Chapter Four:
"How can they still be out furniture shopping?" Vivian sighed online gambling can only entertain someone for so long, the screen on her tablet flickered violently "What the-" looking out the window she noticed a stream of light in the sky "O shit." shoving the tablet in her bag, she grabbed her goggles off the side and ran out of the room locking it on her way out 'Why did I lock it? Not like there's anything to steal'
Her trusty Harley sat outside the apartment building; Vivian knew exactly where to follow the light to 'Liberty State Park'
"I hope those idiots at SHIELD have seen this" Vivian gave little notice to traffic and speed limits as she sped towards the park. The asteroid loomed with amazing velocity, as it collided with the park, the ground shook violently Vivian felt it through her bike. Without stopping she rode the bike straight into the park were several people were gathered round trying to look into the crater that had been created. Vivian dismounted and checked in the storage container on her bike "Please tell me, she left something in here...a pistol. Fat lot of good that's going to be." Vivian also found her spare bag of explosives "At least I'm not unarmed."
She too joined the crowd; the crater was fairly large but still less than twenty feet wide. The chunk of space rock sat there a large crack appeared and steam gushed out of it like a geyser this caused a lot of the crowd to run off screaming already.
The flow of steam came to halt and no more cracks appeared on the outer surface,
'I want to see what's inside' her curious nature wanted to see the being that was called Apocalypse but maybe he wasn't in this one? What's the worst that could happen? Vivian jumped into the small crater and onto the top of the rock,
"Hey are you crazy?" one guy shouted at her,
"We should call the x-files!"
"Go right ahead and call Mulder and Scully! you'll be waiting an eternity" Vivian snapped back, pulling a small torch her bag she shone it into the crack, putting her ear to the rock to see if she could hear any movement and knocking on the shell to see if she could figure out if it were hollow. "Hmm it's not hollow, I really want to crack it open like an egg" rising to her feet triggered another crack and this time steam didn't follow only a blinding light and a thundering explosion.
Vivian heard the screams of the people that remained, the light faded. The man she figured was Apocalypse loomed in the air above her, from where she was stood she could only see his feet. Vivian clambered out of the hole with difficulty in her current footwear. Now getting a better glimpse of the man, he was tall well over seven foot in height, silver skin, the metallic blue markings on his face gave him the appearance of a robot, the silver and blue steel armour he wore heightened that.
"BOW DOWN TO THE MIGHTY APOCALYPSE!" he ordered to the terrified civilians: so terrified they daren't move "YOU IGNORE MY COMMANDS?"
"Shit" Vivian took out a string of firecrackers lighting them before hurtling them towards the alien, "Fire in the hole!" she shouted partly due to habit,
The giant turned to her his red eyes glowing angrily "SO A PUNY MORTAL WISHES TO CHALLENGE ME?"
Vivian stood her ground, gambling was what she did best and her poker face was second to none "Well that's what it looks like doesn't it, En Sabah Nur?"
"SO YOU KNOW MY OLD NAME, INTERESTING"
"I know things...I guess that was you're name before you went bat shit crazy?" Vivian kept one eye on Apocalypse and the other on the quiver spectators 'why are they still here?' she made the mistake of taking her focus off the alien for a split second to look back and have him stood dangerously close, she had to crane her neck to look up at him "Ah shit" a heavy hand seized her head and effortlessly removed her from the ground,
"YOU ARE INDEED A PUNY HUMAN" the alien scoffed and threw her like a rag doll across the park, colliding with her bike,
Vivian was laid out on top of her fallen bike, slightly dazed. "Christ" sitting up to notice Apocalypse had now forgotten about her and had refocused on the crowd. "Looks like I have to bring out something a little louder" producing a small tennis ball shaped shell, throwing it with accuracy at the aliens head a gunshot shortly followed as the ball came into contact with his head. Taking this opportunity to run over to the idiots that remained "SNAP OUT OF IT AND FUCKING RUN!" she shouted grabbing one guy by the shoulder, he nodded and the others followed suit.
"YOU STILL DARE TO CHALLENGE APOCALYPSE?" Vivian didn't need to turn around to know that this guy was pissed and stood directly behind her,
"Yup I guess I do. What can I say? I'm a gambler by nature" ducking as she let a flash grenade off directly in Apocalypse's face and rolled out the way,
"FOOLISH HUMAN." the flash didn't blind Apocalypse which Vivian found out the hard away when she was picked up and thrown across the park again, at least she was somewhat prepared and managed a decent landed which turned into a cartwheel to avoid a laser beam that had been fired.
"I didn't know he could do that"
"I can do anything for I am Apocalypse" he stated like it was common sense, teleporting over to her again "you cannot win against me
"I can damn well try!" Vivian snaped throwing another ball shaped bomb in his face and shooting it with the gun, not a smart thing since this bomb contained a high level of tannerite, and the force sent her flying off her feet. 'I am so not good at this running around shit'
Steve and I had just paid for the new furniture when something exploded shaking the foundations of the city and making the windows in the store shatter,
"Earthquake" someone yelled sending everyone into a panic about there being an earthquake in New York
"Please lord tell me that isn't what I think it is" I ran out of the store and saw a plume of smoke rising up from the east, "Steve you're native would you say that's liberty park?"
"Yeah"
"Then it looks like I'm starting work early. Get on to your super best friends will ya I'm gonna go make sure Viv isn't in too much trouble"
I ran off towards the park and had to fight my way through throngs of people to get into the damn park, "VIVIAN!" I yelled running into the park using the motorcycle tracks in the grass as my guide
"ALICE!" Viv yelled back I could see her running through the smoke being chased by what seemed to be a giant robot, "I'm guessing that's acpocalyspe?"
"Yeah and he's pissed" Vivian said skidding to a halt beside me,
"Might that be because you threw a grenade at him?"
"Nah he was already pissed. Started talking about us all bowing down to him as soon as he came out of his space pod"
"Space pod?"
"Well yea I mean that's what it is"
"YOU SEEK TO DEFEAT ME BY BRINGING IN AN ALLY?" Apocalypse yelled
"Well we're really just opening for the main band" I said, "We're only semi famous at this point and only really with a certain crowd but we're working on becomming more mainstream"
"YOU JOKE IN VAIN"
"And that makes fuck all sense" Vivian said, "so what kind of weapons have we got?" She asked turning to me
"Well I've got my .44 what about you?" Vivian held up her .36
"I've got some flash bangs as well. That should keep us moderatly alive until Steve gets here with the rest of the super best friends - I'm assuming?"
"You assume correctly"
"Alright then. Let's try not to die" Vivian said pulling the pin of a grenade with her teeth as I aimed my gun at Apocalpse's head
"Cause it would suck to die on the first day of the job" I agreed
"Here goes nothing then"
Vivian reached into her bag and instead of ball shell she pulled out a wad of what looked like orange plasticise light bulb "Ali can you distract him?"
Alice looked at her gone out "at least give me a grenade" with that she ran forth shouting 'Varmint',
Vivian hid behind her bike and got to work, wrapping the plasticine like substance around her remaining four firecrackers and a small chip, setting up a timer on the tablet. "Let's roll" vaulting over her bike to join the fray running towards Alice "Give me a boost!"
Alice cupped her hands to make a foothold for Vivian to use as a spring board, giving her enough height to reach Apocalypse's face,
"Eat Semtex bitch!" she squished the orange plasticine brick into the aliens face. Vivian's big plan backfired when she got caught, 'O dear...' Vivian struggled in vain and pathetically,
"You're big plan was to get caught?" Alice shouted, firing several rounds at Apocalypse,
"PUNY HUMANS" with that the alien fired a laser beam at Alice, dirt and dust flew everywhere,
"ALICE!" Time was ticking, but it's a good thing Vivian is blessed with the devils luck. A last minute intervention a force that barrelled into Apocalypse like a tank, released Vivian from the titan grip sending her crashing onto the cold ground. Just in time the timer on the tablet beeped manically as the wireless detonator trigged the Semtex and its other components off into an explosion that could have levelled a small building.
Vivian had hit her head hard on the ground blurring her vision but all she heard was apocalypse claiming he would be back "I like explosions" she murmured sitting up very gingerly,
"You okay Viv?"
Flashing a grin and a thumps up she gradually clambered to her feet "I'll be fine,"
"You could have warned me about that" Tony huffed gesturing to the second crater behind him,
"Didn't exactly have the time did I?" she sighed again "what waste of Semtex, I think that was my last"
Tony stared at her "how did you get hold of Semtex?"
"The same way I get hold of everything, illegally" she retorted, turning to Alice "I'm glad you're alright, I saw lasers and smoke"
Alice smiled and leaned on Steve "Someone has good timing,"
"I'll say, how long does it take someone to put on a pair of tights?"
"T-they're not tights" Steve argued back his face flushing again,
"That's like saying Stark isn't a playboy"
"Yeah she's fine" I said with relief. Vivian was many things, careful was not one of them
"So what did you guys realisticly hope to do?" Stark asked, "I mean you've got what a handful of grenades and two pistols"
"Hey we've gotten out of worse situations with less" I argued
"Yes but this is a giant alien who wants to destory the planet" Steve said
"Which is no different from a six foot five trucker who won't take no for an answer" I said simply reloading my gun,
"I HAVE NO TIME TO DEAL WITH YOU PATHETIC HUMANS" Apocalpsye roared before placing his hands together. I watched as particles of light created a giant ball of energy aimed directly at us, "this I don't see ending well for we normal types" I said looking for a possible means to avoid the giant ball of energy about to be fired at us,
"I got this" Stark said flying up into the air and aiming his own weapons at Apocalypse. As he fired them something strange happened. The energy created by Starks weapon was absorbed into the ball of energy Apocalypse himself was creating and Stark was blown backwards into a cluster of trees by the backlash
"Any one got anymore bright ideas?" Vivian asked
"Yeah I've got one. Hit the deck!" I yelled as Apocalypse fired his energy beam. Viv and I dropped to the ground and I tried to shield myself with my hands but it didn't really work and I managed to get hit pretty badly in the face with a flying rock which, if the warmth on my face was any indication, cut my head pretty badly.
I looked up briefly and saw that Steve was standing directly in the line of fire his shield raised and he was able to block at least some of the energy beam. Or he was until he was blown back by the impact and he too landed on the ground.
With us all incapacitated Apocalypse was able to take off and at super sonic speeds leaving the rest of us in his wake,
"Viv?"
"Yeah?"
"You dead?"
"Not this time"
"Me either. Steve?"
"I'm good"
"Stark"
"Still alive"
I picked myself up off the ground and dusted myself off finding little scrapes and cuts on my arms and my jeans were torn to shit.
Viv was in the same boat as I was only most of her clothes seemed to be explosion damaged,
"Upsy daisy" I said holding out my hand for Steve as Viv checked her explosives stock
"You have a twig in your hair" Steve said once I helped him up
"What where?"
"Here I got it" Steve pulled a little twig out of my hair
"Thanks for you know jumping in the line of fire"
"Your welcome. We're a team right?"
"Right"
"Well if you two are done with your moment I think we should give Fury a call and have his guys come pick this up. I want a look inside" Stark said knocking on the pod Apocalypse had arrived in
"Uh yeah I'll do that now" Steve said walking off
"You know your head looks like a period right?" Viv said after a moment of silence, "Period head"