章 18: Avengers Pt-1
[First Person POV]
It was early in the morning; I was in my game-room in my mansion playing some Escape From Tarkov on my custom built PC gaming rig, it was amazing what a computer made of Uru and Vibranium was capable of.
Not having to sleep left me with a lot of free time so I partook in my love of gaming I had let go for so long, after all I'd been training for what seemed like years in my time dilation training chamber.
I was organizing my stash when Selene contacted me, "Lex my security programs embedded in Shield just notified me that there's an attack taking place and an evacuate order has been given", she informs me.
'Looks like Avengers just started' I think to myself as I close everything down and shut off my PC before opening a portal to my lair.
"Keep me appraised if there are any changes I need to know about" I say as I head into the lab and run some scans on my Uru-Pradium nanites one last time to ensure everything was still running perfectly.
"All Clear" stated a display monitor off to the side of the scanner. With my paranoia satisfied I go back to the main terminal, take a seat and send an untraceable message to Fury's phone as the Batman.
I give a number to call, then proceed to wait for a call from One-eyed Willy, I mean Fury, while thinking about what's to come.
It was an hour or so after dawn when a call came up on the main terminal for the number I had given Fury, I changed my vocals to my Batman persona; ensured Selene was running anti-trace programs and answered.
"Talk", I answered in my no bullshit Batman voice. "I don't know how you knew about the attack but at this point I don't care, I've got men down, got others taken away under some kind of spell, my state of the art facility just sunk into the Earth and the man responsible is a literal god… We need your mystery man's help" Fury replied just as seriously.
It appears the One Above All got rid of all mentions I'd made of the Superman name, "I'll contact him and tell him where to find your helicarrier, this number won't work again", I say without pause and hang up immediately after.
Selene scrubs the number and any trace of its existence, I then message Peter as the Batman and warn him of a possible attack on New York in the next few days.
I (as Lex) was supposedly out of the state at one of the estates I owned, this one in particular was supposed to be a secret/private estate somewhere in the middle of the country.
MJ and Felecia were at school on the other side of the county and my parents were still in Virginia at their estate enjoying their time together.
With all of those bases covered I knew Peter would get Gwen and her family either out of the city or into our nuke-proof lab.
I had told Pete that I'd made some upgrades, and the reinforcements made were enough to make the lab able to withstand a nuke going off above it.
Her family would most likely be going into the lab when the shit hits the fan and I already had nanites on her dad just in case, but he's a cop and things happen in the line of duty.
At best the nanites give him a higher percentage chance to survive, but a building or car falling on him during an alien invasion will still kill him.
With those unpleasant thoughts aside I bring up the security feeds and cameras I had on all the future Avengers and wait for the battle to start so I can enter the fray.
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[Third Person POV]
It was night in a forested area, standing on a mountain side overlooking said forest two men were have what could only be called a heated argument.
The two men in question where the crown-prince of Asgard Thor and his younger, adopted Brother Loki, who was currently shouting at his older brother with venom.
"I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield-".
Loki was suddenly cut off when both he and Thor heard something loud coming their way (The sound you hear a missile make before impact).
Thors angry reply was also cut off by the sound as they both looked up to where the sound was coming from and witnessed a black and gold blur heading straight down near them.
*BOOM*
The sound of stone cracking was heard as dust and debris quickly shot out from the impact area.
Looking to the landing area Thor and Loki were taken aback as the mystery powerhouse that helped Thor with the Destroyer stood in the center of a large spider web of cracks in the rocky mountain-sides surface.
His outfit had changed based on what they remembered of him, what was the same was that it was still black, had gold accent lines and gold eagle-head pauldrons on his shoulders (Homelander shoulder pieces).
It appeared more like regal armor now, even tho it still appeared barely 5 millimetres thick, emphasizing every muscle on the large man's body. (Think an amalgamation of Black Panthers Vibranium armoured suit and Superman's suit from Justice League with gold Asgardian line work).
"It's you", Thor stated shocked, not expecting to see his mystery helper here. "Friend, it's good to see you again, but this is family business", Thor informed the man.
The imposing figure walked towards the Asgardians with strong measured steps and replies in a smooth, deep and powerful voice, "Not an option today Thor, I heard what he said", as he made his way to walk past Thor, towards Loki.
"Oh it's the hairless ape come to play hero again", Loki says is derision as the large man passes Thor who tries to grab the man's cape to stop him.
When Thor tried to grab the black cape with a gold inner lining it was as if his hand passed through air, the cape seemed to just flow around his hand like water.
"That's new", said Thor in surprise.
The mysterious powerhouse walked unfazed towards Loki who couldn't stop himself from opening his mouth for more taunts.
"I think he's mad brother, perhaps he's here to defend your honor", he joked/taunted the two loathsome people in his eyes.
"Where is the Tesseract Loki"? The man asked as he reached the exiled prince.
"Oh, that's what you're after? Here just let me check" replied Loki who started to pat himself down as if he were looking for lost car keys.
"My apologies, I seem to have misplaced it" Loki says, a toothy smile tinged with madness plastered widely across his face.
The joking quickly stopped tho. Fast as lightning the man reached out to Loki with his right hand and picked him up by the throat, lifting the mad man to his eye level and leaving his feet dangling off the ground.
"Tell me or-" The giant of a man stops talking as he quickly turns in a 180 and puts his hand out like he's stopping traffic, only for a maroon and gold suit of armor to slam into it and come to a complete stop.
"Don't try that again Stark", the man says as he looks into the blue-white glowing eyes of Iron Man.
The face shield lifts up, revealing the face of a 30 something Tony Stark who quickly went from bewildered at being stopped so abruptly without becoming a blood puddle to indignant.
"Then don't help Shakespeare in the park over here take my stuff", he replied flippantly while pointing to Thor who looked confused at the description/name he had been given.
"We're all after the same thing Mr Stark, but this is way beyond your pay level", the man replies as he lets Stark go who now had 5 perfect fingertip shaped dents around his arc reactor.
Later when Stark would check the dents for finger prints he would be surprised to find that there were none.
"Nothing's above my pay grade, I'm one of the richest people on earth", Tony replies just as flippantly as before.
"Mr Stark this situation is-", "Call me Tony, Mr Stark was my father", Tony interrupts him.
After taking a second the giant man replies, "This situation is above your pay grade Tony, this is gods and monsters and objects of power beyond what humans were meant to understand, at least at this point in their history".
"Yeeaaah, I'm gonna go with bite me" Tony says heatedly."I get it. Asgardian gods, more like mutant humans if you ask me, a prissy little prince with daddy issues-", "You dare-"! Loki started to retort angrily before the hand around his neck squeezed, cutting off whatever scathing reply he was going to give.
"Like I said, a prissy little prince with daddy issues and a glowing box with unlimited power… Am I missing anything"? Tony continued asking.
"Overly simplified but accurate enough" the mystery man replied before looking back to Loki, ignoring Tony, "Tell me where Tesseract is Loki" he ordered the mad prince who just smiled in reply.
"Just tell us LOKI"! Thor shouts in frustration as he summons Mjolnir back to his hand from where he'd dropped in before confronting his brother.
"I don't have it. You need the cube to bring me home, but I've sent it off I know not where", Loki replied in a rare moment of truth.
As this bitter truth was announced Steve Rogers made his way onto the scene, "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to put down the prisoner and let us take him into custody", he says to the large man holding Loki by the neck.
"Mr Rogers, it's a pleasure to meet you", the mystery man said as Tony snickered, "Mr Rogers, good one, based on what dad would say about him I'd say it's a fitting name".
The man ignored Tony and put Loki's feet back on the ground, but didn't let him go.
"Pleasure to meet you to Mr…" Steve replied, leaving his sentence unfinished, hoping the man would give his name in return.
"I have gone by many names (Original name, Lex & Batman), but I don't currently have a name", the powerful being replied.
"Okaaay, well look we need to take Loki back to base for interrogation, if I'm reading this situation correctly, you want to help us locate the Tesseract and stop Loki's plans..", Steve said to which he received a nod of confirmation.
"Okay then, come with us, you'll be able to help and we won't be in each other's way trying to accomplish the same goals", Steve offered the man.
"Be warned tho, the people there will probably want to ask you some questions", Steve then warned him.
"Very well", the man replies with another nod and releases Loki before turning him towards the quinjet that was coming around to let them on.
"Everything okay down there Cap"? A female's voice could be heard from unseen speakers.
Steve Rogers aka Captain America walked in front of the group and gave the quinjet a thumbs up as he put a finger to the comm device in his ear and said, "All clear, we got 2 more coming aboard".
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[First Person POV - Lex]
It'd been a rocky but successful introduction to the group, I got to show off my strength without really showing it off that much, which was good but at the same time tricky.
I had been preparing to stop Tony as soon as I heard him exit the quinjet, using my form of tactile telekinesis on every part of his body at once instantly was a challenge, but I succeeded.
Thank god I practiced stopping moving things without damaging them.
The first time I'd tried catching a simulated person falling at terminal velocity in the training room they had literally exploded into large chunks in my arms.
It was disgusting and took me more than a few tries to perfect. In the instant I make contact I have to cover everything externally and internally with my telekinesis.
The brain was the hardest thing to protect but when I got the nuance of ensuring the soft matter inside was securely protected I was able to add that to the rest of the body, and *bam* just like that I was catching people Superman style.
Who knew catching a plane full of people was easier than catching a single person falling.
In any case I was now aboard the quinjet as we made our way back to the helicarrier.
[Some Time Later]
We landed on the helicarrier and Loki was immediately shackled and marched off to his holding cell by over a dozen armed guards.
Steve, Widow, Thor and I made our way into the main deck of the flying fortress. Many people stopped to stare at Thor and I, I couldn't blame them we are very attractive.
We made our way over to a large meeting table and watch on a monitor as Fury gives his ant/boot threat to Loki, Loki taunts him, Tony and Banner.
Then Fury leaves with his "let me know if real power wants a magazine or something" line, classic.
"He really grows on you, doesn't he"? Says Banner with dry sarcasm, no one replies to the obvious joke.
"Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play"? Steve questions the Asgardian thunder god.
Thor still looks troubled by what he saw, "He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract".
"An army? From outer space"? Steve questioned incredulously.
"There are crazier things in this universe than alien armies Steve", I answer him. He nods in agreement with a look that said he knew all too well what I just said was true.
"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for", Bruce interjects.
"Selvig"? Thor questions, not knowing why they would bring up Jane's mentor and his friend.
"He's an astrophysicist" Banner answers.
"He's a friend", Thor informs him and everyone in listening distance.
"Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours" Natasha interjects, there's a tinge of worry/sadness in her voice.
"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here", Steve says.
The conversation goes along like it did in the movie, Tony comes in, explains the science, calls Thor Point break, snitches on the guy playing Galaga and generally… is very Tony.
He subtly places his hacking device and continues to hog all the attention by talking science with Banner and then complimenting him on turning into a "giant green rage monster".
That's when Fury walks in, "Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him", he says as a way of greeting.
"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon" Steve says.
"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys", Fury replies a little frustrated.
"Monkeys? I do not understand", Thor says in genuine confusion.
"I do! I understood that reference", Steve replies quickly, Tony rolls his eyes, while Cap looks proud of himself.
"Shall we play, doctor"? Tony quips to Banner.
"Let's play some", Banner replies before he and Tony walk out, the Galaga player turns ever so discreetly, watches as everyone else disperses and goes back to playing.
Fury makes his way over to Thor and I, "Prince Thor, it's a pleasure to meet you. Thanks for agreeing to help us", he says as he and Thor shake hands.
Thor still looks troubled as he shakes Fury's hand, "Yes, it seemed only right", he replies, I'd say he's a touch unsure if he shouldn't have just taken Loki himself.
Fury then looks to me, he seems to take me in all at once, "You must be the mystery man, that Batman told me about", he says while offering me a handshake.
"Yeah, he's not the easiest person to talk to", I reply as I take Fury's hand and shake it firmly.
"How did he find you? Why haven't you stopped him? What are you even capable of"? Fury questions me like I'm in an impromptu interrogation after we finish shaking hands and let go.
I'll give it to Fury, he has massive balls and nerves of Pradium, but I will never be intimidated by anyone under the level of The One Above All again.
This was also what I wanted, this will give me a disconnect to any possibility of me being Batman.
I stare right into his eyes with my own liquid gold eyes that radiate power and answer, "That's a story between he and I, all I will say about him is that while I do not agree with his methods... Sometimes they're needed".
My face appeared to be heavy while saying that but I continued on in a slightly more positive tone, "Although I managed to persuade him to cut down the brutality and change to quicker, more efficient methods of enemy engagement".
"Yeah I noticed there were more single hit kills and less horror movie gore scenes", Fury replied but still looked suspicious, "And what about your abilities"? He asks.
I decided to give him a brief overview of some of my powers, "Super strength, speed, durability, magic and flight" I reply, planning to use "it's magic" as a standard excuse for all my other powers.
Fury didn't look terribly pleased to hear about the myriad of powers I have, but he seemed to be hung up on something, "Did you say magic"? He asked a little incredulously.
"Yep, it's real and it helps me out quite a lot" I reply with a smile.
"So first it was aliens that exist, then gods and now magic... Motherfucker", Fury says in exasperation bordering on depression with his left hand on his hip while rubbing his eyes with his right thumb and index finger.
"If it makes you feel better he knows my one weakness, and has threatened that should I ever become an enemy to humanity he would use it to kill me", I say as a matter of fact.
Thor and Fury look taken aback, "One weakness"? Fury questions disbelievingly, Thor shares the same disbelieving look as well.
They both bought it, perfect, okay now I just have to sell it.
"Yes, I won't tell you how or why, all I'll say is he proved it to me. Just being near him can almost kill me", that complete and utter bullshit statement has them stunned, or silently intrigued in Fury's case.
"He also stated as long as I use what I'm capable of to help people then I'd never have to worry about him, and I believe him", I continue spinning b.s.
Fury goes to talk so I quickly add, "No I won't tell you what my weakness is, and no I don't know who Batman is, what he is, where he is, when or even why he is. All I know is that his stealth capabilities and tactics are something truly remarkable and if given enough time, he could kill all of us".
Now that last statement was true, as Batman I could kill all of them, not that I want to, these are the good guys, no matter how messed up and dysfunctional they are.
Fury had a very serious look on his face and Thor looked confused again, "Friend, who is this Man-bat of which you speak"? He asks me.
"Not Man-bat, Batman, he's a vigilante, an unsanctioned crime fighter that uses deadly force to punish criminals that have taken life or hurt many people", I explain before continuing.
"He just puts the regular criminals in the care of human healers for various lengths of time depending on how bad their deeds have been and how badly he decides to hurt them", I finish answering.
"He sounds complicated", Thor says still not fully understanding why someone would volunteer to do such things.
"Just a bit" I reply and a small smile.
"So what do we call you? I need something to address you by", Fury suddenly interjects, clearly he'd realized I wasn't going to give him the information he wanted.
"I don't know, isn't it a bit presumptuous and egotistical to name myself"? I ask Fury.
"Well I'm sure we can come up with something" Fury replies with a thinking look on his face before he suddenly asks, "Are you human"?
The suddenness of his question makes me laugh but I quickly answer, "Yes Nick, I'm human, I'm just far more than our species can hope to reach any time soon".
"Sooo what? You're kind of the apex of our species"? Fury asks.
"I think I may have the ability to be the apex of all living beings but one" I answer truthfully but still a bit unsure.
"And who's that"? Fury asked shocked, obviously he was scared of having to deal with yet another all mighty being.
"God obviously" I reply easily.
Fury doesn't look impressed and points to Thor and asks, "What kind of god"? Thor looks interested in the answer as well.
"The one above everything, the Overlord of all creation, that God", I answer nonchalantly.
"You know of the One Above All"? Thor asks shocked.
"Not who I'm talking about, the One Above All isn't on Gods level, he may be all powerful in this multiverse but God or the Overlord, whatever you want to call him, he's in charge of All multiverses ", I reply casually while also emphasizing that there was more than one multiverse.
Thor looked dumbstruck and Fury looked like he thought I was crazy, I just shrugged at them both and made my way towards the large observation window, I'd given them both something things to think about.
I reached the large window and took an "at ease" stance with my right hand holding my left behind my back. I then entered into a state of meditation to patiently wait for Loki's next move to start playing out.
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[First Person POV]
It was morning the next day when things kicked off, I heard the confrontation start in Bruce and Tony's lab and decided to make my way there.
As I walk into the lab I feel the ever so subtle touch on my mind from the mind stone in Loki's scepter, specifically in the area that controls emotions and feelings such as anger, frustration and annoyance.
It also appeared I arrived at the correct time as Bruce had just revealed that he'd tried to kill himself to get away from the Hulk, what a moron.
Imagine trying to kill yourself because you can't stand the fact you become a giant green powerhouse with anger management issues that was completely fixable.
I remember back to End Game and it's a wonder that he ever attained the balanced form between Hulk and himself like he did.
It only took half of all life in the universe being wiped out to get the sad sack to stop fucking around and learn to control his power.
I walk over to him in front of everyone and touch him on the forehead, channeling a quick sleep spell and put him to sleep.
I catch him as he starts to fall and sit him on the other side of the room away from the glass wall while everyone looks at me in shock.
"I can feel the sceptre affecting your minds, ramping up your anger, frustrations and annoyances", I tell the group before casting a calming spell on the room and bringing the heightened emotions back to normal.
When everyone is back to their baselines they all look as if they only just realized what was happening, to say they look shocked is an understatement.
"Thank you" Steve says when he realizes what was happening and what I'd done.
I give him a smile and begin to say, "You're wel-" I cut myself off as I make my eyes go big and turn around throwing out a burning orange magic shield that encompassed the room as an explosion rocks the helicarrier and the window and floor I'm in front of and on top of explode onto my shield.
The explosion doesn't touch any of us, neither does any shrapnel but the room still rocks with the rest of the carrier and everyone but me is thrown to the deck.
Everyone starts getting up under their own power, Steve offers Tony a hand up that he takes and says, "Tony, get in the suit".
"Yep, way ahead of ya", Tony replies as they run out of the room.
Fury contacts Maria Hill aka Robin Sparkles and gets a sitrep of what was going on while hurriedly making his way out of the lab.
Thor runs off to Loki's containment cell, Natasha gets a report that someone had spotted Barton and ran off to confront her bff.
I'm left alone in the room with Banner taking a nap on the floor, I could wake him up but with the carrier under attack I'll let him wake up in a hour or so when things have calmed down.
I place a ward spell around him to make sure he was safe and that no one would interfere with him while he was in dreamland.
I make my way out of the room and go towards Loki's location, like hell I'm letting Phil get stabbed in the back.
As I make my way into the containment cell room I spot Thor in the cell and Phil talking to Loki's illusion.
Loki was damn good at illusions and if I wasn't capable of everything he was and also had previous experience with magic there is no way I could tell he wasn't real.
Unfortunately for Loki I could see through his illusions and grabbed the base of his scepter before the rammed the blade on top of it through Phil's back and chest.
The illusion disappeared and Coulson quickly turned around, immediately and correctly guessing it was a misdirect for a sneak attack.
Loki turns his head and spots me so he follows through the turn with his body, letting the scepter slip out of my grasp I lean back and away from the blast Loki fires at me.
The beam of energy destroys the control panel to the containment cell Thor currently occupied which causes the drop sequence to activate automatically.
I quickly push Loki away and grab the cell just as the top was about to pass by my feet, I "had to" dive to the ground to grab the top of the cell, preventing it from completely falling out of the helicarrier.
Loki picked himself up off the floor and looks to where I am holding on to the cell, he goes to lift his scepter, obviously planning to shoot me while I'm otherwise occupied.
Before he can tho, Phil stands in front of him with his BFG aimed at his chest, "I don't think so", Phil says in his classic, dry no nonsense tone of voice.
Loki and Phil were in a standoff, neither was moving but it was obvious Loki wouldn't back down.
Then as if some invisible trigger was pulled, Loki quickly aims from his hip and fires off an energy beam and Phil pulls the trigger on his BFG made from salvaged parts of the Destroyer.
Loki gets hit square in the chest and gets blasted through a wall and Phil, as only Phil can, sums up the moment, "Huh, so that's what it does" before he drops the giant gun and clutches his side before falling to the ground in pain.
"Phil you okay"! I yell out as I start lifting the cell back into the room by digging my hands into the sides, making my own hand holds.
"I'll be alright, it just grazed me" he says while holding the area around his left-side ribs, "I don't want to be a downer, but I think Loki got away", he adds in a pained toned voice.
"It's fine, we'll get him soon enough", I say as I finish lifting the cell back into place and covertly help the clamps lock back on to the cell using my telekinesis.
I'd decided to keep this one of the many powers I'm keeping secret, it'll help people underestimate me, not that it really mattered, I just enjoy not having all my cards on the table.
I rip open the cell door and let Thor out who looked very relieved, "Thank you for helping me friend", he says offering me a warrior's handshake which I gladly accepted. It was like a regular handshake only we gripped each other by the forearm.
After the quick moment of thanks I went over to Phil, picked him up and slung his arm on his good side over my shoulder and helped him to the infirmary with Thor following along with us.
As we made our way I couldn't help but think about the battle and how it would start soon... I couldn't wait.
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There it is, hope you liked it. Next chapter is Battle of New York and our guys big public debut.
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