Alright, my loyal readers. Here we go. The final battle with Savitar!
I've been eagerly waiting to write this chapter. Finally, we'll get to see Barry lead the Avengers against Savitar. And we're gonna see some serious ass-kicking here. (I usually don't fully write language like that, so that should show how excited I am)
Okay. Let's roll!
willdawg992003: Unfortunately, I have other plans for Pietro. He will not be joining the fight with Savitar. He will be waking up at a later date. I'm actually not entirely sure when I'm gonna have him wake up, but I'm working on it. I may do your idea of Pietro going to Earth-1, and your idea of him falling in love with Iris. But I don't plan on Pietro getting access to the Speed Force. I'm still working on it all. You'll find out everything eventually.
Chapter 16- Avengers vs. Savitar
Tony twists the wrench, putting the final touches on the device. It's design has ended up looking a bit like a bazooka.
"All done," he calls out. Savitar walks over to him, running his hands over the device. He smiles to himself, knowing he's finally got what he needs to be a god.
"Perfect. Now. You're gonna come with me, and you're gonna shoot me with that. Once you do, your pretty girlfriend and you can go on your merry way," Savitar says.
Tony glares at Savitar, then just curtly nods. Savitar smirks, then runs over to his armor, which encases him in a second. He then turns to Tony, stares at him for a moment, then runs over, grabs Tony and the device, and disappears, Pepper's agonized call of "Tony!" echoing after them.
(New York Airspace, 20 miles west of Albany)
Barry watches the screen intently as the dot representing Tony's tracker suddenly moves, moving at incredible speed. "Heads up. Savitar's on the move." he calls. The team tenses up a bit.
Barry watches the dot move, finally stopping in an open area, just outside Albany, about 10 miles from the warehouse.
"Alright. Savitar's come to a halt. About 10 miles from the warehouse where they were. Natasha, you and Clint drop us off about a mile from where they stopped, then head for the warehouse. Make sure and give Savitar a wide berth, so he doesn't see you. I'll run on ahead to keep him distracted until the rest of you get there," Barry says tersely. Natasha nods as Clint pilots the Quinjet towards the target area.
(Open clearing, just outside Albany)
Savitar comes to a stop in an open clearing. Tony stumbles around a bit. This particular run has made him extra queasy.
Savitar waits impatiently for Tony to get over it. After a few moments, he growls, "Get up. Shake it off. I need you to finish your job."
Tony looks up at him, the nods, making his way over to the device and picking it up.
Suddenly, there's the sound of a running speedster, and out of nowhere a streak of lightning hits Savitar and knocks him rolling head over heels. The lightning comes to a stop, revealing it to be Barry Allen, fully decked out in the Iron Flash suit.
"Barry," Savitar growls as he gets to his feet. "Hey, Savitar. Thought I'd pay you a little visit before you became a god. To let you know that your plan is OVER!" Barry says with a smirk, turning serious and shouting by the end of it, before running right at Savitar.
Savitar runs away from Barry, and the two speedsters begin running around the clearing. That is, until a beam of yellow energy hits the ground right at Savitar's feet, causing him to lose his balance and go falling head over heels.
Barry skids to a stop behind Savitar, grinning triumphantly. Savitar looks up, to see Vision floating in the air before him. "Your time is at an end, Savitar," Vision says simply.
"You know nothing of time. I rule time!" bellows Savitar. He then lunges for Vision, his spear extended, but Vision simply unleashes a blast from the Mind Stone, knocking Savitar down hard.
Savitar tries to stand, only for something to slam into the side of his head hard enough to knock him down. Turning, he says Steve catching his shield. "If you give up now, we'll see if we can't figure out a way to save you," Steve says, ever trying to reason with him.
"You will fall before me. I will become a god, and then everyone you care about will die!" Savitar bellows before he rushes at Steve.
Steve tries to defend himself. But even his enhanced reflexes and strength are no match for Savitar. Several high speed punches quickly lay Steve on his back. Savitar then extends his spear and drives it down at Steve. Steve barely manages to raise his shield in time to block it.
Steve struggles as Savitar presses his spear down. "Even with your strength, you cannot last forever," Savitar growls.
Steve struggles, trying his best to hold Savitar back. Then, he hears Rhodey over his comms, "Hold tight, Cap, and keep that shield over you. Sam and I are coming in hot."
Steve pulls himself into a ball, trying to cover as much of his body as possible. A roaring sound gets Savitar's attention. He looks up to see Rhodey and Sam swooping down. Sam pulls out his pistols and starts firing them at Savitar, while Rhodey unleashes just about every weapon he has. Grenades, rockets, and guns of at least 5 different calibers. All spraying at Savitar.
Savitar takes several hits, causing light damage to his armor. Then, he runs out of the way, and Steve continues to protect himself with his shield.
Rhodey flies after Savitar. Two small missiles, further copies of the prototype Tony used just a few hours ago, rise out of his shoulders and fire at Savitar. Savitar races forward, trying to avoid them, but they home in mercilessly.
Then, Savitar launches himself into the air, then turns around and throws lightning back into the path of the two missiles, detonating them.
Savitar is about to laugh in triumph at avoiding them, when he's suddenly enveloped in red energy and thrown down to the ground, hitting the ground so hard he sinks in several inches. Looking up, he sees Wanda standing a few yards away, her hands glowing.
Savitar looks at her with hate then bellows. He pulls himself out of the ground, then runs right at her. She throws a blast if energy at him, but he dodges it. Several more times she tries to hit him with energy blasts, but he dodges them all then rushes at her. She tries to block his first punch, but gets knocked flying.
Seeing Wanda get hit, Barry shouts with fury and rushes at Savitar. Savitar turns to meet him, and they clash again.
(Warehouse, 10 miles away)
Natasha carefully opens the door, and she and Clint slowly enter the warehouse, weapons at the ready.
After a few moments, Natasha softly calls out, "Pepper?"
At first, there's no answer. After a few more moments, she calls out again, "Pepper?"
"Natasha? Is that you?" the answer comes. Natasha and Clint come around the corner, and see Pepper about 50 feet away, chained to a pillar.
"Pepper. It's okay. We've come to rescue you," Clint says.
They start towards her. But, then, Pepper cries, "Wait! Don't come any closer!" But it's too late. Without warning, laser beams start coming online. Clint raises his bow, an explosive arrow nocked in it, and Natasha raises her pistols. But it's too late. Within a matter of seconds, they are completely trapped by a grid of lasers.
Clint growls. "Crap. Should've known he'd do something like this," Clint says.
Natasha eyes the lasers hesitantly. "Pepper? What's going on? What's going to happen if we trip these lasers?" she asks.
"Savitar packed explosives into the walls. If you trip the lasers, it's basically going to blow up this entire warehouse," Pepper replies, her voice terrified.
Clint eyes their surroundings, looking for something to hit that might turn off the lasers. Then, he spies something. A fuse box, with a number of wires running out of it towards some of the spots where the lasers are coming from.
"Okay. You both hold tight. I'm gonna try this," Clint says just loud enough for the two of them to hear him, slowly shifting his aim to the fuse box.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Pepper calls, but says it right as Clint lets his arrow fly. The arrow hits the box, and explodes. For a tense second, the three wait to see if they're about to blow up. Then, the lasers shut off.
Natasha breathes a sigh of relief, then hurries over to Pepper, who is breathing heavily, feeling highly stressed by this situation. Natasha bends over the lock holding the chains together, and quickly uses a tool from her belt to pick the lock. Once it springs open, she and Clint unwrap the chains. Once she's free, Pepper stumbles away from the pillar, and Clint catches her before she falls.
"Oh my gosh. Thank you both so much. I thought I was never gonna get out of here," Pepper gasps out. Natasha and Clint both smile and says, "Hey. We're the Avengers." That makes Pepper smile a little bit.
Natasha gets on the comms and says, "Hey, team. We got Pepper. She's alive, and we beat Savitar's trap. We're taking her back to the Facility. We'll meet you there."
"That may take a while!" Steve shouts over the comms.
(The clearing)
Barry and Savitar race around the clearing, trying to hit each other. Vision tries to follow them and hit Savitar with more blasts from the Mind Stone, but finds its hard for even him to keep up with the battle.
Savitar then does his lightning trick again, jumping up before throwing a lightning bolt behind him. The impact knocks Barry off his feet and he goes flying through the air.
Right then, Vision, who's floating overhead, gets in a good hit. Increasing his density, he flies down at Savitar and punches him so hard it dents his armor and knocks him down. Savitar hits the ground so hard he creates a small crater.
Rhodey then flies in, and while Savitar is still a bit dazed, looses off another anti-speedster missile. The missile straight down at Savitar, who isn't able to react fast enough. The missile proximity detonates so close that it badly mangles Savitar's armor, and sends several pieces of shrapnel into Savitar's skin.
Savitar bellows in pain, then phases out of his badly damaged armor. For the first time, the entire team gets a look at Savitar, and they realize with a chill that what Barry said was true.
"Curse you, Stark!" he bellows at Tony. Tony just smiles and says, "What can I say? I knew you were a threat. You think I wouldn't design a weapon that could both target you and keep up with you?"
"You will all pay. I only have a few minutes left. But, I'm going to go back, and see my plan through before you can get to me!" Savitar shouts. Then, he starts running, trying to build up enough momentum to travel back in time, intending to travel back to the warehouse before he left with Tony.
But, so focused on his task, he doesn't even notice Tony hefting the device, aiming it out in front of him, and firing. A time portal starts to open up in front of him, but then the beam from the device jets out in front of him, and Savitar runs right into it.
Energy from the beam envelops Savitar. And, in an instant, he stops running, and goes tumbling across the grass, far short of the time portal.
Savitar looks up in alarm, feelinng slower. He raises his hand, and realises he can only vibrate it at a fraction of his former speed.
He looks in alarm at Tony, who laughs triumphantly. "You didn't really think I'd let you become a god, did you? You may have stolen the right tech for me to create the splicer. But, with my research I'd done on speedsters, and how to stop them, I realized you'd also stolen all the tech I needed to build a Speed Force dampener."
"You didn't give me enough time to build it at peak efficiency. So, I wasn't able to build one that could fully cut off your connection to the Speed Force. But you're still slow enough now that you can't get away, and you can't beat us all," he finishes.
Savitar looks at Tony in alarm, then fury. But, before he can do anything, Steve throws his shield, knocking Savitar over. He tries to get up, but Sam swoops down, throwing his feet out in front of him, and slamming feet first into Savitar, who gets knocked rolling head over heels.
Savitar gets quickly to his feet. Seeing Steve racing towards him, he races to meet him. But, he quickly realizes just how slow the dampener has made him. And not only that, but before he can get to Steve, he stops, enveloped in red energy. He turns his head, and sees Wanda standing a few yards away, restraining him. She then makes a motion with her hand, and Savitar is thrown into the air.
Savitar goes tumbling upwards through the air. Then, Rhodey flies in and blasts him with his repulsors. Then, Vision comes in and punches him, hard. Savitar goes flying down towards the ground. Then, Barry comes running in for the final blow. As Savitar is about hit the ground, Barry's fist connects with Savitar's chest, which knocks him flying at least 40 feet before he hits the ground and goes skidding another 20 feet, carving a shallow trench in the ground.
Savitar tries to shake off the daze he's now in, then slowly gets to his feet. He looks up to find the team facing him, glaring at him defiantly.
"I will kill you all!" Savitar screams at them.
"You clearly don't know when you've lost," Barry says with a smirk.
"I will never surrender to you!" Savitar screams.
"You don't need to," Vision says. Savitar and the Avengers all look at him in confusion. He simply gestures behind Savitar and says, "Your doom is coming."
Everyone turns to look behind Savitar. The time portal that had opened in front of Savitar before Tony hit him with the dampener has grown in size, and is now sparking with red lightning. Then, before any of them can react, it seems to pulse, and streak of red lightning streaks out of it, coming to a rest about 50 feet away.
Barry, Savitar, and the Avengers (except Vision) look in shock at this new arrival. It's wearing a suit a lot like Barry's last suit, except completely black in color, with a white circle, and red lightning bolts. But, the mask is torn, and below is the face of what looks like a demon.
"Black Flash," Savitar gasps. And then, Barry realizes who this is, a memory of the previous year coming to him, where Time Wraiths had distorted the features of a certain speedster before taking him into the Speed Force.
"Zolomon..." Barry whispers to himself.
"Zolomon?" Steve asks in confusion. But, before Barry can even try and answer, there's a loud, demonic screech, that the team realizes has come from the "Black Flash".
"No..." Savitar says in a low voice. He then tries to race away, but the Black Flash races to cut him off. And just a second later, they both come to a halt, both turned to the side so the team can see what's happening. And they see Savitar, frozen in place, the Black Flash gripping his neck tightly with his left hand, and with his right hand phased into Savitar's chest. The Black Flash snarls in Savitar's face before pulling his hand out, then racing off.
The team stares in shock as Savitar stands there, frozen for a moment. Then, the team notices what's happening, and they watch as Savitar slowly starts to disintegrate in orange light. Starting at his hands and feet, and slowly moving towards his head. Finally, just his head is left, and Savitar starts to scream before he finally disappears completely.
They stand there for a moment. Then, with a flash of red lightning, the Black Flash is standing right in front of Barry. The whole team turns, weapons at the ready, but Barry holds out his hand, not scared as Black Flash snarls in his face. "It's okay, guys," Barry says.
He stares right into the face of his former enemy. The Black Flash continues to snarl for a moment, then turns and races off, and disappears in a moment.
The team stands there, kind of frozen in shock, the only signs of the recent battle being various craters in the ground.
Tony walks over to the rest of the team. After a few moments, he asks the question that is on everyone's mind. "Is he gone?" he asks Barry.
"Yeah. Whatever Zolomon did, it destroyed him. He was probably almost out of time anyway. If we'd held him off just a little bit longer, he'd have disintegrated anyway."
"So, who is Zolomon?" Steve asks, and the whole team looks at him expectantly.
"He's Zoom," Barry responds, and the team looks at him in surprise, remembering Barry telling them about Zoom.
"What happened to him?" Sam asks.
"When the Time Wraiths took him into the Speed Force, I saw his features and uniform start to distort into almost exactly what we just saw. I'm guessing they further distorted after the Time Wraiths took him. My best guess is that after he got taken into the Speed Force, he became essentially a speedster version of Time Wraith. A slave to the Speed Force, to hunt speedsters who mess with time. When Savitar tried to run back in time, the Speed Force must've decided he'd done enough, and sent Zolomon after him. I guess Savitar found out about Zolomon before now, and that Zolomon had this nickname, Black Flash. That explains why he recognized him," Barry explains.
"Well, I hope we never see him again," Rhodey says, which most of the team agrees with.
Barry smiles. "Well, Avengers. We did it. We beat Savitar."
And, I'll end there.
I hope the final battle was good. I hope you also like me including Black Flash. That was always my biggest problem with the Season 3 finale, that they just killed Black Flash so quick. I wanted to see him be around for longer. I decided to bring him in as Savitar's doom in this to remedy that. I hope you guys like that I did that.
I took inspiration for Savitar's warehouse trap from an episode of Arrow, where Shrapnel set a similar trap for Oliver. I hope I made a good choice with it.
Next chapter will feature the aftermath of the final battle with Savitar, then there'll be a chapter set on Earth-1. After that, we'll start getting into Civil War.
Keep those reviews coming. Please, please, please let me know how you think I did with this chapter. I may edit this chapter in the future if I think of ways to improve it, or get good suggestions on how to improve it.
Until next time!