Fury stormed through the halls of the Helicarrier. The look on his face showed everyone he passed he did want to be interrupted. It'd been seven hours since they'd lost contact with Barton and Fury had begun to fear the worst. He'd called an emergency meeting with the Avengers, it was time to take Lex down. He walked into a large conference room where everyone except for Bart and Thor waited for him.

"What's this all about?" Tony asked, annoyed he'd been woken up so early.

"Barton's MIA," Fury revealed much to the team's shock.

"How did that happen?" Arthur demanded.

"Before Kaity, escaped she left us a message. She wrote down a set of coordinates which lead us to Reeves dam in Smallville," He explained as he brought up an image of the dam on the screen behind him.

"You knew where Lex was experimenting on the meteor infected and you didn't tell us?" Clark demanded, angry that Fury had kept this hidden from him.

"At the time we were trying to acquire information. That was all."

"And now that Clint is missing we're scrapping that whole information plan and going on an all-out assault?" Tony queried.

"Correct," Fury replied sternly.

"So we're going to fight an army of super powered soldiers, save our team mate, capture Lex Luthor and save the day," Oliver summed up.

"Correct."

"Well this should be fun."

"We're going to need all hands on deck," Clark thought aloud. "We don't have a way to contact Thor do we?" He realised.

"Afraid not," Natasha replied. "What about Batman? Clark you think you can get him?"

"I can try," Clark replied. "I'll call Bart, have him and Ba... um the other speedster to join us."

"We don't need rookies on this mission," Natasha stated.

"We need all the help we can get."

"Clark's right," Steve agreed.

"I think I have exactly the upgrade for this kind of mission," Victor stated as he nodded towards Tony.

"Oh yeah, it's time," Tony smiled.

"Alright team we head out immediately," Fury announced.

CENTRAL CITY

"Sure, meet you there." Bart hung up the phone.

"Who was that?" Barry asked, making breakfast in the kitchen.

"You know those super soldiers that've been popping up. The Avengers are attacking the base where they're all being held. You in?"

"I've only had my powers for a few weeks now and haven't done more than stop a few muggings. Sure I'm in."

In a matter of seconds the two speedsters suited up and were racing towards Smallville.

GOTHAM CITY

Clark met Barbara Gordon near her apartment.

"What's wrong, your message said it was urgent?"

"Barbara, remember last night when I told you about Lex's experiments?" She nodded, recalling last night's events. "Well he's captured Hawkeye and now the Avengers are going on an all-out assault on his lab. I was hoping you would come fight with me and the others?"

"So, you're asking me to come fight for my life against an army of super soldiers alongside a team of people I've never met before?"

"Um, yes."

"Sounds like a date."

"What about Bruce?" Clark queried.

"He's still healing from his injuries," She explained.

"Not to worry, I'd much rather have you come anyway."

Barbra grabbed her suit and equipment and after making a quick change Clark picked her up and began to fly the two of them to Smallville.

REEVES DAM

"Mr Luthor, we have a situation," A scientist reported.

"What is it?" Lex demanded.

"Um, it's better if you take a look." Lex took a look at the computer screen and watched the live security footage from outside the dam. The footage showed the Avengers approaching the dam, suited up and ready for a fight.

"Send out the soldiers and erase everything."

"Everything? But sir we have so much research…"

"Delete it!" Lex shouted.

"Sir, these are the Avengers. There's no way we can escape thi…" The man was cut off as Lex shot him in the head. He began rapidly typing on the computer bringing all the soldiers to life. The soldiers awoke and began to head for the top of the dam. As they left they grabbed Chitauri weapons. After sending the soldiers to attack the Avengers Lex was about to delete the files when a better idea came to his head. He hurriedly typed a command into the computer and set the dam to self-destruct, giving himself just enough time to escape by taking a secret tunnel.

The Avengers walked across the across the dam, everyone was geared up and ready for anything.

"Nice upgrade by the way," Oliver noted, looking at Victor. Cyborg currently appeared to be more man then machine. His body was covered in chrome armour, with a red arc reactor in his chest and half of his face had a metal plate over it with a glowing red eye. In fact, it greatly resembled an Iron Man suit. This was to be expected as Tony had helped design and construct the suit for Victor.

"Thanks. Is it just me or is it oddly quiet?"

Suddenly dozens of soldiers climbed out of the dam, armed with a wide variety of powers and deadly alien weapons.

"You had to say it?" Natasha shook her head in annoyance.

"Avengers attack!" Captain America ordered as he ran forward, leading the Avengers into battle.

Iron Man took to the skies, blasting soldiers with his repulsors as he dodged the shots from the alien weapons.

"Haven't we done this before?" He asked, noticing the similarity between now and the invasion a few months ago. What he didn't notice was a vine reach up and wrap around his waist. Before he had time to react, Tony was ripped from the air and smashed into the ground. As he picked himself up off the ground he looked up to see a man approaching him with green skin and his arms turned into long, thorned vines.

"Okay, that's new," Tony commented. The man wrapped his vine arms around Tony and began to crush him.

"Jarvis, deploy flares!" He ordered as he fought against the pressure of the vines. Flares fired from his armour and engulfed the man in flames. He waved his arms around wildly which Tony used to his advantage as he flew up to him and punched him off of the dam. "How many more of these guys are there?" Tony asked as he took off into the sky. He looked down at the remaining fifty soldiers the rest of his team were fighting. "Oh, that many."

"We need someone to search for Barton," Natasha cried through her com.

"We're on it," Came Bart's voice. Bart and Barry raced into the scene and began throwing soldiers off of their friends. Captain America held his shield over his head, blocking the onslaught of attackers.

Suddenly the force on his shield stopped. He looked up to see a man in a red suit with a lightning bolt on his chest standing before him.

"Who are you supposed to be?"

"I'm… still working on the name," Barry replied. "But you're Captain America, that's awesome! Now if you'll excuse me I have to find your teammate. Back in a flash." With that Barry disappeared in a streak of lightning. Bart and Barry ran together momentarily through the dam before splitting up so they could cover more ground faster.

Green Arrow faced off against three super soldiers.

"Don't suppose I could convince you all to take it easy on me?" As the men approached a bola wrapped around one of the soldiers and proceeded to electrocute him. The other two were grabbed and their heads smashed together. As the man in the bola broke free of it Green Arrow fired an explosive arrow that sent him flying. Green Arrow looked up at Batgirl and Superman.

"I had that covered."

"Sure you did," Clark joked as he raced off into the fight.

A Super soldier whose skin was made of stone, leapt into the air, heading straight for Captain America. Cap noticed the man and prepared to block with his shield. Through the chaos Green Arrow saw what was happening and fired an arrow directly at Steve. The arrow ricocheted off of his shield and hit the stone soldier square in the chest, exploding upon impact.

"What took you so long?" Victor asked as he blasted a series of enemies away with his new sonic canon.

"I didn't want to steal your thunder," Clark replied before punching the surrounding soldiers into the air.

"Appreciated."

Barry ran into a room to discover a frail looking woman with green skin and long red hair trapped in containment cell.

"Hey I know you, you're Poison Ivy," He realised. "You've been missing for months."

"Please, you have to let me out! The things he's done to me." She held up her hands shakily, a look of genuine fear on her face. Barry wasn't stupid, he knew not to help supervillains, however, the poor state her body was in and the look of pure fear in her eyes made it impossible to say no. He ran up to the cell and took a moment to examine it.

"Stand back," He instructed as he began to vibrate his hands. Ivy watched in wander and hope as Barry put his hands on the glass causing it to shatter to pieces. As soon as the glass had shattered Barry was by her side, allowing her to lean on him for support. As they began to walk towards the exit Ivy fainted and fell to the ground.

"Ivy, Ivy!" Barry cried as he tried to wake her up. "Please don't tell me I have to give her C.P.R." Not sure what else to do Barry began to lower his head to her lips when a pink mist floated out of her mouth and engulfed him.

"Take me away from here," Ivy ordered. Barry obediently followed her commands and picked her up in his arms and began to run. However, much to Ivy's surprise he came to a stop just before leaving the room.

"What are you doing?" She demanded as he began to look around in confusion.

"Me? What did you do to me?" He asked. "Look lady I want to help you but you can't go around mind controlling people. It makes them feel violated." Ivy just stared at him, her mouth agape, when a loud boom echoed throughout the dam and the walls around them shook. Chunks of ceiling began to fall and crash beside them, leaving Barry with no other option but to bring Ivy with him.

Racing to the surface and through the fight Barry ran to the end of the bridge that connected the dam to the main road.

"Stay here," He ordered as he put her down and used wire he found in the dam to tie her up.

"Let me go!" She ordered.

"Sorry, but you know, you're the bad guy or I guess girl in this case, well I suppose you're more of a woman then a girl." Barry took a few seconds to think this over to himself. "Well anyway I gotta run, catcha later." And with that he ran off in a streak of golden lightning.

Black Widow and Batgirl found themselves fighting side by side, using their skills, weapons and gadgets to fight their attackers.

"Batman told me all about you!" Batgirl shouted through all the chaos. "Thinks you're a great fighter, one of the best he's ever seen."

"Why are you telling me this?" Natasha asked as she dodged an attack.

"I'm just saying he admires you… and he's also single." Natasha starred at her in disbelief.

"Are you trying to set me up with Batman in the middle of a fight?"

"Is that a maybe?"

Superman punched one soldier off his left arm and grabbed another attacking him from behind, throwing him into the army of soldiers around him. Sensing someone behind him he spun around was ready to attack when he came to a sudden halt. Standing before him was Kaity, the girl he tried and failed to save from Lex's experiments.

"Kaity, it's me. Do you remember me?" He asked, desperately hoping he'd get through to her. Wordlessly she swung at him and sent him up into the air, as he balanced himself out midair she struck him with a bolt of lightning. "Kaity I don't want to hurt you," Clark begged as he continued to dodge he attacks, only just managing to miss them.

Bart ran into a cell and found Barton strapped to a lab bench.

"Clint, you with me?" Bart shouted as he raced to the hero's side and began releasing him from his constraints.

"Kid," Barton mumbled groggily. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh you know nothing exciting." Suddenly the wall beside them smashed into a billion pieces as the Hulk ran through it, a squad of super soldiers chasing after him. Clint starred in shock.

"Nothing exciting, right. I need a holiday."

"You said it," Bart agreed.

Just as Bart was about to run off, three soldiers jumped through the hole Hulk had made in the wall. They approached the two heroes, armed with Chitauri weapons and their powers.

"Guess that holidays still going to be awhile," Barton joked.

"Not with me around it won't," Bart replied, as he laid his wounded friend on the ground. He took off, running circles around the soldiers. One of them fired their gun at him but Bart spun out of the way and ran right for them. He grabbed the soldier by his jacket and smashed him through a wall. He stood still for a second as the other soldiers took aim at him. Just as they fired he ran off leaving the soldier to take the full force of the attack. The soldier collapsed to the ground, the alien weapons being too much for him to handle. One of the soldiers shot out her hand and a tornado formed in front of her. As the tornado cam towards him, Bart began running around it, taking control of its movement. He ran back to the two soldiers and sent them flying across the room. Bart had only a moment of satisfaction when one of them raced in front of him at super speed and punched him into a wall. Bart looked up as the two soldier surrounded him. Before they could attack the woman was hit by an energy blast. The other solider received the same treatment and the two were blasted into unconsciousness. Bart looked up to see Clint, leaning against a work bench holding one of the Chitauri guns.

"What would you do without me?" He joked before dropping the gun and grabbing his aching side. Bart raced over to him and proceeded to carry him to safety.

Batgirl rolled out of the way of a solider only to land right in front of another. The soldier smashed the ground beneath her and Barb couldn't do anything but fall into the hole. She was sent crashing through the dam landing heavily on the ground in a heap. As she picked herself up she discovered a computer in front of her. Her eyes widened in shock as she saw the self-destruct counter going down.

"Everyone, the dams going to explode in four minutes," She reported through her radio.

"Can you do anything to stop it?" Arthur asked as he grabbed a gun from one soldiers hand and smashed it over the head of another. Batgirl furiously typed on the keypad of the computer but was unable to find a way to stop the countdown with the limited time they had left.

"I can't stop the self-destruct sequence in time but I have gotten into the network, Lex is using to control the soldiers. I can shut it down." She stated.

"Do it!" Tony ordered as he was blasted off the dam curtesy of an alien canon. Fortunately, his suit was still functional and he rocketed into the air.

"Wait," Clark stopped her.

"What now?" Oliver asked. "Don't tell me there's another nuclear bomb on its way."

"What's going to happen to the soldiers when you shut down the network?"

"I only had a second to look through the system but from what I read they'll all be brain dead," she explained.

"We can't do that, these people don't deserve to lose anymore," Clark argued.

"You don't understand," Barbra replied painfully. "Their minds have been completely wiped. What you're seeing now is all the function their brains have left."

Understanding what she meant, Clark turned to the young girl attacking him.

"I'm sorry," He apologised to Kaity, knowing there was no way he could save her.

"Do it," He ordered. Barbara shutdown the network that controlled all the soldiers and in moments they all fell to the ground in a heap. Clark fell to his knees as he held the unconscious, brain dead girl, in his arms. The Avengers looked around at all the people who didn't deserve to suffer like this. They may have won the fight but it sure as hell didn't feel like a victory.

Suddenly the ground shook as the dam began to self-destruct.

"Everyone move!" Captain America shouted urgently as he began racing off the dam as chunks began to fall into the water below. Tony flew down and grabbed Black Widow just as she began to fall. Bart and Barry raced back and forth, grabbing as many people as they could.

Clark realising Batgirl was still inside the dam began to fly as fast as he could, smashing through the structure as he went. He found her running through a hallway just as it exploded. Pushing himself through the fire, he grabbed her in his arms and raced up into the air. The couple made it out just as the dam fully collapsed.

"Who else was left on there?" Clark asked through his com as he scanned the wreckage.

"Aquaman and Hulk," Tony replied.

"Banner should be fine, but what about A.C.?" Oliver asked urgently, worried for his friend.

"I'm fine," came Arthur's voice over the radio. "I'm with Banner, down on the bank."

"How is he?"

"Turning back to normal," Arthur replied.

"As much as I hate to break up this happy moment, we've still got the issue of all that water heading for Smallville," Natasha reminded them.

"I'm on it," Clark replied. "You okay?" He asked Batgirl caringly.

"I'm fine, go!" She urged. At super speed he gave her a kiss before flying alongside the bank of the creek. Clark raced in front of the rapidly approaching wall of water and prepared his heat vision for the most intense blast he could muster. With a cry of determination, he unleashed his vison and two beams of blazing hot red light shot out of his eyes. Even for Clark the heat became so intense that his eyes required a few moments to adjust once he'd finished. However, when he did he was happy to see a giant cloud of steam rising up into the air.

HELICARRIER

The team sat in a conference room, going over the mission and what the consequences of Lex's actions would be.

"All of the soldiers are being identified and their bodies will be taken back to their families," Fury explained. "The alien weapons…"

"I will take care of those," Clark interrupted.

"What will you do with them?" Steve queried.

"Fly them into the sun," He replied. Hawkeye began to laugh but stopped when he noticed the serious look on Clark's face.

"Flying things into the sun, that's a normal part of life now."

"What happened to Lex?" Oliver asked.

"We found him trying to escape the country. He was arrested and is now in custody. As soon as we're finished here I'm going to interrogate him myself."

PRISON

Lex sat in his cell, thinking over what he was going to do next.

"Luthor you have a visitor," A guard announced as he approached the cell. Behind the guard was Lana Lang, her face looking furious. Lex raced to the bars of his cell and began to speak.

"Lana I,"

"Save it Lex!" She snapped. "I don't want to hear anymore lies from you. I hope whatever sick twisted reason you were doing all of this was worth it because, now you've lost everything."

"No Lana I did this to save you, to save everyone," He explained.

"Is that really what you believe Lex? That you were doing this for some greater good or can you not see how truly evil you are. Goodbye." She pulled the ring off her finger and chucked it in his face. He picked it up off the ground as she began to storm away.

"Lana! Lana!" He shouted to her rapidly disappearing form.

COAST CITY

Arthur Curry walked up to the lighthouse his father used to work in, the same one he'd grown up in. He smiled at the fond memories he'd had there as a boy. He recalled one time in particular where he was swimming in the water and in the distance, believed he'd seen his mother, the mother he'd never met before.

"Arthur Curry?" A voice queried. A.C. spun around and discovered a young woman in an armoured green suit with long red hair.

"Yes," He replied.

"My name is Merra, I need you to come with me."

REEVES DAM

SHIELD agents guarded the area surrounding the dam. It was a crime scene and under investigation by SHIELD. Through the forest a squad of guards came across an amazing discovery. Before them laid a red spaceship.

"Get the director out here now!" One of the soldiers ordered as they began to approach the ship. Suddenly the top of the ship slid open startling them squad. They raised their guns and prepared for anything. However, what they discovered surprised them even more. Inside laid a beautiful young woman with long blond hair wearing spotless white robes.

GOTHAM CITY

Clark and Barbara walked down the street together in civilian clothes, walking towards Barb's apartment.

"Thanks for your help today," He thanked her.

"It wasn't a problem, I was only doing what was right. I just wish we could have saved those soldiers."

"So do I." They fell into silence as they thought about all those ruined lives.

"How about something to cheer us up?" Barb suggested. "Movie, you, me."

"Sounds like fun." He leaned down and kissed her. Suddenly his phone began to ring, disturbing the couple.

"Hello," He answered the call.

"Kent! It's Fury. Someone's called in a bomb threat in downtown Metropolis. I need you there," He ordered.

"I'm on it," He replied as he hung up the call.

"Work?" Barbara queried.

"Work," Clark replied. "I'm going to be a few minutes late to the movie." He leaned down and kissed her one more time before running off into an alley.

As he ran he threw his glasses to the side and grabbed his shirt and ripped it open, revealing his family symbol beneath. Once in his Superman suit he took off into the sky, flying up, up and away.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

With that chapter finished so is this story. I would have had this out sooner, in fact it was almost finished weeks ago except I just lost all interest in writing for a while. I'd like to thank everyone for reviewing, favouriteing and following the story, it means a lot.

I'm not sure when exactly I'll begin the sequel but it won't be for at least a month yet. There's other stories I've been neglecting for far too long. If anyone's interested the basic outline for the sequel so far it goes:

Justice League Thrown of Atlantis

Mini Stories

Age of Ultron

Of course this will change when I actually get to writing it but that's what it is so far. Once again thank you to everyone who's read the story up to this point and I'm looking forward to seeing you all in the sequel.