Act III

After the invasion, 'D' gathered our heroes in the ship's meeting room, who are still recovering thanks to Matthew's healing dust.

"We're dead in the air up here" 'D' said "Our communications, location of the star. I got nothing for you. Lost my good agent. Maybe I had that coming. Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Blue Star. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing something even riskier. There was an idea, Agent Dawn Star knows this, called 'The Ultimate Heroes Initiative'. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. I guess superheroes only exist in comic books"

"Not necessary" Eddie said "Do you know why Superman and Spider-Man are my favorite superheroes?"

"Because they wear red and blue like you do?" Cindy asked.

"NO!" Eddie answered "Because they protect innocent people and they know what's right. Not matter how nasty things are, they just never give up. If they don't give up, neither we should!"

"Eddie, they're fictional characters!" Meg said "This is the real world...that uses cartoon logic, but it's still the real world!"

"Come on, we've been in so many crazy adventures before!" Eddie said "We fought aagainst wolves, Nazis, witch hunters, a robot dinosaur, even monsters from a fantasy world! We did incredible things in past and we can still do incredible things now!"

"I agree with Eddie, we can't give up now" Matt said.

"Yeah, I never thought I could live with my werewolf transformation, but here I am!" Dylan said.

Do you at least keep your pants on?" Zoey wondered.

"Yes Zoey" Dylan answered.

"And thanks to these powers, we survived the Murder Games for the second time" Jeff said.

"Then we shouldn't give up now, we came too far to give up" Zoey said.

"I still wanna kick Draggoroy's ass!" Steve said.

"Team Smith into action!" Hayley said.

"Not just Team Smith: we're the Ultimate Heroes!" Eddie said.

So Eddie, Matt, Dylan, Cindy, Matthew and Team Smith put their hands together.

"Come on, Meg" Eddie said "We need you"

"As long you promise me we're not gonna die" Meg said, putting her hand as well.

"We won't, I promise" Eddie said.

"There's only one itsy, bitsy little problem: we don't know where Draggoroy is and he has my sword" Matthew said.

"We gotta think" Cindy said "He had to conquer his greed, but he knows he has to take us out to win, right? That's what he wants. He wants to beat us, he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience!

"Yeah, like his act in Stuttgart" Eddie said.

"Yeah. That's just previews, this is...this is opening night!" Cindy said "And Draggoroy, he's worse than a teenage girl in her Sweet Sixteen Party!"

"Hey, my sister wasn't like that!" Eddie said.

"Sorry" Cindy apologized "Anyway, he wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the skies for his empire...!" then Cindy already figured it out "Son of a bitch"

"What's the matter, Sis'?" Meg asked.

"How far we are to New York City?" Cindy asked.

"1,000 Km from here" Helena answered.

"Guys, put your suits on" Cindy ordered "We're going to New York"

So our heroes prepared their equipment: Eddie and Hayley sharped their swords, Dylan sharped his claws, Matt recharged his magic powers from the Spellbook, Meg sharped her arrows and Cindy fixed her armor. Them they walked in a straight line, ready for the final battle like in any team action movie.

"This cliché never gets old!" Eddie said with a smile in his face.

Meanwhile; it's revealed that Draggoroy's secret place is the Empire State, where he used his mind-controlling powers to take over the building. Draggoroy had Matthew's sword and Axel with him.

"Why don't you just unleash my beast now?" Axel asked.

"Because, my dearest friend, it's all part of the plan: once I create the portal to summon the Skeletau-" then he laughed a bit "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I still think it's a foolish name" he cleared throats "Anyway, once they come, they'll invade this city. Then if one of the heroes come, and they will, I'll unleash your inner beast"

"Okay, but I'm warning you: I'll lose my mind in that form" Axel said.

"Don't worry...you won't" Draggoroy said, showing off his scepter.

"Master Draggoroy, the machine is ready!" Stan said, who looks like he haven't sleep in days.

"Excellent" Draggoroy praised.

They went outside, where they turned the peak of the Empire State into a machine.

"Turn on the machine, Agent Smith" Draggoroy ordered "Then you'll see a whole new Universe"

"Outrageous!" Stan cheered as he turned on the machine.

The machine shot a powerful laser beam that opened a portal to the Skeletauri world and a fleet of Skeletauris came down. They didn't last any longer when they started attack this city: shooting everywhere, blowing stuff up and civilians were running away from them.

"Isn't this beautiful?" Draggoroy asked.

"Uh...sure, if you like slaughtering people like a complete genocide" Cindy said, next to him.

"Wait, how do you appear?!" Draggoroy asked.

"It doesn't matter" Cindy said "What does matter is my plan and I'm planning to threaten you"

"Your armor doesn't intimidate me at the slightest" Draggoroy said.

"And you've got the stick of destiny" Cindy said, taking out a beer "Would you like a beer?"

"Stalling me won't change anything" Draggoroy said.

"No, no, no! Threatening" Cindy corrected "No beer? You sure? I'm having one"

"What have I to fear?" Draggoroy asked.

"The Ultimate Heroes" Cindy answered "It's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. 'The World's Finest, the Super Friends, even the Justice League"

"Yes, I've met them" Draggoroy said.

"Yeah, takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one" Cindy said "But, let's do a head count here. Meg, my sister who wants to be Katniss Everdeen; Matthew, the Guardian Angel; Eddie, the knight of shinning armor and my sister's boyfriend; Matthew, the Harry Potter of the group; Dylan, the Werewolf guy; Hayley, the green-skinned assassin; Jeff, the toxic crusader; Steve, the Karate Nerd; Zoey; Steve's sexy and deadly girlfriend, and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them.

"That was the plan" Deaggoroy said.

"Not a great plan" Cindy commented "When they come, and they will, they'll come for you and kill you"

"I have an army" Draggoroy said as he showed off Axel "And a dragon"

"You're missing the point" Cindy "There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe with this dragon it will be too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll save them"

Then Draggoroy started laughing like a maniac for Cindy's speech.

"Maybe it's YOU, who's missing the point!" Draggoroy said, approaching Axel "This planet...IS ALL MINE!" He took off Matthew's sword and stabbed Axel's with it.

"AAAAAHHHHHH!" Axel screamed of pain.

We only saw Cindy's reaction to Axel's transformation.

"Holy Sh-" Cindy said.

We cut to Manhattan being destroyed by the Skeletauri as the police were shooting at them.

Does the army know what's happening here?" The police sergeant asked

Do we?!" the young cop asked.

Suddenly, Eddie jumped in front of them.

"I need men in these buildings" Eddie ordered "There are people inside that can run into the line of fire. You take them through the basement or through the subway, you keep them off the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th"

"Why the hell should I take orders from you?" the police sergeant asked.

Suddenly two of the Skeletauri warriors attacked, the cops watched in shock as Eddie fought them off with ease.

"Just do it!" Eddie said as he went back to his team.

"I need men in those buildings, lead the people down and away from the streets" the police sergeant ordered.

"Yes, sir!" the young cop replied.

Eddie reunited with his team, who are fighting with so many Skeletauris.

"There's too many!" Jeff said.

"Where's Cindy? Zoey asked as her communicator was activated.

Hey, guys!

"Cindy?!" Eddie asked "Cindy, where are you?!"

Coming right here, I'm bringing the party to you!

They all turned around as they saw Cindy flying as she was chased by...DRAGON AXEL!

*ROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAR!*

"I don't see how that's a party" Zoey said.

"No, the bad memories are coming!" Meg said.

"The only way to stop him is Matthew's sword" Eddie said "Matthew, give me a ride!"

"Whoa, hey, don't say that or horny fangirls will make Yaoi fanarts about us!" Matthew said.

"HEY! I ALREADY SAID THAT!" Dragon Axel exclaimed.

So, Matthew took Eddie with him to recover Matthew's sword and close the portal.

"We gotta buy them time" Meg said as she saw the Skeletauris riding on their flying vehicles "That's it! We should take these flying cars!"

"Are you sure?" Matt asked.

"Yeah, it's gonna be fun" Meg said as she shot an arrow to a Skeletauri "Steve, give me a push"

Steve obeyed as Meg stepped on Steve's hands and he pushed her to the Skeletauri's flying vehicle. Zoey and Hayley did the same. Matt didn't need a flying vehicle since he can fly too. Cindy, Steve, Jeff and Dylan stayed to fight the Skeletauri.

Matthew and Eddie arrived to the Empire State to face off Draggoroy.

"Welcome!" Draggoroy greeted "Are you ready for the new world I'll create?"

"Look at this! Look around you!" Eddie demanded, pointing at the destruction of the city "You think this madness will end with your rule?"

"If you don't wish to live in this world..." Draggoroy said, taking out her scepter and Matthew's sword "I'll make your wishes"

"Matthew, I'll fight alone, you go and stop the machine" Eddie ordered.

"Are you kidding?" Matthew asked, taking out another weapon: two daggers "He has my sword, so it's personal for me"

Draggoroy charged as both Matthew and Eddie fought against him.

Meanwhile, Dragon Axel was destroying building everywhere. There's even Japanese men screaming in Japanese: 'This is why I left Japan!'. But Meg, Matt, Hayley and Zoey started shooting at him, using the Skeletauri's vehicle canons.

*ROOOOOARRRR!*

Dragon Axel started shooting at them with his machine guns. Luckily, Matt was here to use his magic shields to protect our heroines.

"Thank you, Matt!" Meg thanked.

"You're welcome!" Matt said.

But then Dragon Axel used his tail to destroy Zoey's vehicle.

"AAAAHHH!" Zoey screamed, falling

"ZOEY!" Hayley screamed as she flew to save Zoey "Are you okay?"

"Yes, thank you, friend!" Zoey thanked.

"This isn't working" Meg said as she looked at the Empire State "A good girlfriend is always here for her boyfriend"

Meanwhile, in the Skyward; 'D' and Helena were looking at the battle.

"The portal is far from stopping" 'D' said "We should go to plan B"

"What?! No!" Helena said "My son is the building! If you blast off the missil-"

"You have a better idea, agent?!" 'D' asked "Your son is the strongest young man I've ever met. We must have faith on him. His power will always protect him"

Helena nodded as she looked at the button that says 'Plan B'.

"Edward...please come back alive" Helena prayed as she hit the button.

Eddie and Matthew continued fighting against Draggoroy. But he knocked them out.

"It's over, you pathetic maggots!" Draggoroy said "You are all of you beneath me! I am King, and I will not be bullied by..."

*BOOOM*

Then he was hit by an explosive arrow, dropping both weapons at the same time. Eddie and Matthew turned around to see Meg.

"Puny king..." Meg mocked as she looked at us "Hey, I know it's not like the Hulk smashing Loki, but at least I shut this f*cker up"

"Meg!" Eddie exclaimed "How did you get here?"

"One of these Skeletons' flying cars" Meg answered as she picked up Matthew's sword "I think this is yours"

"Thanks, now I'll stop this dragon" Matthew said as he flew away.

"Okay, we solved a problem, now we gotta solve the other one" Eddie said, looking at the machine.

"Eddie, look!" Meg said, pointing at Stan Smith.

"Ugh...what happened?" Stan asked, not longer under Draggoroy's control.

"Excuse me, how are you?" Eddie asked.

"Stan Smith" Stan answered.

"Stan Smith?" Meg gasped "You're Hayley's Dad!"

"Hayley? Where is she?" Stan asked "Is she all right?"

"Yup, her father is completely different from mine" Meg said.

"Agent Smith, tell us how to stop this machine" Eddie told.

"Draggoroy's scepter, the energy...the Blue Star can't fight" Stan explained "You can't protect against yourself"

"It's not your fault" Meg said "You didn't know what you were doing"

"Well, actually I think I did" Stan said "I built in a safety to cut the power source"

"Draggoroy's scepter" Meg said.

"It might be able to close the portal" Stan said "And I'm looking right at it"

Meg picked up the scepter.

"Meg, what are you doing?" Eddie asked.

"I'm gonna close this thing" Meg answered.

"But-!" Eddie said as he was interrupted by Meg's kiss.

"I know what I'm doing, honey" Meg said as she climbed the peak.

Then, our heroes kept fighting, but Dragon Axel was about to destroy them with his flamethrower. Fortunately, Matthew appeared just in time and stabbed Dragon Axel's chest.

*ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARR!*

Dragon Axel received the seal and his slowly turned back to his human form. Luckily, Matt caught him.

"Is he okay?" Hayley asked.

"He's fine, I can feel his heart beating" Matt answered as he received a message from 'D' "Director?"

Guys! We have a missile headed straight for the city!

"WHAT?!" everybody asked.

Sorry, we were losing the patience! Agent Redmond, can you stop it?

"How long?" Cindy asked.

3 minutes, at best.

"I can make it in two" Cindy answered as she flew towards the missile "But first; J.A.N.I.C.E. call Jessica, please"

Yes, ma'am.

Back in Quahog, we see all our heroes' families and friends watching the invasion of New York through national television. Even Jessica was watching this, yet, she was ignoring her cellphone.

"Come on, Jessica, please call me!" Cindy said "Oh, screw it!"

Meg was already in the peak and holding Draggoroy's scepter.

I can close it!" Meg said "Can anybody hear me? I can shut the portal down!"

"Do it!" Eddie said.

No, wait!

"Cindy, these things are still coming!" Eddie said.

"I got a nuke coming in, it's gonna blow in less than a minute!" Cindy said, carrying he missile.

"Cindy, you know it's a one way trip!" Eddie said.

"Yeah, in case anything happen: tell my mother, Carla and Jessica that I love them and to Peter that he's a fat piece of sh*t!" Cindy said.

"I'll give him your message" Meg said.

Cindy was entering the portal, where she looked at the space for the first time.

"Holy Azmuth..." Cindy said.

(A/E: In case you don't know, Azmuth is a character of Ben 10. Megan, if you're reading this, I made this reference for you)

Ma'am, we're losing altitude

"Yeah, I noticed" Cindy said.

Cindy used the last of her power to push the missile towards the Skeletauri's mothership. The entire ship exploded as Cindy was falling down back to her planet.

Meanwhile, Meg used the scepter to destroy the machine and close the portal. All the Skeletauris died when their mothership was destroyed. Luckily, Cindy was finally on Earth.

"What a tough lady" Steve said.

"Wait, she's not slowing down!" Hayley said.

Cindy was about to fall, but suddenly Matthew appeared and caught her. Then Matthew landed to reunite with his team. Steve took Cindy's helmet off, but she appeared to be dead. So Dylan used her wolf's howling to wake them up.

"AH!" Cindy screamed and so Axel, waking up.

"What the hell...?" Axel asked, finally out of Draggoroy's control "Where am I? Did I miss everything?"

"We won" Hayley said.

"Really...?" Cindy asked "All right, hooray...good job guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take the day off. Let's go to eat to 'Taco Belle'. I heard Tuesday is 'Taco Tuesday', two tacos for the price of one and if you pay $25 with your order, they give you a Princess Belle's dress"

"We're not finished yet" Matt said.

"Okay...and then tacos after" Cindy said.

Inside of the Empire State. Draggoroy was still recovering by the explosion. Then he turned around and he was surrounded by the Ultimate Heroes.

"I'll have that beer now" Draggoroy said.

"Actually, I think you have a debt to pay" Cindy said "Axel, it's all yours"

"This is gonna be fun!" Axel said, cracking his knuckles.

"No, please, have mercy!" Draggoroy pleaded "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

The screen turned black as we heard Draggoroy getting beaten down by Axel.

Moments later, all the Ultimate Heroes cleaned up the mess that they made. A bunch of news reports are broadcasting live on television.

"Who are these heroes? Where do these people come from? Are they real? Is this real life? Who are the Ultimate Heroes? These so called heroes have to be held responsible for the destruction done to the city. This was their fight. Where are they now?" the majority of every news station asks.

Meanwhile, 'D' is watching through a window.

"Where are the Ultimate Heroes?" an agent asks 'D'

"I'm not currently tracking their whereabouts. I'd say they've earned a leave of absence" 'D' replied.

"And the Blue Star?" the agent asked.

"The Blue Star is where it belongs: out of our reach" 'D' answered.

"Will we need them again?" the agent asked yet another question.

"Only if it's necessary, but first I need to tell Walker something" 'D' answered as he looked outside and the sky spells out the letter UH.

End of Act III