"Everybody suit up. Doom has been spotted." Steve says. This time everyone really is going. Loki has been living here long enough. If he was going to run, he would have done it already.
"Where is he this time? An abandoned amusement park?" Tony asks.
"A cave in the Catskill Mountains." Steve says. Loki and Valeria wave the men off and watch as they go. Thor carries his axe with him confident that this time he will behead the ruthless villain.
"What do we know?" Tony asks.
"He's been quiet for a while now. Laying low. Which means he's probably been developing something new."
"The Cyborgs. If he made a breakthrough on his design there is no telling how many of them there are." Bruce says.
"They will smash just as easily as any other man or robot." Thor says. Bruce smiles at that. After a few minutes of flying they touch down in a rugged mountainside.
"Are we still in New York?" Tony asks. He's not used to seeing nature.
"Intel says it's this way." Natasha says.
"Anybody notice the lack of guards or henchmen?" Clint asks.
"Yeah. Yeah I noticed that too." Steve says. "Tony do a fly around and tell us what you see."
"On it." Tony blasts off. He's up in the air for several minutes but sees nothing.
"I don't like this. Are you sure we are in the right place?" Tony asks.
"I smell a trap. We should leave." Clint says. Suddenly they are lit up by gunfire and Clint takes a direct hit to his left shoulder and goes down. Natasha drags him behind a tree.
"Cap! Should I hulk out?" Bruce yells.
"Not yet!" Steve replies.
"Do you think you can make it back to the jet?" She asks Clint. She grabs his sidearm for him and stuffs it into his hand.
"Stay hidden. Stay safe." She says.
Explosions go off as Tony fires from above and Doom's goons take cover in the mouth of a well-hidden cave.
"Do we follow?" Natasha asks.
"No. They are trying to draw us in, and Clint is injured." Steve says. "We pull back and plant charges at the mouth of the cave and seal in whoever is in there." He says. Just then they hear a woman scream bloody murder.
"Help! Help me! Ahhhhhhhh!"
"Fuck." Tony says.
"It's definitely a trap." Steve says.
"Well, let us go die to rescue fair maiden. It will be fun. Songs will be sung about our glory." Thor says.
"Screw glory, I want to live." Natasha says as she darts towards the cave knowing it's a suicide mission. She takes down a couple of really big guys with really big guns. The sound of gunfire ceases for the moment. The others advance, minus Clint. They enter the mouth of the cave and see nothing at first. The team darts behind stalagmites, walls, and large rocks as they go. The cave is lit by a single electric cable and a series of industrial lights on the ceiling at equal intervals. They follow the tunnel, keeping an eye open for the woman they heard.
They come to an open space where the interior of the cave opens up to a big wide room. This room is not naturally occurring but was made by blasting into the mountain. Doom is standing there waiting for them, bold as brass.
Electricity sparks up and down Thor as he calls upon the lightning.
"Thor don't!" Tony yells.
"What is wrong?"
"Look at the floor. You'll electrocute all of us." Bruce says. The floor is covered in metal. "Let me get him."
"No. You could bring down the whole mountain on top of us."
"Ah! Help me. Help me!" Doom says as he holds up a voice augmenter to his throat. He pulls it away and chuckles low and deep.
"Fuck you!" Natasha says. Damsel in distress motherfucker.
"Well Victor, you brought us here. What do you want?" Steve yells.
"To tell you all about my evil diabolical plan of course, down to every last detail."
"I agree with Natasha. Fuck you!" Bruce says.
"My, aren't we snippy." Doom says.
"Anybody else feeling really drowsy?" Natasha asks, before dropping.
"Nat!" Tony yells. "Jarvis what are we dealing with?"
"The air here only contains half the amount of oxygen needed to sustain life. The carbon monoxide level in here is high. Your suit is protecting you, but Lady Romanova does not have that advantage. Likewise, the others will eventually succumb to the effects of the gas as well."
"We need to leave." Steve says and then starts to cough.
"Going so soon? Try to leave and I'll fry all of you."
"What do you want?" Steve coughs.
"To kill all of you of course. And rule the world, but details aren't important right now." Doom says. A tentacle robot contraption, resembling a skeletal octopus appears behind Doom. "Seize him." He orders. At first everyone thinks Doom is after Steve or Tony, but it is Thor that the giant metal squid detains. Thor swings his axe and manages to chop off one of the robot arms, but the weapon is yanked from his hand by another. It grabs Thor's wrists and snaps a collar around his neck. Thor calls on the lightning to disable the mechanical being but the current gets redirect back into Thor, electrocuting him. He goes limp, unconscious from pain and lack of air.
Bruce has no choice. He hulks out. His growing form smashes into the ceiling of the cave and he roars in anger and pain. Doom shoots at the ceiling above the green beast. The metal octopus takes off down a narrow corridor with Thor's body as the others run back out the way they came. Tony has Natasha, with Steve following behind. Hulk picks up a giant boulder and flings it at Doom, forcing the villain to run. Hulk picks up several more large chunks of rock and hurls them, but Doom escapes down a hatch to safety. He wants to pursue the little metal man, but Hulk cannot breathe. He pants and grunts like a bear about to enter hibernation. He has to leave.
The Hulk cannot fit down the tunnel that Bruce used. He has to change back, but he also needs to stay awake. He stumbles down the path as he shrinks back to his human form. He collapses at the opening of the cave on his hands and knees. The others are there.
Natasha is still out cold and Steve is sitting on his butt gasping for air. Tony is the only one still fully functional, which is a good thing, because they are drawing fire. Tony fires at the half a dozen men letting loose a barrage of fire on their position. Tony fires back with bullets, hand blasts, and shoulder missiles. He manages to kill them all singlehandedly.
"Let's go." Tony grabs Bruce and Natasha both as Steve staggers out of the cave. They make for the jet where Clint is waiting, suffering from blood loss. Tony secures his teammates quickly and plops down into the pilot's chair and takes off.
"He got Thor." Steve says and coughs hard. Now that they are safe Bruce has fallen into sleep, next to Natasha who is coming around but moaning in agony. Her head is beating like a snare drum.
"Clint needs medical attention, you guys are down, and I'm about out of ammunition. We need to regroup." Tony says.
"He's getting away." Steve pants.
"I know." Tony says.
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Thor opens his eyes to mere slits. The light is too bright and his head is pounding. He takes a deep cleansing breath as he comes to. He knows he's in a bad situation, because his body is dangling free in the air in the middle of a room. His arms are up over his head in heavy duty cuffs and the collar is still around his neck. His toes are just barely brushing against the floor, and he's completely naked.
"Well hello there princess." Doom says. Thor looks around and notices that the room they are in looks like a lab, much like Tony's.
"Let me go." Thor bellows.
"Eventually, once I'm done experimenting on you. I'm going to enhance you Thor. Give you new body parts and a new purpose. Your new objective will be to serve me, but first I need some samples, just in case my experiments aren't as successful as I hope." Doom says. A couple of sinister looking men in lab coats appear on the periphery of Thor's vision. They snap on latex gloves and pull out syringes and other lab instruments. One of them stabs Thor in the thigh and draws multiple vials of blood. The other takes a punch biopsy cutter and cuts out a small chunk of Thor's arm, without anesthesia. Thor grunts in pain at the extraction. Blood trickles down his arm and armpit from the small hole.
"And what do you plan to do with all of that?"
"Clone you possibly. Make an army of super strong cyborg warriors."
"Why me?"
"Because of your ability to conduct electricity of course. Your natural ability to wield it without being harmed is useful in certain applications." Doom says. One of the lab technicians then pulls out what looks like a volt meter…and a large metal phallus. Thor's eyes go wide.
"In case you are wondering what that is for, it is an electrified cattle ejaculator. It's used to collect semen. Of course a hand-job would net the same result but my people are not in the business of pleasuring their enemies, and you might not exactly be cooperative anyway. I'll leave you to it." Doom says to his men and leaves the room.
The two men look at Thor with the look mean little children get right before they use a magnifying glass to fry ants.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Thor yells.
"Relax. You might enjoy this." One of them says. Thor yanks at the cuffs binding his from above, but it only makes his whole body swing awkwardly. He tries to kick but his feet are tethered. One of the men comes before Thor and lifts his cock and holds an open jar at the end of it. He stands there looking bored. The other goes behind Thor.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Thor roars, but they don't listen. Thor feels his cheeks part as a large smooth lubed instrument is placed at his entrance. "STOP! STOP! AH!" Thor yells as the long metal shaft is pushed into him. Once fully seated the man behind him steps away and grabs the volt meter.
"Ever wonder what it feels like to have a lightning bolt shoved up your ass?" The one henchman says to the other.
"No, but he's about to find out."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"