Me: The Avengers have assembled

Mordecai: This is gonna be good.

Rigby: I got the popcorn!

Muscleman: I got the drinks

Grimlock: Me Grimlock so excited!

Me: Then, let's begin

Ch. 8 The Battle of Sherman

Danny and Jake flew straight towards the portal.

"So, how are we gonna plug it up?" Jake asked

"Grab my hands, and let loose a torrent of flame!" Danny answered

"What!? Dude, I got a girl-friend, I don't wanna…." Jake started

"Yeah, I got one too, very serious. But we gotta plug that thing up! Come on!" Danny shouted holding out both hands.

Jake sighed. He knew there were bigger things to worry about. Jake took both of Danny's hands in his claws. Danny then began to spin them. They both spun rapidly, it appeared to be a small blur of black, white, and red.

"Let loose your flame! NOW!" Danny commanded as his green eyes turned bright blue.

Jake opened his mouth and unleased a giant burst of flame, while at the same time, Danny blasted massive beams of ice from both his eyes. As they continued to spin at faster rates, a giant vortex of fire and ice had formed almost the size of the portal. The vortex caught in dozens of Mutradi fighters, and even two centipede ships. A massive explosion occurred at the portal.

Down below, the rest of the teenagers were busy duking it out against the vast alien forces.

Zak had found how to switch the alien gun from short-range to long-range. He had been standing at the corner of a tall building shooting all the Mutradi fighters. He saw vulnerabilities in their engines, and with his good aim and keen eye, he nailed all the engines and took down each fighter he shot at. With his eye, he noticed his friend being chased by many Mutradi fighters.

"Rex" Zak began through his communicator. "You got a lot of bad guys on your six."

"Yeah I know." Rex responded, flying on his Sky-Slyder. "Trying to keep them off the streets."

"These ships aren't to aerodynamic, they don't turn very well." Zak relayed. "You may want to find a tight corner."

"Got it, thanks man." Rex thanked.

Rex noticed a tunnel and flew directly into it. It was a small and tight tunnel, so a few alien ships crashed trying to squeeze in it. Any that did make it in, couldn't all fit. They bumped against each other and the walls of the tunnel, until they all finally exploded. Rex flew out the other end of the tunnel, with flames trailing behind him.

"Nice call pal." Rex congratulated. "What else you got?"

"Ben's taking on a Squad and a few big ships on Seventh Street." Zak answered.

"Aww, he didn't invite me?" Rex joked "That's rude."

Multiple ships were flying in pursuit of Ben's alien form Jetray. Jetray saw a centipede ship flying towards him as well. Getting an idea, Jetray set down on the ground and transformed into Gravattack. Using his powers, Gravattack caught all the fighters with his gravity powers. He spun them around his body faster and faster until a ring had formed. He launched all the fighters' straight towards the centipede ship. At the speed the fighters were flung, they tore through the ship like toilet paper, before it exploded.

Rex had just came by on the Sky-Slider. "Dude! I give that a ten! Pun entirely intended."

"Very funny" Gravattack sarcastically joked, while giving a thumbs up

Kim and Ron were battling all the alien infantry down on the streets below the portal.

Ron used his strength to take on the majority of the aliens. He had punched and kicked many of them, several feet away. He grabbed one that was clawing at him and used him like a baseball bat to bash many others heading his way.

Rufus got Ron's attention and pointed to an empty bus. Ron smiled. He ran to the bus, with his MMP power, he easily picked it up. He threw it and sent it rolling along the streets. It flattened all the aliens that were in the direction he threw it in.

Kim had an alien grab her and force her to the hood of the car. With her battle-suit's strength, she kicked the alien off. She grabbed a sparking wire near her. Her suit could protect her from electricity. She shoved the cord right into the aliens head, the electricity surged throughout its body. It flailed its arms until it finally went limp and died.

She had to sit on the car and take a breather. Ron ran up to her.

"You okay, KP?" Ron asked.

"Yeah." She confirmed "Hardest….sitch…ever." she got out.

"I can keep going." Ron reassured her.

"I know you can." Kim commented "You're the master of Monkey Kung Fu. But I'm still me. Even with this suit, there's only so much I can do."

"Yeah." Ron agreed. "And this isn't gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal." He observed as they looked up to the portal and the continuous alien forces coming out of it.

However, from the portal, three large, flaming, orbs were shot out. Though they did not head for Sherman. They were heading further away, in a different direction.

During the battle with the Galunians, they did continue to fend off the many alien ships, but their efforts seemed futile.

Lance laid out his guns and shot behind him. Blasting away the five Mutradi fighters pursuing him. A centipede ship had passed over him. He flew to the top of it and landed on its front. He drew one of his armor's swords, and sliced away the front. The ship fell to the ground and exploded.

Lance noticed another centipede ship heading towards him. He drew a spear from his armor and threw it. It made a bulls-eye with the front of the ship and pierced into the ship's bridge. It exploded. The whole front of the ship was engulfed in flames as it fell.

Illana had flown under a centipede ship and activated her armor's head laser. It cut through the ship. She continued to fire as the ship moved, cutting a line directly to the back engines. As it cut through the engines, the back half exploded.

She turned to see many Mutradi fighters flying in her direction. She activated her chest beam and engulfed the fighters.

Octus was flying directly toward a centipede ship. Literally, straight toward it. He had not deterred. He literally flew through it. Blasting his way out through the engines. The ship and taken too much damage from that and fell out of the sky.

Octus noticed three flaming orbs heading towards them. "Guys! Incoming!" He warned his teammates.

"I see them!" Illana relayed.

From each of the three locations, the flaming balls flew past them. Each one had made at least 100 feet from the other before crashing deep into the ground. After that nothing.

"Shouldn't something be happening?" Lance asked.

Octus then scanned one of the orbs but couldn't make out anything. "There is some sort of energy barrier around each of them I have no clue what they are."

Before any of them could say anything else, energy blasts were shot in their direction. Dozens of fighters were heading toward them. The ships were shot down by lasers coming from a different direction.

"Who did that?" Lance asked

"Looks like you could use some help" A familiar voice relayed through their armors, and Octus through his systems.

"Solomon!" Illana exclaimed relieved.

A small fleet of G3 fighters flew from the sky and begun engaging the Mutradi fighters and even a few centipede ships. It had now become an even fight.

"Not that we don't appreciate the help Solomon, but what are you doing here?" Lance questioned.

"G3 is here to help" Solomon answered.

"We know! But shouldn't your forces be in Sherman?" Octus asked as well.

"I agree…" Illana began

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"…Sherman is under siege! Don't worry about us! Help all those people!" She instructed

Solomon merely smiled. "Heh. Don't worry. The situation there is being dealt with."

"What do you mean?" Lance asked. "Are they're G3 forces there too?"

"Like I said, don't worry." Solomon responded "The city's in good hands."

Solomon watched from the bridge, on a screen, of the ship as the events unfolded in Sherman.

Sherman

Jake had flown and taken out a few fighters he was pursuing with his fire-breath. More fighters came from behind and opened fire.

Danny flew in next to Jake, looked back and fired ecto-beams from his hands at the ships taking them out.

Danny flew into the streets below, knocking away a few aliens in the process. He landed in the area where Kim and Ron were both battling with the aliens.

Kim had axe kicked an alien in the face and round-house kicked it in the face again knocking it down. Ron had smashed an alien with his hands cupped together. Danny blasted an alien or two. Danny shot an ecto beam towards Kim, who had activated her force field, surrounding her and Ron. The beam reflected off the field and cut down all the Mutradi soldiers in front of them.

Danny flew up the closest building, blasting a few aliens scaling up it.

Zak, at the top of the building, switched his gun to short-range, shot away all the closest aliens climbing toward him. Zak saw a ship go by, he switched the gun to long-range and shot the fighter's engines.

The ship flew away and fell. Before it could hit the ground it smashed on an incoming Mutradi ship. On top of the ship was Ben, in his Frankenstrike form, and Rex with his Smack Hands. They both punched away at all the Mutradi soldiers on top shooting at them. Rex with his metal hands, and Frankenstrike, with his electrified punches.

Rex used his Smack Hands to tear off a piece of metal and jam it into the front of the ship. Frankenstrike doubled with his hands cupped together and charged with green electricity, and jammed it in even further.

The alien ship had green electricity surge all the way through it. It fell and crash-landed into a sub-way station. The two took a breather and a look at their work, before smiling and fist-bumping each other.

Mutrad, Modula's fortress

The Mutradi scientists were all at their work stations monitoring the portal and the situation on Earth.

In the middle of the room, on a chair, sat Baron. It wasn't exactly a throne he was sitting on, but he couldn't complain. He was too busy enjoying the moment.

"How's the invasion going?" He asked

"Commander Baron" One of the scientists began "The portal is still open and stable. However, the forces in the city have encountered great resistance."

Baron's smile refused to fade. "It doesn't matter. Whatever resistance they face, they'll wear out eventually."

Sherman

Danny had flown directly toward an incoming Mutradi centipede ship. Neither deterring from their course. Danny went intangible as a blue aura formed around him. As he flew into the ship, it began to completely freeze from the inside. When Danny phased out from the other end, he charged an ecto ball with one hand, and tossed it at the falling frozen ship. It made contact, and the whole thing shattered and exploded.

Danny was catching a bit of his breath. "Hey." Danny began in his communicator "How're you guys holding up?"

"I can do this all day." Rex answered as he sliced two Mutradi with his BFS.

"From the looks of it you may have to." Kim replied with a neck chop on a soldier. "They just keep coming."

"Then we'll just keep fighting" Ben, in the form of Blitzwolfer, replied as he clawed one Mutradi in the face, and blasted another away with his howl attack.

"I'm not sure we can keep fighting." Jake relayed, as he spat out his fire like a flame-thrower, engulfing a squad.

"He's right." Ron agreed as he spun around, holding an alien by its legs, before letting go and sending it on a trip. "It's only a matter of time before we start to wear out."

"I know." Danny agreed, hovering. "We gotta close that portal." He looked at the open rift-gate. He then noticed the five beams of energy still streaming toward it, then he remembered. "The boxes."

"What?" Rex asked

"It's those boxes!" Danny announced. "They're the key!"

"He's right." Zak agreed as his gun finally ran out of ammo. An alien jumped from behind before Zak dove under it, and the alien fell of the edge of the building. Zak took out his scanner.

"Those boxes are each giving the same signal." Zak began "They're emanating the same energy. But they're at their max right now."

"Meaning what?" Kim asked

"Meaning, they can't hold or give out any more power." Zak answered. "That portal is sending back energy as well. The energy being sent and given is balanced, if we disrupt the balance it'll all fall apart."

"I get it." Rex realized as he blocked an onslaught of alien energy blasts with his Block-Party. "If we destroy just one box, the portal will have to compensate by sending more energy to the other four. But since those boxes are already at their max…"

"They'll overload!" Jake finished. "Once they do, the boxes will probably explode, or die out. Either way, they'll be out of commission."

"And the portal will close." Danny added.

"Impenetrable force-field remember?" Kim reminded. "How're we gonna destroy a box if we can't get through that?"

"What're those shields made of anyway?!" Ron asked

"Energy." Zak answered. "They're made of pure energy."

"I'll handle it then." Blitzwolfer replied.

"Excuse me?" Jake questioned "What do you mean, 'you'll handle it'?"

"I got an alien who can handle energy." Blitzwolfer answered. "I just gotta get to a box."

"Okay." Danny replied "Ben, I'm closest to you. The two of us will head to a box and take it down. The rest of you, hold these guys off as long as you can."

"Aye, aye, captain." Rex replied, forming his Slam Cannon and blasting all the Mutradi in front of him.

Danny flew to Ben, still Blitzwolfer, and blasted away all the remaining aliens near him. "Let's go!" he commanded.

Ben had once again changed form, this time into Cannonbolt. "Let's get rollin!'"

Cannonbolt rolled into a ball and down into the streets. He rolled through the streets at incredible speeds. Any Mutradi foolish enough to get in his way instantly got flattened. Some tried shooting at him, but the energy shots barley hurt him with his though hide.

Danny flew right above him and blasted all the Mutradi that didn't get hit by Cannonbolt.

They finally made it to the construction site where they first met. The white beam was still active and reaching the portal. They both made it to the opening of the building. Danny touched the ground and Cannonbolt unfurled.

They both saw the large white, floating orb, with the beam shooting from it. Danny shot the orb with an ecto-beam, but no effect. "Just as I thought. Shield's still up."

"Not for long." Cannonbolt announced. He then transformed into one of Ben's personal favorites, Feedback.

Feedback latched his cord tail and antennae to the white orb, as well as his plug fingers. White energy began to surge through each of the appendages.

"Whoa!" Feedback exclaimed.

"What? What is it?" Danny asked.

"It's a lot of power." Feedback began "I won't' be able to drain it all, but I can get a small opening through the shield, then you take it out."

"Okay, but you might wanna hurry." Danny reminded.

"I know, they'll keep coming." Feedback remembered.

"That, and we got company." Danny added as he turned around to an incoming horde of Mutradi soldiers.

"Hold them off, I can't fight them like this!" Feedback shouted

"Got it." Danny answered as he charged in, ecto energy pulsing from his hands.

Back at the battle field. A centipede ship was flying through a building, literally. Jake noticed it. He then spun around and formed fire around his spinning body, like a drill made of fire. He then dove through the ship from the top and tore through it. He repeated the process from the bottom, then the top again, then back the bottom, then the top, until he had made Swiss cheese from it.

Once the ship was destroyed, Jake landed on the ground rather hard than intended. He was pretty tired, he struggled to get up, but was hit by a Mutradi gun shot in the back. His thick, dragon skin protected him, but it still hurt. He turned and saw many aliens approaching him.

Zak had smacked an alien off the building, using his Claw like a club. He turned and saw at least a dozen fighters heading his way, ready to blow the roof away.

Zak jumped off the edge of the building in the nick of time, just as the fighters shot the roof and it was engulfed in flames. As Zak fell, he launched the grappler of his Claw. It grabbed onto the building. When the cord had reached its limit, his fell stopped. Zak used the momentum to swing into a window from the building. He landed on his back, he was exhausted.

Rex had crushed an alien with his punk busters. He turned and saw a dozen of Mutradi fighters with their guns primed at him. Rex formed his block party and a shield formed around him. They opened fire and pounded away at his shield, it began to crack as the onslaught continued.

Kim and Ron were back-to-back in the streets, taking on the many, many ground forces.

Ron continued to bash and punch away. Kim was shot on the side from an alien, she fell to the ground and grunted in pain. Ron tuned and saw, along with four Mutradi soldiers shooting at them. Getting angry, he then kicked a car with enough force, it crushed all the aliens.

Ron helped Kim to her feet, the suit had regenerated. "You good?" He asked "Sorry to keep asking that."

"No big." She brushed off. "Suit took most of the impact." Though now, they were starting to loose. Danny, Ben, whatever you two are planning, you better hurry.

Feedback continued to absorb energy from the orb, struggling to absorb as much as he could, with no sign of the shield dissipating.

Danny had Ben's back. He stood there and continued to blast away with his hands and eyes. He shot ecto beam and freeze beams. Aliens were blasted away, had holes blasted through them, were frozen, were frozen then shattered, but they still kept coming. "Uh, Ben?"

"I'm…as…hard…as I…can." Feedback got out, he then noticed a small hole forming in the middle of the orb. Knowing he was close, Feedback tried to absorb as much as he could. When the hole was big enough, Feedback could get a clear view of the box.

"DANNY! NOW!" he exclaimed.

Danny turned his attention from the incoming horde and turned around. No time to think, he shot an ecto beam at the box. Direct hit. The box then exploded in a large white explosion, engulfing the small, vacant building.

The white beam had ceased. The rift-gate then began to fluctuate and condense. Pulses were sent along the paths of the remaining four white beams. The pulses traveled the paths of the beams, until each made contact with the orbs, which grew larger and larger. Inside the orbs, white electricity surged through the each of the boxes until they each exploded. All the remaining beams stopped. With no more energy to feed to the Rift Gate above Sherman, it remained open for a few seconds, before closing for good.

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Solomon watched as the portal closed. He breathed a heavy sigh of relief as he sat down in the chair, with a smile on his face.

Sherman

They were all dead. The Mutradi were all killed by the explosion at the construction site. Danny had turned back visible with Feedback. Danny had turned both of them intangible just in time.

They both looked at each other with a smile.

"It's done." Feedback said.

"We did it guys." Danny relayed to his allies through his communicator "Portal's shut down."

"That's great." Zak began as he looked out the window of the building he crashed into. "But we still got hundreds of these guys out here."

"Alright." Danny responded "Now let's get them all out of the city."

"What?!" Rex exclaimed as he struggled to keep his Block Party up "You just told us to keep them in the city!"

"That's when the portal was up, and still kept coming." Danny replied.

"I got a plan to take care of the rest of them, but we need to get all of them outside the city." Danny finished.

"Alright. Got it." Jake answered as he took back off into the sky. He flew to the window where Zak was, grabbed him, and flew off.

Rex formed his Boogie-pack and dropped the shield, and shot off into the air. Rex flew down into the streets, he saw Kim and Ron still fighting. He flew down and picked them both up, and flew off. Rufus still inside Ron's jacket.

Ben transformed from Feedback into Jetray once more, he and Danny both took off into the sky.

Seeing the teens leave, a Mutradi commander took to his comn device, contacting all the other Mutradi in the city in their language "AFTER THEM! THEY WILL SUFFER FOR THIS! EVERYONE AFTER THEM!" He shouted in Mutrad.

Danny and Jetray had just made it out of city limits, Danny looked to his left and saw Jake carrying Zak. He looked to his right and saw Rex carrying Ron and Kim. It was everyone, they were flying together.

Rex used his goggles to zoom in on the oncoming horde. "They're coming!"

"How many?" Danny asked.

"Looks like all of em." Rex answered.

"Perfect." Danny replied. "Keep going guys, get them as far from the city as possible."

The team had flown quite the distance. Until they finally made it to an empty field, with the city just barley in view. They landed, with Jetray turning back into Ben

"They still coming?" Danny asked Rex

"Yeah." Rex confirmed, looking through his goggle. "They'll be here in five minutes tops."

"Hope you have a plan." Kim told Danny.

Danny just stepped five feet out in front of the group.

The aliens were starting to come in view. The oncoming horde had dozens of fighters, two centipede ships, and hundreds of jet-packed soldiers.

"Here they come!" Ron announced.

"I'm not sure we can take all of them like this." Zak guessed.

"You won't have to." Danny announced. The Mutradi were now a football field length away. "You guys might wanna cover your ears."

He inhaled deeply and unleashed a Ghostly Wail, at full power.

The sheer force of it, the ecto-charged sound waves, all at a massive radius; completely engulfed the oncoming horde.

The teenage heroes behind Danny did indeed cover their ears and squinted their eyes shut.

"HE WASN'T KIDDING!" Rex shouted

"WHAT?!" Ben shouted back

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Jake yelled

"I DIDN'T HEAR YOU!" Kim shouted as well.

"WHO SAID THAT!?" Ron yelled loudly

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Zak shouted.

They couldn't hear each other over the wail Danny was unleashing on the horde.

Danny was pouring everything he had into this. And a good thing too. The Jet packed Mutradi were all flung away, but they were killed from the impact of the force-waves. The fighters all exploded. The Centipede ships both lost control and crashed into each other.

Despite all that, Danny continued to pour, he wanted to make sure there were no survivors. When he was certain he got them all, he stopped.

When he stopped. The teens all unplugged their ears and opened their eyes, which went as wide as they ever did. The area in front of them looked like the site of an atomic bomb. The ground was completely flat and barren, save for the charred and ruined metal littered all over.

Jake was the first to break the silence "Aw ya man! THAT WAS OFF THE HOOK!"

The others soon then cheered as well. Danny didn't cheer. He was so exhausted. They all stopped celebrating as they saw a white ring form around him, and he changed back into black-haired, blue-eyed, Danny Fenton. He then fell to his knees, and would have fallen on his face if Ben and Kim hadn't caught him.

They laid him gently on the ground on his back.

"You okay?" Kim asked.

"Yeah." Danny said as he breathe staggered "I'll be fine."

"What the Hell was that?" Jake asked

"My Ghostly Wail." Danny answered "My…most powerful…attack."

"I'll say." Ben agreed

"Why didn't you use it before?" Ron asked

"Two reasons." Danny began. "One…I couldn't without… risk damaging… half the city….Two….It really…takes a lot…out of me."

"Weapon of last resort?" Rex asked. Danny nodded. "Yeah, I got something like that too."

"I don't know about you guys." Zak began as he sat on the ground "But I can use a breather."

Everyone else soon followed.

After about five minutes of resting, Ron broke the silence.

"Well, at least it's over." He said. Right as he said that, explosions could be heard in the distance. Coming from a nearby mountain area. Getting all their attention.

"Yeah." Ben began "I don't know about that."

"We gotta…" Danny began as he struggled to get up, but Kim stopped him.

"Whoa Danny, hold on." She started "What are you gonna do? Shot a laser in one hand, hold your IV in the other?"

"I recover quickly." Danny argued.

"Not this quick" Ben began.

"But we can't just sit and do nothing." Danny argued.

"Who said we were?" Zak said with a knowing smile.

"Time for an encore." Jake announced.

Me: Done.

Mordecai: AWESOME!

Rigby: Nice!

Muslceman: Seriously bro. That was so awesome

Grimlock: Me Grimlock, think you cool.

Me: Thanks.