Spirits And Flames: A Avengers Fanfiction Story

Act III:

In the haunted woods of Swartalfheim…

With a suddenly worried Surtur through a possessed Wonder Man about to make sure Miss Marvel is destroyed, he gasps, "impossible!"

Miss Marvel mutters, "tell that to the Supreme Intelligence!" She amazingly from the ground blasts Surtur commander Wonder Man with his own Surtur soul flames. Miss Marvel is glowing in energy flames, having absorbed energy being Wonder Man's Surtur enhanced energy blasts along with a significant amount of his Surtur enhanced powers.

Surtur commander Wonder Man crashes into a leafless tree, the tree exploding from the impact of his Surtur enhanced body. From the forces of his own blasts, he coughs hard as his energy self starts fading in and out in destabilization. The Fire Demons are themselves noticeably fading from Swartalfheim, thanks to Sif and Eitri greatly evening things up for the Dark Elves in battle.

But as Miss Marvel in rising anger fly charges for Wonder Man, he finds Surtur's thoughts within him to start fading in and out.

He remembers how Iron Man's greatly discouraging behavior and A.I.M. turned him from a mortal into Wonder Man, and that the only thing keeping him physically existent has been the double edged magic from magically powerful villains. Then ironically a particular conversation with Black Panther in this same realm comes flashing back to him, realizing that his Surtur enhanced powers can be double edged too.

After all these memory flashes in the face of his own destruction, Wonder Man closes his eyes in a deep sigh, "goodbye." Miss Marvel pauses in greatly confused and mixed feelings.

In those seconds, Wonder Man turns himself into a almost blindingly glowing purple being that vanishes from sight. Only being able to control and create Surtur flames through the energy she absorbed, Miss Marvel has no means to follow Wonder Man. With the Fire Demons mostly gone, Sif and Eitri notice in great unease Miss Marvel's own great unease.

Meanwhile, in the usually timeless winter realm of Jotunheim…

Thor and Beta Ray Bill barely come back around, away from the waterfall they were almost swept away in.

Down below, most of the frost giants are deep swimming in a Jotunheim melting into a quickly getting hotter water world. They're heading hurriedly for air pockets in the deep caves below what used to be ground. Surtur commander demon Red Hulks with Surtur commander demon Iron Mans merging with them are fly blasting more frost giants into water. Ymir is turned into water himself, crying out in incomprehensible anger as he was about to hurl his own ice spiked staff at the Surtur commander demon that blasted him.

At the same time, the pair of Surtur commander Iron Man energy demons blast at Thor and his spirit brother again, only to miss while being washed away by the mountainside turning into a tidal wave. Surtur commander Enchantress hovers higher over the water world facing vaporization, avoiding the direct aftereffects of Surtur's own destruction here. Interestingly, Thor and Beta Ray Bill are nowhere to be seen.

Surtur through Enchantress slightly laughs, "only trying to change…Ragnarok." Surtur commander Enchantress then realizes too late what Thor and Beta Ray Bill have in mind.

Using both of their Asgardian hammers to teleport from another realm and back in seconds, they bring the Skuttlebutt's reawakened AI to the skies. The might of the battleship Skuttlebutt's energy blasts combined with Thor and Beta Ray Bill's hammer summoned lightning blasts overwhelm a crying out Enchantress.

She falls unconscious into Jotunheim's water world with a great splash, her Surtur commander demons disappearing with her magic no longer giving them existence. Without Surtur's power able to be channeled through Enchantress anymore, Jotunheim's waters are cooling off with quickly returning frosty cold wind gusts.

Beta Ray Bill sighs with relief, "the only noble thing we could do."

Thor slightly sighs in mixed feelings, "I…suppose." His thoughts are on what is left of this realm, and what that could mean for the other realms.

Meanwhile, in Yellowjacket's mind…

Yellowjacket shouts back, "you think I haven't hoped for better results?! Sigh. Janet, I have done everything I could to bring world peace: It's the world powers that don't care to have it. Not even Ultron! So you tell me: When have I ever done any lasting good anyway?"

Hela's projection of Wasp sighs hard with a hand on his, "Hank, as Ant-Man, you already have."

Yellowjacket remembers being in the Avengers as the first Ant-Man, stopping supervillains from taking over the world or causing more local damage that may have never been stopped if it wasn't for his help. Yellowjacket sighs with closed eyes, "I'm sorry." The Microverse in his mind disappears in nearly blinding yellow light.

In those several physical minutes, on the rock stand of Niffleheim…

With giant sized Surtur commander Yellowjacket teleporting souls by the hundreds to Surtur, he begins to slightly hesitate as a result of his mind battle within himself. Wasp and Valkyrie get up, with Hela physically shivering and still on her side.

Wasp shrinks down to fly charge at Surtur commander Yellowjacket's giant head, blasting away. Valkyrie slashes her Asgardian sword at Surtur commander Yellowjacket, but he summons a saved up large fire blast from his body to send her crashing into one of the floating soul crystals. Valkyrie ends up unconscious from the surprise attack, against Niffleheim's grounds.

Wasp suddenly becomes giant sized herself, about to kick Yellowjacket. Clinging onto her last piece of hope for Yellowjacket, she urges, "don't make me…!" At the same time, Yellowjacket almost fires his altered ray gun at Wasp. In seconds of sadness though, he drops it. Wasp starts shrinking back to normal size with a mixed sigh of relief, saving herself from internally overloading.

While Yellowjacket shrinks back to his normal size, he reflects, "Janet…sigh…I'm sorry." Using the last of his Surtur powers, he teleports himself away in a burst of Surtur flames.

Meanwhile, in Hulk's mind…

Hulk finds himself in a very large lake, with his head sticking out of the water as he runs on the lake's bottom. Yellow laser fast fire of closing in Hulkbuster choppers rain down in Hulk's direction. A nightmare unit of Red Hulks is waiting for Hulk on the forest edges of the lake. Hulk mutters, "Hulk always chased. Hulk hate Hulk history lessons!" He jumps at a Hulkbuster chopper, only to be blasted by a Red Hulk fireball and crash right through the exploding chopper.

He lands hard in the water below, with the lake being greatly leveled off on impact. The impact takes away the water and both Hulkbuster units with it, but also the surrounding forest area. With Bruce Banner's image to his left, Hulk sits up in sadness, "even as Avenger, Hulk lose."

Bruce highlights sarcastically, "why run when you can let haters destroy everything in their path?" Hulk's memories of fighting the Gamma powered Leader, of the Skrull version of Captain America that tricked him into being captured by fighter Ross, and of fighting Red Hulk across the edges of America before the Avengers came to help resurface in flashes.

In a great battle cry of anger, the Hulk rips out the lake's bottom to power punch Surtur's image underneath in exploding flames.

In those few physical minutes, on the streets of New York City…

With a mini-handheld Mandroid Battle Suit version of a Iron Man repulsor for such situations in her belt, Black Widow is welding Iron Man's chest plate shut to help him breathe more normally. Iron Man falls unconscious halfway through the process, but is still breathing.

Hawkeye in his fall shouts to Hulk, "anytime now would be nice!" He in a matter of seconds looks like he's going to smash into the ground, when Hulk bends out a undented part of a uncovered sewer pipe with his bare hands to send a blast of sewer water into Hawkeye.

Hawkeye coughs up some sewer water on the ground, but is not going unconsciousness. As he gets up, he mutters slightly sarcastic, "thanks a lot."

Hulk slightly chuckles, "Hulk good now. Red Helmet good now?"

Black Widow sighs slightly, "yes, Hulk: He will be all right too."

Meanwhile, on the top of a certain mountain in Vanaheim…

Surtur commander Baron Zemo is ready for Captain America's team, using one of his energy swords to fire three small fireballs for each of the Warriors Three's heads. They fall unconscious from the carefully timed stun blasts against what's left of the mountain slope.

Baron Zemo cruelly says, "if Winter Soldier wasn't left by you in H.Y.D.R.A.'s hands, what would he think?"

Captain America angrily charges for Surtur commander Baron Zemo, who is charging up both of his energy swords with Surtur flames. Captain America mutters in a calm but harsh manner, "Bucky knows better than to think I purposely left him…" He swing punches for Baron Zemo, only for Baron Zemo to deflect it with the flat side of one of his energy swords.

Captain America finishes his spoken thoughts as he clutches his hand, "with a evil man like you: Why did you even give in to Surtur anyway?!" He quickly jump tumbles to his Vibranium shield while barely dodging a super large fireball launched from both of Baron Zemo's energy swords.

Baron Zemo laughs darkly, "there should only be one realm to rule." Knowing ahead of time that Captain America would get through to him, he clinks his two energy blades together. Baron Zemo begins charging himself up to form a cosmic level fireball, in a swirl of blackish red light.

Captain America cries out no, using his main shield as cover while running at Baron Zemo. Knowing though it'd only last a few seconds against magic, Captain America hurls his exploding shield into Baron Zemo to make his cosmic level fireball go off early. An explosion follows, destroying the entire mountain in extreme heat.

Fortunately though, with Baron Zemo's cosmic level fireball intended for every realm but Midgard, a Surtur level mid-teleport made portal had just appeared where Baron Zemo used to be. Captain America had then quickly put out one hand to the portal and another to the combined fallen mass of the Warriors Three, giving them all a escape route to safety.

Meanwhile, in the skies of Alfheim…

Much to Vision and Black Panther's inner alarm, they see most of the entire perimeter worth of Surtur commander Ultrons around Alfheim's forests vanish. Even the group of Ultrons coming for Vision and Black Panther vanished. The two heroes have just realized that Surtur's real plan all along was to have Ultrons destroy the remaining realms for him, while his other Surtur commanders distracted the other Avenger teams.

Black Panther mutters harshly to himself, "should've planned for that one. Any suggestions, Vision?" He puts away the Wakanda diamond.

Vision considers, "if I phase into just one Ultron, there is a 70 percent probability of gaining access to the Ultron network."

Black Panther figures, "then let's increase those odds." From inside his Wakanda battle gear, he adjusts the frequencies of the inside of his battle gear's now horizontally positioned boots to repel instead of absorb surfaces and add momentum. In short, he speeds up Vision's speed by having his Wakanda battle gear's boots in a horizontal direction to push away from nearby trees instead of running up them.

Vision is fly charging at superfast speed unpredicted by the Ultrons, due to that not changing prior to their attack and the long distance between them and Vision. Vision adds, "I suggest you get off now." Black Panther nods as he tumbles off of Vision for the closest tree, letting Vision phase into one of the caught off guard Ultrons without worrying about Black Panther's safety.

In Ultron's programming…

Vision finds himself on a Earth without humans or any creation of humans prior to Ultron's creation by Hank. Instead, it is a bright red and silver Times Square themed world full of Ultrons. Countless overlapping human voices of answering machines sound off around Vision, making his programming on the edge of overloading in shaking android parts.

Ultron laughs through his own self images, "a program wanting to be more human: Nothing more than a human face."

Vision mutters calmly in a robot way, "if my program is…a failure for your program…then it is for my program a success." Ultron's world backfires in exploding electric billboards.

Physically, in seconds worth of computer processing time…

With Vision's android body in a phasing state for more than a few seconds, it destabilizes the Ultron network to the point of Nine Realms wide exploding due to not being prepared for such a result. As the Light Elves get buckets of water to help put out the forest fires, Black Panther is sitting on a tree branch waiting patiently for Vision. But Vision doesn't come out. Black Panther silently closes his eyes in respect for him.

Meanwhile, at Odin's kingdom in Asgard…

Asgardian fighters of varying looks and gender are scattered across the dark golden bridge to Odin's Asgardian fortress, all unconscious. The doors to Odin's kingdom were ripped off in Surtur flames. Beyond the doorway is Surtur against Balder and Odin, in Odin's throne room near the dark green Yggdrasil tree. Balder and Surtur's swords clink fiercely, while Odin is trying to get close enough to touch the Yiggdrasil tree as he planned.

Surtur mutters harshly, "you can't stop Ragnarok, Odin: Even if I destroy Yggdrasil to do it!" He with his words launches the two orbiting energy blades of the Twilight Sword like missiles, one at Odin and another at Yiggdrasil. Odin, caught off guard by this change in Surtur's plans, is coughing hard and falling unconscious on the throne room floor. The top half of the large Yggdrasil tree falls in Surtur flames, on top of Balder before he can see it coming.

Smoke and flames are now where he stood. Surtur is about to charge with the Twilight Sword into Odin, only for Heimdall to angrily uproot the rest of Yggdrasil as a hurled large club against Surtur.

Heimdall shouts, "none shall destroy the realms on my watch!" Like with overthrowing Loki, a new generation of Yggdrasil is beginning to be born. Surtur goes crash flying against the painted windows surrounding the newly and quickly forming Yggdrasil.

Despite his hard coughing, Surtur in rage is quickly starting to enlarge to full size to have the strength to destroy Odin's kingdom with his bare hands. He is now the size of an entire Asgardian hall, pulling himself to his feet with the kingdom walls as his support.

With Heimdall beginning to worry that Surtur's Ragnarok is indeed going to happen, Surtur is about to crush Odin's kingdom along with the new Yggdrasil by one extremely large hand. With Yggdrasil's destruction, the Nine Realms could very well smash into each other without Yggdrasil's branches keeping them separate. Then a bittersweet miracle comes.

Wonder Man in the form of a purple fireball smashes right into Surtur, using the last of his Surtur commander enhanced powers to destroy Surtur. A super large explosion follows, covering all of the Nine Realms in brilliant white light of uncertainty and hope.