! Hell, I had to give it to him, cuz Doom fought back like a champ! Almost immediately, he overpowered Magik, Karolina, Wiccan, Power Unicorn, and Sister Grimm! Power Unicorn took ate it big time, but everyone else teleported back to Long Beach just in time. The Nova Twins were the next one to get booted from the fight, and it was at that point I realized we were fighting for a tie at best! I quickly reached out to Allyson and Namor, and instructed them to get huge blasts charging from the sky and the water, as we stalled Doom for as long as we could. It took a good little bit to get the blast sandwich ready, and Doom's blasts were inching closer and closer to me and Namor (Allyson and Hulkling stayed relatively even), but as soon as Allyson and Namor were satisfied with the power they stocked up on, I did a massive inverted blastwave, via the Power Grid, around Doom for cover, as Allyson and Namor let it rip! The massive blasts of Eden Inferno and Sea Force charged water smashed into Doom from above and below, and actually looked like it had enough heat to take a bit of wind outta Doom's sails! Yeah…...that proved to be wrong, as Doom let a city destroying blastwave loose, knocking everyone left in every direction, and went on a warpath towards the Sanctum Sanctorum!

Minute Five:

The Nova Twins were the first to intercept him, and gave him a quick beat down. Molly and America joined soon after, and the four of them lasted all of ten seconds, before Doom blasted them away with a Demon fire blastwave! By then I recovered, and did a Static Jump in front of Doom, before he could get any real momentum up and going again. I smashed several hundred Storm-Lord Specials across his face and chest, before teleporting away and constructing an onslaught of hundreds of Olympus Force missiles, Griffins, and kamikaze chariots to bombard Doom from all sides! I was proud of myself, as I kept Doom pinned down long enough for Allyson to really get his escape attempt under control. She asked me to ease up on my barrage, as she rocketed in from behind, and slammed a flying punch into Doom's back! The blow released a blastwave that Allyson formed into football stadium sized dome around Doom! I could hear him wailing something fierce in there! Allyson quickly went to work, raining down hundreds of fireballs down from all angles, and slamming Doom 1,000 times per second with Power Gauntlet punches! She wasn't greedy with the ass kicking tho, as everyone was allowed to jump in on the fun! Namor, Hulkling, Karolina, Power Pony, and Starbright got a piece by turning Doom's back into a pin cushion! America and Molly kept up the seismic haymakers, and I used my waterbending to mix a dome shaped torrent with the Eden Inferno, and brought in down on Doom as a huge spiral blast (based on the cussing, a lotta my teammates needed the holy bath)!

Minute Six:

Doom broke our formation via suddenly growing 60 ft into something that was like if a Balrog was made of chains! Doom desperately spewed fire across the area; forcing us to retreat in various directions. I dived into the ocean, and quickly combined my War/Death Force and Zeus Lighting together, and came up as a 60 ft tall G1 Optimus Prime! I smashed an uppercut into Doom's face, converted my arm into a Gatling gun, and blasted him point blank, like he owed me money (folks in the Bronx shoot each other for less)! Doom shrugged off my slugs, and tried to cut me in half with a huge flaming cleaver, but I created a Roman shield outta damned souls (sucks to be them), blocked Doom's strike, and shot him with a volley of Zeus Lightning charged War Force missiles from my back! I made one hell of a boom, but Doom kept advancing! We exchanged sword strikes and energy blasts for a few seconds, but Doom managed to floor me pretty hard by slamming a hard cleaver strike into my shield, and getting just enough air to blast me full on with a Demon Fire Final Flash (too good a name for this loser)! I got blasted deep into the water, only for the blast to suddenly stop. I quickly recovered, and resurfaced to see my teammates giving Doom a hard time in various ways! Power Unicorn converted his body into a towering construct, and was duking it out with Doom. Namor gave him an assist via launching successive waves of Sea Force charged water at Doom, while the Nova Twins kept up their space weapons barrages! Biggest MVP had to be Allyson tho, as she was literally hurling Spirit Bomb sized mini-suns at Doom rapid fire! I was about to get back in the fight, but the magic trio was apparently cooking up something big! Back at the beach, I could sense something akin to a small black hole forming way back where they were! Blue, orange, and purple energy were sparking into the air, and I heard a roar/wail that chilled my very bones. Magik gave us a little over three seconds to split, before she unleashed whatever unholy construct it was that she, Wiccan, and Sister Grimm conjured up!

Minute Seven:

A black shadow zoomed towards Doom, and exploded into a black haze! A few seconds later, and the haze took shape into a giant beast that looked like a mix between a man, porcupine, and a Xenomorph! It's body crackled with orange, blue, and purple energy, and every strike it landed on Doom caused him to howl in pain that neither me or the team could replicate! Doom fought back like hell, getting in some good hits in, but every time he landed a blow, the creature changed its shape, while also infecting Doom with some kinda black magic growth! Seriously, it went from edgelord Shadow The Hedgehog, to a feral Nightcrawler, a huge lion, and was currently settled on a Cerberus! The demon kept Doom busy, while me and the team figured out what the hell was goin' on.

"Magik?!" I thought to her. "What is this?! What the hell is that?! What's it doing?!"

"It's Asmodeus, the demon of wrath!" she responded. "It's on a tight leash, and is currently kicking Doom's ass! You're welcome!"

"But what's it doing?! What's that thing growing over Doom?! Hey, Geo-Titan, you good?!"

"All good here, dude!" Grant responded.

"Don't worry!" Magik spoke up. "The demon only harms those that are evil, or more on the malevolent/vile side. In other words, i'm not getting anywhere close to it, and Namor should probably keep his distance! As for what it's doing….i'm not entirely sure. Best as I can tell, it's leeching as much energy off Zom as it can, before the timer runs out. That much power is definitely gonna give him the juice to shake up the hell lord hierarchy. Maybe this was a bad idea. Anyway, ya got a little over a minute, till this thing goes back to Hell. Do whatever."

"Ok," I responded. "We're gonna rush him from all sides! Nova Twins-"

"WE CAN USE THE SATELLITE SLAM CANNON!" Starbright mentally roared.

"Uhhh, yeah, sure. Princess Powerful, Ms. America, and Karolina-"

"Lucy In The Sky!" she responded.

"That sucks! You're Angel Aurora now. You, Princess Powerful, and Ms. America take off east as fast as you can on my mark. Countdown a minute, and portal back with the biggest hits you got. Sunbird, you're with me. We take off west, and basically do the same thing. Namor and Power Unicorn, get to the bottom of the ocean, and come back up with a real haymaker. Hulkling, nothing personal, but hang back with Magik and the others. We're bringing the fight to y'all after this! Alright, everybody go!"

Minute Eight:

Everybody took off in their respective directions. The Nova Twins, true to Starbright's word, could summon satellites that encased them in Nova Force charged dwarf star warheads; essentially turning them into living nukes! They were locked and ready to go, and at the bottom of the ocean, Namor and Power Unicorn were rocketing back up with their death from below punch! Molly, America, and Karolina were just making their first lap around the world, and I was pumping all of my power into my Speed Momentum, tryna build up as much speed as I could! Hell, i'll even admit it, I was tryna outrace Allyson, who was flying above me. Yeah…..it wasn't even close! To put it in context, I did a lap every five seconds, for a total of 12 laps. Not bad, right? Allyson did 126! Gotta admit, my feelings were a little hurt. Anyway, me and the team converged on Doom (the demon was just a big blob of good around him), and hit him with a blow that woulda wiped half of New York State off the map! Lucky for us, the demon goo basically absorbed all the energy into itself, and transferred it violently to Doom, who blew up real good!

Minutes Nine and Ten:

A little cheat on this last one, I know, but everything blended together in this last stretch. The explosion shrunk Doom down to size, but he was able to get a flying start towards Long Beach! Thankfully, the magic trio was one step ahead, and had this invisible magic web at the ready! As soon as Doom flew past the shore, a shadowy black web materialized around him, and threw off his flight pattern! Doom crashed to the ground, and skipped across the pavement like a stone, until he landed in the middle of Long Island! He struggled to his feet, but me and the team were dogpiling him under an onslaught of constant flying/running punches; smashing 100+ sound shattering blows into him per second! Hell, Doom clearly wasn't packing as much as he used to, cuz we managed to keep that up for half a minute! Doom eventually did get us off him via demon fire explosive wave, and took off straight up! He was probably heading for one last ditch effort against Strange, but Allyson was havin' none of it! She created an Eden Inferno Sunspot, big enough to cover all of Long Island, and shot several spearhooks into Doom's back, chest, and legs! She constructed a giant anchor around his legs, while I finished the job via slamming a huge bolt of Olympus Force into his head! Doom dropped to the floor, like a sack of bricks, and Allyson kept up the Eden Inferno acupuncture, while the rest of the team put it all on the line! Namor, Magik, Hulkling, and Karolina stabbed their weapons into Doom! He roared and flailed, knocking them off him, but Molly, America, and myself did a quick Delta Speed Thrasher; slamming our hardest blows into him for a good ten seconds! Doom blasted a torrent of demon fire from his mouth, breaking up our formation, but Allyson, Nico, and the Nova Twins rained down a barrage of Eden Inferno missiles, magic blasts, and space weaponry! That kept Doom at bay just long enough for us on the ground to set up another attack. As soon as Doom blasted his way free again with another explosive wave, everyone rushed in at once! We all got in a good few hits together as a team, until Doom shook us off! After that, we were lucky if we could muster up a three person attack! I came in with a quick set of Storm-Lord Specials, only to get punted three blocks away! America and Molly came in with some real bruisers, but all it took was one lucky backhand for Doom to swat them away! Namor summoned a huge torrent of Sea Force charged water, and propelled it on top of Doom! I recovered by then, and gave him an assist with a lightning charge! Doom was really gettin' good at muscling outta these energy barrages, cuz he lit the entire block up with Demon Fire, extinguishing the spiral blast, and responded with a mass barrage of fireballs in all directions! Everyone went scrambling for cover, except Power Unicorn, who willed all the fireballs to stop, and fly right back at Doom! Hulkling and Magik did more of their trademark stabbing, while Wiccan and Nico bound Doom with more black webs, as everyone rushed him again! It went like that for…..well, until Grant finally put the brakes on Zom!

Right before the demon got booted from Doom, Grant grew to full size, uppercutted Doom into the stratosphere, and pulled his stupid ship outta the Geo-Nexus! Apparently, Grant and Gaea managed to mess with the core just enough to where Grant literally threw a magic nuke into Zom! The sky went all white for a moment, before crackling with green and purple energy, on top of the massive mushroom cloud of fire and smoke! Hell, the heat was so f*(#!^% intense, we could feel it from way down here, and the bomb going off was strong enough to shatter all the surrounding glass on the skyscrapers! Still, for as loud and annoying as that was (I mean that kinda boom was sure to wake the neighbors), it did the job! Zom was no more, and Doom was plummeting towards the earth!

"STRANGE!" I thought to him. "WE GOT DOOM ON THE ROPES! ATTACKING HIM NOW! PORT US BACK TO THE REAL WORLD!"

Reality shifted again, and me and the team were back in the real world (Strange left the nuke cloud and radiation in the Mirror Dimension)! Doom's comet was just above the troposphere right now, and we had just under a minute to blow it to hell! I pumped the gas, and did a Static Jump just in front of Doom, and stabbed him in the chest with Excelsior! First off, the dude's body musta really absorbed a lotta Olympus Force, cuz this was like tryna cut through a rhino! Hell getting stabbed in the chest was a real waker upper, cuz Doom shrieked to life, and looked like he was gonna punch me into the sea! Before he could, I vibrated my blade, and willed it to surge with Olympus Force! Doom roared even louder, and tired to blast/hit me off him (I kept an air/lighting body shield around me), but I noticed how my sword was inching closer to his heart! Doom struggled against me, and gripped my sword hilt; trying desperately to shove my blade outta his chest! I was having none of that, and flooded a blast of War/Death Force, and Zeus Lightning into his chest! Again, I was getting closer to his heart, but it wasn't a done deal, and we were runnin' outta time. The rest of my team showed up at this point, just in time for me to finally realize what had to be done.

"NAMOR, SUNBIRD, GEO-TITAN!" I thought to them. "I NEED ALL THE STONES!"

"But-" Allyson started.

"NOW DAMMIT!" I cut her off!

A little rude on my part, I admit it, but we were on a tight schedule here! So yeah, they gave me the stones, and God f*(#!^% damn it, did I not miss this feeling! Every atom of my being was on fire! I felt like I was one stitch away from bursting at the seams! Hell, it took everything I had just to stay conscious, much less aware of what the hell I was doing! Step one was confiscating Doom's alive licence via amping the energy beam from my sword by twenty! The blast easily cut through Doom like butter, but things didn't stop there! Doom's life force may have been keeping the comet intact, but it didn't just fizzle out once I capped him! Oh well, things haven't been easy once on this damn mission, why the hell start now? I simply turned up the juice into a full force blast, literally the size of New York City (I lied; this was hard as $#!+)! The blast rocketed up to the comet, and struck it at the base! I expected it to explode, but the comet was way more durable than that. Instead of tryna overpower it, I condensed all the expelled energy into a giant drill head, and willed it to start digging! I thought it might get easier from there, but the damn comet kept fighting me every step of the way! I had to double, triple, quadruple, octuple, and so on, the amount of energy I was pumping into the drill! After what seemed like an eternity, my drill reached the center of the comet! I immediately willed all that built up energy to explode, and f*(# constantly building on top of the energy I already put in! In addition to the energy I already built up, I overloaded the explosion with every last ounce of energy I could will outta the stones! The result was the comet exploding into a massive wave of multi-colored fire that dispersed across the atmosphere…..as well as the Olympus Stones literally shattering inside of me!

I dunno if I was in pain from that last one, cuz as soon as it happened, I kinda sorta blacked out.

When I came to, I honestly thought I was dead. Seriously, the place I was at….it wasn't like anything at all! I was slightly floating above some kinda white matter. Seriously, I couldn't tell if this platform was a solid, liquid, or gas. Above me was this thick mist that was simultaneously up close and far away, that had multiple colors flashing in it. Wasn't sure about it, but I sure as hell would take it over what was below me! Imagine a black pit with swirling multi-colored lava. Outta that pit, multiple arms and faces were roaring/grasping up at the platform I was hovering above! I couldn't understand them, but could easily tell they were the demons Doom had borrowed power from, and they were f*(#!^& pissed! Again, I didn't have a clue what they were saying, but I could feel their tidal wave of anger in my bones! A lot of it was aimed at me, but I realized the lion's share belonged to someone else. Someone here with me.

I turned around to see a dude in a black suit that looked like it cost at least 2,000 dollars. As I hovered to his side, I could see his curly black hair was slicked back, with an S curl dropping just over his forehead. The dude was male model material, with a face that looked like it was carved outta marble, hazel eyes, and a demeanor that screamed he was hot $#!+. Seriously, the dude was super chill, with his hands in his pockets, as he peacefully looked off into the distance. Hell, looking at him made me suddenly conscious of what I was wearing. Blue jeans, purple T-Shirt, grey hoodie, black Jordans. The same stuff I wore the day I got my powers (and almost killed a guy). I felt a little insecure at first, but I realized this was basically a mental projection of what Doom and I saw ourselves as. Speaking of which, we had some words for each other.

"Doom?" I asked him.

"Jason," he responded.

That threw me off a little, but I tried to play it off.

"Where are we?" I asked. "Are we dead?"

"I am," Doom shrugged (never looked at me by the way). "You may be close, but you seem to still have an anchor in the land of the living. Most fortunate for you, given the circumstances."

I was slightly confused….until this weird sound started to register. It sounded like crunching snow, and it took me a good few seconds to realize it was the platform disintegrating! I had an internal freakout for a good half a sec, before I realized I was safe from the demon pit. Not only was I floating, but I could sense a tug slightly pulling me up. When the platform disintegrated (probably a little over five minutes), I had a life line. Doom n the other hand was actually standing on the platform. Yikes.

"What?" I responded. "You expect an apology? You killed more innocent people than anyone can count. You woulda murdered billions-"

"To save billions more!" Doom raised his voice a little, as he finally looked at me. "I offered the world an eternity of peace and glory! You and your meddling compatriots have destroyed it, alongside this world's rightful savior! An apology is in order, but not to me. Direct your apology to the people of earth, who's rightful empire you've stolen from them."

I automatically laughed! Like, was this dude for real?!

"Wow!" I exhaled. "Ya know, it wasn't until a good way through our fight that I realized I was in a fight to the death with my parents' killer? I felt bad at first, I mean here was the man that literally orphaned me, and that was practically a side thought. I shoulda dedicated my life to taking you down the moment I knew you were involved, but seeing you now, knowing how small you really are, you're not worth my parents memory."

Doom's nostrils flared. Both of us wanted to go another round, but our powers were no good here. Plus, he was dead. It's not like I could double kill him.

"You think yourself worthy to judge me, boy?!" he responded. "Your eyes speak of a supposed hardship I placed on your life, but you know nothing of hardship! Doom has faced real persecution, experienced true loss, and braced all manners of trials and tribulations to become the greatest man who has ever walked this earth! You were nothing before your powers, you are nothing now!"

"Then how's it feel to get your ass whupped by nothing?" I clapped back. "How's it feel to know that you're gonna die in disgrace and shame? Yeah, you had a tough break, yeah, you pulled yourself up into greatness, but what have you done with that? As smart as you are, you coulda solved world hunger on your own! You coulda cured so many diseases, and made a real change in the world! Yet all you did was grasp at power that wasn't yours, in an attempt to remake, not fix, the world! You talk about being a god, but in reality your Sisyphus! You just did the same $#!+ over and over again, failing every time, and starting over from the bottom! Your mind, your potential, all of it down the drain for nothing! You left this world a worse place than you found it, and nobody's gonna miss you!"

Doom smirked at me. It was chilling; like he was silently saying 'wanna bet, kid?'.

"And what will you do about it, boy?" Doom asked me. "Will you right my wrongs? You have the power of the gods. You can be that force for change I 'failed' to be. What is your solution for war, disease, poverty, starvation, injustice, and inequality?"

I admit, he had me stumped on that one. I musta let too much show on my face, cuz Doom straight up scoffed at me.

"Just as I suspected," he continued. "Say what you will of Doom, at least I provided a solution! I would see humanity lifted above the petty gods that think us below them! I would have liberated us from fear of invasion from hostile alien threats! I would see us freed from the shackles of malevolent cosmic forces that would see us used as pawns in their games!"

"The Shadow Gods," I responded.

I didn't realize it, but this place was pretty neutral in temperature. It wasn't warm or cool in here in any way, until I uttered a nickname for The Ones That Sit Above In Shadow. Even the demon pit chilled out for a few!

"Yes." Doom said. "I would have freed us from whatever machinations they had in store. Now, humanity will continue to suffer,from themselves as well as outside forces, because you and your fellow 'heroes' would save the world as it is, rather than force it to change. Speaking of which, what are you planning to do about those Shadow Gods. You know how powerful they are, they have invaded your rightful home on Olympus, and perhaps have lain waste to the Olympians. Whatever their plans are, the earth is sure to be next. How will you respond?"

I had nothing. I wasn't even sure i'd continue to be a hero, much less know how to fight against dark gods that could use skyscrapers as foam bats.

"I….." I started. "I dunno."

Doom's eyes went wide, and he started to laugh. It started as pure amusement, but quickly turned bitter and hostile. The dude almost seemed on the verge of tears.

"The earth truly is in the best hands possible," he brought his laugh on to a chuckle.

He looked down, and with a mild sense of amusement, noticed the platform was getting dangerously close to completely evaporating. We currently had just over 30 meters of room.

"Well," he sighed. "It seems my reckoning has arrived. Before I depart, I would correct you on some misgivings you seem to have. Though many ignorantly despise me, Doom has a considerable amount of allies that will assure retribution. Also, I will return. Doom has died before. He has faced the terrors of many hells, and was reborn even stronger. You can be certain of the fact that Doom will return, and when I do, I will eviscerate everything and everyone you and your friends care about, before slowly breaking you in mind, body, and spirit! You will beg me for death, and only when you are mere husks of your previous existence, only then will I snuff your meaningless lives out!"

Maybe it was because I already had some dark evil would be conqueror gunning for me, but this didn't really phase me all that much. I simply did a backflip kick under Doom's chin (good to know souls have mass), and drop kicked him into the demon pit!

"I'll be waitin' for ya!"I shouted after him, as my soul was yanked up into the multi-colored mist.

I blacked out for a bit, but gradually started to hear voices.

"Jason!" Allyson was damn near crying. "Come on Bolt Boy! It's over, we won! You blasted Doom and his stupid comet to hell! So come on, get up! Your body's fine….maybe. So ya gotta work with me here! Get up! Gimme a kiss! Say something sarcastic and snarky!"

"Does it gotta be in that order?" I said as I came too.

Allyson slightly yelped, and pulled me to a sitting position, before wrapping me in a hug (they set me down in the middle of some road on Staten). I held onto her as tight as I could, as my body was slowly coming back from what felt like a nuke going off in my chest.

"Hey guys," I said to the team (they all stayed to make sure I was ok). "What's goin' on?"

"Didn't you hear me?" Allyson laughed. "You did it! You destroyed Doom, and blew up his comet! You saved the world!"

"WE saved the world! All of us! Tho…..thanks for not letting me fall face first into the pavement."

"Anytime, Bolt Boy."

She cupped my face, and pulled me in for a deep kiss. We kept it relatively short (everyone would not stop awwing), as apparently we still had work to do, but it was a nice little celebration kiss to mark the end of this Olympus Stone crap.

"Yeaaah," Grant spoke up. "Sorry to be that guy, but Cap's been blowin' up the comms for like five minutes now. Doom's army's depowered and scramblin' for cover. Apparently we're in range to intercept a few members of the Wrecking Crew, and Sinister Six. You up for it Storm-Lord?"

My body was pretty much in fighting shape by this point, and there was no way I was gonna turn down a good bad guy chase! I gave Allyson one last kiss, levitated myself up on a gust of air, and flew towards the coordinates of the fleeing villains, with my team racing behind me!