Author's Note(s): Sorry it took so long for me to update this one. I'm still planning to write more for this one. So I hope you enjoy this latest installment.
The entire complex shook violently from the explosions outside
The entire complex shook violently from the explosions outside. Pieces of the ceiling and walls were starting to come loose with every explosion and fall to the floor. Bruce and Betty were trying their best to try and step out of the way from the falling debris, but they were running out of room fast.
"Bruce, what's happening?" Betty asked.
"The Chitauri! They're here!" Bruce shouted as they dodged a falling piece of debris while another fell and destroyed the rebirth chamber.
"Hold on!" Ron shouted as he moved closer to them.
Thinking fast, Ron quickly wrapped his overgrown arms around the two scientists and leapt through the ceiling above them. When his feet touched down onto the solid floor, he gently set the two doctors down and looked out of one of the near by windows.
"Try and find a place to hide." Ron told them as he saw the battle being waged outside.
"What about you?" Betty asked him.
"Don't worry about me, Doc. GET DOWN!" Ron shouted and shielded them as the window behind Ron exploded in a giant blast of destructive energy.
Dr. Ross and Dr. Banner looked from under Ron's massive body to see three Chitauri aliens begin to march in. A strange hiss escaped their snouts as what they assumed to be their hands opened like a flower, and a bright mass of energy began to build within them.
"Time to bash some heads." Ron growled as he stood to face the three attackers.
With a yell of primal rage, Ron bashed his fist directly into the lead alien and sent the creature stumbling backwards out of the hole it had entered. Ron grabbed the other two attacking aliens by their heads and bashed them together with a massive force, splattering their glowing blood against the walls and himself.
"You two find a safe place to hide. I've got to go help them." Ron said as he headed toward the window.
"Ronald, wait! We don't know if the process is permanent. You could revert back to your full Hulk state." Dr. Ross said to him, trying to stop him from entering the fight outside.
"That's a chance I have to take. Kim needs me." Ron said and leapt outside.
"Bruce, what do we do now?" Betty asked him.
"Pray, Betty. We prey."
Ron shouted with pure adrenaline as he landed on one of the passing alien vessels as they opened fire at SHIELD HQ. With a strength and determination Ron had never felt before, Ron began to pound relentlessly against the hull. Each blow he gave made the hardened exterior crack more and more. With a forceful stomp of his foot, Ron saw his foot break the hull into shards and rip through the interior. After withdrawing his foot, Ron grabbed the edge of the broken hull, and ripped a large portion free. Aiming for what he thought was the bridge, Ron hurled the large piece of shrapnel like a Frisbee and watched as the ship shook from the internal explosions. As the ship exploded into a massive fireball, Ron leapt from it and fell toward the ground.
"CAPTAIN!" Fury shouted as he tossed the red, white, and blue shield to the WWII veteran as various blasts of Chitauri energy and explosive rounds flew all around them.
Rogers leapt and caught the shield in time to turn as he landed, and slashed open the torso of a Chitauri attacker with the shield's edge. Rogers then rushed into several more attacking aliens, bashing in the back of one alien's head while the blow from his fist ripped the jaw free from another. He saw several more coming toward him, each screeching like a monster in heat. Rogers hurled his shield as hard as he could and saw it remove an arm from two, and then almost cut several more in half as it banked and returned to him.
"WATCH YOUR BACK, CAP!" Shego shouted as she hurled an emerald fireball at one that tried to sneak up behind Rogers.
Rogers turned in time to see the fireball explode and burn away half of its head before it fell lifeless to the ground. Rogers watched in amazement as Shego grabbed the firearm from a fallen soldier and shoot several more with very accurate aim. When the gun was empty, her hands flared to life with enough energy to allow her to claw and pierce through their hide. One dodged her attacks, and struck her in the head. Shego tumbled to the ground, wiping the blood away that was dripping from her mouth. As the alien opened its hand and prepared to fire, Shego rose and shoved a glowing fist into the creature's chest. Within a few seconds, the alien's torso exploded in a shower of green energy and glowing goo.
"Wow." Captain America said as he watched her wipe away the alien's blood from her face.
"When I get mad, it's not pretty." Shego said to him with a smirk. "Oh, great. We've got more of them coming." Shego said as she saw several more Chitauri marching towards them.
"All of a sudden, I'm starting to feel at home." Rogers said as he readied his shield and Shego lit her hands.
"Let's just hope we make this out alive." Fury said as he and Possible joined them, locking another vibranium round into their weapons.
As the four of them got ready for the oncoming attack, all of them looked up when they heard what sounded like the roar of a wild beast. All of them didn't know whether or not to feel relief or fear when they saw the hulk land on top of several Chitauri, flattening them as if they were insects. With no hesitation, the Hulk began to pound every single one the aliens around him. Several opened fired at him, only for their blasts to do nothing more except scorch his skin. With a loud growl, the Hulk grabbed one of the aliens by its leg and began to use the creature as a club.
Several were sent flying through the air in an arc, while a few others hit the walls of the buildings and the vehicles, causing their heads to crack like eggs. With most of the aliens down, the Hulk slammed the alien he had been using to the ground. The impact the alien suffered made it resemble the aftermath of a bug hitting the windshield of a speeding car. Before the Hulk could even take a breath, one of the fallen aliens had regained their footing and began to open fire again. With a roar of rage, the Hulk grabbed the alien as if it were a toy and forcefully ripped it in two.
"That's going to leave a mark." Shego said as the behemoth walked toward them.
"Get ready, everyone." Fury said as he readied his weapon one more time.
"Wait a minute. Is it just me, or is he gray?" Shego asked as she noticed his skin pigment.
"Ron?" Kim cautiously asked it as it stood in front of them.
"It's all right, KP. I'm in control." He said to her.
"Remind me to make sure Banner swings for this." Fury said to himself as he saw Kim talk to the stable Hulk.
"GENERLA FURY! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! WE WERE TRYING TO GET THE LAST CIVILAIN TRANSPORTS OUT THE SOUTH-WEST EXIT WHEN THEY BLOCKED US OFF! GET DOWN! MAYDAY! AY-AAAGGGHHHH!!" the voice said over Fury's radio before it cut out.
"Captain, take Widow and Possible with you and guard those transports! Stoppable, you get the Chitauri off their backs!" Fury ordered.
"Can do." Ron said as he leapt in the direction the trouble was while the rest moved out on foot. This battle was long from over.
The soldiers were using any cover they could as they kept firing at the attacking aliens. Half of their regiment was already lost, and they couldn't even make a dent in the aliens hides. A few of them were able to hit them in the eye, or hit them while their mouth was open. So far, that was the only soft spot they could find on these things.
One soldier kept firing as sweat rolled down the back of his neck and soaked his shirt. He had seen several of his fellow soldiers already fall, and some of them were his friends. With a few, there wasn't even a body left. They had been vaporized by the alien's weapons. He was tying to find any soft spot, aiming for the head, body, and crotch. But so far, there was nothing! He pulled the trigger to let loose another barrage of bullets, but was horrified when he only heard the sound of clicking coming from his gun. His clip was empty!
When he looked up, he saw that one of the aliens was virtually on top of him and aiming its built-in weapon at him. This was actually it. This was the end. Before he could think of anything else, he saw a giant gray skinned man land just behind the alien and bashed it so hard that it went sailing into the water. With a loud scream of fury, the large man leaped into the giant mass of aliens and began fighting them all. When the soldier looked behind him, he saw Captain America himself standing behind him.
"Report, soldier!"
"S-sir. Most our regiment is either dying or dead. The aliens are blocking our only way out, and several more are attacking. Last report said that two of their ships are heading this way."
"Just great." Shego said to herself.
"Sir, should we surrender?" the soldier asked the iconic figure in front of him.
"Surrender? SURRENDER?" Captain America shouted as he grabbed the soldier by his uniform and looked at him in the eyes. "DO YOU THINK THIS LETTER ON MY HEAD STANDS FOR FRANCE? GET YOUR TEAM UP AND GET THAT TRANSPORT MOVING!" Captain America shouted and hurled his shield at one of the aliens, slicing its throat opened before it returned back to its wielder.
As Kim and Fury fired at the aliens blocking the exit, and Shego hurled plasma fireballs, Roger leapt into the air and flattened the head of one of the aliens with his shield. He slammed it into the torso of another before delivering a jaw shattering punch in between the eyes of another and embedded the edge of the shield in between the eyes of one that tried to charge him. He would keep fighting until he was dead, but he knew there was little chance of them making it out of this one alive. There were just so many of them. As Cap punched out another Chitauri, he looked to the skies and saw the remaining two Chitauri ships flying in at close range. The front end of the lead ship came to life and fired a blast of energy at them. Captain quickly ran into the direction of the energy blast and raised his shield high over his head.
In the blink of an eye, the blast bounced from Cap's shield and went sailing back into the air. When Rogers spun around, he saw it impact one of the large communications towers and destroy its base. The tower then began to lean and quickly fall toward the slow moving caravan they had been trying so desperately to protect.
"NO!" Rogers shouted as he ran toward the caravan, trying to figure out what to do.
That's when a pair of giant hands reached out and stopped the tower from falling. Rogers smiled when he saw that it was Hank Pym holding up the tower as Iron Man flew in and helped clear the way for the transport to get through.
"Glad you could show up!" Shego shouted as she blasted several more aliens.
"You're lucky I had an opening in my schedule." Iron Man said as he joined the fight.
Shego was fighting hand to hand combat with one alien. No matter what she did, the beast didn't want to go down. As the creature struck her in the face, Shego growled in anger. She was getting sick of all of this crap. Her hands began to glow again as she jabbed her fist into the creature's chest, and ripped the armor on its chest off. With one giant blast of her emerald energy, Shego watched as it fried the internal tissues inside the alien until smoke began to rise from its mouth and where its eyes once were. As the creature slumped to the ground, Shego looked at the chunk of its hide she had ripped from it that was now laying at her feet. She took it in her hands and examined it more closely.
"It's Vibranium!" she said as she looked at the dead creature in front of her. "STARK!" she shouted at Iron Man as he blasted two other aliens. "THEIR SKIN! ITS VIBRANIUM ARMOR!" she shouted.
Iron Man quickly understood what Shego was trying to tell him when he saw a Chitauri ship looming overhead. Acting as fast as he could, Stark swooped down and grabbed the alien carcass in his hands. It was heavier than he thought it would be, but the armor could handle the strain. As Stark flew closer to Pym, he saw that he was still holding the falling tower as the last transport left.
"PYM! How good are you at baseball?" he asked the giant scientist that began to grin.
Pym pulled the rest of the tower free and assumed a batting stance as Stark began to spin in a circle to gain momentum and speed.
"Batter up!" Pym shouted.
When Stark had to tighten his grip on the dead alien body, he knew he had enough speed. Using both his mental calculations and the data readouts of his suit, he hurled the alien at Pym. A large smile decorated both of their faces when they saw Pym hit the carcass and watched as it flew through the air and hit one of the hovering alien crafts. Stark powered up his hand blasters to their maximum level as he flew toward the ship. When the sensors in his helmet found the opening the body had made, he let loose a full blast of energy into it. A series of explosions began go off one by one inside the ship as it begun to quickly loose altitude. The ship crashed to the ground in the middle of the remaining alien ground troops before exploding in a giant fireball. All that was left of the ship was burning debris, with the rest of the ground troops were burned to an unrecognizable state.
"That just leaves one more ship." Kim said as she looked at the hovering vessel.
"I think that's fixing to be taken care of." Shego said as she pointed to something that was hovering above the ship.
"What is that?" Captain America asked as he tried to focus.
"It looks like a blonde chick with a big ass hammer." Iron Man said.
Overhead, dark storm clouds began to gather and swell as the floating figure raised the now glowing weapon above their head. Different part of the sky began to light with life as electricity began to build within the thick formation of storm clouds. When the figure lowered the hammer, all the lightning swarmed above him before it struck down upon the ship in one massive bolt of lightning that pierced the ship through and through. The ship exploded in a giant blast that shook the ground the fighters were standing on before what was left fell into the ocean.
"I don't believe it. We actually did it." Shego said and began to laugh.
"We won. WE WON!" Pym shouted as the remaining soldiers around the cheered in victory.
That's when they saw the figure with the large hammer land in front of them. The figure was actually a man with long blonde hair and deep blue eyes. His face was broad with a thick beard, but it looked as if it had seen many battles before this one. He wore a strange armored breast plate that had four strange circles that seemed to glow with an inner light as he moved. A large belt was at his waist that also had to large glowing circles in what seemed to be the buckle.
His arms and shoulders were bare, showing the very well defined muscles that allowed him to carry the large weapon he had with him. The hammer he held looked to be forged almost out of pure steel, with the hammer part itself glowing with energy. The back of the hammer had a sharpened blade that looked like it belonged on a battle ax that also seemed to glow with the same energy.
"Hello He-Man." Shego said as she looked at the large and well-defined muscles that anyone could clearly lee see. Of course, her eyes were drifting southward.
"Sorry for the delay, Captain. I was vanquishing bog boars from Alfheim when I learned of the attack." He said with a thick accent.
"Who's this guy supposed to be? Beowulf?" Pym asked.
"Actually, that's Thor." Fury informed him.
"Thor?" Kim asked.
"As in the Norse God of thunder and lightning." Fury said to her as they watched the Captain and Thor shake hands.
"I'm just glad he's on our side." Iron Man said as he landed close to the group.
"Wait, where's Ron?" Kim asked.
By the time they found him, Ron was still in his Hulk state, but he seemed to be holding himself while it sounded like he was growling. The aliens around him were all dead, but most of them weren't in one piece. Cap slowly walked to their comrade to see what was wrong with him.
"Ron, it's over. We won." Cap said to him.
"It's – it's not that." Ron growled as his voice deepened.
"What's wrong?"
"I-I don't know. Something – something's – not – right." Ron said as he muscles began to expand and his skin was slowly turning to a brighter shade of green.
"Oh, God. GET BACK!" Captain America shouted to them before he was backhanded hard enough to send him flying through the air and hit a nearby tank.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Ron shouted as he grew taller and his skin became a solid green. When Ron opened his eyes, they were once again a bright neon green as he let out a low angry growl. Especially when he saw the red and gold armor of Iron Man. "SMASH STARK!!" he bellowed as loud as he could.
"What the hell did you do?" Fury asked him.
"I sort of – asked out his girl and insulted him to his face." Stark reluctantly said.
"You stupid son of a DUCK!" Shego screamed as a piece of debris came flying toward them.
Most of the Avengers ducked in time to dodge the debris, except Iron Man. Iron Man skidded across the floor from the impact until he finally stopped. He slowly stood to his feet on shaky legs. No sooner than he put his weight on one leg, the large fist of the hulk smashed into the skid eof his head, sending him skidding across the ground once more. Malfunction and warning notices began to flash across Stark's display as he tried to reroute enough power to keep the suit going. If the suit's power crashed, then he was a dead man.
"Aw, sh-" Stark said as he felt the Hulk grasp him firmly by his leg and throw him through what was left of one of the HQ's walls.
As Stark stumbled down the steep slope of SHIELD, Pym quickly grasped the Hulk in a closed fist and slowly began to tighten it.
"You're still just a little guy, Stoppable. Now be nice before I decide to squish you." Hank said with a smirk. "This guy isn't so tough." He thought to himself.
Before Pym could realize what had happened, the Hulk freed himself from Pym's grip, leapt, and bashed his fist directly into Hank's Adam's Apple. The Hulk touched down as Pym tried to gasp for air, but anger was till making his blood boil. With a loud yell, the Hulk leapt into the air and smashed both of his clenched fists into Hank's crotch and shattered the cup he was wearing in his suit. Pym clutched the now tender area as a high pitched moan escaped his lips and fell to the ground with a loud thud.
"HANK!" a small cry came as Wasp flew in.
Her hands ignited and began to assault the Hulk's eyes with her gold bursts of energy. Hulk yelled in surprise and pain from the sudden attack, waving his arms about like he was trying to swat a fly. Thinking he had found her, the Hulk clapped both of his hands together as hard as he could, almost creating a sound similar to a clap of thunder. The shock wave from the action caught Wasp off guard and sent her spiraling to the ground unconscious.
"Janet? JAN-"
A large piece of debris the Hulk hurled hit Hank in the side of the head, making him feel like he had been hit with the same force as a Home Run baseball. Hank quickly fell to the ground, unconscious as well. The Hulk screamed and shouted with nothing but the pure fury of primal rage and anger as he stood there by himself. That's when Thor decided to step forward to subdue the Hulk.
"WAIT!" Kim shouted, trying to get to her boyfriend.
"Keep her away from the fighting!" Captain America said as he caught her and passed her off to Shego while Thor walked directly up to the Hulk.
As the Hulk began to hurl a fist toward the new opponent, Thor firmly grasped the large hammer and bashed the Hulk across the face in on swift stroke. While the Hulk reeled from the sudden hit and using the same momentum, Thor hurled the hammed directly into the Hulk's ribs and caused a loud crack to echo. The Hulk was emitting a low growl of rage as he spit a small amount of blood from his mouth. From the way his jaw was slack, the Mighty Norseman knew he had broken the beast's jaw. From the way the creature was wheezing and holding his side, he knew he had broken its ribs and possibly pierced its lung. Raising the glowing hammer high above his head, Thor brought down a swift and merciless blow down onto the Hulk and sent him falling down through several lower levels until he finally came to a stop.
The smile that began to loom on the Norseman's face quickly vanished as he heard the Hulk began to shout. And what was worse, the growls and shouts were becoming stronger.
"Rock giants crumble under the blow of the mighty Mjolnir. However, I fear this brute will not be as obliging." Thor said to himself.
The Hulk lunged from out of the deep hole he had been thrown into, bashing Thor in the chin with such a powerful uppercut that it sent the man flying in an arc before he crashed to the ground. Thor looked to see the Hulk running toward him full speed.
"Lo there do I see my father." Thor said as he rose to his feet and bashed the Hulk in the face with Mjolnir.
"Lo there do I see mother, my sisters, and my brothers." Using every ounce of strength in his body, he began to hit the Hulk with more fierceness with every strike.
"Lo there do I see the line of my people, going back to the beginning!" Using all his might, he struck the Hulk into his abdomen, making the Hulk loose its breath. Grasping his mighty war hammer in both hands, Thor struck the Hulk in the chin and sent him flying off the ground and onto a lower level landing platform.
"In the halls of Valhalla. Where the brave will live forever!" Thor shouted as he leapt off the platform he was on and fell toward the hulk as he readied Mjolnir for a final death blow.
Before Thor could strike, the Hulk glanced up and seized Thor by his hands. With pure rage, the Hulk slammed him into the ground with pure brute force. With another scream, he swung him upward and slammed him back into the ground again, and again. With one final scream, he threw Thor through a near by wall as hard as he could, his hammer falling to the ground. Hulk glanced at the glowing weapon, his curiosity getting the better of him. As Thor stumbled from the hole his impact made, he saw the beast begin to lean down to grasp the weapon.
"You waste your time, beast. Only one truly worthy of such power can wield that." He said. Thor's eye widened in shock as the Hulk grasped the hammer and lifted it in the air above him with simple ease. "By Oden's beard." Thor said to himself. Seeing what the creature was doing was causing him to completely rethink the situation at hand. Before the Hulk threw the hammer at his head and making him fall to the ground in a slight daze.
As the Hulk began to wonder away, that's when a flying shield hit him in the back of the knee; almost tearing away the tendons.
"OVER HERE, HULK! FACE ME!" Rogers shouted.
The Hulk glared at the small blue man before he stood to his feet and threw the shield into the ground. The Hulk charged at the man and swung at him, only for Captain America to dodge and decked him in the face. Hulk's anger was getting the best of him as he kept swinging wildly, trying to hit the man. But each time, Cap would dodge and land another hard punch or kick to him. The more the man hit, the angrier Hulk got. Rogers threw another punch toward the Hulk, but was shocked when he caught his fist. When the Hulk glared at him again, a strange blue inner light seemed to come from his eyes.
"What the hell?" Rogers asked himself as he saw some kind of strange blue aura surround him. When the Hulk back handed Cap, the aura almost took the shape of a giant monkey with the sound of an ape screech.
Everything was a blur to cap until he was caught by Iron Man. His vision was blurred and doubled and his head was swimming. If they didn't end this soon, no one would survive this. As he steadied himself and tried to focus his vision, his heart almost stopped. He saw Kim Possible actually running up to the Hulk and trying to stop him.
"What is she doing? He'll kill her!" Steve shouted as he tried to run to her.
"Captain, stop!" Fury said in his barley working ear piece. "She knows what she's doing. Stand down." Fury said to hem.
Hulk wasn't finished with these puny humans yet. Not by a long shot. They wanted to fight him? Then he was going to give them an ass whooping they wouldn't soon forget.
"RON, STOP!" someone shouted at him. Hulk turned to bash whoever was talking, but stopped when he saw them. It was the one person he could never hurt, no matter what. "Ron, please. Stop all this. It's over." Kim said as she stood in front of him.
"KP?" he asked her.
"You can stop now." She told him. Tears fell down her cheeks as he brushed one of his fingers against her cheek. "Ron, you're scarring me." She said to him.
"Me no hurt, KP." He said to her.
"Ron, I have to give you a shot. It'll sting, but it'll make you better." She said to him as she slowly reached for the needle that was in her pocket.
"Promise?" he asked her.
"I promise, Ron." She said to him and pulled the needle out.
Hulk flinched at first when he saw it. Even in the current state he was in, he hated pain. But as Kim haled his hand tighter and looked at him with those pleading eyes, he knew she wouldn't hurt him. Hulk slowly offered his arm to the young redhead and closed his eyes. Kim quickly injected the needle's contents into his arm and withdrew it as Hulk let out a small groan. When he looked at her again, he saw her lean in and kiss the area she had stuck him.
"See? All better now." She said to him.
"Sleepy." Hulk said as he collapsed to his knees and began to sway a little. "I – want – Ruufuuuuss." He said as he collapsed onto the ground and began to shrink in size.
The Avengers were gathering around the shrinking form, amazed at what they were seeing. The monster that seemed like a bad combination of Frankenstein and Mr. Hyde was now a thin, lanky framed young blonde – kid. He was sound asleep with his head in Kim's lap, but his body still showing evidence of his fight with them.
"How did you get like that, Ron? How did you change?" Kim asked the sleeping boy as he brushed his hair out of his closed eyes and gently kissed him on the head.
"I think I might know." Fury said to himself as he glanced up and glared. High in one of the damaged floors, looking out at the spectacle through a hole where a lab once was, was Dr. Ross and Dr. Bruce Banner. "You're in so much shit right now Banner, you're going to need boots." Fury growled to himself.