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Chapter 9
Liberation Part 1
Air Force One, 5 Miles Up
"Are you sure this is the right thing to do?" The president asked the remaining members of his cabinet as the Vice-president looked over a computer.
The Vice-President looked up from the laptop.
"I don't want the people to think I've abandoned them. They need to know that we're still in this fight."
"I appreciate the sentiment sir, but we can't launch an attack from here. Fortunately the SHIELD base in Nebraska is still under our control. We have troops and weapons stationed there."
"So we'll regroup and launch a counter attack."
"Yes sir. Your shadow cabinet is already being assembled and any military aid we have is currently being consolidated for the attack."
"You getting this?" the pilot asked his co-pilot as he looked at the radar on his screen.
"Yeah…there not phantom dots are they?"
The pilot pressed the intercom button.
"Sir…we might have a slight problem."
"Only slight?" a voice asked.
The two men looked up in shock as they saw Perun hanging upside down on the top of the plane's front.
"Evasive maneuvers!" the pilot screamed.
"No no no." Perun smirked.
He stood up on the tip of the plane and raised his hammer.
The clouds above roared and swirled around. The once blue sky turned black as storm clouds swirled around above him.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared before a bolt of energy descended from the sky, striking Perun's hammer before he flung it towards the center of the plane.
The lightning ripped through the hull of the plain, ripping the vehicle apart as a fleet of black-suited super-soldiers flew in to catch the falling plane, grabbing the hulls of Air Force One and lifting them.
"Don't worry Mr. President, we're taking you home." Perun said with a smirk.
Unknown Location
Clint Barton remained strapped to his chair as the dim lights above him continued to flicker. The stale air was drenched in the rotting stench of blood and unknown fluids that dripped from the dozens of needles on the surgical table beside him.
The doors to the room opened as the pimple face doctor walked in, followed by several soldier and a general with a jagged scar traveling down his eye, curving towards the corner of his mouth.
"Hello agent Barton." The doctor said with a dangerous glint in his eyes. "I brought Captain Dragomir. I believe you met him in Croatia on one of your many assignments. In fact, that scar he sports was a gift from you."
"Good to see you again, comrade." The Russian sneered as he saw the man that had scarred him.
Hawkeye said nothing as he glared up at the Russian captain.
"Oh the silent treatment. How American of you." The doctor chuckled as he picked up a syringe.
"I've talked to my superiors and they've agreed that we can torture you for fun as long as you're alive for the public executions. So I hope you don't mind if we start with some simple injections."
"Sedatives doctor?" Dragomir asked as the man tapped the needle twice to eliminate any remaining air.
"Oh no…we want him to scream right? This little concoction sensitizes the pain receptors in the brain. Even the air against his skin will make him feel like its on fire."
"You hear that?" Dragomir snarled, grabbing the Avenger by the back of the head.
"We're gonna make you scream…just like your little girl!"
Hawkeye's eyes widened before they narrowed in raw rage.
He pressed his thumb under his index finger, slipping the nail into place.
With a grunt of pain, he flicked his finger.
"URK!" the Russian gagged as he felt a projectile hit the back of his throat.
The man fell back, clutching his neck as the guards stared at him in shock.
"What the f—GAK!" another screamed as he grabbed his throat.
The doctor turned to see all his guards dropping like flies as they chocked on something in their throats.
He looked at Hawkeye before he saw blood dripping from his fingertips, and a noticeable lack of fingernails.
"Not possible…!" he muttered.
Hawkeye locked his sights on the doctor who backed up a few steps.
"Don't. Move."
The doctor stopped as he saw the man's finger primed for another shot.
"I don't need screws or knives…leaving my fingernails on was a bad choice. Now untie me." He growled.
"B-but you'll—"
"Kill you? Oh definitely. But this way you live for another ten seconds. Make a choice."
The security guards watched the scene in horror from the safety of their surveillance room. However that safety came into question as they saw Clint Barton being released.
"Don't just sit there! Call in back up! Red Alert. Hawkeye is loose!"
Hawkeye grabbed Dragomir by the throat and hoisted him up against the wall.
"Did you kill Nicole?!" He roared as he squeezed the man's throat.
"DID YOU KILL MY DAUGHTER?!"
"AK! I-I'd d-d-do it again if I-I could!" he sneered back with a forced grin.
"GRAAAH!" Clint screamed as he wrenched the man's neck upwards and to the side, snapping it instantly.
The body crumpled to the floor as Hawkeye looked towards the fallen guns.
Just then the doors burst open, ushering a dozen armed men in full body armor carrying assault rifles into the room.
But it was too late. Hawkeye's hand was on a gun.
The security room was filed with flashes of lights as gunfire erupted in the holding cells. All the men could do was watch and wait for the battle to finish.
The lights finally died as the feed went back to normal. And the men froze in fear while simultaneously pissing their pants.
In the center of the room stood a blood-covered Hawkeye holding two spent rifles that he dropped to the ground, and replaced with two new ones from the fallen bodies around him.
He looked up at the cameras and glared at them as if he was staring into the men's very souls.
He said one word.
"Next?"
Triskelion
Sam Wilson sat propped up against the side of his cell. The commotion upstairs had finally subsided, and now he was left alone in silence.
He sat on his cot for a few more seconds before he finally had it.
"Fuck it." He muttered.
He leapt off the cot and marched towards the door.
He felt around the contours of the cell's door, trying to find any crack or crease in the metal. If he could just get the panel open he could rewire the doors and…
GRRRN
Sam leapt back as the doors to the cell opened up.
Sam prepared himself for a fight before the sight of a disheveled Captain America and company came into view.
"Cap?!"
"Hey Sam."
"What's up buddy?" Carol said, waving to her old war buddy.
"Carol? I thought you were locked up." Sam trailed off.
"Got time off for good behavior."
"Plus a full scaled invasion of America." Black Widow added.
"Come on soldier." Cap said, leading the group away from the cells.
The six survivors quickly went to work scavenging any and all materials they could from the armory. Guns, rockets, explosives, armor and knives. Whatever they could carry, they grabbed.
"They took down the entire facility?!" Carol shouted as she hefted a pack of weapons onto her back. Her newly gifted strength gave her more than enough muscles to carry the load.
"Brought it crashing down like a house of cards. We never stood a chance when we were spread out so thin." Wasp muttered as she picked up a Typhoon machine gun.
"Widow." She said, tossing the spy the weapon.
The redhead easily caught the object and grinned as she ran her hands down its side.
"Jan, anything in Hank's lab that might be useful?" Cap asked as he picked up his shield. Apparently it had been stored in the weapons vault.
"Anything for a fight like this?" Jan asked.
"No. Not for th—no." She muttered as her face became lost in thought.
"I have an idea. Panther, with me!" she exclaimed tossing a duffel bag to Carol and shrinking down.
Panther gave his bag to Steve before chasing after the miniature woman.
"Where they going?" Sam asked as he slipped on his flight suit, pack and all.
"Janet, where are we going? Hank's lab?"
"Yeah! We need Ultron!"
"The peace keeping droid? That might prove beneficial but even then they won't be able to stand up against those super-soldiers. Their priority is crowd control, search and rescue."
"Only if we use Jarvis's brain waves. We had a file of Hank's copied onto their programming before the project was altered." Wasp said as she peeked around a corner.
Two Hydra soldiers sprinted down the hallways as they saw the dozens of Schizoid Man bodies that dotted the floor.
"We need to call this in!" One of them said as he prepared to tap his comm.
"No!" Wasp screamed as she zipped through the air, blasting both men in the face, staggering them.
"GAH!"
"My eyes! That bitch shot my eyes!"
"Panther!"
T'Challa wasted no time and leapt into the fight, gutting one man before slashing the other across the throat.
The bodies hit the floor as the Black Panther retracted his claws into his knuckles.
Wasp regrew to her proper size and jogged towards her lab door.
She quickly punched the entry code into the lab's lock, opening the blast-proof glass that separated them from their destination.
Wasp brought Panther into the room filled with various robotic parts on assembly lines.
"This is your lab? It looks like a robotics workshop."
"We mixed it up whenever we got a new project. The bookkeepers hate us. I'm pretty sure we drew more money from SHIELD's bank accounts than even the clean up efforts did."
"Where are the Ultron robo—!"
T'Challa went silent as he saw the hundred plus models of Ultron standing beneath the assembly line.
The lifeless robots were aligned in straight rows, their Jack-o-lantern like faces blank without power.
Wasp typed in a series of commands before punching in the activation code.
The lights in the room powered on, bathing the room in bright white light, revealing every single Ultron drone to the super-heroes.
"Ultron activation sequence…initiate."
The eyes of the drones lit up with a bright blue light before their head jerked up in attention.
"Ultron Online. Activating primary subroutine check…all systems nominal. How may we help you Mrs. Pym?" They chorused in unison.
Janet grinned before she opened up the files for their main programming.
Her hands danced across the keyboard while Panther remained near the lab's door, eyes roaming the hallways in search of any patrol.
Wasp found what she was looking for in the form of a deeply encrypted file stored behind several layers of dense firewalls.
"How much longer, Wasp?" T'Challa asked. His eyes never leaving the halls.
"The code that protects the original brainwaves was intended to keep out people as smart as Stark."
"Then how will you break it in a few minutes?"
"Easy…me and Hank wrote the damn thing with Tony." She said with a smirk.
She entered one last string of commands before the file unlocked itself.
"Uploading Ultron Imperative 001."
The eyes of the drones flashed from blue to an eerie red.
T'Challa saw the change while Wasp was busy typing in more code.
The machines remained where they stood as the code poured through their mechanical brains at impossible speeds.
"Done." Wasp said before hitting the ENTER key on the computer.
The Ultron's eyes turned blue once again.
"Upload complete. Ultron Imperative active. Primary objective…assault. Secondary objectives…damage control."
"They're good to go. Ultron, secure all comm channels to our com-pieces only."
"Affirmative." They all chorused.
"The Liberators have an army…now we do too." Wasp grinned.
EU, The Dome, Brussels
The entire Excalibur team was assembled beneath the EU's headquarters as the situation in America was being played on screen.
"Any changes dad?" Brian Braddock asked as he leaned over the railing that separated his father and his staff from the rest of the super-soldiers.
"No. The demand is still solid. The EU even looks like were mounting an attack and they unleash the entirety of the US's nuclear arsenal on Europe."
"So we're in a stalemate?" Captain France asked.
"Look's that way…maybe we can use the Academy of Tomorrow guys…they're like the X-Men right?" Italy suggested.
"No." Professor Braddock responded.
"I'm not sending kids to fight our war. Besides…Frost and her team know that the X-Men have been captured…there's too much emotional baggage to risk them going in. We're stuck."
"Maybe not…" Brian said as an idea formed in his head.
"What do you mean?" Spain asked.
"We're super-heroes…but what's the one thing we never used up until now?"
"Is he going somewhere this this?" Italy muttered as he looked at the others.
"You didn't read a lot of comic books when you we're a kid, did you?" Brian asked with a grin.
New York City
Iron Man rocketed into the air with aid of a large jetpack-like device strapped to his back. The extra rockets attached to his suits propelled him into the atmosphere.
"Tony, all things seem good from our end. You sure you don't want to head to Washington?"
"Not a chance Happy. I may be an arrogant ass, but I' not stupid. Going there alone is suicide."
"Tony we've talked to Stark Space Command and they say Iron Man Six is still only 70% finished."
"Pepper, can it fly?"
"Yeah, bu—"
"Is the combat OS fully operational?"
"For the most part yes—"
Does it have the red and gold paint-job?"
"Y-not entirely…"
"Then I'll just have to make do." He responded as he breached Earth's atmosphere.
"Gravity stabilizers are functional sir. Any discomfort?" Jarvis asked as Iron Man continued through space.
"Nope. Still feel like I'm on Earth, but fuel reserves in the pack are low. I'm gonna eject it in 3…2…1…Eject!"
The massive pack dislodged itself from the hero's suit and was sent floating through space.
Iron Man propelled himself through the void of space as he made his way towards the enormous grey satellite that floated in Earth's Orbit.
The Name STARK, was proudly displayed upon the satellite's side as Iron Man flew past it and towards its dock.
"STARK Space Command to Iron Man. We have you on radar and locked on with laser sights. Docking engages in T-Minus 30 seconds."
"Stellar." Tony responded as he forced his armor to a halt in front of a massive set of silo doors.
Triskelion
"We geared up?" Widow asked as she saw Steve finish putting on his new uniform, complete with cowl/helmet combo.
"I'm good here. Danvers?"
Carol walked out from behind a stack of crates in a form fitting impact suit. The same blue and white styled ones that the SHIELD super-soldiers wore.
"This thing is a little tight…" she muttered.
"Yeah but its durable." Widow replied before tossing a duffle bag to her.
Carol caught it and hoisted it over her shoulder.
Wasp and Panther reentered the room before Falcon tossed them two bags.
"Get everything you needed?" Carol asked as she moved towards the armory's exit.
"Ultron is prepped and primed. I'm having him take back control of SHIELD's mainframe."
"Once he's in, have him get on the horn with anyone who's still able to fight. We'll need a full scale assault to get through that air fleet." Cap said.
"First things first, Steve. We need the rest of our teammates. They're in Washington, inside the White House."
"Make's sense, If Ultron's stuck here we'll need every meta-human we can get." Sam added as he cocked his pistols.
"So our fist step is to reclaim our comrades, and then retaliate. How fast can we get to DC?" T'Challa asked.
"Ten minutes. And that's if we walk."
The group stared at Widow like she had grown a second head.
"We've got a transport. Follow me."
Natasha led the group into a room with a wide-open arch with a square structure.
"What's this?" Cap asked.
Widow typed in a set of commands and watched as the machine powered on. Soon the empty square was replaced with a thin swirling screen of energy.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, a Jumpgate."
"A what?" Carol asked.
"I thought these were still in the theoretical stage." Wasp added.
"We might've pushed past theory on this project." Falcon said.
"Wakanda was interested in the designs, but the spatial rift it opens…"
"We have Reed Richards to thank for getting it up and ready. Without the risk of tearing open a black hole in the fabric of space. "
"Can someone please tell me what this is?" Carol asked.
"It's a teleporter."Sam responded.
"Like Thor's hammer?" Cap asked
"A lot less flashy, and not as mobile. The gate is a stationary wormhole. It can teleport us anywhere there is a receiver." Widow said as she typed in another set of commands, locking the location of their jump.
"What's a receiver?" Cap whispered to Sam.
"Another Jumpgate."
"So I'm assuming this receiver is in DC." Wasp said.
"In a secured SHIELD bunker two miles from the White House."
"That's our entry point then." Cap said.
"Then let's do it." Carol said as her hands burned with yellow light.
Washington DC
Amora watched with a smile as she saw the remains of Air Force One come flying in.
The two halves of the plane were dropped onto the White House lawn, destroying the fountain that sat at its center.
"So they've found the king of this poor nation, have they?" Amora mused as Skurge stood stoically behind her.
"Finally the tyrant shall fall." Al-Rahman declared.
"It must be so pleasing to see him suffer." Amora said as she stood up from rubble she used as a seat.
"This has nothing to do with vengeance. It's justice."
"As you've said…repeatedly." The Enchantress muttered.
She looked on as several soldier dragged the president and his cabinet out of the wreckage and onto the lawn.
"Colonel!" a voice shouted out.
A gust of wind soon followed as Hurricane dashed in front of the team leader, handing him her communicator.
"What? When? Any sign of where they went?"
"Something wrong Colonel?" Amora asked as the man walked towards the troops surrounding the White House fence.
"All units be on alert, Captain America is loose. Looks the Wasp had a hand in his escape. Any word from Han?"
Hurricane shook her head.
"Damn. If we don't have eyes on Stark then he's most likely gone. I want a patrol to hit Stark Tower."
"I'd be happy to lead the assault." Crimson Dynamo sneered as he marched over to their leader.
"No. I need you to keep watch on the heroes we have. The camp we set up in New York is still secure, correct?"
"Dah."
"Good. I want hourly reports. No more mistakes! And find those goddamn Americans!"
New York City, Unknown Location
"Guh…" Peter muttered as he opened his eyes.
Immediately, his enhanced sight was bombarded by the bright lights in his cell.
The super-powered teen groaned in annoyance before he slowly sat up.
The first thing he noticed was that his hands were bound together in front of him by thick metal restraints.
The second was he was still wearing his full costume, web-shooters and all.
"W-where the Hell?" he muttered as he looked at the square shaped cell that held him.
"Spidey?" a voice asked.
Peter turned to look out the see-through walls to see Johnny Storm leaning against his own cell's walls.
"Johnny? Where the Hell are we?"
"I don't know. Last thing we remembered was getting trampled by a bunch of robots and super-dudes."
"Wait…who's we?"
"That'd be us, Spider." A smooth female voice said.
Spider-Man again turned to see the Black Cat, Spider-Woman, and the remaining members of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, all in separate cells.
"You guys got caught too?" he asked in disbelief.
He knew the FF had been caught, but not the entirety of the X-Men, or his sister and her best friend.
"How ya doin bro?" Jessica muttered as she leaned on her own cell.
"Bro?" Johnny asked as he looked at the red and white clad brunette.
"Been better Jess. Does anyone actually know who these guys are? Or where we are?"
"Unfortunately, no." Reed said. "They attacked us hard and fast."
"We never stood a chance. There were so many of them." Susan added.
"I know one thing, these punks were military." Ben Grimm said.
"How can ya tell?" Johnny asked.
"Easy Storm." Jess said, drawing the group's attention.
"Strict military precision. They knew when to attack, and how to do it before we could retaliate."
"She's right." Cyclops said. "They struck with force and skill. And all these cells, they're meant to contain meta-humans."
"Is Kitty with you?" Peter asked.
"Shadowcat? Yeah…but they got her sedated with both Jean and the Professor."
"Well there goes my plan…" Peter moped.
"Ya think we didn't think of using her to phase?" Wolverine growled.
Spider-Man looked at the feral mutant and saw his hands were sealed inside of two cylinder-like objects.
"Adamantium restraints, am I correct?' Mr. Fantastic said as he looked over the metal restraints from his cell.
"Yeah…but I can't even make fists in these things. No fists, no claws."
"So we're effectively trapped." Spider-Man muttered as he looked around his cell.
"Wait, don't you guys have a teleporter?" Jess asked Wolverine.
"Yah." A German voice spoke up.
The heroes looked towards a cell housing a dark-furred mutant with elf ears and a tail.
"Are you alright Kurt?" Colossus asked.
"Yeah…but I can't see out of these windows."
"One way glass." Cyclops growled.
"He can't teleport out?" Johnny asked.
"Not without a line of sight." Spider-Woman replied.
"Otherwise I could end up inside a vall." Nightcrawler responded.
"So we're effectively trapped?" Peter muttered. "That's fan-fucking-tastic."
"We just need a plan." Black Cat said as she took a better look at her cell. "If we find something, a flaw…we can get out."
"Well…let us know when you find that flaw Felicia." Jess muttered as she remained seated.
"Hey uh…Pete." Johnny whispered.
"What's up buddy?"
"Who's the hot brunette? And why'd she call ya bro?"
"Oh, Jess? Well, she's kinda…sorta…my sister."
"You have a hot sister and you didn't tell me?" Johnny hissed.
"I'm not going to dignify that with a response."
"Guys." Sue said, drawing their attention.
"We've got company."
The imprisoned heroes turned to see the doors to the room retracting as a gorgeous woman strode into the room.
She wore a form-fitting green combat suit with several weapons strapped to her waist and thighs while her green hair flowed down her back.
"Oh no…" Jess whispered in horror.
Black Cat quickly looked back and forth between the new woman and her best friend who had backed herself into the wall of her cell.
"Let us out of hear!" Johnny exclaimed as he pounded against the glass.
The woman merely smirked at the blonde as she strode passed him.
"I see the company you've kept hasn't improved Jessica." The woman said as she stepped closer to her cell.
Peter saw his sister visibly finch at the woman's gaze.
"Viper…" She growled out as the terrorist simply smirked.
Wolverine's ears perked at this and glared at the woman.
"Is that all I get from my darling daughter?" Viper fake pouted.
"Daughter?" Johnny asked, voicing the room's thoughts.
"She's not your daughter!" Felicia barked.
Viper glanced at the thief-turned spy before looking back at her 'child'.
"I see you're at least making new friends." She mused.
"Better than hanging around a bunch of Hydra Terrorists like you!" Jess screamed.
"Oh, how you break my heart." Viper teased.
"Oh how I wish I could…" Jess snarled.
Viper merely smirked.
"I'm sure you'll be happy to know, that despite your betrayal, I managed to negotiate your reacceptance back into Hydra. Just a little memory wipe and you'll be back to our heartless assassin in no time."
"You bitch!" Jess screamed back.
"You stole my life from me! You took me away from my family and my home!"
"We gave you all those powers though. You're faster, stronger, more physically perfect than nearly any other person on the planet! And soon, you'll repay us for our generosity once again."
"No she won't!" Peter snapped.
Viper turned to face the red and black vigilante.
"Oh? And who might you be?"
"The guy who'll kill you if you so much as think of doing anything to her!"
"Well, then it's lucky for me that you're in there, and I'm out here." She smirked.
"You always talked big when you had all the cards." Logan muttered, drawing the attention to him.
"Logan, how pleasant to see you again." Viper smiled.
"Wish I could say the same to you. I divorced you for a reason."
"You were married to this bitch?!" Johnny exclaimed.
"Under duress." Logan growled.
"You made a promise to my master." Viper said.
"Seraph would be rolling over in her grave if she saw you now."
"She's dead. I've moved on. You should too. The world doesn't run on honor anymore. It's no longer the currency."
"Then what is?" Cyclops asked, visor glowing.
"Currency is the new currency. Money is everything now. It determines power and resources."
"You've really fallen…haven't ya kid?" Logan said with pity in his voice.
"I don't need your sympathy. All I need is for you to sit here, and wait for death's embrace."
She then turned to Jessica who glared back at her.
"I'll see you soon, Jessica dear."
Viper walked towards the room's exit before Spider-Man spoke again.
"Stop."
Viper ignored him and kept walking.
"LOOK AT ME!"
Viper stopped.
She turned around to see Spider-Man glaring daggers at her from inside his cell.
"If you do anything to her. I swear, I will make you wish for something as sweet as death."
Normally Viper would write this off as simple hero bravado, but something told her this was different.
Despite his eyes being obscured by the white reflective lenses, she knew beneath them was nothing but sheer rage.
"Well…I guess I really am lucky that you're stuck in there, and I'm out here." She smirked once again. Au revoir."
The doors sealed shut behind her, leaving the heroes alone once again.
"Nice bluff buddy." Johnny said. "I'm pretty sure she was actually shaken."
"That's because I wasn't bluffing." Spider-Man said, still glaring out the cells' window.
"I'm not gonna let her take my sister from me. Not if I can help it."
"Thanks Peter." Jessica said, throwing caution to the wind with his name.
"We're family." He said.
"And ya don't turn ya back on family." Ben added. "Specially when time's are rough."
"So Felicia," Spider-Woman asked her best friend. "how's that escape plan coming?"
Washington DC, The White House
Inside the former residence of the President were the bound and beaten Avengers.
Nick Fury sat near Betty Ross and a still unconscious Victoria Hand.
Betty was doing her best to support the wounded director, but the super-soldiers around them were here to make sure they didn't get any comfort.
Not far from the group was Scarlet Witch, restrained by large handcuffs that engulfed her entire hands while a power-dampening collar was fastened onto her neck.
Sitting right next to her was the unconscious form of Quicksilver and Hank Pym.
Jennifer Walters also lay unconscious, dressed in a grey jumpsuit, with a metal collar around her neck. This one was specifically designed to strangle her should she try to transform.
"When can we execute these American pigs?" one soldier asked.
"When we are given the order. It should only be a few more hours. Keep that murder-boner in your pants." A Hydra soldier muttered as he looked out the Oval Office's window.
"I'm so recording this when it happens." Another super-soldier said as he glared at the group.
KNOCK KNOCK!
The group turned towards the doors as they heard the noise.
"Who?" The Hydra goons asked as they raised their weapons.
"We've got this." the super-soldiers said as they moved towards the doors.
The remaining Ultimates sprinted across the courtyard as they made a beeline for the White House.
"Jesus Christ!" Janet muttered as she saw the wreckage that was Air Force One.
"Jan, don't stop!" Widow shouted back as they made it to the door. She cocked her machine-gun and signaled for the others to get ready.
"They destroyed Air Force One!" she muttered.
"And they'll destroy a lot more if we don't stop them." Cap said as he drew his shield from his back.
"Do we at least have a plan?" Sam asked, pulling his guns from their holsters.
"I thought guns blazing was the plan." Carol replied.
"Just watch your fire and get our teammates. Then we'll make an actual plan." Widow responded.
"3…" Cap started, counting down with his fingers.
"2…"
Panther popped his claws and Carol powered up her fists.
"1!"
Widow kicked in the door and charged forward, the others following close behind.
Until she stopped.
The group stood in shock as they saw the carnage in the room.
Dozens of bodies lay strewn across the Oval Office filled with arrows and bullets.
In the center of the carnage stood a lone man wearing a purple costume wielding two guns. A purple masked obscured his face, leaving only his blonde hair visible.
"Relax." Hawkeye said as he emptied his clip and reloaded it.
"I took care of it."
"Clint?" Cap said in surprise.
"Hey old man." He muttered before loading another arrow into his crossbow guns.
Nat wasted no time in hugging her best friend, and Clint returned it with one arm.
"We thought you were dead!" Nat said as she stood back.
"Wish I was…" Hawkeye responded.
"It's good to see you soldier." Cap said, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Guys!" Betty exclaimed as she tried to help Nick stand.
"I got ya." Sam responded, helping Fury to his feet.
"Carol, get those collars off everyone, and see if you can wake up Pietro and Hank. Janet."
"On it." Wasp said as he ran towards her husband with Carol close behind.
Carol wasted no time in ripping off the collars from both Pietro and Wanda.
"Who are you?" the girl asked as Carol moved towards the unconscious Jennifer.
"Carol Danvers, SHIELD Special Ops."
The blonde grabbed Jen's collar and tried to pull, only to feel it constrict tighter.
"This might be a problem…" Carol muttered before a thought struck her. She heated her hand, watching it glow with unknown energy before pressing it against the metal device.
She smirked as she saw the metal slowly liquefy before being split in two by the blonde's strength.
"I could get use to this." She grinned.
"Nick, can you stand?" Cap asked.
"Not well…damn…"
Fury looked at the destroyed room and then to the demolished grounds outside.
"This is my fault…"
"Nick, I swear to god, if you start throwing yourself a pity-party I will shoot you in the balls." Hawkeye growled before walking over to one of the barely breathing super-soldiers.
The man had a short arrow lodged in his stomach, and a bullet wound in his shoulder.
Hawkeye pressed his boot up against the man's shoulder, squeezing out more blood than it was already bleeding.
"Okay shit for brains, where's the President?"
"Ha…" the man coughed before Hawkeye pressed harder.
"GAK!"
"I'm not asking again."
"Y-you…won't…survive…" the man muttered with a smirk.
"INCOMING!" Panther screamed.
The walls shattered as dozens of super-soldiers flooded the room burying the Avengers in a torrent of super-powered terrorists.
The Liberators stopped their approach as they heard explosions echo from the vicinity of the oval office.
The Colonel glared at the building.
"Rogers…" He growled.
"I'm on it!" Hurricane exclaimed before taking off towards the area.
"Abomination!" The Colonel shouted, drawing the brute's focus.
"Rawr…"
"Kill them. But save me Rogers."
"GRAWR!"
The blue beast leapt from his position, launching himself into the air like a cannonball.
"Perun!" The Colonel screamed as he tapped his earpiece
"Yeah?" The Russian responded.
"Get back here ASAP! We have the rest of the Ultimates! I want you to fry them when you get the chance! And bring in Winter Soldier!"
"I'm on my way." The Russian replied.
"What the Hell is going on?!" Swarm exclaimed as she raced over to her leader.
"Rogers and his friends. Swarm, blanket the area and flush them out."
FAKROOM!
The two meta-humans turned to see a massive blast of yellow energy erupting from the office, obliterating the structure in a flash of light.
"What the Hell was that?!" Swarm screamed.
"Move!" Al-Rahman screamed as he charged for the office.
The entire office was blown apart as Carol released a burst of raw energy outwards.
Enemy and ally alike were sent flying as the energy exploded.
Cap slammed his shield into the ground to brace himself as Wanda threw up a protective sphere around her and all the wounded Ultimates.
Falcon was sent hurtling into the sky where he spread his wings and halted his chaotic spin.
Hawkeye hit the ground hard but rolled to his feet and began firing on the airborne super-soldiers.
Widow followed suit as she back-flipped to regain her footing before opening fire with her machine gun.
The bullets flew as bodies dropped.
Carol looked up from the crater she had made.
It had felt amazing releasing all that power in one burst. She looked up to see more incoming soldiers.
She smirked before closing her eyes and focusing, willing herself to move up.
Her body rocketed skyward with incredible speed as she tore through her enemies with ridiculous force.
She stopped in midair before wheeling around to deliver a blast of yellow energy into a terrorist, blasting him out of the sky and into the White House lawn.
"I could so get use to this!" she exclaimed.
"Carol! On your six!" Falcon screamed as he unleashed a hail of gunfire from his pistols.
Carol dropped a few feet as the metal projectiles hit a flyer behind her.
"First rule of aerial combat!" Wilson shouted.
"Always watch your six, I know! I was air-force!"
Sam smirked before he saw a shadow cover the two.
"Dodge!" Carol shouted rocketing forward.
She tackled Falcon just as a blue boulder slammed into the ground, demolishing what was left of the office.
Wanda grunted as she did her best to keep her force field holding.
"Janet! Any help would be useful!" Fury roared as he propped himself up with his remaining arm.
"I'm trying!" Wasp screamed back as she struggled to awaken Hank and Pietro.
"Betty, some help would be nice! Panther, keep those goons off us!"
T'Challa nodded before sprinting past Wanda at inhuman speeds.
He leapt from the ground, delivering a powerful stomp-kick to a soldier's face.
He back flipped off the man and popped his claws, slashing two more soldiers who tried to attack.
"Who the Hell is he?!" A soldier screamed.
"The Black Panther!" A Hydra soldier responded as he leveled his assault rifle at the former prince.
"I'm honored you know of me." T'Challa said.
He leapt to avoid the barrage of bullets that followed before he brought his heal down on the man's gun.
He grabbed the soldier by the throat and hoisted him up.
"And I would like to know how that is." He said while showing his claws.
He heard the sound of footsteps and hurled the soldier at another terrorist, sending both tumbling to the ground.
"Swarm him!" another screamed as they flew towards the man.
Panther flicked his wrist, priming five claws that popped from his glove's fingertips.
He threw out his hand, firing five micro-missiles that exploded in the air, blasting the men out of the sky.
FABOOM!
The ground shook as a massive boulder struck the ground sending clouds of dirt into the air.
Panther turned to see massive brute lumber out of the smoke. Its yellow eyes locking onto the black-clad Avenger.
"Oh no…" Wasp muttered as the Abomination growled.
"A-Bomb…SMASH!"
BABOOM!
A-Bomb shattered the ground with his arms, sending a shockwave across the entire lawn.
Black Panther remained standing as he glared at the monster before him.
"T'Challa run!" Wasp screamed.
"I refuse." Panther responded, reloading his rocket claws.
"He's their Hulk! He'll kill you!"
"Then I will face my death with pride!"
Wanda looked back at Wasp with a look of shock.
"I guess we'll meet ours with kicking and screaming…" Wanda muttered.
"Rargh!" A-Bomb charged forward, swinging its arm like a sledgehammer.
Panther ducked under the blow before slashing the underside of the arm with his claws.
"Grah!" A-Bomb grunted as the Black Panther rolled out from under him.
The former prince raised his wrist to display four claws coated in blood.
"I believe in America, the saying is, 'If it bleeds, you can kill it'."
"GRAAHH!"
A-Bomb leapt forward, only for T'Challa to roll to the side before firing off five more rockets claws from his fingers.
The projectiles exploded in A-Bomb's face, making the monster roar in rage before he leapt into the air.
Panther's eyes widened before he back-flipped to avoid the impact of A-Bomb.
The ground shook again as the monster created another crater on impact.
T'Challa landed on the ground as dirt and debris flew past him.
"A-Bomb smash you!"
"You will try!" Panther roared.
He slipped a hand inside his utility belt, removing a handful of small capsules.
"GRAAH!" A-Bomb Screamed as he shot forward like a cannon.
Panther rolled to the side before leaping onto the beast, slashing it with his claws.
A-Bomb flailed his arms about as the agile Avenger leapt on and off of the monster, slashing and kicking any spot he could.
A-Bomb finally succeeded in grabbing the hero by his leg and hoisted him up.
"Not fast now!"
"No! But I'm still smarter!"
A-Bomb looked down at his chest to see several miniature glowing pills attached to his scales.
"Hrn!" A-Bomb exclaimed in terror.
Panther slashed the brute' wrist, making him drop the Avenger before he rolled away.
BABABABOOM!
The explosives erupted over A-Bomb's body, bathing the creature in fire and smoke.
"Grah!"
"T'Challa!" Wasp shouted as she zipped over to him in her miniature form.
"I'm fine…"
"And so is gruesome, apparently." She muttered as A-Bomb stomped towards them.
"Hey!"
A-Bomb looked up to see a blonde-haired woman rocketing towards him.
KRAKABOOM!
The ground shattered as Danvers collided with A-Bomb, burying them both beneath a crater.
Panther and Wasp shielded themselves from the debris that exploded outward.
"GUH!"
Panther and Wasp saw Carol go flying before she smashed into the ground.
"Ow…" she muttered.
"Carol! Down!"
Danvers heeded the call as Hawkeye and Widow unleashed a hail of gunfire onto the blue beast.
"RAAH!"
A-Bomb roared before slamming his hands into the ground to lift a massive boulder into the air.
"Clint! Go for the eyes!" Cap screamed as he hurled his shield.
The weapon slammed into the monster's jaw, knocking him off balance.
The assault continued as Widow and Hawkeye pelted him with bullets to the face.
"Fall dammit! Fall!" Hawkeye roared before launching an arrow from his gun.
The weapon hit the bull's eye, piercing the monster's left eye.
"GIARGH!"
"Boom!" The archer exclaimed as the projectile began to beep.
BAM!
"GRAUUH!"
A-Bomb dropped the boulder as he gripped his face in pain, blood spewing from its wound.
"Hit 'em hard!" Cap screamed.
Falcon flew in low as two pairs of rockets emerged from his back.
The boosters ignited, launching the weapons from the pack and towards the writhing monster below.
BOOM!
Fire erupted from the crater as A-Bomb thrashed about in agony.
"Danvers! Light him up!" Cap ordered.
Carol listened to the wartime avenger and powered up her fists with yellow energy. He pushed her hands outward, releasing a blast of photonic energy that barreled into the monster, sending it hurtling back through the White House.
"Wanda! Get Pietro and Hank up and moving!" Cap ordered as he dashed towards them.
"Cap look out!" She screamed.
Cap turned around just in time to raise his shield, blocking the blade of energy that ripped across the indestructible weapon.
Captain America pushed back, breaking away from the Colonel.
Abdul Al-Rahman glared at the first avenger with sheer hatred.
"I've waited years for this…" the man growled as he raised his weapon.
"Who the Hell are you?" Cap asked as he readied his signature weapon.
"My codename is the Colonel, but you may call me Abdul Al-Rahman. It would seem childish otherwise."
"Yeah?"
The Colonel turned to see Hawkeye gripping a set of kunai in his hand.
"Darth Maul want's his Light-saber back!" he screamed before chucking the knives at the Islamic Teen.
A gust of wind whipped past the man before slamming into Hawkeye, throwing him to the ground.
"Guh!" he grunted.
"And they said you were fast." Hurricane said as she loomed over the Avenger.
"Fuck you!" he shouted firing off another arrow from his gun.
Hurricane caught the projectile with a smirk before running off again, grabbing Hawkeye and taking him with her.
"Clint!" Widow yelled as she moved off to aid her friend.
"Natasha! Get down!" Cap screamed.
Widow dropped to the ground just as a grenade sailed past her and exploded near the two super-soldiers sending both flying back.
Widow looked up to see a man with a metal arm wearing a mask glaring down at her with an assault rifle.
"You…!" she muttered before rolling to avoid a pepper of gunfire.
She rolled to her feet, dropping her machine gun and opening fire with her wrist stingers.
Winter Soldier dashed to the side while blind firing with his rifle, forcing Widow back.
The super spy ran for cover, running straight for Captain America and the Colonel.
"Steve!" she shouted as she made her way to the fight.
Cap dodged a swipe from the Colonel's weapon before hurling his shield at Widow.
The spy caught the weapon, rolling on the ground and suing it to block the gunfire that the Winter Soldier was unleashing.
Cap dodged another attack before kicking his rival in the gut. He grabbed him by the collar and threw him across the lawn where he rolled to recover.
Winter soldier picked a grenade from off his belt and removed the pin, chucking it at the two Ultimates.
"Cap!" Natasha yelled as she saw the incoming projectile.
Rogers leapt into the air, swatting the weapon away, allowing it to explode across the lawn.
Cap turned to see the Winter Soldier reloading his rifle, and the Colonel getting to his feet.
"Nat, shield."
Widow handed the legend his shield while she removed her handguns from their holsters.
"Any idea on who this is?" Cap said, glancing at the Winter Soldier and then at the Colonel.
"They call him the Winter Soldier." Widow said, keeping her weapons primed on the assassin.
"He's a ghost story, never thought he was real until a few years ago in Odessa."
"Can you handle him?"
"I've been itching for a rematch if that's what you mean."
Cap nodded his head before readying his shield.
"Let's do this."
The Colonel dashed forward, wielding his dual-beam saber.
Captain America blocked the slash with widow leaping to avoid a cheap swing from the rival super-soldier.
Winter Soldier took this chance to pop off several rounds of ammunition at the red-haired spy who leapt to the side to avoid the gunfire.
Carol saw the miniature fire fight raging across the lawn and charge her fist.
"Oh they are not leaving us out! Sam! Back me up!"
Falcon looked down from where he flew raising his pistols to aid Captain America.
BZZZZZZZ
"What the—!" he exclaimed dropping from the sky to avoid a swarm of insects.
Carol saw a dark shadow cover the lawn and looked up to see a swarm of insects descending upon her.
"Holy shit!" she screamed before rocketing off the ground and into the sky.
She whirled around in midair before firing off a volley of photonic blasts into the cloud of insects, vaporizing them in flashes of yellow light.
"Sam! A little help!"
"I'm busy here!" Falcon roared as he dove down, trying in vein to avoid the cloud of insects that rained down on him.
"What the Hell is that?!" Janet exclaimed as she saw Carol and Falcon duel it out with the thousands of insects zipping through the sky.
"Me."
Wasp whirled around to see a woman with black-scaly skin an two horns protruding down from her skull.
"Names Swarm, I'll be killing you today." She sneered before flicking her wrist, sending a torrent of bees at the Avenger.
Wasp shrank down and zipped into the air, firing stinger-blasts to cover her escape.
"That's right…fly away little girl." Swarm snickered.
"Gah!" Hawkeye screamed as he was sent hurtling back into a wall.
"Ow…" he muttered as he gripped his pistols.
"Well I guess I know why you were the easy target." Hurricane said with a sinister grin.
"Shut up…" Hawkeye snarled as he tried to stand.
"Maybe if you were actually a threat then your family would still be alive!" Hurricane laughed.
She then weaved to the side as bullets shot towards her with inhuman accuracy.
"Too slow!" she exclaimed striking the Avenger across the jaw.
"Oof!" he grunted hitting the ground.
"Stop…"
Hawkeye hurled a dagger at the speedster who dodged to the left, only to avoid another knife that nicked her hair.
"doing…"
Five more bullets fired from the Avenger's gun before another arrow was launched from its under-barrel.
"THAT!"
Hurricane smirked as she caught the arrow mere inches from her chest.
"Again, too sl—"
BEBEBEEP!
"Huh?" she muttered looking at the flashing arrowhead.
BOOM!
The explosion sent Hurricane flying back where she smashed into the street.
"You…bastard!" she growled out, wiping the blood from her mouth.
"I thought you were supposed to be fast, bitch." Hawkeye chuckled as he reloaded his gun.
"I am!" she screamed before shooting off towards the Avenger.
Hawkeye had no time to react as the blow struck him across the jaw, nearly breaking it. He mashed into the ground before a kick to the gut sent him rolling back.
"AGH!"
BAABBABABAAM!
Nick Fury fired off the assault rifle from his makeshift mound on the ground as Scarlet Witch maintained her barrier.
"Betty! Get Hank or Pietro off their assess now!" he barked, firing off another round of ammunition at the Hydra soldiers that charged their position.
"I'm trying!" She screamed back as she checked Pietro's pulse.
FABOOM!
"Guh!" Wanda screamed as she fell to a knee.
The soldier's loaded another rocket into their launchers before taking aim again.
"Dammit brother…" she muttered before turning towards her downed twin.
"Pietro! Wake up!" she screamed with glowing red eyes.
The bullets slowed as Quicksilver awoke.
It took less than a microsecond for him to comprehend the situation and to act.
Wind ripped through the halls, scattering the soldiers across the room as the mutant speedster tore across the building and onto the front lawn.
He shot past Widow and Cap's fight with a glance before rocketing towards his own fight.
"Gah!" Hawkeye grunted as he felt the punch strike his side.
He fell to the ground, coughing in pain as he struggled to grip his weapon.
"Goodbye, American! Hurricane screamed vibrating her hand, preparing to slice his head off.
FWWWSSSHH!
"GAH!" Hurricane grunted as she felt herself being tackled at high speeds.
"You didn't see that coming?" Quicksilver asked as he kneed the terrorist speedster in the stomach.
"Quicksilver!"
She quickly recovered, taking off from the ground to pursue her speeding adversary.
"I thought Hawkeye would be my first kill! But now I got you!"
"Touch him again and you die." Quicksilver growled as the two engaged in a vicious battle of speed.
All around the two, time slow to a crawl. Debris and bullets hung in the air as the two super-humans raced around the area, destroying the ground they ran on.
"Is this the best you can do?" Quicksilver asked as he dodged a volley of strikes that barely grazed him.
"I know you can hear me bitch!" Pietro snapped as the fight continued.
"Oh I can hear you speedy." Hurricane responded.
"All I can say is that I've been itching for this fight since they cut me open and made me better!"
Hurricane struck the Avenger across the jaw, nearly flooring him, but Quicksilver recovered in time to avoid a stomp kick that smashed the ground.
"And I'm disappointed this is the best you can do!" she chided as she continued her assault, getting a dirty punch in the balls.
"GAH!"
Hurricane pushed her advantage by slamming the man into the wall.
The force of their combined speed obliterated the stone structure, reducing it to dust as they sailed through it.
"Maybe that's why daddy doesn't love you enough to keep you on Genosha!" Hurricane continued.
Quicksilver caught her next blow and threw her over his shoulder, allowing her to smash into the concrete sidewalk.
"Shut up!" he snapped as he delivered a stomp kick which she narrowly avoided.
"Hit a nerve, did I?" she continued.
Pietro threw a left hook that Hurricane blocked, returning a blow of her own, sucker punching the man in the jaw.
"Oof!"
"Face it mutie!"
another blow connected to Quicksilver throwing him back.
"You'll never be faster than me!"
A kick smashed into his side.
"You're nothing without you sister!"
Peitro dodged another kick before getting sliced in the shoulder by a vibrating hand.
"Agh!"
"All you have is your daddy's name! And he doesn't even love you enough to let you use it!"
Another slash caught him in the side, spilling more blood onto the street.
"Why the Ultimates let you on the team is beyond me!"
Hurricane brought her hand down in a stabbing motion.
VZZAP!
"GIAAARRGH!" she screamed as blood spurted forth from the stump that use to be her leg.
Pietro glared up at his enemy while his right hand continued to buzz in a blur of motion.
"Yeah, I can do that too!"
He lunged off the ground, grabbing Hurricane before rocketing off down the street, shattering every piece of glass he passed.
"You think you know me?" Me Pietro snapped as he dragged the speedster with him.
"You think me and my sister wanted to be alone?!"
They streaked past a set of car, throwing them over as the force of their speed crushed anything in its path.
"My father turned his back on us! We looked out for each other! And the Avengers accepted us! They took us in! So you want fast?! I'll give you Fast!"
Quicksilver pushed his body forward, pushing his muscles to their limit as he held Hurricane in front of him.
"P-P-Pietro!" she screamed, wind tearing at her flesh.
"S-S-S-STOP! PLEASE!"
"What's the matter, speedy? To fast for you? What speed's did they take you up to? Mach 3, Mach 5, how about Mach 10?!"
"GOD! STOP!" she screamed as she felt herself being torn apart.
"Feel your bones rattling?! Like you're on a freight train?! Feel you skin liquefying?! That Called molecule dancing!"
Hurricanes flesh began to liquefy, her bones turned to puddy as her skin slipped through Quicksilver's hands like mud.
"THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU THREATEN MY FRIENDS!"
Wanda lowered her shield as she saw the soldiers go flying, smashing into the walls so hard that they broke them.
She turned around to see Betty sitting over an empty spot with Hank still unconscious next to it.
"Where's Pietro?" she asked.
"Ugh…" Hawkeye grunted as he looked around for Hurricane.
Instead, he saw Pietro not ten meters from him, hands on his knees, panting as sweat dripped off his face.
"Pietro!" Hawkeye snapped.
The mutant speedster looked at him, exhausted.
Hawkeyes struggled to stand but managed to speak.
"Stop fucking around and give me a hand here!"
Pietro just looked at him with an annoyed scowl.
"Grah!" The Colonel grunted as he took a blow to the jaw from Captain America.
The two men slashed and blocked as their duel to the death continued.
Widow fired off another clip of bullets that the Winter Soldier dodged before ditching his own rifle and rushing her.
He tackled the redhead, sending them both to the ground, where Widow pivoted off the ground, wrapping her legs around the assassin's waist and flipping them over, reversing the mount.
She quickly pulled a thick metal wire out of her belt and wrapped it around the man's neck.
Before she could strangle him, the man's metal arm found its way under the rope and pulled against its, snapping the wire before striking Widow across the jaw.
"Ah!"
"Nat!" Steve called out before a blade of energy slashed across his shoulder.
"GAH!" he cried before slamming his shield into the Colonel's face.
"AGH!" the man screamed as he felt his nose break. A kick to the knee brought him down before a fist socked him across the mouth, spilling blood.
Al-Rahman didn't yield, however. He gripped his weapon and wheeled it back, nicking the Captain across the side.
"ARGH!" Steve roared as he felt the energy sear through his flesh like a hot knife through butter.
The two men stood back from each other, both panting.
Cap was amazed that the man was still standing after this kind of exertion. The last person to push him this far had been the Red Skull when he was in his prime.
"It's over Captain!" Abdul spat.
"Your team will fall, and America will burn for what it's done!"
"Over my dead body!" Cap shouted back.
"That can be arranged!" Abdul retorted, raising his weapon.
Cap readied his shield before streaks of lightning flashed across the sky.
Quicksilver and Hawkeye looked up to see the sky was alight with streaks of blue lightning.
"Is that Thor?" Hawkeye asked.
"No…" Pietro muttered in horror.
Perun descended from the sky alongside dozens of Dynamo drones.
The massive machines crashed onto the streets of DC and began to rain fire down on it's many citizens.
Perun turned his head to see the machines slaughtering dozens of pedestrians.
"Dynamo! Call off your forces!" he yelled.
"NO!" an the enraged response of the armored terrorist.
Perun saw the red and grey man streak across the sky before landing in the middle of the streets where he began to open fire as well.
"If I can't kill Stark…I'll settle for burning his country!"
Dynamo's armor unfolded to reveal a vast array of machine guns and rocket launchers.
"Dynamo to all forces! Kill them all!"
His gun's burst to life with flames and smoke as he unleashed a barrage of ammunition on to the defenseless civilians below.
"Ugh…" Hank muttered as he awoke to a splitting headache.
"Wh-what happened…?" he groaned out.
"Hank!" Betty exclaimed.
"Betty? W-what's going on? Where's Janet?" he asked looking for his wife.
"Off fighting some bug lady." Wanda said as she helped him to his feet.
"What?"
"Wanda, I need you to wake up Jen!" Betty cried out.
"What?" Hank muttered as they looked down at the unconscious woman.
"She took a Hulk serum she designed! We need her in this fight!"
"She took a what?!" Fury roared.
"If she took a Hulk serum then she's as much of a threat as these guys are!" Hank shot back.
"She designed it a a controllable substance! All of the Hulk, none of the rage."
"How'd you know about this?" Fury asked.
"Nick, now isn't the time for that. Wanda, can you wake her?" Hank asked as Wanda set him down.
"Yeah…I think I can."
The girl sat down next to the doctor and she grasped her head in her hands.
Wanda's eyes glowed an intense red hue before crimson energy spilled from her hands and into Jennifer's body.
"GUAGH!"
Jennifer Walters shot from the ground as she awoke from her forced sleep.
"Agh…my head…" she muttered.
"You and me both Walters."
"Pym?" she asked as Wanda helped her to stand.
"No time for explanations, we need you to change."
"Change?"
"Hulk out Walters." Fury said.
Jennifer looked out across the White House lawn and saw the carnage the fighting had caused.
"My god…" she whispered.
"Walters!" Hank yelled grabbing her by the shoulder.
"Change now or we'll all die!"
"I…alright." She said before stepping back from the group.
She concentrated for a second, focusing on the transformation, craving the power, the rush that it gave her.
Then she felt it.
Her eyes opened to reveal two emerald orbs of rage.
"Gruh…agh…" she grunted as she felt her muscles bulge and her bones snap.
The group backed away as Jennifer Walters grew in size and mass.
Gone was the mousy lab tech, and now was the She-Hulk.
"Where's the fight?" she growled out.
Betty pointed a finger towards the explosions and gunfire that emanated from the Dynamo's robots.
"Hrnn…" She-Hulk growled before flexing her leg muscles.
She rocketed into the air before crashing down into the street.
She stumbled to a halt in front of the massive red drones with a snarl on her face.
"Hey you fucking pussies!" she screamed.
The drones turned towards the green goliath and locked their weapons on her.
"Try shooting at someone who can hit back!" she roared before grabbing a burning car.
She lifted the vehicle over her head and shucked it with all her might.
The projectile soared and smashed into the robot's chest, knocking it off balance.
"Kill her you idiots!" Dynamo screamed.
"Shoot to kill!"
"Grah!" She-Hulk roared as she lunged forward, smashing into a drone's chest.
She tore through its metal hull, ripping out the wiring and metal parts before leaping onto another mech that blind fired at her in a vein attempt to kill her.
She-Hulk collided with the machine's torso and slid down to its cockpit.
The terrified pilot could only stare in horror at the jade-giantess.
She slammed her hand through the glass, tearing the pilot from is seat and throwing him to the streets below.
Dynamo snarled in rage before blasting off the ground.
She-Hulk prepared to launch herself into the air again before a red mech smashed into her side.
"Die you whore!" Vanko screamed as he slammed her into the pavement.
She-Hulk slowly stood from the crater before a barrage of gunfire peppered her skin.
The high-Caliber weapons forced her back.
Dynamo pushed his advance as his massive duplicate leveled their guns on the now defenseless She-Hulk.
The Enchantress smirked from her seat on top of the Washington monument.
"How amusing that they think they can win."
Skurge said nothing as he stood stoically next to his mistress.
"At least the brute will now finally perish."
"Hrn!" Skruge grunted as he looked up.
"Hmm?" Amora questioned as she looked up at the sky.
"Odin's blood…" she muttered.
"Gah!" Jennifer screamed as the mortars exploded all around her.
The shrapnel scraped along her skin while the heat splashed against her body.
"Die! Die!" Vanko screamed in glee.
KKKRRRZZAAAAPPP!
Dynamo looked up to see a massive blast of blue energy rip across the sky and smash into one of the giant mechs, vaporizing it instantly.
Several more beams plummeted from the sky, demolishing four more mechs in showers of bright blue light.
"What is this?!" Vanko roared in rage.
"Attention all terrorist assholes."
All residents of the DC area, normal or meta-human looked up to see a massive space ship a mile in length.
Perun's eyes widened at the numerous arrays of repulsor cannons and mounted turrets that dotted the vessel's body.
He floated through the sky with a look of shock at the sheer size of vehicle.
Cap grinned at the unmistakable voice of one Tony Stark.
"What is that?" The Colonel asked in shock.
"That's Stark making an entrance asshole!" Widow screamed before firing off a barrage of bullets at the man.
The Colonel spun his weapon, striking the bullets before they could hit him.
The Winter Soldier stopped his own gawking as he realized Widow was still active he quickly withdrew two knives from his belt and dashed forward towards the distracted Russian.
"No you don't!"
Winter Soldier turned to see Captain American smashing into him, shield first sending the assassin tumbling back.
"I'm gonna say this once. My name is Tony Stark. To the public I'm Iron Man, a playboy, genius, billionaire and philanthropist. To the outside world I've been called the Da Vinci of our time, which is personally ridiculous, I don't paint. But to you terrorists, I'm the Merchant of Death."
"Don't stand there gawking fools!" Dynamo barked out to all his forces.
"Shoot him down!"
"I'm giving you all one chance right now. Surrender, or I'll have Iron Man Six vaporize you like I did to all your friends. And as an incentive, even when I'm completely wasted I'm still and excellent shot. So imagine what I can do when I'm fully sober."
"STARK!" Vanko roared in rage.
KABOOM!
Vanko's attention was again stolen by She-Hulk who was now tackling a massive drone that was attempting to crush a single man.
Despite the initial threat of being trampled to death, the lone man continued forward.
Jennifer looked down at the baseball-cap wearing individual with a look of utter confusion.
"Run you idiot!" she screamed before a massive blue beast slammed into her, knocking her off the robot.
"GAH!" She-Hulk exclaimed as A-Bomb smashed her into the ground.
"No can do Jenny!" the man screamed.
The robot stomped closer to him as onlookers watched in shock.
"I traveled halfway around the world to get back to my own damn country. And I'm not letting some assholes boss me around again."
The giant mech stomped closer to the lone stranger.
She-Hulk struck A-Bomb across the jaw, knocking him back.
She turned to see the man taking of his hat to reveal a small man with disheveled appearance and brown hair.
"Bruce?" she whispered in shock.
"That's right Mr. Roboto…I've recently reached a mutual understanding with the big-guy inside of me. If ya want to meet him just keep moving forward."
Bruce Banner merely smirked as the massive mech lifted its foot and brought it down on the man.
FABOOM!
The ground shattered as the machine crushed the former scientist beneath its foot.
Before it's pilot could cheer, he felt the machine tilt as something beneath the foot threw the robot backwards.
The crowd looked on in horror as did the many Liberation super-soldiers
Standing in the middle of a massive crater, was the unmistakable green, muscle-bound form, of the INCREDIBLE HULK.
I'm closing in on the final chapters of this story. After this ends I'll be starting an ongoing Avengers story featuring all these characters with a longer running plot and more villains.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Next Time: Chapter 10: Liberation Part 2