CyberTech Worlds Clash

Chapter XXXIV

City of the Star

"Thor, Johny, where the hell are you two going!?" Hawkeye demanded as the three were at the Quinjet's side hatch while Bruce Banner was flying. The two in question were ready to jump out as they hovered above the unnamed city that appeared on their Earth from the other one sometime over an hour ago.

"We are going to investigate, Hawkeye!" Thor answered with a proud look. "We cannot gain access to the city's network, especially with so much of the power grid out of energy and looking down we can tell that they have very little power remaining; the people will need our help, and to know that they are not alone."

"Yeah, Hawk-y, don't be such a downer!" Johny agreed childishly rolling his eyes. "There might be some villain or something trying to take advantage of the shitty situation. It's what we do best you know, kick bad guy butt and lock them up."

"We have orders to just observe for now!" Hawkeye retorted glaring at his teammates. "We don't know what the situation is yet so we can't just go off and take a look around and beat anyone up for committing a crime!"

"I don't see why not," Johny whined glare pouting. "I mean they're on our Earth now. Isn't it MPF's duty to like, protect people and stuff, right?"

The Quinjet then exploded to the right and lurched as something hit one of its wings, Johny 'flamed on' as he and Thor fell out, and Hawkeye held on tight as Banner barely managed to get the jet under any control as he pushed forward on and reaffirmed the thrusters to give them forward momentum. However, their right-side thrusters were bucking and not firing, and that sent them spiralling down towards the shadowed street bellow as day was slowly turning to evening, and the sun was shield by buildings. Unfortunately, that was a main street full of traffic that had nowhere to go as traffic lights going out had caused confusion and a traffic jam.

"Shit, what hit us!?" yelled Hawkeye as the jet, which was only partially under control continued to plummet towards a road below at an angle while he could see out the window as people were doing as people would when a highly advanced jet comes plummeting out of the sky heading to squish you, and screamed, cried for help, and ran for their lives as you couldn't always rely on super-men turning up to save you.

"I don't know!" Banner cried out as he struggled to gain some altitude or at least slow down and land where there weren't any people, but it was a losing battle. "But we best not crash too hard, or I won't be able to hold him back! You know he won't let me die; you should buckle in!"

"Shit!" was the last Hawkeye said as he was already securing himself before they smashed into the road. Hawkeye had been hoping Thor would catch them, but nope. That would have been too easy, and though strong, he wasn't sure Thor could fly and catch the jet at the same time; it wasn't like a small car, the Quinjet was a lot heavier, and Thor wasn't that strong and had his limits.

The Quinjet skid and crashed along the road smashing cars out of the way, and he winced as he heard screaming as people ran for their lives, diving for cover. The jet carved a huge long trench along the concrete and tarmac of the road.

"Fear not gentle citizens!" Thor roared out as he finally made it to ground, sparks running around him he pushed his shoulder into the jet and dug his feet in; they skidded back a few more metres but he anchored the jet much shorter than where it would have ended, and could have ended up squishing and killing people. Thor sighed in relief as he stopped it short of hitting a big yellow bus full of innocent kids. "Ouch, that hurt," he complained rolling his shoulder, he turned to see the children all cheering him. He gave them a big smile in greeting before helping Hawkeye and Banner out of the remains of the crumpled jet.

"That was close, I almost became the menace," Banner said taking a deep breath. "Where's Johny?" he asked looking around when a flaming blur streaked passed them and crashed painfully into an abandoned car, 'flaming off' as he picked himself up looking disorientated and sore.

"This one is new!" Thor said as they looked at the grey, rotten-skinned giant of a man with white hair and eyes with muscle upon muscle rippling through a torn black suit. His footsteps could be felt through the ground as he advanced. "I've not fought a giant zombie monster before," he added as if excited to add that to his bucket list.

Hawkeye moved quick as he pushed Banner out of the way, as a shot came from a roof, pulling his bow and loading an arrow. "It looks like big, stinky, ugly isn't the only one around here."

"Yeah, be careful of the big guy," Johny said trying to shake his head clear. "He hits like… I would like to say a ton of bricks, but he hits more like several tons of houses! I'm going to feel that for a month," he added as they could see a nasty looking red and purple bruise forming on his right cheek. "If I weren't a meta-human, I would have lost my head."

"Do not fear," Thor said taking charge. "I'll keep this big guy busy, Johny, you should get the children to safety. Hawkeye, I'm sure you'll find pleasure in stopping or sniper. He is the one who shot us down. Banner, if you're not going to get angry, I suggest you help take the children some place safe and help lead the civilians out of harm's way."

"Sounds like a plan," Hawkeye said smirking as they headed off leaving Thor to his match. He hurried over the remains of their jet and easily spotted the glint of the sniper rifles scope and fired. His arrow ignited like a firework to shoot off for more range and speed before exploding as it was shot down inches before it would have hit its target.

"Heed my warning, giant monster!" Thor proclaimed. "I shall not allow any harm to befall these fair citizens of this city! So, prepare for battle as I have defeated many Frost Giants who are far larger than I or you, so you shall be no different!"

The beast roared and charged. "I destroy LEAGUERS!" he screamed out.

Thor didn't have a clue what it meant by that, but spinning his trusty hammer, it stormed before blasting the giant and smashing him away and into the side of a building. "I know not what you mean by leaguers, but I am not easily defeated!" Thor answered as he awaited the monsters return and return it did smoke pooling from its singed flesh.

"Thugs…!?" Johny said looking disappointed as he stood before the school kids and Banner keeping his back to them as Banner helped the small children (all around ten and eleven) from the bus, as he glared at the 'thugs'. "Seriously… I mean Thor gets that big guy, and I guess that's my luck, but Hawkeye gets somebody to his taste, but all I get are some thugs, seriously, how is that fair?"

"Fair," one thug called out mockingly as he waved about his baseball bat. "We out number you, you loser."

Johny snorted while rolling his eyes. "Yeah, right, anyway, you shouldn't worry too much about me. It's him you should be worried about," he said smirking as he gestured Banner. "Don't get him angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry!" he giggled while Banner glared at him.

"Human Torch…!" Banner complained. "Stop messing around and show these punks why they should just back down!"

"Right," he said smirking. "FLAME ON!"

Boom!

He lit up, flames blazed around, and the thugs moved back while he cracked his knuckles, and the children all cheered in awe and delight as all young children did when they got to see superheroes doing superhero things.

"This is going to be so much fun," Johny said smugly. "It's been quite a while since some punk thugs didn't know Johny Storm, the Human Torch, and member of the Fantastic Four and the Meta-Police-Force!"

"Oh, crap," the thug leader said gulping. "Hey man, we were… we were only hired to keep any non-supers occupied while t-the super villains take out the heroes… umm… no hard feelings, we'll be on our way now!"

"I don't think so," Johny said smugly. "You see, jerks like you put a lot of people in danger, so I think I'll have to capture every single one of you and make sure you're incarcerated for a long time! I have some pull; maybe I can shove you in the Crater."

"T-the Crater?" he asked shakily.

Johny grinned widely. "Super Villain Prison!" he laughed while they all looked really worried now, the thugs weren't so smug anymore while Johny smirked. "You have no idea the powers you've been messing with!"

Meanwhile Hawkeye was trading arrows for bullets and just trying not to get shot. He was running low of arrows so replaced bow with crossbow. It had around twenty-five small exploding arrows at the ready, and he had another on his other thigh, so fifty extra shots. He didn't want to waste any of his trick arrows in case he had to fight the monster if Thor was not enough.

Sure, he knew that if Thor couldn't beat it - it seemed unlikely he could, but he wouldn't be so un-optimistic. He knew backup was on the way and should be here very soon. They just needed to hold out hope that the X-Men got there soon. That big guy looked as big and strong as the… Hulk… but could they afford to let the Hulk loose? Well, they might have no choice. It wasn't like the Hulk was evil, but rather misunderstood.

Hawkeye dodged around a few shots and fired his crossbow to give him some cover as he streaked across the road where a young family hid behind a car. "You two, take your daughter and run, I'll cover you. Get inside the nearest available building!" he said firing at the snipers position.

He could sense them leave while the mother carried her young daughter. He ran out of cover to draw fire. He could see the bullets heading for him but dodged as if a rabbit would skip from side to side fleeing a predator. He dived up and over, falling over a small burnt out car, using it as cover. He heard bullets pelt the car as he readied his crossbow. He fired off two more shots as Thor crashed and skipped along the road beside him with the monster guy rushing after him.

Thor grit his teeth in pain as he pushed himself up to skip back onto his feet, he skidded across the ground falling to one knee, his hammer buzzed with lightning and blast the giant back crashing him through several cars, ripping up the road as he skipped along before landing in a small crater.

The God of Thunder climbed to his feet breathing deeply, blood dribbling from his head and lips, his blue eyes sparking with power and rage, his battle amour broken and cracked, and his red cape was half-torn and ruined so he pulled it fee and let the red material drift away through his fingers.

The grey-skinned monster had crashed through the now empty school bus, splitting it in half like a giant sword. It then climbed to its huge feet as it heard screaming children it turned with a disturbing grin. He growled forward when a small skinny man stepped in his way looking resigned.

"Don't piss me off big guy because you'll be outclassed!" Banner said as he could feel it, his rage taking hold. "There's something not many people know about me," he said calmly as the giant picked him up with one hand bringing them face-to-face growling and looking smug. "I kind of like the anger!" he roared out as his grey eyes glowed green and his muscles bulged out and his skin turned green, his eyes glowed, boring with power.

The Hulks huge right hand grabbed the grey monsters head. "Hulk smash foolish monster!" he roared as his clothes had split away apart from his stretchy purple trousers. He was now as big as the monster, if not a little bigger and ten times as angry. He lifted the grey creature up by its head as he screamed and smashed him into the ground.

"Now that's what I call cool!" Johny commented as he finished tying up the last of the stupid thugs and the children all rushed to hide behind him while marvelling at the awesome green giant guy, as Johny had 'flamed down', the children's bus driver had fled ages ago like a coward, Johny turned out to be in the strange position of responsible adult. "Hulk," he said startled as he looked straight at him, Johny gulped. "That monster guy said you're a little weakling!"

Hulk immediately looked back to the grey monster as it was forcing him off. "Hulk no weakling…! I'll show you who weakling is!" he screamed out as he picked up the monstrous man/thing by its head and threw it straight through the air where it would crash down several hundred meters away.

However, unfortunately for the grey-skinned giant of a guy the Hulk leaped after him and he screamed in pain as the Hulk landed on him before they were in a tussle of blows, scampering around on each other. Hawkeye was quite near as he grimaced that Hulk had been awoken. He sighed as he dodged another bullet.

However, moments after the sniper was stupid enough to shoot several rounds at the Hulk as he was smashing the grey-things face into a car. Hulk looked up and without hesitation the car with the grey-giant moulded in it went flying up at the building, and by the look of it the sniper hadn't been very lucky as a costumed man with a rifle fell to the earth landing on the giant before it pushed his limp body off, glaring at Hulk.

It then charged the green monster and they clashed with a boom straight into the side of a building, punching and clawing, kicking and thumping, raging and pounding. The sight was quite aweing. Hawkeye had mildly wondered what a fight between two forces like the Hulk would look like up close and personal, and now he wished he didn't know what that looked like. It was quite scary, and freaky and quite frankly he hoped they stayed far from him and any civilians.

Thor frowned in annoyance as he watched Hulk and the other monster beating the trillion barrels of shit out of each other. He had not yet gotten the monster back for daring harm him, the son of Oden!

However, he spun round as he sensed something and gulped. There was some creepy guy with a burning green skull grinning, which was a surprise as he had never thought grinning was possible for a skull, and he had only ever seen a picture of the legendary Ghost Rider, and he just looked creepy too.

"I am Thor, son of Oden!" he said to the skull-guy. "If you are here to harm innocent people, then, I shall gladly stop you!" he declared straight to the point.

"And I'm your slayer, and I don't give a crap who you are!" he retorted roughly. "All I see is you're a new Leaguer, and I have my orders, while the powers fucked up to kill any Leaguer I can. Though…" he added looking at the Hulk and the other monster fighting. "I never thought the League would have the balls to have such a beast on the team!"

"I care not for your foolishness green flamed skull thing!" Thor spoke and thunder boomed with a streak of lightning across the clear sky. "I shall not let any vile villain get away with any horrid crime on my watch!"

"Then we have a prob…" he paused and took a step back. "Umm actually… I think our problem is…"

"Over…!" Wolverine said as Nightcrawler had teleported him, Cyclops, Storm, Beast, Jubilee, Jean, and Gambit down to Thor's location, Wolverine soon had his claws out growling.

"No, you don't!" Jubilee called out blasting the skull guy as he went to flee, her rainbow light electrical power smashing him into a wall. "How about we both play doubles on him?" she suggested looking hopeful to Thor.

He smiled widely. "It shall be my honour," he said as the skull guy was pulling himself up from his daze to see rainbow sparking around the coat wearing teen girl while lightning sparked around the god of a man.

Wolverine moved to Hawkeye keeping a cautious eye on the battle of two powerful monsters. "Clint, seems like a nice city we have here."

"Star City would be nicer, but you caught it on a bad day!" someone interrupted, and they spun to see a man wearing green with a hood up over his head with a green mask around his eyes, and a green bow and arrows on his back. He stood in the shadows on top of a damaged car. "Whoa, the monsters are really going at it," he added looking over to the green and grey monsters.

"Who are you, Bub?" Wolverine asked as he glared at the guy in green. "And what's with all these crazies trying to kill my teammates!"

"Huh, like I said, you picked a bad time," he answered, and they could just about see the smirk under his hood. "You a fan or something," he added to Clint. "So, let me guess, Purple Arrow?"

"Hawkeye," he answered his eyes keeping track of his fellow archer. "This may seem odd, but this isn't your Earth."

"Not that odd, the Bats already sent out a heads up to the Justice League, before this happened," he answered shrugging. "If it wasn't for the super-crazies coming out to play, I would have taken a look outside the city."

"Enough talking, more fighting!" a blonde babe in black leotard and leather jacket came flipping back to land on a car. She screamed high pitched as a black-haired sword-wielding woman came at her. The sword woman was hit by the sonic scream, blasting her back into a wall along with several cars moving while some glass shattered. "I mean, seriously. We're all in some messed up crap, right?"

They all just shared looks before nodding. "Agreed…!" the four of them said as they prepared to fight.

"Here, you might need these," the guy in green said as he tossed Hawkeye a spare batch of arrows in green.

"Thanks, I was running short," he said as he jumped onto the car with the green archer, they drew their bows standing back to back, arrows drawn as some ninja guys shifted out of the shadows. "And these guys are?"

"League of Assassins!" the woman said as she jumped down back to back with Wolverine. "We didn't know they were in our city, but they jumped on our misfortune! The power cuts and failures, they're taking advantage of the situation."

"Good to know," Wolverine commented as he watched the sword wielding woman get up after the blonde woman had stunned her. "I guess our world, or worlds are getting a little more interesting! It's been a while since I got to beat up some ninja!"

"This is the Weather Strike to the Peak," the voice came over the comm. system of the space station as they had cameras on the action from the newly arrived jet since the Quinjet crashed. "We've met up with Hawkeye's team… it's called, Star City, and both teams have engaged with… well, it appears super villains. We also have contact with a couple of the local heroes. Our teams have now engaged the League of Assassins, and Hulk is fighting some… monstrous corpse guy as you can likely see!"

"Okay Pixie, you stay on the jet," Harry said before anyone else could. "Just make sure to keep it out of range of getting shot down. You won't be needed on the ground. In fact, I believe your teleportation ability could be useful to my facility in London if you want to join Kitty, so while Tony, Seraph and I are in the other universe I'll be transferring you, if you want?"

"Y-yes sir," she agreed eagerly as she sounded quite pleased. "I'll cut comms. now sir, I'll keep you all updated. I've only just got my license and don't want to screw up – I can't believe Scott – he is not supposed to be so irresponsible."

"Very well," Fury agreed as the comm. was cut, and he glared at Harry. "Please don't just interrupt; don't you have some kind of wormhole to create?"

"Don't worry," Spring said. "I'm monitoring Pixie's jet and she's doing perfectly fine."

"And, we're working on our trip," Harry added while smirking as the other scientists nodded. "I was just making a minor reassignment, and the techies have just informed me that Shuttleboom's mods are complete. This way it will allow my teams to work further afield without the long wait from using Cyclone of Jetstorm to get places – Laguna has trouble teleporting more than one-person long distance. The mechs can meet them if need be."

"Yeah, whatever," the man said with a sigh. "Let's just hope no other city appears out of nowhere before we have all the needed information about this other world, or worse disappears from our Earth. Seraph, what is the situation on the potential alien invasion?"

"No change yet Coronal Fury," she replied as she used a computer. "However, I can now pick up a temporal fluctuation coming from their direction. I'm afraid other than that I have no other news. I'm afraid I can't say what will happen or when it will happen without scans from both sides. However, it seems both worlds are converging to become one. These aliens seem to exist in both worlds at the same time – or they are two different fleets working together."

"All because of the other Earths scout ship…?" Brand demanded angrily.

Seraph shrugged while nodding but Spring answered. "Not necessary, Commander," she said with a smile at how annoyed she was. "I've run many simulations since the unknown city converged with our world and before, and it is possibly they were heading for us – it could have been that they appeared to be going elsewhere so they could meet up so when convergence is complete they converge together, and if… the situation continues… within a week I doubt it will be possible to reverse, and both worlds will eventually become one! However, it could already be too late. We will not know until we get some readings from the other side."

Brand looked at the pink haired hologram girl in as much horror as some normal bridge bunnies and Fury, though, everyone else paid it no heed. "B-but… no… how can… damn, this is not good. It could completely destroy the balance of power on the Earth… or Earths," she said making emphases on the S's.

"Yes, it seems unfortunate, and we'll try to stop it, if we can," Tony answered looking unconcerned. "We can't really be sure what would happen if we let both worlds… fuse into one. It seems from this Star City that this world maybe like our Earth, but it's certainly different to ours too."

"I bet if they have a magical people they're hiding without a clue about the real world," Harry couldn't help but say laughing. "If they are, I'm so fucking them over, and revealing them to the world… well that world. I bet they don't even know the shit they're in right now. Though, our magical world don't know it all, even they're not stupid enough to not notice a new city appearing out of nowhere."

"Enough talking smack about those idiots," Brand growled out. "We have other problems."

"Do you think we should go in there?" Ami asked Ginny and the mutant triplets (some of their best friends) as the door to the bridge was slightly ajar thanks to Autumn as she stood to the side watching the five girls confused, (still in her favourite maid outfit – as Seraph wasn't the only one who enjoyed cosplaying). She wanted to go and see her little sister Spring and help too, but these girls kidnaped her to do their bidding - not that she minded much; they were fun to play with, but everything that was happening was important; she thought about making a sub-mind to play with her friends, but the holo-grid wasn't up to holding more than two AI holograms at once for a prolonged time at the moment, and she didn't want to break them.

"Na… look, Brands being bitchy again," Tina said quietly. "I mean seriously, just because of the good view of Earth is no reason to have to spend time with her on the bridge. She has no sense of humour!"

"She has a point," Ginny agreed with a shrug. "I'm just going to go phone my dad and my brothers, warn them to be a little cautious, since I can't exactly tell them we're under attack by an evil alien fleet of ships that are trying to merge two different Earths into one so they can conquer us both together – or whatever they're doing it for. Since its Top Secret or something like that, or whatever…"

"Yeah, well I'll come too, I want a snack, I'm hungry," Tina said smiling. "You guys coming with us?" she asked the other four.

"I'm going to speak with big brother; you guys go ahead," Amy said smilingly. "But order me some snacks too, I'll be back soon, okay?"

"Okay, girl," Excel said with a grin as she took her sisters and Ginny with her back to their 'apartment'.

Amy smiled as Autumn stayed with her as they entered the bridge. Brand glared at the pink haired Autumn as she caught sight of them. "Oh, crap, not two of them," she complained childishly.

"Hey big sister…!" Spring said with a wide grin gesturing the free workstation next to her where her cosplaying sister sat with a wide smile.

To Be Continued…