Dragon Ball Z: The Avengers Saga

Avengers/Dragon Ball Xenoverse

Crossover

[Disclaimers]

I don't own things owned by other people, I do own any unique characters. I did not make any money off of this...

This is a crossover idea I had kicking around in my head while playing Dragon Ball Xenoverse and watching Avengers, and it just wouldn't leave me alone. Of course it's also grown somewhat since the idea first started stirring around in my head. I most certainly didn't originally intend to include Spider-Man or Justice League (for now these two properties will only have minor appearances in this story, maybe they might play a bigger role later).

But I hope everyone enjoys the story, likes it, and reviews.

There aren't any pairings in this story apart from any that are cannon (example: Tony/Pepper) but don't expect anything more than brief romance, if any at all.

[Iron Man's Strange-ish Day]

It's strange what you can call normal when you're surrounded by the obsurd, Tony Stark thought to himself although that was not for the first time. His life had taken a drastic change into strange waters after that faithful day when, to save his own life, he had implanted a power source into his chest. Meeting a figure from Norse mythology, working with a barely constrained rage monster, and fighting alongside an American icon had certainly also tempered his definitions of both normal and strange. Standing off an alien invasion from the far side of the universe alongside two super spies may have had a hand in that as well.

Although, to be fair, his day started off normal-ish.

It started with his now weekly attempt to recruit a certain wall-crawling, web-slinging, masked vigilante to join the Avengers. Spider-Man, who he was convinced was a late teen, seemed interested in the offer but continually begged off. Tony wasn't dissuaded by the refusal, but was more interested in just hanging around him.

And if it weren't for their costumes and the fact they were exchanging wits on the top of the Chrysler Building, they might as well be employer and very cheeky employee. Tony was hoping to find out who the young man was so he could offer him a job at Stark Industries because he certainly seemed brilliant enough, if underfunded. Tony liked the kid and he certainly had style and he didn't seem to take himself too seriously, both attributes he could appreciate. Because as much as he liked his fellow team-mates they often had a serious lack of humor.

After that, things took a turn for the strange starting with the car jacker. A car jacker, in of themselves, wasn't that strange even for New York where most people wisely used public transportation. Except this particular car jacker decided to steal a yellow Hummer... By lifting it up over his shoulders and running away with it.

He was of two minds about the whole situation.

First, Who steals a yellow Hummer? Tony thought to himself.

Followed up by, Who even buys a yellow Hummer?

Now normally car jackers weren't a big enough concern to warrant the attention from the Avengers, that being more Spider-Man's thing, but something told him that if this guy was strong and fast enough to lift a Hummer and run away with it that he might be outside the league of the police as well as Spider-Man so Tony decided to intercede. Besides which, a little public service and people would appreciate it.

He wound up doing more damage than the criminal and had to be saved by Spider-Man who both managed to contain the worst of the damage and apprehend the criminal without too much fuss. The moral of the story, Tony decided as he watched the criminal swaying from a lamppost with his own Iron Man armor webbed between two buildings not too far off, is never try anything you're not used to.

Both because of the extensive damage to his suit and the fact it was completely gummed up by webbing, which he really didn't blame on Spider-Man, he had to have the old suit taken in and a new one brought out.

The day didn't get much better for him and as it came to a close he wish he could selectively remove the memory of day from his mind.

That talking ape had to be a figment of my imagination, right? Tony thought to himself and then decided that he really didn't want to know, just thankful it was the Justice League that took care of that mess. And he silently resolved to himself to get drunk as soon as humanly possible, if not sooner.

"Well, at least the day can't get any worse." Tony said aloud to himself, not caring if anyone heard it.

Suddenly there was a loud crackle in the air and the familiar sight of a portal appeared high in the atmosphere roughly overhead.

"Why did I say that?" Tony complained, again to no one in particular.

It turned out he needed not to have worried, however, as the portal didn't stay open for very long. Certainly not long enough to discharge an entire alien armada, but a prone figure did fall out of it just before the portal snapped shut as suddenly as it opened. By the time the portal had closed Tony had already changed trajectories and aimed at the falling person and accelerated rapidly. The portal had barely closed when he drew level with the falling person and then changed trajectories one more time to match their falling speed. And by the time he changed trajectories with his load, there was nothing to suggest that there had ever been a portal at all. It was like he had practiced that maneuver a thousand times before.

Tony speed off to Avenger Tower he had to laugh a little at his luck. The day started off normal-ish and ended normal-ish, because the strangeness of the sudden portal aside it was still normal for women to fall into his arms...

A few days latter found him in Nick Fury's office on board the helicarrier, which was hovering over Hudson Bay, sans Iron Man suit. They had also confiscated all his electronic devices, even the keys to his Ferrari, as he was prone to hacking their computers and he was feeling vulnerable.

Which was probably the intention.

Nick Fury stared at him carefully with his one good eye, unnerving him. "So... Hello Fury. How about that weather, hey?"

He was met with silence initially, and then the older man finally spoke. "I've been reading up on reports from Monday. I have to applaud your initiative in trying to catch that car thief, that would have certainly made the Avengers more approachable to the public... Had you actually succeeded."

"I know, right? That was my thought, too. But..."

"Save it, Stark. The damage wasn't too bad, in fact I think it was your suit that suffered the worst damage, and no one was hurt. Although Spider-Man has posted pictures of the whole thing on his blog."

"I know! I've seen the blog that night and I think I've become the butt of the joke all over the Internet!"

"Pretty much, you have. Although I don't think that was his intent. But next time, Stark, I don't care if it's Red Skull himself stealing a car leave it to Spider-Man."

"I've already learned that lesson, thanks... Speaking of the bug, have you spoken to him?"

"Well, I did have to get some of the details from him directly. So yes I did. I've heard that you're still trying to recruit him."

"I am, I really want him on our team. You just got to know that Batman will want to recruit him for the Justice Leaue."

"I've no doubt about that, but for now give the kid a break. He's still just a senior in high school, he doesn't have the time or energy to be a superhero full time."

Tony nodded his understanding, filling away that information for later. He wondered if Fury let slip that tidbit on purpose... Yeah, definitely he did. They went over his other misadventures of that day, including the one with the talking ape that continually spoke in the third-person and referred to himself as Grodd. It felt good to have a few laughs at the expense of someone else beside himself for a change, and he was in a good mood when Fury finally broached the subject he probably had brought him on board to talk about in the first place...

"So I hear you have yourself a new housemate."

That sly son of a... Oh well, he knew it was coming. Might as well give Fury what he wanted...

[To be continued...]