Meanwhile in Fort Sumter National Monument,Charleston, South Carolina...
Most of the remaining heroes gathered there for their final stand against Darkseid and Ultron. Rocket was busy inside the fort modifying stuff, while Lylla was aiding all those who were wounded, her fighting abilities were limited as her pregnancy started to develop. Besides...it had been two months at best after she was notified of her condition. Deadpool, Deathstroke and the Winter-soldier were assisted by Deadshot of the Suicide squad as A.R.G.U.S had strict orders from the President to assist. There were a few Avengers still around along with the Fantastic 4 and remnants of the X-men and the former Justice league and Society. Wonder-Woman and Aquaman were gracious enough to spare Atlantian and Amazonian troopers for support, whilst the National Guards of 6 states volunteered with the effort. As for Thor, well...a week ago he learnt that Darkseid wasn't just attacking Midguard, but Asguard too, as a backup if the Earth invasion failed.
The situation was so dire, that even Loki gathered up the Frost-giants to help defend. Darkseid deployed over tens of thousands of Ultron bots and Hydra soldiers as well as his own men. So Thor WAS FORCED TO LEAVE EARTH, as of now- Superman was the hardest hitter along with Ghost-rider and the other Speedsters. Ironman even wore his Hulkbuster armor, and the Hulks were all assembled along with the Inhumans who've settled on Earth.
The very next day...
The snipers of the team, Deathstroke, Deadshot, Deadpool and Winter-soldier were on the wall with their snipers locked and loaded, Rocket manned the guns and the Green lantern core were joined with the newly formed Red-lantern core led by Guy-Gardner who pulled in some favors from the Blue lanterns to assist. They formed a massive wall around it, one that mimicked the wall surrounding Dubrovnik at the near south of Croatia. Each lantern formed an AA gun, artillery guns, sniper-posts, machine gun posts, trenches etc...
The National guard mounted every square inch of the walled fort along with Atlantians and Amazons. Bucky then decided to personally lead a division of men in the trenches to battle instead of sniping with the others. The troops were divided into groups with an equal number of U.S army personnel, Atlantians and Amazons, each group had a Super-powered or a Skilled veteran as their leader. Rocket hadn't been in a war this big in a long time, not since Halfworld anyways.
Since Sumter was surrounded by water, it was only sensible that the invasion must first take place at either sea or air. The seas were no problem as Aquaman had Atlantian ships on standby and Namor had his, but invasion by air was going to be a little tricky as the only ones with flight were Superman, Supergirl, Martian manhunter, Hawk-girl, Hawk-man, the Lantern cores, Storm, Captain marvel, Shazam, Black Adam, Star-lord in the Milano, S.H.I.E.L.D's helecarriers, Ironman, War machine, Rescue, Power-girl and others but nothing really significant.
Right on cue, Darkseid's ships covered the sky, Hydra's battle-cruisers littered the water and Ultron-bots began crawling on the land.
'This is it...' Bucky thought as he withdrew his signature pistol, raised it in the air and shouted to his men "CHARGE!". Bucky lept out of the trench along with his men and women and engaged the first wave of Ultron bots.
THE WINTER-SOLDIER VS ULTRON REPLICA BOT(hand to hand)
The quad-legged bot picked up Barne's heat-signature and jumped towards Bucky's path, blocking it. The bot swung it's hand and Bucky rolled out of the way and discharged an entire Pistol clip on one of the bots' legs, denting it. It tilted it's head to the side and reached out to grab Bucky, he deflected it and gave the bot and uppercut with his metal arm, before giving it a left hook to it's metal jaw. The bot was clearly dazed so Bucky shot it multiple times with his combat rifle and destroyed it with a grenade blast from the rifle.
Bucky then looked around and saw brave American men fighting to defend their country 'Reminds me of 1943' he thought as he forged on. He looked up and found a jet fighter belonging to Darkseid's forces flying towards them, shooting. Bucky turned and ran, he heard a few more shots and and explosion. Bucky looked up and saw the Bat-wing barrel role in the skies taking out fighter after fighter, alongside the Milano and the Helecarriers. An Ultron bot snuck up on his and grabbed hold of Bucky's neck, he managed to free himself and flip the bot, while it was being flipped. A bullet pierced the robot's head and Barnes slammed it to the ground, he looked at where the shot came from and found Deadshot nodding. Bucky saluted and continued fighting "FOR THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD!" Bucky roared in a patriotic battle-cry. This was enough to boost the morale of the National guardsmen under his command as they fought their way through hoards of robots.
Meanwhile up in the Skies...
The Milano was weaving through the air, gunning down all ships in her sight. Quill was at the cockpit along with Blackjack o'hare, who was tasked by Checkmate and A.R.G.U.S to lead a spec-ops mission to take out Ultron and free their comms from the suspicion that it was compromised, along with Blackjack there was Agent 13, Black-spider, Captain Boomerang and Harley Quinn. Quill tumble-rolled and destroyed another fighter, he found Ultron's command ship and blasted a hole through it and blasted the guards and fighters inside before landing. Quill and the Spec-ops team dismounted and headed off into the ship, they kept fighting and fighting until they've reached the bridge. Quill charged in before the team could even react
"QUILL WAIT!" shouted O'hare
He didn't listen as he had his own agenda, he wanted to destroy Ultron. As he'd taken the lives of many Guardians, friends like Red Hood and Ranger and Groot. Quill found the bridge's robot's charge at him and he unleashed a lava blast that melted them all and came face to face with Ultron himself...
STAR-LORD VS ULTRON
"Ultron!" Quill growled
"Peter, how nice to see you"
"You're going down!" He snarled as he rocketed up and charged towards the mechanical menace, Ultron dodged and tried to electrocute Quill. He tumble-rolled out of the way and blasted Ultron with an Air-blast that knocked him backwards towards the control panel, Ultron now had a damaged chest-plate. Quill didn't resist to tear it off with his bare hands.
Ultron shoved him off and slammed his metal fist in Quill's stomach, and kicked him away. Quill withdrew the huge blaster that Rocket used to blow Ronin to bits in their first moments of a team and shot Ultron with it. The sheer force damaged Ultron badly, he collapsed to the ground and moved away from Quill.
He caught up and turned Ultron over and placed a signal disrupter on him to sever his connection to the internet and anything else he could slither away in. He was ready to kill him when Ultron shouted "Wait! Please...don't kill me, I don't want to go out like this!"
"You've had this coming!" Quill screamed
"If you do...you'll never discover the truth about your mother!"
Quill gripped his element blaster tightly "I...know...everything!" he screamed
Ultron chuckled and let out an easy laugh "Oh please! What do you actually know about her hm? You think sh's from this...this SICK planet? How'd you think you survived holding that stone for as long as you did! I hacked the S.H.I.E.L.D files, everything! I know...everything, i know...the truth"
Quill's expression faltered as he lowered his blasters "What do you want for the info?"
Ultron smiled "Conserve my A.I"
"You want me to download your brain onto my I-pod?" Quill asked as he made a face
"Do it, and I'll tell you everything! All the details you wanted to know about your mother, yourself...your father"
The last one caught Quill completely off guard, Ultron had played the 'Daddy card'
Quill was dying to know this information, everything about his parents and himself lied within the dying remains of Ultron.
Quill sighed and he plugged him I-pod into Ultron, which allowed him to escape into it. Although, he wasn't able to go anywhere as his connection to the tech world was severed, he placed the I-pod in his pants and destroyed what was left of Ultron's hollow corpse.
Quill exited the room and lead the Spec-ops team to the Milano and took off and joined the air fight raging below.
Quill looked out the cockpit window and saw the Bat-wing get hit and descend, then, Damian ejected from the Bat-wing and landed on the ground as he smashed an Ultron bot upon arrival.
Meanwhile down on the ground...
Damian Wayne was dressed in the insider Bat-armor, one of the most powerful Bat-suits ever created. It ran in Second to the destroyed Hellbat armor and the Justice-buster armor.
An Ultron sentry tried to sneak up on Damian but he noticed and dodged it's claw attack, knowing how the armor worked, Damian only had to think 'Willpower mode!'
A circular type object at Damian's finger glowed green and fired off a blast the destroyed the robot. Another bot came charging and again Damian thought 'Heat vision mode!' and the Armor's central 'eye' fired a heat beam that melted through the bot's core, leaving a hole in the middle of it.
Damian heard a soldier scream Incoming, he looked above and a tall figure towered over Damian's Batman. Darkseid had finally come, and he had the Infinity gauntlet with all the stones in it with him.
"How'd you get that? I though!" Damian said
"You thought wrong, I have an ally...the one Mongul had was a mere prototype, designed so flawlessly. It fooled you into thinking it was real"
"So when Thawn reported that the stones were missing...that was the work of that ally of yours?"
"Yes..." Darkseid smirked
Then an explosion at sea distracted the villain as he turned his gaze to the seas. 'Heat vision mode!' Damian thought as he blasted Darkseid on the chest with it, Darkseid growled and tried to blast Damian with the infinity stones, he saw the blast coming and quickly thought 'Teleportation mode!'
He teleported himself inside the Fort and warned everyone in it that Darkseid had showed up...
A few hours later...
The scene of battle wasn't looking so good down on the grounds, Bucky had run out of ammo, Soldiers were dying, the number of wounded tippled and Lylla worked double time despite her condition. The heroes their men fled into the fort and hid in it, the Lantern's were struggling to hold up the wall and with the addition of a roof to protect the fort from ariel attacks which were doubling. Darkseid simply outstretched his hand and let loose the full blast of ALL the infinity stones upon the wall, that was it, it exploded and sent the Lanterns dropping to the ground one at a time.
Hal survived and charged at Darkseid, ha made a turbine jet engine construct to try to ram him with. But Darkseid just blasted Jordan away like he was nothing, he tried to enter when suddenly, Deathstroke, Deadpool and Deadshot jumped down from fort's actual wall and stood in Darkseid's way.
"Not happening" Snapped Slade
"Gonna have to go through us" Floyd added
"DIE!" Screamed Wade
"I'm gonna die alongside the most fucking dumbest asshole in the entire universe..." Floyd sighed
"I'll kill you all!" Darkseid screamed
INFINITY STONE ENHANCED DARKSEID VS DEATHSTROKE
"Just to make it fair..." Darkseid smirked as he pointed the Gauntlet at Wade and Floyd, using the power of the Time stone he froze the two mercs in their places.
" Don't know what you just did...but it doesn't matter" Slade smirked as he withdrew his newly upgraded,Promethium alloyed, double-edged, Vibranium coated Sword out. He spun it a few times and continued by saying "You're already dead"
"Come then...AMUSE ME!" Darkseid taunted
Slade lept into the air and brought his sword crashing down, but Darkseid moved out of the way, Slade saw this and used his legs to make his fall. He withdrew his pistol from his left holster and shot Darkseid twice on the leg. He howled and healed himself using his powers, Darkseid used the Mind stone to lift Slade up and slam him back down to the ground which made Slade let go of the Sword. He gripped it again and stood up, he'd survived worse than that. Darkseid got up and tried to blast Slade with the Stones, Slade saw it coming and veered left to Darkseid's back and quickly sheathed the sword and withdrew his rifle and slammed it's base on Darkseid's back making him jerk forward. Slade lept in front of him and slammed the rifle's base thrice on Darkseid's face. Darkseid stumbled backwards dazed, and Slade slung his rifle back and withdrew the sword and charged, he cut Darkseid's chest diagonally on the right and then again on the left before throwing his sword in the air.
He withdrew both pistols and shot Darkseid on the face once with each before holstering them and running to the nearby wall, running on it and kicking the handle of his sword while it was still in mid air. The Sword pierced Darkseid's chest and Slade withdrew two Uzi machine guns and unloaded the whole damn clip on Darkseid. Who fell down, luckily, he had the Infinity gauntlet to protect himself from most of the blows. He took the sword out his chest and threw it away and healed himself, but it would take a while. The damn mortal nearly ended him there and then! And that Sword! Once he'd conquer the planet he'd take the Sword as his own weapon and as a trophy.
Slade came close to Darkseid and withdrew his pistol and pointed it to his head "I told you...you're already dead"
Darkseid growled silently while charging up the might of the power stone, "NEVER!" he screamed as he unleashed it upon Slade who was thrown literally into the med-bay and onto a bed. His armor was singed from the blast.
He glanced towards the other two, and wondered if they were as powerful as Deathstroke. He heard rumors about the might of Deadpool from Ultron, so using the power of the mind stone he lifted Wade and threw him into the sky, smashing through fighters and into a main ship. Now all that was left was Deadshot, he unfroze him and Floyd lept into action
DEADSHOT VS INFINITY STONE ENHANCED DARKSEID
Floyd was a little more agile than Deathstroke seeing as how he did have much armor on him, but that made him more faster in his attacks. "You're going down!" Floyd growled.
"Well, come on then!" Darkseid taunted.
Deadshot and Darkseid locked hands in a struggle for supremacy, when Floyd felt that he was being pushed back he pressed a button on glove that released the spring loaded, hidden blade mounted under his right wrist. The blade pierced Darkseid's hand and he screamed in pain as he stumbled back
"What can i say? I cheat" Floyd smirked as he hit Darkseid with a backhanded punch and released a small flash-bang grenade that blinded Darkseid and made him hear static for a while. And it made him dazed, confused and dizzy.
Floyd then shot Darkseid on the chest with his wrist mounted gun and then moved to punch him, once done he flipped backwards, hitting Darkseid in the process before taking out his assault rifle and shot him once on the head. But he was still dazed and injured from all those wounds.
If it wasn't for the fast healing abilities provided by the gauntlet, Darkseid would've died on that spot. Floyd noticed and moved on to more extreme measures. Like Deathstroke this move of his only lasted a few seconds, he threw the rifle up in the air and gave Darkseid a right hook to the face before unsheathing his knife. He stabbed him on the chest before veering right to face his back, during the turn he elbowed Darkseid hard on the head. Once he was facing the back of him enemy he quickly unsheathed the knife from his chest and shot Darkseid in the back with his wrist gun. He did the same thing again with the knife and turn except this time he faced and shot Darkseid in front.
He turned his back towards Darkseid, and extended his hand upwards. His rifle fell straight into his hands, he bent his arm backwards and pulled the trigger and the bullet his his head again.
"Had enough?!" Floyd smirked
But like Deathstroke, Darkseid blasted him with the power-stone and he was knocked out.
With Deathstroke, Deadpool and Deadshot out off the way there would be nobody left that could challenge him. He was wrong, again. Superman, The Hulkbuster Ironman and Damian with his Insider armor stood in his way.
"You seriously didn't think that it would be that easy did you?" Taunted Tony
Damian pointed a finger to Darkseid and shouted "You're not getting away with this!"
"I'm taking you down!" Superman growled.
Darkseid thought that enough was enough, he was going to face and take down all three enemies at once. But, Darkseid was severely weakened, he suffered shots and stabs from the guns and blades of Deathstroke and Deadshot. He had to end this and fast!