10Hey guys, Zam the hedgehog here!. Don't know if I told you this already buuuuut...this is in the far future. Yeah, you knew it.
You'll definitely know because Elsa and Steve are married...and they have a kid. Yeah...Steve did it.
Anyways...You'll notice the snippets of the hero's kids in the future. Well, you'll see how they tie in with this soon enough... for now, enjoy this chapter!
"gloobooly boogy babuloogie..."
Steve gave a chuckle as he stared down into the crib of the small baby boy within. The tiny newborn human gazed up at his father with wide, curious eyes and tried to grab at his face with his small pudgy arms. Captain America gave a glance at his wife as she walked in, an Apron draping from her slender neck. "I think my son is calling me names, Honey."
Elsa raised an eyebrow and flashed that genuine smirk of hers. "Oh, I think you're mistaken Steven. Before sunrise, he's your son. Right now,he's mine."
"Now that's cruel." Steve laughed heartily, peering down at his son and dipping his hand within the crib. His boy took hold of his finger and studied it with a grin. "Quite a grip there, James."
Elsa crept over just silently to sneak a peek at James herself. The infant slowly took notice of her and gave a happy squeal when he did see his mother. "gwumpy!"
Elsa giggled and stroked herchild's head. "Hey yourself, my little soldier...If only you didn't call me 'Grumpy' so much, Steven."
"It's not my fault you seemed that way during Diaper changing time." Steve responded with a mock look of seriousness.
"You try it for a change, Captain." Elsa challenged. "Your son will be old by the time, you decide to."
Steve rolled his eyes. "At least I'll see him grow into the great man I know he'll be."
James Rogers furrowed his brow in worry and turned to his fellow teammates. "We gotta finish our transports fast, people! We got incoming."
"Great! We've only been here eight minutes. " Audrey Rogers exclaimed in annoyance, before turning to the entrance they had come through. Using the gifts she inherited from her mother, the girl sealed up the entrance with an icebolck so thick that it came to just a few inches in front of her.
Blink tapped it worriedly."Will this hold for a long time?"
"No. Not for very long, no." Audrey turned on he commlink, instantly getting the voice of none other than Mayday Parker on the end. "May!"
"What's up?! Are they there?"
"Yeah! Blink settin up a portal. Take what you can And meet us on the first floor."
RSSSH!
A red beam shot out through the ice wall and created a large hole in their defenses. A metallic figure did not hesitate to fly through, and promptly tackled Audrey. It looked much like an Iron man suit, only entirely grey and with two strange antenna on either side of it's head. Equipped to the side of it's arms were missiles ready to be fired. The Drone reared back a fist and began to pummel the girl painfully in the cheek, until James tackled it.
hurghh!" James put it into a tight headlock, and then ripped the skull clean off the body. It clumked to the ground in a flurry of sparks, and it's eyes went black. "We'll have more incoming!"
"Say Leo, how's Godzilla doing by the way?" Anna folded her arms behind her head as she rode on Iron man's back.
"Pretty good. Why?" The Lion wondered aloud
"Just curious. Does he get lonely?" She asked next.
"He's a king. Kings never get lonely." Leo explained to her.
Spider-Man swung up underneath them. "Besides, he's got Rodan and Mothra too."
"Guys..." Hulk bounded into the air, breifly hovering with them. "Why am I always the one carrying the bad guys?"
"You complain too much Hulk." Anna frowned down at him as he jumped back up. "Just enjoy the trip to the jailhouse. At least theyre not conscious. Then they'd be chewing our ears off."
"Ugh...Fine." Hulk rolled his eyes and continued to carry the load of supervillains on each shoulder.
" A party?" Hank asked, prompting the eager nods of Janet and Mikey.
"Yeah bro! After the Hydra attack we have planned for Wednesday, we can a celebratory party!" The turtle explained to him.
"Uh...how do you know we're going to have victory?" Pym wondered aloud. "We haven't even planned the whole attack out yet! "
"Well, we're obviously going to win! We're the Protectors for crying out loud!" Janet said as if it were completely obvious, and then fluttered onto Mikey's head. "Just think, all of the main eighteen will be there, plus a few others! One big family enjoying each other's time together!"
"Janet, I wouldn't go so far as to say that we're a family." Hank told her with a roll of his eyes.
"Well I would. We're one big happy family!" Janet glared at him. "And you're coming. No postponing."
"I wasn't going to! Honest!"
"Good. Now..." She grew to her full size, and walked towards the door. "Lets go help with the paint shipments. Ultron can wait to be finished."
"Paint?"
"The lunch room dawg." Mikey followed Janet. "Remember? To redecorate the halls and Lunch room."
"Oh. Right."
When they got to the Elevator, three other superheroes had made their way down to use the Elevator as well: Jenny Sparks, Scout and Percy Jackson. Mikey of course, was the first to greet them. "Yooo! Scout! Jen! Purse!"
"Heeey sup MC Mikey?" Scout adjusted his cap, while Jenny fistpumped Mikey and Percy frowned.
"Whats with the nickname?!" He asked. "Call me something other than purse?"
"Touchy touchy." Janet muttered, right before the Elevator door opened. They all crammed themselves inside, and Hank pressed the Loading Dock button. During the Elevator's descent down towards their destination, there was that constant rythmical dinging sound that elevators always make. Mikey listened to this boredly, then tapped his nunchucks together musically.
"Mc Mikey."
Tap tap tap-tap. Tap tap tap tap-"MC wikiwiki!"
Scout followed in by banging the side of the Elevator at certain points with his baseball bat, and Percy made fast paced sloshing noise with water in his backpack and Jenny merely joined in with Mikey. When Janet added the electronic sound of her lazers, they had all created a perfect rap beat with each other...and the Elevator noise.
Hank stared at each of them with his signature 'youre all so childish i could cry' stare.
Spider-girl listened to the chatter on the commlink. The Ultron bots had come faster than they ever had before, which meant that they were more intent on hunting them down now. While she listened to the sound of her family fighting to leave with what they could get, she turned to look at her Fiance:Terry McGinnis in his full Batcostume. "They've Been found."
"Theyll make it out, May." Terry nodded. "They always do."
"This time's different." She sighed. "They came too soon."
"They will still get out. Trust me. They just need ti-'
A flash of bright light gained their attention from the right and they smiled, since this This meant they were escaping back into the base. And sure enough, James rogers, Audrey Rogers, Nightwing, Stargirl, Catgirl, Jinx, Blink and Warpath stumbled into the room and the portal closed behind them. May immediately ran over to them and scanned them over for injuries. It was then that she noticed the number of friends was fewer...and that everyone there was forlorn and on the verge of tears.. "Where's Percy and Annabeth?"
"they...T-They.." Nightwing tried to speak.
"...They fought bravely...and voluntarily covered our escape..." James explained sadly.
"...N-no... " May all but whispered to herself, tears already running down her cheeks.
Wedsnday, Present day...
"Alright Protectors!" Superman crossed his arms as he stood before his allies. "As you know, Intel has told us of the true Hydra base of Operations holed up In Sovakia's forests. The nation denies the U.S. access to any part of this area...but that's where we come in. Captain America will be leading us in, and will explain the plan. "
Cap took the stage with a nod to The huge group of select heroes. "Alright, Team. Normally Id go with things old school...but we'll try something different today. There's thirty six of us going out this morning, so I'll split you up into groups of twelve. My wife will provide an ice dome around us so there's no getting in or out of the place. Team one will strike from the front, while team two strikes from behind. Any resistance will be forced to run out the sides and right into the divided team 3."
When Cap added nothing else, Superman looked at the crowd. " Any questions?"
"Who wants a pre-attack burger?"
Superman sighed and smiled. "Alright Leo. I'll take one "
After almost all the heroes received a nice big burger(Huntress claimed she was trying to watch her weight), Superman repeated. "Any other questions? "
Ernest raised his hand "Got one: How big is this gonna be?" He asked while loading his M60.
Superman nodded to him. "Well, since Red skull is supposed to be here...pretty big...you think that M60 will do the job?"
"Red skull does have an army doesn't he? Also, you worried that I'm overkilling things a bit?" He joked.
"yeah. and no...underkilling."
"Hey S-man relax. Perfect human remember? Sides, I'm obviously not gonna be alone." He pointed out after loading his shotgun.
"...okay then..." Superman turned serious again. "Protectors...let's move."
From the creators of The Origin of The Protectors and The Protectors...
Straight from the man who gave you Finally Belonging and Retold...
...THE PROTECTORS: AGE OF ULTRON
Hydra soldiers were scattered around and scurrying across the tundra landscape, running into the ice dome several times in their frantic panic. And with severely good reason.
Miles Morales used his webbing to string up two goons trying to shoot up the redwood tree at him. After knocking them into unconsciousness, the boy jumped off from the high height and reached up for his comm piece, muttering something about wanting to catch up with the others. Stephanie Brown, donned in her batsuit, maneuvered her motorcycle to where it strolled up just in time for him to land and crouch on the tire covering of it. Beside them, Their fellow heroes Shadow the hedgehog, The Flash and Supergirl slowed to a speed to where they would all be side by side in their travels. A few hydra goons with jetpacks made the horrible mistake of leaping onto the heroes and were shown the error of their plans by being hurled onto a lookout balcony. This balcony just so happened to hold Batman and Thor Odinson In all their kicking and punching and jaw shattering might. When more Hydra soldiers decided to climb up the wooden balcony, Thor shattered the small building with his Hammer, and then made off with Batman before both landed on the back of Bumblebee. They rode along side the younger heroes, and took notice of Antman and wasp fluttering up to them just as Iron man and Astro boy took out a squadron of flying goons. The Werehog roared like a dying bear and galloped at Lamborghini speeds to their right while the Hulk took their left. When the entire huge hero team came to dip in the ground that would act as a ramp, all twelve of them leaped up into the air at the same time. If one were to videotape at an angle and slow it down...
...they would look Majestic.
When her cycle landed, Stephanie smiled widely and showed her IPhone to Miles. "OH MY GOSH! THIS SELFIE WAS PERFECT!"
Black Spider smiled at her odd enthusiasm for the social world, and looked at the picture. His smile flipped. "Awww maaan!"
"What?"
"My eyes are closed!"
"Guys?" Supergirl hovered above them while punching a man out cold. "Could we focus for a sec? Take out that bunker while I contact Huntress and see how her team's doing?"
Stephanie veered towards it, but remarked: "who does she think she is, Superman?"
Supergirl rolled her eyes. "Huntress? How's it looking over there?"
"Okay."
"Okay?"
"Yeah. We're beating their sorry arses up anddown the hills." Huntress made a noise that sounded like punching."Theyre bringing more tanks though."
"Ill deal with the tanks."
"Someone, throw me in the middle of somewhere, I'll slow down the army bit by bit! Anyone else want's to come along!?" He asked while shooting a bunch of men, knocking them out. Cassandra cain wordlessly nodded to the boy and followed his lead.
"Thank god I got a power that can make guns non-lethal or else I wouldn't be having this much fun." He landed beside the boy and wasted no time in hurling him and BlackBat forward, close to the base of operations.
"GOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!" He shouted out in the air and then started to fall. "BRO FIST!" He punched the ground at the base, sending a huge shockwave that knocks the enemies around him back. "I'll save some baddies for you guys after the shields down!"
"Shields?"Iron man wondered aloud and soared towards the Hydra base. "What shie-"
Iron man bounced straight off of a reflective blue force field around the warehouse, and he almost zoomed into the tough snowy ground below him "SH#T!"
"Language,Mister!" Captain America announced on his Motorcycle.
"I thought you heard of the f%cking shields!" Ernest laughed while shooting his shotgun like a pistol that took about 6 men.
Huntress landed beside Ernest,punching out a Hydra goon behjnd him and looking over her shoulder. "LANGUAGE!"
"Does truck, duck, or luck sound better?" Ernest smiled.
"I dunno. Take your pick." Huntress nonchalantly pointed behind him. "Uh...behind you."
Ernest turns and aims a shotgun at the mans mouth. "Hello what's your name?" Ernest fired his shotgun, sending the man flying back towards a wall unconscious. "Forget it! I don't give a crap and you loss!"
"Alright,lets go help out team three."
The Red Skull, as always, was not having the best of days at the moment. Many of his troops were frantically running around and crying about heroes ttacking them, and it seemed they were close to revealing the secrets of Hydra once again. He glanced at the ever present eyes of the twins in the corner, and scowled at his right hand man Strucker as he rushed up to him with a lackey.
"How are things looking Gentlemen?"
"From his words...not good." Strucker sighed.
"The Protectors are overpowering us!" The lackey exclaimed in horror."it wont be long before they breach!"
"We will fight them." was Skull's response to this.
"...they're The Protectors!"
Red Skull had to admit...he had a point. Strucker stared patiently at Skull, who shook his head immediately."No. We cannot."
"Sir, The Twins-"
"We do not yet know their full potential!" Skull pointed out.
"No...i was trying to say that they're gone."
"HHHHHA HA HA HAAAAA! CRY SOME MOOOORE!" The Heavy laughed hysterically and continued to stream and endless supplynof bullets from his minigun at the at the weakly armoured tanks. Martian Manhunter rose up from the ground beside him.
"...Fire nation allies are beginning to strike." He muttered gravely. "...as well as two unknown...identities."
"Oh sh^t, we got 2 powered twins, I can sense them!" Ernest added.
"Power twins?" Hawkeye chuckled from above. "Sounds like some kind of tv sho-"
A stray shot of blue whizzed into the tree and knocked the archer out of the tree. When Hawkeye groaned from his position on the ground, he was met with an odd sight. A gray haired guy around the age of 19 stopped in a sudden halt next to him. He wore a casual spandex blue shirt striped with white and grey and dark blue pants.
"You didnt see that coming?" He asked with a roll of his eyes, and then vanished in a flash of light.
"Shadow, we got an evil speedster around here! And huntress, I said a curse word and your not going along with Steve anymore?" Ernest asked looking over his solder with his eyebrow raised and a half smile.
"Im kinda busy punching out bad guys right now."
"Im on it."Shadow announced and raced after the guy.
"A secret door. What are the odds, Pym?" Tony smiled widely At him from within his Iron man suit. His partner said no words, and merely entered thanks to his curiousity. It was a huge room, dark and clustered with all manner of alien things. Looming overhead was a carcass of some sort...belonging toan animal have the size of Godzilla. The scientists eyed each other at their discovery and then noticed their true prize on a particular table.
"There it is." Pym smiled in content. "The stone that Hydra got their hands on. And a few of the infinty fractals too!"
"Like i said bud. What are the odds?"
Neither of them noticed the figure approaching from behind. Said figure being a girl around the age of 19 as well, and wearing a blood red leather jacket over a tight fitting black tank top and brown pants. Brown hair flapped like a flag, but not from wind...but her red magic. She thrust her hands out atPym,and his eyes turned red for a moment.
In that instant, he saw chaos.
He saw a decimated city, with each and every Protector lying before him in death throes. From Hulk being impaled with spears to Batman with his lungs shredded to Iron man being torn apart, all of his friends and allies were in crumpled heap...even Captain America's shield was a shattered pile. With a look of horror, he saw Janet crawling towards him in a pool of her own blood and he ran and hugged her tightly. "J-Janet...?"
"Hank...i-i...you could...have saved us..."
"NO STRINGS-"
"BRO!"
Hank suddenly came to and frowned as Tony grabbed the needed Items. "Are you okay,Pym? You zoned out."
"...Im fine."
"Force field is down!" Supergirl gestured. "Lets move people!"
"YEEEEEAAAAAAH BAAABY!" Ernest cried out loud as he shoots his M60 while charging.
Before Batman could join the small army of heroes in their assault, he barked: "Amy! Time for Werehog's Lullaby."
Amy was much different than her previous years on the team. Due to months of training with Thor, she has received not only intense skills and a suit just like his(albeit almost entirely pink), but was also given a test. Once she passed it, Odin had given her Hammer a 'makeover' and was now much like Thor's. And of course...only she could weild it. Not to mention she was for some reason the only one to calm down Werehog enough as he was much different than the Hulk. "I'm on it."
As if on cue, a crumpled up tank landed some feet from her and beside it was the bulked up figure of the gamma mutated hedgehog. He snarled lowly to himself, his dilated pupils darting left and right for another victim to his fists. Amy took a deep breath as she always did before this and spoke loudly. "Hey, buddy!"
"shAAAR!!" The Werehog immediately snapped into a defensive position at her, baring yellow teeth at her. Amy swallowed.
"Suns getting real low, Guy..." The pink furred hedgehog told him calmly. She lowered herself until she was almost crouching to show him that she was no threat to him. At this, The Werehog almost turned away from her, since he was looking for a fight but stopped when he noticed her hand extended to him. He tilted his head, as if deeply perplexed by this and slowly lumbered over on his hind legs instead of all fours. Amy watched as he held his own massive paw out towards her and she did the same. Her hand made soft circling motions in his palm, and her eyes closed. The Werehog stared in growing curiosity at her face, and noted the peace on her muzzle, the soft relaxed rise and fall of her chest. He never realized that her relaxed feeling had come over him, and The Werehog slowly shrank down in size. Amy noticed the weight of his hand beginning to lessen, and she opened her eyes just in time to see Sonic breathing heavily before her.
"About time you came back." She smiled.
"Hey hammer girl, how's your boyfriend?" Ernest asked.
"He's fine now...lets go."