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The Newest Marvel
*** Geffen-Meyers Chemicals ***
And so it began, the first major battle between Iron Man's and Captain America forces; and Clark witnessed it all. He saw how Iron Man suit shorted out from the little device Captain America planted.
*Thunk*
"Damn Colby, what's your armor made out of?" Spider-Man asked wryly as he bounced off and attacked Clark from another angle.
"Neo Steel," Clark replied as he raised an arm up to block Spider-Man incoming kick. Once more Spider-Man hit did not do anything to Clark other than forcing him to step back a bit due to the sheer momentum.
On the Arachnid next bounce through, Clark swung his arm and struck struck his friend squarely in the stomach knocking the wind out of him.
"H-how?" Spider-Man asked in confusion as he wheezed. His spider sensed had warned him but he was not quick enough to dodged his friend in time? Anything else he wanted to say was a moot point as Cobalt threw him into a building.
Clark satisfied that Spider-Man was temporarily out of it he turn to see Atlas battle Stature, Yellow Jacket battle Goliath and Carol fighting Power Man. He was about to take Reed Richards when he was struck from behind, with significant force at at that, and was launched forward off his feet.
"Huh, okay, you're more durable than I thought." A female voice said in mild amusement.
Clark got up quickly and turned to see She-Hulk looking at him curiously as she cracked her knuckle before she jumped at him. He quickly ducked under her swing and counter with a straight punch to her face. He saw a look of surprise graced her face even as he gave her a hard right, this time putting more power behind it.
"Ragh!" She-Hulk as if having enough moved faster than Clark anticipated and gave him a powerful punch into his stomach, sending him skidding across the battlefield.
'I felt that!' Clark got up quickly and saw She-Hulk charging at him like an enraged bull. Sure her punch stung him but it wasn't strong enough to really hurt him. He stood and braced himself for her when Hercules intercept the green giantess sending the two tumbling into one of the fiery buildings.
Using his x-Ray, Clark saw the Demi-God trading vicious blows with the green fighter before he turned back to the main fight. It was going bad as the Resistance were getting peppered from the air attacks of the Cape Killers not to mention the Pro-Registration heroes seem to have more power houses on their side. He kept track of Carol and saw her throwing Power Man around. Satisfied that she was safe he looked at the air units and with a raised hand he fired his heat vision that was expelled from his hand to burn the helicopters rotators.
Clark was satisfied when he saw the Cape Killers jump out with parachute like items slowing their falls.
'There that should put them on more even terms,' Clark thought and watched Daredevil was on them as soon as the first wave landed. He was so focus on making sure all of the Cape Killers landed safely that he failed to react in time to Doc Samson clotheslining him. The hit was hard and it did stun him momentarily before he felt the Gamma blessed superhero put him in a sleeper hold.
"Your armor is tough but can it stand up to 70 ton of pure pressure? Surrender or I will start squeezing down!" The long haired superhero demanded, but then to his surprise Cobalt grabbed his arm and began to break his hold.
"I-Impossible!"
"Nothing's impossible Doctor," Clark replied as he counteracted Doc Samson own strength with his and found that he had to exert himself a bit. While the Doctor was strong, he could not even compare to the stronger opponents that Clark faced.
Breaking the hold, Clark elbowed the good Doctor in his ribs using a good portion of his strength before he turn around and throw a hard right hook, a left and another right. Watching the Doctor staggered a bit on his feet, Clark throw a powerful uppercut sending the good doctor flying and out cold.
"Time for round two with you favorite green giant blue."
With those words Clark found himself grabbed swiftly from behind, and before he could react he was toss brutally into the ground making a small crater. It was once again She-Hulk and she was on top of him throwing hard hammering punches at his face.
"Stay the hell down or else I will start to get really mad and you wouldn't like it when I get mad!"
"Sorry miss no can do," Clark replied evenly as he held his arm up to defend his face. While he was confident he could take the beating She-Hulk was dishing out, he was not sure his suit could. Though the only reason why his suit hasn't been broken thus far was because the heroes have not been using their full strength, everyone was pulling their punches with each other of that he was certain. Still She-Hulk punches was starting to numb his arms.
Firing his heat vision Clark closed his fist to let it build up in his hand before opening right near her stomach. The force of the blast pushed the giantess off of him and away.
Clark quickly got up to his feet and saw She-Hulk was already recovered and was running toward him. He stood his ground and waited for her to throw a punch, which she did. Using moves Diana taught him, Clark grabbed She-Hulk arm, twisted it hard making her grunt in pain and threw her over his shoulder hammering hard into the concrete. But he was not finished, he quickly got onto her back and twisted her arm harder into a painful submission hold. Amazon do not play around.
For Jennifer, she felt the hard pain cut through her anger at this – this D-Lister! The more she exert her strength to try and break the hold the more pain she was in, sure she could try to force it but there was a good chance her arm might end up broken. And if it's get broken, then she might get mad and when she get mad, she might not be able to reign in her temper. It was a curse that she inherit from her cousin. Still she was gonna kick Peter ass for giving them bad info on his friend, this guys was way stronger than Peter made him out to be! How did he get Hulkbuster strength in such a tiny suit?!
"I-Is, this anyway to treat a lady?!" Jennifer admonished her assailant.
"Ma'am," Clark said in as serious a tone as he could muster. "A lady taught me to do this, to her."
For a second, the woman who back he was on stopped her struggling and turned to gave him a raised eyebrow. In response all he could do was shrug helplessly.
"Kinky."
"Hey! I-" Clark began before thunder drowned out his words even as Lighting illuminated blinded him. Both he and She-Hulk looked to where the lighting was and found there was the fame missing Avenger, the God of Thunder himself. The Mighty Thor.
"Thor?" the woman under Clark whispered in almost reverent awe.
Clark took in the sight of the God of Thunder, who in Clark mind had labeled as Billy's counterpart. The Thunderer was in his original outfit with the wing tip and he did not look please. Clark saw the Falcon talk to the man only to see the man locked his sight on Clark for some reason. The next thing Clark knew he was flying through several building, the wind knocked out of him. He look down to see Thor hammer propelling him. Just as he was about to shift off of it, the hammer flew away.
Not a moment after Clark got on his feet another large flash of lighting was called down from the sky and rocked the ground underneath his feet. Quickly flying up he saw the God of Thunder calling down lighting on the Resistance with shock wave solid enough to hurt the weaker heroes. He'd never imagine that Thor would be so brutal to his friends.
Just as Clark was about to fly in and assist the Resistance a high pitch sound frequency blared. With his super hearing it was quite painful making him drop the ground and trying to futility cover his ears. He HATED sound attacks and looked for the source of it despite the pain. After a second he saw that it was from Iron Man suit and rising his arm with pin point accuracy, he fired his heat vision true and destroy the device.
Clark immediately felt at ease as he stood up and saw the other Pro-Registration heroes taken off guard by the Resistance recovery. That was all they needed as the Resistance hammered into the Pro-Registration heroes and their Cape Killer units turning the tide despite being outnumbered. That was when Clark saw it, Thor charging his hammer to fire at Goliath.
Thor fired and in that second before the beam could reach the large fifty foot tall hero, Goliath felt something powerful struck him. Any further thought on what happened was overrode by the pain that lanced up his right arm.
"Argggghhhhh!" Goliath bellowed in pain as he feel to his knees clutching the bleeding stump where his right arm was.
Everyone that was fighting stopped and looked on in horror as a massive arm dropped next to the screaming giant.
Clark winced in pain as he took the full blast of Mjolnir and was sent flying through yet more buildings. Picking himself up he saw Goliath with a missing arm and felt bad for not being able to move the massive man faster. Looking down at his armor he noticed there were a lot of hair line cracks in it from the blast. He was surprised that he felt better than he thought he would. He was certain magic would hurt him, after all Shazam lighting blast hurt a lot worse than this… unless the blast wasn't magic?
Looking up he saw Thor was about to channel his lighting again, this time against the entire group of the Resistance who had gathered up. No way in hell was that happening.
+_+
Sue was completely sick to her stomach at what happened to Bill Foster, her old friend. How could Reed creation have done this? He guarantee didn't he? She hated fighting against friends, HATED it, but at least on some level she felt that Tony was right, but now… Now this monstrosity that her husband made have hurt her friend and could have possibly kill him if not for someone pushing him away. Though she could not remember which heroes the Resistance had that could travel that fast to look like a blue blur.
That was when she saw the Clone Thor ready to attack her friends again. No way in HELL was she going to let that happen. Before she could cover her battered friends with an invisible force shield, the blue blur slammed into the Thor Clone with such force she was nearly knocked off her feet from impact shock wave alone.
+_+
"What the hell was that Friday?!" Tony demanded of his A.I companion as he saw something smashed into Reed's project and their heavy hitter.
"It appears to be Cobalt sir, he is fighting the Clone, and doing quite well I might add." Friday responded.
"That tech suit guy?" Tony frowned as he saw the larger suited person wailing on his Thor Clone and was not pleased.
"Hack him and shut him down!"
"Hacking…"
"Unable to hack..."
"What do you mean unable to hack, show me the port, I'll get us through it," Tony demanded of his A.I. Ok so this kids looked to be better than Tony anticipated but that wasn't a big deal.
"That's just it Tony, there is no port no antenna, I am not sure how he is getting any signal into that thing, it's not possible."
"What?!"
+ _+
Falcon watched in amazement as the tech hero known as Cobalt went toe to toe with Thor, the same Thor that took off Bill arm. Not many people could fight Thor on even ground but Cobalt was doing it and he wasn't even in anything that look like a Hulk Buster suit!
"Cloak's coming around," Cable spoke up letting all the other heroes feel relived as this entire fight had been a nightmare where almost nothing went right.
"We can get the hell outta here."
"Wait what about Cobalt?" Daredevil asked pointing at the metal figure battling the Thor all across the Pro-Registration side.
"He's buying us time, we have to go!" Cassie Lang the Young Avenger sounded very scared, pointed out. She knew she sounded a coward but seeing what happened to Bill Foster shook her to her very core.
"Cassie!" Patriot looked over at his friend in shock but still was just putting on a brave front, he would love to get out of here now but… not without Cobalt.
For what it was worth, what happened to Bill appeared to have stunned the other Pro-Registration heroes into inaction. This would be the perfect time for them to make their escape. However… Falcon looked down at the person he was holding in his arms the broken and battered form of Captain America. Steve would never leave a man behind and for better or worse Cobalt was one of theirs now.
"Cobalt!" Falcon shouted to get the attention of their ally. "This way! We're leaving!"
"Stop them!"
_+_
"Stop them!"
Carol was the first hero to recovered from what happen to Bill and was waiting on orders from Tony to continue but everyone appeared to be engrossed in the battle between Cold Bolt or something and Thor. She felt a bit sick too but only a bit, for as soon as Falcon made his intention to escape she ordered the Cape Killer into action.
Unlike most of the heroes with her, she was in the military and as a solider she'd carry out her duties. Right now it was apprehending this entire group of criminals. Friend or not.
"Carol!"
Carol bit her lip at Sue shocked look but she understood that Sue was a civilian first before a solider. So she'd do it. With that in mind, Carol flew toward the Resistance only to smashed into something invisible.
"Sue!" Carol spat out as she turned to look at the Fantastic Fourette. "Drop the shield!"
_+_
"Go!" Sue Storm shouted at the Resistance members in her protection at the moment.
"God damn it Sue, don't do this!" Carol shouted even as she punched the invisible shield so hard she saw blood coming out from Sue's nose.
Sue looked over to the Falcon and her friends. "Get out of here. NOW!"
Falcon gave her a thankful look that Sue felt she did not deserve before Cloak transported everyone away back to their secret base wherever that may be.
Reed who witnessed the whole thing looked to his wife confused.
"Sue, why did you-"
"Not another god damn word!" Sue looked over to where Bill Foster giant arm was still laying before she looked over to where Cobalt was battling Thor.
"Call off your attack dog."
"No he will not," Tony injected himself into their conversation ignoring Sue glare. He turned to the rest of the Pro-Registration heroes and gave them their orders.
"Bring him down and take him in."
_+_
Clark was in mild pain but that was nothing compared to what he gave Thor who was sporting a bloody nose, and multiple bruises on his face.
"You- cough- YOU DARE still resist the might of the son of Odin?!" Thor bellowed angrily as he his hammer once more.
Clark honestly thought that Thor would be stronger than this, he honestly took stronger hits from She-Hulk! The only thing that was really hurting him was the energy from the hammers and even that wasn't as bad as he thought.
"DIE FIEND!" Thor gave him hammer a powerful spin before bringing all of it's force and momentum onto his opponent.
The blow struck Clark true and he felt it. However before Thor could bring down his hammer again Clark caught it in his hand.
"What! Impossible! Only the Mightiest in the nine worlds-"
The hammer was powerful but Clark X-ray vision saw inside of it. It was not magical at all. And so was this Thor as he saw inside the machine that was Thor.
"Perhaps but you're not the real Thor and this is definitely not his real hammer!"
Then Clark used his full strength and shattered the faux Mjolnir much to the fake Thor surprise. Then locking his hands together he gave a might powerful swing that knocked that Thor into the Hudson River.
"Freeze! You're under arrest!"
Clark body stiffen as he heard carol issued her ultimatum. Quickly turning around he saw the other Pro-Registration heroes getting ready to close in on him. He didn't like his chances against that many power house.
"Well, I would love to stay and chat but.."
Faster than a speeding bullet Clark dove into the river and disappeared.
*** Clark Apartment ***
"Tssh..." Clark winced in pain as he actually felt the bruises on his body from the fight. He was still fully powered and have yet to put on his watch. He figured he should let himself recovered like this instead of switching back to his part time human biology. He wouldn't want anything to heal wrong.
Deciding to just take it easy he turned on the news and saw the report on what happen and the battle. The media tried to point the Pro-Registration side as heroic but a quick check on the social media show a lot of outraged civilians at the brutality of it all especially with Goliath arm.
He had a feeling that what happen would probably escalate the war to a whole new level.
TBC