[Marvel Cineverse] Tony Stark Aims to Please - AJN

FanboyimusPrime..CH_50a - Clint&Buck, Thor&Natasha, OubietteMidas, Noh

Clint Barton had seen many strange things in his life. He'd seen his father Harold cut up buffalo, alligators, and other exotic animals to for customers with unique tastes. The man likely knew as much about how pigs, cows, and various other animals were put together as Stark knew electronics, metalworking, and weapons.

While working as a carney, Clint had seen Buck "Trickshot" Chisholm do things with a bow that only one person had ever managed to do...and that was himself.

But one of the strangest things he had seen had to be a Pym particle given chicken or turkey leg that they had brought out for Thor to eat at the restaurant in Disney Land the trio of Avengers on vacation had picked at random.

The leg of whatever animal it really came from as it it was too big to be any bird that Clint was aware of was huge. Thor looked confused for a moment if he should pick the leg up and eat it, or use silverware. A quick look at Natasha's expression made it clear he was using silverware.

Thor cut off a piece and put it into his mouth. It tasted wonderful to the Asgardian. He cut off several more pieces and savored them. He wondered what animal it was from as he was sure Volstagg would want to have someone bring several of it to as Agard for breeding purposes. He'd want to have an animal with legs this big for whenever he desired it.

"Even Volstagg would find this wonderful, though would need two more," Thor told them with a smile. "And his appetite is regarded as one of the most massive in all of Asgard."

"Oh he'll love an all you can eat buffet," Clint grinned. "Or maybe we can take him to one of those massive eating challenges."

Thor laughed. "Oh he would find that to be a pleasure."

"Glad we have found something..." Natasha said as they heard gunfire.

"I swear they follow us around," Clint sighed. He wasn't surprised when Black Widow was long gone. Nor that Thor had run to the fight. "Check please! And some doggie bags too."

V-V-V

Disney security was not prepared for the sight before them. Then again when you see woman with a black leather mask, matching unitard made of the same material, and boots that looked like they came from a dark adult film leading an army of followers.

"We call a Cosmic Jihad and will destroy the dreams of children until the Zeitgeist of Our Age Noh-Varr is set free!" she yelled.

The sky then grew dark and thunder cackled. And yet that wasn't the main threat as something tore through the followers like they were made of wet cardboard. Half of them were already knocked out by the time they were even aware of what happened.

Oubliette Midas growled at this and blocked a blow from a fellow black leather clad woman. Black Widow then leaped away before a massive gust of wind send Oubliette and her followers flying.

Thor looked displeased with the disruptive rabble. "You speak of madness and nonsense. And you are disrupting my lunch!"

Natasha disarmed the leader of this bunch of lunatics of her gold gun and Exterminatrax growled at the Black Widow. She then threw a punch that Natasha dodged, and responded by grabbing the woman's arm and putting her in a painful armlock.

Thor merely walked menacingly with a sudden downpour around him and thunder sounding like bombs were being dropped around him to the rabble. It was sapping many of their courage. Those that still had it rushed the Norse God and found that it was like punching military reenforced with steel bars concrete. Thor let them hurt and wear their themselves down, but kept an eye out for those that'd go for hostages.

The leader of the "Cosmic Jihad" wasn't stopped by the armlock, and fought her way out of it. "I've killed more powerful things than you!"

"Do tell," Black Window remarked and avoided a roundhouse kick. "You don't impress me Ms. Midas, and neither does your would be paramour."

A twisted smile formed under the leather mask. "You have no possible way of holding Noh. His speed, strength, mind control spit and more make him unstoppable!"

Natasha dodged a haymaker. "He was an arrogant teenager with alien toys. You are putting up a better fight than he did."

"How dare you make light of him!"

Black Window had a merciless smile on her face. "He ever tell you his grand plan was to use New York City to write a crass statement so it can be seen from space? That is the actions of a teenager with a new toy and not a military mastermind. Though I'm sure we can get you a cell next to his."

She growled and caught an arrow out of the air. There was a hiss of air and Exterminatrax realized after taking a breath of air that it was a knock out gas arrow. Her vision turned blurry before it all went black.

"Your welcome," Clint said. "I paid for the food, and I'm sure we can after Thor cuts with the scaring the losers act we can find some benches to eat at."

Thor let a few more massive snaps of thunder go off as cops arrived to take away the followers, and a SHIELD team was on hand for the big cheese.

"We got her," Agent Vaughn told them as a straight jacket and then special leg cuffs were put on Ms. Midas.

Watching quietly behind a park bench was a woman named Barbara Norris, and she knew one thing. She had to get Thor's attention. He was everything she'd imagined him to be since learning about him. And she vowed she would if it was the last thing she did.




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SotF..CH_51a - Spiderman, DeadpoolStunt, Illuminator, Storm


"Why just me?" Spider-Man asked as he collapsed in a chair within Fury's office, "What about the other guys who took that thing down?"

"You're out for the summer," came the response, "The other kids are still in school, Daredevil is busy dealing with a gang war before Castle does, and Strange..."

The one eyed man paused for a moment, obviously wanting a drink, "Is on a bender after trying to figure out why the tentacle monster popped up to prevent any possible problems."

"Why's that?"

"Something about the lord of some dimension now being upset that his daughter didn't get to ravage anyone during her first summoning..."

Peter was speechless for the first time since he'd had the costume on.

"And Spidey, I'd avoid that dimension if at all possible, something about the spider costume and obsessions, and I really don't want the details..."

He swallowed hard, "So what's this about?"

"Well, Deadpool's stunt was more of a distraction to steal some of the Hammer Drones the science boys had been working with to figure out how they'd been coopted and figure out a way to prevent a repeat if we need to use numbers..."

"And stop anyone else from deploying them against SHIELD?"

"Well, yes, but Deadpool got someone to rework them into human looking appearances."

"So that's where the army of naked Bea Arthur robots that attacked Miami came from..." Peter commented, "JJJ was already blaming ME for the tentacle monster and corrupting people, at least he can't really tie this one to me as well."

"Yes, well, Red Skull's appearance and all the other issues there means I'm getting everyone I can together to rescue Cap and Namor."

A pause, "Stark is still in medical after his body took an EMP from inside the mouth, Barton ended up with a broken arm and leg after freezing up due to Deadpool's army, and Thor...well, Thor ended up in a pool full of booze."

"Is that why the news was covering his declaration of war with the Boy who was Big?"

"Yes, being submerged in gallons of bargain basement vodka seems to do that to even Asgardians. We've got several agents currently trying to convince Big Boy not to press charges."

"So who's coming?"

"Other than you, we've got Banner, Widow, Wolverine, both of Magneto's kids, and an agent the DEA is sending because the gas Skull used came from a group they were dealing with."

"Magneto has kids?"

"At least two, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, and well, after some of his rhetoric about the government on his radio show, well, they'd rather be on the governments side and hopefully be able to talk their old man down before something triggers a WACO."

"And when did the DEA have a superhero on the payrole?"

"We're still trying to figure that one out, all we do know is that he's been based near the Kentucky-Tennessee border finding stills and fields for them, calls himself the Illuminator."

A brief pause, "And this is happening now before the Human Torch manages to get Magneto to crash the party, we really don't need him adding his own brand of crazy to the mix."

"I don't think Storm would be that bad."

"Not him, the original, he'd been on vacation and the Invaders were having a reunion during the parties in Miami that the Skull crashed."

"Then could we get the Four?"

"Hill is attempting to keep them from crashing the Latveria embassy after Doom managed to have power cut to their tower..."




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Night_stalker..CH_52a - Injuries, RadioDead, CargoHold

And here's another snip, longer this time!

She awoke to what felt like a world of pain, her entire body was screaming out in utter agony, pain flooding each and every cell in her body. She opened her eyes, or at least tried to, but her left eye was apparently swollen shut, leaving her with only one eye to see out of. All she could see was flat grey aluminum, which at first was unrecognizable, but after what felt like years, her foggy mind recognized it as the ceiling of the cockpit. Apparently, her seat had been ripped from it's mounting and sent flying backwards. Ignoring the protests from her joints as she did so, she looked down at her body, which was still in the flightsuit, for which she was thankful, if only because it meant she wouldn't be found by a rescue stark naked.


Her body was not in a good shape, just going off of what she felt, let alone what she saw. Already she could tell that her flying career was probably going to be on hiatus for a time, if not permanently. She tried to sigh, but the pain that was flaring up from her ribs stifled that, making more of a whimper then a sigh. Focus Danvers, catalog the injuries, then see about getting out of the plane, she said, thinking to herself frantically.
Her arms weren't broken, thank God, but the fingers weren't doing so well, some apparently were dislocated, either due to the force of the crash, or something else, but she could still move them and her hands, which was a relief. Her legs though, weren't so lucky. Gingerly, she reached down, and grasped the piece of shrapnel that was penetrating through her right ankle, and with one moment of white hot pain, yanked it out, sending a spurt of blood into the air as she screamed in agony.


Hurriedly, she dropped the piece of shrapnel, and pressed her hand to the wound, keeping pressure on it while she frantically looked for something she could use to contain the bleeding. Reaching up with her left arm, she grasped her dogtags, and yanked on them, breaking the chain off her neck, and she quickly wrapped it around her upper shin, and tied it off neatly, a makeshift tourniquet which should contain the injury long enough to find a first aid kit, and from there, a bandage. As it was, she had to be careful, keeping the tourniquet on too long ran the risk of her loosing that leg altogether, but that was later. For now, she was alive, and not in a chance of bleeding out from that injury.


Her left leg seemed alright, and she gently applied weight to the leg, wincing as she did so. Fortunately, it had escaped being badly injured, and she slowly sat up, keeping weight off her right leg while reaching up with her hands, searching for a handhold of some kind. She was lucky, and found what she figured had to be the handle for the main hatch, and using it as a lever, managed to pull herself upright all the way, and she looked around the cockpit, taking a assessment of the damage.


The dashboard was covered in blood, either her's or her copilot, who was still strapped in his seat, a expression of shock still on his face. Apparently, judging from the gaping neck would, something had nicked a artery, and he'd bled out quick enough he hadn't even gotten himself unstrapped. Gently, she walked over to his motionless body, reached out, and took his pulse. Nothing. He was dead. He reached up with her right hand, and closed his eyes delicately, and then she grabbed his dogtags, and yanked them off his neck, stuffing them into one of her pockets.


The radio was out, if the huge chunk shrapnel sticking out of its display was anything to go by, and judging by the flicking orange light, the plane was still burning cheerily in some places, and she didn't want to be around for much longer, less she ended up burning alive, much like how that gypsy woman said she'd die.


Right, first things first, she needed to find the first aid kit and stabilize her wound so she could remove the tourniquet her dogtags were providing, then she needed to get out of the aircraft and as far away as she could get, the firewall wasn't designed for this prolonged exposure, and aviation gas was very volatile. She looked over at the cockpit door, and to her dismay, found it was jammed shut. Either due to debris, fire, or God knew what, the handle refused to move, which meant she now had to exit through the cargo hold.


Fortunately, the emergency Maglite which she kept stashed in the cockpit still worked, and she was soon able to get a better glimpse of the door to the cargo hold, which was ominously open. She wondered why it was hanging open like that, normally it was locked shut due to in flight regulations, and because it meant she didn't have to listen to the loadmaster singing along with his Ipod's collection of Frank Sinatra. Cautiously, she reached down to her waist, and cursed. The holster, which was supposed to hold her M11 pistol was gone, apparently ripped off in the crash, and there was no time to go back and grab her copilot's weapon. She pulled her survival knife out of its sheath on her boot, and held it in a vaguely threatening manner while reaching out with the other hand to the door.


Gently, she eased it open, and looked around. The cargo hold was mostly dark, lit only by a few red emergency lights, and the light of her flashlight, which she began playing around, looking to see if she could find the loadmaster. If he was still alive, at least she could salvage something from this debacle.


She began walking into the compartment slowly, partially because of the limp, and partially because she didn't want to trip and reinjure her ankle, which would only make things worse. Panning her flashlight around, the first thing she saw was that the second, heavier cargo had shifted in flight. Somehow it had snapped the cables restraining it, and had somehow rammed the rear ramp open, a monumental feat, given how heavy the ramp was secured, to prevent depressurization. Also, judging from a red smear which she quickly looked away from, the loadmaster had tried to stop it, to no avail. While it had been doing it's best imitation of a Mexican jumping bean, it had somehow been torn open.




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AndrewJTalon..CH_53a - Steve&Jennifer, Tony, HelpHulk, ReallyLikeU, NeedPants

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Steve Rogers had faced a lot of dangerous and unusual foes. Even some ones that in hindsight were pretty laughable. This "fight" with Jennifer though... This was definitely a new contender.

"Jennifer-Jennifer, please, calm down!" He tried, as the female Hulk once again lunged for and narrowed missed him. The green woman rose, glaring angrily while still wearing an expression of lust. Steve wasn't sure which was scarier.

"You... Should stop running..." And Jennifer leaped, pouncing on Steve and slamming him into the pavement, "AND TAKE ME"

"GAH!" Steve frantically looked over at Tony, who had retreated into the air. "TONY! TONY, LITTLE HELP?! TONY!"

Iron Man looked down. "Actually, we've got bigger problems that your love bunny there," Tony said. Jennifer was snuggling him and her hands were even now tearing at his lightweight body armor, her strength letting her treat the firearms rated fabric like paper. Steve gulped.

"I'M NOT SEEING IT!"

"Actually, Ross and Betty got turned into Hulks," Tony said, far too calmly. "Bruce is fighting them in the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, but he could really use some help."

"Well tell HER that!" Steve shouted, now bright red as he tried to keep the female Hulk's hands at bay.

"Why don't you? You're her date," Tony suggested.

"Mmm..." Jennifer grinned. "I know what I want to do..."

"Ah, hang on Jennifer," Steve tried, holding up his hands. "Hang on a second... Bruce could really use our help. He's being attacked by two Hulks and we can even the odds..." He saw her expression change from lustful to concerned.

"Bruce... Is in trouble?" She asked. She frowned. "This isn't because you don't want me, is it?"

"Wh-What?! No!" Steve shouted. He looked to Tony for help... Who waved his hand in a circle. Steve was familiar with the expression from his days in the USO. "No! I-I mean... I like you... A lot!"

"Like me? How much?" Jennifer asked. She ground her hips into his... And her eyes widened in surprise. She then grinned naughtily. "Oooh... That much, hmmmm?" She practically purred. Steve didn't know how he could blush any harder, but he knew he could probably stop traffic now.

"Y-Yes... Yes, I-I do..." He admitted. Jennifer grinned.

"I can't hear you~!" She said, sing song. Steve sighed. Of course he was speaking the truth, but in this situation it was... Extremely uncomfortable.

Well... More uncomfortable in how comfortable it seemed and... Right.

"I really like you," Steve said earnestly. Jennifer hummed, and nodded.

"Well then... All right. Let's go help Bruce." Her grin widened a bit. "And afterwards..." She pointed a finger into Cap's face. "You... Are going... To love me."

Steve nodded. Jennifer got off him and smiled brightly.

"Right! Let's get going!"

"Good! Meet us there, I'll fly low enough for you to follow, try to be careful about where you land," Tony said as he landed. Steve looked at Iron-Man in concern.

"Sure you can handle two Hulks in that armor?"

"Actually I am entirely sure that I can't - So I called in another armor," Tony explained. "Something Bruce and I have been working on for dealing with much stronger foes and letting Bruce let the Big Guy out to play safely."

"Okay, are you sure that will let you handle two Hulks?" Steve asked pointedly. Tony shrugged.

"No time like the present to find out. Sides, you're the one going in with a Frisbee."

Steve smirked. "Good point..."

Tony grabbed Steve around the shoulders. "By the way, Cap...?"

"Yes?"

"Might want to protect yourself," Tony said, gesturing down with his eyes. Steve looked, saw the front of his pants had been torn off... And that he was a bit... Excited.

"Ahem," Steve coughed, holding his shield in front of himself. "Can we... Stop for some pants?"

"Briefly, yes," Tony said, and Steve was sure that behind the metal mask, the man called Iron-Man was smirking.

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AndrewJTalon..CH_54a - RossRage, Hulk, Betty, Sterns, Tony, Jennifer, Steve

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Ross had been trying to take control of his rage... To not give in... But the sheer power flowing through him, the anger, and his sworn enemy right there in front of him...!

He could crush anything, he could smash anything...!

"RAWWWRRRRR!" Betty shrieked, slamming an elbow into his stomach. Thunderbolt gagged, and instinctively he swung his fist to bat the female Red Hulk away. She slammed into a stack of cargo containers, sending it all crashing down.

"Come now Thaddeus... You don't want to smack around your own daughter," Sterns crooned in his ears and in his mind. Ross snarled and held his head, trying to ignore it.

"FOCUS ROSS!" Hulk bellowed. "DON'T GIVE IN!"

"You have the power of the Hulk... Greater than the Hulk," Sterns counseled. "I gave you what you wanted... All that power... Use it! Strike down your enemy!"

"RAWRRRRR!" Ross roared, swinging a fist and punching the Hulk. He staggered back, and a feral glee filled Ross's mind as he continued to pummel the Hulk. His retaliatory strikes were blocked or redirected by Ross, his old hand to hand combat training as fresh in his mind as the day he was trained. Hulk slammed a foot down on the concrete, and Ross jumped away from the shockwave. He landed atop a stack of containers, and grinned widely.

Yes... Yes... This was power! This was how you used it! How you really fought!

"ROSS! BETTY!" Hulk bellowed. Ross grinned and jumped up, intending to slam down on the Hulk with both feet.

"BETTY CAN WAIT!" Ross roared. She couldn't be hurt, he couldn't be hurt! But he could hurt Hulk! He could crush his foe!

Then he would deal with Sterns. What could that pencil necked big headed freak do to him?

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Bruce rolled out of the way as Ross slammed down, making the ground rumble. Hulk got up just in time to block a series of blows from Ross, before the red gamma monster upper cut him into another crate.

Hulk saw Betty rise from the crates, just as furious. Instead of attacking her, though, she attacked Ross. She checked him, hockey style, through a warehouse wall and screamed death after him.

Surprisingly hot, said some part of Hulk inside him. Hulk growled, thinking... And then he had an idea, as he saw Stern's quinjet hovering.

"Make Ross angry," he said. He saw Ross rise from the wreckage, eyes glowing yellow. Hulk then charged Betty. The red female Hulk growled in challenge, fists ready...

And Hulk embraced her tightly. Betty looked up, shock on her previous enraged face. Hulk didn't get to see her face for much longer though, as he kissed her full on the mouth.

"MMPH!" Betty grunted, surprised.

"Hrrph!" The Hulk growled back, crushing her against his chest. The female Hulk slowly stopped struggling and returned the kiss almost eagerly, writhing in Bruce's arms.

"WHAT," Ross roared nearby. Hulk grinned.

"Ooh! Wonderful! I can't wait to see the offspring!" Sterns contributed. Hulk broke the kiss just as Ross bellowed in rage, and charged. He came on like a freight train, nostrils snorting, eyes burning in hatred, his fists raised.

Hulk waited just long enough... Before dropping Betty, and grabbing Ross's hands. The Hulk rolled back, and kicked the surprised Ross up into the air - Right for Sterns' Quinjet.

"Oh son of a-!" Sterns got off before the fifteen hundred pound Red Hulk smashed through the vehicle, sending it crashing down into the cargo crates below. Hulk looked to Betty, who rose from the pavement with a groan.

"Ugghhh... Betty... Head... Hurt," she ground out. She looked up... And snarled like a feral animal. "HULK!"

"Betty, wait-!" Hulk tried, but the female Hulk just punched him hard enough to slam him into a freight container. Hulk rose up, now very angry, as Betty stood defiantly.

"WOMAN STOP HITTING HULK!" Hulk roared.

"HULK STOP MAKING BETTY ANGRY!" Betty roared back.

Ross smashed through another pile of wreckage nearby, seriously enraged. "ROSS SMASH HULK!"

Sterns may have been defeated, but clearly Ross still wanted a fight. That was fine with Hulk... As was Ross getting hit in the neck by Captain America's shield. The stunned, shocked look on Ross's face was especially great to see, especially when repulsor blasts knocked him back.

"Sorry we're late, Bruce," Tony apologized as he and Steve landed. "Had to sort out a warddrobe malfunction..."

A green woman appeared, kicking the surprised Betty in the face. Betty was sent screaming into a crane, shattering the equipment. Hulk stared dumbfounded at the new arrival, who looked... Familiar... As she grinned.

"That all you got? Huh?!" She yelled. "My gerbil is sturdier!"

A name bubbled up in Banner's mind. "... Jen... Nifer...?"

"Oh... Hey Bruce," Jennifer grinned. "Guess we match, huh?"

Hulk looked at Steve, who was blushing, and Tony, whom Hulk imagined might be grinning behind his mask.

"Hulk confused," he admitted.

"Trust me buddy, you're not the only one," Tony consoled.

Betty rose from the flaming wreckage of the crane, panting and looking angry. She screamed in rage. Jennifer blinked.

"Huh? Betty, what are you-?"

"NOT HURT BETTY!" Betty shrieked, and she was tackling Jennifer through a huge pile of electronics that had spilled out of a cargo container. Steve's cheeks turned red as he watched the fight. Tony was very thankful for his suit cameras.

Hulk felt a bit confused himself... Especially when Betty grabbed Jennifer's hair and threw her over another stack of containers.

"Uh... Hulk! You handle Jen-"

"Uh uh uh! You handle Jennifer," Tony said. "She's your date."

"Right," Steve sighed. "Hulk? You want to handle Betty?"

"Hulk calm Betty down," Hulk confirmed. Another roar went up, and Ross appeared, kicking his way through wreckage. Tony sighed.

"And I guess this guy is my dancing partner..." Tony said.

"Rest of SHIELD is incoming in fifteen minutes," Steve said. "Let's try to get them calmed down before then."

Hulk nodded. "Hulk and Betty... Have issues," he admitted. "We solve!"

With that, Hulk charged Betty as she was being smashed by Jennifer with a cargo truck. Bruce tackled Betty, grabbed her in his arms, and leaped away. Jennifer roared after her, shaking her fists.

"KILL STEALER!" She shrieked. Steve looked to her, and then to Tony. And finally, to Red Hulk.

"Think you can handle him?" Rogers asked.

"We're about to find out," Stark said. "Give me some space, Lover Boy."

Steve ran for the raging Jennifer, but was able to see another, larger object descend on Tony from above. His warning died on his lips as he saw it for what it was: A much, much bigger Iron-Man armor, that encapsulated Tony's own. It was big, almost as big as the Hulk he faced, with massive piston-driven arms, a dome-shaped head, and what looked like one massive arc reactors on the back under heavy armor plating. Every part of it was heavily armored and bulky, with none of the usual styling Tony applied to his armors. It was like a piece of construction equipment or a walking tank-All business.

The only attention paid to aesthetics was the paint job - Red and gold, though far duller than on Tony's usual armors.

It landed, and the chest and head opened up. Tony hopped up into the massive secondary armor, and it closed around him. The eyes of the giant armor lit up, and it moved slowly, taking ponderous steps towards the red Hulk.

"ROSS WILL SMASH PUNY TIN MAN! THEN HE SMASH HULK!" Ross bellowed.

"Yeah, no," Iron-Man stated. "See, you've been cockblocking my friend for long enough, Pornstache. Just because you're a big gamma rage filled monster doesn't mean you get to interrupt." The giant armor slammed its fists together. "After all... What are friends for? So if you want to smash something up, you're gonna have to get through-"

And Red Hulk punched Iron-Man hard enough to drive the armor back fifty feet. Repulsors activated, slowing his backwards movement until Iron-Man could right himself. Tony sighed.

"-Me. Right. Go time."

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Night_stalker..CH_55a - Crate, Coffin, Vita-Rays, Carol, Ding


And it's done! Ahead of schedule too!

Inside the metal crate, she could see a coffin like object, which seemed to belong there, given how it seemed to have been BOLTED to what must be the crate's floor, but now it had been flipped so it was now on the wall, and the drum of Extremis. Somehow it had ended up inside the crate, and the contents were scattered all over the crate's interior, including the coffin, which was sparking a bit. Curiosity now overtaking her, she moved closer to the crate, peering inside, searching for anything useful.


Oddly enough, the coffin had a label on it, but it was filled with technobable, and the only parts she could make out were that it had something to do with "Vita-Rays", and administering them. Still, apart from the barrel and coffin, the crate was bare. Not even a ELT to activate, which meant she had to see about grabbing the one from the cockpit, or at least, hoping it was still intact. If not? Well, based on her last position check, she was somewhere in Pennsylvania, and given the lack of arriving emergency personnel, nobody noticed a giant USAF cargo plane with a wing on fire screaming down onto the ground. Alternatively, she somehow ended up in Jersey, because that had to be the only place she could crash and NOT have first responders on scene ASAP.


All of a sudden, she heard a explosion, and the entire world seemed to JUMP, and she found herself sealed in the coffin, which somehow had jumped out and snatched her up. Before she could react, automatic restraints kicked in, pining her in long enough for the hatch to slam shut and pressurize. Then the system began doing what it was programmed to do, namely, give the subject the proper dosage of Vita-Rays, and creating a new super solider. However, it hadn't compensated for the large dosage of Extremis, specifically, modified Extremis, which had landed in the inside, and then gotten inside Carol's bloodstream through her wounds.


Carol saw a bright light as the capacitors began charging, static electricity building inside the casket while she struggled frantically, seeking to get out. Then she felt pain. No, not pain. Pain was too simple a word to describe what she was feeling. It felt as if her entire body was burning up, every molecule was being prodded with a red hot poker. Then came a surge of power, which felt as if she was being electrocuted by a incredibly high voltage, which stretched on for what seemed like forever.



Then she heard a "Ding!", much like a kitchen timer, the lid opened, and the restraints retracted so fast, she nearly fell over from the lack of support. Staggering out of the crate, she found herself staring at a veritable horde of figures clad in HAZMAT suits and carrying various scientific instruments, fire hoses, and in some cases, M4s, which were now pointing at her. She raised her hands, and started moving forward, hoping that she could at last get some medical treatment. Alas, she wasn't that lucky, as the trauma that she had been put through caught up to her, and she collapsed to the ground in a dead faint.



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AndrewJTalon..CH_56a - BankLoanOfficer, LukeCage, DanielRand, BankRobbers, Power Man, IronFist, HeroesForHire

Brief break from Rise of the Hulks...

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"I'm... Sorry, but what sort of business is this going to be, Mister...?" The bank loan officer asked, looking over her spectacles at the two men before her. One was a huge, muscular black man with a bald head and well trimmed black beard. He wore a tight yellow T-shirt, metal silver bands on his wrists, black jeans and a large belt with a chain-shaped buckle. He sat politely but with a great energy about him, like he could barely contain himself.

The other was a shorter but no less muscular white man in a yellow balaclava, hiding his hair and face, and a green skintight outfit. Across his waist was a silken sash of bright yellow, and across his chest was a black dragon-like insignia. His forearms were utterly bare, and his boots were a garish yellow. He sat in a relaxed pose, utterly serene, as though he could beat a mountain in a staring contest.

"Cage. Luke Cage," the black man said with a winning smile. The loan officer frowned and typed something into her computer.

"I see... And your... Companion?"

"Partner," Luke corrected. The masked man frowned and looked at Luke.

"Daniel Rand," he said, "and don't say partner."

"What? You're my partner, my bro, my homie," Luke said with a frown. "And business partner!"

"Yeah, but it sounds like the other definition of partner," Daniel pointed out, shifting a bit uncomfortably. "Like we're gay or something."

Luke laughed. "Oh come on! Who is seriously going to think that the two of us," he gestured to himself and Daniel, "are gay?"

Daniel stared at Luke in utter silence. Luke frowned, and looked at Rand, before looking at himself.

"... All right, you may have a point," he admitted.

"There isn't anything wrong with that-" the loan officer said. Luke snorted.

"Which is a nice way of saying there is but we ain't gonna comment on it. Now then, about the loan?"

The loan officer decided to just move on from politics and checked her computer again. "Er... Well Mr. Cage, the nature of the business you're seeking to open is a bit... Unusual. And you haven't offered the bank much in the way of collateral in your application-"

"Hey, my mom left me that house," Luke said irritably. "I was born there!"

"Thought you were born in a hospital," Daniel commented. Luke rolled his eyes.

"Metaphorically I was born there!"

"It's listed under Esther Lucas," the loan officer said with a frown.

"Yeah, I changed my name from Carl Lucas to Luke Cage legally," Luke explained. "It's all right there, along with changes of address, my credit history-"

"Four years in Seagate Prison?" The loan officer asked.

"For a crime I didn't commit," Luke stated. "Which is also there. It was a non-violent offense too."

"So legally you can't hold that against him. Personally you can seethe and be disgusted by it," Rand said. "I'm disgusted by him for other reasons, namely his housekeeping skills."

"Hey! If you want me to do the cooking then you let me work as I need to!" Luke barked at Daniel. "I'm like Ray Charles! An artist!"

"Except in your case you lost your sense of taste," Daniel stated wryly. Luke glared and shook his head, looking back at the loan officer.

"You got anything in there that would make him have to shut up? A legally binding loan?"

"Then where will you get intelligent conversation?" Daniel asked.

"I talk to myself enough as it is," Luke shot back.

The loan officer cleared her throat. "Gentlemen," she said kindly, "I'm just not understanding this... I mean, you've applied for a bounty hunting, private detective and bodyguard service license all in one! What... What exactly is it you're going to do?"

"Ah, I'm glad you asked," Luke said, again flashing his winning smile. He held his hands up. "In the wake of the alien invasion, New York and other cities along the Eastern seaboard have seen a rise in paranormal activity. Supervillains, monsters, rogue robots, you name it! Now there are independent superheroes who handle these problems, as a public service, and there are superheroes who are government employees. But where's the private sector in all this?"

Daniel sighed, as though they had rehearsed this speech. He leaned forward.

"Given government abuse of power in recent years, the prospect of them having a monopoly on superheroes when they can offer so much more to the community outside the political system is unacceptable to us," Daniel said dully. "Therefore, we are offering our services as licensed, commercially available superheroes to anyone who can afford it."

"And of course with options as government contractors in the event of natural disasters and national emergencies," Luke finished with a proud smile. "In short, we are..."

Luke and Daniel both rose from their seats, and struck dramatic poses.

"Power Man!" Luke shouted.

"Iron Fist," Daniel supplied dryly.

"The Heroes for Hire!" Both men finished, though Luke said it with far more enthusiasm. The loan officer stared blankly at them both.

Ten seconds later...

"I told you the pose was a bad idea," Daniel Rand grumbled as he and Luke left the loan officer's office. The bank was quiet this time of day with only a few tellers serving customers. Luke scowled hard enough everyone else in the room felt it.

"It was not. You just didn't put enough conviction into it," Luke snorted. "I mean, I did the research! I said everything correctly!"

"I know, I was shocked you actually put in the effort to write down cheat notes on your bands," Daniel replied. Luke huffed.

A few men in Halloween masks burst in through the doors, machine guns ready. Two of them fired into the ceiling, making the customers and employees scream and duck for cover. The leader, a man in a Nixon mask, stepped forward.

"Everyone on the ground now! We're taking the vault!" He shouted. He looked over at Luke and Daniel. "You too, fags!"

Luke's eyebrow twitched... And he smiled.

"Oh, sucka, you picked the wrong bank to rob," he said, cracking his knuckles. Nixon Mask held up his machine gun.

"You asked for it!" He shouted. He opened fire with the machine gun, the loud noise deafening everyone around. Luke charged the man, the bullets bouncing off his chest. He got the chance to see the man's eyes widen in disbelief and fear just before he punched him. The lead robber went flying out the glass doors of the bank, yelping in pain. His accomplices looked after their boss, and then back at their single assailant.

Wait, single-?

"YAH! HIYAH! CHEE-YAH!" Three punches, and the other robbers were down for the count. Daniel Rand lowered his fists, snorting at his fallen foes.

"Pitiful," Daniel stated. Luke grinned and looked over at the loan officer, who was now peeking over her desk in shock and amazement.

"Just think of it as collateral, Dan. Just think of it as collateral..."

Needless to say, the two superheroes left the bank with a very generous loan agreement...

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Rift120..CH_57a - Stark&Nick, Steve, Gainaxing, Clint


A very odd cracky scene went through my head at work tonight... maybe I'm just sleep deprived. Set shortly after the appearance of

"STARK!!!! WHAT IS THIS???"

Tony looked up from his latest attempt to get lulz.... I mean encourage Steve out of his shell to see Fury storming up waving a memo on stark stationary.

"A... memo?"

"I know that.... what... is.. the... MEANING... of this REQUEST???" Fury grinded out of clenched teeth.

Taking the piece of paper Tony began reading it outloud, while the rest of the Avengers listened in.

"From Stark Entertainment and Marketing division... TO: Shield.... yada yada... If future Hulks are in the making.... " *Tonys eyebrow raised. "REquest you make them in Blue, Pink, and Yellow colors to promote future... marketing PR advertisement for... Mighty Morphin Hulking Sentai toys..."

Bruce sputtered. " SENTAI HULKS??? Oh that's wrong on so many levels.... Whats next a giant combining hulk-mech?"

Tony turned and pointed to the second paragraph of the memo "Apparantly 'Zords' are the in term for American pre-teen males concerning giant robots that combine, according to recent research."

"Exactly WHAT SORT OF MARKETING WERE YOU PLANNING STARK???" Fury growled.

"Actually this is completely new to me, to be honest. I certainly didn't.... oh its signed, AH that explains it."

"Explains what?" Steve asked curiously.

"This memo was drafted by Roberto del guiemo in marketing. A bit of a oddball, genius in ad campaigns. Well so long as you properly contain his intense.... Otakuness is the word I believe. Although its odd, I was sure Pepper had hidden his body after the Ironlady-chan incident."

Natasha raised her own eyebrow. "Ironlady-chan incident?"

Tony scratched his head in embarrassment. "In retrospect I probably should have made sure Pepper was okay with the agility model prototype suit I made her before I had Marketing design a PR campaign. I certainly shouldn't have let Roberto show the test cartoon while she was still IN said prototype, although IT did distract her from blowing me sky high... so I guess it was a win."

NAtasha snorted. "I HEARD about that so-called 'prototype' Stark... what could have possibly distracted Pepper from your deserved asskicking?"

"Well... Jervis do we still have that footage on file?"

"Of course sir, although Miss Pepper will be most displeased to find out you didn't delete it after all...."

"Yeah yeah.... go ahead and play it back."

A nearby screen flickered as a animated lady bounced onscreen.... Thor blinked even as Steve blushed.

"Verily Friend Stark, the face has a likeness of thy shield maiden Potts... but I do not think her chest is so overly large... and move in such unnatural manners..."

Clint spoke up " I believe the technical term is 'Gainaxing'. "

"Suddenly Peppers distraction becomes more plausible."

"Wait it gets better...."

On the screen a bunch of animated Hammer drones appear to menace the anime 'Pepper'... who stands shocked for a moment before pulling out a wand and then in a tinny voice saying "Ironlady-chan power MAKE UP!"

The Avengers stare at what happens next. Except Steve who reddens further and promptly turns around embarrassed.

"Wait.. why did her clothes shred?"

"Forgot that! What is up with the twirling???"

"Indeed, but I'dst think that 2 minutes to 'armor up' would ensure defeat would it not?"

"You call that outfit ARMOR????"

Fury sighed. "Just.... Deny this nut access to SHIELD requests Stark. I need to get a asprin... or a bottle of Jack... whichever I find first."

He stalked off Rubbing his forehead.

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My mind goes to very strange places.

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Captain Sarcasm..CH_58a - Hulk&Betty, BettyAngry, BannerHulk

The Hulk didn't intend to travel very far. Not by Hulk standards, at least. Just a few hundred miles, to rural Pennsylvania. Of course Hulk, being the Hulk, wasn't terribly good at precision, and so his short hop left him and Betty skimming the lower reaches of the stratosphere. Hulk didn't know that this actually helped him travel, as the lower air pressure reduced drag on what might be the least aerodynamic flying body since the buscopter. Hulk also didn't know that the below-freezing temperatures and thin air had a small – but noticeable – weakening effect on the Hulk's incredible strength, causing his grip on Betty to slightly falter.

Of course it wouldn't be enough to do anything… if his payload wasn't also a Hulk.

"HULK… LET… BETTY… GO!"

Betty flexed her bright red arms as much as she could, delivering a double elbow strike to the Hulk's kidneys. The Hulk's grip came apart, and Betty turned her movement into a spiraling uppercut that sent Hulk tumbling backwards through the air. Betty dropped away through the clouds, landing on a passing airliner and making it shudder from the weight.

Big guy.

BANNER?

Spread your arms and legs. Arrest your motion.

WHAT YOU MEAN?

You know what I'm saying even if you don't understand the words. All she did was slow you down. There's more than enough momentum to keep you going, but you have to do what I say!

Hulk nodded to himself and opened his arms and legs, turning his bulk into a natural parachute. He stopped tumbling and was able to right himself, but Betty was still flying away.

Now… become a bullet.

Hulk smiled. He drew his arms and legs in close to his body, pulling one arm in to his body and pointing the other straight out in front of him. He was as streamlined as a Hulk could get, and soon his speed picked up as he started to arc towards the earth. Somewhere, the Hulk remembered seeing colorful figures flying through the air would always look like this, even if his new friends never did.

For just a few seconds, he felt like a true hero.

Then ran right into Betty, fist first. She tumbled off the plane and Hulk fell with her, grabbing onto one arm with an adamantium grip. The other arm was employed with currently employed with punching the Hulk in the face.

"LEAVE BETTY ALONE!" she cried, delivering blows that could crush stone into powder. The wind was rushing past them louder than a jet engine, but the powerful cries of a gamma-infused superbeing could be heard from miles away. People turned and stared as these two godlke abominations plummeted to earth like falling stars. "HULK RUIN BETTY'S LIFE!" Her fist slammed him again, sending shockwaves through the air. "WHY HULK NOT GO AWAY!"

Hulk's head snapped back, a marble-sized tooth spilling from his green jaws. He stared at the fuming, crimson She-Hulk in his grip and his green eyes flashed.

Don't fight the anger. Use it. Control it!

Betty lashed out with her fist one more time. The Hulk's hand flashed out like a true master of combat and caught it in his palm. Betty was too stunned to even shout. The Hulk grabbed her arms and twisted, pinning them against her back and leaving her kicking furiously at the air.

"Betty… Hulk friend," said the Hulk, in as calm a voice as he could. "Hulk want help Betty. Hulk NEVER hurt Betty."

"HULK ALWAYS HURT BETTY!" shouted Betty, her cries resonating through the air. "HULK MAKE EVERYTHING BAD! HULK TAKE BANNER AWAY!"

There was a sudden, shared moment of absolute clarity. Betty stopped fighting the Hulk. Hulk let go of Betty's arms and just… held her, pressed her to his chest. They stayed together in freefall, the wind rushing through their hair, the ground looming closer and closer with each instant.

"Hulk inside Banner," said the Hulk, looking down at her. "Banner inside Hulk. Banner love you, Betty. Banner never go away now."

It may not have been the perfect answer, or the most eloquent, but it was… enough. Enough for now. Enough that there no longer seemed a point in fighting about it. Betty smiled, the redness draining from her face. Her body was literally shrinking into the Hulk's powerful, gentle embrace.

"Betty," he said, his deep voice rumbling in her ears. "Close eyes."




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AndrewJTalon..CH_59a - RossSmash, Tony, JARVIS,

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The "Hulkbuster" suit was probably Stark's most expensive suit. Adamantium armor plating, polarized shielding braces, advanced electrodynamic actuators bleeding power right off the arc reactors... He'd built the thing to go toe to toe with a Hulk-rated being and so far it seemed to be faring pretty well.

Though he was probably being optimistic about the faring well part - After all, he wasn't exactly winning.

"ROSS SMASH PUNY ROBOT! ROSS HATE ROBOT SUIT MAN!" The Red Behemoth ranted, as he and Tony exchanged blows that shook the containers nearby with every impact. Tony was forced to fight conservatively, as an over-extension in this suit would probably lead to Ross getting a good grip and ripping off a chunk. He blocked with both armored arms, and managed to barely duck a superpowered haymaker that would have punched through a battleship's hull. He went for the uppercut, putting his foot forward and letting the repulsors in the elbow of the suit add on more momentum.

He connected with the Red Hulk's jaw, sending Ross stumbling back a few feet. The Red Hulk looked back and grinned.

"PUNY," he snarled.

"Sir might I suggest-?"

JARVIS didn't get to finish his sentence before Ross moved, and the impact of his mighty fist sent Iron-Man tumbling through containers. Tony gritted his teeth and checked the read outs which were flashing red on his HUD.

"Suggest away, JARVIS," Tony said, getting the Hulkbuster armor back up. Ross had leaped up and was falling for him with a triumphant roar.

"A more ranged approach?"

"Good thinking," Tony replied sarcastically, "never occurred to me." He held up the Hulkbuster's arms and let loose massive repulsor blasts from them both. It was enough to knock Ross out of the air and slam him into the ground nearby.

"I only suggested it because the melee approach seldom works well with Mister Banner," JARVIS said, sounding a bit put off. "And your performance in this battle is, at best, a stalemate."

"True, I'm just hoping to tire Pornstache here out," Tony replied to his AI. Ross came charging in like a raging bull, and extended both his fists to slam them on Iron-Man. Stark reacted quickly, and caught both of Ross's wrists. The Hulkbuster armor was slammed down into the pavement, cracking the concrete. Tony grunted, the physical feedback actually causing him discomfort. He could hear the armor straining, the actuators powerful enough to let him bend titanium like it was nothing struggling with the beast.

"And what makes you think that's even possible?" JARVIS asked. Tony grunted.

"Gotta be possible," he said flatly. "Otherwise this would just not be fair..."

"Imminently logical, sir," JARVIS said dryly.

"ROSS STRONGEST OF ALL!" He bellowed, driving Tony back, the pavement crumbling beneath them. Tony grunted and pushed back.

"Yeah? Two words for you, buddy!" Tony shouted back. "JARVIS, the pistons."

The massive forearms of the Hulkbuster separated slightly, and a massive piston emerged from each. The piston jutted out, humming as the system charged with enough voltage that arcs formed between the armor and the nearby metal containers.. Ross looked a bit confused. Tony smirked.

"Oh yeah, those words... Iron-Man... Smash."

The pistons shot forward, transferring all their kinetic energy through the Hulkbuster's fists. The mighty arms released Red Hulk's wrists and altered course for his chest, losing just a bit of momentum in the process. But it was still enough to send Ross flying backwards across the cargo terminal, until he slammed into a large service crane near the water with a boom that sounded like a bomb had gone off. The Gamma signature lessened considerably... Until through the infrared, Tony could see the great Red Hulk had been reduced to a man.

The Hulkbuster armor stood triumphant... Before the forearms of the great armor fell off, glowing red hot with steam rising from the pistons.

"Wha... JARVIS!" Tony shouted.

"Well don't blame me, sir. We haven't tested this system under actual combat conditions and I wanted to make sure we got him," JARVIS stated. "I didn't know it would overload the heat management system and make the arms fall off."

"Right, right," Tony said with a roll of his eyes. "Where are Steve and Jennifer?"

"Over there sir. Nearby the Quinjet wreckage."

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FanboyimusPrime..CH_60a - GeneralRoss, Reggie&Talbot, Steve&Stark

Sitting in his office, or rather what still felt to be General Ross's office to him sat freshly made General Reginald "Reggie" Fortean. It all just felt so weird and off to him to be the man in charge when old Thunderbolt had been running the operation to track down and deal with the Hulk. A position General Ross had since day one.

The now famous target of the "Hulkbusters" that SHIELD claimed to have some control over. Fortean snorted at that as he looked over the files for a few projects that the US military was worked even harder now to deal with the Hulk than when he was free roaming the planet. After all now he in a known location that typically was over the Eastern Seaboard.

Fortean had been there when Blonsky with the super solider serum got used like a soccer ball by the Hulk. He'd also see the aftermath of a battle in the Canadian wilderness between the Hulk, the mutant known as Wolverine, and the mythical beast the Wendigo. The mythical beast caused by cannibalism got smashed into the ground with a giant rock the size of a tank.

And given it was still alive Department H claimed him for something. Reggie really didn't want to know, but if he had to guess he believed for a black ops version of their Alpha Flight team. What they'd need a flesh eating beast that was in shouting distance of the Hulk's fighting class to fight was something Reggie didn't ever want to meet.

He was thankfully driven from his thoughts when Colonel Glenn Talbot entered his office.

"Sir, we have a problem," the man said with a grave expression and looking a bit scared. That didn't do Fortean's nerves any favors as Talbot had nerves of admantium.

"That doesn't fill me with confidence," Reggie stated. "Give me the bad news."

"There are three more gamma empowered beings having a free for all in New Jersey," Talbot informed him. "And sir the worst part is we know who one of those being is."

The Colonel moved over to the General's side of the desk and pulled up a live feed of the Hulks, Captain America, and Iron Man.

Reggie gasped when he saw the Red Hulk. There was no way it could be anyone but General Ross. With an expression of pure shock General Fortean turned to his right hand man. "Get everyone we have. By god we're going to need them, and hope we do better than usual."

"And the General?' Talbot asked softly.

"We put him down if we have to," General Fortean stated in an almost whisper. "Someone has to stop this."

Colonel Talbot just hoped his commanding officer didn't lose himself to do so like they were seeing General Ross had.

V-V-V

Steve Rogers really hated this. Not that long ago he was talking and joking with the man trying to destroy Tony's antiHulk armor. Cap put aside for later to ponder what other armor add ons Tony could have at his command to battle his teammates.

Captain America rushed in and went for the massive red Hulk's weakest points. The massive towering man cried out in pain and Tony nailed Ross in the face with a repulsor blast. Ross growled in rage and Tony was sent flying back.

"Ok time to test out the new toys," Stark remarked. "Hey General time to cool off!"

What looked like a two glass containers in one vial flew out of cannon hidden on the armor and slammed into the Red Hulk. The chemicals mixed ice formed on Ross and spread quickly.

"I call it a Freon Pellet," Tony said with a salesman tone. "Not that it is actual freon but I liked how it sounded. Given Hulks can roam around the North Pole in a torn pair of pants I doubt that'll kill you."

Tony then powered up emitters in the arm of the Hulkbuster armor and a glowing red disk of energy formed. He struck Ross with the photon shield. Ross was knocked back and then growled.

"Ross hate cold!" he called out and the ice started to turn to steam.

"Talk about being hot blooded," Tony remarked.

She-Hulk then ran in and kicked the crimson Hulk in the groin as hard as he could. "Stop cockblocking everyone!"

"JARVIS please tell me you recorded that," Tony asked.

"I did sir," the posh sounding AI stated. "You can make it an internet meme later."

The roar of jets overhead cut any response from Tony as bombs dropped their payload and Tony lost the pair of Hulks for a moment in a cloud of dust and debris.

A tank drove in and fired at the Red Hulk. The shells merely annoyed the crimson beast.

"Stand down General Ross," a voice was heard coming from speakers on the tank. "For all our sakes stand down."

"Reggie?" Ross got out.

"I will not warn you again. Stand down General or we will open fire."

Time seemed to stop as The Red Hulk weighed his options. The irony of him being transformed into what he hunted and in turn being hunted by his own men wasn't lost on him. And then he saw something that made him literally see red involving his daughter and the Hulk.

They weren't fighting. That would be preferable to the carnal actions they were doing. Any sense of reason left Ross completely and even the forces of Asgard won't stop him from beating to a pulp Banner!

"Get away from my daughter!" Ross growled as ran through anything that got in his way. He shoved the tank aside and Fortean realized this had gone from monster hunting to a sci fi family drama.

"Hulk busy!" the Hulk yelled. "Fake Hulk fight real Hulk later!"

"Put every drop of power beyond what will keep me alive into the repulsors," Tony ordered.

"Done sir." J.A.R.V.I.S. stated.

Iron Man raised his arms and there was a massive flash of light as the Red Hulk was struck in the back with an incredible burst of energy and was sent flying over the Hulk and Red She-Hulk, through trees and created a huge hole in the ground.

Very painfully the Red Hulk rose up out of the hole...only to be knocked back into it by Captain America. When he landed, the Red Hulk slowly turned back into General Ross.

And that was when everyone realized that Betty and Bruce somehow had gotten away.

"Well...I'm sure Bruce is going to have one interesting story to tell when we find him," Tony remarked while the remaining She-Hulk tried to remove Cap's pants.

Fortean rubbed his forehead as he got footage of that. He was willing to let SHIELD have these Hulks. They were getting weirder and weirder as more of them showed up.




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GBscientist..CH_61a - CarolDanvers, Fury, LokiCell, Extremis, PottsArmour


Carol Danvers woke up with a raging fever. She felt like she was freezing, but her skin was sweltering to the touch. She also happened to be lying on a metal slab.

"Rise and shine, soldier," Director Fury's voice rang through some unseen speaker.

"Sir?" Carol asked weakly while struggling to open her eyes. "What happened to me? The last thing I remember was waking up in that coffin and being surrounded by soldiers."

"You were exposed to a modified form of the Extremis virus, Captain. Then you managed to get yourself locked in the Vita-Ray chamber used to 'upgrade' Captain America. You're very lucky to be alive."

"Extremis?!" Carol asked in shock, which finally got her fully alert, with her eyes open and sitting up. That was how she realised that she was within the Helicarrier's infamous jettison-capable cell and that the metal slab she was lying upon was the cooled remains of a melted gurney. "Isn't that the thing that made all those vets explode?"

"Almost. The version you were infected with was modified by Stark to be more stable. We were sending it off for disposal because that batch wasn't as successful as hoped. The Vita-Ray chamber did something to you and the Extremis that stabilised the reaction, but we don't really know what."

"If I'm stable, then why am I in the Loki Cell, sir?"

"Captain, you're current body temperature is hovering around 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. We had to put the Carrier down in the ocean and open the cell's drop hatch to allow water into the room for cooling. Otherwise, you'd be melting a hole through every floor we put you on. We went through four gurneys just to get you in there."

"Understood, sir. Thank you for risking the ship on my behalf," Carol said before looking down at herself. She was wearing a black skintight bodysuit that looked like the swimming suits used back at the Beijing Olympics. "What am I wearing?"

"You can thank Stark for that. He had to invent a whole new polymer fabric just to get you some clothes that wouldn't light on fire. Then he had to modify one of his suits to withstand the temperatures you were putting out to get you dressed."

"You let Stark dress me?" Carol shrieked as she hugged her legs up to her chest in an instinctual defensive response.

Fury started howling with laughter. Once he calmed down, he continued.

"Thanks, Danvers. I needed a laugh in all of this mess. It wasn't Stark that dressed you. Technically, it wasn't even his armour that got modified; it was Potts'."

"Oh, well, I guess that's okay," Carol relaxed a bit. "But I'm going to get you back for that prank, sir."

"I look forward to it, Captain. But it will have to wait until you've got control over that internal furnace of yours."

"Yes, sir. I'll see what I can do about that, sir."

"That's what I wanted to hear. I'm going to put Dr. Banner on the line, since he's got some calming mantras and meditation techniques to teach you that might help."

"Thank you, sir, for everything."

"I'd do it for any one of my people, Danvers."
"Peace through Superior Firepower"- Arsenal of Freedom ST:TNG



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Rift120..CH_62a - Spiderman, Peter&Rhino, Zombie?, TentacleBeast, Shocker


AndrewJTalon said: ↑
Sorry MarikaOniki. I'll keep things as clean as possible... Given this crowd, I mean. Buncha pervs and misanthropes. Also it involves Marvel, who basically turn their female characters into wet dream fodder as it is. Seriously, remember that tentacle cover? I'm not posting it and I'll ask you not to link it, but you all know what I'm talking about.

EDIT: Too tired from work. Gonna try writing tomorrow.

Starjammers are pretty freaking awesome.
Speaking of tentacles

"THERE YOU ARE SPIDERMAN!"

Peter glanced up from where he had been hanging upsidedown froma lamppost munching on a Newyork hotdog... quickly pulling his mask down over his mouth as he saw the Rhino charging towards him, with the Shocker standing nearby. Oddly though his SPider sense wasn't tingling.

"YOU GOTTA HELP ME!!!!"

He blinked as the Rhino dsepretly grabbed his leg in a bear hug and started wailing about saving him.

"Riiiiggghhht... today has gone officially weird." Spiderman glanced at a embarssed Shocker "you're not going to join the 'ilove spider' club here are you?"

"Oh hell no! I'm just here for moral support, after the rest of the six banished ALeksti because we got creeped out by whats going on. And SOMEONE has to explain. Besides I owe him for sticking through that ZOmbie hallucination I had"

"Zombie wha?"

"Look.. lets just say after that tangle with Daredevil a few months back we learned that why its not wise to use Underworld docs not sanctioned by the Kingpin's Medicaid plan... and leave it at that."

meanwhile the Rhino kept blubbering on "You're a hero! You know mystic guys! Get THE RAPE MONSTER TO STOP TALKING ME!"

"Rape mo.....you mena the tentacle beast? But we banished that back....perhaps a therapist?"

SHocker grumbled. "Yeah we thought it was all in his head to... then.... THESE started showing up."

Spiderman blinked as the SHocker pulled out a 8x10 glossy he handed over with two fingers like it was dangerous or something. As he took the picture his SPider Sense DID start buzzing.... but against his better judgement he looked at the photo.

"................................"

Spiderman glanced up....


"Is that the Tentacle monster lounging on a couch?"

He glanced back down and then back up even more disturbed....

"In a NEGLIGEE??????"

THe Shocker shuddered. "Trust me that's the LEAST disturbing one that's appeared around him.... along with what I assume are love letters. At least We think they are... we umm.. havent' quite gotten up the nerve to have the flaming runes translated, but the X's and O's at the end are kind of a clue..."

"I'll do ANYTHING! Turn in my last heist? My last five heists!!! I'll even do a honest DIME IN THE JOINT! JUST MAKE THE STALKER RAPE MONSTER GO AWAY!!!!!!"

Peter sighed under his mask. "Fine.... just let me get to a phone real quick..... although how the hell am I supposed to explain to the DOc he needs to enact a interdimesional restraining order?"



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FanboyimusPrime..CH_63a - AbominationDrug, Walker, O-Force, Sleep

The Abomination's drugs putting him into a deep sleep were a marvel as the screaming of Exterminatrax should wake the dead. She was dragged past his cell by a pair of modified Hammer Drones, with the head of security Major John Walker following behind them.

"When my father is done none of you will be able to get anything beyond cleaning toilets!" she growled as she was nearly thrown into a cell next to her would be paramour. The white haired Kree's mood brightened a bit as the closest thing to a girlfriend he'd had was here.

"Just shut up," Walker growled as this girl was giving him a headache. Much like Noh-Varr had proclaiming that this would be the capital of a new Kree Empire. When he wasn't trying to spit on people. It frankly was getting annoying, and why Hammer drones were being used in the Vault.

While with very funky hands/gloves restraining him from using his claws Wolverine turned on the clear see through TV in his cell and flipped through the channels.

"Oh great," he muttered as he caught a commercial for O-Force. He remembered what happened to them. Their team's end was years after Ultron was made and it was yet another piece of evidence that something had gone wrong. That they were in another universe not traveled back in time.

Which made Logan glad they didn't kill Pym for something he may or may not do. That would have been embarrassing.

Wolverine changed the channel and got to see the New Warriors reality show in progress. James Howlett really hoped they avoided this team making a national mess. Of course it didn't help when SHIELD was willing to sit on their ass when he told them there was a lot more to Stamford than was first thought.

He quickly changed the channel as thinking about that made him want to punch something. Or someone if it came down to it. By luck he came across America's Funniest Home Videos and was soon laughing. Given how things had been going for him even have something to laugh about was a good thing.

V-V-V

In deep space a dark and twisted presence viewed the sleeping Abomination and smiled as he'd found his Ravager of Worlds. And perhaps a few more to serve him existed on the planet called Earth.




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FanboyimusPrime..CH_64a - BlackagarBolagon, Kree, Gorgan

The air filters barely kept a bay the smell of bodily wastes and fear. Karnak was seeing the entire ship as a worn mass of weakest points as everything was about ready to break. And yet they were almost to the ancestral homeland of their people.

On a throne like command chair sat Blackagar Boltagon or Black Bolt as he preferred to be called. Monitors on the command deck flickered as his comrades...his family as it were...tried to keep the damaged Attilan in some semblance of working order.

That was easier said than done. The ship was old and worn even before their trek as they'd taken it from the breakers in orbit of Hala and the time since then hadn't been kind or free of danger and combat.

The Kree had wanted them back, but destroying the rebellion in one shot would be good enough for them.

"Supremor cursed rubbish," Gorgan growled at the helm as keeping a flight course to Earth was harder than it needed to be.

"We only have a little further to go," Medusa said at Black Bolt's side. "Though how warm of a welcome we'll get is another matter."

"Beating the Kree in hospitality isn't exactly difficult," Triton commented at the engineering console on the bridge behind her.

Anything else being said was unable to be heard over the creaking, crunches and snaps as the ship came out of faster than light over Earth. The joy of being over what they wanted to be home was replaced by terror as the Accuser class ship gave up the ghost and fell into the Earth's gravity well. With any semblance of gravity gone the Inhumans were bounced around like pin balls.

Black Bolt rushed to the helm and did what he could to control their fall. Before blacking out he saw a massive jungle and the Attilan became part of the landscape.


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AndrewJTalon..CH_66a - Steve&Jennifer, Capt.America&She-Hulk, Feelings, Recruitment, Hugs&Movie

No Marvel Zombies, guys. Seriously, this is basically the start of the Marvel Cineverse. We can't exactly just drop every single hero, villain and concept in all at the same time. It'd be like a Seltzerburg movie, only instead of poor references to better movies every five seconds it would be new characters every five seconds. You might as well just skip the film.

With that in mind, let's get things rolling again.

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Saturday morning

The doorbell rang, and Steve Rogers rose from his covers with a yawn. He hopped out of bed and walked out his bedroom into the main living area of his apartment on the central level of Avenger's Tower. It wasn't exactly luxurious by any stretch of the imagination save in sheer size (despite Tony's attempts to outfit it with the latest of everything), but it was warm and livable and right in the middle of his team. And out the vast windows he could always see the New York skyline, which made for fantastic sketching.

He walked up to the sliding doors and hit the button to open them. They parted and revealed a tall green Amazon in a blouse and skirt that just seemed painted on. Steve looked up, and fought back a gulp.

"Ah, hey Steve," Jennifer said. She held up her hand. "It's all right, please. I'm in control..."

Steve shook his head. "I wasn't worried," he fibbed. He stepped back and smiled. "Come in?"

"Thank you," Jennifer said with a smile. She walked in, and Steve had to admit her movements in this form were much more... Confident. More self assured. Dare he say it, even sexy. Actually, really sexy.

Steve closed his eyes to erase those thoughts and moved to the kitchen. He looked over his shoulder. "Coffee good for you?"

"Decaf please," she said. He soon arrived with a pot, and poured the coffee out for both of them. They sat on the couch in silence, before Jennifer giggled.

"This is familiar," she commented. Steve looked up and chuckled.

"Yeah..."

"Listen, I just wanted to apologize for-" Steve held up a hand, and Jennifer quieted. He smiled at her.

"You don't have to say anything. You had just transformed, you were a bit out of control..." He chuckled. "Frankly I'm kind of glad you focused just on me. With how Bruce transformed at first..."

Jennifer bit her lower lip. "Mmhm... Yeah..." She rested a hand on Steve's shoulder, and looked intently into his eyes. "Steve... I mean... The Hulk stuff aside, and that Nitro guy... I felt like we had a connection."

Steve smiled back, and rested his hand over hers. "I... I kind of felt the same way. And making connections for me-"

"Isn't easy," Jennifer finished. "I'm not Phillip J. Fry but I can certainly relate with having trouble making connections..." At Steve's confused look she shook her head. "Nevermind. Point is, I didn't really get much attention from people. I was so small and mousy and just so into the lawyer thing that I didn't pay much attention to anything outside of work. And now, like this, I feel so free... But it kind of scares me." She sighed and looked down at her lap. "Ridiculous, huh? I mean, I had to dodge out of the way of a car today because I would have crushed it. Everyone was staring, god some redheaded guy from Canada just fainted at the sight of me. I feel like I'm... I'm not even human, that I'm some sort of-!"

"No, no," Steve said, squeezing her hand. "Believe me. I know exactly how that feels." He smiled warmly at her, bringing a darker green shade to her cheeks. "And... Well... We can relate to one another now. Two people with a connection is one of the strongest things I know of. Believe me." He leaned forward and put his other hand on her other shoulder. "We'll be together on this. And so will Bruce, and Tony, and everyone else."

"You're recruiting me?" Jennifer asked with a frown. Steve shook his head.

"You don't have to do anything you don't want to. You're still working for SHIELD too... But you got control of yourself, enough to help out Bruce. And you plunged right in. That takes a lot of courage and character and I..." Steve blushed a bit. "I would love to see you more anyway, so..."

Jennifer's pupils dilated... And she pounced, driving Steve into the couch as her lips crushed his. Steve's eyes widened as he flailed his arms.

"Mmmph!"

"Mmmm~," Jennifer practically purred. She then froze, and pulled away with an embarassed cough. "I... Uh... Sorry..."

"It... It's okay," Steve said, panting. "I don't, um, really mind it-URK!"

The green woman pounced him again, but this time he was able to push her back just enough that he could talk.

"Ah! B-But let's take things slow, huh?" He stammered. "I mean... Our first date got a bit interrupted, so..."

Jennifer nodded and smiled. "Sure thing, Steve." She rose up and walked to the TV Steve had barely touched since he'd moved in. She turned it on, activated Netflix, and took up the remote control. She walked back to the couch and sat down, flipping through the options.

"So, I did say we were going to help you catch up on movies," she said with a grin. "Where would you like to begin?"

Steve grinned back. "I'll let you decide."

And so they settled in to watch, quite comfortable together on the couch.

... Though Steve would find it difficult to escape when she fell asleep with her arm around his waist. Not that he tried that hard.

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Rift120..CH_67a - Thunderbolts, AbnerAsMach, Jolt, Melissa, Juggernaught, Fight


just a rough outline of a idea on the formation of the THunderbolts

ABner as Mach is about to fly off and leave Jolt who is happily chattering about what type of Hero she plans to be... when her stomach lets out a loud growl, and she mentions she hasn't eaten in a few days

ABner not being a utter schmuck sighs and takes her to a place he knows from his 'beetle' days that is bar/grill whose staff doesn't bat a eye about costumed or mutated or monstrous people grabbing a bite to eat.

Jolt happily assuming Mach is her new 'mentor hero' and shes his sidekick.

Excusing himself to get a second order after Jolt devours the first meal, he leaves Jolt alone... and she spots THe juggernaught and Black Tom a few booths over with a unknown female.

Obvioulsy a known villain planning his next dastardly scheme!

Actually its Black tom trying to convince ex-wrestler and recently fired Roxxan Oil merc Melissa Gold (AKA Screaming Mimi) to tag team with him while he calls out the fantastic four for his latest planned Youtube video.

Melissa is very upset and offended though both at the low pay scale Tom is offering. Also because it was Black Toms threat of a copyright lawsuit against ROxxan oil on behalf of the Cassidy clan over her vocal 'augmentation' they performed that lead to her being dropped by her ex-employers. Being the juggernauts 'sidekick' is what Tom is offering to even the scale.

Naturally Jolt misinterprets as the 'VIllian Juggernaught trying to force another superhuman into a life of crime' and jumps up to confront them... Just as Abner returns with his meal... perhaps for comedy effect doing it in a Sailormoon style manner (since Jolt is still experimenting with Superheroine personalities )

*Abner groaned, as both Marko and Tom stared at the dramtically 'posed' Jolt. While Melissa was clearly struggling to keep a straight face. the Juggernaught turned his head to regard Abner in his Mach suit.*

Mach: .......... *sigh* she's new at this okay?

Juggernaugth: THe Juggernaugt understands brother! For all must start somewhere, and while its understandable she would set her sights on one as great as the Juggernaught for her Debut, such a intro can not be shown to the millions of the juggernaugths fans!

*THE juggernaught slowly began to stand...*

MAch: *mentally* oh god he really DOES talk like that.... argh! I just wanted to create a combat suit I could sell to the military for millions and retire off of! Was that so wrong????

*meanwhile black tom shook his head*

BT: eh forget about it lad... we can easily edit it out... maybe save it for that Christmas blooper special order video?

J: That could work. IN that case LET ME SHOW YOU THE TRUTH BROTHER AND SISTER! WHAT IT FEELS LIEK FOR THE JUGGERNAUGHT TO RUN ALL OVER YOU!

*He takes a swing at Jolt, who nimbly manages to sway underneath his blow... unforutnalty leaving MAch clear in its path.. and sending his armored body flying through the wall.*

Jolt: MACH You'll PAY FOR THAT FIEND!!!!

*Her follow up kick sparks electricity into his face and makes the Juggernaut stumble back a few paces. And starts a small fire atop his liberaly oiled up and styled hairdo *

BT: eh your hairs on fire my friend.

*Marko reaches up and pats the smoldering tips of his hair.. and glances into the mirror, before grabbing two nearby chairs*

JUgg: YOU! YOU HAVE RUINED THE PERFECT MANE OF THE JUGGERNAUT! THE LONG FLOWING LOCKS WITH WHICH MY DORK OF ABROTEHR CAN ONLY STARE AT IN ENVY! THE OBJECT OF LUST FO RHTE MILLIONS OF MY FANS! YOU SHALL PAY!!!

*Jolt lets out a eep as she barely dance out of the way of one chair, only to be tripped up by the second which Cain threw low. FOr moment she lay dazed on the floor and looked up as the Juggernaut raised a large table he ripped from the floor up to smash down on her. A slight whimper of fear escaped the young girl.

Then said Table disintegrated into kindling as a laser blast hit it. Jolts eyes turning greatfully towards the whole which Mach stormed back through his hand outstretched.*

Mach: I just wanted a bite to eat you know.... but I just can't abide someone who picks on young girls!

Juggernaught: Well The Juggernaut is ever ready to deal wannabee Jabronies a heaping of pain... so if.. OWWW!

*JUggernaut danced back temporarily clutching his rib where Jolt had treid another electric charged sucker punch... before she danced back to where Mach was striding forward. Black tom watched frowning, and after making sure the camera guy was filming stood up raising his shillelagh which glowed.*

BT: well now... two on one seems a wee bit unfair... so maybe I'll just keep the lass occupi.... HEY!

*Tom barely dodges out fo the way as a loud screech shaved a large splinter off his club... turning to see a grinning melissia.*

M: Now now... You forget about ME Tom? the gal you got FIRED and who stripped of her old stage name for your greedy little lawsuit!

BT: Nothing little about it Lass! THe proceeds pay for there salaries! *He gestured to the still filming crew.* And your own wages when you sign on as Marko's doll!

M: Yeah well maybe I'll take my own compensation out of yoru HIDE INSTEAD!!!!

*Jolt looked up eyes shining, as her dodging brought her nearby.*

Jolt: Oh wow! ITs like a teamup! THis is so cool! I get to be a sidekick position

Mach: I HAVEN'T AGREED TO THAT YET... GAH!!!! EAT MINIMISSILE YOU ROCK WANNABE!!!

Jugg: THE JUGGERNAUT IS GONNA POUND YOU TILL YOUR MOMMA CRIES FOR COMAPRING ME TO THAT MOVIE STAR SELLOUT!!!!!


Melissa: Yeah sure.. just call me Scre.... damn can't use that.. stupid lawyers.. damn need a new stage name...

*She lets out another vocal blast that Black Tom desperately rolled away from...and then yelped as Jolts foot came down mere inches from his stomach on the floor*

Jolt: Well your singing certainly packs a punch! and that bird design on your T-shirt..... WHy not go with Songbird?

Melissa: Sure why not... Now let me make dear old Tom here SEE BIRDIES!!!



not sure how the fight would proceed from here... if someone else wants to continue it feel free. ITs basically Songbird, Mach (1), and Jolt vs Juggernaut and Black Tom... all to air on Jugg TV channel later.


Also on a unrelated note. A odd Roberto the Stark PR man idea... he tries to raise revenue for the Avengers, but floating the idea of a kiddie superhero show..... the superhero squad show... mainly so he can show a test episode to the avengers team. Specfically 'From the Atom... it rises'.

TOny: THE (#$&*(#^&#(??? WHY THE HELL AM I A FURY FANBOY?????

Nick: I dunno.. THAT part I liked.




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scriviner..CH_68a - PlaneRescue, SquirrlGirlDidcha, CloakJob, CoffeeCha, budgetLine for SquirrelGirl?


Personally, I'd be happy for Squirrel Girl to just be this urban myth who occasionally gets referenced as having done this or that... but no one ever sees her. She's like a rumor in SHIELD for why things happen.

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"... so anyway, the plane is falling out of the sky and I kid you not! Out of nowhere it hits the tree at just the right angle, and bounces. We thought we were going to have to scoop everyone out of that quinjet with a shovel, but everyone just had bruises. It was incredible."

"Betcha Squirrel Girl did that."

"You're probably right."

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"... by happy coincidence our monitors picked up on the brief window when their cloaking dropped. We got our guys inserted without anyone the wiser."

"You guys got lucky."

"Nah, we had Squirrel Girl watching over us. It was a cakewalk."

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"We're out of coffee."

"Must've been Squirrel Girl."

"There is no Squirrel Girl! You drank the last cup. Knock it off."

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"Directory Fury... why IS there a budget line item for a Squirrel Girl? I don't believe we've got an operative by that codename?"

"... that's not a budget item. That's the office pool for the first person to actually get a confirmed siting of her."

"But she's just an urban myth!"

Fury smiled serenely and raised an eyebrow.

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SotF..CH_69a - Fury&Pym, SmallTalk, Wanda&Peter, WBC, Banner


Fury watched as the transport launched, no remarks had been made about the additions to the team he'd added without telling most of them. This was as much a test for the basic team as it was a rescue mission for Cap...and Namor.

Pym was hidden away in one of the emergency compartments of the craft, and Rhodey would meet up with them en route to the target area.

It also meant that he had at least one person beyond the basics that could dispose of certain things without disturbing the younger team. He was also rather aware that Banner could easily end up a major liability if Hydra had gone back to type.

They would also be an ace in the hole if the continued presence of Cap's beacon was a trap that the team couldn't handle.

xXx

"So..." Peter asked as he adjusted the harness in the craft, he'd heard rumors of this thing since SHIELD first contacted him. Hypersonic VTOL, something they'd planned for further use.

But his question did catch the attention of the two teens that had joined him on this mission.

"Let me guess," Pietro Maximoff responded with a frown, his voice still rather high pitched and with a far faster cadence than most had, "You want to know about the rumors."

"Just making small talk, I mean you're dad is..."

"The number one loudmouth in America?" came Wanda's interjection, "At least SHIELD keeps the damned reporters away."

"Yeah, those ones.." Peter was regretting opening his mouth at that point.

"If they aren't the ones about the number of awards about being mister charming," Pietro continued, "Well, after Sis and I took off, buckethead started those himself, we thought Alex Jones and the WBC lunatics were bad enough, but dear old dad decided that we must have been having some sort of 'immoral affair' for running off to the government."

A shrug, "Most people with fathers that behave like that just need to worry about redneck militias, not daily rants on the radio about how tomorrow the government is going to be rounding up mutants for labor and death camps like some modern day Nazis..."

"Well, for one, I think that the WBC has kind of improved since they started branching out from 'God Hates Gays' to just about any group out there," came the response from the other member of their group, the guy clad in blue biker leathers and helmet with just a touch of white in his clothes and the silver visor of the helmet, "They were starting to run repeats anyway, but then you have the real psychos out there..." his voice trailed off, "And they don't tend to differentiate, if you've got powers, well.."

"I think pretty much everyone in here with powers has had to deal with that," Banner added in quickly.




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Captain Sarcasm..CH_70a - TONYMASTERProgram, Metahumans, Vance, Nina, Richard, Angel, Dwayne, Robbie


Okay, well, I was working on it all night and all day, and I'm really proud of it, so I'm going to share it. I don't mind if nobody wants me to continue it, but I got to at least show it.

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THE FOLLOWING IS A PAID COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE TONY MASTERS 'MASTER YOUR POWER' METAHUMAN FITNESS PROGRAM. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS PROGRAM DO NOT NCECCISARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THIS NETWORK, ITS PARENT COMPANY OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES.

Announcer: Has this ever happened to you?

*In an average, ordinary city, filmed in black and white, an average, ordinary human, comes upon a strange glowing stone lying on the sidewalk. He picks it up and is immediately transformed into a six-foot, muscle-bound demigod with glowing eyes, flowing hair and spandex pants. Immediately he flies off into the air… and crashes into a skyscraper.*

Announcer: Have you suddenly and unexpectedly discovered hidden, earth-shaking metahuman potential, with no ability to control your abilities?

*A seven-foot tall armored battlesuit staggers drunkenly down a busy street, accidentally smashing cars and putting its steel fists through walls. It slips on a convenient banana peel and lands on its back, unable to right itself as it scrabbles, turtle-like, with its clumsy limbs. Then, all of its missiles fire at once.*

Announcer: Has your scientific genius far outstripped your ability to control your own creations?

*A group of ski-masked thugs crowbar open a storage depot and start loading boxes into the back of a truck. On the building overhead, a lurking figure in a long black cape appears. He jumps to the top of the truck, his cape spread wide like the wings of a noctournal flying mammal. The thugs turn their guns on him and shoot him 57 times until he falls to the ground, dead.*

Announcer: Do you thirst for justice but lack the skill to carry out your one-man war on crime?

*Wipe to a montage ofstudents in white karate gi doing kata, sparring in mid-air, training with robot combat dummies, running up walls, bench-pressing cars and firing lasers from various parts of their bodies.*

Announcer: Then you need Tony Masters' patented 'Master Your Power' training program!

*Wipe to a man, in his mid-40s, dark haired with a trimmed beard, toned and well-built without being overly bulky. He's doing shoulder presses on a piece of exercise equipment when he turns, appearing just to notice the camera crew for the first time.*

Masters: Hi, I'm professional combat trainer Tony Masters. Over my career, I've accumulated hundreds of techniques from soldiers, SHIELD agents and martial artists, and distilled that experience into a range of techniques designed to help anyone reach their true potential. Even if their potential is more than human.

*A man, in his late teens, stands in the middle of a training area, surrounded by metal spheres about a foot across. Closing his eyes, he raises his hands, and the balls start to shake. Cut to a close-up of the young man. He has a caption reading 'Vance A – ACTUAL STUDENT. NOT AN ACTOR.'*

Vance: My father was… well, it sounds crazy, but he was my descendant from a thousand years in the future, from a time when humans had developed tremendous psychic powers. I'm my own great-grandfather, with about fifty 'greats' in there somewhere.

*Vance raises his hands higher, and the spheres float up into the air, swirling about Vance's head like the planets in an orrery.*

Vance (Voice-Over): The Avengers said I lacked discipline, lacked experience.

*Vance lowers his hands, and the spheres fly out, embedding themselves in the walls.*

Vance (VO): Tony Masters is helping me prove them wrong.

*Tony Masters leads a group of student in drills. He stops, then walks to one student who was out-of-step and shows him the proper form. The student smiles, and the two high-five. Tony turns to the camera.*

Tony Masters: My program is designed to meet the individual needs of each of my students. I will work with you to discover the best way to realize your unique abilities.

*A young woman with long blonde hair stands atop a high-dive, wearing a green, one-piece bathing suit. Cut to a close-up of the girl, with the caption 'Nina P.'*

Nina: My mother was a human. My father was from Atlantis. I suppose you could say I'm a mermaid.

*Nina takes a leap off the diving board, slipping into the water with the grace of an Olympic diver.*

Nina: (VO): At first I thought it was a silly thing. What kind of power is swimming?

*She swims from one end of the pool to the other in a second and bursts forth like a flying fish, bringing all the water with her like a giant Tsunami that crashes down on a semi-circle of training dummies.*

Nina (VO): Tony Masters taught me how much more I could do.

*Tony Masters rides a tricked-out motorcycle down a back alley. He hits a small ramp and jumps into the air, at which point his bike's wheels rotate by 90 degrees, becoming repulsor-enabled hover pods. He loops and swirls through the air before coming back to earth, switching his pods back to wheels and screeching to a halt in front of the camera.*

Tony Masters: I've invested millions of dollars into this training program, and all of it goes to make sure that my students have access to the latest and best equipment for realizing their true potential.

*A young man with tanned skin and dark hair stands in the center of a circle of combat robots wielding wicked-looking melee weapons. He puts up his hands, encouraging them to attack, and they all rush him at once. Cut to a closeup, with the name 'Richard R.'*

Richard: A dying alien came to my house and told me that I had to become some kind of… magic space cop and save the world from aliens.

*As Richard fights the robots, a kind of armor materializes around him. A golden gauntlet when he delivers a punch, a golden boot when he kicks, a golden helmet with a bright red crest when an attack comes near his head.*

Richard (VO): I thought I had gone insane! I didn't have any idea how to be a superhero! My first fight, somebody nearly got killed!

*Richard gives a shout and blows all the androids away with an orange sphere of energy. He floats above the air in black-and-gold armor with three glowing circles on his chest.*

Richard (VO): Tony Masters is helping me to control a power I barely understand.

*Tony Masters stands in the middle of a diverse crowd of people: black people, white people, Asians, Hispanics, native Americans, Indians, fish-men, six-armed mutants, cyborgs, werewolves and what appears to be a dwarf wearing a cooking pot with eyeholes. All of them are smiling at the camera.*

Tony Masters: Unlike some training programs, which only accept 'certain kinds' of metahumans, we have no restrictions on applications. Our students include mutants, aliens, atlanteans, victims of lab experiments and even ordinary humans. The Master Your Power program is all-inclusive, because everyone deserves a chance to learn.

*A woman with long, bright red hair stands in an outdoor shooting gallery. A crowd of people stand well back, watching eagerly. Cut to a close-up of the girl, with the name 'Angel J.'*

Angel: It was my sixteenth birthday. I tried to blow out the candles on my cake and burned the house down. That's when I found out that I was… a mutant.

*A hidden launcher shoots a clay pigeon into the air, but Angel hurls a bolt of fire and utterly destroys it. A second clay pigeon flies out, and she fireballs that one, too. Then, a dozen targets whiz through the air.*

Angel (VO): I had heard about some other programs, but… I didn't want to be sent off to some camp so the 'normals' wouldn't find me. I wanted to show I was just like them.

*Angel puts her hands together and unleashes a tremendous wave of fire that flares through the sky, blasting apart all of the disks at once. The crowd behind her cheers and rushes out to congratulate her.*

Angel (VO): Tony Masters gave me a place where I belonged.

*Pan down a row of metahuman students at punching bags. Some have metal fists, some have claws, some are able to set it on fire with a touch. At the end is an ordinary human practicing like an ordinary martial artist. Tony Masters is watching.*

Tony Masters: In this world of super-soldiers, gamma mutants, robot suits and thunder gods, sometimes the hardest thing to be is normal. Not here. Even if you don't have any powers, I can still teach you how 'normal' can still be 'super.'

*A young black man wearing black clothes and some kind of visor stands at the top of a ramp in an indoor skate park dotted with training dummies. In one hand he holds an eskrima stick; in the other, a skateboard. Cut to a close-up of the man, with the name 'Dwayne T.'*

Dwayne: My parents were murdered, and the police did nothing to find their killer. I couldn't let them get away. I had to find the killer, I had to make sure that he didn't escape justice.

*Dwayne presses a button on his visor and gets on his board, sliding fast down the ramp, weapon at the ready. All the lights go out.*

Dwayne (VO): I was so angry… all I wanted to do was track the killer down, but I didn't even know where to begin.

*We switch to night-vision, and see Dwayne effortlessly skating through the dummies, delivering punishing hit-and-run blows with lightning speed.*

Dwayne (VO): Tony Masters… he showed me exactly where I needed to direct my anger.

*A group of students all laughing and joking and teasing, treating their powers like it was a fantastic new toy. Tony Masters looks on like a proud father, then turns to the camera.*

Tony Masters: Superhuman abilities can be frightening. You might start to wonder why you were given those powers? Is there some kind of higher purpose to it all? Will your friends and family start to think you're some kind of freak? Can you ever, really be a normal person? …that's why the most important thing I teach here is confidence. If you come here, you won't just learn how to manage your new powers, you'll learn how to manage your new life. You'll learn that you are the true master.

*A teenager with spiky blonde hair stands in the middle of a gymnasium, with a springboard and a vaulting horse. He rubs his hands together and runs towards the equipment. Cut to a close-up of the boy, with the name 'Robbie B.'*

Robbie: I was on a field trip to this science lab, but something got wrong and I got hit with all these space rays. I thought I was going to die or get cancer or turn into some giant green monster or something!

*Robbie hits the springboard, vaults over the horse, flips through the air and comes down to the matt.*

Robbie (VO): Then these guys came in and started shooting up the place, but the bullets just bounced right off. I was freaking out, man!

*As Robbie hits the ground, an energy field appears beneath his feet, one that looks like dozens of glowing spheres of energy. It launches him up into the air and surrounding him, keeping him safe as he bounces off the walls of the gym like a human pinball.*

Robbie (VO): Thanks to Tony Masters, I can see my powers for what they are. The greatest thing to ever happen to me.

*Tony Masters stands atop a skyscraper, wearing a long black trenchcoat that whips around him in the rushing winds, billowing out behind him like a cape.*

Tony Masters: Guns don't make you super. Money doesn't make you super. Not even powers make you super. YOU make you super. Every one of us has the power to become more than we are! All it takes is a good attitude, a willingness to succeed and, of course, the right teacher! Come to me, Tony Masters, and I'll teach you how to master the power that lies within you!

*A half-dozen metahumans fly up the side of the building, trailing glowing streaks of energy behind them as they swoop off into the distance. Tony Masters grins at the camera.*

THIS HAS BEEN A PAID COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE TONY MASTERS 'MASTER YOUR POWER' METAHUMAN FITNESS PROGRAM. TONY MASTERS IS LOT LIABLE FOR INJURY, DEATH OR INCURRED LEGAL ACTION WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF FIGHTING CRIME. TONY MASTERS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS OF LIFE OR PROPERTY CAUSED BY STUDENTS OF THE 'MASTER YOUR POWER' PROGRAM. TONY MASTERS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURY, DEATH OR HORRIBLE MUTATION CAUSED BY DELIBERATE ATTEMPTS TO OBTAIN METAHUMAN POWERS THROUGH ELECTRICITY, RADIATION, GENETIC ENGINEERING, NANOMACHINES OR QUANTUM MECHANICS. NOT AFFILIATED WITH SHIELD OR THE INITIATIVE PROGRAM.




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AndrewJTalon..CH_71a - GameOfThrones, Tony&Natasha, Pepper&Steve, Jennifer&Bruce


Eh... Given the lack of focus, let's just hold off on Squirrel Girl joining up. Or the New Warriors or indeed, anyone else. We've got plenty of characters to explore right now and this story isn't too serious anyway. We need some humor. Therefore...


*Our heroes were sitting around the big couch on Tony's level of Avenger's Tower, watching Game of Thrones*

Tony: I would be a much better Stark than any of these Starks.

Natasha: How do you figure? *Eating popcorn*

Tony: Simple. I've learned to never trust bald men, men who look like me, or eunuchs.

Pepper: *Cuddled up next to him* Eunuchs? Do we know any eunuchs?

Tony: Justin Hammer. I refuse to believe that man has balls.

Pepper: Point taken.

Steve: *Being held in Jennifer's lap and looking extremely embarrassed* Er... Is... All television so... Gory and full of nudity now?

Jennifer: This is HBO, Steve. That's just how they roll.

Steve: Roll... Like film rolling...?

Jennifer: Er... Sure, let's go with that.

Tony: Anyway. As I was saying. These guys are terrible Starks. I'd be running the Seven Kingdoms in a year if I ended up there.

Bruce: Pfft. You could not. You'd get stabbed in the back by Blondy McIncesty Queen there.

Steve: Blondy McWhat?! You mean that was her BROTHER?! How could they put that on the television?!

Jennifer: Calm down Steve...

Steve: You're pushing your boobs against me. That's not relaxing.

Jennifer: Is for me~...

Tony: I totally would not. She's not that hot. Sides, I'd get the people on my side. Hot and cold running water, electric lights, bam. I am King Stark, provider of the wonders of modern life. Who's gonna serve Weasel Face Joffry with offers like that?

Clint: You wouldn't have any modern equipment.

Tony: So? I could still build myself all that stuff, plus an armor. Not exactly state of the art but it would work...

Bruce: How would you find the palladium for arc reactors? It isn't exactly common on Earth.

Tony: This isn't Earth, after all.

Bruce: Don't think they have a lot of geological surveys, Tony.

Tony: I'd manage!

Natasha: *looks over at Thor* You okay there, Big Guy?

*Thor had been watching the show with a considerable frown*

Thor: Hold, this is set on the world of Westeros?

Tony: Well... Yeah.

Clint: You didn't miss that part, right?

Thor: This is nothing like the world of Westeros! Where are all the bright colors and gay dancers? And why do they keep letting the frost giants return?

Tony: Er... Thor? Buddy? This is just a television show.

Thor: ... You did not know it was real?

Natasha: *Deadpan* It's real?

Pepper: Wha...?

Thor: What do they teach you mortals? *Snorts*

Tony: You're joking right? Westeros is not real... What, is Middle Earth real too? Narnia? Equestria?

Clint: *Snicker* Equestria?

Tony: Don't judge me, Arrow Lad.

Thor: Well I'm not allowed in Narnia... that's politics. Middle Earth was real. You're technically in Middle-Earth right now, thousands of years later.

Pepper: No... Noooo way... Noooo way...

Thor: And I haven't been to Equestria myself, but Loki has.

Tony: ... Oh my God...

Pepper: No. No building portals to Equestria.

Tony: Pepperrrr... *Whiny*

Pepper: No!

Steve: *Oblivious to all this, still watching the screen* ... Do they have to get exposition out every time that girl is... Is having sex on screen? *Blush*

Jennifer: Mmm, I kind of like it~.

Clint: *Grin* Told you guys he knew that word.

Tony: Shush you!

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Just for fun, kids.



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Damar..CH_72a - PepperFumming, UniversalGiftVoucher, byegottago!, VictoriaSecrets, Jumping


Toooonnnnyyy!" Pepper stormed into the kitchen, where Tony was stacking a supply of snacks to bring up to the Helicarrier and hide them everywhere to mess with Fury, with an angry glare that fortunately wouldn't indictate a physical explosion anymore, just emotional.

"Yes dear?"

"What is this?"

"...A universal gift voucher to anything in the entire world up to 10 million for your birthday? What, would you have liked it up to 50 so you could get yourself your own island? Being married to a billionaire has spoiled you Miss Potts-"

"It's not that! Why are you giving me this...when someone on Twitter only yesterday posted this?" She held up her phone.


"...I can explain, in a very believable and satisying way."

"Colour me very anxious to hear it."

"Well you see-byegottago!"

Tony made a running leap, and threw himself out of the third-before-highest floor in the building. Only a second later, the Mark IX flew from a hidden panel in the nearby wall and dived in after it's owner. Mixed between shock and anger at this cowardly retreat, her heart skipped a beat when she heard a loud crash below, as if something impacted a car at high velocity. She ran in sudden terror to the edge of the floor where Tony had jumped, her emotion conflicted between concern for his life and not wanting to gravity to take away her revenge, she looked down. Luckily, the suit had reached Tony in time to prevent a fatal impact, but not quite in time to stay clear off the ground and instead had buried himself into a Lexus.

Pepper felt relief, before anger resurged at the previous thing and now at nearly giving her an heart attack.

"Tony you unbelievable wretch! I'm coming down there and you better not run to Fury!"

30 floors below, Tony was starting to get out of the wreckage, and wonder if it would be smarter to leave his card or Banner's. The latter would be funnier and less likely to be asked for recompensation.

"Sir. Would it not be easyier to just tell Ms Potts that the Victoria's Secret purchase was to be unveiled tonight in privacy after a romantic dinner?"

"And what, spoil the suprise?"

"A violent death would spoil it more."

"Trust me, this will work out even better than before. Somehow. Maybe. Propably might consider asking Thor if I can spend a week on his goatskin couch in Asgard."




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GBscientist..CH_73a - JARVIS&Tony, Rhodey, NickFury


"Sell some missiles,
Like a Baaws,
Ride in the Funvee,
Like a Baaws,
Get ambushed,
Like a Baaws,
Shrapnel to the chest,
Like a Baaws," the speakers of Tony Stark's workshop chanted.

"Sir, Colonel Rhodes is on line 1," Jarvis stated.

"Put him through," Tony ordered, then paused as the call switched over from Jarvis to him. "Hey, Rhodey. What's up?"

"Tony, I need to bring the Patriot in for some maintenance; the left shoulder's pinching and the jets are getting corroded and clogged," James Rhodes said.

"No problem. Jarvis, when can we fit Rhodey into the schedule?"

"You have next Tuesday cleared for personal projects, sir. Shall I replace that with Colonel Rhodes' maintenance appointment?" Jarvis asked.

"Sure. It's still working on armour, and I did technically built the Mark 2 as a personal project so it all fits. Just make sure to log my hours so we can bill the DoD," Tony said.

"Always, sir," Jarvis agreed.

"There you go. Next Tuesday, 10-ish, okay, Rhodey?"

"Yeah, I that'll do. Don't try to bill for your 'refreshments' this time, Tony."

"Why not? If I drink them on company time, they're billable."

"You already bought them and you'd be drinking them even if you weren't on company time. Besides, you got shot down last time and you'll get shot down again."

"Hey, one of these days the bill's gonna go through, and then I'll have precedent on my side."

"The Department of Defence is not going to pay for your Heiniken and Red Bull habit, Tony."

"A man can dream can't he?"

"Just keep it realistic, Tony. And what is that you're listening to?"

"Oh this? We're almost at my favourite part."

"Kill a 'copter,
Like a Baaws,
With a piano,
Like a Baaws,
Crushed by my house,
Like a Baaws,
Go undercover,
Like a Baaws,
Find all the bad guys,
Like a Baaws,
Flaming psychos,
Like a Baaws,
Drunken actor,
Like a Baaws,
Evil boss nerd,
Like a Baaws."

"Tony, did you seriously have Lonely Island re-record one of their songs to pad your own ego?" Rhodes asked.

"Sssh, sssh, sssh!" Tony hissed insistently.

"So that's a typical day for you, Mr. Stark?" a voice uncannily like Nick Fury's asked.

"No doubt," the rapper of the song replied.

"I think we're done here," Faux-Fury stated coldly.

"Like a Baaws," the song finished.

"Unbelievable," Rhodes said with a shake of his head that was almost audible over the phone.

"Yeah, it's awesome being me," Tony replied smugly. "See you Tuesday?"

"Yes, Tony," Rhodes said before hanging up.

"Huh, he didn't even say good bye. How rude," Tony said with a smirk.

"Indeed, sir," Jarvis replied.

One of Tony's robot helpers, the one dubbed 'Dummy', tilted it's manipulator claw as if confused by the whole exchange.
"Peace through Superior Firepower"- Arsenal of Freedom ST:TNG




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AndrewJTalon..CH_74a - SpecialShields, HitMe, Pepper, HeadShot, OW


Pepper: ...

Tony: Come on! Right here! It'll be awesome!

*Pepper calmly throws her shoe and it bounces off Tony's head*

Tony: OW! Pepper!

Pepper: What? I missed!

Tony: Well throw at the shield!

Pepper: Why would I throw it at the shield? I'm trying to hit you.[




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shkspr1048..CH_75a - Pepper&Tony, Jessica&Dorren, PaintingNails, RoofRafter


Bit of a throwback here: As much as I agree with AJT keeping mutants to the periphery, if anywhere, in the story, the idea of Doreen "Squirrel Girl" Green as Stark's ersatz foster daughter seems too good to pass up, especially if we include the Jessica Drew bits as well...
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Pepper: Tony?

Tony (working on armor, not looking up): Yeah?

Pepper: The girls are painting their nails in the lounge.

Tony: Yes?

Pepper: On the ceiling.

Tony (pauses, looks up): Both of them?

Pepper: Well, Doreen is sitting on top of a rafter.

Tony: And Jessica?

Pepper: On the underside of it.

Tony: Huh. (thinks for a moment). Ask'em if they see my Frisbee up there.




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