Chapter 2: The Break Out
Previously on Avenging 10
Suddenly a loud rumble was heard coming from the aircraft. And before Ben's eyes an explosion ripped across the upper deck and what looked like a section of a building grew right out of the side. The vehicle shook some more as several building structures grew out of other parts of it like a sprouting seed. The sudden damage caused the engines to fail and the entire aircraft plunged into the bay.
At that moment Ben did think about what to do or why. He reacted on pure hero instincts and ran in to an ally. He activated the Ultimatrix
"Its Hero Time" he said, out of habit, and slammed the dial down "BIG CHILL" the moth alien cried out. He then unfurled his wing and took of towards the downed aircraft.
Now
On the bridge of the downed aircraft, pilots and technicians were working at their posts trying to get the ship under control. Standing in the centre was a dark skinned male who had black puffy hair, with white on the sides, brown eyes, an eyepatch on his left eye. This was Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D, and he was having a bad day. First he gets a report on a shapeshifting alien, now the HQ of S.H.I.E.L.D, the Helicarrier, is sinking into the ocean.
"Someone get to engineering. Tell them to get us back in the air." He barked. "And shut off that alarm!" he added with annoyance in his voice.
"Director Fury," a female agent by a console said, "A report just came in from the Vault."
"Do I look like I have time for this, Hill" Fury yelled, he had enough problems than dealing with a prison report.
"Listen to me!" the woman known as Marina Hill ordered. But then immediately corrected herself when the director gave her a warning glare. "Sir, automated reports are coming in from the Vault and the Cube." She continued. "Their systems have gone offline, and no one is responding from down at the Big House."
Fury's eye narrowed. The Big House was a super villain prison that was miniaturized so it could be stored on the Helicarrier. But now it not miniature any more. "Something is seriously wrong." He stated grimly.
In the halls of the sinking ship a lone S.H.I.E.L.D agent walked down the corridor dazed by what happened. Suddenly a cable extended out and wrapped tightly around the man. Lifting him into the air and started squeezing the life out of him.
The source of the cable came out of the arm of a man wearing a blue and orange suit with a scale like design. He was the Constrictor a super villain prisoner of the Big House. Some how the prison had been shut down setting all the prisoners free. And not this villain was about to live up to his namesake. "Payback Time," he hissed with sarcastic glee.
But before he could tighten the agent. A yellow beam struck the villain causing him to drop the S.H.I.E.L.D agent. Another blast sent him into the wall dazed.
"Back off Ugly," a female voice ran out. The source of the voice was a woman around 25, with blue eyes and short auburn hair. She has a rather shapely figure, wearing a strapless black and yellow dress over black leggings and has yellow gloves and boots. She is also wearing yellow headphone like devices that look like the antenna on over her ears. She is the Janet Van Dyne AKA Wasp partner of Hank Pym AKA Ant Man and part time super hero. While she would want to be a full time, she was always busy handling all of Hanks appointments. She and Hank were on the Helicarrier so Hank could check on the Big House, something told her that it might have a few bugs in it.
Right now she was in hero mode, which meant she was an inch high with yellow insect wing on her back, and was checking on the winded agent who was unconscious. Suddenly another cable swatted the insect girl away. Wasp lay on the ground as the Constrictor stood over her. "Time to squash this bug" he said as he raised his foot to crush her.
Suddenly the air became cold as the Constrictor barely had time to yelp as he was encased in a chunk of ice. Wasp saw this and flew up in front of the iced villain; she looked at him then behind him then gasped.
Infront of her was a creature in a blue cloak, its green eyes staring at her with a mixture of confusion and surprise.
Wasp then raised her hands, now glowing with yellow energy. "Alright phantom freak," she called out. "You've got three seconds to tell me who you are or I'm gonna put you down hard." She pointed her hands right at the phantom to back up her threat.
Big Chill just looked at her, not even flinching at her words. He looked at the villain Popsicle behind her the back to the tiny girl infront of him. "Please tell me he's the bad guy?" he asked in a chilling voice, pointing at the frozen form of Constrictor behind her. "Cause I'm having a bad day and I don't want to make it worse by finding out I iced the wrong guy." The anger in his voice sent chills down Wasp's spine.
"I…I'm Wasp, a super hero and yeah he was a baddie, so not need to worry." She assured the moth like alien.
Big Chill stared at her for a couple of moments, making her feel a little uncomfortable, then nodded "Ok, lets get this ship under control." Unfolding his wing he took of down the corridor, with a surprised Wasp following him. Wasp was confused, she had heard and even meet a few other superheroes in her brief time as one, Iron Man included, but she never head about a giant moth man with ice powers. Was he a mutant? Was he some sort of lab experiment gone wrong? Maybe Hank would be able to find out? Then it hit her. Hank was inside the Big House when it failed. Wasp flew infront of the moth man.
"Wait!" she yelled "We have to get Ant-Man, he was in the Big House when the explosion happened." She explained. Big Chill remembered that name from the newspaper saying Ant-Man is a hero of this world.
Wasp continued, "He was with all the super villains. We have to help him, now!" She was practically pleading with the moth-like alien.
Big Chill sighed, figuring that it would be better if they had another hero with them. "Alright, lets find him and then he can help get everyone of this boat." He said as he and Wasp flew of the other way.
As they flew Wasp figured that she might as well try to get to know her new ally. "So, you got a name?" she asked.
Big Chill looked at her figuring there was no harm, "Right now you can call me Big Chill." He replied.
Wasp looked confused "Right now? What you got some kind of split personality disorder or something?" she asked jokingly.
"Something like that" came the moth aliens reply.
"What do you mean by that?" Wasp probed. Now curious about her new friend.
Big Chill stopped and looked her in the eye, rather annoyed. "Look how about we go over my backstory after this fight is over. Sound good?" the insect female nodded quickly. "Ok then, let go and help your friend." The two insect themed heroes then continued to fly down the corridor.
Else ware in the ship Ant-Man aka Hank Pym, was running through the ruins of the destroyed Big House. He was a man of average build, wearing a red and black suit, a silver belt with to large buttons on either side of the waist, was on his waist, he also wore a helmet that covered most of his face, leaving his mouth exposed. The helmet was smooth with two antenna in the top and a lenses infront of the eye socked making them appear white. He was currently avoiding several escaped criminals. However on of them, named Whirlwind, found him. The tornado villain grabbed the hero buy the front of his suit and held him close.
"After I'm done with you," Whirlwind said. " I'm gonna find the bug girl and tear her apart."
Ant-Man grunted in pain, he had taken a beating from a lot of the villains that had been imprisoned hear, and after all the effort he put trying to rehabilitate them. A noise came from behind him. Ant-Man turned to see another villain, the Griffin, emerge from some rubble. It saw the hero and growled threateningly. Knowing what was about to happen, the size changing hero quipped, "I'd let you tell the Wasp yourself, but you're about to get knocked out." Before the tornado villain could ask what he meant, Ant-Man hit the button on the left side of his belt, a yellow light engulfed the hero as he shrunk out of Whirlwind hands. Before the mutant could figure out what happened Griffin collided with Whirlwind sending them both into the wall.
Ant-Man feel a few meters only to get caught by the arms by Wasp. "So how's your day been?" she asked in a cheerful tone.
"Painful." Came the grunted response.
Suddenly Griffin recovered from his accidental crash and swooped towards the miniature heroes. But before it could reach them, a blast of ice hit flying villain freezing it solid before crashing to the ground. Ant-Man looked to she a blue moth man floating just above them.
"Jan, care to introduce me to your new friend" the ant-sized hero ask rather nervously with a hit of curiosity.
"Oh, right" Wasp said almost forgetting. "Ant-Man, Big Chill. Big Chill Ant-Man." She quickly introduced.
"Was their anyone else in here before all this happened" Big Chill asked the size-changing duo.
Ant-Man shook his head. "No I was the only one who was in the Big House when it malfunctioned" He explained. "And right now it think we should get out as well, the entire ship is sinking, everyone else would have evacuated bye now." The flyers nodded and flew through an opening in the ceiling.
Meanwhile Nick Fury, who was now on bored a helicopter with several other agents, was worried about the situation at another super villain prison. He had already gotten reports that the other three prisons had failed, so he was going to check the fourth.
The chopper landed on a barge situated in the middle of the bay and got out with his men. "Look alive, boys." He ordered his men. "Shoot first, ask questions later." He added as they made their way to the elevator. Suddenly the entire barge began to shake. Then with a jerk. The barge rose out of the ocean, under the barge a long shaft connected the barge decoy to a massive dome prison, The Raft, and floated onto the sky.
"Evac now!" Fury yelled as his men retreated back to the chopper. "Abort the mission. Everyone off this barge." As he was about to board the vehicle, a sudden force pulled him back, and lifted him into the sky, there he saw the source of the force. A built Caucasian man with long hair and a beard with grey streaks, he wore a blue and white suit with two white belts around his stomach as well as shoulder pads.
Fury pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the man. But with he flick of a finger, the gun was nocked out of the S.H.I.E.L.D directors hand. The director of S.H.I.E.L.D looked at the man with anger and spoke one word.
"Graviton."
Ten years ago, Franklin Hall, a brilliant scientist, was invited by Nick Fury to work for S.H.I.E.L.D to continue the super soldier project. Franklin conducted an experiment with gravitational forces, but when the experiment went wrong, he was ordered by Nick Fury to stop. He ignored the order and continued the project, which caused the gravitational force to explode. Franklin was caught in the blast. He woke up on a hospital bed, and discovered he had acquired gravity powers, blaming Nick Fury he tried to escape, but the room was filled with sleeping gas, and Graviton succumbed to sleep. He was imprisoned in The Raft where he slumbered for several years. And when he woke up. He was not very happy.
Now he was free and used his control over gravity to hold himself, his former prison and the S.H.I.E.L.D director several hundred feet above the ocean. He glared at Fury with hateful eyes.
"What do you want, Hall?" Fury asked, though he had an idea what the power hungry scientist wanted.
"Oh, I think you know." Graviton snarled at the director, his eyes now glowing with power. "I want to treat you with the same kindness that you've shown me. I'm going to take years off of your life." He then tightened his hand. At that moment Fury started to feel pain as the gravity field Graviton had trapped his in began to compress his body. The SHIELD director groaned as he felt every molecule of his body begin to compress. Suddenly the pressure stopped as Graviton thought for a moment. "On second thought, I'll take them all." As he resumed the pressure only amplified.
At the same time Big Chill, Wasp and Ant-Man made it to a peer near the Helicarrier. The heroes landed, with Wasp and Ant-Man returning to normal size. Before Ant-Man or Wasp could question their new ally they saw the Raft get lifted out of the water. Big Chill caught a glimpse of Graviton and Fury and immediately took of to help. However the teen hero new that his current form wouldn't be fast enough to save the S.H.I.E.L.D director. However, before the teen could even think about changing, an object shot past him. At first Big Chill thought it was a missile, but as he look carefully he saw I was actually a hammer. The moth alien blinked, who would throw a hammer? Or a better question why would someone throw a hammer? Of all things to throw, hammer is not something the transformed teen would think would be very effective.
He was proven wrong when the hammer then collided with Graviton sending him flying.
Without his concentration, everything Graviton was levitation began to fall back to Earth. Moving quickly Big Chill swooped down and caught the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D by his shoulders, halting his descent. Fury looked up at his savior with shock in his eye.
"What the…Who are you" he questioned the moth man.
"No time for small talk." The moth man responded as he saw Gravition returning. "We got to move."
As the flew away he saw someone else flying towards Graviton. He was a large man with blond hair, and blue eyes. He had very large muscular arms, and long legs. He wore a silver helmet, a red cape, black armor with silver circles, red wristbands, a large golden belt, blue tights, and tall golden shoes. He was Thor, Prince of Asgard.
He held out his hand and the hammer Big Chill saw earlier somehow flew right into the large mans hand. This was Mjolnir the source of Thor's godly power.
"Your power is impressive for a mortal." Thor spoke in an old English dialect. "Stand down now before anyone is hurt, and you may yet walk away from this." He held up Mjolnir to support his threat.
Graviton floated towards the Asgardian seemingly unafraid of him. "Fury called me Graviton." He spoke with a hint of madness in his voice. "Fury, he knows. I can control gravity. I can do anything." He then raised his arms, eyes glowing with power.
"I'll crush Fury. I'll crush you. And then I'll show the world the power I have."
"I think not, villain." As the Asgardian took Mjolnir by the strap, then spun it around gaining momentum before lunging at the villain. "Have at thee!"
As the battle between the God of Thunder and the Lord of Gravity commenced. Big Chill landed Fury onto the peer with Wasp and Ant-Man. The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D turned to look at the Alien hero as its winks folded up to look like a cloak.
"Anything you'd like to tell us, Fury?" Ant-Man questioned the Director as the fight above continued.
"Not really." Came Fury's response as he activated his communicator. "S.H.I.E.L.D command," he spoke into the ear piece "This is Director Nick Fury. I am declaring an omega-level emergency. Every SHIELD agent, every Hulkbuster unit, the U. Forces, they are all now under my direct control."
Big Chills eyes widened, this one man had that much power and authority that he could just put together an army in a matter of seconds.
"Wow, Nick Fury is actually worried." Wasp commented to her comrades.
"I'm guessing that doesn't happen that often." Big Chill replied.
However Ant-Man wasn't done looking for answers "Who is he?" he asked the S.H.I.E.L.D Director, his tone making it clear he wasn't taking no for an answer.
"Dr. Franklin Hall." Fury answered.
"The physicist? No one's heard from him in years. Not since he joined SHIELD." Ant-Man's helmet then retracted into his suit, revealing short brown hair and soft brown eyes. "What happened to him?" asked, concern written across his face.
"That's classified." Fury responded. However Big Chill, having enough of this secret spy stuff, stepped forward.
"Then you better unclassifiy it cause if we don't take him down soon innocent lives could be at risk."
Fury turned towards Big Chill, returning the glare the moth-like alien was giving him.
"You don't give me a lecture on putting people at risk." The S.H.I.E.L.D Director said "Especially after you escape custody earlier today. Mister shapeshifting alien."
All the heroes' eyes widened.
"Yeah, that's right" Fury continued, addressing Wasp and Ant-Man. "Your little friend is an alien that appeared in an unknown energy anomaly. Not only that I got reports that this thing" he gestured to Big Chill, "Started out as something made of magma then changed to this thing in a flash of green light." He then faced the alien hero. "When this is over I want to know exactly what you are and what your business is here on this planet." The director maintained his stare as did Wasp and Ant-Man curious to hear their alien friends response.
The alien in question narrowed his eyes. "Right now. All you need to know is that I'm here to help. When this crisis is over ill gladly tell you everything I know." He then turned his back to them. "But right now I need to do what I'm good at." He said opening up his wings.
"Which is?" Ant-Man asked a little cautiously.
The moth alien turned his head to him and smirked. "Save the world." And with that he took off heading straight for the battle, leaving behind two stunned part-time heroes and a skeptical super spy.
Thor's battle was not going well. While his initial attack managed to stun the gravity villain for a while, he seemed to have lost that advantage. The Prince of Thunder swung Mjolnir again and again but each time he appeared to his some invisible wall that surrounded the villain. However while Graviton was focused on preventing Thor's attacks he was venerable from behind. A weakness Big Chill exploited when he suddenly became visible and blasted the Lord of Gravity with his icy breath, freezing him in a block of ice. With that kind of surprise Graviton lost his focus and plummeted into the ocean below.
Thor looked at the strange creature before him, "What manner of creature are you?" he asked his new ally.
Big Chill looked at the Viking themed hero, really giving this guy points for contributing to his hero role. No one would be able to figure this guys secret identity. He thought to himself. "Right now you can call me Big Chill. And I'm just here to help." He responded to the Asgardian.
Suddenly Graviton rose out of the water, after smashing the ice Big Chill imprisoned him in and glared at the heroes.
Thor narrowed his eyes "Then let us do battle Big Chill. For this villain must know that we defend this realm!" he called out as he and the moth like alien charged the gravity villain. Thor tried to strike but only collided with Gravitons shield. Big Chill tried to blast him with ice, but the Lord of Gravity dispersed the attack. Graviton then sent a wave of gravity at the heroes sending them flying back, they were able to catch themselves and both flew to reengage the villain.
Wasp's eyes narrowed. "We have to help them." She stated out lowed. The two men turned to the Hornet Heroin. "If their gonna risk their lives for our planet, then we have no right to do any less."
Ant-Man looked at Wasp, a worried look on his face. While he agreed with what she was saying. Wasp is to inexperienced to be taking down a supervillain that powerful. And besides he is a pacifist, he hated fighting but would do it if it came to it, only if there was no other option.
"Jan, be reasonable…" he started to say, until Wasp cut him off.
"I can't just stand here and watch this." She said with determination. "We have to do something. If Thor and Big Chill can't stop him, he'll come into the city."
Nick Fury's eye narrowed "Don't you think I know that, Wasp?" he stated as if it were obvious.
"Jan." Ant-Man placed a hand on Wasps shoulder trying to reason with her, but it was in vain as she brushed it off.
"We're talking millions of people. I'm not going to let that happen." As she shrunk down to hero form and took off to the fight.
"Jan. Jan, wait." Hank called out but Wasp was already gone, leaving the size changing hero and super spy on the docks watching the battle unfold.
Graviton grabbed both of his opponents in a gravity field, restricting them from movement. "Can't your feeble minds understand what I'm telling you?" Graviton screamed in a power crazy tone. "I control one of the four fundamental forces of reality. I can remove gravity's effect on you sending you hurtling into space. Or I can increase it a thousand fold like this!" And with that, he lifted his right arm, and with a mighty push, Big Chill was sent hurling into the atmosphere. The moth alien tried to stop but the gravitational force was too strong. Graviton then slammed his left hand down, sending Thor into the ocean, sending the Asgardian deep into the sandbank.
The Lord of Gravity then sped towards the docks, eyes filled with maddening rage. "Fury!" he screamed as if on a crusade for vengeance.
Suddenly Graviton felt a stinging sensation on his face causing him to half his advance. A woman's voice then called out "Franklin Hall, you give theoretical physicists a bad name." The Wasp said as she then flew in front of his eyes. "Now knock it off before I make you."
The gravity villain then laughed, "Are you joking?" clearly not taking the heroin's threat seriously. "With the power at my disposal nothing can…" he was then interrupted when Wasp shot her stingers into the villain nose, and then proceeded to fly around him, shooting at different parts of his body. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Aah!" he cried out in pain and annoyance.
This distraction allowed the gravitational force affecting Big Chill to cease, allowing the moth like alien to drop down towards the occupied gravity villain, building up is speed and momentum, at the same time forming ice around his right arm, taking the shape of a giant, spiked, boxing glove. As Graviton was finally able to release a wave of gravitational energy to blow Wasp away he turned just in time to see Big Chill's ice covered fist, slam into him, knocking him a few meters away.
Before the Alien Hero or the Lord of Gravity could do anything, a red and gold blur, flew pasted Big Chill and slammed into Graviton. The two then speed towards the water, when they were close enough the red blur released, a bright blue light, which send the gravity villain hurtling into the water. When the blur stopped Big Chill got a good look at the new arrival. It was a man, well what looked like a man, in an advanced suit of armor. The armor was primarily red, with gold on parts of his arms, legs and face, and had a blue light coming from his chest. This was Tony Stark aka Iron Man.
"Hey, Janet." The billionaire called out to Wasp, as she flew in close to his head. "I knew we traveled in some of the same social circles, but I didn't know you came to parties like this." He joked, then he noticed the giant blue moth man, that was flouting a few feet away from him.
"And who's your friend? Don't tell me Hank got so close to the bugs that he actually made a bug/human hybrid or something."
Big Chill raised an eyebrow at that comment, but then shock it off as he needed to focus on the matter at hand. "Ok, short version" he said as he pointed to himself. "Big Chill, Here to help, Explain everything later"
Iron Man blinked behind his faceplate, taking in the rapid fire response the new hero just laid on him. He then gave the moth like alien a thumbs up, indicating he understood.
The billionaire hero then turned back to Wasp. "So who was that guy? Some crazy physicist?"
Wasp shook her head "Something to do with Nick Fury. Tony, am I glad to see you." She said with slight relief in her voice. " I wasn't sure how much longer we could keep this up after… Oh, no. Thor!" she screamed as she flew across the water
"What?" Iron Man yelled as he and Big Chill flew after her.
"Thor." The moth like alien replied as the flew next to Iron Man, "You know, big guy, long blonde hair, has a hammer. Big bad back there sent him to the bottom of the ocean." He explained.
"We have to help him." Wasp stated as the three heroes flew to were she last saw the Asgardien.
Suddenly the water separated as Graviton emerged from the water, not looking very happy after getting a repulsor blast to the face. The three heroes turned as the Lord of Gravity stared daggers at them, specifically Iron Man.
"Warning gravitational field around the target is in flux. Extreme caution advised." Came the British voice of Iron Mans trusty on bored A.I, J.A.R.V.I.S. As the it displayed the energy levels on the inside of Iron Mans helmet.
"Guys, the energy he's putting out the only comparison is a black hole. This guy is trouble." The Armored hero warned his comrades.
Big Chills eyes narrowed. "Then were gonna need some more firepower." Before the heroes could ask what he meant, Big Chill reached his hand up and slapped the symbol on his chest. A bright green light enveloped the area, causing everyone present to shield their eyes. When the light faded a new voice cried out.
"CHROMASTONE."
Everyone's eyes widened, flouting in Big Chills place was a silicon based alien, that seemed to be made of crystal. Its body is overall purple, while its hands and face are magenta, and he also sports six magenta shards on its back, two on its chest, and one on the top of its head that resembles a horn. its face consists of a mouth and one large green eye at the center.
"Hit him with everything you got" the crystal alien yelled, as he fired a rainbow coloured beam from his hands at the gravity villain. The other two heroes, after getting over their shock, attack with their own respective attacks of stingers and repulsore rays.
However Graviton managed to create a force field to repel the combined attacks. He sneered as he flicked his wrist causing Iron Man to be sent hurtling into the sky, a fate Big Chill had suffered from a little while ago. And with another flick sent Chromastone flying into a building close to the shore. Leaving Wasp to fly up and try to keep the gravity villain focused on her, so her two allies could come back to take him out.
Meanwhile, back at the docks, Ant-Man was watching as the battle took place. When he saw how easily Graviton took out Thor, Iron Man and the shape shifting alien (he saw the alien transform) he new that it was time to step in.
"What are Graviton's upper limits?" the size changing hero asked Nick Fury, who was still trying to coordinate an attack to contain the escaped villains.
"We've studied him for years, and as far as we could tell, he doesn't have any." The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D responded as he realized what the hero had planned. "What do you think you're going to do, Pym? Talk him down?" he asked sarcastically.
"No, it's too late for that." And with that Ant-Man reached down to j=his belt and pressed the button on the right side. A blue aura then surrounded the hero. Nick Fury watched, with a neutral expression, as a shadow suddenly fell of the pier.
Wasp was stinging the gravity villain in every place she could find, doing every thing to annoy him. It worked however as Graviton one again released a wave of energy to push the shrinking heroin back. But just before he could focus on crushing her, a pair of giant hands came out of nowhere and raped around the gravity villain, trapping him inside.
The person was revealed to be Hank Pym, now in his second alter ego, Giant-Man. He had the exact same suit as Ant-Man, only the part of the suit that were black, were now glowing blue, and instead of a helmet, he wore a mask that covered his face and had appendages on top that resembled insect feelers. he had grown 60 feet and kept his hand tightly raped around Graviton.
"Hank, you went big." Wasp said in surprise. Hank had told her that he was capable of using his Pym Particles to grow in size and increase his strength, but he had never found a use for it, until now that is.
"Janet, get out of here. I'll handle Graviton." The titan hero said, while knowing full well that he couldn't stop the gravity villain, Hank believed that he could at least slow him down, long enough for Janet to get to safety and for the S.H.I.E.L.D reinforcements to arrive.
"What? No, we're in this together." She responded stubbornly. Giant-Man looked like he was ready to argue but, suddenly Graviton increased his power to blow back the giants hands, and then released a gravity wave that sent both heroes crashing back into the dock. Giant-Man crushing most of it under his bulk.
At this moment Graviton was furious, he could have ended Nick Fury already if the heroes hadn't interfered. And now there was no sign of his target. Then the lord of Gravity had an idea. He new Fury was still somewhere in the city, so what better way to kill him and show the world the power he wielded, two birds one stone.
With a raise of his hand the city began to shake. The heroes all felt the city begin to jerk, when suddenly the ground began to rise. Graviton had used his powers to raise the section of the city they were in into the sky. Thousands of tones of rock and earth were lifted into the air with everyone on it. Graviton smiled with sickening glee as the city rose, the world will tremble at his power, and no one would ever stand against him again.
This however proved to be wrong, when the gravity villain heard a yell come from behind him. He turned to see Thor coming right at him, he had finally broken free of Gravitons field after Giant-Mans attack had distracted the villain long enough for him to escape from the ocean floor.
The Asgardian Prince raised his hammer to its zenith, magical lightning crackling around it, and slammed it into Gravitons force field. The strength and power behind the attack was enough to send the gravity villain flying into the side of the mesa he raised.
Without Gravitons power holding it up, the entire section on Manhattan began to rapidly decent back down to the ground. Knowing that the impact could kill all within the city, and possible the surrounding area, Thor sped down under the falling mass. When he got into position, he used his godly strength to hold catch the city, even though he was nowhere near strong enough to stop it, he could at least slow its decent so there would be no damage.
Graviton however recovered from the Thunder Gods attack and was prepared to crush him, for interfering again, but then a crystal fist smashed into his face, disorienting him.
Chromastone, who had recovered from being smashed into a building, flew down to the gravity villain, after he saw Thor trying to save the city. The crystal alien then proceeded to blast rainbow energy blasts at the Lord of Gravity, injuring him further.
When Chromastone finally stopped his onslaught, he saw that the gravity villain wasn't down, but rather was glaring at the alien hero with glowing eyes full of hate. He then launched himself forward, creating a gravity field, which sent him and Chromastone hurtling into the city limits, just as Thor lowered the city back into its original spot, preventing a tsunami from the water displacement.
Meanwhile, in orbit, Iron Man was fighting for his life to escape the gravity field Graviton had trapped him in.
"I need more power." He cried, as he fired all his repulsores in his boots and palms, desperately trying to return to earth. However his prayers were answered when J.A.R.V.I.S spoke through his internal speakers.
"Note Gravitational effect has ceased." The A.I stated, with a sigh of relief, Iron Man rocketed back towards the city.
The battle was not going well. Graviton slammed Chromastone into the street creating a crater. Then lifted him up along with several car's, loose derbies and other objects, making them all orbit around him.
Chromastone tried to fight the gravitational force, but the gravity villain had a strong grip on him. Then an idea came into the crystal aliens mind, a trick that Albedo had used on him one time in the past. When the alien hero orbited until he was on top of the gravity villain, he slapped the Ultimatrix dial once more.
In a flash of green light, Chromastone was replaced by a different alien. This one was 10 foot tall, yellow-armored being. His head is similar to a Greek Corinthian helmet with two ears on it giving him the appearance of an armadillo. He also had a gray tail and jackhammer parts on his elbows, wrists and hands.
"ARMODROLLO" the new alien yelled, his voice much deeper now.
Just like he expected, with his mass changed, the armored alien broke free of Gravitons orbit and descended right on top of the villain. He cocked back his right fist, the jack hammer part on his elbow pumping wildly, and punched the Lord of Gravity right on top of the head, sending him into the crater he sent Chomastone into a moment ago.
The armored alien landed on the street, just a few feet away from the craters rim. He then turned around, only to see Graviton rise again, eyes glowing with pure hatred.
Armodrillo narrowed his eyes "for your own sake you should stay down" he warned.
"Insolent pest." The gravity villain spat. "Your interference has come to an end. Ill crush you, like the bug you are."
Graviton then raised his hands intending to attack the alien hero. When suddenly, a mystically charged hammer, courtesy of Thor who was now floating down towards the battle, struck him and sent him right back into the crater.
"I recommend you stay down, mortal." He said as Mjolnir flew back into his hand.
The Lord of Gravity rose again from the ground again. "You think you can stop me." He said to the heroes. "I've beaten you before. I can do it again." He then tried to attack the heroes, but once again he was interrupted as a grant beam of energy struck him and sent him, for the third time back into the crater.
The beam came from Iron Man's unibeam as he rejoined the other heroes in surrounding the gravity villain. "You really should listen to them." he warned.
Graviton was about to rise again, when a giant foot stomped down behind him. He turned to see Giant Man staring down at him.
"You're sick, Franklin." The size-changing hero tried to reason with the villain once more. "You need help."
"Or possibly more zapping." Wasp quipped as she flew in close to Gravitons face, her hands glowing with energy back up her threat.
The Lord of Gravity stared at the five heroes that now surrounded him, his mind already full of rage and annoyance, slipping into madness each passing second. "No, no, the power I wield, I You are nothing compared to me." He roared, releasing a wave of energy towards the heroes, blowing them all back and pinning them to the building surrounding them. Graviton then rose above them, eyes gloving with power as he raised his arms to the world.
"I'm stronger than all of you. I'm the strongest one there is."
Just as he said that, something landed on top of the building behind him. the villain turned and his eyes widened in surprise.
Standing on the roof of the building was a creature, 10 feet tall by 6 feet wide. His skin was green, with bulging muscles, and only wore ripped purple pants, he had green eyes and black hair. He was the Hulk, Strongest Being on Earth.
"You sure about that?" the Hulk growled at Graviton. Before the villain could respond, the green giant launched himself at the Lord of Gravity and tackled him all the way to an abandoned shipping yard. The impact sending cargo crated flying in all directions.
The attack caused the trapped heroes to be freed from Gravitons grip. Just before he hit the ground, Armodrillo aimed his upper body towards the ground and, with his jackhammer joints pumping, dove into the ground like it was water. The other heroes took of after the gravity villain and the jade giant.
The two powerhouses were locked in combat. Hulk was using his vast strength in an attempt to crush Graviton under his fists, but the Lord of Gravity was barely able to hold back his onslaught, the strength this creature possessed was incredible. The Hulk punched the force field again, causing Graviton to slid back a couple of meters, the gravity villain gritted his teeth as he put all of his strength into holding the green monster back.
However he was so focused on the creature above the ground, he never considered there would be one below it. That kind of thought was all Armodrillo needed as his fist erupted out of the ground, upercutting Graviton into the sky.
This left him wide open for Hulk to smash him into a crane. Graviton tried to use his powers to protect him self, but the jade giant broke through his force field like it wasn't even there. Hulk knocked the gravity villain away once again, leaping after him while roaring at the top of his lungs.
Armodrillo looked on in awe at the creature that had saved him and the others, the power it held seemed to be greater than anything he could transform into (well maybe not as much as Way Big but who could tell). He watched on as Giant Man, Wasp, Iron Man and Thor arrived, also watching the Hulk pummel Graviton into the ground.
Eventually Graviton had enough of being a monsters punching bag, and increased the gravity on the jade giant, causing him and the ground around him sink into the ground.
Seeing this, the other heroes moved in. "Take him down." Iron Man yelled to the others, as they charged towards the villain.
However that proved to be the wrong move, as with a wave of his hand, the gravity increased causing the other heroes to collapse on the ground, pined down by unimaginable amounts of pressure.
"Look at you fools." Graviton taunted as he looked down at the fallen heroes, "I possess the power of the universe itself. I am power!" He yelled, eyes glowing with power and madness. The Lord of Gravity rose into the air and as he did, cargo crates, chunks of rock and other debris, began to flow around him like a tornado.
The heroes tried to move, but the amount of gravity being forced upon them, kept them pined.
Armodrillo desperately tried to force himself up. But even with his incredible strength, he couldn't move an inch.
"Can't move." He confessed, the asked to the others behind him.
"Can you?"
"Nay." Came Thor's response. "The others?"
No one else responded, as the weight was so great they couldn't even talk.
However one person was beyond mad right now. In his crater the Hulk began to push against the gravitational force acting on him. At first he couldn't move like the others, but as he got more frustrated, he began to rise, his arms and leg muscles bulged as he pushed himself up.
Graviton, seeing this, increased the pressure on the monster, forcing him back into the ground. This however only annoyed the Hulk as in a few short seconds he was back to his feet. Graviton was shocked at first, but then he growled in anger as he increased the pressure even further. The craters size increased as everything was crushed by the massive amounts of gravitational force being applied. All the crates and debris were flattened by the amount of power. The Hulk however only got more enraged, as he places his hands on the ground, which cracked under the force, and stood again, his eyes burning with rage for the one who would dare try to hold him down.
Graviton was beyond shocked. He was applying enough gravitational energy to crush and entire city, and this creature was fighting against it like it was nothing.
"Nothing is that powerful." He said in bewilderment, "I control gravity itself."
And yet the jade giant began to walk towards the edge of the crater, his feet making there own craters each time he stepped, as evidence of the amount of gravity on him.
Armodrillo was shocked by what he saw. All that pressure acting upon him was barely phasing this hulking creature, he didn't think even Way Big could fight that much pressure, just how powerful was this thing?
Graviton quickly goy over his shock, as he halted the orbiting crates around him and then sent them all flying at the Hulk.
As they came at him, Hulk gritted his teeth, he then began to punch away most of the crates that came at him, but soon there numbers overwhelmed him and he was sent back to the bottom of the crater with hundreds of crates being piled on top of him.
The Ultimatrix hero then groaned at the pressure he was under, if only there was some way to counter that gravity. Wait gravity?… suddenly the armored alien gave himself a mental smack in the head. How could he have forgotten about that?
Putting as much strength into his arm as he could, he once aging slapped the Ultimatrix dial. A flash of green light and now a large, bulky, reddish-brown alien with rocky skin, a giant mouth and a molten lava planet core at the center of his body appeared. He wore black shorts with green stripes and a green belt with white stripes. He wears the Ultimatrix symbol on his forehead.
"GRAVATTACK" the planet alien yelled.
With his own gravitational field in play, Gravitons power was cancelled out, allowing Gravattack to stand. He then pointed his hands at Graviton, white energy formed around his hands as he activated his own gravity powers.
Graviton was so focused on crushing the green monster that he almost didn't notice that he was being pulled towards the ground. To late he realized he was being affected by gravity, his eyes widened with shock as he was pulled towards the ground. He tried to counter the effect but the shock of having his own power used against him caused his focus to falter. His shock only increased when he saw the source of the power.
"NO!" he yelled, "I am the Lord of Gravity itself"
Gravattack only smirked at the comment, and then cocked back his fist.
"You've just been dethroned" he countered, then sent a gravity charged fist into Gravitons face.
The power of the attack sent Graviton flying into the sky, it also destroyed his concentration, freeing the other heroes from the Gravitons power, one particular hero was glad to be as he was to angry to even care when Graviton stopped attacking. With a mighty leap Hulk burst from the pile of crates he was under, scattering them all over the place, and headed straight toward the gravity villain.
Graviton was able to steady himself after the attack, he was still shocked that someone else possessed gravity manipulation as well, he was just getting over it when suddenly something big and green tackled him out of the sky, sending both of them colliding back into the ground.
As the dust settled, Hulk was once again attempting to smash Graviton with his fists, but the gravity villain was still holding strong. That is until he got a sharp pain in the back of his neck, courtesy of several flying ants under the control of Ant Man, who had shrunk after he was freed from Gravitons power, riding on one of the ants. This distraction allowed the Hulk to land several punches to the villain, sending him into the ground. The other heroes then surrounded Graviton, hopeing to finally end this. However that seemed to be an impossibility.
"This isn't possible." Graviton exclaimed, as the released another wave of gravitational energy, sending the heroes, except Gravattack, flying and Hulk was sent high into the air, were he remained suspended.
Graviton then flew into the air taking all the crates in the shipyard with him, and then used them the pelt the heroes and keep them off balance.
Despite Gravattacks claim, it seemed that Graviton just outclassed the living planet, as Gravattack was barely able to counter Gravitons power with his own. He was just able to counter the field in order to prevent the other heroes from being manipulated, however the gravity villain seemed to be focusing most of his power on the Hulk, and even though he barely new any of then, the transformed teen new that the green giant was their heaviest hitter. If they were ever going to win they needed the big guy to get a few more hits in.
When Graviton started to send the crates in the Hulks direction, Gravattack new he had to do something quick.
"Keep his attention" he called to the other heroes "I'll help big green up there" gesturing to the suspended Hulk.
The heroes moved in. Iron Man and Wasp, blasting repulsors and stingers respectively, and Thor hurled Mjolnir directly at the Lord of Gravity. The combined attack was enough to distract Graviton and released his hold on the Hulk, the giant in question, then began to fall to the ground. But unfortunately the crates were still on a collision course with the crates, which were still flying towards him.
Seeing that it would take to long to stop the collision as Gravattack, Ben slapped the Ultimatrix dial, once more, a green flash engulfed the alien, replacing it with a red, humanoid, manta-ray like alien with two black lightning bolt-like stripes coming down from his shoulders to his Ultimatrix symbol on his chest. He was about Ben's regular height, and had yellow horns extending from his nose. He had gills underneath his arms. He has yellow wings under each arm.
"JETRAY" the new alien yelled.
In the blink of an eye Jetray flew at such a surprising amount of speed that he was now in front of the Hulk, who was about to collide with the incoming crates. Jetray's eyes started to glow and two beams of energy fired from then, slicing the incoming crate in two, allowing Hulks descent towards Graviton. The Hulk looked at the manta ray alien with a surprised and confused look on his face, not because of the alien before him, but for something else.
"You…You're helping me?"
Jetray then smirked at the jolly green giant "Yeah. Now hit him."
Now it was Hulks turn to smirk as both heroes then dived towards the Lord of Gravity. With a mighty yell, the Hulk smashed both his fists into Graviton, sending him into the ground in a massive wave of dust and debris.
However that still wasn't enough to take him down, as Graviton used his powers to send a giant mass of earth against the Hulk, rising higher and higher. Wasp and Jetray came in and started zapping the villain, trying to get his attention. However their attention was caught by Iron Man, who's chest was starting to glow brighter. The two heroes moved out of the way, then Iron Man fired a massive beam of energy from his chest, blasting the Lord of Gravity, however even that didn't stop him, as he moved the earth infront of him in order to block the attack.
Jetray new he needed more firepower so he slapped the dial again.
"HEATBLAST" and moved to continue the fight.
Meanwhile Ant Man flew of the ocean towards a cargo ship, which had been abandoned when Graviton began his attack, and leaped of his ant steed and dived into the water. A large flash of blue light appeared below the ship before Giant Man lifted it out of the water. The giant hero then threw the ship towards Graviton.
Heatblast was about to sent a massive wave of fire at the gravity villain before he notice a large shadow pass over him, he looked up and was just able to dodge an incoming ship. The ship crashed on top of Graviton, and Heastblast noticed that the cargo the ship was carrying were crates of oil. With that in mind the fiery alien sent a wave of fire at the ship, causing a chain reaction that created a massive explosion.
This was enough to break Gravitons power causing all the earth and rock to come back down were it belonged. However it still wasn't enough to take down Graviton. Heatblast was starting to wonder if anything could take this guy down.
He was about to attack again when the wind began to pick up and the clouds started to gather. Heatblast looked up at the sky to see Thor, spinning his hammer by the straps, and the clouds gathering around him, thunder and lighting sounded and flowed into the hammer, as the Asgardian charged up his attack.
"For Migaard!" the Thunder God yelled, he then pointed his hammer down and unleashed the biggest bolt of lighting anyone had ever seen. It struck Graviton with thousands of volts of electricity; the Lord of Gravity gave out a scream of pain.
When the lightning subsided, Graviton was left at the base of a large crater looking very weak, the combined attacks from the heroes had left his body battered, bruised and now covered in soot. The barely conscious villain looked up to see the six heroes standing together at the top of the crater, staring down at the defeated villain.
"Who's strongest now?" the Hulk taunted.
"You had the power to do anything, and you used it to put millions of lives at risk." Giant Man said before shrinking down to regular size.
"Pretty sad." Heatblast quipped.
"No kidding" Wasp added, as I final insult she fired one last stinger at Graviton, sending the defeated villain into unconsciousness.
The day was won.
The moment was the broken by Thor. "Come." He exclaimed, with a huge grin, as he wrapped his arms around his new allies somehow managing to get the Hulk and Heatblast into his embrace.
"Let us celebrate."
"Freeze." A familiar voice called out, the heroes looked to the other side of the crater, only to see Agent Coulson and an entire army of S.H.I.E.L.D agents, tanks and choppers, Coulson was holding a very large cannon and had it aimed at one particular individual.
"Step away from the alien and the Hulk.
They're a fugitives of S.H.I.E.L.D."
The individuals in question got into fighting stances. Hulk growled and Heatblast narrowed his eyes, silently praying the Ultimatrix had enough power to at least get him into the city and hide from them.
However before either party could act. Iron Man suddenly stood infront of them, his arms stretched out, blocking the shot.
"You want these guys, you go through me. These two saved us all. They're heroes. As sure as any of us are."
The other heroes then stood with the armored hero, a determined look in all of their eyes. Heatblast couldn't believe it, he didn't know any of these people, and yet here they were standing up for him. Before he could process what is happening, another familiar voice spoke up.
"Stand down." Director Nick Fury commanded, the unites complied.
"We've got bigger problems than the Hulk and an alien… although I want answers to that last one later." He added.
"74 supervillains are now on the loose all across the country. Maybe the world by now."
"How did this happen, Fury?" Iron Man asked, with a bit of venom in his voice.
"I don't know, but we can find out together." The Director of SHIELD offered to the heroes. "Come work for me. As SHIELD agent, you can make a real difference."
Before anyone could respond, Ant Man spoke up.
"No, this is your fault, isn't it? S.H.I.E.L.D created Graviton. Whatever you had Hall doing, it changed him. You kept it under wraps, and this happened."
The heroes then glared at the Director, especially Heatblast, liking this S.H.I.E.L.D organization less and less, as they all new they would never work for someone who would create someone like Graviton. That is until.
"Fury's right." Iron Man suddenly stated. The other heroes then looked at him in shook.
"What?" Wasp said, equally as shocked "You of all people are going to work for S.H.I.E.L.D?" she questioned the armored hero.
"No, he's right about us making a difference together." He began facing the heroes in front of him. "One-on-one we can each take down a villain or two, but 74 none of us can do it alone. Together we have a chance. What we did here, it can change things. The world needs us, but not as S.H.I.E.L.D agents. As a team on our own, together we can avenge the wrongs caused by all these villains."
"We can be avengers." Wasp finished.
"Huh, good name." Hulk agreed.
Heatblast however closed his eyes for a moment, he new he could never be a hero again. These heroes seemed to know what they were doing, the green guy and the blond with the hammer, seemed to be power houses by themselves. If they wanted to be a team, they wouldn't need someone like him.
After Iron Man's speech, Heatblast began to walk away from the group, not sure were to go from here, but he new he had to start somewhere. He didn't get far as a tiny yellow and black figure flew infront of him.
"Hey flame brain," Wasp said to the transformed alien. "You, just gonna walk out on your team?"
She flew around him, as he turned back to face the other heroes, who where all looking at him.
"I'm not really planning on being a hero any time soon" he said, much to the confusion of the others.
"You seemed to be pretty good at it to me" Iron Man said.
"Indeed, you are. A might warrior if ever I have seen" Thor added.
Heatblast shook his head. "I'm sorry. I'm just not ready to be part of a team again."
He then tried to walk away again, before Fury stood in front of him.
"Then maybe you should come with me." The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. asked, even though he didn't phrase it as a question. "We can't have an alien wandering around our planet unsupervised. Especially one with the kind of power you have." This made the heroes eyes widen; they had just fought side by side with an alien and not realized it.
Heatblast wasn't sure what to do, if he resisted, then these S.H.I.E.L.D guys would attack him, and maybe even the heroes as well. He looked back at the other heroes. They were all strangers to him, and yet they risked their lives for him and even stood up for him. He figured he at least owed them an explanation.
"All right." He sighed. "I'll tell you everything I know. Is there a place we can talk privately? I kind of don't want to do this in front of a crowd."
He then gestured to the news reporters and civilians, which had gathered around the battle sight.
Nick Fury looked at him for a moment, and then nodded. Heatblast then mentally sighed.
This was going to be a long talk.
And the second chapter is now complete. Ben's first battle with the Avengers, whats gonna happen next? who knows, Oh wait. I know I'm writing this story HAHA. Wow I can't believe all the attention this story has gotten so far its pretty unbelievable.
Now I know that some of you are wondering who's gonna be Ben's love interest, let me tell you right now Ive got a few ideas floating around in my head. But I will let you know when I come up with a solution.
Like before any advice: weather it be plot lines or writing tips, is certainly appreciated in any way for me.
Until Next Time. CaptainRex75 out.