Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 3:01:49 GMT -5
As many of you know, we started talking about the Titans of Justice/Avengers of Liberty crossover almost a year ago. Due to to schduling conflicts, the title seems to be on indefinite hold. I had my portion of the crossover done several months ago. Rather than be like DC and Marvel who made everyone wait around 20 years for the crossover to come out, I've decided to post the portion of the crossover that I did which contains the big battle between the two teams. So without further hesitation, I give you your Titans of Justice Christmas surrpise. I hope you all enjoy it!
Titans of Justice/Avengers of Liberty Crossover – “Assemble Pt. 2"
Written by: Power Guy
Edited by: Power Guy and ArckKid
***Please note: This story takes place before Titans of Justice Unlimited Chapter #50
The hammer of Thor slammed into Black Adam’s chin, hurling him through the air. The Kind of Khandaq was quickly knocked out of his teammate’s view.
vs.
“Hey!” shouted the Arachnid, “You can’t just go and throw your hammer at Black Adam and get away with it! I’ll bet you’re not so tough without your little weapon,” he said jumping in front of Thor. But before the Arachnid could strike, Thor’s hammer returned to his hand just as it always did. <GULP> The Arachnid slowly started to back away when his body jerked from what felt like a painful insect bite on his back. “OUCH!!!!!!!!” he screamed.
“T’would seem Ant-Kid didst strike before the Son of Odin. Thy luck is tried young knave,” advised Thor. Suddenly, he had his own problem to deal with as Black Adam came rocketing through the sky and slammed into the god of thunder.
“You dare strike the King of Khandaq???” Black Adam screamed as he pummeled Thor with full-force. “I possess the powers of seven gods, mortal!”
Thor quickly punched Black Adam in the gut, knocking him backwards, “Mortal? Thou art but a base villain. None may claim the God of Thunder and King of Asgard itself. Thou shalt learn thy folly!” Swinging his hammer in the air, Thor called down some lightning to strike his foe. The harsh electricity shot through Black Adam’s body, temporarily immobilizing him.
The former villain of the Marvel Family struggled to pick himself up and crawled over towards Thor, slowly but surely.
“Day of days, thou doth withstand Mjolnir’s lightning.,” commented Thor. “Tarry not thy might may yet impress me. T’would seem that ne’er the one who claims the power of seven gods is truly worth the efforts of mine uru hammer. Thou art no longer worthy of battling Thor, God of Thunder.”
As Black Adam finally reached his target, he grabbed onto Thor’s ankle and cried out, “SHAZAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
A single, thundering bolt of lightning erupted from the sky and struck the god of thunder, giving him a taste of his own medicine. Both he and Black Adam lay still for a few moments in hopes of recovering from each other’s attacks.
A few yards away, Green Lantern, Sonic Boom, and Dark Arrow were all back to back in a triangular shape preparing themselves for their opponents’ attack. Iron Man II, Mockingbird II, and the Avenging Arrow were rushing towards them.
vs.
Mockingbird II was the first to attack when she released the battle-staves that were cloaked under her draping sleeves at Sonic Boom.
The staves flew through the air, about to strike their target when Sonic Boom let loose her Canary Cry, “SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!” and shattered the staves in mid-flight. “That all you got?” questioned the newly-christened Black Canary in a cocky tone.
“Hardly!” replied Mockingbird as she jumped into the air and kicked Sonic Boom in the face.
“Sonic Boom!” cried out Dark Arrow and Green Lantern in unison but before either of them could tend to their comrade, Iron Man and the Avenging Arrow were closing in.
Dark Arrow and the Avenging Arrow were both firing arrow after arrow at one another, each arrow colliding with one of their opponents’.
After several minutes of this same scenario repeating, Dark Arrow offered, “How about you surrender? You can’t keep this up forever, chump!”
“Surrender? I don’t even know the meaning of that word green-jeans!” countered the Avenging Arrow as he continued launching his arrows at his adversary.
Green Lantern and Iron Man both took to the air. Iron Man fired his repulsor rays which were met head-on with blasts from Green Lantern’s ring.
“That ring is fascinating,” remarked Iron Man. “What kind of technology did you use to build it?”
“I didn’t build it,” answered the green guardian, “It was given to me by the Guardians of The Universe. It runs on will-power.”
“Hmm….I guess after I take you down, I’m going to have to take a good look at it,” Iron Man said, confidently.
“Take me down?” asked Green Lantern as a second beam came out of ring and created a giant fist which slammed down on Iron Man, causing him to crash into the ground. “Lucky for you, I have no desire to wear some bulky set of armor,” even though you may be thinking differently right now,” he presumed as he ordered his ring to strip the son of Tony Stark of his armor.
As Green Lantern declared victory over Iron Man II, another battle was heating up. Nightvision and Stellar found themselves face to face with the Sentinel of Liberty and Spider Venom.
vs.
“Nice costume,” Stellar said as he flew towards the Sentinel of Liberty, “though I’m not sure it will look quite as good on you once your face is all bruised up!” Before the wielder of the Cosmic Converter Belt could begin his attack, he soon found his face covered in a thick, sticky substance which made it hard for him to see.
“Worry about your own face first, punk!” shouted Spider Venom as he swung into Stellar and punched him in the stomach. The young hero dropped to the ground and began rolling back and forth as he struggled to get Spider Venom’s webbing off of his face. Just as the son of Peter Parker was about to pounce on Stellar, he finally was able to burn off the webbing covering his eyes. He let out another blast at his opponent, knocking him on his derrière. Stellar took to the sky again ready to finish off Spider Venom but the black and white garbed hero was quick to get back on his feet and shot a web-line at Stellar’s chest. Once the line was secure, he started swinging Stellar around in the air and then finally let him go only to send him flying into some strange-shaped wall, knocking him out cold.
As Nightvision and the Sentinel of Liberty scoped each other out, the son of Captain America proposed, “All of this fighting seems a bit senseless. How about we talk this out?”
“Your team starts the fighting and now you want to talk?” barked Nightvision, “It sounds to me like you’re trying to get me to let my guard down,” he said throwing three Batarangs at the leader of the Avengers of Liberty.
The Sentinel was quick to jump out of the way of one of the incoming Batarangs while he used his shield to deflect the other two. “You’re going to have to do better than that, pal!” he said lunging at the son of Nightwing and Oracle.
The two men started wrestling around punching and kicking each other relentlessly. Both opponents were at the peak of human physical condition and neither was ready to let up any time soon. If this battle was not stopped by some outside force, it could go one for hours upon hours.
In the midst of all of the commotion, the Arachnid was running around like a mad-man to the pain and irritation of Ant-Kid’s attack, “Stop biting me, you freak! Ouch! Ouch!”
“I’m not biting you, I’m stinging you!” pointed out Ant Kid, “That’s what you get for disrespecting Thor!”
Suddenly the Arachnid grabbed his backside, “HEY! Keep it above the belt dude!! OOOUUUCCCHHHH!!!”
“You’re not wearing a belt,” reminded Ant Kid as he continued to “sting” away.
Off to the side of the majority of the fighting, Whirlpool and Namor had found a water-like pool to venture into. Whirlpool was shooting off hard-water blasts at his adversary but Namor was quick and graceful enough to dodge each one so far.
vs.
“Fool! None are quicker than Prince Namor the second beneath the waters!” gloated the son of the Sub-mariner as he swam close to the son of Tempest and punched him the face. Namor’s immense strength sent Whirlpool soaring backwards.
“That hurt!” Whirlpool thought to himself. “I think it’s safe to assume that he’s a lot stronger than I am even in the water. I’ve got to come up with a plan before I end up in Davy Jones’ locker,” he thought as he started swimming away, trying to buy himself some time.
“Coward! Come back here and fight me!” ordered Namor II as he swam after the blue-garbed underwater hero. With Namor’s incredible speed, he caught up to Whirlpool in a matter of minutes. He grabbed him by the throat and lifted him upwards until the two of them were floating several yards above the water. “Ha! Now you no longer have the sea as your weapon! Surrender and I shall harm you no further.”
Whirlpool gave Namor a dirty look as he struggled at removing Namor’s hand from his throat. His eyes began to glow as the sea beneath him rose up into the form of a giant fist which lunged towards the duo passing effortlessly through Whirlpool but grabbing firmly onto Namor and squeezing him tightly forcing him to release Whirlpool. A second spurt of water rose up, creating a platform under Whirlpool so he could remain at eye to eye level with the immobilized Namor. “I don’t need to be IN the water to control it,” revealed Whirlpool. “Don’t you ever put your hands around my throat again,” he said back-handing his adversary from an alternate Atlantis.
As the battles continued, the Titans and Avengers began to notice that this strange place was morphing into various scenery to best suit the heroes’ personalities and abilities.
Sargona and the Scarlet Vision found themselves in what seemed to be an old castle. Each was trying to get the best of the other. Sargona was using the Ruby of Life to send all manner of objects hurtling towards the Scarlet Vision but the red-garbed Avenger was using a combination of her Hex-magic and dematerialization powers to thwart Sargona’s various attacks.
vs.
“Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!” Sargona whispered to herself. “She’s avoiding everything I throw at her!”
“Ready to throw up the white flag, dear?” offered the Scarlet Vision as she pressed on closer to the daughter of Sargon and Zatanna. “You’re obviously out-classed.”
“Outclassed? That would be a first,” Sargona replied cattily. “Before you start worrying about me, I suggest you ditch that bad perm that looks like it was stolen from Cher back in the eighties!”
“You did not just make fun of my hair….” grumbled the Scarlet Vision as she cast a spell causing a large grandfather clock next to Sargona to come toppling down on her, rendering her unconscious. “Stupid pony-tail wearing bimbo…..” spat the Scarlet Vision as she claimed victory over Sargona.
In what seemed to be a rocky canyon, Argos and Gamma-Zon were duking it out. Gamma-Zon ripped off a large piece of rock from a mountain beside her and slammed it down on the new-age dog of war.
vs.
Within seconds, Argos burst free from the rubble with ease. “You’re strong woman, I’ll give you that but you’re going to have to do a lot better to stop the son of Orion,” he said as he blasted the daughter of the She-Hulk with the Astro-Force.
“AAARRRGHHH!!” screamed Gamma-Zon, “That stings a little but it gets my adrenaline going,” she said as she threw a large boulder at Argos.
Argos punched the giant rock, causing it to shatter and shower down on his green-skinned opponent.
“That’s it! You’re going down and you’re going down NOW!” screamed Gamma-Zon as she punched the ground in front of her, causing it to crack open in a forward motion, opening a deep trench below Argos. Argos promptly fell into the trench and Gamma-Zon started throwing large rocks on top of him in an attempt to bury him alive. After a few minutes, the trench was filled with rocks and it appeared that Gamma-Zon had accomplished her mission. “Looks like I showed that loser,” she said complimenting herself but suddenly a Boom Tube opened behind her silently and Argos stepped out. He quickly blasted the daughter of the She-Hulk with a full-force blast of the Astro-Force putting her down for the count.
“I certainly do not enjoy hurting a woman but you left me with no choice,” commented Argos as he threw Gamma-Zon’s inert body over his shoulder.
In the air over what appeared to be a dense jungle, Hawkgirl and Queen Bee were locked in battle with the Black Viking and Bumblebee.
vs.
The Black Viking was riding on top of his winged-horse and flew towards Hawkgirl, his Ebony-blade fiercely colliding with Hawkgirl’s Nth Metal mace.
“HAAAAAAA!!!” Hawkgirl shouted as she and the Black Viking continued clashing metal against metal. CLING CLANG CLING CLANG!!
“I warn you girl, I am the son of an Asgardian demi-goddess and a descendent from of a knight from the Round Table of Cemelot!”
“Am I supposed to be impressed?” questioned Hawkgirl as she slammed her mace into the Black Knight’s sword, knocking it out of his hand.
The Black Knight’s eyes grew wide and his heart sped up as he realized what would come next.
“Nighty night, Knight!” smiled Hawkgirl as she slammed her mace down on the Black Knight’s helmet, delivering a T.K.O.
A few feet away, Queen Bee had shrunk down to only a few inches tall to better combat Bumblebee who was firing off a spree of bio-stings at the daughter of Mal and Karen Duncan.
“Bumblebee, huh?” Queen Bee mused as she released her electrical sting against Bumblebee’s bio-sting. The two blast collided causing a mild explosion of sparks. “My mother used that name for a while. All you look like to me is a pale imitation. No pun intended.”
“Whatever sister,” Bumblebee remarked sarcastically, as she scored a direct hit on Queen Bee with her one of her stings.
Queen Bee fell to the ground, trying to shake of the pain of Bumblebee’s attack. As the daughter of the Wasp landed in front of her, she reached for her secret compartment in her belt-buckle.
“Looks like you’re all washed up. One more sting and you’re off to la la land,” declared Bumblebee ready to finish off the Queen Bee. But before she could act, a swarm of mechanical bees came flying out of Queen Bee’s belt and bombarded the sister of Ant-Kid with dozens of electrical stings.
“Hive! Stun stings only!” directed Queen Bee.
The robotic insects followed their mistress’ command and administered the paralyzing stings from their stingers and brought Bumblebee to her knees
“Now who’s seeing stars, girl?” Queen Bee said, putting her hands on her hips.
As Queen Bee stood proud in front of Bumblebee, Wonder Man and Mr. Wonderful were taking jabs at each other.
vs.
“Who the heck are you supposed to be?” asked the son of Wonder Woman.
“The name’s Mr. Wonderful and don’t you forget it!”
“Mr. Wonderful, huh?” repeated Wonder Man, “Someone called me that once,” informed Wonder Man as he punched Mr. Wonderful in the stomach.
“Really? You don’t look so wonderful to me,” the son of Simon Williams pointed out as he punched Wonder Man in the side of the face. “Your hair looks like it was highlighted with Sun-in.”
“It’s natural, I swear,” insisted Wonder Man, putting both of his fists together and punching Mr. Wonderful in the jaw. “But you really should get your chest waxed. Your chest looks like a billo-pad!”
Between Wonder Man’s Olympian strength and Mr. Wonderful’s ion energy-powered might, the two heroes were pretty evenly matched though the two seemed more focused on ridiculing each others’ looks than anything else.
In what appeared to be the outer-reaches of space, Starman was hot on the Guardian’s tails with beams being fired from his Cosmic Rod non-stop.
vs.
“He’s gaining on me,” thought the Guardian. “I’ve got to position myself for a counter-attack,” he said as he flew in a circle and got behind the best friend of the Arachnid. He quickly used his Quantum Bands to form a sphere of solid energy around Starman.
“What the?!?!?!?” cried out Starman as he tried ramming his way through the strange substance he was encased in. “Damn…..it’s too hard. Let’s see if this works,” he mumbled as he fired his Cosmic Rod at full-power.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!
Starman was free and started attacking the Guardian again. As strange as it seemed, the Guardian just floated motionless, letting Starman hit him without fail.
Over and over Starman blasted away with the Guaridan not even flinching.
Suddenly the Guardian raised his hand and pointed at Starman’s Cosmic Rod. In a bizarre twist, the energy from Starman’s rod poured out like water coming from a broken dam flowing into the Guardian.
Starman soon came to the realization that, “My Cosmic Rod is dead….”
“Not exactly,” revealed the Guardian. “I’ve just depleted all of it’s energy. I’m guessing it will recharge eventually. But, while you’re waiting…..” he smiled as he let out a huge blast of stellar energy at the former boyfriend of Supergirl.
ZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAPPPP!!!
Starman crashed into the ground in a state of unconciousness.
The Flash whizzed by the defeated Cosmic Avenger as Quickspeed raced after her on what seemed like a metropolitan street, “Starman….” she sighed. “We’re certainly not doing the best against these Champions of Angor wanna-bees. She turned her head back and glared at Quickspeed, “Look girlfriend, you’re never gonna catch up to me so you might as well call it a race and go chill out. I’m the fastest girl alive so you’re out of your league here.”
vs.
“You sound more like the fastest talker alive if you ask me,” countered Quickspeed. “But you’ll be quiet once I take your sorry @$$ down.”
“I don’t have time to play cat and mouse with her,” the Flash thought to herself, “Starman and some of the others are down and I’ve got to try and help them. Hmm….I think I see just the thing to get this floozy off of my tail!” As she ran by a pile of aluminum cans, she vibrated through them causing their molecules to go berserk and explode right as Quickspeed approached them. With what looked like a fireworks display, Quickspeed was taken out in a “flash”. The daughter of Wally West looked back with a sigh of relief over the fact that her plan worked as she raced over to tend to Starman and her other fallen teammates.
High up above Lt. Atom was facing off with Thundercat. “So what exactly can you do, lady?” asked the son of Captain Atom and Halo.
vs.
“I can control the weather. How about you?” inquired the daughter of the Black Panther and Storm.
“I control quantum energy,” advised Lt. Atom. “As a military man, I’ll offer you a surrender before you make a big mistake and take me on.”
“Don’t tell me that you’re afraid to fight a woman?” Thundercat said, sounding half-annnoyed, “Well, tell you what, I’ll throw the first punch then,” she said as she summoned a dark storm cloud which emitted a powerful bolt of lightning that stuck Lt. Atom harshly.
As the violent current shot through the silver-skinned hero’s body, it sent him crashing into the earth. After a few seconds, Lt. Atom picked himself up an propelled himself skyward, his eyes sparking with energy.
Thundercat knew the hero from a dimension alternate to hers meant business so she commanded the clouds above to release a stream of golf ball-sized hail at her opponent.
As Lt. Atom climbed in altitude, he emitted a low-level blast of energy in front of him, melting the hail before it could strike him. “You’re going to have to do better than that lady!” he suggested as he closed in on Thundercat.
“You want better? How about a tornado?” Thunderbolt said, smiling under her mask.
Suddenly the winds around Lt. Atom picked up considerably. As the air around him started to twist and turn violently, he became dazed and disoriented. He soon lost all sense of direction.
“A few more seconds and he should be down and out,” presumed Thundercat. To her surprise, a potent charge of energy erupted from within the twister, dispersing the clouds above and calming the winds. “My clouds!”
“Are no more!” smirked Lt. Atom. “I not only control quantum energy but magnetic energy too. All I had to do was neutralize the charge in your clouds and POOF – no more!” he said as he blasted Thunderbolt. The blast hit her like a sledgehammer causing her to drift into unconciousness.
In what appeared to be a clash of titans, Power Guy and Mr. Marvel were exchanging blows. Each of their blows shook the ground beneath them.
vs.
“Why are we fighting? This makes no sense,” Power Guy pointed out to his opponent.
As Mr. Marvel continued to punch his adversary, he answered, “You know, I’m not sure but I can tell you’re the strong guy of the group and there’s no way I’m going to sit here and let you pick off my teammates.”
“That’s just it – I have no desire to,” explained Power Guy, blocking Mr. Marvel’s latest punch.
“You really expect me to believe you?” Mr. Marvel asked, harshly as he fired an energy blast at Power Guy but to his surpise, his blast was deflected by the shielf of his leader, the Sentinel of Liberty.
“Marvel! Stand down!” ordered the son of Captain America. “Avengers! All of you STAND DOWN!!!”
Power Guy was relieved to see someone else with a sense of reason. He called out to his comrades, “Titans – AT EASE!!!”
Suddenly all of the fierce battles came to a half. Everyone just stopped and stared at their respective leaders looking for direction.
“We’ve tried fighting now let’s try talking,” suggested the Kryptonian powerhouse as he approached the Sentinel of Liberty. “Hi – my name is Power Guy. I’m the leader of the Titans of Justice,” he said, extending his hand.
“Sentinel of Liberty here. Leader of the Avengers of Liberty.”
“Seems the fighting is done already? My, my, you heroes do work fast.” Came the voice of Immortus, the man who mastered time itself limped in between the two leaders, his goatee covered with his own blood and his injuries apparent.
“T’would seem Immortus be the reason the Avengers of Liberty were brought to battle thine own Titans of Justice.” The mighty God of Thunder bellowed, his lightning eyes glaring at the lord of time he knew all too well.
“Yes, Thor. I did bring both teams here, to save them both! Because of an event in the Titans’ lives did the Time Trapper have reason to destroy continuity. Slip-ups in the very time-stream are appearing on both worlds. I can name but a few on my own domain, but surely none know of it. <cough> Because it is programmed in reality to compensate. The future has changed, the past has changed. The Time Trapper has taken my machines to wipe both worlds out!” Immortus explained, his sickly appearance growing as the moments went on. “You must split up and handle the Trapper’s…traps before he wipes out the past present and futures of the entire omniverse!”
“Wait, do we trust Immortus, Thor?” Sentinel of Liberty asked the only senior member of the Avengers of Liberty.
“What choice do we have? This Time Trapper fellow is on the loose set to destroy everything!” Power Guy spoke up.
“Aye. We trust Immortus, for all his past misdeeds he preserves what must be. Avengers, Titans move forward to battle!”
To Be Continued…
Titans of Justice/Avengers of Liberty Crossover – “Assemble Pt. 2"
Written by: Power Guy
Edited by: Power Guy and ArckKid
***Please note: This story takes place before Titans of Justice Unlimited Chapter #50
The hammer of Thor slammed into Black Adam’s chin, hurling him through the air. The Kind of Khandaq was quickly knocked out of his teammate’s view.
vs.
“Hey!” shouted the Arachnid, “You can’t just go and throw your hammer at Black Adam and get away with it! I’ll bet you’re not so tough without your little weapon,” he said jumping in front of Thor. But before the Arachnid could strike, Thor’s hammer returned to his hand just as it always did. <GULP> The Arachnid slowly started to back away when his body jerked from what felt like a painful insect bite on his back. “OUCH!!!!!!!!” he screamed.
“T’would seem Ant-Kid didst strike before the Son of Odin. Thy luck is tried young knave,” advised Thor. Suddenly, he had his own problem to deal with as Black Adam came rocketing through the sky and slammed into the god of thunder.
“You dare strike the King of Khandaq???” Black Adam screamed as he pummeled Thor with full-force. “I possess the powers of seven gods, mortal!”
Thor quickly punched Black Adam in the gut, knocking him backwards, “Mortal? Thou art but a base villain. None may claim the God of Thunder and King of Asgard itself. Thou shalt learn thy folly!” Swinging his hammer in the air, Thor called down some lightning to strike his foe. The harsh electricity shot through Black Adam’s body, temporarily immobilizing him.
The former villain of the Marvel Family struggled to pick himself up and crawled over towards Thor, slowly but surely.
“Day of days, thou doth withstand Mjolnir’s lightning.,” commented Thor. “Tarry not thy might may yet impress me. T’would seem that ne’er the one who claims the power of seven gods is truly worth the efforts of mine uru hammer. Thou art no longer worthy of battling Thor, God of Thunder.”
As Black Adam finally reached his target, he grabbed onto Thor’s ankle and cried out, “SHAZAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
A single, thundering bolt of lightning erupted from the sky and struck the god of thunder, giving him a taste of his own medicine. Both he and Black Adam lay still for a few moments in hopes of recovering from each other’s attacks.
A few yards away, Green Lantern, Sonic Boom, and Dark Arrow were all back to back in a triangular shape preparing themselves for their opponents’ attack. Iron Man II, Mockingbird II, and the Avenging Arrow were rushing towards them.
vs.
Mockingbird II was the first to attack when she released the battle-staves that were cloaked under her draping sleeves at Sonic Boom.
The staves flew through the air, about to strike their target when Sonic Boom let loose her Canary Cry, “SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!” and shattered the staves in mid-flight. “That all you got?” questioned the newly-christened Black Canary in a cocky tone.
“Hardly!” replied Mockingbird as she jumped into the air and kicked Sonic Boom in the face.
“Sonic Boom!” cried out Dark Arrow and Green Lantern in unison but before either of them could tend to their comrade, Iron Man and the Avenging Arrow were closing in.
Dark Arrow and the Avenging Arrow were both firing arrow after arrow at one another, each arrow colliding with one of their opponents’.
After several minutes of this same scenario repeating, Dark Arrow offered, “How about you surrender? You can’t keep this up forever, chump!”
“Surrender? I don’t even know the meaning of that word green-jeans!” countered the Avenging Arrow as he continued launching his arrows at his adversary.
Green Lantern and Iron Man both took to the air. Iron Man fired his repulsor rays which were met head-on with blasts from Green Lantern’s ring.
“That ring is fascinating,” remarked Iron Man. “What kind of technology did you use to build it?”
“I didn’t build it,” answered the green guardian, “It was given to me by the Guardians of The Universe. It runs on will-power.”
“Hmm….I guess after I take you down, I’m going to have to take a good look at it,” Iron Man said, confidently.
“Take me down?” asked Green Lantern as a second beam came out of ring and created a giant fist which slammed down on Iron Man, causing him to crash into the ground. “Lucky for you, I have no desire to wear some bulky set of armor,” even though you may be thinking differently right now,” he presumed as he ordered his ring to strip the son of Tony Stark of his armor.
As Green Lantern declared victory over Iron Man II, another battle was heating up. Nightvision and Stellar found themselves face to face with the Sentinel of Liberty and Spider Venom.
vs.
“Nice costume,” Stellar said as he flew towards the Sentinel of Liberty, “though I’m not sure it will look quite as good on you once your face is all bruised up!” Before the wielder of the Cosmic Converter Belt could begin his attack, he soon found his face covered in a thick, sticky substance which made it hard for him to see.
“Worry about your own face first, punk!” shouted Spider Venom as he swung into Stellar and punched him in the stomach. The young hero dropped to the ground and began rolling back and forth as he struggled to get Spider Venom’s webbing off of his face. Just as the son of Peter Parker was about to pounce on Stellar, he finally was able to burn off the webbing covering his eyes. He let out another blast at his opponent, knocking him on his derrière. Stellar took to the sky again ready to finish off Spider Venom but the black and white garbed hero was quick to get back on his feet and shot a web-line at Stellar’s chest. Once the line was secure, he started swinging Stellar around in the air and then finally let him go only to send him flying into some strange-shaped wall, knocking him out cold.
As Nightvision and the Sentinel of Liberty scoped each other out, the son of Captain America proposed, “All of this fighting seems a bit senseless. How about we talk this out?”
“Your team starts the fighting and now you want to talk?” barked Nightvision, “It sounds to me like you’re trying to get me to let my guard down,” he said throwing three Batarangs at the leader of the Avengers of Liberty.
The Sentinel was quick to jump out of the way of one of the incoming Batarangs while he used his shield to deflect the other two. “You’re going to have to do better than that, pal!” he said lunging at the son of Nightwing and Oracle.
The two men started wrestling around punching and kicking each other relentlessly. Both opponents were at the peak of human physical condition and neither was ready to let up any time soon. If this battle was not stopped by some outside force, it could go one for hours upon hours.
In the midst of all of the commotion, the Arachnid was running around like a mad-man to the pain and irritation of Ant-Kid’s attack, “Stop biting me, you freak! Ouch! Ouch!”
“I’m not biting you, I’m stinging you!” pointed out Ant Kid, “That’s what you get for disrespecting Thor!”
Suddenly the Arachnid grabbed his backside, “HEY! Keep it above the belt dude!! OOOUUUCCCHHHH!!!”
“You’re not wearing a belt,” reminded Ant Kid as he continued to “sting” away.
Off to the side of the majority of the fighting, Whirlpool and Namor had found a water-like pool to venture into. Whirlpool was shooting off hard-water blasts at his adversary but Namor was quick and graceful enough to dodge each one so far.
vs.
“Fool! None are quicker than Prince Namor the second beneath the waters!” gloated the son of the Sub-mariner as he swam close to the son of Tempest and punched him the face. Namor’s immense strength sent Whirlpool soaring backwards.
“That hurt!” Whirlpool thought to himself. “I think it’s safe to assume that he’s a lot stronger than I am even in the water. I’ve got to come up with a plan before I end up in Davy Jones’ locker,” he thought as he started swimming away, trying to buy himself some time.
“Coward! Come back here and fight me!” ordered Namor II as he swam after the blue-garbed underwater hero. With Namor’s incredible speed, he caught up to Whirlpool in a matter of minutes. He grabbed him by the throat and lifted him upwards until the two of them were floating several yards above the water. “Ha! Now you no longer have the sea as your weapon! Surrender and I shall harm you no further.”
Whirlpool gave Namor a dirty look as he struggled at removing Namor’s hand from his throat. His eyes began to glow as the sea beneath him rose up into the form of a giant fist which lunged towards the duo passing effortlessly through Whirlpool but grabbing firmly onto Namor and squeezing him tightly forcing him to release Whirlpool. A second spurt of water rose up, creating a platform under Whirlpool so he could remain at eye to eye level with the immobilized Namor. “I don’t need to be IN the water to control it,” revealed Whirlpool. “Don’t you ever put your hands around my throat again,” he said back-handing his adversary from an alternate Atlantis.
As the battles continued, the Titans and Avengers began to notice that this strange place was morphing into various scenery to best suit the heroes’ personalities and abilities.
Sargona and the Scarlet Vision found themselves in what seemed to be an old castle. Each was trying to get the best of the other. Sargona was using the Ruby of Life to send all manner of objects hurtling towards the Scarlet Vision but the red-garbed Avenger was using a combination of her Hex-magic and dematerialization powers to thwart Sargona’s various attacks.
vs.
“Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!” Sargona whispered to herself. “She’s avoiding everything I throw at her!”
“Ready to throw up the white flag, dear?” offered the Scarlet Vision as she pressed on closer to the daughter of Sargon and Zatanna. “You’re obviously out-classed.”
“Outclassed? That would be a first,” Sargona replied cattily. “Before you start worrying about me, I suggest you ditch that bad perm that looks like it was stolen from Cher back in the eighties!”
“You did not just make fun of my hair….” grumbled the Scarlet Vision as she cast a spell causing a large grandfather clock next to Sargona to come toppling down on her, rendering her unconscious. “Stupid pony-tail wearing bimbo…..” spat the Scarlet Vision as she claimed victory over Sargona.
In what seemed to be a rocky canyon, Argos and Gamma-Zon were duking it out. Gamma-Zon ripped off a large piece of rock from a mountain beside her and slammed it down on the new-age dog of war.
vs.
Within seconds, Argos burst free from the rubble with ease. “You’re strong woman, I’ll give you that but you’re going to have to do a lot better to stop the son of Orion,” he said as he blasted the daughter of the She-Hulk with the Astro-Force.
“AAARRRGHHH!!” screamed Gamma-Zon, “That stings a little but it gets my adrenaline going,” she said as she threw a large boulder at Argos.
Argos punched the giant rock, causing it to shatter and shower down on his green-skinned opponent.
“That’s it! You’re going down and you’re going down NOW!” screamed Gamma-Zon as she punched the ground in front of her, causing it to crack open in a forward motion, opening a deep trench below Argos. Argos promptly fell into the trench and Gamma-Zon started throwing large rocks on top of him in an attempt to bury him alive. After a few minutes, the trench was filled with rocks and it appeared that Gamma-Zon had accomplished her mission. “Looks like I showed that loser,” she said complimenting herself but suddenly a Boom Tube opened behind her silently and Argos stepped out. He quickly blasted the daughter of the She-Hulk with a full-force blast of the Astro-Force putting her down for the count.
“I certainly do not enjoy hurting a woman but you left me with no choice,” commented Argos as he threw Gamma-Zon’s inert body over his shoulder.
In the air over what appeared to be a dense jungle, Hawkgirl and Queen Bee were locked in battle with the Black Viking and Bumblebee.
vs.
The Black Viking was riding on top of his winged-horse and flew towards Hawkgirl, his Ebony-blade fiercely colliding with Hawkgirl’s Nth Metal mace.
“HAAAAAAA!!!” Hawkgirl shouted as she and the Black Viking continued clashing metal against metal. CLING CLANG CLING CLANG!!
“I warn you girl, I am the son of an Asgardian demi-goddess and a descendent from of a knight from the Round Table of Cemelot!”
“Am I supposed to be impressed?” questioned Hawkgirl as she slammed her mace into the Black Knight’s sword, knocking it out of his hand.
The Black Knight’s eyes grew wide and his heart sped up as he realized what would come next.
“Nighty night, Knight!” smiled Hawkgirl as she slammed her mace down on the Black Knight’s helmet, delivering a T.K.O.
A few feet away, Queen Bee had shrunk down to only a few inches tall to better combat Bumblebee who was firing off a spree of bio-stings at the daughter of Mal and Karen Duncan.
“Bumblebee, huh?” Queen Bee mused as she released her electrical sting against Bumblebee’s bio-sting. The two blast collided causing a mild explosion of sparks. “My mother used that name for a while. All you look like to me is a pale imitation. No pun intended.”
“Whatever sister,” Bumblebee remarked sarcastically, as she scored a direct hit on Queen Bee with her one of her stings.
Queen Bee fell to the ground, trying to shake of the pain of Bumblebee’s attack. As the daughter of the Wasp landed in front of her, she reached for her secret compartment in her belt-buckle.
“Looks like you’re all washed up. One more sting and you’re off to la la land,” declared Bumblebee ready to finish off the Queen Bee. But before she could act, a swarm of mechanical bees came flying out of Queen Bee’s belt and bombarded the sister of Ant-Kid with dozens of electrical stings.
“Hive! Stun stings only!” directed Queen Bee.
The robotic insects followed their mistress’ command and administered the paralyzing stings from their stingers and brought Bumblebee to her knees
“Now who’s seeing stars, girl?” Queen Bee said, putting her hands on her hips.
As Queen Bee stood proud in front of Bumblebee, Wonder Man and Mr. Wonderful were taking jabs at each other.
vs.
“Who the heck are you supposed to be?” asked the son of Wonder Woman.
“The name’s Mr. Wonderful and don’t you forget it!”
“Mr. Wonderful, huh?” repeated Wonder Man, “Someone called me that once,” informed Wonder Man as he punched Mr. Wonderful in the stomach.
“Really? You don’t look so wonderful to me,” the son of Simon Williams pointed out as he punched Wonder Man in the side of the face. “Your hair looks like it was highlighted with Sun-in.”
“It’s natural, I swear,” insisted Wonder Man, putting both of his fists together and punching Mr. Wonderful in the jaw. “But you really should get your chest waxed. Your chest looks like a billo-pad!”
Between Wonder Man’s Olympian strength and Mr. Wonderful’s ion energy-powered might, the two heroes were pretty evenly matched though the two seemed more focused on ridiculing each others’ looks than anything else.
In what appeared to be the outer-reaches of space, Starman was hot on the Guardian’s tails with beams being fired from his Cosmic Rod non-stop.
vs.
“He’s gaining on me,” thought the Guardian. “I’ve got to position myself for a counter-attack,” he said as he flew in a circle and got behind the best friend of the Arachnid. He quickly used his Quantum Bands to form a sphere of solid energy around Starman.
“What the?!?!?!?” cried out Starman as he tried ramming his way through the strange substance he was encased in. “Damn…..it’s too hard. Let’s see if this works,” he mumbled as he fired his Cosmic Rod at full-power.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!
Starman was free and started attacking the Guardian again. As strange as it seemed, the Guardian just floated motionless, letting Starman hit him without fail.
Over and over Starman blasted away with the Guaridan not even flinching.
Suddenly the Guardian raised his hand and pointed at Starman’s Cosmic Rod. In a bizarre twist, the energy from Starman’s rod poured out like water coming from a broken dam flowing into the Guardian.
Starman soon came to the realization that, “My Cosmic Rod is dead….”
“Not exactly,” revealed the Guardian. “I’ve just depleted all of it’s energy. I’m guessing it will recharge eventually. But, while you’re waiting…..” he smiled as he let out a huge blast of stellar energy at the former boyfriend of Supergirl.
ZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAPPPP!!!
Starman crashed into the ground in a state of unconciousness.
The Flash whizzed by the defeated Cosmic Avenger as Quickspeed raced after her on what seemed like a metropolitan street, “Starman….” she sighed. “We’re certainly not doing the best against these Champions of Angor wanna-bees. She turned her head back and glared at Quickspeed, “Look girlfriend, you’re never gonna catch up to me so you might as well call it a race and go chill out. I’m the fastest girl alive so you’re out of your league here.”
vs.
“You sound more like the fastest talker alive if you ask me,” countered Quickspeed. “But you’ll be quiet once I take your sorry @$$ down.”
“I don’t have time to play cat and mouse with her,” the Flash thought to herself, “Starman and some of the others are down and I’ve got to try and help them. Hmm….I think I see just the thing to get this floozy off of my tail!” As she ran by a pile of aluminum cans, she vibrated through them causing their molecules to go berserk and explode right as Quickspeed approached them. With what looked like a fireworks display, Quickspeed was taken out in a “flash”. The daughter of Wally West looked back with a sigh of relief over the fact that her plan worked as she raced over to tend to Starman and her other fallen teammates.
High up above Lt. Atom was facing off with Thundercat. “So what exactly can you do, lady?” asked the son of Captain Atom and Halo.
vs.
“I can control the weather. How about you?” inquired the daughter of the Black Panther and Storm.
“I control quantum energy,” advised Lt. Atom. “As a military man, I’ll offer you a surrender before you make a big mistake and take me on.”
“Don’t tell me that you’re afraid to fight a woman?” Thundercat said, sounding half-annnoyed, “Well, tell you what, I’ll throw the first punch then,” she said as she summoned a dark storm cloud which emitted a powerful bolt of lightning that stuck Lt. Atom harshly.
As the violent current shot through the silver-skinned hero’s body, it sent him crashing into the earth. After a few seconds, Lt. Atom picked himself up an propelled himself skyward, his eyes sparking with energy.
Thundercat knew the hero from a dimension alternate to hers meant business so she commanded the clouds above to release a stream of golf ball-sized hail at her opponent.
As Lt. Atom climbed in altitude, he emitted a low-level blast of energy in front of him, melting the hail before it could strike him. “You’re going to have to do better than that lady!” he suggested as he closed in on Thundercat.
“You want better? How about a tornado?” Thunderbolt said, smiling under her mask.
Suddenly the winds around Lt. Atom picked up considerably. As the air around him started to twist and turn violently, he became dazed and disoriented. He soon lost all sense of direction.
“A few more seconds and he should be down and out,” presumed Thundercat. To her surprise, a potent charge of energy erupted from within the twister, dispersing the clouds above and calming the winds. “My clouds!”
“Are no more!” smirked Lt. Atom. “I not only control quantum energy but magnetic energy too. All I had to do was neutralize the charge in your clouds and POOF – no more!” he said as he blasted Thunderbolt. The blast hit her like a sledgehammer causing her to drift into unconciousness.
In what appeared to be a clash of titans, Power Guy and Mr. Marvel were exchanging blows. Each of their blows shook the ground beneath them.
vs.
“Why are we fighting? This makes no sense,” Power Guy pointed out to his opponent.
As Mr. Marvel continued to punch his adversary, he answered, “You know, I’m not sure but I can tell you’re the strong guy of the group and there’s no way I’m going to sit here and let you pick off my teammates.”
“That’s just it – I have no desire to,” explained Power Guy, blocking Mr. Marvel’s latest punch.
“You really expect me to believe you?” Mr. Marvel asked, harshly as he fired an energy blast at Power Guy but to his surpise, his blast was deflected by the shielf of his leader, the Sentinel of Liberty.
“Marvel! Stand down!” ordered the son of Captain America. “Avengers! All of you STAND DOWN!!!”
Power Guy was relieved to see someone else with a sense of reason. He called out to his comrades, “Titans – AT EASE!!!”
Suddenly all of the fierce battles came to a half. Everyone just stopped and stared at their respective leaders looking for direction.
“We’ve tried fighting now let’s try talking,” suggested the Kryptonian powerhouse as he approached the Sentinel of Liberty. “Hi – my name is Power Guy. I’m the leader of the Titans of Justice,” he said, extending his hand.
“Sentinel of Liberty here. Leader of the Avengers of Liberty.”
“Seems the fighting is done already? My, my, you heroes do work fast.” Came the voice of Immortus, the man who mastered time itself limped in between the two leaders, his goatee covered with his own blood and his injuries apparent.
“T’would seem Immortus be the reason the Avengers of Liberty were brought to battle thine own Titans of Justice.” The mighty God of Thunder bellowed, his lightning eyes glaring at the lord of time he knew all too well.
“Yes, Thor. I did bring both teams here, to save them both! Because of an event in the Titans’ lives did the Time Trapper have reason to destroy continuity. Slip-ups in the very time-stream are appearing on both worlds. I can name but a few on my own domain, but surely none know of it. <cough> Because it is programmed in reality to compensate. The future has changed, the past has changed. The Time Trapper has taken my machines to wipe both worlds out!” Immortus explained, his sickly appearance growing as the moments went on. “You must split up and handle the Trapper’s…traps before he wipes out the past present and futures of the entire omniverse!”
“Wait, do we trust Immortus, Thor?” Sentinel of Liberty asked the only senior member of the Avengers of Liberty.
“What choice do we have? This Time Trapper fellow is on the loose set to destroy everything!” Power Guy spoke up.
“Aye. We trust Immortus, for all his past misdeeds he preserves what must be. Avengers, Titans move forward to battle!”
To Be Continued…