Hullo! I'm back! Told you it would be out the same day as Illegal Justice! I'm so happy, because I like doing this sort of thing! So, I'm preparing another crossover set in the same universe as Ratchet's Journey, something I've been planning even before Ratchet's journey. But I digress, on with the show!
Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia, or Avengers Academy.
This chapter, Tony has his work cut out for him! He's a hero, fighting to claim a nuclear weapon from T'Challa and Steve. Together, with Peter Parker, Tony is bound to achieve victory!
But will our hero's armor be enough to withstand the claws of the Black Panther?
Tony was confident he could take on both Steve and T'Challa all by himself.
He was so wrong.
The indoors were a perfect place for the Black Panther to prowl. He stuck to the shadows, prowling as quietly as he could muster. He understood Stark ever since he first met him. The heir was overconfident, careless, and unhealthily prideful. The armor, to the simple person, seemed impressive at first, but to T'Challa, it was nothing more than a dollar-store Halloween costume.
T'Challa's outfit was a perfect mesh of man and machine. It depended on both the wearer and suit for efficiency, combining the person's own physical prowess and the additions of weapons for maximum success.
Tony's suit was but mere armor. The only reason Tony actually wore the armor was because it couldn't pilot itself. The armor came loaded with remote-controlled weapons, it didn't have anything for melee combat. The armor's materials were the only thing T'Challa considered impressive, seeing as how it actually had a chance to defend Tony from attacks.
T'Challa had the power of his ancestors behind him, many forms of martial arts under his belt, and was impressive even without his costume. Stark was physically incapable of taking him in a straight fistfight, assuming that he actually had ever been in a fight. The heir's physique was pitiful, an even bigger insult was that he was so confident in himself to outwit the prince. T'Challa had low expectations, but still felt disappointed. He disliked how arrogant the quirkless heir acted. What were to happen if Stark were backed into a corner, without any armor?
He pushed himself into disciplining Stark. If he did not, he feared the heir would last long as a hero
The battle had just begun, the heroes had to quickly find an entrance inside.
Tony simply blew a hole in the wall, seeing as how the villains probably obscured the target from external view. Parker looked left and right as they pressed on. Tony's sensors weren't picking up anything on their current floor level.
"If they confront us directly, you break for the weapon, I'll give 'em a big bloody nose." Said Tony, confident that he could beat both in a 2-on-1 battle. "No offense Mr. Stark, but that might not work." Noted Peter.
The group continued for a full minute, nothing stirred.
Suddenly, Peter felt a tingling, "WUP!" He yelped as he jumped onto the ceiling. Sure enough, A shadowy, cat-like figure jolted from the darkness. "Impressive." Said T'Challa, "You could sense me."
Class 1A watched as the students clashed.
"Those two are gonna lose!" Said one. "Nu-uh! It's a 2-on-1, he's outmatched!" Said another. "I dunno about you guys, but the armored dude looks pretty manly!" Said another.
"Watch closely, young students." Thought All Might, "Young T'Challa shouldn't be taken so lightly."
"Parker! Break for it!" Commanded Tony. Peter reluctantly did as he was told, and raced off into the dark hallways. "You are a fool," Sneered T'Challa, "That armor won't shield you from my power."
"Bring it on, kitty!" Said Tony arrogantly. He then opened up with repulsor rays. T'Challa easily dodged his careless onslaught. The prince held back, slashing at the armor on Tony's belly. His attack connected, leaving claw marks on the left and right of Tony's belly. Tony glanced at the damage, quickly trying to blast T'Challa at point blank.
T'Challa quickly twisted Tony's hand to face himself, causing him to shoot himself. The heir was knocked off his feet. Tony activated his thrusters to get himself to his feet. "The fact you need assistance to stand proves your inferiority to me!" Taunted the prince. T'Challa further pressed on by slashing the center of Tony's chest, damaging the ARC Reactor and leaving an "X" marking across the center. "Power dropped to 50%." Said the armor's computer.
Tony growled, T'Challa's taunting only mad him angrier. He fought even harder, he wouldn't let the Wakandan prince beat him like this. The two then began to exchange blows. Tony went into a frenzy of punches, with no precision or power behind them. T'Challa frowned under his cowl, this fight was one-sided against Tony, it just felt so sickeningly guilty to beat the rich boy to his knees.
The prince cut open the plating on Tony's right shoulder. Tony tried retaliating with a repulsor blast from his left, but T'Challa pushed his arm aside. Right after, T'Challa cut open even more of the armor's midsection, and made a foolish mistake.
He tried pushing Tony's right arm over to make him more vulnerable, although he successfully landed another slash in the right side, Tony backed his arm and bludgeoned T'Challa in the head. T'Challa was stunned, but Tony wasn't done: He grabbed the back of T'Challa's neck with his left, and tried forcing him to the ground. But T'Challa quickly regained himself, and ripped the armor plating clean off Tony's forearm, exposing the suit's exoskeleton.
Tony tried to bring a punch from his right, but was stopped short when T'Challa made one of his own. The prince's attack broke off the armor plating on Tony's gauntlet, shattering to pieces. This caused Tony to stumble back, allowing T'Challa to race up and shove Stark off his feet and onto the ground several meters away.
The Class was shocked to see Tony getting pummeled so badly. The boy who managed to outwit their homeroom teacher with his gadgets was being severely broken apart so easily.
"This ain't manly at all! He's not even getting a chance!"
"Geez...That guy won't let up on him."
"Shouldn't you tell him to lay off, All Might?"
"Yeah. Why won't T'Challa just wrap the capture tape around him?"
"He should at least give him some time to recover, this is too much!"
"C'mon Tony...Show him up already!" Rhodey began to plead. Yaoyorozu turned to Rhodey, "You place a lot of faith in him, why?"
"Tony's a genius! He built the suit I'm wearing, He's the reason I'm here! He'd never let anyone humiliate him like this! He did all this, and He doesn't even have a Quirk!" Rhodey said.
The only reaction Rhodey's praise got was even more pleading for T'Challa to let up. All Might held began to worry as he watched, "Should I stop this? I don't know what to do!" He thought nervously. The teacher could only pray no one saw him sweating.
All the students did was watch the fight continue.
Parker felt guilty for leaving Tony, but did as Tony told him to do. Divide and conquer was a good plan, they both knew it. The young boy raced down the halls until he skidded to a halt.
He chanced upon finding the weapon! What luck!
If there was a way he could help Tony, this was it. He strolled into the room, ready to touch the device and end the battle.
He then instantly got another tingling sensation.
Peter ducked and jumped away. A disc-shaped object narrowly flew in front of his face. The disc bounced off the wall and returned to the sender. "I'm not letting you do anything!" Declared Steve, as he placed his shield back on his arm.
Peter took a pause as he realized he just came face-to-face with a very powerful person.
Steve then made another throw with his shield. Peter dodged once more, and fired a web line at Steve. Steve rolled away just before the web caught him, "Webs...wow." Steve said, a little awestruck.
"That thing doesn't obey the laws of physics!" Cried Peter.
The two then carried on the fight as the time became smaller and smaller.
T'Challa stood tall over the fallen Tony. He felt guilty for being so brutal on the rich boy, but felt it had to be done. Tony was fighting to get to his feet, even though his struggle was useless. The heir couldn't pick himself up after T'Challa's onslaught.
T'Challa, with heavy guilt, simply turned and walked away.
"HEY! GET BACK HERE! WE'RE NOT DONE!" Roared Tony. He couldn't this cat just waltz in and pummel him without having the final say. The armor was dead in the water: he couldn't get up on his own. Finally Tony managed to roll over onto his front, and pushed himself to his knees. "What went wrong?" Thought the heir. If Tony was going to win, he needed to think this one out.
How could he beat him? His claws were made from vibranium, and to top that, his clothing was most likely decked head-to-toe with more vibranium. His armor, although severely pulverized, was mostly intact from the waist down and back. What did he have that could counteract vibranium? Wait! Of course! Vibranium is still susceptible to magnetism!
The armor's belt came with tons of miniature gadgets, but the "buckle" was where the magic happened. Tony stood up, and made a running take-off with his repulsors. The Stark raced down the hallways to finish the fight.
"Awesome! He's back in it!" Cheered Amadeus.
"But, he'll get beat up again!" Worried Yaoyorozu.
"Not this time! He's got that look in his eye! He's got this in the bag now!" Declared Rhodey.
"Well, he better hurry." Replied Yaoyorozu, "There's only a minute left!"
All Might's smile grew even bigger. "Watch closely children." He said, "This is what makes smart heroes the best of the bunch!"
Peter was struggling greatly.
Every time he made any move for the weapon, he retreated from Steve in order to not get cleaved in two. Steve alone was hard enough, since all he had to go on was a faulty web-shooter and reflexes.
It certainly didn't help that T'Challa came out of nowhere.
Tony failed? Impossible! He couldn't have...right? Parker didn't have time to ponder over Tony's absence. He had to work fast, his web-shooter didn't have infinite ammo. He needed an opening, some way to make breathing room.
The time narrowed more and more as Parker evaded his attackers.
The tension was growing amongst the spectators, the heroes wouldn't make it time! Parker had to kick up a gear to avoid both T'Challa and Steve. He finally got his opening. Shooting a web from each hand, he got a grip on the opposite wall of the room. He pulled hard, using the webs as an improvised slingshot. He had a shot for the weapon! He just needed to shoot a web and grapple either the weapon or the ground to propel himself and reach the weapon.
He accomplished neither.
When he pressed down on the trigger button, the web-shooter sputtered, and no webs came from the device. He was out of web fluid! Parker hit his on the wall, hard. He dropped to the ground with a pain in his skull. He recovered a split-second later, only to find Steve and T'Challa standing over him.
"Don't suppose you guys wanna talk this out over some coffee?" Parker asked nervously. Steve was about to unveil capture tape. The time was narrowing to 20 seconds! Parker had to act, now!
But a certain armored individual came to save the day.
Tony barged in with a flying knee. T'Challa rolled away, Steve dove for the ground. "You fool!" Said T'Challa, "I've beaten you so easily before! The outcome won't change in you favor!" He lunged for Tony. But he made a fatal mistake.
He let Tony analyze the situation.
Somehow, the Stark was faster than T'Challa. Tony reached for his belt buckle, opened the panel, and fiddled with the controls housed on his belt. Suddenly, T'Challa was pushed to the ground by an invisible force. Steve was pushed back, and struggled to maintain his footing.
Tony then fired his boot jets, reaching for the weapon. The time stopped at 10 seconds. Tony placed him palm firmly on the weapon, ending the battle.
"What just happened?" Asked Steve.
"Well," Tony said with a smug grin, "Vibranium's susceptible to magnetic force. All I did was activate my magnetic repeller, and boom! Turns out, the magnetic repeller was stronger than I thought."
T'Challa was in shock. He'd underestimated Stark so easily, so foolishly. Tony had managed to negate his attack in one fell swoop. The class was in awe, many began to wonder why he didn't do that before.
T'Challa had no idea what Stark was truly capable of doing if he set his mind to it.
"In your face, kitty-cat!" Taunted the Stark. The heir turned away to converse with Steve and Parker , whom introduced themselves to each other. T'Challa simply stared, and said nothing. Perhaps Stark wasn't as inadequate as he thought.
This would be the Black Panther's starting line.
A/N: Looks like T'Challa's got a lot to learn! I'm sure of it! But that will have to wait, until next chapter!
So, I'm working on other stories as well as MAA and Illegal Justice (Chapter 1 out now! Yay!), I'm pushing as fast as I can to complete Ratchet's journey Chapter 2, The Traveler Chapter 1, and many more, stay tuned for those! Don't be afraid to suggest things for stories, events, and ideas! I love you guys, and want to see what you can do!
Next time: It's Rhodey and Yaoyorozu's turn! They have to defend the weapon from Denki and Jiro! Unfortunately for the duo, Yaoyorozu won't take Rhodey seriously! Can Rhodey prove he's not helpless, and win the match?
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